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CONGRESS MEETS TO-DAY.
the fight for control of the
SENATE TO BEGIN.
No Telling How Long It will Continue
- The President’s Message to be Lis
tened to To-morro w-The Committees
of the House not Apt to be Com
pleted before Christmas.
Washington, Bee. 4. The Fiftieth
Congress will be called to order at 12 o’clock
to-morrow. The course of events in the
Senate during the wee seems to depend
entirely upon the ability of the two parties
to reach a conclusion with respect to the
admission of members-elect. It is said to
be probable that objection will be made by
the Republicans to the admission of Senators
Turpie, of Indiana, and Faulkner, of West
Virginia, some leading Republicans holding
that there are good prirna facie grounds for
an investigation of their titles, such as exist
against no other Senators-elect.
attitude of the democrats.
The Democrats, on the other hand, hold
ing that the only flaws in the titles of the
Senators named are merely technical, pro
pose in case objection is made to make simi
lar objections to the admission of certain
Republicans in whose credentials technical
lapses have been found. This is likely to
precipitate a conflict over the organization
of the body, which may delay all other
matters indefinitely.
IF PEACE REIGN.
Should objection not be made or should
a compromise or understanding be reached
the Senate will to-morrow appoint the cus
tomary committees to give notice to the
House'and to the President of the organiza
tion of the Senate and its readiness to pro
ceed to business. If both houses complete
their organization to-morrow the I’resi
dent’s message will be laid before them
Tuesday. The remainder of the week in
the Senate is likely to witness nothing in
the way of general legislation except the
introduction of bills.
IN THE HOUSE.
The House will be called to order at noon
by Mr. Clark, Clerk of the preceding
House, and after a quorum of members
have responded to their names on the call of
the roll, the work of organization will be
proceeded with. The Speaker having been
duly selected and the oath administered to
him by Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, the
members-elect will take their stand in front
of the Speaker’s desk and qualify. No
hitch will occur in this proceeding, as there
is no member whose pnma facie right to a
seat is questioned.
DRAWING FOR SEATS.
The next business will be the drawing for
seats, which will consume the remainder of
the day. Tuesday the President’s message
will be received, read and referred to the
committee of the whole. In the organiza
tion of the last two Congresses that of the
House was not perfected before the holi
day recess.
Owing to the close division of the new
House on party lines, and the large
number of new and untried members
whose personal preferences in the assign
ments it is customary to consider, it seems
probable that the work of selecting the com
mittees will occupy Speaker Carlisle’s time
nearly or quite up to Christmas. Mean
while no legislative business of importance
can be transacted and the House will proba
bly consume the short sessions intervening
between frequent adjournments, in debates
of a political character.
RESTRICTING -IMMIGRATION.
Senator Palmer to Introduce a Bill on
the Subject.
Washington, Dec. 4.—Senator Palmer,
of Michigan, will introduce in the
Senate at the earliest possible op
portunity a bill prepared by him for
the pui-pose of regulating and restricting
immigration to the United States. The
I principal feature of the bill is a provision
which, if it become a law, will require
every person of foreign birth who
contemplates emigrating to the United
States to provide himself with a certificate
from the United States Consul for the dis
trict of his residence, “setting forth substan
tially that said Consul is satisfied, upon
diligent inquiry that he is a suitable and de
sirable person for residence and citizenship
in the United States.” Persons of foreign
birth not provided with such certificates
shall not be allowed by the United States
immigration officers to'land in this country.
A BIG JOB KOR CONSULS.
The fourth section, which embodies most
of the new legislation proposed by Senator
Palmer's bill, provides that no certificate
shall l)e granted to any convict except those
convicted of political offenses, nor to any
lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take
care of himself or herself without becom
ing a public charge, nor to any Anarchist,
Nihilist or any person hostile to the prin
ciples of the constitution or form of gov
ernment of the United States, nor to any
believer or professed believer in
the Mormon religion who fails
to satisfy the Consul upon examination
that he or she intends to and will conform
■to and obey the laws of the United States,
■nor to any person included in the prohibi-
Btion in the act to prohibit the importa-
Btion and immigration of foreigner and
■aliens under contract or agreement to per-
Horm labor in the United States, approved
February 2(1, 1885, or in acts amendatory to
ftaid act.
GUARDING THE MESSAGE.
fchreats Intended to Prevent Prema
ture Publication.
1 Washington, Dec. 4. —The President’s
Mtiessage was delivered to him in print by
Bio Public Printer this afternoon. On
Bhursday, after he had read it to the Cab-
Biet, the President sent for the Public
put tbo manuscript in his hands,
B>ld him how many printed copies he wished
Bnd added that if its contents got into the
Bewspapers while it was in the
Printing he
hold (lie Public Printer person-
Bly responsible. The Public Printer
him that he need have no fear of a
publication. The Public Printer,
he returned to the government priut-
Bg office, summoned half a dozen old and
employes chiefs of divisions, told
B- ii wliau the President desired, ant added
w it if the message got into the newspapers
Hy would discharge every one of them. ,
Randall’s Chairmanship.
B Washington. Dec. 4.— Mr. Randall called
||pi Mr. Carlisle this evening and they had
conference. Mr. Randall, it is
still stands on his own ground but
pacific wishes. His attitude is
KB' w such that his reappointment as Cliair-
of the Committee on Appropriations is
probable, yet he has promised
as yet except that he will consult
consider.
Algernon S. Sullivan Dead.
