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VOL. XXVIII—NO. US
♦COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE vU, ISSti.
PRICE FIVE
NTS
yesterday'* Proceedings of the House
and Senate.
j Spirited Dlinwloi Orar Morrison's Motion—
iheTsrllT(Question WrHwn Into tlie liebute and
t l„. Two header* Have a Tilt—The Senate Con.
,lder» Hawley'* Motion.
\V\sHlNGTON. June 22.—The speaker
laid before the house nine messages from
the president announcing his disapproval
of alike number of private pension bills,
an d thev were referred to the committee
on invalid pensions. Several of the presi
din'* terse sentences and ironical sug-
pstions were greeted with applause and
"Morrison said that last Thursday he had
given notice that he would to-day move to
L i n to a committee of the whole on the
tariff bill- ‘‘He had no expectation now that
anv different result would be attained
from that of Thursday last, and he, there
fore. would not make the motion to-day.
Morrison then called up as a privileged
uuestion the report of the committee on
rules, amending the rules so as to provide
t | ul t it shall be in order when a general
pension bill Is reported to the house to
itttn l) them to a provision l'or raising the
revenue necessary to meet the expendi
ture involved in the advocation proposi
tion. Morrison argued that its adoption
ulb absolutely necessary unless congress
,vas prepared to grant pensions rind leave
the government without means to pay
tlu in. Since the war the government had
paid nut *800,000,000 in pensions. When it
had paid out .$800,000,000 more there would
he pensions yet to pay. It had been esti
mated that when the act was passed in,
D,7a that it would cost $3o.000,000.
There had already been paid out nearly
300.f!l0,000, and by the time the net was
fullv executed, there would have been
paid out $200,000,000. Congress at the
present session had passed the widows’ in
crease bill, and the house bad passed the
Mexican pension bill. It was estimated
that these two measures would add to the
annual pension list from *10,000,000 to *15.-
CiOO 000. There was now pending in the
house what was known as the dependent
soldier bill—a hill to pension men
who suffered in confederate prisons, and
are on the limitation repeal bil l, it was
estimated that the repeal bill would re
quire an expenditure of $222,030,000, any
where from fifty to seventy-live millions of
which must be paid in the first year. He
need not again iro over Ihe question of
revenue and the amount ol surplus. The
ucntieman from New York lliseoek) and
fiber gentleman on both sides of the house
haii predicted for the next fiscal year that
there would be a deficit of *11.000,000. For
Himself he. thought that there
would be a surplus, hut certainly
ao surplus to compare with
tin large number of pensions asked. If his
..I the other gentleman's prediction should
prove true, and these general pension bills
would puss, there would be no money lo
meet the first year’s payment, lie thought
that as the principle of reckless appropri
ations grows. lie meant other appropria
tions than pension appropriations!, it
would be safe to incorporate m every bill
.srtlms-er u . t-ss .tppi ui'Trlsffrl'OTT— rrf :u.V g**er.t
,i t'.ix bill, and thus provide the means
i n-alt ering tne expenditure. In thought
tii..: it would add to the frugality of the
administration.
Heed, of Maine, said that he hud listened
with some interest when the reasons
which governed the majority of the com-
inittee on rules, in reporting the propsi-
tion for a change of vuies. Tie admitted a
desire to disguise it, but he was surprised
ta see tne notion which the majority pro
posed lo lake. If there were anything in
the logic presented in favor of n change,
it would be equally applicable to all sub
jects of appropriation, as well as that of
pensions, and yet this rule was proposed to
be confined to pensions alone. What was the
real object and what would be the practi
cal effect of this action? There was not a
practical man in the house who did not
know that the proposed rule would he ap
plied to fasten upon every pension bill
some method of taxation ' which would
prove obnoxious to the men who might he
desirious of voting for n pension measure.
Why was this invidious distinction made?
The purpose was to saddle on pension bills
legislation which would result in the defeat
of the bills themselves. He saw no such
crisis which demanded that the house
should invidiously single out a class of
appropriation and give an opportunity to
hamper it by tacking on legislation which
Wuuid lie obnoxious to those who favored
the first class. He for one was not willing
to enter on such an invidious course ns pro
posed by the gentleman from Illinois.
lliseoek regarded the proposed rule ns
’•"ore than an attempt to make
an invidious distinction against
Pension bills. It was an attempt on the
part of the gentleman from Illinois to
avoid the responsibility of the defeat of
i" usion legislation by direct vote when
pension lulls were reported here, and it
the gentleman desired that he and his
0 ii r.ds should escape the responsibility of
a direct vote against bills, he would move
mi amendment levying a tax, and the re-
" ;; lj would be that the whole system either
“f internal taxation or of customs taxation
Would be forced into the house, and an
endless debate would ensue. The result
would be that all pension legislation would
111 deferred and the gentlemen _who op
posed such legislation would avoid the re
sponsibility of voting directly against it.
