Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-17
DOMESTIC NEWS.
United states Senate.

WAeHl NGrox, March 1Gth.-ihe back
bone" land grant resolution was laid beior'
the Senate. and EustiS OF Louisiana made
speech upon it, He said great Wrong
had been done the people Of LouIslana, anl
he wished to enter his protest against It's
c9nsummatiou. The title to the lands wa;
Illegal and fraudulent, and set up TO de
fraud The settlers of their rights This very
title has been denounced by the New Or
leans Pacific Company, in documents which
had been presented III Congress and in thC
Interior Department. as utterly baselcss anC
illegal! Everybody was perfectly agreed
that the % backbone company was
nuisance and a disgrace; that it never livtt
iur any corporate purpose whatever, bu
was the mere skeleton Of 4 derelict associa
ton. Yeti III 1881, by one of the most ex
LrlUrdinary proceedings on record, this de
funct company made an assignment to the
New Orleans Pacific Company, and ii wa,
upon such tide that the latter based it
claims. The transfer was radically vicious
and absolutely void. The consideration fol
II was the enormous sum OF 81 One-third
OF the stockholders denounced the act be-
fore the interior Department us a sham
and fraud he WAS glad to know that the
Secretary OF the Interior was going to in
vcStigatc Ibis matter, and he hoped n the
future that there would be an admInistga-
ton which would be i'll the interest OF the
pe0ple and protect them from the rapacty
% rich railroad corporations.
Teller defended his course, and said NOT
Il point had been made by the Senator from
Louisiana Guslie) which had not been
passed upon by the AttuIncy-Gencral ard
by the judiciary Committee OF the House.
ii had been an UnlrokGn rule Of the de
partmeut for sixteen years TO issue tnesu
the conditions Subsequent, without refer
cnec to time, and tha; ii had been done iii
nine cases out Of ten without any inquiry
whatever. When he was Secretary of the
Interior, he had issued papers IN the same
identical way which was now called III
question, and That, too, without having
taken mo consideration the opinions OF
the cuuuittee'uf Congress or the opinion
81 the House, wien, by 4 majority of -. il
had declared this grant should not be void.
the new Administration IS 70 commence
to undo what the late Administration has
done it should be done in accordance with
the forms of law, and in manner com
porting with the dignity Of Il great Admin
-istration presiding over the interests of So
geo ESQ OF people
Van Wyck replied at length to Teller
and at the CLOSE Of his remarks the Senate
adjourned,
Cleveland Stirs up Democratic Hor-
nets Nest
W.s,.tN,.r,>. March 1874, Tho p,es;-
don't rn.rl.,v ,,,n.,j,fc5 insanh : Mir ~.
West VirrfTj. f., no Cnmmis,,annr ,,f In
tnrna1 Dn7.el,,', f., sprrcoI VraTtn. 49,.
Of Kepn}rkv re,ignrd Thc~c !, waijin%
and sv-aarin,, aF members az tbc Knntnr-[
drie,,9,i"n in r3rticrIar and ~opfI,rI' ren-
rrsrHtnfiras in .rrraraI Phil ThnntnsoI
the defeated candidate, had the strongest
Endorsements ever presented by any apPli-
cant Tor pubic o''lce' lie was recon-
menGed ny nearly every Democratic hep
resentauIe IN Congress, and by majority
az the Democratic Senators. Speaker Car
isle and Sen2tors Blackburn and Beck
we're unce&s1nE IN tAelr efforts Ia secure
him the office, and their eNertionS were
seconded by host OF influential personal
friends. The President ignored them
completely, and chose a man recommended
10y his fitness and Endorsed by the united
Democratic party of West Virginia Congress
Sional intlucncc did not count as much after
Miller nomination was made as ii had
been valued at during the past ten days.
Cleveland sec:ns determined 10 he guided
IN his selection Of officers more by his yer
sonal Judgment Of fitness OF the men than
by what aCnbcr, of Congress see lit to tell
aim. The fight over this nomination had
become 50 bitter within the past few days
that il iit.tnSf ~ solved itself INTO the lHD-