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THE YOUNG DEBRIS SUBSTITUTE BILL.

The Assembly having ordered the third
reading of the Young substitute debris bill
by vote of 81 to q, there is some pros
pect of its final passage. In the discussion
which preceded the vote on Thursday the
objections urged against the bill were not
such as should weigh against its merits and
the clear necessity of action. The measure
is avowedly a compromise, and therefore it
cannot be expected that it should be en-
tirely free from defects, but it is already
evident that it commands support such
as could not be obtained for any of its pre-
decessors, and therefore it should be ac-
cepted by all who seriously desire to have
the question settled There are some
members who appear to make objections
for no better purpose than to prevent all
legislation in the premises. They are OPP
posed to State taxation and they are OPP
posed to district taxation. They do not
want anything to be done towards reclama-
ton even though the owners of swamp
lands pay for the work. They profess to
desire to save the farmers from the debris,
but they resist every proposition capable
of saving them. It is naturally among
those who are most hopelessly ignorant
of the nature of the problem to be
dealt with that this kind of stu
pid opposition appears oftenest. We
are compelled to say, however, that there
are some members of the San Francisco
delegation whose intelligence should have
prevented them from taking the ground
they have, and who might have been ex-
pected to recognize the directness of San
Francisco's interest in this subject. How
little certain members have studied the
question was curiously shown the other
day when one of them observed, "We
sswant to clean out the rivers and stop the
"debris, but we do not want the State to
pay for draining swamp lands" This
speaker had not the remotest idea that the
drainage of swamp lands is an incident to
the process of cleaning out the rivers and
stopping the debris, and that the latter
work cannot be done effectually without
retaining the swamp lands. It is neces-
sary to the cleaning out of the rivers that
they should be leveed, and the building of
these levees will reclaim the swamp lands
whether or not there is any special purpose
to do SO. At this stage of the discus.
sion such objections appear peculiarly cap
tious and frivolous, and ought not to be
regarded. The Young Substitute is an eff
fort to divide and distribute the cost Of
doing the necessary work in such way
that special benefits and special response
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ton. How can the War Department
subdue the Apaches while another depart
ment of the Government is relieving them
of all responsibilities, and taking care of
the families of the men who are doing their
best to kill American soldiers! Victoria
and his band are thus enabled to fight all
through the summer, and by winter their
wives have stored enough rations away to
subsist them in comfort until it is time to
take the warpath again. Of course as long
as this extraordinary arrangement contin-
ues there is likely to be chronic trouble
with the Indians. 1t is only by making
them see that they must choose between
peace or determination that they can be
got to behave themselves. What they
think of the United States Government
under existing circumstances it would be
interesting to know, but probably they
laugh at it as a machinery which they find
no difficulty in utilizing for their own pur-
poses.
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THE INSURANCE. QUESTION.

A strong effort is being made to per-
suade the Assembly into passing Senate
Bill No. 1873, but dispassionate review of
the measure ought to convince members
that it would be against public policy to
do so. 1t was very bad bill when intro
duced. 1t was shorn of its worst features
in the Senate, but it is still by no means
salutary piece of legislation. 1t provides
that no insurance company with less
capital than $500, 900 shall be allowed to
do business in the State. The assumption
here Is that the security of insurance com
panies is measured by the amount of their
capital, and this is an entirely false as
sumption. The truth is that company
with $500, 900 capital may be safer than
one with 100000 or 81, 600, 600 capital.
The amount of capital has no necessary
connection with the question of security.
That depends upon the nature and extent
of the business done by the company.
Judgment in selecting and care in dis
tributing risks are what impart safety
to the insurance business, and nothing
else can. But there are two or three
local insurance companies which seek
to drive out foreign companies in
order to secure their business, and as
these local companies happen to have $780,
900 capital, and as many of the foreign
companies have less, it has occurred to the
former that they might do good stroke
of business for themselves by setting up
this false assumption regarding the rela.
ton of capital to security. and so under
cover Of spurious public spirit get their
job passed. Some forty three outside COM
panies would, it is understood, be forced
out of business in California by the pas
sage of this bill. Now, it is not for the
public interest that these companies should
be driven out of the State, or that their
business should be absorbed by the local
companies. On the contrary, it has al
ready been shown that the local companies
are doing an unsafe business even now !;
that they are carrying far greater risks
than their assets justify, in fact. 1t is
therefore evident that any addition to their
risks would be simply an increase of
danger to their policy-holders, and
the Legislature is certainly not justi-
fed in thus diminishing the security of
the public in order to make new business
for two or three corporations The propo-
sition to make all companies doing bust
ness in this State show paid-up capital
of $500, 600 is mere blind Such an ar
rangement would add nothing to the safety
of the insurance business. If company
with 100000 is badly managed it may
easily be less safe than one with only half
that capital, and the bill does not afford
any guarantee against bad management.
Taking it altogether, therefore, we have no
hesitation in saying that Senate Bill No.
lSS deserves to be defeated, and that the
Assembly will do well to reject it. The
public interest is not to be advanced by
such measures, bnt by rigid provisions re-
straining insurance companies from ex-
ceeding a certain proportion of risks to
capital, and that kind of legislation the
local companies would probably be the
last to solicit.
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GENERAL SHERMAN MAKES A POINT.

