Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-25
home AND ABROAD.
ANOTHER DRUNKEN REPRESENT
ATlVE TO MEXICO.
An Offensive Republican-The Dead
ly Blizzard-Matters and Things
in EurOpe-Reed's Robberies.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-uN1oNl
DOMESTIC NEWS.
President Cleveland Explains His Indian
Policy.

DOMESTIC NEWS.
President Cleveland Explains His Indian
Policy.
WASHINGTON, November 24th.-Ip a re-
cent interview with the wife of Huidah II.
Bonnell, of Philadelphia, who for sixteen
years has been devoting her time to the
advancement of the Indians at Quapaw
Agency, President Cleveland outlined his
Indian policy as follows: - 1t is the wish
of the Administration that policy should
prevail which shall, as rapidly as is safe,
make the Indians citizens, with homes in
severalty, but we must not go too fast in
this. We are perplexed by the fact that
friends of the Indians do not agree on this
vital question. | said to one committee
who called upon me that if the reserva-
tons were opened to settlement the worst,
and not the best, class of people would rush
in. One of them replied that was true, yetif
all the Indians could not survive such
state of things some could, and remnant
would be saved. ! want honest and etii-
cient agents in the Indian service, but
when | remove corrupt agent a commit
tee comes down upon me with protest
against it, and denounces me. If l could
get good agents for all the Indians-men
of ability, honesty, and an earnest desire to
do right by the Indians, and advance them
as rapidly as possible in Christian civiliza-
ton, should have no fear of success. But
how am | to procure such men? The
friends of the Indians do not help me in
this matter. wish they would. The pay
of the Indian Agent is so small that men
who are qualified for the place must go
into the work in a spirit of sacrifice, if they
do at al"
of "a War-Sltins
WASHINGTON, November 24th.- About
three dozen gentlemen assembled in the
office of the Secretary of the. Navy to-day
to witness the opening of proposals for the
construction of three new cruisers and two
gunboats. The award will not be made
for some days. Speaking upon the bid
ding, Secretary Whitney said: 81 am
well satisfied, except with reference to
cruiser No. 1. No bid has been received
within the limit fixed by Congress for the
outside cost of the boat. The only solici-
tude | have ever had with reference to the
bidding, arose from the fact that the condi-
tions which were imposed upon the bid
ders in the way of producing the horse
power, upon which the speed of the ships
depended, is much more exacting than ever
has been called for before. | feared that
the limits fixed by Congress for the cost of
the ships would be exceeded in the three
large cruisers and No. l gunboat. We
shall, however be able to let all but the
four-thousand-ton ship to responsible par
ties within the limits fixed.'
How Party Records are Made.
WASHINGTON, November 24th.-The gross
amount of estimates for the different navy
yards and stations, as shown by the annual
report of Rear-Admiral Harmony, is ST.
10 ~. t1.1 Ill
Improvements, S., $50; general main
tenance. S479, $50; repairs and preservation,
81. .240073; Naval Asylum, $S7 7,611; civil
establishment, SIS, ,504. The report treats
at length of the rapid deterioration of
buildings and docks from the lack of ap-
propriations sufficient to maintain them.
The advisability OF providing dry docks in
comparatively remote places that are fire.
quented by merchant shipping is sug-
gested, and it is said that these docks could
be used by the navy in conjunction with
the merchant marine.
Blackmailing Rebuked.
a WASHINGTON, November 24th.-The Dis
trict Commissioners this afternoon an
nuunCed their decision in the matter of the
Washington police investigation. Major
Walker, the Chief of Police, is allowed to
resign, Lieutenant Arnold is dismissed.
Lieutenant Kelly is reprimanded and sus-
pended for three months, without pay,
Sergeant Diggins is reprimanded and re-
duced to the ranks for three months and
Private Edelin is dismissed.
They Also Denied the Sedgwick Story.
WASHINGTON, November 24th.-At the
State Department nothing is known beyond
what has appeared in the newspapers with
regard to reports from the City of Mexico,
oh t,-itb h
discretion. Not much importance is at
tached to the reports, which are believed
to be highly exaggerated. The Department
authorizes denial of the statement that
Mr.. Manning has sent a cable dispatch in
reference to the alleged scandal.
Drew Their Salaries All the Same.
WASHINGTON, November 24th.-In his
annual report to the Secretary of the Navy,
Cnief Engineer Charles H. I4oring, Chief of
the Eu eau of Steam Engineering sIys that
during the year his bureau has prepared
three designs.
booming Real Estate.
New YoRK, November 24'h.-Washing-
ton has Of late been surprised at the high
prices reported to have been paid for real
estate. The Triblmes correspondent says
that these figures are fictitious and are de-
signed to deceive new investors. A West
ern Congressman bought q house for S13-
000 but had the price recorded as S24 900.
This is only one instance of many in which
fictitious prices have been used to boom
property. One of the shrewdest dealers in
the district SAYS " 1t is an excellent time
to sell and a very bad one to buy"
Wholesale Wheat Stealing.
BUFFALO, November 2Ith-The CONNER
cidl in its last edition prints a sensational
story in which it alleges that conspiracy
to steal grain from one or more elevators
in the city has been discovered. 1t says
the parties to the conspiracy, or conspir-
acies, whichever it may prove to have
been, are Henry z. Emslie, connected in
an executive capacity with the Richmond
Elevator, and John A. Campbell, John
Kennedy and Andrew A. Egother, mem
bers of the Merchants Exchange in good
standing. The paper further alleges that
Emslie entered intoa conspiracy with these
persons, either individually or collectively
by which grain was to be stolen from the
Richmond Elevator and sold, Emslie get
ting two-thirdS of the proceeds and his
one-third that the stealing
OF 2,136 bushels of wheat was discovered
that Emslie. when confronted with the
evidence, admitted the facts and stated that
10 600 bushels of wheat have been stolen,
giving the names Of his accompices; that
these facts were presented to the Grand
Jury, which found indictments against the
parties implicated, and that they were sub
sequently at private hearings, held to
bail for their appearance for trial.
Painting Criticised.
New YORK, November 24th.-The Free
man's Journal, which is supposed to voice
Roman Catholic sentiment in art as well as
matters, has forced an onslaught
to- day upon Munkacsy's painting of Christ
before Plate" which it cbaracterizes as a
% meretricious and vulgar painting" and
g one which is striking example of the
depth to which art may descend under the
influence of sensational naturalization
Munkacsy, as becomes a Snowman artist,
has sacrificed everything to transcient eff
feet" The Journal even objects to the
title, which ii insists is a misnomer.
A Thorough Sportsman,
NEW YORK, November 24th.-Baron a.
n. De Horn, who arrived on the Norman
die is by profession an explorer for amuse-
ment, an author and sportsman, but the
chief business of his life is the task of
spending an annual income of over
million francs. He has an estate of some