The morning call., 1891-02-07
A Joke The Californian Did Not
Relish.
HOW lie Came to Be Summoned Before the
Silver Pool Committee.
dissatisfaction With the Rulings In Regard
10 the Fertilization of Sweet Wines.
Yosemite Park.
Special TO THE MORNING CALL.

''A0hiNoIoN, req. b.-Ihe members OF
congress are having good deal of fun with
Representative Clunie. The latter is very
popular, and usually gives ard takes
lohes with relish, but he fails to appre-
c'"'e the joke about his specializing in sill
Ver' and for which he was hauled up before
Ihe Investigating Committee. Everybody
KNOWS what an inveterate Joker Clunie is
a party of Congressman were relating his
FAMOUS Joke on himself, where he holds out
MS right hand and says solemnly: Gentle
men, there is hand that never took
oripe, Then advancing his left, "but this one
nave no control over" And it was said
that Clunie had been joking about his losses
Oh shVer. Clunie denies that he ever joked
ABOUT his silver speculations, but, at any
rate, some of his colleagues conceived the
Idea OF having him brought before the Silver
committee. and the intrigue was success
Iuliy carried out. Clunie's serious protesta-
hons OF innocence and his emphatic declara-
uons only increased the merriment of his
colleagues. For while Clnnie was very
mac' and insisted that such joke was cal
cuiated to get man in trouble. However,
II was made clear to the Californian that
not man in Washington believed he ever
bought an ounce of silver in his life for
speculative purposes, and all is again serene
on the Potomac.
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue Mason
says good many Calfornians are still not
satlshed with the department rulings in re-
gard 10 the identification of sweet wine,
and that good chance Of evasion is offered
so that cordial is produced instead of
sweet wine. He says the winemen secured
the passage OF the law, which he must exc
cute to the letter, and they have no right to
blame him if it can be easily evaded. The
wlnemen are now clamoring for permission
10 still further fortify sweet wine. Mason
says the department will take no further ac-
ton, because under the law it cannot
The Secretary of the Interior affirms the
decision of the Commissioner in the case of
George Piekard VS.. the Oregon and Califor-
MIA Railroad Company on appeal. The
tract of land is situated in the Oregon City
district
Mary B. Walker has been commissioned
Postmistress at Saltwater, Cal.
The through registered pouch service be-
tween San Francisco and New Orleans will
be discontinued February 9Th.
The Postoffice at Jacksonville. Yuba Coun-
ty, has been discontinued.
kilograms from California indicate that
vandever's bill in relation to Yosemite
Park is not clearly understood on the Coast
The object of this bill is merely to correct
ambiguity. The amended description. as
contained in the bill favorably reported
yesterday, has been carefully prepared at
the General Land Office The Commissioner
of the General Land Office says in transmit
ting the aforesaid desert ption: BY reference
to the proviso to Section l Of said act, it
will be observed that nothing in the act
is to be construed as in any wise affecting
the grant OF lands made to the State of
California by virtue of the act entitled an
act authorizing the grant 10 the State of
California of Yosemite Valley and of the
land empracing the Mariposa Big Tree
Grove, approved June 80. 1864. 1t would
appear from the language of this proviso
that 1t was supposed that the Mariposa Big
Tree Grove was included within the limits
OF the forest reservation. This is not fact
however, rs the big tree grant lies in Town
ship south, ranges q and % east, no par-
tionS of which township are within the
boundaries described in the act OF October /,
1890 The Public Lands Committee ther.-
fore recommended the passage OF Vandever's
bill.
Representative Morrow to-day presented
to the House the fifth annual report of the
Ladies' Silk Culture Society of California.
The Agricultural Appropriation Bill will
be reported tomorrow, and, as foreShad-
owed in these dispatches, no appropriation
is made for carrying on experiments in silk
culture by the Association of Cal fornia
Ladies.
The appropriation for experiments in
treating diseases of California fruit trees
will be made as heretofore indicated.
Hawaiian Minister Carter says he wishes
he was in the Sandwich Islands, where his
mother and sisters live. He Says his resg-
nation was sent in several months ago. put
has not yet been accepted. The news of the
new sovereign's installation has not reached
here, he said but it will probably come on
the next steamer. 'It is best for us TO re-
main as we are, perfectly independent and
neutral, and there is every reason to believe
this will be our Destiny"
Senator Stewart has received letter
from Survey Turritin of Nevada,
giving list of Nevada lands requiring an
immediate survey. and it was filed with the
Commissioner Of the General Land Office.
Senator Stewart has heretofore been prom
ised by Commissioner Croft that if he would
show where surveys were most needed in
Nevada he would authorize the appr0pria-
ton. Senator Stewart says he talked with
Gron recently. and he has good reason to
believe that Nevada will receive her Just
PROPORTION of the money appropriated at
the last session OF Congress-
The Senate Appropriation Committee in
considering TIE report OF tne committee on
Foreign Relations favoring S50,00O to be ap-
propriated for the purpose of making a sur
yey of the Pacific Ocean to assist the Pacific
Cable Company, or any other company, in
constructing cable from San Francisco to
the Hawaiian Islands, reduced the amount
to $685. 900. The committee thinks that by
using United States vessels this amount will
be sufficient to enable the Secretary OF the
Navy to give all the information desired, or at
least Will be enough until the next Congress
can appropriate more Senator Dolph said
tonight that as he had reported the bill he
would see the Secretary of the Navy. and if
the amount allowed was not sufficient he
would insist on an increase. He is quite
certain that Congress will appropriate
enough to do the work, and with little hesi-
tatiUn.
Senator Allison is understood to be op-
posed to the appropriation If 100000 for a
dry-dock at Port Orchard, Wash, but 1t is
said he will not fight it on the Senate floor.