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VOL. XXVIII—NO. 185 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUS1 [ *• SG. ’RICE FIVE CENTS Yesterday’9 Proceedings of the House and the Senate. A Viirtlsiin lIlKnrnton Over a Very Foolish Hcmi. Iiition— Hniiilull Shows Wlmt the Democratic Majority ’lias Done —The Work of the Too Houses. Washington, August 2.—The speaker laid before the house the bill to increase the naval establishments, with senate amendments thereto. Herbert moved concurrence in the amendment. Herbert and Boutelle entered into a discussion as to the position taken by the republican and democratic parties upon the question of an increase of the navy and charges and counter charges of hostility to the naval bill were indulged in. Then Heed took a hand in the debate and arraigned, in severe terms, the democratic majority for its delay in bringing impor tant public measures before the house and preventing intelligent consideration and discussion. The history of this house was the history of a refusal to trans act public business for the purpose of enabling the democratic partv to show on the stump figures which indi cated not economy, but a failure to spend the money of the government to meet the necessities of the government. During the past week or two scenes have been en acted here which ought to make - a legis lator blush. Bills of serious importance, after incubation of six months, had been thrust upon the house when there was no opportunity for discussion. The senate amendments to the naval es tablishment bill were concurred in, and the bill, after the signatures of the speaker and president of the senate have been at tached, will go to the president for his ap proval. Randall, from the conference committee on the sundry civil appropriation bill, re ported a disagreement. Randall stated that while the report showed, an entire disa greement, the conference had agreed upon 201 of 243 senate amendments. As the hill passed the house it appropriated $2,131,525. The senate increased tnis amount to $3,108,- 850,the ar.ieudment.-|ag>,negating $1,303,400, and the house through its conferees re ceded from the disagreement to the sen ate’s amendments aggregating $921,280. The forty-two amendments upon which no agreement had been reached embraced several matters, but the most important difference between the two houses was in regard to the appropriations for the coast and geodetic survey and the Yellowstone park amendment. The conference report was agreed to and a further conference was ordered. On motion of 'Raudail a resolution was passed extending to August 5 the provis ions of the joint resolution providing tem porarily lor the expenditures of the gov ernment. On motion of Randall a resolution was adopted giving the committee on appro priations leave to sit during recess. The speaker proceeded to call the states for the introduction of bills. Baker, of New York, oifered a resolution ‘‘of recapitulation, self-commendation, modest laudation, and hearty congratula tion by a responsible majority of the house.” The reading of this was demanded by Bayne, of Pennsylvania, and the docu ment proved to be u stump paper con taining a severe arraignment of the demo cratie majority in the house and the dem ocratic president for sins of omission and commission. Several times Reagan inter rupted the reading and objected toastuinp speech being injected into the proceed ings of tiie house under false pretenses. The speaker ruled that, as the document was presented under the call of states and was in the form of a resolution, it must be received. He added, dryly, that the reso lution whs not an attack on the house, hut upon the democratic party, and he thought the democratic party could stand it. The resolution, which was endorsed “for reference to the steering committee,” hav ing been read, Randall said he did not con sider it either respectful or decent. He, therefore, moved to return the resolution to the member who offered it. Baker asked consent to w ithdraw it, but objection was made. Bayne could not see that the resolution contained a word that was not true. There was nothing disrespectful in it, unless the truth itself was disrespectful Randaii said that during his experience in the house he had uever seen such pro ceedings as at the present, and he thought iti unworthy of an American house of rep resentatives, and hence it was that lie made the motion he did. Baker said he had no purpose or inten tion of saying anything that would be dis respectful to the majority of the house. He thought it hardly necessary for him to assure his friends on the other side of his personal esteem und regard. It had been ins purpose to relieve spine mem bers on the other side from the labor of preparing a resume of the excellent work which had been performed this session, but in view of the fact that his friend from Pennsylvania (Randall) was grieved, he would ask unanimous consent to withdraw' the resolution; hut again consent was re fused, und Randall remarked that he was not grieved, and that he thought the gen tleman felt worse about the matter. Reed said that while the matter