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Thus the imposition of the committee is
The be- inning and end, IN nine cases out of
Ter Of a conflict of forces in body. Its |
determines, not its intelligence |
and wisdom, but its preconeeived and part
isan ideas and its plastic character. Aeon
vention, to be truly representative, should
be delibeFatiye body in the purity
of that term, and not mere instrument
for choosing smaller body to do its think
ing and voicing. We would by no means
destroy the committee-it is useful TO
formulate business and prepare it for di-
gestiosa by the body of the House; but we
quite agree with the essayist that the vot-
ing classes are in danger " when they per-
nit their thinking to be done at second
hand" In short while the committee, as
sa instrument OF economy, must be re-
tained, it should not become greater than
the creative power, absorbent of the vitality
of the body Of the House, nor destructive
of the representative character Of the dele
gate.
In one of Dr. Bain's essays, that incisipe
writer and deep thinker, with bluntness
declares there is strong evidence " that
that great institution of political liberty, The
Deliberative Assembly is on the eve of
! breaking down His chief reasons for the
| belief is that the membership has grown 50
large as to be unwieldy, and that debates
| have grown to intolerable length. He
AYERS what is unquestionably true that the
larger part of the speaking is entirely use
] less and binders the dispatch of business.
| If, as We are convinced, the power of the
| committee is becoming too potent on the
one hand and long speech-making and ex-
tended sessions on the other are threaten
| ing the integrity of the deliberative body,
! there certainly is cause for alarm; at least
| for anxious inquiry for remedies. The
committee tyranny is not confined to con-
ventions. 1t is noticeable in legislative
| bodies, in the deliberative assembly of
every form, just as in the hindrance to
progress of which Dr. Balm SO pointedly
| complains. Yetit must be evident that we
| cannot afford to entertain the danger of
| haste or restriction of debate in delberatiye
bodies. As we object to fastening the
committee, 50 we must protest against
| Z" hurried and unprecedented decisions"
as the Doctor terms them. His criticism
applies more especially to the English
Parliament and with less force to Ameri-
can delibcrative bodies. We are
given here to hasty speeches. rather than
long ones, and 10 the most absurd choice of
representatives to make the laundering
| harangues But neither here nor in Eng
land is spoken oratory any longer the pow
erful force it once was. The reading
speech is the one that impresses the public
mind. What IS told of the legislators
speech by the press is the matter that
makes for or against him or his measure in
the great constituency in State. But the
press cannot present to the public the
working Of the committee system, i'll its
abuses, as it can the long speech-making
evil. The former is the greater danger
that menaces the deliberative body on this
side of the water.
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THE STIMULATION OF THE STARS. -
Mons. Montigny, of Brussels, has noticed
in the scintllation of the stars great pre-
ponderance of blue, the color Of water or
ice in great thickness, when the atmos-
phere is heavily charged with watery vapor
and rain is imminent. In June, 1888 he
announced that for two months the twink
ling of the stars had shown less of the blue
than in the corresponding months of pre-
vious years, while green, fair weather
color, had been much more frequently
seen. These observations led him to pre-
dict that the succeeding part of the year
would be unusually dry. 1t is now stated
that his prediction was so accurately full
filled that 1888 in Brussels was the dryeSt
year since 1879 A study of the rain-band
spectroscope has enabled observers to de-
termine the character of the Immediately
approaching weather, but it is believed that
no spectroscopic indications have made it
possible to forecast, ever so roughly, many
consecutive months weather.
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THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

In New York yesterday Government bonds
were quoted at 100 for As of 1907; lIi4 for 41ss;
sterling 81 s3@4 IS 1O02s for IS; silver bars,
Hes.
Silver in London, 5O34sd; conse.s. 100 11-16i
per cent. United States bonds, extended, 1o5
Is, 12S11a; as, 11434.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at $4,000 cents.
The Comstock maIt.et came out of the Eut a
little at San Francisco yesterday morning, to
the qualification of many dealers but the i'm
provement in prices did not last long. There
was fair movement in the outside stocks al
steady prices. SemeoftheSe stocks are2ikely tC
enliven the market in Il short time.
The French Consul at Pekin, China, lowered
his flag yesterday.
China absolutely refuses to admit She French
claims.
