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VOL. III.
1TI0NAL CAPITAL
it is Being Done in Congressional
(alls (or the Country’s Welfare.
pEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BRIEFLY
Ld—BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
I CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
[D4T .—Almost the entire day in the
I, Friday, was occupied by Messrs.
’ and Walker, both of Massa-
ms
|tt<, in a personal controversy. Mr.
tins, Cncved rising to a question of priri-
to strike from the record
Lortion [red of a speech of Mr. Walker,
Tuesday last, which had not
delivered by him. Portions of the
h which had not been uttered on the
SVilliams objected to as being of a
hal and insulting nature. The dis-
[n Solution was closed by the adoption of
fa providing the. that delivered) the
t (and gentleman not from Massa-
of the
tts (Walker) be referred to the com-
s on printing, with instructions to
immittee to report whether or not
ivileges of the house have been
ed in the publication of the same,
ler or not any portion thereof should
junged from the record and wheth-
[ other action should be taken by
[use in the premises, Mr. Mc-
j, rules, of Tennessee, reported from back the the commit- resolu-
i
plling on the secretarv for informa-
[ hnent to what under amount contract of the requisitions otherwise
or
b l various branches of the public
were presented between the 3d
ah of February for which warrants
its jo were not issued for payment
March 1, 1872. It was adopted.
chday.— The house proceeded to
Isideration of resolutions expressive
pw wit i which the house received
formation of the death of Preston
Inb, the late senator from Kansas,
is were delivered by Messrs. Funs-
I). Taylor. Otis, Davis, Bartine,
paker, Post, Youmans, Wilson
.and Curuth. The house then ad-
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[day—I [see. n the house Mr. Enloe, of
rising to the privileged ques-
ff'-red a resolution calling on the
rv of the treasury for a list of all
hens employed in the coast and
|c I survey decreased whose salaries were in-
Ir or list those during 1890, and
lor a of who were dm-
who resigned during that year.
pome fchardsou, discussion it was adopted.
Jttee of Tennessee, from the
\ the on printing, submitted a re-
committee on the resolution
I by Mr. Williams, of Massachu-
to expunge horn the Rec-
that portion of the speech
is colleague (Walker) which
iblished in the Record, but not ut-
jy him on the floor. The report,
reviews the speech in detail, ends
a resolution declaring that the
■ary Ae law and andLuduc; practice? of .houid
debate toem-
.11 times to their .iffictal rel.tioos,
I expresses its disapproval of the
lam'Dtary I H aoRusge us coosldenog d by H°o it
Walker, sod
Iticable to separate the unparlia-
p portions of the speech from
IthlS the M^i^DMtertadirected nefm
I iide fnim the ith^norMnnoflds ment Con-res-
I hecorl fill J »l 1 f ^
Insv n it lo? L rsiLo-nn
Ln i fo f 7 q ! n#
I e °J , Ver W oo T
| tt!nrt 1Ue8day r morni “ ff Hi
II L a f membe corps of 7’ newspa— '*7
ln L,r rr n !S°. c " tbe n i? ent * allerle9 n a ” d by -l be he fv- °”
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E) P array wblcb of ’ empty as a benches, , tbln a f’
[ If 0 a .° spectators. On the
land 7-* uste ^ ed togethier in
|h„ Ituryp h.d’^eicd Cr thrhXo.l,ed„p I’ 6 bl11 * nr * be
nf nn^° d ands ^I er uMf il° r tbC
icon l,i nd Q° . te s* The bill having -
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^ f m (lately lull taken Beard from took there the floor, by Tra- but
P W i^, nil or m k’ t receive Poiut its first °I °r-
Us eon-
in „„ c committee of whole as ii
® har "® upon the treasury.
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^e K bv B Bland an and was overruled Ta
.
who stated that the mattei
the bilTf^ ed fn the time ° f the r6 ‘
of ° m the committee. . On
providin' Rio 1 / le res ? lution
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ROBERTA. CRAWFORD FRIDA MARCH 25. 1892.
the uiscuss'on to members of the third
party. “We stand here,” said he, “as
an independent party.” “We are all
independent on this question,” retorted
Bland, amid applause and laughter.