had assumed the form of a jest, the resolution contained so many unpleasant truths that the indignation of the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Randall) could not lie feigned. It was true that this democratic house had determined, as stated in the res olution, to keep half a million citizens of the United States out of the union. It had flouted the demand of the great territory of Dakota to become one of the sisterhood of states. That was a fact which could not be gainsaid. It was a iact which no jest could obliterate. Then, again, the hoi*' has deliberately suppressed legislation In regard to the territory of Utah. The sen ate had passed strong legislation oil the subject, and the house judiciary committee had reported still more stringent legisla tion. and yet this house, with forty demo cratic majority, had suppressed that legis lation,and Mormonism continued in posses sion of the territory. It pretended to be more eager than the senate on the Mor mon question, and yet it did nothing. It had pretended to be more eager than the senate to secure legislation in regard to terstate commerce, and yet failed to pass and allow it a law. The gentleman from icxas (Reagan) had told him this morning that he could make no capital out of this Kino of talk. Make capital ? He did not come to make 'capital. [Derisive ejaculations and incredulous laughter on the demo cratic side.] He came here to do what was proper and right, and he saw the scorn with which that was treated by the democratic party. [Laughter.] All these proceedings were going into historj ana all these little speeches about how much appropriation bills footed up would not make the democratic party, which had discredited everv department which had not already discredited itself a j party, and yet this party got itseli into a state of indignation over an aflair line it had the senate bill to become this, for the first time it came up solid. [Laught.r.l Reagan thought that : member should be allowed, ill violation ■ i the rules and in contempt of his constituents, to present a statement whieli was a stump speech and in which there was so little truth. TLu democratic party 111 the house had passed bills declaring the forfeiture of land grants, measures winch had been long demanded and which the gentleman from Maine i Reed i had opposed. It had passed a joint resolution proposing t > pay (ut the r plus in the treasury. This the gentleman bad opposed. It passed a bill to reg ulate interstate commerce und give relief to the people against the oppression under which they had groaned for years. This the gentleman haa opposed. It had passed a bill to prevent the absorption of public lands. This bill the gentleman had opposed. When the number of bills passed this session cum- t be considered it would be found that this democratic bouse which the gentleman upbraided had performed more labor and passed more bills than any house of representatives since the founda tion of the government. [Applause on the democratic side.] Randall did not believe that any one would suppose that helwould shrink from from any legitimate political warfare, but the gentleman from New York (Baker had taken advantage of the rules and pre sented a proposition which was neither re spectful nor decent and from the responsi bility of which the gentleman sought to escape iiy asking to withdraw it. Balcer—“That was not done on my own account. It was a concession to the gen tleman from Pennsylvania.” Randall—“I need no concession We are all about to return to the people who sent us here, and the recordofthishou.se will lie weighed and measured by them, and the election will show whether tin- party in control of this house is not well entitled to th^respect and approval of the American people. We hat* returned to the public domain millions of acres of public lands taken by insatiate corpora tions. We have entered upon the building of a new navy. We have passed every act that wo have been asked to pass having for its purpose the bettering of the condition of tiie laboring people. We have not in a single instance passed any bill in favor of monopolies. We have given the senate an opportunity to pass an interstate com merce bill which only forty men on that side dared to vote against. The appropria tion bills as they have passed this house are freer from unnecessary and suspicious propositions^ban a any appropriation bills by any congress since the war. Wo have done so well that we ought to, and I believe will, receive the confidence of the American people. When we came here there were thousands and thousands of people idle in tiie United States, but to-day there is not in my judgment a laboring man who wants to work who can’t secure work. [Ap plause.] And that conies iu a large de gree from the confidence which this house and a democratic executive have given to the American people. [Applause.] Randall's motion to return the resolu tion to Baker was agreed to. On motion of Matson, of Indiana, the rules were suspended and the house by a vote of—yeas 187, nays 51—passed with u verbal amendment the senate hill increas ing tiie pension of soldiers who have lost an arm or leg in the service. The house then, at 5 o’clock, adjourned. Senate. Washington, August 2.