Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-13
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Affairs at the National Capital.

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WASHINGTON, January 12th.-The bill in
troduced by Horace Davis to-day concerning
Chinese immigration is copy of a bill in
PRODUCED by him in the last Congress, provid-
lag for the collection of capitation tax of
800 on every Chinese passenger landed in
the United States III excess of one passenger
for each 100 tons measurement of the vessel
on which they arrive. His object in re-intro-
ducing this bill is simply to stimulate the at
tention of the Education and Labor Commit
tee to the Mongolian problem, aud help to
furnish them with all possible aids to its solu-
ton.
Pacheco introduced bill appropriating
Sc, 600 for the erection of fog signal at the
entrance of the harbor of San Luis Obispo.
Page introduced bill for the relief of
Green Il Trainor, of Sacramento, for bal
ance claimed on contract for furnishing
supplies to troops in 1862, and for the relief
of Melinda Thurston, the latter's claim being
for property captured by the Indians.
Representative Page to-day received from
Collector WIN. Highly protest, against his
signed by Murphy, Grant & CO.,
Vim. L. Coleman x Co., Sisson & Wallace
and about forty other business firms of San
Francisco. Senator Booth appended a certif-
cate as to the high standing of the signers
of the protest, and then handed it to the
Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee
to serve as an additional block against any
favorable action on Morton's nomination,
now awaiting consideration by that commit
tee. A remark is made concerning this pro-
test, however, that its signatures do not in
clude any liquor or tobacco manufacturers. or
other persons engaged in branches of bust
ness which have brought them in contact
with Collector Higby's administration of his
Office
Representative Bedford to-day introduced
a bill providing for the creation of Mining
Bureau, somewhat similar in its organization
to the present Department of Agriculture its
chief officers to gather information, in person
Or by competent deputies, concerning the
mineral resources of the various regions of
the United States, the processes for reducing
pres, ETC., and report annually to Congress.
He is also required to respond to the applica.
ton of any citizen for specific information,
by furnishing whatever may be on file in the
Bureau in regard to the special subject of in
luiry.
Delegate Otero to-day introduced bill to
1--WE the Probate Courts of New Mexico
;hancery as well as common law jurisdiction
N all causes involving amounts less than
3, 600. Writs of error are to be allowed to
;he Supreme Court and appeals to the Dis
riot Courts.
An intimate friend of Governor Tilden.
who has very recently conversed with him
N New Y ork, expresses firm belief that
rilden does not desire the Presidential nomi-
nation for himself but that he would like to
be in position where he can decline the
nomination gracefully in favor of some candi-
late known to be acceptable to him. Who
Mr.. Tilden would really prefer is not devel-
Dped, but the indications point to General
Mcclellan. There is no foundation for the
widely published statement that his influence
will be exerted in behalf of Speaker Randall
for the Presidential nomination, other than
The suggestions of some personal friend of
Randall. 1t seems to be generally believed.
both here and in New York, that Tilden is
opposed to Senator Bayard, for some
reason or other, but many of the
most influential New York Democrats
in Washington have expressed their decided
preference for Bayard, and August Belmont
is credited with the assertion that Bayard can
carry New York by $4,000 majority. The
opinion is prevalent among the most sagacious
Democratic leaders that if Horatio Seymour
will take the nomination he will certainly get
it, but that if he decisiveiy declines all the
point to the nomination of Bay
ard There appears to be no longer any APP
prehension of a split in the New York De-
this year. The friend of Tilden
above quoted says that Tilden spent at least
800, 600 in the late State canvass for election
expenses, and that lie will spend still larger
sum in the coming Presidential canvass, if
the nomination be acceptable to him.
Denis Kearney left Washington last night
for New York.
Delegate Cannon and family have arrived
from Utah.
A. local paper reports that the wife of Con
gresham Pacheco is writing play for Fanny
Davenport.
The Ute Question.
WASHINGTON, January 18TH = Secretary
Schurz says that he does not at present de-
sire to say anything regarding his conference
with Ouray. He has not yet decided whether
he will hold an open council with the entire
delegation or not Inasmuch as it has been
stated that the Indians are being guarded as
captives, the Secretary desires to announce
that such was not the intention of the De-
partment. The Indians, he said, were here
as a delegation, and would be treated as
such !; but, in view of the rough treatment
they received at several railroad depots while
On their way, and as some of them are I'M
well, he has adopted his present course. The
Secretary says there viii. be plenty of mate
rial for publication in this connection in few
days.
WASHINGTON, January 12th.-The Senate
Committee on Elections to-day resumed its
work in the Kellogg-Spofford case
General J. III. Sypher, Ex.Congressman,
was called in further rebuttal OF the testi-
mony of Barney Williams, given before the
sub committee at New Orleans, one of Will
Jams statements being that Sypher was pres
ent in Senator Kellogg's room at Wizards
Hotel on the night of June 4th last, and wit
messed the distribution of money by Kellogg
to five specified witnesses, whom he will
iams) had conducted thither Sypher this
morning testified that he was in Kel-
logg's room twice during the evening between
the hours of and 8, and also at 10 o'clock,
but swore positively that he did not see any
Of the five witnesses, and that neither then
nor at any time had he seen Kellogg give
money to these or any other witnesses. The
only two persons he remembered seeing in
Kellogg's room that evening besides the
Senator and perhaps Clark, his Secretary,
were John A. Walsh and William l.. Randall.
He contradicted Williams in other particu-
lars.
Williams, recalled, admitted that be was
in New Orleans in November to defend him
self in criminal suit for defrauding The
in distillery.
Indian Affairs in New Mexico-schurz and
0uray.
WASHINGTON, January 12th-A telegram
bearing date Mescalero Agency, New Mex
leo, January Sth, at Mesilla, has been re-
ceived by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
serious trouble between the Mex
leans and Indians and Agency employees, but
the property is reported all right. General
Pope has order all the cavalry in southern
New Mexico to march rapidly against these
Indians. Advices at the War Department
state that the renegade Apache Indians, re-
Gently followed across the border into Mexico
by General Morrow have returned. The
Mexican authorities have requested that they
be permitted to assist in the pursuit of those
Indians on the American side. The Secretary
Of War has granted the request.
Secretary Schurz had a long conference
to-day with Chief Ouray.
The Isfhmns Canal Scheme.
New YORK, January 12th.-The Post this
evening says: 1t is not premature to say
that the people of the United States expect
their Government to take suitable action
forthwith respecting De Lesseps and his pro-
posed Isthmus canal. To neglect it longer is
with the national honor.
A Washington special to the Post says:
Secretary Evarts says the dispatches as ert-
ing that he, as attorney of the Panama Rail-
road Company, had advised Grant not to
accept the Presidency of the Darien Canal
Company, are false. The Panama Railroad
Company has never. he says, been a cliens Of
his. Personally he favors the Nicaragua cut
as the most feasible. although the geograph-