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WASHINGTON MEWS,
second session OF THE
fifty-first CONGRESS.
the LAW MAKERS OF UNCLE SAM's DOM ‘ N
again at work —routine of tub
HOUSE and SENATE - EACH DAY’S PRO¬
CEEDINGS TERSELY TOLD.
Iu the house, on Monday, Mr. E. B.
Taylor, from the committee on judiciary,
reported back the Enloe resolution for
the arrest of George Minot, one of the
doorkeepers, for attempting violently to
prevent Mr. Enloe’s exit from the house
during a call of the house in August last.
The committee reports that the case calls
for no action on the part of the house.
The floor was awarded to the District of
Gplumbia. The comm ssion bill, known
as the “Atkinson bill,” granting certain
privileges to the Baltimore and Potomac
rrilroad, within the city of Washington,
was fallen up, ordered engrossed and
read the third time, and a motion to re¬
commit ttas defeated—75 to 139.
About thirty public Tuesday builoing bills
passed the bouse afternoon.
They appropriate them a the total bills of for $4,600,600. buildings
Among and were
at Savannah Rome, Ga.
The force bill fight in the senate be¬
gins to assume an interesting form. Fri¬
day Senator Gray, of Delaware, to ik up
the bill, and not only discussed it, but
discussed the motives of the II publicans
who drew it up, and of those who favor
it. lie denounced the measure in the
severest terms. He spoke from 1:20
o’clock until 5 o’clock, and then an¬
nounced he would continue his speech
Saturday.
The force bill fight goes on in the sen¬
ate. Senator Gray continued his speech
throughout the entire day, Saturday, be¬
ing frequently sides. interrupted by senators on
both His argument was continued
Monday. The house to house canva s
feature of the bill was the main subject
discussed. The fight was somewhat warm
at times, Senators Hoar and Spooner, be¬
sides many Democrats, frequently inter¬
rupted Mr. Gray.
Senator Gray concluded his speech, in
opposition to the has force bill, Monday af¬
ternoon. He been speaking since
Friday at 2 o’clock. The speech is said
to be one of the best artfcmients ever
made in the senate, although there was a
dim" attendance of republicans through¬
out its delivery. No republican has yet
spoken on the bill, Senator Gorman
presented a large number of petitions,
principally from the statu of New Y'ork,
protesting against the passage of. the
election bill. He said they had been
gotten up under the lead of the New
York Star. The Indian question again
came up in discussion upon the joint res¬
olution heretofore introduced by Mr.
vestfuailou Morgan, appropriating $5,000 for an iu-
of the Sioux outbreak. Mr.
Berry obtaiued the floor at s.iv nVlock.
and the senate adjourned. morning Senator
In the senate Tuesday along
Plumb, of Kansas, who has all
been opposed to a radical election bill,
and who wants to relieve the present em¬
barrassing financial situation, introduced
a bill in the seuatc for the retirement of
national bank notes, aud providing for
the free coinage of silver. This looks
like the silver senators have decided to
pull with the democrats to shelve the
force bill and pa«s a free coinage bill at
once. Senator Berry, of Arkansas, and
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, spoke against
the force bill. So far no republi¬
can senator lias been heard from 31 r.
Hoar gave n< t oc that he would ask the
senate Wednesday to set into the evening
until the debate on the bill was closed.
After executive sestion, the senate ad¬
journed.
NOTES.
The president, on Friday, nominated
Uomaldo Pacbelo, of California, minister
to the Central American States.
The army appropriation bill has been
completed by the committee, and was re¬
ported Wednesday, It appropriates
$24,642,029.
Superintendent Porter issued an order
Saturday to pay the Georgia census
enumerators who have not heretofore re¬
ceived their compensation.
Two bills imposing reported a tux Tuesday npon com¬ by
pound bird were
Sena or Paddock, without recommenda¬
tion, from the committee ou agriculture.
The clerk of the house has made up a
list of the next house, There are 234
democrats, 88 republicans. 8 Farmers’
Alliance, 1 uncertain, 1 vacancy; total
332.
Judge S'ewart. of Georgia, passed
■through the house, Saturday, a bill to
graut B. S. Roane, of Fairborn, a pen¬
sion of $12 a mouth for services in the
Indian war.
