Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-21
DOMESTIC.
Items of Washington Gossip.

DOMESTIC
Items OF Washington Gossip.
WASHINGTON, January 20th.-A rumor is
current that ex-Attorney- General Taft will
next week be appointed Minister to Germany.
Judge Taft is in Washington now.
The Woman's Suffrage Convention was
largely attended to-day, and the addresses
were of great interest to those ladies who
made up the audience.
The War Department has official informa-
tion of the arrest OF Colonel Carr by order of
General Wilcox, on charges of misnanage-
ment OF the Chihuchua engagement.
The Executive Committee of the National
Board of Health, IN connection with the
smallpox epidemic in the United States,
have directed the inspection of several of the
most important quarantine stations TO deter
mine if the rules and regulations of the Board
are properly enforced. An appropriation Of
$1,000 has been made for the purpose of pre-
venting the introduction of disease in the
District of Columbia.
The bill for tie admission of the State of
Washington meets with formidable opposi-
tion from residents of Idaho, who oppose the
bill because it contemplates taking three
counties from the northern portion of that
Territory in addition to all the territory of
Washington, to make up the proposed State.
The people of Idaho are strenuously opposed
to taking any part Of their territory for the
purpose named.
The Senate Select Committee on the Rights
of Women gave q hearing to-day to a large
delegation Of members of the National Wo-
mans Suffrage Convention. Speeches were
made by Mrs. Searle and Mrs. Gapger, of
Indiana, Mrs. Colby, of Nebraska, and Miss
Susan B. Anthony. The committee unani
rnously adopted the following:
Resoired, That the committee are under obliga-
tions to the representatives of the women OF the
United States for their attendance this morning. and
interesting and instructive addresses which have
been made, and that the committee assure them
that they will give to the subject of women suffrage
that careful and impartial consideration which its
grave Importance demands.
General Sherman says he will be 62 years
of age on the Sth OF February, but that the
law In regard to army Tetirements does not
contemplate retiring him or Lieutenant Cen
eral Sheridan, as their respective ranks ex-
pire with themselves.
Carver and BOgarius-Who is the Cham
piOn:
CHICAGO, January 20th.-During the past
two months q controversy has existed between
DR. Carver and Captain Bogardus over the
title of " champion wing-shot Of the world
Both lay claim to it, and both are willing to
decide who is the champion. A bitch, how
ever, now exists as to where the contest shall
take place. Dr.. Carver wishes to shoot the
match in England, and Bogsrius in America.
Late in November DR.. Carver indirectly
challenged Bogardus to contest for suprem
acy at pigeon-shooting for $1,000 a side.
Bogardus accepted and would then have gone
to England to decide the mooted ques-
tion. if DE-. Carver would deposit 81, 600
with Belts Life as evidence of his
good faith. DR.. Carver replied, in a letter
published in the AaaeTicGn Field, as follows
81 am ready to shoot match with him in
England during the month of February, and
| will deposit $3.50 in the hands of the sport
ing editor OF BeVS Life in London for my
opponents expenses on the day that Captain
Bogardus sails from New York to mset me
munication from Bogardus, who is now
in Elkhart, Ill. which will be puh-
lished in the american Field tomorrow
In the communication Captain Bogardus
says: If | reach England with matters in
this shape, | have no guarantees that Dr..
Carver would shoot me match of any kind.
He says he prefers to shoot with me TO any
| one else. But he has said that before, and l
found it au impossibility TO get match out
him then, II upon my arrival in England he
should decline to make a match with me for
| any reason, [ would have no remedy or com.
pensation for MY loss of time. etc in travel
| ing over J, COO miles to meet him. DIR. Carver
and myself are both Americans, and we both
claim to be champion wing shots of the
world, each holding trophy repre- sent
lag such championship at the time
that it was shot for, and each
won on English soil. What necessity, then,
exists that two Americans should visit Eng
land to contest for the championship of the
world under the circumstances that surround
the shooting of both DIR. Carver and myself,
and especially as DR.. Carver declares his in
tention of returning to the United States at
an early date. The spectacle of two men
claiming the championship of the world at
wing shooting presents an anomaly not wit
messed in any other class of sport. It can
Only be ended by the two claimants coming
together and settling the question OF
superiority in manner satisfactory
to both. This L am willing TO
do at any time, in any kind of
match, and under any rules. / shall during
the month of May offer a trophy represent
ing the championship of the world at wing
shooting at 100 Birds 80 yards rise, Hurting.
ham rules, which will be open to the world,
aud of which contest sufficient notice will be
given to enable contestants from every por-
tion of the civilized world to compete I
that DIR. Carver will be found among those
contesting for this championship upon Ameri.
can soil.
The Mormon Influence.
CHICAGO, January 20sh- The following
letter appears in the Tribune utah is
not the only unclean Territory in this coun.
3k There is one form of the evil at Salt
IKE City aAd another form at Washington,
and unless the monster be attacked at both
ends Of the line l have not much conf
dence in the results of the present outcry
against Mormonism. Please mark this polit.
| ical secIet-that the Mormon delegation at
Washington hold the balance of power in
this struggle and can absolutely prevent any
very hostile measures against their institution
| taking effect. This power they hold and
have welded for years. They held sharp
sword over the heads Of the most influential
leaders of both parties in Washington. Where
| an unlimited supply of money would not
soften the plan of an antagonist, they have
unnerved him by unmistskable intimatiops
of personal and private nature. The Nor.
mon Church has for years kept an accurate
record in detail of the private life especially
at Washington. of every Senator and Repre-
sentative, and it is this record, sm sorry to
| say, which has given the Mormons sach tire
| nendous and fatal power at Washington for
quarter OF century"
The Republicans Of Arkansas.
LITTLE ROCK Ark January 2Osh.-Lesd.
ing Republicans from different sections have
been in consultation in this city for week
past, discussing the political situation of the
Stata, and advising as to the course
| in the coming campaign. A bitter
feeling was manifested throughout toward