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RAID OF THE GRAND ARMY
A LIVELY political chin over
THE PENSION BILL.
Democrats Charge the Grand Army o
the Republic With Attempting to
Make the Senate Its Slave—Repub
licans Charge the Democrats With
Crawling Before the Veto Power.
Washington, Feb. 38—The Senate to
day resumed consideration of the bill grant
ing pensions to ox-soldiers and sailors who
m” incapacitated from the performance of
manual labor, and providing for pensions to
dependent relatives of deceased soldiers and
mulors —the question being on the adoption
of Mr. Call’s amendment making the bill
apply il * so to those who served in the war
with Mexico or for thirty days in any of
the Indian wars The amendment was
agreed to.
TOO FAR-KKACHING.
Mr. Blair offered a resolution changing
the phraseology of the second section, and,
in explaining it, he said that the construc
tion given in the debate yesterday to the
woid “incapacitated” would make the bill
one of the most far-reaching of any pen
sion bill yet passed, inasmuch as the mini
mum pension for the slightest incapacity
would be sl3 a month. He did not
believe that with that construction
riven 1" it the bill would ever cross success
fully the wide waste lying between the
henatt*and the statute book. He thoilght
that the .Senate had to hesitate before in
erting m the bill provisions for the Indian
uni other wars, and should provide in it
exclusively for ex-soldiers of tko war be
tween the Suites.
WANTED IT PASSED UNAMENDED.
Mr. Manderson appealed to the Senate to
pass the bill as it had been formulated by
the Pension Committee of the Grand Army
of the Republic. He would be glad to see
the bill passed in the nature of a service
pension bill, but be did not think it well to
encumber the pending bill with that idea.
Mr. liavis, who has charge of the bill,
mincided with Mr. Manderson in the opin
ion that all of the amendments adopted
yesterday should be struck out and the bill
[eft as reported unanimously from the
Committee on Pensions. It had been pre
pare 1, he said, fcy a committee representing
400,000 members of the Grand Army of the
Republic who knew the wants to be reme
died and the needs to be supplied. They
had said: “We will lie content with this.
We ask no more for the present. We trust
to the future for the further relief to which
we are entitled.”
A JUGGLE IN THE BILL.
Mr. Plumb intimated that there was
something of a "juggle” concealed in the
bill. The effort,seemed to be to get up a
bill not to meet the wishes of Congress, but
to meet the wishes of somebody else. He re
peated his belief that the Grand Army of
the Republic did not indorse the bill as it
•toed. But, whether it did or not, he was
in the Senate to legislate, and to consider
what was due to the ex-soldiers of the
Union and to an enlightened public opinion.
In conclusion lie called on the Democratic
members of the Committee on Pensions to
ixpress their views as to the bill.
MR. FAULKNER SUPPORTS IT.
Mr. Faulkner, a member of that commit
tee, said that after a careful analysis and
examination of the bill, he had given it his
kupport in committee, and would give it
bis support in the Senate unless the amend
ments now in it were retained. If those
amendments were retained he would voto
•gainst the passage of the bill. He declared
that if the bill poised with the amendment
of the Senator from Kansas striking out the
word “totally” before the word “incapaci
tated ” the animal pension list would exceed
1100,000,000.
FIXING THE RESPONSIBILITY.
If the bill was defeated the responsibility
would not rest nn the Democratic sido of
tile chamber. It would rest on those Sena
tors who had put the amendments into the
bill, with the certain knowledge of its
being vetoed; who had done it with their
eyes open, and with the understanding that
tu t only consistency but a conscientious sen
timent of duty, even although an election
was coming off this year, would require the
same to be done now as was done at the
last session with a like bill.
Mr. Plumb asked Mr. Faulkner whether,
onder the bill as reported by the committee,
person who could perform any manual la
bor would lie entitled to its benefits.
Mr. Faulkner replied in the negative.
Mr. Plumb inquired whether there would
beany grading of pensions under the bill.
Mr. Faulkner again replied in the nega
tive.
A BREACH OF ORDER..
Mr. Plumb asked whether he lielieved the
President would veto the bill.
Ihe presiding officer, Mr. Ingalls, hero
interfered and said that it had been always
r.eld to be a breach of order to refer in de
-10 ac tion of the executive.
Mr. Plumb expressed his regret that the
Chair had not thought so when the Senator
from West Virginia was speaking.
The Presiding Officer—The Chair had in
tended, before tins, to sav, and dot's take
•veasion now to say, that it has never been
held to be in order in debate in the Senate
to refer,to tho opinion of the executive, or
to the action of the executive, as an argu
ment for or against pending legislation.
Mr. Faulkner said that he had no opinion
whatever on the subject, and had expressed
none,
TRYING TO DODGE A VETO.
Mr. Plumb said that he had understood
the Senator from West Virginia to say
that consistency, if not principle, “even if
th'Te was, perhaps, an election pending,”
(whatever he might have meant by that)
would require the bill to bo vetoed, and
that there hud been an effort to g-t a bill
whu b the President would sign. Other
wise tiie bib never would liuvo got a vote on
the other side of the chamber. “And to
, .[bat comp'exion had it come at
last. The Republican side of the
‘■haiulier hud been told that it was to take
r ‘"’ponsibiiity of legislation that might
mt meet tiie views of the President. If
Me not complete subordination of leg
datiie to Executive authority ho did not
‘' ,uv *b could lie made any more so. If
s ' ale was willing to put itself in that
ttitude lie had no objection.
MUST STAND ON ITS MERITS.
