Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-13

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DOssEsTEC NEWS.
Pacific san and Psciac Railroads Col-
tract TO be Enycsaisated.
New YORK, March 125h.-l'he WorIds
Washington special says: Representative
Manning of Mississippi will introduce in the
House TO day resolution similar to that
offered in the Senate by Bailey of Tennessee,
touching the alleged contract between the
Pacific railroads and the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company, by which the former agrees
to subsidiZe the latter to the extent of $780,
GOO, to be paid in monthly installments for
five years. His resolution empowers the
Chairman of the Committee TO send for per-
sons and papers to ascertain the exact char
acter of the contract Waldo Hutchings,
former counsel of the Pacific Mail, in con
versatiou, said that there was no doubt that
this contract would strengthen the Reagan
Interstate Commerce bill. It's announcement
he thought unfortunate at this time. He be-
lieved that the contract was a stock-iObbing
operation, as the stock had been driven up
from II to 90 within a short time, making
clear profit TO somebody of between IS, 900,
600 and 9,000 coo.
New York, March 12th.-In view of the
proposed Congressional investigation of the
contract between the Pacific Mail and Pacific
Railways, the counsel of the former company
to-day stated that the present contract is, ex-
cept in the matter of increased pay for adj
ditional work, the same which has existed for
five years past and that it expressly provides
that there shall be an increase in rates.
THe Increase in the Price Of Printing
Paper.
WASHINGTON, March 12th.-George jones.
of the New York Times, and Erastus Brooks,
of the Express, made arguments to-day be
fore the Ways and Means Committee for the
removal of the duty of 20 per cent imposed
on wood pulp. They claimed that it was
owing to an advance OF % to so per cent. in
the price of pulps and combination OF pa
per manufacturers, chiefly in the West. that
the price Of paper had advanced from 81 and
cents per pound (the price last vear), to 81
and 10 cents, now charged. Il was also
claimed that it was q combination OF paper
makers that forced the price of paper to %
and Is cents per pound during the war, that
had now caused an advance of about 80 per
cent. and that if no restrictions were placed
upon them they might force the price even to
war figures. The manufacturers present de-
MED the existence of combination to en-
was entirely regulated by the laws of supply
and demand.
senator 8fiI's Seduction Case-Fu Tx.
pected in The Senate.
CHICAGO, March 12th.-The Journal.
Washington special says: The effort made
by Hill to fasten upon Kellogg the recent
attempt to blackmail him by Georgis
woman on a charge of seduction, is creating
/ hi IL 70,
| the sympathy expressed for Hill is fast dis
! appearing. The attempt to connect kellogg.
with the case is likely to lead Co an explosion
/ in the Senate. Kellogg Us it is a scoundrelll
/ piece of work, and intends to make persona
! explanation in the Senate before adjourn
ment to-day, and to characterize the conduc
! of Hill in the strongest possible language
| He says it is simply an infamous scheme OF
| Hills part to divert suspicion from his owl
| doings and fasten them on him Kellogg, St
as to injure his case before the Senate. Kel
logg is considerably worked up over tn
matter, and has succeeded in tracing tn
authorship of several dispatches sent from
here connecting him with Hills case, TO Hill
sherman and the .Presidcncy-He Wi
Not withdraw.
CHICAGO, March 125h-The following let
ter, received By III. i. Scudder explains if
self:
WASHINGTON, March 10, 1880
Nv Dear Sir Your letter OF the 9TH instant, j
| which YOU express Your strong dissent to my rC
firing from the Presidential race, is received.
never for moment contemplated such courst
aud the rumor yon speak OF was no doubt prompt
| denied The first public mention Of my candidac
was in the inference drawn from my letter to Hol
MIR Haskell, of New York, in which stated what
would seek to do in case of my nomination an
election. Since that time have been considered b
| the public as q candidate, and have so re-arde
myself with the purpose neither to press any on
to support me nor to decline such friendly aid as
offered me. This position intend to occupy to IL
end. do not think il necessary for me to belilt
or arraign General Grant, Senator Blaine or an
one else, nor will use my official position to pr
mote my candidacy Very truly, yours,
JOHN SHERMAN
Warming TO DisOrderly Chinese.
New YORK, March 12th.-Sam Gee, a c
lestiai of Mott street. convicted yesterday
the Court Of General Sessions of assault ar
battery in firing a pistol at Mary Creighte
: on the 10Th of February. was arraigned
the Court to-day for sentence, and his cou
sci made a strong appeal for mercy on beha
of his client, and asked that he be mere
fined. Judge Cowing said 90 cannot gra'
E your request. There are hundreds and tho
sands of the prisoners countrymen comm
here, | understand, and it will not do for Il
10 allow Ilul w SO dDIOdu dliDllb bDeIfl al
4 convey the Impression that they can car
a pistols and use them with impunity on (
iehtest pretext. I want this case to be
warning to them, and | will therefore Sc
!. tence you, Sam Gee, to the Penitentiary
+ six months"
# The Pacific Express Company.
CHICAGO, March 18th. Another i1nporta
Western enterprise = the Pacific Exprs
:; Company-operated under supervision of t
y Union Pacific Railroad Company, has c
Z cided to open depot in Chicago aud compe
with other carriers for trade between I'll
city and the West. Superintendent Mo
man has been here for several days back, p
= fecting arrangements for locating the COZ
panys agency, which win be open for busin
contemporaneously with the opening of
Wabash road to Western traffic from G.
e cago. Morsman left the city yesterday
q Omaha.
7 sIosson, the fsiiIiardist, in Paris
CHIcAGo, March 12th-A special to t
Daily Meas from Paris says: George
IS Slosson. the American billiardist, who is
Re meet Vigneaux, the French player, in t
If city. to arrange a match, has arrived, and
"A the preliminaries between them are co
Il pleted. Slosson brought Collender billia
table with him, and Collenders rules "
points, and will run Ave nights, or 800 poil
u each night. The play is not for any cha
J. pionship. az now represented, but for mon
v the stakes being 81, 900 side. The mat
i. VIII be opened on the evening of March Y
Indians Punished.
SANTA FE, March 18th. On February q
e. Lieutenants John Conlin and K. o. Clark
SIS the Fifteenth Infantry, with a command
ar thirty men of the Ninth Cavalry, struel
band of about thirty Indians in Alan
canyon, in the southeast corner Of the Sac
i'll mento Mountains, and defeated them. Lii
ee tenant Clark, with ten men, surrounf
the stock of the Indians and captured the
tire herd, sixteen horses and fifteen mul
10 The scouts returned with the captured ST
to Fort Stanton, reaching there on the
instant. The Indians are supposed to b
portion OF the victorious band now depred
81 ing in Mexico, near the Texas line. Thi
Mexicans were killed last week.
Interesting Election Decision.
u CHICAGO, March l2th.-Judge Blode
rapdarod q N ipsarpst;uJ decisior TODAY in