Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-05

men, when the living fact re.
mained that there had been an
army of q, 900 men with no use for
1t except on the Indian border.
Durham insisted that an army of
%, 600 was too large.
Kimmel suggested that the real
objection was not to the strength of
the army, but as to the uses to
which the army was applied, and he
called attention to the fact that the
present Secretary of War was en-
deavoring to have the posse comi'
tatus clause of the last appropria-
tion bill modified or repealed. The
object of such repeal was to eetab-
lish military despotism pure and
undefiled.
Keifer reminded the gentleman
from Maryland that the Governor
of that State had, in July, 1877, ap.
pealed most piteously to the Presi-
dent for troops to be sent to Balto-
more to be put down riot that
ceuld not be controlled by the mil
itia. Had it not been for the few
troops gathered in Washington by
President Grant a few years ago,
the decision of the Electoral Com
mission would have been over
throyn by violence and revolution
and man would have been put
in the Presidency who had not been
elected by the people. He was in
favor of q larger army.
(tAv - NJ, fl,ora
was not member on the floor who
did not understand very we'll that
but for a certain menace and but
for sending out orders for troops
and artillery to come to Washing
ton, the Electoral Commission
would never have been created.
Timid citizens, the money lords
and bOndholdsrs, men who are con-
additionally afraid of revolution
and who would rather submit to
fraud and wrong than resort to VIC.
lence and revolution, when that
menace came from the Chief Exec
utive and when all the arrange.
ments had been made, as they were
being made now for 1880, these men
had been frightened and that fright
had been the procreatOr of the
Electoral Commission. This men,
ace had made some mbers of the
House, forgetting their manhood
and all that is dear to American
citizenship, succumb to power
that was merely physical, not
moral.
Ma5ar Hoy.x,x R.,,.., M. a.a,u..
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-Secretary
Sherman, in his letter transmitting
to the Senate copy of Maj. .Merey's
report on Alaska, remarks that
part of it indicates the necessity for
the adoption of some legislation for
the better protection of the inhab-
itants of that territory and the pres
ervation of law and order, as we'll
as the necessity for some system of
land records by which the titles to
real estate in Alaska may be per.
fected. Maj. Morey, throughout
his report, assumes the position of
a champion Of Alaska, and asserts
many important facts concerning
that country which have been here.
tofore unknown or utterly misrep.
resented to the general public. He
takes direct issue with Special
Agent H. w. Elliott, and charges
that Elliott misrepresented a large
portion of Alaska which he. (Elli-
ott had never visited and Of which
he was profoundly ignorant.
There is likely to be q large de-
mand for this report when pub
llshed. Senator Mitchell, on whose
motion the Senate called for it, has
already received numerous requests
from his constituents for it.
The Billiard Tournament,
New YORK, Feb. 4th.-It the bill
Hard tournament to-day Sexton
900, Heiser S67, in SO innings. Sex
toms best run, 1913; Heiser's 127. In
the game between Slosson and Ru.
dolphe, tho former made 600 to the
latter's 81 in eight innings. Slos.
son ran 270, his average being IS.
Will Not Acuept.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4th.-It is
now definitely understood that
Col. Snewdon has declined the d.
rectorship of the United States
mints.
The Rene Inquiry.
CHICAGO, Feb. Am the Reno
inquiry b. I. Churchill, q rancher
near Little Big Horn, testified that
the battle occurred several hours
earlier than shown by previous ev.
idence. He believed that Reno was
under the influence of liquor. He
believed this on account of the oc-
currences that day. Col. Benteen
and Lieut.. Edgerly were recalled
and testified that this evidence was
incorrect. They never heard that
Reno was intoxicated.
Removal Of Indian Prisoners.
FORT ROBINSON, Neb., Feb. A.
To-day twenty-one Cheyenne pris.
oners, consisting of seven bucks
and fourteen women and children,
guarded by two companies of the
ihird Cavalry, under Capt. Vroom,
left for Sidney, en- route to Leav-
worth.
Private Sprowl, Company L,
Third Cavalry, died Lust night in
the post hospital, having been shot
on January 26th within five hun.
hundred yards of this post, while
driving an ambulance. by some un-
known person.