1 was said that it was proper that a pen
non bill should carry the pledge of a par-
’’"iihir fund for its payment. Tills was a
Trong position to be taken by the gcntle-
lll: 'n ’Voin Illini is.
h.mdall—‘-Have we not already pledged
"'ml that comes into the treasury for the
l ”J> rest of bonds?”
lliseoek.—“Yes, we have; and that i.s tlu
only pledge that congress lias made of the
hWHuies ol' the general government. It
I' "bed its gold for the payment of the
j"’fiiie debt when it was necessary to do it
I "Main the public credit; when this gov-
■Tinueiit was striving for its very exixt-
, ' 1 ; 1 •; when it v.-as necessary to sustain our
edit abroad to support our armies in the
" 1 we pkged gold that should be col-
- ‘ ’cl for payment of the public debt, uml
'iinli-ss to surprise that tiiis should be
II ' ’ as a precedent for the measure,
e we reached that point that what we
'* r '' obliged to do to maintain our credit
a the markets of the world in the darkest
b s «f tbe nation’s history should be cited
if Precedent for a bill to pension sul-
, Miscock then went on to quote from the
u-mocratie platform, which he said bad
'framed by Morrison in favor of dedi-
1 mg internal revenue to persons disabled
tlic line of duty in the wars of the repub-
‘ V. and in the payment of such pen-ions
- congress may, from time to time, grunt
idlers. One hundred and fifteen
. ! n dollars had been received fr.un in-
" revenue and the pledge of tin m-
[‘ ,jj/’acv was that this hundred, and fifteen
■ a as should be devoted to the sup| -ft
*1’ soldiers. Yet in the first congress
the adoption of that platform the
a _ distinguished genlleman who
that plank in the platform " is
'.tying to the soldiers ■ w n e- ,1
an y enough to pay your pensions old
to carry out our pledge, we repudiate the
i obligation that war tttxes shall be devoted
to this holy purpose.”
i Cannon also gave notice that lie would
1 offer an amendment, making It in order to
J amend the river and harbor bills, and bills
j for the erection of public buildings by at
taching thereto a urovision raising revenue
to meet the expenditures. The committee
on rules proposed to place It in the power
j of any man, friendly or unfriendly, to
move a revision of the tariff, or tin iniposi-
, Hon of internal taxation all along the line
l of pension bills, which meant a defeat
| of pension measures. He wanted
; to see whether in their hostility
to pension the gentlemen on the other
j side would go a step further and say that
where there was to be a public building
erected to benefit some gentleman in his
own district they would allow an amend
ment raising a tax to meet the expendi
ture.
Randall said that the remarks of the
j gentleman from Illinois who reported the
■ change of rules were so clear and compre-
| hensive that there was little left for outers
; to say in its advocacy. He conceded to
the other side a full measure of patriotism
in this connection, and lie claimed for his
! side a like spirit in every particular, both
j individually and collectively. So far as he
; knew there was no gentleman on the floor
who was not ready to do entire justice to
| soldiers. Some might dirt, r as to the
method or the extent to which congress
1 would go. None would differ on the prop-
i osition, that if congress did grant pensions
it ought honestly to provide money to pay
them. The probable revenue and the
! amount of the appropriation approached
equality. The pension list already required
eighty million dollars, and this proposition
merely sold that if congress added to
that eighty’ millions it” should at the
same time provide a way of payment.
, That was a manlv, courageous way to do it.
He had witness -cl from time to' time an
effort to get some political advantage for
one party over the other in connection
with pension claims. All such efforts
should he dismissed. There should be no
, doubt about the standing or pur-
1 pose of any representative in this
particular. The gentleman from
New York Hiscoek. thought lie
had found danger in the opportunity for
ta. iff legislation. The gentleman n .-eel no’
: lie uneasy about, that. The propositi m
1 had no such object. Let not the house
pettefdg about this matter, or venture in
the least upon the realms ol demagoguery.
There had been enough of this heretofore,
and now let the house say deliberately that
i when it voted pensions it would also vote
1 taxation to meet them.
McKinley he’d that if Morrison's propo
sition had any meaning it was.; conies-
siou to tbe bouse and the country that tbe
revenues were inadequate to meet the just
demands of pensioners. If tiie govt vn-
w.-nt had to resort to taxation .!' i n. cn .-s
to pay pensions, then he favored an in
come tax for general purposes.
P.rumm, of Pennsylvania, referred to
wnat he termed the attempt of the demo
cratic party to force upon con
gress a tariff bill, and com
mented on toe fact that upon
tbe heels of the failure of that attempt,
1 the chairman of the comiiiittei on ways
; and nnans brought in a resolution which
would "liable him to gain by indirection
what tne gentleman from Pennsylvania
Randall. and other democrats had stood
with the republicans to prevent him from
grilling . J .h ::c*’v. It Was ri CtTWrftTTIy • ~n-
to do what the grn'leiuun had failed To do
openly and above board.