A reward is to be offered by the Governor fol
the arrest of persons engaged inthe recent Nor
mon massacre in Lewis county, Tennessee.
Near Shamoliin, Pa, Wednesday, seven miners
were asphyxiated in a colliery,
J. B. Hadlock, q pioneer, died suddenly al
Mokelumne Hill yesterday.
Hugh Mcclure cut his throat at Marysvillt
yesterday, but did not inlict fatal injuries
Many religious journals in the East Protest
ant and Catholic, are urging Cleveland to resign
his candidacy.
Commander Schley, of the Greedy relief eX
petition, has been promoted to the position O.
Chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruit
ing
1t is reported that number of cases of leprosy
have been discovered in Jersey City.
l. IL, 40,
night near Cumbola Pa, between two cousins
which was attended by fifty women.
fire in Cleveland Wednesday night did con
siderable damage, and cut oil Geographic com
munication.
A dog brought to New York by the Greedy re-
lief expedition committed suicide Wednesday
by drowning.
1t is thought the Republicans will carry Maine
by 10000 majority.
Two men were killed in New York Wednes-
day by falls from scafolding.
\ clergyman was arrested in Troy, y. Y,
Wednesday for drunkenness.
Several men were badly hurt near Red Bluff
yesterday by the explosion of the boiler of a
thrashing engine.
a grain-ield fire near Chico Wednesday night
caused a loss of $1,000.
Jim Renwick won another race at Saratoga
yesterday.
In railroad accident near Kankakee, Ill,
yesterday one man was killed and many others
injured.
1t is stated that sumner will be nominated for
Congress by reclamation at Stockton next Tues
day.
\ camp-meeting Of the Methodist churches
comprised in the Stockton district begins at
Livenore to-day.
wholesale massacre of Portuguese is re
ported from Africa.
In the Jewish riots at Yekaterinoslay, Russia,
fourteen houses were sacked and demolished
A seven-round prize fight with hard gloves
took place yesterday morning at Rockaway
Beach, y. y.
At bennington, Utah, Wednesday night, Jos
Curtis fatally stabbed Martin Rasmussen.
The Oregon State Firemen's tournament closed
yesterday at Albany.
-, Mrs. James \. Louttit, wife of the Republican
candidate for Congress in the Second District,
died yesterday in stockton.
The Board of Health of Virginia, Ncv., have
ordered that there shall be no more public fun
erals of victims of diphtheria.
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TIMBER CoNsUMPTIoN-The average life
of railway car is ten years. 1t is esti-
mated that there are 100000 cars in the
country; hence $4,000 year must be builtto
keep up the supply. Three thousand feet
of lumber for each car equals 10000, 900
feet a year The ties for the 1917 miles
of track at $500 to the mile, which on the
average last six years, require 1885, 81, 056
feet, board measure, every year Thus, to
keep roadbed and cars in repair, to say
nothing of new work, calls for !, 49,, ST.,
O56 feet of wood, which is nearly one
fourth the entire output of the mills of the
Northwest, and almost one-twelfth that of
all the mills in the United States. When
we add the vast amount used in building
locomotives, depots, fences, cattle pens, etc,
and on many roads as fuel, to say nothing
of the forest fires kindled by sparks from
the engines, we can see that the railroads
make heavy draft on our timber-[New
York Post.
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ARTICLES FOR STATE FAIR.
Information Concerning Shipment of EN-
hibits and Charges Thereon

Information Concerning Shipment of En-
hibits, and Charges Thereon.
The following circular concerning ship
ment of exhibits for the State Fair has Just
been issued from the general freight office
of the Central Pacific Railroad Company,
and will be of general interest to the public
at this time, as fully covering all questions
upon the subject:
Shipments for exhibition at the State Fair at
Sacramento should be waybilled at regular rates
to Sacramento and charges collected on de
livery.
On returning, the agent at Sacramento Will
waybil the freight, with charges, and shippers
viii call upon the agent at original shipping
point, present the usual certificate from Secre-
tary of the Agricultural Society that property
also expense bill for charges paid at Sacra-
mento The agent will then deliver the prop
erty free of charge, refund the amount collected
at Sacramento, receipt the expense bill for re-
turn service, and send bOth with the Secretary S
certificate, to the Treasurer as cash.
