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Colmntm VOL. XXVIII—NO. is*> COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: FRIDAY MnhXLNG.- JULY HU, PRICE FIVE CENTS The Senate Devotes a Day to the Con sideration of Morrison's Resolution. An Interentlntr Dismission of till' Snlijci'l oftlin Currency of Hie Count ry l»y tile (lolil mill Silver Men—Vest tleelnrcs 'Mint it Is « Seetlfnilll issue Between tile Fust mill the West. Washington, July 29.—Hoar asked leave to report from the committee ou li brary a preamble -and resolution for the appointment of a committee of five sena tors, the presiding officer to be one, to con sider, formulate and report at the next session of congress a plan for the proper celebration at the capital of the republic centennial anniversary tin ISSfli of the adoption of the constitution, and the 400th anniversary (in 1892) of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, two historical events fraught with great patri otic interests. Hale objected, and the resolution went over till to-morrow. Beck, from the committee on finance, re- orted back the house bill for the inspee- ion of tobacco, cigars and snuff. Cal endar. The senate at 11:30 proceeded to the con sideration of the house joint resolution to apply the surplus in the treasury to the payment of the public debt, Blair giving notice that at the first opportunity he would call up the vetoed pension bills ac cording to their order on the calendar. Allison (who had reported back the res olution from the committee on finance! opened the debate. He spoke of the im portance of the subject and how it opened up the whole financial question of the gov ernment, but hoped that at this late stage of the session the discussion would be close ly confined to the distinct points involved. These were two, the first relating to the currency and the next relating to the man agement of the check business of the gov ernment. It had been a mooted cjuestion whether or not up to this time there had been a distinct setting apart of 10 of main- Pi ti the administration, or an embarrassment to the treasury dcpartme: t. as the very thing which n wise ad'. ... nation would I want, because itturnc . ue responsibility i upon congress, whose agent the secretary I ! of the treasury was. j McPherson, member of the finance com- | mittee, said he had intended to address the . senate at length oh the subject, out owing j to the lateness of the session and the full ness and'clearness of Allison’s statement, J he would forego that intention. He I declared, however, that if there was one thing for which the republican party j was entitled to all the commendation, it ; was for its faithful guardianship of the ! public faith and the maintenance of the j public credit. It seemed, however, ns if the democratic majority in congress had begun to fear that the sinail remnant of the public debt furnished them the only chance left to show that they, too, had u financial policy, and in eager haste they wanted to demonstrate it. They proposed to deal with the surplus in the treasury in such a manner as must needs trench on the reserve or to pay 3 per cent, bonds in silver dollars. To both these propositions the democratic president and the democratic secretary of the treasury were unalterably opposed. The democratic majority in congress pro posed to rob the treasury of its gold re serve by continuing to coin silver dollars (worth 73 cents i at the rate of two and a half millions a month. If the house reso lution were passed, then the country would be at once on a silver basis. It would be notice to the treasury that it could no longer maintain the pnrity between the two coins, and the public would have to FILLI'Mii !\ HIE The ReDublloans Retarding Public Busi ness in tile interest of pension BiPs. any specific sum for the purr taining the redemption of United States notes. He did not himself believe that there was any specific legislation on the statute books requiring the absolute reser vation of any specific sum of money, al though he thought it could be fairly stated that there was in the treasury a reserve which, without further legislation, was a point to be maintained under the statutes of 1875 and 1882. He asserted his own belief that there had been by those two acts a devotion or dedication of $100,000,000 to be held in the treasury for the purpose of maintaining at par in coin all paper money issued by the govern ment. The house joint resolution (known as the Morrison resolution) proposed iu absolute terms to set apart, dedicate and devote $100,000,000 lor the pacific purpose of redeeming United States notes and for no other purpose whatever. If that joint resolution should pass without the dotting of an i or the crossing of a t it would stand in the pathway of the secretary of the treasury in managing the current business. If the secretary should undertake to use any portion of that $100,- 000,000 for current obligations, he would violate a distinctaud cle&r provision of