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THE United States Government will not
be likely to seek quarrel with Germany
because of the Samoan complication !;
neither should it avoid one if thrust upon
it. She must enter the protest of common
humanity, if nothing more, against the dec
laration of war Germany has proclaimed
against the handful Of islanders in Poly
nesia, struggling for the right of self-gov-
eminent. Our obligations to Samoa de-
mand of us the entry Of protest, and in
sist that pending that and the conference
in which it will result, Germany shall
cease to wage war upon Mataafa. 1t would
be worse than farcial for the American
Government to agree to a conference for
settlement of the difficulty, and at the same
time consent to the war against Samoa go
ing on. Should that be done Germany
will have wiped the Samoan Government
out of existence before the commission
ers for the conference can get together.
The news this morning is that the German
authorities have SO far receded as to relin-
quish the claim to govern Apia during the
contest. They must concede good deal
more before conference can be consented
TO, for they must suspend hostilities and
abandon the blockade of Samoan ports be-
fore any arbitration is had.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02
DELAWARE POLITICS.
An Interesting Letter Concerning Som
Errors of a Contemporary

An Interesting Letter Concerning Some
Errors of a Contemporary.
EDS. RECORD UNION: In a leading edi-
torial of the Call Of recent issue, entitled.
"rhe New Senators" l am surprised at The
number of errors the political editor makes.
Mr.. Sewell OF course does not take IL e
place of Mr.. McPhers IN, as could be readily
seen by reference to the telegraph columns.
Every one knows the Legislature IS DEM
ocratic by decided majority on joint bal
lot. To criticise the statement that Mr..
Higgins, the Delaware Senator-elect, is "a
new man in Federal politics" may seem
trifiDg, but it may be of interest to know
that he occupied the office of United States
District Attorney for several years and
performed the duties with great ability.
incidentally, all the Bayards are referred
to as lacking first-class ability. While
this may be true of Richard H., the second
James A. and Thomas F., it is ridiculously
untrue OF the famous signer of the treaty
Of Client. The volume in the series Of
American Statesmen the works of John
and the junior Adams and all the cotem-
porary literature of the early period, are
agreed to placing James A. Bayard
among the great men of his epoch. We
owe the defeat in the House of Aaron Burr
in $500 to this man alone, prompted, no
doubt, however, by the patriotic letter of
Alexander Hamilton. He was not the
grandfather, as stated, but the great
grandfather of the present Secretary of
State. The article mentions Mr.. Higgins
as succeeding Eli Salisbury, which is cor
rect, but later on refers to willard Sauls-
bury, whose term expires in March," who
took his seat in the Senate in 1859, and
has thus filed the highest position in the
political world for thirty years" Willard
Salisbury, now Chancellor of Delaware
was elected Senator in 1858, and served by
reelection until March 4. 1871. He was
succeeded by his brother Eli, who was re-
elected in 1876 and again in 1888. Let me
say this of Willard Salisbury, that while
Mr.. Bayard was temporizing with the
enemy and making speeches in the strain
of the out-and-out disunion harangue at
Dover. which afterward became so famous,
salisbury was Union to the core. In the
thirty-sixth Congress he closed debate by
calling attention to the fact that las Della
ware was the first to adopt the Constitution
of the United States, she would be the last
to do any act looking TO separation" He
was not in sympathy with Mr.. Lincoln
and many acts of the North, but on the
naked issue of secession he was as loval as
Grant or Sherman. Honor to whom honor
is due AMERICus.
Oakland January 80 1889
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02

