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The Democrat.
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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
BY CLEM. C. MOORE.
CRA WFORI) VILLE, GEORGIA.
Enf.-red at the poatofBee at Crawfordrill#,
ib-oif ft. a> aecond-clua mail matter.
Curiously enough, Illinois census re
turns show that out i lc of the < it:■ 11 „,
populat'd! i* decreasing.
(governor owl of Alaska pr<"li'
that the mammoth, alive and well, will
yet be found in (be interior of In re
markable Territory.
It i po-dirti <1 tii.it we arc t< lia'-c
very *boi!ly an age of pulp, in wii.ch
that in; <-i serviceable material will take
llie place in long measure of wood,stone,
clay :in<J iron.
Shelby county, M i., has n min; t
who for usefulness bleaks the record.
one day the Rev. (diaries M -Ana'iy
preached two sermons, married t wo
couples and set three broken ribs.
I here is a noticeable awakening in the
Alabama and Georgia g Id inb red A
number of new enterpri arc pro jPdcil
and a great deal of machinery is coming
in for mines now ready for work.
The liev. Anthony S.vcnsviri of It
(roit is the fir t Swede to le onine :i Jfo
man Catholic jji*h 4 *t ftfnro the lu fnnn:;
tion. Out of a population of (>,000,000
Hwcden lias only 2000 Homan (’atho
lies.
England torlny pays a total of $1,000,
000 iii sulisidics, and by that means a*
sf-rt ihr New Orleans 7V /h lli'HTilt ,
she gets $005,000,000 of tin* $005,000.
000 paid for the enrrying trade of the
world.
The Hi*v. Dr. tlnsi-]>h Parker of Lon
don is going to start a series of smokim
Kerim ms. lie lltinks that the LoikIom
woikinpirien may he itiiliieeil to y;n to
i-htireh il they can f j ml a place wln-i
pipe smoking ami religions services may
he pursued together.
There has been begun in Paris a cam
juniikit 4wundUtteC i .out a j . is on
to the old system of nursing by sisters of
rhnrity has been strongly advoeuhd. It
is alleged that the mortality in hospitals
is four per cent, higher since tho intro
ilurtiim of I ruined nurses.
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An Krtglisb joker took down the cn!
endnr in a busine-s office and hung ii]
one two years >)(!, Dates for nu
portant paper were taken from it, and a
loss of $30,000 was the result. If he
were made to pay the $:U),0i)0 he would
not think the joke ho funny.
A Washington rorrf'q'onili'tit draw
attention to the iienuum-nt nature of tin
I'aitrd States solute. Senator Hoar o.f
Masamhu <-tts who hn lieen ro-elceted
for a third time w ill liml one fifth of the
senators in their sent* during the next
session who wore there when he lirst took
the oath of office in 18*7.
Every new milway that (nines ini ' ex
Sstenct* increases th ■ number of railway
employes at an estimated average of five
men to the mile, lienee, the 72 '0 miles
which were built lust year have called
into the service about .'It!,000 men. The
railway official* and men of the United
States now number marly S •(> 000.
They are still pegging away at the
Cape (’< •! (Mass.j ship i und. which was
la-gun nine years ng, Tin* contract re
quires the work to be finished by June
20, 1801. but ns there ate seven mile: '
yet to be dug. and as during 1 s s > there
was only about seven-eight h.s of a mile
ojiened, the prospects are not good, re¬
marks the New York Y< *s. for the ful¬
filment of the contract.
Tlie French newspaper* are said to
have been very heavily hit by the col¬
lapse of the Panama bubble. They wen
given advertisements very profusely, and
were jwiiil very liberally, but were tx
ported to puff prodigiously. Some jour
m»!s received annual allowances, Tin
conijuiny never paid in money, but al
ways in shares which are now utmost
wortbless. and the papers were temud
never to negotiate them.
Bishop Potter of New York wants a
Dumber of his wealthy friends to sub
scribe the -iuii of #73.000. wherewith to
purchase the little Greek town of C'artri,
which is built over the site of the Ti tu¬
ple of Apollo, at Delphi, and #75.000
additional for the cxpeuscs of< xcav atm -
The Greek government has given
mission for the work to be done. Bishop
Potter an# other ! ding learned men in
the north and east think that it wou
a great triumph for American
ship to dig up the ret iho
of the ancient oracle.
