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CAPITOL ITEMS.
Senator Sherman in Perfect Ac¬
cord With the President.
LARGE DEMAND ANTICIPATED
< or nettln und Dellilehein Co in pa Hies
Decline to Jlld Within the #300
Limit. They { lalm It le not Possible
O. produce Armor nt That IT cure.
Beats the Record.
The largest number of appoint¬
ments of fourth-class postmasters
ever made ou a single day was scored
last Friday with an aggregate of 163.
The best previous record was 157
made June 31.
The Seal Question.
Secretary Sherman has denied the
statmeut that he had been induced to
sign the letter of instructions to Am¬
bassador Hay relative to the seal con¬
troversy, which iias so excited the Brit¬
ish press only under severe pressure
and against, his own judgment. Ho
says there was not a word of truth in
it and that as a matter of fact he had
been in perfect accord with the presi¬
dent in every step of the correspond¬
ence reluting to the seal question.
Ileciined to Bid.
Secretary of the Navy Long has re¬
ceived replies from tho Carnegie and
Bethlehem Companies to his invita¬
tion to submit bids for supplying
armor for tho three battleships. Illi¬
nois, Wisconsin and Alabama, in ac¬
cordance with the limitation placed by
Congress upon the price to bo paid.
Both of the companies decline firm¬
ly to bid within tho #3u0 limit on the
ground that it is not possible for them
to produce armor of tho quality they
have been supplying to tho Govern¬
ment at that figure.
Big Demand Anticipated.
Assistant Secretary Vanderlip has
authorized the director of the bureau
of-engraving and printing to print and
delivar to the office of tho secretary
United States notes, treasury notes
and silver certificates to the amount
Of #101.000.000. A large proportion
of those notes will be in small denom
• - I, tions, ones, two*, fiveB and tens
Ruu the supply is expected to be suf
fleient for the need* of business for
about three months, meeting tho unus
al large demand for small bills requir¬
ed in the movement of crops. Tho
department anticipates in view of the
abundant crops and tho foreign de¬
mand an unusually largo and early
call for small hills.
LnnJ Office for Alaska.
In tho house tho other day Mr. La¬
cy (rep., la ) secured unanimous con¬
sent for the mmsidoartion of a bill to
amend tho act creating a civil govern¬
ment in Alaska. It was identical with
the bill passed by tho house ut tho
lust session, creatiug a surveyor-gi «
end and a register and receiver of tho
general land office.
It, however, contains an additional
feature empowering tho president to
create an additional laud district. Mr.
Lacy explained that Yukon valley gold
diseoveies rendered an additional laud
office imperative. Iu answer to a
question he sunt the gold fields lay ill
both the United States and British
North America. The Klondi ke region
was lu Canada. The bill passed.
Japs 'VIII Oppose Annexation.
(’mint Okuua, foreign minister of
Japan, says, regarding the annexation
of Hawaii to the United States:
“ The foreigners are not surprised
at the proposed annexation, We
simply protested against it. The im¬
portance of the islands will be im¬
mensely increased by the construction
of tho Nicaraguan or Panama canal,
and it is absolutely necessary there
fore to leave the country independent.
Leaving aside the attitude of other
powers, and the question is, what will
Japan annexation do if under carried any circumstances j
the is into practice
iu spits of the protest of Japan Ja
pan must oppose it to the utmost
Auuexatiou must not be recognized.”
Request I riim Canadians.
A question has arisen in the treasu¬
ry department as to the right of for
eigu Vessels to carry passengers and
freight on the upper Yukon river to
the Kloudyke gold fields. A r- quest
has been received from the owners of
the Canadian steamer Islander, for
permis.-iou to Dyer. carry passengers and
freight to The matter has
been referred to the solicitor of the
department for au opinion, but it is
believed that under existing laws the
Islander cannot proceed beyond Ju¬
neau, and that the trip must be com¬
pleted in an American vessel. The
Islander will clear from Victoria.
Postmasters Named.
Alabama postmasters named last
week were: Alberta, Cox county, J.
C. Gross; Ayers, Jefferson county,
Alice Clayton; Bosworth, Chambers
county, Lulu Griffin; Bristo, Chero¬
kee county, G. W. Willis; Carbon Hill,
Walker county, John McDonald; Ce¬
cil, Montgomery county, John S.
