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. THE MORNING NEWS. i
j Established 18K0. IsooaroKATED 1886. >•
J. H. ES'iILL, President. I
TAULBEE COLD IN DEATH.
THE WOUND INFLICTED BY KIN
CAID PROVES FATAL.
The Flayer Bearreeted at His Board
ing House and Lodged in Jail—His
System Going to Pieces Under the
Strain and Death Staring Him in the
Face.
Washington, M irch 11.—Ex-Congress
man William Preston Taulbee of Kentucky,
who w a i shot in the head by Charles E. Kin
caid,correspondent of the Lousville Times,at
the east staircase in the House wing of the
capitol on the afternoon of Friday. Feb. 28,
died at 4:45 o’clock this morning at the
Providence hospital, whither he had been
removed an hour or so after the shooting.
Mr. Taulbee had been unconscious for some
lime before death came, and his end was
painless. He had been rapidly sinking since
last Saturday, and his death had been ex
pected at any time since that night Yes
terday he grew so much worse that the
physicians in attendance knew he could
not jast another day.
HIS FAMILY AT HIS BEDSIDE.
His family had been summoned, and when
he passed away his brother. Dr. Taulbee;
his son James, a boy about 19 years of age;
his brother-in-law; Dr. Bayne, the attend
ing physic.a i, and Maj. liiackburu of Ken
tucky were around his bedside.
N arrangements as yet havo been made
for the funeral.
An inquest will be held to-morrow at
noon, and will be preceded by an autopsy.
t Mr. Taulbee, it is said, made no ante
mortem statement.
KINCAID REARRESTED.
Judge Kincaid, who has been under po
lice surveillance since it became known
that Mr. Taulbee’s case was hope
less, was reari ested this morning. He was
asleep at his boarding In use when a police
officer aroused him at 6 o’clock and in
formed him of Mr. Taulbee’s death. He
requested to be allowed to sleep an hour
longer, but the orders of the officer were
peremptory, and Judge Kincaid dressed
himself immediately and was taken to the
first precinct station, where he is now held
in custody.
KINCAID COMPLETELY PROSTRATED.
A reporter visited the station house soon
after his arrest, and found Judgo Kincaid
<■ ntlned in the women’s cell on the second
floor, looking pale and sickly. He seemed
entirely oblivious to his surroundings.
Momentarily his muscles would twitch con
vulsively, and a groan would escape his
lips. The awful strain which he has
been subjected to since the shooting has
told terribly on him. He is a wreck of his
former self.
SOBBING FOR HIS MOTHER.
As the reporter was about to leave the
prisoner broke out in sobs and called for
his mother. The scene was touching in the
extreme. Within an hour after his arrest
Judge Kincaid was so prostrated with
nervous exhaustion that it was found nec
essary to call his regular physician, who re
mained with him most of the day. Judge
Kincaid’s condition is serious, and it is the
opinion of many of his friends that he will
not live to stand his trial.
HIS MIND GIVING WAY.
His mind seems on the point of giving
away eutirely. He could not remember the
faces of friends who called on him to-day.
Mis mother is ill in Jacksonville. It is his
apprehension for the effect of the shock ou
her which has had most to do with pros
trating him. His physician says that he
ought to go to a hospital instead of to jail,
ana that if he is kep in co finement it may
kill him, or at least destroy his reason.
LAWYERS RETAINED.
Louisville, Ky., March 11.—Aaron
Kohn, a noted criminal lawyer of this city,
and Judge Hargis, a well-kn nvn jurist of
Kentucky, have been retain and by Judgo
Kincaid’s Kentucky friends to defend him
in his trial.
A WAft SHIP IN DISTRESS.
The Steamer Iroquois Puts Into Port
Townsend for Eepairs.
Port Townsend, Wash. , March 11. — The
United States steamship Iroquois arrived in
port to-day iu distress. She left Honolulu
Nov. 23 for Samoa to relieve the Adams,
and stopped at the Marshall and Gilbert
lilands. After leaving the Gilbert Islands
the piston rod < f the forward engine broke
and the ship began leaking. A succession
of heavy gules prevented the vessel from
returning to Honolulu, uud she was forced
to go north. Provisions and fuel ran short,
and the offic rs and crew have been oh halt
rations since Feb. 15. The crew suffered
greatly from the sudden change of a tropical
climate to the severe cold of the north.
THE DEPARTMENT NOTIFIED.
Washington, March I!.—A telegram
was received at the navy department to-day
from Commander Bishop, commanding the
United States steamer Iroquois,announcing
t;ie arrival of the vessel at Port Townsend,
Washington, yesterday, after having been
blown about the Pacific ocean in a disabled
coi.dii ion since Dec. 23 last. On that day,
while in latitude 16,east longitude 17“5’ while
on her way from Honolulu to Samoa, her
piston rod broke and her machinery became
disarranged.
UNABLE TO PUT BACK.
An attempt was made to put back to
Honolulu under sail, but the vessel was
caught in northeast winds and driven to
latitude 48°, when the wind shifted to the
east. The vessel had been already 2,500
milos out of her course, and, being almost
■ ut of rations and coal, was compelled to
put into the nearest port, which in this in
stance was Port Townsend. Commander
Bishop says thut the officers and crew aro
well, und that aftor he has taken on coal
and provisions he will take the vessel to San
Francisco.
EXPELLED FROM THE BOCIETY.
The Southern Society’s Committee
Decides Against Maj. Clark.
New York, March 11.—The executive
committee of the Southern Society here in
ves.igated the shooting affray that occurred
some weeks siuce on the steps of tho club
house lu West Twenty fifth street, between
-'faj. Hancock Clark and Milton Randolph.