General Sherman has made strong
point on the imbecile Indian policy which.
systematizes Indian wars by taking the
squaws and children under Government
protection while the warriors are fighting
the Government troops. At present the
non-combatants of Victoria's band are
being fed by the Government in this way,
and General Sherman observes incisively,
"The Indian Bureau is feeding at heavy
"cost the families of Victoria and his band
"of Apaches, while the War Department.
SIS fighting, at an awful cost in money
and life, the warriors and bucks. Does
"not this magnanimity verge on the
"borders Of folly?" This is certainly
putting the case as mildly as possible.
1t is an amazing state of things, and
contemplation of it is calculated to en-.
gender despair of the whole Indian ques-
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THAT pERPLExrNe COMPROMISE.

The alleged compromise sought by the
Citizens Protective Union of San Fran
cisco has perplexed distant observers as
well as near ones. The Nation, which is
much given to asking riddles, puts the fol
lowing questions on the case: eff Kear-
'sney's arrest was all that was needed to
"restore peace and prosperity, we can
"not help asking how it came to pass that
&c the business of a great commercial city
twas allowed to be put in peril before it
was attempted. If it was not suf-
" ficient, and the present settlement is
"only truce, does not the importance
&c attached to it indicate either great timid-
"ity or great simplicity What mutually
:" honorable settlement, too, can the peace.
cable, industrious inhabitants conclude
'swith brutal mob of loafers who have
'tbeen threatening to murder them and de-
"strey their property? What negotiation
sis it possible to carry on with Kearney
&c and his followers which will not contain
.'the seeds of future trouble? Is there
"any honorable settlement with them
'spossible which does not involve their
pleading guilty and going to jall?' The
various attempts which have been made to
explain the compromise have not in the
least degree supplied any justification for
it. The truth is that the committee made
a fatal blunder when they consented, at
the suggestion of third parties, to
confer with Kalloch and Kearney
at all In agreeing to this con-
ference they betrayed a misapprehension
of the situation which proved their utter
incompetence to deal with it. They failed,
not when Kalloch sought to obtain pre-
posterous conditions, but when they en-
tered Kalloch's Office. There never was
any ground for conference or compromise,
and not to see this was to be blind, and
therefore useless The strength of the
Citizens Protective Union lay in its single
minded determination to have peace and
order at any cost. Under the influence of
that sentiment the Kearneyites were
actually collapsing, when the fatal mistake
of conference suggested itself to those
WELL meaning incapables who forthwith
proceeded to tempt the committee to their
fall.
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CHINA AND RUSSIA.

