The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-05-13
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WA8HINGTOE.
Chinese hemOFiaI-A DeAS.
cratic Senator'S Views
Uni0n Pacific ClaIn-
KOrthern Pacific Right
or Way.

KOrthern Pacific Right
or Way.
Washington, 1O.-The post Office de
psrtment has received memorial signed
by seventy Chinese residents, Of Clipper
Mills, Butte county, OAlifoi mia, protest
ing against the proposed removal OF the
post Office from that place to Noodville
In the same county. The department
has on record, memorials of the sane
tenor from American residents, but THU
ID the first memorial or petition ever re-
ceived from Cinnamon, with their indiv-
idual signatures. The seventy Damel
are written one above the other, making
q column three feet 10 length.
The Star this evening publishes the
following statement OF the views Of a
southwestern democratic senator on
the Garfield Conkling controversy,
which are of value IS show
ing how considerable number
Of democratic members Of the Senate
take issue with the arguments recently
put forth by Bayard and VOORHEES,. He
says: while take very little interest
in the matter, other than so far as it
affects or can be used to help the demo-
cratic party, l am clearly of the opinion
that it is the duty Of democratic senators
to sustain Conkling. There has been q
tendency for others" sad the senator,
land it continues to grow, for the execu-
tive department to encroach upon the
prerogative of the legislative branch It
should be stopped. No president has
ever assumed dictatorial course toward
the legislative department of our govern
ment such as the present occupant OF
the White House has, and should he be
sustained, there is no telling where it
will stop. l think il is the policy OF the
democrats to support Conkling in this
fight, because l think il will do much
TO disrupt the republican party. We
cannot hope 10 drive Conkling
out of the party, DO matter how
often we may crush him; yet
we may, by helping to defeat
Robertson, cause such a split IN the re-
publican party in New York as will en-
able Us to carry it with case in the next
e, ection. But, as l said in the outset, it
is no funeral of ours; we have no favors
TO ask of the administration, and this cry
by some, that We must sustaiR tire Presi-
dent III order 10 get him to pursue con-
course towards the south, is all
bosh. How can ne hurt the south? Each
of the southern states has her own local
in the hands of the dem
ocracy. He cannot interfere in any way
with the affairs of single stale He can
not at this late day send military into a
single southern state any more than he
could into one of the New Eng
land statea, and am tired
Of this cowArdly and tycophsntic
twaddle upon the part Of some of our
southern senators who sre eternally pan
1ering to the powers that be. We must
in future pursue a more manly and indie
p-ndent course; Task no political fsvors
u the Administration, and hold oar
selves in position 10 vote as we please
On all questions, with the view at all
times Of the best method Of helping to
strengthen our party at the expense of
The qusrrels Of the republicans.
Commissioner John A. Swift expects
ais wife shortly from New York, where
she has been spending month, and
after remaining here few days together,
they will return home to San Francisco.
Friends Of Stanley Matthews who
have made 8 careful canvass Of the Sem
Ate. to-day predict that he will be con-
frmed for the supreme bench tomorrow
by handsome majority.
) Washington, H. petition was re-
Gently fled in the United States court of
claims by the Union Pacific Railway
Company, representing that up to and
Decemb Der 1lth, 1875, claims
for transportation of mails have been a.
usted upon terms prescribed by the pOtst-
office department, which terms Afforded
compensation to the company consider
ably less than the amount charged to and
paid by private persons for like service
during the same period. The petition
also cited in detail other services rendered
for which proper compensation had not
been received by the company. Aggre-
gate amount due the railroad, according
to petition, Sl,14I, 40. The case was
argued before the court Of claims to-day.
The case of petitioner was rested upon
the sixth section of the Act of Congress,
July 1st, 1852, which act con-
stitutes the charter of the company. The
section ID ss follows:
Section 6.-And be it further enacted,
Thst grants aforesaid are made on con3i-
ton that said company shall pay said
bonds at maturity, and shall keep said
and telegraph line in repair and
use, and shall st sill times transmit dis
patches over said telegraph line, and
transport mails, troops and munitions Of
war, supplies and public stores upon said
railroad for the government whenever re-
quired to do SO By any department there
OF, and that government shall at
ali times have preference in the
use of the same for all purposes
aforesaid, lat fair and reasonable rates
of compensation, not to exceed amounts
paid by private parties for the same kind
of service) and all compensation for
services rendered for the government
shall be applied to the payment of said
bonds and interest until the whole
amount is fully paid. 1t is thought by a
court official the case Will be decided
within the next two weeks.
In the decision of the secretary of the
interior, relative to the construction of
the Northern Pacific Railroad through
the Grow Indian Reservation, the seere-
tary held, while no unnecessary opposi-
ton to the contemplated surveys in said
reservation should be interposed by the
department, yet, in order to avoid any
hostile acts or unfriendly feelings on the
parts of said Indians toward agents OF
employees of the company, he deemed il
advisable that the Indian agent at said
Crow Agency should make known tC
the Indians the purpose for which ssiC
preliminary surveys are to be made, anC
should assure the Indians the land neces
sary for the right Of way, granted BY
Congress, will not be taken until al
agreement therefor has been entered int
between the Indians and the United
States, and the Indians fairly compen
stated for the same. He recognizes q
present simply the right of the railroad
company to make preliminary surveys
| in order to determine whether it will con
| struet its line south of the Yellowstone o
through said reservation.
In executive session Egerton spok
against Matthews confirmation, on th
ground that he was q stranger to ID
| circuit over which he would preside
Others opposed him on account of h
relations towards the Pacific Rsilroa
questions. Sherman replied TO all poin
made against him. Don Cameron
working with all his might for Matthew
and his friends are still hopeful. A vo
is prcpsble tomorrow on the questio
Conkiing and friends are now workiI
for delay. 1t is impossible to learn VIII
Garfield thinks Of q dispatch in the Ne
York Herald, which il supposed to
direct from Conkling, giving Conklinf
side Of the Robertson case. Conklinf
friends deny he ever has spoken disI
spectful Of the President, or accused bi
Of treschery or deceit. The President
to be assured of this, it is said.
Washington, Pit is expected VI
on Stanley Matthews will be reached
= day. Sherman spoke in favor Of &C
frmAtion.
Temperance societies are trying to
the President 10 define President Hay
| order about the sale of linIlor at Ar