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AFTERNOON SESSION.
PASSENGER LISTS.

| CARLIN, May eth-Passed here to-day, "a
arrive in Sacramento tomorrow L. B.
Motion aud family, Chicago II. @. Jarrett,
| New York Mrs E. Dickson, Brooklyn, N.
Y; Mrs j G. Church and two children,
| f. NJ. Schoenberg. A. ]. Lewis, John j.
Sabin, Mrs. VIM. Hamilton and son, Mrs.
Grant Boyd, Miss Nellie Grant Boyd, w. I.
Hall, f. n Hawley, A. w. Scott and wife,
San Francisco; n. Faik and family. Miss
c. COIN, Boise City /: R E. Jones. A. Booth,
Chicago; G. Robinson, Massachusetts E.
| Terry and wife, San Jose; Mrs. o. W. Him
rod. Alameda; G. H. Kruter, New Jersey
, T. C. Green, Providence, R. l.; 7. l.. Glib
bors, Cincinnati: Mrs. Seeley and three
children, San Diego; 100 emigrans passen-
gers, including SO males, to arrive in Sacra'
mento May Sth.
NEwHALL, May 6sh.-Passed here to-day,
to arrive in San Francisco Tomorrow
Col. W. H. Dimond and family, Miss Whit
wood, Santa Barbara !; A. B. Caldwell, B.
York, wife-snd two children, Kansas Miss
Matte Turner, Mrs. w. ii. Winton, New
York; J. J. Wilson. Los Angeles J
Thomas, Tucson; l.. G. Miller, G.. Fl. Smith,
Los Angeles L. Duncan and wife, U. s. A.
Mr.. Wolf, San Francisco.
| OMAHA, May 6th.-Left here to-day, to
arrive in Sacramento May 10Th: j. w
! SHauiDefiiu aHu "lAe, DOStOn D ~. oSIeet,
Council Bluffs, a.; Miss Lowell White and
son, San Francisco; Thomas Hughes, Eng.
land; NJ. Heidhotf, New York; F. Lam
bertenghi and wife, Italy; W. L. Stevens,
Minnie Oscar Gray, New York
Twenty-Five through emigrsnts left on las;
nights emigrant train, to arrive in Saora.
mento May 18th.
Kansas CTY, May 6.h-Left here to.
night via the A., T. aud s. F. Railroad
Newton Booth, Mr.. DslanY, aud two from
Marshall, Ills; H. c. Weiner and f. j.
Willis, and fifteen emigrants.
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CONDENSED KILOGRAMS.

Gladstone was sick yesterday, and absent
from the House of Commons.
Whitelaw Reid and his wife sailed from
New York for Europe yesterday.
A fund of e5, coo is being raised in England
TO decorate Hughenden Church, as a memo
rial to Beaconsfeld.
Six per cent. bonds received at the Treas
ury Department yesterday for continuance at
81 per cent. amounted to Sl2 294, 40G.
The British troop ship Malbar, from Bonn
hay. Is now five days between Malta and
Gibraltar. She is said to be broken down.
The production of all kinds of nails in the
United States during 1880 far surpassed any
previous year, reaching 46l, $50 let tons-31
per cent. over 1879.
Miss Minnie Pinnes, of Greeley. Col, has
published card, accepting the challenge of
/ Miss NJ. B. Williams. of England, to 90
mile race for goo aside.
Commodore Shufeldt, who has been ap-
pointed Naval Attache of the United States
at Pekin, leaves for China next week, and
will carry the official notification of the rati-
ticstion of the Chinese treaties.
A London dispatch says A parcel of
powder was exploded under the walls Of the
barracks at Chester last night. The damage
was trifing 1t is believed that the perpe-
traitors are militia men who have been pun
ished.
Owing to the present important iuncture
of affairs, President Garfield has been COM
PEELED to decline the invitation to be present
at the centennial celebration of the battle of
Cowpens, which occurs Wednesday next at
Spartansburg, S. G..
The ship Governor Langdon picked up
March 3lst, thirty miles off Florida, boat
49, tot,. 5 Il L. Al
States army, five days without food, having
been blown to sea in a small open boat His
name is given as j. w. Gle.
Commodore Z. R. Calhoun has been or
dered to duty as Inspector of Vessels in Cal
itornis on the Goth instant Commodore
james V. Spots will be relieved from duty
as Inspector of Vessels in California on the
20sh, and is ordered to the command of the
South Atlantic stations.
At London it is stated that Bradlaugh is
about to issue an appeal to the people, point
ing out the manner in which the House of
Commons Is treating him, and asserting that
the Conservatives under the cover of his
case. jeopardize the land bill and impede the
business of the country.
Parties in Cincinnati have organized and
secured the right to adopt the cable system,
suen as Is In use in Saa Francisco, for pro-
petihg cars on street railroads. One line of
l 1 70 Walnut Hill has consented to intro
the City Council to go ahead. :
Jacob Beeson & Co. ono 90 -.
grain-dealing firms conpected ,pi,h IA 'f Ss
treit Board of Trade, made AN ass;gnnosr,
yesterday to Don III. Dickinson u The - fa;lf
nre is great surprise, and the BOARD 81
Trade suspended in consequence. The l;a.
bilities are stated to be heavy.
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Sacramento Market.

