Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-05
DISPATCHES OF SATURDAY AND sUNDAY.l
THE SPEAKERsHIP FIGHT.
Keifer of Ohio the Choice of the Ma
jority.
A DISASTROUS CONFEDERATION.
Five Mills Burned at Minneapolis and
Four Men Killed.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT IN CONNECTICUT.
Heavy Robbery of Bonds from a cleve-
land Bank.
Etc.. Etc. tc.................E Etc.
DOMESTIC.
speakershIp Of the Next House.


DOMESTIC.
speakership of the Next Beuse.
WAsHINGToN, December 3d.-The Repub-
lican members-elect assembled in the hall of
the House of Representatives for the purpose
of nominating candidates for the various
elective offices. Jay Hubbell. of Michigan,
called the caucus to order. Robson Of New
Jersey was selected Chairman of the caucus,
Miller of Pennsylvania Secretary, and Nc
| Cook of New York, Updegraffe Of Iowa and
Mcclure of Ohio as assistant Secretaries and
tellers.
After the roll-call. to which full Republi.
| can membership Of 146 members responded,
the nomination for Speakership was declared
to be in order. Candidates were then placed
in nomination as follows: Frank Hiscock, of
New York. by Representative Camp; james
W. Keifer. Of Iowa, by Hazslton John A.
Kasson, of Iowa, by Cannon Mark II. Dun
| nell OF Minnesota, by Strait; Godlove S.
Orsh, Of Indians, by Collins; j. c. Burrows,
of Michigan, by Horr; Thomas B. Reed, of
Maine, by Lindsey.
The motion was made, and advocated
briefly by Bayne. that voting be viva voce,
but this was voted down and baloting was
then proceeded with. The first vote stood :
Keller 81. Hiscock "a, Kasson 15, Reed 13,
Burrows 10, Orth s, Duunell H. Total, LAG;
necessary to choice, IA
Sixteen ballots were had, when Kiefer was
elected by the following vote Keifer 90,
Hiscock Is, Kasson 10, Reed II, Burrows L,
Orth s. Dunnell 8. Total 145.
Hiscock then moved to make Keifer's NOM
ination unanimous, which was agreed to.
OFFICERS OF THE House.
Candidates for the Clerkship were then
placed in nomination, and balloted for as fol.
lows: Edward MCPHERSON. of Pennsyl-
vania 90: j. III. Rainey, Of South Carolina,
G. Harlon, 2; Z. L. johnson, of New York,
l; G. T. Dawson, of California, g. McPher-
son was thereupon declared the caucus nomi-
nee. One ballot only was had for the position
of Sergeant-at Arms. Colonel Geo. W. Hop
per, of Vermont, late Assistant Secretary of
the Republican National Committee, received
so votes, and thereby the caucus nomioation
against George +. Dawson, of California, who
had 2S, Greenburg L. Foort OF Illinois, who
received q, and William Bum of Pennsyl-
vania, IL. The first ballot for Doorkeeper
resulted in the choice of Walter P. Brown
low of Tennessee. 12S, against 13 for Edward
Jardin Of New York, and scattering. Mr..
Brownlow is nephew of 50 Parson' Brown.
low. He is now editor OF the Jonesborough
(Tenn Herald. Captain Harry Sherwood,
of Michigan, was nominated by acclamation
for Postmaster, and Rev. Frederick d.
Power, of Washington, House Chaplain. He
is pastor of the church which was attended by
President Garfield.
THE NEXT SPEAKER.
Joseph Warren Keller, who received the
Republican caucus nomination for Speaker,
is native of Clark county, Ohio, and 10
years of age. He is lawyer by profession,
and has practiced in the city OF Springfield
since his admission to the bar in 1858, with
the exception of his tenn of service in the
Union army during the War of tho REBEL.
ion. He volunteered in .1s61, was severely
wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, in
May, 1851 s~1 "a Naue-ater Of 4b,4 .a~.--
was commissioned as Brigadier- General.
