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VOL XXYlll-NO. OiU Mill lull USI> \V MuKNI.Nn. MAY •>(), Ism; FI VK (TINTS YESTERDAY S PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE. II,, mu,ill' I’usM'i Another lVni-ion striil Hill III,, ilmisi' IIishiiiM's till 1 .•'nrt'lini Mall Servic' Hill A wain—'The I.mi!s*l'li‘ ^tth-Trenoiiry—The Vi-rfl1e;IHM‘ovi'ri"l| V.I,'. Washington, May 19.—Dibble, nf South Carolina, from the committee on laws reg ulating the election of president, reported a joint resolution proposing a constitu tional amendment creating and defining the office of second vice-president of the United States. House calendar. The house then went into a committee of the whole, Hammond, of Georgia, in the chair, on the senate amendments to the pnstoffice appropriations bill. in the course of the discussion, which consumed the remainder of the session IJc kery, of Missouri, announced his opp - sition ti> the amendment because it was eo- i reive legislation; because it assumed to aid commerce at the expense of the foreign postal service; because it held out the per suasive idea of competition when in fact there was no competition on two lines; be cause it would operate as a hindrance to Ui- restoration of American commerce; be cause it was a positive violation of the international treaty of Berne; because it was a gift of public money to private cor porations. the larger part of which would rc> to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, officered, owned and controlled by Hu - sell Sage, Jay Gould and Sidney Dillon. Criticising the amendment in detail, lie called attention to the fact that even England did not restrict the trans portation of her mails to English vessels, but placed many of them upon ships of the North German Lloyd company. He also commented severely upon the action of the senate in adopting Hit amendment in violation of its own i ules. Was not, he asked, the amendment strong enough to commend itself to con gress and the country without having be hind it the pressure and power of any ap propriation bill ? This proposition came litre from the senate as its smaller twin brother had come from the senate last year. Glad as he would he to go home to breathe the air of grand old Missouri, not. however, to look after his fences— they were in good repair—strongly as he desired to hail the hour that should wit ness the close of the session, he was willing to stay here until the snow of winter should mantle the heights of Arlington before he would be coerced into accepting legislation of this kind. [Applause on the democratic side.] He then proceeded to argue that subsidy would not have the effect of building up the commerce of the country. In support of his argument he quoted statistics to show that from 1866 to 1877 (which he termed the “subsidy period”) the tonnage and commerce of the country steadily fell off. Much of the subsidy proposed would go to the Pacific Mail steamship company. He had heard il said that, this line was owned by 700 different persons, but he declared that it was largely owned and officered by Jay Gould, Sidney Dillon, Russell Sage and C. P. Huntington. These were the men who were to get this appropriation, which assumed to go to the building up of the commerce of the country and the merchant marine. No man would go further than ),e in restoring the merchant marine, but if this could only be done now- by means of contributions to the Pacific Mail Steam ship Co. he wanted to wait and look out for some other remedy. Under this amend ment the Pacific Mail company’s unsavory record would get £352,198, nearly half the . ropriation. He called upon liis party friends to halt and hesitate before they gave their sanction to a measure which did nut advance or enhance the interests of the merchant marine, but which put into the coffers of this corrupting corporation $326,- 30S more than it had received last year for tht same service. In consideration of this question, he stood on the doctrine of equal rights to all and exclusive privileges to none. Bingham, of Pennsylvania, supported the amendment, denying that there was anything coercive in it, or that there was any subsidy. It was a question of giving fair and reasonable compensation for ser vices rendered in carrying mails without any regie, d to the ownership of the corpor ation performing the services. He replied Io Dockery’s argument that subsidies did I rot assist the merchant marine by staling that the real subsidy period was from 1848 to 1859, and chat it I was in 1356 that the American marine I reached the highest standard of prosper ity, Then 84 per cent, of our products [ were carried in American bottoms. To-day | but a fraction over 14 per cent, was so car- j tied. Throughout the history of the pos t'd service there was not an advance that I had not at first cost money. This was a j tentative measure. The government, could see what results it would produce and I hen do in the future as it had in the past, profit I y tne experience of legislation. (Springer of Illinois, favored tin pnli-.v ' of compelling vessels that carried, tin■' American Hag to carry the limits of Ira- ' country at a reasonable rate ami aimicst 1 1 be proposition of voting a suh.Jdy into j U" pockets of Jay Gould, Sdney Dillon ' m.d Rrs.