■ New York, Doc. 4.—Algernon S. Sulli-
Bn, a well known lawyer, died at his resi
g|B‘uce to-night of typhoid fever.
flic JKufnitifl petog.
TAXES ON FRUIT BRANDIES.
North Carolina Congressmen Call on
Speaker Carlisle.
Washington, Dec. 4.— The Democratic
members of the Noi th Carolina delegation
called on Mr. Carlisle yesterday to ask him
what he thought could be done this winter
to relieve their constituents of what they
consider the more oppressive features of the
internal revenue laws. Tney told him that
their constituents would not be greatly
benefited by the repeal of the tobacco
taxes, which seemed inevitable, and that
they desired more especially the repeal of
the taxes on fruit brandies, and some modi
fication of the laws governing the punish
men tof offenses against the internal reve
nue, which would give the Federal Judges
trying cases under them, greater discretion
as to sentences. Mr. Carlise said he appre
ciated the needs and desires of their con
stituents, and would do all that he could to
help them. The North Carolina men came
away satisfied that he would. They do not
confidently expect a repeal of the fruit
brandy’taxes, because that might lead to
frauds on the revenue by distillers of spirits.
But they do hope for the desired modifica
tion of the laws governing the trial of such
cases, so that the Judges may have more
discreticn. The Federal Judges in the
Southern circuits will probably themselves
present this matter to the Judiciary Com
mittee of the House and Senate.
ALABAMA’S LAND BOOM.
An Application Granted for a Re
ceiver for a Company.
Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 4. —Judge
Bruce, of the United States District Court,
yesterday granted an application for the
appointment of a receiver of the Smithfield
Land Company, which holds two hundred
acres of land adjoining the city of Birming
ham. A bill was filed by the stock
holders and alleges that O. A. Lane
and his associates of Birmingham bought an
option from J. R. Smith on 200 acres of
land celled Smithfield, the price agreed upon
being #248,000; that none of this money was
paid; that the syndicate holding the option
sold the land to the Smithfield Land Com
pany for $022,000; that the company was
capitalized at $850,000; that the Smithfield
company sold $844,000 worth of its stock, at
on the dollar; that out of this sale of
stock $0,200 was paid to Smith, the original
owner of the land; SBO,OOO to Lane and his
associates; that thereupon Smith conveyed
the land to the company, securing the bal
ance of the purchase money by a mortgage
for $185,000, and that said mortgage was
not recorded; and that said O. A. Lane and
his associates took a second mortgage for
$94,000. Therefore the bill asks fora receiv
er on the ground that the mortgage held by
Smith is invalid against the stock purchas
ers on account of its not being recorded,
and also asks that the stock held by Lane
and his associates be canceled because it
was without consideration. The court ap-
Eointed Wallace J. Barnard, of Birmiug
ani, receiver. The stock once readily sold
as high as 30c. on the dollar, but has since
fallen as low as lj^c.
RUN DOWN IN THE SNOW,
Passenger Coaches Smashed In a Col
lision In Dakota.
Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 4. —A special
from Iroquois, Dak., says: “This afternoon
a passenger train from the South got
stuck in the snow one mile west of
here and was followed by a passenger
train from the East half a mile apart.
The former sent a brakeman back
to flag but the engineer had his cab win
dow closed and did not see him. The second
train crashed into the hind coach, completely
telescoping it. Most of the passengers saw
the train coming in time to got out. A few
who were in the car escaped with bruises.
The engineer and fireman of the engine
were both hurt, but it is thought not seri
ously. Niue persons wore injured but none
were killed. The hind coach, baggage and
mail car were smashed up, making a fear
ful wreck. It took twelve hours to clear
the track. The injured were cared for by
physicians from Iroquois. The engineer of
the second train is blamed.”
EARTHQUAKE.
The Town Entirely Destroyed and a
Score of People Killed.
London, Dec. 4. —Twenty persons were
killed and many injured by the earthquake
at Besignam, Calabria.
The first shock was felt at 5 o’clock
in the morning. The peopleat once fled
from their houses and thus prevented
an awful calamity. The second shook,
which was much more violent than
the first, occurred at 7 o'clock. Besignam
Is almost entirely destroyed. Four thousand
persons are rendered homeless, and many
others are missing.
Russian Cabinet Changes.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 4.—lt is rumored
that Count Tolstoi is about to resign the
office of Minister of the Interior and that he
will be succeeded by Privy Councillor
Manasseine, the new ’Minister of Justice,
who will l)e succeeded by M. Philipoff.
It is also rumored that M. Delianoff,
Minister of Public Instruction, is about to
retire, and that be will be succeeded by
Coimt Kahn st, Curator of the Moscow
University."
King Humbert Well Satisfied.
Home, Doc. 4.— King Humbert, in thank
ingthe deputation who tendered the reply
of Parliament to the royal speech, referred
in terms of sincere regret t > the death of
Sig. DePretis. He added that not the
least of the services of the late Premier was
his designation of Sig. Crispi as his suc
cessor. The King also expressed entire
satisfaction with the stute of affairs at home
and abroad.
London's Socialists Lay Low.
lain don, Dec. 4. —The Socialists made no
attempt to carry out their threatened dem
onstrations in Trafalgar i-qua’re or Hyde
Park to-day. This was doubtless due to the
warning issued by the police authorities to
the Socialist Federation Council.
A prominent Socialist named Burrows
was arrested in Clerkenwell to-day on a
charge of making a seditious speech.
A Train Ditched by a Cow.