THE DEMOCRAT. CRAWFOKDVILLE, GEORGIA.
A cab driver in Chicago, ace .riling to
recent news items from that pork-pack*
ing metropolis, has defied Providence
and dyspepsia by undertaking to eat .'50
young pig* in as many days.
Before the passage of the ‘‘anti-oleo'’
law the manufacturers alleged that they
wen selling 100,000,00(1 pounds per un
man in tlte United States. If this were
true stales the Mail and JHtj/rett, New
York must have had at least 8,000,000
pounds. Bincc the law went into effect
the consumption litis dropped off to al
tno~ nothing.
The label oeiimts and year-book from
1 til*sia reveals a remarkable fact in the
official statement that out of a populn
tion of 108,000,000, lnit 724,878
Russians rrostied the frontiers of
the country going or coming. The
exclusiveness of China i- prn\ rbial,
observe- the Washington Star, bin con
sidcriog the differencesin civilization be
tween the two countries that of if- ia
in more wonderful.
Eighteen ,Stall in the Uni' n have
adopted scientific temperance education
laws, and ('ongre.es 1 ) nissed a law
which jnstir !i:e i;, drui 1 ion of youth in
principles of t •mperancc in the ■hod
of the Territories, the District of
Columbia and the military and naval
school These results are due to the
rffo'laof die Women , Christian Temper¬
ance Union, which (lewdes much energy,
time and money to the work.
The New York llh/7./ ha (truck noon
an idea. Ill.-tr:;d of i r stin" oil on
troubled waters if has dots d a means
of canting trouble on oiled waters. it,
proposes to (lofond our harbors hyn*f *«n.s
of sunken j»*■ j>: nt« 1 oil pi))is, whioh
whrn ijiui'o r npproiK’lK's. slatll, uiojihiti
oaily sp«*ak in^, omit tin* <i; im serous liuid.
A nmteh applied at this stage will soon
render the harbor a seething mass of
names, whirh the iron Had will sail
through with the utmost unconcern.
The design for the monument to be
pluceil over General Hhcruiun h grave at
Arlington opposite Waahinfftoii, lias been
ma.'le by Samuel Ivitson, a New York
.sculptor, under (lie Mipcrvi-ion of Mi^.
Sheridan, The mobuinent consists of a
pyramidal monolith of gray granite ris¬
ing from a simple base. The whole
structure will ho thirteen feet in height.
,4 - .inxiXvvAv/ ,W-v av J/n.r■*/ I’Ac'- iAmi/
general will 1 K‘ X unk in the side. Kvcry
thing about the monument will he plain
and substantial,
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The commercial journal known as
liradehr/t'*, reports t!5S) strikes in 1888,
involving 207,811 employes against 88-1
.strikes concerning 340,788 employes in
1S87, a tlerivase of 225 in the number of
strikes and 132,041 in number of strik
ers. There were in January, 1880,
thirty-three strikes involving 6865 men
against 60 strikes involving 36,000 men
(28,000 in the Reading strike) in 1888.
Of the 6865 strikers that month 5000
a re neeounted for liv the coal miners'
strike in West Virginia mid eigurmukers’
strike in New York City.
A new method of lielpinif along an
parly-closing movement was put in oper¬
ation recently at Red Jacket, a large cop¬
per mining town in the Lake Superior
region. All the business men agreed to
elox) their stores at 8 o'clock
Yulow "drill ,V Sons.
new order of things was put in opera¬
tion 100 clerks entered A"alow stein’s
store, each smoking a cheap cigar, and
began looking over goads. They soon
cleared the store of all holy customers.
They attempted no violence, made no
noise, simply smoked them out. The
clerks say they* will keep it up.
TUe Washington Star says: ‘-The
personal appearance of the next Senate
will hold its own quite well. Sixteen
Senators have been re-elected, which se
cure's the philosophic lieauty of Senator
Hoar's face, the rugged Scotch force of
Senator Reek’s grizzled countenance, the
fine ptofile of Senator Colquitt, the
knightly features of Senator Runs an,and
tin 1 tine facial type represented by Sena¬
tor Chare. The Lincoln-like Cuilom,
the manly Plumb, the courtly Harris, the
statuesque IVdph, the classic Mo gun,
the Rembrandt ian Mauderson, all re¬
main. Of the new Senators some are
noted for their stood looks."