-ell .Sage. Dir.gley, of Maine, in a brief spi-c ] 'inteu out the needs of the foreign in:b' t' evict; and asked that the in;:-s aild net have their attention bi.-mUd , Ir'an the issue bv the use of the term • i: 1 >- sidy.” The rate now paid for tin hivi,p: mail service was not fair nor reason;" h . it was not decent. The senate atrei.4- m'-iit provided for nothing but decent compensation. McAdoo, of New Jersey, opposed th ■ proposition to subsidize American shies ami put forward the idea that if the ; d ip 1 States wished to compete with other n.i-. tions by the granting of subsidies, it i him. “wing to tile difference in the price of ,a- I bor. pay 25 per cent, higher subsid'es Ih.ui “tber countries. Holman, of Indiana, earnestly opnosed }{*• policy of subsidies and contended that jnal policy would not have the effect "f building up American commerce. Tin's b"d".v which it was sought to engra V anew ; pun legislation had in tin past brought 1 same and dishonor upon the house ofia-ic sentatives, and one oftlie great enrpora- ■ ns which was now as.’ing for this in creased compensation had come to a pre- '■I'uis house and corrupted the legislators of the country. I his closed the general debate and the committee rose, and the house at 5 o’clock adjourned. After the routine business in the senate to-day, Hoar gave notice that to-morrow morning Ue would call up the hill dis- 1 o-;ng of the Alabama awards. The Staten Island bridge bill was taken up, and McPherson addressed the senate u t;on it until 2 o’clock. 1 he pension trill was then placed before the senate, the pending question being the motion of McPheioon to recommit the uli with instructions to submit to the sen ate an estimate of the expense that would be incurred bv its passage. McPherson’s motion to recommit was i ejected—14 to 28. I The question recurred on Blair’s amend ment t.. VanWyck's amendment. Van- J 'A'y"k’s amendment is to add to the bill a ' section providing that no soldier under I this act should receive a pension of less | than $8 per month, and Blair s motion to makefile provision read - No pension paid j unde” the law to any soldier hereafter snail be rated at less than $4 a month.” Blair I modified his amendment so as to Include j sailors, marines, etc., and it was agreed to. Logan moved to make the minimum peoson M. Lost —2D to 21. Van W’yek’s am udment, as amended, by Blair, was then agreed to. An amendment offered by Logan, ex tending the provisions of the lilt to men who had served three months, was agreed to. At Ingnll’s suggestion the hill was amended so as to apply to men dependant upon their own exertions, instead of upon their own labor, so that there might be no question as to its application to men who earned a livelihood by intellectual labor Brown said that inasmuch as the people of the northern states had senators and representatives of both political parties who favored the passing of laws increasing pensions, lie did not believe the people of the south would object to it. Though some people of the north thought congress was going too far, yet the senate saw that the northern constituencies of both parties sent to congress men who favored these pensions, and we must, there!' re, concede that a majority of the tax-payers of the north approved their action. It was to be supposed that if the people of the south had been in the union at the time of the war and the war had been with a foreign nation, the people of the south would have gone as far in grant ing pensions as had the people of the north. He (Brown, would therefore vote for the bill, but would impress on the sen ate the propriety and duty of passing as soon as possible the Mexican pension bill, and also the bill to pension the few sur viving soldiers of the Indian wars, some of whom, he said, resided in Georgia. Unless something were done for the Mexican sol diers, Brown would have to withhold his assent from future pension bills. The bill was then passed—yeas 84, nays 11. The vote was as follows: Yeas—Aldrich, Allison, Blair, Bowen, Brown, Conger, Cullorn, Frye, George, Gibson. Hale, Hampton, Harrison, Hawley, Hoar, Ingalls, Logan, McMMlan. Malione, Manclerson, Miller, Mitchell of Oregon, Morrill, Payne, Plumb, Itiddlebcrger. Saw yer, riewolh Sherman, Spooner, Van Wyck, Yoorkees, Walthall and Wilson of Mary land—34. Nays — Beck, Barry, Blackburn, Call, Cockrell, Eustis, Gorman, Gray, Jones of Arkansas, McPherson, Morgan, Saulsbury, Vest arid vVhltliorne—14. The bankruptcy bill was again laid be fore the senate, aiid after an Ineffectual at tempt of Kiddleberger to secure an execu tive session, the senate at 5:45 p. in. ad journed. IHhi'irvorwl the Aerolite. Washington, Pa., May 19.