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AT TIIE CAPITAL
WAT THE FIFTY-FIRST COX
CRESS IS HOIXG.
APPOINTMENTS BT PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OP NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OP GENERAL INTEREST.
journal, On Wednesday, the after proceeded the reading of the
house to vote upon
text of the bill is follows: nsirte ••Taat the
as
secretary of the treasury be, and
he hereby is, authorized and di
rected to classify as woolen
cloths all imports of worsted cloth,
whether known under the name of
worsteds or diagonals or otherwise**....
Mr. McKinley, of Ohio, from the com
mittee on rules, reported a resolution
providing for the immediate considera
of the senate service pension bill, to which
the Morrill service pension bill may be
ordered as a substitute, the previous
question to be considered as ordered at 4
o'clock. Mr. Carlisle,of Kentucky,protest¬
ed against the adoptionjof resolutions of
this character, wtiieh took away from
the committee of the whole the right to
consider many bills, and forced the house
to vote upon them after a brief debate.
Mr. McKinley argued that the resolu¬
tion was justified under the present code
of rules. The resolution was adopted,and
Mr. Morrill, of Kansas, took
the floor in Explanation and
support of his bill. This act postponed. of justice,
he said, had been too long If
the government were to grant a service
pension it should grant it without delay.
The total number of persons put upon the
pension roll under the provisions of the
bill was estimated at 440,000, at on an¬
nual cost of $39,629,000. The object of
the bill was to render aid to every soldier
abled over sixty-two year's of age, to every dis¬
soldier without regard to age, and
to the widows of deceased soldiers who
needed assistance. Mr. Jarsncy, of Mis¬
souri, discrimination opposed the bill because it made no
between a soldier who
served three months and a soldier who
served three years; because it made no
distinction between disability arising
from service in the army and disability
resulting from the vicious conduct of the
person to whom the pension was granted.
The Morrill bill was agreed to as a sub¬
stitute for the senate bill—yeas 183, nays
71. The bill authorizes 'the secretary
of the interior to place on the pen¬
sion roll the name of any of¬
ficer or enlisted man of 60 years of
age or over, or who shall hereafter reach
that age, who served ninety days or more
in the army, navy or marine corps of the
United States during the war of the re¬
bellion, and shall have received an hon¬
orable discharge therefrom; said pension
to commence from the date of applica¬
tion therefor, and to continue during the
life of said officer or enlisted man, at the
rate of $8 a month. All persons who
served ninety days or more in the mili¬
tary or naval service of the United States
during the late war, who have been hon¬
orably discharged therefrom, and who are
now or may hereafter be, suffering from
mental or physical disability, equivalent
to the grade now established in the pen¬
sion office for a rating of eight dollars
per month, upon due proof of the fact,
according the to such rules and regulations as
secretary of the interior may provide,
shall be placed upon the list of invalid
pensioners of the United States at the
rate of eight dollars per month. It also
provides soldier for a pension to the widow of
any when she shall arrive at the
age of sixty years, or when she shall be
without other means of support than her
daily labor.
eign Sir. Dolph, from the committee on for¬
relations, reported to the senate on
Wednesday the concurrent resolutions re¬
questing the President to negotiate with
the governments of Great Britain and
Mexico with a view of securing treaty
stipulations into the for United the prevention Chinese of the
entry States of
from Canada and Mexico. The resolu¬
tion went over till Thursday, and the
senate resumed consideration of the cus¬
toms administrative bill. After consid¬
erable discussion the bill was laid aside.
The Oklahoma bill was corrected as indi¬
cated in the joint resolution recalling it
from the President. After executive ses¬
sion the senate adjourned.