The New York O’ sa\ s: * ’Aside
from their polygamous practice, the
Mormons a|*|icar under some lights to in*
* remarkable people. Governor Stephen¬
son of Idaho, in his annual message,
after describing Bear I,uk t outity.
w hich has a |K»pu at ion of .M'Oti.says of the
*j U at ii** populate rs 1 1
t Mormons, and tin c is
not s Vi or r gambling housi ‘ r :»:iy
otli^r place where intoxicating liquor i'
sold, and this is. 1 am told, t case U!
(WES n Idaho
pi liav -xciusive Tr
very \v cu&u: >ua
try of wlik :h u.iu t
NEWS SUMMARY.
* astern and Middle States.
The ten girls who were lulled by the squib
factory disaster p.t Plymouth, Penn., have
I**'n buried, nine in one common grave in
Shawnee Cemetery and one, Maggie Lynch,
in the Catholic Cemetery.
Herman vberser. an aged farmer, was
killed in his home u.-ar Jauicsiokn, Penn.,
by two masked men. who rooted him of
tl.'J.UOd. His wife witnessed the murder.
A house at T listen, X. V.. occupied by
•Tohc Belcher and Nicholas Dononue, was
burned. The wife of the latter went upstairs
for valuables,but w as overcome and perished
wi:h her young child.
The Connecticut Legislature adjourned
for ten days in order to allow metaoers to go
to the inauguration.
Ro.jert Sioei, the son of General Franz
fiigel. Pension Agent in New York, has been
arrested for frauds and forgeries in connec¬
tion w.th pension payments. He was placed
under t~ O.uOj bail.
Henry A. Gould, dealer in dye stuffs,
rubber, guttapercha, etc., at Boston. Mass.,
has made a voluntary assignment With lia¬
bilities approaching *1,000,00).
Edward Coburr, aged twenty-eight
years, killed his wife, aged eighteen, at Bea¬
ton, Mass., and then committed sdivide.
A ko.v and daughter of P. T. Adams, of
Livonia, N. V'., while crossing Conesus Lake
m a sleigh, drove into a noie where the ice
hail lieen removed. The young man jumped
and was save I, but the young woman and
he horse were drowned.
Tim steamer Kill lot Knll, of the Cen¬
tral Railroad of New Jersey, was burned at
Llizabethport, *175,000. N. J., causing a m I of over
South anil West.
Howard Anderson uvhite) has bean
banged al Goldsboro, N. C., for murder.
Ex-United States Senator. .John W.
Johnston-, of Richmond, Va., died a few
days since in his seventy-eighth year.
At Aurora, 111., Edward ArtiST a young
colored man.shot Kittle Palmer, who refused
to marry him, and shortly afterward com¬
mitted suicide.
liv tho explosion of a saw mill at Hunter’s
Landing, Trnn. , throe men were killed and a
number wounded.
Governor Wilson, of West Virginia,has
issued cortificatee of election to John D. Al
derson and J. M. Jackson as Congressman
from tho Third and Fourth Districts. This
makes a solid Democratic delegatfbn in Con¬
gress from West Virginia.
A Missouri forger, named Thompson,
killed F. Turley, >Sh, rilf of Carter County,
and his deputy.
building A fire at Milwaukee, Wis., destroyed the
milliners, occupied by J. E. .tenner a Co.,
causing a loss of over STO.UOO.
When the fire was practically extinguished
the four floors fell in, burying a dozen fire¬
men in ihe basement below, three of whom
were fatally Injured.
The bill making train robbery in Arizona
a capital crime has becom ia law.
The business portion of tho village of
Lostant, ill., was burned.
A wholesale hardware store, a candy
factory and Henrico’s Hotel were burned in
t hicago causing a loss of over $3 )0,00
The family of Mr. Hynes, nine in all. were
drowned in a swamp in De-atur County.
Tenn., who near the Tennessee them «seapinujk*,toU River a colored
man was with the
story. The family were moving a wagon
and ut ter dark became lost.
Township, There is Johnson much excitement County. in lnT (j ite River tlio
over
wholesale outbreak of hydrophob
""Vi'niiniriift'bfrf
tivo, The Executive President and has Judicial approved Appropriation t(w| Lejisia
bill, the Diplomatic and Cons.nl:-. Appropri
nt’ou Phil. Hheridan. bill, tho bill and granting bill a ptaciai pen iqn General to Mrs.
the
Kosecrans on the retired list.
