Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-15
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Affairs at the National Capital.
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
Affairs at the National Capital.
Especial to the RECORD UYIoN.l
WASHINGTON, January 14th.-SeDator Bay
ards joint resolution to repeal the legal ten
der power of greenbacks bill will be
reported back to the Senate adversely to-
morrow, instead of remaining locked up in
committee by tie vote, because he person
| ally requested the committee not to wait for
the return of Senator Jones, but to report it
at once, although adversely, in order that he
and those who sympathize with his views
may test the views of the Senate on the lm-
portant question soon as possible. This
urgency, as will be readily inferred. is based
upon belief that the majority of the Senate
will sustain his position on the subject but
very few of his friends seem to be equally
sanguine. The best judgment at present is
that the proposition, as it stands, cannot OBJ
tain anything like majority vote, and opin-
ions are divided as to the prospects in the
event Of its being so amended as to make the
date for the repeal remotely prospective, say
five years hence. The general belief, in ad
vance of further developments of the views
of individual Senators, still inclines however,
towards the fulhiiment of former predictions,
that neither house will vote for any change
| in the existing laws relative to the national
currency this session.
Representative McMahon, who has charge
of the preparation of the Marshafs deficiency
appropriation bill, says that several thousand
dollars We're used for the payment of special
Deputy Marshals at the California election
last September, and that no money will be
| appropriated to reimburse the Marshals any
where for such expenditures.
The bill introduced by Senator Teller to
day, relative to Courts in Colorado, provides
that terms of United States Circuit and Dis
trict Courts shall be held at Denver semi
annually, and once year at Pueblo and
Del Norte, and that special terms may be
held at these places and elsewhere in Col
orado, upon the order of the respective Cir
cult or District Judge. The bill requires the
| Clerks Office to be maintained at each place
named and provides that any proceeding
| brought in either Court may be transferred
to another.
Two and half millions of United States
four per cent. bonds were registered at the
| Treasury Department last Saturday in the
name of Miss Jennie Flood, daughter of the
bonanza capitalist. Her income from this
present of her father will be exactly $1,000
per year.
Kecne and tle Grain Corner.
New York, January 14th-The Star of
to-day says Private letters received yester-
terday by leading grain merchants in tie city
state that farmers cannot make sales, though
anxious to do so, because they can secure no
place to store their products, and that gang
of spectators have gained control of the
market for the purpose OF speculation. 1t is
claimed that the same scarcity of storage
quarters exists at all seaboard cities, and that
this glut has been created at all wheat CEN
tiers to bolster up the market by exhausting
the demand and locking up the supply. The
corner" which received black eye week
ago by an unlooked-for raid on the Chicago
| market it is now stated has recuperated,
and is In full control of the wheat SPECTATORS
This pool, it is said, Is headed by Jim Keene,
whoiscredted with having boughtup the entire
product of both this as well as last year,
amounting to millions of bushels. 1t is known
that he sent checks some time ago through
Chicago bank tor three millions to settle some
of his enormous purchases, and that he or
dered it to be stored for future orders He is
also credited with having ent Rufus Hatch
to England to manipulate the European
markets so as to secure good prices there, but
as Hatch is in New York that report is ex-
ploded The World publishes an interview
with Hatch who says the blockade is more in
corn and oats than in wheat that the present
situation does not differ from that of March
of last year, when the Chicago warehouses
held over II, 900, 600 bushels of grain. To-day
they hold over 14,G00, 600. Owners of grain
BtoppSS
to get it to the seaboard, and are preferring
to wait for the opening of navigation. He
(Hatch) charges the high rates upon Van
derbilt. He also says: 81 am, perhaps,
over-sanguine, but believe in very much
higher prices. Europe and the United King
doom have very short crop, and it is of
very poor quality. 1t is not one county or
one country that is short, but all of them. 1t
is universal. Wheat is not, at present prices,
| uh NAV he torn, ed hiuh and iS nul1r fau,
points above the average of the last twelve
years. Prospects of the growing winter
wheat crop are anything but fiattering.
There is an increase of acreage in winter
wheat districts, but in many localities wheat
sprouted and with recent warm weather and
rains, these districts will not produce more
than one Z? bushel to the acre. 1t requjresa
heavy body of snow to secure good winter
wheat crop. Last year the farmers had
heavy fall of snow, lasting from Christmas to
March. l may be over-sanguine about prices,
or the whole wheat question, but time will
tell"
Westward. bound Passengers.
OMAHA, January 13th.-The following
through passengers were on to-days train,
leaving at 1915 P. NJ, to arrive in Sacramento
January 18th: II. IL. Warner, Sioux City
G.. De Longraye, Paris; NJ. Simon, Robert
Barton, VIM. Norris, San Francisco; Oscar
Meyer, Germany Mr.. and Mrs. Reid, Aus
tralia A. w. Cole, Mrs. j ohm Cole Ravens
wood, Ind; Mrs Oscar Vanderbilt, Chicago;
George IL. Damon and wife, Boston; &. E.
Lubbe, Victoria Mrs. NJ. III. Wilcox, Paul
Wilcox, Miss Sallie Hill, Omaha; George r.
Atkinson, Rockford; Miss NJ. +. Allen,
Jacksonville, H.; w. III. Benham and wife,
Chicago; e. r. Alton, New York; w.
Pinkerton, Chicago.
Seven through emigrants left on last nights
emigrant train, to arrive in Sacramento Jan
uary 10th.
OMAHA, January 18th. = The following
through passengers were on to days train,
leaving at 12:15 P. n. to arrive in Sacra-
mento January 18th J. Allis, Portland, Or. I;
B. Snow and wife, Pittgfeld, Mass: Miss
Hawarth, Miss Renfrew. South Adams,
Mass; William Keiser. Pittsburg; Mrs. L.
G. Hartshorn, Providence, r. l.; George +.
Fowler, Louisville; Herman Baxter, Indian
apoiis Robert II. Styles, Boston Henry
Stoker, Columbus, o.; Charles II. Shakey,
New York.
Forty-fiye through emigrants left on last
pight's emigrant train, to arrive in Sacra-
mento on the 22d.
The kellogg .spoGord Case.
WASHINGTON, January 14th.-The Senate
Committee on Elections to-day continued its
examination of witnesses in rebuttal of the
testimony taken before the subcommittee in
New Orleans. IWltchel, at present nlted
States Consul at Kingston, Canada, and who
was formerly a member of the Louisiana
State Senate, testified that there was no
truth in the statement that he had received
money for voting for Kellogg. Pierre Mag
here testified similarly.
Secretary schurz and The Utcs.
NEW YORK, January 14th.-A Washing
ton special to the EUeniag Post says: For
obvious reasons, Secretary Schuz desires to
conduct the negotiations with Ouray's band
OF Southern Ute chiefs with as little public
ity as possible. La general it may be said
that he hasotaken very fra and radical
ground. His two-fold position is that the
murderers Of people at the Agency must be
discovered and surrendered, and that the
Utes nnst consent, for reasonable equiva-
Tents, to leave Colorado. The Indians are
disposed to yield to these demands. Schurz
feels ssnguine that the negotiations will be
brought to a successful termination on the
basis stated.
| EIcusable Homicide.
FRANKLIN Ia.), January 14th.-To-day
! Sidney Cole, aged about 10, owner of three
fourths of the Chatworth plantation, rode up
! to the gate of G. b. Wafford, manager Of the
plar tation, and informed Waiiord that he had
come to kill him. Wafford expostulated in
vain. Cole dismounted and advanced, pistol
in hand, towards the house. Mrs. Wafford,
realizing the danger Of her husband, called