Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-02-08
THE REAGAN BILL.
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WAsHISGToS. Feb. THE tenor OF the
discussion yesterday in the House Commit
tee on Commerce indicated that the Reagan
Interstate Commerce bill is no longer GER
tain to be reported back favorAbly, unless
it be materially modified. It's friends still
! claim that it has a majority. but the oppo-
sition TO its most prominent feature, name
", that which prohibits the charging of
more proportionstely for short distances
than for long hauls. has gained much
strength within the past fortnight, and there
appears 70 be considerable prospect Of the
| adoption Of q substitute. which shall pro-
vide simply for the creation OF q Board Of
Commissioner to prescribe general regu-
lafions. and with power to hear and redress
grievances. in their discretion
TEE SENATE EXODUS COMMITTEE
Held > long session to-day, and examined
nine witnesses. Most Of the evidence
brought out was corroborative a that pre-
viousIy given by other witnesses. James
Buchanan, Of Indianapolis, a prominent
greenbacker and member OF the National
Party of Indiana, was examined. He said
the demand for labor in Indiana is far
short Of the supply tina. never since 1873
had 4 winter passed that the Supervisors Of
the Poor in the vicinity Of Indianapolis
were not called upon to supply food to
able bodied men, who would be glad to
earn a living if they only could get work.
He was opposed to the exodus, because he
believed the negroes we're not improving
their condition by coming TO q State which
was already oser-suppli d with labor. He
was o moved 10 hold this view because Of
any prejudice against the black race, as he
had been an abali ZIONIST until slavery was
abolished and a Republican until 1878.
With reference to the Indiana Republicans
favoring the exodus movement. he believed
that nine out Of ten Republican voters were
opposed to it. But half a dozen leaders,
nor he knew, in Indiana, while they did
not openly favor it, failed to condemn the
bringing of these negroes to Indiana. when
they know perfectly well that there is no
work for them there. He impugned the
motives Of these politicians by intimating
that they were willing to see a movement
inaugurated and continued which was not
justified by the condition of the labor de-
mand in Indiana, when their party was
likely to be benefited by the addition Of
Republican voters.
The Office OF
CORNERSTONE Oh INDIAN AFFAIRS
Has been offered to a New England man,
whose name is not known, but it is under
stood that he has declined, with thanks.
sTILL HARPIsG ON PENNSYLVANIA
CHICAGO, Feb. IA Tribune's Wash
ington special says that a fact Of some i'm
~portance, connected with the Harrisburg
Convention, has not yet been refuted.
Five seats were contested. The holders of
these seats were all Blaine men. The con-
tests were referred TO a machine Commit
tee, n all the contestants were seated.
These were without exception Cameron
men. This made a difference OF ten votes
on test ballot, and but for this arbitrary
action of the Cameron management, Grant
would have had only ten instead Of twenty
majority.
MORE ANTI-eRAST ARGUMENTS.
NEW YORK, Feb. THE Times, a strong
Grant organ, says When the Grant move
ment loses the character Of a spontaneous
and complete manifestation of Republican
sentiment, it will have lost all title to pub
lie confidence. Grants self-respect is not
hhSs w P0iHAt AK Ptcocn VI his
name to the Convention as the result of a
persistent course of political trickery, and
If he did, most Of the element of a success
full canvass in his favor would be elimin-
ated in advance.
The Tribune says that of the thirty-six
Republicans in the New Jerey Assembly,
twenty prefer Blaine as their Presidential
candidate, ten Sherman, four Grant, and
two Wsshburne. Many of the Blaine and
Sherman men would be personally satisfied
with Grant, but they are satisfied that his
nomination would not be judicious. This
canvass was taken last week. out the Grant
movement has p~erceptibly iakened since
the Pennsylvania Convention.
VESSEL Losr-KEENE's CONTRIBUTIONS.
NEW YORK, Feb. IAN unknown vessel,
with all hands, was lost in the Sound on
Tuesday night.
The New York Daily News SAYS it is an
nounced on good authority that James
keene is preparing to send to the dis
tressed people Of ireland a ship load Of
grain as his contribution to their relief.
FEMALE SUFFRAGE IN IOWA.
CHICAGO. Feb. THE House Of Repre-
sentatives of the Iowa Legislature adopted
by a vote Of 81 to 81 an amendment to the
Constitution to be submitted to the vote
Of the people making free white won en-
eligible as members Of the Legislature.
SILVER MINE IN RYLAN
BALTIMORE, Feb. IA silver mine has
recently been discovered in Garrett county,
the ore Of which goes $113 to the ton.
THE HoRRoR.
LucAN, Ont, Feb. 7.-Over 500 persons
attended the funeral Of the murdered DON
nelly family yesterday. The cortege was
half a mile long. and after leaving the
residence proceeded to the Catholic Church.
Father Connelly's words were very i'm
pressive. Five more arrests have been
made.