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( THE MORNING? NEWS. 1
J Established 1850. Incorporated 1888. >
J.H.ESTILL President. )
FLORIDA SWAMP LANDS.
mb. call, addresses the senate
ON HIB RESOLUTION.
Fraudulent Entries of Arable Land
Allezed Mr. Plumb Attacks the
State— The Bill to Reimburse the
Silcott Sufferers Brings Up a Lively
Debate in the House.
Washington, Jan. 14.—1n the Senate
today the resolutions heretofore offered by
jlr. Call ia relation to claims of Florida
under the swamp land grant, and in rela
tion to alleged unlawful selections of land
in Florida, were taken up, and| Mr. Call ad
dressed the Senate upon them.
The burden of his remarks was that land
which was not swampy and overflowed, but
which was fit for cultivation, had been
selected under the swamp land act to the
injury of the people’s rights. He asserted
that 290,000,000 of acres had been selected
and approved iu all the states as swamp and
overflowed lands, while everybody know
that no such extent of territory (as large as
Europe) consisted of swamp and overflowed
lands.
A FRAUD UPON THE PEOPLE.
This was a fraud upon the people of the
United States. The public lands should bo
held as a sacred heritage. Of 16,000,000
acres which had passed in Florida under the
swamp and overflowed lands act, he
asserted that 11,000,000 wore arable lands.
Mr. Plumb replied to Mr. Call. He said
that the United States had granted to the
Btace of Florida more than half the lands
within its limits. The state contained
about 40,000,000 acres, and more than
one-half cf that had been
given to the state for various purposes.
Every single acre of land so granted had
been "placed under oontrol of the legislature
of Florida. Some 16,000,000 or 18,000,000
acres bad been granted as swamp and over
flowed lands.
He (Plumb) did not care how much of the
dirty linen of Florida was washed here and
elsewhere. That was a question to be set
tled between the senator aud his constitu
ents. The senator had not said a word
to-day that was not in denunciation of the
conduct of the authorities of his own state.
But for himself, he would resign his seat in
in the Senate if he were to bring forward
such a complaint against his own state after
being too cowardly to proclaim it on the
stump within its borders.
AN ATTACK ON FLORIDA.
Let the sonator, he said, go back to the
people who sent him bore. Let him go back
to the legislature which ha3 despoiled the
public domain. The United States lost jur
isdiction of question when it conveyed
these lands to Florida. The senator says
they were not swamp lands. More is the
pity for the morality of those
who received them. When once those
lauds were conveyed to the
state of Florida tho jurisdiction|Jof the
United States over them ceased absolutely
and entirely, and they becamo a sacred
trust of tho state. At all events, the re
sponsibility is with his own people, and not
with the people of the United Scutes and
not with its legislative body. I find that
the state of Florida did do something for
the settlor. I believe that the state is bettor
to-day than it is represented to be.
SHOULD MAKE HIS CHARGES AT HOME.
The charge is unworthy of the senator’s
position to his state. It does not become
him, unless he has taken the stump ia his own
state and denounced at every cross-roads the
bad actions of the people who committed
tho mistake to appeal on that subject.
Especially does it not become him to im
pugn the motives of men on this floor
(meaning members of the sub-committee on
public lands) who did not agree with him,
and who have not been able to find in his
compact, terse, and eloquent sentences that
pith and marrow he imagines are to be
found in them.
A GRAVE CHARGE.
Mr. Plumb went on to say that Mr. Call
had (some sessions ago) appealed to him as
chairman of tho committee on public lands
to report a bill to ratify and confirm title to
certain railroad lands in Florida. So that
alleged frauds (said Mr. Plumb) were to be
condoned under certain circumstances, but
were never to be condoned in speech. The
senator (he said) had always been in the
habit of impugning senators openly, and ho
(Plumb) had sometimes been inclined not
to reply to him, but to convict
him of falsehood, ltut (said he) there are
some accusations which are lost in the
accuser.
BELIEVED IN FLORIDA’S VIRTUE.
Mr. Plumb went on to say that he be
lieved in tho virtue of the people of Florida
more firmly than their sonator did. He was
aware that a most conspicuous rape of the
public domain had been perpetrated in
Florida, and he hoped that when the sen
ator was next tempted to speak on the sub
ject ho would speak where speaking meant
risk—to his own people.
SENATOR CALL’S REPLY.
Mr. Call replied to Mr. Plumb. He said:
I will not bo moved, Mr. President, by this
extraordinary example of the senator from
Kansas to follow his bad manners, nor his
contemptible rnothods. He cannot have a
poorer opinion of me than I have for the
senator from Kansas. I have not boon iu
the hab.t of violating decorum of debate
and discussion; but if the senator thinks by
his idle bravado, by his defense of this vast
spoliation of tho public domain in the in
terest of those who have profited by it, that
he can intimidate me from defending the
rights of the people of my state, I tro.it
him with tho scorn and contempt that he
deserves.
VIOLATED THE TRUTH.
The'senator from Kansas has spoken
without truth. My record in the state of
Florida is known. There is not a boodler
there whom no defends who does not attack
me with similar language and denunciation
as he has used to-day. I confute and dissi
pate with scorn tho allegation of the senator
that I had secretly done anything contrary
to my public utterances. What object has
the senator iu defeudng the titles of these
“millers agaiust peace and repose of tho
entire country? What object has he for
attacking me in common with the boodlers
who have profited by these frauds? No
public interest but idle bravado.
WILL CANVASS FLORIDA OR KANSAS.
I am not afraid to canvass Florida or
Kansas with the sonator on that question.