The apportionment bill, providing for
376 members of the house, was finally
decided upon as the best bili to pass by
the r publican members of the census
committee Tuesday.
The secretary of the treasury, on ?»lon-
dav, tran*r iffed to the house an estimate
aggregating $34,500,000, submitted by
the secretary of the interior to supply the
deficiency for the payment of army and
navy pensions for the current fiscal year.
Mr. Cutcheon, on Friday, called up the
senate’s joint resolution authorizing the
secretary of war to issue 1.000 stands of
arms to each of the states of North and
South Dakota. Wyoming, Nebraska and
Montana were addded to the states in¬
cluded in its provisions, and it was passed.
The president on Friday transmitted
to the house the correspondence Barrundia growing
out of the killing of General
by Gua'emalian officers on board the
Pacific mail steamer “Acapulco,” in the
port of San Jose de Guatemala. The
Correspondence was called for by • reso¬
lution of September 24th,. las^
The alliance third party talk is the
cause of much uneasiness at Washington
among the members of both parties. It
is not generally believe i among the
politicians that an alliance third party
w. uld have any great amount of strength,
old but it would draw votes from both^the
parties, and greatly change the politi¬
cal situation.
TELEGRAPH AMD CABLE.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON¬
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM'S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CARLE BRINGS.
Germany,on Friday, recognized the re¬
public of Brazil.
The first snow of the season fell in
Danville, Va., Monday.
The liabilities of the Delamater bank
at Meadville, Pa., will reach $800,000.
The failure of Colbron, Chauncey &
Co., was announced on the New York
stock exchange Tuesday.
Postal Card Contractor Daggett, of
Birmingham, Conn., was on Monday de¬
clared a bankrupt.
Whitten, Burdett & Young, clothing,
Boston, made an assignment Tuesday,
lhe firm is rated by Bradstreet at $500,-
000 .
Washington McLean, formerly propri¬
etor of the Cincinnati Enquirer , died in
Washington Monday night; aged seven¬
ty-four years.
The amount of silver offered for sale
to 1,120,000 the treasury department Monday, was
ounces, and the amount pur¬
chased was 685; 000 ounces.
The interstate commerce commission
made its report Monday. I’he report re-
views at length the w>>rk of the eomims-
. me idme its to the law.
A cablegram of Sunday from Cairo,
TgypC.says: lhe cotton association re-
poi ts the picking of the Egyptian cotton
crop as finished that the crop is good
ol qua.ity and the yield is 3, <u0,00J
cantares.
The will of Daniel B. Fayerweather,
the millionaire . feather , dealer, of New
rork, was filed Monday. He gives $L-
100, 000.to different colleges, and $95,<)00
to hospitals, lhe testator died the 15th
of last month.
A Zanzibar dispatch of Friday says:
Emin Pasha, who is at the head of the
German expi di. ion, has arrived at Lake
Victoria. Tin expedition had a numberof
fights successful with Arab all slave traders, but it j
was in engagements. ■
Ma\ or Creitiier, of Chicago, on
day signed the ordinance giving$$our
OOo to the World’s Columbian .
—j. ,„;u „ f
hands of President Harrison, B ^
then issue his proclamation to m viievday.
A dispatch of Sunday fn h.J lb. T.
Cruz, Mexico, says: The , 8 .. e ?*
thorities will give out very few , xil „ 6t
to the press about yellow fever in that it j
city. However, popular rumor has
that the disease is epidemic. The bishop
of Vera Cruz is dying.
The total amount of money put into
circulation by Monday’s treasury distributed opera-
tions is about $6,307,300, as
follows: By the purchase of 4 per cent
bonds, $5,550,000; by the purchase of 4*
per cent bonds, 150,000, and the purchase
uf silver bullion $707,300.
The loan committee of the clearing
house at New York, on Tuesday, issued
$187,000 additional, making the total to
date $1,412,000. The Farmers’Loan and
Trust Company has circulars stating that
on January 1st it will discontinue the
practice of having its checks passed
turough the clearing house.