Faurr-our Sacramento quotations froa
The price-lists Of W. r Strong Co., and aFI
revised Up to 6 P. N. yesterday. They rep
resent trade prices, and have in view selecte5
fruits suitable for shipment Oranges, CALIFORNIA; s
az so; Sicily, S10al2 y box; California
s3@4; California citron, per box, 81 so
bananas, s4@4 80 q bunch; sugar cane
50 5093 q bunch pineapples, sS99 q dozen
lines, s262 IS . 100; do, o box, sl6gl8
Apples are very scarce. California Oranges are
now coming forward freely. Sacramento Straw
berries are coming in better supply We quote
7Cd9c Cherries, 12ia20c. Gooseberries, few
very email and green have appeared, and will soon
be fairly in market The last Mexican steamer
brought very small supply of Lines, and as nc
to continue firm.
DRIED FRun-Apples, sliced, 69sc; do quartered.
6dH7e pears, 9@lle; plums, pitted, l4dl6c; whole,
case peaches, 13@14c; peeled, lstGlge prunes,
I2al4c; blackberries, 15(d1Sc; Figs, 7@l0c.
HoNRY-Comb, San Diego, 13a17c; comb, in IN
cans, IS 50S94 extra extracted, S@l0c D b com
mon extracted, case y h.
SEEp-Alfalfa, 15Gf7c; Timothy Gastern), l0@
l2c Red Clover, l5a16c Red Top, 139l5c.
NUrs-English Wanuts, 9@10c; new California
do. extra choice, 90l1c Almonds. 16d1sc; Pea
nuts. 6a7c for California and 5000 for Eastern
Hickory Nuts, s@l0c; Pecan, 15e; Filberts,
l5c Brazils, 13a14c q h ; Cocoanuts, ss@9 D 100
FKgD-Our quotations are from the price-lists Of
z A. Burr Of this city, and are corrected to date
Dat hay S15@17 q ton baled alfalfa sl1@12 . ton,
baled bran, Sl4@15 9 ton; barley, $40 o ton
ground barley,sl 10 % cwt.; wheat, 81 25&1 30
oats, 81 3 cwt., white wild oats q %.
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The bill to encourage physical exercises
in schools, now in the Massachusetts Legis-
lature, has been amended by the insertion
of provision TO the effect that the pupil
shall not be required to take such exercise
if l. parents think 1t r judicial to his
health. Another amendment provides
that no special instruction in calisthenics,
gymnastics or military drill shall be en-
ployed except by vote of two-thirds of
the School Committee. The Committee on
Education is TO report against the scheme
of Charles Francis Adams, Jr., for the di
vision of the State into ten districts.
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The Oroville Mercury announces that
Governor C. Perkins will deliver lecture
in the Congregational Church of Oroville
Tuesday evening, May 10th, on George
Peabody, the Philanthropist and Altruist. I"
Tickets, so cents children, half price.
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LIED.