Bland was then permitted to proceed
with his speech.
Wednesday. —The silver debate in the
house Wednesday showed the intensity
of public interest in that great question
which now faces the fifty-second con-
gress for solution, and threatens to be¬
come a political issue in the presidential
campaign of the autumn. The galleries
were crowded when the speaker’s gavel
rapped the house to order at noon and
there was no abatement from the great
interest manifested at the opening hours
of the debate of Tuesday. The floor
and the lobbies of the house, too, w’ere
well crowded with ex members and
senators. In the gallarios were
seated many bankers and finan-
cial experts from all over the
country, and the Western Union wires on
the outside were busy bearing hasty
messages that flashed to the country the
progress of the discussion, and conveyed
to the great financial centres every indi¬
cation, mosphere. that appeared in the unimportant political at¬
After 6ome
routine proceedings, the silver bill was
taken up. “I desire to give notice,”
said Chairman Bland at the opening of
the debate, “that at 2 o’clock Thursday
I shah demand bill and the pending previous amendments.'” question on
the silver
This meant merely that the general de¬
bate would close at 2 o’clock, and that a
final vote would then be taken on the bill
and amendments unless its opponents in¬
augurate a series of filibustering tactics.
TnE SENATE.
Friday. —Several memorials in favor of
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
were presented in the senate Friday by
Mr. Wolcott from silver leagues ami sil¬
ver clubs in Colorado, ami one against
by Mr. Cockrell from citizens of Mis¬
souri. Mr. Stanford gave notice that at
3 o’clock next Thur-day he would ask the
senate to consider resolutions in respect
to the death of his laic colleague, Mr.
Hearst. Mr. Dawes gave notice that he
would call up the Indian appropriation
bill Monday. Monday'
Monday. —In the senate among
the papers presented and referred was
a raemonal f, ; om citizens of Pndadelphia
\ n n,a '® meetln? ; askin £ congress to re-
fuat * '^appropriations/or the Columbian
exposition unless coupled with e re-
ftnction that the: gates thereto bo abso-
lutely closed on Sunday. A memorial to
the same effect from the state of Missis-
»'*>$' w f Panted by Mr George. Over
ba ‘. f an bour wa8 ° ccu P lcd tbe P r e8en ‘
of memorials, most of , them , being
* at,oa
fr stat « ^ ran ? es on great
f Among the
n and referred,
, .. T ? author:z ,, . • bu
was ° no eor - e ’ in r
secretary of the treasury to ascertain f the
amount of internal tax collected upon
Cott ° n P roduced w each of the states, and
° n de ™ and to paj th ° a “ 90 ’ 1S c,,r '
tai . “ ed 0 Je governors of the respective f
8 * at e8 ’ to be hcld ln [\ ust f “ r the benebfc
f f
M to tone enouj-h treasury nolea bear-
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b i ‘
the , eitute for
hls bill t0 di8pose Alabama. 0 , K . rUitl pub .
Jio , andg , The substitute
pr0Ti(]e8 tt , t blic 1>na , io that
gtate now sub j ect t 0 8 ale as mineral lands,
afe to be gran t e d the state to be used in
P rom0tin - tecbnic<l1 education -
disposing of a large number of mxscel-
laceous bills, some of them for public
buildings in small towns, the senate went
into executive session and soon after ad-
j° urned -
Wednesday.—I mmediately . after the
assembling of the senate Wednesday As-
sistant Secretary Pruden was announced
w ; t h an executive message. It was the
president’s reply to the last no’e of Lord
Salisbury regarding the Behring sea mat- it is
ter. The correspondence consists,
understood, of two notes, the first being
Lord Salisbury’s cabled note of the 19th,
and the reply from the president, dated
iIoIcm Great Briut
agreed to some arrangement, "the pending of the ar-
bitration, by which interests
u n jt e d States in Behring sea could be
pro L ected tbe United Slates government them,
ou jd take measures to protect
even if it were necessary to call the mili-
tarv forces ioto requisition to do so. At
on e o’clock Ou a motion of Mr. Shermau,
*he senate went into executive session on
the Behring sea matter.
