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VOL. XXVIII—NO. 185
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUS1
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’RICE FIVE CENTS
Yesterday’9 Proceedings of the House
and the Senate.
A Viirtlsiin lIlKnrnton Over a Very Foolish Hcmi.
Iiition— Hniiilull Shows Wlmt the Democratic
Majority ’lias Done —The Work of the Too
Houses.
Washington, August 2.—The speaker
laid before the house the bill to increase
the naval establishments, with senate
amendments thereto.
Herbert moved concurrence in the
amendment. Herbert and Boutelle entered
into a discussion as to the position taken
by the republican and democratic parties
upon the question of an increase of the
navy and charges and counter charges of
hostility to the naval bill were indulged
in.
Then Heed took a hand in the debate and
arraigned, in severe terms, the democratic
majority for its delay in bringing impor
tant public measures before the house and
preventing intelligent consideration and
discussion. The history of this house was
the history of a refusal to trans
act public business for the
purpose of enabling the democratic partv
to show on the stump figures which indi
cated not economy, but a failure to spend
the money of the government to meet the
necessities of the government. During
the past week or two scenes have been en
acted here which ought to make - a legis
lator blush. Bills of serious importance,
after incubation of six months, had been
thrust upon the house when there was no
opportunity for discussion.
The senate amendments to the naval es
tablishment bill were concurred in, and
the bill, after the signatures of the speaker
and president of the senate have been at
tached, will go to the president for his ap
proval.
Randall, from the conference committee
on the sundry civil appropriation bill, re
ported a disagreement. Randall stated that
while the report showed, an entire disa
greement, the conference had agreed upon
201 of 243 senate amendments. As the hill
passed the house it appropriated $2,131,525.
The senate increased tnis amount to $3,108,-
850,the ar.ieudment.-|ag>,negating $1,303,400,
and the house through its conferees re
ceded from the disagreement to the sen
ate’s amendments aggregating $921,280.
The forty-two amendments upon which no
agreement had been reached embraced
several matters, but the most important
difference between the two houses was in
regard to the appropriations for the coast
and geodetic survey and the Yellowstone
park amendment.
The conference report was agreed to and
a further conference was ordered.
On motion of 'Raudail a resolution was
passed extending to August 5 the provis
ions of the joint resolution providing tem
porarily lor the expenditures of the gov
ernment.
On motion of Randall a resolution was
adopted giving the committee on appro
priations leave to sit during recess.
The speaker proceeded to call the states
for the introduction of bills.
Baker, of New York, oifered a resolution
‘‘of recapitulation, self-commendation,
modest laudation, and hearty congratula
tion by a responsible majority of the
house.” The reading of this was demanded
by Bayne, of Pennsylvania, and the docu
ment proved to be u stump paper con
taining a severe arraignment of the demo
cratie majority in the house and the dem
ocratic president for sins of omission and
commission. Several times Reagan inter
rupted the reading and objected toastuinp
speech being injected into the proceed
ings of tiie house under false pretenses.
The speaker ruled that, as the document
was presented under the call of states and
was in the form of a resolution, it must be
received. He added, dryly, that the reso
lution whs not an attack on the house, hut
upon the democratic party, and he
thought the democratic party could stand
it.
The resolution, which was endorsed “for
reference to the steering committee,” hav
ing been read, Randall said he did not con
sider it either respectful or decent. He,
therefore, moved to return the resolution
to the member who offered it.
Baker asked consent to w ithdraw it, but
objection was made.
Bayne could not see that the resolution
contained a word that was not true. There
was nothing disrespectful in it, unless the
truth itself was disrespectful
Randaii said that during his experience
in the house he had uever seen such pro
ceedings as at the present, and he thought
iti unworthy of an American house of rep
resentatives, and hence it was that lie
made the motion he did.
Baker said he had no purpose or inten
tion of saying anything that would be dis
respectful to the majority of the house.
He thought it hardly necessary
for him to assure his friends on the other
side of his personal esteem und regard. It
had been ins purpose to relieve spine mem
bers on the other side from the labor of
preparing a resume of the excellent work
which had been performed this session,
but in view of the fact that his friend from
Pennsylvania (Randall) was grieved, he
would ask unanimous consent to withdraw'
the resolution; hut again consent was re
fused, und Randall remarked that he was
not grieved, and that he thought the gen
tleman felt worse about the matter.
