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CONGRESS IN SESSION.
lie Daily Routine of Botb Houses
Briely Epitomize!
What is Being Done to Allay Finan¬
cial Depression and Bring Relief.
Thirty-Seventh Day —After the
routine morning business in the senate
Wednesday there was a conflict between
Mr. Yoorhees and Mr. Platt as to the
right to the floor. Mr. Yoorhees desir¬
ed to call up the repeal bill, while Mr.
Platt wished to make a statement as
to the cloture rule which he had given
notice of Tuesday. He intimated that
the Indiana senator might be a little
kinder in his treatment of other sena¬
tors. Mr. Voorhees said that he
would have yielded if Mr. Platt had
asked it, and that now he would yield
without being asked. Mr. Platt was
thus given an opportunity of stating
that as the senator from Missis¬
sippi (Mr. George) desired to address
the senate he (Mr. Platt) would not in¬
troduce the resolution of which he had
given notice but would do so at some
future time. Mr. George then began
his speech, saying that, as he happen¬
ed to differ from the democratic ad¬
ministration on the bill, and as he be¬
lieved that his constituents concurred
with him, he thought it well to state
his views with some precision. The
passage of the bill by the senate, he
thought, would be a leap in the dark,
as likely to increase as to diminish
financial troubles.
Thirty-Eighth Day. —Mr. Platt of¬
fered his cloture rule in the senate
Thursday morning. Discussion on the
rule was closed by letting the matter go
over till Friday. Mr. Platt was com¬
plimented by Mr. Voorhees for his
clear and lucid statement of the situa¬
tion. Substitutes for the resolution
were suggested by Mr. Hoar and Mr.
Hill. A strong argument in favor of
the cloture rule was made by Mr.
Lodge, although he recognized the
fact that the adoption of the rule would
be made use of to pass measures which
he considered worse than the Sherman
act—that is, a new tariff bill and a
to repeal the election laws.
Thirty-Ninth Day. —After
short routine morning business in
senate Friday, the cloture
was laid before the body, and Mr.
Wolcott took the floor and made
statement. Although he said that
would vote against it, he declared
no factious opposition would be
to it, and that a vote upon it could
reached much sooner than a vote
repeal could be. If the senate
a vote on the clotures resolution
could have it without much
He would not interpose the
objection to a full and fair and
vote upon it. He would be
hiniBelf with voting against it. If
was a failure to press it to a
then criticism on senators
the repeal would have to cease.
debate on the repeal bill could be
fled by the cloture rule, but it
not be stifled otherwise. In his
ion, however, cloture was not
sary, because there had been no
tious delay. Mr. Teller argued
the cloture rule, and wound up
speech by declaring that' he would
sist every method, obstructive
otherwise, for the adoption in the
ate of a rule which should limit or
struct debate. He took his seat a
minutes before 2 o’clock. If he
spoken till 2 o’clock the
would have gone to the calendar,
Mr. Turpie expressed an intention
speaking on the resolution
So the cloture resolution remained
the table. The repeal bill was
taken up and Mr. George
the speech against it.
40th Day. —In the senate,
Mr. Stewart offered the following
olution and said he would address
senate Monday: “Resolved, That
independence of the co-ordinate
partments of the government—the
islative, the executive and the
—must be maintained and the use
the power and influence of one
ment to control the action of
is a violation of the constitution
destructive of our form of
ment.” The resolution proposing
establishment of a cloture rule in
senate was discussed for nearly
hours and was then referred to the
mittee on rules. A constitutional
ment was made against by it Mr.
He expressed the opinion that there
no necessity for either
on obstruction—and that a
ground should be discovered on
the senate might proceed safely
■without shock to its traditions.
was an effort on the part of Mr.
hees to take up the repeal bill, but
Jones, of Arkansas, reminded the
ators that there was a matter
in executive session which would
py the remainder of the day.
senate then proceeded to
business, in which it remained until
o’clock, when it adjourned until
day.
