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THE MORNING NEWS. l
I Established 1850. Incorporated 1888. V
■j J. il. ESTXLL, President. I
A WHITE HOUSE SORROW.
S4t) SCENES AT THE FUNERAL OF
MBS. AND MISS TRACY.
The Historic East Room Filled With
Tearful People of Prominence—The
Stricken Son So Overcome that He
Had to Be Supported to His Carriage.
The Secretary Heard His Dying
Daughter's Cries for Help.
Washington, Feb. s.—The beautiful
historic east room of the executive mansion,
the scene of so many varied spectacles of
brilliant ceremony or social gayety, was
to-day devoted to the sadly contrasted and
solemnly impressive purpose of a funeral.
Very seldom has any similar scene been
witnessed at the white house,
and never since 1855, when the
remains of the lamented Lincoln reposed
amid the same surroundings. The services
over the remains of the wife and daughter
of the Secretary of the Navy were ap
pointed for 11 o’clock, but long before that
hour the east room was crowded with peo
ple desirous of paying the last tribute to
their departed friends.
A DISTINGUISHED GATHERING.
It was a most distinguished gathering,
and included i early everybody of promi
nence in Washington. Arrangements had
been made for seating 350 persons, but over
500 managed to gain entrance. All the
doorways leading to the east room were
also thronged with people, and it is esti
mated that there were nearly 1,000 persons
in the house. As far as possible admission
was confined to persona) and official friends
of Secretary Tracy and his family, and con
sequently very few strangers were present.
A great crowd gathered outside, however,
and watebod the carriages as they drove
into the grounds. It was found necessary
to station policemen at the gates to keep
out the crowd.
THE CASKETS.
The caskets containing the dead were
placed side by side under the central chande
lier and directly opposite the main corridor.
They were distinguishable only by the
greater size of the one containing the body
of Mrs. Tracy. A large sago palm,
with graceful, spreading branches,
was placed between them at the
foot, and the sombre drapings of the
caskets were almost entirely concealed by
beautiful designs of emblematio flowers,
white roses, camellias, hyacinths, lilies of
the valley, etc. Garlands and wreaths were
also banked against the sides of each casket.
THOSE WHO SENT FLOWERS.
The floral tributes were sent by Secretary
and Mrs. Blaine, the German minister, Sen
ator Stanford, Senator Hale, Vice President
and Mrs. Morton, Secretary and Mrs. Win
dom, James C. Bergen, John R. McCue,
Admiral Porter. Mrs. John Lee Carroll, H.
C. White, the British minister, Judge Ban
croft Davis, Paymaster General Fulton of
the United States navy. Representative
Lodge, and Henry W. Raymond. One
particularly heautifnl wreath was
placed on Miss Tracy’s casket by
her young friends, Misses Proctor, Miller,
Wnnamaker, and Rusk, and the Misses
Wiudom. Beats wore arranged on three
sides of a square, the open space being used
for the entrance of the mourners and the
presidential party, who were assigned seats
fronting the caskets.
EARLY ARRIVALS.
Vice President and Mrs. Morton, who
were among the earliest arrivals, were also
seated opposite. Near by ware seated the
British minister and his family, the Ger
man minister, the Chinese and Corean dele
gations, the Brazilian minister, and many
other members of the diplomatic corps.
Army and naval officers were present in
great number, and nearly all were in full
uniform. Shortly before 11 o’clock the
Schubert Quartet, stationed just within the
entrance to the east room from the main
corridor, sang tbe hymn, “I Cannot Always
Trace the Way.” The members of the
cabinet, with the exception of Secretary
Blaine, acting as pall-bearers, soon after
entered and took seats at the right of the
caskets. They were soon followed by the
funeral procession, Secretary Tracy and his
son, Frank, walking arm in arm at its head.
They were followed by Gen.l. S. Catlin, A.
B. Catlin, Robert Graves and daughter, and
other relatives. •
ENTRY OF THE PRESIDENT.
A short space behind them came Presi
den t_ and Mrs. Harrison, Mr. and Mrs.
McKee, Secretary and Mrs. Blaine, Rev.
Ur. Scott, the President’s father-in-law, H.
B. Raymond and Lieut. Mason, and E. H.
Haiford. As soon as they were seated,
the choir of St. John’s Episcopal
church, consisting of sixteen white
surplieed boys and four men, under
direction of William H. Daniel, entered
the main corridor from the far end, and as
they passed along its length with slow and
measured steps, sang as a processional
hymn, “Lead, kindly light.”
Rev. Dr. George William Douglas, rector
of St. John’s Protest!nt Episcopal church,
and Rev. George Elliott, pastor of the
Foundry Methodist church, entered at the
rear of the choir, aud took their places
near the casket.
THE SERVICES.
Ur. Douglas immediately began the
Episcopal burial service: “I am the resur
rection and the life.”
At its conclusion tho choir sang the hymn,
"Jesus, Lover of My Soul.”
The scripture lesson was read by Rev.
Mr. Elliott. It began at the 28th verse of
the 15th chapter of First Corinthians:
But now is Christ risen from the dead and be
come the first fruits of them that slept; for
since by man came death, by man also the
resurrection of the dead.
The choir then sang “Rock of Ages’ Cleft
for Me.”
A prayer read bv Mr. Douglas concluded
the services. Tbe President, with Secretary
Tracy on his arm, first passed out of the
room, and next to them came Frank Tracy,
the son, who was so overeome that he had
to be supported by the ushers.
