Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-06
Washington Notes from Our 0wn Corre-
spondent.

Washing ton Notes from Cur Gwn COrre-
spondent.
WASHINGTON, April 9Th. = Postma.ter-
General James denies the report that there
was d conference about Judge Robertson's
nomination in New York between Vice
President Arthur and Senator Platt, Gov
ernor Cornell and himself. The objects and
business of each were SO different while they
were in New York that they did not even
meet each other.
A sagacieus New England friend of
Chandler said to-day that rejection of his
nomination as Solicitor General by a solid
Democratic vote in the Senate would make
his political fortune in New Hampshire, and
result in his election to the United States
Senate to fill the next vacancy. This may
account for the nonchalence with which
Chandler receives the reports of threatened
Democratic opposition to his confirmation,
and says he.is content TO take his chances.
The Erenlng Star, under the heading OF
"A Point of Order" publishes the following ::
General Duncan S. Walker remarked yester-
day to- Star reporter in the Senate Cham
Der, ''All this debate and these proceedings
are out of order" Why" asked the re-
porter. because" was the reply, sit is re-
uuired that all treaties shall be considered in
executive session, and this is nothing but a
treaty between Malone and the Repubi-
cans"
Apropos of the many high Offices given to
Ohio men, it is remarked that except for the
brief term OF Washburn of Illinois as Secre-
tary of State during the first six days of
President Grants Administration, Secretary
Blaine is the first chief of the State Depart
ment who has not been New Yorker since
Buchanan's Administration. Secretary Sew
ard, Secretary Fish and Secretary Evarts
were all from that State, and their united
terms covered period of twenty years.
Judge Black, Of Pennsylvania, was the i'm
mediate predecessor of Mr.. Seward in the
State Department..
United States Senate.
WASHINGTON, April 5th.-The pending
business-the resolution for the election Of
officers of the Senate-was taken up in the
Senate this morning. A motion for an
executive session was rejected, when the
usual wrangling occurred, participated in by
Mcpherson, Hoar, Salisbury, Morgan.
Bayard, Logan, Sherman and others. Some
of the passages were exceedingly spirited.
Patents to Pacific Coast Inventor.
WASHINGTON, April 5th-The following
patents have been issued to Pacific coast IN
ventors: William Akin, San Francisco, auto
matte advertising DEVICE Frank Bachelor,
Sacramento, wheeibarrow and seeding ma
chine Henry Caseholt, San Francisco end
less cable way; Rufus d. Lane, Stockton,
paper pulp machine; Henry g. Langrek,
San francisco, fog horn Frank Mailer, San
Francisco, fax drawing machine Isaac n.
Matlock, San Francisco telurian Cassius
C. Spaulding, Oakland, ice machine Lowell
A. Richards, Grayson, thrashing machine
feeder; Theodore w. Schwall Sacramento.
combined ticket case and whistle; Budd
Smith, San Francisco, flagstaff holder An
drew j. Stevens, Sacramento, friction brake
for steering apparatus for vessels; Theodore
Wagner, San Francisco. shutter worker.
Response Of the Russian Government TO
The Senate Resolutions.
WASHINGTON, April 5th.-The response Of
the Russian Government TO the Senate resolu-
tions on the assassination of the Gar, copy
of which was transmitted by Secretary
Blaine, was received this evening in the form
of letter from the Russian Minister Of For
eign Affairs to Minister Foster, and contains
tie following paragraph:
Ny august master has been profoundly touched
by this marked respect for his beloved father and
Of the sympathy with himself, coming from the high
assembly OF a country for which the deceased EN-
peror always professed a sincere esteem and warm
friendship 1t is legacy which he leaves to En-.
peror Alexander HI and which his Majest7, in
cordance with the Russian nation accepts from the
bottom Of his heart
The Dakota F,ood-yiIIages washed away
and Lives lost.
YANKToN, April 5th.-The only change in
the river situation is another rise, which ex-
ceeds by far that of the och, heretofore re-
ported. Lower Yankton is submerged to-
day, and the people have been removed to
the upper portion of the city. No lives were
imperiie6, but some will occur in removing,
and considerable damage must result to proD-
erty.
The intelligence received to day from Bon
homme is that out of IA persons 10 have been
rescued alive and we'll A family named
Bates and one named Haddemar are I'M
doubtedly drowned. Seven other families
are probably lost six miles this side of Green
Island. The people have been in part re-
here, but the village is completely washed
away. Water and Ice to depth OF II feet
run across the village site.
The chsnnel of the river is blocked q short
distance below Yankton. turning a great
volume of water across the low lands on the
Dakota side, which flows eastward thirty
miles before it re-enters the channel at Yer
million, point on the river bank which is
reported washed away, with the loss Of thirty
lives. The river at this point is about six
miles in width. and its surface is covered with
DEOhEu ANt. llliSA tsoV q iCn lLltSH bilS
breadth of water widens to fifteen miles,
retaining the width without exception for
forty five miles.
Bridges Carried Away.
SIOUX CITY Qa), April 5sh.-0ne wagon
and two railway bridges over the Big Sioux
river were carried away last night, aud the
telegraph lines destroyed west by the river
route.
Chinese Litigation.
New YoRK, April 5th.-The first suit ever
brought by one Chinaman against another in
the higher civil Courts here, began yesterday
in the Court of Common Pleas. The suit
was brought by Lee Tung against Lee Soy
aud three others, who at midnight of Febru-
airy 22a entered his bedroom, in company
with policeman, and forcibly removed there
from two trunks containing $500 worth of
goods and $500 in $50 gold pieces. The case
is still on trial and attracts much interest
Election ut Little Rock.