The probability of war between China
and Russia does not diminish, and the
former power is evidently taking far more
energetic and practical measures than are
her won't. The efforts of Russia to goad
Japan into conflict with her neighbor
will apparently prove fruitless. 1t is not
likely that the Western Powers who have
Ministers in Japan would consent to such
programme, and England is certain to
employ all her influence to battle it. The
possession of Kuldja by the Russians
would possibly have been received with
less concern by the Pekin Government had
not English counsels pointed out the
danger which this annexation created.
The truth is that Lord Beaconsfeld is
trying to make England's fight in Central
Asia through the Chinese, and while
the plan is certainly deficient in
moral recommendations, it is not wanting
in certain element of astuteness. 1t is
probable that China would prove the most
embarrassing antagonist under existing
circumstances, for she possesses an enor-
nous prestige in Central ASIA derived from
centuries of conquest and military rule,
and any Russian reverses might therefore
cause all the Khanates to rise upon the
defeated army and cut off It's communica-
tions and its retreat China, too, can af
ford to expend two or three millions of
men IN war, and Russia cannot, and in
such case victory would be very apt to
rest with the side that could bring most
troops into the field, without much regard
to their equality in other respects.
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OREGON.
Items from Portland.

PORTLAND, March 26th.-By private dis
patch received to-day from Tacoma it is
learned that John Starr, formerly OF this
city, died at that place this morning. De-
ceased was a brother of Captain Il. NJ. Starr,
of the steamer North Pacific.
Intelligence is just received Of the death
by drowning of H. H. Clark in Pine creek,
near Whitman Station, w. l.. Clark at
tempted to ford the creek, which was swollen
by the recent rains. He was washed from
his horse and drowned. The body was recov-
cred. Deceased formerly resided at Portland.
He leaves q wife and three children.
The Court of Inquiry on the loss of the
Dilharree found this morning that the fault
was with bar-pilot Hewitt, who gave Peacock
Spit too wide berth and ran the vessel on
the sands. The evidence shows that half
minute before the bark struck the pilot or
dered the helm hard aport. The report that
the vessel steered badly was disproved by
the evidence. Pilot Hewitt, after repeated
requests, refused to testify before the Court.
PORTLAND, March 26th.-Joseph Marks,
living at White Salmon, w. T., was aecidens-
ally killed yesterday while workins on hiH
farm. He was engaged in cutting oil sap
ling that had been bent down by the snow,
when the butt few up, and strikirs MN on
the head, killed him instantly
ID. Fargally, an old citizen OF TINS city;
died suddenly this afternoon. deceased nao
resided twentv-six years in Portland.
The Republicans of Josephine county In
this State. in their County Convention, have
passed the following resolution:
Resofved. That believing the nomination Of Cen.
era Grant Tor third term TO the office OF PRESIDENT
Of the United States would be alike fatal 70 his own
fair fame, the unity and success Of inc hepuohcAn
partv and the best interests of the nation, we in
sruct the delegates here chosen to oppose the eee
ton Of any man as delegate to the National Conven-
ton who will favor placing General Grant again be-
fore the people candidate for PRESIDENT.
Another resolution instructed for Blaine.
This is the first County Republican Conyen-
tion held in Oregon, and undoubtedly indi-
Gates the sentiment of the State.
The jury in the State Circuit Court IN the
case of Annie Stompf, indicted for arson, re-
turned verdict of acquittal this evening.
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THE SAN FRANCISCO DEMOCRATS.

