Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-22
vqnld be hung for murder if scovllle sho I'D

your husband. You're crank on this busi-
ness. Ii you had all stayed in Chicago it
would have been far better for nv case.
These relations are nuisance. [ wou!d be
better off if | didn't have any 1 would have
plenty of friends If this pack of relatives were
out of the way"
| Mrs. Scoville whispered some expostulatorv
| reply, when he turned again angrily ard
| shouted, "You have been an unmitigsted
| nuisance in this case all the way through" "
| Then changing quickly from anger TO mirtb,
| he added, with laugh, You're queer lot,
| you Scoyilles."
Adjourned.
Committees of the House Of Representa-
tives.
WASHINGTON December 2lst.-The Speak
er announced the COMMITTEES on Ways and
Means to be constituted as follows: Kelly
| (Chairmanl, Kassou, Dunnell, MeKenley,
Hubbeil, Haskell, Russell, Errett, Randall,
Mckee Carlisle. Morrison. Spear of Georgia.
Banking a. CurIency-Crapo of Ma sa-
ehuset.s (Chairmanl, Smith OF Illinois,
Weber. Dingley, Moore, Cornell, Brean,
Buckner. Hardenbureh, Flower, Efmentrout.
Appropriatio1s-Hiscock of Neg York
| (Chairmap) Robson, Cannon, Burrows,
Butterworth CaswelI, Ryan, O'Neil, Ketch-
um, Blackburn, Cox, Atkins, Forney, Le-
| fevre, Ellison of Louisiana.
! Pacific Railroads -Hazelton OF Wisconsin
| (Chairman), Harmer. Butterworth, Robinson,
| Hammond of New York, Paul. Darrell. Far.
well of lows, Mckenzie, Bliss, House, Notan.
| The Chairmanships of the other committees
are are follows: Electors, Calkips of Indi-
ana; Judiciary. Reed of Maize: Coinage,
| Weights and Measures. Fisher of Pennsyl.
vania; Commerce, Pare of California !;
Agriculture. Valentine of Nebraska; Foreign
Affairs, Williams of Wisconsin,; Military
Affairs, Henderson of Illinois; Naval
Affairs, Harris of Massachusetts, Post
offices and Pest Roads. Bingham of Pennsyl-
vania Public Lands. Pound of Wisconsin !;
Indian Affairs, Haskell of Kansas Teri.
tories, Burrows OF Michigan; Railways and
Canals. Townsend of Ohio Manufactures,
Campbellcf Psnnsylvania; Mines and Mining,
Van Voorhees, of New Y York Public Buildings
and Grounds. Shallenbsrger Of PENNSYLVANIA.
Mississippi Levees, Thomas of Illinois ;
Education and Labor. Updeereff of Ohio; I;
Militia, Strait of Minnesota ; Patents. Young
of Ohio; Invalid Pensions, Browne of IqGiana;
| Pensions, Marsh of Illinois; Claims, Crow
| ley of New York; WGr Claims, Hauk of
Tennessee Puslic Expenditures. Randall of
| Pennsylvania Public Land Claims, Pecheco
Of California District of Columbia, Neal of
Ohio; Revision of the Laws Mckinley of
Ohio; Expenditures in the Department Of
/
Treasury Department. Belford Of Colorado |;
Expenditures i1 the War Department, Briggs
of New Hampshire Expenditures in the
Navy Department, Robeson of New Jersey !;
Expenditures in the Postoffice Department,
Cameron of Illinois; Expenditures in the
Interior Department. Hubbell of Michigan !;
Expenditures in the Department of Justice,
Willetts of Michigan Expenditures Upon
Public Buildings, Errett of Pennsylvatia
| D.. IT, A Nf
Maryland Mileage, Jorgensen of Virginia
Joint Committee on Library. Cook of New
York; Joint Committee on Printing, Van
Horne of Missouri Joint Committee on
Earollsd Bills, Aldrich of Illinois; Joint
Committee on Census, Prescott of New
York Public Health. Van Arman of New
York; Reform in Federal Service, Orth of
Iowa; Laws Respecting tie Election of
President and Vice President, Updegrsff Of
Iowa; Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, Waite of
Connecticut.