Galveston, Tex., Dec. 4.—A special to
the Neivs from Kyle, Tex., says: “The
north-bound Missouri Pacific passenger
train from Ban Antonio was wrecked near
here last night. Charles Wood, yard engineer
at Austin, who was riding on the locomotive
with the regular engineer, was instantly
killed. Engineer P. Smith and Fireman
Brock were both seriously injured. The
locomotive struck a cow and was ditched,
together with the mail and baggage cars.”
Found Dead in Bed
Stamford, Conn.. Dec. 4.—George A.
Hoyt, President of the Pennsylvania Coal
Comi>any, the largest property owner in
Fairfield county, and possessed of other
large resources, retired last night in his
usual health, and this morning was found
dead in lied. He was horn in Stamford and
lived here all his life. He was about 70
years old.
SAVANNAH, GA„ MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1887.
SADI-CARNOT’S POLICY.
THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT TO BE
DISSOLVED.
The Present Cabinet Requested to Re
tain Their Portfolios for the Present
—The New Chief Magistrate’s Elec
tion Well-Received Throughout the
Country—lt Augurs Peace.
Paris, Dec. 4.— President Badi-Carnot
was formally installed in the Elysee Palace
this afternoon, and later m-eived visits
from ex-President Grevy, M. Rouvier,
President Pejdral, of the Budget Commits
tee, and other leading politicians. The
President stated that it was his intention,
after the new Ministry was fortned, to at
once close the present session of Parliament
until after the coming Senatorial elections.
The resignation of the Cabinet, which fol
lows the election of anew President, was
to-night placed in the hands of the Presi
dent.
Gen. Brugere to-night invested the latter
with the grand collar of the LegioD of
Honor, Gen. Faidherbe presiding at the
ceremony.
The newspapers of this city generally
approve of the election of M. Sadi-Carnot
and consider it an augury of peace. Tele
grams from the provinces, without excep
tion, testify to the satisfaction felt at the
result of the election.
President Sadi-Carnot requested the Min
isters to remain in office for the present for
thejdispatch of the public business.
The papal Nuncio has received instruc
tions from the Vatican to pay an early visit
to the President and establish friendly rela
tions at the outset with the new administra
tion by explicitly declaring the good will of
the Holy See toward France.
EXTRACTS FROM THE PRESS.
The Journal des Debats says: “The
whole country will hail the result of the
Presidential election with a feeling of relief
that satisfies the need of tranquility strongly
felt during the past few days.”
The Kvenement and Dim Neuvienne Steele
hope that the union established the
name of M. Sadi-Carnot may not prove a
union of a day only, doomed to perish in a
flood of Parliamentary' intrigues of ambi
tion.
The Soleil repudiates the idea of Republi
can concentration, and says that each party
sustained a defeat.
Many papers praise the patriotic conduct
of M. Ferry and M. de Freyeinet.
La Justice says: “We will not for an
instant wrong M. Sadi-Carnot by thinking
that he might be mistaken in the meaning
of Saturday’s vote. Better than any one
else he will understand the necessity of
breaking off entirely and frankly with the
compromised past.”
The Liberte says: “The dominant charac
ter of the new Presidency is concord and
truce among all the parties.”
AN AIR OF RESERVE.
The air of M. Sadi-Carnot is reserved and
slightly distant. He lid not canvass for a
single vote. When asked whether he would
become a candidate he replied: “Yes, on
condition that I shall not have to ask for
votes and shall not depend upon monarchical
votes. If it should be found that there are
not enough Republican votes, I will, if re
turned. regard my election as void.' 1
When elected he said to his children: “It
will go hard with me to quit the familiar
house and go to liue in that Auberge
Elysee.”
THE NEW PRESIDENT’S WIFE.
Madame Sadi-Carnot is said to be active,
clever, and admirably fitted to make the
Elysee Palace a social centre. Her garden
parties and soirees dansantes at the Minis
try of Finance have always been very suc
cessful. M. Grevy in his interview
to-day with the new President expressed
the hope that M. Sadi-Carnot would be
happier in the Elysee palace than he him
self had been and would be as glad to leave
it when the time came for him to leave. M.
Grevy boasted that he slept eight hours on
a stretch last Friday night and said that
he had not had that pleasure for six weeks
previous. M. Sadi-Carnot is officially a
Catholic, but really a Deist and spiritualist,
accepting the views of his friend Jean Rey
naud.
OPINIONS OF ENGLISH EDITORS.
London, Dec. 5,3:30 a. m.— The Standard
says: “There is no reason why M. Sardi-
Carnot should not make a good President
and avoid the shoals which wrecked Presi
dent Grevy. He cannot do better than in
duce the members of the Rouvier Cabiuet
to return to their posts.”
The Telegraph says: “M. Sadi-Carnot is a
visible protest against corruption in high
places. He is an economist and a man of
peace, so far as can be judged.”
The News says: “M. Sadi-Carnot is re
spectability personified, and France has
every reason to feel gratified at his election. ’
A COUP EXPECTED.
Berlin, Dec. 4. —The Post, predicts that
in the spring both the Right and Radicals
in France will attempt a coup to bring about
war in order to get possession of the govern
ment. The Post says that M. Sadi-Carnot
will be unable long to keep up the see-saw
which the conflicting parties will make of
the Presidency. The newspapers generally,
however, express favorable opinions of the
new President.
AUSTRIA’S VIEWS.