The result was made known to-dav. Maj.
Ciark was expelled and Mr. Kandol ph ac
quitted of any improper conduct.
A Bank to be Wound Up.
Providence, R. L, March 11.—Tho
stockholders of the Union Bunk decided to
day to wind up its affairs. This is the bank
item whose vaults Teller Charles A. Pitcher
stole all the cash in June, 1883. He is now
in a Cahadian jail. The bunk recovered
marly all of tne cash and securities that
Pitcher stoic, but its affairs havo not been
in a flourishing condition for sorue time.
To be Confirmed After Many Days.
Washington, March 11.—The Heuate
' wunitte# ou tinauce to-dav ordered a
favor ;hie raped to be mad : ujsju the nom
ination of Jamas D. Brady to be collector
<1 Interna' revenue for the Refund district
of Vlrgln.a, Mr. Brady's name baa ieu
Ufvr* Um committee duo* Doc. 19, 1689.
Jtlje Jlteiting ffctoS.
BREAKING OF THE LEVEE.
No Material Damage Suffered by the
Plantations Yet.
St. Louis, March 11.—Flood news from
the lower llissh sippi river is meagre to-day.
Capt. Tallinger of the government service
is at the Sappington Hook crevasse, above
Arkansas City, with the government tug
\ idalia, a pile-driver, a barge, and various
appliances for closing the gap. Worit is
now in progress, and it is thought the cre
vasse can be closed. There is no water in
Arkansas City yet, the flow passing to the
rear of the town and running into the
bayous leading down to Louisiana. The
levee from Ai kinaas City to the Louisiana
line is said to be strong and able to with
stand considerable more water.
no material damage yet.
No material dimage has yet been'done to
the plantations, and as the whole of the
Texas bayou region in Louisiana has been
notified by wire aud otherwise of the situa
tion, the planters will have time to save
their stock and other property. The break
at Point Cnicot, below Arkansas City,
which occurred last week, has beeu stopped.
The levees ou the Mississippi side of the
river to Vicksburg aud below aro reported
good, and there is a reasonable hope that
there will be no disastrous break or damage
done.
a discouraging outlook.
St. Louis, March 11, lip. m.— A specia
to the Republic from Charleston, Mo.
says: “Ail of that part of this county lying
east and south of this city is almost entirely
submerged, the exceptions being natural
and artificial mounds, upon which the
farmers’ stock have taken refuge. It is
raining to-night, and the outlook is dis
couraging. The levee protecting the Cairo
and Poplar Bluff railway transfer and
cradle at Bird’s Point, Mo., opposite
Cairo, gave way last night and all
the movable railway property at that place
was hastily transferred to this city, as was
that of the cotton belt road, on which trains
were also abandoned. All trains from this
point over that road aro abandoned, and
communication by rail with the oast is had
only via the Belmont branch to Columbus,
Ky., and the Mobile aud Ohio road.”
RISING AT CAIRO.
Cairo, 111., March 11.—There has been
a heavy rainfall here since yesterday after
noon, and it is Btill raining. The Ohi' > river
rose 3-10 of a foot during the last twenty
four hours, the gauge at present reading 48
3-10 feet.
STILL RISING.
Cairo, 111., 11 p. m — The river marks
48 5-10 feet on the gauge aud is still rising
slowly. The river has been falling almost
constantly since yesterday afternoon, and
still continues. Tho Ohio river is reported
rfaliing all the way down from Cin
cinnati, aud a slight rise reported in the
Mississippi river above. The probabilities
are that the Ohio will reach 50 feet here.
The Tennessee and Cumberland rivers
are both falling, and no rain is
reported from that section. The
Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago train due
here at 11 a. ru. has not yet arrived on ac
count of a washout above. The abandoned
tunnel on the Mobile and Ohio road caved
in to-day, blocking the track so that trains
could not pass around it as heretofore. No
trains on the Iron Mountain or St. Louis,
Arkunsas and Texas road have arrived
or departed since yesterday. The Iron
Mountain company are transferring their
trains at Belmont, Mo. Their levees have
beeu raised and strengthened, and the town
can stand a stage of fifty-live feet on the
gauge. The highest water iu 1882 was
fifty-two feet three inches.
THE RISE AT ST. JOSEPH.
St. Joseph, La., March 11.—The river
has risen an inch and a quarter in the past
twenty-four hours. It is not believed here
that the hr yak at Sappingtons will overflow
a single acre of cultivated lauds in this
parish. Four-fifths of the water will go
into the Bayou Boeuf swamp and Tensas
river and Bayou Mercer, which are both
low and have sufficient capacity to carry off
all the water that is likely to reach them
from Sappingtons. The water from the
crevasse will cover very little, if auy, culti
vated land. The levees are safe from one
end of the parish to the other.
A SENSATION IN THE SENATE.
A Scene Between Edmunds and Eustis
Narrowly Averted.
Washington, March 11. —Senator Ed
munds was in a somewhat oxcited condition
this afternoon, and in consequence nearly
brought about a dramatic scene in the
Senate. Both sides were already much
worked up by the partisan feeling drawn
out by the debate over the resolu ion cen
suring Senator Call, when Mr. Edmunds
intensified the situation by going out of his
way to attack Mr. Eustis of Louisiana. He
used the suppositious method very much,
ns Senator Ingalls d.d in abusing Senator
Brown of Georgia under the guise of the
senator from Alaska, only the attack of Mr.
Edmunds was more direct.
EUSTIS READY TO RESENT IT.
