Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-02
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
The National D.i,t.

| DOMESTIC NEWS.
The National Debt.
WASHINGTON, July lst-Following is a
retapituiation of the debt statement TO-
day; Understanding department, priBci-
! pal and interest, 81, ,2S3. .49S .126: debt on
which interest has ceased since maturity.
| principal and interest. $992S, ,465; debt
bearing no interest, 1886, 103, 14S total debtr
principal, 81. .756, ,445.2o5; interest, sl3,0S4,-
535 total, 81, ,169, ,52s, 740; total debt, less
available cash items, 81, ,464, ,327, ,49S cash
| i'll treasury, S75, l9l ,169,; debt less cash in
! treasury July l, 1886, 81. .3Sa, / &c. .3S4; de-
crease OF debt during the month, 50 O61 .S97;
| total cash IN treasury available for reduc-
ton OF debt, $2O5, ,702, ,247; reserve fund,
| total, S292o2, ,495 net cash balance on
hand S75, l91, l09; total cash in treasury.
| as shown by Treasurers general account,
| Sl92,9 ,l7l; net increase in cash, 81, ,510,-
| 871.
| A Financial Emergency.
WASHINGTON, July 1st-Assistant Secre-
tary Falrchild this morning prepared cir
| cular calling the attention of Government
employees to the failure of Congress to pro-
vide for their compensation after June 50th
and notifying them that their continuance
at work after that date must be at their
own risk, subject to the future action of
| Congress. The matter was considered at
The Cabinet meeting to-day, and it was de-
| clded to defer issuance of the circular until
tomorrow in anticipation of the passage
| by Congress to-day of the joint resolution
extending the appropriations of the last
| fiscal year. 1oumans, Chief Clerk of the
| Treasury has prepared a telegram for all
the custodians of public buildings, about
one hundred and thirty in number, as fol-
lows: No appropriations. Cannot direct
Purchase at last years prices, subject to the
appropriations by Congress-" These tele-
grams will not be sent unless Congress fails
to make the necessary provisions to-day.
| Pacific Coast Mail-Carrying.
| WASHINGTON, July 1st.-Second Assist
ant Postmaster General Knott has issued a
request for proposals for carrying the mails
! on Pacific coast steamboat routes as fol-
| lows From Portland to Astoria, Or, 120
| miles; San Francisco to Sacramento, Cal,
III miles San Francisco to Stockton, Cal,
125 miles. Contracts will be made for
three and one-half years from January /,
! 1887. Bids Will be received until Septem-
| Der 1S 1856.
The Presidential appointing Power.
| WASHINGTON, July 1st.-A reporter of
the Associated Press called upon Senator
| Edmunds to-day, and asked him for an
explanation OF his bill, introduced yester-
day, relating to the Presidential appointing
power, and of the results which were to be
| expected TO follow its enactment into a
law. Mr.. Edmunds said that the influence
| of the Executive over the Senate and Sena-
tors. on account of the possession of vast
| patronage, was so great that the President
practically now had the power of appoint
ment to all those offices which are not
among the exceptions named in the bill,
| and it was only in extreme instances of the
| discovery of bad conduct and bad charac-
| ter. such that if they had come to the
| knowledge of any honest President him
self he would have refused to make the
i appointment, that the Senate rejected the
! nomination. Therefore, Edmunds thought
| that il was an object of public interest to
diminish the extent and power of the
| Presidential patronage, as connected with
its influence on the two houses of Congress
and particularly the Senate
| Land Entries Cancelled for Fraud.
| WASHINGTON, July 1st.-Commissioner
Sparks has cancelled for fraud, during June,
| l53 entries and filings, and held for cancela-
ton 12T entries, embracing in all about 40-
| 600 acres of land. He has also recon-
mended criminal proceedings against
thirty-two persons for timber trespass and
| fifteen civil suits to recover $145, ,000-the
value of the timber taken by them.
| Approved by the President.
| WASHINGTON. July 1st-The President
has approved the joint resolution extend
| ing the appropriations for fifteen days.
| Acts Approved by the President.
| WASHINGTON, July 1st-The President
has approved the Act 10 reduce the fee on
domestic money orders for sums not ex-
ceeding IS; the Act making allowances for
clerk hire to Postmasters of the first and
| second class postoffices; the military agri-
cultural, postofiice and army appropriation
| bills; the Act granting leave of absence to
| employees in the Government Printing Of
| flee; Acts providing for the completion of
public buildings at FL Paso (Texas(, Han
nibal (Mo.), Savannah (Ga.), Peoria Ill.)
and Des Moines tIowa); the Act for the
sale of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and
| Gulf Railroad the Act authorizing the
Cheyenne and Northern Railway Company
| to build road across the Fort Russell and
| Fort Laramie Reservation; the Act pro-
viding for additional barracks at the south
ern, northwestern and western branches of
the National Home for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers, and the Act for the relief of Of
ficers and crew of the lighthouse tender
Lilly.
United States Senate.
| WASHINGTON, July 1st.-Allison called
up the House joint resolution extending
| the appropriations for ten days.
| After discussion, the resolution was
amended by extending the time to fifteen
days, and it was then passed.
| The Senate resumed consideration of the
| legislative appropriation bill.
| All the amendments on which separate
votes were not demanded were agreed to in
bulk, and the reserved amendments are to
| be voted on tomorrow, under the five
| minute debate rule.
Adjourned.
House of Representatives.
! WASHINGTON, July 1st.-The Speaker
| laid before the House a message from the
| Senate, announcing that that body had
passed over the Presidents veto the bill to
| quiet the title of settlers on the Des Moines
river lands.
Oates moved to refer the bill and message
| to the Committee ON Judiciary. Lost-ayes
| 101, noes 149-and the Speaker announced
that the question referred on the passage of
the bill, notwithstanding the objections of
the President.
The House resolved this question in the
| negative by ayes 161, noes 91-not consti-
| tutional two-thirds vote in the affirmative.
The House then went into Committee Of
the Whole on the sundry civil appropria-
ton bill
After lengthy debate of a political ma
ture, the committee rose and reported the
bill TO the House.
The amendments were agreed to in bulk,
except those relating to the issue of small
| greeDbacks and small silver certificates,
| which were agreed to without division, and
the Bartholdi statue amendment, which
was rejected-ayes 105, noes 106.
| The bill was then passed. and the House
adjourned.
Miscellaneous Washington Items.
WASHINGTON, July 1st-The President
| to-day nominated John G Shields. of Mich
| igan, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme
| Court of Arizona