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AT THE CAPITAL
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON¬
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
On Friday the conference report on the
hill to increase the pensions of totally
disabled pensioners was presented agreed
in the senate. and was
to. The senate proceeded to the
consideration of bills on the calendar,
under the eighth rule (unobjected cases),
and passed the following bills, among
others: Granting pensions to officers and
enlisted men of the United States army,
members of the Society of Cincinnati,
Aztec Society, National Association of
Veterans of the American War, Military
Order of Loyal Legion of the United
States and of the Grand Army Republic orders.
to wear badges adopted by these
Increasing the limits of cost for public
buildings, as follows: San Francisco (site),
to |N00,000; Sacrameu to, Ca 1., to $300,000;
El Paso. Tex., to $200,000; Omaha,
Neb., td |2,000,000. Making appreci¬
ations for public buildings as lollows:
Annapolis, Md., $75,000; Kansas City, (ad¬
Mo.. $2,500,000; Los Angeles, Cal.,
ditional $350,00(7; Alleghany, Pa.,
$250,000; Beaver Falls, Pa., $50,000;
Atchison, Kan., $100,000; Martinsburg,
W. Va., $125,000; Selma, Kan., $150,-
000: Zanesville, (>., Emporia, Kan.,
Danbury, Conn., and Waterbury, Conn.,
$100,000 each; New London, Conn.,
$100,000; Youngstown, O., $100,000.
There were still other public buildings on
the calendar. When that business was
closed, no other business was disposed of,
and after a brief executive session,
the senate adjourned to Monday.
In the bouse, on Saturday morning, the
regular order being demanded, Mr.
Hooker, of Mississippi, proceeded to ad¬
dress the house upon the* world’s fair bill.
He spoke* in favor of Washington. Mr.
Mills, of Texas, in a short address also
favored Washington as the site for the
fair. 31 r. Morse, of 3Iassachusetts, an¬
nounced his proposed opposition exhibition. for one reason,
that the werever
held, would involve a loss to the treasury million
of the United States of .several
dollars. Mr. Bianchard, of Louisiana,
in reply to Mr. Mills’ re-
marks said the discovery l>y Colunbus
argued that the south bad ftore benefits
to expect from the fair than any other sec¬
tion. The fair would call the attention of
capitalists of the world to the fields and
forests of the south. 31r. O’Ferrall, of
Virginia, said that the city of his choice
w as Washington, where beauty and grand¬
eur and magnificiencc filled the eye. Mr.
Gibson, of Maryland, was in favor of one
spot which commended itself as a place and
where national progress in wealth
grandeur could be best seen—Washington.
Mr. Houle, of Tennessee, wanted a world’s
fair at which our wonderful wealth, skill
and energy could be exhibited. To have
it anywhere except at the national capital impor¬
would take from it much of its
tance. Mr. Wilson, of West Vir¬
ginia, favored the national capital.
31r. Vandero, of California, argued wished in fa¬
vor of St. Louis. Mr. Carlisle to
restate and emphasize the consideration
that would influence his vote. Each of
the four cities was worthy of the fair.
The exposition was to give the people of
the old world not an insight into our
great manufactories and industries only,
but to show them pur be held gnjut country. the
The exposition should at cen¬
ter of the country. St. Louis was the
nearest and Chicago next. He would
vote first for St. Louis .and next for Chi¬
cago. ^Messrs. Kinsey and Wilson, of
Missouri, and O’Neill, of Indiana, spoke of
for St. Louis, so also did Mr. Forman,
Illinois (whose district lies opposite Louis), and St.
Louis and includes East St.
3Ir. Hatch, of Missouri, and Mr. Outh-
vaite, of Ohio, advocated the claims of
Chicago. 3fr. Mason, of Illinois, was in
favor of Chicago. General Kerr, of
Iowa. Owen of Indiana, and Springer, of
Illinois, spoke for Chicago. Messrs.
Fitch, Flower, Dunphy, Lansing,
Spinola, Wallace, Raines, Turney,
McCarty and Farquhar, all of New
York, again pressed the claims of
the empire city. Faquhar Concluded
by offering in behalf of New York $15,-
000,000 and a cosmopolitan people that
know how to care for visitors, 3Ir. Can¬
dler. of Massachusetts, closed the debate
in w ords, saying the country could safely
trust the house to discharge its full duty,
and he hoped for a favorable conclusion
upon the question. The house, at the
evening session passea adjourned. Vorty private pen¬
sion bills, and at 10.25
In the house, on Monday, when the
speaker's gavel fell, the galleries crowds were ob¬
packed with spectators and
structed the corridors. All of these peo-
pie had gathered to witness the deciding
struogle between the adherents of the
cities' of New York, Chigago, St.
