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The First Session of the Forty-Ninth Congress a Thing of the Past. The President Approves the Ittver mnl llnrlmr Hill—The Fortification 11111 does hy fuult—Tlio lust Scenes of the Session, Kte. Washington, August 5.—'While the clerk of the house was reading the presi dent’s veto on a pension bill, the presi dent’s assistant secretary, Mr. Pruden, ap peared at the north door of the chamber and instantly he, and a message he held in his hand, became the target for every eye. When he announced the president’s ap proval of the deficiency, the sundry civil, and the river and harbor bills, there wns a round of applause, and the gloom which had settled upon the members by reason of rumors that were rife thnt the river and harbor bill had been vetoed, was dis pelled. Randall asked and received unanimous the first tlmntT-. in uuac i, , oa - It was of subjects which have been considered contrn ss i,J '{? be txecu |ive history that and by the marked absence of political u-itiYi.i ... eI f- ! Jerm itted to adjourn controversies. The varied needs nncl aims tol and nvnufi^m!i' e ic 0n V m Jf to tlle eapi- of a rapidly growing country have occu- tom tn iKillt i? ! mi 0 U 11 usual cus- 1 pied more of the time of tlie senate. W.tnii C ? rtmu th ? of congress. The short recess will enable you to j mimtte 1 ‘XA l F e u Sted il . ' vns ' )l1t 20 I greet your constituents, and I hope our ,°f meeting, nud it : and trust that each of you will return next I reasonable to expect that the December with renewed health and J, i?”L , oul 5 1 . "moil on the alert | strength to your important duties. In pm- i j n 1 ,e l Jle seut at the very hour of meet- suanee of the resolution of the two houses I Tft. _ „ I of congress. I now declare this session I some further discussion in the 1 closed snie die. i e , sellate g ot around the - A hurried leaVe taking among the sena- i .m,„° gm n g into executive session. tors nnd employes took place, and half an ! is sen 4 to 1 ok up during the progress li#ur later the chamber was empty. Iwc 601 '?, 1 r ss >? n ‘he resolution pro- ■— . —■ ----- Aiding tor final adjournment nnd, having rur ncan ctitecmam | amended it, fixing the time at 4 o’clock THE DtA0 STATESMAN - j this afternoon, adopted it. i —— i Jfe nd *“ d Uf " TiM were appointed a j I’rt'imration- for tlu> Fuiiiriil-filio fo mH at™ 0,1 the P resi(ient »» d in- 1 to ho 1 ho fall-Itcn.c.H, Fti 1 ad'oi . m I" ft t congress was prepared to j _ i|omii. Ukll) consent to have printed in the Rocord a speech upon the tariff bill introduced by him, and a resolution, was adopted provid ing for printing 3801) copies of the adverse report of the committee on ways nnd means upon the same measure. Hemphill submitted an agreeing confer ence report upon the bill protecting the interest of the United States in the Poto mac flats. Adopted. Morrison offered a resolution granting the committee appointed to investigate the labor troubles in the west permission to sit during recess with all the powers granted to it in the original resolution providing for its appointment. Adopted. The senate having announced to the house the appintment of a committee to wait upon the president and inform him that congress was ready to adjourn, the speaker appointed Morrison, Randall and Hiscoek as a similar committee on the part of the house. The committee, how ever, will riot wait upon the president until after the adjournment resolution has been agreed to Baker, of New York, rising to a personal explanation, referred to the Introduction by him of the preamble and resolution ar raigning tbe democratic party on Monday last. In the characterization of that reso lution the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Randall) had stated that, in his judgment, it was Indecent and disrespectful. The gentleman from Texas .Reagan had also characterized it in language widen the facts hardly warranted, and it was due not only to the house, but to him self, that the resolution should be embodied in the Record, in order that it might appear whether it justified the language used. It had been furtlierest from his tho'ught and purpose to propose anything to the house that should oe dis respectful or lacking in decency. He, therefore, asked that under the circum stances the resolution might be printed in th Record. Caldwell, of Tennessee, objected. Baker then took the floor ou a question of privilege, and as a part of his remarks had the resolution read in order thus to se cure its publication in the Record. Several efforts were made by the demo crats to prevent the reading of the paper, and during one of the interruptions, Gib- eon, orVYest Virginia, declai-ed that the paper contained statements which were false upon their face. When the document had been about half read Bland, of Missouri, raised the point of order that it was disrespectful to the house aud asked that the speaker rule the paper out of order. This the speaker declined to do on the ground that a question of disrespect was one which must be decided by the house, and that before the house could decide