the law. Therefore it was that the committee on finance had thought it wise to reserve a further working fund of $20)000,000. If the joint resolution had been in force a few years ago, when the arrears of pen sions act was passed, that act could not have been executed by the secretary of the treasury. Congress might again, and he believed that justice and fairness requires it to do so, provide additional leg islation respecting pensions. The senate had at the present session passed a bill which would confessedly increase the annual pension expenditures by $12,000,000 or $15,000,000. That bill was now pending in the house and would, he hoped, become a law before the close of the session. If it did, and it the house resolutions were in full play, the pension law could not be carried out. Therefore, it was that the committee on finance believed it wise to have this $20,000,000 as a pliable, flexible fund that could be drawn upon at any time when the treasury was depleted. In the course of his 'speech he referred to Senator Beck’s speech delivered last De cember, and said that the democratic administration had come into power by criticising adversely the financial success of its predecessor, and saying that more money was held in the treasury than was necessary to carry on the ordinary operations of the government and to maintaining paper money at par; that from the 4th of March till the 29th of December the democratic administration, instead of paying the sur plus on the public debt, had accumulated more than $60,000,000 in the treasury over and above the proper reserve, and that it was only the speech of the senator from Kentucky that put a stop to that policy and caused the first call lor ten millions to be issued. The house resolution, he said, literally and absolutely condemned the financial policy of the administration. The senate committee on finance haci mollified and sugar-coated |(in some re spects) this condemnation. Still it also proposed to condemn that policy, and it would stand condemned before the coun try whether the resolution should be adopted or not. , Beck said the senators on either side and the administration might as well dismiss all apprehensions relative to the motives and purposes of the house of representa tives in the passage of the resolution, and might as w r ell assume that the house ot representatives, constitutedjlas it was, in friendly accord with the executive branch of the government, had not undertaken by the resolution either to cen sure, condemn or embarras the execu tive branch of the government. It was fair to say that the house believed that it was conducing to the public welfare and not bringing any embarassment on the ad ministrations. He did not see any purpose in the senate amendments (which did not make any practical change in the resolu- ; tiom except a purpose to say to the coun- i try that the democratic house of repre- i sentatives was not to be trusted and that the republicans in the seriate had I to amend and change it _ in order to take away what was vicious in the resolution. Not believing that there was any vice in it. but believing that under the existing circumstances the resolution was fair and just to the admin istration, he should vote for it J^st asit came from the house. He admitted that , the secretary of the treasury had held, money in the treasury beyond what " as | needed, but he attributed that to a combi- | nation of men in New York and elsewhere who did not desire to have bonds called in and endeavored to make the secretary be- i lieve that there wouldibe a financial panic , unless the money was held in the treasury, j He believed those men had alarmed the president and the secretary of the treas ury and much of the ‘‘locking up was be cause of that apprehension. After a colloquy with McPherson on the subject of the sinking fund w hicb pecK thought should be stopped and which tne senator from New Jersey contended ~houla be continued) Beck declared that the ioint resolution so mi from ** being a reflection on v I’l'i'i May sru rbor lllll—'rill* Uclient! Inters II v, t„n Ohstn- riif Hivcr mill -oiliitr Mutters Washington, July 29.—The house went into a committee of the whole- § Iiulcl. lu the ehnlr—upon the senate amendments to the general deficiency bill. There was no opposition made to thu recommendations of the committee on ap propriations as to the concurrence or non- concurrence in the amendments, and their consideration consisted chiefly in their reading. The house subsequently ratified the ac tion of the committee of the whole, and a conference was ordered, Burnes, LeFevre and McComas being appointed conferees. Thomas, of Wisconsin, called up the veto message on the bill granting a pension to Mary Anderson. Reagan, with the intention of calling up the interstate commerce bill, raised the question of consideration, and the house- yeas 112, nays 117—refused to consider the veto message. Sawyer, of New York, then called up the vetoed pension case of Andrew J. Wil son, but