Diamond Springs, FL Dorado county, April 30
Ersstus G. Bradbury, native of Maine, SIS years.
(Maine papers please copy)
olema, May 2-Infant of B. Moranda, weeks.
Stockton, May 3-Dr. C. C. Goodrich, 60 years.
Biggs, April 29-Annie Jesart, year nd months.
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DR.. Mckay informs the Boise Democrat
that he counted rs wagons on the road
between that place and Alkal one day re.
Gently. They averaged three men to the
wagon. and were bound for Wood river.
Idaho.
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NOTICE OF
DISSOLUTION OF COMPREHENSIVE

TINE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT
I the partnership heretofore existing between E.
G. PARSONS and ROSEkT KILGOUR, under the
day dissolved by mutual consent, and t.lat ROBERT
XII GoUR reiires from said firm, and the business
will hereafter be conducted by E. C. PARSONS, I'M
der the firm name Of E. G. PARSONS g. CO.. and
(. C. PAIRS ONS will pay all bills of the late firm,
and will collect all debts due the late firm.
The firm OF PARSONS, KILGoUR & CO. thank
the public for their past patronage, and hope they
viii remember that E. c. PARSONS & CO will
continue at their old placed business, the Pavilion,
at the southwest corner of Seventh and streets.
Sacramento City.
Sacramento, May g. 1881.
m7-IOt PARSONS, KILGoUR L co.
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WASHINGTON.

LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD
UNION.
THE PRESIDENTS COUP DETAT.
Press Comments on the Action OF the
Chief Magistrate.
THE SENATE AGAIN IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
Result of the Recent Conference in Re-
gard to Army Matters
MORE COMBINATIONS OF NOMINATIONS.
What the Consul at Panama Thinks Of
De Lessep's Canal
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The swollen streams are causing Great
Salt Lake to rise. Its saline waters, how
ever, are clear as the purest spring.
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FOREIGN NEWS.
Great Britain.
oARLYLE's "REMINISCENCES.


LONDON, May 6sh.-Froude writes to The
manuscripts of his "reminiscences, wi b the IL
structiong Of 1866 attached thereto. Froude
expressed an opinion that the greater part of
the "reminiscences should be published as it
was. Carlyle replied that he left the matter
to Froude. He accepted the trust only out
of regard for Carlyle, and two years ago sur
rendered it to Carlyle's piece. He should be
very 10th to give further explanations.
MORE COUNTIES PROCLAIMED.
DUBLIN, May 6th.-Cork and Kilkenny
are proc aimed under the Arms Act; also
Kings and Queens counties
France.
THE SLAVERY QUESTION
PARIS, May 6th.-Gsmhetta, who was
present at q banquet to celebrate the abolition
of slavery, proposed the toast, "To all French
subjects, without distinction of race or color Z"
An address from the English committee for
the abolition of slavery was read, proposing
the formation of a Franco English committee
for the abolition of slavery in Egypt, on a
similar plan to that controlling the Egyptian
| finances.
Germany.
ANOTHER OF wAGNER's COMPOSITIONS.
| BERLIN, May 6th.-Wagner's Niblemen
Trilogy was begun at the Victoria Tneater
last evening. There was an immense crowd
| of spectators and great enthusiasm. The
composer, Wagner, was present. At the con-
clusion of the performance he was immensely
cheered, when he descended to the stage and
returned thanks for the reception given his
work.
| Austria.
| THE ROYAL WEDDING.
| VIENNA, May 6th.-About 100, 900 stran-
gers have arrived here to be present at the
marriage of Rudolph and Stephanie. At
Salzburg the royal party drove to the railway
station through a dense and enthusiastic
crowd of people. The train started amid the
strains of the Belgian national anthem and
| the cheers of the people. The party arrived
in Vienna this afternoon. elcaas9
Tunis.
| THE SITUATION GROWING WORSE
| TUNIs, May 6sh-The Bey has addressed
fresh protest to the Powers, imploring
them, in the name of humanity, to
stay the horrors of war. The re-
port is confirmed that five powerful
native tribes have revolted and refuse to sub
nit either to the Bey or the French. The
| Bey is strenuously endeavoripg to regain his
| authority.
AFFAIRS IN THE TRANsvAAL
DURHAM, May 6sh.-News from the Trans.
vaal tends to increase the fear that the ma
tives will attack the Beers when the British
withdraw. A number of Caffre chiefs have
formed league against the Beers.
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MARRIED.

