Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-15
United states senate

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO rHx REooRD-usIosl
United States Senate.
| WASHINGTON. December 14th.-Aftgr the
morning hour the bill Increasing the paw of
navy chsplains was considered, and Logan
| opposed it. Rejeeted-34 to 20,
Ihe military and agricultural appropriation
| bills we're referred to the Appropriation Gem
mittee.
Hoar addressed the Senate On Pendletor,s
civil service bill. He expressed belief that
the passsge Cf this bill wonId mark an i'm.
poriant era in American politics, and be re-
garded in the future as almost the adoption of
new and better Constitution.
Brown opposed the Till, and did little
plain talking to the Democrats. The object
of the bill, he said, was to give the Republi-
can party permanent tenure If office, and
the Republican party was clearly minority
ct the people of this county. He then Of
tered an amendment, striking out the pre-
vision that entrsrcs to service shall be at the
lowest grade, and p:oviting that competition
shall be for cficss of all grades, and shall not
be confined to parsons already in office; also
an amendment explicitly authorizing remov-
als by the President or heads OF departments
wi bout assignment of cause.
Adjourned.
House OF Representatives..
WASHINGTON, December 14th.-A rezolu.
ton was introduced by Uphapo, asking the
Postmaster General tho names of the con.
tractors failing to carry the mails according
to their contracts since July last. Referred.
Casweil moved to go into Committee Of the
Whole on the Postottice appropriation bin.
Kasson desired to consider the civil ser.
vice bill.
Kelley advocated the special order, namely,
she administration tax Lists, to help the
Treasury Department cut.
Casweils motion was carried-13O to %.
The House then considered the Postoffice
| bill.
There was some discussion On fast mails. or
"siush fund mails, as Blackburn called it,
MoMullen noticed that the star service was
reduced 81, 700 900 from the bill of il St yesr-
reprehensiole parsimony, unless the other
| bill was extrsvagant.
Csswen said the present service cost 81 756. .
| COO. and the bill made an appropriation OF
| 50 600, 600.
Blount said he objected If the amount was
| not sufficient. but merely an economical
! dodge.
Caswsll explained that the total arpropria.
| ti0n was S43, $40, coo. being 50 793 COO below
Eight hundred aad eighty -four thousand col.
! lars less was appropriated for Postmas ters
! than the estimates.
Cannon of Illinois defended the tc.ion Of
| the Committee on Appropristiors 10 fai ing
70 make provision for special facilities.
Anderson If Kansas suggested that " ASA.
chusetts was getting something cut OF Il c
special mail facilities.
Robinson of Massachusetts, stated that
sixteen States paid their own postal bills, and
| the bills If sli the rest. Tee first ten on the
liss include New England and the four Mid
! die States,
Ryan CT Kansas-We have given the
| Postmaster General money. We have given
him power to use 1t 10 securing special mai
facilities, and he has not chosen to do So.
Robson Ct New jersey said the reason the
facility fund had not been expended on line.
rum ing westward was because the three lines
which run out of Chicago Westward reius=C
10 contract at reasonable ra.es, and the Post
master General was not able to put item il
competition against one another, beeaug,
they pooled their issues.
Bingham of Pennsylvania delivered s
speech on the subject OF The reduction of III;
rate Of pos,aRe.
Reagan OF Texzs entered protest against
redu, ton OF the rate of postage. He believed
the postal cards Eurri, he'd al needed f4cilitisl
for cheap postage.
Without clesiug the general debate thu
a bill was introduced providing for f T
warding letters on which postage was un
paid or undsrpaid. Referred,
Also. bill authorizing the President &
place Robert SEalls on the retired lis: Of tn
navy.
Adj9u-ued.
The Jeanette Court.
| WASHINGTON, December I4sb,-Tn tn
Jeanette inquiry to day, Newcomr. III
naturalist OF the expedition, testified thgt h.
had no charge to make against The con6uc
OF officers Or men; knew nothing Of the Col
INSIDE Long trouble; never knew If ID;
L2ng's Ordering start early in tie morning
and then delaying it. Collins was as wei
treated, he thought, as any body. Pending s
request CT Lieutenant Waignwright to iu
some questions in behalf of DAnenhowsr, ths
Board adjourned
The Arctic Search.
WASHINGTON, December 14th.-Secretary
Chandler to-day received the following tele.
gram from Lieutenant Harhtr, dated Bellur.
September l6sh : 1.-THE Jsannetts men ia
| charge of Ensign Hunt are prC C .ediup to
Irkutsk. Schulfzs and 1 remain to com.
plete the search of tie coast with sle DIS. Nc
trace of the ChiPp party yet. Will reach
Ifkutsk by the middle of December"
Chandler to-day also received telegram
| iaoii 2hAlHssSSE 4itiby al ICIerS DOr1. stat
ing that Ensign Hunt and the Jeanette
men. and Collins body, arrived at Jaiutsk
November 18th, en- rou,s to Irku,sk, but upon
| the report OF the order about taking home ali
the bodies, stopped to await Harbor. who was
left a short distance behind.
Government smugsiers.
| WASHINGTON, December IA h.-The Col.
lector of Customs at Norfolk, Va. has in.
| formed the Treasury Department that yester.
| day he eeizad twenty.ope packages. contain.
ing crockery ware and China carios. on the
| United States steamer Swstara, which fr.
rived at that port from China. FoIcer tele.
| grapbed the Collector TO release the goods
upon the payment Of the duties and expenses
of seizure.
| San Franchises Standing.
NEW YORK, December 18th. = General
Walker, in the Census Bulletin lust Issued.
| furnishes tabular statement If the manu-.
| factories il twenty principal cities, showing
that San Frsncisco Is the tenth in the aegre.
gate gross product, but first in what he calls
individual product. That is, the average
product per hand employed. 1t also stands
tenth in the amount of wages, and eleventh
In the number of hands employed.
The Farmers Convention.
CHICAGO, December 14tb.-In the Farmers
| Convention to-day, Governor Cullom deIiy.
cred an address in favor of projection.
AT the afternoon session Captaiu NJ. P.
Pierce, of Pennsylvania, spoke on carp cult.
u,e in its full aspects. Ii. T. Kimball cf
George, moving spirit in the Atlanta cot.
ton exposition, spoke on tie GOOD results it
produced. A resolution for holding Ma
ti9nal Agricultural Exposition in 1883 was
passed.
At the evening session c. Stevens spoke on
sheep Hushsndry in the United States, y
and F. D. Ccburn, Of Kansas, on Hogs.
with Streak ct Lean and Streak of Fat. .
National Association of TrottIng Horse
Breeders.
| CHICAGO, December I4sh The sixth an
nusl meeting of the National Association of
| Trosiirg Horse Breeders YVES well attended.