. J position is well known in relation to it
1? the state of Florida. The officials of
mat state aro as honorable as the senator
Hum Kansas. By their side he would sink
mto insignificance. The statements of the
senator in relation to their violation of trust,
are entirely untrue, and ns chair nan of the
™nnnittee on public land , (which has juris
,i on over the matter) he should be
earned not to be informed about the cir
cumstances.
DISREPUTABLE TO THE SENATE.
itin ti 8 , to the Senate that it
uiii have as chairman of that committee
of fntor who not only defends the Interest
Km- . ors , hut shows his ignorance of the
specially committed to him. All
i Hr ’he senator has said about the legis-
r ® °f Florida is utterly false aud untrue,
an ~ 611 said for the purpose of making
“ at -acK agaiust mo. X had expected it.
gOfre JMofnina ffotoj*.
He has his place well by the side of those who
have drawn those enormous profits from
misinterpreiatiou of the law. With an
audacious assumption of superiority on his
part, he speaks of senators as not being
suited to their plaeo—as not being entitled
to respect; and yet tho senator exhibits
himself as entirely ignorant of facts.
SOMETHING ABOUT LAW.
Let me teach him a little lesson. I will
not try to teach him propriety. I care not
for liig language or his assumption,
or his demeanor, but, as n senator,
let me seek to teach him a little knowledge
about law. Having made a statement as
to the grants to Florida for railroad
purposes, and under swamp land
law, Mr. Call proceeded: I have not
any reputation among the people
of my state of having sympathy
with those who commit wrong and error in
the performance of public duty. If the
things he says were true, and if 1 were as
bad a man as he is, as weak a man
as ho is, a3 vain a man as
bo is—even if I wore all
that he is himself, and all that he says I
am, still would it remain true that a large
number of people have been deprived of
their rights on these iands.
DEFENDING BOODLERS’ INTERESTS.
The only interests that can be promoted
by denying those rights are not those of
the people of the Uuited States, not the in
terests of purity and honesty and justice,
but the interests of a few men, who have
made, and are to make, enormous profits
out of improper execution of the laws. The
state of Florida is the equal of any other
state. Its representatives are the equals
of tho representatives of other states. I
should scorn myself with infinite scorn if I
came down to the level of manhood and
character of the sonator from Kansas.
SHIFTING IT ON THE STATE.
Tho Senator (Mr. Call) had just told the
Senate that most of it was not swamp, but
arable lands. So much greater was the
dereliction of the senator’s state if it had
betrayed its trust.- Ho wished the senator
would say on the stump in his own state
what he had said here to-day
Without action on the resolution the Sen
ate proceeded to executive business, and at
4 o’clock adjourned.
In tho House.
Mr. McKinley of Ohio, from the commit
tee on ways and means, reported back the
bill to simplify the laws in relation to the
collection of revenue. It wa3 ordered
printed and recommitted, and Mr. McKin
ley stated that he hoped to call it up during
the present week.
Mr. Perkins of Kansas moved that
the House go into committee of the
whole for tho consideration of the bill to
provide for town site entries of lands in
Oklahoma. This was antagonized by Mr.
Adams of Illinois, who wished the House to
consider the Silcott matter, and the motion
was defeated by a vote of 65 to 97.
SILCOTT REPORT CALLED UP.
Mr. Bland of Missouri demanded
tellers, declaring that a matter
involving the interest of 100,000 people
should be considered prior to one which
involved only individual interests of mem
bers. The friends of the Oklahoma bill
were again defeated by a vote of 96 to 108,
and Mr. Adams called up the Silcott report,
accompanied by a bill appropriating $75,000
to reimburse members for losses incurred
through tne Silcott defalcation.
Mr. Adams argued in favor of the bill,
holding that the sergoant-at-arms was a
public officer charged, first hy custom and
afterward by sanction of law, with tho
duty of disbursing the salarios of members
of the House. He referred to the defalca
tion which occurred in tho Twenty-second
congress, and called attention to the fact
that the House at that time voted to reim
burse members out of the contingent fund.
NOT A QUESTION OF TECHNICALITIES.
The real question presenting itself now
was not a question of technical right or
technical wrong. It was a question whether
the members wore in some way to blame
for signing their receipts, whether the gov
ernment had lost the money by reason of
their fault, and whither they should forfeit
their money on account of that fault. New
members had signed receipts before they
had any legislative power to change the
law. The certificates woro presented to
them, and they were requested to sign them
in order to get their salaries. If any mem
ber had protested against signing his cer
tificate he must go without his salary.
NEW MEMBERS NOT TO BLAME.
The new members were in nowise to
blame, and he could not see how an old
member could vote against on appropria
tion to pay new members what they were
entitled to. If an old member felt himself
to blame, his only course was to vote for
the appropriation, and afterward deter
mine between himself and his conscience,
whether he would receive the money him
self. Mr. Butterworth inquiried whether
any member believed that the sergeant-at
arms was his personal agent. a
Mr. Adams* thought that there wa3 such
a member. No one believed that he had
made the sergeant-at-arms his personal
agent, though some might believe that by
a technical rule of law the sergoant-at
arms was constituted an agent of the mem
bers.
BILL TO BRING SUIT.
Mr. Hemphill, of South Carolina, advo
cated the adoption of his bill permitting
members to bring suit in the court of
claims for the recovery of their salaries,
and opposed the bill of the majority because
he could find no statute declaring the ser
geant-at-arms to be a disbursing officer.
