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THE 54 TH CONGRESS. ROUTINE OF HOUSE AND SENATE BRIEFLY CHRONICLED. Summary of Bills and Resolutions Presented and Acted Upon. TH a HOUSE. The galleries of the house were well filled Friday in anticipation of a re¬ newal of the Cuban debate in connec¬ tion with the presentation of the con¬ ference report on the Cuban resolu¬ tions, but the attendance on the floor was smaller than usual, Some pre liminary routine business was trans¬ acted. Mr. Murphy (rep., Ill.) secured unanimous consent for the consilera tion of a bill to authorize the con¬ struction of a third bridge across the Mississippi river at St. Louis. Mr. Hepburn, chairman of the com¬ mittee on commerce, opposed the bill on the ground that a third bridge within a distance of two miles would greatly impede navigation at St. Louis. Mr. Murphy and Mr. Joy urged the passage of the bill because of the ex¬ cessive tolls charged by the present bridge company. Mr. Hepburn main¬ tained that congress had power to pre¬ vent the extortion complained of. The bill was passed. At 2:20 p. m. Mr. Hitt moved the adoption of the conference report ad¬ on the Cuban resolutions and spoke in vocacy thereof. * In the house, at Saturday’s session, Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, called up the conference report on the Cuban reso¬ lutions, and Mr. Adams, republican, of Pennsylvania, one of the members of the committee, took the floor. He devoted his opening remarks to a con¬ sideration of the statement made Fri¬ day that sentiment had changed with respect to recognizing the belligerency of the Cubans since the passage of the original resolutions in the house. He denied this. Sentiment on this subject, he said, had not changed either in congress or among the Amer¬ ican people, and the only members of the senate who opposed recognition now were those who objected when the pending resolutions were before that body. He deprecated the attempt to create a race prejudice against Cubans, and asserted that all the leaders, ex¬ cepting Maceo, were whites and not negroes and mulattos, as has been re¬ ported. republican, of Massa¬ Mr. Gillette, chusetts, opposed the resolutions. He admitted that the overwhelming sen¬ timent of the house as manifested by the vote of several weeks ago, proba¬ bly represented public opinion. But this matter should not be decided by public opinion, for the reason that public opinion was not the law and right of the case, but should be consid¬ ered only as an expression of sympathy with the Cubans. When Mr. Gillette had concluded, an effort was made by Mr. Hitt to se¬ cure an agreement to close debate, and take a vote at 4 o’clock, but a number desired to speak, and it was finally ar¬ ranged to debate the report the rest of the day, including a night session, and take vote on Monday immmediate ly after the reading of the journal. The debate was interrupted near the close of tho session by Mr. Bartlett, democrat, of New Yark, under a privileged question, who made an ex¬ planation of his connection with the now famous circular which formed the subject of an acrimonious colloquy be¬ tween Messrs. Gibson, republican, of Tennessee, and Sulzer, democrat, of New York, in the course of the debate on the Bayard resolutions several weeks ago. From this it appeared that the copy of tho cir¬ cular which Mr. Sulzer exhibited had beou given to Mr. Bartlett from the printer in whose office it had been printed. He brought into the house, he said, and it had been passed from hand to hand until it reached the gen¬ tleman from New York, Sulzer. Mr. Bartlett disclaimed auy connection with the use of the circular made by Mr. Sulzer, which was without his knowledge or consent. Mr. Bartlett’s Mr. Gibson accepted disclaimer and withdrew any implica¬ tion upon that gentleman’s connection with the incident which reflected upon him in any way. The house at 5 p. in. took a recess until 8 p. m. There were but six members present when the house met at night to con¬ sider further the conference report on the Cuban resolutions. Mr. McCall, of Massachusetts, presided. The public galleries were well filled. Mr. Dockery, democrat, of Missouri, was the first speaker. He was in hearty accord with the resolutions. He felt that he voiced the unanimous senti ment of his people when he wished the