Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-13
home AND ABROAD.
SENATOR STANFORD DEPENDS
THE RIGHTS OF FARHERs.
Mexican Veterans to Have Pensions
OF For the North Pole-Poor
Peach Crop in the East-Etc.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-UNIoN.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Prooeedings in Conrres..


| WASHINGTON, July 12th.-Under the cal
of States the following bills, etcs were in
troduced and referred
BY Mr.. Wheeler of Alabama-Decl
1t to be the sense of the House that Con
gress should not adjourn until it has en-
acted law appropriasing portion of the
surplus money in the treasury to assist the
States in the great work of education.
BY MIR. Robertson of Kentucky-Appro.
priating $4,000 for the erection of a granite
shaft to mark the birthplace of Abraham
| Lincoln.
| By Mr.. Lowering of Massachusetts-To
abolish the importation of italian or other
| laborers under contract and held to invel-
untary servitude in the United States.
| Mr.. Voorhees, of Washington TerritorT
| from the Committee on Public Lands, re.
| ported bill permitting all persons who
haye lost homestead rights to make new
epkies.
Fhe Committee on Appropriations recon-
mends that the amendment relative to the
publication of the records of the wsr of the
! rebellion and providing that evidence taken
! by the eCourt-martlaf On the trial of FitZ John
Porter, together withsthe report thereon by
Judge Holt to President Lincoln, shall be
printed in connectionswith the mattsr al
ready printed concerning the proceedings
of said Court-martial. The Republicans
desired to concur in the Senate amendment
without further amendment, and a motion
to this effect having keen defeated, they
manifested some disposition to filibuster,
but finally allowed the recommendation of
the committee to be agreed to, with the
understanding that an aye and no vote
should. be taken upon it inathe House.
The Senate amendment increasing from
81, ,000to IS 900 the salaries of the Commis--
sioners of Pensions and Patents was con-
Cured in.
The consideration of amendments was
completed in Committee OF the Whole,
but pending action by the House an ad-
lournment was taken.
In heSenate bill was passed to credit
the State of Oregon with l2,3S6 for ord
nance and ordnance stores.
Among bills which were objected to and
which went over without action was the
following To equalize the bounties of sol
diers, sailors and marines of the late war
(Logan's bilD.
The Senate then resumed consideration
of the river and harbor appropriation
bill, the pending question being on the
Hennerin Canal and Michigan and Illinois
Canal amendment Agreed to-yeas 81,
nays %.
In the Senate an amendment to the item
OF $4,000 tor improving the Sacramento
and Feather rivers, California, was to strike
out some lines directing legal proceedings
to prevent the washing, sluicing, dumping
or discharging debris caused by hydraulic
mining. This was discussed at some length
by Stanford, Hearst, Dolph, Edmunds and
ingalls,. Stanford and Hearst favored the
amendment of the lines proposed to be
struck out, while Edmunds contended that
Congress had no power to legislate as to
these rivers, as the State of California had
exclusive jurisdiction over them. Stanford
explained that if this practice of dumping
debris into the Sacramento was not pie
vented the barber of San Francisco would
be ruined, and he asked whether the Gen
eral Government had not the right to inter
fere and prevent it. No vote was had on
the amendment, but Mcmillan gave notice
that he would ask the Senate to dispose of
the bill tomorrow.