Congress had utterly failed, though the
matter had been called to its attention by
report after report of the Uuited
States’ Treasury, to make any provision
for the protection of tho government in
case there was a defalcation. The plain
duty had rested on congress to provido that
the money taken from tho treasury should
be safely guarded, aud it had not performed
that duty. There was about SB,OOO private
money on deposit ia the sergeant-at-arms’
office. Surely no one would hold that tiwt
officer was a disbursing officer so far as
that money was concerned, and he thought
the House should not appropriate public
money to pay private debts.
OUGHT TO KNOW tVHAT IS DUE.
If the House was going to appropriate
money to pay members’ salaries, it ought to
be able to tell tho amount due, and until it
was ascertained how much of the money
left iu tho safe was applicable to the pay
ment of private debts it could not tell how
much was necessary to pay salaries. The
committee could not ascertain positively
what money Silcott hail taken a *ay with
him —whether it was all public money, or
whether some of it was private funds.
Mr. Butterworth —That is a question be
tween Silcott and the govornment. What
wo want is what is due us. [Laughter.]
REPRESENT BOTH PARTIES.
Mr. Hemphil—We are here not only to
represent ourselves, but the government as
well. [Applause.]
Mr. Butterworth —Aud when a member
is afraid to vote himself what is due him,
may not the government feel a little auxi
ous’in the presence of moral cowurdice of
that character? [Laughter.]
Mr. Hemphill—There will be plenty of
opportunities to show our moral courage.
There is a good deal of difference between
the kind of independence which people ad
mire and the kind which rams your hand
into tho treasury and puts money into your
pocket, [Applause. 1 Xbwa will be oppsuf-
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1890.
tunities to show moral courage which will
not have a suspicion of being tinged with a
personal desire to put into our pockets
money to which we are not entitled.
Mr. Butterworth—Has my friend any
doubt that he is entitled to his pay?
NO OCCASION FOR DOUBT.
Mr. He nphill—Not at all, because I
have it. [Laughter.]
Mr. Butterworth— Then this is an exhibi
tion of virtue that does not cost my friend
Ruy sacrifice? [Laughter.]
Mr. Hemphill—l do not know any time a
man can bo more virtuous than when it
does not cost him anything. [Laughter.]
Mr. Butterworth—But is it a fair division
of labor for you to exhibit tho virtue and
us to make the sacrifices? [Laughter.]
Mr. Kennedy of Oaio iuquired whether it
was not true that members on the demo
cratic side got a tip to draw their money.
Mr. Hemphill replied that he had never
hoard of such a thing; aud his denial was
corroborated by Mr. Adams, who stated
that nothing of the kind had come to the
knowledge of tho committee.
Mr. Holman contested the proposition
that the sorgeant-at-arms was a disbursing
officer.
BLOUNT SPEAKS FOR THE SUFFERERS.
Mr. Blount of Georgia spoke m support
of the bill of the majority, and ridiculed
the idea of requiring private depositors to
go to the court of claims in order to recover
their money. He also strongly opposed the
pro rata method of solving the difficulty,
declaring that the House had no right to
make a pro rata distribution, and that it
would be a dishonest proceeding.
Ho admitted that there was
no express statute making tho sergeant
at-arms a disbursing officer ; but tho rules
of tho House and the custom growing up
under them had constructively made him
so. The very payment of money to the
sergeant-at-arms before it was due was on
the theory that he was a disbursing officer,
else the treasury had no right to pay it to
him at all.
REQUIRED TO GIVE BOND.
That ho was a disbursing officer was
shown by requiring him to give bend, by
giving him a cashier, tollor aud bookkeeper,
and by requiring members to certify to him
their mileage accounts. He was not afraid
to take the position he did. Any action on
his part suggested by fear and from which
there would come wrong to his fellow mem
bers would be unworthy of him, and no
such motiye would prevent him from de
claring to the House aud the country his
conclusions as to the rights of his asso
ciates.
Pending further debate, the House at 5
o’clock adjourned.
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.
Bill to Mark Line3 of Battle of the
Confederate Forces.
Washington, Jan. 14.—A bill was intro
duced in tho Houso to-day by Gon. Bingham
of Pennsylvania for marking the lines of
battle and positions of troops of the Army
of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg. The
preamble of the bill states that as driveways
have been opened at Gettysburg aggre
gating over twenty milos, on which monu
ments have been erected to mark tho
positions of troops and lines of battle of the
Army of the Potocnac, a proper exemplifi
cation of tho battle for tactical and historic
purposes requires that the positions of both
armies should be marked, while tbs worjc
can yet be done.
Tho bill provides for the laying out and
contracting of twenty-four miles of drive
way along the lines of battle, occupied by
the confederate army on July 1,2, 3, 1863,
and for erecting on those avenues, 1,050
tablots with historic legends, compiled with
out censure, to mark the positions of corps,
divisions, brigades, battalions, and batteries,
to be done by or under the supervision
of Col. John B. Batchelder, government
historian of the battle, assisted by officers
of t he several commands undor direction of
the Secretary of War, for which an appro
priation of $310,000 is asked.
It is stated that every living corps com
mander, and many prominent officers of
the Army of tho Potomac favor the enact
ment of this measure, and that the G. A. R.,
through their oommauder-in-chief, aud
every post cominander-in-chiof who has
been consulted, likewise favors it.
JOHN3ON THB MAN.
Nominated Yesterday for the Bavan
nah Collectorship.
Washington, Jan. 14.—“Boss’’ Buck of
Goorgia is evidently a bigger man than
“Stove” Elkins, as well as a bigger man
than Judge Emory Speer. Following im
mediately upon his victory over Judge
Spoor of yesterday in the Macon posted!ee
caso came his victory over Mr. Elkins in
the Savannah collectorship caso to-day.
