Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-05
EAST OF TEE ROCKIES.
EAST OF TEE ROCKIES.
William B. Allison Captures the Iowa
Senatorial Plum.
INTERVIEW WITH HUNTINGTON.
Shortage OF Funds by . Missouri
Oficial-Reed Eulogized
in Tennessee.
ESPECIAL DIsPArcHEs TO THE REcoRD-UNIor.l
WITH HUNTINGTON.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REooaD-us1os.I
CONGRESSIONAL.

IN THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON March 4th.-In the Senate to-
day the joint resolution for taking the census of
Alaska-allowing the special agents there 81
day to cover all expeDses-was passed.
The resolution which was offered yesterday by
Voorhees, in regard to the lease of the seal
islands of Alaska to the North American Com
mercial Company was reported back from the
Finance Committee by Senator Morrell ad-
versely, on the ground that the Treasury De-
partment had already made the lease and the
committee had no power 10 interfere in the
matter.
voorhees, said there was nothing further from
his intention than to make any imputation on
the conduct of the Secretary OF the Treasury.
From information in his possession he had been
led to believe thet there were facts that had not
been properly brought to the Secretarys atten-
tiop. His obiect was to bring those facts to the
Secretary's consideration, but the committee
having decided that the matter was adjudicated,
he acquiesced in that decision.
The resolution was indefinitely postponed.
The bill appropriating coo tor a monu-
mental column to commemorate the battle of
Trenton, N. j., was passed.
The Senate then proceeded to executive bus
iness
The Senate Committee on Agriculture has
adopted substitute fol- all bills for the transfer
OF the Signal Service Weather Bureau from the
War Department TO the Department of Agrl-
culture.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, March 4th.-Consideration of
the Arkansas contested election ease-Eeather-
ston VS.. Cate-was resumed in the House to-day,
Dalzel of Pennsylvania taking the floor In
supporting the claims of the contestant, he said
that in the election in the First District of Ar
kansas, Winchester rifles, reyolvers and bowie
knives played prominent part. THAT dis
trict,' he said, was adjoining that in which
Clayton, man of national reputation, when in
the exercise of the right which belonged to the
humblest American citizen, had been murdered
IN cold blood at the very altar of liberty" Dal-
zell confined his remarks principally to the
plpptinn m DamOprafs in
den county, charging intimidation and fraud,
controverting the statement of Cultivate of
Ohio, that there was no evidence that a
"double-action" ballot-box was used in the
country
Cultivate challenged the production of any
evidence that the box exhibited by him yester-
day had ever been used.
Dalzell replied that the contention of ma
jority of the Committee on Elections was that a
ballot-box identical with that presented had
been used in Crittenden county in at least three
polling places The contestee, in his brief, him
self admitted that the ehivalry of Crittenden
county, armed with Winchester rifles found it
necessary to drive out twenty or thirty unarmed
black men.
vor OF the claims of the contestee. The Cate
case, he said was peculiar. The counsel for the
contestant was W. W. Dudley. better known,
perhaps as "Bloeks of Five Dudley II was
an interesting thing to hear that notorious gen.
tleman discussing before the Committee on
Elections the importance of the purity of the
ballot and the necessity of giving voter an
untrammeled and free right to vote as he
pleased. To borrow q smile of the gentleman
from Massachusetts (Greenhalge), when he
Crisp heard Dudleys statement he thought he
would say, THAT is the devil quoting Script
ure"
Cheadle of Indiana entered protest against
the attack on the character of a man who on
the field of battle, spent his blood in the de-
fense of his country, and whose life he (Chea-
dle) challenged any human being to attack.
[Applause on the Republican side. The body
on the other side was unable to prove a single
charge against the K. publicans of Indiana
Renewed applause.
Crisp was unaware that he had said anything
to provoke an outburst on the part of his friend
from Indiana. He had spoken of the mans S
reputation throughout the country, the general
repute in which he was held, and he had not
spoken unkindly He had been Illustrating the
peculiaritY of the case that was all