Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-06
PoLitLcal sltnatIon at lhe NatLonaI CapItal.

WASHINGTON December 5th Thus far the Demo-
cratic majority III the House works harmOniously
1t is plain that Of Carises friends will attempt
to dispu RandllPs leadership on the floor, and he
| told Your correspondent to day that the majority
will be found setting as unit upon all questions
likely to engage tie attention Of Congress this ses
! sion. RandalPs friends seem to be recOnced to
| their defeat, and the champions OF the kentuckian
are not disposed to boast over their victory. Car
isles moderate speech upol taking the chair, and
the private declarations of his henchmen have in
! spired tie DemOcrs tic Representatives from the
North and East with the hope that there Will be no
| radical changes in the tariff this session. The
! Presidents message, opposing any plan at
| the present time Tor further rcduc-
ton of the national revenue, has had its
| effect upon those gentlemen who antici
pated an entirely different suggestion from the Chief
| Magistrate The Democrats from those Western
States which have manufactures industries Of
any importance, feel that they have fulfilled the
wishes Of their constituents in voting for the eec
ton Of q reform Speaker, and they not,
the whole, particularly anxious TO dig under and
overturn the entire tariff system. When the
Speaker announces his Ways and Means Committee
the public can form a better idea of what is in store
for the future regarding tariff legislation. Ten days
or two weeks will probably elapse before the com
mittees are made up, and very little work Will be
done BY Congress until after the holiday recess
The House was in session less than hour to
day, and it adj burned until tomorrow, with the
understanding that after the reacug OF the journal
a further adjournment until Monday next should be
tax n.
The reorganization Of the Senate offices continues
to he the princp.l tonic Of discussion among SEN
ators. YESTERDAY : caucus decided that there was
necessity for aste III tuning out the present Dem
ocratic officials IL is very doubtful if George c.
Gorham viii realize his cherished ambition again
be elected Secretary Malone and Riddlebergtr we're
both inyei to attend the caucus held yesterday when
the subject was discus 5ed. They refused, but not
because either has i6ea OF attempting Overroe
the decisn OF the majority of Republican Senators
garding the organization. While the Virginia
Senators would prefer the noui ination Of GOrnam,
they will not refuse to vote Tor the election Of any
good man who may be nominated for Secretary
These gentlemen are named for the place EX-
Representative McCook, Of New York Edward
Mcpherson, Of Pennsylvania late Clerk OF the House
Of Representatives, aud James r. Young, Of Phlla-
delphia, formerly Executive Cleik of the Senate and
the present Chief Clerk Of the Department OF JUS
tice. McCook Is not all applicant Tor the place, and
has written his friends in the Senate that he does
not desire the office. Some Senators think how
ever, that he can be persuaded to enter the race.
Farmers Congress OF the United States.
LOUISVILLE, December 5th.-The Farmers Con-
gress of the United States convened to-day at the
Gait House. Sixty delegates we're present, repre-
senting Kentucky, Tennesse, South Carolina, Eir-
ginia, Mississippi, Colorado and Indiana Other
delegates are expected TO arrive tonight The Pres
dent of the Congress, Major Thomas J. Hudson, OF
Lamar, Miss, who opened the Congress, ad r ssed
IL ct some length, setting forth the demands and
wants of the agriculturists especially urging the
appointment OF a Commissioner OF Agriculture as a
member of the Presidents Cabinet. Such officer,
he said, could watch our foreign relations in re-
spect to this interest hch must ever be the great
est He would be enabled TO secure the farmers
abors better result. There is not farmer in all
this country who understands farming ss he should
and how ignorant must be the Cabinet aid national
councils who have never studied it. The prosperity
Of the country depends on the progress Of agri-
culture Such being the state of affairs all delib-
erations of national bodies should tend toward its
elevation. This can never be secured until the
farmers are brought into a body Let us, there
fore, teach the farmers their own interest raise
cry that will reach the Federal Government at
Washington. We are in sore need of scientific
knowledge of farming, and such means should be
secured would put this knowledge into easy pos
session of the humbess tiller of the soil.
Wholesale systematic Embezzlement.
New YORK, December 5th.--An audacious case of
wholesale systematic tmbeZzlement was brought TO
light yesterday here. For nine months past nun
Der OF retail grocers on Second avenue nave been
mysterOusy and unsccountably robbed. Henry
Fuller. grocer OF S23 Second avenue, arrested a
cerk named Meror, whom he suspected and the
latter on beng cernered admitted to being mem
Der OF the A. 3. C. Society, consisting Of twenty
five members, the President of watch was Christian
KEoosz milknIan The Society was formed Octo.
Der Goth. Each member upon being sworn in was
obliged TO steal S25 each month from his employer
AID deposit it with kroosZ, who woIld keep SIS for
himself AMI place the rest to the cedit of the
= Union AT the end of year each clerk who de-
cidei to 60 into business FOR himself would receive
si00 'ro;a each member of the Cnion-S2 AGO in all