Mr. Elkins, availing himself of his intimate
friendship with tho President, had per
suaded the latter that Mike Doyle, an
Irishman and president of a protection
club, was tho man to make collector of Sa
vannah, in spite of Buck’s recommendation
that ox-Oollector Johnson should be ap
pointed. But Secretary Windorn, who has
stood by Buck all through, finally made the
President see at a cabinet meeting to-day
that it would not do to disregard the
recommendation of the Georgia boss, and
so Johnson was nominated.
GOVERNMENT DEPO3ITS.
The Amount Surrendered Far In Ex
cess of That Called for.
Washington, Jan. 14.—Secretary Win
dom’s call for 10 per coat, of tho amount of
public moneys held by national banks will
expire to-morrow. So far only oighty
banks out of 130 called upon have re
sponded. The amount surrendered, how
ever, is far in excess of the
amount called for, os some of the
banks gave up the entire amount held by
them, and a number of others surrendered
all above the amount necessary for the
transaction of current public business. The
total amount of bonds purchased to date in
liquidation of these deposits is 16,711,500.
The future course of the department in this
matter will be determined in few a days.
DON’T HAVE TO LEAVE HOME.
Col. Buck Sends Hie Instructions to
Washington by Wire.
Washington. Jan. 14.—CoL Buck does
not have to come on to have his recom
mendations oarried out. He finds it just as
satisfactory to telegraph his will. Finding
that he could not be here to-day he tele
graphed Secretary Windom to see that
Johnson was appointed, and it was done.
Mr. Locke will be confirmed. Senators
Colquitt and Brown are both favoring his
confirmation. Senator Colquitt knows
nothing of tho alleged letter of Mr. Ed
munds threatening opposition to Locke.
The Ballot Box Investigation.
Washington, Jan. 14.—The ballot box
investigation will begin Thursday, when
Gov. Foraker will be here. Friday Mr.
Halstead, and Saturday Gov. Campbell
wiii come. Mr. Mason, chairman of the
committee, is friendly to Foraker, but the
anti-Foraker men are bringing pressure to
boar ou the committee to have all the facts
brought out, and they say Foraker will be
overwhelmed fey thorn,
A VILLAGE STORM-SWEPT
DESTRUCTION TO LIFE AND PROP
ERTY AT MAXBURG.
Big List of Disasters in Northern New
York—A Blizzard Prevailing In the
Northwest—Horses and Cattle Per
ishing With Cold in Wyoming—Rail
way Travel Retarded.
Olney, 111., Jan. 14.—At tho village of
Maxburg Sunday night, the cyclone over
turned dwolling houses, barns and cut
buildings, and wrought great damage. Tho
family of Philip Nicholson wore seated
around the fire when the storm came up.
The house was completely destroyed, aud
Mrs. Nicholson instantly killed,
and her daughter, Miss Anna,
seriously injured. Aaron McWill
iams and his family of seven were
all caught under the rubbish of their
houses, aud two children sustained serious
injury. The Methodist Episcopal church
and parsonage were destroyed. Quails
and other towls were found dead, stripped
of their feathers, and many largo trees
uprooted lying along the path of the storm,
which was about fifty rods wide.
throughout .'HE northwest.
St. Paul, Jan. 14.—A genuine blizzard,the
first of the season, raged over tho northwest
the whole of Sunday and part of yesterday,
knocking out telegraph wires, delaying all
trains, and retarding the operations of log
gers iu the pineries. Dispatches from prin
cipal points iu the Dakatas, Montana, and
as far west as Spokane Falls, Washington,
are to the effect that, on an average, snow
fell about 10 inches on a level, and drifted
badly, owing to tho strong winds, approach
ing a hurricane, which prevailed.
railroad movements impeded.
Among the railroads a vast difference in
the effects of the storm is found. The
Manhattan, Northern Pacific and Northern
Wisconsin division of the Omaha all report
little drifting. The Sioux City or southern
division of the Omaha, is suffering from
the usual drifts. The river division of the
Milwaukee was not affected, but tho lowa
and Minnesota, and Hastings and Dakota
divisions are badly drifted. The Minneap
olis and St. Leals, and Kansas City, too,
are somewhat covered up, the former
rather worse than tho latter. The worst
drifts, however, appear to bo on those lines
running through Northern lowaaudSouth
west Minnesota.
DRIFTS PILED TWENTY FEET.
Severe weather is reported generally
throughout the northwest. The blizzard is
raging at Beardsley, Minn., drifts being
piled twenty feet high. A piercing north
wind accompanies the storm. Train and
wagon traffic is at a standstill. The first
?;reat storm of tho season has struck Grand
lapids, extending all over the upper Mis
sissippi region. At New Salem the very air
was darkened by failing snow, and pedes
trians could not sea their hands before
them. At Wabasha thirteen inches
of snow has fallon. The highways are
seriously blockaded and trains are behind
time. From Neche, N. D., comes an ac
counted a veritable blizzard, which raged
for thirty-seven hours, rendering all travel
impossible through the heavy drifts.
LIVE STOCK PERISHING FROM COLD.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 14.—Twelve to
eighteen inches of snow bus fallen in the
western end of the territory. The snow
has crusted, aud with the freezing of the
water, cattle, sheep and horses aro perish
ing all over the range. An ownor yester
day received word from his ranch in that
section that scarcely an animal that could
not be fod would survive. Horses
have worn their hoofs to pieces trying to
boat through tho crusted snow. Cattle and
sheep are helpless, game has been driven
from tho mountains, and antelope have
been killed within the city limits of Evans
ton, while the stock has drifted to the rail
ways. Saturday and Sunday were intensely
oold, and two men wero frozen to death.