In the house, on Thursday, Mr. Mc¬
Kinley, from the committee on rules, re¬
ported a resolution for the immediate
consideration of bills reported from the
judiciary committee in the following or¬
der : Senate bill relating to trusts, house
bill relating to copyrights, house bill re¬
lating to bankruptcy, and such other
bills as the committee may call up. The
resolution was adopted, aud the house
proceeded to consider the senate bill to
protect trade and commerce against un¬
lawful restraints aud monopolies. A long
running debate followed. Mr. Bland of¬
fered an amendment making unlawful
any contract or agreement to prevent com¬
petition iu the sale or purchase of any
commody transported from one state to
another. Mr. BlamVs amendment was
adopted on a viva voce vote and the bill
was passed in the same manner with a
single Illinois, dissenting vote... .Mr. Adams, of
next called up the international
copyright bill and explained its provis¬
ions. He said that since its report the
bill had been critically examined by a
number of prominent lawyers and
as a consequence it would be
necessary amendments to adopt some purely
formal to perfect the intent
of the bill. Undents terms the American
people would get cheaper literature, of
the best class, than at present. It would
also enlarge the privileges of American
authors. Without acting upon the bill,
the house, at 5 :15 adjourned.
In the house, on Friday, Mr. David-
I sen. presented against a pretest the tobacco of the schedule citizens ot of j !
| Key West
the tariff bit!. Referred. On motion of
Sm*«. resolo*
June 14th. for the delivery of eulogm
upon the late Samuel J. Randall, of Penn
syivania. The house then resumed con
sideratkm Hopkins, of of Illinois, the copyright said that bill. the <«ten Mr. j
® A m riean’autl" re to°forei”m
, .. . . ,i v
«**—*■*• •** *» -?•*
priv* of evary book and periodical printed
in the country and would impose a tax
tin every reader of a book, from the boy
with his primer to the college professor Bland
with his scientific work. Mr.
characterized the bill as a scheme for a
monopoly. The bill was further opposed
by Messrs. Mills, Culberson, Peters, of
Kansas, Anderson, of Kansas, Stockdale,
Payson and Lind, and was advocated by
Mr. McAdoo, who said the copyright law
was written by Moses in the stone tablet
in the words "Thou Shalt Not Steal!"
Two amendments offered by Mr. Payson
were adopted, third but reading on the vote on bill, engross¬
ment and of the it was
defeated—yeas, 98; nays. 126. Amotion
to reconsider was made but was defeated.
Among the bills reported in the Senate
on Friday from 'he committees and placed
on the calendar arc the following: Si nate
bill for public buildings House bill at Columbus, the classi¬
Ga., $100,000. for
fication of worsted cloths as woolens. Mr.
Cullom, from the committee on inter¬
state commerce, made a report with tes¬
timony on the subject of American com¬
merce by Canadian railroads. Ordered
printed. Mr. Vest introduced a bill to
amend the interstate commerce act, stat¬
ing that its object M as to place express
companies under the provisions of that
act, and asked the attention of the inter¬
state commerce committee to the subject;
the bill wn? referred to the committee on
interstate commerce. The concurrent
resolution, heretofore offered by Mr.
into Dolph, requesting with the president to entet
negotiations the governments ol
Great Britain and Mexico with a view to
securing treaty stipulations for the pre¬
vention of the entry of Chinese laborers
into the United States, was taken up and
agreed to. A message from the house,
with the house amendment to the senate
dependent pension bill was laid before
the senate, and the bill and amendment
were referred to the pension committee.
The customs administrative bill was then
taken up, and a long debate followed.
All the committee amendments were
agreed to aud the bill was passed—yeas
35, nays 18. On motion of Jones, of
Nevada, the bill authorizing the issue of
bullion, treasury notes taken on the and deposit of “unfin¬ silver
was up made
ished business” from Wednesday” next
until disposed of. After the executive
session the senate adjourned.
In the house, on Saturday, Mr. Hop¬
kins, of Illinois, called up his motion to
table the motion to reconsider the vote
by which the house on Friday refused to
order the copyright bill to engrossment
and a third reading. It was ruled out of
order by the speaker. The house then
went into committee of the whole, Mr.
Peters, of Kansas, in the chairs on the
diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill. Three speeches were made—all po¬
litical. No action was taken and the
house adjourned.