Jngraham; Cedar Springs, Cherokee
con utv, J. O. Golightly; Cottage Hill,
St. Clair county, H. W. MoBrayer;
Dwight, Washington county, J- T.
Turner; Hamilton, Marion county,
J. A. Mays; Keel, Marshal county,
John Oiler; Leeds, Jefferson county,
A. J. Abercrombie; Lewisburg. Jeff¬
erson county, James McCormick; Lo¬
la, Limestone county, 8. S. Tucker;
Maxwell, Jackson county, Comfort
Tate; Mitchell Station, Bullock county,
F. L. Kutland; Park, Barbour county,
D. G. Adkinson; Palmetto, Pickens
county, K. O. Itiohardson; RanuaH,
Calhoun county, J. J. Wilson, Powell
ville, Walker county, H. A. Wilson;
Sessions, Tallaposa conuty, F. M.
Duck, Stevenson, Jackson county, J.
F. Carter.
Work on Rivers and Harbors.
Maj. F. A. Mahan, in charge of a
number of river aud harbor improve¬
ments in Georgia, Florida and Ala¬
bama, has forwarded hisanuual report
to the war department at Apalachicola
Bay, Florida. Work was begun May
26, aud 45,000 cubic yards of material
were removed by dredging from the
cut in tho bur, making the fifth time
the cut has been re-opened. Apa¬
lachicola cut-off and the Apalachicola
river were cleared of snags, aB was
also the Flint river, Georgia.
Chuttahooobie river, Georgiaand Ala¬
bama, was cleared of snags, rocks aud
boulders us far up as Eufaula. The
Choctawhatchie river, Florida, was
snagged. be¬
Pensacola harbor, F’lorida, was
ing improved by the dredging of Cau¬
cus Shoals. The jetties in this harbor
are iu good condition. The amount
expended during the year was #30,000,
available balance, 8213,211. The Es¬
cambia or Conculia river, Florida and
Alabama, was snagged. The Alabama
river, Alabama, was snagged. The
Coosa river in Georgia and Alabama
was dredged at McCoy and Box shoals.
Appropriation Increased.
Tho engineers of the war depart¬
ment have taken issue with the judg¬
ment of the Mississippi river cornmis
sion which appropriated 8400,000 for
dredging out of the #2,933,023 appro¬
priation allowed for river inprove
meuta. The secretary of war submit¬
ted tho entire matter to the commis¬
sion for renpportionmeut. The law
makes it obligatory ou tho commission
to appropriate a large amount of the
appropriation to dredging and dredg¬
ing plants. Although the law regards
the dredgiug of the river to be para¬
mount to repairs to laveea and other
improvements it does not say what
portion of the annual appropriation
shall be used for this purpose, but
leaves tho division with the commis¬
sion. The secretary of war did not
consider that less than one-seventh of
the 1897 appropriation could be class¬
ed as a “ large portion,” und incon¬
sequence of his actiou the commission
re-convened at the army build
iug here to go over their work again.
At the close of the session it was an¬
nounced that #760,000 had been re¬
apportioned to dredging and plants
for dredging, but in order to expand
that amount tho appropriation, had for
levees had been reduced. This
been done in equal ratio so that no
injustice would bo done any of the
levee districts.
Of the general appropriation #500.
000 still remains unappropriated. It
is the practice of the commission to
have a little fund ou hand in case of
emergency to be used iu the repair
of breaks iu the levees l»y the over¬
flows m the spring.
HOBOS CAPTURE A TRAIN.
The Crew Undertook to Eject Them. But
D d Not SucceeJ.
When the first northbound freight
on the Omaha road reached Tekeinah,
Neb., it was immediately takeu pos¬
session of by the tramps congregated
there. The crew undertook to eject
the hobos, but could not succeed. The
traiu has keen held there siuee early
morning. Another freight traiu and a
mail traiu were standing on the main
lino waiting for the captured traiu to
move. Ou the mail tram was a force
of United States deputies to prevent .
any interference with the mails.
Deed of Trust Filed.
The Browulow Car Company of St.