DESTRUCTION IN NORTHERN NEW YORK.
Watertown, N. Y. t Jan. 14.—Reports
are coming in to the Times from points in
Northern New York of damage done by
the wind storm yesterday. Every village
and all tho country in Jefferson. Lewi- and
St. Lawrence counties felt the force of the
storm, and bear marks of its violence.
Church steeples have fallen, plafco-glass
fronts have boon smashed, houses and barns
unroofed by hundreds, trees torn up and
chimneys demolished.
QUITE A BRILLIANT AFFAIR.
First State Reception of Harrison’s
Administration.
Washington, Jan. 14.—The first of the
evening state receptions of President Har
rison’s administration was quite a brilliant
affair. It was given to-night in honor of
the diplomatic corps, whose members at
tended more generally than at most re
ceptions, not excepting even those at which
they are special guests of the evening. This
fact is in part attributable to the presence
of tho delegates to the pan-American con
ference, many of whom had never wit
nessed an event of this kind in this country.
TRAIN AND DEPOT ON FIRE.
Two Hundred Bales or Cotton Burned
in Texas.
Bt. Louis, Jan. 14. —While a cotton-laden
train was running between Perry aud
Harrison’s station, on the Houston and
Texas Central railroad in Texas, yesterday,
tho cotton took fire, and the train rushed
into the latter station with a long and furi
ous stream of flame following it. The depot
caught fire, and it aud several cars and
about 200 bales of cotton were consumed.
Ivy City Race Course Sold.
Washington, Jan. 14.—The grounds and
other property of tho National Fair Associa
tion (Ivy City driving park) were to-day
sold at auction for $133,500, James Lans
burgh of this city, representing a real
estate syndicate, being the purchaser. It is
stated that the property will bo sub-divided
into building lots.
Senator Wilson Re-Elected.
Annapolis, Md„ Jan. 14.—Hon. E. K.
Wilson, dem., was elected United States
senator to-day by the following vote: In
the House, E. K. Wilson 50, Thomas 8
Hodgson 28; in the Benato, E. K. Wilson
16, Thomas 8. Hodgson 6.
Destructive Fire at Galatin, Mo.
St. Louis, Jan. 14. —The court house and
the block of buildings occupied by Irving
Bros, as a clothing and grocery store in
Galatin, Mo., burned to-day. A large part
of the records of the court house were de
stroyed. The total loss is $70,000.
Bond Purchases.
Washington, Jan. 14,—The bond offer!
ing to-day aggregated $1,338,500, all of
which were accepted at 104>1 for 4ifs, and
126 for 4s.
Local Option Defeated.
Lynchburg, Va., Jan. 14.—Local option
was defeated here to-day by 7 majority. A
very heavy vote was polled.
RRICB ELECTED.
A Majority on tho First Ballot In Both
Houses.
Columbus, 0., Jan. 14.—Calvin S. Brice
was to-day at noon elected to the United
States Senate, receiving a majority of tho
! votes in either branch of the legislature.
Ia tho Senate Mr. Shaw of the Lima dis
trict nominated Mr. Brice. Mr. Gaumer of
Zanesville seconded the nomination, saying
that the nominee was a brave soldier in the
time of war, and a brilliant statesman in
the time of peace.
CHEERS, HISSES, AND LAUGHTER.
Mr. Schneider of Cincinnati nominated
Murat Halstead. The nomination was re
ceived with cheers, hisses and laughter. The
presiding officer gave notice that a repeti
tion of the disorder would lead to a clear
ance of the lobby.
Mr. Massio of Chillicothe nominated exl
Gov. Foster. The vote in the Senate was:
Halstead 1, Foster 14, Brice 19.
In the House a call was demanded to
bring in the members. Mr. Brown, dem.,
of Hancock, who is sick, was carried to the
hall iu a chair. Tho only other democrats
absent wero Messrs. Trooger of Holrnos, and
Ijiwler of Franklin, who is ill. Messrs.
Willis and Blair, reps., were absent.
Mr. Hunt of Sandusky presented the
name of Calvin 8. Brice, which was sec
onded by Mr. Belleville of Montgomery.
Representative Braman named Charles
Fosler, which nomination was seconded by
Representative Laylin.
CHEERS FOR BRICE.
On the roll call tho vote counted for
Brice was received with cheers. Mr. Smith,
a caucus bolter, voted for T. Neal. His
vote was rpcoived with subdued murmur.
Mr. Pennell, a strong Brice mail, and
worker, voted for Foster by mistake, and
before he could mako a correction the House
was in an uproar with threats that the hall
would be cleared unless order was restored.
The vote m the House stood Brice 57, Foster
52, Neal 1.
Col. Brice was declared the choice of the
House, having received a majority of the
rotes.
The result will he canvassed by tho Senate
and House ia joint session to-morrow. Tho
joint result of tho two branches is: Brice
76, Foster 66, Halstead 1, and Neal 1.
THE CRONIN CONVIOTB.
Kunze Granted a New Trial by Judge
McConnell.
Chicago, Jan. 14.—Judge McConnell this
afternoon granted tho application of Kunz
for anew trial, but denied the motion as to
the other defendants—Coughlin, Burke, and
O’Sullivan.
After proceedings on tho motion for n
new trial had ended the court imposed sen
tence in tho following words:
Following ami confirming the verdict of the
jury, the judgment of the court is that you be
taken to the penitentiary at Joliet and there be
confined for the term of your natural lives.