THE RECESSIONAL HYMN.
Following the procession came the choir
singing as a recessional hymn;
“Abide with me,
ra-t falls the evening tide?
Darkness deepens. Lord with me abide.”
fho bodies were removed to the hearses
end the funeral procession was formed, tbe
c rtege moving slowly to the Rock Creek
cemetery, just beyond the soldiers’ ho me,
where the bodies were plac>d in a receiving
vault to await Secretary Tracy’s determi
nation in regard to their permanent resting
place. Secretary Tracy did not go to the
cemetery, as it was feared the task might
prove too much for his strength. President
larrison occupied the carriage with Frank
lr acy. A long line of carriages, containing
all of those wtu> attended the service
itthe white house, followed the remains to
the cemetery.
heard his daughter’s cries.
Tr h L s delirium on Monday Secretary
“cy kept repeating over and over: “Save
“e, fat: er; s „ Ye me n
lather can’t, my darling. He is dying.”
tarJoo® , 'l orci8 < 80 often repeated,indicate tbe
{act that the stricken aecretary
i his daughter Mary’s death
dowJu or ? be * ljll unconscious to the floor,
* erles * to help his loved ones. No won-
Hie ilofniito
der he suffers such keen agony. His son
and his daughter and his heroic grand
daughter we e able to comfort him this
evening. Mrs. Wilmerding has been in
such a nervous hysterical state that it was
thought best that she should not attend the
funeral to-day, lest she should faint.
THE DOORS NOT CLOSED.
It transpired to-day that the butler did
not close the doors of the paneled parlor
where the fire started, as he said he did.
Had be closed them the flames would not
have gotten to the main stairway, and Mr3.
aud Miss Tracy, aud the French maid, might
have been saved. An examination of tho
doors, one of which is not
at all on the inner side, shows plainly that
the cutler failed to close them. This
paneled room, the walls and ceiling of
vvhica were of painted wood, saturated with
oil to hurry the drying process after the
Tracys moved into the house, was as com
bustible as so much cotton.
VIRGINIA’S GRIEF EXPRESSED.
Richmond. Va., Feb. s.—The following
preamble and resolution was to-day adopted
by the Virginia legislature:
Whereas, It has come to the knowledge of
the general assembly of Virginia that a terrible
calamity has befallen the honorable Secretary
of the Navy in the destruction of his dwelling
by fire, resulting in the heart rending loss
of the lives of his wife and daughter;
and, notwithstanding that the general
assembly had made public expression of its
grief at the sad alllictions that have in quick
succession overwhelmed another member of
the cabinet, which have just excited the sym
pathy of the whole country; yet the extraordi
nary nature of the ghastly tradgedy that has
been enacted in the habitation of the honorable
Secretary of the Navy, and its appalling results,
render it meet and proper, in the opinion of the
general assemby, that special and suitable ex
pression should lie given to the warm sympathy
of the people in his behalf; therefore be it,
Resolved, By tbe House of Delegates, the
Senate concurring, that the people of this com
monwealth, through their representatives in the
general assembly, hereby tender their most sin
cere sympathy to Hon. Benjamin F. Tracy,
Secretary of the Navy of the United States,
and to each of the surviving members of his
family in their supreme affliction; that the
clerk of the House of Delegates aud the keeper
of the rolls do carry to the Hon. Benjamin F.
Tracy a copy of this preamble and resolution.
SYMPATHY FROM MISSISSIPPI.
Jackson, Miss., Feb. s.—ln the House
of Representatives to-day the rules were
suspended, and the following concurrent
resolution was adopted:
Resolved, By the House of Representatives,
the Senate concurring, that it has received with
profound sorrow intelligence of the sad catas
trophe In which tho wife and daughter of the
Secretary of the Navy lost their lives, and that
assurance of our sincere sympathy is thus
formally extended to Secretary Tracy.
BLAINE BOWED WITH GRIEF.
Nows of His Death at Any Time Need
Not Be Surprising.
Washington, Feb. s.—No one who saw
Secretary Blaine at the white house or the
cemetery to-day would be surprised to hear
of his death any day. He looked for tbe
first time actually like a decrepit old man,
weak and nervous. He looked even worse
than Secretary Tracy, although the latter
was, of course, more sorrowful. Secretary
Blaine is so greatly broken that if he does
not go away and rest he will almost cer
tainly have to resign.
SEBBION OF THE SENATES.
The Resolution on Brazil's New Gov
ernment Reported from Committee.
Washington, Feb. s.—ln the Senate to
day Mr. Moody offered a resolution direct
ing the sergeant-at-arms to procure for the
use of the c immittoe on Indian depreda
tions some suitable room or rooms in the
vicinity of the capitol at a rent not exceed
ing SIOO per month, the lease to terminate
with the present session. This resolution
provoked a long discussion, in the ciurse of
which it appeared that there are thirteen
Senate committees which have no place of
meeting, and that there is not a single room
in the Senate wing of the capitol that
is vacant. The rooms in the terrace
outside the capitol on the west front are
not available because they have no win
dows except those opening on an area, aud
do not get the direct light of the sun.
Finally the resolution was referred to the
committee on rules, and the Senate took up
the bill to provide a temporary govern
ment for the territory of Oklahoma. The
clerk commenced to read tbe bill, but had
not completed the reading when, at 2
o’clock, the Blair educational bill was iakea
up as the unfinished bu-iness, and Mr.
Blair proceeded to address the Senate in ad
vocacy of it.