Hewitt, of New York, said that the dem
ocratic party had made two great pledges
.in the Chicago platform. oi,e was tiiat
the democracy pledged i'selfi to revise (iu-
tariif in a spirit of lainu to all interests.
The otln-r a as that so long as the govern
ment continued to levy war taxes under
1 the internal revenue system it would de-
. vote that money sacredly to the payment
; of pensions. These two pledges were
honest and the democratic party coin
ing into power was bound to
fulfill them. Within a week it had at-
1 tempted to begin the fulfillment of the
first pledge and lay a combination between
members on the other side and the gentle-
! man on tile democratic side it had been
prevented from going into that question.
| [Applause.] But the pledge was there
I and the democrats who combined with the
republicans to defeat a fulfillment of tii it
pledge were bound to see it executed, and
lie expected to see them and their distin
guished leader Randall, bringing a measure
into tiie house, which would enable the
1 democrats to take up the question in a
i spirit of fairness to all interests and revise
the tariff and reduce the burden of taxa
tion. The pending measure, he held, was
in fulfillment of that pledge. It provided
that money might be raised by special
taxes or otherwise. The word “otherwiSe"
was put there for the purpose of enabling
the house to dedicate tiie interna) taxes to
the payment of pensions.
Cannon offered an amendment, of which
he had given notice, hut subsequently
withdrew, stating that he would rattier
have a direct vote ou tbe propositi, u.
Heed of Maine, argued that the purpose
of the proposition was to attach tu'-iff' leg
islation to a pension bill, and inquired in a
sarcastic mail..cr, what legislation oil tic-
earth could st..nd a tariff'dismission?
Bn gg. of Wisconsin. c."p"t-sen bis de
light at Reed's reference tithe failure of
the house to consent to cousider revenue
bills. "1 am delighted" he said. “Iioea-isi-
it shows what sort of contempt 111-.- repub
licans of this house feel for those who have
been recreant to tii;-- faith and tin irj.ledge,
whijc they are received with open arms
and appreciated tor the act tiie,. h ivc done,
they are thoroughly despised lor their po
litical defection.'’ [Loudapplause on the
democratie side.
Randall—' I did not intend to indulge in
any further discussion ot tots s.i’.yci'..
and I would not cx--ep! for tic.- ian.rn.ig.'
used by the gentleman from Wis- on-in. ;
Si.i'ld h -l'c. hi- i)eii' in every iv;
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tiling tlinl tended to u ,• tin c- m
('iiitcd .-states, and tic lowering < w.
r, \meric.li laborers. Appla .- - ..n
republican side.] I was eo.ide'n c d
some quarters inr that vole. 1 went i
the re.-t ol 1 you addressing tie. 0 -inuei
0 fle ; to the national convention win
was told that I would have no rep dci
to help me. Went was
result of that convention? i
any man here attempt to
that the measure reported to this tio-i-
the committee on ways and mean- ;
harmony with tiie spirit of that eon
tion or the enunciations of Ihe
tin stump in i’s
day where I stou
a revision of t lie-
rates of duty an
internal tax upt
means ..nniitt, <
any one tbe privi!
[ have only
W; v!ie-ii: :
nhalf? No, I an
Mi
ll.
invite that gentleman from New York to
come and partake of the canvass in iny dis
trict in November next.” [Laughter and
applause], j
Hewitt—‘‘The gentleman asks whether
the measure reported by the ways and I
means committee was in accordance with j
the Chicago platform. I say it was, and
ou that question I will go to hlg district
and talk to his workingmen.” [Applause],
Randall—“I know well the conduct of
the gentleman in the Chicago convention.
I know this, that neither he nor any other
man went on the stump in bis state and
declared in the direction of the bill as I
conceive It to be from the committee ou
ways and means. On the contrary, I not
only know that, but I know I was invited
there and stumped your state in the exact
line of the declarations I made here now.
I know that when Governor Hill’s canvass
came lust fall, you took cure to invite me i
again, and invite many other men |
who agree with me in this ;
conception of that platform, and failed to
invite anv man to speak there who thought !
as you now declare. [Applause and
laughter.] The democratic majority of
the state of New York increased from 1000
in 18S4 to 11,000 in 1885. and it whs not on
any free trade doctrine whatever. J de
clare that I am ready and willing to vote
with anybody who will seek
intelligently to reform the inequalities
of the tariff, but how have we
been met in this particular? We have bad
to take a particular bill or nothing. It is
asserted that >ve cannot put on tiie cus
toms' bill anything that look.-to the repeal
of internal taxation. 1 beli*ve that inter
nal taxation is un-American and un-demo-
cratie. It was so pronounced by the lath
er, of our country, and 1 shall never waver
in seeking its repeal in part or in whole.”
Morris. m-!-- i uo not intend to be driven
away ironi the subject before the house, as
the gentleman from Pennsylvania well un
derstands. He very well understands that
1 cannot go into the tariff question now.