It was announced that Lawyers
Forrest, Donohuo, and Wing had
lioeu retained to take the case to
tho supremo court at the Maroh
term. Forrest asked tho usual stay of exe
cution until supersedeas could be granted,
and by that request precipitated a heated
debate, tho state's attorney protosting vig
orously, and demanding that the prisoners
be sent at once to Joilet.
Judge McConnell finally announced that
lie would defer his decision until
ho consulted the other judges to
find on what authority they
acted. The judge then intimated that
if Kunz were allowed to stay in
jail fur a fow days he might con
clude not to bring hin to trial
at all, but let him go. He promised to
let the court and counsel know this week,
and accordingly no effort will bo made to
get Kunz out ou bail m tbo meantime.
To-night the three prisoners, Coughlin,
Burke, aud O’Sullivan, were hurried to the
train and taken to the state prison at Joliet.
Tho trio were handcuffed and manacled
together. The sheriff, police captain, two
officers and throe deputy sheriffs constituted
the guard to the depot. The prisoners wore
driven in a closod carriage, followed by a
troop of reporters. At the depot tho regular
train was just about pulling out, and the
little party was hastily taken aboard, aud
tho journey to the penitentiary begun.
DENOUNCED THB PROTESTANTS.
A Presbyterian Clergyman Raises a
Lively Stir In Charleston.
Charleston, Jan. 14.—The letter pub
lished this morning from Rev. Dr. Thomp
son, pastor of the Scotch Presbyterian
church, denouncing tho Protestants who
took a prominent part in the reception of
Cardinal Gibbons and in the ceremony of
laying the corner-stone of tho new cathe
dral, lias created something of a sensation.
Tho Roman Catholic portion of the com
munity is disposed to look on and view the
quarrel from afar. The most indignant aro
tne prominent Protestant churchmen who
are denounced by Dr. Thompson.
Among those who took a prominent part
in the reception of the cardinal arid the
ceremonies were Rev. Dr. Smart, pastor of
Bethel Methodist eiiurch, Rev. D.
Levy, rabbi of the Jewish
synagogue, Mayor Bryan, and Col. H. E.
Young, wardens of Bt. Michael’s Protestant
Episcopal church, Judge Magrath, and
Maj. J. C. Hemphill, editor of the News
and Courier , and both mem I ,era of Dr.
Thompson’s church, George W. Williams,
the leading lay memtier of Trinity Motho
ist Episcopal church, and a dozen or moro
prominent and leading membera of other
Protestant churchos iu the city. Many of
these are mad.
The cardinal and tho other prelates left
hero this morning. An attempt was made
to interview them on the subjoct of tho
letter, but they declined to say anything.
MISSISSIPPI’S NEW GOVERNOR.
John Marshall Stone Inaugurated at
Jackson.
Jackson, Miss., Jan. 14.— John Marshall
Stone was inaugurate! governor yesterday.
In 1875, when Gon. Ames was governor and
resigned, and A. R. Davis (oolored), was
lieutenant governor and was impeached,
Mr. Stone was electod presiding officer of
the senate, and became Gen. Ames’ succes
sor, serving two years of his term and one
full term, four years, by election.
The inaugural address was lengthy. Spe
cial reference is made to the reunion next
May at Vicksburg (blue and gray). The
governor expressed a wish that hearty co
operation should be given to the move
ment. He said veterans of opposing
forces had long since laid down their arms
and were now following peaceful voca
t ons, aud desire continued peace and
friendship. He expressed his belief that
congress would not pass obnoxious
election laws to apply to the
south, because of the tack of in
dorsement from tho northern people,
He recommended strongly the abolition
of the present convict leasing system, and
proposed that convicts be employed by the
state on state farms, most of them being
negroes. He called the attention of the
legislature to the important subject of a
constitutional convention, aud said it needed
full and careful deliberation and oousideiur
tiqa,
EXCITEMENT IN PORTUGAL
Riotous Demonstrations—French and
Spanish Sympathy.
Lisbon, Jan. 14. —Tho govornment sent a
circular note to the powers Sunday relative
to the dispute with England. It alleges
that England did not wait for the reply of
Senor Gomes of Jan. 10, to the note of
Lord Salisbury, but submitted her ulti
matum oh more reports that Sor;>a Piuto
had disobeyed telegraphic orders sent him
by tho Portuguese government in com
pliance with tue wishes of Lord
Bali* bury. Maj. Pinto, the note
says, quitted Nvnssaland and tho Shire dis
trict three weeks ago, some time prior to
the sonding of orders, and is now sick at
Mozambique. Tho note further says that
Sonor. Gomes never alluded to arbitration
duriug the negotiations, but suggostod
throughout the holding of an international
conference to settle tho difficulty.
THE NEW CABINET.
In the new ministry A. de Serna Pimen
tal will he councillor of state and president
of council; Senor das Comtes is president of
the ministry, minister of interior, nnd ad
interim minister of war; Senor Logronaz
is minister of justice; Senor Brauco, min
ister of finance: Senor Arroyo, minister of
marine; Senor Robsiro, minister of foreign
afl'uirs; Honor A'onca, minister of public
works. Senor Pimoutal had an interview
with tho king to-day.
demonstrations of students.
The demonstrations of the students eon
tinue to keep the city unquiet. To-day
they veilod tho statues of tho old Portuguese
navigators around Camoea’s monument as
a sign of national mourning. The crowd
lookod on with sympathy and shouted
“Down with England,” “Down with Pi
rates."
