Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-06-16
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD
UNION.
THE ALBANY INVESTIGATION.
Senator Sessions Still Telling What He
Knows About Bribery.
PATENTS ISSUED TO PACIFIC COAST INVENTORS.
The Black Hills in Dakota Visited by
Heavy Wind-storm.
A DISASTROUS FIRE AT BROOKLYN.
An rx-Bank President in Vermont Sent to
the House of Correction.
A DISASTROUS FIRE AT BROOKLYN.
An Ex-Bank President in Vermont Sent to
the House Of Correction.
DOMESTIC.
Affairs at ALBANY,

Affairs at Albany.
ALBANY, June 15.h-For a successor to
Conklipg the vote to-day stood: Jacobs 49,
Conkling 81, Wheeler %, Rogers Is, Cornell
10, Lapham 10, Bradley l, Folger 2, Ire
maine 8, Crowley 2.
For successor to Platt the vote resulted :
Depew 81, Herman 80, Platt 27, Folger 8,
Cornell 10, Crowley 4. No choice.
THE BRIBERY CASE.
Senator Sessions testified that he knew of
no legislator receiving money for his vote in
any Legislature had no theory as to where
reason to believe that Bradley's vote could
be Influenced by money, or that he was dis
honest !; believed him honest; when he first
talked with Bradley, the latter said, May
be you won't be disappointed in my final
| vote" which witness construed to mean that
| Bradley was now voting to please some Grant
| man in his district, and would finally vote for
| Depew; he didn't know that Barber, with
| whom he had several talks in Woodin's room,
was in the pay of the Central Railroad Com
| pany, and never heard anything about the
| Central Railroad in his room had seen sew
eral games of cards played in his room for
twenty-five cents ante; couldn't swear to
seeing Depew in Balber's room since May
90 h: had bought some stocks this year
through Spencer Trask & Co.; did not know
that Dapew kept an account there.
Bangs offered in evidence two articles pub
lished in the New York Tribune in May and
June, 1879, denouncing Sessions.
Pending discussion as to its admission,
the committee took a recess.
Bangs did rot press for the admission of
the T1.tbune's article dsrogatory to Sessions.
Smith asked witness lSessions) if there
was any talk in Woodins or Barber's room
relative to the use of money on Bradley.
The question was objected to, and the
committee retired for consultation, Smith re-
marking that if they wished to know whether
there had been any bribery they would ad-
nit the question; if not, they would over
rule it.
They finally allowed the question.
Witness said he had never heard any coz
versation on the subject of the use of money
in this matter In all his service about the
Legislature, witness had never offered money
to any members.
L. Coe, Assemblyman from Broome coun-
ty, testified that Edwards. lobbyist, con-
eerred with him in behalf of Depew, and
urged that witness, being a railroad man,
ought to vote for him ; that it would be to
his interes.-his personal interest; that he
would be as we'll treated as any man in it.
Witness inferred that he meant a renomina.
ton Witness said he might some time vote
for Depew. Chas. K. Graham, Surveyor of
the Port of New York, asked witness several
times to vote for Depew. Witness asked him
to appoint General Chryster to his old place,
and Graham said he would be glad to do so.
Adjourned.
Naval Interests of the United States at
Panama.
New York, June 15sh.-The Herald's
Washington special says: Although the appro.
priatlon of 500, 900 for the establishment of
naval stations and coal depots on the Isthmus
of Panama was made available Immediately,
the Secretary of the Navy will do nothing
towards expending dollar of the amount
until the dispute between Colombia aud
Costa Rica, as to what is the southern bound
ary of the latter, is settled. It is doubtful
whether the Navy Department will take any
steps to establish stations or coal dapots on
Chiriqui soil The right to defend them and
protect them would have to be included in
the purchase of sites, a privilege which
neither the Colombia or the Costa Rica Gov
ernments, it is said, are willing to concede
The only interest the United States has in
the QUESTION is whether the claim of Costa
Rica included SO much of the Isthnus as
would, in the event of decision being favor
able to her, extend tl.at country SO as to
bring the proposed canal within the limits
of Costa Rica The State Department has
now ascertained that under no possible
contingency could the territorial rights
of Costa Rica be extended beyond
the province of Chiriqui The narrow strip
adjoining that country on the sonth, between
| Chiriqui and the Isthmus of Panama proper,
over which we have guaranteed to exercise
neutrality, under the treaty with New Gran
ada, is at distance of several hundred miles.
The United States not only would not object
to the proposed arbitration which has been
referred to the King of Spain, but conyratu-
lates these republics on the acceptance of
such honorable and peaceful means as viii
hereafter remove those causes for quarrel aud
ll-feeling so long existing between Colombia
and Costa Rica. tits probable that private
interests have urged the question of settle.
ment by arbitration, for until it is definitely
decided whether Chir.qui belongs to Colombia
or Costa Rica, no progress could be made by
private companies in improving their grants.
The hope, perhaps, that arbitration will de.
eide that the disputed territory should be
held by Colombia would explain the reasons
for De Lesseps urging the matter to a final
settlement, as in that event no rival company
could gain advantages within the jurisdiction
of Colombia antagonistic to his enterprises.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE CASE.
| New YORK, June 15th.-The Horlds
| Washington special says: Careful inquiry
| to- day into the report of yesterday, touching
| the alleged treaty between Costa Riea and
| Colombia, under which the question of the
| boundary between these States is TO be sub.
mitted to arbitration by European SOW.
ereigns, develops the fact that the two con-
tracing States have agreed to submit the
question in the first instance to the King of
| the Belgians, and should he decline, to the
King of Spain, and should the latter decline,
to the President of the Argentine Republic
1t does not appear that the authorities have
made official communication of the exist
| ence of this agreement, notwithsta nding the
fact that the settlement OF the boundary
between Costa Rica and Colombia
must directly affect the interests of
the United States, which has guaranteed
the sovereignty, dependence and integrity of
the United States of Colombia It is not
| believed here that the Government of the
| United States will permit this treaty to be
submitted either to the King of the Belgians,
the King of Spain or the President OF the
Argentine Republic without entering dis
tinct and unmistakable protest to the effect
that the Government of the United States
will not be bound nor allow its existing
treaty rights to be affected by any result of
this arbitration. Well-informed diplomats
| here do not believe that either the King of
| the Belgians or the King of Spain will accept
the responsibility sought to be put by this
treaty in what can only be called somewhat
surreptitious way upon the one or the other
of those potentates.
Senator Mfller-The Star Route Prosccu-
tIons-Dorsey Departs.
| WASHINGTON, June 15th.-Senator Miller
| and family leave Washington tomorrow
morning for New York city, where they in
tend to stop few days, then spend week
1 or two at Saratoga, subsequently visit Indi-
ana and return to San Francisco during the
latter half of July.
There is considerable discussion among per.
sons interested in the star route prosecutions
about the employment of additional counsel
to prosecute the Governments cases. Special
Attorney Cook will try the evidence on
which an indictment is to be asked before
the Grand Jury, and he will undoubtedly
perform the brunt of the routine work. The
employment of some lawyer of national repu-
tation to assist in the trial is talked of, and
the names of William A. Beach of New
York, and Benjamin Harris Brewster OF
Philadelphia, have been suggested. In this
connection there is one great lawyer who is
thoroughly familiar with every detail of the
cases, and who is prominently fitted by rea-
son of his knowledge aud ability to direct the
trials. Attorney General MacVeagh ia the