A special of Friday, from Pine Ridge
agency, South Dakota, says the situation
has not materially changed. The hostile
Rosebud Indians sleep upon their arms
prepared conitaatb .for attack. They
have taken all they and wish burned of the thogovCTn buii dl
meut beef herd, n s
and corrals. They are living m»n, ana
are happy. Mead¬
Delamater & Co., bankers of
ville, Pa., made an assignment Friday
morning. No particulars are obtainable.
George W. Delamater, the defeated can-
didaie for governor, is president, This
bank is another depository of state funds,
to the amount of $ 100,0110, but State
Treasurer Boyer says the state is amply
protected by bonds.
A special of Tuesday from Erie, Pa.,
says- The failure of Delamaterq of
Me idville has reached Erie through the
business relations of the senior Delamater.
State Treasurer Bover h. s entered
judgment against Noble, Rowles & docks, Co.,
owners of extensive coal and ore
valued at $75,000. The company of the
firm is Geor e B Delamater, who has
other intereris in Erie.
Large business blocks at Pittsburg were The
destroyed by fire Friday morning.
buildings destroyed were brick, seven
stories high, occupied by E. Magin,
packer house; S. «fc II. J- Jenkin.son,
wholesale tobacco horse; Crea. Graham
A Co., stove and hardware dealers; L.
J. Harris A Co., wholesale , druggists, , five
jhief Engineer Samuel Evans and
irerneu were caught under the falling
.vail.
the furnace EXPLODED
eight people ushered INTO ETEU¬
AN D
NITY.
A blast funiice blew up at I1 *->
rhurs !av afternoon, burying fifteen men
xlneath the falling have been masonry taken and out so metal. far.
Eight ffes bodies fatal accident tha. has
is the third
occurred at this furnace.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER¬
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL I’OINTS IN TIIE
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER¬
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
N. W. Smith, contractor at Chattanoo¬
ga, assigned Friday with about $9,000
assets and $7,500 liabilities.
The corner-stone of the Grady Hospital
at Atlanta, will be laid with imposing
ceremonies on Christmas day.
A trust has beeu formed by all the
leading the lumber men of Georgia to control
world’s supply of long-leaf yellow
pine. It Is an immense combination, in¬
volving millions of dollars,
Hon. Patrick Walsh, on Tuesday, de¬
clined the appointment as one oi the
Warm Spring Indian commissioners. The
position was tendered him a few weeks
ago by President Harrison, without his
seeking it.
A Chattanooga dispatch of Friday says:
H. I. Kimball, president of the Kimball
Town Company, has sent a cablegram
from London that he has placed a tlnee-
quarter interest in the town for £1,0 i0,-
000 sterling. He will sale for America
about January 17.
Judges Maw and Baker, in New Or-
ie ms, on Tuesday, sustained a motion to
quash the indictment against the lleiinesy
assassi 1 s, because of the presence of a
stenographer in the grand jury room,
The prisoners were remanded to the
sheriff.
W. H. Persons was put on trial at
, Memphis, Tuesdsy, charged with the
| murder of his wife in September. The
! parties are prominent, aud the killing
was most brutal. The case crea es in-
. tense excitement, and the city Is gnatly
wrought up over the affair.
A Charleston dispatch of Sunday sava:
The notice of the introduction ia the leg-
islaturc of a bill converting the Charles-
ton police force into a metropolitan force,
to be governed by three commissioners
appointed by the governor, has raised
the biggest kind of a row there among
the local politicians and others.
A Jackson, Miss., dispatch of Tuesday
says; Marshal Moseley, with two trusted
assistants, and aceomuanied by 'who Detec-
,j ve Jackson, the sleuth hound ran
the Burrows gang to earth, left last night
vvi b i{ u be Smith, the only living one of
the outlaws, for Columbus. O., where
Rube was sent by Judge Hill for life.
Governor St me willingly delivered him
over to the government,
■^leigh, ,fl?ere X. is C., considerable over the shortage excitement of C. in
\Upchurch, judge of the that late Republican in the pro-
county, guar-
funds. Postmaster A. W. Shaffer.
n f T T rw4mr hnniie!*>»»*,
uut <?<ccted of to bona. pay * He $15,000, taken tbe full
tne has pos-
0 ? Upchurch’s residence, which is
of ■ the handsomest in the city, but
Mo h is heavily mortgaged.