Vienna, Dec. 4. —Count Kainokyin mi
interview to-day observed that the issue of
the crisis in France was most satisfactory,
affording proof that at the decisive moment
common sense and moderation triumph
over party passions. This opinion is shared
by Austrian statesmen generally, and by
the newspapers though the Pest her Lloyd
fears dissension will soon break out again.
WAR ON THE BUCKET SHOPS.
Prosecuting These Pests of the Great
Cities.
New York, Dec. 3.— One of the most sig
nificent of recent events in the speculative
world is the prosecution of the keepers of
bucket shops in New York and Chicago.
New York has Jed in the war on these pests
of great cities, and it is probable that they
will ultimately he relegated to the proper
position of gambling dons patronized only
by professional blacklegs. There is this to
lie said in favor of faro and other games of
chance, that they are usually less obviously
of a swindling nature than the average
bucket shop, and tiiat as a rule they attract
a widely different class of customers, and
are really less pernicious Jin their influ
ence on society. That is to say,
very little is expected of faro,
rouge et noir and keno; such games
are universally recognized as gambling
pure and simple; they are generally con
sidered disreputable and few persons with
any pretensions to self-respect will patronize
them. On the other hand, the bucket shop
is by too many regarded as a legitimate re
sort of speculation, and ruined speculators,
bankrupt merchants, ambitious clerks,
actors, foolish women, office boys and others
who would not think of “fighting the tiger”
in Ann street anil associating with profes
sional gamblers, patronize a place where
they can “invest’’ a few dollars in stocks
and grain under the delusion that it is
simply an ordinary speculative operation
on a small scale. New York is full of
bucket shops, some of which have ramifica
tions throughout the country. There are
no less than twenty in New street of this
city, and eight on Broadway,
besides others in various parts
of the city. There was formerly
a bucket shop exclusively for women, known
as the “Three Graces,” and there is nowsaid
to bo one of the same sort on Union Square,
where foolish women with gambling pro
pensities throw their pin money into the
ravenous maw of “speculation." Hundreds
of women buy pool tickets on the horse
races at Coney Island, Jerome Park, Long
Branch and Saratoga in the summer, and
the same class would be likely to patronize
a bucket shop in the winter. One big bucket
shop on lower Broadway, known as the
“Big Four,” employs fifty clerks and
twenty-five telegraph operators and has
branch offices in Boston ana elsewhere in
New England, Buffaloaml other points over
a wide stretch of territory east of the Mis
sissippi, and is said to do an enormous busi
ness. Another establishment of Wall street
has private wires to numerous points in the
Eastern States, and as far North ns Mon
treal, employing twenty clerks and twenty
five telegraph operators, keeping accounts
with several members of tlio Stock Ex
change, while the proprietors are allowed to
be members of the Consolidated Exchange.
The concern is said to do a large business.
The proprietors, Doran & Wright, deny
that they keep a bucket shop, but the Mer
cantile Agency of K. G. Dun & Cos., of which
Erastus Wiman, the well-known financier,
is the head, says that S. G. Doran,
the “President” and one of the direc
tors of this “company,” is reported to
be “a man of considerable ability, but
the business is of the kind known as Bucket
shop business, though it might claim to tie
something higher than that. For this rea
son the concern is not in good repute in reg
ular business circles, and conservative houses
would, as a rule, be disinclined to take risks
on them. Doran is believed to be worth
property, yet it is doubted if any tangible
means of his could be discovered to satisfy a
claim.” That is the peculiarity of some of
the big bucket shops. There is not one to
to sue. One concern hides itself under a
title of the “Public Grain and Stick Ex
change,” and is known simply as the “Big
Four,” a perversion of the title usually
given to certain big operators in the Chi
cago Board of Trade.
The bucket shop is usually very profitable.
It practically has the game in its own
hands. A bucket shop can “lay down” at
any time. A faro bank can be broken by
an extraordinary run of luck, but a bucket
shop never. Every customer’s profits are
limited, and there are a hundred tricks
whereby such a concern "can dwindle
them. As an instance of the profitable
nature, Todd, whose Broad street establish
ment was recently raided by the police, is
reputed to be worth $1,000,000. lie owns
the Hotel Vendome. on the corner of Broad
way and Forty-first street, and another
fa ther down that great thoroughfare. A
former bucket shopper is largely interested
in the Hotel St. George, on Brooklyn
Heights, if be is not tho solo proprietor.
These structures were costly, anil only men
of wealth could have erected them. Plenty
of other bucket shoppers have grown
wealthy.