—After months of search. Prof. Jonathan Emery, of William and Mary college, has discov ered the aerolite which fell in Washington county September 14, 1885. It was found imbedded deep in the soil on Frederick Miller’s farm, two miles north of Clays- ville. Prof. Einery says that it is the largest aerolite on record, and weighs fully 200 tons. Its composition ifl' chrominiutn, nickel, aliemenium, copper, magnesium and tin. Thi* Siib-Tmisorj. Washington, May 19.—The New York Times contains n lengthy article, written in the usual malignant tone of that emi nent mugwump journal, on the Louisville sub-treasury bill. The article concedes the passage of the bill by the senate, and calls on tlie president to veto it. By com paring this remarkable article with the speech of Mr. Hewitt, of New York, against thebill.it is easy to divine the source of the aide editor’s inspiration. This is mentioned as one of the indications that a veto of the hill in case of its passage by the senate is by no means improbable. The bill was passed, it will he remembered, against the advice of United States Treas urer Jordan, who is supposed to voice the sentiment of the administration. it Ml Ml THE CHICAGO MEAT PACKERS WILL MOT SUBMIT TO IT. iimici unfavorable conditions. Marseilles • L nis » said t.o ho hi n dmdorablt sanitary condition, and tin* mortality record for the first i a roe months of the present year is gieahr than for any preceding year. Being at tin rate of forty-eight in every I one thousand of population. Cholera is j nu fi/itc- V:: tii-i !-n I Jury Ih iml it***— tii.it i lly. to nave Us appearance in ViANiFESTO. Chicago. May V,\ After a fortnight's struggle the svrike of the planing; mill employes here for eight-hours work at ten-hour s nav ha ? come loan end. 'i life men have formally asked U> be taken back at the old terms, .-jiipiiiaiirig only that their wages be paid weekly. This was agreed to. The mil! owners declare they will dis- enaige no one to make places for the strikers. Tin Kiuiit then* V. slum. Chicago, May 19.—Several of the promi nent meat packers were interviewed yes terday and Inst evening as to whether inev wouifl return to the ten hour rule next fall or continue h# gi\e the men eight hours. Tliev say thpA at Kansas City, Boston and other placets me men aiv working ten hours and we cannot begin to compute with ilium, fi-lert the eight-hour move ment was: inaugural .*d we had s< me show by being satisfied wi.h small profits, hut now we have none at all. A visit to other packing houses sin*wed too same state of affairs. The AvncrieTn packing eoinr-aiiy, Fowler Rios., Swift & Sons, tin; Chicago packing anti provision company and all others have decided to notify their men that they cannot continue under the pres ent system. They were not certain when the return to the old hours would be. made. Sidney A. Kent said he Had been the tirst to make the change a week ago. The movement will effect directly or indirectly 3C»,0C/J persons. There arc about 10,000 men employed in nine houses as hands and butchers ami others will bring the total up to the figures mentioned. They are all more or less connected witn the packing houses, and should the packers carry out their threat to shut down in ease the men make trouble about returning to the old time, they would necessarily be in jured. Armour A Co. say: “We cannot go on as we are now. It is simply out of the question. We must either return to the old system or close up. There is ho other way out of it for the puckers. It was a rmstake, and we thought it might-benefit the men. While we are working but eight hours,” said he, “St. Louis and Kansas City packers are working their men ten hours. The men are beginning to see that short hours and full pay oper ates against the* packers, and that we can not stand competition. I agreed with my men to try the experiment for a month, and in agreeing to do it, it was only an ex periment, however, and we all understand it as such.” What the men will do is rather difficult to find out. One of the members of their executive committee says: “We don’t want to strike and have not advocated it, al though we most certainly have asked for the eight-hour plan. We propose to hold the bosses to it now. We have perfected an organization and intend to stand by our colors.” It is understood, however, that non union workers and a great many union men aside from the delegates do not share these sentiments, that they were well sat isfied with their positions Before an organ ization for any demand was agitated, and a great many of the men do not relish tlie idea of being thrown out of work all the summer. Four ClilMri'ii ltimn*»l <•» Huilli. A Knox, O . May 19.