Mr. Eustis felt it. of course, and bristled
up to reply, as Mr. Edmunds grew more
abusive. The whole Senate saw it, and sat
upright with expectation. Just then, when
one more word might have started a con
flagration, John Warwick Daniels of Vir
ginia spoiled it all by calling Mr. Edmunds
to order, aid demanding that the words by
which Mr. Edmunds practically charged
Mr. Eustis with being accessory to murder
might be taken down. This cooled Mr.
Edmunds, Mr. Eustis, and the Senate, and
by the time Mr. Daniels got through there
was no sensation in the Senate.
LADIES TO SEEK THE SUNSHINE.
Mrs. Harr'aon, Mrs. Wanamaker, and
Mrs. Russell Harrison In the Party.
Washington, M 11. — Mrs. Harrison,
Mrs. WanJlmaker, Mrs. Russell Harrison,
Miss Wanamaker, Mrs. Col. Wilson of
Philadelphia, Miss Robinson of New York,
and Mr. Hammond of Trenton, N. J., will
leave Washington Thursday morning in the
private car of J. H. Inman, president of the
Richmond and Danville railroad, for a trip
south. Russell Harnsou will accompany
them. Friday will be spent in
Charleston, S. C., and the purty ex
pects to arrive at St. Augustine in time
to attend the dedicatory services of the new
church erected by Henrv M. Flagler as a
memorial to his son. Afti-r spending sev
eral days In Florida, the party will return
to Washington by way of Atlanta and
Chattanooga. This will be Mrs. Harrison’s
first trip south of Washington.
REED’S REIGN A3 CZAR.
An Instance of How He Can Make
Raids on the 'treasury.
Washington, March 11.—Speaker Reed
made his most remarkable c unt of the
House to-day during tho final consideration
of the public: building bills. It was obvious
that there was no quorum present, aud tho
vote on one of the bills disclosed the fact,
but when W. C. P. Breckinridge made the
point Hptaker Reed proceeded to count tho
House aud discovered and announced 165
moil as present.
“But 165 is not a quorum, Mr. Hpeuker,
suggested Mi. Bieckiiirhigo very quietly.
"o e hundred and sixty-*)x the chair
Should have (•aid," responded Hpeaker lieed
promptly amid muon laughter.
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1890.
CALL’SWAROX CHANDLER
THE DEBATE ON INTERPOLATION
WAXBB WARM.
Senator George Opposes the Resolu
tion to Strike Out on the Ground
That Senators Have a Right to Re
vise Tbelr Bpeeohes—Senator Hoar
Points Out That Mr. George Is on
tbe Wrong Track—A Vote but No
Quorum.
Washington, March 11.—The attend
ance of senators at the opening prayer was
so small that a call of the senators was
ordered, and after a quorum was thus ob
tained the journal of yesterday was read
and approved. The credentials of Mr.
Allison for his new terra, commencing
March 4, 1891, were presented and ordered
to be plaood on file.
Among the petitions presented and re
ferred was one from Florida asking a duty
of $1 per box on foreign oranges.
Mr. Hoar called up the resolution, reported
by him yesterday, for the exclusion from
the record of sentences interpolated by Mr.
Call in the report of his remarks in his dis
cussion with Mr. Chandler some weeks ago.
MR. GEORGE OPPOSES IT.
Mr. Georga opposed the resolution as be
ing, so far as his experience iu the Senate
went, without precedent. While it did not
expressly contain censure, it was certainly
capable of that interpretation. He had re
cently looked over the debate in question,
and found it to have been characterized bv
extreme acrimony and by bitter personal
allusions —contained iu more speeches tbau
one. For instance, he found that tho sen
ator from Connecticut, Mr. Hawley—a
very able and discreet senator—had
characterized Mr. Pasco’s speech as “a sort
of premature apology for murder.” He had
looked over tho report of Mr. Cali’s re
marks, and found that what he did actually
say contained every allegation, distinctly,
aud unequivocally, that was contained in
the clause which the committee recom
mended to have expunged from the Record.
He read some of the extracts, aud asked
Mr. Hoar why the committee had not
ordered them to be struck out, they being
just as objectionable as the clause that had
been interpolated.
STUCK TO THE INSTRUCTIONS.
Mr. Hoar replied that the committee had
felt restricted to the sentences set forth iu
the resolution under w. ich it acted.
Mr. George went on to compare the words
actually spoken with those inserted in the
Record, and argued that while there was a
verbal change,there was no change of mean
ing. The same idea, he said, was expressed
in tho paragraph introduced de novo, as ;in
the words actually spoken, but without as
much precision and force. It was mere
rhetorical amplification. Mr. George
went oil to sneak of the time when personal
ities in the Senate led to personal conflicts,
but said that now there was no safer place
in all God’s creation for a man who desired
to insult another with impunity than the
American Senate. Everybody knew that.
NO EVIDENCE OF BRAVERY.
And it was no evidence of spirit, no evi
dence of courage for a senator to get up
and use insulting and abusive language to
another senator. Nor was it an evidence of
want of spirit, or of want of courage, that
the senator about whom such insulting and
personal language was used did not call the
other senator to personal account. The
duello was clearly out of question now. A
personal conflict on tho street was equally
out of question. How then had the senator
from Now Hampshire been injured by
the change of phrase? Was it because he
ought to have had an opportunity to answer
back? Because he had not the fish
woman’s opportunity to blackguard back?
That was all; and’ that was the way the
tiling stood. The ndoption of the resolution
would ba an implied censure on as amiable,
and as truthful, and a-> good a man as ever
sat in the American .Senate.
A MISCONCEPTION.