Livingston, MERGED county, May calvin S. Wake
field to Ida Wat-ous
Biggs April 25-Willian Reder to Clara Holsey
Yreka, May 1-Absalom w. Wooiford to Helen
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BORN.

BORN,
Sacramento, May 5-wfe of julius zieger, daugt-
ter.
Sacramento, May A. Wife of j. A Pizarro, son.
San Rafael, April 29-Wife OF Robert hnson, a
daughter.
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The Managers OF Sacramento Protestant
Orphan Asylum acknowledge receipt of the follow
ing nations since last report Mr. Hoppin, one
box asparagus Mrs. Gregory, one case eggs; Mrs.
Locke, one load wood Scott & ms, three packages
yeast; L. B. Black. cake and bread MIS- NJ Hirsh
one box apples Catholic entertainment tea, coffee
and ham Mrs Clayton, benches, tables, charts and
books Episcopal entertainment, refreshments !;
Mrs. Dan. Mason, Mrs. Mes;ck, Mrs Msydwell and
Mrs. Butterfeld half-worn clothing. Per order
MRS. c W. CLARKE, President
MRS W. H. HOBBY Secretary MI 1t
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L. -. cShis Err. trDprfSeo
TTACKs ON CALL AT ANT HOUR N
IL day night. Coupes, Phaetons, N2A
Rockaways, Barcuches, Duggies, with the Sc ~
bestroadstes TO be found in any livery stable on the
casst tor HRS. Horses kept In livery 8, reasonable
Livery Stables on Fourth street, between and J
m8-tDd
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HOSDAY, JgNE c, 1851.

Proposals will be received for the whole or airy
part of said sum, but in case shall the Board
pay more than the par value Of any bonds"
Bids must be for bonds and accrued interest
thereon. Each bid must be accompanied with the
bonds offered to he sold, by of the bonds of
fered as sample, and certified check drawn on
some bank Of good standing, drawn to the order of
the undersigned, for sum equal to 10 per cent OF
the amount of the bid which check will be forfeited
to the State il the bid which such check compa.
MES shall be accepted, and the party offering the
bonds fails TO deliver the same
Payment will be made in the gold coin of the
United States
The Board reserves the right to reject any or all
bids
Bids must state the Acts of Legislature which
authorized the issuing of the offered bonds
Bids must be Endorsed, Proposals for the Sale of
Bonds and must be adore sed TO the Clerk Of the
State Board of Examiners
Bids will be opened in open ses ion of the Board,
at o'clock P. NJ JUNE 8, 1881.
ALBERT HART
m7-1m Clerk State Board of Examiners
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EONDS WANTED
FOR rHE-
State School Land Fund.

OFFICERS STATE BOARD or EXAMINERS.
SACRAMENTO, May 2, 1881.
YEyHE STATE GARD OF EXAMINERS WILL.
receive sealed proposals for the sale to the State
OF the bonds Of the United States the civil bonds of
this State and the bonds of the several counties of
this State to the value Of one hundred and .enty-
five thousand dollars its office at the State Capt.
toll until o'clock P. NJ of
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NEW ADYERTISElM.IFE,NIS.