upon it the reading must be concluded. From this decision Bland appealed, and upon Blount's motion to table the appeal raised the point of no quorum. Baker and Bland were appointed tellers, and for an hour they retained their places in front of the speaker’s desk, but no quo rum was forthcoming. Requests for unani mous consent to put various measures upon their passage were denied by de mands for the regular order generally made by Brown, of Indiana, who also ob jected to Morrison’s request to take up the adjournment resolution for the purpose 61 concurring in the senate amendment. Brown stated that he would object tn everything until the pending matter was disposed of. This could be done if the gentleman from Missouri would withdraw his point of no quorum. Finally, at a quarter before 2 o'clock, a quorum appear ed and the appeal was tabled. The reading of Baker’s resolution was tken continued, but before it was comple ted unanimous consent was given to print ing it in the Record. The adjournment resolution was taken up and the amendment of the senate fix ing the hour of adjournment at 4 o clock to-day was concurred in, .... The bill wns passed appropriating m ad dition the sum of £35,000 for the selection of a site for the congressional library. The same bill passed the senate yesterday. At 2:26 tne committee appointed to wait upon the president ami in form him that congress was ready to adjourn, appeared at the bar ot the house and announced that it had. per formed its duty, and that the president had nothing furtner to communicate to congress. On motion of O’Neill, of Pennsylvania, the senate bill was passed accepting the gift of grant, and on motion of 5>eal, ot Tennessee, the bill was passed, increasing to *150,000 tbe limit of the cost of the pub lic building at Chattanooga, Tennessee. The house then, at 3:30, took a recess for half an hour. „ „ , After the recess Hiscoek, of New York, moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill regulating the duties on tobacco wrappers. Hiscoek took the floor and spoke in support of bis motion until seven minutes before 4. , The next three minutes were consumed in attempting to secure consent to have the majority report on the tariff pill Printed in the Record, and then the speaker, without any preliminary remarks, declared the house adjourned sine die. Senate. .,,, , Washington, August 5.—Allison moved to take up the final adjournment resolu tion. Conger opposed action for the present until the fate of the river aud harbor bill should be known. , ... . Ingalls asked what length of time.those interested in the river and harbor bill de sired in order to allow' the executive time to act on the measure. . , , t Conger replied that they might want one-half an hour or an hour. Ingalls asked whether the senator fro" 1 Michigan would oppose action on tne resolution to-day. Conger replied he had no desire to pro long the session. In fact, he desired to see ■t closed. Ingalls said he thought the senate was being trifled with. He submitted that it Was not appropriate, after the business ot both houses was considered as closed, and w hen thev were all ready to depart, to be kept here" doing nothing, in expectation, °r hope, or surmise, or conjecture that: ai some time in the future they would be au- -t tl:4r> the doors were reopened and ' YoSKEHS. N. Y„ August, 5.—Grej in ot ion of .Mr. Coke the senate- bill re- I * s thronged this morning with the f ving the political disabilities of Seth M of the dead statesman. Last nigh \-!. !_i_ .. ‘C1UISCIU.I1. , , A 71 Il«„ rgtnia, was taken up and moving tne poltti : Barton, of Yirg j passed. A be conference committee kL * , J! ft ! r tbe r , e l*al of the pre emp- . tiou and timber culture acts, stated that j tbe senate conferees bad agreed to yield , everything except the provision "that : where there was allegation of fraud in the | entry of land the issue shall be se it to court for adjudication. The house con- —Greystone friends ight the body wan embalmed. It now lies on a catafalque in the southwest corner of the second story of the building. The parlor is being heavily draped with mourning. The funeral services will bo held at Grey- stone on Saturday morning at 10 o’clock, af ter which the remains will be taken to New Lebanon, Columbia county, for burial. The officiating clergy and pall bearers have not yet been definitely decided upon. ferees had declared that, and had also de- Tho " nd ertnker informs the Yonkers' dined to sign the conference report. i Statesman that the remains will appear in tion of the river and harbor bill in the light of the facts presented to him by Gen. •' Ij i j Newton, chief of engineers of the army, and (Ion. Parke, of the engineer corps, with whom the president cou- • A Statement Showing the Work Accom- ferred on tbe subject, had convinced plished by the Past Session. Clovc'liunr* Keiiiiirkntilc Veto Ueenril -lie I All tlllicr l'ri.l'lillt* CoiiiIiIiiimI—AVI Nlnnnl tin- Itlvcr iiiul UiuTior Hill Tin ITosiiijj- of (ongriNs. Fir. clips him that on the whole the interests of the I government demanded its approval. Gen- I oral Newton, whose knowledge of the i I condition of the present works and the i necessities for the future was based on i reports made to him by the engineer I corps of the army, assured th. president j that of the items in the bili all but eighteen ! in number, comprising less than 1 per ~ ,, cent, of the amount appropriated, were \\ A8HINGTON, July .1.