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DOMESTIC NEWS.
The San Francisco Quarantine Question.
Special to the REcoRD-UNI
WASHINGTON, May 18th-Representative
Horace Page has to-day received an interest
ing letter from the Secretary of War in re-
sponse to one in which he invited the De-
partment's cooperation in his movement to
procure part of some land in San Francisco
bay for quarantine purposes. Secretary
Ramsey embodies in his letter. with an ex-
preston of approval, the following telegram
from General Mcdowell 81 see by to.day's
dispatches that steps are to be taken to set
off some portion of the public lands in San
Francisco bay to be used by the city author
tiles for quarantine purposes, and that
Angel Island is suggested as the most
suitable station. l beg leave to rep
resent that there are several grave objections
to the use of Angel Island, both as effecting
the military service and the city of San
Francisco. A station can be had on Goat
Island, Peninsular Island, or, best of all,
near Lime Point, between that point and
Point Covello, where there is delightful
shelter, water and old buildings not now used
by the military" Secretary Ramsey con-
tinues: with reference to your inquiry as
to the authority of this Department to grant
the use of portion of Goat Island or Angel
Island for the purpose indicated, 1 beg to
state that the Attorney General, in an opinion
May Is, 1862 holds that the Secretary OF War
cannot convey to any person any interest
in land belonging to the United States except
in pursuance of an act Of Congress expressly
or impliedly authorizing him to do so, and
that under this opinion an act of Congress
will be necessary to authorize me to grant the
use of any lands of the War Department to
the city of San Francisco for quarantine pur-
poses." In accordance with the above sug-
gestion respecting the land near Lime Point
Mr.. Davis will have his bill amended by the
House Committee, to whom it was last week
referred, so as to relate to the main land as
well as the islands.
The Colorado Water Proposition.
Especial to the RBooRD-UNIoN.J
WASHINGTON, May 1Sth-While the agri-
cultural appropriation bill was under consid-
Grafton in the House to-day, the Chairman of
the Public Lands Committee, at the instance
of Representative Belford, offered an amend
ment appropriating $4,000 to enable the
Commissioner of Agriculture to sink two ex-
the Rocky Mountains. Sparks, of Illinois,
raised a point of order that it
was not germane to the bill, but the Chairman
of the Committee of the Whole (Hooker. of
Massachusetts, overruled the point of order
Belford then took the floor and characterized
Sparks opposition as ''a a small business" He
said he (Belford) had yesterday supported a
bill appropriating $4,000, 900 to improve the
Eastern rivers and harbors, and now when
the West came forward and asked an appro-
priation of only $50, 900 to demonstrate the
existence of water in its arid regions, that
gentleman rose in his place and objected
Hutchins, of New York, asked Belford where
he found any warrant in the Constitution for
such an appropriation, whereupon Belford,
walking rapidly down the aisle and crossing
the space in front of the Speakers table to-
ward the Democratic side, replied with char
enthusiasm that he found the war
rant in the fact that the Government owned
this land, and it was its solemn duty to make
it fit for human habitation. He Immediately
added, good-humoredly, but with great earn
estness, "no honest man can object to such an
appropriation. This elected laughter and
applause on both sides of the House. Pend
ing further debate the Committee of the
Whole rose in pursuance of the previous order,
but it is thought the amendment will be
duOpIeu lO-uOTTON.
Grain Exports-Ruling Prices.
New YORK, May 1Sth.-The Bulletin prints
a table of grain exports from Atlantic and
Western ports, from which it complies the
For the month of April the total
export of wheat from those ports-including
-four reduced to wheat-was II, ILL., SS5 BUSH
els, against 1888, 4SO bushels for the same
month in 1879, so that, notwithstanding the
speculative check to shipments, the exports
for the last month exceed those of April,
1879, by 2131, 4S5 bushels. Including the
Pacific exports, the total export of wheat and
-four from July 1st and to May 1st reaches
Isl, ,059, 361 bushels, against 124 1S9, 5SS bush
els for the same period of 1S7S-9-an increase
of ZIG per cent. During these ten months
Western wheat has averaged 81 % per bushel,
against 81 OF for the same time in S1S7S-9-
showing an increase in price of Is cents per
California wheat has averaged
81 Is, against 81 03 for the preceding year.
Applying the same statistical facts to flour.
we find that Western -four has averaged So 90
per barrel, against s. q the preceding year,
an advance of 67 cents, while the rise
in California has been only q cents.
The total value of the exports of wheat and
-four from the United States for ten months
amounts to the extraordinary figures of
1885, 732, 596, against S132 $50, SS7 for the cor
months of 1S7S-79. Compared
with last year, which was one of unprece-
dented grain shipments, the value of wheat
and -four exported during the last ten months
exhibits an increase of S53, 5O0,0 600. If we
compare, however, with the average of previ-
Dus years, the gain is still more important.
Taking the five years preceding the last,
which included two years of liberal export,
we find that the shipments for the ten months
Ill, q
bushels less than for the ten months ending
with the 30th ultimo. These facts are highly
suggestive. They indicate the Importance of
the shrinkage of the volume of the national
exports that may be expected to occur in the
event of an averag harvest in Europe, and
Of the very low prices for wheat that would
arise under such circumstances, along with
the surplus of over 100, 600, 900 bushels of
wheat beyond the export requirements.
The Reported Ute Massacre.
Los PINos AGENCY (Col. J. May 18th. The
reported massacre by White-river Utes of
Bradbury's party of prospectors from Del
Norte is disbelieved. Chief Ouray has no
confirmation. Acting Agent Sherman, under
orders from the Department, and at Ouray's
request, followed the party nine miles up the
north fork of Gunnison to warn them off the
reservation and of the danger they were in
curing. ne Iounu IL Impossible to 0vertake
Them, as they were evidently making for
Eagle river. Several days previous to his
arrival at their abandoned camp, at the juno
.ion of Water and Gunnison rivers, parley
of some kind occurred, as the Indians report
that Bradbury's party claimed to be Nor
mons, bound for Utah. though travelling in
An opposite direction. DIR. McKenzie's scout,
Gibson, is here, but does not report any for
ward movement of troops. The Gunnison
country is now swarming with prospectors.
Origin Of 6 old Nuggets.
New YORK. May 1Sth.-Professor Thomas
Egleston read paper last evening before the
members Of the New York Academy of Sci
snces, on the origin of gold nuggets and allu-
vial gold nuggets. He said that all placer
deposits were in sands which were alluvial,
and are of two kinds, shallow and deep. The
deep placers of California average 80 to 40
cents per quarter yard The time would
come when the tailiDgs which are now
wasted would be worked to greater advantage
shan much of the lighter deposits In dis
,ussion with j. L. Newberry, President of
the Academy, Professor Egleston affirmed
The solubiity of gold, and stated that the