—Allison, from the conference committee on the sundry civil appropriation bill, reported that the committee had been unable to agree. The conferees had gone over every item in tiie bill with great, care. There were certain points on which the house conferees were to ask instructions from that body and on which tiie senate conferees desired the judgment of the senate. The first difficulty related to the appropriations for the coast survey. Tiie house provision had reduced tiie appropriations for the coast survey about $100,000 below the appropriations of last year and made a practicably new arrangement and adjustment with reference ‘to the official force of the survey, creating new offices, abolishing old ones, changing compensation, increasing com pensation, etc. The senate had amended the bill so as practically, to continue the force as it now exists, but had made con cession to the house respecting the field force by allowing its reduction from 84 to 52 as vacancies should occur. The house conferees insisted that a new adjustment should be made in the bill. The answer of the senate conferees was that the coast survey had been since August, 1885, practi cally without a scientific head, and that when the office had a responsible head with scientific knowledge it could be carefully taken up and considered. The next items of dinerence were in relation to the enlargement of new buildings, to the survey of public lands, to Yellowstone park, to the erec tion of a hospital (adjacent to the insane asvtum) for insane convicts and homicidal patients, to stenographers for the chief justice and justices of the supreme court, and to the item of $10,000 to be expended by the library committee for works of art. On the latter point, Voorhees comment ed upon the “extraordinary spiusm of alarm” on the part of the house on this subject, saying that since he had been a member of congress this annua! appro priation had been regularly made as a matter of course. Beck, a member of the conference com mittee, expressed the hope and belief that with a spirit of concession evinced, an agreement would be reuched before long. As to the coast survey, he did not see h6w the senate could yield, for he understood that even now the salaries of scientific men were nearly 20 per cent. less than the salaries paid in the geological survey. He did not see either how the house provisions in re gard to a new pension building could bo carried out. As to Yellowstone park, he hoped that the house conferees would not urge their objection. The clause in refer ence to it had been carefully drawn up by the senator from Missouri (Vest) and he trusted that it would ho adhered to. He believed in extending the park and having it taken care of and preserved. Either that, or it should lie abandoned altogether. He would not have it abandoned by indi rection. After discussion the senate (on motion of Vest) insisted specially on its disagree ment to the Yellowstone park items, and on motion of Allison, insisted generally on its disagreement to the other items, and a further conference wus ordered. The senate took up the house bill re lating to the taxation of fractional parts of a gallon of distilled spirits, amended it by making the time when it goes into etfect the second month succeeding the month in which this act is approved, by extend ing the act of March 3, 1877 (relating to fruit brandy), to brandy distilled from apples or peaches, passed it and asked a conference. , _ . . , The senate then took up the bill reported from the finance committee to provide for the inspection of tobacco, cigars and snuff, providing for their exportation to foreign I countries without payment of taxes, under i the rules and regulations of the treasury j department. I At 2:10 the senate went into executive ! session. , . At G p. m. the doors were reopened and the senate adjourned until 10 o’clock to- morrow. President Cleveland Fixes His Signature to the Oleomargarine Bill. Knilh That Within Him JtwU'il hy tin IIi-hihI. Klc. Numbin'. In Suriule- -1- .luliii Bn. Con- of these provisions, and regarding them as not being so connected and interwoven with the other sections ns if found invalid to vitiate the entire measure, 1 have determined to commend them to the attention of the house with n view lo mi immediate amendment of the Dill if it should In: deemed necessary and if it is practicable at this lute day in the session of congress. The fact that the bill does not take effect by its terms ui 1 ninety days have elapsed after its approval, thus leaving it one month in operation before tiie next session of con i' gress.when.if time does not now permit,the safety and efficiency of the measure may 1 he abundantly protected by remedial leg Washington, August 2.