Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-22
DOMESTIC NEWS.
PROCEEDINGS In the House OF repre-
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Secretary OF the Treasury to redeem bonds
coming due at stated intervals with gold and
silver in the Treasury in excess of % per cent.
of outstanding United States notes /; also, re-
curing the Secretary to purchase four mill
ions in bullion monthly at par for coinage into
dollars, and prohibiting the issuance hereafter
of Understanding bonds.
Orth thought 81 per cent. bond would
bring par, and contrasted the present state OF
affairs with that twenty years ago, when,
under Democratic rule. public securities CT uid
Only be negotiated at twelve per cent.
Frye and Kelley engaged in discussion as
to whether the public debt could be paid IN
twenty years.
Kelley said it could in fifteen years at the
present rate of decrease, to which Frye as
scented, but said the present rate could not
continue forever.
Kelley declared that with the stoppage OF
cancellation, greenbacks and remonetlzatlon,
the silver depression ended and the country
was redeemed. All his prophesies were filled.
FRYE said he would vote for the bill, but
believed that in the next ten years the country
would not see lower rate than 81 per cent.
The history of financial management in this
country since the war was the most magnii-
cent ever written, from the dawn of creation
TO the present time and was due to the
sagacity, perseverance, fidelity and courage
of the Republican party, who stood against
imitation and reputation and saved The in
tegrity of the country.
Mills opposed the funding system and the
whole financial system since the war. We
wanted not strong but just Government:
and no military arm would then be needed
to stay its destruction.
Dunnell reviewed the condition of the pub
lie debt, and said the finances of the United
G+a%a b,I 1uyoT- haav, rpaDano6 nv prpat
men, and the name of John Sherman would
go down to posteIity alongside those of pre-
ceding Secretaries of the Treasury.
Sanford closed the debate.
An Anfi-Chinese Argument.
WASHINGTON, March Doth. = The Post
democratic organl, under the heading of
IAN Unequal Bargain" publishes an edito-
rial, showing that by the Burlingame Treaty
we give China great deal more than we re-
ceive, and that, in fact, it secures to US moth
ing except few rights of trade which we
should have if no such treaty existed. The
editorial concludes as follows "The treaty,
while it stands, must be fulfilled, but it can
not be too soon abrogated as to most OF its
provisions. We must see that this country
shall not be overrun with a turbid tide of
Asiatic degradation. China has shown us
how to do this by fixing up certain ports
places where, under defined conditions, they
may reside. In new treaty with that EN-
pire we must follow this example. If We
have any single right as people it is that of
self-protection, and under this right we are
bound to say that the millions of Asia shall
not occupy this country, or come here in such
numbers as to do us harm. 1t is stated that
a commission to negotiate new treaty with
China viii soon be appointed. 1t should be
gin with fair understanding that China is
incapable of giving us much that we would
not possess were there no international COM
pact that China is too exclusive to fairly
claim standing with treaty making powers
that we are ready to extend our commercial
relations on fair terms, but do not intend to
adopt and take home the miserable millions
of that God-forsaEen land"
Mining Case Decided.
WASHINGTON, March 20th.-1he Commits
sioner. General of the Land Office to-day de-
cided the case of John A. Davis against the
Seaton Mining Company. Sacramento dis
trict, California The claim of Davis was
rejected, and the Seaton Company are al
lowed to enter the mine on completing proof.
Another Plan fer a ship Hallway Across
the Isilrnus of BARREN.
WASHINGTON, March Doth. John III.
Goodwin, of Sharpsville, Pa, explained to
the Interoceanic Canal Committee to-day
his plan for ship railway across the lsthmus
of Darien. It differs from that of Eads' in
this, that instead of using cradle for the
transportation of ship, he proposes to use a
caisson containing sufficient depth of water
to float the largest ship.
The Removal OF the POncas.
WASHINGTON, March 2Oth.-Colonel E. G..
Brooks, of the Indian Bureau gave the Sen
ate committee history of the removal of the
Poncas, which he claimed was in obedience to
law, though in violation of treaty, and
against the wishes of the Indians and with
out their consent.
Charged with Perjury.
NEW York, March Goth yesterday Judge
Otterburg, of Jefferson Market Police Court,
on application of Mrs. Della Little, lady 70
years of age, residing at East One Hundred
and Third street, issued a warrant for the ar
rest of James T. Williams and Fanny L.
Williams, his wife, whom Mrs. Little charges
with perjury in swearing to false afhdavits,
on which. in October, 1878, she was sent to
the Work-house by the late Police Justice
Kasmine. Williams was arrested to-day and
brought to Court but his wife was Ill and
confined to her bed Mrs. Little, in telling
her story, said she married William Little, a
prominent lawyer of San Francisco, in which
city she lived until June, 1878. During the
Buchanan campaign Little went to Washing
ton, in a Government capacity, where he
died of pneumonia. She took i'll, and it was
supposed she was dying, when word was sent
to her nephew and niece in this city. The
former went on there, and as she was pos
sessed of considerable property, he persuaded
her to sign paper which she thought was a
limited power of attorney, but which was in
reality conveyance of her property to
him. She recovered, and accompanied
her nephew to this city, arriving here in J une,
1873. After the money she had with her
was spent Williams and his wife began to i'll
treat her, and, finally, she announced her in
tention of returning to San Francisco. Her
relatives agreed, and October Sth carriage
was ordered to take her to the depot. A
strange man then appeared and took charge
of Mrs. Little, and she was taken to the
Tombs. where Police Justice Kasmine came
out and looked at her, and after reading some
affidavits, which Mrs. Little says were false,
he signed \ paper committing her to the
work house for six months as an habitual
drunkrd. After her release she went to her
nephew to demand her property, but the
door was shut in her face She brought a
charge of grand larceny against her nephew
and niece after she came out of the work
house, and they were held for trial at the
general sessions of the Court, but owing to
some unknown circumstance bail was dis
charged and the case never reached trial.
Mrs. Little produced witnesses to-day who
swore that she was not an habitual drunk
ard. Williams waived az examination, and
lis bail was then fixed at 81 900. The worst
feature in the case is that the statements
said to be sworn to by Mrs. Little before
Judge Kssmine, and said to be signed by
hef with an X as her marx, she states posi-
tiHsiy she never saw.
New Sensation.
Nay YORK, March 20th.-It is rumored
in trade circles here that immense numbers
of guns have been made IN England and
shippedNo China for use against the Russians,
bus Crest Britain could not supply the
proper amount of cartridges, although there
is a large expectation of American Lake SUI
perier copper and Lehigh spelter to be work
ed up into cartridges for English rife muskets.
1t is believed that the Chinese haze been
quietly arming ever since Beacons6eld has
been in office; that Esglish officers have been
training the Chinese troops; and that Bea-
consfield il determined TO execute grand
coup and to astonish the world by bringing
China to the front as the great military pow
er to checkmate the designs of Russia In Cen
trail Asia. The seizure of Harat by the Fer
sian Government. with the saaction OF Eng
land, is understood to be next in order, and
it is believed that at the very crisis OF the
Parliamentary canvass in England the tact