In the senate on Saturday Mr. Frye,
from the committee on commerce, said
he ivas instructed by the committee to re¬
port two important bills. The first bill
was to place the American merchant ma¬
rine engaged in the foreign trade on an
equility with that of other nations. This,
he proceeded to say, is the bill known as
the vides shipping league tonnage bill. It pro¬
for the payment of thirty cents a ton
for every thousand miles sailed, and in¬
cludes all vessels—iron, steel, Mood, sail
and steam—from 500 tons upwards. The
bill would save to the people of the United
States many millions for every million
that it would cost. It has been supported
by resolutions of innumerable boards of
trade and chambers of commerce; by the
National Grange, and, he Mas informed,
by the Farmers'National Alliance. The
second M'as a bill to provide for ocean
mail service between the United States
and foreign States, and to promote com¬
merce. It is an original bill and provides
that the postmaster-general may make
contracts for the carrying of United States
mails in United States ships, owned by
American citizens, between the United
States ports and all foreign ports. The
tM'o bills M'ere read the first and sec¬
ond times and placed on the calendar ...
The senate bill for the relief of Nathaniel
McKay and of the executors of Donald
McKay, (referring to the court of claims
their claim for further compensation for
the construction of the iron-clad moni¬
tors Squando and Nanset, aud the side
wheel steamer Ashuelot, was passed—
yeas calender 38, nays then 10 (all resumed democrats.) The
M as and several
bills passed, among them the senate bill
for the completion of the public building
at Pensacola, Fla., ($32,000); house bill
for the alloM auce of certain ‘ ‘Fourth of
July” claims; senate bill giving to the
Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax
Railroad company the right of way across
the military reservation at St. Augustine,
Fla., aud placed was reported from the committee
on the calendar ... At 4:30 p.
m., Mr. Harris interrupted the proceed¬
ings with the announcement of the sud¬
den death of Senator Beck, and the sen¬
ate at once adjourned. The senate Ingalis flag
was placed at half mast, and Mr.
dispatched the assistant sergeant-at-arms
to make arrangements for the funeral.
NOTES.
Representative Biggs, of California, on
Thursday, introduced in the house a
bill to repeal the civil service act.
A Urge number of applications the Luthers lot
nsions an jng up from
_ -------- rued in the
states from se
Mexican and free, Indian wars.
TW a 0* W. -U—»
,| ;at j t wi |l require $'3. “06,752 annually
to _j ve a w . r , pension to every the rolls, sum
V or of the late war not now on
The house and «nate committees on
immi |ion . iD j c; , t ura!ization on I hue
agent of the uJ’^v^b^rtmTiit tn j-urv aepartment, 1 n
n g for one-foarth of what the colored
laborers received,
Several of the Georgia members have
been served with a list of questions sim¬
ilar to the one recently issued by an Ala¬
bama Alliance and forwarded Col. Oates.
It is presumed that answers will be made
-- ui. The Alliance organizations of legisla¬ are
surprisingly alert and watchful
tive proceedings at Washington. A large
number of protests against the passage of
the Conger bill came Thursday.
A delegation of Knights of Labor were
given a hearing before the committee on
labor on Thursday. The Wade bill was
indorsed with slight amendments. The
bill provides that eight hours shall con¬
stitute a day's work for all laborers of
every class employed extraordinary by the government,
except in ease of emergen¬
cies in time of war, to preserve or pre¬
vent destruction of human life, and then
they are to lie paid on the basis of eight
hours per day.
The Washington Star of Wednesday
says: "The Democrats now have a ease
they may get into the Supreme court to
test the constitutionality of the act of the
speaker in counting members who do not
vote to make a quorum. They refrained
from voting on the Dingley worsted bill
and it was passed by 138 affirmative votes,
the speaker counting a quorum. It is the
purpose of the importers to resist the
operation of the bill, if it is passed by signa¬ the
senate and receives the President’s
ture. By taking a test case to the courts,
when an attempt is made to collect the
duty imposed on worsteds by the bill,
they can get the question before the
supreme court.”
SENATOR BECK DEAD.
KELL SUDDENLY AND EXPIRED WITHIN A
FEM‘ MOMENTS.