—The president islative action, and a desire to see realized has signed-the oleomargarine bill and sent i the bca-iicinl results which it is expected a message to the house of representatives | "’ill-immediately follow the inauguration stating his reasons for approving it and | pt l'- - s legislation have had their influence suggesting some additional legislation, j in determining my official action, lhe The president in his message to the house considerations which have been referred of representatives to-day, after formally ' to will, l hope, justify this eommuueiation announcing that he had signed the oleo- ; ®i>cl the suggestions which it contains, margarine Dill, says: I [Signed] Grover CLEVELAND. “ This legislation lias awakened much interest among the people of the country . Work nr the Secret Session, and earnest argument has been addressed i W vshtngton August 2.—When the case to the executive for the purpose of infill- 0 f jp g Dement', nominated to he surveyor- eucing lus action thereupon. Many in op- gent .„] of Utah, wus reached by the senate position have urged its dangerous eharac- f n se ,. lvl se8 sion to-dav, it was announced ter as tending to break down the bounda- 1 that General Logan, who was absent, hud ries between the proper exercise ul the I left word that he had no more light in De legislative power by federal and state au- : munt ‘ s behalf. Senator Cullom said lie thority. Many in favor of the | had, when the case was up before, enactment have represented that , vote( j ,- or confirmation chiefly became it promised great advantages to \ his colleague desired it, but lie was now a large portion of the population who I satisfied that Dement was not the kind of sadly need relief, and those on both sides man the government needed in the posi- Of the question whose advocacy or oppose : tioll of surveyor-general of Utah, and he tion is based upon no broader foundation ! therefore, onpnse confirmation, than local or persona) interest have out- ; Nobody defended Defhent and he was re numbered al others. This upon its thee i ect ed without division. Fits John Secretary Bayard Sends the Correspond ence to Congress. Hr Cnillllli nfK Ailvi'rsrly mi ‘lin Jli'xli'ini Unverintti'i till' Mi'xli'iius Huh" t)|iii(i L'ijlIl'S. Posit Inn Tnkrn Iiy Tlin (Tuliiis Whlt'li to Ai.ii'rlnui Pi'tn- was confirmed and in its main features is a revenue bill and was first introduced in the house ol do bote, and by nearly the same vote representatives wherein the constitution j ^ lhiU east for Dement. Internal Reve- deelares that all bills for raising revenue shall originate. The constitution has in vested congress with very wide legislative discretion, both ns to the necessity of taxation and the selection of objects of its burdens, and though if the question was presented to j na1 j, and”Freeman, of Tennessee, and Ine as an original proposition, 1 might Collectors of Customs Smalley, of Ver- doulit the present need of increased ta.ia- 1 - - - tion. 1 deem it my duty in this instance to defer to the judgment of the legislative nue Collector McGrow, of the West Vir ginia district, was confirmed. Thir- nomi nation has been ponding more than a year and a half.it being one of those left unconfirmed at the end of last session. United States Marshals Urner, of Cincin brunch of the government which has beei so emphatically announced in both houses of congress upon the passage of this bill. Moreover those who desire to see removed the weight of,taxation now pressing upon the people from other directions may well be justified in the hope and' expectation that the selection of an additional subject of internal taxation so well able to bear it will in consistefiey be Col lowed by legislation relieving our citizens from other revenue burdens rendered by the passage of this hill, even more than heretofore unnecessary and needlessly op pressive. It has been urged as an obj: und Brady, of Fall River, Mass., W'.-ie confirmed. The nominations of C. ii. Potter to be Indian agent for tiie Omaha and Winnebago agency, and E. H. Hitman to be postmaster at Jacksonville, Washington, Aug. 2.-—Representative Crain, of Texas, to-day had an Interview with Secretary Bayard in reference to the Cutting and liiissure casos. Crain says that the secretary in the course of the conver sation, referring to Rassure’R ease,said that he lmd forwarded to Minister Jackson a statement of the facts submitted to him Iiy .Mr. Lcrr, American consul at l’renigrna, in rl would await the result of the investi gation which he hud instructed Jackson to request the Mexican government to cause to be made before taking any action in the matter. in regard to the Cutting case, tiie secre tary stated that he had made a demand for the release of Cutting, and was an swered that Cutting was being tried for a violation of a federal statute, which pro vides among other things for the punish ment of a foreigner who in a foreign country committed an offense against a Mexican citizen. To this Bayard replied that our government could not tolerate the application of such a law to American citizens and renewed his demand for Cut ting’s release, which has not been com plied with. To-day, Crain suid, the secretary of state will submit to the senate a statement of all the proceedings iu the ease, and upon con gress will become devolved the duty of advising what particular action may be taken by the president and the secretary of state. He said that