Gen. Vasco Guodes, governor of the
Indies, has boon appointed minister of war
aud will ooino home at once. Mr. Glynn
Petre will go to London on a short furlough.
INSUBORDINATION IN AFRICA.
Some of the nowspapors of this city
assert that owing to insubordination on tho
part of the Portuguese colonial officers in
Africa wooks, perhaps months, will
elapse before tho military and civil officials
in Myassaland can be persuaded to witb
drawYrora their posts. A dispatch from
Delagoabay says: “Everything is quiet
here. Two Portuguese covoys are lying
at anchor In the harbor.”
Patriotic demonstrations are continuing
through the evenings, and almost any inci
dent may give them a revolutionary char
acter
A howling mob of students and others
burned tho English flag at Coimbra to-day.
At Oporto it is proposed to start a fund to
purchase an ironclad.
BRITISH CONSULATE STONED.
Oporto, Jan. 14.—Noisy crowds wan
dered through the streets lust night, cheer
ing for independence and the integrity of
Portugal, and shouting “Down with Eng
land I” The crowd attacked and stoned tho
British consulate. The authorities have
sinco placed a police guard at the consulate
to protect it from further molestation.
ENGLAND’S CONDUCT CENSURED.
Paris, Jan. 14.—The papers here unani
mously condemn the policy followed by
England in tho dispute with Portugal, as a
violation of the net of the Berlin confer
ence. Portugal, they say, wan unable to
resist the demands by England, because, if
she had resisted, it would have furnished a
pretext for England to seize tho mouths of
the Zambesi rivor and Delagoa bay. Tho
papers all agroe that European opinion will
judge England severoly.
ACTIVE SYMPATHY IN SPAIN,
Madrid, Jan. 14.—Tho papers of this city
roundly abuse England for tho stand she
took in forcing Portugal to accede to her
demands relative to territory in East Af
rica. Spanish republicans aro closely
watching the course of events in Lisbon.
Tho Federal club of {this city has adopted
resolutions congratulating the Portuguese
over thoir energetic protest against the de
mands of England, and upon tha apparent
republican tendency exhibited In the popu
lar demonstrations in Portugal.
ABSOLUTE CONTROL.
London, Jan. 14. —Tho Post has a dis-
Satch from Zanzibar reporting that
lozambique authorities have proclaimed
that Portugal will oxerciso absolute control
throughout the whole Shire district.
The Earl of Cairns Dead.
London, Jan. 14. — Tha Earl of Cairns
died to-day from inflamatlon of the (lungs.
Ho was born Dec. 21, 1861, and succeeded
his father April 2, 1885. The Earl of Cairns
becamo quite prominent several years ago,
when as Viscount Garraoylo he was sued for
breach of promise of marriage by Miss
Fortescue, tho actress, who obtained a ver
dict of $50,000 damage against him. He
subsequently married Miss Olivia Borens.
Dismissed on a Technicality.
London, Jan. 14.—The motion to commit
tho managers of the London edition of the
New York Herald and Freeman's Journal
of Dublin for contempt of oourt for pub
lishing certain coinmonts ou the O’Shea
divorce case was argued to-day. The motion
was dismissed on the ground of informality
in proceeding!, but permission was given
for the renewal of the motion if action is
taken within a week.
Russian Officers Suicide.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 14.—C01. Noiei
k if, an officer of the czar’s body guard, and
some other officers of the same corps, have
committed suicide. It is supposed they
wore implicated in the recently discovered
plot against the life of the czar. It is re
ported that the czar’s brother, the Grand
Duke Sergius, will shortly bo banished
from the capital for meddling with politics.
French Chamber of Deputies.
Pams, Jan. 14. —The Chamber of Depu
ties elected in September and October, 1889,
assembled to-day and elected M. Floquet
its president, and adjourned until Thurs
day. There are 360 republican deputies of
various shades, including 120 radicals, and
211 of opposition, including forty-seven
Boulangists.
Will Not Appear For the Times.
London, Jan. 14—Sir Edward Clarke,
solicitor general, has refused to accept the
leading brief for the Times, in the action
for libel, brought against that paper by
Mr. Parnell. He bases his refusal on the
ground that he Is a law officer of tho crown,
and cannot, therefore, accept the brief.
An Irish Editor Gets Four Months.
Dublin, Jan. 14.—P. A. McHugh, pro
prietor of the Sligo Champion, wus to-day
convicted of publishing boycotting notices,
aud was sentenced to four mouths’ impris
onment without labor. He was also re
quired to find sureties that he would not
repeat the offense or ite will be iraprisoued
for a further period of two months.
The Panama Canals.
Paris, Jan. 14. — La Faioc says that the
president of tho French commission sent
out to investigate the affairs of the Panama
Camel Company on the Isthmus,Jin a speech
at Aspinwall, said that the canal would be
completed.
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BLOODY FIGHT IN BRAZIL
ONE HUNDRED SOLDIERS KILLED
IN A MUTINY.
Parts of Two Artillery Regiments at
Rto Holst the Imperial Flag, and Ara
Attacked With Deadly Results -
Dissatisfied With Their Pay—Lead
ing Citizens Arrested.
New York, Jan. 14.—One of the cor
respondents of C. R. Flint writes from Rid
Janeiro under date of Dec. 23, 1889: “Tha
outlook here just now is not reassuring.
Last evening parts of two regiments of
artillery mutinied, tore up the republican
flag, and hoisted the old imperial 11 xg, anil
it required all the other regiments—cavalry,
infantry, and artillery—to subdue them.
They fought at Sao Christovao, tho artil*
lery quarter, until after 12 o’clock, and 10Q
of the rebels were killed and wounded bo.
fore tho rest surrendered. To-day twenty**
one of the ringloaders were shot.
