Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-29
rnIted states senate.

United states Senate.
WASHINGTON. July 2Sth.-The House bill
il regard to the pay OF letter-carriers was
passed.
The Senate bill for the publication of the
tenth census was passed.
The naval appropriation bill was read for
action on committee amendments.
The Chair ruled that all amendments made
by the Senate committee changing the House
general legislation were out OF order on ap-
preparation bills.
Call appealed, and the Senate refused to
table the appeal.
The committee amendment dividing the
140 surgeons on the active list into three
classes, was then ruled out of order by the
Chair. and the decision was sustained by the
Senate.
Logan gave notice of q proposed amend
menV abol.shing prizs meuey.
The clause relative 10 monitors was passed
over informally, and will be considered to.
morrow.
The reading of the bill being concluded, the
remainder of the committee amendments
were adopted without discussion, and the bill
went over till tomorrow.
The House Joint resolution providing tenn
porarily, until August Sd, for the expendi-
lures of the Government, was passed.
Hawley and Allison offered resolution
amending the rules so that amendments to
general legislation placed upon an appropria-
tion bill shsll be in order. Referred
Adjourned.
House OF Representatives.
WASHINGTON, July 2Sth.-The motion that
when the House adjourned to day it be to
meet Monday next. was carried by vote of
1i2 20 3, and the House then adjourned.
The Star Rouie Trial.
WASHINGTON, July 2Ssh.-In the star.
route trial tcdsy. Eisenberg's testimony was
found not admissible under the ruling of the
Court, and only ex-senator Spencer's testi-
mony remains for the Government.
IugersOll opened for the defense with a re-
quest to further examine Walsh, but the
Court refused.
Adjourned till Monday at thu request of
the dsfense
Miscellaneous Washington Items.
WASHINGTON, July 2Ssh.-Charles W.
Clisbee, principal Reading Clerk of the
House. was Frustrated by heat while ascend
ing the stairs OF the Capitol this morning,
and his condition is critical.
The Superintendent of the House document
rooms, John r. Popham, Virginia Read.
juster, has absconded. He is accused of
having forged the name of his old friend,
Judge HUGHES, Of the United States Circuit
Court of Virginia, to 81 900 check
The Cabinet meeting did not adjourn till
$3.50 o'clock. Consideration Of the river and
harbor bill was not completed. A special
meeting will be held tomorrow morning to
consider the subject further.
Tomorrow the subcommittee of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee, which has had
the Peruvian Investigation in charge, will
present its full repor. to the committee.
There is very little doubt tonight of the
veto of the river and harbor bill. A tremeu.
dous influence has been brought to besr on
the President to approve the bill, and the
same influence has been extended to the
Cabinet. but apparently without avail.
Rapid Freight Movement.
CHICAGO, July 2Sth-A train of twenty
cars of tea and silk left San Francisco on the
evening of July 18th. left Deming at s A NJ
July 16.h, and arriving at Kansas City at 2
A. NJ. on the 10Th, making the run from San
Francisco to Kansas City in 6 days and
hours. and from Deming to Kansas City, over
the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe road
1.150 miles-in &C hours. This freight was
destined part for Chicago and others portions
for Detroit and New York. A second train
of twenty-nine cars LETT San Francisco twen-
ty.four hours later. and made the same time
to Kansas City. This time is believed to be
unsurpassed.
End of the Railroad Freight Sui's.
New YORK, July 2Stb.-The proceedings
against the railroad companies to compel
them to receive and transmit freight have
been quashed The Judge says the Court
cannot fix the rate Of wages, though the Leg
islsture might. A citizen may at law re-
cover from the roads damages for refusal to
receive or transport goods.
The contest for Principal Chief of the
Choctaw Nation.
CHICAGO, July 2Sth.-An Indian Territory
special says: The race between B. +. Small.
wood and Governor Overton, to be principal
Chief of the Choctaw Nation, ia growing in
interest. Oyerton is the railroad candidate,
and Smsllwood is antirailroad. Both have
large following. The intense feeling will,
it is feared, cause bloodsheo before the cleo
ton in August.
The Forest Fires In Michigan.
DETROIT, July 2Sth.-A heavy thunder.
storm has bsen of great service in checking
the forest fires in the vicinity Of East Tawas,
Mich, where farms and timber tracts were
burning by the acre. Kiuderdalls place is
reported entirely destroyed.
SECOND DIsPATCH.1
EAST TAwAs Mich J, July 2Sth.-The for.
est fires to the northwest and south are burning
iercely. Fields of grain, farm houses, fences
and orchards, together with immense tracts
of cedar and pine, are burning. The Hem.
lock roads east of here are impossible. and
No correct list of losses can be given, as ac-
counts conflict. Brower's Camp, on Hope
creek, was burned yesterday, with lot OF
sleighs and numbering equipages. Reports
are received that horses, cattle and other
stock are burning, and the farmers are de-
serting their homes. At 5 P, NJ. heavy
thunderstorm set in, lasting an hour, and
will tend to check the fires. The fires above
Oscoda are threatening that town to-day.
Terse Comments on English "Amafeur" Z"
Rowing Clubs.
NRw YORK, July 2Ssh.-The Spirit Of the
Times says, editorially Those people who
have been unable to decide whether the Hen
ley Highwaymen and English Amateur Row
ing Association are altogether knsves, or part
knaves aud part fools, will have no further
doubt. This disreputable gang, who object
to the amateur standing of the Hillsdale
crew accepted at Henley, rowed against
the Aliens Of Paris, whom the London Field
proposes, from its own columns to prove to
have rowed and won five races for money
since 1880.
Breach Of Trust.
CHICAGO, July 28th.-John Roper, young
Euglishmsn for years in the employ of Bsnja.
min Allen & Co, jewellers, on State street,
has absconded with about So, 900 shortage.
He was the chief bookkeeper, and the fran
trusted him implicitly. He had lost the
sight of one eye. His stealings began when
he seemed likely to lose the sight of the other
1t is supposed that he has gone to England,
| where his sister lives.
Suit to Recover Money Lost at Faro.
INDrANAPoLIs, July 28th.-Ihe Logansport
Bank has brought suit to recover $4,000
from gambler named john Carson. who, it
is alleged, induced Cashier Goodwin to wager
and lose that amount at faro. An action for
that amount was instituted against Goodwin's 8
bondsnen.
The Temperance People OF Nebraska.
LINCOLN, July 2Ssh.-The State Temper
ance Convention completed its labors to. day
and adjourned. An Executive Committee
was appointed to superintend the campaign
work throughou. the State, and FIVE delegates
were selected tc attend the National Temper.
ance Convention at Chicago in August.
DefauIting Bank Official Arrested.
DETRoT. July 23sh. = 3. f. Biglow,