When shippers desire to exhibit articles at
county or district fairs en- route to or from the
State Fair the property should be billed and
charges collected at regular rates.
On return of the property to original point of
shipment the certificate from the Secretary of
the State Agricultural Society, and the expense
bills showing all charges paid for freight to or
from the several points of exhibition, should be
presented to the agent These should be sent
to the General Freight Agents office, and within
Il reasonable time i'll which to prepare vouchers,
a sum equivalent to what the charges would
have been had the articles been forwarded be-
tween the first shipping point and Sacramento
direct will be refunded
Above applies only on shipments originating
in California.
Agents will post this in a conspicuous place,
and see that shippers fully understand what
charges will be refunded, and under what con-
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The RrcoRD-UN1oN is the only rr,dper {

The RrcoRD-UNroN is the only T,aper on
,be coast outside Of San Francisco, that re-
eeipes the fall Associated Press dispatches
from all parts Of the rOrId, Outside Of San
Francisco it has no composition, IN point O
numbers, in its nome oad general circulation
throughout the cocst, Challenges Of TWO Tc
ONE, coreriag poin's ADORE erte,,ded to toc0'
erening paper, re7asin open for Gcceptd#ce.
S. c. BecEacith, Tribune" BmidinS Neu
York, sole agent for the Eastern States. Wm
Cameron, Nc, 8 Ne,o Montgomery street, Sdr
Francisco, special ogert for San Francisco anc
picinitp
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office was evacuated by the operators, so
the extent of the fire is unknown
Resignation from the Ne.v York Demo-
cratic State Committee

office was evacuated by the operators, so
the extent of the fire is unknown.
Resignation from the Ne.v York Demo-
cratic State Committee.
New York, August 21st-Ex-Senator
Thomas Grady has rendered Chairman
Manning his resignation as member of the
Democratic State Committee. Grady says ::
- 1t is but fair that should add that this
action is entirely personal on my part, and
does not in any way involve any organiza-
ton to whose representatives am indebted
for membership in the committee. | have
communicated my determination in this
respect to the Chairman of the Tammany
Hall delegation to the last State Conven-
ton.
Acquitted and Returned to Duty.
WEST POINT, August 21st.-Cadet Logan
has been acquitted by Court-martial, and
returned TO duty.
The Maryland Temperance Alliance.
BALTIMORE, August 21st.-The Executive
Committee of the State Temperance Alli-
ance have named Electors for President
and Weep President of the United States.
The Kansas Democratic State Conven-
ton.
TOPEKA, August 21st-The Democratic
NOllN liICt tiliNt OlSNlSi
Everest permanent Chairman The Com
mittee on Resolutions reported platform,
which was unanimously adopted, and a
committee OF seven was appointed to con-
fer with the committee appointed last
night by the Resubmission Convention.
Hoodlumism in the East.
New York, August 22d-A. M-Infor-
nation was received at the police head
quarters in Jersey City last night that
roughs had taken possession of an excur-
sion train which was returning from Green
wood Lake, and were terrifying the pas
sengers. Fifteen policemen were sent on a
special train, and met the excursion train
on the Hackensack Meadows The roughs
were in absolute control of the train. They
had assaulted the conductor and stopped
the train several times on the road. They
had gone through the train, kissing and
hugging the women and assaulting the
men, and all the passengers were in a state
of complete terror. Police Commissioner
Meyer, who is a member of the Post, tried
to quiet the marauders, but ceased when he
was knocked down and badly beaten. He
then telegraphed for the police Eight OF
the ruffianS were arrested.
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FOREIGN NEWS.
Cholera Reports.

MARsEILLEs, August 2lst.-The report of
the ravages of cholera in the last "A hours
in the Southern Departments of France is
as follows: Herault, 8 deaths; Sigard, );
Aude, ,; Eastern Pyrenees, Is.
PARIS. August DIST -Four deaths from
cholera last night at Toulon and one at
Marseilles. The quarantine at Malta has
been abolished so far as arrivals from
Sicilian ports are concerned.
PARIS. August 21st.-Onc death occurred
from cholera mt Naples to-day. The soup
kitchens at Marseilles will be closed from
September LIST, owing to the restoration of
confidence and revival of employment.