Be promised to diqpiss the quostion on its
nt.., not considering what the President,
L ' think almut it. The President was
d' rd to the bill in it* present stage a
lin. p. citizen—no more, no le-s—analiis
I? .i* 1,1 ml kht l>e good, or might bn bad,
he could only express it in the way pro
■d bv the constitution and laws. At all
” donators were tint to put thcmseives
1 their fronts, and ask the President
" 11 1 viino, w hether*he was going to sign an
I Mr. leper protected against the Senate
11. !' renten*d with all executive veto,
td nc.cr heard of such a thing Indore
e He note, and be ho|sai he would never
1 it again. It seemed to him to ho a
1 '"gradation to tiie Henate for a Nena
’ Maud up ami say that he propo**! to
i • j VI I *nd iu his vote by what the exeou
nought or fgt or wauled
fail) IN HIM OWN COIN.
•i. Leek hoped the Namier from Coin
rado would tell the Senate what he thought
of the speech of the Senator from Nebraska
(Mr. Manderson) ns to the action of the
Grand Army of the Republic—the liene
tlciaries under the bill —as to what their
lodges and posts had determined that the
Senate should do, and how far that was
legitimate. The Senator from Nebraska
had told the Senate that the action of the
Committee on Pensions in reporting the bill
had grown out of tiie action of the Grand
Army of the Republic, which was to be it
self a beneficiary under the bill. The Sena
tor’s speech, he said, was more degrading to
the Senate than any allusion to the Presi
dent’s action on the bill could be.
Mr. Blackburn said he deprecated the
violation of that very proper rule which
prohibited a Senator or Representative
from undertaking to influence legislative
action by any reference to tho presumed
course of the executive. He had heard that
rule violated by three Senators—Messrs.
Davis, Manderson and Blair. These Sena
tors had all said that the bill had to be
framed and fashioned to avoid a veto mes
sage at the hands of the executive.
A POLITICAL ARMY.
He did not know wßat authority they bad
for the statement, but he did know that
there was but one political organization in
the country to-day which was in perfect
marching order, ready to take the field,
with knapsacks packed and all things ready.
It was the Grand Army of the Republic,
which represented the only efficiently organ
ized political system on the continent to
day. The Senator from Nebraska, who so
ably championed the bill, had told the Sen
ate and country that the bill was a demand
made by the Grand Army of the
Republic, and had protested substan
tially against any material amendment
of it—because that organization had formu
lated—what) Not its petition to an Ameri
can Congress, but its demand on an Ameri
can Congress for legislation, in which (as
his colleague had said) it was itself to be
the beneficiary.
IN THE FORM OF A COMMAND.
If the Senator from Nebraska was to be
accepted as authority, the bill was not a pe
tition, but a demand sent to Congress by a
great and well organized aud perfectly sys
tematized political body, that proposed to
remove the trouble which environed both
houses, to do away with revenue bills, and
tariff revisions and abolitionsof the internal
revenue taxation, and to dispose of the
Treasury surplus by such bills as this; and
that was the only practical solution to be
offered by the Republican party for the
financial difficulties in which tho country
was involved. He denied that the Senator
from Minnesota, Nebraska or New Hamp
shire, or any other Senator had any right
or authority to charge, or to intimate that
the President had made up his mind to veto
the bill if it went to him in one shape or in
another shape.
OVER ZEALOUS.
After some remarks by Messrs. Mander
son and Blair Mr. Blackburn went on to
say that it was not to be wondered p.t if
those Senators in their zeal should under
take to warn the super-loyal of the land
against the Jdisloyal policy of the loyal ex
ecutive. If those Senators were unwilling
to submit the bill for the determination of
an American Congress, but insisted
that it should go through in stereotyped
form (after the pro-crustean fashion) be
cause the Grand Army of the Republic so
decreed it, and if they meant to dispose of
the surplus in the Treasury in that way and
no other, they should be frank enough to
faco the issue and to go to the country upon
it. ,
After further debate by Messrs. Teller,
Hoar, Blackburn, Blair and Manderson, the
bill went over without action and the Sen
ate proceeded to executive business, and at
5 o’clock adjourned.
OKLAHOMA’S ORGANIZATION.
Mr. Barnes Opposes the Bill Reported
by the Committee.
Washington, Feb. 28. — In the morning
hour to-day the House resumed in commit
tee of the whole consideration of the bill for
the organization of the Territory of Okla
homa.
Mr. Barnes, of Georgia, gave notice that'
he would at the proper time offer a substi
tute for the appointment of a commission to
negotiate with the Indian Territory with a
view to opening that portion of the Terri
tory lying west of the ninety-eighth me
ridian of longitude to white settlers.
SERIOUS OBJECTIONS.
He said it was with regret that he found
himself compelled to oppose the report
which had been made by the inaj ority of
the Committee on the Territories, but the
pending bill was subject to such serious ob
jections that he could not conscientiously
give it bis approval. He sketched the history
of the legislation pertaining to the Indian
Territory from the time it was acquired
from the French in 1803, and h quoted from
the treaty stipulations witn the Cherokee
Indians to show that the land known as the
Cherokee outlet was held under the same
(latent as 7,000,000 acres east of the 98th
meridian of longitude.
TERMS OF THEIR HOLDINGS.
He contended that the Cherokeos held
their lands by an absolute fee simple title,
while the Creeks, Herainoles, Choctaws and
Chickasaws, held theirs by a qualified foe,
the qualification being contained in the
treaty condition limiting the fee as long as
they continued as a nation. Good faith re
quired the government to observe the terms
of the treaties. It was said that the Indians
were mere wards of the nation and that a
guardian could not treat with them; but
the old Roman law required that when a
superior treated with an inferior, that the
superior should observe faith, such us a
mother observed to her nursing child
THE COMMITTEE BILL.