—The south w ing ; meritorious beyond question, and while he of the capitel was unusually quiet during )n no manner condemned these, lie was the day. The attendance of members was unable to give a positive opinion because small and the crowd that in past years | () f a lack of complete information concern- tilled the galleries during the closing hours | j ng them. The president made as thorough oi the session was absent, it was oli-i nll examination of these items as possible, served that when tbe message was re- and although with suoh reports as were at ceiled announcing that the president had hand lie hadlbeen unable to absolutely sat isfy himself as to their character, he Thou Canst Not Say the Democrats Did It. Itt'l.uIIIiciiit Senators Chlcfiy lti.pinc.IMi for In- illliloncy of I'oiiki'i'hh—‘‘Ilooil tllil Tlinen" fie - mill'll How II I'sed lo Ho I'niter heifer'a llnlo In I lie IlniiM 1 . next session he w mid ask the eonsfder- ntioii of the joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution extendin' 1 the right of suffrage to women. Harrison'the chair being occupied by Hawley offered a resolution of thanks to senator Sherman for the ability, courtesy and impartiality with which he" had pre- ded over the senate during the present ssion. The question was put and the hair declared the resolution unanimously adopted, but Riddleberger demanded the sid lined with tufted satin with a full length glass cover lid of cedar. Theiasliet will t-e lined lull length, the inside being lined with tufted satin. The handles aud mount ings will be of solid silver oxidized. On the outside lid will be a solid silver plate, bearing the simple inscription “'Samuel J. Tilden.” At New Lebanon the casket will lit placed in a self-locking water and burglar proof steel grave vault, which will be en cased in a marble grave vault. Among tbe names mentioned to serve as pall-bearers are Charles A. Dana, J. H. 51. Weed, Hon. Samuel J. and eland ill After the reeess'Yjonger asked to have : be a s< j uare <? ltus9 hearse with the looping the Tehuantepec ship railway bill (Eads’ < L“ tir J e , I - v J removed. The funeral will be bill made the special order for the third 1 handkd employes of the deceased, Wednesday in December. among: whom will be Gilbert, butler; Den- Edmuna« objected I O’Hara, cook-man; Louis Johansen, Conger gave notice that he would ask '’?. 1 . e . t > nud T . Captain Healy, jjf the yacht the senate to consider the bill at an earlv ! ' r day next session. ‘ I will o On motion of Mahone the senate bill approved the river and harbor bill there was an exodus of members from the floor and those who remained spent the time in an exchange of pleasantries and farewell greetings. Profiting by the experience of pastllyears, the speaker notified the keeper of the house restaurant early in the day ilull (he sale of intoxicating liquors would not be permitted. Bo the thirsty members and visitors to the house satisfied their thirst with lemonade and other mild beverages. The object of leading senators throughout the day was to pre vent any questionable legislation and the plan resorted lo for that purpose was in the first, place to Interpose objections to the' requests for unanimous consent, and in the second place to sus pend business by taking a recess. Outside of tbe passage of a couple of bills removing political disabilities and the bill to relieve some Michigan soldiers from the disgrace of dishonorable dE"’ 1 my; . no business was done. There Wt v one or two fruit let 8 attempts to get in a resolution for extra pay for eongressiom i employes. When Edmunds Vas :bout to start for the White house in company with Harris and tlie house committee ho enjoined on a i that few senators to objer to everything in his I several found that all appeared to he for a contin uation of work already begun mid now in course of construction. The president said he had gone over the ball as fully as the data at hand and the time permitted for Unit purpose allowed, and while some of its provisions, not included in the items above mentioned, were probably objectionable, he was satisfied that most of the improvements provided for were of great importance, and he had found that the loss which would ensue to the government from a de terioration of existing works in ense of a further stoppage Would be very serious, and that the amount of money estimated by the war department nt not less than a half million dollars, which would be required m protect nnd pre serve the work begun and in progress upon which many millions have already been expended would, in case of a failure to continue it, mow exceed by about four hundred thousand dollars the amount ap propriated in i he hill, which, in the judg ment of I he government's engineers, may be uni e-est ary. The hill is smaller than in like period in The appropriation for the absti.ee and his imu ction was faithfully | period ending in 1.