The morning call., 1891-11-04

NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
Important Case Before the Su-
preme Court,
The Operation Of The Anderson Railroad
LaH.
Permanent Timber Reserve in the Yellow
stone District = ARMY Orders Pen
:=. :....s sigIS Granted to GaliiOTlia1s.
Special TO THE MosNISs CALI

: w1sHNGToN, I'd: CJ, Nov. 8. = Associate
Justice Brewer OF the Supreme Court OF
The: United States, sitting as Circuit Jus
tice began. the hearing of arguments in the
case:ofthe suit brought by the UhIted States for
The Dlstrtct.of. Nebraska against the Union Pa
cifc Railway Company aud the Western Union
TELEGRAPH Company. The suit was brought
by the Attorney. in pursuance Of the
provisions of the act of Congress known as the
Anderson act. which compels all subsidized
railroad companies which by the law are re-
CURED to construct. operate and maintain tee-
graph lines, 10 so construct, operate and main.
tain them as TO furnish to connecting lines equal
facilities for. the transmission OF business. Tho
Government seeks to have declared void the con-
tract as beyond the cooperative competency OF
7rhe railroad company.
= The counsellor the Weitern Union have fled
an exhaustive brief containing a statement Of
tieir position In the matter. Counsel insist that
the competency OF Inc railroad company to enter
into-contfact with the telegraph company Is re-
enforced by provisions of the general telegraph
law, originally enaetedJnne "a. 1866 that, for
the purposes OF the bill, tile defendants and the
contract: between them are not within the com
mandsi Injunction and prohibitions of the An
:deEsen. act.
PATENTS ISSUED.
Patents were Issued TO Calif0rnians to-day as
follows: George Bryant san Francisco, shoe /;
ITederic}l w. DobbeI, Purissima. sight for fire
6fiHs; Wesley u. Gibbs, Los Angeles, piano
acftons reglla FOR; Peter II. jackson, San Fran
cisco. construction Of floors o walls; John ker-
: win, BeCkwltl, lever power mechanism; Emma
sENaIiel San Francisco, curtain-pnle supporter
:ElWatd North. NeNhall, cheek book; Almarin
= u. Pau, san Franclsco apparatus Tor treating
geld and silver or S; Henry Richmann, Sania q
CfllZ, rotary AIR compressor and pump; Michael
Z. Taylor. GIass Valley, bedstead; Charles S.
Mebber, San Jose strtlged Instrument; George
Il. Wells, san Francisco, autema &c organ.
J.. YKI. .EowsroNE. IiAIBER RESERVE.
Commissioner Carter of tile General Land
0fiiee las received petition signed by large
number Of prominent citizens OF Idaho, asking
that tire tEact OF lind adjoining the Yellowstone
National Park on tile the west, cont taiuing about
.750, ,0@o acres. tnclnding Lake Henry be set
!. aIaftas a permanent timber reserve. The mat
ter has been placed in the hands OF a special
agent who Is instructed 10 examine and renort
upon he matter, and also as to tile adysability
OF extending tho lesei WALTON norths into Mon
staIia, so sast0 embrace the country AROUND the
:: headwaters al Madison River. ~.
THE: BARDsLEY CERTIFICATE .
Aching Secretary Spauldlng has received a let
ter from Francis b Reeves OF Philadelphia this
morning. stating most emphallcatly that he had
never given a certificate tndorsed by Senator
:; Quay and Batdsley TO any one, and that lie had
:. no knowledge how got Into the possession o
The Democratic State Committee. g.
< .:.: ~: ~. =. LEAVE OF. ABSENCE. j.. -.
Theleaye OF absence granted First Lieutenant
:. j.. EsticotIt SAWYER, Fifth ARTILLERY, Departmen
ofCaitfoInia, IS extended ten days.
= ..t: Personal MENTION. "-.--
S: LOCKWOOD and BROTHER, ot Los Angeles, are
3 In the city: -, 80: H. -.