It is true fit claims that there is nothing in
the bill and in the spirit of the Chicago
platform thit does not present him Ian
opportunity of voting ou internal
revenue taxes, and again and again lie
makes n promise as to what he would do,
and here we are reproached by tiie other
side because at Chicago we pledged our
selves against a repeal of internal taxes
in favor of a revision of the tariff'.
Hen'ey, of California—"You are taking
the representations of the other side in the
arraignments of the democrats on tiiis side
who voted against you"
Morrison—"I am arraigning nobody, nnd
least of all the representative from Cali
fornia. .Applause and laughter on the
democratic side.] i am talking to the man
whom he followed and invited me to
speak here. I share with the gentleman
from Pennsylvania ir. feeling that his sub
ject does not belong here. We are here for
uiictlier purpose, but I will take occasion
to reply In detail to what be has said if he
will afford the ooeassion. and to prove that
there is not a word of truth in lii.s prom-
' After short speeches upon the question
before tiie house by a feu republican mem
bers, Morrison referred to the subject of
his controversy with the gentleman from
Pennsylvania, Randall I because the
gentleman seemed to invite it; because in
replying to the gentleman from Wiscon
sin Bragg, he hadgone out of his way to
say that tin- proposition presented by the
! ways and means committee \va,s not within
the 4-pint - . the'CWeiigo platroi'in. He
v.’islu d t" '.'ellatteution to the fact tt.at in
nr■ every paragraph of that
plat orm the democracy Lad
pledged iiseif as a party
as to tbe regulation of the tariff taxes and
had especially declared in lav, >r of a con
tinuance of toe internal revenue taxes.
Tlu wat taxes remain substantially ns they
did at the close of the war and the party
promised a reduction. Yet the gentleman
from Pennsylvania, notwithstanding the
promise of a reduction and his
desire lo keep faith with the
platform, would not vote to
consider the bill unless it gave him an op
portunity to do that which he had pledged
himself not to do. The gentleman knew
that the Chicago platform required addi
tions to the free list.
RandaJ! asked if the gentleman believed
that President Cleveland could have been
elected if the convention had declared for
free raw material.
Morrison replied that Cleveland would
have gotten more votes than lie did. He
had not carried Ohio anyhow, and had not
carried Pennsylvania by eighty thousand
votes, anil would not have carried them if
the tariff on wool had been put a mill
higher, if the democrats never voted to
reduce tin- taxes until the gentlemen from
Pennsylvania voted that way, it would
never' vote at nil. Many of tiie gentlemen
who had voted for the bill reported b\ the
ways mid means committee, did not favor
many of its provisions, yet tliee had voted
for its consideration because- the hill would
bring the whole subject before the house
for consideration. Tiie taxes could not In
reduced unless the bill received considera
tion, and the gentlemen who bad refused
to permit consideration were just as
chargeable with a desire To keep up the
taxes as t hey are.
Cannon, of Illinois, otis* rved that if the
- purpos, now before tiie house raised
sti 'i, a storm i: would In impossible to say
what the tariff'question itself would do.
M.e-'i'Oii retorted that Tthe republicans
v.- iniii civ up t:i*•:i- itiieit intercourse with
iii- side, then thi* pension mutter would
run along easily. ; Laughter.] But the re
publicans seduced members on his side into
voting with them and reproached the
di mocraey for failing to carry out its
pledges. There was not an honest
mt i in the country who womd suspect
Ills Morrison's vot-oil thi, or any other
i|ii,'-;i.,ii, liotwil iistmidiiig all the hard
tout had been called, the re
public-.n- -ei I’" welcome to make all they
,, . .i ■.,,e g"s A lien applied lo
!>■' p id. ,11 ■- Tiie government know
t!i. V- w o no money to pay
the'll V 1; The democrats bad
redis i •! ' in- tax■ ii'iflbi'.i Inn'not been
the house adjourned amid an outburst ot
applause and derisive laughter from the
republicans.
Sonide,
Washington, June 22.—Ill the senate
Maxey, from the committee on Nicaragua
claims, reported a resolution requesting
the president to bring to the attention of
the Nicaraguan government the claims of
citiiens of the Imited States against that
government. Agreed to.
Hawley called up his motion to recon
sider the bill prohibiting members of con
gress from accepting employment from
railroads that had received aid from the
United Spites. Hawley said he would ac
knowledge the evils sought to be
remedied, but the bill introduced
by Beck hud not been either considered by
tiie committee or debated bv the senate.
The Mill had been sprung suddenly on the
senate. The bill, be said, was an affirma
tion (that corrupt nnd dishonorable conduct
had so strong a hold on senators that the
committee of the senate was not fitted to
deal with it, and In order to secure action
at all it was necessary to rush it through
with the same sort of haste that one
would ring a fire bell. Tbe
bill gave sanction to a cheap and
nasty form of defamation of congress.