Secretary Bayard is aroused to the importance of the principle involved in the i “ting case, and is deter mined to protect American citizens to the full extent of hit; v itver from ihe enforce ment against tin Mexican law above men tioned. Under Ps rv visions scarcely one ’ in the Ui Texas on the coming of the alleged writ r or publisher in Mexico, and the Mexlcau correspondence accompanying Mr. Mares- cal’s refusal to release Cutting found in t‘. • accompaniments to Minister Jackson’s dispatch ofJuly22d, 1888. show the 186th article of the Mexican code is the ground of the jurisdictional claim. Under this pretention it is obvious that an editor or publisher of any newspaper article within the limits und jurisdiction of the United States could bo arrested and punished in Mexico if the same were deemed objectionable to the of ficials of that country after the Mexican met hods of administering justice should be be found within those borders. “Aside from the claim of extraditlonai power thus put forth for tiie laws of Mex ico and extending their jurisdiction over alleged offenses admittedly charged to have been committed within the borders of the United States, are to be considered tiie arbitrary and oppressive proceedings which, os measured by the constitutional standard of the United States, destroy the substance of the judicial trial ana pro cedure to which Cutting lias been sub jected.” In transmitting the document to con gress tiie president in a brief communica tion says: “As to the inquiry contained in the resolution, whether any additional United Stntes troops have been recently order to Fort Bliss, I answer in the nega tive.” Tiie papers were referred to the commit tee on foreign relations. sand Tilted 111., eted r Sherman tried to call up t! e ex- i treaty with Urcat Britain, favor- if.rleii Tom the committee on '".nations, but the proposition was wn by a majority, which mode it prolm'oie that any action would be this session. Tin' Drill SI ili l .TON, August! issued to-day shows nit. The debt state- tile decrease of fontottiis me^urathat while“u“porting j toVe'*’'0W lfia^cnshbln^he^roasiry lose* lower one industry of our neotile for the ‘Mil‘Mi*, silver certifiialcs outsn iuung, Till' Itiiri'H nl Siiriitnioi Yesterday. Haratoga, August 2.—First race, for maiden two-yolr-olds, 6 mile; Feereuza won, Belle Brock 2d, Lesbia 3d; time 1:06. Second race, 1{ miles; Hidalgo won, Royal Arch 2d, Tomnsa 3d; time 2:524. Third race, i mile; Harefoot won, Lord Lome 2d, Brait 3d; tune 1:174. Fourth race, 1 mile and 70 yards; Mono gram won, Weaver 2d, Hartford 3d; time 1:64*. Fifth race, over hurdles, 13-18 mile; Burr Onk won easy, Chanticleer 2d, Glenarm 3d; time 2:19. power one industry of our people for the protection and benefit of another. Were 1 to indulge such discussion as a basis of official action in this case and if entirely satisfied that the con sequences indicated would ensue, I should doubtless fuel constrained to interpose the executive dissent, but I do not feel called upon to interpret the motives-of congress otherwise than by the apparent chapter of the bill, which has been presented to me, and 1 am • convinced that the taxes which it creates cannot possibly destroy the open and legitimate manufacture and sale of the thing upon which it is levied. Ii' this article has the merit which i s friends claim for it, and if the peo ple of the land with a full knowledge of its real character desire to purchase and i use it. the taxes exacted in by this bill will I permit a lair profit to both tiie manufac turer and dealer. If lhe existence of t ie commodity taxed and the profits of its manufacture and sale depend upon dis posing of it to the people,for something else which it deceitfully imitates, the • tire enterprise is a fraud and not an indus $$7i5i:-lj044; certificates of deposit outstand ing, 8191,005,000; legal tenders outstanding, $348,738,438; fractional currency (not in cluding amount estimated ns lost or de stroyed:, $0,853,702.52. Tin* Surplus Ucsohillmi. Washington, August 2. The conferees on the surplus resolution held a meeting this evening and failed to reach ail agree ment. There may be another meeting to morrow, but the belief is strengthened that no agreement will be readied this session. ii" \riii Washington, August 2. to-day sent to congress fo pension vetoes. The reasoi are in line with those heret published—a lack of merit established, ora failure to : -The president ur more private is for the vetoes ofore frequently where facts are nake out a ease. Serve AH Alik". Washington, August 2.—Among the clerks dismissed from the patent office try, and if it can’t end::r ■ the i xhiliition f , Saturday was Miss Alice G. Miehlolmm, its real chcra Her, which will be eiiected the inspection, supervision and stamping, which this bill directs, the sooner it is de stroyed the better the interest of fair dealing. Such a result would not furnish the first instance in history of legislation in which a revenue hill pro duced a benefit which was merely inci dental to its main purpose. There is cer tainly no industry better entitled to the incidental advantages which may follow this legislation than our farming and dairy interests, and to none of our people should they he less begrudged than our farmers and dairymen. Tiie present depression of their occupation, the hard, steady and ol- ten unremunerative toil which such occu pations exact,, and the burdens of taxation randdaughter of President Thomas Jef ferson. Kit/.