A. %. U. W.-IniO1 Lodge. No. Ell,
will meet THIS Saturday EVENING, syl1sN
May 9TH, at Red Mems Hall, Masonic I;.eolsSsAA,
Tenn lie, at O'clock for TRANSACTION of NSzSszT
general business. S. A. WOLFE, N. w. N<@
CHAs COOLEY, Recorder. [B CT m7-1t
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Mas. W. II. HOBBY, Secretary. m7-It


The Fourteenth Annual Convention of
the California State Sabbath School Association will
be held in the Congregational Church of this city,
MAY 10TH 11th and 18th. The opening sermon will
be preached Tuesday evening, May 10TH at 7:3O, by
Bishop Haven. The Convention will holl through
Wednesday and Thursday, and will be filed with in
teresting addresses and discussions on sabbath
school work. The public are cordially invited to at
tend all of the sessions rR CT m7.lt
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Land League MeetiDg.-The regular
weekly meeting of the Irish National Land League
viii be held at Pioneer Hall, To MORROW Sunday
AFTERNOON, May Sth, at $50 o'clock. full
attendance of all members is requested as business
OF Importance will be transacted. P. Ross Martin
will address the meetng at the conclusion Of which
he will recite an original poem. The ladies and all
others in sympathy with the cause are respectfully
invited to attend.
T. P CROWLEY, Vice -President.
n
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THE ROYAL WEDDING.
THE SITUATION GROWING WORSE,
Africa.
AFFAIRS IN THE TRANsvAAL.

DURHAM, May 6sh.-News from the Trans.
vaal tends to increase the fear that the ma
tives will attack the Beers when the British
withdraw. A number of Caffre chiefs have
formed a league against the Beers.
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Degree of Protection knights and
Ladies OF Honor ct THIS Saturday EVENING,
at 1880 o'clock, at Grand army Hall, street. be-
tween Fifth aud Sixth
nj II LIB. Cl THgS. Il BERKEY Protector
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SToRE AND WAREHOUSE FOR RENT -.
- on street Well located brick building, Iii;
4oxl20 lie t; deep, high and dry basement LII
yard 40x60 fe 3, and stab on alley Inquire Of
CARL STROBEL. S2l ] street ct. 4
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New York. May CHA Washington
special says: How is work on De Lesseps'
Canal advancing q asked reporter of John
NJ. Wilson, United States Consul at Panama
who has lately arrived
1t is making very little progress"
Q--How many. men are employed, and
what are they doingl
A.-There are about 30 Frenchmen down
there, about half of whom appear to be run
ming lines in various directions, while the
other half are Commissaries, and 80 on
There are besides about 100 Jamaica negroes
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-04-02

The chief of the bureau of statistics reports
the arrival Of 1908 emigrants during Feb
ruary.
HE total values of exports of domestic
breadstuffs during the month of February
1881, were SIS, 1919, 246, and during February,
1850, s14, 426, S44; during the eight months
ended February, 1881, s1s2, 42s, $685. and during
the eight months ended February, 1880, s1sS, :
s35, $50.
FURTHER nominations by the President: Will
liam d. Robertson, to be collector of customs
for the port of New York; William Walter
Phelps, of New Jersey, to be minister to Aus
ira; Edwin A. Merritt, of New York, consul
general at London Adam Badeau, of New
York, charge d'affaires to Denmark; Lewis
Paraguay and Uruguay; Michael J. Cramer, of
Kentucky, charge daffaires to Switzerland ::
William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, to be
solicitor general; Samuel F. Phillips, of North
Carolina, to be judge of court of claims L. A.
Sheldon, of Ohio, to be governor of New
Mexico; Thos. N. Nichol, of Wisconsin, to be
commissioner of Indian affairs; Edward S.
-tACsCA, 0u4tSQ ptdtcS lOI NcI ulS-
trict of Ohio; George W. Atkinson, United
States marshal for West Virginia.
THE state department furnishes statement
regarding recently published report rejecting
upon Mr.. Roosevelt, United States consul at
Matanzas, and gentleman named Drake. The
report was to the effect that number of Ameri-
cans arriving at that place were swindled by
these gentlemen out of five dollars each fol
reissuing their passports to them, although the
same were good for six months. The charge is
reported groundless by the consul Mr.. Roose-
welt appears to be supported by the consul-gen-
eral at Havana.
THE President sent the following additional
nominations to the Senate: Robert r. Hit, of
Illinois, now secretary of the United States
legation at Paris TO be assistant secretary of
state. Nathan W. Spaulding to be assistant
United States treasurer at San Francisco, Cal
Daniel Sherman TO be agent for the Indians
of the New York agency.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-04-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
East and Middle.

