Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-12
SATURDAYS DISPATCHES
ESPECIAL To THE RECORD -UNIoN.l
MATTERS AT WASHINGTON.
Reportin Regard to Wells, Fargo g. Co.
as Letter Carriers.
WESTWARD-BOUND PASSENGERS.
Parnel1 and Dillon at New York and Phila-
delphia.
KEARNEY AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
The Ute Indians on Their Way to Meet the
"Great Father"
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF FOREIGN NEWS.
Attempt to Assassinate Priest in a London
Church.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Affairs at the National Capital.

DOMESIlC NEWS
Affairs at the National Capital.
Especial to the RECORD UNIoN.l
WASHINGTON, January 10th-Willis OF
Kentucky, Chairman of the House Commit.
tee on Education and Labor, has added Rep
resentative Page to the subcommittee, who
will hold meeting next Thursday to con-
slider the subject of Chinese immigration and
agree upon some restrictive bill, with the
view to obtaining the promptest possible ac-
tion by the full committee, and consequently
by the House whenever the committee shall
be called upon for reports. 1t is probable
that the committee will recommend the pass
age of the measure which was vetoed last
year commonly known as the fifteen -passen-
ger bill) omitting the clause that required
notice to be given of the abrogation of two
specified articles of the Burlingane Treaty.
The objections of the Presidents veto mes
sage, it will be remembered, were based upon
this clause, the ground being taken that
formal notice of direct abrogation of any
one portion of the treaty was equivalent to
giving notice of the abrogation of the whole
of the treaty, and in fact amounted to sew
erance of all diplomatic relations with China
1t remains to be seen whether the President
will question the right of Congress to modify
the operation of treaty Indirectly by legis-
delegation are disposed to give him an oppor-
tunity, as soon as possible, to pass upon a
bill divested of the principal objection upon
which he based his veto last year.
The refusal of the Supreme Court to ad-
vance the legaltender case upon its docket
has strengthened the determination of the ad-
vocates of repeal of the legal, tender power
of greenbacks to press that proposition upon
the attention of Congress at the earliest prac-
ticable moment during the present session
and although many members are strongly
averse TO going upon the record in regard to
so troublesome question, there is no longer
any doubt that it will soon OF, have to be dis
posed of in some way. The proposition has
undoubtedly lost strength during the holi-
day recess, for number of Congressman
who were ready before the Christmas ad-
journment to vote, if not for an immediate
repeal, at least for repeal at some future
date, have returned from their constituents
firmly convinced that the "let-well enough
alone policy is the wisest. In short, the
impression has apparently gained ground that
the existing business prosperity might be en-
dangered by any financial legislation, and the
adopt resolutions in favor of letting the cur
rency alone.
Letters lately received here from Consul
Mosby, at Hongkong, bring information
that he will leave China for home some time
this week.
Senator Farley and Representative Berry
filed a joint recommendation for the appoint
ment Cf Alexander Dunn, County Clerk of
Colusa county, as Supervisor of Census for
the Third California Census District. He
will undoubtedly be appointed. They have
also recommended E; l.. Griffiths, of Fresno,
for appointment as Census Supervisor in he
hut tot
Pacheco and Senator Booth have asked that
Charles w. Dana be appointed for this dis
trict, which is composed of the greater part
of Pacheco's Congressional District, it is
uncertain which of the two will get it.
The Acting Commissioner of the General
Land Office to-day approved the Mimic
survey of the Rancho Vale de San Jose,
comprising II, 634 acres in San Diego county,
and the patent will be issued next week.
The report of Special Agent Starett to the
Postoffice Department, concerning Wells,
Fargo & Co. IS delivery of letters on the Pa
cific coast, sets forth the magnitude of their
business in this respect by stating that they
purchase, on an average, 2000 600 stamped en-
velopes per month in San Francisco, and
doubtless proportionate number in Port
land, Salt Lake City, and other places The
grounds upon which the Department is asked
to interfere with this business are: First
That Wells, Fargo & Co. do not charge
double rate of postage, and consequently the
three cent stamped envelopes which they sell
for five cents contain often more mail matter
than would pass through a Postoffice for
three cents. Secondly-That the companys
correspondence between its various bark
ing houses is carried free, and that besides
this the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany and the Central Pacific Railroad
have an arrangement with the Express
Company by which their letters are trans
ported without cost, thus depriving the Gov
ernment of the postage it should receive.
Third-lt is alleged that about one-ffth of
the express company's FIVE hundred agents on
the Pacific slope are Postmasters, and that
they are ameHable to the law for selling
envelopes at higher prices than the
Government CHARGES. The committee of
prominent Post Office Department officials
who have been appointed to examine this
subject will thoroughly examine it, but it
does not seem to be generally expected that
they will discover any statute authorizing
material interference with the existing busi-
ness, and in view of the formidable litigous
resources of the company, and the opposition
already indicated on the part of California
representatives against the suggested cur
tailment of the business facilities of the
company's constituents, it is probable that
the committee will move in the matter very
cautiously.
western Bound Passengers.
OMAHA, January 10th. The following
through passengers were on to-day's train,
leaving at 12:15 P. NJ, to arrive in Sacra-
mento January 14th T. r. Ferrall, Boston !;
w. 2. Stanley and wife, Cleveland; j. Ken
nedy Stout, Miss K. A. Stout, Elizabeth P.
Berwin, A. G. Ferguson and wife, San Fran
cisco l.. l.. Forbes, wife and two children,
Japan Lieutenant G. H. Bonesteel, U. S.
Army, Vancouver; S. q. Reed, DR.. p. L.
Keene, Portland, Or; G.. S. Stearns and
wife, Cincinnati
Fifty-one through emigrants left on last
nights emigrant train, to arrive in Sacra-
mento January 18th.
The Ute Indians-The Infamous Outrage
on Their White Captives.
CHICAGO, January 10th.-The Ute Indians,
with their escort, passed through here to-day.
arrivinglat P. NJ, taking supper at the
Grand Pacific Hotel, and leaving by the
Pittsburg and Fort Wayne Railroad for
Washington at 6 P. NJ. There was a crowd
at the depot who made some demonstration,
but only in the way of unpleasant words, to-
ward the Indians. General Adams, who ar
rived this afternoon, confirms the stories of
the nameless indignities which the white
women suffered at the hands of their Indian
captors. He says the women very unwillingly
made full statement to the Commission of
the circumstances, with the understanding
that it should not be published Mrs. Meek
er, however, subsequently published the story
herself. General Adams said that had he
known this part of the barbarity of the saw
ages before the Commission began its work,
he would have advised letting General Mer-
ritt and his force punish the redskins witho1t
further delay. The women were, however,
so adverse to having the acts known that they
at first denied, even to the Commission, that
they had been foully dealt with.
Denis kearncy's Remarks at the Green.
back Convention.
NEW YORK, January l0sh.-At the Green
back Convention in Washington yesterday,
Kearney said: The Republican party is run
by National Bank Directors. The iron.
hoofed scoundrels should be in hell These
thieves and vagabonds, like other highway
men, meet by midnight lamp and divide th.
spoils, You, the mudsills and mutton-headl