Reed said that while the matter had
assumed the form of a jest, the resolution
contained so many unpleasant truths that
the indignation of the gentleman from
Pennsylvania (Randall) could not lie
feigned. It was true that this democratic
house had determined, as stated in the res
olution, to keep half a million citizens of
the United States out of the union. It had
flouted the demand of the great territory
of Dakota to become one of the sisterhood
of states. That was a fact which could not
be gainsaid. It was a iact which no jest
could obliterate. Then, again, the hoi*'
has deliberately suppressed legislation In
regard to the territory of Utah. The sen
ate had passed strong legislation oil the
subject, and the house judiciary committee
had reported still more stringent legisla
tion. and yet this house, with forty demo
cratic majority, had suppressed that legis
lation,and Mormonism continued in posses
sion of the territory. It pretended to be
more eager than the senate on the Mor
mon question, and yet it did nothing. It
had pretended to be more eager than the
senate to secure legislation in regard to
terstate commerce, and yet
failed to pass
and allow it
a law. The gentleman from icxas
(Reagan) had told him this morning that
he could make no capital out of this Kino
of talk. Make capital ? He did not come
to make 'capital. [Derisive ejaculations
and incredulous laughter on the demo
cratic side.] He came here to do what
was proper and right, and he saw the
scorn with which that was treated by the
democratic party. [Laughter.] All these
proceedings were going into historj ana
all these little speeches about how much
appropriation bills footed up would not
make the democratic party, which had
discredited everv department which had
not already discredited itself a j
party, and yet this party got itseli into a
state of indignation over an aflair line
it had
the senate bill
to become
this, for the first time it came up solid.
[Laught.r.l
Reagan thought that : member should
be allowed, ill violation ■ i the rules and in
contempt of his constituents, to present a
statement whieli was a stump speech and
in which there was so little truth. TLu
democratic party 111 the house had passed
bills declaring the forfeiture of land grants,
measures winch had been long demanded
and which the gentleman from Maine
i Reed i had opposed. It had passed a joint
resolution proposing t > pay (ut the r
plus in the treasury. This the gentleman
bad opposed. It passed a bill to reg
ulate interstate commerce und give
relief to the people against the oppression
under which they had groaned for years.
This the gentleman haa opposed. It had
passed a bill to prevent the absorption of
public lands. This bill the gentleman had
opposed. When the number of bills passed
this session cum- t be considered it would
be found that this democratic bouse which
the gentleman upbraided had performed
more labor and passed more bills than any
house of representatives since the founda
tion of the government. [Applause on the
democratic side.]
Randall did not believe that any one
would suppose that helwould shrink from
from any legitimate political warfare, but
the gentleman from New York (Baker
had taken advantage of the rules and pre
sented a proposition which was neither re
spectful nor decent and from the responsi
bility of which the gentleman sought to
escape iiy asking to withdraw it.
Balcer—“That was not done on my own
account. It was a concession to the gen
tleman from Pennsylvania.”
Randall—“I need no concession We
are all about to return to the people who
sent us here, and the recordofthishou.se
will lie weighed and measured by them,
and the election will show whether tin-
party in control of this house is not well
entitled to th^respect and approval of the
American people. We hat* returned to
the public domain millions of acres of
public lands taken by insatiate corpora
tions. We have entered upon the building
of a new navy. We have passed every act
that wo have been asked to pass having for
its purpose the bettering of the condition
of tiie laboring people. We have not in a
single instance passed any bill in favor of
monopolies. We have given the senate an
opportunity to pass an interstate com
merce bill which only forty men on that
side dared to vote against. The appropria
tion bills as they have passed this house
are freer from unnecessary and suspicious
propositions^ban a any appropriation bills
by any congress since the war. Wo
have done so well that we
ought to, and I believe will,
receive the confidence of the American
people. When we came here there were
thousands and thousands of people idle in
tiie United States, but to-day there is not
in my judgment a laboring man who wants
to work who can’t secure work. [Ap
plause.] And that conies iu a large de
gree from the confidence which this house
and a democratic executive have given to
the American people. [Applause.]
Randall's motion to return the resolu
tion to Baker was agreed to.
On motion of Matson, of Indiana, the
rules were suspended and the house by a
vote of—yeas 187, nays 51—passed with u
verbal amendment the senate hill increas
ing tiie pension of soldiers who have lost
an arm or leg in the service.
The house then, at 5 o’clock, adjourned.
Senate.