The committee bill proposed to organize
a territory to bo composed of No Man’s
Land, and so much of Indian Territory as
was not actually occupied by t e five civi
lized tribes. In so far as No Man’s Laud
was concerned, the bill was all right, hilt if
fairly carried out, its provisions were im
practicable as to the rest of the Territory.
The Territory proposed to lie constructed
pad no fixed or definite limit. It ought to
bo called an india rubber Territory.
Mr. Warner, of Missouri, suggasted that
if the gentleman’s substitute were adopted,
one small tribe of 100 Indians could block
up the whole territory.
honor of tub government.
Mr. Barnes replied that the difference be
tween the bill and substitute was that the
former proposed to organize the territory
and then negotiate witli the Indians, while
tholutfr provided that the negotiations
should Is* had, and that, no treaty right*
should lie violated. ’■ he substitute
would give a territory which
had no vague and uncertain hounds, while
tin* b imroi tin* government would remain
uii ullied. The momatit tho committee bill
pawn'd there would be a rush of white men
Indian Territory, and collision and irrita
tlon would ensue It was a bill which in. ant
war to the Indian- and an eHinciion *-f
■sane in Indian Territory, ’ill' morning
hour expired, and the committee ioeo with
out action.
Lynchburg's Cm Meet Day.
hliirssrM, VA., Fh. 2*v—-Leal night
waa the coldest of the winter. Tims morn
llig at <i ifcl.s k the thritnoimMef registered
only ’ above aero.
SAVANNAH, GA„ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2!>, 1888.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Tho House Passes Bills Making Liberal
Appropriations.
Washington, Feb. 28.—The House to
day went into committee of the whole,
with Mr. McMilhn, of Tennessee, in the
chair, on public buildings measures. The
$400,000 appropriation for Omaha (reduced
from $500,000) was passed.
Mr. Bland opposed the next bill, a SSO,(XX)
appropriation for Bar Harbor, Me., which
brought Mr. MUliken to his feet in defense
of the biU.
COMPARISONS ARE ODIOUS.
Mr. Bland said that for the last few days
the gentleman from Maiuo had been run
ning around like a cockroach on a kitchen
tloor, and now his excitement was explained
by the appearance of this Bar Harbor bill.
Mr. Milliken thought that the gentleman
from Missouri (Mr. Bland) was like the old
woman who borrowed a kettle for forty
years. Then she got a now one of her own,
and declared that she would neither borrow
nor lend.
BLAND’S LITTLE GRAB.
The gentleman had got sl4ti,ooo for a
building at his little town of Jefferson City,
which was neither so large nor so impor
tant as Bar Harbor, and now he did not
want any other man to have a public build
ing.
The appropriation was reduced to $25,000
and the bill was agreed to.
The next bill called up was that for the
erection of an appraiser’s building in the
city of New York.
ALTERNATIVE PROPOSITIONS.
Tho bill contains alternative propositions
for the purchase of a site and the erection
of appraisers stores at a cost limited to
$1,500,000, and for the purchase of a single
site suitable for the erection of a combined
custom house aud appraisers stores; or two
sites convenient to each other and suitable
for a custom house and appraisers stores de
tached from each other. The cost of such a
site, or sites, is limited to $1,500,000.
AN ADVANTAGEOUS DEAL.
The bill was advocated by Messrs. Dibble,
of Hout.h Carolina, and Cox, of New York,
who explained the necessity of the accom
modations for public business provided in
the bill, and said that the procee Is of the
sale of the present custom house property
on Wall street, estimated to be worth
$8,000,(X)0, would defray all the expense of
new buildings, better adapted to the con
templated uses, and in a more convenient
locality.
The bill was agreed to unanimously.
OTHER CITIES IN LUCK.
Bills were also agreed to Increasing to
$300,000 tho limit of the cost of the building
at Charleston, 8. C.; appropriating $lO ),-
000 for an interstate building at Texarkana,
and SIOO,OOO for a building at Columbus,
Ga., and appropriating $125,000 for the pur
chase of additional grounds at Indianapolis,
Ind.
In speaking to one of these measures,
Mr. Kennedy, of Ohio, arraigned the
Democratic party in the House for failurj
to redeem its pledges of economy tariff re
form, and care for veteran soldiers, and as
serted that the November election would
visit retribution upon thir heads.
MR. DIBBLE ANSWERS HIM.
Mr. Dibble considered that the issue which
divided the two political parties was of a
graver and more serious nature than the
erection of buildings for the convenience of
the public business, and he thought that
both sides of the House, whatever might be
their differences on party questions, should
consider business propositions without get
ting iuto political controversies.
Bills wera also agreed to for tue erection
of a public building at Bay City, Mich., at
an ultimate cost of $150,000 anil appropri
ating $400,000 for a building at Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
The committee having risen, the House
ratified its action, and also passed two bills
coming over from Saturday increasing the
limit of the appropriation for the building
at Chattanooga and providing for the pur
chase of a site at Buffalo.
A BUILDING FOR NEW ORLEANS.
In the Senate to-day, on motion of Mr.
Eustis, the Senate bill for the purchase of a
site and the erection of a building for a
post office, United States courts and other
government uses in New Orleans, not to ex
ceed in cost $1,200,000, was taken from the
calendar and passed.
TREASURY BUNDS.
Senator Sherman's Bill to be Favorably
Reported.
Washington, Feb 28. —The Senate Com
mittee on Finance has ordered a favorable
report on Senator Sherman’s bill for the in
vestment of certain funds in the Treasury.
The bill has been amended and is now as
follows: Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress assembled.
