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)j u Es iILL, Editor and I‘roprletor.j
taxation for revenue
_„, YS AMI MEANS COMMITTEE
BILLS CONSIDERED.
Section* Of the Revised Statute*
ii'lstlng to Tobacco Manufacturer*
Vmeudrel In the House-Inspectors of
Tobacco 410 i.hed-Two BID* r**ed
Relating to Im mediate Transportation
0 f Dutiable Goods.
WASHINGTON, July 13.—1n ttie House
to(U v the floor was accorded to the Coin
„,t'.ee ,„j Ways and Alcana. Mr. Harris,
of Georgia, on behalf of that committee,
called up the bill amending sections 3462
‘ n(t ;i ,Ttj3 ot the revised statutes, ltsub
l ituics for section 3362 the following:
this $352. All manufactured tobaoeo
nut up and prepared by the manufac
‘.‘r f..J W. or removal for sale or cn-
I!:" ,l n, in package* of the following de
sod m no other manner: all unnfl
kges containing one-half, one, two.
four. -I\. eiglii and sixteen ounces, or
. llt ',|Uerß and m jar* containing not ex
-I',;twentv pound*; all cut and granu
-1 I . .U*,v.i and nil refuse scraps, cuppings,
-ti n-ls and sweomngs of tobacco in
“V.ie* .ontaining one, uvo. three, four,
; ,i s iMeen ounces each, except at the
“ 7 nf the manufacturer. Cut tobacco
„;7'7,. Hit up in bulk packages containing
, ; noumis each. All cavendish, plug and
lobieco in package* not ex
nsr *OO pounds net weight, and
IV sl ich package shall have printed
V marked thereon the manufacturer’s
and nlace or manufacture, the number
;i, e manufactory and the gross weight,
I,;,! net weight of the tobacco in every
, . rk .‘nrorided that these limitations and
(i*vriptions o! packages shall not apply to
Vncmand snuff transported in bond for ex
' ration and actually exported. And pro-
V fnri her. that tine-rut shorts, refuse
. ~,. .dippings, cutting* and sweepingsof
t 7!,7 may no sent in bulk a* material and
rment of the tax nv one maun -
l„ suvr .p re* il vto another, or for export
ri *Vrsuch restrictions, rule* and regulations
. ,l le I ..ir.nn-sioner of Internal Kevenue
pres 11.*': anti provided further, that
7 ~ „„.[*, , uajier or other materials may he
i 7 u''*l •' or in combination for packing
null and cigars under such regnla-
Ji.ir,, as'tlieCommissioncrof Internal Revenue
may establish.
THE NEXT.
Section 3363 is made to read as follows:
N ■ unifaci ured to' l p'CO shall he sold or
rff re I f*ira'e tinle-s put up in packages ami
. . | - pr-*cr tied in i his chanter, except
,7,,.,, 1,, reiail deae-s front packages
i , . |; and every person who sells or offer*
1 muff or any kin ! of manufacl
■r, ‘ I*.** not *o pul up shall he lined not
... -i., f.'.eii nor more, than s6,ooo,and impris
c 1 f..r nit less than six months nor more
bum two var*.
Tbe bill was passed.
Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, called
iiptiifbill repealing section 3151 of the
revised statutes, providing for the ap
pointment of inspectors ol tobacco and
cistirs and providing for the inspection
of tobacco, cigars aDd snuff. It provides
that manufactured tobacco, cigars and
snuff may be removed for export to lor
(i.u countries without payment of tax
iiiu!i-r such regulation, and the making of
men entries amt the tiling of such bonds
ami bids of lading ns the Commissioner
ol Internal Revenue, with the approval
of the secretary of the Treasury, shall
presence. The bill was passed.
Mr. Hewitt, of New York, called up the
bill amending section 5 of the act to
amend tbe statutes in relation to the im
r.eiiiaie tiansp.irtation of dutiable goods.
It sas pa-sed. By this bill the existing
law is amended so as to permit mer
iiand.secani* and bv express companies in
!>"Sii;bes* and safes, and also when “corded
and scaled” in such manner as shall be
proscribed by the Secretary of tip* Tress
liny,tube carried in ordinary cars instead
Ist separate vehicles provided for tbe pur-
Ipo-H liy theexlsting law n imssenser’s
I baggage is not provided lor. The proposed
II Hi will permit such baggage to bo carried
I by express companies in the same manner
IJo llier merchandise may in accordance
I * it the existing law be carried, and the
I t v sens of ip,! existing law are made
I applicable to routes which are bonded lor
I wth land and water carriage.
I DUTIABLE HOODS.
I Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, called up
I lb'bill amending the statutes in relation to
I tor immediate transportation of dutiable
IP ils. it was piMßsed. It amends
■ 1(1 statutes so as to allow mer-
J'Mndise liable to specific rates
In. , on '. v to be entered for imrae-
ItranHjiortation without appraise-
I tn or;y of tbe ports mentioned in the
I 1 bof the law of dune 10, lHt'tj, al
( "''utli the same may not appear by in-
I to l , bill ol lacing or the manifest of the
■ ,( Mting vessel to bo consigned to either
I ms, w here the consignee at tne
8 <i-t arrival shall make written
■ 1 1 v ion t herefor to the collector giving
I ' l,nH ~lu person or the port or
I vtiun of the merchandise*. Mr.
■ '"ii called up and the house passed
I repealing so much of section 3314
I ' HVl 'e.t Statutes as allows the Col-
I “'l Internal Revenue commissions
■ H collected mi distilled spirits.
■ in- "I Mr. Morrison (he bill was
with an additional
I sir employed in making
I, ' I ' l *' tuiouut of bond to be given by
I “hfwctiirers of cigars.