Washington, August 2.—Allison, from
the conference committee on the sundry
civil appropriation bill, reported that the
committee had been unable to agree. The
conferees had gone over every item in tiie
bill with great, care. There were certain
points on which the house conferees were
to ask instructions from that body and on
which tiie senate conferees desired the
judgment of the senate. The first difficulty
related to the appropriations for the coast
survey. Tiie house provision had reduced
tiie appropriations for the coast survey
about $100,000 below the appropriations of
last year and made a practicably
new arrangement and adjustment with
reference ‘to the official force of the survey,
creating new offices, abolishing old ones,
changing compensation, increasing com
pensation, etc. The senate had amended
the bill so as practically, to continue the
force as it now exists, but had made con
cession to the house respecting the field
force by allowing its reduction from 84 to
52 as vacancies should occur. The house
conferees insisted that a new adjustment
should be made in the bill. The answer
of the senate conferees was that the coast
survey had been since August, 1885, practi
cally without a scientific head, and that
when the office had a responsible
head with scientific knowledge it
could be carefully taken up and
considered. The next items of dinerence
were in relation to the enlargement of
new buildings, to the survey of public
lands, to Yellowstone park, to the erec
tion of a hospital (adjacent to the insane
asvtum) for insane convicts and homicidal
patients, to stenographers for the chief
justice and justices of the supreme court,
and to the item of $10,000 to be expended by
the library committee for works of art.
On the latter point, Voorhees comment
ed upon the “extraordinary spiusm of
alarm” on the part of the house on this
subject, saying that since he had been a
member of congress this annua! appro
priation had been regularly made as a
matter of course.
Beck, a member of the conference com
mittee, expressed the hope and belief that
with a spirit of concession evinced, an
agreement would be reuched before long.
As to the coast survey, he did not see h6w
the senate could yield, for he understood
that even now the salaries of
scientific men were nearly 20
per cent. less than the salaries
paid in the geological survey. He did not
see either how the house provisions in re
gard to a new pension building could bo
carried out. As to Yellowstone park, he
hoped that the house conferees would not
urge their objection. The clause in refer
ence to it had been carefully drawn up by
the senator from Missouri (Vest) and he
trusted that it would ho adhered to. He
believed in extending the park and having
it taken care of and preserved. Either
that, or it should lie abandoned altogether.
He would not have it abandoned by indi
rection.
After discussion the senate (on motion
of Vest) insisted specially on its disagree
ment to the Yellowstone park items, and
on motion of Allison, insisted generally on
its disagreement to the other items, and a
further conference wus ordered.
The senate took up the house bill re
lating to the taxation of fractional parts of
a gallon of distilled spirits, amended it by
making the time when it goes into etfect
the second month succeeding the month
in which this act is approved, by extend
ing the act of March 3, 1877 (relating to
fruit brandy), to brandy distilled from
apples or peaches, passed it and asked a
conference. , _ . . ,
The senate then took up the bill reported
from the finance committee to provide for
the inspection of tobacco, cigars and snuff,
providing for their exportation to foreign
I countries without payment of taxes, under
i the rules and regulations of the treasury
j department.
I At 2:10 the senate went into executive
! session. , .
At G p. m. the doors were reopened and
the senate adjourned until 10 o’clock to-
morrow.
President Cleveland Fixes His Signature
to the Oleomargarine Bill.
Knilh That
Within Him
JtwU'il hy tin
IIi-hihI. Klc.
Numbin'. In
Suriule- -1-
.luliii
Bn.
Con-
of these provisions, and regarding them
as not being so connected and interwoven
with the other sections ns if found
invalid to vitiate the entire measure, 1
have determined to commend them to the
attention of the house with n view lo mi
immediate amendment of the Dill if it
should In: deemed necessary and if it is
practicable at this lute day in the session
of congress. The fact that the bill does
not take effect by its terms ui 1
ninety days have elapsed after
its approval, thus leaving it one month in
operation before tiie next session of con
i' gress.when.if time does not now permit,the
safety and efficiency of the measure may
1 he abundantly protected by remedial leg
Washington, August 2.—The president islative action, and a desire to see realized
has signed-the oleomargarine bill and sent i the bca-iicinl results which it is expected
a message to the house of representatives | "’ill-immediately follow the inauguration
stating his reasons for approving it and | pt l'- - s legislation have had their influence
suggesting some additional legislation, j in determining my official action, lhe
The president in his message to the house considerations which have been referred
of representatives to-day, after formally ' to will, l hope, justify this eommuueiation
announcing that he had signed the oleo- ; ®i>cl the suggestions which it contains,
margarine Dill, says: I [Signed] Grover CLEVELAND.