--K3 was £18,087,8115, that observed. The only iendeney to an un- |. For the. period ending in 1885 £11,048,300, pit a sunt manifestation in the closing l-.qms ' and Ibis lor tin- pi ..oil endii g in 1887 is of the session wns Riddleborger’s ulijec- : £14,403,Ut’O, presence of a quorum, declaring that tl resolution ought not to pass and withei quorum could not pass. vithout pull-bearers a | Reed, feimth In this difficulty, there not being a quo-I Ilundnll, Hon. John Bigelow am mi present, the senete, at 12:10, took re- ' R ev. H. Green, President Clevelam i-ss until 1 o'clock. ai ’‘d Governor Hill. The funeral ear wil It is not decided what clergyman iiciate at the funeral. removing the political disabilities of Ben P. Loyall, of Virginia, was taken up aud [ passed. 1 ‘ The senate then at 12:10 took a recess for an hour. At the dose of the recess Edmunds re- ! ported that the committee of the I two houses appointed to wait on 1 the president to inform him I that the two houses had completed the business of the session and were ready to THE ANARCHISTS’ TRIAL. What thr lVitni" fur Hie Hi'feiisn liter il«y. Chicago, August 5.—Despite the threat ening weather the ladies were present in Judee Gary’s court this morning in undi- minished numbers. „ „ -- M. T. Malkoff, a Russian, who lived at adjourn unless he had some further com- 1 226 West Randolph street, was callecLfirst. mumcation to make, had performed that ] He is correspondent of a paper at Sloscow, j duty ana were informed by the i Russia, and it is said was imprisoned there : president that he had rio further commu- i on account of his connection with tlienilii- . mention to make and be congratulated the i listic movement. Malkoff had worked t\yo houses on the termination of their j as a reporter of tlie Daily News and at one .abors. time connected with the Arbeiter Zeitung. Hawley, referring t° Beck s bill to pro- i H e was at Haymarket on the evening of 1 mbit members of congress acting as coun- ; May 4th, but only for a few minutes. He se) for subsidized railroad companies, sain i testified that he was at Zeph’s hail when he had been seeking ail opportunity to the bomb exploded; that lie saw Parsons have it called up and acted ou, but other there live minutes before the bomb ex- tion to ti e usual resolution of thanks to the presiding ufiieer, but Hawley, who was in the chair, stretched a point ard declared tii'o resolution adopted unan imously in total disreg..;d of liiddlebergur s demand that there must be a quorum voti sr. There were probably not more than 30 senators present at any one time during the day. nnd the galleries were just as, hiimly occupied as the. floor was. 'liii lVnrk of I In- SuhIoii. Washington, August 5.—The first ses sion ol the forty-ninth congress which ended to-day began Monday, December 7th, 1885, and covered a period of seven months and twenty-eight clays, or 241 days exclusive of Sundays. Of this time the senate was in session 164 days and the house 185 days. During that time there were introduced in the two houses 13,202 measures, of Which 10,014 were house hills and 214 house joint resolutions and 2891 bills and 83 joint resolutions of the senate. The measures proposed for enact ment into laws exceeded in number by 2940, those introduced at the first session of the forty-eighth congress, which snt for seven months and four days, or 165 days of actiial working time. They covered all unlikely that the committee will lie called soils of subjects, from the payment of a together before next fall. business had stood in the way. Beck agreed with Hawley that it had 1 been impossible to have action on the bill this session. He thought, however, that i the bill had not fair play. He did not be- | lieve that a single member of the judiciary i committee would vote for a substitute which it bad reported. He thought that the committee had sought to make a ! burlesque of what he regarded as a very rious matter. He moved that the second ploded, and Parsons, Mrs. Parsons and Mrs. Holmes there at the time the bomb exploded. On cross examination it was shown that witness had letters addressed to the care of Justus Schwab in New York, and that he was rooming with Balthauser Ran, an anarchist, at tlie time of the riot, and be fore that he lived with Schwab, one of the defendants. When he left Russia Li 1882 his bedroom was searched Monday in December next be fixed for its by the police. Since bis stay here he had | consideration. | contributed money to the Alarm. Witness j A resolution, giving a month's pay to a said he was not a nihilist or an agent for 1 messenger who had been dismissed with- . any society in Russia. He was working ; out cause, was offered by Call and after a • for the Moscow Gazette. , short discussion adopted. The prosecution here offered in evidence , Plumb, from the conference committee a letter written by witness to Spies. , on tlie fortification bill, reported that the | The letter is in substance