Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-08

of one hand or foot, or for total disability
of same, to $35 per month. For loss of an
arm within five inches of or above the
elbow joint, or loss of leg within six
inches of or above the knee joint, or total
disability of same, to $40 per month. For
loss of an arm within six inches of shoulder
Joint, or leg within eight inches of hip
Joint, to $45 per mcnth. Also, providing
that pensions of all persons now on the
pension rolls, and all persons hereafter
granted pensions by special Act of Con-
gress, shall commence from the date of
discharge from the service of the United
States, provided the disability was con-
tracted in the line of duty in the service OF
the United States.
The bill introduced by Senator Beck to-
day for the retirement of United States
legal tender and national bank notes of
small denomination is nearly identical
with the amendment offered by him TO the
sundry civil bill at the last session of
Congress.
PROMISING OUTLOOK FOR THE ANTI CHINESE
BILL.
WAsHIEGroN, December 7ih-Perry Bel
mont, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs
Committee, informed your correspondent
to-day that he believed action would be
IcNCltN III AlOuoC lulS oGoSlDil Oll lllC
bill TO amend the Chinese Restriction Act
"Our committee was not given a day last
session" said Mr.. Belmont, "and we will
certainly have an opportunity this session
to consider the legislation we have report
ed We amended the Chinese bill in COM
mittee because as it passed Tie Senate it
was in contravention OF our treaty stipula-
tions If the House agrees to cur amend
ments | think the Senate will concur be-
fore adjournment" Belmont has not yet
tried to get a day fixed for the consider
alton of business from his committee.
THE GAUNTLET THROWN.
WASHINGTON, December 7th-The Dem
ocratic members of the Ways and Means
Committee say they are bound to have a
tariff fight. The position taken by the
President on that question has given them
new courage. They insist that "a tariff
for revenue only" must be the party cry
A straight issue must be made, and all
who cannot stand unuer that banner can
not march in their lines. They were never
more determined. They will start the
fight almost at once.
CoNG FRESHMAN NJ KESNA's OPINION OF cLEvE-
LANDS MESSAGE.
Representative McKenna, in comment
ing upon the Presidents message to-day,
said 10 your correspondent His sug-
gestions as to the tariff are variously COM
mented on by Republicans. They criticise
his views as demagogic. They say he stu
diously avoids specific suggestions while
freely asserting its evils, and makes tariff
reform add or subtract-sometimes both at
! once-to or from the factors of price. ac-
cordingly as he appeals to one class or fiat
tiers another. He appears to have gone 10
| the opera Of The MikadO for his example,
and taken a satire for grave proposition OF
| practice, and trots from proposition to
| proposition like Ko- ko and Pooh Bah, and
appears as a reformer to the tariff thinkers
and as proteciionist to the wage-worker-
| conGemning in one character the abnormal
and exceptional business profits OF the few
and then, slipping over TO where the wage
| workers and farmers can't hear him, be
| soothes the manufacturers with the assur-
ance that their large and important indus
! tries should not be disturbed; and, in the
| hope of the considerable bribe of a second
nomination and election, he attempts to
square all people.
! NEARLY PANIC.
| WAsHIxGToN, December 7th.-A fire was
| discovered about 10 o'clock this morning
! in the folding-room of the Government
| Printing Office that caused for a time great
excitement among the employees in that
room, who are mostly ladies. The fire was
extinguished before it had done much dam
! age, but the alarm came near resulting in
disastrous panic.
MINOR NOTES.
General John Moore has arrived ir
Washington from San Francisco, and to
day assumed the duties Of Surgeon-Genera
| of the army.
The President will transmit to Congress:
| TO. morrow a report from the Secretary o
| State in regard to the fisheries in waters
adjacent to British North America, and
| copies of the correspondence when has
taken place during the present year in re.
| lation 10 the subject.