41st Day. —The attendance of
tors was unusually small when the
ate met at 11 Monday morning.
resolution offered last Saturday
Mr. Stewart as to the co-ordinate
partments of the government,
laid before the senate. Mr.
began with a citation from President
Cleveland’s speech on the occasion
commemorating the one hundredth
anniversary of the laying of the cor¬
ner stone of the eapitol. This speech
had been made by a president having
more than 100,000 federal offices to
dispose of, and with a veto power
which had been designed only for ex¬
traordinary occasions, backed by con¬
centrated capital and encouraged and
flattered by a venal press. He describ¬
ed Mr. Cleveland on that occasion as
turning his face toward the senate
wing ui tne capital ana, in uuger ana
menacing tones, using the following
language: “If the representatives who
here assembled to make laws for their
fellow countrymen forget their duty of
broad and disinterested patriotism and
legislate in prejudice and passion or
in behalf of sectional or selfish inter¬
ests, the time when the corner-stone
of the capital was laid and the circum¬
stances surrounding it will not be
worthy of commemorating. ” This
declaration, Mr. Stewart said, had
been cheered and encouraged by the
thoughtless multitude, and construed
by the venal press as a rebuke from
the president of the United States to
the senate. The struggle for consti¬
tutional liberty, he continued, of the
Anglo-Saxon race, which had been
long, arduous and attended with many
sacrifices, had lasted now for nearly a
thousand years. He went on to quote
at great length from Maculey’s His¬
tory of England as to the parliament¬
ary struggle with the Stuart kings.
Mr. Stewart spoke for over two and a
half hours. The resolution on which
he spoke would have gone to the cal¬
endar at one o’clock, but Mr. Voor
hees consented to let it go over till
Tuesday and let Mr. Stewart continue
his speech as if it were on the resolu¬
tion.
THE HOUSE.
Thirty-Seventh Day. —Immediate¬
ly after the approval of the journal in
the house Wednesday, the fight over
the federal election bill was resumed.
Mr. Burrows moved to dispense with
the call of committees for reports.
Pending this, Mr. Catchings present¬
ed a resolution from the committee on
rules, but before it was read Mr. Bur¬
rows raised the point that the resolu¬
tion was not in order. The
speaker overruled the point of order
and then the house was thrown into
great confusion. Mr. Reed and the
speaker had some very bitter pas¬
sages. Mr. Burrows appealed from
the decision and Mr. Fitch moved to
lay the appeal on the table. Pending
a vote on the Fitch motion, Mr. Bur¬
rows moved a recess. Mr. Catchings
made a point of order against the mo¬
tion and Mr. Burrows argued
in its support. Mr. Burrows’ ap¬
peal from the speaker’s de¬
cision was tabled; yeas 172, nays 56.
The report of the committee on
rules was then agreed to—yeas 176,
nays 9, and the speaker proceeded
call the committee for reports. Mr.
Tucker reported the federal
bill and it was placed on the calendar,
and then the house at 5:45 o’clock
journed.
Thirty-Eighth Day. —The fight over
the federal election bill was inaugu¬
rated Thursday morning in the
by a request from the committee
rules, providing a cloture by which
vote shall be taken on that measure
October 10. After a short
between Mr. Reed and the
relative to the journal, the approval
the latter was deferred, and
Catchings presented the report of
rules committee, providing for
up the elections law repeal bill
September 26 and a final vote on
tober 10. The yeas and nays
called on ordering the previous
tion, and it was ordered, 175 to 4.
Thirty-Ninth Day —After the
proval of the journal, the
tion of the report of the committee
accounts assigning clerks to
tees was resumed by the house
morning the pending question being
motion to lay upon the table a
made by Mr. Crain, of Texas, to
sider the vote by which the
Thursday agreed to the Paynter
stitute depriving certain of the
committees of their clerks. The
tion to reconsider was tabled—yeas,
142; nays, 57. The vote then
on the report of the committee on
counts, and, as amended, it was
too. A resolution was adopted
ing the attorney general to
cate to the house such instructions
have been forwarded to officers of
department of justice relating to
enforcement of the Chinese
act. Also a resolution calling for
ilar information from the secretary
the treasury as to the instructions
to collectors, etc. An additional
was assigned to the committee
claims. Then came a report from
committee on accounts assigning
additional clerk to the committee
naval affairs. The vote on the
resulted: Yeas, 102; nays,
quorum—and the house, at
o’clock adjourned.