Beck A AVasliington special says: Senator
Potomac dropped depot, dead at the Baltimore and
at Sixth and B streets, a
few miuutes before 4 o'clock Saturday
ifternoon. He had just returned from
XeM- York and Mas leaving the train iu
company with his daughter, Mrs. Good
loe, wife of Paymaster Goodloe, of the
marine cor])s. lie had reached the gate
separating train shed, the depot proper from the
when he fell and expired in
about five minutes. He was immedi¬
ately carried totthe superintendent’s office
and a telephone message sent to the Na¬
tional hotel for a physician. Before
me arrived the senator was dead.
Before arriving in the city, on the lim¬
ited, the senator was cheerful and appa¬
rently in the best of health. He con¬
versed pleasantly M itb his daughter, and
expressed his gladness at being back
again in Washington. When the news
of the senator’s death reached the senate,
that body immediately adjourned. The
remains Mere carried to Congressman
Beckinridge’s home on Capitol hill. An
examination by physicians demonstrated
that Senator Beck's death M as caused by
paralysis of the heart. The Kentucky
eongrcssianal delegation assumed charge
of the remains, and n T ill finally arrange
all details, respect, of course, being paid
to the wishes of Mrs. Goodloe.
UNCLE SAM WINS.
X CONTRACTOR SUES THE GOVERNMENT
—AN INTERESTING CASE.
Mr. 4V. F. Bo we, a contractor M-ho
built a number of houses for the govern¬
ment at the new barracks at Atlanta, Ga.,
brought suit in the United States Circuit
Court to recover $10,000 damages, and on
Tuesday the case was decided against
him. He claimed that he was damaged
iu the sum of #10,000 by the interference
of Captain Jacobs, the officer in charge,
for which lie sued the government. The
case tlie w as brought under the provisions of
act of congress of March 3rd, 1887,
which provides that all claims against the
U. $1,000, S., involving and an amount not less than
not over $10,000, except
what is known as M ar claims, may be
brought in the U. S. Circuit Court, aud
tried by the court without a jury. The
case has been watched with a good deal
of interest, as it was the first to be tried
in the United States under the new law
.
TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED.
A RUN- MADE UPON THE BANK OF AMERICA,
IN PHILADELPHIA.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: The
Bank of America, of this city, olosed-its
doors Wednesday afternoon, a placard at
the entrance simply announcing: “This
bank is temporarily suspended.” The
failure has not caused much of a sensa¬
tion, because it has for three days been
known to be iu difficulties. A ruu upon
it began Monday, which oaused it to lose
$100,000 deposits. It is a state institu¬
tion, and had twelve branches scattered
about the city. The deposits of the main
office aud branches aggregate $700,000.
The losses wdll till mostly on small-shop¬
keepers, afford and others who cannot well
to lose their money. Branches of
the bank located in outlying sections of
the city attracted this claiss of customers,
the total number of depositors is said to
be 21,000.
CURRENT NEWS.
COXDEXSED FROM THE TELE¬
GRAPH AXD CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPES FROM DAT TO DAT
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Cold weather has delayed the cotton
crop in Egypt.
Governor Hill, of New York, has
signed the ballot reform law.
Lyman J. Gage was on Thursday night
elected pre sident of the world's fair com¬
mission in Chicago.
It is estimated that there has !>cen a
decrease of #7.500,000 in the public debt
since the first of April.
A di-pxteh from Nevada. Cal., says:
Three sharp shocks of earthquake were
felt here at 9:48 Saturday morning.
The liabilities of T. Feekheimer & Co.,
who suspended in New York a few days
ago. are stated at $360,000; assets $300,
000 .
Ex-State Treasurer Archer, of Mary¬
land. was on Monday indicted by the
grand jury at Annapolis for embezzle¬
ment.
Reports received at Springfield from
many parts of Illinois say that about
three-fourths of the land seeded to wheat
last tall is being ploM-ed up for planting
spring M’heat, oats and corn.
The annual report of the Southern Pa¬
cific railroad show* tliat its gross earnings
for last year were $46,343,207: operating
expenses, $30,304,365. There was a de¬
ficit of $96,472 this year against a surplus
of $1,379,483 last year.