I MJ| I’tIKHN TRANSPORTATION.
I Convention of the Kail way and
I 'D'amsliiji Association.
11.I I . 4 ' l,,x<i,<lN * duly 13.—The twelfth
I invention ol the transportation
Southern Itail-
I 'teantship Association will bo
Ilir'c n ltll ’ ci,y id-morrow. .Joseph E.
■ ( Atlanta, Ga., is President, and
Secretary of the asso-
Hsi,j |. ’ ' >* composed of the Huston
■S'n,, I ''i." 1 ' 1 ." 1 * M "d Boston and Savannah
■ •[ ' 'onpanics, and of the Itich
i 1 11* railway system, the
lit.| l! "ssee, Virginia and (ieirgia
Kit. t*" 11 ■*vilk* and Nashville sys-
K,! . •’l' luphis and Charleston rail
twelve other Southern
■ iUis from every railroad
winch has connection
Kiv, W| H l-e present, and the
’ ’’ v,|| l 'w the largest meeting of
... v, /'•‘-"ales ever held in Ihiscltv.
Bil.i. tl , , '"i’OUuui matter that will he
■n.i,,., ' lll; * c mveutton will ne the
B’lr.n-,.. between Southern roads
■ '"dh the Chicago and Ohio
Kti,, '■ *’*" Utter have cut their
■"' r: b-b< '""‘lall special rales on
■ ;b 'siness, amt demand rull
Be .j, , ""as in retailstion lor similar
m<> -rib. Southern roads on
Kay , ' • -hicago, especially that or
H 011 "'! >i. ii ’ 1 'l'Pers. Loss to all parties
B* l| bica‘iio by this broach, and
■ wi lustinent will he sought.
■ w litiildinit Hills.
■So. duly 13—In the Houso
J" 1 ' 01 ' of Mr. Dougherty, of
HNihii . ‘'" ll, <* bill was passed Tor the
H l , i- 1 , * imhllc building at Jaokson
u„'J, „ a ' l cstlmal'-d cost ol $150..
■?"""•** the i"?, ~f !Vlr - Flp|(1 * o' North
■'< ob.'"* 11 WUM passed appropriat
vi.ii ■ .. . 1,1,1 completion of the public
m 411,11 "nsboro, N. C
CAPITOLIAN CHAPTERS.
! Macon’s Public Building—A War
rant, for Brown.
Washington, July 13.—The Supervis
ing Architeot of the Treasury to-day no
tified Congressman Blount that the work
! on tbo Alacon public building, for which
J the last Congress appropriated $125,000,
( will be begun very soon and finished in
| the fall of 1888. l’ho plans, etc., have just
I been finished.
BROWN OK CINCINNATI.
The United States Marshall here has
: been looking all day for F. S. Brown, the
correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
indicted in Alacon, Ga., for sending ob
scene literature through the mails, a i
! bench warrant having been issued here
! on a cony of the indictment received here ‘
from Macon yesterday, but Brown is in
Cincinnati, lie has not been here since
February.
A PRETTY COMPLIMENT.
The members of the Senate hare con
tributed $lO each for the purchase of a
portrait of Senator Wade Hampton,
painted by Alr.Guerrv, of South Carolina,
to be presented to the Senate of South
Carolina. The portrait is to be accom
panied by a letter on parchment express
ing the pleasure it affords the Senators to
present the picture of their Iriend and
colleague to his native State. Every
Senator will sign it.
GARLAND'S TELEPHONE STOCK.
It has been reported that before the At
torney General leaves for his vacation he
will give back his Pan Electric telephone
stock to the poet Rogers, from whom he
received it. When a reporter asked him
about the report to-day, the Attorney
General laughed and replied. “How can
1 give it. away when a suit has been filed
against us that will bold it. If I dispose
of it I’ll let you know.”
CARLISLE TO TAKE A REST.
Speaker Carlisle who has been quite
unwell for some days is about to go to
Capon Springs, Virginia, for a few days
rest.
PATENTS TO SOUTHERNERS.
The following patents were issued to
dav: James A. Adams, assignor of one
half to L. Newell, of AliatUa, da., steam-
I boiler feeder; Walter 8. Gordon, of At
i lantn, (4a., coal raining machine; lido
itamsdell, of Atlanta, Ga., ink; Francis
E. Jenkins, of Fraukvitle, Ga.. a back
hand buckle for plow harness; Ja.
jT. Gantt, ol Macon, a seed planter;
I Delano 11. Dugar, of Cedaitown, Ga.,
j valve gear; Joseph W. Clarke, assignor
! of one-third to N. B. Glover, Newnan,
i Ga., machine lor sprlnklm# fluid poison;
W. W. Micks, of Fort Mason, Fla., treai
inent of humus and muck; Charles T.
i Mason, Jr., of Sumter, 8. C., assignor to
the Mason Cotton Harvesting Company,
j making cotton picker stems.
DIRECT TAXES.
Mr. Hampton Offers a Substitute for
the Rill Affecting Georgia.
Washington, July 13.— 1n the Senate
to-day Mr. Hampton called up the bill for
the relief of the State of Georgia, offered
a substitute for it and addressed the
Senate thereon. The substitute directs
that everv State and Territory and the
District of Columbia shall be credited
under the direct tax act of August. 1861,
with such additional credits as they are
entitled to have in consequence of having
paid any portion thereof without tbe ex
pense of collection to the United States,
and also with 6uch sums as have been col
lected from lands or the owners thereof.
It remits or relinquishes all motleys still
due on the quota of such Jirect tax and
appropriates the money so refunded. The
bill went over without action.
