Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-05

methods TO prevent the destruction OF a !
heritage the Government holds in trust for |
ali the people. and which it is its bounden !
duty to protect from all trespasS.
While we admit the duty ofthe Federal Gov
eminent to preserve the nayigability of the
river, is notice to miners to quit from the Sec
rotary of War the best way to proceed2
1t is one way; an agency that should not
be neglected, and the invoking of which
cannot ieopardize any rights, of the people
or augment the evils sought TO be abol-
ished. That is to say, the desired govern
mental interference should be supple
menta! to all present efforts of the people,
through the Courts, to protect the rivers.
The CaR wants the best way to be adopted
We would avoid arbitrary proceedings as far as
is consistent w5th the accomplishment Of the
object in view. To the pIblic the mines have
no value compared to TIE injury which results
from the present methods of working them.
The gold taken ont Of them costs somebody ten
times its value. NarysYille has been ruined,
Sacramento is threatened. and the Bay OF san
| Francisco is only a little further removed from
the cause of all this destruction. The whole
public is concerned the State first, the patton
afterward
Precisely. The State first, the nation
afterward. The State has acted. The
State of California, in the name of the
people thereof and by its chief law officer,
long since brought and won its action, and
a judgment has been entered in its favor
and against the legitimacy of dumping
debris into the rivers. BY the Act
| OF admission the State agreed with the
United States Government that the nav
igable waters should be forever free, com
mon highways. Her Courts have declared
their impairment to be public nuisance +;
no Act Of the Legislature, desirable as it
is, can do more no proceedings under any
possible laws can be more effective than
the solemn injunction of the Superior the
Supreme and the Federal Courts. Now
let the Nation, on which the duty of ex-
penditure for river reclamation primarily
deyolves, act, and no longer sit idly by and
witness the destruction of its trust
But if it could be admitted that the
State Of California had not acted had
not invoked the aid of the law and secured
its decree; had not protested and resisted
had not by its Executive publicly called
attention to the impairment of the rivers.
the obligation of the Federal Government
would not be less to act in It's capacity as
trustee for all the people and as the guard
ian of all nayigable waters
| THERE have been this summer more
than 1000 deaths from cholera in Spain.
The disease is rapidly spreading and in
creasing in malignity. 1t is scarcely pos
sible that it can be kept from crossing the
border into France, after which It's transit
to England will be speedy We have be-
fore us yet five months in which cholera
transportation is to be feared, while there
is behind us but little over two months
in which it has been ravagiug Spain. The
Spanish authorities have done their ut
most to suppress the facts and gag the
press, but the truth is now coming out.
and it is evident that it is the duty OF the
United States to order and enforce the
most rigid quarantine regulations, and to
interpose every barrier known to med
zeal and sanitary science, to the grave
probability that it will reach American
shores.