Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-19
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
CONDEMNATORY RESOLUTIONS ON
GARLAND.
The California Marshalship-Con
gressionaI Proceedings-The Fitz
John Porter Bill Passed.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE srcosD-usIosl
United States Senate.

WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 18TH Among
the petitions presented in the Senate and
appropriately reported was one by Hoar
from "citizens of the United States -citi-
zens whose names, Hoar said, seem to indi-
cate that they were foreign born-praying
for the submission by Congress to the sew
eral States of a constitutional amendment
abolishing the Presidency.
On motion of Maxey, a bill was passed
10 grant the right of way for railroads and
! telegraph lines through the lands of the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations to the st.
Louis and San Francisco Railroad Com
pany.
The education bill was then taken up.
| Plumb offered an amendment TO il, pro-
viding as 10 Territories, that not the Seere-
tary of the Interior but the Legislatures of
the several Territories shall have the ad-
ministration of the money Agreed to-
A discussion followed on the bill itself,
and without final action the Senate went
into executive session, and soon after adj
journed.
House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, February 1Sth.-Crisp. from
the Committee on Pacific Railroads, report
ed the bill amending the Pacific Railroads
Acts, so as to compel the railroads to pay to
| the United States the amounts paid out by
| ii for surveying lands to which they are
entitled. House calendar.
| In the morning hour the House resumed
consideration of the bill FORGETTING the At
lantic and Pacific Railroad land grants 81
| The bill was discussed without any result
being reached until the expiration OF the
morning hour, and then the House went
| into Committee of the Whole springer of
| Illinois in the chair on the Fitz John Por-
| ter bill
After a somewhat extended and heated
debate the bill passed-ayes III, noes 113.
| The House then adjourned.
The California MAJ shalship Again.
WASHINGTON, February 1Sth.-When the
nomination of o. S. Marshalship for Cali
| fornia was sent in to the Senate last week.
the name given was )" Christopher Franks"
Since then the President has ascertained
| that Mr.. Franks Christian name was not
Christopher, and to-day he sent in a cor
rected nomination, the name being John
| Cristian Franks. An effort is being made
TO have an exception made in the case of
Marshal Franks, and not have his nomina-
ton buried with the others under the oper-
alton of the decision of the Republican
caucus. Senator Edmunds has already
been seen in this regard, and another in
tcrview on the subject will be had with
| him tomorrow.
| "A ctiiioh Ouc
Feet Long.
| WASHINGTON, February 1Sth.-Repre-
sentative FELTON, has received petition,
signed by 5000 citizens of the Fifth Cali
! fornia District, urging the abrogation of the
Burlingame treaty and all other treaties ad-
hitting Chinese into this country The pc
tition is l36 feet long, and when presented
| in the house tomorrow it will probably
cause a sensation.
| The Senate judiciary Committee and At
torney-General Garland.
WASHINGTON, February 1Sth.-Senator
Edmunds to-day reported the following
resolutions from the Senate Committee on
Judiciary, accompanied by long report :
| Resolred That the Senate hereby expresses its
condemnation of the refusal of the Attorney
| General, acting under whatever influence to
send to the Senate copies of papers called for by
| its reso4 ution of the 25th of January and set
| forth in reports of the Committee on Judiciary
as in violation of his official duties and subver-
| sive OF the fundamental principles of the Gov
| eminent and of the good administration thereof
| Resotrcd, That it j.. under these circum-
stances, the duty of the Senate to refuse its ad-
vice and consent to the proposed removal of
acknowledgements and papers iii reference to
the supposed official or personal misconduct of
whom are withheld by the Executive or any
| head of the Department, when deemed neces-
sary by the Senate and called for in considering
| the matter.
Resotred, That the provisions of Section 1904
| of the Revised Statutes. declaring - That per-
sons honorably discharged from the military
| and naval service, by reason OF disability re-
| sulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the
| line of duty, shall be preferred for appoint
ments to civil Offices; provided that they are
found to possess the business capacity necessary
| for proper discharge of the duties of such Of
| iice,' ought TO be lawfully put into execution,
| and that to remove, or propose to remove, any
| such soldier whose faithfulness, competency
| and character above rpprOaph and In piy
place to another who has not rendered such
| services is in violation of the spirit of the law
and of the practical, gratitude the people and
| the Government of the United States owe TO the
defenders of constitutional liberty and integrity
of the Government. All of which is respect
| fully submitted
| (Signed) GEORGE F. EDMuSDs, JOIN J. INGALLS,,
| s. j. r. MCMILLAN, GEORGE +. HoAR, JAMES f.
WILSON, WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs.
| The Fitz John Porter Bill.
WASHINGTON, February 1Sth.-The Fitz
John Porter bill passed the House this af-
ternoon by vote of III to 113. This re-
suit was expected, and it is hardly possible
| that the speeches that have been made
| during the past week have influenced a
dozen votes. The vote was not drawn upon
party lines, though there was only one
| Democrat who is recorded in the negative
while 16 Republicans voted in favor of the
bill.
/
WASHINGTON, February 1Sth-The Sen
ate, in Executive session, to-day confirmed
the following nominations Lewis L. Nc
Arthur, of Oregon, to be Attorney of the
United States for the District of Oregon
Postmasters-F. 2. Thompson, Eureka
Cal; Frank NJ. Jackson, Los Gatos, Cal
Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON, February h.-The Presi-
dent sent the following nomination to the
Senate to-day: John Christian Franks, OF
California, to be United States Marshal fol
California.
The action of the Assistant Treasurer al
New York, in refusing 10 accept deposits OF
silver until he is able to count them, is in
strict accordance with instructions issued
by the United States Treasurer.
Senator Jones of Nevada, who has been
accused of favoring the confirmation OF
Collector Chase of Maine, and Pillsbury OF
Massachusetts,, and who held the balance
of power in regard to these nominations in
the Senate Finance Committee, has re-
ported them adversely to the Senate, and
they will be rejected.
A petition will be presented to the Senate
tomorrow by Stanford, signed by Mayor
| Bartlett, George Wilson, Stuart NJ. TAYLOR
Postmaster Backus and others at San Fran
cisco, PRAYING that Maurice Connell, of the
Signal Office, be placed on the retired list
of the army, with the rank of Second
Lieutenant, for services in the Greedy expe-
dition.