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IN CONGRESS.
The Week’s Work of the Na*
tional Law Makers.
CONSIDERABLE TARIFF TALK.
The Extraordinary Session Drags
Along Continuously.
THE DAILY PROCEEDINGS
Silted In a Condensed and Intereating
Style.— Some Important Matters are
RectMng Careful Consideration.—Many
Hills are Being Introduced.
SEVENTH DAY.
Senate, The Semite spent only half
an hour In open session to-ilay, the re¬
mainder of the time being given to the
eonulderation of the arbitration treaty
behind dosed doors. The agricultural
a|i|iro|irlatfon Idll one of the four
money hills that failed at the la at ses¬
sion wax reported back In the ahape
In which It parsed the House last
week, and wax plaeed on the enlendar.
It will be acted on at an early day.
The attack upon the civil service
law and Its administration, which dis¬
tinguished yesterday's pns'eedlngs,
wax followed up to day by the Intro¬
duction of two bills, one by Mr. Allen,
Populist of Nebraska, for the repeal
and annulment of the law ami of ail
executive orders Issued under It; and
the oilier by Mr. Pritchard, Republican
of North Carolina, Chairman of the
Committee on Civil Service and lte
Ireitchmcnt, modifying its application
to the Government printing office.
Mouse. Large audiences in the
galleries, uiul an unusually large at¬
tendance on the Moor of the Mouse of
Representatives heard the third day's
general debate on the tariff bill. The
prUit‘i|xi 1 speeches of the day were
those of Messrs. Johnson, of North Da¬
kota; tlrosvenor, of Ohio, mid Evans,
of Keniticky, Republican mcmls-rs of
the Committee oil Ways anil
Means, In favor *of the bill,
and of McMillan, of Tennessee,
the oldest Democratic member,
against It. Other speakers were Messrs.
Deim -si of To ucss-e; Williams,
,J o-rm.vra! t iTry, lVino
oral of VrkuusuR'. Sayers, Democrat of
Texas, and Maddox. Democrat of Geor
giu against the bill, end by Adams,
Roptlhlleati. of MassnchUiivtts, In fa
vor of it. The general debate will be
i loscd to morrow, when Rttsselt, of
Cmmcilleut, Dalzell, of Pennsylvania,
St, tic. of Indiana, ilrnl Payne, of New
York, llcpiiblican members of the Com¬
mittee on Ways and Means, anti Ball
ey, of Tt>xas, the Demoerutle leader,
w ill speak. The latter makes the for¬
mal closing for the minority, and
I*uj ne for the majority. Resides these.
Messrs. Hepburn. Republican of Iowa,
and IUt hardsell, Democrat of Tenues
\ tvIM s)H-ak.
Nil Rrewnlow. Republican of Ten
in see. Imrotlneed la the House a hill
t lablishlog a Department of Coin
I'. Labor amt Manufacturers.
1 , , It a,l Is to be a Cabinet officer and
the necessary clerical force Is provided
tel.
Mr. Livingston. Democrat of oGor
gt:t, was the tlrst speaker at to-night’s
session anil linlulgrd In a brief half
hour's protest against the tariff hill.
The last speech of the evening was
delivered by Mr. Oldstead. Republican
of IVunsylvattla. ■ n support of the b II.
who addressed six Representatives on
tin 1 thsir and a score of visitors in the
galleries.
At U o'clock tin- committee row' ami
the 1 louse mljoiirmsl.
EIGHTH DAY.
Washington, 1* C. Among the bills
Introduced ami referred was ow by
M r. Forakt-r, of Ohio, to provide a
modern organlxnt >n of the artillery of
the my
Mr. I*rt uft*«l in an amended
r* of John A. Hen
a n roil: the State of
Ft aU\ z~ *r nt hy t
(liVt j the next miH'iiiijir of the
Sf.it» April m vt.
\; It! 2, oil nio
I U su* x K MUv
Ii \* ? Jlljjf t f the Cdiu
11 ! notations' S !\
ate Jed to t a
iwHii j doors> of the arbitra a
treaty ro-opemxl
At 3 p. *o. t doors werr
\ the it mini hod b \<dtn s> bank
w n up, Ivins read
f She Mil occupied ex
r; me formal amend
rnents were offered by Mr, Hoar and
were agreed to.
Mr. Nelson, Republican of Minneso¬
ta, offered a substitute for the bill
which was also read in full, and when
it was concluded the Senate at 4:2b p
m. adjourned tinrii Saturday.