BRAZIL CONGRATULATED.
After speaking some time, Mr. Blair
temporarily yielded the floor to Mr. Sher
man, who from the committee on foreign
relations reported,the following joint resolu
tion, which was placed on the calendar:
A joint resolution congratulating the people
of the United States of Brazil on the adoption
a republican form of government.
Resolved, etc.. That the United States of
America congratulates the people of Brazil on
their just and peaceful assumption of the
powers, duties, and responsibilities of self
government, based upon free consent of the
governed, and on their recent adoption of a
republican form of government.
This joint resolution is reported as a sub
stitute for that of Mr. Morgan introduced
on Dec. 18, and referred to the committee
on foreign relations. It omits the words
“expressed in their repudiation of mon
archic rule.” It also omits several para
graphs declaring recognition of the United
States of Brazil "as a lawful and rightful
government,” and directing the President
to require the people and officers of the
United States to “recognize the flag of the
United States of Brazil as the flag of a free,
sovereign, and independent state.”
Mr. Blair resumed his argument in sup
port of the educational bill, but yielded the
floor for a motion to proceed to executive
business, and, at 5:25 o’clock, when the
doors were ro-opened,tbe Senate adjourned.
SAMOA’S TREATY.
The Senate Afraid to Fool with a Pago
Pago Resolution.
Washington, Feb. s.—ln the executive
session of the Senate this afternoon the
matter of the Samoan treaty came up again.
Mr. Edmunds introduced a resolution yes
terday formally declaring it to be the un
derstanding of tho Senate that the rights
of the United States to the harbor of Pago
Pago, ceded by Samoa in the treaty
of 1878, were not disturbed by the
Berlin treaty of 1889. This reso
lution was discussed for an hour or more
this afternoon, tbe friends of the treaty
arguing that it was unnecessary, and that
its passage would serve only to complicate
matters. A vote on a motion to lay the
resolution on the table disclosed the fact
that no quorum was present, and the Senate
tuen adjourned. There was a large ma
jority in favor of laying the resolution on
the table. A motion made yesterday to re
consider the vote by which the treaty was
ratified was not acted upon.
A Board of Trade Session.
Washington, Feb. s.—The executive
council of the national board of trado is
now in session in this city. One of the
objects of the meeting at this time is to call
tho attention of c ngi es3 to a number of
resolutions relating to financial aud mari
time matters acted upon by tbe board at
tbe last annual meeting in Louisville iu
Goto her.
SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY (i, 1890.
NEGROES IN THE SOUTH.
Lively Times in the Colored Con
vention.
Washington, Feb. s.—ln the colored
men’s national convention to-day the pro
ceedings became turbulent, and for some
time very little took place pertaining to the
purpose for which the convention was
called. Rev. Dr. Derrick proposed a reso
lution commending southern press, and
this immediately gave rise to a long and
freauently fiery discussion. The resolution
gives expressions commending the attitude
recently adopted by several governors and
members of the southern press denounc
ing outrages perpetrated on the col
ored people iu several sections of the
south. It is the sense of this convention
that the tone of the southern press be com
mended, and that we do all in our power to
inc: ease that sentiment. Dr. Derrick said
ho had positive knowledge that many men
in the south were in sympathy with the
negro, and the convention being under no
political bonds, the resolution should bo
adopted. Bloodshed must be stopped.
advocated by an editor.
Editor Mitchell of the Richmond Planet
spoke in favor of the resolution, and said
he was glad to have an opportunity to show
the people und papers that their sympathy
was appreciated.
Chairman Price vacated the chair and
made a strong and forcible argument iu
favor of the resolution.
C. H. J. Taylor of Georgia, H. Loeb of
Ohio, H. C. Astwood of New York, and
Rev. Dr. Brooks of this city, also favored
the resolution. Rev. Isaac Moore of Penn
sylvania aud Lawyer Hewlett of this city
strongly opposed its adoption, and tho reso
lution was finally defeated.
BLAIR BEFORE THE CONVENTION.
Senator Blair made a speech in which he
urged the convention to petition congress to
pass his educational bill.
LYNCHINGS AND ROASTINGS.
Editor Mitchell of Richmond read a paper
on “Outrages on the Colored People in the
South.” He said that 383 negroes had been
lynched in the south from 1887 to date. He
declared that colored men had been roasted
in North Carolina, and when one of the
delegates called him to account for m .king
such an assertion, H. G. Gussum of Editou,
N. C., corroborated Editor Mitchell, and
said he knew personally persons who had
been roasted.
A permanent organization was formed,
to be known as the American Citizen’3
Equal Rights Association of the Uuited
States of America, to meet anuually in
February. Auxiliary associations are to be
formed in every state and territory under
the jurisdiction of the national organiza
tion. A president, secretary and treasurer
are to be elected annually by ballot.
WORK OF THE HOUSE.
Only a Short Session Held on Ac
count of the Funeral.
Washington, Feb. s.—There being a
tacit understanding between the republi
cans and democrats that no effort would be
made for the transaction of business in the
House to-day (a majority of the members
being absent at the funeral of Mrs. and Miss
Tracy), the clerk was permitted to read
the journal iu its abridged form. The
democrats did not wish to go on record as
approving the journal, and conse
quently demanded the yeas and
nays on that motion. The journal
was approved by a vote of 150 yeas to 0
nays, a constitutional quorum being
counted by the speaker. The House then,
at 12:45 o’clock, on motion of Mr. McKinley
of Ohio, adjourned.