an inquiry tus i ! committee had been unable to agree. Af- ' to whether or not Spies could use certain 1 ter a brief debate tlie subject was articles written by Malkoff. It goes on to dropped. say: “I have just completed another arti- ; Call endeavored to grt, up for action the j ele treating of the secret revolutionary ; joint resolution of the house to pay certain : societies of Russia. I am a proletarian in , 1 emnloves for the whole of the month of the fullest sense of the word. Address ; \ugust. your letter to J. H. Schwab, 50 First street, I Edmunds objected, saying that in his , New York.” Witness said he did not use ] I opinion the resolution was wrong. the term “proletarian” in the sense in 1 He moved that the senate take a recess which the socialists always employ the : until 3-15 p. m., agreed to. i term, but he understood it to mean a man J 1 After the recess Edmunds moved that j without any means of support. | j the senate take another recess till 3:50. The proceedings in the anarchist trial i The vote was 5 to 11. ' this afternoon were, in the main, feature- I “•Call the roll,” said Edmunds, and the i less, particularly in the earlier part. At chair repeated the order to the clerk. 'last Henry Spies, brot her to Spies, the “Before that is done’’—interposed Alii- accused, took the stand. There was ! n nothing sensational in his testimony, ex- | l" “But nothin^ else can be done,” insisted eept his statement under oath that the | Edmunds. ° ! story he told the officers who ; J And so the call was proceeded with and i were sent to arrest him, and' showed the presence of 33 senators—not a ! told the state’s attorney afterward was a ! onnrnm i fabrication from the beginning to the j ayment of laborer ut tlie capital for extra services, to the complex questions of tariff legislation and legisluiion with n- ! spect to the national finances. Of the i entire number comparatively few were i of what may be termed of national impor- I tance. A greater number were measures a private or of merely local importance, such as relief and pension bills, bills for tlie erection of public buildings, for iiridg- j ing rivers, for graining right of way to railroads through military or Indian reser- 1 various, for the removal of political disabili ties, for changing the judicial districts, for I establishing new land offices, for changing ! the names or location or increasing the i capital stock of national banks, and for , printing public documents. A very smail | percentage of the whole number of bills i Introduced, of either u general or private | nature, became laws. Comparatively a small number succeeded in getting through tlie committees to which they were referred* and reaching the calendars of their rcspectlvea houses. Some secured passage in the house in which they origi nated, but failed of action in tin other Who ( at Till branch, and a very large l umber .still main uucousidered li\ committee!) to which they were r. nnvri. Tne tote! number of measure! • ml pas.-ec both I houses wns 1101, beie • liillsiu.it 8i.O in tbe house. Of inis tot. laws with the president's :q p came laws by limit" !' u, u failing either to ap] c o' them within ten days " r tin tion to him, 113 were vet >od pad one failed by reason of adjournme-p without action bylthe president. <' lie ut wj laws 74!i were house measr. s and 2il sena'c measures. The lavs t/mt became such by limitation were, wi'!. two exceptions, pri- \ Special tr Mg NT Inc lip. le ill, 181 Ijc- iii,-appro Washington, August 3.—After Mr. Hoar, in ids capacity of a Blaine fugle man, lmd raised llie “bloody shirt” in the senate to-day, Mr. Hale and 51r. Edmunds inveighed against the dilatory lialiits of the house, the lateness of the appropria tion hills nnd the labor put upon the senate in dealing with these bills. All this is ill the nature of that kind of stump-speaking which is very common toward the close of a session, when alert partisans try to get into the official Record matter which later can be used by them in tho campaign. The republicans are greatly concerned to make out ns bail a ease as possible for the demo crats, and their favorite cry now is that this has been, through democratic mis management, nil uncommonly useless aud tedious congress. Your correspondent has seen the close of a number of sessions of congress, and it occurred to him to-day to turn back to a long session when hot h houses and the ad ministration were republican, nnd com pare the present session with that. Thnt wns the session of 1881-2. The republicans had control of all branches of the govern ment; they had been long in power and were expert in legislation and familiar with the work of administration. They elected 51r. Eel for speaker nnd made Mr. Robeson leader of the house. They had iu the house a majority of about thirty. Under ali tlie circumstances quick des patch of business nnd much useful nnd prcssingly necessary legislation might properly be expected, with an early ad journment. In fact, however, that republican con gress snt until the Nth of August, and on the 7th, the day before adjournment, Sena tor