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kotes
The announcement in the house that
Mr. Mills had been unanimously elected
senator from Texas was recieved with
x d u’ 0 ” 8 >Dd almost ip -
P E ”c.o* reM who o.»o sat Benjamin in the house ,. H.™, before
of Maryland,
the war, presented in the senafe Wednes¬
day, through the vice-president, a peti¬
tion for compensation for his' slaves.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Clements was sworn into his new office
3aturday, and was cordially welcomed
Dy the other commissioners. He called
upon the president, in company with
Speaker Crisp, to thank him for the ap¬
pointment.
The Chinese minister at Washington
has written Secretary Blaine a very salty
letter protesting against the Chinese ex
elusion bills that have been reported to
the house. He asserts that unless the
United States holds uj) on its harsh treat¬
ment of Chinese emigrants all diplomatic
relations between the two countries must
cease.
After examining a dozen bills for pen¬
sioning soldiers in Indian wars the pen -
sion committeee hive decided to report
withoutchange that of Bepreseutative
Moses, of Georgia. This bill allows $8 a
month for all soldiers or widow's of sol¬
diers who served thirty days or more in
any of the Indian wars between 1832
and ’42.
Senator Peffer t of Kansas, has intro¬
duced a bill in congress which requires
the secretary of agriculture to establish
an electrical experiment station in which
shall be determined the question "whether
electricity can be profitably used and
applied as implements a motive power machinery. in propulsion The
of farm and
bill calls for $10,000 appropriation.
The feature of the tariff debate Mon¬
day was the speech of General Wheeler,
of Alabima. He said it was the duty of
congress to revise the tariff laws so as to
add to the prosperity the of all the of people labor, \
that to increase factory, price in¬
whether of farm or we must
crease the demands for the products of
labor, and that can only be done by ex¬
tending the market for American pro¬
ducts.
Representative Andrew, of Boston, has
completed the report upon his bill “to
exclude political influence in the employ¬
ment of laborers under the authority of
the Uuited States,” and will submit it to
the house at once. The bill, according
to the reports he has received, will affect
some 21,000 employes, and will require
that henceforth they shall regard be appointed political
or employed without to
c msiderations.
Dispatches of Sunday state that the
condition of Chairman Springer, of the
ways and means committee, continues to
improve, but he is still confined to his
bed. If the improvement, which is very
slow, continues as henceforth, he hopes
to be able to leave in a week or ten
days for Fortress Monroe for two weeks’
recuperation. The tariff discussion will
probably close about the latter part of
April, and Mr. Springer still expects to
make the closing speech.
Representative Johnstone, of South
Carolina, has introduced an important
bill, which has the double purpose of de¬
creasing taxation and increasing the cir¬
culating medium. It directs the secre¬
tary of the treasury to purchase the out¬
standing bonds due by the government,
and to replace the amount of this pur¬
chase by issuing treasury notes. It pro¬
vides that the gold and silver bullion of
the government shall be coined and held
for the redemption of these treasury
notes.
COTTON FIGURES FOR MARCH
As Issued by the Department of Agri-
culture at Washington.
The March report of the statistician of
the department of agriculture was issued
Friday. It shows that r he production of
cotton of the world exceeded the con
sumption more than a million and one
half bales in 1890 and a further greatly
enlarged increasing excess in 1891, glutting the
markets, visible stocks during
the past year more than one million one
huudred thousand bdes. and reducing
the Liverpool price of middling upland
f rom 6 16 pence in January, 1890, to
4 18 pence in January, 1892. It states
that in two years this country has pro-
duced excess above the normal require-
rnents of more than two million bales,
crop3 mus t | )e introduced, as the agri-
cultural population has outgrown the
capacity or cotton to support it.
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; TOBACCO SMOKE. j
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A Big Factory In St. Louis Completely j
Destroyed by the Flames. |
The extensive tobacco Louis factory Mo took of Lig- fire j
! ?n ^ rfrhltafr „ rc „♦ «^wUtini
me the S ( * Friday morning, «r and of i^ the an build- h< ur |
almost the entire upi er part
j Dg was j n fl itn es. Several hundred peo-
K ^ W
NEWS IN GENERAL.