House.—This was last day of gi-.neraj
debate on tariff bill in the Hotn......
Representatives under the order adopt
ed last Week hut Itcrailoe Mr. Hail ts
throat would not permit him to speak
this afternoon, an agreement was mad:
to give, two hours to general debati
just hefore taking the vote m-xt
Wednesday, which will be occupied hy
himself and Mr. Dlngley.
The proceedings were unusually in¬
teresting ami they were listened to
generally hy a large number of mem¬
bers and crowded galleries. Speeches
against the bill were made by Messrs.
Talbert, Democrat of South Carolina,
Clark, Democrat of Missouri; Maguire,
Democrat of California; Gunn. Popu¬
list of Idaho; Simpson, Populist of
Kansas; Cox, Demoreat of Tennessee;
McRae, Democrat of Arkansas; Iturke,
Democrat of Texas; Ix-ntz, Democrat
of Ohio, and Dearmond. Democrat of
Missouri; and its favor by Messrs.
Tawney, Republican of Minnesota;
Dalzell, Republican of Pennsylvania;
Russell, Republican of Connecticut,
anil Payne, Republican of New Y'ork,
inemtiers of the Committee on Ways
and Means, and by Grow, Republican
of Pennsylvania; Curtis, Republican of
Kansas; Orison, Republican of Ken¬
tucky, and Hawley, Republican of
Texas.
At 5 o’clock the House took a recess
until 8 o’clock to-night, the night ses¬
sion to witness the last general debate,
except two hours on Wednesday next,
just prior to taking the vote on the
bill. ___
NIGHT SESSION.
At the evening session the debate on
tin tariff bill was continued.
Mr. Skinner, Populist of North Caro¬
lina, in supporting the-bill said that if
for the pitst. twenty-five years the
South hud been trying for protection
as the North and EaHt had, it would
today be the most prosperous section
of the country- The bill hatl its tie
fts-ls and he did not think It would
bring prosperity without supplemental
financial legislation. Revenue, in ids
opinion, sufficient to supply deficien¬
cies could be sustained by reducing by
one-third of the salaries of all Govern¬
ment employes or by a proper income
tax.
Mr. Myers, Democrat of Louisiana,
said that some of the duties Inferred
by the bill might tie ervottWSttB"803 ex¬
cessive, bnt as a representative of
Louisiana, representing tv great and
suffering interest be should support
the sugar schedule.
\ number of apeeches were made by
various members, and at 11 p. m. live
House adjourned.
NINTH DAY.
Senate.—Mr. Morgan offered a reso¬
lution which was agreed to, directing
tiie Attorney General to inform the
Senate whether any and what agree
n.cut has been entered into by the
President or any of the departments
relating the the future disposition of
tho Culon Pacific Railroad property.
by sale or otherwise.
A resolution was offered by Mr.
Lodge. Republican of Massachusetts.
ami wits agreed to. calling for copies
of all papers and correspondence, di
plomatlc or otherwise, ou file in tile
State Department relating to the ur
rest and imprisonment iu Cuba of two
American sailors, Richelieu and Bilt
Oil.
A largo nunilK'T of bills wotv intro
iIiknnI, among thorn one by Mr. Quay,
Republican of Pennsylvania, by re
quest. to suppress pati|>erism. atul by
Mr. t'tilloil!. Republican of Illinois, to
promote aerial transportation.
At 12:50 tlu* Senate on motion of Mr.
Davis, Republican of Minnesota, vent
Into executive session on the nrbitra
tlou treaty. At 4 o’clock the Semite
adjourned until Monday.
The consideration of the tariff bill
under the tire minute rule for the tmr
pc* of amendment which, as was ex
JH'C. ed would be strictly business,
"is ml with the liveliest political <’a n '
test of the s*-sslon. lasting for nearly
three hours. Pn-limluary to the main
liattie >>f the day there was a lively
ski rm; sh immediately after the House
cut inlc 21 committee of the whole
aud the t'h-rk instructed to begin read
> tig the Mil.
Promptly on the reading of the pro
fstorv paragraph 1 'f tin’ bill Mr. Doi’k
f it. Democrat of Missouri, offeretl an
an ointment authorising the Secretary
of the Treasury to admit free of duty
a :n article, the production and prii-e
if which would Ik- controlled by a
trust in the Dnited States.
