Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-19
Important Meeting of the Senate Finance
Committee.

Important Meeting of the Senate Finance
Committee.
WASHINGTON, February 1Sth.-At a
meeting of the Senate Finance Committee
to-day the various silver and currency bills
that have been referred 10 it were under
discussion. The discussion covered the
whole range of the financial situation, bat
the silver question was the principal topic
All the Republican members of the Com
mittee were present, and Harris and Vance
of the minority. The discussion is said to
have demonstrated that there was little, if
any, variance in the views upon the man
ner ia which the silver question should be
treated. There was a practical agreement
that bill should be passed authorizing
the Secretary of the Treasury to increase
the purchase of silver, and store il as bull
ion and issue certificates upon it. 1t is ex-
pected that the details of a bill covering
these propositions will be drafted at the
next meeting of the Committee.
DEEP WATER EARBoR.
The Senate Committee on Commerce has
agreed to report favorably the bill appro-
priating Sc, 200, GOO for the construction OF
deep-water harbor at Galveston.
POSTAL TELEGRAPH.
The House Committee on Postoffice and
Pestroads continued consideration OF the
subject of limited postal telegraph. Post
master-General Wanamaker and a. B.
Chandler, President of the Postal Tele-
graph, were present and gave their ideas on
the subject. Wanamaker thought it should
be under the control of the Civil Service
Commission. and that the wires should not
be used politically.
PENsIoE APPROPRIATIONS.
The pension appropriation bill for the
al fr.f 1,.I
to day by Morrow from the Committee on
Appropriations. 1t carried sos, All, 461, be-
ing S5979 less than the estimates, and
SIG. G6S, 761 more than the bill for the cur
rent fiscal year. though there is an estimated
deficiency of SIS ,59S 1874 in the pension ex-
penditures for this year; so that the bill
really is 81 930,073 less than the expendi-
lures will be this year.
BUILDING FOR SAN JOSE.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap-
proved the bill app:opriating $500 600 for a
public building at San Jose, CAL, and il
will probably be reported favorably at the
next meeting of the Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds of the Senate.
SPECIAL POSTAL SERVICE.
Hermann, of0regon, received a dispatch
this morning stating that heavy rains in
the Cascade Mountains had so badly inter
fered with travel that many postoffices on
the coast side had had nc mail for four
weeks. Hermann secured telegraphic or
der from the Postmaster-Genera for the
immediate establishment of special service
through the mountains, down the middle
branch of the Coquilie river.
DEPARTMENT NOTES.
Rear Admiral Kimberly has been or
dered TO report to the Navy Department
tor temporary duty.
Commander f. A. Cook has been ordered
to special duty under the Lighthouse
Board.
The President hiss given certificates of
merit to James Wheeler, private of Com
pany G., and Thornton Hams, private of
Company G, Tenth Cavalry, for distin-
guished services in the fight with robbers
in Arizona May IL, 1889.
Land Commissioner Croft has decided
that Valentine scrip is not locatable on
land recently acquired from the Sioux In
dams in Dakota.
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
Secretary Noble has received the monthly
report of the Geological Survey. 1t tells of
severe and stormy weather along Ovens
river, California. Work in that section of
country has been temporarily abandoned
and employees discharged. Large tracts of
land in New Mexico have been surveyed,
taking in Grand valley as far as Beruelelli.
Reports of Washington, Colorado, Non
tana and Idaho will soon be forwarded.
CONTRACTS REJECTED.
Secretary Tracy this afternoon rejected
the bid of Samuel L. Moore 81 Sons, of
EliEabethport, n. j., to construct two l, 000-
ton gunboets and one S00-ton practice ves-
sell Their bid was a great deal lower than
any Others but the finn failed to file proof
that they would have the plant necessary
for work. The contract is not yet awarded.
NOTES OF LEGISLATION.
WASHINGTON, February 1Ssh.-Nomina-
TONS Alonzo Cleaver, Register Of the
Land Office at La Grande, Or; William Il.
Pratt, Surveyor General of California; Re-
ceiver of Public Moneys, Quinby Vande,
Les Cruces, N. NJ.
Senator ingalls, (by requestl to day intro
duced bill to amend the interstate COM
meroe law by providing that a2y person
shipping or smuggling Intoxicating liquors
into d State or Territory that forbids its
sale shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and any railway company which
transports the same shall be fined 500 for
each offense.
The Senate to-day ratified the British
extradition treaty. The text of the treaty
was recently published. Extradition is not
to be had for political ofense, norshall any
person surrendered by either party be tried
for any other offense than the one for
which be was extradited. The treaty does
not apply 10 any crimes committed before
its ratification. During the discussion OF
the measure several efforts were made to
amead it in important particulars, but were
not successful. The principal points OF at
tack were those sections including man.
slaughter and obtaining goods or money
under false pretenses. The amendments
that were made are said to be of an uninl-
portrait character, and it is expected they
will be accepted by the British represents
tive without serious objection.
BRILLIANT RECEPTION.