“ This legislation lias awakened much
interest among the people of the country . Work nr the Secret Session,
and earnest argument has been addressed i W vshtngton August 2.—When the case
to the executive for the purpose of infill- 0 f jp g Dement', nominated to he surveyor-
eucing lus action thereupon. Many in op- gent .„] of Utah, wus reached by the senate
position have urged its dangerous eharac- f n se ,. lvl se8 sion to-dav, it was announced
ter as tending to break down the bounda- 1 that General Logan, who was absent, hud
ries between the proper exercise ul the I left word that he had no more light in De
legislative power by federal and state au- : munt ‘ s behalf. Senator Cullom said lie
thority. Many in favor of the | had, when the case was up before,
enactment have represented that , vote( j ,- or confirmation chiefly became
it promised great advantages to \ his colleague desired it, but lie was now
a large portion of the population who I satisfied that Dement was not the kind of
sadly need relief, and those on both sides man the government needed in the posi-
Of the question whose advocacy or oppose : tioll of surveyor-general of Utah, and he
tion is based upon no broader foundation ! therefore, onpnse confirmation,
than local or persona) interest have out- ; Nobody defended Defhent and he was re
numbered al others. This upon its thee i ect ed without division. Fits John
Secretary Bayard Sends the Correspond
ence to Congress.
Hr Cnillllli nfK Ailvi'rsrly mi
‘lin Jli'xli'ini Unverintti'i
till' Mi'xli'iius Huh" t)|iii(i
L'ijlIl'S.
Posit Inn Tnkrn Iiy
Tlin (Tuliiis Whlt'li
to Ai.ii'rlnui Pi'tn-
was confirmed
and in its main features is a revenue bill
and was first introduced in the house ol do bote, and by nearly the same vote
representatives wherein the constitution j ^ lhiU east for Dement. Internal Reve-
deelares that all bills for raising revenue
shall originate. The constitution has in
vested congress with very wide legislative
discretion, both ns to the necessity
of taxation and the selection of
objects of its burdens, and
though if the question was presented to j na1 j, and”Freeman, of Tennessee, and
Ine as an original proposition, 1 might Collectors of Customs Smalley, of Ver-
doulit the present need of increased ta.ia- 1 - - -
tion. 1 deem it my duty in this instance to
defer to the judgment of the legislative
nue Collector McGrow, of the West Vir
ginia district, was confirmed. Thir- nomi
nation has been ponding more than a
year and a half.it being one of those left
unconfirmed at the end of last session.
United States Marshals Urner, of Cincin
brunch of the government which has beei
so emphatically announced in both houses
of congress upon the passage of this bill.
Moreover those who desire to see removed
the weight of,taxation now pressing upon
the people from other directions may well
be justified in the hope and' expectation
that the selection of an additional subject
of internal taxation so well
able to bear it will in consistefiey be Col
lowed by legislation relieving our citizens
from other revenue burdens rendered by
the passage of this hill, even more than
heretofore unnecessary and needlessly op
pressive. It has been urged as an obj:
und Brady, of Fall River, Mass.,
W'.-ie confirmed. The nominations of C.
ii. Potter to be Indian agent for tiie
Omaha and Winnebago agency, and E. H.
Hitman to be postmaster at Jacksonville,
Washington, Aug. 2.-—Representative
Crain, of Texas, to-day had an Interview
with Secretary Bayard in reference to the
Cutting and liiissure casos. Crain says that
the secretary in the course of the conver
sation, referring to Rassure’R ease,said that
he lmd forwarded to Minister Jackson a
statement of the facts submitted to him Iiy
.Mr. Lcrr, American consul at l’renigrna,
in rl would await the result of the investi
gation which he hud instructed Jackson to
request the Mexican government to cause
to be made before taking any action in the
matter.
in regard to the Cutting case, tiie secre
tary stated that he had made a demand
for the release of Cutting, and was an
swered that Cutting was being tried for a
violation of a federal statute, which pro
vides among other things for the punish
ment of a foreigner who in a foreign
country committed an offense against a
Mexican citizen. To this Bayard replied
that our government could not tolerate
the application of such a law to American
citizens and renewed his demand for Cut
ting’s release, which has not been com
plied with.
To-day, Crain suid, the secretary of state
will submit to the senate a statement of all
the proceedings iu the ease, and upon con
gress will become devolved the duty of
advising what particular action may be
taken by the president and the secretary
of state. He said that Secretary Bayard is
aroused to the importance of the principle
involved in the i “ting case, and is deter
mined to protect American citizens to the
full extent of hit; v itver from ihe enforce
ment against tin Mexican law above men
tioned. Under Ps rv visions scarcely one
’ in the Ui
Texas on the coming of the alleged writ r
or publisher in Mexico, and the Mexlcau
correspondence accompanying Mr. Mares-
cal’s refusal to release Cutting found in t‘. •
accompaniments to Minister Jackson’s
dispatch ofJuly22d, 1888. show the 186th
article of the Mexican code is
the ground of the jurisdictional
claim. Under this pretention it
is obvious that an editor or publisher of
any newspaper article within the limits
und jurisdiction of the United States could
bo arrested and punished in Mexico if the
same were deemed objectionable to the of
ficials of that country after the Mexican
met hods of administering justice should be
be found within those borders.