The Secretary of tho Treasury lias awarded
the contra, t for carrying specie and all other
Government moneys to and from the Treas¬
ury and national depositories to the United
States Express Company. The Adams Ex¬
press Company, which has held the contract
lor thirty years, was tho only other bidder.
The public debt statement shows an in
crease of expenditures about ST.OOJ.OOO, caused the by month the fact of
that tho during
February exceeded receipts.
Tin; Inst Cabinet meeting of Cleveland's
administration was attended by every mem¬
ber and wai devoted to a discussion relative
the closing up of affairs. At its conclusion
each member received meeting. copies of photographs
taken of the Cabinet
General Harris). . received many callers
on the third day after his arrival in Wash¬
ington, and took two long walks about tho
city.
An agreement was reached jpratiijn by the con¬
ferrees on the Army Appr bill.
The Treasurer of the United Htstes ilj.’.5S mailed
suit:: checks, acgivgutmK ?1,5! 5. for in¬
terest, due March 1, 18$.', on I niteil State.)
registered I : per cent, bon is of the funded
loan of 1SJ1.
Senator Riddlebebgkr, of i Virginia,
caused such n disturbance in tna Senate
that tin* presiding o iicar refused to recog¬
nize him. Mr. Riddleberger resumed then resigned
h.s seat in the Senate. Put tha an¬
noyance of his fellow Senators until he was
taken out in the custody of the Sergeant-at
Arius.
Mu. Cleveland just bsfor* retiring from
office transmitted to Congress the fifth iv
jHirt of the Civil Service Coannssion ac¬
companied by a message.
The President gave a dinner to the me n
l«*rs of his Cabinet at the Waite House, iust
before his retirement from office. They were
iili present except Attorney-Gelneral Gar¬
land. Chief Justice Fuller, Asso-fate Justice
l.amar and Co onel Laniout went the other
the guests The dent Cabinet for several officers regained after with the
1 "res hour*
dinner, a-sisting him in the consideration
ami despatch of Congressional measures and
in dosing up the affairs of the Administra
tion. Over a hundred tills Were acted
upon.
General Clark, the Clerk oC the House
of Rap.usentatives, has rereivaii from the
Government of West Virginia the certificates Third
of the demon of Congressmen rojr Skate. the They
ami Fourth Districts of that
ar.' issu sl in the names of the I Democratic
candidates. jonty of three This in the makes next a House] RepojbUean mi
The President before his retirement signoi
the Pension Appropriation bill, and the bill
to provide for tha eleventh and i subsequent
censuses.
Foreign.
It is reported tea: General Ddseo* rues, the
French commander, has tieen niurdsred in
Tonquin, China.
Sevfntv lives war.* lost .n tbJ recent gale
on the North 8s-a
Sionor Crisfi, the Italian 1 ’remier. has
resigned to avoid the inevitable hostile vote
on th" Government measure p roviding for
addiuoa.u taxation.
The re; ort of K.r Ju ian INnpcefotes's a>
. ' untaent British Minister t o the United
Slate - tins i een officially (tell tin led.
Skxor 1U biav has again tak* ■n charge ol
the Ministry of Finance in the Mexican
Cabinet
Ms. Giadstone and Mr. Fai nell ^0 ike in
ths F.ngii'h Parliament on 3pr riey's
amendment to the disaatlsfactj reply to the Qiroen's
speech, expressing j on with the
British Government's policy m Ireland: tbs
amendment was defeated bv a ■ rote of JJa to
While the local train was Dariis awaiting orders
in the station Brantford yard at d.xsaed Canada, a
special from foreel into the
passenrer car with full pi. smashing It
into splinters and killing two ssengers
The Loovion Iums has ma(4e ao rdo'c^v*
for pabitskagthe forced Idunenl orilered ietr-er*.
The King of Italy cabintL has [ Signor ‘
Crispi to form a new
Hon. Berry Belmont, L'uitel States
Minister to Spam, has resigned.
Tub recall of Herr Knappe, the German
Consul at Samoa, has iieen promptly !o.
lowed by the dispatch of rierr Stuebei, form¬
erly Consul-General Btuebel, at Copenhagen, to re
place him. lierr after an inter¬
view witn B.sroarek. left under in-tructio:ii
to reach Samoa by the quickest run :e.