Pension legislation.
Washington. July 13.— The Speaker
laid before the House to-day the Mexican
pension bill with the Senate amendment,
and Mr. Eldridgn, o! Miohigan, asked lor
immediate consideration of that amend
ment.
Messrs. Boutelle and Bragg objecting
the bill was referred to tho Committee on
Pensions.
Mr. Morrill, of Kansas, from the Com
mittee on Invalid Pensions, submitted the
report upon the message of the President
vetoing 4he bill granting a pension to
Joseph Itnumiser, It was ordered printed
and laid over.
Mr. Matson, of Indiana, from the Com
mittee on Invalid Pensions, submitted the
report upon the message of the President
vetoing the bill fnrthe relief of Mrs. Maris
Hunter. It was ordered printed and laid
over.
Legislative Appropriations.
Washington. Julv 13.—The House
to-day resumed consideration of the
Senate nmendments to the legislative up.
propriation bill, the pending question
being on the amendment designating by
name the chief pages of the Mouse. The
amendment was agreed to by lot yeas to
112 nays.
The .Senate amendment relative to the
publication of the records of the late war
, w as concurred in with the amendment re
| ported from the Committee on Appropria
tions tor the publication of the papers re
lating to the defense in the case nf Fitz-
Jobn Porter. This concluded consideration
of the amendments, and aconterence was
asked upon the amendments which have
been con-concurred in.
Pleading for Mr. Goode.
Washington. July 13. —Ex-senator
i Johnson and Representatives Tucker,
I Campbell, Wise, Croxton and Trigg
waited oi! tbe President this morning and
I urged the renominaiion of John Goode as
Solicitor General. They represented that
Mr. Goode had not been fairly treated by
the Senate and was not, given sufficient
opportunity to return the charges which
led to his rejection. A member of the
delegation is authority lor the statement
that the President, after listening to th**ir
representations, expressed sympathy for
Mr. Goode and slated that be bud the case
under consideration, but had not yet do-1
terinined what course to pursue.
Senator Payne’s Case.
Washington, July 13.—The chair laid 1
before the Senate to-day the resolutions ’
ot tbe conventlou of the Republican edl- 1
tors ot Ohio, urging an investigation of j
the Charges as to the election of Senator
Payne, and two other memorials on the
same subject. They were referred to the
Committee on Privileges and Elections.
Drowned at His Daughter's Kept.
Caps Mat. N. J., July 13.—John W.
Hid well, a clothing merchant of Philadel
phia, came to Cape May two duys ago.
To-day be went In to bathe near the pier,
accompanied by his ten-year-old daughter,
Martha. They bad been in tbe water but
a short time whon Mr. Bidwell was seized
with an attack of rheumatism of the
heart and fainted. His tittle daughter
made every effort to keep his bead above
water until bor strength became ex
hausted, when her father was drowned in
lour feet of water, no other bathers boing
near enough to hear his daughter’s cries
lor assistance.
SAVANNAH. WEDNESDAY. JULY H. 1880.
VAULT-LOCKED MILLIONS
THE DISPOSITION OK THE SUR
PLUS UNDER DEBATE.
81,566,000,000 the Sum Total of the
Muury in the Country—Over One-third
of the Amoiiut Lying Idle In the Gov
ernment Vault*—Hlseock Tackle* a
Whirlwind.
Washington July 13. —The House to
day went into committee of the whole on
the joint resolution directing the payment
of the surplus in the Treasury on the
public debt.
THE RESOLUTION.
Following is the text of the resolution:
That whenever the surplus or bulauce in
the Treasury, including the amount held for
the redemption ol U ni led States notes, shall
exceed the sum .1' r *Uil,uOb,bOb, It shall I 6 and
is hereby made the duty of the secretary of
the Treasury to apply such excess, in sums
not less ilia a $10,000,000 per mouth during the
existence of such surplus or excess, to the
payment of the interest hearing indebtedness
of the United State*, payable at the option of
the government.
Air. -Morrison said that all the money in
the country amounted to $1,556,000,000.
Of this $525,'000,000, or more than one-third
of all the money in the country, was in the
Treasury at the lime the joint resolution
had been introduced.
$200,000,000 left.
Deducting ail the sums which were in
the Treasury for specific purposes and
kept for current or necessary running ex
penses, there remained in the Treasury
about $200,000,000, including that which
was held there for the purpose of redeem
ing United States notes. The amount to
be held for redeeming United States notes
was not fixed by law. It was a sort ol
discretionary reserve. As the reserve
was not fixed, the surplus could not he
exactly stated. Under former Becro
taries of the Treasury the custom
had been to estimate the reserve
as $100,000,000. and it was the practice
of the present Secretary to designate that
sum as one of the liabilities ol the gov
ernment. Counting the reserve at $lO,-
000,000 there was still a surplus of SIOO,-
000.000. Of this about $28,000,006 was un
available, being made up of Iractiona!
coin, and that all toe money that would
be reached under this resolution would
oe about $70,000,000.
THE GOOD EFFECTS.
It would make productive that which
w T as now unproductive and useless. It
would do something towards making
money a little cheaper. It would sa\e
the government something in interest, aud
it would take away some of that tempta
tion w hich led men to vote large appro
priations. He criticised the t eport ot the
minority, and denied the statement there
in made that the effect of the resolution
would l>e to shake public confidence. In
conclusion, he dented that the purpose or
effect ot the resolution was to place the
country on a silver basis.
hiscock’s opposition.
