Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-19

into any contest or fight to secure nominal
ton, and that he was not candidate IN the
sense of being seeker after office. The cor
respondent was shown kilograms and letters
from leading supporters of Iilden's candlaacy
In New York and Connecticut, corroboratlng
these statements.
Congress Saturday.
WASHINGTON. April 17th.-The Senate was
not in session, having adjourned till Monday.
The House went into Committee on the
Indian Appropriation bill, the pending ques
ton being Haskells point of order against
Rockers amendment for the transfer OF the
Indian Bureau to the War Department.
The Chair decided the amendment germane,
as it retrenched expenditures, but as it was
the same in substance as several bills now In
the House, he therefore sustained the point OF
order.
The committee rose and reported the bill
back to the House.
The House rejected the amendment in
creasing the appropriation for clothing for the
Sioux from $4,000 to $780, 900 by vote of
ayes 81, nays l04.
The amendment aboljshing the Indian Com
mission was agreed to-ayes 112, nays 65.
Other amendments were agreed to without
division, and the bill as amended passed.
Mcmahon, from the Committee on Appro-
priations, reported back the Special De-
nCiencY Dill. Will sOtidtO
The bill passed providing for reapportlon-
ment for members OF the Legislatures of the
Territories of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.
Manning, from the Election Committee,
offered resolution for the investigation OF
the anonymous letter In the Donnelly- Wash
burn case. -
McLane thought the resolution did not
present question of privilege, and moved to
Tablet. Rejected.
The resolution was then adopted-106 to 80.
The House then went into Committee on
the Special Deficiency bill, which McAiahon
explained.
Adjourned.
The Whitaker Case ut West Point.
WEST POINT, April 7th.-A correspondent
of the New York Times declined to gives his
authority for the statement that thee cadets
were heard saying that Whitaker would be
fixed, etc, until Monday, when his counsel
would be present The Court said witness
having sworn to tell the whole truth, and re-
fusing to give only such information as is pol
tic, no Importance would attach to news
given to the press by him. The Recorder
stated that he had been unable to find any
facts justifying the correspondents story.
The correspondent then protested against the
Courts unjust assumption that, in retiring
within his legal rights under legal military
COuil5el, lie was NloldJluE uubN.
Second Lieutenant Coffin testified that col
ored cadets were not hazed, although whites
Were.
Major-General Schofeld testified to the
facts already known regarding the pre-
vious investigation, and said he had
Informed Whitaker that the result of
the investigation was prejudicial to him.
Whitaker made prompt and earnest de-
NAL, and demanded Court of Inquiry.
Whittaker's frankness impressed the General
that he could not be guiltys After an inves-
! tigation there were reports that the guilty
parties were beyond West Point, and then
| the authorities had to look elsewhere. In the
meantime Whitaker could not rest under the
| imputation cast upon him, and Court OF
! Inauiry was promptly ordered. The bearing
of the corps of cadets and the bearing of
| Whitaker impressed the General with the
| innocence of both, and the clue outside had
also failed The method of investigation was
adopted solely in justice to Whitaker. lie
knew of no other motive.
Other testimony revealed how colored
cadets have been ostracized and ignored in the
past.
The Clerk of the Quartermaster's Depart
ment identified a handkerchief found as the
style issued to cadets, but the points of neck
| ties are different from those In his depart
ment. No necktie has been issued to Whitta-
ker since May 26, 1873 Witness testified
that that style of handkerchief has not been
for sale in Highland Falls for six months.
Adjourned till Monday.
EfhnolOgicaI Researches Among the In
dian Tribes.
CHICAGO, April 17th.-An Inter Oceans
| Washington special says that Professor Baird
sent to Speaker Randall to-day communica-
ton, asking an appropriation of $4,000 for
| the purpose of continuing ethnologic re-
searches among the North American Indians,
which is now being prosecuted under the d.
rection of the Secretary Of the Smithsonian
| Institution. Professor Baird states that at
no distant time the opportunity for recording
the ethnology Of the United States will dis
appear, as the Indian tribes, in their print
tive condition, are rapidly passing away, and
| exhaustive researches now are being prose-
cuted within our own territory by foreign
nations. and the contents of aboriginal graves
and mounds have been carried away almost
in shiploads to foreign museums. An i'm
mense collection from the coasts of California,
Oregon and Alaska has been recently trans
mitted to the Government museum in Paris
by an agent sent to the United States for the
purpose. Another French expedition will
soon be under way to the almost virgin
archaeological fields of Arizona and New Mex
! ico Professor Baird says: The retention
by the country within its confines of its own
| historical monuments has been considered of
such moment that laws have been passed by
several foreign Governments prohibiting the
expectation of antiquities, and while it may
not be practicable or desirable for the United
States to follow their example, we may at
! least anticipate foreigners by engaging in the
work ourselves, and transferring objects col
| lected to the National Museum in Washing
ton. Unless some action be taken at an early
day, it will be necessary to depend upon Eu-
ropean museums for materials for investigat-
| Ing the antiquities of the United States
Accompanying the letter of Professor Baird
! is statement from Major Powell, in charge
of the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smith
sonian Institution, giving summary of the
results of photographic researches which have
| been prosecuted under his direction during ten
| years.
Crop and Live stock Reports.
WASHINGTON, April 17th.-The returns of
| April LIST to the Department of Agriculture
| shows the increase in the area sown in wheat
last fall to be thirteen per cent over the fall
previous. In the area sown in rye there is a
! decline of six per cent. as compared with the
previous year. Condition is ninety-eight,
same as last year. There was large in
crease in fall-sown wheat in those States that
heretofore have been exclusively sown in the
spring. The experiment was unfortunate,
and all, particularly Iowa and Nebraska, re-
port great disaster from the winter. On
the whole, the wheat crop thus far looks as
favorable as in the spring of 1879.
The condition of live stock is very favora-
hle-better than for several years. No disease
is reported, other than cholera among swine,
and no worse than last year, if as bad.
Tic EXODUS" Investigation.
| WASHINGTON, April 17th.-Before the Ex-
odus Committee to-day Tomkins and Vinson,
Shreveport planters, said negro labor was
the best the South has, and it was to the in
terest of the South to treat the negroes well.
He never saw intimidation or outrages at the
polls. The negro suffers more from improvi-
dence than from poor pay One black laborer
was worth five whites, The negroes are bet
ter off now than they were as slaves, but the
condition of planters is not better than be-
fore the war.
Benjaming Singleton (colored) of Kansas,
considered he had started the exodus By send
ing broadcast circulars, inviting emigration to
Kansas. He hoped it would continue until
all the negroes had left the South. When the
disposition of the Southern people changed,
and they would treat negroes fairly, then he
would advise colored people to return to the
South, their proper home. Singleton gave
his testimony in an excited manner, and the
cross-eXamina alton was amusing