Mr. Dlngley, Cbalrmaln of the Com
miuei on Ways and Means, made the
tl the amendment was not iu
.
order at that place, aud Mr. I>alscU,
Republican of Pennsylvania- that if it
were in order as to time. Congress
could not devolve on the Secretary
tt judicial duly sneh as that of determ¬
ining whether or not- a trust was in
control of certain articles. This pre¬
cipitated a debate, based on Demoerat
ie charges nhat Republicans favored
the trusts theni. ami did not want tit legislate
against All of the leader* on
both sides alntl some not recognized
in that rank.i took part. Charges and
counter charges were bandied back
and forth. aLd the record of the past
seven years was searched to show the
action of bulb parties on the subject
of trusts. Alftor nearly three hours of
skirmishing, ■ the question ostensibly
taring the point of order. General Hen¬
derson, Republican, of Iowa, appealed
to both widestto put an end to it, say¬
ing that if ft was tin- desire to get
through the bill in the time allotted for
its consideration, “a mighty bad start
hail been made all around.”
The isiint against the amendment
was sustained by tiie chair, and on ap¬
peal his ruling was sustained—158 to
KM.
Many other amendments having the
same object tty put artie'es controlled
by trusts on Ihe free list, were offer¬
ed, and on objection by Mr. Dingle.v,
all were ruled, out of order.
In the eourstt ■ of the afternoon *ev
era 1 changes I of duty were made,
among them Itf-ing an Increase of half
a cent on the duty on carbonate of
ammonia, an increase of from twenty
five to forty relnts a pound on the duty
on sulphuric ether, and increasing the
duty on the products 1 of pig lead from
2> r< to 3 cents pound.
At 5:15 p. n\ the House adjourned
until to-morrovtf- at 10 o'clock, having
disposed of nine and half pages of the
103 pages of the MIL
NIljJTH DAY.
House.—The ilouee In Committee of
the Whole progressed even more slow¬
ly in its consideration of the tariff
bill to-day than yesterday. Having
disposed of but five and a half pages
against uine, and a half the day be¬
fore. This was the rate exactly one
page an hour, and if the same rate
should be maintained until the expira¬
tion of the period allotted for discus¬
sion by the order adopted last week,
there will have been 31 of the 163
pages of the bill considered when the
hour for the vote on its passage ar¬
rives. The dilatory method of hand
ling tin* bill pronoked Mr. Johnson, Re¬
publican of Indmna, to protest against
the irrelevantf discussion which im¬
peded progress find in which members
of the Coinnil^’i -e tin Ways and Means [
iu charge of tm? lull Indulged as well
as Democrats bad to ask Obairman
Dlngley if a change could not Ih>
made which would result in more rapid
work. When the Hons*- entered upon
Its work this morning there was not
a quorum present, a* revealed by a
vote, and there was a wait of fifteen
minutes until 101 members appeared.
The discussion took a with* range, cov¬
ering the propositions that the forelgn
cr pays the tax! under a protective
tariff: that a duty on bides would be
more beneficial tt> the- farmer than all
the duties In the agricultural schedule;
tlxat pig iron eait be ptodueeil in Ala¬
bama and Tennessee in competition
W itit the North find foreign countries
>V i|-li a smaller duty than SI a ton tal
though no motion was matte to reduce {
iti; tiiat trusts are in the main benefl
| tu d u > consumer.
A s a result of (the days' work a few
immaterial changes earills were and matte earthenware in the
C i iwl ]|c;tl and
s ,.j„Hlules. proposed by the Committee
m \ Vllvs llm i Means, ami at 4:15
L the lloustj adjourned until next
Monday at 10 a. nu
Eighty Thousand D.ic.—Since Apptfcants.
Washington, the change
of adminlstrattoq over rihffW appli¬
cations for postoffices have been filtsl
at the Postoffice Department. The
nutnlsxr is said to be somewhat smaller
thftu (l>ur j.p aTS ap> . All the papers
i 1!lVt , reetmled amt classified ami
(hti tllud( , op to date. Dp to the
of businosti Sattrrday tlu- ap¬
pointment division of the Interior De¬
partment has record-.! 1,000 applica¬
tions for Presidential positions under
! the Interior Department.
Several Fire4 Near Columbus.
Cifitimbus. Ga.I Three houses were
destroyed hy fire in Girard Sunday at
tt'rnooo. The l<4*s aggregated
j | ami it was partially Seoitt covered by Insnr tlit
a nee. W. E. owned two of
j houses. Sunday moraine tire destroy
->1 a dwelling In Phoenix City, owned
i - by M. E- Edward, A house on Ninth
j i also slightly damaged by
J street was
fire.