A report from Kiel, Germany, says that
a naval conflict has taken place in Samoan
waters between the German war vessel O.ga
and a United States man-of-war. The
American vessel is reported to have tired the
first shot.
The Peruvian Cabinet has resigned.
The seventy-ninth birthday of Pope Lea
Xllf. was celebrated in Rome. He receive i
the cardinals and prelates who had assembled
to do him the honors usual to the occasion.
EATER NEWS.
The Reading (Penn.) Iron Works have
failed, with liabilities estimated at $1,000,
000 .
A joint committee of the Rhode Island
Legislature favorably reported a bill to an¬
nul the Prohibitory Amendment to the State
Constitution.
Diphtheria of a malignant type is pre¬
vailing at St. Petersburg, Penn. All the
churches, schools and singing classes are
closed and pub'ic meetings forbidden.
Forty-five members of the Dakota Legis¬
lature te’egraphe 1 President Harrison asking
him to remove Governor Church at once.
S. J. Hott, a cobbler who is a.so janitor
of the Waterloo (Iowa) First National Bank,
has been elected Mayor of that place—mainly
by the Knights of Labor and railroad men.
The three claimants to the Governorship
of West Virginia—Nathan Goff, Republican;
President Carr, of the Senate, and the past
incumbent, Governor Wilson—have all for¬
mally taken the oath of office, and oach is
prepared to transact the Gubernatorial busi¬
ness.
President Harrison sent the following
Cabinet nominations to the Bcnate in special
sessions, an 1 they were immediately con¬
firmed: Secretary of State—James G.
Blaine, of Maine; Secretary of the Treasury
—William Windom, of Minnesota; Secretary
of War—Kedfield Proctor, of Vermont;
Secretary of the Navy—Benjamin F. Tracy,
of New York; Secretary of the interior—
John W. Noble, of Missouri; Postmaster
General—John Wanamaker, of Pennsylva¬
nia; Attorney-General—W. II. II. Miller,
of Indiana; Secretary of Agriculture—
Jeremiah Rusk, of Wisconsin.
Secretary of the Treasury Windom
has resigned the presidency of the Atlantic
and Pacific Railway Company (Eads’s
Tehuantepec ship railway).
The body of tho man who committed suicide
at Madrid lias been officially identified as
that of l’igott, the forger.
The British bark Port Gordon was
wrecked forty miles south of Cape Flattery,
British Columbia, and four of the crew wore
drowned.
At Shanghai, China, 56,000 rioters burned
down the British Consulate, and attacked
the American Consulate, doing great dam¬
age-
Mm is &’*e>A
of Ithaca by seven majority. The City Coun¬
cil and Board of Aldermen are Republican.
The Health Board bulletins, as quoted by
the Medical Record, show that during 1883
the number of registered deaths in New
York State reached the high figures of 110,
000. The mortality rata for the State from
all causes is placed at 10.(U per 1001 of the
population of the year.
Richard Bauduski, a young Russian
Pole, an inveterate cigarette smoker, who
consumed over half a dozen packages of
cigarettes a day, became partially insane at
Buffalo through tho habit and became ef¬
fected with melancholia. In one of his de¬
spondent moods he received a letter from his
father in Russia saying lie had been forced
to pay $1000 because tho son had left the
country to escape army service and iio was
ruined financially. The young man took n
butcher’s knife and slashed his throat horri¬
bly. On arriving at the hospital a doctor
took several ounces of blood from his own
arm, and it was transfused into the arm of
the unfortunate young man. A tube was
then inserted in the latter’s throat, and lie
was reported as in a fair way to recover.
The famous will case of Mary Irene Hoyt
against Samuel N. Hoyt et al., was decide 1
against the plaintiff by tho Court of Ap¬
peals at Albany. The suit involved $1,050,
000 and was ovor Hie manner of tho probalo
ofthewill of the Into Jesse Hoyt, of Bing¬
hamton .
AMDNCJ the bills which have recently he
come laws is that regulating tho payment of
faro; upon railroads, which provides tha'
pessengars failing to procure tickets before
entering the train must pay ten cants in ex ¬
cess of the fare, a reesipt for tho amount to
lie given which ontities tho holder to have
such exces-, re.unded upon presentation of
rocoipt at any ticket office of the company
within thirty days.
The wardens of the throe State prisons
and the Superintendent have informally dis¬
cussed the subject of executions by electricity.