A few of the tricks of the average bucket
shop are worthy of mention. As already
stated, a bucket shop can “lay down,” that
is, suspend at any time, and there is no
redress. The most ambitious swindler
could hardly wash more than this. The
profits are limited to about 3 per cent., that
ls, no speculator is allowed to win more than
that on a deal, and to win that he has over
come a charge of one-quarter of 1 per cent,
in commissions. This device naturally
tends not only to increase the commissions
but to reduce any possible chances of a loss
by fluctuations. Quotations are falsified or
deliberately suppressed, which is the same
thing. In the interior the bucket shopper
often swindles his customers by saying that
the “wires are down” and that
orders cannot be executed. This pre
vents the speculator from securing
a profit or it completely deceives
him as to the actual quotations, which he
learns soon enough, however, when his
slender margin is wiped out. The bucket
shopper likes to get an out-of-town business,
where he has practically control of the
“tickers,” and by getting his customers as
far as possible into one stock or option, he
can, by falsifying the quotations, which is
often done to the extent of one-half per
cent, or more, he can fleece them liko a
pi kpocket at a funeral. If a city customer
posted on the market by outside tickers,
wishes to buy on a rising market, he usually
finds tho bucket shopper exceedingly busv
or smitten with sudden deafness, from which
he only recovers after the market has gone
up another “point” or two, and the
speculator often has the same experience
when he wishes to sell short on a declining
market or to save a loss. The bucket shop
only wants small margins, because they are
more easily wippd out. They run all the
way from $5 to SI,OOO usually, representing
only 1 per cent, on the stock or grain trailed
in. Not a few bucket shonpers are repre
sented on the Stock Exchange or the
Chicago Board of Trade, and often they
manipulate the quotations there either by
“wash” or actual transactions, selling the
market up or down if the majority of their
customers are “long” or “short,” as the case
may be. and it often pays them to
make these transactions ai a loss for
the sake of the margins to be wiped out. A
former Broad street establishment is said to
have raked in $50,000 in one day by such
tricks, and larger “shops,” with a wider
field for operations, are lielieved to have
stolen from SIOO,OOO to $200,000 in a single
day by similar tactics. The stock or grain
broker, who executes the order of establish
ments known to be managed on a system of
barefaced swindling, isclearly unworthy to
lie a member of the Stock Exchange, the
Consolidated, the Produce Exchange or the
Chicago Board of Trade, and some of the
sc-called respectable stock and grain houses
are riartlv responsible for wealth and power
of the bucket shops.
Oscar Willoughby Riggs.
NEGROES AND PROHIBITION.
Rev. Joseph Cook Fears the Power ®f
Their Adverse Ballots.
New York, Dec. 4.-— Rev. Joseph Cook,
of Boston, was the principal speaker before
the American Temperance Union at Chick
ering Hall this afternoon. His topic was
“The Newest Aspects of Temperance Re
form, Educational and Political.” He dwelt
particularly on tho necessity of educating
the young in the evil effects of alcohol. Mr.
Cook said ttiat the principle of Prohibition
hail a ixitent enemy in the negro of the
(South. In fifty years, he declared,
tho negroes would rule the vote of the
South, and unless the young of the race
were instructed in the effects of liquor their
voice in subjects relating to prohibition
would be all powerful against the move
ment.
Renegade Apaches.
Tucson, Ari., Dec. 4.—A hand of rene
gade Apaches under command of Maria
Ellis, a well-known Indian desperado, who,
with flvo companies, escaped at tho time of
the surrender of Geroniino, attacked a party
of travelers near Log Nogales, in tho dis
trict of Monte Cuina, twenty leagues from
Bavisne, on November 25, last, killing
Clementz liOpez and wounding another
Mexican named Moran. The Mexican
authorities are in pursuit.
DEFENDING THE DOMAIN.
A HORDE OF SCHEMERS TRYING
TO GOBBLE IT UP.
01,078 Entries Cancelled in the I^st
Two and a Half Years - Repeal of the
Preemption Laws, Timber Culture
Acts, and the Rel nquishment Acts
Recommended
Washington, Dec. 4.—The following are
extracts of some of the most interesting
points in the annual report of Mr. Lamar,
the Secretary of the Interior: “Perhaps
the most difficult and important duty with
which this department is charged is the ad
ministration of the public land system.
Under existing laws it is apparent that the
area of our public land is rapidly diminish
ing. This would not be an evil if the lands
were passing from the government to seats
of actual occuiiation by bona
fide settlers, or bona fide pur
chasers for purposes of settlement.
But the facts are known to be otherwise.
From March 5, 1885, to Oct. 1, 1887, the
number of entries canceled for fraud, ille
gality, abandonment, and other causes
amounted to 91,078, embracing an area of
14,238,913.04 acres, making, with the
canceled land grants, an aggregate of
lands restored to tho public domain of 45,-
003,394 acres. In addition there are suits in
the United States courts and matters pond
ing before tho department, involving the
question of the restoration of many millions
more acres, amounting in the aggregate to
9,499,480.10.
From the report of the Commissioner of
tho General Land Office it appears that the
number of acres of land disposed of during
the past fiscal year, under the various acts
of Congress authorizing sales, entries and
selections, aggregates 25,111,400.84, of
which 740,037.29 acres were Indian lands,
5,511,807.33 railroad selections, and 2,109,-
431.43 selections under other grants; the ag
gregate amount showing ail increase of
4,862,524.55 acres as compared with the
previous year. Tho receipts from disposal
of the public lands were $10,783,921.72; from
sales of Indian lands, #1,484,302.80, a total
of $12,268,224.02, an increase over the
previous year of $3,247,727.08. To which is
to be added $8,291 received on account of
timber depredations, and $12,493.85 recoivod
for certified copies of records furnished by
the General Land Office, making receipts of
that bureau from all sourees $12,289,008.87,
The number of patents issued during the
year upon agricultural lands was 24,558, an
increase of 4,073 over the previous year, ac
cording to tho report of the Commissioner,
but a decrease, as compared with 1886, of
48,614.
PRE-EMPTION AND HOMESTEAD LAWS.
I respectfully but earnestly reiterate my
advice that you recommend the immediate
and total repeal of the pre-emption laws,
timber culture acts, and the relinquishment
acts, and add thereto the cash entry laws
and the desert land law. More than a quar
ter of a century has elapsed since the ii&ss
age of the homestead law. Its operations,
at loast during the last decade, have shown
it to be the w isest and most honest method
of disposing of the agricultural public
lands, embracing all the advantages of the
pre-emption system without its acknowl
edged facilities for fraud and abuse.