the house also refused—yeas 99, public would have to nays 121—to consider it. But the track take care of itself. He was astonished thgt was not yet clear for the interstate com- any senator favoring the continual coin- ! mc-rce bill, Burrows placing an ob- ageofthe silver dollar tolerated such a I struction in the way in the shape scheme as this joint resolution. Their j of two other vetoe pension bills which safety as bimetalists was found in other i were upon the calendar. To brush these directions. For these reasons he should I aside required two roll calls, and then all oppose the house resolution, and it was j the available timber on the calendar hav only with many misgivings that he would vote for the senate amendment. Plumb, also a member of the finance committee, advocated the resolution as it came from the house. The discussion was interrupted and a conference was ordered on the deficiency bill. Allison, Hale and Miller were ap pointed conferees. The discussion of the surplus resolution was resumed, and Vest addressed the sen ate in favor of the joint resolution as it came from the house. There was nothing political in the question, he said. The sen ator from Kansas i Plumb) was a most em phatic republican, * and he (Vesti was quite as pronounced a democrat, but yet their views were entirely in union on this subject. There had been a glamor thrown over it under the idea that the business principles which applied to the government differed from those that applied to ordinary business. That was simply a monstrous absurdity, a relic of barbarism. The same principles applied to the government and to indi viduals; but what, he asked, would be thought of a business mnu who would keep $1,000,000 idle in his; vault while he hnd $1,000,000 of 8 per cent, notes outstanding? Every mercantile ex change in*the country would denounce him as a lunatic. He quoted from the London Economist to show how small proportionately were the government re serves abroad, giving them as thirty-one millions In England,twenty-nine in France and eleven in ucnnnny. In conclusion Un said that the fight was one between gold and silver, between gold and greenbacks, between men who wanted to make money dear and scarce and high and between men who borrowed money, and unless this trouble was termi nated ou equitable and fair grounds, it would result in a sectional struggle be tween the bast and west. That was the plain meaning of the whole thing. Sherman addressed the senate in favor of the joint resolution as amended by the committee on finance. He considered it not as a political but as a business proposi tion. Sherman was surprised at Vest’s statement in regard to the reserves of Eng land, France and Germany, and from the latest number of the London Economist he showed that the reserve in the Bank of England was equal to 39 per cent, in coin, and in the Bank of France 40 per oent., being a larger per cent, than was proposed here. Sherman said the effect of the resolution, as it passed the house, would be ithough not so intended) to con tract the nations, bank circulation to the amount of $100,000,001). Teller advocated the resolution as it came from the house. In the course of his remarks, Teller referred to a conspiracy of capital against labor, all over the world, to make money dearer to the borrower. George asked Teller if he had any feasi ble plan by which lie could make those who have money put it into circulation. Teller replied that he had not. Jones, of Nevada, interposed the remark that he hud such a plan, and he spoke for two hours, laying down his theories upon political economy, but giving no answor to George’s question. He did, however, assert his belief that the shrinking volume of money had inflicted more evil, more suffering, more penalties on the American people thu.li they had ever suffered from war, pestilence and famine. What the people wanted was money, not gold, nor silver, but dollars that would liquidate debt and keep the red flag of the sheriff away from the window. If the secretary of the treasury would exercise the discre tion given him by the silver bill of 1873 and coin up to the maximum, four millions a month, no evils of contraction would be felt. . \ Jones yielded for a motion to go into secret session, which the senate did at 5:45, after agreeing to a conference on the Northern Pacific land bill. At 6:05 the doors were reopened and the senate adjourned. ON ’CHANGE. ing been exhausted, Burrows had reasons to vetoed bills still remain ing in the committee and by by motions to discharge the committee from their further consideration again completely blocked the Gay. As there are at least fifty of these bills lit the com mittee, there is enough material on hand to effectively prevent furthoi progress of the inter-state commerce bill if the opponents of that measure de sire to follow that line of policy. The democaats were profuse in their charges of filibustering, charges which were denied by republicans who asserted that they were