Mr. Hiseock, of New York, offered an
amendment providing that nothing in tbe
resolution shall authorize the reduction
or payment of any part, of the $10,000,000
reserve set apart for tho payment of
United States notesor the interest bearing
indebtedness of the United States. Me
tben proceeded to submit an argument in
opposition, declaring that it had been
brought before the Mouse by the action ot
the Democratic Speaker, the Democratic
Chairman of the Ways and Means Com
mittee and the Democratic Chairman of
the Appropriations Committee, against
the most emphatic protest of the Demo
cratic administration.
aiming at a silver basis.
This was no disagreement on a matter
of mere detail. The difference was as
wide as that between the two great po
litical parties, and this was an attempt
on the part ot the leaders of the House to
torce the payment ot the national debt
and other obligations in silvor—to force
the government in its financial transac
tions to a silver basts, which the adminis
tration earnestly and determinedly re
sisted. There was no compromise nor
could there be one between tne opposing
forces on this great question. This was
a declaration that United States bonds
should be paid in silver dollars
and the world would so un
flerstand it. It was practically
impossible to execute the joint resolution
without using silver dollars, nil of them
possibly, because all the surplus was in
silver. Me did not hesitate to say that it
was repudiation what bad induced the
Democratic party here to antagonize the
administration which it bad placed in
power.
NONE OF HIS BUSINESS.
Mr. Morrison suggested that it was
none of his (Mr. Hisoock’sj business.
Mr. Hi acock—ls that your only an
swer? Is that the only answer the Dem
ocratic leaders advertise. That why they
have departed from ibeir administration
is “untie of our business”? That is quot
ing an expression which was used most
Infamously once ill the city of New York.
Mr. McMillan, of Tennessee, favored the
resolution, contending that the payment
of the money would have the effect ot in
creasing the circulation among the peo
ple nearly 10 per cent. That meant tne
giving ot employment to loo.(inn men. It
meant tee subsistence ot 600,000 people
were always dependent on 100,000 men.
millions wasted for interest.
What excuse was there lor thp intelli
gent aud patriotic representatives of the
people to pay interest on $75,000,000 wnen
there was money to pay the principal?
What excuse could the members give to
those who had placed a high trust in their
hands tor reiusal to pay the money out
and let it go into the channels of trade to
quicken commerce? To-day there were
hundreds of thousands of menoutot em
ployment. The wheels of industry had
stopped. Men were striking and clamor
ing lor higher wages, and yet the govern
ment was paying interest on a debt when
there was money in the Treasury to pay i
the principal. Tbe gentleman Irom New
York (Mr. lliscock) had said that this
resolution meant repudiation. From
what fountain of wisdom had the gentle
man obtained the draught which led hitn
to the conclusion that the keeping of $lOO,-
000.000 to redeem greenbacks was repudi
ation.
THE silver scare.
The gentlemau had seen another ghost,
and had said that the resolution meant
the payment of the bonds in silver. The
resolution meant no such thing, but, if it |
did, where did the gentleman find any law
on any statute book enacted under any j
administration prohibiting their payment
In silver. The resolution did not geek to
interfere with a single vested right of any i
creditor of tho United States, it did not
seek to turn loose upon the people any
wild cat project which would impair tbe
credit of the country, but itsougbt to take
trorn the Treasury money, the circulation
of which was one ot the people’s needs.
Jt would result fn a reduction of the rate
of Interest, and he did not think that any
greater blessing could come of It.
replacing cancelled notes.
Mr. Warner, of Ohio, ottered an amend
ment providing that whenever the cirou-
lating notes ot national banks are re
deemed or cancelled the Secretary of the
Treasury shall cause to be issued in place
! of such notes United stales notes as near
as may be in the denominations ot those
cancelled, lie referred to the necessity
of reducing the amouut of money in the
Treasury and increasing tbs circulation
among the people. Buch an accumulation
of money a* was now in the Treasury had
never been made in the history of the
world. The wealth of Croesus sank into
insignificance when compared with it.
The policy which covered into the Treas
ury every year $50,000,000 more than was
paid out was a policy which would wreck
any administration and any party which
persisted in" it. The people would not
submit longer to a policy of this kind, and
tney ought not to submit to it.
MR. M’KIN LEY’S PROVISO.
Mr. AicKlnley, of Ohio, offered as an
amendment the following proviso:
That the *um of SIOO,O 0,000 liorein excepted
and reserved, which amount was pure. based
by the sale of bonds to ibe extent of $95,501) 000
and the balance by reservation from the rev
emie, under authority of Ihe act of Jan 14.
1475, entitled an act to provide forme resunip
tion of specie payments, shall be maintained
a* provided by said art, tod set apart for the
purpose ot redeeming legal tender noie* of
the United State* when presented for pay
ment, and said fund lial! not be used for any
purpose.
Air, Weaver, of lowa, offered an amend
ment reducing the greenback reserve to
$50,000,000. Feuding further discussion
the committee rose and the House at 5
o’clock adjourned.
ST. JOHN’S RIVER BEACONS.
While Fights on tho Port and Rod
I iglits on the Starboard Side.
Washington, July 13.—The Light
house Board gives notice that on and
alter Ana. 1, 1886, the color of the lights
shown from tbe following named beacons
in the St. John’s river. Fin., will be
changed as follows:
Beacon No. 2, Little Marsh Island, from
white to red.
Beacon No. 2j£, Little Marsh Island,
channel range, from white to rod.
Beacon No. 16, Trout creek, from white
to red.
Beacon No. 17, Cedar creek, from red to
white.
Beacon No. 10, Grassy point, from red
to white.
Beacon No. 22, Middle Ground (upper), I
from white to re.d.
Beacon No. 24, l’iney point, from white j
to red.
Beacon No. 21, Beauclerc Bluff, from
red to white.