Plumb, a republican, spoke bis mind as Senators Halo and Edmunds did to-day. He gave the following nocouut of the dila- toriness and mismanagement of the repub lican house: Tbe responsibility for the extension of the present session was chargeable solely to the dilntoriness of the house in matur ing tlie appropriation bills. All tho esti mates for the appropriations were before the house in the first days of the session, and there was no reason why these bills could not have been prepared and brought forward in flint body within thirty days after the as sembling" of congress; but, notwithstand ing this, no important appropriation bill reached the senate until nearly the close of tiie fiscal year. The naval hill was not sent over until the 13th of July, which was thirteen days subsequent to the last day of the fiscal year on which, by its terms, it wns to take effect. The legislative bill passed tlie house on June 19, leaving but a day before tho expiration of the year, within which brief period the senate was asked to consider, report nnd pass upon it. The sundry civil hill, which provided for detnils of every department of the govern ment, and upon which ’he senate commit tee ought to have spent a month, came to the senate twelve days after I he expiration of the time at which it was declared lobe operative. And thus on through the list, of the appropriation bills. The revcirte liilN have been similarly delayed, that in relation lo knit'goods coming from- the house on July 3d, and the tax reduction hill on June 28th—the latter accompanied' by a resolution for an adjournmenton July ltitb, which, if adopted, would have given the senate no time whatever to consider cither of these important measures. Thus the house had trilled deliberately and, as he Plumb, beli' ved, intentionally, with every interest of the country for purposes of which lie would not speak, and the re sponsibility could not he laid ul the door, of tiic senate, which boJv had acted np5U- every public and private measure with the utmost p< ssibie celerity. If business in terests had been injured and uianuliictur- ing to a large extent stopped because of the protracted session and the apprehen sions of unwise legislation to which it lmd given rise, the responsibility should rest with the house where it belonged. It is not extravagant, but only the simple truth, to sny that while tlie democrats, might “.aye done better tor themselves at t'.i session, for the country they have done infinitely better limn the republicans when they had both houses and the ad ministration. The republicans in 1881-2 Ity was that Jefferson j were so scandalously eomiot and wasteful l'jiat he thanked God tlint he j of the police's money that they were de- eu LIi i oln p nnd Grant dead | fented at the ensuing elections. The dem- linil ,ie said Davis himself Nitiiifoi-iiil < ’o n I! nil lit inns. Washington. Augusts.—The senate in executive session lias confirmed the follow ing nominees: 11. R. Dawson, of Alabama, to be commissioner of education; Thomas C. Black, to be associate justice of the su preme court of Montana; Alice A. Alice, of the District of Columbia, to lie second assistant secretary of state; John B. Moore, of Delaware, third assistant secretary of state; E. Spencer Pratt, of Alabama, Uni ted States minister resident and consul general to Persia; MelniothC. Williams, of South Carolina, agent for the Indians of Pueblo agency, N. M.; Thomas Smith, of Virginia, United States attorney for the territory of New Mexico. Tin liiiluir liivixtliriiticn. Washington, August 5,—Although the house, liy a resolution to-day, authorized Cmtia’s special labor investigating com mittee to continue its work through the entire recess, yet members of that com mittee express the opinion that two or three daily sessions will suffice to complete the taking of testimony. Iloxie’sevidence is the only material matter wanted. It is Tin Knrfilliiillon Hill. Washington, August 6. The fortifica tion appropriation bill, after passing both houses of congress, failed in the confer ence. The senate conferees were willing to reduce tho total appropriation made by the bill to $5,000,000. but this proposi tion was not acceptable to tlie house conferees, and consequently there will be no fund available for the preservation and repair of fortifications during the recess. Will Attend Hu ml. Washington, August 5.--R is probable that the president and sovi ral members "I the cabinet will attend the funeral of Til den. .WHO STRUCK BILLY PATTERSON. i l' til \limit It. Tin quirer-Sun. 'THY, Ain., August 5.