—The home of v blow Mary Mooney w os burned at mid night with four of her chhuren. The widow was awakened bv the flames, and Inking tile youngest child, aged two years, in her arms, leaped from the window, tell ing el* enihhen 1o jump, but they failed to do so. and perished in the flames. Mrs. Moonuv and her brother-in-law were badly injured in endeavoring to rescue tin chil dren. The brother-in-law will probably die. The child which Mrs. Mooney had in her arms when she leaped from tne win dow is the only one of the family unhurt. FOREIGN FLASHES. Lillie* :i Vi.•tor) l la* Pro* it I .mill l iir Krupt ion of Mount Ki:iii. Kir cmilors Lio* Their Reason** isitr the suite. Cincinnati, May 19.-— Ohio’s self-exiled senators, now quartered at the Arrengton House, in Covington, Ivy., have finally ore- pared a statement for publication. They have been absent from the slate for three weeks. During that time they have visited Atlanta, New Oilcans, Chattanooga and Lexington. For t Le last teii days 11 >ey have been in Covington. The reasons for their departure are fully set forth in their manifesto. Tneir statement lias been hastened by the criticisms of the press on their flight, and by the doings of the legislature during their absence. In tike last lew days the Cincinnati board of public works and the board of hi alt n, lb • twe gi\Jng employment to about 2d' 1 democrats, have been abolished, and the governor has : pnointed in their places board of public ad airs, consisting i ! -v* republican politicians, which wbl nu.-A every man. The senate has also pass.*d congressional gerrymander, giving the denr-nr, bs but nv»* but of twent.v-two dis k-iris. .-ill this Lite senators claim is bn-- gai, and will noc stand in a couit of justice. ,-since they have been in Covington ev« ry eonn oav has been extended them hv t he j* j '» of that city. They have been gi\• boat rules on the river, taken on ;!*■’ ;ng<*\versions and cntertained'nt. tin* ju m o f tne .rmcipal citizens. This uftmi » :i they were given a reception at the h< of ex-ri»'w. .John W. Stevenson, in A\.\. port. Two of the senators, O’N'-il. of Zam-sii!!c, a.iKi Lawrence, of (tuernsc.v comity, are cx-coi gressmen. ■ is I rail Ih-irini. ST. Lot;::- May 19.- The trial of Max well for tne n urder of Prelier began to day. Aft«*r the witnesses told the story of tlie •IDcnver.v of the crime, Warren. «<i' Wor« • *t- .. Mi b .nified that lie was ac quainted whi- ti:e;*]jri.soner ami Frelh r; ikiid met ihem «»n board tlie steamship ('••pludeiin. He had witnessed their intr«»- duc\i",i tf) each other. They seemed to become very intimate, but the prisoner was more n enstrntive in his efforis to Ktrengihei) the M*i* jalsliip. Maxwell gave it to be understo. 1 that lie was a physician, having graduated with honors from an English medical college. He also proposed to he an attorney, and claimed tii.it he had ocan regularly admittfai to tin- bar. The prisoner had waitton to the wit ness after they had botli arrived in the United States’, stating that he and Droller we e about to engage in the cattle busi ness in Texas. Witness It ad seen the re mains found in rip.- trunk and identified thorn as those of .Arthur Prcller. “Will Itfturn to thcOhi Plan. St. Louis, May 19.—The furniture manu facturing companies of this city on the first of May resolved, in order to avoid a strike among their employes, to give the eight hour system a iair trial, and if it should be found that their business could be conducted profitably upon that plan to continue it indefinitely, but if the contrary should result, to return to the old plan. Representatives of all tlie . factories hold a meeting last night and in view of the fact that in other cities a majority of the factions w ere working ten hours, and that it would be impossible for the employers here io compete with them on a basis of eight hours, it was resolved to ; return to tlie old plan after the 201 h Inst. ‘ and to lock out all employes who should refuse to work on that. plan. IP-.uly to <io llsick. St. Louis:, May 19. -Tlie striking em ployes of tlie Southern barb wire company had a meeting 'yesterday and resolved t«• return to work on the plan of te?i hours. The president of the company refused to rec<-p-" them lack unless they should! promise to make up during the week all time lost. WmiU Nm* IiitlLl them. St. Louis. May 19.