Furnace to Start Dp.
Florence. Ala.— The Sheffield Coal
Iron & Sheet Company will light th<
fires in their big No. 2 fnvnace at Shef
field Wexlnesday evening. Maj. A. A
j Wills, of Nashville. President of tie
Company. intended to put this furnace
FIVE MURDERED.
They Were Then Cremated to
Hide the Crime.
CAUSE OF CRIME A MYSTERY.
The Horrible and Brutal flurder
of Jacob Ade and Family.
A WELL KNOWN FARMER. —
_
Neighbor Saw the House on Fire, and on
doing to the Building Discovered Evi
deuces of the Awful Crime That Had
Been Committed.
Nashville, Tenn.—Particulars of what
appears to have been a horrible and
brua! murder was received here from
Paradise Ridge last Saturday.
Jacob Ade, one of the oldest and best
known farmers- of the Ridge settle¬
ment, his wife, his daughter and son,
and a little daughter of Henry Moir
er, were probably murdered and heir
bodies cremated in Ade’s house, which
was burned to the ground.
The story of murder is strengthened
by the fact that all of the bodies were
found in tire same room, but scattered
around over the space occupied by this
room, tt was first thought that the
old man was killed! for his money, as
he was known to be well-to-do, and al¬
ways kept a supply of money on hand,
but whether this Ik- true or not cau
not be positively stated now, or at
least the ashes of what was once a
big roll of money, has been discovered
in the ruins of the house.
The dead are: Jacob Ade, Mrs. J.
A do, Lizzie Ade. aged 20 years, Henry
Ade, aged 13 years; Rosa Moirer, aged
10 years.
Jacob Ade lived flfiteen miles front
this city, near the Cheatham county
line. The house sits hack a half at
mile form what isknownasthe Clnrks
ville turnpike. It was a one-story
frame dwelling with live rooms—two
rooms hi front, with a hallway br¬
tween, and three rooms running back,
forming an ell. Old man Ade and his
wife usually occupied the first room in
the ell, just iu the rear of the front
room, or parlor. There was only one
bed in this room, tt was in this room
t hat-ail the
first indication of the tragedy was d;s j
covered at 10 o’clock last night by Jus¬
tice Simpson, who lives half a mils, j
from th* Ade place.
There was a sick man at Mr. Simp¬
son's house, and about 10 o'clock Mr
Simpson went out to get some water
for the man. when he saw that Ade'*
house was on tire. He at once rode i
over to the sceuo and found the house- i
in ruins Finding no-one near, Simp
son's suspicions won* aroused, and,
upon a close inspection he saw the
bodies of several people in the ruins,
He went to work to rescue the bodies
and succeeded in getting four of them
out. These proved to be the bodies of
Mr. and Mrs. Ade. Mis* Lizzie Ade and
Miss Moirer. After this Mr. Simp
sou rode around and, .tsatified a number
of. rile' neighbors, auai - .I a short whihs
quite a crowd had. collected about the
ruins. Henry Ado, the 13-year-old son
of Mr. Ade, was a?ho missing, but his
body could not lot found. It was irst
thought that he had escaped to -She
woods, but a further search off the
,-nias of the house tills morning disefas
eii his body, The bodies of Mr. and
ills. Ade. Miss Lizzie Ade and Henry
Ad** were burned to a crisp. The limb
and heads were burned off. in; fact,
owty a small mass of flesh and bones
remained. The old man and hi* wife
were more horribly burned than tbe
The l>ody of Rosa Moirer was not
burned so btulTv as the othovs. The
little girl's leg* were burned off; one
-,rtr was raised over her head and the
h.,„d Of this was gone. A mu'tion of
her skull was tnisslng, but the brain,
which was exposed, aud tbe skin on
her face was on ly partiaJty burned,
This fact gives further evidence in
support of the theory of iaordf-r. Some
0 f the people tielieve that, po-siblv.,
while* the other members ,»f the fain ly
WOTf being murdered this child escap
tttl and tras not killed until after liie
hon had burned awhile, when the
thrown into the fire,
fact that a part of her skull is
■>,( the rest of the head perfect,
skin of Iter face only badly
lends weight to the theory that
.
was nocked In the head, and it
ax be that in trying to protect her
>-tf she threw up her arm and the
'ii! 1 was cut off by the same blow
’ a - t- re away a part of her skull.
; i blow paralyzed her muscles and
.