DEBATING principle more than hun
dred years ago, the "Federalist" declared
that it was wisdom on the part Of people,
and experience had so proved it, to commit
the matter of administration of the finances
and local concerns to local boards of few
of their own men. Yet in the face of this
political and economic truth, the Legisla-
ture of the State of California is asked to
take from the communities of California.
its towns, cities and counties, the right to
govern their local and internal affairs as
their need directs, and their judgment
approves. 1t is asked to ''fx" the license
for all communities that they may be per-
mitted to collect from the business of
liquor selling, but they are left free to
impose whatever license tax they choose,
upon any and all other business. In this
simple matter of regulating the interest
that costs the people more concern and
coin than any other, they are to be for
hidden to take any part, or to reap any
benefit. If it had been forecast, that in
the blaze of the intelligence and freedom
of the last half of the nineteenth century,
any such proposition would be made to
Legislature of any American State, the
prophet would have been scorned as insult
ing the spirit of the age.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02

If anyone entertained the idea that
Islam power is on the decline, the con-
quest of Uganda by the Arabs should unde-
ceiye them. Islamism is but a feeble force
in Europe, but it is rapidly augmenting
in Africa and has suffered but slight loss
in Asia. The Arabs have made the faith
of Mohammed dominant in the Soudan,
where less than fifty years ago it had but
feeble foothold. The world should not be
surprised that the difficulties in the way
of the advance of Christian civilization in
Africa have increased greatly and that
they are daily augmenting.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02

our home market is being reached; to
therefore encourage small farming and di-
yersifed production to make horticult-
ure and food productions generally in Cal
ifornia SO profitable that desirable class
of our own people will come in and occupy
the large acreages in small holdings, and
establish thereon homes in which the
strength Of the nation lies Europe is
seeking just such supplies as we have; we
can furnish them, if the knowledge, supple
mented by sensible object proofs, is first
implanted abroad; we can compete with
the European producer, because our pro-
ducers are direct owners of the soil, and
are not crippled by the remaining bonds
of feudal system. These are propositions
capable of demonstration, and it is worth
score of times the sum asked to put the
plan in operation.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02
UNLIMITED IN ITS SCOPE.

1t should be borne in mind that the
proposed London Exhibition is not pro-
jected in the interest of any one industry
of California, but of all. 1t is to be made
representative just as fully as is possible,
of every industrial art and all production
that can by remotest possibility be sup
posed 10 have an interest in European
market. But as a matter of fact there is
no interest whatever, from that of the car
rier of the hod to the manufacturer of an
engine; from the blacker of boots to the
compositor in job office; from the tiller
of the soil to the shipping merchant, that
will not equally share in any benefits that
may flow from an exhibition of California
products abroad and the consequent en-
largement of our market. 1t is simply
impossible to enlarge the market for our
products, and confine the results to the
single interest of production from the soil.
There is no man so poorly informed who
does not know that as soil production suf-
fers in California every other worthy in
terest declines; that as it prospers, all
other industries are yitalized.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02
a WISE BILL.

The bill Of Senator Dixon requiring all
executions to be conducted at the State
Prison is one that should not meet with
single vote in opposition. 1t is impos-
sible for any one who has made am sincere
inquiry into the subject whatever to re-
turn from it with any other conviction
than that the execution of criminals in the
several counties is demoralizi1g and
greatly tends to counterfeit the very
purpose of infiicting the extreme penalty.
Let us surround the gallows with all the
terror Of privacy of use and the victim
with the penalty of sequestratiol from
public view and deprivation of all dra-
matte posing upon the scaffold, and shut
out the hysterical women who find in
every condemned murderer an object upon
which to lavish abnormal sympathy.
The bill of Senator Dixon provides that
there can be present at the execution only
the Warden, the Sheriff of the county who
brings the convict to the prison, the Board
o. Managers and Physicians of the prison
at San Quentin, the prisoners clergyman,
the three witnesses the victim is priv
ileged to invite, and certain number of
newspaper reporters. The bill ought to
so further than this and follow the New
York plan in prohibiting publication of
sensational reports of executions. The
work of the press in this matter has all
been bad, demoralizing; rather an incent-
i've to crime than deterrent influence.
None better know this to be true than
newspaper men.
The bill is strong in the economy it con-
serves. 1t will be an immense saving TO
the people to have one instead of fifty-two
places of execution, one gallows tree in
stead OF sfty-two, one official to carry out
the penalty of the law instead of fifty-two
Sheriff.. On this ground alone the bill is
commendahle
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02