A republican caucus was announced to be
held immediately, and a democratic caucus
to be held this evening at 7:30 o’clock.
Government Bond Purohasea.
Washington, Fob. s.—There was only
one bond offer at the treasury to-day—
ss,ooo 4%s at 104%. All were accepted.
Our Squadron at Toulon.
Washington, Feb. 5. —The squadron of
evolution arrived at Toulon to-day.
CHINA'S CLOUD BURST.
Fully 100 Natives Drowned During
the Disturbance.
San Francisco, Jan. s.—The Shanghai
Mercury of Jan. 7, received by the steamer
Rio Janeiro, gives an account of a great
cloud burst near Manking, of which a brief
announcement was received by cable at the
time. The paper says: “On the 7th
of thi3 moon, in the Jungtze river,
near Nanking, about 1 o’clock in
the morning, when the weather
was bright, there was suddenly heard
a rushing noise as of water. Two large
black clouds appeared and soon enveloped
everything like|a fog. The waters were
mucu disturbed, and the river was full of
large waves. The two clouds eventually
reached a place called Tsit Li Chow, when
they burst asunder, making a very loud
report. During tbe disturbance many boats
were deStroved and over 100 people were
drowned. More than fifty were picked up
in an exhausted condition by the Ctiinese
Life Preserving Assiciation. Those who
lost their lives were buried by the authori
ties.”
GONE WITH $35,000.
An Express Clerk at Dallas Makes a
Big Haul and Flees.
St. Louis, Feb. s.—The Pacific Express
Company has been robbed by its money
clerk at Dallas, Tex., of packages of bills
containing 135,000. His name is F. A.
Walton. His method was ingenious. Tho
mouey was part of a remittance of $50,000
from the City National Bank of Dallas to
the Commercial Bank of St. Louis.
Fifteen thousand was gold coin,
and was in a sack, and was re
ceipted for separately, and was
delivered allj’right. No mention was made
by Clerk Walton on his waybills of the
$35,000 package of b.lls. This transaction
was last Saturday. Walton disappeared
Sunday. An investigation of his accounts
showed nothing wrong until the Commer
cial Bank reported a failure to receive $35,-
ot>o, and the transaction was explained.
Walton was traced to Indian territory.
Suicide and Cremation.
Terre Haute, Ind„ Feb. s.—Cashier W.
E. Crawley of tbe Farmers’ bank at Sulli
van, Ind., set fire to his barn and then cut
his throat. Boys found the body after the
barn had been consumed. The bank’s ac
counts are reported to be all right aud his
family relations pleasant.
Fire on a Wharf.
Portland, Me., Feb. s.—Fire broke out
on Brown’s wharf to-night and burned that
and two adj ining wharves, with buildings,
goods in transit, lumber, etc. Tbe loss is
SIOO,OOO, but is fully insured.
An Appeal for Aid.
Richmond, Va., Feb. s.—An appeal has
been received here signed by 350 citizens of
Gianville couuty, which Bay* the fanners
are suffering for tbe necessaries of life,
owing to the failure of the crops.
REED'S CODE OF RULES.
THE REPUBLICANS HAVE A BIG
TIME IN CAUCUS.
The Speaker Doing His Best to Have
His Party Maintain Eecrocy —The
Right to Count a Quorum Incorpo
rated In tbe New Code —Favor
Shown a Pension Committee.
Washington, Feb. 5. —Like all bosses,
Speaker Reed finds secrecy necessary to his
plans. During all the days of the present
revolution in the House, ho has been urging
and exhorting his followers to keep silence
when they oould not applaud, so that the
democrats might aot see their differences.
Yesterday, for example, he sent for a prom
inent republican who be had heard had been
interviewed on the situation, and had said
mildly that he thought the counting of a
quorum ought to have been authorized by a
rule of the House, and not by a ruling of
the speaker.
HOW HE WHIPPED HIM IN.
Mr. Raid did not tel) him what he bad
heard, but simply said; “I know you do
not fully agree with me about tnis matter,
but I trust that we shall settle differences
strictly within the party. We must present
an unbroken front to tbe enemy, whatever
our differences of opinion may be.” The
offending member took the hint and imme
diately stopped the publication of tho inter
view. This policy of repression has been
absolutely necessary to the policy of sup
pression pursued toward the democrats.
TALKED OUT IN CAUCUS.
But although tho republicans have been
gagged by Mr. Reed as well as the demo
crats, they can still vote in caucus and talk
a little, too, in a guarded way, and they
succeeded in the six hours’ caucus this after
noon in saying end doiug some things wnich
have crept out in spite of the seal of secrecy
which Mr. Reed placed on every man’s
lips.
To say nothing of their success in com
pelling a prompt roport of the rules, they
aso compelled the committee, against Mr.
Reed’s will, to incorporate his count of a
quorum ruling In the rule?, testifying there
by that a majority of the republicans think
that Mr. Reed was wrong aud should have
done by a rule, if at all, what he did by a
ruling. To compensate him for this blow,
they gave him a rule conveying tho powers
he assumed to disregard any motions
which he regarded as filibustering in intent.
A FIGHT AGAINST IT.