Louis, and Washington, upon the result
of which depended the location
of the world’s fair to be held in 1892.
Representative O’Neil, of Pennsylvania,
opened t'ue proceedings by presenting late
John E. Reyburn, successor of the
Representative Kelly, of Pennsylvania,
Mr. Reyburn took his place before the
bar and was sworn speoia'l in bv the speaker,
The clerk read the order of the
house prescribing the method of votiuu
upon the site for the fair, requiring sonu
“ZrrS'lS
Tiie sjwaker replied that, under -rrr the spe
«iul order, this opportunity could not be
had. and immediately directed the clerk
to caU the roll. The vote resulted:
Clncag 0 , lffi; New 3ork ,2; bt Louis,
1,1: Washington, oO; scattering 1. Tne
speaker announced that the total numbei
oi votes east was 303, and 133 was a ma-
jerity. r i itc content finally narrowed
down between New York and Chicago,
On the seventh bsdiot the result was 311
votes, divided as follows; Chicago, 154;
New York, 112; St. Louis, 27; Washing-
ton, 17. A majority would be 156, and
Chicago had 154. just two votes short.
So another roll call was necessary. It was
the eighth and last, for Chicago achieved
her victory, and out of a total of :!0?
votes, received 157, three more than a
majority. New York had 107, St. Louis
25 and Washington 18. The announce-
ment of the result was greeted with tie
mendous applause by the Chicago adher-
ents. They shouted and cheered whilt
Mr. Lamler waved his handkerchie
around his head and shook hands with
everybody within reach. The house ad¬
journed at 6 o'clock in the wildest ol
uproars.
In the senate on Monday a number ol
billswere reported from the committees
and placed on the calendar. Among
tham was one to authorize the purchase o (
go;a ana silver tnirnon ana the issue oi
to the amount of four and a half millions
a month, of such gold therefor bullion of as may be
offered, and the issue treasury
notes. It repeals the law directing the
coinage of two million silver dollars per
T ihe ho,,, „n .
bill discontinuing the coinage of one
dollar and three dollar gold pieces and
three cent nickel pieces was passed. Also
a bill was passed authorizing suitable the secre-
tarv of state to appoint United two States per-
sons to represent the at
the international conference in reference
to protection of industrial property to be
held at Madrid, Spain, April 1, 1890.
Toe house then in committee of the
whole resumed consideration of the
Oklahoma bill.
notes.
The Maryland congressional re-district-
ing bill, which makes five of the six dis-
tricts solidly Democratic, . passed the leg-
lslature 1 uesday.
Senator Edmunds introduced a bill
Saturday to punish parties interfering
with United States officers in the dis-
charge of duty.
The President, on Tuesday, nominated
Richard G. Banks collector of customs
for the district of Norfolk and Ports-
mouth, Va.; Edward W. Matteson, Sur¬
veyor Harold of customs at Chattanooga, Maine, Tenn.,
and M. Scwa.ll, of cousul-
genera! of the.United States at Aoia.
The President, on Friday, sent to the
senate the following nominations: Post-
masters—Virginia, Charles R. Lee, Ber-
ryville; Florida—Edward C. Weeks,
Tallahassee; Mississippi—Ilenrv C. Grif-
fin, Natchez; Alabama—William T. Ew-
ing, Gadsden; Georgia—Madison Davis,
Athens.
A brief executive session of the senate
was held 3Ionday afternoon, at which the
matter of the publication of proceedings under dis¬
of the executive session was
cussion. It was decided to make an in¬
quiry into the method by which news
papers secure their information concern
ing proceedings in executive session.
Though Chicago has been voted as th<
site the bill to hold a fair has, however,
not yet been passed. The southern men
will vote almost solidly against it. Some
fears are entertained that it will not pass,
but the Chicago men seem determined tc
1 mh it through# The New Yorkers are,
how’ever, quietly working to kill
the bill. Speaker Reed voted on everj
ballot for New York. It is the first ac-
tion the house has taken this congress
that he did not support. /
Representative McComas, of Maryland,
is preparing a new bill to cover the points
that the Wickham bill left unprotected.
It has been discussed by the leading the re-
publicans in the house, and will have
undivided support of the majority. Il
provides that no redistricting shall oecm
In the United States until after the census
is taken, when the various state legisla-
tureishall make congressional apportion-
ments, to remain in effect for ten vears.
