Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-11
WASHINGTON CULLINGS.
Senator Morgan, Of Alabama, Desires
the asgrO to Emisrata.
HE SAYS LET THEM 60 TO CONGO.
Formation of Senate Committees
Confirming Appointments
SiIcotts Declarations.
WASHINGTON CULLINGS.
HE SAYS LET THEM GO TO CONGO.
F.rEol.L DISPATCHES TO TIE zBcoaD-uslos.l
CONGRESSIONAL PROoEEDINGs.
The senate Confirms Several of the Pres
identia,I Amendments.


idential Appointments.
WASHINGTON. December l0th.-1he Senate
this afternoon confirmed the following nonllns-
lions. Robert 2. Porter. New 1ork, experiments
ent of the Census; l.. A. orof, Nebraska, Com
mis- iOner of the General Land once NIlnam
M. stone Iowa Assistant Commissioner Cen
eral of the Land Office; James III. Townsend,
indiana, Recorder of the General Land Office.
Among the bills introduced to-day were the
~ Chandler-To amend the laws relative to
the elective franchise. and providing that under
certain contingencies for the conduct oil elec-
tions by Federal officers on petition OF certain
percentage Of votes that they belleve tne cleo
ton will be unfair If held by the state otfi-
GERS, etc. .,
officers of the Treasury and Interior Depart
ments to adjust and settle the clalms Of any
State sgairst the United States iOr ali the land
disposed OF by he United States, If they were IN
cluded in any grant OF swamp OF oferaOTed
By Holler-For the selection from the Ma
tfolal Guard aud Military Schools of the civil
ians 10 be appointed Second Leiutenants IN the
regular army.
ings at Seattle, Tacoma and spokane Fails, IN
Wa. hington. each 70 cost not exceeding s500,OJJ
BY Spoouer-A memorial signed by twenty OF
his former constituents praying that Boards OF
Trade bucket shops aud other mercantile bod
, les and individuals be prohibited from ilNlng
the value Of produce OF American farms by sales
By Morrili-A Bill to provide for the reliefof
the telegraph operators during the war who,
although not performing strictly military duties
lost their lives OF were imprisoned.
The resolution offered yesterday BY Iurpe, as
to trusts, was taken up, aud Iurple proceeded
10 address the senate upon it. tie said trusts
were the gigantic sin OF this age and genera
ton. The trust was a nuisance, open and no
torious but II could nos be grappled with and
SUPPRESSED as other uuiSa1ces aud such leglsla-
ton as was proposed IN the bills introduced by
Sherman aud George, lin conjunction with his
own proposition for the conii.cstiOn OF trust
goods" should be enacted and enforced.
At the close OF 1urTie's speech the Bill Tor
celebrating the f0ur-hundredth anniversary OF
the discovery Of america by holding an Inter
national Exposition in the city OF Aew York, in
trOduced by EvsIts, was read the first and sec
ond time.
The Finance Committee reported back adj
verse!y the bill to provide Tor the organization
OF national bank with less capital than $780,
O00 1t was indefinitely postponed
The programme for The ceremonies IN the
House to morrow, in commemoration OF the
One-hundredth anniversary Of the first inaugu-
ration OF George Washington as President were
read and adopted.
The Senate then proceeded to executive bust
ness, and at 1:45 o'clock adjourned till to-mor-
row.