UNLAWFUL INCLOSURE OF THE PUBLIC
LANDS.
The work of returning to tho people the
large areas of the public land hitherto ille
gally appropriated by corporations and in
dividuals engaged in the cattle business on
the plains, has progressed most
during the past year. The turners trans
mitted from the General Lana Office show
that 465 illegal inclosures,aggregating in area
nearly 7,009,000 acres,have been reported. In
133 of these cases, involving 8,275,000 acres,
proceedings have been instituted, and in 165
cases the special agents report the removal,
complete or in progress, of the illegal fenoos,
throwing open to public use and occupancy
3,394,000 acres.
This does not include the work of the two
inspectors, Messrs. Bowers and Hunter,
sent from my office to the Territories of
New Mexico and Wyoming. Through thoir
agency fences have been removed in 119
cases, embracing an area of 1,500,000 acres
of public land, making a total of nearly 5,-
000,000 acres restored to the public domain.
PRIVATE GRANTS.
Another subject which, I would respect
fully suggest, demands immediate legisla
tion is the matter of private grants claimed
to be derived from the Spanish or Mexican
governments. The extent and number of
the unconfirmed claims cannot be accu
rately stated, as such claims are being con
tinually made, and those heretofore pre
sented seem to grow enormously in area
with each passing year in the issuance of
patents thereon. At the present time it is
approximately estimated that the amount
of public land actually reserved from entry
and settlement because of such claims is a
little short of 6,000,000 acres.
THE PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC TIMBER.
The vital necessity for legislation looking
to the preservation of the timber resources
of the country becomes more urgent every
year. The annual loss to the government
by the destruction of timber by fire alone is
estimated at $7,000,(XX). To this should be
added the more important but secondary
loss which follows the destruction of the
timber by floods, land-slides, climatic
changes of a permanent character, and the
violations of the law by depredators upon
the timber on public lands.
PUBLIC LAND STRIP.
Because of this anomalous condition, this
portion of the public domain should receive
the prompt attention of Congress. Tills
tract of land is bounded on the east by tho
Indiau Territory, on the north by Kansas
and Colorado, on the west by New Mexico
and on the south fry Texas. It is a little
over 168 miles long from east to west, and a
fraction over 34 miles in width from north
to south; contains 5,739 square miles, or
8.072,640 acres. Excluded from the bounda
ries of these States and this Territory, it lias
always been outside of any political juris
diction. It is simply a part of tho public
domain, over which the land laws have not
been extended, and within the limits of
which no tribunal,, civil or criminal, has
jurisdiction to protect property or punish
crime.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
I commend to your attentive considera
tion the op-rations of the Indian Bureau as
set forth in the accompanying report of the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
The first, or civilized, embracing the five
civilized tribes of the Indian Territory and
the Mix Nations of NewYork, whoso mem
bers generally are furthest advanced in
manners and morals anil in the arts and in
dustries of civilized life, self-supporting,
with written constitutions and luws and
well-established rule* and methods of gov
ernment; including also many individuals
among other tribes who are fully entitled
by reason of intelligence. Industry, social
habits, and other characteristics of civiliza
tion to lie enumerated nmong the civilized
portion of the Indiau race.
Second, the semi-civilized, comprising
tribes and bauds among whose members the
work of transformation is not so marked,
yet who are progressing in order and peace,
improving in habits, and engaging in indus
trial pursuits, and largely earning and pro-
viding their own support, and yet dependent
for thoir progress upon the direction, con
trol arid guidance or the government.
The third class are savages who require
constant watchfulness to restrain t hem from
following their savage mode of life, depend
ent for food, dothiug, and other supplies
upon the government, and controlled by the
exhibition of the physical power of the gov- i
eminent, idly wandering upon the reserva
tion, and when not actively opposing and
obstructing measures for their advance
ment yielding a sullen and unwilling re
sponse thereto.
The ftvo civilized tribes of the Indian
Territory embrace a population of about
<54,000 and the Six Nations of New York
number 4,90:1. These being self-sustaining,
it is not necessary for the present purpose
to introduce any statistics of their industrial
operations.
There are also about 19,500 Indians scat
tered over the public domain and not lining
on any reservations under charge of Indian
agents, therefore no specific information of
their industrial pursuits is at hand.
SOME INTERESTING STATISTICS.
The statistics compiled from the annual
reports of the various United States Indian
agents to the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs represents that of the remaining
178,<500 Indians under their supervision,
about 58,000 wear citizens’ clothes wholly;
that 1(5,477 houses are occupied by thorn;
that about Jo,ooo can speak English with
sufficient intelligence for ordinary conver
sation ; that more than 10,500 of tneir' chil
dren are in schools receiving elucational
and industrial training, for whom 387
schools are in operation, and that over
81,000 families ore engaged
in industrial pursuits. They
have cultivated over 388,000 acres,
built over 395,000 rods of fencing, produced
over 750,000 bushels of wheat, 950,000
bushels of com, 403,000 bushels of oats, 68,-
000 bushels of barley and rye, 514,000 bushels
of vegetables, and 88,000 pounds of butter.
Besides the above they have gathered for
use and sale considerable quantities of wild
rice, berries, herbs, furs, fish and snake
root, etc. They have sawed 1,553,0751 feet
of lumber, cut 74,(XX) cords of wood anil 102,-
000 tons of hay. They own over 893,000
horses, 8,000 mules, 113,000 cattle, 4(5,000
swine and 1,130,000 sheep. Droughts have
seriously affected the yield of their crops
the past year.