It also provides board shall that certify the regular to the state elec-
canvassing representatives. *
tion of
_ There is . a great scramble ,, , being . made ,
by various companies all over the count ry
to secure tlie control ot the seal fur fishe-
nes in the Belmng sea. The government
has opened the bids for the control of
these fisheries for the next twenty years.
It allows 60,000 seals to be killed annu¬
ally. The Alaska Seal Fur company has
controlled it for twenty years past. They
are among the score of bidders this time.
Their profits for twenty years have been
999 per cent annually, consequently number the of
great scramble and large
' bidders.
The direct land tax bill, which recent-
ly passed the senate, was on Tuesday re-
ported favorably to the house by the ju-
diciarv committee. However, Colonel
Oates, of Alabama, in the name of the
democrats of the committee, is preparing that
a minority report, which w ill hold
if the direct tax is refunded* the cotton
tax should be likewise refunded. The
direct tax carries with it seventeen million
dollars, while the cotton tax carries Sev-
enty million dollars. The majority however, of the
refund of the direct tax bill,
goes north, while the cotton tax money
goes to the cotton growing states. The
direct tax bill will certainly pass, but
smsSMXSNs
oa htr lmds du,fnsand
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The senate has confirmed the following
nominations: Supervisors of census;
Alabama, J. R. Wilson, fourth district,
Florida—Charles L. Partridge, fifth dis-
tact. Georgia-Isaac Beckett, tilth dis-
tact^ W. A. Harris, sixth district; 31a
non Bethune, fourth district; C. C. Ila-
]py, first district. Mississippi—E. Al-
drieh, first district; J. E. Ousley, third
district. North Carolina—O. P. Lot-key,
third district. South Carolina—F. \V.
Macusker, fourth district; S. J. Poinier,
first district; D. Yates, second district.
Tennessee—H. R. Hinkle, fourth district;
J. R. Walker, fifth district. Postmas-
ters: Alabama, Andrew J. Locke,
Eufaula. Georgia—L. H. Peacock, Rain-
bridge. Florida—F. A. Harrison, Pa-
latka. Mississippi— James W. Lee.
Aberdeen; Edmund H. Thompson, Wes-
gon; Joshua Stevens, Macon. North
Carolina—Mrs. Ada Hunter, Kingston,
Virginia, 1L Anderson, West Point.
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TUESDAY’S STORM.
OP.EAT DAMAGE DONE IN TENNESSEE, OHIO
AND KENTUCKY.
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A Johnsonvillc, Tenn., dispatch says.
One of the fiercest and most destructive
storms that has ever swept over our town
occurred about one o’clock Tucsdav, ac-
Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad bridge
across the Tennessee river, were entirely
demolished. Several buildings were reported, blown
down, but no loss of life is yet
All telegraph communication west of John-
rr The from Hopkinsville, p Ivy., says:
news
One tbe most violent and destructive
storms ever known in southern Kentucky
Passed over this section luesday morning,
destroying several houses and doing
K ref R injury to property. In the city of
Rellevue, a village south of that city, . six
tobacco barns, with all their contents,
were destroyed, and a dozen houses were
proofed and blown down. The wind
blcw a perfect cyclone, over the city
Dayton^ Ohio.—A terriffic
electric storm, with heavy rain, flooded
the rivers here Tuesday. The reprops
and lervocs were slashed out, and a ten-
i nc h natural gas main was torn awav.
The water of the creek shot into the air
like a geyser and a column of gas, re-
sembling black smoke, asscended two
hundred feet, terrifying Louis the people....
A special to the tmitde St.. hurric Post Di.i-
youh over" says i£ northern ane Tcyas swept
Tuesday a morning. portion of The Masonic hall In
Gainesville was torn to pieces and the
court houso unroofed, the Santa Fe rail¬
road depot unroofed and twen¬
ty buildings blown down. Scver-
®1 persons w T ere injured. The
damage ‘ will aggregate $ 200,000 .....
*“-t Lima, Ohio, there is heavy damage
fr° m the flood. Many county railroad bridges
were swept away, and also the
bridges of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton railroad.....Considerable damage
beL “ n to railroad property
i 111 over Indiana by heavy rains
la Indianapolis and vicinity.
A GOOD SHOWING.
NEW ENTERPRISES 8TARTED IN THE SOUTH
WITOTN A WAEK.