Under its provisions u man was liable to be
sent to the penitentiary for such service ns
the collection of an ordinary debt. If one
of the senators from Maine should receive
a consideration from the Illinois Central
railroad for the collection of an ordinary
debt nnd should not bear in mind the fact
that ninny years ago that l-nilruad had re
ceived national aid, he would render him
self liable to the penalties of tile bill.
Hawley protested against tills
kind of legislation which affected the
honor of the United .States. Such haste
was not needed. He as one senator re
sented t,he imputation that sucli a bill
would lie smothered itt the committee.
Beck replied that tlioi’p was no warrant
for any suggestion that he meant any in
sult or insinuation against anybody. No
committee, could give any more informa
tion on the subject than was contained in
the bill.
Ingalls and Hoar also took part In the
debate in support of lluwley’s position. I
At 2 o’cloclc tiie matterWent over and
the senate took up the hill repealing the :
pre-emption and timber culture luws. i
Blair bad moved an amendment prohib- !
iting the acquisition in ownership of more :
thanJRi) acres of ’desert, hind. To tills In
ga 11s offered an amendment applying the !
limitation to all public lands. The latter I
proposition, which was t he (lending ques
tion to-day. was voted down.
Blair's amendment was then voted
down -yeas 3, nays 42. The yeas were
Blair. liolph and Teller.
After some amendments of detail, nnd
without final action ou the bill, the senate
at 5:15 adjourned.
FROM EAR TO EAR.
Oiai-lt". fiilnuriU Cuts Ills Mistress' Tlinml Wlille
As! ceil f” r 11" 1 ' I'lifnitliftilness.
New Orleans, June 22.—Charles Ed
wards, a negro man, early Monday morn
ing killed a woman named Mattie Refuge,
by cutting her throat from ear to car. The
woman huil been living for some months
with Edwards us his mistress. With them
was-e .little girl live -years old. Sunday
night the woman did not come home until
a late hour, and when she appeared a
quarrel ensued. The people in tin adjoin
ing room heal'd the wrangle, blit after a
while Ihe noise ceased. Several hours
afterward moans were heard proceeding
from the room occupied by Edwards.
(it her inmates of the house broke open the
door and I'ound Hattie Refuge lying on the
door, covered with blood, nowing from a
horrible tjimh in the throat, which Imd
been eut from ear to ear. The woman was
already dead. Kneeling by her side was
the little girl, who was sonbing bitterly.
Edwards Iiad disappeared. The little girl
briefly explained the tragedy by sobbing
out: “Charlie cut. ma with a big knife.”
Tiie officers at once went in pursuit of
the murderer, and found him a short dis
tance away leisurely walking along the
street and carrying a small bundle. He
promptly confessed that he killed the
woman, and said he supposed he would
hang for it. In response to inquiry as to
the motive fur the crime, he said the wo
man had been unfaithful to him.
After describing t lie beginning of
the quarrel Unit preceded the mur
der, he added: “Wlie cursed and
abused me for a long time, and at
last she went to sleep. Site woke, up
and cursed me- Then 1 waited until she
was asleep, and, taking a razor off the bu
reau, i went up to her, and catching her
by the chin, eut her throut cloati across,
and made sure that I Im l finished her. I
then went outside and washed my hands.
A lunch which I had packed up with
some clothes J took along, and'llricd to
get off to Morgan City, where mv folks
lie
The proper charge was made against
Edwards, and he was locked up to await
trial for murder.
Wnat Is Transpiring on the Other Side of
the Waters.
afternoon. Lower figures were generally
made in the last hour, although the mar
ket closed steady after a slight rally.
Everything on the active list is lower, but
generally for only small fractions, although
Union Pacific is down H and C. C. C.
and I. 1. Wabash were conspicuous
IllniMnnp llrri'tvi'S an Ovation In Olasgow —Tin- :
Kxpntslon lull I’assoa thr 1’rendi Somite—A
Terrible Story t'nnfeHseil lo Have Horn False,
Queenstown, June 22..—The mate of
the British bark Arklaw, who was (licked
up at sea in an open boat by the American
ship Frank Pendleton, ana said that the
Arklaw was sunk by a collision on May 8th,
has disappeared, lie left a note saying
that his heart-rending story of the colli
sion and tiis subsequent sufferings was
false, and added: “f left she vessel for
reasons which 1 will hereafter explain.”
France.
THE EXPULSION BILL PASSED UY TIIE
SENATE.
Paris, June 22.—In the debate on the
expulsion bill in the senate to-day Premier
Defreveinet said that his government
would not tolerate another government In
France, and would take the full responsi
bility for the expulsion of princes, fie re
refuted the charge that the government
was yielding to the irrecoiieiliablo. lie
declared that order was being maintained
throughout France, even at Deeuseville,
where a recurrence of the recent disorders
had boon prevented. That was not the
exceptions to the general market, being
mticenbly strong throughout the day ana
losing higher. Tim news of the day was
ease in Belgium or in Great Britjun. j
In conclusion, lie depreciated the connseu- j
tion of the property of the princes, insist- I
ed that a common luw would not apply to ,
the princes, and urged the necessity of a
republican union mi of supreme interest to
the republic. Finally a secret ballot was |
taken and the bill as it came from the i
chamber of deputies was adopted by a
vote of 141 to 107. Tile announcement of
the result was received with great applause
by members of the left.