The workers Il among the San Fran
cisco Democracy have evidently resolved
to put aside all sentimental foolishness,
and to play their game for all it is worth.
Consequently they have made advances to
the Sandlotters, offering a fusion on the
freeholders' ticket as well as on Freud, and
cheerfully swallowing the dirt thereupon
thrust into their mouths by the Kearney-
ties. The upper-tendom of the Democracy
that is to say, those intelligent and rep
utable men whose utilization with the
party is always cause of wonder-have
declared their purpose to put an independ-
emit ticket in the field, and to repudiate
the action of the County Committee. The
latter, undisturbed by this menace, have
proceeded with their Sandlot utilization,
and count confidently upon carrying the
rank and file with them. The papers
which are fighting the Sandlots strive to
create the impression that the Democracy
is thus rent in twain, but unhappily expe-
rience has too often shown that the seces-
sion of the better element from the Demo-
cratic party makes very slight change in
its numbers. 1t is to be feared that the
action of the County Committee will be
approved, or at least followed, by the mass
of the party. 1t must be remembered that
Democratic fusion with the Kearneyites is
not new experiment, and that therefore
a repetition of it demands no great con-
version on the part of the unterrifed.
Their regard for the safety of the city, and
their attachment to law and order, are
probably not so strong as their instructive
disposition to obey orders and follow their
leaders and they are far more likely to
recognize asleaders such men as compose the
County Committee than such men as COM
pose the State Club. Unless, therefore,
this is one of the political seasons when
al signs fail, it must be expected that
Democrats and Sandlotters will vote to-
gether next Tuesday with practical una.
nimity, and that the withdrawal of the bet
ter Democratic element from the Sandlot
programme will add but little to the vote
cast against the anarchists. The people Of
the State at large, however, will do well tc
observe and remember the present pro
ceedings of the Democratic County Com.
mittee of San Francisco, for the light now
being thrown upon Democratic attachment
to good government will be very useful a:
guide presently, when issues of broader
import come up for settlement, and the
claims of the two parties to public conf
dence are being considered
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Exfensivei MInIng sutt.

EUREKA, March 26th.-The papers in the
much talked-of suit between the Eureka Con-
solidated and K. K Mining Companies were
Superintendent of the K K, though servics
will probably be made in few days. The
action is commenced by the Eureka CONSOLE
dated Mining Company against the K. K.
Consolidated Mining Company to recover
possession OF certain portion Of the Eureka
lode, which it is claimed the X K Company
has for a number of months past been work
ing, and extracting therefrom large quaint
ties of silver-bearing ore, and for 800, 600
damages for ore extracted. An injunction is
also asked for in the complaint, restraining
the K K. Company, during the pending of
ore from the ground in dispute
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NEVADA.
Passengers Passing CarIin,

CARLIN, March 26th.-The following passen.
gers passed Carlin to-day, to arrive in Saera-
mento tomorrow: A. Heilbronner, San
Francisco W. A. Murphy, New York j.
G. Meussdorffer, San Francisco; Mrs. Nor
ris and child, Richmond, Va; A. NJ.
Dederick, Albany, N. Y; Mrs. Peery and
family, Trenton, Mo-; Mrs Egenberger and
child, San Francisco; Geo. +. Manning,
Boston; Mrs. A. Reed, Portland, Or; Chss.
Klyman, st. Louis; Joseph Zaver, Boston
S. Heilbrun, wife and child San Francisco;
L. P. Bender and wife, W. c. Mitchell,
Ottawa, Canada; A. Haines, q. S. A; J.
w. Hickman, II. B. Smith, Ottawa, Cam
ada L. A. Jaeger, st. Louis; W. II. Dali
and wife, Washington Mrs. j. W. Ransone,
San Francisco; Mrs. H. NJ Tolles, Rush
vile, His; I. S. Van Volkenburgh, Mrs. P.
Van Volkenburgh, New York; j. B. Hol-
den, Boston NJ. Baker. U. S. Coast Survey
A. Mcdonald, San Jose; J. P Howe, OF
tawa, Canada: q. I. Becker, Berkeley,
Cal; T. j. Buckwaller Richmond Va; b.
Blumenthal, San Francisco; Paul Mar
mette, Quebec, Canada; Miss Little, Ar
lington, Ills; r. Lyman. Forest Grove, Or /:
Maggie Simmons, Chicago 81 enigrants, in
Guiding 90 males. to arrive in Sacramento
March 2Sth
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UTAH.
ARRAY at Fort DougIas-A surgeon and
CAPTAIN wounded.