INDIAN SCHOOLS.
The report of the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, and that of the Superintendent of
Indian Schools, and the statistical exhibits
accompanying them, show that there are
about 40,000 children of school age, from
six to sixteen years, among that portion of
Indian jiopulation for whose benefit the ap
propriations for Indian educational pur
poses, as far as they will go, are sought to
be expended. Schools for these to the num
ber of 337 have been provldod, with capacity
for accommodating about 18,7)56 pupils.
These schools are classified as follows: 8
industrial training schools, provided for by
special appropriations; (58 boarding schools
and 90 day schools, managed directly by tho
Indian Bureau, and 61 schools managed un
der contracts with religious societies, of
' which 41 are boarding schools and 30 are
day schools. The total number of scholars
enrolled in these schools during the year is
14,318. The average attendance maintained
was 10,509; the total expenditure for the
same time for ail purposes in connection
with these schools was about $1,170,(XX1
FINANCIAL LIABILITIES OF THE UNITED
STATES TO THE INDIAN TRIBES.
The liabilities of the United States to In
dian tribes under treaty stipulations, taking
as a basis, where no sjieciflc sums are stated
in the treaties, tho amounts appropriated
last year, are as follows; Permanent annu
ities, $349,351 98; temporary annuities for
specific periods, $5,871,666 63; temporary
annuities payable at the pleasure of Con
gress or the President, $1,178,010; total, $7,-
898,938 60.
There was on deposit in the Treasury on
Nov. 1, 1886, of the proceeds of sales of In
dian lands, the sum of $7,698,334 19.
POPULATION OF TERRITORIES.
The present population of the Territories
is estimated, respectively, as follows:
Arizona 90,000 New Mexico 180,000
Dakota 868,400,Utah. 196,500
Idaho 97,260 Washington.. .. 142,891
Montana 130,(XX),Wyoming 85,000
Alaska has a population of 6,800 whites,
s,B(X)civilized natives, and *26,800 natives
not civilized.
WELAKA. WAIFS.
Oranges Going Forward and Bringing
Good t rices.
Wklaka, Fla., Dec. 4.—Oranges are
moving very briskly and are two or three
weeks ahead of last season, being well col
ored up and full of juice. The fruit is
much better than last year, and is not so
much discolored by black rust. Messrs.
Reynolds & Wool ofk are buying about all
that can be had in this section, paying de
livered in loose lots at their packing house
about $1 30 per box. This nets the seller
nearly $125 per box on the tree,
which is a very satisfactory price, there
being no risk of shipping, cash
being paid on delivery here. A home mar
ket is what all orange-growers desire. There
is good profit in the business if a regular
market can bo established. The Orange
Auction Union, recently organized, will, no
doubt, solve the question of how to dispose
of our oranges. Grower* are all very en
thusiastic and if all go in for this one plan,
buyers will come here and buy the oranges,
thus cutting off the middle dealers, who are
very numerous during the season, and
many have no offices, but sell one’s fruit as
it arrives off the steamer.
Property is looking up from its decline
caused by the freeze of two vears ago, and
from present indications will soon have a
good recognized value. Some settlers are
expected m this winter. Several are here
now prospecting. One party wont all over
the State two years ago, ami says he found
nothing so pretty and having tho desirable
features which is claimed for Welaka.
The street question is the most important
business the Council has to contend with at
present, and it is thought streets will soon
lie opened which will be satisfactory to all.
So far no damaging cold has occurred. Oats
and rye are looking well. Many sow a few
acres for early ieed anil they do very well.
More farming is being done than for some
years. Many talk of planting tobacco. No
doubt it will prove remunerative.
Tampa and Manatee.
Tampa, Fla., Dec. 4.—The Manatee
county Prohibitionists came out on top yes
terday. They carried the county by"2uo
majority.
Lenpesty & Estes, furniture dealers of
Tampa, made an assignment yesterday for
the benefit of their creditors. W. J. Bur
tbolmew is ussignee.
The fover record is two new cases of a
mild form and no deaths.
Negro Murderers Shot.
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 4. A mob of
seventy-five masked men took three negroes
from jail at Charleston, Miss., last night,
and shot them to death. They were charged
with the assassination of a white man.
A Furniture Factory Burned.
Quebec, Dtc. 4.—Fire in tho furniture
factory of P. Valliere this morning destroy
ed the building and its contents. The loss
is between $75,000 and SIOO,OOO with no in
surance.
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FENDNSPIAX A MURDER
HARTINGTON AND GOSCHEN THE
OBJECSS OF THE PLOT.
The First Plan Contemplated tho
Wrecking of the Train on Which
They Traveled to Ireland, and tho
Firing of Shots into Their Car—K d
naping also Proposed.
London, Dec. 4.—Mr. MacDonald, Lord
Advocate of Scotland, implied in a recent
speech that T. M. Healy had advocated
wholesale robbing of landlords. Mr. Healy
challenged Mr. MacDonald to give the au
thority upon which he hod spoken. In
reply to the challenge Mr. MacDonald sends
an apology to Mr. Healy.
ALLEGED FENIAN PLOTS.
London, Dec. 5,8:30 a. m.—The Morning
Post to-day declares that certain Parncllites
recently urged the Fenians to minder Lord
Hartington, which they scornfully refused
to do. American Fenians then undertook
the task, arriving on the Continent for that
purpose a fortnight ago. These, in concert
with a few Irish Fenians, made arrange
ments by which the rails on the road be
tween Kingston and Dublin were toflbe re
moved in order to wreck the train carrying
Lord Hartington and Mr. Goschan, last
week, and in the excitement shots were to
bo fired into the carriage occupied by the
English visitors.