Scothuul.
AN OVATION TO GLADSTONE IN GLASGOW. '
; Glasgow, June 22.—The arrival of Mr.
j and Sirs. Gladstone here to-day was tile
signal fora great demonstration. Thou
sands of people had awaited at the station
to greet him, and when they alighted from
the train and entered their carriage, they
| were cheered, cheered and cheered
again by tiie enthusiastic multitude.
Ilenglcr’s circus, in which Gladstone was
announc'd to speak, was packed from Moor
to dome. Gilbert lleilli, memb- r of par
liament for central Glasgow, was chairman
I of the meeting. When the premier and
, ids wife and Lady Aberdeen entered the
buihiiug they met with hurricanes of ap
plause. The audience sang “Auld
| Lang Bayne" and "He’s a Jolly Good Fel-
I low.” Gladstone, upon rising, said lie was
I confident that Glasgow would do true and
solid liberal work at the coming elections.
He would to-day deal with a portion of t Im
l great Irish question which bad hitherto
been untouched, namely: bat portion
which peculiarly affected Scotland. He
would fake ids text from the famous Dr.
Chalmers, who in 1818 referred to the im
possibility of crushing tin- Irish people.
i and added that the ''Almighty army of
I varidacSH would be irresistible :tl»e
church'.” Those words the speaker said,
were the words of high Christian wisdom,
lie asked his auditors to approach Liie
' question inspired with such sentiments.
S|"i!n.
IT WILL NEVER UE PONE.
Madrid, June 22.—Congress by a major
ity of'JOff votes, lias declared tlint no gov
ernment of Spain will ever give autonomy
to Cuba.
HARVEST HOPES REALIZED.
I
The l'lt-lil of Wlirat in Stiitvs t> Imti-tlu-Griiiu is
' Iteiuly for t lie lt(-ii|ii'r AI most t |» te lln-Avn-
A HEAVV FAILURE.
A 1‘rominciil lork Sumir l inn S*iis|,miiI , »
ltd‘ .II css.
Nio\y York, June 22. Tiie suspension of
Die /iriu of Jl. H. Swift Co,, imj/urters
of sugars at No. GG Pine street., this city,
ami :it Pemainbueo, is oue of the most im
portant business failures that lias taken
plnee in a h > ^ lime. The liabilities ar
about i i.l i• *i 11 ion ''ollais wli'cli is more
than etjiuilii r' ' ; t!.i assets of thr firm.
Thu* far assignments lias been made
and . . • : it-. ai« in progress to efliret a set
tlement with solicitors and resinn< busi
ness at an early day. In the meantime
t la 1 tepi m-it.ii i.s causing gn at excitement
in the sugar trade of the city and the fear
is e\pres.M‘d that other embarrcssmejits
P
opi»>ition !o grant
uld pass thr Iem e.
!.d if thi y had truth
Mi
■ao-.iM i>“ ii» money l<* pur timm next year.
().ir of ihrir men had ton! the house that
it won d be fourtr'-n million dollars in
eh bt.
! Ii‘*r rl; ri.-iiig. “Don’t you believe it?”
(’ •.ilimiing, in* ch irgud that the repub
lic ms v.a.dad to keep a surplus in the
treasury, iud yet «too(l up here and told
tm house thev Were paying pensions. The
co'.iiji i \ did not believe them. This resolu
tion e -“I'd tin.* house to lay on u
tax i • . the money if it i'elt it-
» >und to grant pensions that
ii f •. . without money to pay. If it
wt way* and means committee
i . i he hoii*e would not con
ns.* on the demoeratic
■it!
Utute t • lay the
*• ordered, and re-
ympathy was expressed on the
striets to-day for the members i.f tbe sus
pended firm. One of tbe firm said today :
‘‘Wc have been for over forty years in
business, and our firm is the last one of the
old class of merchants who began t«i <h
vt lope the capabilities of the sugar im
porting business. So far our creditors
nave been unanimous in their sympathy
and good wishes, if we can tide over the
next sixty days we will, I think, be safe.
The market has been depreciated by sugar
refining strikes and trade driven away.
Now that they have resumed work the de
mand will be increased.”
liuht Rut ween Saloon M*' and UroliihHionists.
Chicago, June 22. The Inter-Ocean’s
Clinton, Iowa, special says: In an encoun
ter yesterday between saloonists and pro
hibitionists four of the former named Kor-
see. Tiddcrson, Hart and bonds were.* shot,
none of them being fatally wounded. Mar
shall Judge and Prank Hillerman were
jailed, charged with doing the firing. The
saloon element last night were threatening
to lynch Judge and Hillerman and declare
t h** jail will be blown up if necessary to
get them.