Mr. Anderson of Kausas and some others
made a gallant fight against this and similar
rules, but in vain. They had more success,
howevor, in opposing the proposition to put
riders on appropriation bills, put in at the
last moment by the committee. The com
mittee was also rebuked by teiug instructed
to give the committee on invalid pensions a
right to report at any time. Incidentally
throughout, a number of members had a
chance to rap Mr. Reed over the knuckles
without mentioning him by name, a chance
which they fully improved. Altogether,
it was not a very agreeable afternoon for
Speaker Reed, although he did secure har
mony with a club. The democrats will, of
course, fight the proposed iniquitous in
novations, but Speaker Reed will carry
them through on his rulings.
A SYNOPSIS OF THE CHANGES.
Many of Them Intended to Overcome
Attempts to Filibuster.
Washington, Feb. s.—The purpose of
the republican House caucus this afternoon
was to consider the new code of rules,
which was completed by the committee on
rules this morning. The caucus was called
together immediately after the adjourn
ment of tho House by Mr. Henderson of
Illinois, chairman. The reason for the call
was stated, and each member present was
furnished in confidence with a copy of the
new code. Mr. McKinley then took the
floor and proceeded to explain in
detail the scope and purpose of
each of the rules. The reading
consumed a great da al of time. The code
was read in cxttnso, aud as each rule was
read its provisions were explained by Mr.
McKinley or Mr. Cannon. T here were
frequent inquiries for more detailed in
formation as to the effect of changes and
the reasons therefor, so that the work of
the caucus progressed slowly.
NOT many CHANGES.
Generally the report of the committee
was adopted without material amendment,
but there was at least one important addi
tion. Mr. Atkinson of Pennsylvania offered
an amendment placing pension legislation in
the privileged class, and making reports
from the committee on invalid pensions in
order at any time. There was lively oppo
sition to this amendment, and some mem
bers of the committee on rules sought to
prevent its adoption, but the amendment
was finally incorporated by a vote of 76 to
24. The full code, as it emerges from the
caucus, differs from the old rules in the fol
lowing material points:
Under rule 5, cards are not to be taken in
to members after 2 o’clock, except by their
direction.
Under rule 11, the committee on invalid
pensions is given a right to report at any
time, as alreadv stated.
Under rule 13, three calendars are pro
vided for: First, on committee of the
whole, to which shall be referred public
bills; second, the House calendar, for all
bills of a public character not raising
revenue, nor directly or indirectly appro
priating money or’ property; third, the
calendar of the committee of the whole
House for bills of a private character.
A NEW CLAUSE.
Under rule 15 a new clause Is added as
follows:
“On demand of any member tho names
of members present, out not voting on any
call by the speaker of the yeas aud nays,
shall be noted by tbe clerk under the super
vision of the speaker, and shall bo re
corded in the journal and recorded immedi
ately after the names of those Toting in the
affirmative and negative, under the
head of ‘Present and not voting,’ and
shall be followed by the names
of absent members, which shall be entered
under the head of absentees.” (This is in
line with Speaker Reed’s ruling.)
A SHOT AT FILIBUSTERING.
Under rule 16. clause 4 reads: “When a
question is under debate, no motion shall
be received but to adjourn, or to lay on the
table, for the previous question (which mo
tions shall be decided without debate), to
postpone to a day certain, to refer, or to
amend or postpone indefinitely; which sev
eral motious shall have precedence
in the foregoing order; and no
motion to postpone to a day
certain, to refer, or to postpone indefinitely,
being decided, snail be again allowed on
the same day, at the same stage of the pro
ceeding.” (Tnis section is aimed at filibus
tering and changes the old section by strik
ing out motion* which may be reoeived,
those to fix a day to which the house shall
adjourn and to take a recess.)
Ho too, in section sof the same rule the
provision that motions to adjourn to a
fixed day, to adjourn, and to take a recess
shall always be in order is stricken nut;
but section 10 of the same rule carries
the principle still further, for it is anew
section which reads: “No dilatory motious
shall be eutertaiued by the H[a>ake*r.”
WHAT THE PREVIOUS QUESTION INCLUDES.
Under rule 17 it is provided that the pre
vious question may be made to include a
bill to its passage or rejection. The old rule
included a bill only as far as its engrossment
and third reading, aud required a renewal
and second of a motion to carry a bill
through; a change also in the line of pre
venting obstruction. The provision in the
same section of the old code, that moti ns
to lay on the table shall be iu order o■. the
second and third reading of a bill, is
omitted.
The principle of preventing obstruction is
again put in operation in rule 18, which is
amended as c anpared with the old code by
striking out of questions that may inter
vene bet ween a motion to reconsider and
the vote, those to adjourn to a fixed day
aud to take a recess.
THREE READINGS NOT NECESSARY.
Section 1 of old rule 21, which requires all
bills and joint resolutions to be read three
times before pi sage,is stricken out. Section
2 of the same rule, forbidding the inclusion
in general appropriation bills of appro
priations not previously authorized by law
or by legislation, is retained, with the addi
tion of au exception in favor of such as,
being germane to the subject matter of the
bill, shall bedeomed necessary in providing
for carrying on the several departments of
the government, and shall bo recommended
or moved by direction of the committee re
porting the bill. (This last clause allows
the committees in charge of appropriations
bills to aid legislation to a limited extent,
but deprives the House of that power.)
Another addition to the same section
makes it generally out of order to increase
any salary in an appropriation bill beyond
the amount authorized by law.
Rule 21 omiis the provisions of tho old
rule forbidding amalgamation of two pend
ing resolutions and treating tho river and
harbor and post route bills as petitions in
their introduction.
(ANOTHER ANTI-FILIBUSTERING STEP.
