Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-03
decision, follows the opinion of Judge
Sawyer, of the Circuit Court of California,
rendered in 1879.

decision, follows the opinion of Judge
Sawyer, of the Circuit Court of California
rendered in 1879.
Action of the Court Below Approved.
WASHINGTON, November 2d.-The United
States Supreme Court to-day rendered Il
decision in the case of Peter Van Weet, of
The Netherlands. versus Frederick II.
Winston. The allegation is tfIat Winston,
aS President of the Chicago & Southwestern
Railway. perpetrated a fraud in connection
with the bond transactions of the eompany.
The supreme Court is of the opinion that
winston committed no fraud in the mat
ter that the appellant has shown no right
to relief, and the action of the Circuit
Court in dismissing the bill is therefore ap-
proved. Winston IS the recently appointed
Minister to Persia.
The Unfinished Cruisers to be Completed.
WASHINGTON, November 2d-At a con-
terence at tie Navy Department, between
Secretary Whitney, the chiefs Of the Bureau
OF Steam Engineering and Of Construction
and Repair, and members of the Naval
Advisory Board. the plan for the compile
ton OF the unfinished cruisers Chicago,
Boston ana atlanta has been arranged and
dSclded upon. The work on the vessels
VIII ne continued at the yards where they
now lie, by tic Bureau of Steam Engineer
ing ana the Bureau of Construction and
Repair. and they Will bear the same relation
to the Government as the original contract
ors did. The Bureaus viii be held resnon-
sibie for what Is done. The work will be
conducted under direction of officers repre-
senting the Bureaus. The Naval Advisory
Board viii have lis representative at the
yards, who viii supervise all work and
material, as formerly. II any changes or
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deemed necessary, the same course viii be
pursued rs before the Government took
charge.
Military Necessities.
WAsHINGToN. November 2d.-The Quar-
termaster- General, in his annual report.
says The necessity for the assembling Of
troops in larger and more permanent posts
near the Indian reservations, and in prox~
unity TO the great strategic points of the
country adjacent to its public reservations,
harhorS and ports, is becoming daily more
and more apparent. He urges that troops
Garrisoned in casemated forts. be kept in
barracks outside the casemates in time of
peace, for sanitary reasons. He SAYS the
barracks should be built at once.
Government Employees and the Elections.
WASHINGTON, November 2d.-There has
been no marked increase in the number of
for leave of absence to indicate
that the clerks have gone home to vote.
The oldest employees say there never has
been year within their memory when so
few have gone home Oh election day The
greatest interest is taken in the contest in
New \ FORK and Virginia, and the Repub-
lican clerks have thought it prudent to re-
main at their desks. As yet there are
few Democrats in the Depart
llArfonpao+c
Maryland, Virginia and New York have
generally gone home, but there are many
who have not. Quite number OF colored
voters are said 10 have gone into Virginia
to-day. The StGr says the preachers in
some of the Colored churches announced
yesterday that tickets could be had to take
voters into Virginia TO vote, and they were
urged to vote for Mahone's candidates.
Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON, November 2d.-The public
debt statement, issued to-day, shows a de-
crease of the debt during October OF $l3,-
276,774.
Tie President to day appointed Owen T.
z. Rouse, of Missouri, United States Attor-
ney for Arizona.
The total coinage executed at the Mints
during October was s., 252, sos, of which
81, 100000 was in standard dollars.
Harold Marsh Sewall, of Bath, Me-, was
to-day appointed by the President Vice and
Deputy Consul at Liverpool.
Nothing is known at the Interior Depart
ment in reference to the reported movement
of " Boomers into Indian Territory,
further than the information contained in
Il telegram from Commissioner Atkins, now
at Fort Reno 10 the effect that very large
number of people, who profess to be graz
ing cattle, are now upon the oklahoma
lands
The name of Comptroller Chaplin, of New
York, 1t is stated, has been presented to the
President for Il place on the Civil Service
Commission.
The Political Situation in New York.
New York, November 2d.-A we'll
known California Democrat, who has been
in this city for some time. says '' You
may rest assured that New York will elect
Ira Davenport its next Governor, over Hill.
the Democratic nominee, by a handsome
majority. This may be credited to the fact
that the boys s'-sO-called--are greatly dis
with Cleveland, who, they de-
clare. is standing in with the MugwumpS
and the County Democracy, in the hope
the only hope he has-Of receiving the
Republican nomination for the presidency
IN lSNS. This hope is, of course, based on
the principles of civil service reform OF
all the swearing and bitter denunciation |
ever heard against 2 man elected to carry
ont the ideas of Democratic success the
most energetic and bitter is heard against
President Cleveland and his policy in the
matter of giving out the Offices. At the
Hoffman House, the Democratic head
quarters, this denunciation is to be heard
on every side The city of New York is
simply working for itself and. beyond a
doubt, Tammany will quietly knife Hill
and the State ticket in order to get even
with the President. Davenport has a clear
field, and the defeat of the Democratic
ticket will bear but one interpretation-iti is
It rebuke to the President
\ LEGAL HOLIDAY.
New YORK. November 2d.-To-morroy.
election day, being a legal holiday in this
State, all exchanges and banks will be
closed.
The President H9neward Bound.
WrLK EsBARRE pa November n. Pres
ident Cleveland arrived here this afternoon
over the Lehigh Valley Railway. About
/ 600 persons We're at the depot to greet
him. After shaking hands with a number
OF prominent Democrats he left for Buffalo.
SAFE ARRIVAL
BUFFALO, November sd. N-Presideut
Cleveland arrived here at 1915 4. NJ. The
l79 miles from Slyre. pa. to Buffalo, were
made in four hours and fifty minutes.
owing to the Presidents desire. the speed
Of the train was decreased. The President
was accompanied by Wilson S. Bissell and
f.. w. Stedman. \ large crowd was at the
depet, and greeted the President with
cheers. He shook hands with all within
reach, and was then driven 10 Bissells
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