Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-01-12
NIGHT
THE PRESIDENT AND CIVIL
SERVICE.
CONKLING ALSO EXPLAINS.
UTAH Affairs Before the House Com.
mittee on Territories.
CONKLING ALSO EXPLAINS.
A Soft Money Movement.
WASHINGTON, Jan. IL.

WASHINGTON, Jdu.I ii.
Representative Buckner says that the
Soft Money men will meet on Tuesday
evening next, to complete the organi.
cation for spreading information favor
able to their ideas. They expect to
have either a Senator or a Representa-
tive from nearly every State among
their workers. General Butler Is to
represent Massachusetts. and Repre-
sentative Phelps will represent Con-
necticut. They have not obtained any
one yet from New Jersey or New
York. Buckner says the purposes OF
of this movement seem misunderstood.
They do not aim at a new party organ
ization. They have three objects in
view. First, to repeal tbs Resumption
act. Second, 10 r~eInonetizs the old sill
yer dollar, and to abolish the National
Bank currency, and have all currency
used toy the people hereafter issued by
the Government.
1t has been decided by New Hamp-
shire politicians that their constitution
does not permit them to elect aSenator
at the June session OF the Legislature,
consequently the question of the Sena
torship is not entering into the New
Hampshire campaign at all. There
will he another election mex Novem
Der, when a Legislature is to be chos.
en- which will meet in January, 1879.
1t was supposed, a few months ago,
that the Legislature might elect a Sen
alto if it chose, but it appears the view
was not correct.
Judge Hemingway, who is here in
behalf OF the Gentle interests of Utah,
appeared before the House Committee
on Territories yesterday, and made an
argument in favor of the bill intro
duced in the House by Luttrell TO
abolish female suffrage in that Terri
tory !; to prevent polygamists from
serving oD juries to try gases of polyg-
amy; to punish continued living in
polygamy, and otherwise to ecure fair
elections.
Upon the recommendation OF the
United States Attorney and Judges of
the Western District of Arkansas. fhe
President commuted to imprisonment
for life the sentences of w. j. Mead
Ows aud Thomas Robinson. convicted
of murder, and Joshua Wade, convict
ed OF rape and sentenced to be hanged
on the 18th instant.
In the House the Democr at succeed
ed in carrying their point to-day, and
by a small majority adopted Woods
original resolution as an amendment
to Hale's substitute. Under the au.
thority given by the House, all COM
mittees can now go to work and make
sweeping investigations of all depart
ments. without regard to the cost ol
the same.
Senator Conkling says the statement
that he intends to offer a resolution OF
inquiry into the charges in Chambers
letter is absurd. He has not heard OF
any such thing, except in the news
papers, and does not believe 1t vas
ever seriously contemplated by any
Republican.
The Presidents intsntion not to fight
the Senate simply means that he will
make no more New York appoint
ments until certain they will ba con
firmed.
A Patent Medicine Failure - Him
Keene Not Coming West-Chan.
dIer aud the New Hampshire
Senatorship.
NEW York, Jan. IL.
The Post says the firm of John
Faud, Henry Curran & Co., dealers in
III nIu BntCitt titCoicttiVS, bdo u
pended. The cause gwen is the sus.
pension of E. j. Burning. Jr. The
concern Is one of the largest patent
medicine firms in the country. and in
the mercantile agency books. is marked
AS having a capital of from $500. 900 to
500 900.
James r. Keene says there Is no
truth in the California stories of his in.
tention to return To San Francisco. He
expects to send his family To Europe
next spring. when he may make a few
weeks trip to the Pacific coast.
WIN. E. Chandler's friends in this
city say he will be a candidate for SEN
ator in Wadleieh'S place If the Legisla
,ure of New Hampshire is Republican.
The Kentucky Senatorial Contest.
FRANKFORT, KY. Jan. H..
The first joint ballot to-day resulted
Williams. 81; Lindsay. so; McCreary,
20: Boyd, ID.