Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-25
LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
FRESH OUTBREAK OF THE PLYM-
OUTH PLAGUE.
Manitoba Matters-Choiera in Spain
Butter and Cheese Statistics
The Illinois Senatorship.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RzcoRp-usIos.I
DOMESTIC.
Morrison and the Illinois Senatorial
Fight

DOMESTIC.
Morrison and the Illinois Senatorial
Fight.
WASHINGTON, Nav th.-Representative
VI 3rrison, of Illinois, has little to say re-
garding the late Senatorial fight i'll which
he figured so prominently. To friend
Morrison said that he did not see why the
Eastern papers made so much ado about
his staying in the field SO long. They did
not seem to understand the situation.
There were only two or three Democrats
| who held out against him, because he was
low tariff man. Ninety-nine low tariff
Democrats could not be expected to go over
| to two high tariff ones. He said that while
| he remained in the field he was keeping no
one else out, because there was no other
candidate who could have gotten the whole
Democratic vote. He believes that if he
could have gotten the whole Democratic
vote earlier he could have gotten one ortwo
| Republican votes, and secured an election
The two or three Democrats who held out
| against him, he said, were encouraged to
| do SO by the inisnuafons of Barnum
and Smith Weed that the Admin
| istration was not friendly to Morri-
SON The appointment of Judd
| to be Postmaster at Chicago was
general notice that the Administration
was friendly to him, and the result was
| that Immediately thereafter he got the en-
| tire Democratic vote in the Legislature
| His friends, therefore, are confident that if
Judds appointment had been made sooner
he would have been elected. He expressed
himself as confident that if he had re-
| ceived the whole Democratic vote at any
time while the Legislature was tie he
could have secured one Republican vote
| ,Ia !, Inl
| his partys full vote on two ballots and
failed he cheerfuIly Withdrew in favor of
| Lambert and Tree. He went in and worked
for Tree. He said he really thought Tree
could get one or two Republican votes.
Butter and Cheese and Their limitations
WASHINGTON, May 24th.-Commissioner
| Coleman, being anxious to obtain all the
facts possible pertaining to the daily in
dustry of the country, and particularly re-
| speeding the manufacture of articles de
signed for pure butter-butterine suinepa-
rota and like compOunGs-has prepared a
| circular to manufacturers of dairy products
| 1t is his wish to place before Congress and
| the country complete statement of the
| factory product of cheese and butter. as
well as their adulterated limitations, and he
suggests the propriety of making monthly
records of the work of each manufacturer
in order that returns may be obtained more
readily for each time, as may be deemed
| best to aggregate the result October, he
says, being the month when cheese-making
declined, it may be decided to nave all the
returns of butter and cheese production
| terminate then, allowing six months for
the dairy season. This would better deter
mine the comparative production Of one
State with another, aS in the summer
months the conditions of food will bemore
uniform, cows consuming alike the nat
ural grasses.
| Geological Phenomena of the Cascade
Mountains.
WASHINGTON, May 24th-Captain Clar-
enGe 4. Dutton, of the ordnance depart
ment of the army, who has been engaged
| for ten years III the study Of the geology of
| the great plateau region of the West
started last week for California, under in
structions from Major Parnell, Director of
the Geological Survey, To make study of
| the geological phenomena presented by the
Cascade mountains.
Il definition of the Term - Offensive
Partisan
PTTsBURG, May 24th.-In an interview
with the Washington correspondent of the
Pittsburg Post tonight, First Assistant
| Postmaster-Gen Hay said that in his
| judgment Postmasters and others subject TO
removal should be divided into two classes
the first offensive pardsans, and the second
neglecting to give attention to duties He
then gave his definition of an offensive
| partisan 1t was expected that every
Postmaster should keep his office in a
convenient place for the public, in good
condition, and in all respects a place where
| people of all kinds could go without being
| subjected 10 annoyance. If, on the con
| trary, the Postmaster should make his
| postotiicc headquarter for lOafers to con-
| gregate and in other ways offend the
| people who. called there for their mail
such man could properly be described as
| an offensive partisan and a tit subject for
removal. The next class embraced Post
| masters who left their offices to attend TO
| political meetings and participate in cam
| paigns, TO the neglect Of their offices. They
could not, properly speaking, be called
offensive paTtisans, but they merited dis
| missal just the same.
The Plymouth Epidemic Takes Fresh
Start.
WILKEsBARRE pa, May 24th.-Seven
deaths have occurred in Plymouth since
last evening, and number of new cases
have been reported this afternoon The
hopeful feeling caused by the slight death
roll of Thursday and Friday has again
given way to dependency. the people see
ing no end to the plague. There are now
tortyfOur patients in the hospital and
more Will be placed there as soon as accom-
modations can be furnished The phvsi-
clans report that there are apparently no
cases of fever anywhere in the county out
side of Plymouth and Plymouth township.
Clearing house Transactions.
BOsToN, May 24th.-The leading clear
ing houses of the United States report that
the total clearances for the week ending
May 23d were 1904 IA ,573-a decrease Of
pa per cent, as compared with the CORE
spending week of last year.
Excise Arrcsts-CoId Weather.
NEW YORK, May 25th-A. M-There were
fifteen arrests for violation of the excise
law yesterday
The weather continues bleak and cold.
the thermometer being twenty degrees
lower than at the same time last wear.
About 10000 persons visited Conev Island
yesterday, but were all glad to get back.
Neal Dow and Prohibition.
New YORK, May 9th. Nat the
American Temperance Unions meeting
yesterday, Hon. Neal Dow, of Maine, said
he intended to wipe out Of existence the
breweries and grog shops of the whole
United States etleclually, as they had been
wiped out of Maine. Since the enforcement
of The prohibitory law III Maine, S24 100000
had been saved and there was not pauperin
the State; yet the brewers, in spite of this
said at their late Convention that prohibit
ton meant hard liquor, jams and pau
pcrlSm. They say tIat since It's enforce
mcnt the State OF Maine has decreased in
population. That is true; but prohibition
i not the cause. Our sterile soil and linz
tied space cannot contain The broad minds
and earnest hearts of our sons"
FOREIGN.
Communist Riot in Paris