Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-13
GENERAL news.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD.
UNION
LAST WILL OF GENERAL UPTON.
The Eocsination of Stanley Matthews
Confirmed.
SUDDEN CURE BY PRAYER IN KENTUCKY.
Iowa German Republicans Indorse the
President and Condemn Cooking
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF FOREIGN NEWS.
The Russian Royal Family Return to st.
Petersburg.
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DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Stanley Matthews Confirmed.
WAsnIseros, May 12th.-Stanley Matthews wa,
confirmed to-day by one majority.
Stanley Matthews Confirmation.
WASHINGTON, May 12th.-Stanley Matthews con
frmation rs the talk of to night, and all sorts O
rumors are sfioat as to how individual Senators
voted on the question: also concerning the posi-
biity of todays action being reconsidered II does
not seem probable that any motion to reconside,
will be entered, it being manifest that no one of the
twenty-five Senators who voted in the affirmative
to-day would have voted if he desired to de'eat
the nomination, which had finally only a bare ma.
jority of one, and therefore the entering of a
motion to reconsider during one of the
| two executive sessions the extreme parlia.
| mentary limit Of time cannot be made
except in the event that some member OF
the majority shall change his opinion and be pre-.
pared to give some reason for the opposition which
has not been advanced during the two days debate.
Some of the lists Of votes made up by the news.
paper men tonight exhibit both the California Sena-
tors and Jones of Neva la as voting in the
affirmative, but more reliable account mentions
Farley as voting in the negative, and reports that
he assigned Matthews speech against the Chinese
ffteen-passeDger bill as his reason for voting that
way. One cause of the opposition of many Eastern
Senators to Matthews confirmation and similarly
one explanation Of the votes Of some Western men
in his favor is his advocacy Of the doublestandard
system and his pronounced support of the Pacific
coast view Of the silver question 1t is also said
by friends OF Judge Matthews that his alleged
hostility to Governmental control over corporations
is gross perverson of his argument against the
Thurman bill, which directed solely to the ques
tion whether or not it violated an existing written
contract. The Ereaiing Star publishes the follow.
ing: "Jay Gould yesterday telegraphed to West
ern Senator, Can you conscientiousy vote for the
confirmation of Matthewsg" Mr. Gould did not
indicate which side Of the tally list he wished
the Senator's conscience placed. This report is not
generally credited, for the double that Could
it is rot believed would be foolish as to use the
telegraph for such purpose and b eau it is
highly improbable that the recipient of any such
telegram would disclose it.
Provi,icns Of General upton's VIII.
NEW YORK, May 12th.-A Times special Of yes
terday from Batavia, N Y. says: The will Of Gen.
eral Upton was admitted to probate in the Genesee
County Surrogates office in this village yesterday
The will was drawn up By General Upton July 8.
1875, while he visiting his parents in this town
previous to starting on tour around the world.
It is singular document. Miss Sara X. Upton,
the Generals sister, to whom he was greatly at
tached is the executrix and the principal legatee
though his father and mother, who yet live here
and other members of the family-which consists
of ten grown chidren-are all remembered. The
value of the estate is estimated at s25, 900. The
greater part of this is invested in a manufacturing
concern at Battle Creek, Mich. The income from
copyrights of Uptons Infantry Tactics and tactics
for nonmilitary bodies, is bequeathed to his sister
Sara, provided that the income does not exceed
$1,000 The residue of the income from these copy
rights after deducting several small bequests, is
directed to be held in trust by his executors, to
be applied to the education of such Of his
nephews and nieces as desire a collegiate educa.
ton, but when in the judgment of the executors
no OF the income is needed for the above pur-
pose they empowered toapply the residue to aid
such necesstous and worthy person or persons re.
siding in Genesee county, N. Y. as may be desirous
of collegiate education, and who shall have passed
satisfactory examination before competent ex.
aminers. 1t is stipulated that not more than 5000
per annum shall be applied upon the further
condition that fourth part of the money shall be
repaid by the person receiving it, at such time
within ten years after its receipt the executors
may decide. The income from these copyrights
amounts to $4,000 per year. The steel saber worn
by Upton In the battles at Blackburn's Ford, Bull
Run, Gains Mill, Charles City, Cross Roads, Cromp
cI-s
vile, Gettsburg. Raprahannock Station, The Wilder
ness, spottsylvania Court house, Geld Harbor and
Petersburg is bequeathed to his brother, James s.
Upton, of Battle Creek, Mich, to be by him given
to the first nephew collateral relative of the
who may be graduated at West Point and enter the
army. His swords, commissions and official papers
are bequeathed to his father and mother, to be by
them distributed as they may think proper
The Mexican Railroad Subsidies.
NEW YORK, May 12th.-A writer in the Gunner
cial Bulletin replying to the editorial on Mexican
subsidies in the New Orleans Pi;ayune, which was
noticed in these dispatches on the 4th inst, claims
that the railroad grants made by Mexico are surely
as valuable the lands granted the Pacific Railways
by our Government, and from similar enhance
ment of their value by the railroads Mexico expects
The lien of per cent. upon the customs duties
given by the Mexican Government to secure some of
these subsidiee of course, will not pay them to-day
but it will pay them when the railroads are built
and the business and exports and imports of the
country are increased. The writer contends that
the popular impression Of Mexico's impoverished
condition is mistake. She is really fresh, young,
unaeveloped, and with resources as practically in
exhaustible for our time as those of our own coun
try. Her population is little over II persons to
the square mile while that of the United States is
nearly IA. Her national debt is s42 66 per head.
That of the United States go Sc Her combined
exports and imports for the last attainable wear
500, zoo, ,o00 just about equal to those of Nor
way. Her annual revenue, inefficently collected
by the latest returns ST., ,s11,1 ,125 1t is usually
about s19o0o,000.
Railroads and Public Timber.
WASHINGTON, May 12th.-The Secretary of the
Interior today addressed letter to the Commits.
soner of the General Land Office relative to the
right OF railroad companies to take timber from
public lands by virtue Of the right of 1875" The
law referred to provides that any railroad company
organized as therein provided shall have the right
to take from the public lands adjacent to the line of
railroad, material, earth, stone and timber neces
sary for the construction of said railroad" The
Secretary says: This law refers exclusively to
contemplated or unconstructed roads. Companies
have no right to take timber under this Act for
pairs or further improvement O.: roads constructed
Congress, in providing that railroad companies
should have the right to take timber from public
lands adjacent to the line of construction evidently
meant timber standing or growing adjacent to the
line as distinguished from timber further off In
conclusion, the Secretary decides that in all in
stances where railroad company desires to take
large quantities Of earh stone or timber under the
provisions Of the Act, fron1any one particular soot
it should be required to make application to the
Commissioner OF the G-ne.al Land Office to do so
Jefferson Davis on Stonewall jackson.
NEw ORLEANS, May l2th.-Jeffcrson Davis, in bis
speech at the unveiling of the Jackson statue yes
terday, said From the academic shades Of the mill
tary institute jackson went forth to battle in the
cause OF State rights self-governmcnt and consti-
tutional liberty. He lived for his country-never
doubling the justice of his cause believing it
righteous, ard trusting in it. He died, as live to-