“Aside from the claim of extraditlonai
power thus put forth for tiie laws of Mex
ico and extending their jurisdiction over
alleged offenses admittedly charged to
have been committed within the borders
of the United States, are to be considered
tiie arbitrary and oppressive proceedings
which, os measured by the constitutional
standard of the United States, destroy the
substance of the judicial trial ana pro
cedure to which Cutting lias been sub
jected.”
In transmitting the document to con
gress tiie president in a brief communica
tion says: “As to the inquiry contained in
the resolution, whether any additional
United Stntes troops have been recently
order to Fort Bliss, I answer in the nega
tive.”
Tiie papers were referred to the commit
tee on foreign relations.
sand
Tilted
111.,
eted
r Sherman tried to call up t! e ex-
i treaty with Urcat Britain, favor-
if.rleii Tom the committee on
'".nations, but the proposition was
wn by a majority, which mode it
prolm'oie that any action would be
this session.
Tin' Drill SI ili l
.TON, August!
issued to-day shows
nit.
The debt state-
tile decrease of
fontottiis me^urathat while“u“porting j toVe'*’'0W lfia^cnshbln^he^roasiry
lose*
lower one industry of our neotile for the ‘Mil‘Mi*, silver certifiialcs outsn iuung,
Till' Itiiri'H nl Siiriitnioi Yesterday.
Haratoga, August 2.—First race, for
maiden two-yolr-olds, 6 mile; Feereuza
won, Belle Brock 2d, Lesbia 3d; time 1:06.
Second race, 1{ miles; Hidalgo won,
Royal Arch 2d, Tomnsa 3d; time 2:524.
Third race, i mile; Harefoot won, Lord
Lome 2d, Brait 3d; tune 1:174.
Fourth race, 1 mile and 70 yards; Mono
gram won, Weaver 2d, Hartford 3d; time
1:64*.
Fifth race, over hurdles, 13-18 mile; Burr
Onk won easy, Chanticleer 2d, Glenarm 3d;
time 2:19.
power one industry of our people for the
protection and benefit of another. Were
1 to indulge such discussion as a
basis of official action in this
case and if entirely satisfied that the con
sequences indicated would ensue, I should
doubtless fuel constrained to interpose the
executive dissent, but I do not feel called
upon to interpret the motives-of congress
otherwise than by the apparent chapter
of the bill, which has been presented to
me, and 1 am • convinced that the taxes
which it creates cannot possibly destroy
the open and legitimate manufacture and
sale of the thing upon which it is levied.
Ii' this article has the merit which i s
friends claim for it, and if the peo
ple of the land with a full knowledge
of its real character desire to purchase and
i use it. the taxes exacted in by this bill will
I permit a lair profit to both tiie manufac
turer and dealer. If lhe existence of t ie
commodity taxed and the profits of its
manufacture and sale depend upon dis
posing of it to the people,for something
else which it deceitfully imitates, the •
tire enterprise is a fraud and not an indus
$$7i5i:-lj044; certificates of deposit outstand
ing, 8191,005,000; legal tenders outstanding,
$348,738,438; fractional currency (not in
cluding amount estimated ns lost or de
stroyed:, $0,853,702.52.
Tin* Surplus Ucsohillmi.
Washington, August 2. The conferees
on the surplus resolution held a meeting
this evening and failed to reach ail agree
ment. There may be another meeting to
morrow, but the belief is strengthened
that no agreement will be readied this
session.
ii"
\riii
Washington, August 2.
to-day sent to congress fo
pension vetoes. The reasoi
are in line with those heret
published—a lack of merit
established, ora failure to :
-The president
ur more private
is for the vetoes
ofore frequently
where facts are
nake out a ease.
Serve AH Alik".
Washington, August 2.—Among the
clerks dismissed from the patent office
try, and if it can’t end::r ■ the i xhiliition f , Saturday was Miss Alice G. Miehlolmm,
its real chcra Her, which will be eiiected
the inspection, supervision and stamping,
which this bill directs, the sooner it is de
stroyed the better the interest of fair
dealing. Such a result would
not furnish the first instance in history of
legislation in which a revenue hill pro
duced a benefit which was merely inci
dental to its main purpose. There is cer
tainly no industry better entitled to the
incidental advantages which may follow
this legislation than our farming and dairy
interests, and to none of our people should
they he less begrudged than our farmers
and dairymen. Tiie present depression of
their occupation, the hard, steady and ol-
ten unremunerative toil which such occu
pations exact,, and the burdens of taxation
randdaughter of President Thomas Jef
ferson.