An English jury has given George Au¬
gustus Sala $25 damages as compensation
for a statement that he once painted a
figure M hich had six toes on one foot, and
that he Mas utterly lacking in the quali¬
ties that should distinguish an art critic.
The secretary of State of lllin ois has
issued a license to the John Brown Liber¬
ty Museum, at Chicago, to purchase and
remove to Chicago the building known
as John BroMn's fort at Harper's Ferry,
'ihe capital stock of thccompanv is $180,
000 .
Dispatches of Thursday from Buenos
Ayres say: Several persons have been
killed and many Mounded in a revolution
which has broken out in Paraguay.
Me igre details only have been received,
as rupted. telegraphic communication is inter¬
On an affidavit sworn to by Morris L.
Kline, beer bottler at Philadelphia a war¬
rant was on Sunday issued against LeM-is
E. Pfeiffer, president of the Bank of
America, on the charge of embezzlement,
to-wit: his bank receiving involvent. deposits knowing that
was
The entire business portion of the vil¬
lage of Gilboa, N. Y., was destroyed by
tire, Sunday— tMcnty-two buildings in
all. Not a store was left in town. Most
of the stocks were de-troyed. Loss esti¬
mated at from $150,000 to $175,000.
Only a light insurance, estimated at about
$50,000.
Mr. Gladstone has writthn a letter,
which will appear in the enlarged Lloyd’s
News (London) on Sunday next, in which
lie exhorts the Morking classes to consider
closely their present position. He says:
“There may come a time when labor will
prove strength too strong for capital and may use
its unjustly, but capital Mill
surely hold its om u.”
A heavy shrinkage in the imports of
dry goods at New York for last week is
reported. and the The entries footed up $1,885,-
723, amount throM-n on the mar¬
ket $1,929,763, against $3,097,927 and
$3,140,195 respectively for she corre¬
sponding period last week. The entries
of general merchandise aggregated
$8,090,355, against $10,123,441 during
the previous Meek.
The Emiu relief commission at Loudon
gave a reception in honor of Henry M.
Stanley Sunday evening. The Prince of
the Wales Princess presided. of Wales, Among Princess the guests Victoria, were
the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh,
Prince Christian, Prince Albert Victor,
Prince George, the Duke of Fife, the
Lord Mayor of London, and a large num¬
ber of other distinguished persons.
William Moore, paymaster of the Far¬
rell Foundry company, at Ansouio,
Conn., was arrested Wednesday and held
in $6,600 bond on the charge of embezzle¬
ment. It is charged that be manipulated
the pay roll, drawing $20 a u-eek for a
number of ficticious employes, and
charged the company at the rate of $3.75
for other employes, M’hile the men re¬
ceived but $2.50. The large number of
men employed aud the frequent changes
make an accurate estimate of the losses
impossible.
A TEXAS WIND STORM.
SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED AND PROPERTY
DESTROYED.
A dispatch from Wills Point, Tex.,
says: A hurricane struck here at 12:30
Saturday, and every house in town is
more or less damaged. Two persons
were killed outright and several injured.
The Methodist church and public school
building were demolished, while other
churches were blown off their founda¬
tions. A number of stores and residences
were blown down, and nearly all busi¬
ness houses were unroofed, and all goods
badly damaged. The hurricane also
visited Mesquite, Thornton, Terrel and
other points in its track, doing great
damage.
HIS WIFE DID THE PROPOSING.
Waker—SJy, pluck Meeks, how did you
ever up courage enough to pro¬
pose to your wife ?
Meeks (whose wife wears the tiousers)
—Why, I didn’t.
SOITRERN NOT
IX TERRS TTSt} XEW
POIXTs IS n
the torn
****"■ ASP
' Hlc “ AR K ore
eox 8 ASP BaPpcsixs Etr
DUOS'* LISE.
A fibre company was
Orion, Saturday—eanitaf ,7
and fifty thousand dollars.