Lotus, one of the largest concerns of
the kind iu the eouutry, filed a deed
of trust this afternoon to Fred W. j
Thompson, trustee for the creditors.
The total liabilities are understood to
be $182,364.59.
Frontier Settled.
At the sitting of the peace confer¬
ence iu Constantinople last Thursday
the strategic frontier settled by the
military attache* of the powers *as
agreed upon and the preliminaries of
peace between Greece and Turkey
were discussed.
IT IS NOW A LAW
The Tariff Bill Finally Passed
Both Houses of Congress.
SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT.
The Senate Vote Stood 40 to jo—This Ends
the Labor for Which the Fifty-fifth Con¬
gress Assembled in Extraordinary Ses¬
sion. B ;
The senate bill passed its last legis¬
lative stage at 3 p. m. Saturday when
the senate by the decisive vote of 40 to
30 adopted the conference report on
the bill. This closed the great labor
for which the Fifty-fifth congress as¬
sembled in extraordinary session and
after stubborn resistance, at times
threatened a deadlock, jtiie senate con
curred with the house in a resolution
for the final adjournment of the session
at 9 o’clock. The president’s message
for a currency commiaaion was receiv¬
ed by the house, but the house bill
creating the commission was not acted
upon. Thus the whdlr- day was pro¬
lific of a series of momentous matters,
one of which alone would hare been
of extraordinary interest. An analy¬
sis of the vote shows it the affirma¬
tive vote was cast by party-seven re¬
publicans, one demopat, jjmes, McEnery
one silver republican, of Neva¬
da; and one populist, Stewart. i
The negative vot$ was cast by
twenty-eight democrata-'and two popu¬
lists, Harris aud Turner. Mr. Teller,
silver republican, and two populists,
Allen and Butler, wejfe present and
did not vote. ODe poptjlist, Kyle, aud
one silver republican, Jfettigrew, were
absent without withholding pairs, which were
equivalent to their votes.
At 7 p. m. the sonata' took a recess
till 8.45, when it realsemblod for a
brief session. Only eh teen senators
were present. The president's mes¬
sage on currency was received and on
motion of Mr. Cullorn, Wf Illinois, was
referred to the finance committee.
The house bill for a monetary com¬
mission was a so inferred to the
finance committee.
This finished the wp k and then the
Vice-presideDptfETsPS „ ’ gxat . A
“The senate stands adjourned with¬
out day.
HOUSE.
The last session of the house was
marked by many interesting things.
In addition to the speaker affixing his
signature providing to the Dingley tariff bill, a
bill for the creating of a
currenoy commission was crowded
through iu the closing hours.
The secretary of the senate reported
that the senate had adopted the con¬
ference report and one minute and
thirty-one soconds after the bouse re¬
convened theeugrossed hill was signed
and on its wav to the president.
When the president’s message came
in reoommending the creation of n
currency commission it was answered
by the republican leaders with great
promptitude. By means of a special
order the Stone bill introduced some
days ago with the approval of tho ad¬
ministration was brought to a vote
after au hour’s debate. It was passed
by a vote of 128 to 99.
As the fiual act of the session the
speaker announced the appointment
of the committees. V
Mr. Dingley, the floor leader of the
majority, then presented from the
ways aud means committee a resolu¬
tion for fiual adjourumentat 2 o’clook.
The resolution was then adopted with¬
out division and the speaker laid be¬
fore the house the special message of
the President, recommending the ap¬
pointment of a currency o'clock commission.
The house at 8 took half an
hour’s recess.
When the house reconvened the
speaker announced the committees. At
8:55, when the names had been read,
Mr. Grosvenor, from fhe committee
appointed to wait on thej'resident, an¬
nounced that they had performed their
mis'iou. The president sent a con¬
gratulatory reply, aud then at 9 o’clock
the speaker declared the house ad¬
journed without day.
PEORIA’S BIQ EIRE.
Grape Sugar Company Loses Many Val¬
uable Buildings.
The main building of the Peoria, Ill.,
Grape Sugar Company was completely
destroyed by fire one night last week.
The loss is #500,000, the total insur¬
ance carried being #460,000, of which
nearly #300,000 was on the burned
building and contents.
The works are owned ur a corpora¬
tion, iu which the Drake estate, of St.
