Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-12-24
United States Senate.

United States Senate.
WASHINGTON, December 23d.-Jonas pre-
scGted q memorial from the Joint Cenamer-
cial Association of New Orleans, protesting
sgainst the ratification of the Spanish
treaty.
Vest submitted a concurrent resolution,
providing thai Congressional speeches shall
be printed rs delivered, with the exception
of verbal amendments, and when the
speeches are withheld for revision for more
than one week, the speech shall be printed
as delivered Referred.
Hale called up the naval appropriation
bill, as reported yesterday by him from the
Committee on Appropriations, and 1t
passed.
In secret session the Senate amended the
House resolutions providing for holiday
recess. substituting the 9th for the Goth as
the GATE when the recess shall begin.
Van Wyck moved to make the special
order for January 9th next the bill hereto
fore reported from the Judiciary Committee
declaring subject to State taxation lands
granted to aid in the construction of rail-
read and telegraph line from the Missouri
river TO the Pacific ocean, and to which
lands the companies were TO become en-
titled upon the payment of the cost of SUI
veying. Agreed to,
After an executive session the Senate adj
journed.
Chinese Cheap Labor in the East.
New YORK, December 23d-The Tribune
says: The Chinese laundry at Belleyille,
which was the second attempt made in the
East to introduce cheap Chinese labor, has
proved success to its proprietors, though
it has not diminished the price of laundry
work to the public The first experiment
with Chinese labor was made at North Ad-
ans, Mass, in shoe-making. Captain Jas
Hervey was the pioneer in introducing
Chinese as laundrymen in Belleville He
| began with sixty-eight, whom he secured at
San Francisco by contract with the Six
Companies. They cost him S125 each to
| place in his laundry, and he then paid them
about SIS month and board. He suisse
quently added to the number. AT the ex-
piration of the contract these Cinnamon set
up for themselves, chiefly in Newark and
New York. Thus originated large colony
of Chinese in the city. Their success was
such as to induce others to come here. So
numerous are they now that they have an
! unwritten law among themselves prohibit
ing the establishment of new laundry
within a certain distance of an old one.
The rates for laundry work remain the
same as before the Chinese came.
General Sherman and the Pacific Coast.
| NEW YORK, December Odd = General
| Sherman's speech at the New England din
ner last night took his hearers to the Pacific
coast He said: - In San Francisco, whose
streets at this season offend the eye and
Will wet any pair of boots, you will find a
| beautiful spring climate, where every man
| from his house door may look upon hills
| covered with flowers, more beautiful than
under glass in the city of New York. Co
/ 4 los
may from your door-yard gather oranges,
lemons and pomegranateS in their prime.
| -Four great railroads now traverse this
| country from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
| There is not single hill nor valley between
here and the Pacific coast where man
cannot 90 and settle with as much
safety as in the Mohawk val
ley. You people here in New
York are very apt to look upon the people
engaged in rearing cattle as wild maraud-
ers, as men who continually resort to the
| bowie-knife and pistol. Recently in st.
Louis, | sat as presiding officer with a body
of men, two or three times as many as are
! present tonight. Sitting by my side was a
Captain in the English navy, who was per
| fcctly aWe-struck. He looked for bowie
knives and pistols and could not realize
| that cowboys constituted the greater part
war, he said: There may be Young men
here who do not understand it, | wish to
impress upon you that the civil war was
| imposed upon US; that the people of the
| South did not want the leaders who sat in
the halls in Washington. Ii from the be-
| ginning OF this world to the present day,
there ever was a conspiracy, the conspiracy
! in the winter Of 1860 and 1861 in Washing
ton was damnable conspiracy. Loud
applause.l | speak with knowledge, as l
was then Il citizen of Southern State"
Church Torn to Pieces by the Wind.
ERIE pa, December 23d.-The late rain
and wind-storm did vast deal of damage.
The fisheries were largely ralcd by the
sweeping seas, orchards fences and timbers
were RACED TO the ground III the country
| trains on the Lake Shore were stopped and
on the New York, Philadelphia and Ohio
several cars of a freight train were blown
from the track and causing a wreck, killing
some cattle. In Erie there was great dam
age done among new buildings, and the
new church in course of erection by the
| Polish Roman Catholics, and which was
recently dedicated, was completely demol-
ished. The storm burst it open and then
tearing It's way through the roof, spread the
walls and all fell with a crash. There were
no lives lost.
The McGraw-Fiske VIII Case.
CLINTON (Ta.), December 23d-Commis-
| sioner Estabrook, appointed by the Surro-
gate of Tompkins county, New York, has
been taking testimony here for several DAVIS
in the celebrated McGraw- Fiske will case,
| involving a legacy of between $4,000
and $1,000, 900, left to Cornell University, at
Ithaca, n Y. Jennie McGraw married
Professor Willard Fiske. of the University,
at Berlin, in 1880. She died September 80.
1881, leaving specific requests of 81 ,000O 900
and the residue of her estate, nearly 81, 000,-
600 to the University. The heirs claim
that the University could not receive the
bequest under its charter, which provided
that the institution could not hold more
than 100000. The restriction was re-
moved by the Legislature subsequently.
They also claim that the legacy to the Uni
versity is invalid under the State law,
which prohibits person leaving more than
one-half of his estate to certain named in
situations while near relatives survive
Testimony was taken here to show the
value of the half interest held by Mrs.
Fiske at her death III the lumber property,
W j. Young d Co., valued at 81, 10000
The Commissioner and attorneys will 90
to Eau Claire, Wis, to take testimony.
Gain of Three Governors by the Repub-
Iicans.
WASHINGTON, December 23d.-In the late
State elections Republican Governors We're
elected in place Of Democrats in Colorado.
Kansas and Michigan. Harrison, Il Repub-
lican, will be elected in Connecticut by the
Legislature. There will then be twenty-five
Democratic Governors, fifteen Republican
and one Readjuster for Virginia. Another
noticeable anomaly is that four States
which voted for Blaine have Democratic
California, Nevada, Ohio and
Pennsylvania.
Board of Aldermen Enioined.
New YORK December 23d.-The Board
of Aldermen were served to-day with an
injunction from the Court, restraining the
Board from passing any acts as Aldermen
until Friday, December Doth. This iniunc-
ton was obtained by the Wolf Board of
Aldermen, to prevent the consideration of
nominations.
Destruction by Fire.
New YORK, December 23d-Harrigan &
Harris Theater Comique at Broadway,
opposite the New York Hotel, was de-
Stroyed by fire this morning The theater
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