Opinions expressed were to tho effect tlmt
the first case must of necessity lie purely ex
perimeutal; that it would l*> best to have but
one place for executions, and. as there was
no suitable place in any part of the prisons,
it would bo best to have a building built ex
press!ly for the purpose of the solitary con¬
finement and the death ponfihr.
UNSIGNED DILLS.
Measures Passed by Congress AVhicb
Failed to Become laws
Tho following is a list of tne til's which
diil not receive the President’s signature be¬
fore the adjournment of Dongres), »n i eon
wqueutlv fails 1 to i s *ome laws:
Hie act for a bridge across th* Arkansas
River uear Cummings Landing. Vrk.: the
act to require ti e VJnitad States Circuit and
District Judges to inst u't the jury in wr,t
mg m certain cas,s, the act to make V r r
Vngeiss. Washington Territory, a port •>
islivsrv; tiie act to pr'vida for tr.al by jar.*
in the’ Police Court of th» Dicr.et >’
Cotunihia; the act grantmz ths St. Lou,
and San ' rancisco ita lroad Gompanv tii
richf of wav ih -oi:» ' rim Indian i’err.t rv.
the act graii'inz right of way through Sb
■ ndiao Territory to tho Leavenworth ail
I'm Grande l a in at * ouipeny: the set
-Iran 5 ins ^nsicwi- and ntHex* relief to Wede
Montsromerr, Daniel M* Mau ding:, Xoah 1^
Voder, A. •*. Mc* ivar>. Mum ** A. Bailey. Tiitt
John Gaiia$her. Mary Murphy. C^rn> o.
Ruth Amos 1* S nltii. Andrew J .Fau^t.
y, alvnu IV tiitvT. Uo-ai.A Junk. Wiih^ni
A J arior, John Mann. < etnerme Hive
John ii. John i*. ' r u «>'l. II. N
IV Tiit w. Mary JIomi Bara*
A. Harr son. Lavi oa Wr*j : *t. Aon K Mu«s
Eii Jones an \ L - A. Wi,
y»Jn;k. wraow of Major oen». al u.i pxtr. „
SUMMARY of congress.
The Senate.
60th Day.—T he Senate passed the bill
wnich prohibits the erection of dams across
the rivers in Aiassa for the purpose ofcatch
mg salmon.... Mr. Piatt r- pcrte-.l of the two States bills
tor tne formation and admission
of Idaho and Wyom.ng.. ..Mr. Hoar re¬
ported an amendment appi or Gating i.S.OiKI
ior the detection and conviction of the per¬
sons w ho illegally carried away and de
stroyed the ballot boxes of Pluminerville,
Ark.... On motion of Mr. Cuilom. the Sen¬
ate proceeded to the eonsi deration of the
Senate bill to amend the Interstate Com¬
merce law.
61st Day.—T he Post Office Appropriation
bill was passed with amendments.... The
! senate resumed consideration of the two
House amendments to the bill to amond the
Interstate Commerce act, the pending ques¬
tion amendment being Mr. Sherman’s relation motion the to agree to
the in to transporta¬
tion of petroleum. On motion of Mr. Cuilom
the henate insisted on its disagreement to the
two House amendments, and a further con
ferenee was ordered.... The Senate in execu¬
tive session confirmed a great many nomina¬
tions, including those of William S.
n ans to be Brigadier-General, and William
F. Smith to be Major, to be retired-
62d Day.—S ecretary Fairchild trans¬
mitted the result of the Mr. investigation into
alleged sugar frauds.... bill for Sherman the re¬
ported back the Senate protec¬
tion of the salmon fisheries in Alaska, w.th
a recommendation that the House amend¬
ment (extending the provisions of the
bill to Behring Seal be disagreed to.
The amendment was disagreed to, and a con¬
ference asked....The Senate then proceeded
to pass private pension bills on the calendar.
A.11 the pension bills on the calendar iii I tv
twqi were passed. #50 Among them was on fs
giving a pension of a month (instead of
SlCO, as in the bill introduced by Mr. Haw
leyl to the widow of the lat3 General Hunt.
63d Day.—T here was not time lo read the
journal, and the Senate plunged into the of
necessary routine business without waste
time.. ..The House amendment to the bill
authorizing the sale of part of the military
reservation at Fort Leavenworth. Kan., was
concurred in.... A conference was ordered on
the Deficiency Appropriation bill,and Messrs.