Another important step to prevont fili
bustering is found in rule 22, which has
reference to tho introduction of bills. Ui
der the former rules one member could
on Monday prevent the transaction
of business by introducing long bills—new
or old —and demanding their reading in
full, thus consuming tho day. Under the
present code no provision is made for a bill
day on Mondny, and whenever a public hill
is introduced it shall lie read by title only.
In rule 23, section 2, which requires the
committee of the whole to rise w hen with
out a quorum, a clause is inserted after the
word “quorum” as follows: “Which shall
consist of 100 members."
What may be a change full of significance
occurs in section 3 of the same rule (requir
ing certain measures to be considered in
committee of the whole). Tills is In the
opening sentences, which rend: “All mo
tion* or propositions originating either In
the House or Senate, involving a tax or
charge upon the people, all pooceedings
touching appropriations of money.” The
words, “originating in the House or
Senate," are newly inserted, and would ap
pear to recognize the long disputed right of
the Senate to originate tariff and appropri
ation bills.
ORDER OF BUSINESS.
Another important change in the line of
expediting business occurs in section four of
the same rule, which prescribes tbe order of
business in committee of the whole. The
chango reads: “Or iu sucli order as tho
committee may determine, unless the ques
tion to be considered wai determined by
the House at the time of going into com
mittee.” The effect is to relieve the House
from the necessity of laying aside hills pre
ceding iu order to take up one it is desired
to roach, which offered a large opportunity
for obstruction.
Another change in the same direction is
in section 6 of the same rule, which permits
the committee of the whole to limit or close
a debate without rising and going into open
house for an order, and forbids debate on a
motion to close a debate.
Rule 24 (order of business) is radically
different from the old rule. It provides,
after prayer and the reading of the journal,
an order as follows: Correction of refer
ence of bills; disposal of business on the
speaker’s table; unfinished business;
morning hour for the disposal of
reports from committees; moti >ns
to go into committee of tho whole on the
state of the union; to consider bills desig
nated order of the day. After the disposal
of the business on the speaker’s table, the
unfinished business in which the House may
be engaged at adjournment, except business
in tbe morning hour, shall be resumed,
and at the same time each day thereafter
uutil disposed of. After the disposal of the
unfinished businoss the committees may, in
ordor, call up for considei atioa any bill
reported on the previous day and on the
House calendar. When a committee has
occupied the morning hour on two days,
another committee must be called. After
the morning hour, motions to go into com
mittee of the whole to consider a particular
bill are in order.
bUSPENSION OF THE RULES.
Another change of consequence occurs
in rule 28, which requires a two-thirds vote
to suspend the rules. To this an addition is
made as follows: “Except to flx a day for
the consideration of a bill or resolution al
ready favorably reported by a committee,
or a motion directed to be made by such
committee, which shall require only a ma
jority of the House.”
The caucus remained in session until 7
o’clock. Most Inviolable secresy in regard
to the proceedings wo* preserved, and every
effort was made to prevont the action of
the caucus becoming public. Wnile it was
stated that on every question presented the
caucus is harmonious, the length of the
session and the known opposition of
several prominent republicans to any
radical change in the rules render the ac
curacy of this statement doubtful. In fact
it has been gathered that, far from being
harmouious, tne caucus at times was
strongly worked up by the expression of
totally divergent Opinions, and that this
propositi n is the more probable one is
evidenced by the great care which was
taken to prevent the fac s being known.
CAUCUS OF THE DEMOCRATS.
The Members Not Given, the Same
Advantages as the Republicans.
Washington, Feb. s.—There was scarcely
time for the employes to throw open tho
doors and secure a change of air in the hail
of the House to-night after the republican
caucus adjourned before the democratic
members began to file in to attend their
caucus. They appeared in great number,
and were presided over by Mr. Holman.
The only subject discussed was the
new code of rules. The democrats
were at a disadvantage, in that the members
were not supplied with copies, as weie the
individual republicans to-day. so Mr.
Carlisle was obliged to read and explain the
rules from hii private copy. Naturally this
was slow work, and most of the session of
the caucus was consumed in this way.
There was little discussion. Now and thou
some member would boil over with indig ia
tiou und express iumtelf forcibly as some
particularly obnoxious rule was read aud
its effect pointed out.
Mr. Springer thought the rules meant
that the watchmen were gagged, (he watch
dogs chained, ami the treasury thrown open
to plunder; but the general sentiment was
that no matter how obnoxious the rule* are,
they were asked tor by the democrats and
would be considered in a fair spirit.
TIME TO BE ASKED.
Mr. Carlisle was accordingly instructed
to negotiate with the majority
managers for proper and reasonable
time to consider the rules in case they
should be reported to-morrow, inasmuch
as the democratic managers are without
copies. The republicans will also be al
lowed debate of reasonable length upon
them when they are called up for consider
ation, and if these concessions are granted
the democrats will interpose no unusual ob
stacles to obstruct them. A feature of the
evening’s proceedings that would have been
amusing, if it had not resulted in p sitive
inconvenience, was the attitude of
certain capital policemen, who, acting under
the orders of a stupid superior, refused
entrance to the building to reporters for
press privileges, never before denied. More
over, they persisted in this course in spite
of the fact that the chairman of the demo
cratic caucus, Mr. Holman, had courteously
given an order for their admission.
LABOR'S WSLfAKO IN GERMANY.
Tha Emperor Issues an Imperial Re
script on the Subject.
