Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-24

Oihteu states Senate.
| WAsHIEGToN, March 23d-The Chair
lald before the Senate a number of House
| bills, among them the bill granting a pen
! sion o. $1,000 year to the widow of SEN
eral Hancock. On motion the bill was at
| once passed.
ingalls, resolution of inqairy offered
! Yesterday, was agreed 10, asking whether
the Postmaster-General had received the
| Senate resolution calling for information
| as 10 fourih-class PostmasterS removed
| under the present Administration.
The Chair laid before the Senate Logan's
bill TO promote the efficiency of the army.
Manderson spoke in favor of the section
increasing the force TO 1000 enlisted men.
he read from the testimony given and the
letters written by Generals Schofield, Pope
and others, 10 show the inadequacv of the
present force.
The unfinished business, being the Judi
ciary Committees resolutions was then
taken up, and jackson addressed the Senate
in opposition to them.
AT 1:50 the pending order was laid aside.
and, on motion of Van Wyck, the Senate
took up and passed the bill to confirm the
entries heretofore made on public lands in
accordance with the rulings of the Land
made.
At , o'clock the Judiciary Committee
resolutions were again placed before the
Senate, and Jackson resumed his speech in
opposition TO the majority report.
Alter debate the Senate adjourned.
House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, March 23d.-Reagan. from
the Committee on Commerce. reported back
the Senate bill to establish a national live
stock highway and promote the commerce
| IN live stock between the States. House
calendar
In the morning hour the House passed
the Fourth of July claims bill. The amount
involved is S23S, 200. A number of bills
We're introduced.
At the expiration of the morning hour
the House went into Committee of the
Whole on the Indian appropriation bill.
After debate the committee rose and.
Burnes of Missouri submitted the confer
ence report on the urgent deficiency bill,
| and II was agreed to.
Adjourned.
Chinese Restriction in the Cabinet
WASHINGTON, March 23d-To-day's ses-
sion OF the Cabinet was devoted to the con-
slderatlon of measures designed to secure
more rigid enforcement of the Chinese
restriction law, particularly with reference
to preventing the landing of Chinese labor
ers on fraudulent certificates. 1t was rep
resented that trouble constantly arises in
cases where Immigrants claim to have lost
or mislaid their certificates, and bring wit
neSses to prove that they were in this coun-
try at the time Of the passage of the Act,
and We're actually provided with the GER
tlficate prescribed by law, which entitled
such persons to return TO the United States
after visit 10 China.
Not Candidate.
reported that Senator Stanford was tired of
official life, and would seek retirement if
he were assured that his successor would
be Republican. 1t has since been re-
ported that Stanford has made up his mind
to resign in the event that the next Lecisa-
ture IS Republican. A correspondent asked
Senator Stanford whether he contemplated
reslgning as soon as he was assured that
his successor would be Republican. He
| replied that he did not care to say ANYTHING
! on the subject; He said that he did not
often correct misstatements in the press
about himself, but he would like 10 deny
| certain rumors that had got into print
about him. am not a candidate for the
Presidency" he said emphatically, " and |
| wish you would publish denial of all the
statements and rumors to that effect |
am not doing anything TO promote my
nomination, nor are any of nv friends
doing so with my consent and knowledge.
presume there is no man in the country
who would refuse a nomination if it was
offered to him, but l am not seeking or
working for it."
Mrs. Hearst Notified of Her Husbands
Appointments.
WASHINGTON, March 23d-Mrs. George
w. Hearst tonight received dispatch
from Governor Stoneman informing her of
the appointment of her husband to sue
ceed the late Senator Miller to-day. Con
siderable excitement was created by the
receipt by Representative FELTON, of a dis
patch from the City of Mexico, signed by
one Vergus, asking information as to the
address OF Mrs. Hearst and son. As Mr..
Hearst was known to be in Mexico, ii was
feared some accident had befallen him,
bat when inquiry was made of Mrs Hearst
by your correspondent she had inst re-
ceived the dispatch from Governor Stone
men indicated above, and was in state of
great happiness. She said that telegrams
dispatched the day before yesterday found
Mr.. Hearst in the City of Mexico, and
though she had 10 definite knowledge of
his immediate whereabouts, she expected
him in Washington shortly.
Collector Barnett.
WASHINGTON, March 23d-Representa
Senate Finance Committee, and made a
statement as to the efficiency of Barnett,
nominated to be Collector of Internal
Revenue. He said that the office had
never before been so economically man
aged and that there was no good ground
to oppose his confirmation. The commit
tee has not yet reached Il decision in the
case.
Secretary Manning Meets With an Ao-
cident.
WASHINGTON, March 23d.--Rumors have
been afioat all the afternoon of the serious
illness of Secretary Manning. They grew
out of the fact that the Secretary had been
taken home from the Treasury Office in his
carriage and was carried from his office to
the carriage, being unable to walk. Upon
inquiry at the Secretary's residence it was
stated that he had simply met with a pain
ful accident while returning to his office
from meeting of the Cabinet. He had
walked over from the White House, and
without waiting for the elevator to take
him to his room on the second floor,
walked up two flights of stairs. On reach
ing the upper landing his foot suddenly
turned under him, and seriously wrenched
his ankle. He limped into his room with
out calling for assistance Shortly after
ward DIR. Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital
OcfNiCe. ldp dpptli'nB 10 De III the DuliQing on
business. attended to the injured limb, and
the Secretary was then taken home in his
carriage. When he reached home Dr. Lin
coin, the Secretary's family physician, was
summoned to attend him.
STATEMENT OF THE sEcRETARY's PHYSICIAN.
WASHINGTON, March 23d-Dr. Lincoln,
who attended Secretary Manning at his
home, gave the following statement to an
Associated Press reporter: The Secretary
was seized with vertigo on his return to his
Office from the Cabinet meeting. He had
been working all day without taking any
nourishment, and was feeling very weak.
He walked up two flights Of stairs, and on
reaching the top was attacked with vertigo,
and partly fell and partly sat down. His
sudden illness alarmed his friends, and he
was taken home. His mind was perfectly
clear, and he had free Use of all his limbs,
and gave very clear account of every
thing that occurred. Two or three hours
after his attack he had improved very
much.
Is THE CASE SERIOUS?
WASHINGTON, March 23d.-At midnight
DIR. Lincoln, who had Just lett the Secre-
tary's bedside, said that Manning was hold
ing his own, and had slightly improved
since his last visit The Secretary's mind
was still clear, and he did not anticipate
| that thpre yyould no a chanoa for tho tyorea