General feifer was elected as Representa-
tive to the Forty-folrth Congress from the
Fourth Ohio District, reelected 20 the Forty
fifth, and again chosen to the Forty.seyepth
Congress, lie has always been an earnest
Republican, and of late has been classed as
belonging to the stalwart wing of his parry.
A sTALwART TRIUMPH.
The defeat of Hiscock and the nomination
of Keifer for Spesksr are unanimously con-
sidered triumph OF the Conkling, Arthur
and Grant Influences in short, of the stall
wars or "old guard Republicans over all
their opponents in the party. The direct
cause Of their hostility to Hiscock was the
attitude he assumed in the Conkling Senate
rial contest last spring, and the agency most
effectively employed against him to-day was
the Cameron control Of the Pennsylvania
delegation. Kasson was similarly ohjectiena-
ble to the stsl~artF, by reason OF his friendly
relations with Blaine.
DEMOCRATS AND GREENBAcKERs.
The Democratic caucus organized by elect
ing Representative House, of Tennessee,
Chairman. and Frost, of Missouri, ard We'll
burn, of Texas, Secretaries. Proctor Knott,
of Kentucky, offered a resolution indorsing
the declarations of the Democratic National
Conventions of 1873 and 1880, the object
being to indorse the free trade plank. Knott
and Reagan supported, and Hammond, Nc
Lain, Hooker and Herbert opposed it.
Hooker moved to Indefinitely postpone the
| resolution, which was carried-53 to A. On
motion of McKenna, all of the officers of the
| last House were renominated, viva voce.
The Greenback members of the House of
| Representatives tonight nominated Nicholas
Ford. of Missouri, for Speaker Gilbert De
| La Matyr, of Indiana, for Clerk of the
| House; Lee Crandall, of Washington, d. c.,
Sergeant-at-A I'll. Martin Williams, of
Missouri, Doorkeeper and w. II. Moore, Of
| Pennslyanis, for Postmaster.
Five MiIis Destroyed by Fire-Loss of Life.
| ST, PAUL, December 4th.-At o'clock
this morning fire broke out in the milling
! district of Minneapolis, destroying, before it
| was subdued, four large -four mills and one
cetton mill, and causing the death of q. least
| four persons. The fire broke out in the Pills
bury mill, owned and operated by G. A. Pills
| bury & Co. 1t communicated to the Excelsior
mill. owned by Dorilius Morrison, and oper-
| ated by G.. A. Pillsbury & Co., and to the
Minneapolis mill, owned and operated by
| Crocker, Fisk i Co., which exploded, killing
Neil Fredericlss, first assistant engineer of the
| fire department. The fire then communicated
to the Empire mill, owned by l.. T. Watson,
of Massat husests, and operated by G. A.
Pillsbury & Co. a stream having been re.
ceived a. this point, the fire was got under
control, but the brands from the conhaara-
ton falling upon the roof of the cotton mill
near by, owned by Dorillus Morrison, it was
also consumed. Thus four Touring mills and
one cotton mill were consumed, with the rail
road on the trestle work in the rear of the
mills, and several freight cais filled with
| wheat. The FIRE had communicated to the
mill Of Crocker, Fisk & Co., when an ex.
| plosion occurred, which leve,ed the walls OF
the structure, crushing the elevated railroad
track in front of the mill, killing three per.
SONS and injuring another fstally. The ex,
plosion was,one Of great violence, sbattering
windows as far as ten blocks away from the
scene, and startling people from their early
| slumbers in all parts Of the city. The cause
is all a matter of speculation thus far. The
n.ill had been shut down for some time.
SECOND DIsPATCHl
ST.. PAUL, December 4lh.-The explosion
is as likely to have been from confined gas a'
from -four dust, to which the Washburn mill
explosion was attributed. The capacity ci
the mills burned is s. 400 barrels. The tota
capacity of the Minneapolis mills is 25, 50(
barrels. The mills destroyed represented
about one-tenth Of the whole. The
list Of killed and wounded, so far ai
o1u, Jy;Ilol Hal