Happenings of the Day Called from Onr
Telegraphic anfi Cable Dispatches.
WHAT IS TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OUB
OWN COUNTRY. AND NOTES OF INTER¬
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
Assistsnt Secretary of War Grant is
r< ported fo be dangerously ill.
Diplomatic roiat ons with Italy will
soon be re-established by the return of
Baron Fava to this country.
A heavy sleet and snowstorm prevailed
at Rockford, III., Tuesday. Street rail¬
way traffic was at a standstill.
The British government has been asked
to give an early a' swer as to what it in¬
tends to do in the Be’ ring sea matter.
The Wisconsin supreme court has de¬
clared the assembly senatorial and con¬
gressional appointment made by the last
legislature uncon titutional.
Dispatches of Tuesday state that the
Canadian Pacific railro-d strike has now
exteud d to the eastern division from Fort
Williams to Chalk river, 4,000 more miles
being locked up.
A Paris cablegram of Monday says:
It is reported that Mollien, Herrarn and
Gnepran, directors of the Banquo dcs
Chemina de Fm-t Industrie which failed
Saturday, have fled to America.
The democratic state central commit¬
tee of Colorado has named Denver as the
place and May 25th the day for the meet¬
ing of the convention to select delega es
for the national convention at Chicago.
A Berlin special of Wednesday says:
The illness of Bismarck is more serious
than was at first reported. He had sev¬
eral faimiag fits at one time, and came
near a collapse. He is better now, but
very weak.
The New York senate has concurred
in the assembly amendments to the sen¬
ate bill appropriating $300,000 for the
world’s fair, including an amendment
for the closing of the state exhibits oj
Sundays.
A Cablegram from Paris says: At a
meeting of the cabinet held Tuesday M.
Ii hot. the minister of foreign affaire,
and M. Picard, the minister of justice,
submitted the text of the extradition
treaty with tne United States.
A New Yorfc special of Wednesday
says: The Standard Oil company has
filed a certificate with the county clerk
of Hudson county, New Jersey, increas¬
ing the capital of its New Jersey corpo¬
ration from $3,000,000 to $10,000,000.
Disappointment is expri ssed in French
government quarters at the slow progress
of the American commercial treaty in the
chamber of deputies. The slowness is
owing to agricultural influences which are
opposed to granting minimum tariff to
American
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the Standard Oil trust held at New York,
Monday, it was derided by a two-thirds
vote to terminate the trust, and that all
property held by the trust except the
stocks of the corporation be sold by the
trustt es at private sale.
A London cablegram of Monday says:
The American Tin Plate works in Mon¬
mouth have been closed. At the Aber-
tillery works the operatives have received
a mouth’s notice of the close of contracts.
Three thousand hands are thus thrown
out of employment.
Dispatches of Monday from Ottawa,
Ont., say: D. McCarthy, one of the lead¬
ing supporters of the government, gives
notice of a resolution in the house of
commons proposing that a Canadian rep¬
resentative be attached to the British
legation at Washington.
A dispatch .. a , of . Wednesday says: For _
the first time in the h.story of the city
of Iliawathu, Kansas, and possibly for
the first time in Kansas, colored men
have been appointed judges of election.
3Iayor Brewster has selected four colored
men, one from each ward, to serve on
election boards.
pP 1“F
The indictments are for fel-
on t 0 u8lv ^ consnirinr* ^ ° to commit * bribery. y ".
of Wednesday . from „ Detroit,
Telegrams the Grand Trunk Il.R.of
Mich.,state that Michigan branches, the
Canada and its
Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee,
Chicago Grand TrunE aad other la.erals
and main line, and aU the branches of
ed « e of a strike, which it it taKes pllce piace
tie up these arteries of
commerce and make havoc among many
lines of trade.
A Philadelphia dispatch ...... t<Lthe Isew XT
W ^), waa io , b a. ci, ? Mood. y for
NO. 9.
tbe purpose of completing a ileal by
which the Sprecklcs & Franklin refiner¬
ies were to be taken into the combina¬
tion. A formal transfer of properties is
expected to take place at once. The re¬
finery of F. C. Knicht is already in the
deal, and is operated under the control
of the trust.