Beacon No. 24>i, Orange Park, from
white to red.
Beacon No. 30, Hibernia, from white to
red.
Beacon No. 42, Bayard Point, from
white to red.
Beacon No. 27, Picolata Flat, from red
to white.
Beaoon No. 31, Tocol, from red t,o white.
Beacon No. 44, Nine Mile Point, from
rod to white.
Beacon No. 35, Federal Point, from red
to white.
Beacon No. 53, Devil’s Elbow, from
white to red.
Entering the river from the sea the
atiove arrangement places all the white
lights on the port side of the channel and
all the red lights on the starboard side.
EXPORTS OF COTTON.
The Chief of the Rureau of Statis
tics Submits a Report.
Washington, July 13.—The Chief nf
tbe Bureau of Statistics reports that the
exports of cotton from the United States
during the month ot June, 186, and
during the ten months ended June 30,
18,86, as compared with similar exports
during the corresponding periods of the
preceding year were as follows:
Customs Dist’rs. Bales. Pounds. Dollars.
New York, N.Y 89,081 ar,7*0,917 3,778,8*22
Boston sn<l Charles
town. Mass 23,427 11,40.178 1,329.fW8
Philadelphia 5.551 2.8f8,f3t 27i1,fi01
Baltimore 17,71>3 8.175.805 853,878
New Orleans 70.010 33.385.2f14 8,183,870
i harleston. S. C 5,8 H 2,fWW,BKO 293,823
Detroit, Mich 113 67,’00 6,750
Galveston, Texas 1,298 590,409 57,322
Huron, Mich 1.147 513,894 51,070
Mobile, Ala ..... 2,905 1,483,353 126,595
Norfolk and Ports
mouth, Va 16,904 8,000,9*1 753.802
TANARUS" tasamaquoddy.Me it 5 606 550
Wilmington. N.C 2,500 1,105,262 103,001
Yorktown, Va 9,860 4,794,417 384,300
The totals are: Month ended June 30,
1886, 246.945 bates, 112,670.919 pounds,
$11,176,359; totals for the month ended
June DO, 1885, 118,089 hales, 62.585,805
pounds, $6,032,097: totals for the ten
months ended -tune 30, IKB6, 4,142,899
bales, 1,992.089,004 pounds, $197,854,107;
totals for the ten months ended June 30,
1886.3,780,960 bales of 1,800,913,937 pounds,
$191,837,732.
KIGHT HOIKS A WORKING DAY.
•fudge Durham Renders n Derision
Covering Government (employes.
Washington, July 13. Mr. O’Neill, of
Missouri, Chairman of the House Com
mittee ou Labor, submitted to Comptroller
Durham to-day a newspaper clipping of a
verba! opinion given by him on the eight
hour law and claims arising from viola
tion of it. To-day he received the follow
ing official opinion from Judge Durham:
Under section 3753 of the revised statutes
eight hours constitutes a day’s work for
laborers, workmen and mechanics who
may be employes by or on beball
ol tbe government of the United States.
It only applies to those throe classes of
pers ns, but, it is competent lor whoever
may have them in charge to contract with
them for a greater number of hours per
day than that specified in the statute, and
my decision was only intended to apply
to future services. lf'unv ot the workmen
referred to desire to present their claims
they should first apply to tho officer who
directly has ebargeof them and if refused
payment then to tbe Treasury officials.
SURVIVING A BN tllK’.S STING.
All tho Horrors of Hydrophobia Un
dergone Before Convalescence.
Nashville, Tenn., July 13.—William
Iteed while bathing in Flat creek, near
Shelbyvllle, Tenn., a few weeks ago began
to feel around under the rocks for fish.
He caught what ho thought was u fish,
but upon drawing it to the surface of the
water found it to bs a largo water mocca
sin. The snake bit Heed on the thumb,
but as It was killed nothing was thought
ol it until a fsw davs ago when Reed’s
hand began to swell and threw him Into
a violent lever. He became delirious and
wanted to bite every one who came
neur Ins bed. It required the oombmed
strength of several men to confine him to
his bed. Several medical men were called
in, and all their efforts seemed fruitless as
the symptoms were all similar to those in
cases ol hydrophobia, Constant attend
ance and the skill of his physicians, how
ever, pulled him through, and ho ia now
getting well.
HIGHWAYS OF TUK SHIPS.
TWO SI KIMUsho TO BR BPIMJNG
IN TUN NKNATN.
Ati FXpertlon that, the Senate Will
I’ropoie • Horizontal Reduction of 25
or 30 Per Cent, on the Appropriation
lt*l After its Consideration ly Items
is Completed.
Washington, Julv 13.—There is an
understanding in the Sennto that when
the river and harbor bill shall have been
perfected, item by item, a motion will be
offered to make a horizontal redaction,
bringing the aggregate appropriation to a
point somewhat below that of the House
bill. This will have the effect, of putting
every item Into conference. The proposed
reduction will probably be fixed at the
rateol 25 or 30 per ceut,
Senator Butler to-day submitted an
amendment which be proposes to offer to
the river and harbor appropriation bill to
strikeout all alter the enacting clause ot
that bill and insert a provision appropri
ating $ 10,000,000, to tie expended by the
Secretary ot War in continuing the im
provements on the principal and most im
portant rivers and hartmrs upon which
work has been done and Is now in pro
gress. It directs the Secretarv of War to
select suen rivers and harbors as may be
recommended by a board of five engineers
of the army to be appointed by him, the
chairman of which board shall be the
chief engineer.
taken up in the senate.