honest in their desire to secure action on the pension cases. The advocates of the bill finally attempted to reach an agreement, and Matson, of Indiana, sug gested that the vetoed pension eases on the calendar be taken up, considered and voted upon, and that then the inter-state com merce bill should be considered. Reagan assented to the suggestion, but called attention to the course pursued by the republicans yesterday and to-day, for the purpose of preventing action on the interstate commerce bill. Every time that he called up the bill which the country had been demanding for fourteen years, the gentlemen on the other side called up privileged pension cases solely for the pur pose ot preventing its consideration. Reed—“I deny that statement in toto. It has no foundation ill actual faet.” Reagan remarked that Reed could not succeed in deceiving the country. York, asserted that the gosted that the Hennepin cmini clause be so modified as to au thorize an acceptance by the govornment of the Illinois hud Miehiga . eipial and the appointment of n board of engineer officers to survey nml definitely locate the line of the Hennepin canal. Other items in dispute, including New York harbor and Potomac fiats improve ments, will probably lie conceded by the noitse conferees. Another con ference will be held to-morrow morning, at which it ishoped a final agree ment will bo reached. The friends of the Hennepin canal are somewhat reluctant to accept anything short of the uncondi tional appropriation contained in the senate amendment, but rather than sacrifice the entire bill, they have about concluded to accept the compromise above noted in the hope that it will establish a precedent for further appropriations. The present indications are that the majority, hut not all of the house conferees, will so report to-morrow to that body. The Cutting Case. Washington, July 29.—The house com mittee on foreign affairs to-day considered Representative Lanham’s resolution call ing on the state department for corres pondence touching the Gutting case. Lauhain read a letter he had received from tlie secretary of state continuing the assurange that Cutting would without WISH 1 THE KITE nvs, ake it was deemed unnecessary to take any further action ou the resolution. The committee then adjourned till the next session. Nomination. Washington, July 29.—The president to-day nominated Geo. A. Jenks, of Penn sylvania, to be solicitor general. AN INTERESTING DOCUMENT. A stut, nil'll I "dinning lLmmuls of Flirts In tin DiltVri'iit Itc|iurtments. Sin nil Hci l I lies I ii t lie Pi ices of Storks New York, July 29.—The market to-day was materially lower and its range of val ues and volume of business more contract ed. News this morning was almost en- tirelyofa discouraging character and to the usual advices of damage by drouth was ^ added reports of renewed rate cutting in [ ijq, e " . of New republicans wanted to get a vote on the pension cases. After that he was willing to stay here a month in order to consider the interstate commerce bill. [Incred ulous laughter on the democratic Bide.] Dunn, ol Arkansas, objected to the ar rangement suggested by Matson failing to secure an assurance that after the votes had been taken on the pension bills nobody on the other side would in any manner op pose the interstate commerce bill. After another roli-call, however, Dunn withdrew his objection and in accordance with the terms of agreement the house took up for consideration the veto message ou the bill granting a pension to Andrew J. Wilson and refused—yeas 105, nays 86— to pass the bill over the veto, a constitu tional two-thirds not voting in the affirma tive. The house then, at 5:15 took a recess until 8 o’clock, the evening session to be for the consideration of private bills. Tlie proceedings of the house this evening were marked by an absence of any friction. About twenty private hills were passed without any serious ob jections, and at 11 o’clock the house ad journed. The Filial Atl.loiiriiincllt. Washington, July 29.—The indications continue fair for the adjournment of con gress without doubt by next Monday. Should tlie president, however, decide neither to sign nor to veto the oleomar garine bill, the friends of the measure will seek to postpone adjournment until Tuesday, on which day it will become a law without the j dential ap proval. The conferees on i... river and harbor bill talk less hopefully to-day ot their prospects for an agreement, but the issues are well defined, and the differences may lie reconciled in a moment whenever one side or the other decides to recede. It is not probable that a failure to agree upon tlie measure will postpone an adjournment. The most of t he remain ing problems to be solved are embodied in the sundry civil bill and the difficulty with these consists rather in their number than their character. There was a call for a conference upon the measure this morn ing, but a quorum did not appear at the appointed time and nothing was done. The