40th Day. —The session in the
Saturday was devoid of interest,
cept such as was given to it by
Bretz, democrat, of Indiana, who
forded much merriment to the
by complaining against Assistant
master General Maxwell for not
moving a postmaster in a little
in his district because the
• had offered to make him (Mr. Bretz)
a present of $15 if he would have him
retained. He wanted the matter in
but ed. Mr/Tracy, The of New York, committee object
report of the
on accounts, giving an additional
clerk to the committee on naval
affairs, was postponed until Monday,
and in the consideration morning hour
the house, in committee of the whole,
proceeded to the consideration of the
bill remitting the penalties on account
of the delay in the construction of the
dynamite cruiser Vesuvius., Pending
action the morning hour expired and
the committee rose. The printing bill
was then laid before the house as un¬
finished business. Mr. Pickier, repub¬
lican, of South Dakota,took advantage
of a few moments to enter his protest
against monometallism, and to have
read an editorial from the New York
Press, in which the Republicans in the
senate are advised no longer to sup¬
port the Cleveland administration.
Without disposing of the printing bill,
the house adjourned.
41st Day. —There was no quorum
present in the house Monday morning,
and a call over the proposition to give
an additional clerk to the committee
on naval affairs was ordered. One
hundred and eighty members re¬
sponded to their names and further
proceedings under the call were dis¬
pensed with and the question received
on the report of committee on ac¬
counts.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Allairs ol Goyemeat and Ronline ol
tbe House and Senate Discnssel
Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo¬
ple and Their General Welfare.
The house committee on banking
and currency Friday authorized Mr.
Cox, of Tennessee, to report favora¬
bly to the house the bill introduced by
him to promote the safety of funds
and deposits of national banks.
There were some sixty nominations
sent to senate Friday afternoon. One
Georgian was named, Mr. T. R. Gib
n, of Augusta. He goes to Beirut,
Syria. Mr. Gibson will very likely
accept the -place, as he expressed a de¬
sire to go to the Orient, naming Bie
rut as one of the places he would like.
The place pays $2,000 per annum and
the unofficial fees are considerable.
The house committee on rules decid¬
ed Thursday morning that the Tucker
bill to repeal the federal election laws,
should be taken up for consideration
on the 26th and that the vote on the
passage of the bill and the pending
amendments should be taken on the
tenth of October—twelve days being
allowed for debate. This order was
agreed upon by a majoity of the mem¬
bers. The minority members of the
committee say they will oppose the
adoption of the order, but are not in¬
clined to filibuster against it.
The committee on foreign affairs had
a meeting Thursday to consider the
McCreary substitute to the Everett
bill extending the time of registration
of the Chinese. The discussion de¬
veloped the fact that every member of
the committee favored the extension of
the time for six months, with the pos¬
sible exception of Mr. Geary, of Cali¬
fornia. The latter gave notice that he
would offer an amendment providing
for identification by means of photo¬
graphs. The committee adjourned
without action, but there is no doubt
that at the next meeting the bill will
be favorably reported.
The Pension Grab.
Pension Commissioner Lochren, has
submitted his annual report to the
secretary of the interior. Number of
pensioners on the rolls, 966,012. Net
increase during the past year of 89
944. During the year, 24,715 claims
for increase of pension and 31,990
claims for additional pensions under
act June 27, 1890, have been allowed.
In same time 115,321 claims for pen¬
sion and for increase were rejected.
Claims pending July 7th, 1894, num
bered 711,150. Amount money paid
for pensions during the year, $156 »■
740,461.14. Estimates for 1895 amounts
to $162,931,570. In referring to the
revocation of the order regulating
specific disabilities under the act of
June 27, 1890, the commissioner states
that by the provisions of the order the
act itself was being set aside and dis¬
regarded. Accordingly a board of
revision was organized to examine in¬
to cases under the act and call out
such as had no legal basis. The com¬
missioner concluded thus: “I recog¬
nize to the fullest extent my sole duty
is to execute and administer the laws
as they are enacted, fairly and honest¬
ly interpreted.”
Fearful Flood in Japan.
A San Francisco special says:
steamship Peru, Monday evening
China and Japan, brought the news
September 3d. The Japan
dated August 26, gives an account
a great flood in Fifu Ken.
hundred and four were drowned,
30,000 are receiving relief. It
also that 2,356 cases are reported
and 447 dead.
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The plant of the Montgomery Coop¬
erage Company, at Montgomery, Ala.,
was destroyed by fire Friday. Loss,
$20,000; insurance about $6,000.