The list of new enterprises week organized
in the south during the show un-
predented activity in the sale of mineral
and timber lands in large tracts and or-
ganization of a company with local and
outside capital to build new towns and
establish new industries. This activity
is general, extending from 3 irgiuia to
Texas. Among the large enterprise's re-
ported for the week is a $1,500,000 coal
and iron company in Birmingham, the
contract for buildings for a $500,000 cot-
ton mill in Florence, Ala., purchased and by
Alabama capitalists; of two furnaces
mineral property for $900,000; a $500,000
cotton mill in Arkansas, a $250,000
car ‘ b 'j a f din o. p om P aL % ln anta > a
. works
$250,000 / brick and tide
Brunswick, a $200,000- phos-
P hate 4 company in Florida, $ 200,000
cotton mifi company in Georgia,
$19,000 pulp making iu South
Carolina, $ 100,000 A cotton mill
^ ort J b Caiolina, A $„ ,0 ArtA cigai-
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ette machine . company m Roanoke, Va.,
twenty new iron furnaces at Pulaski, \a.,
two othep at Johnson City, Tenn. one
at Bristol, by Pennsylvania iron makers;
oae at Begstone Cap, \a and a large
number of others taking shape at other
* • ts Gigantic enterprises, d requiring
. mUlions o{ capit:l , ? backe in many
casea b y capitalists in Europe, as well as
“ bcing f d for
^ tbe orth are orme opera-
tion3 in the South,
TO CONTROL OKLAHOMA.
THE COI.ORED PEOPI.E ORGANIZED TO TAKE
POSSESSION.
A special from Topeka, political Kan., report*
the existence of a secret society
of colored people, called the ‘‘First Grand
Independent Brotherhood.” Its object is
to settle the negroes in Oklahoma as
numerously as possible, so that the race
will have control of Oklahoma when it
becomes a state. While men will then
be compelled to recognize the negroes as
equals or keep out of Oklahoma. It is
said that a remarkably large number of
colored people are already in the territo-
ry.
A STARTLING CONFESSION-
A RUSSIAN EXILE SAYS HE WAS IN A PLOT
TO KILL TIIE CZAR.
, Pioneer Pre « snecial from Pierre N
"te 1 * 1 an(f broke both thighs. H« though:
« d «n:t.rt:c£;
implicated in a arul plot to blow he up the ofsev- czai
two vears ag0> t names
C ral high Russian officials who were alsc
concerned. He has important document!
i u his possession d has to substantiate further his develop asscr-
tions an promised 1 ^
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SLlOW VOU.
BODY SNATCHERS FOILED.
THREE LOUISVILLE PHYSICIANS DETECTED
IN A GRAVE ROBBERY.
A dispatch from Louisville, height Ivy., says
While the storm was at its aftei
midnight Monday night, a party of grave New
robbers in Northern cemetery, at
Albany, were surprised in the act of des¬
ecrating the resting place of the dead, and
one of them was kified, Three others
were arrested and*placed in jail, consisted but the
fifth escaped. The party j. pi
three Louisville physicians—Dr. T.
Blackburn and Dr. \V. E. Grant, and an¬
other whose name is unknown, and col¬
ored assistants. They had gonp over to
steal the bodies of Thomas Johnson and
Edward Pearce, which were buried last
Sunday, and had deliberately betrayed, however, planned the by
affair. They were
a boy whom they had wanted, employed and to point
out the graves they as soon
as they begun operations, their hands. they Instead were or¬ of
dered to hold up
obeying they ran, and a volley was fired.
One colored m m ivas killed, and one es¬
caped. The three physicians were cap¬
tured.
LOTTERY TALK.
gen. jubal a. kauly makes a deni al of
THE LOTTERY STORIES.
A dispatch from Richmond, Va., says,
Concerning the reports of the Louisians
Lottery company to obtain a new charter
i i Dakota, General Jubal A. Early joint
c mimissioner of the drawings Beauregard, of that in-
stitution with General makes
a public statement in which lie says the
Louisiana Lottery company had nothing
to do with the proposition Dakota reported to
have been made in the legislature.
Nor had the company any connection
with the proposition General Early
also announces as unfounded the state-
ment that the company proposes tc
procure a renewal of its charter
bv bribing the legislature of Louisiana.
The constitution of that State, the gen
era! says, prohibits the charter ol
iny lottery after the expiration of that, ol
the present company. The statement that
the lottery company contributed to th(
republican campaign fund during the late
presidential campaign is also denied by
the General.
GOOD FOR GEORGIA.
EDISON, THE INVENTOR. TELLS OF BIG DE¬
VELOPMENTS FOR THE EMPIRE STATE.
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, lia*
established a laboratory at Charlotte, N.
