Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-18
The Worlds Fair Date is Fixed, a
Chicago Wants it Char red

The Worlds Fair Date is Fixed. and
Chicago Wants it Char Isea.
WASHINGTON. March l7th.-At q meeting of
the Worlds Fair Committee tod ay, during The
absence of two members favors pySs to(hicspo
it was voted to fix the time of oDeniug the fair
for April 5, 1892, and the COS ng soIne time in
october.
At the meeting to morrow. an iattempt will
probably be made to reverse this action and fix
the dedication for october . ISs2 and the reg.
ular opening for April, 1898.
LAUNCHING THE. NEWARK
The party to witness the launching of the
Newark. at the CramI ship-ysrd, will Il ave
Wednesday morning. fhe President and Cabi-
net naval officers and department officials, the
House and Senate \ svol Affairs Committees,
and number OF othf rs wiNgo. The train will
leave iathe Pc nnsy lyapis road at $50 O. clock
and arriveis Philadelphia at IL
BODY RECOVERED.
The botiT of an unknown white man was dis
coveredin the Potomac yesterday. 1t has been
identified us that of Ben a. Jones, clerk to Pay
master Goodloe, CT The Marine Corps, who de-
taulted5ia December lest with 5000 of Govern
nlent funds
AN INTERESTING DECISION.
TheSupreme Courtto day rendered n decision
IN an'interestlng case growing out of the Acts of
the fifteenth sessien9ft the Idaho Legislation. The
appellants allege that they declared the Council
and House OF Representatives adjourned at mid
right after session OF sixty days, this being
the limit of the legislative session under Con-
gressioual law. They assert that some members
o! each House remained behind, elected new
presiding officers 'snd passed a number of Acts
They SUI to have these Acts declared null and
void, and the proceedings expunged from the
records. The Idaho Supreme Court denied the
applications aud this Court aflirms the judg-
ment. The Court says in part
The safety Of Cur institutions depends in q
measure upon the Legislative, Executive and
judicial Departments being kept separate, and
upon rome Of them infringing upon others. 1t
is not one of the functions OF the Court to in
quire into the record of a legislative body and
10 determine wht Their the body assuming to be
the Legislature is legal or not. The suit pre-
senting this question might perhaps arise in
some case growing out of an A ct SEED by the
Legislature, but the Court does not pass in the
present case upon how far it would be justified
IN such a suit III inquiring into the validity OF
the Legislature as the case at issue does notre-
quire it to do so.''
OREGON AND NEBRASKA PETITIONS.
Mitchell presented petition from the farm
ers of Wasco county, Or, for the passage of
bills to prevent speculation in feed products
and to prevent the adulteration of lard.
Two protests from the Nebraska Farmers Al.
lance against the extension of time for the
payment of the Indebtedness of the Union Pa
citic was presented by Paddock.
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.
Kelly of Kansas introduced bin in the
House to-day to provide for the election OF
members of the House. 1t declares that no
State law or Constitution shall deprive aCitizen
once duly authorized TO vote for member of
the Legislature of his right to vote except on
Congressional Election Districts in each State
Immediately upon the publication Of the Gen.
sus returns and the determination of the basis
of representation to districts are to be made up
OF contiguous territory and nearly equal in pop
ulation as possible, and in Congress fails to
aEsnge tPe olstricts Ninety days before an eiee-
ton, the Rep esentatlves are to be elected from
the State at large. The elections areto be held
on the Australian system.
THE RUSSIAN TREATY.
The protest against the ratification, of the
Russian treaty which the Senate. over iPresi-
ingalls,
permitted Cockrell to present IT open
session today, was from the Woodworking Ma
chine Hands Union of st. Louis. The reasons
given for the protest are that the slgners con.
slider the ratification of the pending treaty
would be q mistake, because State without
any regular system OF justice, State Ill which
exile without leave of judicial process is gov
ernmental institution, can offer no guarantee
for the honest use OF an extradition treaty.
SOLDIERS AND THEIR WIVES.
ingalls, to-day introduced bill providing that
soldier who has lost both eyes or one arm and
one leg, may get married at any time he may so
desire, to some OF 10 take care of him, and at
his death the soldiers widow shall receive SD
per month as long as she remains single. If a
soldiers wife refuses 10 live with him and care
for him, he may, after her. absence for six
months, procure a divorce from any County
Court, upon payment of five dollars.
THE TURNER BUND PROTEST.
The North American Turne, Bund compris-
ing 10000 members, protested by resolution at q
recent meeting at St. LOUIS against any change
in the immigration or naturalization laws of the
United STATES. The resolution was presented to
tie Senate to-day by Vest.
MINISTER PALMER WILL RESIGN.
There is now no longer any reasonable doubt
of the forthcoming resignation of Minister
Palmer, the American representative at Mad
rid. Mr.. Palmer inform ed some of his most in
innate friends when he, much against his in
ciinations, accepted The Spanish Mission, that
his absence from the political field OF action
would be very brief one, though it was not
thought at the time that he would return so
soon
A letter received here to-day from Lieutenant
Hamilton, Mr.. PalmerS nephew and has naval
attache at Madrid, requested that all his mail
hereafter be forwarded 10 Newport, R l.. in
stead of to Madrid. as at present, ana added
that he expected 10 be back in the United States
before very long.