Generally Satisfactory.
NEw York, December 21st.-A Washing
ton special says the new Chairmen are upon
the whole satisfactory to the members,
of the appointment of Page as Chairman Of
the Committee on Commerce.
Adjournment of Congress.
WASHINGTON, December lst.-The Senate
and House adjourned to-day until January
5th.
The steamer Jeanette.
WASHINGTON, December 2lst-The Sec.
retary Of State and Secretary OF the Navy
had a conference this afternoon as to the
best method to be pursued in reference 10
the steamer Jasnnette, and agreed that tho
only thing to be dons 1T present was to tel
eeraph the United s5sstes Niristey at ST.
n L..
ment to furnish all the assistance in their
power, pecuniarily and otherwise, toward
bringing the survivors to 2 place of communi-
cation, SO that they might be enabled to
reach home.
The question of sending the United States
steamer Rodgers now in winter quarters ct
ST. Lawrence Bay, in search of the missing
crew Of the steamer Jeanette, was discussed
at the Navy Department to-day, and the
conclusion was reached that such an expedi-
tion would be impracticabls until spring.
The Unfortunate Expiorers-Words of
Wisdom.
WASHINGTON, Decsnber 21st,-George
Keenan, of this city, whe has had experience
as a traveller and explorer in northeast Asia,
sent the Secretary of State to-day the follow
ing letter with regard to measures for the
relief of the survivors of the Jeanette:
WASHINGTON, December q, 1881.
Mr.. Secretary: As Travelled some years ago over
each Of the alternative routes which may taken by
the survivors OF the Jeanette in making their way
back from the Lena river Eastern Siberia, to Amer
ca beg leave respectfully to offer for your consd
Grafton the following suggestions with regard to the
return of Lieutenant Commander De L9ng and his
men to their homes The Board OF Naval Officers
has | am told, had under discussion to day the
question of sending vessel around through
Behring's Straits to the mouth Of the Lena to bring
back the survivors of the Jeanette by sea. l
would respectfully urge that this plan is
utterly impractieable first, because it is by
no means certain that the vessel could
reach the mouth OF the Lena either east west on
account of the ice; and second, because If the YES
sci should succeed in doing so it would not arrive
at its destination until late next summer or early in
the fall and would almost certainly fail to get back
that year. In the meantime the survivors OF the
Jeanette would be compelled to live at the mouth
of the Lena and endure eight or nine months more
of hardship and priyatIon. 1t seems to me cfear
beyond even the necessity of discussion, that the
survivors of the Jeanette must be brought up the
Lena river this winter on dos-sedg to the city OF
Yakoutzka. g. KEENAN,.
The Star Route Gases.
WASHINGTON, December 21st. United
States District Attorney Bliss said to-day
that he was getting together evidence in
about fifty star route cases. The amount Ct
money involved he declined to give, but
hinted that it amounted to several millions
Exit from PnbIic Buildings.
CHICAGO, December 21st.-Mayor Harri-
son having made the round of the theaters to
examine the means OF escape, and having de.
cided to ask the City Council TO make certain
notifications, the subcommittee of the Citi-
zens' Association have taken up the work,
and instructed their Secretary to have those
sections of the building law which apply to
public buildings printed in convenient form
and furnished to the theater managers. The
committee find that lamentable ignorance
Of the Law prevails.
Husbands Vengeance.
DENVER (Cel.). December 21st.-The Trib-
| uae's Coolidge, Ksnsas, special says: Mon
| day night the wife of Postmaster f. L.
Hardesty was outraged by Barney Elliott
during her husbands absence. The next
morning Hardesty returned, went to Barney's
house, riddled his body with bullets and
pounded his head to jelly.
squafters Compelled to Hove On.
| Denver (Col.) December 21st.-Tte Tyib-
une's Pueblo spscial says: Last night the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Company damned up the mill ditch which
runs through Pueblo, TO drown out the squat
ters on the railroad conpany's lands in the
suburbs. Fifty families Of squatters, and q
score of rightful properly were thereby
compelled to emigrate. The total loss is
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