- The grand jury at iieih"Lie, Ii)., to day rc 1 urned ttu ir report to the circuit court. After having refused to end true bills again a thedeputv sheriffs who fired . }.» n tin ;m»b in East St. I.ouis oi'iiiig the recent railroad strike and kiiicc. six of their nunoer, an order was made •br tlicir release and they depart* d* for bu m homos. It is said that tlm jury stood fifteen for no indictment while eight favored tneir indi-amenl on a charge of nuir.siaught' r. London, May 19. Messrs. Johnsfon and Waring, members of parlitmcnt for Ulster, have decided, with the approval of the conservative leaders, to abandon their op- , position to a renewal of the arms act. The i ilarl of Ranf't rly, pnxsident of the Ulster anti-repeal, say tnnt he has received many I offers of support in the event of a civil war. He adds that the union will fight its battles on the platform, and says he knows noth ing about the advertisements for arms. Gladstone has written a letter to the Ulster working men in which he expresses regret that he lias no time in which to grant them an interview, but says he will be glad to receive any written communi cation from them. The Morning Rost says the government does not intend to re new the arms act, but to hasten tht second reading of the new bill relating to the pos session of arms in Ulster and elsewhere. A HOME RULE MEMBER’S VICTORY. In the house of commons this evening Timothy Harrington, home ruler, member for Dublin, moved the second reading of the bill providing for an election by ballot of the poor law guardian in Ireland, abol ishing proxies and reducing the number of ex-ofneio members of the peer boards. Orange members bitterly opposed the nio- ! tion. John Merely supported the motion, I and after a hot debate it was carried by a vote of 207 to 105. The announcement of the result was received with cheers. The conservatives have arranged to hold a monster loyalist demonstration against the home rule bill in the city of Gains borough, Lincolnshire, to-night. Parnell has organized a counter-demon stration in the same place, and has sent T. M. Ifenly there to take charge of it and make the principal speech. Lord Salisbury' was accorded a perfect ovation when lie appeared on the stage of her majesty’s theatre tins afternoon to ad dress a conservative meeting assembled there under the auspices of Primrose league. All tlie visitors wore Lord Beaconsfield’s favorite flower. In his address Salisbury declared that toryism was growing rapidly among all classes in the empire. He said he felt it to he his duty in these critical times to urge all loyal men to combine for the support of religion and the empire. He denies that he had recommended as the best means of governing the Irish people the adopting of the twenty years’ coercion policy. He lmd only advised the maintenance of law and order in Ireland. He reiterated his advice to the Irish to emigrate from Ireland if they could not prosper and be contented under British rule and the conservatives to support the liberal members in the election where conservatives could not certainly be chosen. JOHN BRIGHT ON THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. John Bright, speaking at the Mission Bazaar to-night said that the Sunday schools contribute much toward moral feelings, and that the work performed by them was of more importance at the pres ent moment than if. Bad been at any pre vious period in the English history. The powers of the tnmiarchs wen.- lessening, and the influence of aristocracy was fading away. Tlie only power that was growing n power flint would never henceforth ho limited was the power of the people, lb claimed, Ihcre- for«, that the most press 1 ng need .‘it the present time was political education by which there could !>•. cultivated in the minds of the people a sense of their moral responsibility. Tlu-v should he taught that lab. that enjo; ild hnv • its dt iiv sliou'd b« riel.i s in m cur; Fiji lev. jus! n per d and ed to THE REBOHT ON THE PANAMA CANAL. , I’Mis May 19. M. lious.sonc, the delc- j gab-unpointed by the government to in- I spe i ih* v oi*K on lie Panama canal, has presented ii report, in which In denies tin correctness o' i In- canal < omnaiiy’s .state ment, respeef ing its fin Pities for construe lion, li*e I it nr v. in n 1 hr canal will la com- plotcd. ;"id tlie amount of monevsliil »v- <piired p, compic;.: tin work. M. Baiban*. minister «T public works, will inform !)«•- Les-.op* and Ins f.diow-tluvclors that flay inns! i e j ijy to ifou^scau’s rep. ill, as tic govi i nnn-nt cm mot . nt f'ori/c tin - projur.c.d is.