unwillingness of tlie president ■ to sign any bill until he has had time to study its provisions, has given I ris to an apprehension that congress will ! be kept in session to afibrd this opportuni ty : . '.vs after the appropriation bills are passed.' There is, however, believed I to be little grout els for this apprehension, : for although'official copies ot the acts of congress i.re not sent to the president until j all the differences have been reconciled in j conference and the results ratified 1 by the two houses, yet all but the eoutro- I verted points are open to inspection, and may be examined in tlie printed bills be fore the conferees are appointed, while the , progress made upon controverted points is daily set forth in the Congressional Record, president may, therefore, as his Washington, July 29.—The president to-day transmitted to the senate, in com pliance with a resolution ottered by Sen ator Ingalls, statements from the heads of '.he executive departments relating to the changes in the classified service during certain periods put in the resolution. Thu statements are in tabular form and are submitted without comment. Sum marised they make the following show ing : First—The number of clerks now em braced within the provision of the civil service act removed from July 16th, 1882, to March 4th, 1885—Department of state, none; treasury department, 20; depart ment uf interior, 28; department of justice, none; post office department, 6; war de partment, 29; navy, I. The number during the same period (not including excepted from examination by rule 19 of civil service rule)—Department of state, 4; treasury department, 159, de partment of justice, 5; post office depart ment, 41; war department, 82; nuvy de partment, 10. Second- -The number of clerks embraced within the provisions of the civil service act removed between March 4, 1885, and June 15, 1886—Department of state, 2; treasury department, 191: department or interior, 215; department of justice, 1; post- office department, 10; war department, 40; navy department, 1. Number appointed in same period—De partment of state, 3; treasury department, 99; department of the interior, 120; depart ment of justice, 8; postolfice department, 49; war department, 86; navy department, two. Third—The number of chiefs of division or chief clerks reduced between July 10th, 1883, and March 4tli, 1885—department of state, none; treasury department, 1; de partment of interior, 1; department of justice, none; postoniee department, 2; ; war department, 1; navy department, 1. ‘ The number of chief clerks appointed I during that period—department of slate. 2: treasury department, 12 ; department of interior, 4; department, of justice, 1; postoffice department, 11 : war depart ment, 1 ; navy department, 2. Fourth—The number of chiefs of divis ion and chief clerks removed or reduced from March 4, 1885, to June 5, 1886—De partment of state, 1; treasury department, 28, department of the interior, 9; depart- | ment of justice, none; postolfice depart- I ment, 2; war department 1; navy depart ment, 2. I Number of chiefs of division and chief I clerks appointed during the same period— I department of state, 2; treasury depart ment, 55; department of interior, 21; de-I partment of justice, none; postollioo de partment, 8; war department, 1; navy de partment, 2. Fifth--Number of appointments of offi cials within the scope of the civil service act between January 18, 1883, the date of its passage, and July 15, 1883, tlie day when it went into effect : Department of state, 3 ; treasury department, 56; department or interior, 254; department of justice, 4; post office department, 34; war department, 62; navy department, none. The Unenviable Notoriety Won by the Gentleman From Hancock. I 'mid ."in iii'il Tin- Kji'clt'il li'si'il fiHinti'rlllUM'" ID:- Atlanta, July 29.—Tlie smoko of yes terday’s battle lias cleared away and few of the contestants remain upoii the field. The outgoing trains last night and th's morning took away the bulk of the dele- gales, and only a few leaders remain talk ing over the future details, or candidates getting on tlie good side of the powers that e. The general sentiments condemn tho course of the dissenters who refused to make General Gordon’s nomination unani mous; and the Hancock chair man achieved unenviable notori ety rather than creditable prominence, when he stood in his chair to show who it was that voted the single “no” on the motion to make Gen, Gordon’s nomi nation unanimous. There is nlwnys r spect felt for a man who fights hard and dies game, but he must know when to die, and acknowledge it like a man when he is whipped. Judge Haralson of Webster, expressed tlie case in the Bacon caucus in this way: “I am not the man, after being licked, to make faces at the fellow I couldn’t whip.” Kli’rli'il From a Cur. Atlanta, July 29.