A meeting of the directors of the Dan-
vilie and East Tennessee Railroad Com-
pany was held at Danville. Va., Saturday,
and arrangements were perfected to build
at once a new line of road from Danville
to Bristol, Tenu., a distance of 200 miles,
The road is to be an extension of the At-
lantie and Danville road, now operating
between Danville and Norfolk and when
the entire hue is bu,It it will be practi-
^ IcUiue w.th the N°rfo lk aud
>v ; tc “
I rank W. Gregory manager and edi-
or of IU Evening Democrat .of Mem-
>his, lenn., has been indicted by
-he federal grand jury for violating the
otterv law. A ter the last drawing of
he Louisiana lottery The Democrat's New
)rleans correspondent wired that paper
he winning number, held by the Memphis
;*®P *®- P™°* sul
° ‘ „ f *’‘‘i nt ’WasVnrr'ton' d
Vision ^ that itg lwb ‘ u ca rion w.mlci
^ lishc s The Democrat
ub L i isht .d not only its experence ? with the
toffice department , bu also the objec J .
, ist Uence the action of the
fand jury.
THE STRIKING MINERS
tLL NOT BE recognized in THEIR de-
hands by tiie mining boses.
hia All the large mine operators of Ala-
held a meeting at Birmingham,
'mrsday, and after a preamble, setting
1th the fact that the miners there have
liken a writt n contract and struck on
t order < f a Northern committee, they
ssigned the following agreement :
. That we positively decline to ad¬
'ce the price of m niug.
. That we positively decline to recog¬
or confer with the executive Com
Uee of the United Mine Workers of
ierlca -
, That we will, in accordance with
opast custom, alway s meet a commit-
tof our own men, appointed by our
o miners, to discuss any differences
veil mav exist between us.
ae miners’ committee also held a
iting tb Thursday and decided to con-
the strike. The furnaces of the
Urdleben Coal and Iron Company go
otf blast on account of ihe strike,
aiseveral others will shortly follow.
A DIFFERENCE.
e years like endless currents flow
^nd bring a change to me,
Fwas twenty-two she told me no—
yes at thirty-three.
FRAIL CRAFT.
•nd—How did you happen to up
set
kist—I sneezed.—[Good News.
KINGS COAL AND
IT’S A'CEN^TJRY SINCE
AMERICA CROWNED THEM.
King Anthracite Discovered in
sylvania—King Cotton Enthroned
by Mechanical Inventions.
Coal and cotton—what enormous in¬
dustries do these two words suggest, aud
who could believe on the first suggestion
that the American centennial of the in¬
auguration of these industries is yet to
be celebrated? But it is even so. True,
some little work was done in both long
before, but the great coal mines of Penn¬
sylvania were not discovered till 1791,
and on the 12th day of July, 1790, Sam¬
uel Slater first started his machines at
Pawtucket, R. I., and soon after the
manufacturing of cotton was an assured
success.
We may now say that the Unite States
produces in round numbers 7,000,000
bales of cotton yearly, of which one-
third is manufactured in the country,
and that the total output of coal this year
will be very near 130,000,000 tons, of
which Pennsylvania will produce one-
half, as she has done for some years past.
It is therefore fitting that Pennsylvania
should inaugurate the centennial as she
now proposes. The history of the State’s
coal discoveries is a romance.
Philip Gint'aer lived on the
mountain side near the site of the pres¬
en t Mauch Chunk, Peun. lhe forest
; '' ,vas m primitive state, game was
plenty and he was a good hunter. In
one excursion he found a large tree re-
cently uprooted, and in the cavity thus
formed was a peculiar “black stone,”
which excited his curiosity, and he took
a specimen to Colonel Jacob Weiss, a
neighbor whom he suspected of superior
knowledge. That gentieman pronounced
j it “stone coal” and sent specimens to
j Philadelphia. The savants declared it
I was too hard to be valuable, declared but Mr.