Mr. Hoar said that the observations of
the senator from Mississippi had proceeded
on an entire misconception of the effect of
tbe resolution, of the opinion of the com
mittee and of the practice of the Senate.
One thing settled by general parliamentary
law and affirmed by a rule of tho Senate
Itself was that no senator was amenable to
censure or to a call to order for any
tuing said in debate except when the point
was made immediately at the time of the
utterance and the words taken down. The
committee on privileges and elections had
been unanimously of the opinion that neither
bv parliamentary law nor by the usage of
the Senate was it permitted to make sub
stantial o ranges in tne report, which was a
security and protection of a public character
of all the senators, and on the photographic
accuracy of which they had to stand or fall
in the judgment of their countrymen,
and of their contemporaries, and of the
future. For himself he acquitted
ihe Senator from Florida of any
desire to escape censure or responsibility by
a change of language, because the language
which the senator did actually use repelled
any such idea. But at the same time the
senator from Florida had done something
quite other and different It was not true,
in his judgment, that there was no substan
tial difference between the words uttered
and the words printed. There was a most
subsiantial and important difference.
EUSTIS DEMANDS AN EXPLANATION.
Mr. Eustis said that he proposed to con
sider the real question without passion. The
complaint in the resolution offered by Mr.
Chaudler was, not that the senator from
Florida had used unparliamentary language
toward him, or had viola.ed the customs of
tho Senate by indulging in harsh, and
severe, and personally abusive language
toward him, but that certain language pub
lished in tbe Record had never been uttered
in the chamber. That was the entire com
plaint made by the senator from Now
Hampshire; and that was the only
question within the jurisdiction of
the committee on privileges and
elections; and the demand made by
him was that an order should bo reported
censuring the Senator from Florida. There
was no censure reported, but the order im
plied censure and hud no other meaning.
“I ask what it is .hat the committee has
found him guilty of ? Is it falsification of
the record? Is it that ho hus violated a
custom of tho Senate?"
On this question the oommittee indulges
in a: solute and serene silence, leaving every
one at liberty to draw his own conclusions.
EDMUNDS OPPOSES THE RESOLUTION.
Mr. Edmunds, after an extended exposi
tion of his views of what the standard of
decorum in the Senate ought to be, con
cluded by saying that, under all the circum
stances of tile case, he did not think that it
would be proper to place on the records of
the 8 -irate a resolution which would inevi
tably be construed an censure on tbe sena
tor from Florida.
Mr. Gray, a democratic member of the
committee on privileges and el.rations, de
fended tbe action of tne committee in re
porting the resolution, and said tiiat ho bod
supposed it would have been accepted on
both side* as the too torderly anti bust con
sidered way of dealing with Ihe subject
matter. It wasn' t intended to imply a
sefuuila of censuis on the senator from
Florida.
Mr Pugh, aw. tber democratic mam her of
the committee, concurred in what Mr.
Gray had said, and added that in his opin
ion the defeat of the resolution would put
the Senate in a falss position before the
country, aud that the senators who voted
against it would be placed in a worse atti
tude than the senator from Florida would
be if the resolution were agreed to.
SPOKEN WORDS MUST STAND.
Mr. Hawley quoted, in support of the
res ilution, remarks made by t homos H.
Benton in 1850, to the effect that it was not
only the right, but the duty of the senators
to revise their speeches and improve their
style, but that where anything of a personal
character was said there could bo no altera
tion of the words, no sutieritution of equiv
alent or convertible phrases; but that the
words spoken were to stand.
Mr. Jones of Arkansas stated that he had
heard the remarks of Mr. Call, and that he
remembered distinctly his charging the sen
at ir from New Hampshire with responsi
bility for the murder of hnndreds of women
aud children in southern states.
Mr. Evarts, a member of the committee,
defended the resolution as reported, and
said that tho Senate could not alfoni to lie
i idifferent to Buch an interference with tho
absolute correctness and reliability of the
record.
A LESSON FROM JOSH BILLINGS.
Mr. Vance, a democratic member of the
committee, also defended its action, hut
said that nothing wus farther from his in
tention than to cast any reflection on the
senator from Florida. He spoke of the con
stant attacks in the Senate upon the people
of the southern states, and reminded the
senators that they could not always expect
the representatives of those statos to imi
tate the wisdom of that great American
philosopher—Josh Billings—who said that
the little things of life wore more trouble
some than the great things, and that fleas
had given him a great deal more trouble
than elephants.
Mr. Call submitted some remarks in his
own vindication, and quoted soma of Mr.
Chandler’s express! ms in the same debato,
imputing to him the possibility of provoking
h imicide, and of adding to“ the silent voters
of Florida;” aud assured the Senate that he
hail no idea of violating its rules.
A vote was taken, and resulted: Yoas,
27; nays, 11. No quorum. Among the
affirmative votes were those of Messrs. Gray,
Pugh, Turpie, and Vance. Without dis
posing of the matter, the Senate at 5:29
o’clock adjourned.
PUBLIC BUILDING BILLS.
Several Passed by the House—The
Admission of Wyoming.
Washington, March 11.—In pursuance
of tho agreement made Saturday the pub ic
building bills which that day passed the
committee of the whole came up iu tho
House this morning with the previous ques
tion ordered.
Bills were passed providing for tho oreo
tion of public buildings at the following
points: Cedar Rapids, la.; Chester, Pa.;
Columbus, Ga.; Atchison, Kan.;
Alexandria, La.; Houltou, Me.; Lvnn,
Mass.; Lafayette, lnd.; Baton Rouge,
La., and Fremont, Neb. Also for an ir
c reuse on tbe limit of i' > oust of the build
ings at Newark, N. J., Scranton, Pa., Troy,
N. Y., Dallas, Texas, and Springfield, Mo,
The measures involve an expenditure of
*1,845,000.