IT is proposed to create in each county
when desired, a new Office, to be filled by
an official to be known as Sheep Commits
sioner, whose duty it shall be to inspect all
flocks of sheep twice year, and to take
steps to eradicate any contagious disease
that may be found among them. But the
officer is to be named in the county only
when fifty resident freeholders petition the
Board of Supervisors for the appointment
of such Commissioner 1t would seem
that the proposed State Veterinarian ought
to be able to do all that is necessary in the
matter of inspection of bands of domestic
animals But, as the bill does not infict
the Sheep Commissioner upon the people
except upon petition, and under the dis
erection of Boards of Supervisors, the OBJ
pressed with energy. However, the pro-
posed law is defective, in failing to provide
that the Commissioner may, on discovering
diseased animal, remove and sequester it,
or, if need be to prevent the spread of the
disease, kill it. The bill simply declares
that in case of such discovery he shall
notify the owner and if, after ten days. the
latter does not take proper steps to prevent
the spread of the disease, or to effect
cure of the animal, then the Commits
sioner is to take action to eradicate the dis
ease as he may deem necessary and
proper" That is too loose an authority to
invest the official with any power that
Court will tortify. If he is to have any
official power at all, it must be specifically
and affirmatively defined, and he must be
distinctly invested with it, and its limita-
tions be clearly expressed.
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THE ESSENCE OF THE MATTER.

Legislators who are opposing the Lon
don Exhibition are not, we are convinced,
fully advised of the merits of the PROPOSE
tion-with more Of thought upon the SUBJ
ject they must discover its virtues. Briefly
and simply, it is an economic plan to pre-
sent to the attention of the world, in its
chief market and travel center, a repre-
sentative exhibition Of our products. This
is to be supplemented by such other and
attractive display as will make the exhi-
bition resorted to satisfy curiosity, at the
same time by illustrating our climatic adj
vantages, topography, scenic glories and
natural wonders, stimulate the now feeble
drift of tourist travel this way. These two
ends ca, result in no benefits that will not
be reflected in the increased prosperity of
every legitimate vocation II the State.
The result will be TO enlarge our markets
abroad, Just at the time when the limit of
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02
MISTAKEN AS TO THE FACTS.
The San Francisco Cal saws:

uC Cdil L Nut Sd
1t viii be time enough for producers to go to
Sacramento for help to sell their wares abroad
when they are able to supply the home de-
mand. California is not now shipping to the
East enough wine for the consumption of New
York City alone; it is producing less than half
The raisins eaten in this country.
Which shows how ignorant the Call is of
the facts relating to California production.
For instance, in its own columns recently
3peared statement made in an official
body, by man best qualified of all others
to know, that our raisin product for 1889
will very greatly exceed the consumption
possible to be expected for it in the United
States So too, in the same meeting, Mr.
Rose stated that it is now an absolute neces-
sity to secure larger market for California
wines, and that it can be best looked for
and secured abroad.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02

AN effort for other legislation is made to
increase the penalties for firing standing
timber. The law as it is, is sufficient if it
were only enforced 1t would be more
commendable to provide some means of
searching out those who fire timber and
bringing them to the bar of justice. There
is supposed to be an officer in the State
now whose duty it is to patrol the forests
and bring offenders 10 bay, but if he is
ever heard of in the discharge of duty we
are so unfortunate as to be ignorant of the
fact
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02
THE QUESTION OF LOCATION.