Paul, is the principal stockholder.
The fire broke out at 7 o’clock in
the sulphur room, apparently with an
explosion.
GENERAL A. W. GREELY
Believes That Prof. Anifree Will Never
Return.
In reply to a telegraphic request
Gen. Greeley, the Arctic explorer, has
sent the Associated Press from Lin¬
den, Va., the following statement re¬
garding the Andree expedition:
“It is possible that Prof. Andree
may have reached the North Pole or
its vicinity. The telegraphic reports,
as far as I have seen, stated that he
started with a south wind of twenty
two miles an hour. The chance of
such a wind blowing 600 miles straight
to the North Pole, are, however, very
small, as it would be an extraordinary
meteorologies' phenomena such as has
never instanced any storm. Doubts
of the success of M. Audree’s pro¬
jected expedition and his probable re¬
turn were expressed at the sixth inter¬
national geographical convention. M.
Andree admitted the extreme hazard
ness of the project which is the one
outlined.
I pointed out that even should he
reach the pole he could hardly expect
to find his south wind continuing
across the pole for 1,000 miles as a
north wind. I urged that his chances
of attaining the North American coast
were consequently small as the obser¬
vations at Lady Franklin Bay, Grin
nell Land, and Point Barrow, Alaska,
showed that the winds almost con¬
stantly came ffom the south, while
strong north winds were almost un¬
known. Andree replied: “Then I
shall expect to land somewhere on the
Siberian coast.” He expressed again
his determination to go aud his confi¬
dence of returning safely.
Prof. Ekholm, who accompanied
Andree in his unsuccessful attempt
last summer, decliued to go this year
on account of one of the dangers I
urged upon Andree—the permability
of the balloon, which allows gas to es¬
cape constantly, but which Andree
claims to have overcome. Wtiile I be
lieve that Andre will never return, yet
experience teaches us that miraculous
things occur daily.
(Signed.) A. W. Gkeely.
THE LOGAN MONUMENT
Said to be the Largest Equestrian Statue
in America.
The statue of Gen. Logan which
was dedicated last Thursday at Lake
Park, Chicago, Ill., was designed by
St. Gaudens, and is the largest eques¬
trian statue in America. The figure
of Gen. Logan as it stands on its gran¬
ite pedestal is dressed in the uniform
ot a ma'jor-genera’i. Tie sfts eiedt auh
bare-headed, with his left hand grasp¬
ing the bridle-rein, while with his
right hand he bears aloft the flag.
From the base to tho top of the
horse’s withers is 11 feet 3 inches, and
to the top of Logan’s head is 15 feet
11 inches. The entire weight is 14,-
200 pounds. The statue stands 24
feet above Lake Michigan. Through
the center of the mound a foundation
of brick has been built, within which
is a crypt for the reception of Gen.
Logan’s remains.
The approach leading up to the
monument is by a senes of steps and
terraces 96 feet long. The statue
faces Eldredge court, in the center of
Lake Front park, and in full view of
Gen. Logan’s old home in Park row.
The entire expense of erecting and
unveiling was #80,000, of which the
state appropriated #50,000.
FOR THE PROMISED LAND.
Miners and Ever} body Else Talk Nothing
But Yukon and Will Go There.
A special to the Victoria, B. C.,
Times from Nanaimo says: Many coal
miners have left here for Victoria on
their way to Yukon. Some thirty of
the best miners in the pits of the Van¬
couver Coal company have thrown
down their picks to prepare to leave
for the promised land. Upon every
corner, up street aud down street,
common conversation is Yukon. Many
are trying to raise property which cost
them SI,500 aud being unsuccessful
even to one-third the origiual cost.
Among those who will go are Thomas
Keith, ex-member of parliament, Al¬
bert Wilson and about fifty others who
will bid adieu to Nanaimo within the
next three weeks. Every effort is be¬
ing made in Victoria aud provincial
cities to have Canadian customs offi
cers sent up to collect duties on
American goods. It is expected that
officers w ill go on the next steamer.
german farmers
Want Fore'gn Grain Excluded Erom That
Country.
