Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-05
DOMESTIC.
speakership of the Next Bouse.

DOMESTIC.
| speakership OF the Next House.
! WASHINGTON, December 3d.-The Repub-
lican members-elect assembled 10 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 Me-
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. Keller. Of Iowa, by Haz=lton John A.
Kasson, of Iowa, by Cannon Mark r. Dun
| nell, of Minnesota, by Strait Godlove S.
Orth, of Indians, by Collins; j. G. 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 balloting was
| then proceeded with. The first vote stood !:
4
Burrows 10, Orth s, Duunell 4. Total, 146;
necessary to a choice, "A
| Sixteen ballots were had, when Kiefer was
| elected by the following vote Keller 80
Hiscock Is, Kasson TO- Reed II. Burrows l,
| Orth s, Dunnell g. Total 145
| Hiscock then moved to make Keifer's NOM
nation 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-
vsnia. 92 j. II. Rainey, OF South Carolina,
| AZ; DR.. b. KEN, of Pennsylvania. 1 Frank
g. Harlon, 2; E. l.. johnson, of New York.
l; G. T. Dawson, Of California, 8. McPher-
son was thereupon declared the caucus nomi-
| nee. One ballot only was had for the position
of Sergeaut-at Arms. Colonel Geo. w. Hop
| per, of Vermont, late Assistant Secretary of
| the Republican National Committee, received
| so votes, and thereby the caucus nomination
| against George T. Dawson, of California, who
had %, 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. 123, against Is for Edward
Jardin of New York, and scattering. Mr..
Brownlow is a nephew of " Parson" Brown.
low. He is now editor OF the Jonesborough
| Tenn Herald. Captain Harry Sherwood,
of Michigan, was nominated by reclamation
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,
il native of Clark county, Ohio, and 45
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 term of service in the
Union army during the War of the REBEL
ion. he volunteered in i1S61, was severely
wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, in
May, 1864, and in November CT that year
was commissioned as Brigadier- General
General Keller was elected as Representa-
tive to the Forty-fo1rth Congress from the
Fourth Ohio District, reelected 20 the Forty
fifth, and again chosen to the Forty
Congress lie has always been an earnest
Republican, and of late has been classed as
belonging to the stalwart wing of his parry.
A srALwART TRIUMPH.
The defeat Of Hiscock and the nomination
of Keifer for Spesker are unanimously cen
sidered triumph of the Conkling, Arthur
and Grant influences in short, of the stall
wars or "old guard Republicans over all
cause Of their hostility to Hiscocs 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 objectiena-
BILE to the stsl~arts, 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 resolution indorsiug
the declarations of the Democratic National
Conventions of 1878 and $780, 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 renominate3, 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 Crandali, of Washington, d. c.,
Sergeant-at-Arm FL. Martin Williams, of
Missouri, Doorkeeper, and W. ii. Moore, of
PENNSYLVANIA, for Postmaster.
| Five Hills Destroyed by fire-LOss OF Life.
ST. PAUL, December 4th.-At 4 o'clock
this morning fire broke out in the milling
district of Minneapolis, destroying, before it
was subdued, four large four mills and one
cotton mill, and causing the death of Of least
| four persons. The fire broke out in the Pills.
bury mill, owned and operated by G. A. Pills.
bury & Co. It communicated to the Excelsior
| mill, owned by Dorilius Morrison, and oper-
| ated by C. A. Pillsbury & Co., and to the
Minneapolis mill, owned and operated by
| Croker, Fisk & Co., which exploded, killing
Neil Fredericks, first assistant engineer Of the
| fire department. The fire then communicated
to the Empire mill, owned by l., +. Watson,
of Massa, husests, and operated by C. A.
Pillsbury & Co. a stream having been re.
ceived az this point, the fire was got under
control, but the brands from the confagra-
ton falling upon the roof of the cotton mill
near by, owned by Dorillus Morrison, it was
4 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 CARS filed with
wheat. The fire had communicated to the
mill of Croker, 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 fatally. The ex-
| plosion WAS -one OF great violence, SCATTERING
windows as far as ten blocks away from the
scene, and startling people from their early
slumhers in all parts of the city. The cause
| is all a matter of speculation thus far. The
mill had been shut down for some time.
SECOND DIsPATCHl
ST. PAUL, December 4th.-The explosion
| is as likely to have been from confined gas as
from -four dust, to which the Washburn mill
explosion was attributed. The capacity CT
the mills burned is 5, AGO barrels. The total
capacity of the Minneapolis mills is %. 800
barrels. The mills destroyed Represented
about one-tenth of the whole. The
list Of killed and wounded, so far as
now known. is Killed-Cornelius Fred
eTick, Assistant Chief Engineer of the
Fire Department, crushed under the falling
wall of the Minneapolis mill and instantly
killed. John Lucy, msmber of Hook and
Ladder Company No. 5 Alex. Burk,
sweeper in the Pillsbnry B mill. He was
standing on the steps of the Office of G. a.
Pillsbury & Co. when the explosion oc-
Cured. He was struck on the head with q
stone. aud died from his injuries. An IN
known citizen was found killed outright.
Wounded-Daniel Horbach, fireman, was