- m .Norman l oiter in this city I i : 'lie 2titli of April, bus conn iis name is Charles S. Lucas, a farmer residing near Mount Montgomery county. Porter ainiimint of vis- ! ctid. Witness said In effect that though I Allison corrected his sta . ?. he was at the meeting from the beginning i terday by makl "S [ 'PI • d th .. o( - las , to the end and all of this time in sight of j present fiscal . Y^ d (KX) ^ , his brother, he did not once see Schwab, .vear by *45,000,000 instead ol £83,000,0(10. Thi , c . or ,t r j-.rticted the statement of Thomp- 1 I Then Edmunds changed his motion for 80tl) witness for the state, who said Spies ! a recess so as to make it extend to six i anc j Schwab previous to tlie! j minutes before four and entered into a speaking walked together from tlie; ! discussion with tbe chair as to the parlla- ; wagon to union street and back. 1 mentary practice in rule in t" e ' Witness then i kited huw be stood beside i case of the absence of a quorum, the chair 1 jhe wagon during tbe speaking; how, holding that no motion but one tu adjourn when the bomb exploded he helped bis or to compel the attendance ot absent brother alight from tbe wagon, and how members, was in order. The question could j )e strui-R down a revolver aimed at his not be decided by submitting it to the brother, and receiving the ball in his own senate, as the same difficulty about a quo- ; body, he became separated from his mm would arise, and so by general consent brother and went home to have his wound there was a suspension of any attempt at dressed. He declared bis brother remain- business until the liandh on the clock dial e( j j), the wagon during the entire meet- business until the lianas on me ed in the wagon during indicated a quarter before tour. At that jng, which contradicts Gilmer’s testimony. - ' resident was • — r Tin Kiiiinhs Dnmimti)-. Leavexwohth, Kan., August 5.—Tlie moment a message from tbe pr ^Edmunds interposed against the recep- lion of the niessage on ? be t t’ 1 ° a / 1 nc ia 0 ” a democratic state convention at 11 o’clock , , business could be done in the absence oi a ^ ma(Je the foUowingllominations: ! quorum. , , . .. messnn-e For chief justice, Wm. Kingman, of Cow-; The chair decided that the message . ^ count% -j ; fop governor, Thomas Moon- could be received. decision I light, of Leavenworth. After Moonlight | Edmunds—“I appeal from the decision ac s ceJ ^ ed the nomination the convention 0f Cha e ir-“The chair cannot entertain an adjourned until this morning at 9 o’clock. appeal in the absence of a quorum.’ , wini Deteriorate* a* It (irons Old. [Laughter.] he entered on the The old notion that wine improves by , Edmunds—“Let that De euiereu ou ; age it 8e ems is a humbug. One Winkel- j0 Th n e a mc-ssage was then received, it being man, a German chemist, has been experi- 1 he message 1> that the pres ident menting on the subject, and says there is a mere an agt . at which all wines, including the i had signed certain • message and very best, cease to he wholesome. He or- Edmunds If re 5 ..- na fjs not business, dered some wines of the famous Bremen Rathskeller, Rudesheimer Rose. 1642, and Hocheimer Apostel, 1726, highly recom mended for their medicinal value, and found that they were deficient in natural contained as much acid as ' w wines in poor seasons, so that they were positively injurious to , vate pension and relief L-iE . The Li.cept’.oi were the bill to authorize the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf railway to construct a railway through the Indian territory and that to retire Lieutenant Randall. Of tlie measures vetoed by the president thirty-six were senate bills and seventy- seven Hills of the house. Twenty-eight of tlie senate bills vetoed were private pension Hills, three were for tlie erection of public buildings at Dayton, Ohio; Sioux City, Iowa, and Zanesville, Ohio; one v, us to grant to railroads the right of wa.v through !,.o Indian reserva tion in no:-: 1 era Montana; one to make Springfield, Mass., a port of delivery; one to provide that the bodies of paupers, criminals and strangers dying within the District of Columbia, unclaimed within a specified time after death, shall lie turned over to the medical colleges, and one to quiet the title to settlers on the DesMoines river lands, and one to provide for tlie construction of a bridge over Lake Champ lain. Of the house bills disapproved by the president, seventy-four were private pension bills and three for the erection of public buildings. The proposed public buildings were for Asheville, N. C\, Duluth, ; to to have bc-n dead twenty years whereupon n uui hi the crowd (I upon him a.id cut him. Lucas ■s affidavit lo the effect that the row •mi in a liHi—rocm; that Porter was hank and mid profane and obscene age to him (Lucas); that the name of rrats have at this session kept all the ap- prniiriations within proper limits and most of lliein within the limits of last year. But that is not all. They have passed a presidential succession la w, a congressional .library law, a law relieving our merchant marine of a number of burdens, a law tax ing railroad grant lands, a law reducing the fees on domestic money orders, severiu laws forfeiting unearned land grants and restoring about fifty-millions of acres to the public domuin for the people’s use, and several other important public meas ures. Moreover, it should not no forgotten that the democratic house passed yet other forfeiture and land reform hills, all of great public utility, which were stopped and crushed in the republican senate. New York, Aug. 6.