Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-10
The Adjournment OF C0ngrcss-The
Blaine Outlook in Pennsylvania.

Elaine Outlook in Pennsylvania.
Special to the RBooRD-UsIoN.l
WASHINGTON, May 9th.-This week will
probably determine whether Congress can
adjourn by the 1st of June, in accordance
with the general desire of the leaders of both
parties, or whether the session will be pro-
longed at least fortnight later, and possibly
until July. The present condition of the
regular general appropriation bills is as fol-
lows The pension, fortifcation, army and
navy bills have become laws. The Indian
appropriation bill is enrolled, and will be
sent to the President for his approval to-mor-
row. The consular and diplomatic bill has
been put through a committee of conference,
and will reach the President for signature by
Tuesday. The Military Academy bill is still
in the conference committee, but will be
quickly disposed Of The Postoffice appro-
priation bill has passed the House, and
awaits the action OF the Senate committee
The star route clause will doubtless give rise
to considerable controversy in the Senate,
and there may very possibly be further delay
caused by the various foreshadowed PROPOSE
tions to insert subsidy amendments similar to
those which were adopted by the Senate last
wear, but finally were stricken out when the
bill came from the committee of conference.
The River and Harbor bill has been reported
by the House Commerce Committee, and an
effort will probably be made tomorrow to put
it through the House under a suspension of
the rules. If this effort fail, it will have to
be considered in Committee of the Whole,
and an adjournment by the 1st of June will
be practically out of the question. The three
most troublesome of the annual appropriation
bills still remain to he reported by the House
committee, namely, the Sundry Civil, the
Legislative and Executive, and the General
II Il. -. E.
action which must be finally dis
posed of by both houses before
Congress can disperse for the summer,
there are the tariff bill, completed by the Ways
and Means Committee yesterday, which may
or may not be taken up for passage, the Cur
tin ocum election case, which has gone over
as unfinished business for this week, and the
Marshals' deficiency bill, now lying on the
Speakers table; while in the Senate there
are already on hand for consideration, in ad-
dition to the appropriation bills now there or
soon to reach that body, the Kellogg case,
the internal revenue bill and Bayard's bill
concerning the election Marshals. The last
named are expected to be reported back from
the Judiciary Committee tomorrow, and to
be brought before the Senate for discussion on
Tuesday or Wednesday. On the whole, the
present outlook in regard to adjournment
would seem to induce stronger prob
ability that Congress will be in ses-
sion on the 1st of July than that the
the session will terminate by the 31st instant,
and several members of the House Commit
tee on Appropriations who were last week
confident of adjournment by the 1st of June,
have to day Withdrawn their predictions, and
merely express a hope of adjournment by the
18th or Goth.
1t is positively asserted here to-day, in
fr,epJi,y n Pla,,a tbot
ioriry of the Republican delegates elected in
Philadelphia have recently held secret con-
ference, and unitedly determined to cast their
votes at Chicago for Blaine that they COM
municated this decision to Senator Don
Cameron; that he Immediately went to Phil
adelphia, and finding that he could not
change it, obtained concession that it should
not be made public until after the Republican
Conventions to be held in Illinois and in other
States this week; that it was stipulated, how
ever, that the main facts might be privately
communicated to friends of Blaine elsewhere
in Pennsylvania, and that congratulatory
kilograms from them are now pouring in from
all parts of the State. 1t is also asserted
that Cameron, before leaving Philadelphia
last Friday, said that if the current of events
now prevailing in Pennsylvania for Blaine
should continue, his duty to his party would
leave him no other course than to accept the
inevitable, and that at q proper time he
would show that he could as gracefully sacri-
flee his personal preferences for the good of
the party as any man in the State. Whether
or not these assertions will be literally veri-
fed, there seems to be no doubt of their hav-
ing some substantial foundation.
Railroad AccideHt-Two Men Killed and
Several Injured.
ST.. LOUIS, May 9th.-To.days express
train on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern Railroad, when one and half
miles this side of Bismarck and about 20
miles from St. Louis, at 3:45 this morning,
ran into washout caused by the storm of
last night. The engine was wrecked and the
engineer, Charles Mcpherson, and the fire.
man, Nicholas A. Storrs, were instantly
killed. The baggage, express and second
class passenger car were ditched and turned
over. The other cars remained on the track.
A III. Hurley, Of Indianapolis /; L. Z. Dono-
her, of jackson, Mich; Joseph Palite, of
Blackwell. Mo, passengers, and tramp
named Ed. Walsh, who was stealing ride,
were slightly injured.
The Mcihodists at Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, May 9th.-The delegates to
the General Conference again occupied nearly
all the pulpits in the city and suburbs to-day
Bishop Simpson at 4 P. N. preached at Music
Hall to an audience of S, 600 people, and hun
dreds were turned away unable to get in.
His theme was I" The Growth and Ultimate
Triumph of Christianity" AS he showed
the decline of all other systems and their in
adequacy to the wants of man, he SO carried
tie sympathy of his hearers that amens were
mingled with spontaneous applause The
entire congregation joined in the singing,
which was led by two cornets and accompa-
MED by the great organ. The effect was
grand.
IncenGiarism and Loss OF Life.
DANvILLE (Va.l May 9th-The wooden
rented by J. 3. Pace, of Richmond.
for the storage of leaf tobacco, was burned
this morning; also wooden building ada
cent, belonging to j. S. Winstead, of Green
boro, n. c., occupied by Murphy & Co. as
grocery and liquor storehouse. Samuel
Croxton, sleeping in the warehouse, perished.
and John Does, fireman, in attempting
Croxton's rescue, was also burned to death.
Pace lost 220, 900 pounds of leaf tobacco, and
$. R. Houdett Co. and .J. S. Robertson &
Co. smaller lots. The fire was of incendiary
origin.
Northumberland Passengers.
OMAHA, May 9th.-The following through
passengers were on to.day's train, leaving
at lZ:lo P. ~. to arrive In Sacramento May
18th: Mrs. Sterling, maid and child, Eng
land; S. M. Sibley and wife, Bennington,
Vt; Mrs. Birdsall, Samuel Hubbard. NJ
Findley, Sylvan WE'LL, San francisco; k.
II. Simones, Ottawa, Canada; H. B. Gull
lum and wife, Meadville, Pa.
Business in New York City.
NEW York, May 9th.-Business in most
departments Of trade has been moderate dur
ing the past week, the demand for merchan-
disc having Stacked, and the conviction has
forced itself upon the mind of the mercantile
public that trading has been overdone, and
that a further decline in values would seem
to be more probable than any improvement.
There has been declining tendency in many
while in some prices show a
considerable decline for the week.
Pacific Coast Postal Changes.
WASHINGTON, May 9th.-The following
postal changes for the Pacific coast were made
last week: Offices established-H Helix, Una
tilla county, Or, Mrs. Mary A. Simpson,