The Painesville Saviugs aud Loan As¬
sociation bank at Painesville, O., closed
its doors Monday morning. The deposi¬
tors are generally working people, who
are crowding around the building and
threatening violence to the officials.
Colonel B. K. Paige, well known in rail¬
way circles, and one of the most promi¬
nent capitalists in northern Ohio, is at
the head of tbe concern. No figures are
obtainable at this time and the cause of
the failure cannot be learned. A notico
on the doorot the bank conveys the in'
formation that a settlement will be made
with the depositors as soon as possible.
An order issued by the treasuiy de¬
partment Saturday suspending the free
list in case of coffee, sugar, tea, molas¬
ses and hides produced in Venezuela,
Hayti and Columbia, previously superseded issued and di¬
rescinded the order
recting the custom officers to suspend
action in the ctse of such importations ruling,
u til further orders. Under this
importations of articles named from the
three countries in question will be admit¬
ted to free prior entry, the provided 15th instant, they were the
shipped president’s to
date of the proclamation, but
importations shipped on and after imposed that
date will bo subject to duties
b 7 the McKinley law.
MINERS RESUMING WORK
And flic Backbone of the Great Strike
in England Broken.
A London c ibiegrum sa\s: In accord¬
ance with the decision of the tnir ers’
federation, at a meeting hcld Sunday,
nearly nil the coal miners who quit work
on the 12th, with the exception of the
Durham miners, who are not members of
the federation, resumed work Monday
morning. In a few districls where the
miners arc still idle, mine owners insist
that the men shall remove without pay¬
ment falls of earth that have occurred
during the week of their self-imposed
idleness. This the men refuse to do.
In other collieries there is some fric¬
tion in consequence of the federation’s
decision to limit work to five days. The
strikers in Durham who quit work, not
with any idea of caus ng an advance in
the price of coal, but with the intention
of resisting the threatened reduction in
wages, number 92,000. It is predicted
that in the London district there will be
a protracted struggle between the
men and employers. A large
number of miners are emigrating
to other mining countries, and
many of them are going to America.
Several of the mines in Durham are likely
to be seriously damaged by the continu¬
ed inflow of water, the owners being un¬
able to obtain a sufficient number of men
to properly work the pumps. All the
Nottingham miners numbnng 23,000, Monday re¬
sumed work at the usual hour
morning. As a result ><f resumption in of
mining operations, the price of coal
the district declined three shillings per
ton.
IN FAVOR OF PUBLISHERS.
Disputed Accounts in the Davis
Memoirs Case Arbitrated.
Stephen P. Nash, appointed by the
supreme court as arbitrator to adjust the
disputed accounts between Jacob W.
Payne, of New Orleans, La., and J. Ad¬
dison Hayes, Jr., of Colorado Springs,
Col., as executors of the will of Jefferson
Davis and D. Appleton & Co., has filed a
r port in favor of the publishers. The
executors thought the eslate should be
benefited with interest of $2,050, money
advanced to W. J. Walthal, of Mobile,
Ala ; who made an agreeme nt with the
publishers to prepare the Davis memoirs,
an( j rece i ved advances of $9,675 from the
pub i i8her8 . The memo irs were subsc-
tl compieted b Jud w j
'jvuuy^ in the employ of the publisher,
with the consent of Mr*. D*vit.
UNHAPPT MRS. OSBORNE.
Her Friends Fear that She Will not
Live Jo Serve ont Her Sentence.
London cabkgram of Mon ay says:
T he friends of Mrs. Florence Ethel Os-
borne, whose sentence to a turn of nine
mouth9ira; risoDinentforperjury,incon-
nection with the great Pearl case, is of
too recent a date to require further men-
tion, have good ground# for their fears
h it the will not live to serve out her
s ntence. Her con lition has been such
f* damnation, ^ she was Ukl confined Hnd af, f r in . the con m- '
fir/natorv attached to IIolk,w„ y Blodel
j ,1 She is in a delicate condition and
the disgrace she has brought up->n herself
a id .ami.y has proven greater than she
tioo.