Kit/.-liiliii Porter foilhlincil.
Washington, August 2. -Tiie senate has
confirmed tiie nomination of Fit/. John
Porter to he colonel of the army on the re
tired list.
ON CHANGE.
Ailv
New York, August 2.—Grangers dis
played their old-time activity at the stock
xchange to-day and are materially higher
3KB is
pations exact,, ana r.lie nuraeiiH o; taxation i '--"-'.'“"s'- v”, ‘v,T •
which our agriculturists necessarily bear, ! to-night. file buying of these stocks is
entitle them to every legitimate considera- j generally attributed to influential New
,j on | J ork parties and by some to Chicago par-
“Nor should there be opposition to the D’ es usb rosa. Northern Pucilie also ad-
incidental elitect ol this legislation on the | vunced on the belief that congress would do
part of those who profess to he engaged I nothing on the lorfeituro hills. Room
part of those who profess to be engag
honestly and fairly in the manufacture
and sale of a wholesome and valuable
article of food, which, by its provisions,
may be the subject of taxation. As long
as their business is carried on under cover
and false pretenses, such men have imd
companions in those who manufacture
and, however harmful, take their place
without challenge with the better sort in
the common crusade of deceit against the
public; hut if this occupation ami its
methods are forced into light, and all these
manufacturers must thus either stand upon
their merits or fall, the good and bad must
soon part company, and the fittest only
will survive.
•‘Not the least important incident re
lated to this legislation is the defense af-
forueu to tiie consumer against the fraudu
lent sale of an imitation for a genuine arti
cle o: -ib, oi, very general household use.
Notwithstanding the immense quantity of
ill which is
the article described in this bil
sold to people for their consumption us
food, am! notwithstanding the claim mode
that its manufacture supplies a eheiq
substitute for butter,
say that hardly a
entered a poor man’s house under the
traders to-duy were ranged on the bull
side. Considerable short stock was pur
chased during tlie day, which materially
helped the advance. The first prices,
though irregular, were in a majority of
eases t to i higher. Western Union was
the only notable exception, opening down
J. Trading was quiet for the first few min
utes, but buying in Union Pacific on false
reports of tne absorption of the Oregon
Navigation stimulated trading over the
whole list, and an active and strong mar
ket followed until noon. The market
then became quiet and prices continued
about steady until tiie last hour, when an
other slight ur”uiK e occurred. The mar
ket closed strung with everything on tiie
active list except \\ extern Union higher,
and St. Paul mei Michigan Central each
up 1], ami ihe otiier stocks fractional
amounts. Sales 239,000 shares.
i [‘"trull'll IIuiiiiin Itiiily.
Vandalia, 111., August 2.—There has
just been exhumed, near St. Elmo, in the
eastern part of this county, the petrified
I venture to I body of a Miss Fulton, who died fourteen
pound ever : years ago. The remains, which were dis
interred at the request of some relatives and
name and its true character. While in its I placed beside another deceased relative,
j relation to an article of this description, j were found to he unusally heavy. Tiie
there should be no governmental _ regula- i coffin was opened, revealing the fact that
J tions of what a citizen shall eat, it is cor- the bodv had been transformed into stone,
I tainly not a cause of regret, if hy legisla- everything remaining intact and the form
j tion of this .character, he is offered the and features being us perfect as the day it
means by which he may better protect : was placed in the ground. The body, after
himself against imposition in meeting the 1 being exposed several hours to the light
needs and wants of his daily life. _ Having | and atmosphere, remained perfectly solid
entered upon this legislation, it is mani- i and intact. The weight, as nearly as could
festly a duty to render it as effective as i pc guessed, is some 300 or ‘250 pounds,
possible in the accomplishment of , Your correspondent has this statement
all the good which should i on the authority of Mr. Lorenzo Lovett
legitimately follow in its train. This leads ! and Mr. Charles Stein, two responsible
to the suggestion that the article proposed j farmers, who were present and assisted in
to be taxed and the circumstances which taking the body up.
ai.j, quiet along the line.
Belfast, August 2.—No further attempts
at. rioting were made during the night, und
journalist out of
States would escape punishment if caught
in Mexico, for the charge against Gutting
is that he published in Texas a libel upon a
Mexican citizen residing in Mexico.
Tlir Information I iirnlslii'il.
