Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-27
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Presidential Question.

DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Presidential Question.
WILL WITHDRAW.
BosroN. March 26th-The Advertiser has
the following dispatch, received in this city
last evening from Washington Positive
information is received that Grant will with
draw as candidate before the Chicago Con.
Vention."
TEXAS DELEGATES.
AUSTIN fTexas) March 26th.-Of the 1f
delegates. 10 are for Grant. The cOlored
delegates are the most bitter against Grant.
Sherman was not mentioned, although the
hall was flooded with his literature sent from
Washington.
SHERMAN IN NORTH CAROLINA.
GoLDsBoRo IN. C.), March 26th.-Twc
colored Sherman delegates have been elected
to the Chicago Convention after struggle.
HAYES OPINIONS.
CHICAGO, March Doth. = A Tribune
Washington correspondent interviewed the
President, who refused to talk on the Presi-
Dental prospects of Sherman or Grant, but
asked if Blaine's chances were not improving.
The following ensued: 'But, Mr.. Presi
dent, you are not insensible of the fact that
an emergency may arise in the Chicago Con.
vention that may make your own nomina-
ton desirable only desirable, but a
great party necessity What if it should
come to that complexion at last p
The PresidenC-That is a contingency that
is not at all likely to arise, and l don't an
ticipate any such result. My position in re-
gard to accepting a second nomination under
any circumstances is well understood, and
will be adhered to.
respondent-There is to be council Of
war held in Chicago on the I'd of next June.
If you were ordered to go to the front with
the Republican banner in your hands, you are
too good soldier to refuse orders, especially
In the face of the enemy.
The President-If the Chicago Convention
cannot agree upon either one of the promi-
nent candidates now before the country,
there is large number of clark horses to
select from without looking this way. For
example, there is Washburne, of Illinois,
who would readily unite all the elements OF
the party, as would Hamilton Fish, of New
York, or Senator Edmunds, Of Vermont.
Either of these gentlemen would certainly be
elected.
SENATOR EDMUNDs AND THE PRESIDENCY.
CHICAGO, March 26th.-A Journal Wash
ington special says: The report that Senator
Edmunds has withdrawn the use of his name
as a Presidential candidate is utterly dis
credited by his most intimate personal
friends, for the very good reason that he never
considered himself in any sense a candidate,
contingent or otherwise, and has not, up to
this time, regarded the use of his name as a
serious matter A member of the Vermont
delegation said to your correspondent to-day
that Edmunds had said to him within a week
that the talk about his being a candidate was
preposterous and absurd, and he had no In
clination and would not accept the position ii
every man in the United States should rise
up and demand it. The member who fur
nished the conversation says it is his opinion
the Edmunds boom continues to grow. The
Senator will quickly stop it by refusal in
the most positive manner to allow his name
60 be received, and declaring that under no
circumstances will he consent to become a
candidate for what he feels not fitted.
ANTI-THIRD TERM.
ST. LOUIS, March 26th.-The Anti Third
Term Committee publish call, setting forth
that profound interest is felt in the approach
ing Presidential election, and that alarm is
felt at the purpose of some friends to commit
the Republican party to the dangerous third
term policy. The address refers to the ex-
ample of Washington and the injunction of
Jefferson, and warmly approves the resolu-
tion of the State Conventions of New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio in 1875, all of which
opposed the third term, and the similar ac-
ton of Congress in December, 1875. The
nomination of Grant would be made in total
b disregard of the principles of the Republican
party. To avert danger to the success of the
party the call is issued for a mass convention
at st. Louis, May 9th, to perfect thorough
organization for the expression of the will Of
the people against the principle of a third
Presidential term, with a view to a constitu-
tional amendment limiting the Presidential
term. All Republicans In sympathy with
the movement are invited.
Mining Debris in Congress.
Especial to the RECORD NIeNI
WASHINGTON, March 26th.-The Secretary
of War to-day transmitted to the House of
Representatives, in response TO Berrys reso-
lutions, the report of Colonel Mendell con-
corning the effect of the deposit of mining
debris upon the Sacramento river and its
tributaries. The bill introduced by Berry,
proposing an appropriation for the double
purpose of improving the present condition
of the navigable waters already injured by
the debris, and of preventing further injury
of the same kind, is still before the Commit
tee on Commerce, who in the absence of any
Department recommendation or regular sur
vey and estimate for the purposes
named by the bill, are unwilling to
act upon it. The Mining Committee,
however. while holding that the subject of
improving the rivers by the removal of exist
ing distractions. belongs to the Commerce
Committee, have acted favorably upon
Pages joint resolution providing for Com
mission to investigate the general mining
debris question, and have blended with it a
provision for the appropriation of $3.50, 600
to dam up the detritus in future, and thus
prevent additional injury. Berry, having
been authorized by the Mining Committee to
report this bill, is now preparing an argu-
incentive report to accompany it, in which he
will quote the most striking portions of
Colonel Mendells communication, and also
set forth the results of the examination made
by the State Board of Engineers.
The Chinese Commission.
CHICAGO, March 26th.-The Inter Ocean :
Washington special says the Senators and
Representatives from California are not at all
pleased with the selection of the Commission
to negotiate an immigration treaty with
China. They claim that they have been
badly treated, because it is a subject that
their constituents are interested in almost
exclusively, and they have been given but
one member of the Board, while two have
been selected who know nothing of the situa-
ton or the needs of California. They insist
that no man can understand the Chinese
question until ne comes IN contact with that
race, and that learning from experience i:
vastly different from learning from theory
-'It is beautiful theory that everybody il
welcome upon our beautiful shores, remarked
,oae to-day, but it is decidedly disagree
able one to Californians, as applied to the
hinese." They say that Angel and Tres
e tt have their minds made up, and the re-
s.:lt of the Commission viii therefore no
change the present situation.
The nominations of the new Minister t.
China and Commissioners Swift and Trescot
xere taken up during to-day's executive
,asssion Of the Senate and referred to tn
a committee on Foreign Relations, which vii
meet next Tuesday 1t is understood tina