Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-06

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openly, and it is surmised that with the Post
under Schurz absolute control, an effort will
be made to combine the German-Republican
influence with that of this group OF polti-
clans to control the Missouri delegation to
the National Convention. --s-
The Chinese Mission-John +. swift Rec.
commended to Succeed NJ mister Sew.
ard-The Mining Debris Question.
WASHINGTON, January 5th.-In view OF
the floating, but tolerably we'll defined,
rumors that Geo. L. Seward will shortly re-
tire from the position of Minister to China,
and wishing to take time by the forelock in
regard to matter of so much Importance
for the Pacific coast, Senator Booth and
Representatives Davis, Page and Pacheco
called upon President Hayes to-day, and
jointly recommended that in the event of
vacancy it be filled by the appointment of
John I. Swift, of San Francisco. They in
formed the President that Mr.. Swift had
not made any request for this recon-
mendation, and that in fact they
did not know whether he would ac-
cept the position if offered to him,
but they voluntarily unanimously rec
commended his appointment as Minister
to China, because they knew him to be able
and upright, and because they believed, in
common with all the people of the Pacific
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duct the diplomatic business connected with
the Chinese question more understandinely
than any Eastern man. They further as
sured the President that while Mr.. Swift's
appointment would be gratifying to the
people of California and her neighboring
States, it could not be considered objection
able by any one; but, by reason of his &C
knowledge high character, would afford
guarantee that any matter of negotiation in
trusted to his charge by the National Adj
ministration would be treated both ably and
fairly The President listened attentively to
these representations, and seemed to be i'm
pressed by them. He didn't say whether or
not the expectations of Stewards early retire
ment are well founded, but after asking
various questions, he promised to give the
recommendations of the California delegation
careful consideration, and thus the interview
| terminated.
Representative Page is preparing, and will
introduce in the House the first opportunity,
joint resolution authorizing the Secretary
of War to appoint Commission of army en-
gineers to make thorough examination OF
California rivers and report to the effects
of mining operations upon their navigation
and upon agricultural lands along their Dor
ders, and also to report what remedy should
be adopted for the admitted injuries of these
kinds, and what action, if any, should be
taken upon the debris question by the Fed
eral Government.
kearney on ParneiI and ether Matters.
| New Y DIRK, January 5th.-Kearney visited
Parneli last night, and subsequently said to a
reporter: "Im with him, heart and soul
and body and blood 1 believe he is an hon
est young man, and an earnest one, and
want to see the like of him, here and in Ire
land, get out and declare themselves against
every devilish kind of tyranny and every
blackhearted pretense of doing right. These
| fellows that come into the world with silver
spoons in their mouths and loll about on
pillows all the days of their lives. without
| knowing what it is to strain muscle, and
then take to crunching with their heels men
of body and heart that make the land, these
| fellows need to be boosted out and people
that can and will do the right thing should
| go to the front. Every man who has a head
big enough to hope to make his way in the
world, and who has arms stout enough to
back it up, ought not to be laid out under the
sole of puppyish donkeyish master He
ought to have chance of doing whatever is
in him, and have something to show for his
lifetime. What can man do in ireland, no
matter how he strives No home to aim for
himself no land to call his own the very
grave he is thrown into is the property OF a
! sluggish, dandyfed brute that breeds and
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with Parnell, and he is no man who will not
| give him Gods speed"
The Utah Governorship.
New York, January 5th.-The T'ri5uae's
Washington special says: The President will
probably decide early this week whether he
will reappoint Governor Emery, of Utah, or
send some one else in his place The Legis-
lature OF Utah Territory meets in its regular
biennial session ON the 1uh of this month,
and if Emery is to be Governor of Utah for
| four years longer, he ought to be back and at
his post at that time. Emery's adminstra-
ton was satisfactory to the Grant, and has
been so to the present Administration.
NEW YORK, January 5th.-A Tribune
Washington special says Governor Emery
brings with him a complete answer to the as
sertion that the Gentiles lack confidence in
him, and that he lacks courage to act fear
| lessly and promptly in an emergency. In
letters and petitions which he will present to
the President, at least nine-tenths of the
Gentle citizens of Utah of any prominence
or influence, and representatives of much
larger proportion of Gentle capital invested
there, have signed petitions, or have written
letters to the President asking for his re-
| tention.
Crooked Penitentiary Agent.
RICHMOND (Va.), January 5th.-An investi-
| CATION into the accounts of n. c. Taliaferro,
the retiring General Agent and .Storekeeper
of the Penitentiary, brought to light short
age of SIS, 900 to $4,000 Taliaferro ac-
knowledee s the shortage, but says it will be
made good by his suretes. He says he does
not know how to account for it, except from
the fact that he was engaged in commission
| business as well as being agent of the Peni
Tertiary. and that the affairs of both concerns
became mixed.
| Fall of an Overloaded Floor.
SYRACUSE. January 5th.-The fifth floor of
one section of the Greenway Brewery Com.
pany's immense building gave way this morn
ing, and in its fall carried down all the other
floors. A man on the upper floor and also
one on the lower floor were injured, but not
seriously Seven hundred bushels of corn
and wheat, 10 bales of hops, about 5000
bushels of Canada malt and 1000 bushels of
malt dust was precipitated into Onondaga
creek, and much was washed away. The loss
is about $50, 900. The upper floor had here
tofore carried double the weight which broke
it down.
| Westward. bound Passengers.
| OMAHA, January 5th.-Through passengers
on to-day's train, leaving at 12:15 P. NJ, to
arrive in Sacramento January 9th, are Mrs.
Holmes and child, San Diego George A.
Crocksr and wife, Waterloo, ILL.,; S. +. Cash
wiler, San Francisco Eugene Hartley, Co.
lumbus, o.. Henry w. Montgomery, Balti-
more; Randall Mccarthy, Washington ;
James II. Corners, Albany, n. Y; Alex.
Cramer, Philadelphia (; Albert Croxton, Mil
waukee.
| Twenty-one through emigrants left on Sat-
urday nights emigrant train, to arrive in
Sacramento January 11th, and eight last
night, to arrive January 18th.
The illegal Tender Case Motion De-
MED.
| WASHINGTON, January 5th.-Chief Justice
Waite announced this afternoon the decision
of the United States Supreme Court upon
the motion recently made by Senator Ed
munds to advance the case of Augustus d.
Juillard against Thomas S. Greenman, gen.
orally known as 1.-THE legal tender case"
which now stands No. 779 on the calendar.
The motion was denied The Chief Justice
said the Court would refuse to grant all mo-
tons to advance cases involving important
constitutional questions so long as they could
not be heard before a full bench.
startling Discovery at st. Louis.
CHICAGO, January 5th.-A st. Louis dis
| patch says: Near the relay depot at East st.
Louis, where there are marshes and bitches
almost without number, the police think they
have discovered evidence which establishes
the existence of gang of murderers, and to
a certain extent solves the mystery surround
ing the disappearance of several well-known
men. Judge Mayo, of Olney, was last seen
at this place on board of an outgoing train,