Hale, Allison and Cockrell were appointed the
conferrees The conference report on
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was agreed to
The conference report on the Post 1 itlice Ap¬
propriation bill was agreed to... .The Senate
proceeded to the consideration of the Indian
Appropriation bill. All the amendments re¬
ported by the committee were agreed to. tile
bill passed, and a conference requested.... 8.3(1
At 6.20 the Senate took a recess until
.... President Ingalls laid before the Senate
the President's veto of the Direct Tax
bill, which was read. Tha bill
was passed dissenting^ over the Two veto of these with
only eight by Messrs. Edmunds votes. and Biair....
were case
The entire night was spent on the Deficiency
Appropriation bill. The amendments pro¬
viding for the payment of the amounts
awarded by the Court of Claims under tho
French Spoliations act. and the item giving
both House and Senate agreed....It employes an extra 3:15
months’ pay were was
o’clock in the morning when the Senate con¬
cluded its night session, and adjourned
.... The session of the Senate continued as
one day from Friday until the inauguration
.... At 1 o’clock in the morning the Senate
went into executive session to consider Mr.
Riddleberger’s case. When the doors had
been closed Mr. Daniel made a pathetic ap¬
peal on behalf of Mr. Riddleberger's He
wife and seven children. asked
unanimous consent to have tha whole
matter expunged from the records,
The request was Riddleberger's accordingly granted, disorder and
the record of Mr. and
arrest was exnunged.... Then Mr. Ingalls 'Mr.
presented the credentials of
James McMillan as Senator - elect
_____ from the State of Michigan.. .The
Senate adopted the conference io •
until".:;, a. >: U lie: to ■ . l.y ivass-iiui.e
President pro tempore Ingalls vacated the
chair, and Mr. Harris, the Democratic leader.
took the gaveL Mr. Morgan, another Demo
cratic leader, presented Mr. Ingalls tho customary for uniform reso- im
lution thanking President
partiality, courtesy an 1 fairness.
Ingalls tl en announced that the Senate stood
aaiour pga sine die.
The House.
63th Day.—T he conference report on the
District of Columbia Appropriation bill was
debated....The Obstruction Indian Appropriations used bill
was passed.... tactics were
to delay action on the Cowles bill, and this
consumed the rest of the day’s session.
06th Day.—T he day was mainly devoted
to considering conference reports on various
appropriation bills....Mr. Herbert reported
the ]Saval Appropriation bill, with Senate
amendments tnereto, recommending concur¬
rence in some and n on-con cur reneo in others
of the those Administration’s amendments. Mr. Boutelle .The criticised^ Speaker'
course...
having laid before the House the Senate bill
for the protection of tho saiinon fisheries in
Alaska, Mr. Dunn offered an amendment,
which was agreed to, directing the President
to cause one or more ( nited States vessels
to cruise in Behring Sea and other Aiaskan
waters and seize all vessels found t) be un¬
law fully engaged in s :al hunting, and the 1
bill was Day.—I passed! House motion of
67th n the on
Mr. Anderson, of Iowa, the joint resolution
was passed to promote commercial union
with Canada.... The Des Moines Diver Lands
bill was taken up for consideration. Tho
House refused to pass the bill over the Presi¬
dent's veto—yeas. 147; nays, lOi:*—not the re¬
quisite two-thirds in the affirmative....
Another appropriation bill—the Postoffice
bill--was agreed upon in conference.
68th Day.—T he day was spent in the con*
sideration of conference reports... .The most
discussion was on tho Sundry Appropriation printing
bill. The House insisted upon its
clause. It practically stops the printing of j i
bank and treasury notes on steam The presses, House
New conferrees were appointed. the widow of Chief <
conferrees refused to pay
Justice Waite the ba ance of his salary for
oue year. T iat balance is >-745. IbeSen
ate amendment raising the appropriation ?4,- for
a public library building agreed from
000,000 to $6,000,000 was to....