DISSATISFIED WITH THEIR PAY. -
“None of the commissioned officers wera
in the mutiny, but all tho non-commissioned
officers woro. Tho trouble was owing tiS
the dissatisfaction of soldiers with their
pay. The police are paid a roilreas a day,
nnd the soldiers claim that they woro prom
ised the same. It is said that a number ofl
old conservatives and liberals have beer*
tempering with the soldiers and wero at that
bottom of the row last night. Early thia
morning Silvorira Martins, Assis Martins,
Bararo do Lagoo, Dr. Lima Duarte, Dr.
Ferreira Vienna, minister of justice in tha
last conservative ministry, and Comment
dador Braga, one of the lea<Uug merchant#
of Rio, wero arrested.”
ANOTHER ACCOUNT,
New York, Jan. 14—Capt. Grimos oft
tho steamer Herschel from Rfo Janeiro,
which arrived to-day, gives news of aiL
encounter among soldiers in that city*
It seoms that on Doc. 18 it was discovered
that part of tho army, about 200 men in
number, was opposed to the republic and
strongly favored the monarchy. The prof
vitiuual government sent a company of
artillery to arrest the insurrectioniots. They
opened fire on tho soldiers, and It was re*
ported that over 100 of them wero killed.
PARALYZED BY LA GRIPPE.
Freight Movement on the PennsyU
vanla Road Impeded.
Pittsburg, Jan 14—The Pennsylvania
Railroad Company has been compelled td
refuse freight for soa board during tho pastj
fow days on account of la grippe. The facH
of tho matter is that the freight crews of
tho Pennsylvania railroad on the oasteru
division have been paralyzed during
tho past two weeks to such a.i
extent that it has been impossible to get
enough to handle freight with auy degree
of promptness. On one division, where 200
conductors, freight and passenger, are reg
ularly employed, 135 wero off duty at ond
time with grip. New men wero put od
somo trams, but In the majority of cases its
was impossible to got new inon, and when
they wero secured they proved to be more
easy victims of grip than the old men.
Freight began to collect on tho eastern di
visions to such am extent that a few days
ago an order was issued to soud no more,
freight for seaboard points until further
notice. There was a blockade of freight at*
Altoona yesterday, duo to the fact that tin*,
trainmaster was unable to get out full cars, 1
nnd only about half of tho usual amount oft
freight could be handled.
DBATHB IN LONDON.
London, Jan. 14—The registrar’s return
of deaths in the London district for tha
week gives 2,747. This is 810 above tins)
average. Of these doaths 67 are classilieiC
ns due directly to influenza, but 1,069 aral
reported as due to diseases of the respiratory'
organs. This is 522 in excess of the average?
of deaths from such diseases. Tho regis
trar’s returns from Ireland show that tha
epidemic there is decreasing.
The Princess of Wales lias the influenza
FIVE DEATHS IN CHICAGO.
Chicago, Jan. 14 —Five well-known
people died of influenza and its complica
tions to-ilny. This afternoon the Newt
reports 80,000 school children of Chicago
Buffering from Influenza.
DEATH OF LORD NAPIER.
Lord Napier of Magdala died to-day front
influenza.
THB BODIES FOUND.
Seamen Burned to Death Tnd|
Engineer's Escape.
Baltimore, Md., Jan. 14.—1n tb
coal bins of the burned steamer, thq
Bacrabasco, bodies of the two missing
members of her crew were found this even
ing. They hnd been completely roasted.
Chief Engineer Kerns, who was thought tdj
have perished, turned up all right and tell#
this wonderful tale of his escape:
He was below when the fire started ami
was rather tardy about getting ou deck.
When he did gain the deck he found himJ
self hemmed in on all sides by lire, and nq
way to escape. He ran from one place t<3
another and finally sought refuge in tha
aft tunnel. He drew himself in in
half suffocated condition aud fell into un
consciousness a moment later. He awoksi
shortly after daylight, and, after realizing?
what had happened, crept out and was
greatly surprised at the transformation tha#
had taken place during the night. He wan
burned somewhat, but not badly injured.
He accounts for his remarkable escape b#
the fact that fresh air pavsed through th3
funnel in spite of the smoke.
AN ALGER MAN APPOINTED.
Michigan Mon Wondering What Is la
Wind.
Washington, Jan. 14—Michigan men
were puzzled at first when they saw the an
nouncement to-day of the appointment ofl
Geo. H. Hopkins to be collector at Detroit,
because Hopkins is a proflouncsd and prom
inent Alger man, having been fox
Alger in 1888, aud being for Alga#
in 1892. No other pronounced and prom
inent Alger man has been appointed bjf
this administration, but it is explained
that Hopkins was recommended by tha
Michigan senators, and charged up to them
and not to Gen. Alger. It seems that tha
Michigan senators thought Gen. Alger was
being crowded a trifle too much aud so had
one rf his lieutenants appointed to a good
fat office.
Stanley at Cairo.
Cairo, Jau. 14—Henry M. Stanley and
his party did not stop over at Sues, as ill
was reported they would, but proceeded foo
this city, where they arrived this morning,
They woro greeted upon their arrival here
by Gen. Sir Francis Grenfell, commanded
of tne Egyptian troops, and Sir Evlya
Baring, British consul geuefal.
Strikers Gala Concessions.
Brussels, Jau. 14—The terms conceded
to the striking miners by the mine owner#
in the Charleroi district are a reduction of
working hours to nme per day, and au iu*
crease of 10 per cent;, in wages*,