Hie arm rt'iasuu: d in this protecting po
-iiti on after (h*ath had enstxedv
purpose of the murder was at
thought to be robbery, but if this
, correct, the murderer was ill-paid
,
horrible crime. In searching
.» ruiiiS of the house, this morning,
can was found under the
[r’aict* where ;i closet once stood in Mr.
Adv’s sleeping room. L_ In this can the
, remains of what was evidently a large
roll i i money was found, together with
four silver dollars, which had been
melted so that they were sticking to
gether. that he
Mr. Ado's neighbors knew
kept bis money in this closet. He was
in the city Monday. While here he
told Jerry Matthews that he had $2,
000 and he did not know wnat to do
wittl it j [r Matthews advised him to
deposit it in the Fourth National bank.
Mr. Ade did not say that he had the
money with him.
Sheriff Sharp was notified of the sup¬
posed crime early Saturday morning,
and he, with several deputies, went to
the scene and are there now working
on the case.
Disposing of the robbery theory, it is
very hard to find a motive for the
horrible crime, as Mr. Ade was a very
popular man and well liked by all his
neighbors.
The only enmity which might pave
existed between him and any of the
people living in that section was- that
which resulted from a charge he ma~w
against a man who was arrested in
Cheatham county a few days ago,
charged with stealing hogs from Ade.
This man was tried before a Magis¬
trate in Cheatham county and bound
over to the Circuit Court. There is.
however, no evidence against this man
which would in any way connect him
with the murder.
Mr. Ade was 60 years old and had:
lived in that community for twenty
five years.
A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.
They AH Occur in Chattanooga in oik
Day.
Chattanooga, Teun.—A series of fatal
incidents occurred here Sunday, which
strikingly illustrate the truth of tlic
saying that troubles never come sing
ly
1‘irst was the tragic death of J. F.
Coffey, a well-known merchant tailor
Dir. Coffey wont to hi* room this morn
ins. having taken a dose of some nar
cotie to make him sleep. His deal;
body was found at noon by his land¬
lord. lying on his bed in his room, lib
clothing half removed, as if preparing
to He down. Coffey came here from
Cincinnati. He was State Secretary ol
and was welri
do. *
to
Squire J. D. Blackford, aged eighty
jcais, one of the pioneers of this see
turn, while going to attend church this
ti oruig, was run over by a train of the
Memphis & Charleston Railroad and
received injuries ftoaa which he died
111 '* evening.
” his morning Mrs, H. C. Llnderman
wife of a well known German dairy
thrown from her buggy,
while driving to the eitv and sustain
ii.JUXMO« from which it is expected
she will die is-forc morning, tt ap
pears that her horse was frightened
I';.- e. mischievous- negro boy, who
jumped out at the aasimal from behind
a fence along the roadway.
Walter; Houston, a colored draymiau
and a man of some'property, while as
sliding in the preparation for a bn 1
n *n ascension this afternoon, wa<
struck on the head by a heavy scant
ling v.hich had Been knrcited from iti
place lty the swaying balloon, ami wax
knocked senseless. His nose wax-brok¬
en a mb he was otherwise injured, from
the efiscts of which he is now lying ai
the point of deirSb
Tliis evening a tire broke out fit the
St. Elmo buteSer shop and 11m build
ing and contents were totally destroy¬
ed. The proprietor narrowly - escaped
witik his life, and not until ho,tad been
burned.
Steel Heid the Pistol;.
Austin. Tex.-A dispatvb frotm
t,>orgetow& says that Jaafc Steele, a
prominent business man <1: that city,
diot and kfited W. W. Dimmittee, an
»ther proaiineut business man of tbe
same pla**. In the County Court room.
during *e proceedings of a trial,
Dimmittaw was irritated; I r soure sharp
words from Steele, wker- up -n li hit
him over the head v\tU t\
Suele Irew his revolver and lred four
times, each sliot taking effect, ijiliog
him u^tantly.
Bijr Wheat Crop In Scqwfucp’e.
I>tiBlap. Tciid.—'T his c has a
larger area planted to viva’. Gan ever
l^-forc. and it is in splendid < udition.
Che crop iu the Sequaeh-e Valley this
se ason will be the largest ever known.
The handle factory at Bridgeport,
Ala., is ts-lng overhauled and will lie in
y\u ration by April 15. Pros dent N;.x
*>n lia^ large erd-jrs for handles from
E&SlitU'j 'Uid > >v» l-u.