I^ate in the afternoon the President sent in
a message vetoing the Direct Tax bill ... At
5:15 a recess was taken until 8 P. M.... The
conference report on the Pcstofiice Appro¬
priation bili was agreed to.... The conference
report on tho Naval Appropriation bill was
agreed to.... An agreement was reached on
the District of Columbia Appropriation bill
It appropriates $5,686.407.... The con¬
.... the Inter¬
ference report on the bill to amend
state Commerce law was agreed to. ..The
conference report on the bili for the protec¬
tion of the salmon fisheries of Alaska was
agreed to... .The House was in session con¬
tinuously from Friday until the inauguration De¬
Shortly before 1 o'clock the General
.... disposed of .The
ficiency bill was finally complaining .. of
House passed a resolution
discourtesy on the part of tfc^ Senate in not
allowing the members and their families full
access to the Senate Chamber.... A confer¬
ence reoorr on the bill licensing pawnbrokers Bingham
in the district was adopted.... Mr.
then asked for unanimous consent, which
was granted, to consider a bill grant
mg the use of a condemned can
non and some condemned small
arms for a naval post in Fhiladelphia
A recess was then taken until next morn¬
.... promptly '':55. The
ing. .. .The House met at
Speaker as promptly laid before it a message
from the Senate agreeing to the conference
report on a bill to forfeit lands in Michigan
granted for the construction of a railroad
i rom Marquette to Ontonagen. It was
adopted. -. .Speaker Carlisle, in response to a
vote of thanks, delivered a brief address,
after which he pronounced the House ad¬
journed sine die. ,
•‘Go'dlincss is profitable for all things.”
Two Chinamen at Foo-Chow—a Christian
and a heathen—had their eyes held operated on
for cataract. The Christian a Eis praise
meeting with his feilo* Christians. eyes
became entirelv well and be devoted him¬
self to preaching th* Gospei. The heathen
held a feast with his companions, beyond drank
w h sk-v and ruined his eyes recovery.
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UNCONFIRMED NOMINATIONS
Appointments by Cleveland Which
the Senate Rejected.
In the second session of the Fiftieth Con
grsss President Cleveland sent to the Senate
nearly four hundred and fifty nomina¬
tions, about one-half of which were con¬
firmed. Of the latter a great majority were
promotions in the army mui navy, and
Presidential postmasters, the terms of whoso
predecessors lia l expire 1 or whose offices had
become Presidential.
The nominations of Assistant Secretary
Thompson io bo Civil Service Commissioner,
of Firs) Assistant Postmaster Genera) .Steven¬
son to be a Justice of the Supreme Court for
the District of Columbia, of William B.
Webb to 1 e a Commissioner of the District
of Columbia, and John E- Hartridge to be
Judge of the United States Court for the
District of Florida, ad failed.
The only prominent political nomination
that was confirmed was that of Walter L.
Bragg, of Alabama, Commissioner. to succeed himself as
Interstate Commerce Carroll
D- Wright was also confirmed as Com¬
missioner of )-abor.
The nominations above named ware the
principal ones that failed by reason
of the expiration of failed Congress. Among
the others that were several
probate judges in Utah; Andrew G. Chap¬
man, Reven ie Collector at Baltimore; John
J. Enright, of Michigan, to lie Commissioner
of Indian Affairs; Samuel H. Albro.
of New York, Superintendent of Indian
Schools: Salomon Claypooi, to be United
Suites bald H. District-Attorney Grincke, of Massachusetts, for Indiana: Archi¬ be
to
Consul at San Domingo, and Jesse D. Abra¬
hams, of Yirginia, to :« Comptroller of the
Currency. Quite number of promotions also
a army
failed to receive action.
THE NATION’S NEEDS.
A Total O." .S30t>,000.000 Appro¬
priated By the Last House
Mr. Randall. Chairman of the House xom
imttss on Appropriations, prepared and sub¬
mitted to the last House a statement showing
the amount of appropria-ions earrlel by the
General Appropriation bills passeil at the
session wnicn just closed.
This statement shows that the tocai est -
mates submitted amounted to S20r,2R5. l and '-W.
the sums appropriated to f rsl.Wflyi’-'n:
tho sum carried in the laws for the current
year to $ di i.'185,514. The bills appropriate
as follows:
Agriculture..................
Army........................
Diplomatic District and Columbia........ consular..... r»jV'?,4G6
of . j,-JO *,594
Fortification................ i5.0JJ.724
Indian....................... .‘3\ 40,*’i:>r»
Legislative, et-.............. v
v ''l;tary Academy........... '.Xt2. »Vdt
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Pension...................... ..81,15 s ,
Posted ice....................
Sundry c.vil................ S' . ~f
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Miscellaneous ac^ estimated
Deficiency....... .............