Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-13
Forty-eighth Congress.

| DOMESTIC NEWS.
Forty-eighth Congress
SENATE
( WAsHTaG aGToN, February I2th,-NilIes of
California, from the Committee on NsysI
Aft airs, reported tavorsbly the bill for the "a.
lief of the survivors Of the Jeanneste exuedi-
ton.
voorhees, resolution, calling on the Attor.
ney-General to explain tbs delay in advising
the Postmaster. General as to the interpreta-
| tion of the law relating to the adjustment of
postmasteTs' salaries, was taken up, and after
sharp debate, during which the dilatoriness
of the Attorney General was severely crit.
ciss6, agreed to.
VOORHEES, o. this point introduced bill to
prohibit assessments for political purposes by
| Government Ctficials and employees. He said
he was prepared to show that assessments are
now being made on the employees of the Gov
ernment for political purposes. This bill
punishes the giver as well as the man who
makes the demsnd. Voorhees, asked thst the
bill be referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Hawley thought it ought TO go to the Civil
Service Reform Committee.
Toe bill was referred.
The Senate bill authorizing the eonstruc-
tion of building for the accommodation of
the Congressional Library was passed.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
The following bills were reported
BY DowG, from the Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures, fer the retirement
! and recoirage of the trade dollar, Referred
to Committee of the Whole.
By Willis, from the Committee on Ednca-
ton to aid temporarily for the support of the
commoa schools. Ordered printed and re-
| committed.
g.. Al. - ~
| to establish and maintain Department of
Labor Statistics. Referred to Committee Of
the Whole.
The House went into Committee of the
| Whole-Conyerse in the chair-on tie naval
appropriation bill
Calkins said the appropriation for COM
pleting the equipment and outfit OF the new
cruisers was ridiculously small. When the
new cruisers are finished there will be moth
ing to pat upon them except some smooth
| bore popguns. There are millions cf dollars
worth Of property on the Pacific coast, and
the little country of Chile could in three
weeks destroy every dollars worth Chile
had five armored vessels. waile the United
States had not vessel ah at that could stand
before one of them ten minutes. Put all the
vessels Of the United States together in front
of one Of these Chilean vessels and she would
sink every one of them. 1t WIS true in at the
enemy, but the fact remsined that she had
J pocketed insults, not only from Chile, but
! from almost every country on the face of the
globe, because she had no navy by which she
could enforce her rights.
The committee rose, and the House ad-
journed.
The Fraudulent Chinese Passports.
WASHINGTON, February 12th.-Charles
Seymour, Consul to Canton, China, has
written letter to Senator Cameron, in
which be states that he has made voluntary
investigation of the alleged frauds in Issuing
passports to Chinese to come to the United
States, and says the customs officer of that
port has informed him thai up to last Novem.
Der but l, III passports had been issued,
whereas few days later L $50 Chinese left
on the City of Ptkin for the United States.
Small Notes scarce-The Treasury Swim
died.
WASHINGTON, February 125h.-The supply
of one dollar notes is exhausted, and twos are
nearly so.
Treasurer Wyman today received from an
| Ohio bank two packages, purporting to CEN
tain 81 900 escb. Ose was found to be $3.50
short, and the other contained two pieces of
| flannel.
Retirement OF Prominent Naval Officers.
! WASHINGTON, February 12h-The pres
/ ent year is very good one for the retirement
of prominent naval tficers. Rear Admiral
Pattison was retired on the h instant, and
/ he will be followed on the II by Rear
| Admiral Schufeldt. Rear Admiral Hughes,
who commsndad the Pacific squadron, comes
next, on the 3Ist of March, and Rear Ad.
mirai Comper, of tue North Atlantic suuad-
ron, follows on the 27sh of July. Admiral
Baldwin viii be compelled to reliBquish COM
mand Of the European station on the 81 Of
September, and on the 80 h of the same
month Commodore Wells will be relegsted to
private life, and on the q Of November
| Commodore Phelps commander of the South
Atlantic station, will follow.
Shocking Act of Woman.
NEW York, February 12sh.-This morn
ing, st the Fifty-ninth street station of the
Third Avenue Elevated Railway, woman,
unknown. in the presence Of other passengers,
shot man, who gave his name as Victor
Grafton Andree, in the thigh. Thinking she
had killed him, she put the pistol to her
tenpls and blew her brains out, falling dead
on the spot. There is no explanation of the
tragedy yet.
SECOND DIsPATCH.l
NEw York, February 12th.-Andree il
teacher in the Vantaller Classical School. He
came up to the station with one Ct the young
pupils. While standing with the boy awaiting
the train, young woman with pleasing ap-
| pearance, with brown hair and hazel eyes,
neatly dressed, hurTidly assembled the stair
with excited air, paid for tickst, snd Gee
ing Andree standing with his back toward
her she gave sudden start, and drawing her
! hand from the folds OF her shawl, raised
pistol of large caliber and fred. The pistol
! shot created q panic among the passengers.
Andree fell upon the platform with a heavy
thud. There was silence of q few seconds,
and again the sound of pistol was heard by
the terrified bystanders. The woma an had pat
the pistol TO her head sn1 sent bullet
through her right temple into her brain, fall
ing dead instantly.
THIRD DISPATCHl
New YORK, February 12th.-The police
have discovered that the yourg woman was
Jennie III. Almy. ased "a, who taught in a
kindergarten school. She lived at Ill West
Twenty-ffth street. A large packet of let
ters in Audree's room. which she had written
TO him, showed that he had promised to
marry her, and aftsrward refused, but
whether he bsd betrayed her or not could
not be ascertRined. 1t was evident that An
dree knew she was waiting to see him, and he
dreaded meeting her for this reason. He re-
ported at the school where che taught that he
was sick, and remained in bis room the
whole of the past week. This morning he
veutured out for the first time. Il was said
st Miss Almy's bosTdipg.house that she
went away every morning early, and did not
return till nigh, and it is supposed that che
passed the dsy within Andree's house. The
police find that the ewo became acquainted
last fall ss No. 266 East Second street, where
they boarded. Andree's condition grows rap
idly worse, and he vomits blood continually.
He c2nnot possibly recover. In the ante
mortem this afternoon Andree admitted that
he was engaged to marry Miss Almy, but
broke bis promise upon the discovery that
she was divorced wife. He would not state
how he found this out, or give any further
particulars. He would not answer any ques.
tions in regard to their relations.
Valuable Tin Discovery
CHARLOTTE IN. C.l, February 14h-Great
excitement is prevailing at Kings Mountain,
village about twenty-five miles from here,
over the discovery of q valuable mine of tin
ore. The first piece ssssyed yielded IS per
cent. of pure tin, and others gave an average
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