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NEWS NOTES AND ITEMS FROM
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Proceeding's of the Second Ses¬
sion of the 51st Congress.
SENATE.
The resumption of the force bill debate
in the fenate Thursday was rendered
without incident, because Mr. Evarts held
the floor with a prosy speech, Mr. Mor-
gan introduced a resolu ion declaring the
British authorities in bringing the Behr-
iQg sea matter into the suprememe disrespectful court
without precedent and to
the United States. It was re!erred.
I he fight to the death on the force bill
commenced Friday, aud the measure must
either pass or be defeated within a very
few days. At 2 o’clock the vice presi¬
dent laid before the senate, as “unfin¬
ished business,” the elections bill, and
Mr. Pasco proceeded to address the senate
iu opposition. He yielded to Mr. Iloar
who went to the clerk’s desk,
and had read an Arkansas news¬
paper extract, The article was
headed “Safety Without Rascality,” aud
advocated a suffrage requirement of
$1,000 in property and the payment of
$10 poll tax, while the people of the state,
having irrevocably made up their minds
that the negroes of that state shall not
rule. One statement in the article was
that the stuffing of ballot boxes and bull¬
dozing drels the negroes were making scoun¬
and ruffians of the sons of gentle¬
men; and another was that the plan laid
down in the new constitution of Missis¬
sippi—the reading or intelligence test—
was
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to
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give officers of the
treasury powef to audit the accouuts of
yielded supervisors as in other cases. He also
to Mr. Hoar to report back the
fortification appropriation bill with
amendments. Mr. Pasco, once more, at
6:10 o’clock, yielded to Mr. Wolcott, who
moved an adjournment. The motion was
defeated by the Hoar contingent. Mr.
Pasco resumed and spoke until 0:40
o’clock, when Mr. Hampton took the
floor. An effort was then made to induce
Mr. Hoar to consent to an adjournment
of debate until Saturday. His reply was
a request to the Democrats to name an
hour when a vote might be taken. This
was not done and Mr. Hampton pro¬
ceeded to address the senate in opposi¬
tion to the bill. Mr. Dixon, of Rhole
Island, spoke next in favor of the bill.
At 0 o’clock Saturday evening the force
bill •was laid aside informallv and the
senate adjourned, after a continous ses¬
sion of thirty hours, since noon Friday.
There was practically no excitement, un¬
til 2 oclock Saturday morning, when
Senator Sanders, of Washington, surprised
the Republican senators by asking that
the roll be called to see if a quorum was
present. He said he had been delega¬
ted by his party to remain on hand, but
he wanted company, and therefore asked
that the absent senators be sent for.
However, a quorum could not be gotten,
althoughjthe bring in sergeant-at-arms was sent out
to absentees. All the republicans
who -were found asleep around the build
ing came iu, but a few of the democrats
declined to have their naps disturbed,
and refused to comply with the order.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina, was
one of the number . The sergeant-at-
arms reported his refusal to the senate,
but no action upon it was~taken. As it
was, no quorum could be gotten together
until ten o’clock Saturday morning—the
senate, however, remained in session,
Senator Faulkner retaining the floor, but
not in speech-making speaking. The and day short was debates spent chiefly
amendments. During the afternoon upon
Mr.
Aldrich gave notice that on Tuesday he
would ask the senate to proceed to the
consideration of the resolution to change
the rules of the senate.
***
HOUSE.
In the house, Wednesday on Thursday, after the
journal of had been read,
Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, objected to
certain statements therein concerning the
proceedings with reference to limiting
the debate on the district appropriation
bill, and moved to amend. The motion
was tabled and the journal approved.
Mr. Dockery, of Missouri, took the floor
in criticism incurring of the liabilities policy of the republi
cans in which a dem¬
ocratic house would be obliged to meet,
when a message from the senate arrived
announcing the passage coinage of the financial
bill, with the free substitute
The reception of this message by the
democratic side was cordial and effusive,
aud Mr. Bland expressed the hope that
early action would be had upon the mat¬
ter. The bill went on the speaker’s
table. The speaker announced the fol¬
lowing pool committee question: to Messrs. investigate Dingley,Payne th; sil¬
ver
Rowell, Dockery and Oates. Mr. Dock¬
ery asked to be excused from personal
reasons. His request was granted by a
vote of the house, and Mr. Peel, of Ar¬
kansas, was appointed into to fill the vacancy.