The *11 mill} lain Si mini.
Xkw Ori.ka: s. Jim. 22. The governor
yeM.-rday signe' 1 the .Sunday Jaw. Jl wili
go iiit‘> effect January 1, next. i
Chicago, Jluiiu 22.—The following crop
summary will appear in this week’s issue
of the Farmers’ Review:
Harvesting i.s in progress in portions of
Ohio and Indiana, and in large sections of
Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas nnd Tennes
see the grain has already been gathered.
The yield in nil these states, with the ex
ception of Kansas,promises to be above th<
average. In Washington county, Mo., the
report is made that the grain
is threshing out an average of
twenty-one bushels to the acre
in many fields. In Davis and Kills coun
ties, Kan., wheat is averaging eight to ten
bushels to the acre, but though short in
quantity promises to grade well. In south
ern Illinois, reports of damage by chinch
bugs in the wheat Helds still continue, and
in rtt. Clair county t he ravages have been
so serious as to reduce the probable yield
from five to seven bushels an acre, in cen
tral I llinois, the out look for winter wheat
continues good. The serious droid li,threat*
cning almost the entire spring belt, has
been quite generally broken ny copious
rains. The danger which seemed to threat
en the life of almost the entire crop has
been passed. The average of the general
yield m Dakota, Minnesota nnd Wisconsin
lias been lessened probably D)
per cent. by the prolongation
of t he drouth, and in portions of Minne
sota in which the rains came too late to re
vive the grain, caused an almost total
blight. In Headie county. Dakota, the re
ports state that the avi rage of wheat was
reduced 10 per cent, by the drouth; in C’od-
dington county, 15 to 20 per cent.; in Spink
county, D) percent.: in Ashton county, 25
percent. In Dakota county, Minnesota,
it is reported that the dry weather, in con
nection with chinch bugs, reduced tin*
average 50 per cent.; in Olmslead county
some of the fields are reported dead; in
Steele countv there was no rain for four
weeks, and the outlook for u beat was U s-
sened 20 per cent.; in Yellow Medicine
county, a five weeks’ drouth was broken
June i2th by rain, but the present outlook
is not far to exceed one ball' acreage; in
blue Kartli county, the wheat is
thinner and shorter than before for years.
In a few portions of Wisconsin, no rains
have yet fallen to relieve the fields. In
Iowa and Nebraska, no sensible injury to
the wheat is reported from the drouth,
but the outs prospects have been greatly
lessened, and in seven Iowa counties the
re.ports indicate the average has been re
duced fully 25 per cent. Jefferson and
Muscatine counties, in Iowa, are the only
ones to report this week ravages by grass
hoppers, and thus far no serious injury ha--
resulted from this form of insect life.
Tin corn outlook in the slates of Minne
sota, Wisconsin. Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,
Illinois and Indiana is almost uniformly
good. Some injury by the cut-worms is re
funded from different sections, but it is not
such us to affect the general crop outlook.
Tin fields in Minnesota, Kansas and Iowa
are reported especially clean and promis
ing a large crop.
Oil 'I lie lie«.
Nkw York, June 22. The dock market
opened steady tiiis n.'umng, the di'hr-
ings w < re quid throng it ait 1 In- \\ ln»h- day.
and though tin pri< e-. ad\. lined digi'lv
ii lh< morning, there wa*s..i.ie fe\..\de
ness .-nd trading was wirheii! regular:. . in
noticeably
ig high
all unfavorable and included a threatened
strike of the Lake Shore switchmen, un
favorable crop reports and the reported ex
tension of the northwestern rate war. It
is believed the bulls did considerable
realizing during the day. Sales, 2-46,000
shares.
TURF NEWS.
Tin* Khh*n «t SIuh>|ihIu‘H(I Huy.
Shrepshkad Day, June 22.—First race,
mile and three-sixteenths, Markland won,
Referee 3d, Rndimion 3d. Time, 2:C4^.
At 3:25 Jere Wernberg served an injunc
tion on the sheriff restraining him from
interfering with the meeting. Betting was
at once resumed as usual.
Second race, for two-year-olds, thre**-
fnurths of a mile, Tremont won, Lizzie
Kripps 2d, Rrilliantine 3d. Time, 1:IHJ.
Tlnrd race, for three-year-olds, one mile
nnd three-eighths; Inspector B. won, Bard
2nd, Ben Fox 3rd; time, ‘2:23f.
Fourth race, for two-vear-olds, three-
fourths of a mile on turf; Jennie Juno won,
McLaughlin 2nd, Hannibal 3rd. Astoria
on back stretch threw rider Waton, who
was carried away insensible. Time, 1:1 Of.