-,u.’ of lott ry oonds m.iil tin- position of THE EDUCATION BILL REPUDIATED IN THE HOUSE. Tlie Cliiiirtiinn of llu* Ljilior ioiiimllfee Poes (lie Work V Unitel'nl House \lloivs Free Kelli to ilis Ke|ior1 Tlie Selienie’s Ftiiiiiipions Penioi'Hl* l/.e«l nt Its Fide. Washington. May 17. -Theeducational bill had a turn in the house to-day, and its friends found out how unpopular it is. I There is in the house an intense feeling 1 against tin* measure. The feeling is so*in- I tense, in fact, that its oppom nts are deter mined that it shall not even have a chance : to he discussed and voted oh. The house has been in a highly wrought up condition . over it all day, Chaplain Milburn had ! scarcely said Ins “amen” before members I began Buzzing around among themselves | like so many bees, talking over tlie ru mored intention of Chairman O’Neill, of the labor committee, to move a suspension I of the rules tu seta day for the considera tion of the educational bill, or rather the mutilated substi tute reported for it by the committee. Before long every member became aware of O’Neill’s intention. No conference of the opponents of the bill was necessary, however, ns their policy was mapped out some time ago. When Mr. O’Neill obtain ed the floor, therefore, to move bis resolu tion, Congressman Jack Adams moved, at the suggestion of a prominent IVnnsylvn I ilia member, that the house resolve itself i into committee of the whole for the con- j sideration of the deficiency appropriation bill. There was a good deal of cross-firing between the advocates and opponents of , the educational bill. After this motion it instantly became apparent that THE LINK WAS TO HE DRAWN between the friends and enemies of the bill, as far as the educational people were able to draw It; but in this they fell short ! of their mark. Col. Hatch was on hand ■ with liis agricultural and labor department 1 bill, which he wanted to have considered, I or a day set for it. ; and the naval increase i men w r ere all around—all but their chair- man, Mr. Herbert - readv to take a shy ! at their pet measure. Other legislative ! schemes were also not averse to a hearing, and these as a rule joined the opposition to the educational bill. | The result W'us that the motion of Mr. Adams prevailed, and the house proceeded to consider tlie deficiency bill. The hill, I however, was soon disposed of, and the question then reverted to the educational ] matter, Mr. O’Neill having again obtained ! the floor. His resolution immediately be came the target of many shots. It. was read and reread eight or nine times, being discussed between reading in such a muddy and mistifying manner by many members, several often speaking at once,that nobody 1 seemed to be able to catch its meaning. In- ; deed, it was rather a muddy resolution, being so draw'll that the labor committee might call up 500 hills under it, and all the special and continuing orders until dis- i posed of. The principal object of many ] members, however, was to see whether the educational bill could be called up i under It. It was undoubtedly the inten- i tion of Chairman O’Neill to Bring up this | bill, along w'ithjthe remainder of the mens- i ures reported by his committee, hut it soon became apparent that the resolution would , wait un'ess he relinquished the educational ; bill. This he did promptly, to THE DISGUST OF THE EDUCATIONAL MEN. He said that the educational bill did not belong to his committee and he was not willing to jeopardize the other measures in w'liieh the committee wuis interested by placing them in the same category, to stand or fall with the educational bill. He therefore gave the opposing members as-| surance that nothing but strict labor bills j would l»c culled up under the snecial order, and the resolution was passed without j amendment. The looso manner in which this resolution is worded has given the labor committee great power over the time of tlie house. It.says the bills presented by the commit tee shall i be a special and continuing order after the 3d of June. Under this act ion, as before noted, any number of bills could be pre sented by Hie committee; and tin . would, in the strictly parliamentary seme, bind the house indefinitely. In r.-pl;» In ;i <|ii«*s- tion, Speaker Carlisle ruled that the con tinuing order provided !->.• m the resolution might run until the 1th of next march, when tne eon grass is to expire. The probability i however, that tlie labor committee's bills, exclusive of t lu educational bill, wili not re.juire longer than a day. A Per tin- day’s excitement and turbulence, friends of Hie Blair bill arc very despondent and indi / mod over the treatment accorded il b\ I;, house and by i he. labor committee. They say 1 he bill was just :;s legit imnti ly a lab a commiilci measure, nfier the eoinmil- b • bad rcecive.l and net ed upon it, ns any (filler bill reported from tie- eonimitu e. Il m:iv b< who have politically offended Virginia’s little boss. Occasionally Mr. Edmunds lota an anonymous letter attacking the charac* ter of a public officer go into the Record* I he victim of the attack has no remedy, and it is not intended that he should have* anv. ft is