A HREE-sToRr brick building in Rochester.
n. Y, was laid in ruins through the explosion
OF steam boiler used in heating the structure,
and Joseph Schell, twenty years old, was in
stantly killed by falling wall and four or five
other men were injured
WILLIAM G. CROSBY, governor of Maine in
1898 and 1854, died few days ago at Belfast
Me-, aged seventy-five years.
FRANK G. PHIpPs, owner of the brig George
OF New Haven, Conn, has received a cable dis
patch that his vessel and six of the crew. in
Gliding the captain, have been lost off the West
Indies.
HE society in New York recently formed for
he purpose of burning the dead is reported to
be rapidly growing in numbers
GENERAL GRANT has resigned his position as
president of the New York Worlds Fair COM
mission.
FROM the census Office at Washington has
been issued a table showing the valuation of
real estate in the sixty counties comprising the
State of New York to be 81, 1926, ESQ, liz, and Of
personal property $685., 1853, 800.
LARGE numbers of German immigrants are
aiming dllliOSt udllN LII NIN 1OIh. anu uull-
dreds are reported to be awaiting transporta-
ton at the various German seaports.
BUCHANAN, the Philadelphia dealer in bogus
medical diplomas, has made a confession, ex-
posing the great exent of his business. He
tells of twenty-five concerns in this country
and in Europe by which degrees are sold and
declares that fully 10000 bogus diplomas are
current in America, and 10, 600 more in Europe.
AT meeting of directors of the Mexican
Southern Railroad company in..New York, Gen
eral .. S. Grant was elected president, and
jay Gould, Russell Sage and Frank Work the
executive committee. General Grant will pro-
coed to Mexico in the interests of the company.
COLONEL E. A. ROBERTS, the inventor and pat
entee of the successful torpedo for oil wells died
a few days ago in Titusville, Pa. He served in
the Mexican war and in the late civil war.
Some few years ago he selected his burial LOT
in the Woodlawn cemetery, in Titusville, on
which he caused to be erected unique and
costly monument. He leaves large fortune.
A NEwLY-RREcTED brick warehouse in Phila.
delphia tumbled in during high wind, buryine
several workmen in the ruins Samuel L.
vanderslice was killed and Frederick Bartel
had an arm broken.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-04-02
FORTY.SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Senate Special Session,

The ce-President announced the appoint
ment of Thomas F. Bayard as director of the
Columbia institution for the deaf and dumb.
80. The Yice-Presilent laid before the Senate
communication from the governor Of Wis
consin transmitting joint resolution of the
legislature of that State relative to the death OF
Mr.. Carpenter. The resolution was read and
laid upon the table.
Mr.. Voorhees, introduced the following reso-
luton: RESOLVED, That the hostile attitude
assumed by the national banks toward the re-
funding of the national debt at a low rate of
interest and the recent attempt to dictate the
legislation of Congress on that subject are
contrary to the best interests of the people, and
well calculated to excite their alarm for the
future" Mr.. Morrill, raised the point that the
resolution was out of order. After discussion
Mr.. Voorhees, said he would withdraw the reso-
luton temporarily until he could look up The
preceCients as to whether it was in order or not
Mr.. Dawes called up theresolution forthe elec-
ton ofotficers Ofthe Senate Mr. Davis OF Illinois
in long speech, gave his reasons why he should
vote with the Republicans on the question OF
electing Senate officers. After long debate
and many speeches on filibustering notions Mr..
Pendleton's motion to adjourn was agreed to
by % yeas to q nays.