That the Secretary of the Treasury is here
by authorized and directed from time to
l ime to invest not exceeding 80 per centum
of the fund held m the Treasury for the re
demption of the notes of National Banks
“failed,” “in liquidation” and reducing cir
culation, by tho purchase in open market
of unv bonds of the United States bearing
interest. That whenever the money on
hand to the credit of said fund
shall fall below 20 per centum of the
fund deposited the Secretary of the
Treasury is hereby authorized and directed
from time to time to sell in open market
any portion of the bonds purchased for
said fund, as that, may bo necessary in his
opinion, to enable him to pay as presented
any notes of national hanks, for tho re
demption of which said fund is held, the
purpose of this section being to maintain
in the Treasury for such redemption not
less than twenty per centum, and not ex
ceeding thirty per centum of the money
deposited.
ANDERSON SLIPPED UP.
The Printing of the Pacific Railroad
Reporte Not Ordered.
Washington, Feb. 28. —In thp House to
day Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, reported
iiack adversely the resolution offered this
morning by Mr. Anderson, of lowa, calling
on tho Public Printer for ti e cause of his
failure to comply with tho order of tho
House for 10,000 copies of tho reports of the
Pacific Railroad Commission. Mr. Rich
ardson slated that no such order lmd over
been made. Tho House had passed a ••on
current resolution ordering the printing,
which still slept in the Henate Committee <m
Printing. The n solution was laid on the
table and the House at 5:15 o'clock ad
journed.
A Bloody Shirt Scheme.
Washington, Feb. 38. - In the Senate to
j day the resolution offered last week by Mr.
Hour tn continue the investigation of (he
! last session into certain events alleged to
taw taken tdao* in Texas, (in the petition
4P .Xtcpueii 11 u- kwortli and othe s), wa< ro
ported back from the Committee on Con
tingent Ripen*-- andagmed to.
Circulating hank Note#
Washington, Kell. an. —la the Senate to
| .lay among lire bills introduced and referred
to a-iuifiihee mas one by Mr. Sherman
ant: slimy m vaunt circulating 'iotas to
national lauika in Urn par value of ike bonds
deposited therefor.
NEW MEN IN THE CABS
READING’S OLD HANDS FLOCKING
TO THE WEST.
Traffic on the Burlington Road Still
Almost at a Standstill Powderly
Urges the Knights Not to Take the
Places of the Strikers—An Attempt
to Disable an Engine.
Chicago, Feb. 28,—-An attempt was
made to disable the engine drawing the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road’s fast
mail train, which left the union depot in
this city at 3:10 o’clock this morning. When
the train stopped at the Burlington orossii g
a coupling pin was placed on the plates that
guide the piston road in the cylinder. W hen
an attempt was made to start the engine it
would not move. The difficulty was soon
discovered anil the obstruction removed.
Had the piston lieen drawn out at full
length the coupling pin would have been
driven through tho cylinder head and the
engine disabled. The bulletin board at tho
union depot this morning for the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy showed that tho
train due at 0:20 o’clock this morning was
abandoned at 8:30 o'clock. $
The train due at 0:55 o’clock was two
hours late.
Two suburban trains frem Downers’
Grove came in at 6:40 and 7:20 o’clock and
two went out 6:30 and 7:30 o’cl-ssi
• NEW MEN ON HAND.
At 7 o’clock this morning there were a
dozen men at the company’s office waiting
the arrival of Supt. Hodge. They were
very reticent as to v here they came from
or what experience they had as engineers.
Assistant General Manager Williams was
at bis office at 7 o’clock waiting to hear
from trains which were started at different
points along the road yesterday. The fast
mail, w hich left Chicago at 3 o’clock yester
day afternoon, had not (men heard from up
to 8 o’clock. It was thought the train was
proceeding on its journey to Council Bluffs
without interruption, as had there be n any
delay tiie company would have been noti
fied of the fact.
ALL QUIET AT THE YARDS.
All was quiet around the Burlington
yards early this morning, and fr om Van
Buren to Twelfth street the men had but
little to do.
At 7 o’clock the Downer’s Grove accom
modation train, fifteen minutes late, pulled
into the Union defiot. The Downer’s Grove
train was followed (Keen minutes later by
another train from the same surburbs.
The last train was crowded with subur
banites.
WON’T OBSTRUCT THE MAILS.
Engineer Arthur to-day stated the posi
tion of the engineers upon the mail quostion
thus: "We will offer no obstruction to the
carrying of the mails, and were mail en
route to the city we should bring it ill pro
vided the passenger coaches were out off.
But wo aro under no obligation to start
mail from a center of distribution. The
company has a contract w ith the govern
ment for carrying the mail; let them carry
it or forfeit their contract. We,” turning
to a post office official, “stand ready to set
tle the trouble oil a fair aud equitable basis.
You should bring such an influence to bear
on the company as to bring about its settle
ment. We cannot takeout a mail train,
gentlemen.”
Only three suburban trains each way in
addition to the fast mail and Couucil Bluffs
train, which got off about noon, were run
to-day. The Brotherhood engineers naviug
refused to moverthe last mail, the company
hail to put new men on it, but it is reported
as running practically on time.
A BOYCOTT AT AURORA.
The following telegram was received to
dav by General Manager Stone from Di
vision Master Mechanic Forsyth, of Aurora,
111.: “The firemen and engineers have boy
cotted the stores from- selling our mon pro
visions. I can’t get them anything to oat.
Have a dining car sent.* Can’t you make
arrangements to get us provisions from
Chicago?” The request was complied with.
MOVING, BUT LATE.
