Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-02-03
NEWS.
More Congressional Halk About AD-
pOintmentS and Removals.
ANOTHER WONDER IN MODERN
TELEGRAPHY.
Reasonable Designs Discovered in Guate-
rnala and Frustrated.
THE LAST ON EARTH or MRS. SECRETARY
BAYARD.
Surveyor General Dement, Makes q
Wholesale Denial.
ANOTHER FATAL SNOWSLlDE
IN COLORADO.
Surveyor General Dement, Makes O
Wholesale Denial.
ANOTHER FATAL SNOWSLlDE
IN COLORADO.
ESPECIAL TO THE s~ENTINEi.]
DsnoooAfn~a-


WASHINGTON, Feb. Observation-Disclosures
berger offered tho following resolution:
Resolved, That 10 is the sense Of the
Senate that the Executive OF the United
States IL not restricted by constitutional
law In removing or suspending arpoinfeesi
that the Senate has no right to require
that reasons shall BIO given for such re-
movals or suspensions; that 1t Is the right
OF the Senate 20 call for any relating to
the conduct OF the removed or suspended
appointeos, or to the qualification or Ut
ness of all persons whose names are pre-
sented to the Senate for confirmation or
rejection, and it Is the duty of the Ex
~eoutive to comply with all demands for
the same.
In offering the resolution, Riddleberger
said his purpose was simply to bring the
subject up in open debate. II did not in
volve any so-called high %perogativoe OF tho
Senate when it should go into secret or OK
ecu.ivo session, but only thai the abstract
question as to whether the Executive
could DO called on or required to give
reasons for removals. Riddlebergef asked
for the immediate consideration OF the
resolution. Oockrell objected. Pugh
said he would submit either to-day or to-
morrow o substitute for Riddlebergers
resolution. The matter then went over.
Stanford offered q concurrent resolu'
ton, which was agreed to, providing for
an investigation by the Commissioners on
| Public Buildings OF both Houses OF Con-
| gress into the charges made in 1853, and
| now being renewed against the official
conduct OF Samuel Strong, during his
superintendency OF public buildings.
$500 erD "a unYQh Iu Rnnnrta6
from committees was q joint resolution by
Blair, from the Committee on Woman
| Suffrage, providing for q constitutional
amendment, extending the right of suf-
frage to women. Cockrell stated that this
report was not the unanimous judgment
Of the committee. and that o minority
reserved the right to present q written re-
| port in opposition to the measure.
House-Immediatcly after reading the
Journal, Holman offered the following:
Resolved, That the House has received
| with profound SORROW the intelligence Of
The death OF Thomas A. Hendricks, late
| Vice President OF the United States.
Resolved, That the business Of the
House be suspended in order that the en-
inent services and private virtues OF the
deceased may be appropriately oommemo-
rated.
Resolved, That the Clerk of the House
DO directed to communicate these resolu-
| tons to the Senate.
Bynum, who represents the District
which formerly returned Hendricks to tho
| House Of Representatives, was the first
speaker TO bear testimony to the worth Of
the doad statesman.
A New Wonder I'm TeleEraphy.
New BRIGHroN. Staten Island, N. Y,
Feb. 3.-The Railway Telegraph and Tele-
phone Company gavo ON exhibition on the
Staten Island railway this afternoon OF
she now method Of sending and receiving
Geographic messages on q railway train
under full Roadway. Among those on the
train wore Governor Leland Stanford, OF
California. Vice President Sykes. OF the
Chicago and Northwestern railroad, David
Bows, Vice President OF tho Rock Island
railroad. Stuyvesant Fish. Vice President
of the Illinois Central, and Thomas A.
Edison. The battery was in one Of the
passenger cars, With q ground wire con.
neoting with the axle Of the wheel and
truck. The other wire connected with
the tin roof of the car. The car roofs
wore connected by an insulated wire. The
| COituluu oIoCtkaO hlh6nOtS W.T. hCu ny tAt
Morse key. was used from the car roofs,
The messages we're transmitted by in.
duction to permanent wires on the poles
along the line of the railroad o distance OF
Is to 80 feet. The messages were sent 10
and from New York and other points with
perfect facility while the train wa running
at 80 miles an hour. Mr.. Edison said the
new wonder In selegraphy would be intro.
duced at once on the Illinois Central rail-
road.
Fatal Accident Through Negligence
SrAUSToS. Va. Feb. "A disastrous
collision occurred on the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad hore at 1 O'Clock
this morning. The night express ran into
plotely wrecked both trains. Fireman
Cuttings, OF Richmond. was killed. his
body being terribly scalded and mutt.
lated. z. Loury, the engineer, had his
throat cut and his arm scalded. His con-
dltion IL dangerous. Charles Smaits, en-.
gineer OF the freight train, had his back
badly sprained and his body bruised. The
only passenger hurt was DR.. Lafforty, of
Richmond. who was standing in a sleeping
car and was knocked down and bruised,
but no n seriously. The accident was
caused by criminal negligence. The
freight train was on a side track. waiting
tho arrival of the express. The conductor
told Brakeman Samuel Vie that when She
express passed he should turn the switch.
Vie won't to sleep and was aroused by the
passing freight train. He changed the
switch just a. the express came In sight,
and before the fatal errcT was discovered
the train dashed on the siding and the en-.
gines locked, the two boilers being jammed
together.
TreasOnablo Designs Frustrated.
PANAMA. Feb. "A most diabolieal plot
to overthrow the Government has boon
discovered in Guatemala. 1t was a scheme
TO set fro to the Grand Hotel and Theater
at q given time, when there might DO OK.
pected TO DO q full house. In the panic
which would certainly ensue tho intention
iof conspirators was to take possession Of