ADMISSION OF WYOMING.
Mr. Baker of New York, from the com
mittee on territories, reported the bill for
the admission of Wyoming. He asked for
immediate consideration of tho bill, which,
under the new rules, is a privileged meas
ure.
Mr. Springer objected to present consid
eration because there existed an agreement
that this bill should not be called up until
the Oklahoma bill has been disposed of, aud
he raised the question of consideration.
The House decided to consider the bill by a
vote of 122 yeis to 114 nays—a party vote.
On the point of order raised by Mr.
Springer the bill was referred to committee
of the whole; and Mr. Baker moved that
the House go into such committee.
Mr. Springer interjected a motion to ad
journ, which was defeated by a vote of 116
yeas to 132 nays.
Mr. Baker’s motion was agreed to by a
voto of 146 yeas to 108 nays, and, accord
ingly, the House wont into committee of the
whole.
READ IN FULL.
The bill having been read in extenso, Mr.
Baker denied that he had acted in bad faith
in calling up the measure at this t ime. The
purpose of the gentleman from Illinois (Mr.
Springer) was to delay consideration of the
measure until he had an opportunity to
bring in an omnibus bill.
Mr. Springer reiterated his statement that
tho bill bad been called up in violation of
tlie agreement made in the committee on
territories. The gentleman from Kansas
(Mr. Perkins) had told him that
he was much surprised when the Wyoming
bill was called up. All he (Mr. Springei)
asked was that resonable time should lie
given to the minority to prepare amend
ments which it desired to offer. Pending
further discussion, the committee rose, and
the House at 5:20 o’clock adjourned.
DOLPH BTILL DELVING.
He Appears to be as Much in the
Dark as at the Beginning.
Washington, March 11. Senator
Dolph’s special investigating committee to
day continued its search for the source
from which the newspaper correspondents
obtain their information in regard to execu
tive sessions of the Senate. AH of tho
senators who are in the city have been ex
amined. A number of Senate employes
wore examined to-day. At 5 o'clock the
committee adjourned until to-morrow, when
the examination of the employes will prob
ably be concluded.
Nominated by the President
Washington, March 11.—The President
to-day nominated Lieut. Col. William
Smith, deputy paymaster general, to be
paymaster general, with the rank of brig
adier general. Two colonels and one lieu
tenant colonel In the pay department out
rank the present uominee.
The President also nominated G. Bowne
Patterson to be United States attorney for
the Southern district of Florida.
Dlngley and the Pilots.
Washington, March 11.—Representa
tives of the associations of coast pilots are
here opposing tbe Diugloy pilot bill. They
think that their arguments will defeat it,
as they have similar bills before.
By tbe Grace of Bosa Buck.
Washington, March 11.—CoL Buck has
had Henry P.Farrow of Lumpkin appointed
abstractor of farm m rtgagea for Con
gressman Candler’s district.
Purchases of Bonds.
Washington, March 11.—'Die bond of
ferings to-<lay aggregated #8),800. All
were accepted at l(/8q( for 4>s* aud 128
for 4a.
Wages Advanced
London, March 11.—The wage* of the
Liverpool steamship firemen and seamen
have Ueu advanced 19 shillings per month.
WON’T BLAME THE TIMES.’
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS REFUSES
TO CENSURE THE PAPER.
Lord Randolph Churchill Resumes the
Debate on the Report of the Com
mission—He Charges the Govern
ment With Violating the Constitu
tion Plgott Denounced In Lurid
Terms.
London, March 11.—In the House of
Commons this evening Lord Randolph
Churchill resumed tho debate on tho report
of the Parnell commission. He said that
from the Inception of the commission he
had watched the proceedings with feelings
of sorrow and apprehension, . which had
grown deeper and stronger as tbe proceed
ings developed. From the beginning to the
end these proceedings were vitiated by
their thoroqghly unconstitutional char
acter. [Cheers from opposition]. When
the government decided to pass by ordinary
tribunals it must have held that the charges
against the Parnellitos constituted a pnmn
facie case agniust the accused. When the
government held that there was a prima
facie case it was its duty to prosecute crim
inally. [Parnellite cheers]. If there was a
prima facie case to justify an extraordi
nary tribunal fortiori there was a prima
facie case to proceed by oriminal prosecu
tion. [Hear! Hear!]
IGNORED THE LAW.
In the first place, the government, In
order to ascertain the truth of the criminal
charges against its political opponents, dis
carded and set aside the ordinary law of
tne land. LParnellite cheers.] Secondly,
tho government constituted under a special
act a commission consisting of three judges
to fulfil the functions of a judgo and jury
for the purpose of trying a oriminal con
spiracy. It decided to place its political
opponents on trial on criminal charges
without the protection which a jury
would give. [Cheers.] Thirdly, the gov
ernment nominated the tribunal, so that
the. accused, unlike tho mealiest criminal,
would have no voice lu selecting and
challenging the jury. If it was argued that
the commission was a court of arbitration,
where in the whole history of arhitraiion
was one party to a suit left voiceless in the
selection of arbitrators) [Cheers.] Fourthly,
the government inflicted a heavy penalty
in the shape of a largo pecuniary line on its
opponents, amounting to nearly £40,000.
wiubout precedent.