Chicago, Feb. 28, 9 p. m.— Repor ts from
tho principal points along tho Burlington
road indicate that passenger trains both on
tho main and sido lines are nearly all get
ting in and out, although they are from one
to ten hours late. Tho engines are manned
by master mechanics, yardmasters, conduc
tors who have been engineers and officials
who havo been engineers, and by engineers
and firemen who do not belong to the Broth
erhood. Some mischief has been done,
such as putting so ip in boilers aud disabling
the machinery of engines, but no serious
trouble was caused. This evening rumors
of a compromise began to fl;t about.
It was said that representatives
of neighboring roads fearing a strike on
their own lines had asked Chief Arthur to
negotiate further with the Burlington peo
ple. Business men, who feared the spread
of the strike and interruption of trade, were
said to be anxious to arbitrate the differ
ences between the contestants. Chief Ar
thur and Grand Master Sargent said that
no offers of a compromise or arbitration
would emanate from them. They said they
were willing to compromise with the com
pany as they had with other reads.
VIOLENCE REPORTED.
It is reported that at McCook, Neb., to
day a non-union engineer, working in the
Burlington yards, was beaten almost to
death by strikers because he refused to quit
work. The town authorities arrested a
number of the leaders in i m assault and
took them before a justice who bound them
over. This action incensed the strikers,
who liecnme so unruly anil boisterous as to
necessitate active measures being taken to
protect the city from damage. A telegram
was sent to Lincoln with a request that the
State militia be ordered out.
127 MEN SECURED.
Philadelphia, Feb. 28.—E. D. Ward,
who has lieen in this city for the past few
days, has examined and engaged forty-seven
engineers and eighty firemen to go to Chi
cago for service on the Chicago, Burlington
uuil Quincy road. The men are from vari
ous points along the Reading line, anil are
for the most part those who went on a
strike in December. They will leave here on
tho 9:50 o'clock train to-night for Chicago
in two chartered cars, in charge of J. 8.
Steele, who will go with them to their
destination.
William Forsyth, mechanical engineer of
the Clucugo. Burlington and Quincy system,
reached this city this evening, and during a
three days stay will make hut headquarters
at the Continental hotel. He will tier son
ally take charge of the examinations of
applicant* for positions, beginning his work
with un examination of twenty to night.
In the corridors of the Continental hotel to
night there were between 150 aud 175 men
waiting for luetructlniislroui the •joinpnny '
agent Thirty of these came from Potts
vide, and they report seventy-flea others
waiting at that point for orders.
near visit phi la dki.piiia.
Applicants will be requited to nonie to
Philadelphia for examination before being
acrepiM Mr. Forsyth said to a reporter
to night: Wo shall pay the engmoris 14
and The Hr -men $2 X par 'lay during tb
strike and after that the regular schedule
rate will ha paid. The company furnishes
transportation nn l the necessary living ex
ponsos during t he journey."
Mr. Powderly telegraphed from Scranton
to-night n long letter prepared for publica
tion advising tho Knights of Labor not to
take the places of the striking Brotherhood
men on the Burlington and Quincy road.
In it Mr. I\orderly says lie knows nothing
of the merits of the controversy betweeu
the strikers and the Burlington Company,
and says: "But, if it is true that the men
are making an effort to do away with the
European custom of grading men up and
down, regardless of merit, then they are in
the right in making a tight for equality.
My opinion of a man who takos the place
of another who is struggling for his rights
is that he deserves the contempt and scorn
of every man who loves justice.
CROWDING OUT THE KNIGHTS.
“It is true that members of the Brother
hood have on repeated occasions taken tho
places of members of the lvuights of labor,
it is true that away hack in the early days
of the seventies the Brotherhood men did
the same tiling with the machinists and
blacksmiths at the oommand of their chief.
It is true that the Brotherhood men stabbed
the Knights of Labor in the hack on the
Southwest, system, not only by' taking their
places, but by urging them to strike wit h
proffer of assistance if they would do so.
It is true that, tho Knights of Labor
were used ns cat’s paws by the Brotherhood
men in the struggle, and it is true that
many fingers were burned in raking out
chestnuts for others. It is true that the
Brotherhood men did take the places of the
Heading men in the strike on that road
The merits of the various cases herein men
tioned have nothing to do with the principle
of honor which is involved in all of them.
TO THEIR SHAME.
“It is to the eternal shame of the Brother
hood men that t hey stooped to such nets of
meanness and treachery, such unmanly con
duct. The man who takes tho place of
another when that other is engaged in a
struggle with a corporation is a "scab,”
whether lie boa member of the Knights of
Labor or a member of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive En. ineers.”
Mr. Powderly carries his arraignment of
the Brotherhood into further detail, and
proceeds to say that the members of tho
Brotherhood were not obliged to make
cravens of themselves, as many of themdid,
both on tho Southwest system and in the
Reading strike. The taking of the men’s
places was “mean and dastardly.”- If these
actions were with the sanction of tho Chief
of the Brotherhood, he, too, is mean and
dastardly.
TWO WRONGS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT.
“Two wrongs never tnuko a right,” and
what is mean and dastardly in members of
the Brotherhood of Engineers cannot be
come grand and noble ill a member of the
order of the Knights of La I sir No Knight
of Labor should bo-little his manhood by
stooping to such dirty work. If it is tho
habit of the Brotherhixsl men to do such
work as taking strikers’ places, in heaven’s
name let them have a monopoly of it.
Knights of Labor, if you take my advice,
you will stand back and allow this struggle
to go on. Let tho Brotherhood demon
strate its power to stand alone without
any ‘entangling alliances with those of
other trades? Lot the past lie forgotten in
this strike. No matter liow bitter you may
feel toward these men remember that they
have not stepped out of the rut of selfish
ness yet, and it is b st to teach them what
manhood means by keeping hands off the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy strike.”
