Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-24
HOME AND ABROAD.
SENATOR STANFORD DISPOSES OF
ANNOYING kUAORS.
War-PrOpeller Sunk on the
Lake-A Boy Murderer.
IsrrcAL DISPATCHES TO THE RrcoED-usIos.l
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Senator Stanford Makes Statement.

/ DOMESTIC NEWS.
| Senator Stanford Makes Statement.
| New YORK, March 23d.-The Hraids
| Washington special says Senator Stan
ford, of California has, by his presence
here and attention to his public duties in
the Senate, quietly put down certain ru-
mors, which had been circulated through
the press by ill-wishers, that the loss of his
son had in a measure unsettled his mind.
| No one who sees him or speaks with him
Or Mrs. Stanford will doubt that both of
them bear the very grievous blow with for
| titude and self-possession, and neither of
them is so engrossed by the great grief as
to justify the ill-natured and injurious re-
ports which have been circulated about
them. Mr.. Stanford said: THE appear
ance of such reports i'll the Herald does, |
confess, annoy me, and | would like to see
the Herald print the truth about my wife
and myself 1t is not true that we have
obtruded our great grief upon any one.
The body of our poor dead boy was
never exposed to any gaze whatever.
The coffin was not opened-not once
| from the time it was first closed after
| his death A good deal has been said of
| Dr. Newman's connection with all this.
| We made the acquaintance of Newman Ill
New York through mutual friends. He
| had the good taste, when he visited US, not
to allude to our grief and loss, and to talk
to Mrs. Stanford of other matters-forelSn
places which we all had seen and general
experiences of travel. This kind and tact
full course did win my heart to him, and
we saw much of him in New York at our
own desire. He did not go to California
with us, and was in the Northwest filling
| Of
left New York. l advised him to try TO
get engagements also to lecture in Califor-
MIA, because [ believed that the climate
would be beneficial to his health. | was
pleased when he succeeded in this, and
when | met him in San Francisco we We're
grateful to him for his offer to preach the
| funeral discourse upon our poor dead
boy; nor did Bishop Kip see any impro-
priety in opening an Episcopal church
| to him for that purpose. But it is false
that | ever paid Newman $4,000, or
any other sam for that. He has never
received any money from me and | remain
his grateful debtor to-day for many kindly
services. and for true and tactful sympathy.
| [ have seen number Of large estates in
tended for public and beneficent use, wasted
by litigation and III effect, divided among
! contending LAWYERS When | see these false
reports industriously circulated about our
| monomania, our devotion to 'spiritualism,
etc., | seem to see a train laying and way
preparing for INSCRIPTIONS men to dispute,
| after my death, my competency TO do that
| for the people of California and for the
youth OF that State which want to do. |
see the possibility of another great estate
going not where its owners wish 1t to go, to
public and good uses, but to some lawyers.
/ am made uneasy lest the purpose which
ifD'c In
defeated by greedy and INSCRIPTIONS men,
You can see this is not pleasant to either of
us. That is the chief reason why | now
speak to you in contradiction Of false re-
ports.
Both Mr. and Mrs Stanford are cheerful
and reticent of their grief, and they find
comfort and employment of mindssin the
working out Of that purpose III which they
are united, to give Il large part of their
great fortune during their lives TO the best
uses of the people of their own State, Cal
ifornia. No one who sees them and talks
with them viii for moment credit the
mean gossip which has been circulated
about them, or believe they are giving
| themselves over to undue grief or to selfish
absorption in their loss. They are both in
excellent health. and will live, it is to be
| hoped, long enough TO see their benefcent
plans carried into full effect.
The Central Pacific Railway Company.
NEW York, March 23d.-The following
| statement is given out from the Central Pa
| cihc this afternoon The Central Pacific
Company has issued S10,000,00O in convert
| ible bonds for the purpose of funding into
| long bonds the greater part of the accumu-
| lated floating debt and to provide for the
completion of the Oregon division and
other additions TO the property. The COM
pany expended on construction and better
ments during the past five years nearly
100000 900, not included in the operating
| expenses, and against which no stock or
| bonds were issued, and during the past ten
years more than $14,000000. During the
same period the net funded debt decreased
by land sales and sinking fund nearly
IS, 100000. The new bonds bear six per
cent interest. and run thirty years. Al
ready 5, 100000 have been taken at par by
holders of the unfunded debt. A provision
is made in the bonds allowing the CONVEX
sion of the principal sum into capital
stock within eight years, but no exchange
will be made at less than $50 per share"
United States Senate.
WASHINGTON, March 23d.-After reading
the journal the Senate went into executive
session.
Messengers and door-keepers of the Sen
ate have been instructed not to talk TO out
siders An additional door-keeper has
been stationed at the gallery door of the
Senate opening on the preSs-room. The
purpose is to make sure that the publica-
ton of executive secrets, which the Sen
ators think has grown to be an evil great
in magnitude, shall no longer continue.
At this writing III o'clock the Senate is
in secret session, and is discussing the We'll
any La Abra Treaty, and Senators Morgan
ant Voorhees, have spoken in its support.
'ahe treaty was not disposed of. \ ma
jority of the Senate is understood to be in
fayir of its ratification, but friends of the
claimants are trying to talk the treaty to
death and prevent Il reopening of the case.
The final adjournment seems to be chiefly
a question of physical endurance.
Foreign Ministers Nominated and Con-
firmed.
WASHINGTON. March 23d.-The President
to-day sent TO the Senate the following
nominations to be Envoys Extraordinary
and Ministers Plenipotentiary Of the United
States: Edward j. Phelps, of Vermont, to
Great Britain Robert McLainc, of Mary
land. to France George II. Pendleton, of
Ohio. to Germany Henry Il. Jackson, of
Georgia to Mexico. The Senate immedi-
ately confirmed the appointments.
THE NEW MINISTER'S.
Edward j. Phelps is a prominent lawyer
of Burlington VT He is about go years of
age and the possessor of a moderate for
tune He is ex-President of the American
Bar Association, has practiced before the
Supreme Court in Washington, and is
highly esteemed as lawyer and man of
culture. He has several times been the
| Democratic candidate for Governor of YER
mont, but, so far as known here, he has
never held public Office. For two years
past he has delivered lectures on law to the
graduating class of Yale College. Mr..
! Phelps is a son of ex-senator Phelps. of
| Vermont. Senator Edmunds was his legal
precPptor.
Robert NJ. McLaine is the present Gov
ernor OF Maryland.
Henry Rootes Jackson is native of
| Georgia. and is Ga years of age. lie gradu
ated from Yale College in 1899, and shortly
afterwards was admitted to the Bar. He
was Colonel of a Georgia regiment in the
Mexican war, and for four succeeding years
was Judge in the eastern circuit of Geor-
/ cria In 1881 he was sent To REPRESENT the