Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-05
cspgrsss and the s,Iver aae.,ion.

Congress and the silver Question.
NEW YORK, June 4th--A World
special says: The
Silver bill was not considered in
the caucus of the Republican SEN
ators to-day, but Republican who
10 favorable to the full remonetiza.
ton of silver said tonight that he
believed there would be some &C.
ton at the present session of Con-
gress. He favored postponing &C.
ton until next Winter. But he
believed that the pressure would
be so strong upon Bayard to report
to the Senate that he would con-
sent to allow it to be done by the
Finance Committee. He said that
while there were eight or ten DEM
ocratic Senators who were opposed
to the bill there were at least five
Republican Senators who would
vote for it, namely: Jones of
Nevada, Booth of California;, Hill
of Colorado, and Ingolls and Plumb
of Kansas. Everybody knew that
the bill would be vetoed, and a ma
jority of Republican Senators were
DESTROYS of making it a party
measure, but he said this could not
be done.
Losses by Fire.
NEW YORK, June 4.-The Bulte-
tins statistics show losses by fires
in the United States from January
1st to April Both, 1879, over $780,
3Sl, 900. $l1,0O0,000 more than for
the same period in 1S77-7S, respec-
lively, $1,500,0O0 more than for the
same period In 1876, and Sc, 300, 900
more than in 1875. Losses to insur-
snce companies show even a great
er ratio of increase, the claims upon
them being, on an average, more
than SO per cent. more for the first
third of the present year than dur
ing any corresponding period in
the past five years. The fire record
for May for the United States and
Canada is estimated at 50, zoe, 900
losses and 100000 insurance
claims, making the total losses for
1879 thus far, 100000. The Bul-
letin calls attention to these start
ling facts and the scrub race In
which the multitude of insurance
agents throughout the country are
engaged for enough business to live
upon, and concludes: IA big fire,
which will burn to death forty or
fifty companies, appears to us to be
'for the encouragement
of the rest as Napoleon said when
he shot the Quartermaster."
California Catches It Agaia.
NEW YORK., June 4th.-The Sun
to-day prints loaded communica-
ton on its editorial page sharply
the prominent features
of California business and social
life. 1t says: The most lucrative
pursuits are in the hands of foreign
ers, mainly Irishmen and German
Jews. Half of the wealth is de-
rived from mining industries in the
hands of Roman Catholic Irish.
The religion of the bonanza crowd
don't bother them much, but their
are all being brought up
In the Catholic faith.
The wholesale business of the
State is almost exclusively in
Jewish hands. Americans predom-
mate among spectators proper.
Lawyers and other professions are
also American. The moral tone of
business circles is also very low.
There are more rascals to the square
foot on Montgomery, Pine and
streets than anywhere
else on earth. Irishmen and rogues
are almost synonymous terms
here. / make this statement DELHI
erately. The writer thinks Cali.
are enterprising and gen.
erous, with all their faults, and San
Francisco the very paradise for poor
men. There is less money spent on
churches and more on educational
than at the East. The
aires are better patronized in San
Francisco than in any other city Of
Its size in the world.
New York MINING Exchange Eiec-
ll0n.
NEW YORK, June 4th.-At the
election for officers of the New
York Mining Exchange two tick
cts were In the field, both claiming
to be regular. The following were
elected: President, George b. Sat-
terlee; Weep resident, Henry G.
Harry; Treasurer, John Stanton,
Jr.; Chairman, A. w. Peters; Sec
rotary, John F. Scott; Assistant
Secretary, A. r. Gallagher.
The Democratic Caucus.
CHICAGO, June 4th.--A Journal
Washington special says: Up to 2
o'clock no notice had been issued
for Democratic caucus tonight.
There is some doubt as to whether
1t will be held. A number of DEM
ocrats have declared their inten-
ton not to go into caucus again,
not to be bound by Its edict, and
this fact may induce the Demo-
cratic managers not to call eau
Gus and submit the proposed new
bills agreed upon by the Joint Cau-
Gus Committee, but to submit the
to the House in the con-
fidence that they will receive the
united support OF all the Demo-
Gratis.
OHIO Democratic and 0reenback
Conventions.
COLUMBUS, June 4th-The hotels
are fast filling up with delegates to
tho State Groanhaok ap1 nar,o