Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-02
DOMESTIC.
Gated States Senate.

ating SIS. 000 for free vaccine.
On motion Of Window, the resolution was
adopted requesting the President to COM
municate the correspondence between the
Executive Department aud the diplomatic
agents of the United States relating to the
proposed Congress of American nations, or
any Of them, in 1882.
The Senate took up the three pei, cent.
bord bill. and lengthy debate followed.
The House resolution fixing the 9th OF
February as the day for the Garfield memo
rial services was concurred in.
After an executive session the Senate ad-
ioarAed,
House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON. February 1st.-Molday. the
9th inst. was adopted tor memoflat service
upon Garfield.
Hill introduced bill reducing the postage
on letters or sealed packages to two cents for
half an ounce and under two ounces, and Tor
each additional two ounces. or fraction
thereof, two cents.
The House went into Committee of the
Whole on the postoffice appropriation bill.
tit appropriates S43, 529, coo. It is estimated
thai S42, III 600 of revenue will be derived
from the Department. The committee cut
down several of the estimates and refused
to apnronriate over $4,000 for extending
the carrier system.
MllnAns Ul Wisconsin advocated an IT,
crease IN the appropriation for the compansa-
ton of railway postoffice clerks and route
agents, and an increase OF salaries OF those
persons.
The general debate having closed the con-
mittee, without further action, rose, and the
House soon adjourned.
The Blaine-Arthur Controversy.
INV York, February 1st.-A special from
Washington says The position and views OF
Blaine in reference to the South American
policy of the United States continues to be a
subject of general conversation.
The Posts Washington correspondent says ::
The personal contest, for it is personal as
we'll as political, between President Arthur
and James G.. Blaine grows more and more
intensified IS each presents his case, day by
day, to the public. The friends OF the Pres
ident say that Blaine is stalking his political
future on the turn of the tide, one way or
the other, and that he will resort to every
measure to protect his interests. The Presl-
dent is understood to feel very deeply the at
tempt of Blaine to make him out timid and
Inconsistent man, and it is said that Blaine
has overstepped the bounds, not only of de-
corum, but almost of suberdination and law,
in his career at the head of the State Depart
men. It will be urged that Blaine was
actually net more moved by patriotic motives
and legitimate ambition,for the Presidency
than by the wish to benefit himself and his
friends pecrnisrily. Blaine does not lose
heart at all, and talks about the future with
his usual buoyaucy and aggressiveness. He
claims that il the Stalwarts wish to go into
an investigation back of the Peru and Chile
imbrorlio. he can show that men were in
volyed in it who we're just as near to Arthur
as ANYBODY can be to himself. Politicians
are watching the newspaper progress OF the
controversy with the kseness interest.
The Commercial AdrertlSeT correspondent
saws: It is spoken of as a somewhat sig
nifcant tact that, although some of the men,
bars Of the present Administration sat at the
same Cabinet table with the late Premier,
and had an opportunity of consulting hinn
every day, they did not know what policy
was being pursued in reference to Chile and
Peru No one doubts but that the President
had every confidence in Blaine and trusted
him to the fullest extent in all matters Of
diplomacy, but. notwithstanding all this,
Blaine's purposes were either not fully ex-
planned, or, if so, were entirely misunder-
stood. Blaine was not communicative to MS
associates in the Cabinet, and he only saw
the President when he thought the Importance
justified It. His recent prenunciamento Is
regarded by many leading Republicans as
evidence that he iatends to use free lance
and strike thu Administration whenever it
will benefit him politically to do so.
LETTER FROM THE Ex-sEcRETARY.
WAsHEGroN, February 1st.-The follow
ing letter was Issued this evening by ex-Sec-
rotary Blaine to the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON, February 1st.
deem it due to justice to make brief statement
which | ask you TO transmit to the papers OF your
Association tonight. On Monday morning last,
January S0th, addressed the following note to tse
President Of the Tinted States;
"My Dear Mr.. President: As Mr.. Frelinghuysen
has made mention OF the proposed Congress OF
American nations in dispatch which he has made
public and the designs OF that Congress are greatly
misunderstood and misrepresented both at home
and in Europe Respectfully ask that you will direct
the publication of the original invitation. have
the original draft myself but OF course do not feel
at liberty to use it without your permission. Ii
YOU do not wish to order its formal official publca
ton will you kindly grant me leave to use the copy
''my di''''a'n' very ''D. SJAs. C. BLAINE"
In the afternoon of the same day the President
sent his private secretary to my residence with
verbal message that he objection TO granting
INV reouest bu; that he had referred my to the
Secrstlry Of State Yesterday received message
from the Chief Clerk of the State Department that
Nv. FrelinghHrsen would publish me ols3ecn wnen
called for by Congress- This morning l wrote
note TO Senator Window. Chairman OF the Foreign
Relations COMMITTEES. asking that be would intro
duce resolution calling for the correspondence
When the New York pep7rs came, found the COO
urnent though with infnY errors, published ~ the
New York Herald I understand that it has been
published in one paper IN each oil tine several aie
cities The dispatch was obtained surreptItlously,
from whom or by whom do not know. 1t was no
doubt FASTENED, partial publication, IN order to
deprive me If the wide advantages OF the Associated
Press which was anxious to for it, in order
that the misr presentations concerning the invita-
tion to the Peace Congress might be definitely cor
JAMES G. BLAINE.
THE INVITATION TO a CONFERENCE.
Following is a corrected copy of Mr..
Blsine's dispatch inviting conference OF the
North and South American Republics to
meet in Washington:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON, November 90 1881. !
Sir: The attitude oi the United States with
resvect TO the question OF general peace on the
American Continent is well known through Its per.
sstent efforts for years past TO avert the evils OF
warfare or these efforts failing, to bring positive
conflicts to an end through pacific counsels or the
advocacy of impartial arbitration This atiltsde
has been constantly maintained, and always
with such f.rness as to leave no room for
impugning to our Government any motive except
the humane and dsinterested one OF saving
kindred States of the American Continent from the
burdens Of war The position Of the United States
as the leading power OF the new world might well
give sts Government clam e. authoritative utter
snce for the purpose of queting discord among its
neishbors with all of whom the most friendly re-
lsticns exist nevertheless the good offices OF this
Government are not and have not at any time been
rendered with show Of dictatlon or compuision,
h I only sas exhibiting the s0lcitous good VIII o.
eoruIn0n friend. For some years past
craving disposition has been manifested by certain
Tat
mis- affecting Great questions OF international re-
ationship and boundaries to arbitration rather tnan
10 the sword 1t has been on several such occasions
source Of profound satisfaction TO the Government
of the United States TO do so. TINS country
il In a large measure iOoked to by all sue
Americnu powers as their friend and mediator.
The Just and impartial counsel oil me E II,
in snch cases has never been withheld, and
his forts have been rewarded By the prevention OF
sanguinary strife or angry contentious oetWeeh
neonle whom we regard as brethren The existence
Of this growing tendency conyfnees the PTeslaen ,
that the time is ripe for proposal that snali enlist
the good will and active corporation OF sii the
States OF the Western Hemisphere, both North and
South in the interest Of humanity and for the coin
mon veal OF nations. He conceives that none oil the
Governments Of America be less alive than our
owe to the dangers and horrors Of state OF war,
and especially Of war between kinsuieu. He IS sure
that none of the chiefs of any Government on the
Continent can be less sensitive than he Is to the
sacred duty Of making every eudezvor TO do away
with the chances of fratricid=l strife, and
he looks with hopeful confidence 10
sueb active assistance from them as will
servo ~ sh-v che h-naiaess If conmna