A DEPLORABLE SPECTACLE.
Tiie spectacle presented by men of labor
who belong to different organizations, rush
ing at each others throat* whenever a strike
takes place, must be a gratifying thing for
the employers of labor to look at. It must,
indeed, give satisfaction to corporations to
know that neither the Knights of Labor or
Brotherhood men, dare in the future ask
for better treatment with any assurance of
receiving it. It must be a consoling thought
to the inono|K>list to Know that his
power is not half so dangerous to
the labor organization as the possibility
that another labor organization will espouse
his cause through revenge. Labor will for
ever lie bound hand and foot at the feet of
capital so long as workingmen can he pitted
against each other.”
After some general observations upon
strikes as a means of gaining the objects of
labor organizations Air. Powderly concludes:
“Knights of Labor, from Maine to Cali
fornia, stand back. Keep your hands off!
Let the law of retaliation be disregarded,
and let the men of the Chis ago, Burlington
and Quincy railroad win this strike if they
can."
START OF THE KNIGHTS.
The Broad street station of the Pennsyl
vania railroad for a long time liefore the
departure of the first section of the Western
express, on which the accepted applicants
for the Burlington strikers’ places left the
city, presented an unusual scene of activity.
By actual count IHi people were admitted
to the train, about one-third of whom
were engineers, the remainder firemen.
Included among the number were
Bernard J. Sharkey. James Gleason
and Frank McGill, members of
Central Committee of the Reading railroad
strikers, each of whom declared that they
were acting individually, ami bad made
application to the Burlington company’s
agents for positions, and had lieen accepted.
Air. Sharkey said that fully 200 men of this
city, and an equal number from points
along the line had expressed a desire to go
to Chicago. Another contingent will leave
here to-morrow night, and Mr. Ward says
that he will ho on hand ail day to-morrow
to receive applications, of which ho has a
large number not yet acted on.
WHO WARD IS.
Tito man who inserted advertisements in
to-day’s papers and who received applicants
for employment on the Burlington and
Quincy, was known as E. D. Ward, butusa
matter of fact he is none other than Capt.
Dougherty, chief of the Pinkerton forces in
this section, and is the man who had charge
of the Pinkerton police arrangements at
Port Richmond during the strike at that,
point. It was amusing to s-e such men us
Hharkev, Gleason and McGill, leaders of the
Port Rich moil 1 strikers, in close conference
with Mr. Ward at the station to night, and
was nude all the more so when it was re
memherad that the local assemblies to
'which these men belong and of which they
are offieei-s, had time and again passed reso
lutions denouncing the Pinkerton men as
"tilings,” "cut-throats” and "tho scum of
the earth,” and these leaders were tho
loudest adherent* to the sontimeuts ex
pressed. Capt. Dougherty acted more as
an executive chief of force* at Port Rich
mond, leaving tho active work under the
ehurge of Capt. Eckstein, and this explains
why the men werem such blissful Ignorance
of his identity. Ho did not come in direct
contact with them at Port Richmond at
any time, his bcadousrters being at the
office of the company's superintendent.
KNIGHTS GOING KGKWARO.
Pittsburg, Feb. 2" - Agent* of the Chi
cago, Burlington and Q-niicv system, it
apis-si's, ha mi Iswu sijocoml id Jit securing a
number of engines' s uud ffremeti in the
Ka>l This meriting a carload ol lifty men
poe-od through Urn- eity en route to Chi
cago to lake the places of tb* efnkar* The
party was In charge of a BsUdfiMsl man,
who rat uswi ffc give ins name, but ad tint led
that the men w era going to (’hicago to
work on lb* Chicago, Burbngtou and
Quuaj’ road. At Iv u lw know
they were not Knights of
Labor, although members ot that
organisation might be found in the party.
The report that a number of engineers
would arrive from Now York on their way
Wot was circulated last night, and when
the train came in this morning a delegation
of the Brotherhood was on hand to greet
them, but no attempt was tnude to molest
the new men or interfere with them in any
manner. The train left for (Mileage at 7:4/
o’elock this morning, aud will arrive in that
city to night.
KNIGHTS WON’T “SCAB.”
T. B. Barry, a member of tho Executive
Board of the Knights of Labor, is in the
city. When asked concerning the imblished
report that tho Reading ruilroiul Knights
are going to Chicago to take the places of
the striking members of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, he said: “'lucre is
no foundation tor this report, not with
standing the fact that members of the
Engineers’ Brotlie hood are scabbing in the
places of the Knights of Labor strikers.
The Reading Knights have never ‘scabbed,’
as charged by the Brotherhood, and have
no thought of doing so now. Every time,
however, that the Brotherhood has lmd a
chance they havfe ‘scabbed’ on the Knights,
notably in the Southwestern and Heading
strikes.”
A COLLISION AT A JUNCTION.
One of the Burlington Road’s Green
Engineers to Blame.
Chicago, Fob. 28.—A dispatch from
Rock Island, ill., says: “Passenger train
No. 1 on tho Chicago, Milwaukee aud St.
Paul road last evening was run into by a
freight train on tho Mondota branch of the
Chicago, Burlingt u and Quincy road at
East. Clinton, a milo south of Fulton juno
tion. The Milwaukee engine and mail and
express ears wore all demolished, and the
baggage ear was turned over. P. 11. Wil
helm, of this city, an American express
route agent, was probably fatally injured,
and Thomas Morrison was seriously hurt.
Both wore on the Milwaukee train.