The house then went committee of
the whole on the District o' Columbia
appropriation Clements, bill, and was addressed
by^-Mr. commendation of Georgia, in general
of its provision, Lut in
criticism of several of its features. At
the conclusion of Mr. Clements’ remark
the committee rose and the house ad¬
journed.
In the house, on Friday, Mr. Dingley,
from the silver pool committee, reported
a resolution in the house, giving that
committee leave to sit during sessions of
the hou9e, and granting it power to con¬
duct the investigation outside of Wash¬
ington if deemed desirable. Adopted.
The house went into committee of the
whole, Mr. Allen, of Michigan, in the
chair, on the District of Columbia ap-
nropriation bill. Mr. Rogers, of Arkaa
sas, after paying h s respects to parlia¬
mentary law as recognized by the speaker,
addressed himself to the free coinage
bill, making a political free coinage
speech. Mr. Shively, of Indiana, spoke
in opposition to the shipping bill, which
he characterized as legal grand larceny
of the people’s money. Mr. Langstou.of
Virginia, made a speech in support of
the election bill, then the appropriation
bill, under consideration,but about which
nothing had been said, was read by par¬
agraph for amentment, but no progress
was made, and the committee having
arisen, the house took a recess until 8
o'clock, the evening session to be for the
consideration of private pension bills.
The house at its evening session passed
seventy private pension bills, including
one Gen. granting Franz a pension of $50 a month to
of $100 Sigel, one granting a pension
a per month to Gen. Isaac
Quiaby, ing of Rochester, N.Y., one increas¬
to $100 a month the pension of Joseph
J. Bartlett, of New York, and one grant¬
ing a pension of $100 a month to Gen. N.
P. Banks. The passage of the latter bill
was both greeted with general applause on
sides of the home, where General
Banks now sits as a member. The calen¬
dar having been cleared of bills unob¬
jected to, the house adjourned.
NOTES.
General Joe Wheeler, of Alabama, con¬
gressman from the Sheffield district, says
if the shipping subsidy bill passes, it will
cost our government within ten years
$100,000,000 a year. After that time it
will run up to two or three times that
amount.
The senate free coinage bill is now in
the hands of the house committee on
coinage, weights and measures, aud that
committee v\ ill report it to the house in
some shape iu a few days. It is the gen¬
eral opinion that the bill will pass the
house by a good majority.
A telegram was received at the war de¬
HjRfig partment Thursday from General Miles
permission for a number of Sioux
to visit Washington for the pur-
^■of to conferring their condition. with the After president consult- in
I^Bvith P^H lcgraphed secretary General Noble, Miles, Secretary giving Proc- the
^^ved permission.
present there are forty-four republi-
B^ftenators in Washington, supposing that or one the less
a quorum, re-
HHicans, who are numbered with them,
aireud aud vote on the force bill. Whether
they vote for or against the bill and its
'Upporting propositions, is an important
question. Their vote*, one way or the
other are desired to make a quorum, in
case] it is decided to call up the cloture
resolution.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has an
agent of the postoffice department in
Europe examining the various pneumetic
tube systems of transmftting mail radfter
and dispatches from one to another part
of large cities. It is his object first to
connect the capitol and white house and
all the departments of the government by
these tubes, aud then to establish systems
of this kind for transmitting mail in all
the large cities.
The silver pool investigating commit¬
tee held a preliminary session Friday
morning for the purpose of arranging a
plan of proceedure. The session was
secret, but future meetings will be with
open doors. The committee adjourned
after directing subpoenas to issue for
Stevens and Apperson, the two Washing¬
ton which correspondents of the Globe-Democrat
paper made the original charge,
At the adjournment of the house Fri¬
day evening the District of Columbia ap¬
than propriation bill was no further advanced
ever, and the house is still on the
first paragraph. The democratic mem¬
bers of the appropriation committee are
reported as saying that no business would
be transacted while the election bill was
pending and that perhaps the republicans
might have to consider how they would
like an extra session of congress.