He argued the matter on constitutional
grouuds, aud defied any lawyer hero to
show precedent or parallel for anything ap
pi oaebing the government’s action, [l’nr
nellito cheers.] He appealed to the House
to vote against the proceedings; utterly
unique and unprecedented. Never within a
century and a half had any publio man
being exposed to such tests and trials as had
Mr. Parnell. [Parnellite cheers.] When
certain persons imagined tiiat Mr. Parnell
quailed before the proposed inquiry he put
such pressure on the government that the
free gift character of the proposal disap
peared, and it became a measure forced
upon the House at any cost. [Opposition
cheers.] Every clause except the first was
forced through without debate by the use
of closure; so ruthless that nothing but the
most urgent consideration of publio safety
oould justify it. [Opposition cheers.]
GOVERNMENT INCONSISTENCIES.
The constitutional party that in 1882 re
sisted closure now applied it. No minister
could accuse him of inconsistencies when
tiio enormous inconsistencies of tue govern
ment wore considered. In 1882 the govern
ment declared that closure wus a most un
constitutional and dangerous innovation.
In 1888 It used closure in
a most unconstitutional and dangerous
manner for the purpose of forcing
upon its opponents an unprecedented, un
paralleled aud tremendous instrument of
oppression. A nemesis attended tho gov
ernment for adopting such methods. VVliat
had been the result of this mountainous
parturition? The reptile monster, Pigott!
[Parnellite cheers.] What had been the
delivery, with all their skill and parlia
mentary instruments? A ghastly, bloody,
rotten iißtus—Pigottl Pigott! Pigott! [Par
nelite cheers. ]
VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTION.
In appointing the commission the govern
ment violated the constitution. In making
this motion the government wag violating
its own law. The report condemned cer
tain persons and acquitted others. But did
it condemn all tho guilty parties) It con
demned the Pariiellites on certain charges.
Did it condemn the Times? if the govern
ment insisted upon its motion and com
pelled tho majority to assent to it, he would
insist upon his right to vote to condemn
not only the Parnellites but also the Times,
which had been found guilty of an atro
oious and unexampled libel and slander,
ASKED FOR BY THE PARNELLITES.
Mr. Chamberlain said it was on invita
tion of tho Parnellites that the matter was
made tbe subject of an inquiry. If the gov
ernment had instituted criminal proceed
ings it would have been open to all the
censure which L ird Randolph Churchill
had bestowed upon it. The government
treated tho allegations as libels which might
or might not be disproved, and indicated
that the accused should take the usual steps
to defend thoir characters. Ho denied that
the commission was the result of
his personal suggestion. Experience
snowed that it was the best aud
only tribunal to conduct an Inquiry.
The chief objection to it was that the
judges would not be impartial. That was
not said now. [Parnell cries of “Yes".] It
was urged that the 7 imes, it found guilty,
would have absolute immunity in subsequent
proceedings. [Parnellite cheers.]
PRAISE FOR THE COMMISSION.
But all the allegations against the com
mission proved to be baseless. No parlia
mentary committee could have conducted
the inquiry so exhaustively and well.
He urged that there was no re iSon for
receiving the findings of any constitutional
tribunal with suspicion. Mr. Gladstone
had admitted the assiduity, ability, learn
ing, and perfect, absolute good faith of the
judges. [Cheers.J Sir Charles Russell had
spoken of thoir judgment as impartial.
Tho fact that tne judg s were spoken of as
having prepossessions and political senti
ments should not vitiate their findings oa
matters of fact. Tho House would sim
ply adopt the general effect of
tho report without pledging itself
to every word.' Ho asked to whom the
House would appeal if it refused to adopt
the opinion of the judges ou matters of
fact. He warned the House, with an im
perfect recollection of the erms of the re
port, against a-suming judicial functions
by declining to accept the judges’ findings.
He urged tho House to leave the matter iu
tne bands of tue uation. [Cheers.]
Mr. Jennings withdrew Ills amendment.
Mr. Caine (liberal unionist) moved a
similar amendment condemning the Times,
wnich was rejected by a vote of 321 to 259.
NOT INTENDED AS A STAB.
Mr. Jennings explained that he had no
deign to stall the government in the back.
Lord It uidolph Churchill's speech was a
lots surprise to him, and ohaigsd his
position, Ids own amendment not bring In
tended to be hostile to the government. He
contended that tue e-miuUsim should
never havo been appointed to inquire into
the minor charges again?t the
Parnellites. which in 1385 had
not deterred the government from
accepting Irish support. Had serious
charges been proved Mr. Parnell must have
beou expelled and prosecuted. Why he-d
--tate to express satisfaction at[his acquittal?
The T imes had daily driven the charge
home with every device that malice could
suggest, and deserved censure.
Air. Chaplin declared that the conserva
tives ha l never believed that the Times
letters were genuine [O! O! and laughter],
but the charges proved amply justified tho
appointment of the commission.
TO BLOOM INTO A RADICAL.
Mr. Lahouchore said that he expected to
see liord Randolph Churchill blossom into
a genuine radical. He related from his own
independent inquiries the circumstance of
the meeting between a constable of Piuker
tou’s men aud British Constable Jarvis
at Kansas City, both employed by the
Times as agents, proving that the
government had abetted tho negotiations,
which amounted to offering Hheridau
£25,000 for a document that would inoritn
ina'o Mr. Parnell. Sir It. K. Webster had
said that the Times had done nothing to be
ashamed of. It would have boon better had
he said it could do nothing to bo ashamed
of.
THE ALLIANCE WITH THE TORIES.
T. P. O’Connor said that the Parnellites
in 1885 had circulated tory pamphlets
printed with funds received freiu Patrick
Ford.
Mr. Goschen, chancollorof tho exeboquer,
protested against tho continuous attacks
u]>oa Attorney-General Webster, whom Mr.