Charles Cist, a printer, other-
wise, ana, altera long struggle, orgaa-
ized a small company to mine it—and
thus was the first anthracite coal in
Pennsylvania developed,
It did not pay, however; the black¬
smiths declared that they could do uoth-
ing with it; timber was so abundant that
no one thereabouts used coal for fuel,
and there were no good roads. So but
a few tons were mined. In 1798 the
State began to improve the navigation of
the river, and in 1803 Mr. Cist started
six “arks” down the stream with a hun¬
dred tons of coal on each. Four of these
were wrecked, two reached Philadelphia,
and after many attempts to “make it
burn,” the municipal authorities, who
had bought u7 the stuff, used it to make
footw . ‘ l s i And so ended for seventeen
Jf ars the tbe operations operations of ot the tac Lehudi ueni e n Coal ooai
A “ “‘nuraciw fm.ua neat
_ Fottsville, and the blacksmiths there
sue-
ceeded in making it burn and in
some was sent to Philadelphia. The
man who tried to sell it was threatened
witu arrest for attempting a swindle!
° ne hrm > however, tried it in a furnace,
and after some hours of blowing and
sweating the laborers quit in disgust,
fastened the furnace doors and went to
dinner. When they returned the furnace
doors were red hot. The secret was dis-
covered—anthracite coal was to be ignb
ted and then simply let alone. In 1820
the Lehigh Company began again and
.hipped «M tons; theymaJe it 1000
tons the next year, 2240 the next and
4500 the next. The increase thereafter
was rapid, a railroad coming in 1828 to
bring the coal to the river. In 1830
the Lehigh Company shipped 41,000
tons; 225,000 in 1840 and 722,000 in
183 o. In 18S7 Pennsylvania nroduced 1
34,641,007 tons of anthracite and about:
3 0)0 00,000 tons of bituminous. Then
came the great strike, and immediately !
after it natural gas, aud for figures on
the actual effects we must wait this year’s
It is queer that mankind was so slow
to discover the value of coal, though
Theopnrastus mentions that the smiths
of ancient Elis used a sort of stone for
their forges which he called “lithathrax. ”
The Romans cut roads and aqueducts
through through the the coal coal beds beds of of France France and an
never never U8ed used the the mineral. m j ner al. In England V-. it
— was certainly -——j used as ... early —1---» as A. D. 850,
but the discovery of cinders indicates
that the Britons used it before the Roman
occupation. as'1300 It was burned in London as
early and in 17SS only 61,000
tons of iron were made with coal.
It is now estimated that the power
created by burning coal iu Great Britain
is equal to the labor of 600,000,000 men,
and that is but one-third the amount
used by the world, the United States
now being nearly or quite equal to the
mother country.
In the cotton industry the M estern
nations were still slower, and the first
really successful Amencaa crop wm
grown rn bouth Carol.ua .a 1790. Yet
is known tha the cotton manufactures
of Iud., fiounshed some 440 years B. C„
and the indications are that the bus.ness
had contmued long before that, as t.mc
would be required to bnng it to perfec-
■on. The cmhzed people of Europe
imported cotton good, from India for
centuries before establishing manufac-
tures of their own, and contrary to what
is generally believed, the manufacture in
England is but little older thau in Amer¬
ica.
In t 1/39 Samuel c? t Slater ci * came from , Eng- „
land to Pawtucket, R. I., but was not
allowed to bring any machinery with
him, as the doctrine of protection then
included toe export of macainery as well
as the import of goods. Alrny & Brown,
of Pawtucket, advanced the means, and
he made the machinery from memory—■
startiug it July 12, 1790. He had pre¬
viously tried New York and Philadelphia,
but no one would venture. He remained
an enterprising man to the end of his
life, and after acquiring a fortune spent
$40,000 in perfecting the turnpike claimed sys¬
tem of New England. It is also
that he founded the first Sunday-school
in America.