L. M. Sawyer. Xarr»ga
tendent of the Hampton. ES vT «t
Light company. w 8 drow 1 ,
Roads while , M JjL
The house sailing Saturdav
Cuml»eriand of >ViIH am H 7
d V“ i h L Mr. Gap, Tenn.,burned V
chi d * Holder, his »
children perished in the flames 7
A dispatch escaped of in their nigU ]
La Stmdav from s.
says: The river is cow '
higher than 1884 and still ri-i- .
on the Caddo side, while 7
from the lake to the river
water.
Mayor Beck, of Vieksbar,
having received telegrams f7
parts Secretary in the Proctor Delta applying fot3
for sending Sunday tk*4
government a-.. _J
come.
from Six the white old prisoners made GrtvjJ their 1
C., Friday county jail at
their on by night last. th-3 Tt-J
ceiling escape to the cutting a hole
loMered on themselves roof, from whd
ets to the ground. by a string of]
porters Nearly of all New the Orleans,met leading mcrchai'.J WrfJ
protest ley bill. against the passage of adnJ th j
A resolution was
demning the bill Washington*,.] and deirecj
chairmau to go to
matter before congress.
A large party of New Engiai,;
sionists, _ headed by Gen. S. J, ; J
of Portland, and William M. P j
Brunswick, ville. Trim., Me., Sunday stopped over a]
on their retd
They were most cordially received
about the city to points of intera
were banqueted by the citizens.
The river improvement and 1,-q
vention met at Vicksburg, M.j
delegates Wednesday. Three hundred Missis] J
from Louisiana,
kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky aJ
souri were in attendance. Resold
congress of river improvement were adopted aud that the]
i. .■
best aided irom a national stand a
i.n effective system of levees.
A New Orleans Picayune Ea
special says that the old levee ini
caved the hermitage Wednesday and Point? Com
and Iettin.
against the new levee caused it :i
:, V. ay and the crevasse is now beta
aud 300 feet wide and widening,
break will prove disastrous to thei
West Baton Rouge and Ebervillea
put grosse Tete levees to a seven ti
Letters received by negroes at Ti
N. C., Saturday, from other nest-,
last November, went to Louisan
Edgecombe county, bring the ;i
neMS that seventy-eight of then
been drowned or died there in i
districts fortnight. The news from the I
causes great alarm an)
negroes in east North Carolina, d
do more than all else to tW
exodus.
At the recent meeting of the -
Press association at Charleston. S
resolution was introduced bj
Patrick Walsh, of the Augu Jt
Chronicle, and unanimously ad
urging southern representative)
senators to use their best ind
to secure the defeat of the
eminent telegraph scheme. A I
tion was introduced by Mr. S. D
of the New Orleans Timet-Dcmmi
tivc to government improvement I
Mississippi river, which was adoiri
THE EIGHT-HOUR STRI
BEING CONDUCTED ORDERLY-'!*!
OF MEN OUT. . |
The signal was given Satursw
ing and the iron moulders in rani
large manufacturing establish^
Chicago went out on strike at" tl
or rather refused to go to work at J
rates. They asked for the km
day and uniform wages. This
fused. Among the manufacture:;
corns which are closed are the fob)
Barnum & Richardson, foundry, lifj 1
Ajax Forge company, 150 mer:
& Fenoh's Car company's works J
men; Chicago Car AVheel foundry 1
Robert’s foundry, 100 men: Du e
Duks, furniture factory, 400 me)
eago Cottage Organ company. I' 1 " 1
From three to four thousand sash,]
and blind men walked out of the t
factories in the southwest lumber it
Everything remained quiet, of
standing the large number ttm
and the police say. they are not rf
ing anv trouble. earpff I
Of the 1,262 journeymen aril
Louisville, Ky., between 900
struck on Saturday for eight M
twenty-five cents an hour as nnu'JR
wages. One contractor only hss j
the arbitration committee's ag at
and the Builders’ and Traders
has so far ignored the movement.
Oao of the suggestions giga^
Chicago World’s Fair is a
tent covering 200 acres, M'i:k #
tower ia the centre 1500 feet pole. ia ] I
corresponding to the tent
The unmarried ladies of
setts have $ 29 000,000 on deposit 1
, State.
savings banks of that