Fifth race, for all ages, 1 f miles: Favor
won; Treemses 2d, and Windsail 3cl; time,
Sixth race, one mile on turf; War Eagle
won; Duke of Buckingham 2d, Banana 3d;
time, 1:14 b
KILLED BY A WOMAN.
V .Mini Who Hcl'nsnl to Ib-tnicl Sliimlcrs Shot
Ihnni in tin* Street.
Chicago, Juno 22.-A special dispatch
from Denton, Texas, says: Mrs. Leona
Lyles, wife of a prominent business man,
klllcu \V. !». Roberts last evening. She
met him on the street nnd, after charging
him with having slandered hei, asked him
to sign a retraction, which lie refused to
do. She persisted in her icquest, telling
him at the same time that unless he did
not sign hr would regret it. He again re
fused, whereupon she drew a revolver and
shot live times, each shot took effect.
Roberts died in a few minutes. Mrs.
Lyles, after snapping several times upon
an empty cartridge, walked quickly
from the scene and surrendered to the
sheriff. Roberts leaves a wife and two
children. He was formerly sheriff of this
county and stood high. Airs. Lyles has a
husband and two children.
THOUGHT TO BE WAITE.
A Man \th , iil|iK lo Pom tii it Suicide ill » Pounce-
I »eu< IlnVI.
Bid noi'.port, Conn., June 22. — An elder
ly gentleman camo here from New York
lust night and registered at the Golden
Hill hotel as 4, T. B. Watson.” To-night he
was found lying on a bed in bis room un
conscious. On tiie tanle wh.-» a bottle of
laudanum labelled K. VV. Schncide*, 302
north Ninth avenue, New York, lie had
evidently taken a quantity of the contents.
Physicians were summoned, but it is doubt
ful' if they will succeed in saving Lho
man's life, l iis clothing is marked “ C. B.
Waite.” He has gray hair and beard and
weighs about 225 pounds. He is tiiought
here to be the New York alderman of that
name who tostifn d against the “ boodle
gang” in tiie Broadway franchise steal.
The police have telegraphed a description
of the man to Inspector Byrnes, of New
York.
A PRETTY SCHEME
In \\ hirh tin i*i
.•in* A pi to (•!>( I.HY
Chicago, June 22. A special dispatch
from Lawrence, Kansas, says : Tiie post
master at tiiis place has received reliable
information of the organisation of an asso
ciation among the postal clerks of the
main lines of the western roads to boycott
the postal system. I-iavli member of the
association upon Incoming such signs the
resignation of his position in the postal
service, which is placed in the hands of an
executive committee. As soon as the or
ganization i.s complete it i.s said the first
removal will be followed by a demand
upon the post master-general tor the cause
therefor. If not sat: factory all the resig
nations will take effect, leaving the mail
service in the Jureb. Tiie ring-leaders are
known and will he reported to the post
master-general.
\ s<>ik
Rif H.M< »NI>
.pc
Hi de Ml.
V;i., .June 22. in eonse-
notice being nnsted in the
iking department of the Old Do
minion Iron and nail works on Belle Isle
reducing wages 15 per cent., so as to cor
respond wit h the wages paid in the Har
risburg, I’a., (bstTii 1 ItJO millers and feeders
have (juit. work, 'flu.* reduction was to
have begun on the 2M h instant, but the
men refused to continue until that time
eVt n it tin* preM nt. wages.
ici«
. Jum
Nkw Oei.i.AN
patch to the I*ie;
“A n official statement
t.he|I>ank of Monroe, u
0s7 and linhiiit i«*s at -
sion w as emised by a
bank by local deposi
attachmeiit.s were m
quent!y no further m
"titil a majority of the
beard from.
\;itiir;iI mis in N
A MIAN V,
I 11,111k.
22. A special dis
join Monroe, says :
f the eondil ion of
•' t lie assets at ••dG,-
552. Tim suspeii-
,*»ar!y run on the
I -. A number of
■«*d to-dav. conse-
• n will Im taken
reditors have been
tjet
.. June 22. William II.
a prospi ctor, yesterday discover-
f nat uraI gas near Knowersviile.
seventeen miles from this city, at the foot
of tin* Hclderbe.'g mountains. The gas
was obtained by bailing out a spring and
inserting a pipe, where the water entered.
A flame sufficient to heat water to tiie
boiling point was produced.
Miitfrrs'of’C loin Ii.
Roanokk, June 22. An ecclesiastical
convention representing tbe Lutheran
synods of Virginia, North C'aiolina, South
('a.iolina, Georgia, Mississippi ami Tennes
see, will meet to-morrow in St. Mark’s
church here. Fully one hundred delegates
and eh r>ea| visit us w ill attend. The open-
iue -e,‘! a. wid h. I,n actual bv Rev. \Y.
S .ionium H. 1).. of Savannah*, Ga. The
l.olv common will b.* adminin. led by
svnodieal i »Uimi • lI-cP d.
till rellcl
h gi-slil-
