Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-17
Affairs at the National Capital.

ALUUrlSI -AcHtIdl DICs WV ID 0AAS 1S6 "a
adviser of Secretary Schurz, heard further
argument in the Pueblo case to-day, the same
parties appearing that We're present yester-
day.
Senators Booth and Farley to-day received
a telegram signed by John +. Miller, a.
Doble, Joseph Emeric, Adolph Sutro, Neu-
stadter Bros, and several other business
firms expressing the belief that John NJ.
Morton is competent to peform the duties
of Collector of Internal Revenue, and favor
ing his confirmation The telegram, in ac-
cordance with it, request, will be laid before
the Senate Finance Committee.
The House Mining Committee have referred
Belford's bill for the creation of Mining
Bureau to a sub committee, consisting of
Representatives Widner, Campbell and Bel
ford. The proposition was apparently re-
ceived with favor by the full committee, and
it is quite certain that some bill of this kind
will be reported by them at an early day.
The same committee, on Belfords motion,
have recalled from the Committee OF the
Whole in the House his bill relative to
''square locations in Colorado, with view
of amending it in several particulars, es-
pecially by striking out the forfeiture clause,
by requiring a certain amount of work to be
annually, and expressly exemptlng insure
veins from its provisions.
S. NJ. Wilson and wife left Washington for
New York last night, and after making
short stop in that city and Chicago will pro-
coed to San Francisco. While here MIR.
Wilson made an argument before the SUI
preme Court in the case of Meek VS.. Olpherts
ct al, an action of ejectment involving the
title to 100.vara lot on the corner OF Mission
and New Montgomery streets, which has
been in continuous litigation for more than
twenty-six years. The present dispute turns
upon the construction of a California statute
concerning the administration OF estates
Montgomery Blair appeared for Meek, the
original litigant.
Ex-senator Mitchell, of Oregon, has re-
turned to Washington to attend to Supreme
Court business.
Election Of President and Eice-Prcsidcnt.
WASHINGTON, January l6th.-The sub-com-
mittee of the House select committee on the
State law respecting the ascertainment and
declaration of the result of the election of
President and Vice-President to-day decided
to report favorably to the full committee the
Joint resolution introduced by Representative
Bicknel, providing for an amendment to the
Constitution as to the election of President
and Vice-President. A meeting of the full
committee will be called early next week, and
the report of the subcommittee will probably
be adopted without amendment, and the reso-
luton be favorably reported to the House. The
proposed amendment contemplates an cleo
ton of President and Vice-President by the
people of the several States, and prescribes
the manner of counting the votes and deter
mining the questions of contest. The electoral
votes and the fraction thereof of each person
voted for as President in any State shall be
ascertained by multiplying his entire popular
vote therein by the number of the States
electoral votes, and dividing the product
by the sum of all the votes given in the State
for President, and the quotient shall be the
number of Electoral votes, and the traction
thereof to be assigned to such person, using
for such fraction three decimals only. The
foregoing provisions shall be applicable to the
election of Vice President, but no person in
eligible to the office of President shall be
eligible as sVice-President. En- case of
a contest in any State as to the election OF
President or Vice President, the same may
be passed upon by the highest judicial tri-
bunal in accordance with its laws. the deci.
sion thereof shall be by it certified and
transmitted, sealed to the seat of Govern
ment of the United States, directed to the
President of the Senate. The Electoral
votes shall be counted by the two houses
as certified, unless objected to by both
houses but if there be 4 certificate of
decision by the highest judicial tribunal of
any State upon a contested election therein,
the electoral votes of such State shall be
counted in accordance with such decision, I'M
less the same be ovrrruled by both houses.
If there be no such certificate of decision, the
contested votes from any State shall not be
counted unless both houses concur therein
If there be more than one certificate
of electoral votes from any State.
and no such judicial decision, or if
there be more than one such decision from
any State, in either case, that the certificate
of electoral votes or that the decision which
will be held by both Houses to be made by
rightful authority shall be conclusive, and the
votes shall be counted accordingly, unless re-
jected by both Houses. The above are the
main points of difference between the present
mode and that prescribed by the proposed
constitutional amendment.
Mining Debris and the Mare Island
Water Fren;.
WASHINGTON, January 16th.- Congress
man Berry has been furnished by the Secre-
tary OF the Navy with a copy of a communi-
ton from William H. Shuck, Chief of the
Bureau of Engineering, dated October Is,
1879, in which the following language occurs
During my late visit TO the Mare Island
Navy Yard, California, on duty connected
with the Bureau, my attention was called to
the condition of the waterfront of that yard.
| found between certain important locations
along the sea-wall that the bottom was
exposed at low water and as the rise and
fall of the tide is only about five feet, it
was impossible to land from the yard tug at
points where formerly some of our largest
ships could readily haul in" After stating
that the necessary dredging was done to meet
the emergency, he recommends some peIma-
nent changes, consisting principally of sea-
10 20 t1a1 r,
filing in of the water front of the island.
He further says: "This unusual filling in is
due to the system of hydraulic mining which
now prevails throughout the State of Califor-
MIA, by which thousands of acres of land are
annually washed into the river"
Westward. bound Passengers.
OMAHA, January 15th.-The following
through passengers were on to-day's train,
leaving at 12:15 P. NJ, to arrive in Sacramento
January 18th: Miss F. H. Hopkins, Bara-
boo, Wis; W. Turner, Honolulu G.. II.
Hawdon, New Zealand Sigmund Loeb,
Michigan; Mrs. Caroline Halves and
daughter, Miss Nettie Clarke, Miss Dollie
Adams, Miss Gertie Benson, San Francisco;
f. Haley, Omaha; S. B. Schneider, Cincin-
natl.
Thirty-6ve through emigrants left on last
nights emigrant train, to arrive in Sacra-
mento January I'D.
OMAHA, January 10th. The following
through passengers were on to-day's train,
leaving at 12:15 P. NJ, to arrive in Sacra-
mento January Goth: III. A. Wheaton, j.
NJ. Wyatt and wife, San Francisco; J. w.
Castle and wife, Hopedale, Ohio; Mrs.
Frank Donaldson, Cincinnati; Geo. Tabor,
Buffalo; Henry w. Simms, Kansas City;
Hugo jennings New York.
Forty through emigrants left on last
mento January 23d.
On the Way East.
OMAHA, January 16th.-Chief Winnie
mucca, his son Natchez, Captain Jim and
Sarah, the oldest daughter of Winnemucca,
passed through this evening, en- route to
Washington to see the President. They were
in charge of Special Agent Hayworth.
Kcarney in New York.
New YORK, January 10th. = Dennis
Kearney addressed tonight meeting at
Cooper Institute, George Blair presiding
The speech was delivered in his usual vigor-
Gus STYLE, being especially bitter against
editors. whom he called vampires" and
s'meuthpieces Of cut-throats."
DeIudcd Colored People.
NEW York, January 16th.-A party of
twenty negroes, five adults and fifteen
children. arrived in this city on Wednesday
from the neighborhood of Helena, Ark, ex
pecting to go to Liberia, where some of their
friends mad gone in a company which recently
left this port. They had been advised to