Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-16
Affairs at the National Capital.

DOMESTIC NEWS.
Affairs at the National Capital.
Especial to the REcoRD-US1oN
WASHINGTON, January 15th.-Judge Mar
BILE, the law officer of the Interior Depart
ment, to-day heard arguments on the question
of the correctness OF Commissioner William
sons decision of the Pueblo case now before
the Secretary of the Interior for final de-
partmental action. 1t has been heretofore
supposed that the only portion of William
sons decision upon which arguments would
be heard was that which relates
to the boundaries of the Pre-
sidio reservation, but Judge Marble,
in behalf of Secretary Schnrz, to-day an,
nounced thar he was willing to hear
arguments in regard to any and all features
of the case, although it need not necessarily
bee inferred that the whole case would
be considered subject to review when
the Secretary shall hereafter take up the
matter for decision. MIR. Greathouse, of San
Francisco, thereupon delivered an oral argu-
nent in support of the Commissioners de-
cision concerning the present boundaries.
He was followed by Beard, of Washington,
and D. K Trip, of San Francisco. in advo-
cacy of the correctness of Williamsons de-
cision respecting the exterior boundaries
of the Pueblo. Trip also filed a
brief, deliberately stating four reasons
why the Secretary of the Interior should net
disturb this decision as to the exterior
boundaries. These reasons are in short,
first, that no appeal was taken except in
regard to the Preside boundary; second,
that the segregation, as approved by Com
missioner Williamson is substantially cor
rect, and has been so accepted and acted upon
by all the great interests involyed-the
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third, that to now change the lOca-
ton of the line approved by the Gen.
eral Land Office would cause incalcul-
able injury and disturb property valued
at 500, 900, 900, cause endless litigation, and
ieopardize the rights of thousands of citizens
fourth, that there is no power given by an
Act of Congress for the Secretary of
the Interior to review this case
because the Commissioners approval
of the survey under the act of
July l. 1864, is final. Mr.. Daggett, claiming
to represent the city of San Francisco by
authority of City Attorney Murphy, will be
heard tomorrow in opposition, it is under
stood, to the whole Pueblo survey.
PokinG Fun at Our New Constitution.
New YORK, January 15th.-The Star has
shot at CALIFORNIA; new Constitution thus :
The Commonwealth on which the sun never
rises but diurnally sets, possesses many features
peculiar to itself. 1t has the heather Chinee.
1.-THE Chinese must 60" Kearney, and an
anti-Chinese Constitution. But the greatest
of these is the Constitution. In some respects
this remarkable instrument may be said to re-
semble the well-known but somewhat mis-
leading Ta-tsing- hwei-tien. In other respects
it is a model in its way. In Justice to
the mighty intellects which are responsible
for the instrument, however. it must be ac-
knowledged that its ways are mysterious and
past finding out. This mobile document plan
ly and clearly defines the methods whereby
two hearts can be legally authorized to beat as
one. To this extent Ia tsing- hwei-tien has the
deadwood ON the new Constitution of Califor-
mia. The instrument mentioned provides
that marriage licenses can only be obtained
from County Clerks. Then this same instru-
ment, In another section, calmly proceeds to
abolish County Courts, and without Couaty
Courts there can be no County Clerk. Now,
in the name of the great American public,
we demand to know what grudge the invent
ors of the new California Constitution have
against census-takers? Why is Cupid to be
thus despoiled of his prey by band of from
tier desperadOes, acting under cover of the
law? In the name of all that is sacred and
most dear in connection with halcyon leap
year, why are the virgins of the Golden State
to be deprived of that quadrennial preroga-
tive which 1880 has brought to them irre-
spective of this Tantalus Constitution d? 70
the Californian person of domestic tastes.
otherwise unmarried, this new Constitution
simply proves there are more horrible reali.
ties than the Chinese must CO. or kearney.
Edison's Light-A Bitch.
New YORK, January 15th.-The Ereniag
Post reporter visited Edison's workshop at
NJ IL 40, L
at a standstil, owing to the break.
ing of fifty of his carbon horseshoes
two weeks ago, and failing to de-
tect the cause up to the present
time. Edison has stopped manufacturing
the lamps hitherto used. He is endeavoring
to discover the weak point He thinks
that the heat emitted by the light cracks the
glass at the place where the platinum wire
enters the lamp, and the air gets in. There
are still about fifty lamps burning one of
which has been used forty days. A new
glass blower has been engaged, and modifica-
lions may be made in the lamp, allowing
some escape for the heat emitted.
The Post says Edison and his assistants
are not down hearted, and hope tie overcome
the newly discovered difficulties in time TO
introduce the light into practical use in New
York city before next winter.
NJ
was shown the statements in reference to his
lamps last night. "Some of these statements
are falsehoods," said he, and some are quite
true the lamps have not gone out and the
carbon horseshoeS are not broken. That some
of the lamps have been cracked, and that air
has thus gained an entrance to the flame is
true. This does not affect my invention. 1t
is purely mechanical fault-a trouble
with the glass. do not claim to
have perfected that part of my lamp.
1 am still experimenting. Edison
has found that he can make an almost
absolutely perfect lamp by using GER
by hand; but it would be. expen-
sive, and the very first object he strives
to attain is to be cheap. II must be made
by machinery. He does not want it to cost
more than 20 or % cents. Edison intends to
increase the number of lamps in Menlo Park
to 600 or 700, because, he says, the more
lamps he has to study and experiment with the
sooner he will remedy the defect that is now his
only obstacle. So far as could be learned
yesterday, there have been no sales of Elec
trio Light stock for some time. The highest
bid is 81. 200 per share, while none is offered
at less than 81, 800 or 81, 1000.
New Telegraph scheme.
New York, January 18th. = The Times
washington special presents the details of
the telegraph scheme introduced in the
Senate yesterday in the form of petition for
the incorporation of company by James A.
SczyInser, of Cuban cable notoriety, and
William G. Hamilton. 1t is surmised that
the Western Union Telegraph Company is
backing the scheme. Itproposes establishing
3 submarine cable from Texas, by the shores
OF Mexico, across Tehuantepec, for which
privilege has been granted by the Govern
ments interested, and to extend this line, by
way of San Salvador, Nicaragua, Cost Rica
Panama and Ecuador, to Peru, where CON
nection can be had with the established lines
to Chile, Buenos Ayres and Brazil. The pc
titioners suggest that the completion of a
railway across tie Isthmus of Tehuantepec
and the proposed slip canal will open di-
rect trade between our great cities and Cen
trail America, South America, China, India, |
Australia and Japan, by way of the Gulf of
Mexico. and that this trade will he greatly
benefited by rapid Geographic communica-
ton. They ask the Government to survey
the route Of the cable, and TO grant them
subsidy, Ia the form of a contract for send |
Ing Government messages.
Woman Suffragists I'm Congress.
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