Cholera is spreading rapidly in northeast
France.
MARsEILLEs, August 21st.-During the
twenty-four hours ending at s o'clock this
evening, eight cholera deaths occurred here.
ToULoN, August 2lst-One cholera death
was reported III the suburbs of this city to-
day. Since 10 o'clock this morning there
were three fresh cases in town. Three
cases were admitted to the hospital to-day,
five discharged cured, and three deaths.
Fifty-Six cases are under treatment.
France and China.
LONDON, August 21st.-The Times Pekin
dispatch of this date says: The French
Consul lowered his flag at l o'clock to-day
The interests of the French subjects have
been inrusted to the Russian Minister
China absolutely refuses to admit the
French claims.
LONDON, August 21st.-A Pekin dispatch
to the Times says Tsung Ii Yamen pro-
fesses to he prepared for war, although
France, it is claimed, is secretly hoping TO
involve neutral Powers in the quarrel re-
spectins treaty ports.
PARIS, August 21st.-The conference to-
day between the Chinese Minister and Min
lister Ferry was without result.
Received His Passports.
PARIS August 21st.-Li Fong Pao, Chi
nese Minister has received his passports.
The Situation in Egypt.
CAIRO, August 2lst.-Advlces from Don
COLA state that scout has arrived there
from Ell Mahdi's camp at lie Belgerder,
who reports that typhus fever is decim-
mating FL Mahdi's army Staten Bey is
with FL Mahdi. Russian Pasha, former
Governor of Berber, and eighteen follow
ers, arrived in camp with sand on their
heads as Il token of submission to El
Mahdi. Mahdi's army is well organized by
former Arabist officers.
Disorder on the Russo-Chinese Frontier.
ST. PETERSBURG, August 2lst.-Disorders
are reported along the RusSO-Chinese
frontier. 1t is uncertain whether Chinese
emissaries are fomenring the disturbances.
Massacre in Africa.
LONDON, August 21st.-Advices from
Africa state that the natives of the Zambezi
country reyolted and massacred the entire
Portuguese force.
u, ;.A. t.
ST.. PETERsBURG August 2lst.-In the
Jewish riots at Yekaterinoslav, fourteen
houses and shops belonging to Jews We're
sacked and demolished. The Jews defend
ed themselves and property vigorously.
Two Jews and one Christian were killed.
and many persons wounded.
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AMBIGUITY OF STATUTES.

1t is popular saying that all laws have
loopholes We recall no instance where
laws have been so involved and difficult of
Interpretation as the statutes passed by
Congress to restrict the immigration of Chi
ncse. They seem to be like fish nets of such
texture that half the catch goes through
The difficulty of asccrtaining, according to
the accepted rules of legal construction
what the legislators intended, is some
thing marvellous, although the subject
of what was desired TO be &C
complished was debated freely in Con-
gress, and was there, evidently, clearly
understood. 1t recalls the anecdote told
by Judge Story himself to illustrate the
extreme difficulty Of framing a statute 50
as to avoid all ambiguity in its language.
DR.. Mathews repeats the story. The
Judge was once employed by Congress to
draft an important law. He spent six
months in trying to perfect its phrascology,
50 that its sense would be clear beyond
shadow of q doubt, leaving not the
smallest loophoIc for 4 lawyer to
creep through. Yet in less than a
year, after having heard the arguments
of two able attorneys, in a suit which came
before him as Justice of the United States
Supreme Court, he was utterly at loss to
decide upon the statutes meaning
II reply to the Oakland Times and other
Democratic journals that charge the I'M
earthing of the Cleveland scandal to the
Republicans and the managers of Mr..