A dispatch front Berlin says: In the
lower house of the Diet Dr. McQue
Ion, on behalf of the government,
said that no decision had been reached
as to the proposal that a decree be is
sued temporarily excluding foreign
grain in accordance with the petition
of the farmers' alliance, but he believ¬
ed Prince Hohenlohe would be com¬
pelled to regard such decree as incon¬
sistent with existing treaties, and
therefore impracticably,
THREE CHILDREN PERISH.
The Summer Theatre at Paducah, Ky„ Is
Destroyed by Fire.
The Casino summer theater at Ra¬
mona park, was burned Friday night
at 10 o’clock. A performance was
being given to about 600 people when
the fire broke out from a fireworks
display on the stage.
The audience was panic-stricken.
Probably over one hundred persons
were injured by being trampled. Sev¬
eral of the actors were painfully burn¬
ed. The building was covered with
tar paper, and was in a mass of flames
inside of a minute.
It is reported that three or four
children perished in the flames, but
this cannot be verified. All the doc¬
tors in the city were required to look
after the injured
KILLED THEIR HUSBANDS.
Women Sentenced to Death for Wholesale
Poisoning.
The trial of twelve women aud two
men charged with wholesale poisoning,
was concluded at Buda-Pest last Fri¬
day, and sentences were passed upon
six of the prisoners.
Four of them were condemned to
death, one to penal servitude for life
and one for a term of six years’ im
prisonment. occurred
The series of crimes which
in the Hodmezoevasahely district, ex¬
tend over some years past. The vic¬
tims were in most cases married men
who were killed by their wives, the
motive for the crime being generally a
desire to obtain insurance money.
The insurance companies, the testi
mony at the trial showed had called
the attention of the authorities to the
suspiciously high rate of mortality in
the district, a uumber of times before
proceedings were taken to ascertain
the cause.
A WARN-NO TO SEEKERSOF GOLD.
Great Suffering for Those Who Go Illy
Prepared.
Fred Price, a Seattle, Wash., man
who has returned from the Klondike
with several thousand dollars in gold
dust, says that there is great fear of
suffering on the part of those who at¬
tempt to go into that country without
au abundance of supplies of provi¬
sions. He does not believe the trad¬
ing companies can begin to supply the
demand which will be made on them.
Price thinks the men who take up
horses to cross the pass from Dykes .
WIL. Ioj -wfib. Thru} aim. 'gtl. *heir. qr/u
visions in easy that way and sell the
horses for dog meat afterwards,
He also advises new comers to look
for claims on other creeks besides the
tributaries of the Klondike, the latter
being pretty well staked out. Stew
art river creek promises as well as the
Klondike. He says further that gamb
ling dens and dance halls have already
opened in Dawson. Games of every
description are running and some of
the miners play very heavy. They
go into the mining town in sheer des¬
peration at the loneliness aud gloom
and winter and gamble in a reckless
manner to break the monotony. Price
says it is bard to get along iu Dawson
City on less than #50 a day, and many
of the men spend ten times that much.
He claims that one saloon cleaned up
#30,000 in three weeks this summer.
Talmag* Won’t Leave.
At Des Moines, la., a few days
since, Dr. T. DeWitt Taltnage was
asked : “Is the report true that you
are dissatisfied with Washington and
that you will not return in the autumn
and that you will probably go to Chi¬
cago?” Dr. Talmage replied, “No,
that story from top to bottom and
from stem to stern is a falsehood. I
have no idea of leaving the church in
Washington.”
Yellow Metal Coming
A cable from London to the Even
; n g p os t says; Arrangemeuts have
been made to'ship direct to the United gold
States a considerable amount of
f rom Australia. This is not generally
known, and coming at the moment
when gold movements from New York
to Loudon sre looked for, will create
much interest,
An American Ostrich.
Some years ago a scientist declared
that he had discovered in Kansas the
remains of a large water-fowl, which
he classed as a swimming ostrich. He
was ridiculed by naturalists, although
he felt confident of the correctness of
his estimate. He has recently discov
ered a most perfect specimen of the
same bird. It has feathers and all of
the marks of the genuine ostrich. It
is scarcely safe to combat a statement
unless one has good ground to stand
on.—New- York Ledger,
We invite all tire good people who
desire to change locality to come and
see our lovely place.
