Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-20

of certain States of the Union to be sold or
used by such States for educational pur-
poses.
The Senate then took up the oleomarga-
rine bill, and Mr.. Vance proceeded to argue
against it. Mr.. Butler offered an amend
ment extending the principles of the bill
to wines and liquors. Mr.. Gray addressed
the Senate in opposition to the bill.
Mr.. Harris opposed the bill. Mr. But
ler's amendment was laid on the table
yeas 80, nays 16 Mr.. Van Wyck advocated
passage of the bill. The question here, he
said, was whether one honest industry
should be protected against the fraud of
another. The question was then taken on
Mr.. Harris amendment and it was rejected,
yeas Is. nays 80. Mr.. Beck said the bill
was protection run mad. Congress might
as well undertake to protect the breed of
horses by lesislating against the raising of
mules, or against the competition of nat
ural gas. After long debate the Senate
adjourned.
House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, July 19th.-Immediately
after the reading of the journal the House
resumed consideration of the fortifcation
appropriation bill, the pending amend
ment being that offered by Randall of
Pennsylvania reducing from $500,000 to
100000 the appropriation for armament for
sea coast defenses. Randall withdrew the
amendment and offered another, which
was adopted by unanimous consent, pro-
viding that guns, projectiles, etc, pur-
chased shall be of American manufacture.
The bill was then passed.
The next business was the consideration
of Senate concurrent resolution for printing
26, 600 copies of the third annual report of
the Civil Service Commission. Agreed to.
Cobb of Indiana, from the conference
committee on the bill repeating the pre-
emption, timber culture and desert land
laws, reported a complete disagreement
Payson ran over the points of difference
between the two houses and was severe in
his condemnation of the Senate amend
ment which provides that after final proof
of complaint (under the homestead pre-
emption laws and the issuing of a dupli-
cate Receivers certificate, if it shall
be proved to the satisfaction of the Com
missioner that fraud has entered to the
title so acqu red by the claimant, unless
it shall appear that the land had been sold
or conveyed to bona fide purchaser for q
valuable consideration, the Commissioner
shall suspend the issuing of n patent for
the same. This provision he regarded as
an incentive to fraud, as it required the
Commissioner to issue patent if the land
had been sold to bona fide purchaser,
even though the original title had been
| acquired by fraud. He hoped the House
! would, by unanimous vote, insist upon its
| disagreement to this amendment.
Clifford of Dakota charged tLat in the
| management of the Land Bureau there was
an abs nee of any discrimination between
| the cases of honest and dishonest settlers,
| and aSser' ed that it was the purpose of the
Sapafa ta rI1f on an1 70 I tioa
| ton.
Laird of Nebraska, in approving the
| provision of the Senate amendment, denied
| the charges made by the Land Bureau that
| immense frauds existed in the West in re-
| lation to the entry of public lands, and he
| stated that in Arkansas there were double
the number of frauds existing that were
| chargable against Nebraska, and in Louis
lana double number Carey of Wyom-
| ing favored so much of the amendment as
amended instead of repealed the desert
| land bill. The repeal of that law would
| postpone the settlement and reclamation OF
| the arid section of the country for long
| time, and would place the land under the
control of the cattlemen, who would like
| to see every land law repealed in order that
| they might have an open, free, unfenced
| country.
Perkins moved that the House recede
| from its disagreement to the Senate amend
ment Lost-20 to 49, The House then
insisted upon its disagreement, and further
| conference was ordered.
Morrison OF Illinois offered q concurrent
report for the final adjournment of Con-
gress at o'clock on July 2Sth. Referred
to the Committee ON Ways and Means.
The House then took q recess until
o'clock.
= Gift from Mrs. Stanford.
WASHINGTON, July 19ih-Mrs Stanford
has given to church fair, to be held at San
Diego. Cal. next September, large doll
baby dressed to represent Martha Washing
ton. The doll is to be surrounded by a
number of other dolls contributed by vari-
GUS persons abroad, and each doll will re-
present in miniature either an historical
parsonage or the national dress of some
country. Mrs Stanford has also collected
many photographs of prominent persons,
with their autographs including those of
the President and Mrs. Cleveland, which
she will also present to the fair.
Washington Notes.
WASHINGTON, July 19th.-The President,
accompanied by Secretaries Bayard and
Whitney and Secretary Lamont, will leave
Washington for Albany, where they will
spend Tuesday as the guests of Governor
Hill.
The fortification appropriation bill, which
appropriates $500, 900 for the armament and
repair of sea-coast Notifications, passed the
House to-day.
Challe I. Davis, an agent of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, is on his way 10 Cali
fornia
Speaker Carlisle is quoted as saying that
the amount asked for in the San Francisco
Postoffice bill is too large to permit it to be
passed at this session.
1t is believed that the appropriation of
$75, 600 for a Federal building in Los An
geles will get through this session.
The principal California items in the
river and harbor bill are S75, 900 for Will
mington harbor, 100000 for Humboldt
Bay and $4,000 for Oakland barbor.
Senator Stanford says he intends to start
for California as soon as the sweet wine bill
has been passed.
Presidential Speculation.
New YORK, July 19th.-1he Commercial
AdUe'tiser's Washington special says: The
most noteworthy event of the year within
the field of what may be called personal
politics is beyond doubt the decline, not to
say downfall, of Senator Edmunds. 1t is
one Of the leading themes of conversation
here nowadays. There has been no start
ling or sudden descent in his case, but the
gradual diminution of his influence and
popularity is very apparent to any one who
looks back over his record of the past six
months. There are many here who
shrewdly suspect that Sherman may be the
coming man, especially if the Blaine boom
should receive a back during the next
two years. Edmunds having lost much
ground. and Logan having seriously dam
aged himself by his manifestations of jeal-
ousy of Blaine, his course in reference 10
the Payne case and various other mistakes
Sherman comes to the front again as the
man who not only has fine record for
craftsmanship and patriotism, but also has
had the luck to offend nobody of late, Just
because his position as President of the
Senate has kept HIM ont of mischief. This
question. which Edmunds and Logan did
not want, because they thought it would
be disadvantageous to their prospects as a
Presidential candidate, bids fair TO prove
to have been a decided advantage to Sher-
man.
A Brave Officer.
New YoRK, July 19th.-A fire broke out
between l and 2 O'Clock this morning in
the stationery store Of Grasa Wolf, East
Sixteenth street. which is four-story ten
ement house tenanted by eight families.
numbering about seventy people. The oc-
cupants Of the third and fourth floors, who
had been awakened by the smoke ascend
ing through the building, escaped by run
ming to the roof and going on to adjoining
! buildings. Mrs. Mohr, her husband and