-liiliii Porter foilhlincil. Washington, August 2. -Tiie senate has confirmed tiie nomination of Fit/. John Porter to he colonel of the army on the re tired list. ON CHANGE. Ailv New York, August 2.—Grangers dis played their old-time activity at the stock xchange to-day and are materially higher 3KB is pations exact,, ana r.lie nuraeiiH o; taxation i '--"-'.'“"s'- v”, ‘v,T • which our agriculturists necessarily bear, ! to-night. file buying of these stocks is entitle them to every legitimate considera- j generally attributed to influential New ,j on | J ork parties and by some to Chicago par- “Nor should there be opposition to the D’ es usb rosa. Northern Pucilie also ad- incidental elitect ol this legislation on the | vunced on the belief that congress would do part of those who profess to he engaged I nothing on the lorfeituro hills. Room part of those who profess to be engag honestly and fairly in the manufacture and sale of a wholesome and valuable article of food, which, by its provisions, may be the subject of taxation. As long as their business is carried on under cover and false pretenses, such men have imd companions in those who manufacture and, however harmful, take their place without challenge with the better sort in the common crusade of deceit against the public; hut if this occupation ami its methods are forced into light, and all these manufacturers must thus either stand upon their merits or fall, the good and bad must soon part company, and the fittest only will survive. •‘Not the least important incident re lated to this legislation is the defense af- forueu to tiie consumer against the fraudu lent sale of an imitation for a genuine arti cle o: -ib, oi, very general household use. Notwithstanding the immense quantity of ill which is the article described in this bil sold to people for their consumption us food, am! notwithstanding the claim mode that its manufacture supplies a eheiq substitute for butter, say that hardly a entered a poor man’s house under the traders to-duy were ranged on the bull side. Considerable short stock was pur chased during tlie day, which materially helped the advance. The first prices, though irregular, were in a majority of eases t to i higher. Western Union was the only notable exception, opening down J. Trading was quiet for the first few min utes, but buying in Union Pacific on false reports of tne absorption of the Oregon Navigation stimulated trading over the whole list, and an active and strong mar ket followed until noon. The market then became quiet and prices continued about steady until tiie last hour, when an other slight ur”uiK e occurred. The mar ket closed strung with everything on tiie active list except \\ extern Union higher, and St. Paul mei Michigan Central each up 1], ami ihe otiier stocks fractional amounts. Sales 239,000 shares. i [‘"trull'll IIuiiiiin Itiiily. Vandalia, 111., August 2.—There has just been exhumed, near St. Elmo, in the eastern part of this county, the petrified I venture to I body of a Miss Fulton, who died fourteen pound ever : years ago. The remains, which were dis interred at the request of some relatives and name and its true character. While in its I placed beside another deceased relative, j relation to an article of this description, j were found to he unusally heavy. Tiie there should be no governmental _ regula- i coffin was opened, revealing the fact that J tions of what a citizen shall eat, it is cor- the bodv had been transformed into stone, I tainly not a cause of regret, if hy legisla- everything remaining intact and the form j tion of this .character, he is offered the and features being us perfect as the day it means by which he may better protect : was placed in the ground. The body, after himself against imposition in meeting the 1 being exposed several hours to the light needs and wants of his daily life. _ Having | and atmosphere, remained perfectly solid entered upon this legislation, it is mani- i and intact. The weight, as nearly as could festly a duty to render it as effective as i pc guessed, is some 300 or ‘250 pounds, possible in the accomplishment of , Your correspondent has this statement all the good which should i on the authority of Mr. Lorenzo Lovett legitimately follow in its train. This leads ! and Mr. Charles Stein, two responsible to the suggestion that the article proposed j farmers, who were present and assisted in to be taxed and the circumstances which taking the body up. ai.j, quiet along the line. Belfast, August 2.—No further attempts at. rioting were made during the night, und journalist out of States would escape punishment if caught in Mexico, for the charge against Gutting is that he published in Texas a libel upon a Mexican citizen residing in Mexico. Tlir Information I iirnlslii'il. Washington, August 2.