—An episode occurred iu u first-class car on the Western and At lantic railroad last night just as the train was leaving the depot which created a rip ple of excitement among the passengers and lookers-on in the depot. Two mulatto men and a woman, all very light, entered the first-class coach and sented themselves among the crowded passengers; Com plaint was made to Conductor Ferguson, who came in and informed the party they must go into the front coach. They re fused, saying they had first-class||ticfcets. The conductor offered to refund their money, hut told them they must leave the car they were in. The threat of having them taken out by a policeman finally in duced them to give up their seats, but they did so under protest, threatening suit against tlie road. Alli'irt'il CoiiulcrfciterN Ib'h'NM'il. Atlanta, Gu., .July 29.—The ease against 1 J. H. Bowles, of ‘‘Mamma, I am cursed with eloquence. Louise Michel suffered for a cause. Bbe is a woman, I urn a man and I will stand it like a man.” Captain Sohauek explained the result of his experiments in exploding the bumbs'tfound among! Lengg’s effects the havoc they occasioned. Leugg declared tiiat he had prepared the bombs to use them against tne galling gun of the militia in n great revolution whioh had commenced. When asked where he had obtained moulds with which to fashion the bombs, lie said he had made them out of clay. Ho hadjpleked up gas pipe along the river and wherever he could find it. (fix persons, lie said, had called at his house M ay 4tli to obtain bombs. A recess was then taken. FACTS FROM FOREIGN SHORES. Tin 1 Finn pus 11 Ion of tho Now C’nlil not— 1 The Times’ Coin ill i'll tn—Th u I liolrra lfi'lurns, Kte. charged lefo Messrs. John C. Bone and Woodville, in Greene county, with counterfeiting, was heard before Commissioner Huight. District Attorney Hill suid, after hearing the evidence, that the case had not been made out, and he should not ask that the gentlemen du held. They were accordingly dismissed. Mr*.! Shots. Atlanta, July 29.—ft is rumored here that large petitions signed by many citi zens will he presented to the next regular meeting of tne city council, asking the re mission of the heavy fines imposed by Recorder Anderson iu the prohibition cases. The directors of the Atlanta baseball club met to-niglit and determined to re main in the Southern League to the cloHe of the games. They are confident, of win ning the pcnanl, despite the belief tiiat the other clubs will throw games to Sil van nub. The ease was dismissed this afternoon before Jqdgo Landrum, charging T, O. Mayson with selling liquor to a drunken man. A small blaze on Marietta street, in tho Cannon House, was put out by the fire de partment without serious loss this after noon. TIGHTENING THE COILS. London, July 29.—The following ap pointments are officially announced. Secretary for Foreign Affairs—The Earl of Iddesleigh. Chief Secretary for Ireland—Sir Michael Hicks Beech. Chancellor of the Exchequer—Lord Ran dolph Churchill, who, by virtue of his ap pointment becomes the recognized leader of tlie conservative party in the house of commons. Secretary of War—Right Hon. W. H. Smith. First Lord of the Admiralty—George Hamilton. Lord High Chancellor—Baron Hata- burgh. Secretary for India—Right Hon. Freder ick Arthur Stanley. Prime minister and first lord of the treasury—The Marquis of Sallsbun’. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland—The Mar quis of Londonderry. Lord President of the council—Viscount Cranbrook. President of the board of trade—The Right Hon. Edward Stanhope. First commissioner of works — Right Hon. David Stunket. Postmaster-general — Lord John Mau- ners. Lord chancellor of Ireland—Lord Ash bourne. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS. The Times fears that the new cabinet is not altogether what could have been wish ed in the interests of a steady government and hurmonlous co-operation. It says the libera! unionists of Londonderry will doubt less be exposed to the invectives of the nationalists. Sir Michael Hlcks-Beoch must show more force of character and • steadiness of purpose than he had shown i of lute in order to grapel successfully I with the Irish problem. It would have been better both for his party and himself if it had been possible to allow Ixird Randolph Churchill’s disposition to consolidate and mature. He will have a difficult and arduous part to play and will encounter much jealousy. His promotion, however, gives rise to new hope of a vigo rous era of conservation. A serious ques tion will be how to get gloiig with the unionists. Till! Cholera Returns. London, July 29.—Italian cholera re turns for to-day, are : Bolajana, 16 new coses, 10 deaths; Manduria, 13 new cases, 6 deaths; Ferrura, 10 new coses, 4 deaths; and 23 new eases and 13 deaths elsewhere. The Austro-Hungarian reports are : Triest, 10 new cases, 1 death ; FPum, 8 new cases, 3 deaths. uuucu ui ivimnv.. , ine ijresiueiju muy, muiciurc, an mn the west and a further decline in the price j predecessors have done, keep up with the of silver. There was free selling by lor- j eurlfcn t proceedings, and be ready with -.Ldvt Vir.nano T’IiL IDO rlf pt flllPIlfin 4 tO }| j LI.. «...haI «-.