In the “Q” engine cab were
lho engineer, flrenmn, conductor
and Headmaster Seigrist. Tho latter
is reported to have been fatally hurt. Tho
cars were piled up all over the track, and
the telegraph wires were all broken. The
blame for the accident is laid on tho “Q”
engineer a green hand who lost control of
his engine, mid did not stop at the crossing.
FRANCO-ITAId AN ENMITY.
A Britißh Sqaudron in the Gulf of
Genoa as a Precaution.
Paris, Feb. 118. —It is send officially stated
that M. Flourens, Foreign Minister, after
consulting with M. I'irard, Prime Minister,
and other members of tho Cabinet, bos in
formed Count Menabrea, the Italian Am
bassador, that the French proposals for a
treaty of commerce with Italy cannot be
modified, aud that Italy must accept or re
fuse them. The negotiations for a treaty
have, therefore, been broken off.
The Oauloix and the Figaro assert that
the urcsonce of a British squadron in the
Gulf is owing to the action of Signor Crispi,
the Italian Premier and Foreign Minister,
who wished to mnke a demonstration
against France. Tho Oautois publishes a
letter addressed to the correspondents of
English newspapers, reproaching Lord Sal
isbury for bis willingness to assist
in a manoeuvre that would
wound France’s feelings in order to
satisfy Bignor Crispin's vauity and hataed.
Tho letter indicates the basis upon which
an alliance between England ami France
would bo advisable, and says: “England
gained no benefit by France’s disasters in
1870 and would gain less by the total de
struction of France, at which Prince Bis
marck and Count Crispi aim.”
At.l, AFRAID.
London, Feb. 29, 5 a. m.—Tho Italian,
Austrian and English governments have re
plied to Russia’s proposals touching Bulga
ria. They concur in the opinion that Prince
Ferdinand’s position is illegal, but they de
cline to take stops likely to disturb the peace
of Bulgaria.
BOULANGER'S BALLOTS.
Ho Denies That He Was a Party to
the Movement.
Paris, Feb. 28. —The connivence of Gen.
Boulanger with the promoters of his candi
dacy In the districts where elections for va
cancies in the Chumlier of Deputies were
held Bund ay has been proved. The Minis
ters are considering the question of punish
ing him.
The Council of Ministers to day discussed
the matter of the votes cast for Gen. Bou
langer for member of the Chamheh of Dep
uties last Sunday. La France says that an
inquiry has been ordered in the matter to
discover the promoters of the scheme, but
Lc Paris says that as Gen. Boulanger bos
denied that lie was connected with the pro
moters of his candidacy, the matter will lie
dropped.
GLOUCESTER AND THE TREATY.
The City Council Opposed to Its Adop
tion.
Glouoesti , Mass., Feb. 28.—The City
Council to-uight adopted the following res
olutions:
Resolved, That the City Council of Gloucester
earnestly protests against the adoption of the
no called llshery treaty. which l< now befero the
United States Senate for ratification, believing
that it will be a vreut injury to the fishing in
terests of this country.
Kmolvrri , Ttiat the Senators and members of
Congress representing the State of Massachu
setts be requested to use all their influence to
prevent tint adoption of this treaty, to the end
that the lisbing industry of the country may
not be sacrificed.
Bypher’s Billy Threat.
Washiihitom, Fei. 28.—J. Halo Sypher,
the Diuisiana Republican ex-Congressman,
whose latest exploit was the so-called con
test against Speaker Carlisle, tbi'eatenu to
sue Lieut. Gen. Phil Sheridan for libei, be
<•au.se Gen. Sheridan referred to Sypher as
a blackmailer and lobbyist in u hearing
before the House Committee on Military
AtCair recently in regard to the saie of
Fort Brown, in Texas, Gen. Hhendan is
not troubled by the threat.
War Claims from 1812.
WaßHlNotov, Feb. 28. —ln the House to
<lay Mr. Guinea, of Virginia, fiom the Com
mittee on War Claims, iq>oired the bill
authorizing the (Secretary of the Treasury
to settle the claims of certain Htaies and
the city of linltlinore, growing out of money
expended lor military purposes during the
war of 1812. It was referred to committee
of the whole.
Confirmed by the Senate.
Washington, Feb. 28.—The Senate has
confirmed the nomination of K. J Muoreuo
to is? l ulled Stale/. Marshal for Ibn (South
ern district of Florida; (Am Olnrardi to
le Rear Admiral, ami a large number of
naval and niilitarv promot ions, and Ella
l>-wis to be Poet master at Gallatin, Tran.
Prohibition In Michigan
J'KThoir, hih. 28. Twenty-eight conn
ties m Michigan have voted for prohibition 1
under the hsai opium law. The first <*ouu
ty to go 'wet ’is Washtenaw, which voted j
, * may nit y U \,’*M against pro- j
l PPJCE 810 A YEAR. I
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CLOSE UK IX THE HOUSE.
THE MAJORITY NECESSARY TO
ENFORCE IT ONLY 100.
Mr. Dillon Says the Corns orvatlves Put
a Rope Around Their Own Neck by
Adopting the Now Rule The
Speaker’s Powers to Deal With Dis
orderly Members Increased.
London, Feb. 28.—Mr. lloaro (Liberal
Unionist) wasto-<luy elected without oppo
sition to the House of Commons for Hamp
stead, to till tho vacancy caused by the ele
vation of Sir Henry Holland, Colouiul Sec
retary, to the peerage.
At a meeting of tho members of Parlia
ment at West minster to-day is was decided
to oppose the arrears bill initiated by T. W.
Russel iLittoral Unionist). Only two mem
bers voted in favor of supporting the bill.
