The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-25
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions From Newspapers OF
Interior California.

VO1OH VI ll1
Expressions From Newspapers of
Interior California.
Tulare Register: The officials who
have been kept awake nights trying to
uphold the dignity of their respective
States can now take their much-needed
rest. The Corbett and FitzsimmonS
fight has been declared off. What de-
cay has there been in the respectable
ity of pugilism when Arkansas and
Texas will not permit a fight on their
soils and only William Greer Harrison
defends the ethics of the manly art.
SOME EXPERIENCE.
Alameda Telegram: Colorado is hav-
ing some trouble with lewd women in
politics. Some decent women say they
viii refuse to vote if leWd women are
permitted to- That is the only weak
point in women's suffrage contentious.
She won't occupy an election booth
adjacent to her weak sister, says the
MarySville Appeal The man of decency
votes alongside of the lewd woman's
paramour. If woman wants the glitter
ing promises of the ballot she must ac-
custom herself to existing conditions
and by her numbers take from her weak
sister the power to do wrong. that is,
if the ballot and legislation can do it.
TINE TO INTERVENE.
San Jose Mercury: The firm attitude
taken by the British Government to-
ward Venezuela and its evident purpose
to force the latter country into a conces-
sion of territory to which England is in
no way entitled, will compel our own
Government either to boldly proclaim
adhesion to the Monroe doctrine or to
forever abandon all pretension that the
principle therein enunciated is still u
living factor in the foreign policy Of this
country For if the proposed occupa
ton of the territory in dispute be not
direct violation of that doctrine. then 1t
is inconceiVable that any condition nr
circumstance can arise to which the
doctrine can pertinently be applied.
MEMENTO MORT SIGNS.
Los Angeles Herald: The wheelmen
are bringing forward reasons for plac-
ing guide boards on our country roads
This excellent move might be sup
pIemented by an attack on the deface-
ment Of fences trees and of natural
| interest by quack medicines and the
whole tribe of advertising fakirs. One
of the Herald representatives recently
took an extended drive through a dis
trict. southwest of Los Angeles. At
every road turn there was some un-
dertaker'S advertisement, and some
times the signs of several such rival
and dispatch in being shuffied off into
the dust was set forth for the edifica-
ton Of those on the roads intending to
die.
HYDRAULIC DEBRIS
Red Bluff News: The washings from
the hills and gulches would do little
damage If it We're not for the debris
that gets into the streams. 1t is prob
ably true that some of the streams
emptying into the bays below Benicia
are filing up with debris without any
mining upon them. 1t would be very
strange if they did not fill up under the
| circumstances, since even the bay of
San Francisco has been affected by
continued deposits of mining debris.
This stuff is deposited all the way
| down the stream TO the Golden Gate
| If the channels of the bay had not been
affected by debris the natural wash Of
the country would have flowed out
into the ocean without doing material
| damage, but the debris has filled the
mouths of these streams and INSTRUCTED
| the flow of the water, thus impounding
| the sediment carried by them and
causing its deposit in their channels
! The Napa River at Vallejo affords an
| Illustration of this. The debris from the
mines has settled at the mouth of the
! channel and INSTRUCTED it so that it
! fills up and has to be dredged out by
! the Government to obtain water deep
| enough for large vessels TO float in or
! der to reach Mare Island Navy-yard
No such difficulty was experienced IN
| til the wash from the hydraulic mines
| found its way into the Sacramento
| River and thence into the bays The
! filing Of the channels of other streams
l. due to the same cause, and this has
made it necessary for the Government
| to eXpend large sums of money in
cleaning them out and dredging.
ONERNMENT RAILROAD CLAIM
| Stockton independent: Senator Per-
| kins has stated the position of the Gov
elnmcNt as a creditor of the Pacific Rail
! rcads 50 clearly and briefly that any per-
son ought to be able 10 understand it
! The Government has a second mortgage
| or property that IS worth no more than
! the amount Of the first mortgage, besides
which there are some debts that take pre-
! ceGCTCe Of the Governments claim. That
! means that the second mortgage is worth
| something less than nothing. The recon-
mcuda ton OF the Government directors is
! 20 proceed TO fOreclOse on this nothing
| and pay off the prior liens, which are
worth more than the railroads. As a bust
| ness trs nsaCtion this would not be re-
garded a wise by an individual or pri-
| Vate corporation that might be placed in
! a like situation. Senator Perkins thinks
! however. that the \holders OF the first
/ mortgage bCrQs may be induced to take
les; than the tace of their claim, but why
! ne thinks they would do SO, when it APP
I pears prCh1 le that tGey can collect the
! whole is not r19de clear. Why the Gov
| crament would and should take less than
/ IFS claim is clear enough when the pros
/ pect is that it may get nothing. How the
I Government should settle with the rail
/ roads Is o puzzle, and must 50 remain as
| long as the security is not worth more
than the debt secured by the first mort