Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-02-19
Late kilograms.
Death Of Hon. sasn Saray.


SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. sex.
Governor Samuel +. Purdy, one of
the old pioneers OF the State, died
here last evening. He came to the
coast in 1919. Deceased occupied
at one time the position of Lieut.
Governor under Governor John
Bigler. At time of his death
he occupied the position of Super
inteudent Of Construction of the
New City Hall.
SAss B-wnas0ts.o eraxss.cts.
SAN BERNARDINo, Feb. II, h.
This valley has enjoyed a splendid
cain. The wind is from the south,
with occasional showers, and
promise Of n heavy rainfall. Grain
Is coming up finely, and n prosper
Gus eesson is assured.
Eae. as pme.s. ~ m. u A. -.
SAN JOSE, Feb. l8.--The report
of tue committee on the Veterans
Home recommending that the dep
uty committee appoint twenty
members ofthe GA. r. as a portion
of the Home association WAS unan-
imously adopted. At the election
OF officers, w. A. Robinson, pres
ent acting General, was elected on
the third ballot, receiving 46 votes
out of IS. w J. Eiis,uf this city,
present senior Vice. Commander,
received % votes. Adjourned until
2P. M
Ebe H.~ spFostio s,ae - Ht,'.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18-The
Co!erick blii, which passed the
House yesterday, provides That
whenever new State is admitted
into the Union the representation
or representatives assigned it shall
be in addition to the number of
three hundred nnd twenty-five.
Section provides that in each
Slate under this ,apportionment
the number of III en- 6ers TO which
Auch State may be entitled in the
Forty eighth and each subsequent
Congress shall be elected by dis
tricts composed of contiguous
territory and containing as nearly
as possible sn equal number of in
habitaf1ts and equal in number to
representatives. to which eucn State
may be entitled in Congress. No
one district shall be allowed more
than one representatives; provided,
that unless the Legislature Of such
state shall otherwise provide be-
fore, the election of -ucn represent.
at oh "a 49, ia
by law; if the number hereby pro-
vided for shall be larger than be-
fore this change, then the addi-
tional representatives under this
app0rtionment may be elected by
the State at large.
rns Peruvian Rags feetses.
WASHINGTON, Fer. 18.-Ihe
President 10 day Transmitted to the
House letter from the Secretary
OF State accompanied by mass Of
correspondence III connection with
the Peru Company. TIE Secre-
tary's letter Gays that NO trace can
be found ofthe alleged missing iet-
ters. The correspondence consists
of u number of letters from Jacob
II. Shepard to Minister Hutiburt,
in one of which he gives the names
of prominent men whom he clai ms
are Interested IN the company, iu-
Guiding Grant, Conkliug, Bout
well, Vanderbilt, Belmont, John
Sherman, Cameron, AstUr aud
others. He urges Hurlburt to sup.
port the Calderon G0vernment,b but
intimates that ii the company can
not do business with Peru, it can
with Chile as An alternative. He
also sought to make Hurlburt be-
lieve that Blaine was favorable 10
the prof cts Of the company, and
had sent instructions accordingly
to HurlbUrt. This is dsprOved by
u letter of Hurlburt To Blaine ac.
kno.ledging the receipt of u tele-
gram bidding him not to use his
Influence on behalf of that com.
pany or any other speculative as
ISOLATION. AS the upshot, Hurl-
burt writes to Sheperd refusing to
have anything to 10 with him or
his company and closing the cor
respondeDce.
Argumeos On sha Hswsisan Treaty
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-To-day
the House Committee on Foregn
Affairs began hearing arguments
on the bill to abrOgate the Hawaii
an reciprocity treaty. Representa-
tives Randall, Gibson and Darral,
of Louisiona, Iae latter of whom
introduced the bill, were present,
as was also j. Hale Sypher and
Henry A. Brown, who represent
the sugar planters OF that State.
Hawaiian Minister Allen and his
counsel and ex.Gov. Boutwell,, of
Massachusetts, were present, but
did not take part in the argument,
the Committee having decided
that they could reply on Monday
next. Gen. Rosecrans was an at
tentive listener 10 the arguments.
Representative Dsrrall opened the
proceedings. He was followed by
H. A, Brown and ]. Hale Sypher.
Randall Gibson will close the ar
gument.
Confirmed.
WARRINGTON, Feb. 1S.-Major
Rochester has been confirmed Pay.