natural that senators who fight, wfl It such weapons should like to keep the. doors elos» d. The only wondt r is that, men lik<* Logan ami liawlc y and Beck, and other straight-fnun-thc-shouldcr lighters should, submit to such leadership. Meantime the reports from executive* sessions are published bv all enterprising? newspapers with os much fullness as their inti rest warrants. The senators occar* sionully deny utterances attributed to them in such reports, hut that is only tmcauHCi they know the newspapers cannot catcht t hem by going to the record. There. Is at gr»»at deal of curiosity among senators to know how their secrets get out. In uin.Cf eases out of ten the reports are furnished, by senators themselves—sometimes oo.i— sciously, often unwittingly. The other day three senators boarded a car coming down the hill. They began at once to talk earnestly about Bow the report of fit secret session had leaked out. Then thjojr branched out on to a conversation alxouL what had been done behind the closed doors that day. They rehearsed the de tails very fully. At Fourteenth street it <|uiet and innocent looking man got out of the ear. A serene smile was on his coun tenance. He was a newspaperman. There was a great circus in the senato when tlie Sun printed Mr. Morrill's report upon the Vermont collectors, which wuA read in secret session. Nobody could ex plain the leak. All reports made in exec ute* «• session are printed just as thoue madia in legislative session are, but instead of* 1909 copies, which is tin* regular edition o£ all congressional documents, only eighty copies are issued, seventy-six for tne use of the senators and four for the use of tho senate clerks. Documents for use in executive session only are marked “confidential” in large letters. The copy in manuscript is sent to the chief clerk of the government urinUng office under seal, ana is receipted for by him. This officer is under oath not to di vulge any of the see rets intrusted to* him* and a similar oath is required of ail fcho compositors, proof readers, pressmen and hinders who are engaged upon such work. Men who can be trusted are employed in the confidential room of the printing office,, and every possible safeguard is. thrown around these executive documents. Re ceipts are given for every page of copy, every proof sheet, and galley of type.; Uiot pressmen are required to account for every sheet of paper furnished them, and fcho foreman of the confidential room is able to trace each document through its entire* history, from the time it enters the offica until the printed edition is delivered to-and receipted by the executive clerk of tht* senate. When the documents pass into the haewfei of the hitter official they are not distrihutedi among the senators as the records of legis lative proceedings are, but they are kept in. the vuults of the secretary of the senate, to which only the executive clerks havoi access. These clerks are required to ac count for every copy delivered to thorn, and even if Senator Edmunds, who is tb.o man that watches executive proceeding most closely, should ask to look at one of these documents, he would be required to make a written application and file a re ceipt for it. The clerks are thus aide to inform the senate at any time what per* sons have had copies of executive reports^ When the Sun published Senator Mor« rill* report an investigation was made., ancf it Wfti discovered that only one copy ot that document had been taken from thei files, and for that the clerks had the re ceipt of the senator himself. He denied emphatically that it had been out af liis possession for a moment, and at once re turned it lo the files where it belongs, so the mystery remains unsolved. PROSPECTS OF THE TARIFF" BILL, tl ii mi f;irt ii n* rs ami LjiImuiTs Musi S|»nil* If Ih^ IV ant * 1h*ii p Kmv Haiti Hal. tin f\iI'm ns' ril<* Hrntt;«*. ’HK ACifi, May 19.- The editor of a lean j which appeared in the paper on 1 !:•< ni at mob-. It is a very inc'.*- »c iii ami i*8 literally as fol- i .b < • ililary. are sustain.* , )\ - a majority of at the 1 inn . •■> they appreeial* , 1/ t daeate a oniii- me.ila.ly, munlly, Iy. Correct instruc- • >d of :i]»plicaf ion (T o^^ disposition will tin'll* .*•». V 19. The ^m-’.vs V(:« ci‘. <•( 1 •• !i \, ve^t. may J hat Mount .. "fe.upiion, iseonlirineil. , : • lion.ire are also reported ii.il v of I In e •.:i:.t ; i ;i . viEJ HOD 1ST CONFERENCE. ,J lie < l,u-. I* U ill net Im- ( I.i i.lm ’ — hi! tilil ns 1 e- a ;.V ( . - • hours When tin* hi U'iJ! go K» . i < oft In ealeinhu . there I sleep lie- H’ , p !...= • k.e.U- no Wakin". SECRETS THAT WON’T KEEP. L.Jiii meh Mill II , ir I la- I. Hi U hi', a ii'I llu I*. W.