Berlin, Feb. s. —The emperor has issued
an order, or imperial rescript, addressed to
Baron von Berlopscb, the new minister of
oommeree, in which ho says that however
valuable or important are the measures
now in operation for Improving the condi
tion of the working people, they are not to
be compared with what proper perform
ance of the duty before the new minis
ter will realise. He then specifically
directs an extension in application of the
system of workingmen’s insurance, and the
opening of au inquiry into all the trade
laws affecting factory labor. The emperor
allirms in the rescript that it is the duty of
the state to so regulate the duration and
nature of labor as to Insure hoalth, morality
and a supply of all the economic wants of
workingmeu, and to preserve their claims
to equality before the law.
PRESERVATION OF PEACE.
For the promotion of peace between the
workingmeu ami their employers legal
measures must be taken toward the estab
lishment of regulations empowering work
ingmen to appoint delegates enjoying their
confidence to represent the sentiment of
their affairs. These delegates safely guard
the interests of the workingmen whom they
represent in all negotiations with employ
ers or the government. Such a system
would enable workingmen to express their
wishes and grievances peaceably, and would
give tho authorities of the state opportunity
to inform themselves in a very direct way
of tho condition of the working people, thus
keeping in touch with ull their activities,
sentiments and impulses.
Referring to the state of things in the
mines, the emperor says owing to his
anxiety for the welfare of the men he
wishes to see the mines developed Into
model establishments, and desires that
measures shall be taken to that end.
THE COUNCIL OF STATE.
The council of state will meet to consider
the preliminary questions involved In car
rying out these ideas. Experts will bo
called to testify before it, anil the emperor
himself will preside. The emperor’s re
script and hit orfier to Minister Von Ber
lepsch have created a great sensation in
parliamentary circles. They are com
pared with Herr von Boetticher’s state
ment In the Reichstag that further
legislation of the kind could have no better
success thau previous legislation hud tiad,
but when Herr von Boetticher made that
statement be was talking to the reichstag
only. Elections were not precisely on the
carpet, and nobody was in the presonce of
au immediate necessity to persuade work
ingmen away from the socialist cause by
pretending an astonishing regard for their
welfare. It is observed that neither docu
ment is countersigned by a responsible
mm is ter.
LONDON’S DOCK LABORERS.
The Irritation Between the Men and
Their Employers Not Ended.
London, Feb. s.—The dock laborers at
Newport and have struck. The
shipping business at those places is conse
quently paralyzed.
A meeting of the directors of the East
and West India Dock Company was held
to-day. The president stated that the dock
laborers did less work now than formerly,
and that the company was, there
fore, compelled to engage more
men. The cost of labor during the
past six mouths had been £40,000 more
than for the preceding six months. The
and >ck company, ho said, must resist the in
creasing demands of dock laborers. They
would have a great struggle before they
again secured freedom.
THE GAS STRIKERS.
The gas strikers held a meeting to-day at
which they admitted their defeat and ac
cepted the South Metropolitan company’s
offer to re-employ them as fast as vacancies
occur. The laborers will abstain from a
general strike until the number of men
locked out exceeds 11,000.
DEMANDS OF MINERS REFUSED.
Dresden, Feb. s. —The mine owners at
Swickaut have refjsed the demand of the
men for a day of eight hours and au in
crease of 50 per cent, in pay for overtime.
• BULGARIA'S PLOTTBRa
MaJ. Panitza Lays the Blame on
Russian Agents.
Sofia, Feb. s.— The examination of Maj.
Panitza and three other officers, who are
charged with conspiring against the life of
Prince Ferdinand with a view to proclaim
ing a regency, protest that the plot was tho
work of Russian agents. Four civilians
have also been arrested on a charge of being
concerned in the conspiracv. It is alleged
that M. Hitrovo, the Russian minister at
Bucharest, was the chief promoter of the
plot.
Prince Henry En Route Home.
London, Feb. Pnnce Henry of Bat
tenberg, husband of the Princess Beatrice,
who has been absent from England for
some time, has started on his return home
from Molts.
Mousea Bey’s Offenses.
Constantinople, Feb. s.— The minister
of justice is preparing a new indictment
against Mousaa Bey. It is believed that a
new public prosecutor will be appoined.
REED’S TACTICS IN MONTANA,
The President of the Senate Counts a
Quorum.
Helena, Mont., Feb. s.—The Montana
deadlock was broken In the Senate this
morning. A motion was made to consider
bills from the republican House, and two
democrats demanded the ayes and nays.
Seven republicans voted in the affirmative,
the democrats not voting. Lient. Gov.
Richards held that a quorum was presen'
because two democrats had called for the
yeas and nays, and declared the motion
carried.
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AVALANCHE AND FLOOD.
AN IDAHO TOWN NEARLY WIPED
OUT OP EXISTENCE.
Three Men Killed by the Rushing
Mass of Snow and Rock The In
habitants Flee to Other Town*—A
Phenomenal Rain-Storm Brings
Floods and Avalanches in Oregon.
Spokane Falls, Wash., Fob. s.— The
town of Burke, Idaho, In the Cesar d’Alene
raining district, has beeu nearly destroyed
by avalanches. Half of the business houses
are In ruins. Three men were killed, and
the terror-strioken Inhabitants have
fled to the towns of \ Gem and Wal
lace, feariug a repetition of the dis
aster. Particulars are meagsr, as
the wires to all points m the mines have
gone down, leaving no means of communi
cation. The disaster occurred yesterday
afternoon. With scarcely a moment's warn
ing a tremendous mass of snow and rocks
swept down on the town from the west side
of the narrow gulch in which it is situated.