Blaine's canvass, it is 10 be said: The Re
publican political managers knew Of the
charge when Governor Cleveland was
nominated, but refused to repeat it or use
! it. Mr.. Warren Chase Chairman of the
| Republican State Committee of New York,
| knew all about it, but did not stoop to its
use, nor has he since The charges first
appeared in the Rochester Union and Ad-
| rertiScr, a Democratic, not a Republican
| journal and edited by William Purcell,
( then on the Democratic electoral ticket
| The Clerical Association of Buffalo, after
the nomination, considered the matter,
and wrote to the Adracc The Buffalo
| Telegraph, an Independent Democratic pa
per, published the story first in Buffalo,
and the Cincinnati Enquirer Immediately
republished it. The leading Republican
paper of New York city, the TrbaHe, stead
| lily declined to remark upon it, and has
only made one direct reference to it, and
| that IN passage in an interview with Rev
Henry Ward Bcecher. The Albany jar
nal, Republican, protested against the story
being taken up, but the Albany Demo-
cratic papers did take it up and sought con-
troyersy concerning it, and the same is true
of the Boston Democratic papers. The
truth is, the Republican press, with very
few exceptions, has acted the decent
part in all this matter, and there
is not the slightest ground for
the assaults now made upon it. If Gov
| ernor Cleveland suffers because of the
scandal, he must needs look to those of his
own political household to find out who is
! 10 blame
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THE concluding words of the first volume
of Mr.. Blaine's political history deserve to
be given the broader circulation the press
affords. He says Tranquil at home, de-
veloping its inexhaustble resources with a
rapidity and success unknown in history,
bound in sincere friendship, and beyond
the possibility Of hostile rivalry with the
other republics Of the continents, standing
midway between Asia and Europe, a Power
on the Pacific as well as on the Atlantic,
with no temptation to interniddle in the
questions which disturb the Old World. the
Republic of the United States desires to
live in amicable relation with all peoples.
demanding only the abstinence of foreign
Intervention in the development of that
policy which her political creed, her terri
torial extent and the close and cordial
of kindred governments have
made the essential rule of her national
life -
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OVERLAND PASSENGERS.
James of Persons to Arrive from the


ESPECIALLY TELEGRAPHED TO THE RECoRD-UNIoN]
CARLIN August 21st.-The following overland
passengers passed here this morning, to arrive
in Sacramento August 22st w. S. Jones, Mrs. S.
d. Jones, New York City; Miss Minnie Heune-
berry Chicago; John Hermann Hamburg, Ger
many; H. +. Brett Philadelphia; Mrs. p Sake,
San Francisco; Mrs A. Levi, Washington d. c.;
Miss C. Sexton, Detroit; Miss Blanche Lamb
Chicago; Sister Mary Monica, Sister Mollie
Monica San Francisco; A. b. Stearns and wife,
Boston: Mrs. L. NJ. Carver, Pescadero, Cal. Thos
Hassard, W. NJ. Thompson, F. b. Pickerill
Washington, d. c.. J. b. Fitch, Elko, New; J. f.
Young, wife and daughter. San Jose; also, 40
emigrants, including 80 males, TO arrive in San
Francisco August sd.
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AUCTION SALE
TWO FINE RESIDENCES !
ONE CHOICE BUILDING LOT.

DELL & co. AUCTIONEERS. WILL SELL
d TUESDAY, August 26, 1881. at IL O'Clock A. NJ.
sharp, on the premises, rs follows: The North
Half OF the South half of Lot s, in the block
bounded hy II and l. Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets, with all the improvements. House con
tanning six rooms and summer kitchen; Lot.
40xSO feet; choice shrubbery and blue grass.
Also. the South Half of the West Half of Lot 7,
same block Also same time and place, Will
sell the Fine Residence in same block Also,
the East Half of Lot :. with Frame House, con
tanning six rooms, bathroom, and all modern
Improvements: good barn, size lSX24; Lot, 4ON
100: choice fruit trees and shrubbery This
property must be sold, and should command the
attention OF all buyers. Terms Of sale-l0 per
cent on day of sale; balance, when deed Is
made Sale positive. BELL x CO, Auctioneers.
au22-td B. Cl
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CHICAGO has abolished the study of Greek
from her public schools. This is simply
in keeping with the practical thought and
demand of the time, that in the public
school systems the chief effort should be
to give the youth a practical education !;
that is to say, to go so far as may be done
in school toward fitting the boy and girl for
encounter with the realities of business life.
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"Hello!' said the policeman, "what are
you sitting out there in the cold for? Why
don't you go in the house; have you lost
your night key" NO responded the
disconsolate citizen g I-hic-haven't lost
ther key. Tve-hic-lost ther key-hole"
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