Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-29
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Location Of Mineral Claims.

WASHINGTON, March 2Stb.-The Pacific
coast Senators, Representatives and Dele
gates were in receipt of numerous letters
from their constituents interested in mining,
making inquiries rs to the probabilities of
favorable action by Congress upon the
recommendations of the Public Lands Com
mission, and almost uniformly protesting
against those features of the Commissions
bill which provide for doing away with the
present system of ledge location. 1t seems
to be practically certain, in view of the great
pressure of other business and the magnitude
of the questions involved in number of the
Commissions propositions for radical changes
in the land laws, that no final action will be
taken on their bill, either in the House or
Senate, during the present session of Con-
gress. The representatives of the Pacific
slope interests will endeavor, before the SUBJ
ject passes beyond control of the House Min
ing Committee, to devise some satisfactory
provision by which the surface location of
mineral claims shall be made dependent upon
the pitch of the vein, and thus protect as
equally as may be the rights of locators of
blanket lodges, such as are found in Colorado,
and those of owners of a lode like the
Comstock, characteristic of all mineral veins
in California and Nevada and most of the
Territories. Alaige majority of the House
Mining Committee thus far have manifested
disposition to consider the interests of the
Colorado mine owners as paramount to those
of all other sections. The committee, how
ever unanimously agreed to take issue with
the Public Land Commissioners proposition
to vest the jurisdiction of conflicting titles
wholly in the Surveyor General ard the
Land Offices, and will report in favor of
keeping the present jurisdiction in the Courts
Railroad characterization OF the Emitted
States Supreme Court-A Long Struggle
Ended.
WASHINGTON, March 2Sth.-Justice Miller
of the United States Supreme Court, on
Saturday signed DEGREES terminating the
lease and receivership, and restoring its road
pany; also turning over the entire line,
which has been in dispute with the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Company for the last
two years between Canyon City and Lead
vile to the Denver and Rio Grande Com
pany, and dismissing all the suits This is an
end of long and severe legal warfare in.
volving the well-known struggle for the
Grand Canyon of the Arkansas, and the con-
test of last summer for possession of the old
Rio Grande road. The line to Leadville
will now be completed in two or three
months. The compromise thus perfected is
based upon a treaty of peace for ten years
between the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe,
the Union and Kansas Pacific and the Den
yer and Rio Grande Railway Companies, and
all their subsidiary companies.
The kelI0gg-sp0EOrd Case - Views Of
Southern Newspapers.
Especial to the RECORD UYIoN.l
WASHINGTON, March 29tb.-Last Fridays
issue of the Richmond Dispatch copies with
approval a very significant editorial contained
in Wednesdays number of the Charleston
NeUS and Courier on the Spofford- Kellogg
case. Both of these influential Democratic
journals are foreshadowing division in the
ranks of the Democratic Senators upon this
question, which seems extremely likely to re.
suit in Kellogg's retaining his seat, and in
leaving the question of the control of the
next Senate in its present state of uncer-
tainty. The Charleston paper is known to
reflect the views of Senators Butler and
Wade Hampton. The Dispatch says: "When
a Senator is seated, especially when he is
seated after a. contest, was the case with
Mr. kellogg, the question ought to be con-
sidered as finally settled as far as his title to
the seat is concerned If he does anything
afterward which would justify his exclusion
from the Senate lie ought to be expelled for
that reason. His credentials ought never to
be called in question again. 1t ought
to be held in the Senate, as in
Tile SourlS VI budt
points must stand as settled II Mr.. Kellogg
may now be ousted there is no reason why
Mr.. Butler should not also be ousted, if two
or three Senators have changed their minds
as to his right to his seat since he and Kel-
logg were both declared lawful members of
the Senate. Two years and more have
elapsed since Messrs. Butler and Kellogg
were seated. But a convincing reason why
Kellogg should not be unseated is furnished
by the News, which clearly shows that
Messrs. Butler and kellogg were both seated
in accordance with distinct understanding
between certain Republican and Democratic
Senators that both were to share the same
fate. There can be no excuse for an act of
bad faith, and that the unseating of Kellogg
would be such an act appears from the rec
ords of the Senate"
Postal Changes for The Pacific Coast.
WASHINGTON, March 2Sth.-The following
postal changes for the Pacific coast were made
last week: Offices established = Lundy,
Mono county, Cal, Henry III. Moody, Post
master; Newark, Alameda county, Cal,
Martin Carter Postmaster; Marshall, Spo-
kane county, w. T., VIM. H. Marshall,
Postmaster Huntington, Emery county,
Titan, Elan w. Mcbride. Postmaster; Moab,
Sewer county, Utah, VIM. n. Pierce, Post
master. Offices discontinued-Bet Polk
County, Or., IlUJle TdllS, LEWIS county, w.
L. Names changed Haywood, Alameda
county CAL, to Haywards lone Valley Am
ador county, Cal, to lone; Morehouse, Una
tilla county, Or, to Moorehouse. Postmas-
tiers appointed-Theodore Deming, Bertha,
Lake, county Cal; A. NJ. Vollmus, Weaver
vile, Trinity county, Cal; n. p. Buldaser,
Mount Haley, Elko county, New; Phil
Numbers, Ida, Lane county, Or; VIM. S.
CLARK, Upper Ochocho, Wasco county. Or;
John A. shoudy, Ellensburgh, Yakima,
county, w. T.; F. G.. Fisher, Lone Pine,
Whitman county, w. t.; Chauncy G. Grain,
Panawawa, Whitman county, w. L.
Proposed American Independent Church.
NEW YoRK, March 2sth.-Large. meetings
were held this afternoon and evening, looking
to the establishment of an American indie
pendent church, at which addresses were
made by Rev. Fathers Quinn, Wood, Brod-
erick and others, formerly Roman Catholic
priests. 1t was stated that many priests are
at present engaged in the work, and that
Father Quinn, President of the organization,
was daily in receipt of communications from
priests who were preparing to abandon Ro-
manism, and who were most anxious to labor
for the benefit of poor people in the extension
of the true principles and practices of Chris
tianlty. Letters were read from several
priests in various parts of the country, SAYING
that their whole hearts were in the move
ment, and communications were presented
from the Methodist, Baptist and Presyby-
terrain Conferences in Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New Jersey, heartily indorsing the move
ment.
Runs Doings-A Victim of Drink Killed
by Saloon-Keeper.
PITTsBURG, March 2Sth.-About 10 o'clock
last night an ARRAY occurred in saloon at
Greensburg, Penn, which resulted in the
death of man named Chiselm. 1t appears
that Chiselm's wife ordered Mac Dixon, the
proprietor of a saloon, not to sell her husband
liquor. Chiselm, who was somewhat intoxi-
Gated, called at the saloon and ordered drinks,
which were refused. He then quarreled With
Dixon. who knocked him down, the fall on
his head breaking his neck. His body was
then taken outside and placed against the
house, where it was found by the Sheriff.
Dixon was arrested and lodged in Jail this
morning. He bears bad reputation, having
already served a term in prison.
Death OF a Brother-in-Law OF General
Grant.
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