ENFORCEMENT OF CLOSURE.
In t,ho House of Commons to-night William
Henry Smith moved tho adoption of tho
second proceedure rule, which reduces to 100
the majority necessary to enforce the clos
ure. He said that the experience of tho
last session had convinced the government
that it was desirable to reduce the majority
in order to secure due transaction of busi
iio.sk, es|iecially lietween 7 and 10:30 o’clock,
when the attendance of members was small,
Mr. Chaplin said tho rule would lie the
first stl> toward closure by a bare majority
and that It would not meet the evil with
which the House was confronted, the
loquacity and verlsisity of its members.
Mr. Dillon said that the l’arnellites might
be congratulated by the House, or at all
events by the Liberals, upon having con
verter 1 the Conservatives to closure.
[Laughter.] The Conservatives now put a
rope around their own necks. [Laughter.]
The I‘arnellites would get hold of It shortly
and when passing the home rule bill they
would pull it very sharply. [Laughter.]
Even from the Tory point of view it was a
mistake to increase the stringency of the
closure by which tho minorities must
suffer. It would have boen far better to
have tried other means before resorting to
this ultimatum.
LORD CJHURCHILL’B LIMIT.
Lord Randolph Churchill said his ad
vocacy of closure was limited to last year’s
form, beyond which he did not desire to go,
although he would not oppose tho motion.
The second rule was then adopted by a
vote of 256 to 134.
Mr. Smith moved the adoption of a rule
enabling the Speaker to order the with
drawal of disorderly mem tiers, or to ask the
House to decide uiion tho conduct of such
members.
This was opposed by the Liberals, and seve
ral effective speeches were made against it by
the l’arnellites. Mr. Dillon said lie disliked
the rule becuuso it must lend to make the
Speaker a party to, instead of as at present,an
impartial friend of the whole House. If tho
House United the Parnellite* with civility,
such a rule would not be wanted. [Par
nell ito shouts of “Heart Heart”]
T. P. O’Connor said that every section of
the House should reject the rule as an in
sult to their self respect. He especially
objected to the exclusion of members sus
jxmded from tho precincts of the House.
SIR PLAYFAIR’S MOTION.
Sir Lyon Playfair moved that the clause
requiring tho exclusion from the precincts
of the House of disorderly members be
omitted from the rule.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach argued that it
was noceHsary to render the punishment of
disorderly members real.
The punishment amendment was rejected
by a vote of 135 to 85.
Mr. Whitehead moved that the rule re
quiring the exclusion of disorderly mem
bers only apply when the Speaker or chair
man so direc a
This motion was rejected Wy a vote of 117
to 89.
The rule increasing the Speaker’s powers
was adopted by a vote of 134 to 74.
Tin House adopted without division the
rule empowering the Speaker or chuirman
to stop a member who, after being warned,
persists in making irrelevant remarks, or
in tediously repeating his own argument#
or the arguments of others.
OBSTRUCTIVE MOTIONS RULED OUT.
After considerable objection from the op
position seat, the House rule was carried
empowering the Speaker, or chairman, to
decline to put obstructive motions to ad
journ a debate, report progress, or that the
cl,airman leave the chair.
After the passage of a few minor rules to
facilitate debate, air. Smith proposed a rule
empowering the speaker or chairman, at his
discretion, to take a vote of the House by a
simple rising of members.
Messrs. Fowler and Parnell, Lord Ran
dolph Churchill and other-., opposed the rule,
suggesting various methods of recording
the numbers and names of tho minority.
The debate was thou adjourned.
A SUGGESTION FROM THE POPE.
London, Feb. 29, 4 a. m. —The Chronialt
stab s tlmt in reply to a request of the Duke
of Norfolk that the Pope use his influence
with the Irish Bishops to stop agitation in
Ireland, Mgr. Kamtiolla, the Papal Secre
tary, said that the British government
should by some act or concession grant
privileges to Irish Catholics which would
form a pretext upon which to build a letted
to the Bishops.
COX OUT OF JAIL.
Limerick, Feb, 28.—Mr. Cox, M. P., who
was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment
for making a speech inciting tenants to con
spiracy, was released to-day. A crowd
gathered to greet him on h: release, and
Mr. Cox made u speech denouncing Secre
tary Balfour and maintaining that the
national league was stronger than ever.
He was afterwards presented with numer
ous addresses.
RUSSIA’S STUDENTS.
A Demand That the Poor Be Given a
Chance to be Educated.
St. Petersburg, F b. 28.—The university
students have issued a manifesto demanding
that the professors bo elected by the uni
versity, instead of being appointed by the
government, in order to avoid the selection
of incapable men like the present rector,
whom the studente detest. The students
desire that, the rector be dismissed and that
his place lie taken by the former rector,
who resigned on account of hi- repugnance
to tlie new statutes. They also demand
other reforms, notably the admission of
poor as well as rich students.
King John ou the March.
Rome, Keb. 28.—An otfi.mldisfiatch from
Msmowhli says: “King John, with Haas
lula and a large army, is ail min ing iqsiu
tie- Italians, aud the advance guard arrived
ni A maraoti Fob. 25 to prepare quarters
for King John.”
Sullivan and Mitchell.
London, K b. 29, 5 1. M.—The stakes for
the light let ween Sullivan ami Mitchell
have been dejeislUsL Mlb hell won the toss
and will select the battle ground
Tmo Killed by an x. valauche.
London, Feb 29 —6a. iu Ansvslauche
lu lb v alley ef W oroOie, bwua-vluud, has
killed tee perauws aud man) < uiUy, aod des
troyed a large u mater ot hi nmas