The Senate to-day resumed considera
tion of the river and harbor appropria
tion bill, the pending amendment being
the one to strike out the provision to pre
vent the dumping of detritus from hy
draulic mines into the Sacramento or
Feather rivers, Cat. The subject was dis
cussed by Alessr*. Dolph, Mitchell ot
Oregon, Stanford. Jones of Nevada, and
Ingalls. The provision was struck out
by a vote of 31 to 19.
The next important amendment In the !
bill was to strike out the provisions for
the Improvement of the Mississippi river
and to insert those reported by the Com
mittee on Commerce. The whole amount
of the appropriations for the various sec
tions of the river is $2,950,000.
Air. lngallsexpiained that the distinc
tion between the House bill and the com
mittee amendment was merely as to the
method to be employed In the expenditure
of the money. The House bill definitely
abolished ihe Mississipi commission. The
Senate amendment relaiued and continued
the commission.
PLUM POINT AND LAKE PROVIDENCE.
After a long general discussion upon
the Mississippi river improvement the
Senate proceeded to vote on an amend
ment offered by Mr. Ingalls to the effect
that the improvement of the Plum Point
and I.ake Providence reaches shall be con
fined to complete repair and the mainte
nance ot the levees in those reaches to the
height of two feet above the flood of 1882,
and to the completion of permeable works
of contraction, but this is not to prevent
the construction of revetment works
where the banks are caving at Greensville
reach. Delta Point and in front of Vicks
burg, Memphis, UicKinan and Columbus.
The amendment was rejected by a vote ol
18 yeas to 22 nays.
W hen the name ot Mr. Itiildleberger was
called he asked the Chair which Senator
from Kansas had offered the amendment,
and when be was told that it was Mr. In
galls, lie said: “Then 1 vote no.” [Laugh
ter.]
AMENDING THE PROVISION.
Mr. Harrison moved to amend the pro
vision authorizing the repair and building
of levees by adding the words: “But not
below the reaches of the river which are
Deing improved by thorn unless necessary
to prevent or close an injurious crevasse.”
After discussion the amendment was
adopted, and then the amendment re
ported by the committee was adopted.
Mr. Hal” moved to etriko out section 2,
which declares It unlawful to empty or
unload ballast, stone rubbish or refuse or
mill waste of any kind, into any port,
roadstead, harbor, haven, navigable
river or other waters of the
United States, for the improve- !
ment of which Congress has made
or may make an appropriation, or into
any tributaries thereof. This he said wa*
exercising jurisdiction never attempted
before. He was not prepared to go to
any such extent. Something had to
ielt to tbe States.
SPECIFYING THE RESTRICTION.
On motion of Mr. Hoar tne words “to
the substantial injury of navigation”
were inserted in the section. The amend
ment of the committee, restricting tne ap
plication ot the section to hydraulic nnu
,ug, was agreed to.
Mr. Hale's motion to strike out the sec
ond section was postponed till after all
the committee amendments were dis
posed of.
Mr Kiddleberger, In several flve-minute
speeches, ridiculed the Committee on
Commerce lor repotting surveys for
creeks and rivers as to winch no Senator
could say in what States they were.
Most of the remaining amendments
proposed by the committee were correc
tions of phraseology or the addition of
names ot rivers to be surveyed. They
were all agreed to.
Mr. Male renewed bis motion to strike
out section 2, and it was agreed to by a
vote of 27 yeas to 14 nays.
Mr. Male made a like motion to strike
out sections 3,4, 5, (i and 7 and section
11 (to tlie same general effect as suction
2), and they were all stricken out.
On motion of Mr. Conger a provision
was Inserted authorizing tbs Secretary
of War to establish harbor lines in places
where they have not been established,
snd also to establish lines within which
deposits ol material may hs made without
injury to navigation.
The bill being completed, as in com
mittee of the whole, was reported to the
Senate. Without acting on the amend
ments the Senate, at midnight, adjourned.
AUDITOR BROWN ACQUITTED.
Eight Weeks Devoted to the Pro
ceedings at Cost, ot fIiO.OOO.
Dks Moines, la., July 13.—The entire
dav was spent in taking a final vote on
the impeachment of Auditor Brown.
There were thirty counts to the indict
ment, and o call of the entire Senate was
called on each. The votes for conviction
ranged from one to tiiteeu on the
different counts. Three times there
were fifteen Senators who voted
guilty. They were In articles charging
Mr. Hrown with refusing to give up bis
office when suspended by the Governor
and continuing to act as auditor, and for
bis approval of Actuary Valles’ charges
tor examining I woa insurance companies.
Altogether twenty-one different persons
voted for bis conviction. Of those eight
were Republicans and eight Democrats.
There not being two-thirds of the fifty
Senators voting guilty Brown was de
clared acquitted and will probably be re
instated to-morrow. The trial has lasted
eight weeks and has cost about J30.1W0.
TELEGRAPHISTS STRIKE.
Omaha Operators Demand Extra
Pay for Working Over Time.
Omaha, Julv 13.—At 3 o’clock yester
day afternoon a committee of four from
the Western Union Telegraph operators
employed in this city, waited on Superin
tendent Dickey and presented the follow
ing :
We, the undersigned, representing tbe
operators employed by tbe Western Union
Telegraph Company in Omaha, respect
fully inform you that said operators ;:ere
by demand that they he paid full extra
wages tor all over time, and that unless
said demand is complied with at or before
noon, July 13, said opera tore will refuse
longer to continue in the employ of said
company. This action is taken with the
sanction of and in concert with the opera
tors employed by the Western Union Tel
egraph Company at Ogdon and Sau Fran
cisco.
At 5:30 o’clock the chief operator dis
charged ono of the committeemen, there
upon six other operators walked out.