The largest cotton dealers in North
Carolina say that upon a careful sum¬
mary of reports, they find that the
cotton crop of the state promises to
be 9 per cent larger than last year.
The board of health of the city of
Selma, Ala., adopted resolutions that
no person passing through Atlanta,
Ga., shall be allowed to enter Selma
while the epidemic continues at Bruns¬
wick and refugees are received in At¬
lanta.
At a meeting of Brunswick’s board
of health at noon Friday three new
cases of yellow fever were announced:
J. C. Folkerson, a tailor; J. R. Mul
lin, 145 Grant street; Chas. Sullivan,
Bay street. Several cases of malarial
fever were also reported. Mrs. Tur¬
ner’s case of yellow fever was dis¬
charged.
A special from Brunswick says:
Mrs. Winkler died at ten o’clock
Thursday morning from what is be¬
lieved to be yellow fever. She was
sick several days, but the doctor only
called a few hours before her death.
There is also a suspicious case on
Jeckyll island. Dr. Butts reported
two new cases, Lola Scott and Sarah
Bland, both mulattoes.
The famous Four Seasons hotel, at
Harrogate, Tenn., closed its doors
Sunday night. It has been in a re¬
ceiver’s hands for four months, in
which time they have spent $45,000 in
receiver’s certificate. Eighty persons
were thrown out of employment. Chief
Clerk Hess beat the hotel receivers by
paying himself off in full Saturday
afternoon and skipping to Kentucky.
Officers are after him.
A dispatch of Thursday from Baton
Rouge, La., says: Governor Foster
has written a letter to the district at¬
torney of the thirty-first judicial dis¬
trict, calling his attention to the ne¬
cessity for prompt and vigoroiis action
in the enforcement of the law in Jef¬
ferson parish, and the taking of proper
steps to bring all the guilty parties
involved in the murder of Judge Es
topinal and the lynchers of the Ju
liens to justice.
A San Antonio special of Sunday
says: Cattle are being driven out of
Uvalde county by the thousands. The
range has at last succumbed to the
long continued droughts. Stockmen
in the vicinity of Sabinal, who have
been ranching there for forty years,
and never before had to move their
cattle on account of scarcity of grass
and water, are now compelled to take
them to places that have been favored
with rain.
A New Orleans dispatch says: The
leaders who had called a meeting for
the colored people to protest against
the late lynching in Jefferson with¬
drew the call Saturday. This was
done at the suggestion of those whites
who are opposed to lynch law. They
took the position that a colored meet¬
ing to denounce the Jefferson outrages
woiild arouse race prejudice and that
all should unite, regardless of color, to
oppose lynch law and suppress vio¬
lence.
The sensation of the day in Bruns¬
wick Saturday was the enforcement of
martial law, and the punishment of
Mike J. Eagan, the newspaper corres¬
pondent, by banishment from the city
on account of his slanderous state¬
ments. The census of the city shows
white males, 600; colored males, 1,670;
white females, 570; colored females,
2,428; total population, 5,628, im
munes, 235, total sick from yellow
fever and other cases, 40. There are
about fifteen cases of malarial fever
under treatment.
The new route between Wilmington
and New Berne, N. C., over the Wil¬
mington, New Berne and Norfolk rail¬
road, is now regularly opened with a
double daily service. The distance is
eighty-seven miles, about one half of
the distance by the old route. The
road having just been completed, the
schdeule is three and a half hours,
which will probably be shortened.
This road gives Wilmington entirely
new connection with a rich section of
eastern North Carolina.
State Auditor Furman of North Car
lina Btates that the amount of state
pensions to ex-confederates this year
will approximate $100,000, and
the increase in pensioners will
equal the increase in the amount
the pension tax, so that the four
es of pensioners will receive
$17, $34, $51 and $68, as they did
year. Widows will get $7. All disa¬
bled ex-confederate soldiers
in North Carolina now receive
sions. There are now sixty-three
mates of the Confederate
home at Raleigh.