A FREEZE ON THE CONTINENT.
Rivers Blocked With Ice—Fear¬
ful Snowstorms.
Dispatches of Sunday from London,
Eng, say: Reports of snowstorms and
increasing cold weather come from various
parts of the continent. In France the
Gironde is covered with ice floes, and
heavy snowstorms are reported Communication in various
sections of the country.
between Lyons and Savoy is blocked completely
cut off, all the roads being by
snow. The Rhone is frozen over, with
the exception of a narrow channel in mid¬
stream. In Paris the weather is unusually
severe, the mercury having fallen to 18°
above zero. In Switzerland, also,
the weather is very cold.
The port of Genoa is completely blocked
by ice. Fr m Germany come similar re¬
ports. The Association of Underwriters
at Hamburg has a vessel cruising near
Heligoland to warn vessels against enter¬
ing the Elbe, vessels having been badly
damaged while trying to force their way
through the ice. Dispatches from Cet-
tinje, the capitol of Montenegro, off says a
heavy fall of sn iw has cut all commu¬
nication with that city and the interior of
the county. It is feared that many dis¬
asters have occurred, and the loss of live
stock will be very heavy. A large number
of travelers are snowed ud.
THE BRETHREN RESPONDED.
The Noble Act of the Knights
Templars in Chicago.
A Chicago dispatch says: One of the
most unique surgical operations on record
was performed in this city Sunday, and
132 Knights Templars gave to the world
a notable example of fraternal love and
self-sacrifice, made in order that a sick
brother might be restored to health.
These knig.its each suffered the loss of a
piece of cuticle, which was transferred
to Sir Knight John Dickerson. A cancer,
which had attacked his thigh, was and re¬
moved some time ago, but so deep the
wide an incision had to be m tde in
flesh that nature was unequal to the task
of healing over the gaping wound. The
experiment was tried of engrafting
the skin of some of the lower animals,
but failed. The surgeon in charge an¬
nounced to Dickerson's anxious brethren
that if human skin could be obtained it
would, in all probability, save the pa¬
tient’s life and insure his complete obtain ieeov-
ery. The question was where to
sufficient skin to cover 144 square inches
of surface. The matter was broached in
the commandery, and, to a man, the
knights offered to submit themselves to
the necessary operation.
NEWS AND NOTES
CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH
AND CABLE.
Epitome of Incidents that Hap¬
pen from Day to Day.
Three earthquake shocks were felt in
Mexico Thursday.
The terrible scourge, known as : ‘black
death," has reached Tabalsk, capital of
West Siberia.
John C. Hall, of the big law firm of
Hall & Rogers, San Francisco, has con¬
fessed to embezzlement of a large amouut.
Leonard Perrin, a wealthy New Lon¬
don, M is., man, has been convicted of
complicity iu the Harlev bank robbery of
1889
The sale of the B’.ackville, Newberry
and Alston railroad to the East Shore
Terminal has been confirmed by the stock¬
holders.
The directors of the worl i's fair have
postponed the threatened abandonment
of the lake front side, pending negotia¬
tions now T in progress and supposed to be
final.
A Lincoln, Neb., dispatch says: Ex-
Governor Thayer, who has been suffering
from nervous prostration, brought on by
the political complication in the legisla¬
ture, on Sunday, became a raving maniac.
By a vote of 14 to 13 the senate at Lin¬
coln, Neb , Saturday, passed a resolution
without recognizing James E. Boyd as governor,
This prejudice to the powers contest
is the lir-t action in either branch < 1
the legislature which recognized Boyd as
governor.
Further details of the destruction
wrought by a severe'earthquake in A lgeria,
reported ou the lotli iustant, have been
received. The towns of Goureya and
Villebourg the shock, were practically destroyed b\
and lorty persons were killed
by the falling walls.