«• ir/.fr, n I %vi cof no c/.r\n nc eign houses. The market opene lower. Prices were weak from tlie opening, but declined fractional amounts only and soon rallied. Before noon, however, prices were again upon the downward path -and continued heavy throughout the afternoon, the market becoming extremely dull, and finally closing weak. The net result is an almost universal decline, but in no case his approval or veto almost as soon as completed measures can be examined and , enrolled. A Favorable Report Orilereil. Washington, July 29.—The senate com- I mittee’on public lands to-day ordered a favorable report on the house bill to de- , , . . clare the forfeiture of lands granted to the 1 did the loss exceed I, which wax in Erie, j \ fc w Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Northwestern, Lake Shore, Northern I Backbone railroad company, to confirm Pacific and New York Central were the I titles to certain lands and for other pur- other'weak stocks. Sales 212,000 shares. ' poses. Senator Van Wyck will make a , ■ i ■ — | minority report adverse to the portion of liawp',1. the bill confirming to the New Orleans Ch*rtotte N. C„ July 29.—George Pacific railroad company as assignee a Moore cXrell, was hanged in the jail in portion of the original backbone grant, this city this morning, in expiation ot the ~ anT’llariinr Hill. tsusimsstas£As» .*£ twentv minutes later he was pronounced seem to have reached what maj pro dead. * His neck was not broken by the basis fall. of settlement tween tlie two houses. f the differ It has been be- ON THE TRACK. The Hiii'i'k at Sunitonu Yesterday. Saratoga, July 29.—The weather to-day was sultry, the attendance large and the track fast. First race, for all ages, 1 mile; Wayward won, Endmer 2d, Amber 3d; time 1:44. Second race, lor three-year-old fillies, 11 I miles: Tillie won, Mollie McCarthy 2d, I Chanty 3d; time 1:591. Third met. l e miles; O’Fallon won, Royal Arch 2d, Mona I’d: time 1:58. Fourth rcci: .m uil ages, three-fourths of a mile; Mom'rum 1st, Sliamrock 2d, Islette \ 3d; time 116?. Fifth race, steeple chase; two and one- , fourth miles: Bourke Cochran won, | Disturbance 2d, Buck Thadeous 3d; time | 4:28. Tin' Moninoidli Park Run's. Monmouth Park, N. J., July 29. - First j race, all ages, one mile, Markland won, Poekskill 2d, Gonfalon 3d; time 1:14}. Second race, for two year olds, three- 1 quurtersof a mile, Belvidere won by a neck, Puzzle 2d, two lengths in front of Austriana 3d; time 1:16?. Third race, for .three year olds, one mile, Linden won, Lansdowne six lengths lie- hind. followed by Gardey eight lengths off: time 1:44}. Fourth race, all ages, mile and a quarter; | Heel and Toe won, Barnum 3d, Ten Strike 3d; time 2:12}. Fifth race, three quarters of a mile; , Marsh Redon won, Queen Esther 2d, Witch 3d; time 1:15A. Sixth race, steeplechase; short course; won by Harry Mean, Wellington 2d, Tom Brown 3d; time 3:2 J. Chicago, July 29.—First race, one mile; ' Gleaner won, Mamie Hunt 2d, Skabcll'3; time 1:46?. Second race, one mile: Lisle won, Sister Monica 2d, The Dude 3d; time 1:47;. Third race, three-quarters of a mile; Laredo won, Terra Cotta 2d, Carrie 3d; ' time 1:55." Fourth race, two miles; Buchanan won, Idle Park 2d, Great G .'d; time 3:15?. Fifth lace, steeplechase, full course; Tennessee won, Aurora 2d; no time taken. Mon* DmiiiiL.'iiis Trdiiiiiiiiy tmilii-l tin* Fliii'iiuo A miri'liLt—Till* Stale In Hum' Tn-ilny. Chicago, July 29.—States’ Attorney Grinned announced this morning that all the testimony for the state in the anarch ist trial would be laid before the jury by to-morrow evening. Schnaubel’s sister was among the spectators in court. One division of the court room was occupied exclusively by women. Dr. John B. Murphy, who attended many of the wounded officers at the Des- plaines street station, described in detail tho character of the wounds sustained by the police officers at tlie Hay market. Dr. Epler was called and testified to the fact of Tilden visiting witness’ office on Halstead street, the night of the massacre, to have a bullet wournl in his leg dressed. M. M. Thompson, the young man who gave such damaging evidence against the leading anarchists Tuesday, was recalled by tiie defense, and was asked whether he was not at Grief’s Imll on the night of May 4th. He replied that he was not. He wax questioned very closely by Foster, but did not vary any of bis original state ments. Tlie states attorney brought out the fact that he had been compelled to move from his house on south Green' street owing to visits from the adherents of the anarchists, who sought to intimi date him from taking the stand. Officer Michael Hoffman testified to finding bombs near Ogden Grove which had been pointed to him by Informer Loh- mnn. The same witness told of a vast amount of deadly missies found under the house of Anarchist Thiele. A bailiff was called and exhibited to the jury the torn and blood-stained uniforms of the wounded officers. Captain Black protested strongly against such evidence being submitted. He de clared tiiat it was only for a sensational purpose. Grinnell replied with some feeling tiiat if lie desired to produce a sensation and to illustrate the murderous character of the assault at Haymarket lie would have brought in the survivors of that night on stretchers and expose their wounds. Cant. Michael Shoack then took the stand. On the afternoon of May 4 when Longg v.