Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-20
WASHINGTON.
TRADE DOLLARS AND THE FREE
COINAGE OF SILVER.
Senate and House-Gariand's Testi
mony-Novei Anti-Chinese Sug-
gestion-NIinor Notes.
ESPECIAL BY TELEGRAPH TO THE nEoopD-usIo,


United states Senate
WASHINGTON, April 19th-on motion of
Beck, Wilson of Maryland was appointed
to membership of the Committee on Pen
sions Eustis n Privileges and Elections !
tray on Territories. and Hearst on Rail
roads, Manufacturers Fisheries and Nicar-
aqua Claims.
The Senate went into executive session,
and when the doors were reopened adj
journed.
The Senate remained in secret session
about three hours and q half, considering
the Mexican treaty, and adjourned with
the understanding that vote shsil be
taken tomorrow.
House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, April 19th-Drring the
morning hour many bills were introduced
and re-erred.
Richardson of Tennessee, froln the Com
mittee on Pacific Railroads moved to sus-
pend the rules and pass the bill requiring
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company to
pay the cost of locating arc surveying the
lands granted to that railrosd.
Pending action, the House adjourned.
Silver Coinage aud Trade Dollars.
PHILADELPHIA, April 19th.-The Times
Washington special says: 1t was supposed
at the Treasury Department that the effect
of the recent action of the House of Rep
resentatives in refusing to authorize the
free coinage of silver. or to suspend COIN
age, would be to steady the price of silver
bars. 1t appears instead that the price has
declined, and the latest purchases were at a
less figure than has ever been reached. At
the declining price OF silver, coinage for the
present will aggregate about 100000.
In connection with the silver question in
general much pressure is being brought to
bear by parties still holding trade dollars.
A Treasury official of high rank, talking
about the trade dollar, remarked that it
was a singular fact that the silver dollar at
the present price of bullion was worth ]
about seventy light cents, but the law made
il pass current at 100 cents, while the trade
dollar, which was worth eighty cents, or
two cents dollar more, would not pass at
all. The same official said the amount of
these dollars still in existence is far below
six millions. 1t was also said that the cry
of having large number thrown back
upon the country from China is without
serious danger as il had been discovered
after very careful investigation that the
bullion dealers of New York, San Fran
cisco and elsewhere, expecting to realize
handsome profit, had secured the CONNER
cial ports of China from Tientsin to Can
ton and had found that no American trade
dollars were TO be had.
The Pacific Roads.
WASHINGTON. April 19th.-The sub-com-
mittee on Pacific Railroads of the House
conferred to-day with Moorefeld Storey. of
Boston, and ex-senator Mcdonald. counsel
for the Union Pacific Railroad, relative to
an extension of time of the bonded in
debtedness. y report will be made TO the
full committee favoring such an extension
for either company. The exact time for
which the extension shall run has not yet
been decided upon.
The President and the Land Frauds.
New York, April 19th.-The HeraSds
Washington correspondent telegraphs:
There is rumor that the President has
been making one of those careful and
laborious studies, to which he is given, of
the public land question, and that he has
become SO thoroughly convinced of the
Vastness of the land frauds and of the
measure of the present land laws for land
grabbing by syndicates and corporations,
and OF the necessity of thorough reform
of both the land laws and the land admin
istration, that he will presently send
special message to Congress, urging its i'm
mediate action in the way of land reform
and the repeal of bad laws, to help him in
saving the remaining public lands for
homesteads for the people
Novel Way to Check Chinese Immigra-
ton
NEW YORK, April 19th.-The HtYalds
Washington correspondent says that Con-
gresham Butterworth has received from
the Cincinnati Knights of Labor petition
demanding that all immigration from
China be prohibited; that persons employ
ing Chinese be taxed from 81 p to 81 a
day for each man employed, the tax to be
paid monthly in advance; that the Presi-
dents proclamation promising protection
to Chinese be withdrawn; that naval
vessels be employed to search suspicious
vessels for Chinese laborers, and that the
penalty for each individual Chinaman
carried by or on any vessel for the purpose
OF landing on American soil shall not be
less than 81 ,0O0.
Garland Gives His Testimony
WASHINGTON, April 19th-The announc-
ment that Acknowledgement Garland was
TO appear before the Telephone Irvestiga-
ton Committee caused large attendance
this morning. 1t was nearly three-uuarters
OF an hour after the regular time of meet
ing when the Attorney General appeared,
looking pale and rather feeble With
courteous salute to the committee he i'm
mediately took the stand, and on invita-
ton Of the Chairman he began to make a
statement of his connection with the Pan
Electric. He wished, he said, to lay before
the committee and reaffirm the matter con-
tanned in his statement to the President in
October last. He gave his testimony at
great length, making a general denial OF
tne chaiEeS maze against MIN IN cOnnec-
ton with the Pan Electric scandal.
An Adverse Report.
WASHINGTON, April 19th.-The House
Committee on the Alcoholic Liquor Traffic
to-day, by vote of to 5, ordered an adj
verse report of Representative Saulbee's
BILL to provide that no person shall be
licensed as retail dealer of intoxicants by
the United States until he has first received
license as such from the local authorities
where II is proposed to carry on the bust
ness of selling liquor.
Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON, April 19th.-The Senate to-
day confirmed the following nominations
J.Whittaker, Collector OF Internal Revenue
tor the district of Oregon; T. Jennings. IN
DIAN Agent at Green Bay, Wis; f. f. Clat-
son, Assayer at,New Orleans
The bond of William T. Trenholm. as
comptroller of the Currency. was approved
by the acting Secretary and Solicitor of the
Treasury to-day, and he subsequently DUAL
lhed and entered on the duties of that of
tice The bond is for 100000.
The Treasury Department has received a
certlfeate of deposit for $25, coo in the case