A NEW SCHEME.
The scheme was changed when it became
known that Lord Hartington ami Mr.
Goschen traveled by different trains and
that the former drove straight to the resi
dence of Mr. Powers, in I-eopardstown,
thus missing Dublin. It was next arranged
to attack Mr. Powers’ carriage in a lonely
lane and murder Lord Hartington or carry
him into the Wicklow mountains, where ho
was to be held as a hostage for the release
of William O’Brien and other political
prisoners. Everything had been matured,
but the plot miscarried, owing to the
watchfulness of tho police.
WARRANTS FOR PROMINENT NATIONALISTS.
Dublin, Dec. 4.—lt is stated that twenty
warrants are out for prominent National
ists.
CHARLESTON ITEMS.
Dr. Forrest's Card—lt Appears to Have
Stirred Up Quite a Breeze.
Charleston, Dec*. 4.—Doctors some
times dip into politics without any serious
consequences to themselves, their patients
or tbe public. In this State there are
several doctors in politics. In Charleston
there is one doctor on the Board of Aider
men and one on tho Board of School Com
missioners. In the Legislature now in session
there are a half dozen doctors scattered
through tho House and Senate. One doctor
who is a member of the House is the most
cantankerous and aggressive of the whole
124 Representatives, and is known as the
leader of the “three for a quarter” combin
ation, which started several years ago with
the avowed purpose of running the State
f;overnment on about the same basis as one
nts out the contract for furnishing beef for
tho Almshouse. It may lie mentioned in
passing that tho combination died a natural
death.
No doctor, however, who laid aside his
lancet to put his finger in the political pot
ever succeeded in making the fKit boil more
furiously than Dr. Forrest, of this city,
whose recent “card” has been published in
the columns of the Morning News. The
broth which was producod by the mixture
of medicine, po”ties and religion turns out
to have txen aiu oscoedingly nauseous dose,
the fumes of which have spread partly
nearly over tha whole nation. Dr. Forrest
is a son of the distinguished John Fornet,
D. D., who for many years was the pastor
of the Scotch Presbyterian church of this
city.
The Scotch Presbyterian' churches one of
the oldest and most exclusively aristocratic
ecclesiastical institutions in this venerable
and exclusively aristocratic city. Only tho
creme de la creme of the ancient Presby
terian families attend it. Ex-Judge Ma
grath, A. S. J. Perry, the Mures, the Pauls,
the Hemphills, the Fori ests, the Robertsons,
and others, are in its fold. It is the only
church in the city that has a splendid organ,
and clings to the old custom of having a
precentor to raise the hymns.
Dr. Forrest’s card created a decided sen
sation. It attracted attention to a feature
of the Democratic ticket which bad struck
‘some people before, but which is rather tho
result of accident than of design, viz.: tho
preseuce on it of an unusual number of Cath
olics. But that this is the result of tho tac
tics of tho Roman hierarchy nobody be
lieves who lives in Charleston, and know*
the gontlemen who represent the Roman
hierarchy here. Asa matter of fact there
are four or five Catholics on the Board of
Aldermen (twenty-four), and two on tho
Board of School Commissioners, but nobody
supposes that the city will be Romanized
bv this fact.
‘it, is thought here that the real grievance
of Dr. Forrest is the fact that the city
undor a contract made over ten vears ago
makes an annual appropriation of $6,000 to
the ladies of the order of Our Lady of Mercy
in consideration of their care of 150 orphan
children. The city orphan asylum, one of
the finest in the Mouth, would be charged
with the care of these orphans otherwise.
Its doors are open to oil young children who
have lost their fathers and whose mothers
are unable to support them. As is well
known the Protectant form of religion is
used in this institution, although a large
proportion of 4he inmates are the offspring
of Catholics. It was urged when this con
tract was made that Catholics had soma
rights as well as Protestants and the plea
was admitted, so the city agreed to pay tho
Misters of Mercy S6.(XX) toward the support
of a stated number of orphans and this, it
is said, has annoyed Dr. Forrest and other
zealous pious persons.
There is nothing new in municipal poli
tics. The Republican and United Labor
parties have coalesced as w&s predicted in
this corresnoudence, and will briugouta
ticket. The" Democratic ticket, however
will be elected without doubt.
A Sharp Fleeces Augusta.
Augusta,Ga.,Dec. 4.—George Hamburg,
a young Ge. man sharp who has been playing
his cards pretty well here for the past week,
lias now dejiarted with a large amount of
money obtained under false pretenses. By
pretending to he very wealthy, traveling for
amusement and showing bogus letters to
that effect, he succeeded In getting SSOO or
$6iX). Twenty-five dollars reward is offered
for his arrest.
Pacific Railways.
Washington, Dec. 4.—Tho Pacific Rail
way Commissioners will submit their re
port to the President to-morrow morning at
10 o'clock. They speak of it as “A report"
in the singular, from which it is inferred
that the President’s wish that they should
agree upou one report, if possible, has beer
met. *
Silver from Mexico.
El Paso, Tex. , Dec. 4. —Statistics in the
office of the United States Collector of Cus
toms gives tho importation of silver ore
from Mexico to this point last month as
6,703 tons, valued at $340,135- This is an
average of 226 tons per day.