Gladstone lmd admitted c raid not have
acted otherwise than as he bad. Ho repudi
ated Lord Churchill’s statement that the
government had acted unconstitutionally.
While he was defending tho impartiality of
the judges the Farnellites created disorder
by shouting, “Pigottl Pigottl” etc.
Mr. Goschen—Yes, the more you examine
the report the less von are inclined to hear
of tbe impartiality of the judges.
Continuous interruptions followed. There
was great laughter at Mr. Goschen’s admis
sion that tho government might havo been
indiscreet, but had novor adopted the
forgeries as political stock iu trade.
LB CARON IN THE LIBERALS' SERVICE.
Proceeding, he assorted that Le Caron
was employed in the secret service undor
the liberal government.
Mr. Fowler, who was thon secretary of
the treasury, rose twice and angrily pro
tested that nobody know better than tho
chancellor of tho exchequer that he could
know nothing of such matters. A scene of
most intense excitement, lasting several
minute , followed.
ilr. Goschen taunted Mr. Sexton in refer
ence to tho Salisbury letter, and both rose
to their feet and neither would give way.
Mr. Goschen and the Parnellites hurled
such epithets ns “coward,” etc. Mr. Goschen
defended himself with a reproach that the
attacks of tile opposition were hosed upon
information which they thomsolvoj had
purchased.
\mid shouts of “Adjourn!” “Adjourn!"
and calls for “Morley!" Mr. Caine moved
his auionduient.
MORLEY CONGRATULATES HIM.
Mr. Morley congratulated him for the
courage he displayed, and said that be
would support the amendment, not because
it would do much good, but because it was
necessary for the dignity of the House.
Mr. Smith invoked the closure rule, and
division was takon ou Mr. Caine’s amend
ment.
Mr. Smith's motion with reference to the
commission’s report was then agreed to
amid ministerial cheers.
A FORGERY.
LoCaron denounces as a forgery the letter
winch Mr. .Sexton read in tbe House of
Commons purporting to bo from LoCaron
to a son of Mr. Powdorly.
With reference to the Salisbury-Pigott
correspondence, it is learned that Pigott
wrote to Lord Salisbury, saying that he was
able to sunnii the Parnellites, and asking
for ail opportunity to do so through the
government, but Lord Salisbury refused to
interfere.
HIS EPITHETS TOO ROUGH.
London, March 12, 8 a. m.—Tho Daily
Telegraph thinks that Lord Randolph
Churchill when cooler will admit that the
adjectives that he applied to Pigott were
more forcible than polished, and rather
spoiled his powerful pnilippie.
The Chronicle passes a similar opinion,
and says tho speech was disfigured by rant.
Lord Randolph Churchill, Stevoly Hill,
and Messrs. Courtney, Caine and Grey
voted for Mr. Caine’s amendment. Messrs.
Jennings, Hanbury, T. W. Russell, Heneago
and Caldwell abstained from voting. Fifty
dissidents supported the government.
It is improbable that the divorce case In
which Mr. Parnell is a co-respondent will
be tried before autumn. Mr. Parnell asked
for and obtained further and more definite
details as to tho times when and the places
where adultery is alleged to have been com
mitted. He is entitled to three weeks in
which to file his answer, but he will proba
bly apply for an extension of the time.
HUNGARY’S PRIME MINISTER.
Count von Ezarpary the Successor of
Count von Tisza
Pesth, March 11. — A conference was
hold to-day between the emperor, Herr von
Tisza, and Count von Szurpary, to con
sider the ministerial situation. It resulted
in Herr von Tisza definitely resigning his
office of Hungarian prime minister, and the
appointment of Count von Hzarpary to suc
ceed him. No other changes wore made in
the cabinet.
A NEW CABINET.
Pesth, March 11, 11 p. m.~ln spite of
Herr Tisza’s statement in the Diet, it is
positively stated tnat Count Bzapary has
formed a cabinet in which be takes the in
terior portfolio.
A NEW REGIME IN LISBON.
The Government Kicks Out the Coun
cil and Appoints a Commission.
Lisbon, March 11. — The government has
issued a decree dissolving the municipal
government ol this city and appointing a
commission to administer the affairs of the
city pending reforms relative to tho mu
nicipality which the government is now
considering. The municipal council met
this ufternoon in the town hail, the ap
proaches to which wore guarded by police.
The oouncil drafted a protest declaring that
it only yielded to force. Crowds in the
street cheered for the council.
France at the Berlin Conference.
Paris, March 11.—The cabinet has de
cided to send Senators Jules Biuion and
Kolaig, Ji. Burdeau, me nber of tbe Cham
ber of i*puties;M,Linder,in-poetor of mines;
and Al. Del"iiage, u uiecuauic, as represent
ative* of France nt tlie international labor
conference at Berlin.
SALISBURY REJECTS RESTRICTION.
Berlin. March 11.—The correspondence
between Germany and Great Britain rela
tive to tlie scope of tho lnteruatloual labor
conference has been m ule public. L >ril
(Salisbury, the British prime minister, de
clined to favor any scheme looking to legal
restriction of thw hours of labor.
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CINCINNATI UT 11Y FIRE.
THE CLOTHING FIRM OF STERN,
MAYER Sc CO. BURNED OUT.
Stone Cornices Prattling About tti*
Heads of the Fireman Like Hall
stones—The Burnett House laved
Only by Hard Work—The Guests In
a Panic.