The question of the location Of new
site Tor the Home of the Predetermined
Children has been exhaustively discussed
in these columns, but there is one witness
against the present location who has not
been sufficiently quoted, Colonel George
E. Waring, the eminent sanitary engineer
of broader that national reputation, a nom
resident of the State and wholly free from
prejudices in the matter, after examina-
ton of the Home grounds condemns them
and in his written report TO the President
of the Board of Trustees said. that he
found little to commend aud much to
criticise in the location. After detailing
its deficiencies and positive evils, he de-
clared: "In my view there is but one
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02

JUDGE WOODS OF the United States Cir
cult Court of Indiana has ruled in recent
case that the mere sending by one to an
other OF letter or document containing
advice to bride voters, or setting forth
scheme for such bribery, however bold
and reprehensible, is not indictab!e. There
must be shown in addition an attempt by
the receiver of the letter, or some other
person instigated by him, to execute the
scheme by bribery or attempt TO bride
some voter. That Interpretation OF the
revised statutes settles a point that has
long been disputed, whether 1t is necessary
to prove actual bribery. 1t has been gen.
orally supposed that it was sufficient to
prove the offer to person to bride voter
or election officer.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02

can be granted no greater political privi-
leges in this day, at least let them have
voice in the educational departments of
the Government, They are profoundly
interested in that branch of our system
we look to them to manifest lively con-;
Germ in the training of youth; by natural
impulses they are directed in that work,
and they should, therefore, be permitted
equally with men to express their judg-
ment at the ballot-box concerning the
choice of administrators of the educational
svstem
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02
Do We Wish Outside Capital?

EDS. RECORD UNION: l am property
owner in this city; have my investments
here, and expect to live here the rest of my
life. | read with some surprise Of The
action of the Board of Trustees in trying to
place ridiculous restrictions on gentlemen
who desired to invest capital in street rail.
roads. | do not know whether Mayor
Gregory was correctly reported or not, but
If he made the remark that he did not
care whether foreign capital came here to
invest, | think the city viii not owe lis
prosperity TO such position. | own prop
erty on P street. and so far as | am con-
cerned, am only too willing to have all
the street railroads constructed that capital
can be induced TO build. l think that Mr..
Cary and the Central Railway Company
acted as any business man would in rsfns-
ing to invest capital in an enterprise that
other people were going to control. /
know that 1 would not do it in my bust
ness. Sacramento can scarcely sag that We
don't want people to come here Who wish
to invest money. If we are going TO pursue
this course, we might as we'll sell out and
emigrate to some more enterprising COM
,au,litg. PETER NEWMAN.
January 20, 1859.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02
A MIDNIGHT TRAGEDY.

George Lohmeyer Kills Supposed
Burglar in His Residence.
A few minutes before II o'clock last night
tragedy was enacted in the southwest
portion of the city, the facts of which did
not reach this Office until too late an hour
to investigate the circumstance. AS re-
lated by one of the family occupying the
house in which the affair occurred. the facts
are briefly these:
Mrs. r. Lohmeyer, with her three sons
and two daughters, occupy the residence
on the northwest corner of Fifth and P
streets. At the hour mentioned Mrs. Lob
meyer, hearing noise in one of the rooms,
called out to one of her sons, Frank, is
that you ?' The answer came:
THAT'S ALL RIGHT"
Not recognizing the voice as that of either
of her two sons then in the house George
being OUT, Mrs. Lohmeyer called out to
her other son, Charlie, there's man in
the house
At this the intruder blew out the light.
Mrs. Lohmeyer rose from her bed and be-
gan to scream for help. Just then her
son George, returning home for the
night, entered the back door, and
learning the situation, snatched revolver
from closet, aud meeting the intruder in
the dining-room shot him dead.
AN UNKNOWN.
Lohmeyer went down town to give him
self up and met Officer Franks, who &C.
companied him to the station-house. The
dead man was taken to the Coroner's.
He is said to be about 35 years of age,
five feet seven or eight inches in hight,
has dark hair and mustache and had been
freshly snaven. There was nothing about
his person by which to identify him.
The superstition is, of course. that he was
bent on mischief, and from the facts-so
far as known-the action of Mr.. Lohmeyer
was apparently justifable.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02

THE bill to prohibit runners, cappers
and solicitors for Police Court attorneys,
is doubtless intended to reach an evil that
relates solely to San Francisco practice
but if passed it viii amount to nothing.
1t will be impossible by any statutory pro-
vision to prevent any one from soliciting
for business which is in itself legitimate.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02
DAILY RECORD UNION
FERRU.Rv 1900