Washington, August 2.- In response to
n resolution of the senate asking for in
formation concerning the alleged illegal
detention of A. K. Cutting by the Mexican
authorities at Paso del Norte, the presi
dent transmitted to the senate to-duy the
report of the secretary of state, together
with a voluminous mass of correspondence
relative to the ease. Under date of July
11th United Slates Consul Brigham at Paso
del Norte forwarded to United State Min
ister Jackson at Mexico full statements of
the facts attending the arrest and impris
onment of Culling and an announce
ment of his (Brigham's failure to
procure any reply to Ids application for a
fair trial or release on bail of Cutting.
OnJulvOth the United Mates minister
sought from M. Mareseul, a Mexican sec
retary of foreign affairs, proper relief for
Cutting. The following day Mareseul re
plied that he had recommended the gov
ernor of Chihuahua to see that prompt
and full justice was administered.
On July 17Ut Consul Brigham stated that
Cutting was still in j>ri. • ii and nothing lmd
been done for bis release.
The secretary says that Ihe imprison
ment of tills American citizen having thus
continued for a full month without ex
planation or tiie prospect of release, he
(Secretary Bayardi on Juiy 19th, addressed
a telegram to Minister Jackson instructing
him t,u demand of the Mexican govern
ment the instant release of A, K. Cutting.
This was followed on July 20 hy instruc
tion of tiie secretary to Minister Jackson
reciting all the precedent correspondence
and facts and stating the legal positions
assumed by this government as a ground
for demanding the release of its citizens.
Minister Jackson on July 23d telegraph
ed the refusal of the Mexican govern
ment to accede to the telegraphic demand
of Secretary Bayard for Cutting’s release?
which was followed iiy another telegram
giving the statement of tiie Mexican rea
sons.
Consul Brigham,on July 28th telegraph
ed that the governor of Chihuahua was
pushing the trial of Cutting who ignored,
the proceedings.
On the 27th the secretary mailed ad
ditional instructions to Minister Jackson.
The secretary iu this letter refers to the
claim of the Mexican minister, based on
Mexican laws, whereby jurisdiction is
assumed by Mexico over crimes committed
against Mexicans in the United States or
any foreign country, and his contention
that under this law the publication of a
libel in Texas was made cognizable
and punishable in Mexico. This
claim of jurisdiction hy Mexico
was peremptorily and positively denied by
Secretary Bayard, who declared the United
States would not assent to or permit the
existence of such extra territorial force to
be given to Mexican law. Mr. Romero,
he says, finally assured him that Cutting
would he released in a very short time.
Convinced of the friendly and conciliatory
spirit influencing the Mexican govern
ment, the secretary informed tiie consul
that in his opinion all questions of con
flicting interests between the two govern
ments can without difficulty lie equitably,
honorably and satisfactorily ad justed.
In his report the secretary says : Touch
ing the Mexican laws cited iiy Romero,
this conflict of law is even more profound
than the literal difference of the corres
ponding statutes, for it affects the under
lying principles of security to personal
liberty and freedom of speech, or expres
sion, which are among the main objects
sougiit to be secured Iiy our frame work
of government. The present case muy
constitute a precedent fraught
with most serious results. The alleged
offense may lie and doubtless in the pres
ent case is, within the United States, held
to he a misdemeanor, not of a high grade,
but in Mexico may be associated with
penal results of the gravest character. An
act may be created by a Mexican statute
an offense of high grade which, in thu
United States, would not be punishable in
any degree. The safety of our citizens and
all others lawfully within our jurisdiction
would lie greatly impaired, if not wholly
destroyed, hy admitting tiie power
of a foreign state to de
fine offenses and apply penalties
to acts committed within the jurisdiction
of the United States. The United States
and the states composing tin's union con
tain the only forum for the trial of offenses
against such of their laws, und to concede
the jurisdiction of Mexico over Cutting’s
case, as it is stated in Consul Brigham’s re
port, would be to substitute the jurisdic
tion and laws of Mexico for those of the
United States over offenses committed
Fire In Bull lullin'.
Baltimore, August 1.—-The four-story
Mock comprising Nos. 118, IIS and 120
South Eutaw street, was burned to-night.
The fire broke out in 120, occupied for
storage purposes by C. H. Beebe, wooden-
ware manufacturer, which building was
completely gutted. About ten thousand
dollars worth of goods were destroyed.
Nos. 118 and 118 were occupied by W. B.
Clotworthy, commission merchant, and
Smith, Hallway & Co., manufacturers of
yeast powders. Clotworthy’s loss is placed
at $6,000, and Smith, Hanway it Cos’, at
$20,000. The buildings are owned by John
Hopkins’ estate and are dumaged to the
extent of $20,000. The entire loss is cov
ered by insurance. Valuable property in
the neighborhood induced the sending out
of a general alarm and the entire fire de
partment worked for four hours at tho
most stubborn fire that has occurred in
this city for many years.
