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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
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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.
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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
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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,