1he REcosD-U UNION is the only paper on
che co9st, outside Of San Francisco. .hat re-
scsses tae m associated Press dispatches from
aH ?crts Of the ,erld. Outside Of San Fran
CISCO, Il hos 80 competitor, in point Of num-
se-s. ia its home and general circulation,
shrorlghos.t The coast.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02

AssEMBLxMASD IBBLE's bill 1885, quail
flying women over the age of q years to
vote for School Directors and Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction, IS sound and
just measure and ought to pass. II women
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02
In kYbNIEG In ATHENS

MYTH The APOSTLE PAUL, AT THE
w COSGREGA I0NAL CHURCH, SUNDAY
EVENING, al o'clock Views of Grecian ruins
will be thrown from the electro opticon with
brief explanations. Song service as usual. The
pastor viii speak of Paul on Mars HILL Seats
free. All welcome. IT
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02
SAN FRANCISCO AaENcrEs,

This paper is for sale at the following places:
Joseph P Wiseman, No. $50 Market street
who is also sole Advertising Agent for San Fran
CISCO; the principal News stands ana Hotels
and at the Mayket-street Ferry.
Us ALSO, for sale on all Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02

IT will forever remain monument of
regret that California Legislature has
been advised, by group of its members,
to wrench from the municipalities of the
State the right of local self-government.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
TIE GREAT SOCIAL EVENT

TT Is ANNOUNCED THAT THE ORIGINAL
i Mendelssohn Quintette Club Concert Com
pany of Boston will occupy the boards at the
METROPOLITAN THEATER ON MARCH 18th.
Inc venerable THOMAS RYAN, who estab-
lished the cub forty years ago is still its di-
rector. II
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02

V,OKAY GRAPE ROOTS FOR sALE-AN
l extra choice lot of 49, 00 one yearold rooted
Tokay Vines for sale at LOW WHOLESALE
RATE. viii be sold in one lot or in smaller
quantities. The Vices are from selected cut
tings, have vigorous growth of roots and are
very desirable. Address or inquire for RIVER
SIDE" REcoRD-UNIoN office. ie2-tf
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02

EOR SALE-LANGsHAN PULLETs, THE
{ handsomest and best laying fowls YOU can
keep. VIII be sold cheap for want OF room.
Also, one or two full blooded Setter Pups two
mouths old. the finest stock in the county II.
". RiVETT, southwest corner Twelfth and O
streets. fea6t
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-02

W ANTED TO EXCHANGE-7eO ACRES
! w fine stock axd fruit ranch in foothills.
worth $1,000, for property near or in city. Adj
dress, E. 4. MOORE, care OF BRAND q CAMP
BELL, Sacramento, or at Grass Valley, Cal f2-6ts
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NEW ADVERTISEMENT.
Stated Assembly o, sacramento

WANTED EVERYBODY TO KNOW THAT
w the Largest Horse in the world is on exhi-
bition ON X street, between Seventh and Eighth
Open day ami evening. fe2s2ts
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-07-19
OVER THE ROAD.

The Albany Herald, of the 18th,
says as follows:
ga special train went to the front
on the Oregon Pacific road yesterday,
on which were Vice-President VIM.
M. Hoag, Superintendent Bowen, the
superintendent of track, a San Fran
cisco capitalist named Law, ]. Meyer,
a wealthy eastern contractor, Judge
r. S. Strahan. G. F. Simpson and
others. The object of the trip, it is
SAID, was to view the condition of the
work preparatory to letting some
further contracts. Mr.. Meyer went to
Corvallis with Mr.. Hoag last evening,
and some active developments in rail-
road work on the line eastward may
be expected shortly"
A representative OF the GAZETTE
learned from an Oregon Pacific official
early this friday morning, that
nothing had been done as yet in re-
gard to letting any new contracts.