Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-26
DOMESTIC NEWS.
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
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spOBdent.
WASHINGTON, January 24th.-The Demo-
cratic members of the House Committee on
Ways and Means privately held an lmportan'
conference Yesterday, with view to deter
mining whether or not general tariff bill
should be reported this session. The sentl-
ment expressed was decidedly against framing
any comprehensive bill, but there was con
siderable disposition manifested in favor OF
making some changes in existing tariff rates
by means of a separate bill, leaving each
change that majority of the committee may
agree to recommend to take It's chances IN the
House upon It's individual merits. The adop-
ton of this plan will in large measure pre-
clude log-rolling combinations, which hereto
fore have had great influence in tariff legisla-
ton, and will greatly diminish the number of
possible chances.
Representative Daggett IS preparing a bill
to provide for the REIMBURSEMENT to the Gen
,eral Government of all unsold sixteenth and
thirty-sixth sections heretofore granted to
Nevada for school purposes, and for grant
in lieu thereof of two million acres of non
mineral lands, to be selected by the State, in
tracts of any size, from unoccupied United
States lands within her border. The lands
ner6GOIOT6 uOlhJeu dSSL6eetGC OCIWSCa III &C
and half and four million acres, but owing
to their mountainous situation, or desert
character. only about one hundred thousand
acres have yet been sold. and consequently
the school fund has derived scarcely any ben
eft from the grant. 1t is believed, however,
that if the State be allowed to take up sage
brush lands in large tracts, they can be sold
TO good advantage to parties who will under
take to utilize them by irrigation, but who
would not incur the expense and risk OF at
tempting to bring water upon widely sepa-
rated small tracts. The last Nevada Legisla-
ture passed bill authorizing the proposed
exchange to be made whenever Congress
agrees to it. The Commissioner of the Cen
.eral Land Office has also expressed himself
in favor of the proposition, and Will recon-
mend the passage of Daggett's bill.
Daggett also intends to introduce a bill for
the encoura cement of artesian weil-boring,
but has deferred its preparation to await the
receipt of some additional information on the
subject for which he has written to Nevada
The CoIored Exodus.
WASHINGTON, January 24th.-The Senate
Committee on the Colored Exodus to-day ex-
amined j. P. Duckshart, Southern Passen-
ger Agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company He testified that he has made
several visits to North Carolina in the inter
as possible of the exodus travel, and that
he effected arrangements with local promoters
of the movement, by which the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad obtained the transporta-
ton of all the colored people who have, up
to this time, and since last October, emil
grated from North Carolina to Indiana. The
through rate from Goldshurg to Indianapolis
for these emigrants was SIC 90 for each person
above the age Of u years; half fare for
= =, I'd nhillrap
free In all these arrangements the company
agreed to pay u. Taylor Evans, of Goldsbor-
ough, the colored man who worked up the
emigration, drawback of 81 per head for
each full-fare passenger, and fifty cents for
each half ticket sold. This was well-known
standing inducement held out by himself and
agents of the competition roads to men like
Evans, Perry and Williams TO get up as large
an emigration as possible. Evans told witness
that he commenced working up the exodus
sixteen months ago by means of mass meet
ings, secret societies, etc. Witness, while in
North Carolina, had seen many circulars as
sorting that the colored people would find
plenty of work in Indiana at good wages.
Perry and Williams also circulated a report
that emigrants upon reaching Washington
would be provided with new clothes and
transportation to Indiana or Kansas. The
circulars were largely made up of editorials
from the Greencastle (Indiana) Banner, and
also included what purported TO be certificates
from a number of the North Carolina cclored
people who had already gone to Indiana,
that they had found work, and advised their
friends to follow. Perry left the State sud-
denly during the winter, on account of an in
dictmeut for forging school certificates, and
had not returned, but Evans and others were
still at work, and, in the opinion of the wit
ness, the exodus would continue just as long
as the colored people could raise money to
pay their fare, until checked by unfavor
able reports from their friends at the other
end of the line In this event, he would go
out to Indiana and try and secure them
passengers back over the Baltimore and Ohio
lines. Laughter
III. w. Mendenhall, a resident of Washing
ton, testified that he assisted in organizing
the emigration and society about a year ago.
He thought the movement would become
quite extensive. He had stated if Indiana
could offer any inducements to negro emf
grants it would be well to have them go
there, as they were generally Republicans
and would strengthen the Republican party.
He could not tell what degree of approval
this movement met with with his friends in
Indiana. He had received private letter
from United States Marshal Dudley, of Indi-
ana who said that as political measure the
Republican party in Indiana disclaimed any
part in the movement but if employment
could be found for colored people in Indiana
he would be glad to see them come there. He
understood from the letter that the Republi-
can party leaders in Indiana would not par
ticipate in the movement Witness did not
know of any Republican politicians in Indi
ana engaging in the movement political
measure.
Another Accident on the New York Ele-
vated Railroad.
NEW YORK, January 24th.-At l o'clock
this morning the engine of train on the ell
evated railroad was thrown from the track by
a misplaced switch, and fell into the street.
distance of twenty-five feet. The engine,
rafting on at the rate of thirty miles an hour
or more, dragging its single car with twenty
five or more human beings, all employees on
the road, struck the switch with a Jerk that
threw every one off his feet, ran over on the
middle track and off it on the guard-rail,
crashing into a car standing there. As it
passed it reached the west or the down
track. and at the curve jumped off, breaking
the rail, guard-rail and ties, for distance of
twenty feet, landing below squarely on its
wheels in the roadway. The three that were
in the cab went down with it. Those in the
rear car, excited by the crash and
shock. and realizing their danger, ran
for the doors, expecting every sec
ond to follow, but the car stopped
abruptly at the broken rail, with one end
tipped over the abyss below The coupling
broke. and only the engine fell Had the car
followed, and fallen on it, instant death would
have been the fate, beyond doubt, of those
who escaped with comparatively slight
-bruises. Those in the car above managed to
make their way out, and along the track to
the depot. block further back, aud thence
into the street. Many were bleeding from
slight cuts and bruises. and one brakeman
named Hayes, was taken from the platform
az The car into which the train had run,
tossed over from the platform of his own car
by the conclusion and much bewildered,
Enough little hurt. Those who ran the engine
expected fully to find its three occupants
dead under the wreck, but, to TIER astonish-