Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-23
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Affairs ut the National CAPITAL.

| Especial to the REcoRD-USION.l
WASHINGTON. January 22d.-The resolution
offered by Whitthorne Chairman of the
Committee on Naval Affairs, adopted by the
House OF Representatives yesterday, directs
the Secretary of the Navy to furnish to the
House any and all information in possession
of his Department relating to the formation
of bars and deposits of mud, sand and gravel
in the bay at or near Mare Island, and to in
form the House whether any steps have been
taken, or are contemplated, to ar
rest such formations or deposits, and
whether, in his opinion, such forma-
tions or deposits can be permanently
prevented. Secretary Thompson, in response
to this resolution, will transmit considera-
bic amount of information, showing the eff
tects of the mining debris deposit upon nav
igation, the character of the bay near Mare
Island, and will inform the House that he
purposes appointing a Commission of navy
officers to make personal investigation of
the subject, and report what should be done
to maintain channel of adequate depth from
Mare Island through San Pablo Bay. This
action, of course, will draw attention to the
whole debris subject, and there is good reason
to believe will greatly facilitate the procure
ment of congressional legislation upon it.
Reports were telegraphed to some newspa-
pers last night, and rumors were circulated
here to-day, that the Senate Finance Com
| mlttee has sent a message to the President
advising him to withdraw Morton's nomina-
ton, as the only means of saving it from re-
lection. Careful inquiry proves that there is
no foundation whatever for any such report,
so far as either the committee or the ind1-
vidual members are concerned. The case
will not be taken up for consideration by the
committee until next Tuesday. 1t is also
certain that the President would not comply
with any such suggestion, whether coming
from political friends or enemies, for he said
during the past week that he had definitely
made up his mind on this subject, and did not
intend to change it, no matter what might
happen.
Inc uefeat of the bill in the House to-day.
providing that one-half of the National Bank
reserves should be kept in coin, was brought
about by singular combination Of hard and
soft money men, the latter opposing it
mainly on the ground that it would dis
criminate against greenbacks, and the former
because, in their opinion, it would impair the
permanency OF resumption. On the other
hand the votes in favor of the bill were cast
by an equally curious medley of Representa-
tives, usually opposed to each other on all
tinar cial questions, and the fact seems
30 he that large number of members
were so uncertain as to what the bill really
meant that they voted against it on the high
general principle of Prices resolution, which
declares in regard to currency matters that
Congress this year should ''let well enough
alone" The Pacific coast and Colorado mem
bers were recorded as follows Ayes-Page,
Daggett, Belford. No-Davis, Pacheco
Absent-Berry and Whitaker.
The report telegraphed from Maine that
the questions at issue in that State are to be
investigated by Senator Walace's committee
is authoritatively pronounced to be without
! foundation
HorIi bIc, If True.
New York, January 22d.-The President
of the New York Society for the Prevention
Of Cruelty to Children memoralized Con
gress to-day, through Senator Keenan, calling
attention to the harbarities about to be prac-
ticed upon certain Chinese children. He has
sent to Congress and to the President com
munication in relation to a pitiful appeal
! which has reached him from the Pacific
coast. He says: In 1877, Yakoob Beg
the famous Central Asian chief and Chinese
rebel, was captured and put to death by
the Chinese Government by a slow and
| painful death. Those of his family
who had not fed, on his death, into Rus
sian territory, We're cruelty executed. As
] IL Vic SAi4C VI sINuSilJeT VI every duulU
| kinsman Of hiss were not penalty enough.
four of his children, ranging in ages from )
to IA, have been solemnly arraigned for
hereditary high treason to the Emperor of
! China" One would naturally conclude that
| the completely of the boys being disproved.
| their acquittal of guilt should follow, espe-
cially in view of their tender ages On the
contrary, they are consigned to doom more
horrible than death. This" says President
Gerry, is no overdrawn picture" He i'm
| plores immediate action in the matter, and
states that if the Chinese Government will
commute the sentence of these wretched
ready to receive and place them, at their own
expense, where they will be properly main
tanned, educated and cared for.
Raiding Diso.derIy Houses in New York
City.
New York, January 22d.-The police
have been unusually active in raiding disol-
derby houses recently. Following closely
upon the pulling" of Aliens notorious
place, five disrepu' able places were closed
yesterday. The notorious Harry Hill was
| arrested yesterday, and the Judge plainly
| informed him if his house was kept open
while he was on hail he would be rearrested
| The well-known gambling-house at SIS
Broadway was also pulled, and the occu-
pants locked up. William Hastings, better
known as dublin Tricks" furnished bail
bonds. In his examination as to qualifca-
ton he confessed that he owned ten places in
the city, one of which, near the Five Points,
was valued at $4,000.
New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad stock.
| New YORK, January 22d.-The bids for
| New York Central and Hudson River Rail-
r,. n etnnl ~
noon by the New York committee at the Of
nee of DrexeI, Morgan & Co. The commit
tee, after receiving advices from London,
| where the subscriptions were also closed this
afternoon. disposed of :00. coo shares Prices
ranged from Isl to 155, The New York
| bids, being without reserve, were allotted in
! full.
| The Graphic says: Advices from London
! state that applications for shares of the New
York Central Railroad, offered by the Nor
| gan syndicate, are numerous that the sue
cess of the plan for placing these securities
! abroad is quite assured. In London and at
! the European Bourse it is said transactions
IN the shares have been made at 23i pre-
MUM.
Tic Kellogg Sp0E ford Case-Testinony
Closed.
| WASHINGTON, January 22d.-The Senate
! Election Committee refused to allow Senator
| kellogg to cross-exanline former Spofford
witness, to show that he perjured himself in
swearing that he saw Kellogg pay over bride
| money IN New Orleans. The witness &C.
| knowedged that he was mistaken in his for
mer testimony.
G.. w. Morse, of Washington, testified
| that as a friend of Spofford be had hired
| Elder to go to New Orleans and procure tes-
Jimony favorable to Spofford, but had
cautioned Elder that no witnesses SHOULD be
bought.
| This closed tn testimony. Counsel have
over two weeks to prepare arguments.
WesIs arr. bound Passengers.
OMAHA, January 22d.-Ths following
through passengers were on to-day's tram,
leaving at 12:15 P NJ, to sI1ive in Sacramento
! january Och q. ID. Tows, j. Z. Pardee
New York !; Andrew Jores, wife and two
children, San LeaDdro; l.. Weaver, Tru-
mansburg. n. Y; w. 3. Chapman, Paris
France Sidney Sweet and wife, Evansville,
n. Y; +. G. Lausing, Brooklyn: j. G.
Helms aud wife, Charles Atwood, w. Al
stron, Chicago.
Fifty through emieIants left on last
nights enigraut train, to arrive in Sacra-
mento January 18th.
An OLD Mortgage Recorded.
NV York, January 22d.-Among the
chattel MORTGAGES rec lded at the Registers
Office te-day was ore Of General Gaspar
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