Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-28

New YORK, June 27th.-The Independ.
ent Republican Committee met to-day
Various reports and letters were read, de
clarinS the anti-Blaine feeling growing
The call for conference is receiving q
greater number of signatures than antici-
pated.
CONFERENCE OF coLoRED DEMocRArs
New YORK, June 27th.-A conference OF
colored Democrats, representing different
States, was held here tonight and dele
gates appointed to the National Democratic
Convention at Chicago, 10 endeavor to Sc
cure representation for the coiored Dem
ocratic voters of the country.
United States Senate.
WASHINGTON. June 27th.-The bill passed
granting the right of way through Indian
| Territory to the Southern Kansas Railway.
| Pell, from the Committee on Appropria-
tons, reported the general deficiency ap-
preparation bill, with amendments. He
will call it up tomorrow
| Unfinished business was then laid before
the Senate, being the bill providing for the
forfeiture of the unearned lands granted TO
| the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company
| Morgan offered an amendment, 10 take
the place of the provisions for restoring the
| lands TO the public domain and the re-
sumption of title by the United States.
| THE amendment authorizes and di-
reefs the Circuit Court of the United
States for the Western District of Mis-
souri, TO hear and determine all Ques-
| tons arising out of claims to the lands de-
| clared forfeited; directs the United States
Attorney of that district to proceed in that
Court in the name of the United States as
| plaintiff, against any person or corporation
| claiming interest in the lands referred to,
so as to bring the subject before the Court !;
gives either party to the proceeding the
| right to appeal to the Supreme Court of
the United States, and directs that Court
to advance the case on its calendar
A long debate ensued, and finally the
| motion for an executive session prevailed
Before the doors were closed, however
Hawley called the attention of the Senate
to a statement in the Record that Senator
Logan owned 10000 acres of land. This
| statement, he said, was untrue. The gen
tleman referred to is only the owner of the
land on which his father died. and to which
he has added little, in his own State,
Illinois.
Abiding to the same matter, Logan
said: The statement is utterly false. ! do
not propose to give schedule of my prop
erty to anybody, but the property do own
is in the State of Illinois. | do own some
two or three tracts of land, but all put to-
gether it would not make hundredth part
of what they charge.
The Senate discharged the Committee on
Privileges and Elections from further con-
sideration of the House bill on electoral
count, and ordered q committee of confer
ence on it.
After the executive session. the Senate
adjourned
House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, June 27th.-Henlcy made
an unsuccessful attempt to secure considera-
ton of the Northern Pacific forfeiture
bill, and the House went into Committee
of the Whole Cox of New York in the
chair on the private calendar. At o'clock
the committee rose for the purpose of per-
mitting the House to dispose of the forfeit
are bill
The Speaker announced the question to
be on the motion to table the motion to re-
consider the vote by which the House yes
terday defeated the forfeiture bill.
The motion TO table was agreed to. Yeas.
124; nays, 114-so the bill was lost.
Rising to question of privilege Valen-
tine said that some days ago a gentleman
from New York, McAdoo had taken occa.
SION to print, as part of his remarks, a very
long dispatch sent from this city to New
York. 1t contained the names of our land
monopolists, saying a full list would fill
every page Of the paper In the list of
names, as printed in the Record to-day.
appeared that of Senator John A. Logan as
owning $1,000 acres of land. Senator Lo-
gan had called his (Valentine's) attention
to this to-day and had desired him to say
to the House that so far as it related to him
the statement was absolutely false. The
only land he owned was a little homestead
in Illinois. A gentleman from New Jersey
had taken occasion, while he was lauding
the soldiers, to stab one of the brightest
and most gallant of those soldiers. Loud
applause on the Republican side
Cox of New York, in order to show, as
he expressed it, how gentlemen on the
other side attempted 20 strain at a gnat and
swallowed menagerie of camels, quoted
from the speech printed by Brewer of New
jersey upon the tariff, in which that gem
tleman made very lengthy extract from
BlGnes " Twenty Years in Congress" The
speech in fact, consisted almost wholly of
the extract.
O'Neil of Missouri suggested that the
title of the book be amended by adding
the words" and tattoed at last
McAdoo explained the circumstances
which led to his obtaining leave to print
tract one word of that speech. He accepted
the authorship in all its entirety. He did
not consider for one moment that he had
violated any rule of courtesy any rule of
equity, or any rule of manliness i'll its pub
lication. He had done what frequently had
been done He had incorporated in his
speech a newspaper article without COM
ment That article had been published
last January. and had been copied from
Maine to California. There had not been
q line Of contradiction from the supersen-
sitive Senator or his friends in regard to his
name in that list
Cannon said the record did not show that
the gentleman from New Jersey had OBJ
tained leave to print, and therefore the
record on its face misled the House and the
country.
McAdoo continuing, said the gentleman
from Illinois says he brought the matter
before the House because the record had
been violated. The gentleman knew better
than that 1t was not TO preserve integrity,
it was not to bring the Houses attention to
violation of the rule. 1t was simply be-
cause the gentleman found the name of
John A. Logan in the list. So far as the
question of the record was concerned, he
belived the gentleman himself had not de-
livered his tariff speech.
Cannon-Nor is II printed III the Record.
McAdoc said that in the Record of April
23d he found the following: Cannon ad-
dressed the committee His remarks will
appear hereafter Did the Record lie?
Cannon said he would reply in his own
time.
McAdoo said if he had done as some gen
tlemen did, instead of printing such a fair
thing as anewspaper article and giving the
| newspaper and date of publication. he
might have asked the deluded soldiers
what they thought of the great Senator,
who in his greed TO absorb territory which
| belonged to actual settlers in land which
was made for independent freeholders and
small farmers, went, under cover of his
brother-in-law, to New Mexico, and tried
to pre-empt the most valuable land and
who was only stopped by the public sur
yeyor, who found that it belonged
to another class, which he professed
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