Later others quit, making a total of fifteen
out of the night force.
About, twentv of the day force quit at
noon to-day. The entire lorce is about
lit tv.
Telegrams were received from Ogden
last, uiglit saying: “We are with you and
will strike to-morrow.” Telegrams of
sympathy und support have been received
from San Francisco, Kansas City and
points In Texas. The men here are de
termined and say that they will stand to
gether. They (eel sure of winning by the
aid of Ogden.
NO TROUBLE AT FRISCO.
San Francisco, July 13.—The tele
graph operators here have no intention
of going out on a strike and nothing is
known of auy Huch movement. Ail the
men here, so fat as is known, seem per
fectly contented.
GRAPH CREEK’S All NEKS.
The President of the Company De
nies l lie Bensational Incidents,
St. Louis, July 13.—The situation at
Grape Creek, 111., grows worse. A large
number of plantation negroes wore
brought from Kentucky last week to take
the strikers’ places, and remained at
work unmolested until yesterday, when
tbe white minors, to the number of 200,
armed with rifles, shot guns, revolvers
and clubs inarched in a Itodv to the mines
and demanded of the negroes that tbev
return whence tbov came. After an ex
tended parley the colored men marched to
Danville, some miles distant, wnero they
will consider carefully the advisability of
continuing at work. In the meantime
the mines are idle and the strikers are
jubilant. Hhould the negroes decide to
return and fulfill their eoutraets with the
operators, a riot and bloodshed will un
doubtedly ensue.
THE I*RESIDENT*B VERSION.
In an interview to-night with the Pres
ident of ihe Grape Greek Coal Company
he stated: “The dispatch from St. Louis
saving that an armed force of 200 men
had raarobed to the mines and demanded
the negro miners to return to
the South is incorrect. No vio
lence has been offered the new men
by the old miners. Many of the miners
have been induced not to work, but de
tachments of new men are lining brought
in. Tbe statement that all tho strikers
have been dismissed by the company and
ejected from its houses Is correct. Some
of the Nashvillo miners were Induced to
return to the South, their fare being
paid by the old men.”
TANNERS STRIKE.
3,000 M‘ii Thrown Out of Employ
ment at the lluh oft he Universe.
Boston, July 13. —Tho groat strike or
lockout in tho tanners and currying shops
at Poabody and Salem was fully Inau
gurated this morning. In accordance
with the vote of the Knights of Labor at
their meeting last evening the men re
fused to go to work in those shorts where
tbe notice of the Executive Committee
had been posted. Tlii* affects not onlv tbe
tanners, but likewise the curriers. There
are fifty-tour tanneries, and thev employ
on an average twenty limners. Thestrlke
Includes journeymen, teamsters and
others. There are only three places so far
as is known where Ihe notice was not
posted. The men all went to the shops
this morning at 7 o’clock. The bosses
wereal! present in the shops whpre they
had been in the habit of berinning work
at 6 o’clock. Thev were refused admis
sion, and in others tbov found notices
posted and left. The result is that over
3,000 men are now idle. Both sides arc
firm.
UN.JUBTIKI \BIjY SHOT.
A Pinkerton Detective Who is Too
Quick Tempered Tor His Position.
Chicago, July 13. A serious affair oc
curred last evening at the Forty-third
Btreet crossing of the hake Shore road. As
several of the Pinkerton men were about
leaving for the city Louis Scheove passed
by. “That gun looks as il it came irnm a
pawn shop.” said Scboove. The gun re
ferred to was standing against a shanty
and as Schoove spoke the man who han
dled it seized it and started after him.
Schoove took refuge in an ice house. As he
disappeared the deputy tins) at him. The
bullet took effect iu tbe back of Scboove’s
bead anil ranging upward inflicted a se
rious wound. The wounded man then
took refuge beneath another build
ing. The deputy attempted to
strike him with tbe end of his
rifle and succeeded In breaking the gun
stock. Scboove then juniued through a
window and escaped. Tne Pinkerton
men refused to tell the name of the man
who fired the shot, even to the l>ake po
lioe, who failed to connect anybody with
the affair. Ihe present disturbances along
the Duke Shore road, it is believed, are
tbe work of Idle men and the rough ele
ment around lbs stock yards. Tbe strik
ing switchmen have nearly all been en
joined in the courts trorn making any in
terference and they thernselvts disclaim
all knowledge of the troubles. Many of
them, it is said, have gone to work else
where.
Weavers Resume Under Protest.
Puiladki.phia, July 13.~Kour hun.
dred rug weavers who have been ori a
strike at the rug and carpet manufactory
of Johu Bromley A Hons at Front and
York streets returned to work this morn
ing under protest. Too strike was caused
by tbe refusal of the firm to lay off tbe
learners until Wednesday. The weavers
recently adopted a resolution that they
would teach no more woavers prior to
Aug. 10. They usked that the learners be
laid offuntill|to-morrow in order tbai they
might take action at their meeting to-dav.
The firm refused to grant them this time,
and hence tbe strike. Tbe grievance com
mittee held a conference with tbe firm
yesterday, and as a result the weavers re
turned this morning under protust-
(PRICE *lO A YEAR.)
1 a CUNTS A Ojl'Y, I
FIGHTS ON THE VETOES.
TWO 11VCPOUTS SUBMITTED IX
THE HUNTER CASE.
Tfi* Democratic lHmbr of the Com*
mtttefl Suntain the President While
the Ui'publicana Went to Override His
Disapproval \ Kenommeudstiou that
the Routiner Kill be Faceed.