A Chicago dispatch of Thursday says:
The world’s fair directors have reaches
the conclus on that the world's fair act
empowers them to use any part of tin
lake front for the purpose of the exposi¬
tion. Accordingly architects have beet
instructed to prepare plans for five build
ings there. If abutting property owners
object, they can go into the courts auu
make their fight; but the direetois be¬
lieve that they will not be able to stop
the work.
A dispatch of Sunday, from Lincoln,
Neb., says: Three arrests have beei
made "within the past twenty four hour-,
iu connection with the murder of John
Sheedy, one week ago. McFarland, :
colored b riber, was the first suspect, and
he on Sunday, made a confession, ac¬
the knowledging wife the killing, and implicating and
of the murdered man her
supposed land lovers. All are in jail. McFar¬
declares that Mrs. Sheedy agreed to
pay him $1,500 to make away with her
husband. Sheedy was an old resident,
quite wealthy.
A Philadelphia dispatch of Thursday
says: An accidental discovery a few
days ago of the fact that there w r as a
lowering of the tugar entries of W.
Ford Thomas, n presenting the Claus
Spreckles sugar refinery, led to an inves¬
tigation, which sho wed that the altera¬
tions were fraudulent. Spreckles whs
called upon to explain and a demand
was made upon him for a deposit of $20,-
000, which amount, it was thought,
would protect the government from
losses. Spreckles at once gave his cer¬
tified check,bnt he asked fora government
expert to examine his own books and
teats.
A PISTOL’S WORK.
The City Attorney of Chatta¬
nooga Kills His Son-in-law.
A horrible tragedy occurred in Chatta¬
nooga Sunday morning. S. M. Fugett,
cashier of the South Chattanooga Sav¬
ings father-in bank, law, was Judge shot and killed by bis
the city J. A. Warder, who
is attorney of Chattanooga. Mr.
Fugett is a young man about twenty
years of age, and a popular, successful
business man, who, with his w ife, were
living with the judge. Judge Warder is
one of the best known lawyers in Tennes¬
see. For six years he was United States
district attorney for the middle district
of Tennessee. The judge was in the
habit of coming home under the influence
of liquor and abusing his wife and daugh¬
ter, who appealed to Mr. Fugett for pro¬
tection. The killing was the resuTt of one
these quarrels. Mr. Fugett was almost
instantly killed, while Judge Warder was
shot in two places. One ball peuetrated
his breast at the right nipple, the other
took off the index finger of his left han 1.
During the melee, Mrs. Fugett, who is
the only child of Judge Warder, was shot
in the right thigh, a very dangerom
wound. His domestic affairs were always
supposed to have been the happiest. The
affair created a great sensation, and opin¬
ions seems to be general that it was the
result of a crazy drunk.
BONHAM’S STATEMENT.
South Carolina’s Ex-Adjutant
General Explains.
A Columbia, S C., dispatch of Satur¬
day says: Ex-Adju»ant Geueral M L
Bonham, whose checks were protested by
Columbia banks and whom the press re¬
ported as a defaulter—all of which cre¬
ated a great sensation—has been sick
since his return, and unable to make a
lengthy statement His brief letter to
Governor Tillman, however, covers the
matter. He says that it has been cus¬
tomary for the troops not to draw their
money until several months after their
cheeks had been sent them; that, after
sending the checks, he was placed in a
very overdraw painful situation, and was obliged
to his own recount, and made
it up with the money for the troops;
that he had arranged to make this good,
and had he been in . Columbia when the
ehecks were presented, he would have
been able to pay them. He has ha 1 the
protested paid drafts recalled, and they will be
when again presented. This matter
is a very painful subject to every one at
Columbia. The young adjutant general
was very popular and has many friends.
NUMBER 3.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS
DAILY OCCURRENCES IN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND
Curtailed into Interesting and
Newsy Paragraphs.
Travel to Florida has become so heavy
that Atlantic Cost Line traius are now
running two sections.
