Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-12-19
J~aokanapes Starts the Cry Of
"color Line"
RESOLUTION TO FIX PASSENGER FARE
AT THREE CENTS.
The Errors That Ruined Rome
at Work Here.
"WHAT SHALL We DO WITH OTHER
MEMS WIVES 2"
ESPECIAL TO THE sENrrNEL.l
A Lively Day i'm the House

A Lively bay i'm the House.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.-The House re-
sumed the consideration Of the Inter
State Commerce bill, the pending ques'
ton being on the motion to table the mo-
ton to reconsider the vote by which the
House yesterday adopted the amendment
offered by O'Hara.
The motion to reconsider was tabled.
Crisp offered an amendment providing
that nothing in this Act shall be SO con.
strued as to prevent any railroad com.
pany from providing separate accommo'
dations for white and colored persons.
Breckenridge offered a substitute for
! Crisp's amendments.
A lively discussion, partaking of q polit.
ical character, ensued, Reed of Maine be-
ing especially prominent.
Henley said: 1.-The amendment OF the
gentleman from North Carolina has been
brought in for the purpose Of defeating
a measure intended to free the people
from the exaggerations and exactions Of
railroad companies" He appealed to his
friends of the people not to be led aside
by such q proposition.
Brumm asked Henley for his objection
to the amendment.
Henley-Because it creates an enmity to
| the bill.
Brumm-The enmity comes from your
| color line.
Henley-Have you and your side favored
| the bill?
Brumm-I have, and a great many OF my
| side have; and if you are honest, you will
not kill every bill simply because there
may be a color-line in it.
Br~eckenridge's amendment was then
adopted as substitute for Crisp's amend
~ment-Yeas, 1888; nays, 1877, and Crisp's
amendment, as so amended, was agreed to
Yeas, 1877; nays, 131.
Mills offered an amendment prohibiting
railroad companies from charging to, or
receiving from. any person who is to be
| conveyed from one State or Territory to
another, any sun exceeding three cents a
mile for the distance to be travelled
Adopted-Yeas, 1879; nays, 121.
Golf moved to amend by adding to the
provision adopted on motion of Brecken-
ridge, the words: provided that no dis
elimination is made on account Of race or
color" Agreed to-Yeas, 141; nays, 103.
Goff moved to reconsider and lay OF the
table, pending which, Reagan moved tc
adjourn, pending which the Speaker laid
before the House q communication from
the Attorney General in reply to the reso'
luton, asking his opinion, whether thu
Eighth hour law applies to letter carriers,
Referred. The Attorney General says:
81 cannot furnish the legal opinion re.
nrsraI The an%hnrifr NJ tha At0rnay
General TO give his official opinion is lin.
tied by the law which creates and defines
his office. and will not pemit him to give
advice at the call Of either House Of Con
gress or Congress itself. but only to the
President and the heads Of the Depart
ments. Early in the government this wal
established, and suggested to the House o.
Representatives by Attorney General Writ,
when the Department Of Justice was ere
ated. The law in this respect has no
been changed. OF course it will be my
wish to conform to any request that tn,
House Of Representatives may make, bu'
such wish / cannot comply with without
reversing the law and presidents hereto
tofore established" Adjourned.
Immediately after the reading of thu
Journal, the House resumed the considera
tion Of the Inter State Commerce bill, tn,
pending question being on the motion Il
table the motion to reconsider the vote b.
which the House adopted COTS amend
ment. The motion to reconsider wa
tsbled-yeas, 140; nays, 108.
Barksdale offered IN amendment provid
ing that furnishing Of separate accommo
dations with equal facilities and equa
comforts at the same charges. shall not b,
considered a discrimination. The amend
ment was agreed to-yess, 1S1; nays, 1874
The Errors That Ruined Rome.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.-The Rev. Jane
Chambers Of the Calvary Presbyterian
Church, said yesterday that the statistic
Of divorce for the past few years sho'
that Americans are rapidly falling int
the errors that ruined ancient Rome
San Francisco divorces one couple out @
every six that II marries. He wittily re
marked, in regard to San Francisco. that tn
absorbing question there Is other men
wives and what to do with them. Chicag
has one divorce in every nine and Q hal
marriages. We need a uniform or nations
divorce law, 30 that it wonld be impossib1
for a man who fails to shake off his wifi
in New York to get q divorce in q Westerl
State. A constitutional amendment nigh
do this without national divorce laws
Yesterdays Philadelphia Times said tina
more than 700 divorce suits are pending
in the courts of this city at the presen
time. This record shows one divorce 10
! every $50 families. II to this large pro
, portion be added the vast number of per
sons who have already secured divorces
some idea may be formed Of the socia
! ramifcations Of this evil.
III "YOu DO, Do Yeu p,
! CLEVELAND, Dec. 18.-Last night, 8 far
mer named Harrington, living near Gre
neva. was called to the door and, on opening
IL was confronted by a masked man with
revolver who demanded money. Harring
ton took q small sum from his pocket ant
handed ID 10 the robber, who took II an,