Alli'i' it I’lililit' Officer.
New York, August 2.—When the grand
Jury for the August term of the court of
general sessions was sworn to-day the
court called special attention to the pub
lished charges against tho commissioner
of public works, it being asserted that
from corrupt, willful and wicked motives
a public office, has been handed over to a
contractor, this contractor, us 4s claimed,
being the actual head of the office, the
other being only, in nominal possession.
Tiie department, according to common
report, lias been in the hands of this con
tractor for some time, and he had power
to give himself contracts and discharge
and appoint men, so that it was substan
tially In the hands'of a man who has car
ried it on, no doubt, antagonistic to the
jveU'are of tho city and its tax-payers.
A I’ustinu'ii'c IfuriltiKif.
Jacksonville. Kin., August 2.—The
Tinies-Union’s special from Enterprise.
Fla., says that John Bonic, postmaster at
St. Sebastian, Indian river, was found
dead in his office last Wednesday. A cut
oil Ids head showed that he had Iieen mur
dered. Tiie office was robbed, hut the
amount taken is unknown. Nathan Mc
Donald and Ed. Beuliam, colored, were
arrested on susoieion and lodged in Titus
ville jut).
EvilVi.'i'i'ill l'il Ih'imrt*.
Charleston, August 2,—Later reports
show that only a small part of the l ice crop
in Georgetown county is lost and the ac
counts of distress an
gemtions.
believed to he oxag-
iliillini'l.
can’t sell them on the streets.
Amsterdam, August 2.—The burgomas
ter of this city has forbidden the sale of
newspapers in tiie streets because they in
flamed the populace during the recent
riots.
DOTTINGS FROM DON.
< ro|iH mcl Ni'wh Nolen from lliirris fount
Correspondence Enquirer-Sun.
the city this morning is quiet. Two of . ol 'the United States. The offense alleged
the men injured during the disturbances is t)le publication in Texas by' u
Saturday and Sunday are in a critical con- cilizen of the United
Don. Harris County, Ga., August 2.—
Thinking perhaps you would like to hear
from this part of Hnrris county, 1 will drop
you a few lilies. As to crops, the upland
corn is above an average. Corn on low
bottom lands, owing to wet weather and
overflows last spring, is almost a complete
failure. The cotton weed is very good, but
was late about fruiting, though if the sea
sons continue there will be an average
crop made.
The Sabbath school at this place elected
Messrs. J. V. Alexander and L. H. Cannon
as delegates to represent them at the
annual Sabbath school association, to be
held at Chipley, Gu., August 4.
The general meeting of the Columbus
association convened at Antioch church,
ut this place, Friday and closed yesterday.
As tiie appointee was not present at the
proper time, Elder John W. Wilson acted
pro tern, and preached the introductory
sermon. Everything passed off very pleas
antly.
Mrs. Annie Harris, who has been spend
ing some time in our little town, left for
home in your city yesterday. She has
many friends here who regret to see her
leave very much.
BUTLER BREVITIES.
t'ro|m, I’olltli's and ltcligioii Iu Taylor County.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.
Butler, Ua,, August 2.—We had a fine
rain here yesterday. Everything looks re-
....."..-.I
freshed and greatly revived. Crop pros
pects are reasonably good.
Local politicians are beginning to make
things lively. August 27tli hns been fixed
s the
subject it thereto should be clearly und
; with great distinctness defined in the
statute. It seems to me that this object
| has not been completely attained in the
j phraseology of the second section of t he
; bill and that the question may well arise
as to the precise condition tiie article to be
taxed must assume in order to be regarded
as made in imitation or the semblance of
i butter, or when so made, calculated or in-
' tended to be sold as butter, or for butter.
“The fourteenth and fifteenth sections of I . _
the bill in my opinion, are in danger of 1 Dublin, August 2.—The National j and indeed no such circulation was prac- grass in Reynolds. The whole town seems
being construed as an interference with League has ordered its branches in county I tie-able or even possible, because the arrest | agitated on the subject. Thirty or more
the police powers of the states. Not being Kerry to prepare tor a general strike j was summarily made on the same day of have joined the Baptist church alone, and
I entirely satisfied of the unconstitutionality against the payment of rents. I publication in the English language in I still the meeting goes on.
ordered
solely within the United Htates by citizens
as tiie day" for the nomination of repre
sentatives. This county is entitled to the
■States of J senator this time. There are four enndi-
artiele deemed libellous aud i dates for the senate and two for the lower
strike against PAYING I criminal in Mexico. No allegation of its l house.
rents. I circulation in Mexico by Cutting is made, A wonderful revival of religion is in pro-