Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-19
GENERAL. NEWS.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO TIE RECORD
UNION.
DOMESTIC.
pnited states Senate.

WASHINGTON, January 1Sth.-Davis re.
ported favorably from the Judiciary Com nit
tee the bill to retire United States Supreme
Court Justice Huht.
Blair offered a resolution instructiDg tne
Committee on Public LANDS TO inquire into
the administration of the land laws, and the
systems of their operations in ths practical
disposition of the lands, and any abuses and
hardships in their administration, and
report the facts and recommendations.
Adopted.
Brown consumed the morning hour by
talking on currency, and urged contraction.
He argued that the commercial value given
to gold or silver was not their intrinsic value
as metal, but value which the Government
stamps upon them as a medium Of exchange
The value of silver had been reduced, not be-
cause of reproduction, but because of its de-
monetization by the British and German Gov.
ernmsnts. He then reviewed cur legislation
on the silver question, showing its unfriendly
character. and continuing: While silver had
not been able 70 Withstand it, gold would not
have stood it any better if an assault had
been made upon that metal as to what shall
hs it's ratio equivalent. He thought the
French standard about the true one. That
ratio was one upon which France would be
willing to stand with the United States. con-
trsyerting the assumption upon which the
Secretary of the Treasury bad based his re
commentators for stopping silver coinage
that il this was not done gold would flow from
the United States and silver would take its
place. and we would Re reduced in the COM
mercial world to the level of minor and less
civilized nations.
Brown argued to show that we had fixed
rates between the two metals higher than it
had been fixed by other commercial powers,
ours being 16 to /, while most commercial
nations adopt 15I to l, and Germany IA to l,
and that practically the very reverse of the
flow of gold from and Of silver into the
United States would be the result of
this. Figures showed that under our
coinsga system the draia Of gold was
toward the United States and the draining Of
silver from the United States, and each was
increasing in volume from year to year.
Our ratio as to silver had not been fixed too
low, and if we bad erred at all we had fixed
it too high. As q great silver-producing
power we were asssiling our own interests in
seeking to depreciate the value OF this pro-
duction and in joining with Germany and
Great Britain ia giving to gold alone the
name and importance of money.
Sherman, Beck and Bayard took part in
the debate. and the subject was then in
formally said aside.
Adjourned.
Mouse OF representatives.
WASHINGTON, January 1ssh.-The House
resumed consideration of the report of the
Committee on Rules proposing an increase in
pending question being on OrJh's substitute
for the appointment of Board to select COM
mittees.
Robson made 2 point of order that the
substitute was not garmane TO the original
proposition, because the substitute applied to
the next House, and not to this, and because
it embraced matter not in the original propo-
sition.
After considerable discussion the point CT
order taken against the substitute was sus-
tanned by vote of 163 ayes to "a noes.
Bslferd Of Colorado raised point of Or
der, that By rule Ii no member is permitted
to speak more than once on the same ques-
ton until every member choosing to speak
shall have spoken. He said Robson and
Haskell had spoken half a dozen times on the
subject. Laughter and applause on the
Democratic side. He wanted to know
whether the privileges Of the House were
centralized in the hands of two or three
members, or whether other gentlemen had a
right to he heard cn questions affecting the
organization of the House.
The Speaker-The gentleman himself had
| not been seeking the floor to be heard on a
point OF order before.
Belsord-I have been seeking the floor for two
days, and have failed because 1 don't belong
to the sacred circle which assumes the domi-
nation OF the debate. Renewed laughter and
applause on the Democratic side. / am ut.
tering but a common complaint when l say
that young members of the House appear to
| have no rights in it. 1 desire to discuss the
| whole question.
The Speaker-The pending question is the
| point of order OF the substitute.
Bslford-That is what l want to speal,
about. desire to discuss it as it was dis
cussed yesterday by Kelley and to-day by
Robson. That is, by embracing the entire
QUESTION about the "a erdmeut of The rules.
! The Speaker-The Chair thinks his point
Of order lad better be disposed of first.
Tns discussion of the point Of order was
resumed, and was further participated in by
Calkins, Hooker. Baypes, Sparks, Burrows
| af Michigan. Miller, Scales, Hammond Of
Georgia and Page.
At last the discussion was brought to a
| close, and the Speaker proceeded to state hi.
| opiaion or the point of order. The euhsti.
tute, he said, proposed to amend the report
made by the Committee on Rules, but it was
in fact proposition to change u rule. II
YVES not in any respect kindred to eniarging
the committee. Still, on account of the pecu
liar relations Of the Chaic to the proposed
amendment, he would avail himself Of hi;
right to submit the point ef order to The
House for its decision.
The question was submitted to the House,
and the point of order taken againss the sub
stituse was sustained by yeas l63, nays "a
So the substitute was ruled cut Of order.
Adjourned.
| Nominations by the President.
WASHINGTON, January 1Sth.-The Presi
Il - h
Recis.er of the Land Office at Sus AWHILE
CAL; and Receiver Gordon W. Meyl lert to be
Receiver of Public Moneys at Susanville
Cal.
Items OF Washington Gossip.
| WASHINGTON, January 1Sth.-The sub.
committees at both ends of the Capitol 10
charge Of the various Chinese immigration
bills have hell several meetings duriog the
past few days, and expect soon to be ready to
| report definite recommendations to their re-
| spective full committees. The Senate sub
| committee is working on the basis of General
! Miller's bill, and it will probably be reported
withoutany very material changes. The House
| sub.c oumittee has not yet concluded its de-
| liberatiens, hut it is confidently expected
that satisfactory measure will be agreed
upon in time for action on the part of the
| full committee next Wednesday.
All the Republican Senator'S and members
of the House Of Representatives from the
Pacific coast have unitsd in letter to Presi
dent Arthur. recommending the appointment
of Colonel Trittle, formerly of Nevada, and
now resident of Arizona, to be Governor OF
Arizona, and the appointment of Hiram NJ.
| Van Arnam, of Oakland, Cal, to be Secre-
tary Of Arizons. TIittles appointment is
said to be specially advocated by Senator
Jones. The nominations Of both these gen.
tlemen will probably be sent to the Senate at
an early day.
Cabinet Making.
WAsHIEGToN. January 1Ssh.-It is said
that Folger will succeed Hunt on the Su.
preme Beach, and ConkhDg will go into the
Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury. Davis
action in the Hunt matter is thus explained
by many. Folger's experience in the Treas
ury Department has been unpleasant, and
his work hard.
The Jeanette Survivors.
| WASHINGTON, January 1S.h. = Secretary
Frelinghuysen, has received dispatches from
Hoffman, United States Charge d'Affaires at
st. Petersburg, reporting the action of the
Russian authorities in aid of the survivors Of
the Jeanette. On receipt of the Presidents
orders to make provision for tie payment of
the expenses of maintaining the rescued men
and sending them to the United States,
Hoffman had conference with General L.
natieff, who showed q very deep interest in
the fate of the crew. He had already tele.
graphed the Siberian authorities to furnish