The posmastor general has abolished
the office at Catherine, Ala , owing to
the recent trouble there.
It is announced that the French gov¬
ernment has abolished the office of
French vice consul at Charleston, S. C.
The North Carolina Phosphate com¬
pany’s works, near ilmington, insurance is wero $4,-
burned Saturday. The
500.
A Nashville dispatch says: Saturday
was Governor Taylor's last day in office.
Eighteen men were pardoned, making
sixty for the past two weeks, aud nearly
800 for the four years of his administra¬
tion.
A new hill, passed by the last legisla¬
ture, has been agitating the people an-1 of
cially Rome, Ga., a good council. deal lately, espe¬
the city It provides for
the creation of the office of recorder and
combines that office with tliat of city at¬
torney, making one man both judge aud
city attorney, which is, of course, impos¬
sible. The council is in a quandary; in
fact, the passage of the act was a surprise
to them.
A terrible wreck occurred ou the Cov¬
ington aud Macon railroad Friday after¬
noon, iu which a number of people were
terribly bruised and others shaken up.
As train No. 50, which leaves Athens at
1 o’clock, was running about fifty miles
per hour, when near Appalachce river,
the rear coach left the track aud rolled
dow r n an embankment sixty-four feet deep
and was smashed into kindling wood.
Twenty passengers were in the coach,and
it is indeed a miracle how they escaped
with their lives.
Iu the North Carolina legis’ature on
Friday, the senate passed a bill giving
the solicitors a salary, the amount bemg
$1,800. A resolution was adopted urging
senators and reprt sentatives to secure iho
repeal of the tax on state banks. This
passed the house adopted some da\ s ago. A res¬
olution was also urging them to
to opp se the Conger lard bill,, and use
every endeavor to secure the passage of
the Padd- ck pure food bill. Both of
these resolutions were presented by the
alliance. The bill to levy a tax of 25
cents per t n on commercial fertilizers
'\as introduced in the house, and will
pass.
A SHOW OF TIN
Manufactured in America by
Americans.
Tin sauce pans, pails, buckets aud
other household article- made of tin, ns
well as square plates of tiu, covered a
long table of the house committee on
ways and means the la^tdaysof the week.
Representative Niedrenhuu«, of Missouri,
was in the room most of the time, and he
explained to all inquiries the reasou for
the changed appearance of the loom.
The tins are samples of those which are
being turned out every ~ nt the works
in 8t. Louis, and are wholly of American
manufacture. The original work was
done in the steel mills of Chattanooga,
and the trimming in St. Louis.
The plant has only recently been estab¬
lished, and is now turning out about 300
cases tin plate a day. The ore comes
from the Dutch islands, and the piice ol
the manufactured article is about the
same as when imuorted-
ANOTHER CALL
For a Third Party Convention
Issued.
A Topeka, Kansas, dispatch of Satur¬
day says: Two hundred and fifty dele¬
gates who have been attending the citi¬
zens’ alliance convention in this city
have completed an organization and is¬
sued a call for a national convention, to
be held at Cincinnati between March 10th
and 20th, to organize a third party.
The call issued at the Ocala convention
was considered premature, and the date
was, therefore, changed. The organiza¬
tion is intended to give the Knights of
Labor and other industrial organiza’ions
an opportunity of joining the people's
movement. National organizers were
appointed as follows: Captain C A.
Powell, Terre Haute, Ind.; Ralph Beau¬
mont, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. L. Lc-
Lessee, Wichita, and Captain S. N.
Wood, Wichita. The name of the or¬
ganization was changed to the Citizens’
National Industrial Alliance.
IT IS YOUNG NOW
But Expects to Do Great
Things in the Future.
Charleston is to Dave an oil refinery,
which may in time compete with ti.e
great trust. The organization h :s been
perfected and officers elected. The cap¬
ital fctock of the oompany, which for the
present is to be $25,000, will be taken by
twenty-four smaller cotton seed oil mills
in the state. It is expected that next
year several of the smaller oil mills ol
Georgia will join the company which is
to be known as the Mutual Oil Refinery
Company.
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