SALT LAKE, March 26th.-At 10 o'clock
this morning an alteration took place at
Fort Douglas between Captain Western and
Surgeon LeCompte, of the Fourteenth Iu-
fantry, in " hich the former was dangerously
wounded There has been trouble brewing be-
tween the two over some triting matter, and,
meeting at the time stated in front Of the
officers quarters, the fight was opened by
Western. The surgeon responded promptly,
shooting the Captain in the shoulder and
back, causing him to fall, and while attempt
surgeon, who threatened tc kill him if he
made any further effort. The surgeon was
wounded in the side, arm and fingers, but not
dangerously. He offered his services to the
PROSTATE officer, but the latter refused his as
sistance Both are well known. The uupleas-
antness has created big sensation in the city
and fort,
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thorough and determined reform of the
public service, not Federal only, but State
and municipal, and the application to it of
such principles as now govern it in Eng
land, afford the most feasible solution. This
policy, with the adoption of better edu-
cational methods, may in the course of a
generation make it possible to overcome
the worst of the present evils.
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HighMaY Robbcrx af Lns Angeles.

Los ANGELES, March 26th.-Henry NJ.
Smith and General r. H. Chapman, two
well-known lawyers, were met about 8 O'Clock
this evening on the bridge leading to East
Los Angeles, and ordered in the usual par
lance to throw up their hands" Consider
ing the matter in the light of a joke, they
did not obey the order promptly, when Smith
was knocked down, and while revolver was
held to his face was relieved of his watch.
Neither gentleman having any money, the
robbers got nothing This is the second rob-
berry within week
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shoeting AGrax al rirglnin.

VIRGINIA, March 26th.-A shooting affray
occurred this evening between Henry Baw-
den, Superintendent of the Julia, and w J.
Wildbahn, telegraph operator at the depot of
the Virginia and Truckee Railroad The
parties met on G street and hard words
passed, when Wildbahn struck Bawdeu over
the head with cane. Then both drew pis-
tolls and three shots were fred, only one tax
ing effect. which went through Wildbahn's
thigh. An old difficulty was the cause
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Boiler Explosion.

MENDocINo, March 26th.-The boiler of
hoisting engine on the wharf at this port ex-
ploded at half-past 6 this morning, precipi-
tating the boiler ON to the caboose of the
schooner Galatea. John +. Taylor and
Robert Boajo were seriously, but not fatally,
injured.
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Municipal Nominations

SAN JOSE, March 26th.-The Republicans
have made these nominations for city officers
For Mayor, Judge D. s. Payne; for Chief of
Police, w. H. Brown for Treasurer and
Collector, J. A Lott. Councilmen-Fir
Ward, Archie Mcdonald; Second Ward,
Abraham King Third Ward, f. Z. Smith |:
Fourth Ward, w. E. Kelly School Trus-
tees-First Ward, J. r. Lowe; Second
Ward, c. W. Breyfogle; Third Ward, Geo.
NJ. Schuck Fourth Ward. Mrs. DR.. Hooker.
Central Committee-W. l.. Coombs, W. B.
Baker, James MEG. Patterson, E. K. Dun
lap t, Il. Kennedy.
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lists, at a meeting tonight, objected to being
saddled with the stigma of favoring diser-
derby or revolutionary movements, and re-
solved that they intended to carry out their
views by the aid of brains and not bullets.
The Pacific Blood Horse Association met
to-day and arranged for spring meeting to
come off ON May 22d, 26th and 18th at the
Oakland race-track
The Twelfth Ward Republican Club to-
night declared for Blaine.
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Sudden heath

SANTA BARBARA, March 26th.-Dr. S. B.
Brinkerhof, one of the oldest and most highly
respected citizens of Santa Barbara, died sud
denly this morning of heart disease. He was
90 years old, and had been for % years one of
Santa Barbara's most enterprising citizens.
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Iomicide In Mendocino county.

MENDocINo, March 26th.-Richard Nc
Phersou was shot yesterday afternoon about
three miles south of Noyo mills by young
man named Mortier, and died in consequence
in the evening. An inquest will be held to-
day
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Death of Lawyer.

EUREKA, March 26th.-B. K. Davis, Dis
trict Attorney of White Pine county, died at
Hamilton yesterday of dropsy. He was a
pioneer of the Pacific coast and an old resi-
dent Of Nevada. He was serving his second
term as District Attorney of White Pine at
the time of his death.