Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-16
BONE AND ABROAD.
CAUCUS OF REPUBLICAN SENA.
TORS IN WASHINGTON.
The Death Penalty-Losses by Fire
The Silver ProbIem-Weather
Foreign Affairs.
lsrEcAL DISPATCHES TO THE nEcoRDus1os.I
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Silver Question.

The Silver Question.
WASHINGTON, January I5th.-Ex- Con
| gresham Belford, of Colorado. said to-day
The symptoms that preceded the French
| revolution are to be seen now, and withir
| five years you'll see the greatest revolution
that ever occurred in the world. WHY
this man up here is running the Govern.
ment in the interest of the national banks
Andrew ia kson took them by the throat
and said Here, give the people a
| chancen Why, there isn't any more com.
paiison to be made between this man and
Jackson than there is between tallow din
| and the brilliance of the sun. This Gov.
eminent had better keep up its currency
| or there will be terrible revolutions. | am
convinced from what have learned TO-DAY
| that the Silver Coinage Act will not be re-
| pealed."
Mills, of Texas, will open the battle in
the House within ten days in favor of con-
tinuing silver coinage, The West and
South will combine against the confeder-
ated thieves of the East.
Caucus of Republican Senators.
WASHINGTON, January 15th.-The Repub-
llcan Senators met in caucus at 1890 this
morning and adjourned at 1:30 P NJ. Their
purpose was to compare views with regard
to the Presidents reasons for making re-
| movals from office. The fact was stated
that many of the inquiries addressed to the
heads of departments bv the Chairmen of
committees remain unanswered, but up to
this time there are no indications of plr-
pose to refuse to give this information No
formal proposition was made and no action
taken, while widely various opinions found
expression with regard to the propriety of
raising formal issue with the Admins
tration at present upon this question The
majority We're of the opinion that should
the information sought not ultimately be
forthcoming, the Republicans will, in JUS
tice 10 the men who have been suspended
or removed for supposed cause, be required
to take some formal action in the Senate TO
secure the Information or an avowal by the
President that he viii not give his reasons
for making removals There was unani-
nous concurrence in the opinion that the
removed officials have q right TO know
whether they were removed for political
reasons or maladministration of their
trusts, and that it is the Senator'S duty to
secure information if possible.
Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON, January I5th.-No busi-
ness of importance was transacted in the
House of Representatives to-day. The
Senate was not in session.
Towers Il Green, conducting small
banking business in this city, closed doors
to-day. They are not ready to make a state
ment of the condition of their affairs, but
say the failure is for small amount.
The House Committee on Rivers and
Harbors to-day resolved to limit the total
amount of appropriation for improving the
| rivers and harbors to $l1 100000.
Among the callers on the President to-
day, was Jesse D. Carr, President of the
Agricultural Society of California.
The Consul Of the United State at Santi-
| ago de Cuba reports to the Department of
State the existence of large quantities of
guano on the south coast of the island of
Cuba The gtIano is deposited in caves, one
Of which was visited by the Consul, and is
estimated TO contain from 5000 to 10000
tons.
James II. Shysand, of Oakland, Cali
iornia, has been admitted to practice before
the Interior Department.
More Victims of the Blizzard.
DENVER (Col.), January l5th.-A report
reached this evening from Benkelman,
Neb., that two settlers, Fohr and Burns,
who left there a week ago Monday on a
hunting trip on the Arrickeree and Middle
Fork of the Republican, We're found frozen
to death eight miles from town. Both had
evidently attempted to return home after
the blizzard came up, but became lost in
the binding snow Fohr had stuck the
muzzle Of his gun in the ground, laid down
near it and died. Burns managed to get
200 yards further on before being overcome.
Both were under large drifts of snow, and
would not have been found but for the
gunstock sticking out of the snow. A
teamster and herder were found frozen near
the same place yesterday and taken to
| town. Akron, on the eastern line of Colo
RADIO, reports several persons frozen to
death in the same storm. They are sup
| posed to have been homesteaders, living a
great ways apart. They settled on the land
last fall, and were wholly unprepared for
the severe weather. Some of the bodies
when found, showed that they had been
| attempting to reach the neighboring ranch
when overcome. Never in the history oil
| the West has so many persons perished
| from cold as III this storm.
! Topeka (Ks.) January 15th.-Reports
were received here to-day of the finding OF
the bodies of three more men in the south
western portion of the State, victims of the
! recent storm. This makes twenty-fou1
bodies in all that have been found.
Hanged for Murder.
ST. LOUIS, January 15th.-Chas. Wilson
| colored, was hanged this morning for thu
murder OF a river steamer mate some time
ago. He remained calm to the last. pro
testing his innocence. Wilson killed VIM
A. David, second mate of the steamer Fan
ME Twatum on July 81, 1885, by hittins
him on the head with rock. Wilson haS
been discharged and ordered away from tn,
steamer, returning to get some money ht