-.is locked up at the Chicago ave nue station, witness asked him whether he was at No. 54 South Lake street on the night of May 3d and lie replied tiiat ho was. He said he had made dynamite for use at llaymarket. Lengg said he hated the police because they had attacked the people at McCor mick’s and because they were friendly to the capitalists. When asked why he did not ligntthe police with guns instead of dynamite, Lengg replied that the militia had guns and the socialists had to use dynamite. Lengg said he made three kinds of dynamite He had learned how to make it by reading books. When witness examined Lengg’s trunk lie found in it a false bottom and a large quantity of fuse, which, he said, he had bought of a firm on Lake street. Lengg said he knew Spies and was at the Arbeiter Zeitunz office frequently. He had been a socialist as long us he could think. Witness had a talk with Engel on May 5th, when the latter confessed that he find been at the meetingat 51 West Lake street on May 3d. When Engel s wife visited him Engel broke down and wept, ami :o her j.kidl-ig for placing himself in such a position, he replied, EXPELLED bY this sUi.tan. Berlin. July 29.—Tlie sultan of Homauli has expelled the members of the Gerihan East African Society from his dominions. hoganshelfTcurse. j It Foiiii'h uf HIk Puiii'rn! untl Splits Ilfs Cuflln Wills l)|H'll. Reading, Penn., July 28.—A horrible story comes from Stroudsburg, the county I seat of Monroe county. Hillary Hogan- I shelf cud Alvin Keniiniug were farmers and lived on adjoining farms. They had a quarrel about a new fence, went to law and Mr. Hognnshulf defeated Mr. Kem- ming. Ilogaiishelf then commundedKem- ming never to speak to him and even re main from his funeral. He warned his people and hoped lightning would strike his coffin if his wishes were not respected. Finally Hogansbelf took sick, j ana again emphasized his wishes about Kcmiuiiig. Death soon came, but Keni- , filing was invited to be a pallbearer and lie accepted. The funeral took place, and nothing happened until the straps were being removed from under tho coffin. Sud denly a black cloud sailed over the heav ens and rain fell in torrents. A Hash of lightning startled everybody, crashed into the grave and split the coffin. Tlie mourn ers fled in terror, and the grave wus not closed until after the storm. A YOUNG LADY DIES OF JOY. In I'iii'\|ii'i'fi'il Hectfills, ii SrriHin of llclisht mill a Death. ! New Haven, July 28.—Mias Maria Leary, a pretty girl, 19 years of age, died suddenly Saturday while at Derby depot. Medical ! Examiner White made a careful examina tion and pronounced death due to neural gia of the heart. The neuralgia, according to the report which Dr. White made to j Coroner Mix, was caused by sudden joy. j Miss Leary was expecting her cousin from Derby, and arriving at the depot she wus ‘ startled by seeing her cousin earlier than j she expected. She screamed out in delight I and fell back dead. Miss Leary was buried from St. Patrick’s ehurcii yesterday. National Dunk Taxoa. j Syracuse, N. Y., July 28.—Argument | was heard here to-day by Judge Wallace, of the l nited States circuit court, on a mo tion for iirdiminary injunctions made by j thirty-five national banks of the city of I New York, to restrain the collection of j toxes imposed upon bank shares for the ! year 1835. The suits involve the eoustitu- i tionality of the entire system of state taxa- ; tion of the shares of national banks, and are considered the most important ever j presented to the court upon the I subject. The main point urged by the banks is that the state law violates the j provision of section 5219 of thellrevised j statutes of the United States, which for- I bids tlie taxation of shares of national banks by the several states at a greater rate than other forms of moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens thereof. If the point is sustained it will affect the taxation of shares of national banks In nearly every state of the union, and in many states the taxation of state bank shares as well. The tax upon bank shares in New York city alone is more than I $1.000,000 a year. ' Funeral ofllulirrt D. Tlioin]iM)n. New York, July 29.—Hubert O. Thomp son was buried to-day and his funeral was \ a notable one. The body was buried ill Wood lawn cemetery. Every prominent politician in the city, in or out of office, t was present, and also a number of state i officials and a great many citizens promi nent in other than political fields. The board of aldermen was present in a body,