Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-29
SATURDAYS NEWS.
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This season $3.50. 900 will be expended on
the parks of New York.
The river and harbor bill, as completed.
provides for an appropriation of Sl5. l64 600
The friends of the Lowell bankruptcy
bill in Washington are confident of its pas
sage.
The New York weekly bank statement
shows a reserve decrease Of $46l6OO0. The
banks now hold 1888, 600
There are indications that the President
is considering the claims of Louis T. Hag-
gin for the Austrian mission
General J. G. McClernand will he offered
the Governorship of Utah or the vacant
place on the Utah Commission.
Refined sugars from San Francisco are
being sold in Chicago at one-fourth of a
cent per pound less than prices for similar
New York grades.
A subcommittee of the House Ways and
Means Committee on Saturday considered;
the bill exempting from duty the spirits
used to fortify sweet wines.
Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, will to-day
introduce in the House a duplicate of the
Blair educational bill, and seek to have it
referred 10 a committee that he is en-
powered 10 select.
Representative Morrow and wife have
received nearly 100 kilograms from friends
in California expressing sympathy over
the loss of the little son whose death was
announced Friday.
Now that the Edmunds resolutions are
finally disposed of, the prevailing impress
sion among Senators of both parties is that
the pending nominations will be taken up
and disposed of rapidly.
Fourteen members of the New York
war a1 IN flo
eminent Committee on Friday for discip
line. owing to their alleged connection
with the Consolidated Oil Exchange.
4 dispatch to the New York san says
that Philadelphia managers and actors
generally oppose performances TO raise
money for a public monument to McCul-
Tough Some oppose monuments to any
actor, and others think the money better
applied in charity.
The type-setting contest which began in
Philadelphia on Tuesday, March 10Th,
closed Saturday night Duquid, of Cincin-
natl taking the first prize, and Mccain, of
New York second. Duquid Saturday cx-
ceeded all previous records. his net compo-
siton being 1875 ems in three hours.
Representative Cox. of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs thinks there viii be no
difficulty in passing the Morrow bill in a
modified form. He hopes the bill viii get
through the House without debate, and in
that case it could be brought up in the
morning hour and passed at once.
A Portland special says: An effort is qui-
city being made to introduce Chinese into
Maine to displace some 5000 10 5000 Maine
people The first proposition came from
the Secretary of an Association having its
headquarters in San Francisco. One firm
that employs 6,000 hands was offered that
number of Chinese laborers at 50 a week
and board.
The National Council of the National
Union League held its annual session in
Washington Friday. Officers for the en-
suing year were elected. as follows: Presi-
dent, c. II. Grosvenor Vice Presidents
William L. Chandler, Thomas II. Rich. J.
5. Negley, J. S. Robinson, l.. G. Houck, J.
T.. 'Hara, c. A. Boutelle, b. X Beiluce,
Nathan Golf and Lewis Mex enZie Core
spending Secretary, J. z. Bryant: Treas
uror, A. VI. Clapp; Chaplain, j Cooper
Marshal, J. ii. Bayne; Sergeant Alarms,
S. T. Demar
Jesse r. Grant says that he has dropped
the big railroad scheme in Turkey with
which his name has been connected The
idea of a railroad from Constantinople 10
the Persian Gulf, by way of the Euphrates
valley. originated with Senator Stanford.
but he gave the matter up on the death of
his son. The Senator had talked the mat
ter over at different times with General
Grant, and last year, after his fathers
death, Jesse Grant went abroad, having in
view an investigation of the scheme among
other projects. He became convinced that
the consent of the English Government
could not be obtained, and that, il oh
tanned, the enterprise would be blocked by
other Governments.