\ OflN( iikI Van Vi •tlorh tn i WASHiN(iTONj May 1fi. The opponents oi‘ the tariff bill in the house assert Hwit they are now sure ,»f twenty-nlni; mayvirty against the Dili. In a full house, Vney sa.y„ the v« te would stand 179 to 147. They :wJ— r:iit that five r mil lican votes mm he vasfj for the bill, and they claim thirty nine 03? forty democratic votes against it. Tlie democrat* have a majority of forty-■« three in the present house. That ought Ik* enough to pass any democratic tne-UKur'i* If the republican canvassers arc right t (h inocratic party ii.• the house is going t»> pieces on Hu* tarill hill, which ocvc.rthofcsfS is a truly democratic measure, because h\* making tiie most important raw niaXeriaia ol'<air indust*dcs clut.s free it wonlid revive tiies. industries and cnaole tin employers oflabncin tn-.n to pay larger wages h* f Fo **hcapen the raw ma- i larg. r margin for wages, preseni. < »f t he onpouenlHl '.•ii tin general debate i>i . r< ( nmmit t he bill, with in- •il;. .ait all that rt-lates t<3 iMfport hack f.hidl t la it Tl» Pi of tin h: I i V .liicli the tai ill'. a-, dust 11:• hopeful a*' s to t.lit a<fniiiifst»r' ihi*- uiotfop. th^y ex*« yof‘.2f. Tlie friendaf t 1 > laigi a majorit y it they are not as| uni!: days ago. The^M from mamifiieturer*vi I. to exja-el, vhe&) these and to nke.rf •naD-risiW »*o .std- ay yet enrnc »nd iT •a through tiotU 1: .iv. But it is as ' wl»(» feel the. rie- .D-rials for Hie well i*s to undeiT.rand ch(.i: - rv e t * il i .\s a llu Tii ain: ci ini th* and refuse to not eoinpleti i property righ near J'ul ure will h ; ai'i oration of its adoptn by the dang.-r' i s br i dvnamitc. Thi t* rf.-nso and \ : .e and otlie gish < urrent < 'fhe jjossessors at us on the shoG are eaii'K they own tin t i ht to uk* lhe same, m brute force of : he ed public sense o! brute force of tin i! ration. Thenceel- i! hurried probably . IV ice of despair, irden. We must keep hoeing out the weeds, jirono, powerful and otherwise obnoxious, so that useful plants will have a hotter elm exalt their existem This struggle will tie elii: nan tl e*. lid or did i Dr. D. J. * lilac at iengt!i in tav Dr. 'fhorna^ ( siipfi, Dr. Join.? MeFerrin, of 'f* if lb ah p: mil' “South’’ from tin: d transposing tin • substitute \\n> re of tin eMminil t ee *Vivuinia, oliered : i .f North Mi spoke in op} him. E'inumd 1 tion b. ib. his friend ’ yet. He 1 moral grn’? of llu not. hip win mi )> ir •/.ill **r_go ant fro© , now at ee that • u ngea m* then, -then Ids bib. shouldl in'dust.ri.-ii dc- if th m -l !s highe A l»i>io1 r«ais l ire. Akron. O., May 19.—A disastrous fire occurred here this morning, in which four lives were lost and a number of persons in jured. a n Everybody has heard of Oscar Wilde, but not everybody knows his full name, it is Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde. ibtain and result that the* fittest vive.” ( iml. ra in Fmiicc. Washington. D. C., May 19.-—The ma rine hospital bureau has received r- poits showing that cholera in a violent form has appeared in the village of Bretagm*. !'ranee, where fishermen as.-embh in iaiv rum- i *• -is m tlie si, ling lime, and live ‘..gather Dr. T. J. Dodd, of' favore.' the ng<* ii At tne < oneii-si.ui e Edward^ ies.fin -n. Dr. Kelly am. Jndg offered a r’- somt ;i lishiu'-nt of r-o.il* P-.u /il with aotbmby to 11 iI * "f jn’ojjeiav in t ferred. *, and <fi 1 *(-rs let his true motive go to tin t hr«)\\ ing open t ht doo-s u < x sions and showii g to t he cuiin is fighting lor n .eng(. and 11 « Mi. Edmund^ has the (o-m t hi kind of politics of M r. < .< . Hoar, 'flic Massachusetts s.-n;i sly old Vermont or cordially 1 nearly all questions but this, tin \ are together. B< »th HP. a» ie* nt mi candidates. Iloai es- M’he.v want tc do all the; < a* down Cleveland’s admiisistrat hung up iiominKtions bk* t hnt IV • chedges of a ls, and give f(.r life, s for that ah in 1 eoiirtesv. b i.;l i . : us M« o nominet ir nm j w England earn ' Bradley et tlieni, against till's in e great g called U I” tty ‘l. nd to , A. (1 the o,,rt hid officers MURDER AND SUICIDE. WllKKUNC, \V. M iy 19.— A (crriliia murder and suieide oeeurred iji Lincoln enmity, this state. Monday niffiit. Mrs, M area ret Doiian. a v. ido\y, became insane t’roii, reli;ri(HIS fanatieUni and imagined she had been ealli <1 ii,.i. by the Lord to sncri» line t In-1iv; s of In rseir and her three chil» (Iren todieine wrath. l'arly in the eve* ni'.o she threw herself upon her kuesa and s j ,■ ht sever,d hours in witet, ravin os. She then arose, and arming herself with a larife, sharp carvine; knife, imu.e ];er way lo the room occupied b\f hi r tiirei daughters, av'ed 12. lOtuul 4 years, cut tm th mat "l each child and phui'wsl tin blade into her own heart. The tiodiea were discovered yesterday by tiie neigh.-. Imis. who state that the room was so be» s]i:nti red with blood as to bear a vmj strona resemblance to a slaughter liousy.