The Savannah Press made the fol¬
lowing statement Sunday: “We have
information from reliable parties in
Brunswick that Egan’s action is en¬
dorsed by many prominent citizens,
notwithstanding the intimidation and
the whitewashing of the accused by
the health board and the relief com¬
mittee. It seems to become a case of
persecution by the authorities and ev¬
ident spite by Doming in his reports
to his papers. The action of the
Brunswick authorities is far from be¬
ing approved by the public outside
their city in several instances of late.’
A Birmingham, Ala., special says;
Thursday morning G. G. Wilson and
S. J. Davis were lodge in jail by
United States officers on a charge of
counterfeiting. They were examined
and bound over to the grand jury.
They were arrested in Sylacauga.
When caught they had a considerable
sum of the spurious silver dollars in
their possession of the date of 1890.
A complete Bet of counterfeiting tools
was found. The dollars are a pretty
good imitation, having a perfect ring
and good appearance. Talladega and
adjoining counties have been flooded
of late with these counterfeit dollars, ’
TRAIN ROBBERS KILLED.
They Attempt to Hold up the Wrong
Train—Met by Policemen.
The Kansas, St. Joe and Council
Bluff road foiled an attempt to rob
one of its passenger trains, killed two
of the bandits and captured three
others, at Francis, Mo., one agd a half
miles frum St. Joseph, Sunday night.
The officials of the road had been
notified that a robbery had been plan¬
ned, and notified the police. When
the train arrived at St. Joseph a dum¬
my train was made up and sixteen
police officers, under command of the
chief of police,* were put aboard.
When the dummy reached a point
two miles north of St. Joseph, it was
stopped by six masked men. One
mounted the engine and presented a
revolver at the engineer’s head and an¬
other at the firemen and held them in
subjection while the other five men
hnrried to the express car. They or¬
dered the messenger to open the door,,
which he did. Three of the bandits
entered, leaving two to keep guard.
The police secreted in the car or¬
dered the three men to surrender.
The robbers were taken by surprise,
but opened fire on the police. The
police returned the fire and a general
fusilade followed. Two of the robbers,
Hugo Engel and Fred Kohler, were
shot in the head and killed, and three
others, T. N. A. Hurst, Charles Fred¬
ericks and William Garver, were des¬
perately wounded. The sixth man,,
Henry Gleitz, escaped. None of the
police were injured.
POLK’S REMAINS REINTERRED*
They Are Given a New Resting Place at
Nashville.
A Nashville special says: After forty
three years in the tomb, the remains
of ex-President James K. Polk, for a
brief time Tuesday, reposed under
the roof where the happiest days of
his life were spent, and then, followed
by civic and military authorities, state
and federal officials, were conveyed to
what will probably prove their final
resting place.
This is the second time the ex-pres¬
ident’s remains have been moved..
When he first died, in 1849, he was*
buried in the old city cemetery. Then
the tomb at the Polk place was erect¬
ed, and, on May 22, 1850, the remains
were placed therein. President Polk
made an invalid will, and when Mrs.
Polk died, August 14, 1891, suit was
soon after brought by the heirs, and
the will broken on the ground that it
attempted to create a perpetuity.
Thereupon the Polk place w r as ordered
sold, and the last legislature granted
permission for the removal of the tomb*
to Capitol Hill. A beautiful site was
selected just north of the Jackson
statute, and there, the tomb, a square,
open temple, with plain columns, has
been erected. The caskets containing
the remains of of President and Mrs.
Polk were encased in new boxes and
taken into the parlor of the Polk place,
where prayers were said. Brief ser¬
vices were conducted by Rev. S. A.
Steel and Rev. Jerry Withersoon, af¬
ter which the caskets were placed side
by t ide and left in peace.
HURRICANES IN SPAIN.
Violent Storms Sweep tlie Provinces*
Fearful Loss of Life.
A special of Friday from Madrid,
Spain, states that the province of To¬
ledo has been swept by violent storms
and much damage done to property.
Large tracts of country are flooded
and many lives lost. Sixty dead bod¬
ies have so far been recovered at Villa
Canas. Many more are believed to be
hidden by the wreckage or to have
been washed far from the town. Many
of the deaths were caused by the flood¬
ing of the cave dwellers on the out¬
skirts of the town. These dwellings
are holes dug in the hillside almost
evel with the plain. They are occu¬
pied by the poorest families. The
ower caves were filled at the first ris¬
ing of the flood, and the occupants
were drowned before they had time to¬
rn ak.e any effort to escape.