Washington, July 13. —1n the case of
Mrs. Maria Hunter, widow of Gen. Hun
ter, tor whose rellet the House passed a
hill granting a pension of sf>o per month,
which was vetood by the President, Chair
man Matson,of the Invalid l’ensionsOom
tnlttee, to-day presented a report to the
House in which he sustains the veto. He
says the effect of tho bill would be to give
the claimant $2O per month more than the
sum allowed by the original law, that it
is not alleged that the widow needs any
increase, uudthat the committee has bare,
ly tolerated an inorease ot pensions for
the widows of oflicers. It Is also true
that the olaimant’s application for th
legal ratio o( pension has been allowed by
the Pension Ofiioo.
The minority report, signed by the Re
publican members of the committee, re
quest the passage of the bill over the veto,
bolding that it has been the invariable
practice to pension at $6O per month
widows of officers of rank similar to that
held by Gen. Hunter; that the President
has signed a number of such bills during
this session, aside from the case of Gen.
Hancock’s widow, and that there is nor
reason for not making an exception It?
this case.
THIS ROMISKR CASK.
Tho report presented to the House by
Representative Morrill, from the Commit
tee on Invalid Pensions, on the President’s
veto of the bill granting a pension to
Joseph Romiser, recommends that the
bill do pass notwithstanding tho veto.
The report says the tiles of the Pension
Office, upon which the committee based
Its favorable report of the bill, was not
seut to the President through the care
lessness or some clerk, so that be waa
under the impressiou that no application
for a pension bad been filed. Several
affidavits are attached to the report to
snow that llomiser received his wound
while resisting a threatened attack on
Cumberland, Md., being a member ol .
volunteer company.
IGNORING TUB LKTTKR OP THK LAW.
The report says that it has neyer beet
held as an Insuperable bar to a pension,
that a claimant had not been regularly
mustered into service, the established re
quirement being that It must be shown
that the parly was wounded while ren
dering service in defense of his country
in a legitimate way and under direction
ol a proper officer. Precedents are cited
to support tbo allowance of the claim,
and it is said: “All of these hills met the
hearty approval of your committee, lor
their rule has ben to recommend tho
passage of bills granting pensions to per
sons who were wou Dried or injured while
honestly dotending the flag ol the coun
try, even though by some technicality
their cases did not come within the scope
of the geueral law.”
A PKKCKDKNT.
As one of the precedents the report
then touches upon the case of Catherine
VV aters whose son was shot while serving
in a provisional company, defending the
town of Cumberland from attack, and for
whose relief a hill was passed this ses
sion, and it is said : “The question pre
sented to your committee is not whether
under the existing law he is entitled to a
pension. If be was there would be no oc.
casion for a special enactment, but
tho point presented is oiil this man
render such service to the United States
as to entitle him to receive from It favor,
able consideration of tils claim. Vour
committee believe be did. Voluntarily
he responded to its call for aid, and n
doing so received a terrible wound front
which be has ever since suffered, and the
effects of which will follow' him to hit
grave.” In conclusion the committee
express the opinion that had it not been
for the failure of theclerk to submit to the
I’iesident proper papers there would have
been no occasion to make a report in the
llomiser case.
SUGAR MERCHANTS PAID.
The Head of the l inn Dinupppeitrs
and is Relieved to Ire Deranged.
New York, July 13.—The old sugar
commission bouse of J. de Riviera A Cos.
has suspended, and Henry C. de Riviera,
the head of the firm, is missing. There
seems to be no explanation. Mr. de Riviers
disappeared first, and his business asso
ciates put the firm tn liquidation. No
statement has been made public. No
news has so far been heard of Mr. de
Riviera. It is thought his mind is un
settled, and that he wandered away not
knowing where he was going. The failure
has not materially affected the sugar mar
ket. There lias been no decline in hold
ings. At the coffee exchange there was
not a single sals of sugar this morning.
December offering, however, was quoted
at 4*l, two poiute ahead of yesterday’s
closing. Since its suspension two years
ago the firm has been rated “blank.”
Striking Spinners ami Weavers.
Providence, R. 1., July 13.—'Tbs la>ns
date Company’s Cotton Mill at Ashton
shut down veaterday in oonaequenoe ol
the strike of twenty-eight spinners, lock
ing out f>t)o employes. The trouble arose
over insufficient pay and the discharge of
the overseer for inemnpotency.
The strike at Knight’s Cotton Mills at
Natick extended from 175 weavers to bO
other hands yesterday.
An Engine Scatters Disaster.
Alton, 111., .Julv ki.—a portable en
gine on the farm of A. li. Job, at Alton
Junction, blew up vesterday. The result
was disastrous. Five meu were badly
wounded, three ol them fatally. The en
gine was blown to atoms, the threshing
machine and all the wheat adjacent
burned up and three or four horses killed
Glanders Among Horses.
Pekin, 111 , July 13.—The farmers in
the vicinity of Lilly are alarmed as some
| thirty horses in the vicinity are afflicted
1 with some disease resembling glanders.
Only a few days ago the State veterinary
| surgeons killed live horses in that vicinity
1 suffering with what (hey call glanders,
j The disease is spreading rapidly.
Diivhll Dead.
Pittsburg. July 13.—John Duvall, who
threw a can of vitriol in the face of Jacob
Jones Inst night and then shot himself in
the head because Jones had married his
divorced wile, died in a short time. Jones
is suffering terribly, but will recover.
Three Boys Drowned.
Bridgkton. Me., July 13— Justin
Mattnews, 11 years old; Albert Matthews,
his brother, aged 15 years, and Rufus
Allen, aged 1* years, were drowned In
Highland Lake yesterday by the sinking
ol an over-ballasled sail boat.