—Everything at the V 1 ,act ’ k , f ' H " he said that it the stock exchange to-day was of a small re-! democrats had had even a narrow tail kind. Nothing of special interest took I 111 * bo sella tc a great deal of place. The opening was fairly steady, the Jefferson Davis was not mentioned, that he used a penknife on Porter. He denounced Porter as a drunken black guard and a colossal liar. A Kilniln ON CHANGE. nihil filth f Fiuturin difference from lust night’s final figures being in no ease more than L although a majority were lower. There was a slight recession from the first prices, but the heaviness soon disappeared ami a firm tone prevailed over the entire list through out ' a gr necessary and beneficial legislation would have passed which has been defeated. The republican congress of 1881-82 sat later than this session will last and did nothing useful at all. Independent journals may growl at the si orteomings of the present session, hut out the morning. Western Union, bow- ‘f <loes "Mbeiong to the republicans to aver, was decidedly strong, advancing 1. I d .° SH ' J heir record under more favorable A dull and steady market succeeded until oircumstances was so much worse in every the last hour. ' Wabash at this time " n Y mn tlle democratic record A til was tjonspicuoua for strength and business nnd priees were stimulated over the whole market, which closed strong at the best priees of the day. Almost every- tiiat they cannot offer a comparison with out being brought to shame. Minn., and Springfield, Mo. The number ^hingon the active list is higher to-night. entering it on the journi 1 a \ ft tram fit hersh ort* delay the moment of Hoehein acfjournment arrived and , be chair sa>d L mended Senators Before announcing the deter- found that they were i, Tri m of this session of the senate. I glycerine and contai pT I to return to each of you m.v the cheapest new win* >g lea} e to 1 etui and that they were pos beg gral kindness to me us grateful thanks ^'^"“^[TUXg^oIttcer, ■ health.-Detroit Free Press; of measures vetoed during tlie session was four more than have been vetoed from tlie foundation of the government to the be ginning of the session just closed. While nearly all of the vetoed bills ot the senate were reported back from the committees with recommendation that they pass, not withstanding the president’s objections, and while similar action was taken on some of the house hills, only one 'that granting a pension to Jacob Romiseri was passed by tlie two houses over the veto. Tiie Des Moines river bill passed tbe sen ate over the veto, but failed to receive tlie requisite two-tliirds vote in the house. Motions to pass hills to grant pensions to Mary Anderson and Andrew J. Wilson over the president’s veto were defeated in tlie house. The consideration of other veto measures has been postponed until tbe next session. Aiqii^iil liy lie- l’risifillit. Washington, Augusts.—The president lias approved the river and harbor bill. To an associated press reporter, tlie presi dent suid this morning, that un examino- Norfolk and Western preferred is up H, Jersey Central, Lackawanna and Western Union each 11, Texas Pacific 1, Wabash common IS and preferred 2, and the re mainder of the active list fractional amounts. Union Pacific, however, is down j) and Pacific Mail i. Bales 210,(XK) shares. lilt liy h Moral till. Covington, Ga., August 3.—Mr. Wil liam Everett, while fishing his basket in tlie river, allowed his boat to drift near tiie bank, when a moccasin snake rushed into the boat and bit Mr. Everett on the bare loot twice before he could eject it from the boat. Mr. Everett corded tlie . - ankle promptly, mounted his horse and ] vention then adjourned sine die. rode three-fourths Tin South Cni'oliiik lliinoirm,-. CoLrJlBlA, S. C., August 5.—The demo cratic state convention nominated J. H. Rice, of Abbeville, for superintendent of education; Isaac S. Bamberg, of Barnwell, for treasurer; Joseph H. Earle, of Sumter, for attorney-general; A. M. Mauingault, of Charleston, for adjutant-general, and W. E. Stoney, of Berkely, for comptroller. The ticket includes three of the present officials, Richardson, state treasurer, get ting the nomination for governor, and th e nominees for comptroller and adjutant- general being the encumbents. The com mittee on platform omitted the civil ser vice plank, but the convention by a large majority restored it, reiterating their con fidence in civil service reform. The con- of a mile home, and A Coiurriviiomil < • then drank about a pint, of whisky, which partially intoxicated him. He thought the ! Alexandria, Va., August 5.—The con- elfects of the poison neutralized, Hut. when grewtional convention of tlie eighth district the cord was slackened he began to have j met here to-day, and after adopting the spasms, which continued nt intervals for two-thirds rule took twenty-eight ballots eight hours. Doctors were called in and 1 without result and adjourned until to-mor- administered the usual antidote, and after row. On the last ballot W. H. F. Lee led, an eight-hours’contest succeeded in re- i with Foster second, Merideth third and lieving Mr. Everett temporarily. | Hume last!