C., and his experts are ransacking the
Piedmont country for certain ores
which he can treat *to great ad-
vantage by the magnetic processes. Al¬
ready he owns twenty iron mines, and he
is acquiring more. The Atlanta Constitution
commissioned a mining engineer to in¬
terview* 3Ir Edison on Georgia ores, and lie
sent a report which told of big develop¬
ments to come in Georgia magnetites,
nickel ores and cold suinhurets-
A ROUSING WELCOME
TO BE GIVEN TIIF. CONFEDERATE Y
BANS ASSOCIATION.
At a mass meeting of the citizens 0
Chattanooga. Tenn., held Tuesday night
fit was decided ass.-nation! to give the coufedeuat
veterans ’__.____ which meets then
m . July, T , a rousing welcome and , a com
im tec of leading citizens, ol old soldier,
of both armies, was appointed to tak.
charge of the management of the aftair
Tiie indications, from letters received
from all parts of the country, are that
there will be au immense crow d iu at
t-ndance.
THEY WERE USED TO IT.
“ George, dear,” she said anxiously,
“It has begun to rain and you have no
umbreda. I am afraid that you * will
get your slothes seated,”
“Well, Mabel,” the young man ans-
wered bitterly, “it won’t be the first
time they’ve b.-en iu soak.”—[Clo.hier
and Furnisher.
Russian and French emissaries are, it is
stated, at present actively at work in Con-
stantinople to induce the'Sultan of Turkey
to approach the question of the evacuatior
of Egypt by the British troops.
Boston’s New Lighthouse.
Boston harbor has a new lighthouse in
operation. It is on Deer Island. As a
sample of modern lighthouses it is well
worth nqtice. . «,
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Deer Island Lighthouse, as it is official!;
known, stands on the southern extremit]
of the spit that makes out to the soutl
from Deer Island. The water is six feel
deep around it.
The foundation of the structure is a grea
cylinder of iron, resting in the sand, an(
securely anchored and protected by somi tha
thousands of yards of broken stone
have been dumped around it. This pari
of the structure is 30 feet in diameter. I
swells out, bell fashion, at the top, when
is a wide promenade, protected by 1
hand rail and covered by a roof. Abovt
this rises the tower proper, in the forrr
D f a truncated cone. There is a galled I
around the top of the cone. meaJ
The light itself is 57 leet above anJ
sea level. It is a five-wick lamp, be|
w j]i in um i na te an arc of the horizon
* inni £ at a ‘ int on the horizon SO painfl uth|
west around to a L 1
southeast by east (bearings taken . , frod
seaward) be ^ aautl In clear cal miles weatherthe away by bght a mad caj
seen
oa The a shl strength P' s deck and 15 feet cneapness above the of water iron! |
# ad steel make it certain that thesd
metals will be used in the future in all
lighthouses which, like this, are exposed old!
to the assaults of the waves. The
fashioned stone towers are more expensiv* and
and less comfortable for the keepers
in no way better than the iron towers. I
The base of the structure is painted
black, the tower is brown, and the
is black. The lamp shows a white
varied by a red flash every thirty
—New York Sun.
He Got It.
Among the passengers on a Western
train yesterday, says the Boston
nal, was a woman very much
dressed, accompanied self-willed, by a bright-look- tyranni
ing nurse girl and a
cal boy of about 3 years.
The boy aroused the indignation of
the passengers by his continual shrieks
and kicks and screams and his vicious-
ness toward his patient nurse. He tore
her bonnet, scratched her hands,
finally spat in her face without a
of remonstrance from the mother.
Whenever the nurse manifested any
fi ltna oss the motner chided h r shaiplv. herself
the mother composed time.the boy
for a nap and about the
^d slapped the nurse for the fifth time a
wasp ^. came sailme ? in and flew on the
win of the mil se - s seat *n 4 he boy at
once tri „ d tocati , h it .
The nurse caught his hand and said,
coaxing’.v
“ Harrv musn’t touch. Bug will bite
Harrv.”
Harry screamed savagely and began
to kick and pound the nurse.
The mother w ithout opening her eyes
or lifting her head cried out sharply: child
“Why do you tease what that si
Mary ? Let him have he wants i
ouce. ”
*‘But, ma’am, it’s a
“Let him have it, I say.” at
Thus eucouraged, Hairy clutched
the wasp and caught it. The scream
that followed brought tears of joy to
the passengers’ eyes.
The mother awake again.
“Marv, ” she cried, “let him have
fn-rsHu-- Mary‘turned in her seat and said
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“He’s got it, ma’am !”