Cincinnati, 0., March 11.—Fire from an
unknown source burst out lu the clothing
bouse of Stern, Mayer & Cl., at the north
east corner of Tuird and Vino streets shortly
after l o’clock this morning. Nobody saw it
until attention was attracted by crashing
glass from tho windows. By the time
the first fire engines arrived the
whole interior of the great structure
was ablaze. An alarm calling all tbe en
gines was at once sounded, aid the united
efforts of the fire department were directed
to confining the fire wituiu Us own walls.
The building is a five story stone front,
erected at a cost of $200,000. It had a front
age of 120 feot on Third street and 150 fee t
on Vine. The entire building was occu
pied by Sterm, Meyer & Cos., except one
room on Third street, which was used by
the Monotuck Silk Company.
OTHER PROPERTY IN PERIL.
It stands in the very midst of valuable
buildings filled with valuable goods, and to
allow it to gam control would io certain
calamity. Across the streoi on Vine street
stands tne Burnett house. During the pro
gress of the fire it was with the utmost
difficulty tiiat the flames were kept from
that house. Tho guests, of course, were in
great distress. Most of them paeked their
trunks and were ready to leave, ti me of
the ladies gathered in the oilioe with grip
sacks and sealskins aud refused to return to
their rooms.
SAVED AFTER A HARD FIGHT.
Moro than once the roof was smoking,
and several of the windows were broken by
the heat, and in some cases the inside blinds
were burning. But watchful men were
ready with wntor at all exposed points, and
the hotel was saved.
Tho great Enterprise building, adjoining
Stern, Meyer & Co.’s on the east, was on
fire at one time, tyit by bravery and skill it
also was saved.
THE LOSS VERY HEAVY.
The establishment ot Htern, Meyer & Cos.
was one of ihe largest iu the city. Its stock
was full, and is estimated at SBOO,OOO. It
was wholly lost. Tho total insurance is
stated to be $250,000.
Early in the progress of the fire the stone
cornioe of the building began to fall like
hail, but tbe firemen, with almost reckless
bravado, ran up their ladders and carried
up hose. Very soon it was found that tbe
street front of the building would nave to
be vacated by tbe engines and ladders.
A FIREMAN INJURED.
As one of the firemen was descending a
ladder, a piece of tho cornice struck him
and knocked him to the ground, iio was
badly cut about tlie bead, and was carried
away in an unconscious condition. Tbe
engines on the Third street front had to tie
hauled away by bund to save them, us the
heat was unendurable.
On tho way to tlie fire the driver of an
engine was very seriously injured by a col
lisiou with a freight cur near the Cincin
nati, Hamilton and Dayton depot.
Tho wonder is that with such a tall struct
ure, on such a narrow street, the casualties
are no greater.
The firm of Stern, Meyer & Cos,, has been
in existence thirty years.
CRAWLED OVER CORPSE^.
Four Men Escape from the Wrecked
Coal Mine Pit.
London, March 11.—Four miners, who
wore entombed by the explosion yesterday
in the Morosa colliory in Glamorganshire,
YValos, havo made thoir escape from the pit
withuut assistance. They crawled through
u crevice between the roof and the debris.
They report that they passed over a number
of dead moil lying in heaps, and they siy
that they believe that none of those in the
pit are alive.
Tho lire which followed the explosion in
the colliery bos become so fierce that the
parties who were searching for the dead
huve been compelled to withdraw from the
mine,
AT LEAST 100 KILLED.
London, March 12, 3 a. m.—The fire in
the colliery Is spreading. There is no hope of
recovering the bodies, but there are plenty
of volunteers trying to subdue the flames
and reacu the victims. .Seventy-five per
cent, of them were married and have fam
ilies. The latest estimate is that at least 100
were killed.
BKRLIN’3 LABOR CONFERENCE.
Salisbury Refuses to Bear of Fixed
Hours for tbe Toilers.
Berlin, March 11. —The North German
Gazette denies that Prince Bismarck main
tained an attitude of dissent in the Staats
rath debate on the labor question. The
paragraph is supposed to imply that the
emperor and chancellor have arrived at an
agreement m the matter.
THE FAILURE TO INVITE RUSSIA.
St. Petersburg, March 11.—The Grash
danin attributes Germany’s failure to in
vito Russia to the labor conference, firstly,
to the fact that there is no labor question
in Russia, and, secondly, to the fact that
Germany is conviuood that Russia would
refuse to take nart m tho conference on the
ground that it is virtually patronizing
socialism. Moreover, the paper udds, Rus
sia’s refusal would seriously impede Ger
many, inasmuch us it would cause Fi ance
also to refuse to take part.
FAIR LAND OF POLAND.
Germany Warned Not to Ride Over
Her with Despotic HeeL
Berlin, March 11.—Iu the lower house of
the Prussian diot to-day H'rr Szmnula,
Pole, warned the government against ill
treating the Poles, who, ho said, would be
wanted in tie event of war with Rus-ia.
He declared that if the Polos were embit
tered against Germany the founding of a
now kingdom of Poland would become
possible, eveu should Germany be victorious
agaiust the foes ou her two fronts. It would
be impossible for Germany to annex the
Baltic provinces until she had first secured
her rear. He believed that it was time for
those provinces to anuexed. [Murmurs of
dissent.]
North Carolina's Old Debt.
Raleigh, N. C., March 11.—The report
of (State Treasurer Bain, made to-day,
shows that #11,000,000 of the old debt of tne
state of North Carolina has been funded
into uuw 4 per cents under the act of 1679,
wbicn expires by limitation July 1, 1890.
There is now only $1,600,000 of the old debt
outstanding.
Germany’s Chancellorship.
Berlin, March 11.—Hemi-otfieial papers
state that tlie Grand Duke of Baiieti u me
diating to avert a crisis iu the chancellory.