Captain Henry F. Jenks,of Pawtucket,
who is organizing the centennial, pro¬
poses that every cotton manufacturing
firm in the United States shall furnish ode
stone to make a monument for Slater,
to be surmounted by his statue. The
growth of the manufacture has been re¬
markably regular for seventy years, the
war era excepted, and the ratio of home
consumption to exported raw cotton has
varied but slightly for twenty years. Ia
1890 there were 10,921,146 spindles
running in the Lnited States, employing
181,028 persons, but the increase since
has been very great, fa the South the
number doubled in seven years, the pro-
duct being worth i?21.000,000 in 1880,
and $43,000,000 in 1887. The price of
raw cotton also grows more steady as the
area of production increases, a variation
of two cents in a year being now rare
where variations of five or ten cents were
common sixty years ago .—Brooklyn Citi-
win
Justice Miller Betrayed.
j A paragraph in a Western paper to the
e g ec t that the late Justice Miller, of the
Supreme Court, was so reticent coucern-
ing the business of the court that no one
WJ13 ever able to 0 btaiu from him an ink-
ling as to the nature of decisions on
pending cases, is, of course, true. He
was the most scrupulous mau alive, but,
nevertheless, ou one occasion a certain
ring of speculators in New York had ad¬
vance information as to one of his de¬
cisions by which they made hundreds ol
thousands of dollars. It came about in
this way: A certain widow of a certain
famous general was a near neighbor and
intimate friend of the Miller family. She
was a woman of extravagant tastes but
small income, and was suspected of
mingling in the lobby to replenish her
purse, but the Miller family were always
her firm friends, and she was as much at
home in their house as in her own. It
was known that Judge Miller had pre-
pared the opinion of the Supreme Court
in what was known as the Pacific Rail-
road cases under the Thurman act, that
he had read it at the regular conference
of the justices on Saturday morning, that
it had beeu approved by the court, and
would be delivered ou the following
! i Monday As the decision was certain to
i a «; ect tbe P nrices f of all Pacific 1 Railway railway
securlt,es materially , whicn , evei it
we nt, and as it might rum men who held
the stocks and bonds or make their for-
tunes, there was an intense anxiety to
know its nature in advance. The a^ent
of a New York syndicate largely inter-
est ed in the securities offered the Gen-
era[ - s widow $50,000 if she would obtain
tbis information. She undertook the
dalicatc task. While the Miller family
were at cburcb Sunday mornim-- she
wen t to the house, entered Judge Miller's
library, unlocked his desk by means of
skeleton keys, and copied i a [ portion of the
opinion . wbich was c rricd n Ncw York
and Wjl3 Jna de the basis of verv opinion larcm
transactions in stocks before the f cEou
^4^ was announced _ a b out l 3 0 o
The the
widovv was never allowed to enter the
Miller house a-min and was never -i-iin
recognized bv'any .’Lluii of the family In fact V ’
m Miego^herlsOOOO t ° i . $50,000.— 1 -
V
4 !lint 0,1 IIandl,n S a Pet Singing Bird
The owner of a canary or other sing-
bird sometimes has occasion to catch
for the purpose of examining it
as for instance when the pet
received a hurt. When the bird *
perfectly tame and fears to be
this task l3 not a pleasant one
a t en< I er 'hearted person, for the little
flutters around and dashes
the bars of its cage at the risk of
™ n g itself and of aggravating any
which it may have.
A simple and easy way to avoid this
- - -
is to handle the bird at night.
by the cage, and then let some
turu out light. The bird will
^ perfectly still, and you can catch it
difficulty. When the light has
turu(; d on the pet can be examined,
^ t bcn P lJ t back behind its bars.—
York Tribune.
The London Police.
The metropolitan police force is not
under the control of any local authority,
but are directed by commissioners who
are reS p 0 asible to the Home Office of the
geoeml guvernment. In There is a stroug
demand Loudon for the transfer of the
Ld police authority subjecl to the County Lei Council,
the J has J prorated JU-
cossion . „ is tbM b
tion of . ia| aatiooa , interests
London is Vo vastly ihouill important, that tho
higher authorities maintain con-
tr0 , of tbe u ||cc jn f otectioQ of »
those -
central concerns that pertain to the
greatest capital in thn world. Ulti¬
mately a compromise will probably be
reached. The County Council ought
certainly to have some share in the police ’
administration of the metropolis. r -Cm-
*
- n __ ,
A.t any moment may be set in motion
ten million soldiers upon the confines of
Switzerland.