- In response to n resolution of the senate asking for in formation concerning the alleged illegal detention of A. K. Cutting by the Mexican authorities at Paso del Norte, the presi dent transmitted to the senate to-duy the report of the secretary of state, together with a voluminous mass of correspondence relative to the ease. Under date of July 11th United Slates Consul Brigham at Paso del Norte forwarded to United State Min ister Jackson at Mexico full statements of the facts attending the arrest and impris onment of Culling and an announce ment of his (Brigham's failure to procure any reply to Ids application for a fair trial or release on bail of Cutting. OnJulvOth the United Mates minister sought from M. Mareseul, a Mexican sec retary of foreign affairs, proper relief for Cutting. The following day Mareseul re plied that he had recommended the gov ernor of Chihuahua to see that prompt and full justice was administered. On July 17Ut Consul Brigham stated that Cutting was still in j>ri. • ii and nothing lmd been done for bis release. The secretary says that Ihe imprison ment of tills American citizen having thus continued for a full month without ex planation or tiie prospect of release, he (Secretary Bayardi on Juiy 19th, addressed a telegram to Minister Jackson instructing him t,u demand of the Mexican govern ment the instant release of A, K. Cutting. This was followed on July 20 hy instruc tion of tiie secretary to Minister Jackson reciting all the precedent correspondence and facts and stating the legal positions assumed by this government as a ground for demanding the release of its citizens. Minister Jackson on July 23d telegraph ed the refusal of the Mexican govern ment to accede to the telegraphic demand of Secretary Bayard for Cutting’s release? which was followed iiy another telegram giving the statement of tiie Mexican rea sons. Consul Brigham,on July 28th telegraph ed that the governor of Chihuahua was pushing the trial of Cutting who ignored, the proceedings. On the 27th the secretary mailed ad ditional instructions to Minister Jackson. The secretary iu this letter refers to the claim of the Mexican minister, based on Mexican laws, whereby jurisdiction is assumed by Mexico over crimes committed against Mexicans in the United States or any foreign country, and his contention that under this law the publication of a libel in Texas was made cognizable and punishable in Mexico. This claim of jurisdiction hy Mexico was peremptorily and positively denied by Secretary Bayard, who declared the United States would not assent to or permit the existence of such extra territorial force to be given to Mexican law. Mr. Romero, he says, finally assured him that Cutting would he released in a very short time. Convinced of the friendly and conciliatory spirit influencing the Mexican govern ment, the secretary informed tiie consul that in his opinion all questions of con flicting interests between the two govern ments can without difficulty lie equitably, honorably and satisfactorily ad justed. In his report the secretary says : Touch ing the Mexican laws cited iiy Romero, this conflict of law is even more profound than the literal difference of the corres ponding statutes, for it affects the under lying principles of security to personal liberty and freedom of speech, or expres sion, which are among the main objects sougiit to be secured Iiy our frame work of government. The present case muy constitute a precedent fraught with most serious results. The alleged offense may lie and doubtless in the pres ent case is, within the United States, held to he a misdemeanor, not of a high grade, but in Mexico may be associated with penal results of the gravest character. An act may be created by a Mexican statute an offense of high grade which, in thu United States, would not be punishable in any degree. The safety of our citizens and all others lawfully within our jurisdiction would lie greatly impaired, if not wholly destroyed, hy admitting tiie power of a foreign state to de fine offenses and apply penalties to acts committed within the jurisdiction of the United States. The United States and the states composing tin's union con tain the only forum for the trial of offenses against such of their laws, und to concede the jurisdiction of Mexico over Cutting’s case, as it is stated in Consul Brigham’s re port, would be to substitute the jurisdic tion and laws of Mexico for those of the United States over offenses committed Fire In Bull lullin'. Baltimore, August 1.—-The four-story Mock comprising Nos. 118, IIS and 120 South Eutaw street, was burned to-night. The fire broke out in 120, occupied for storage purposes by C. H. Beebe, wooden- ware manufacturer, which building was completely gutted. About ten thousand dollars worth of goods were destroyed. Nos. 118 and 118 were occupied by W. B. Clotworthy, commission merchant, and Smith, Hallway & Co., manufacturers of yeast powders. Clotworthy’s loss is placed at $6,000, and Smith, Hanway it Cos’, at $20,000. The buildings are owned by John Hopkins’ estate and are dumaged to the extent of $20,000. The entire loss is cov ered by insurance. Valuable property in the neighborhood induced the sending out of a general alarm and the entire fire de partment worked for four hours at tho most stubborn fire that has occurred in this city for many years. Alli'i' it I’lililit' Officer. New York, August 2.