Five men were buried beueath the enow.
Two were rescued, but the others are dead,
and their bodies have not yet been recov
ered. The ill-fated town lies in a narrow
gulch through t-hiou Canon creek p sirs
its water into the South fork of the CYeer
d’Alene, it had about2ooinhabitants, woo
have deserted their wrecked or menaced
homes and places of business. The nearest
town is Gem, also upon Canon creek, and
tnree miles down the stream.
SIX MINERS KILLED,
loiter in the day another disastrous
avalanche swept upon the boarding bouse*
connected with the Custer tn.ne, w hich is
situated upon Nine Mile creek, about five
miles from Burke. The boarding house
was full of miners, six of whom were killed.
Others had a narrow escape, and a number
were more or loss injured. The disasters
are not a surprise to those familiar with
the topography of that section. The towns
are situated in very narrow gulches on
either side of which abrupt mountains arise.
Ihe snowfall there this winter hi*
been unprecedented in the history
of the country. W ithin the last few day*
it has been raining hard, which had the ef
fect of loosening the deep snow banks auft
precipitating them on the town and houses
below. The Coaer d'Alene mining district
is one of the richest In the world, both for
Sold and silver. It inoludee lue famous
unkor Hill and Sullivan mines, perhaps
the greatest fissure veins in America. The
principal town is Wallace. Other town* aro
Wardner, Osborne, Burke, and Gena.
A PHENOMENAL RAINSTORM IN OREGON.
San Francisco, Feb. 5.— A dispatch
from Jacksonville, Ore., says a phcnoaiiual
rainstorm has prevailed In Southern Oregon
since laßt Friday, which, In connection with
the melting snows in the mountains, Las
caused the greatest flood known since
that country was settled. The damage
to Southern Oregon cannot be eetimutod as
yet, for postal communication is so uncer
tain and limited that only surmise* can be
made of the ravages of the water. On the
line of tho numerous tributaries of Rogue
river many ranches have been damaged, if
not ruined, and miles of fencing have been
swept away.
BOIL WASHED TO THE GRAVEL.
Much of the finest soil in tho lower valley
has been washed down to the and
bed rock, and the spectacle of fields ffSoded,
roads washed out and bridges and culverts
demolished is common. The fertile Bear
creek region has not escaped the visitation.
Fart of the valley has presented the
appearanco of a turbid sea for
days, aud communication bet wee i
its many towns has been almost
suspended by the swollen foot hill streams.
Bear creek itself has borno along a great
deal of wreckage, feucos, outbuildings, and
even barns and houses, and has wrought
much destruction in undermining and
sluicing off the deep alluvia deposits that
compose its banks.
IN THE APPLEGATE REGION,
tflp Applegate region there are but few
bridges left. Many people were obliged to
leave their homes for safety. Great dam
age has been done to mining intui eft* by the
bursting 0. dams and rivers, the breaking
and filling of ditches, and the loss of flume
boxes and machinery. The Oregon and
California railroad track in South Oregon
has been washed away for miles, and the
roadbed is seriously damaged along the line.
There has not beeu a mail from the north or
south for several weeks. Hundreds of
thousands of dollars will not cover the
loss.
THE SITUATION AT PORTLAND.
Advices from Fortland, Ore., say the
situation there is undoubtedly due to the
rapid rise of tho WilUamette river. It
flows into the Columbia just above Port
land. For nearly a month past the hills
aud mountains of Oregon through which
the river flows have boon piled with con
tinually falling snotv. The drifts in some
places were fifteen to twenty feet high.
During the past few days warm winds have
melted the snow, and the Williamotte river
has become a torrent.
SEVERAL AVALANCHES.
On the Northern Pacitlo, between Noxon
and Trout Creek, there have beeu several
’avalanches since last Saturday, and the tel
egraph lines there are also interrupted.
From another source Information has "been
received by the Associatod Press to the
effect that the Southern Pacific California
line is still blockadod and suffering severely
from washouts along the streams, which are
rising rapidly from tha recent rain*
and melting snows. The latest information
from Portland develops the fact that tne
U nion Pacific line is again closed, this time
owing to heavy rains, melting snow, and
snow-slides along the Columbia river, be
tween Dalles and Portland, where the road
suffered so severely two years ago from the
same cause.
A TOOL TRUST.
Tta* Managers Say Don’t Intend
to Advance Prices.
Pittsburg. Feb. s. —At a meeting in this
city to-day the American Ax aud Edged
Tool Company was formed. The new cor
poration comprise* all the *x aud edged
tool companies in the country. It pur
chased outright the plants aud will operate
them under the management of their form
er owners. The capital stock of the new con
cern is $4,000,000. The company will have
its main office in this city, and will employ
1,000 men. The object of the combination,
according to the officers, is not to advance
pri es, but to economize produotion by be
ing enabled to purchase raw material
cheaper.
CORN AB FUEL.
A Kansas Farmer Kvadee an Attach*
meat on a Novel Plea.
Wichita, Kan., Feb s.—ln a decision
rendered to-day a justice held corn to be
fuel. One thousand bushel* of corn belong
ing to a farmer named Steadman had been
attached. Steadman said he was using tha
corn for fuel, and that 1,000 bushels was
not more than enough to last a year. The
justice ruled that under the law exempting
a year’s fuel the attachment would not
hold.