—When the grand Jury for the August term of the court of general sessions was sworn to-day the court called special attention to the pub lished charges against tho commissioner of public works, it being asserted that from corrupt, willful and wicked motives a public office, has been handed over to a contractor, this contractor, us 4s claimed, being the actual head of the office, the other being only, in nominal possession. Tiie department, according to common report, lias been in the hands of this con tractor for some time, and he had power to give himself contracts and discharge and appoint men, so that it was substan tially In the hands'of a man who has car ried it on, no doubt, antagonistic to the jveU'are of tho city and its tax-payers. A I’ustinu'ii'c IfuriltiKif. Jacksonville. Kin., August 2.—The Tinies-Union’s special from Enterprise. Fla., says that John Bonic, postmaster at St. Sebastian, Indian river, was found dead in his office last Wednesday. A cut oil Ids head showed that he had Iieen mur dered. Tiie office was robbed, hut the amount taken is unknown. Nathan Mc Donald and Ed. Beuliam, colored, were arrested on susoieion and lodged in Titus ville jut). EvilVi.'i'i'ill l'il Ih'imrt*. Charleston, August 2,—Later reports show that only a small part of the l ice crop in Georgetown county is lost and the ac counts of distress an gemtions. believed to he oxag- iliillini'l. can’t sell them on the streets. Amsterdam, August 2.—The burgomas ter of this city has forbidden the sale of newspapers in tiie streets because they in flamed the populace during the recent riots. DOTTINGS FROM DON. < ro|iH mcl Ni'wh Nolen from lliirris fount Correspondence Enquirer-Sun. the city this morning is quiet. Two of . ol 'the United States. The offense alleged the men injured during the disturbances is t)le publication in Texas by' u Saturday and Sunday are in a critical con- cilizen of the United Don. Harris County, Ga., August 2.— Thinking perhaps you would like to hear from this part of Hnrris county, 1 will drop you a few lilies. As to crops, the upland corn is above an average. Corn on low bottom lands, owing to wet weather and overflows last spring, is almost a complete failure. The cotton weed is very good, but was late about fruiting, though if the sea sons continue there will be an average crop made. The Sabbath school at this place elected Messrs. J. V. Alexander and L. H. Cannon as delegates to represent them at the annual Sabbath school association, to be held at Chipley, Gu., August 4. The general meeting of the Columbus association convened at Antioch church, ut this place, Friday and closed yesterday. As tiie appointee was not present at the proper time, Elder John W. Wilson acted pro tern, and preached the introductory sermon. Everything passed off very pleas antly. Mrs. Annie Harris, who has been spend ing some time in our little town, left for home in your city yesterday. She has many friends here who regret to see her leave very much. BUTLER BREVITIES. t'ro|m, I’olltli's and ltcligioii Iu Taylor County. Special to Enquirer-Sun. Butler, Ua,, August 2.—We had a fine rain here yesterday. Everything looks re- ....."..-.I freshed and greatly revived. Crop pros pects are reasonably good. Local politicians are beginning to make things lively. August 27tli hns been fixed s the subject it thereto should be clearly und ; with great distinctness defined in the statute. It seems to me that this object | has not been completely attained in the j phraseology of the second section of t he ; bill and that the question may well arise as to the precise condition tiie article to be taxed must assume in order to be regarded as made in imitation or the semblance of i butter, or when so made, calculated or in- ' tended to be sold as butter, or for butter. “The fourteenth and fifteenth sections of I . _ the bill in my opinion, are in danger of 1 Dublin, August 2.—The National j and indeed no such circulation was prac- grass in Reynolds. The whole town seems being construed as an interference with League has ordered its branches in county I tie-able or even possible, because the arrest | agitated on the subject. Thirty or more the police powers of the states. Not being Kerry to prepare tor a general strike j was summarily made on the same day of have joined the Baptist church alone, and I entirely satisfied of the unconstitutionality against the payment of rents. I publication in the English language in I still the meeting goes on. ordered solely within the United Htates by citizens as tiie day" for the nomination of repre sentatives. This county is entitled to the ■States of J senator this time. There are four enndi- artiele deemed libellous aud i dates for the senate and two for the lower strike against PAYING I criminal in Mexico. No allegation of its l house. rents. I circulation in Mexico by Cutting is made, A wonderful revival of religion is in pro-