Cubans Godspeed in their efforts to secure freedom. Mr. Daniels, republican, of New York, objected strongly to the second resolution, although believing that the first resolution w as proper enough. He thought the two should be divided, and if not, be believed that the house should reject them. Mr. Baker, populist, of Kansas, as¬ serted that the Anglo-Saxon race would not stand what the Cubans stood. He recited wrongs they have suffered at the hands of Spain and said he would be glad to vote for a resolution recog mzing their independence. Mr. Mahon, republican, from Penn slyvania, evoked a burst of loud ap plause from the galleries in his denun ciation of the cruelties practiced by the Spaniards against the Cubans. Mr. Otey, democrat, of Virginia, told a number of humorous stories which created a great deal of laughter in the galleries and on the floor. He sympathized with the rebels—he was one himself, he said. The United States being fre *3 wishes to see every other country free. “Wo have a right to express our opinion about this matter and Spain canuot object. We express our opm ion about everything,” said he. We did it recently about Mr. Bayard, but he did not resign. We shall do it about Cuba and Spain will not get mad, nor will Cuba either.’ The bouse passed the senate concur rent Cuban resolutions Monday by a vote of 244 to 27. The result of the vote was receieed with rousing enthu siasm on the floor and in the galleries As soon as the tumult had BubBided Mr. Hooker (Rep. N. Y.) chairman of the river and harbor committee moved to suspend the rules and pass the river and harbor bill. He asked that the reading of the bill be dispened with, but Mr, Richardson (Dem. Tenn.) ob¬ jected to passing a bill carrying mill¬ ions of dollars without the formality of reading it. The bill was passed, however, by a rising vote of 216 to 40, the opposition not being strong enough to secure a yea and nay vote. Before Chairman Hitt demanded the regular order Mr. Wadsworth, chair¬ man of the committee on agriculture, presented for the information of the house a letter from the secretarv of agriculture, notifying him that in def¬ erence to what seemed the unanimous desire of the house of representatives, he had telegraphed accepting the prop¬ osition to put the seeds to be distrib¬ uted by congressmen into packages of five instead of 15 packets (making 2,025,000 packages instead of 675,000). The members expressed their gratifica¬ tion by applauding the announcement. THE SENATE. Many of the senators who have been prominent of late in the affairs of their states were back in tho senate Monday, including Senators Chandler, of New Hampshire, Harris, of Tennessee, Lindsay, of Kentucky, Palmer, of Ill¬ inois, and Thurston, of Nebraska. Among the bills favorably reported was one to prevent wholesale divorces in the territories by requiring one year’s residence before application for divorce. Mr. Call (Dem., Fla.) made an in¬ effectual effort to take up the Cuban resolution offered by him several days ago, proposing the immediate use of the United States navy to protect American citizens in Cuba and to pre¬ vent barbarities, but Mr. Allison in¬ sisting that the appropriation bills were of supreme importance and must be kept to the front. Mr. Call gave notice that he would move to take up his Cuban resolution Tuesday. In¬ quiries by Mr. Hale (Rep., Me.) as to the parliamentry status of the resolu¬ tions indicated that Mr. Call would meet with opposition returning to the Cuban subject. The postoffice appropriation bill was then taken up, the pending ques¬ tion being that of consolidating coun¬ try and suburban postoffices as ad¬ juncts to city or metropolitan districts. In the senate Tuesday Mr. Teller Presented a large number of petitions from branches of the American Feder¬ ation of Labor from various states asking for the restoration of the free coinage of silver and expressing the opinion that such a course would pro¬ mote prosperity. Mr. Butler (Pop., N. C.) introduced a joint resolution providing for an amendment of the constitution to limit the veto power of the president so as to make it compe¬ tent for the two houses to pass bills over a veto by a majority vote. Speak¬ ing of the resolution, he said that the idea of requiring a two-thirds vote was due to the fact that when the constitu¬ tion was adopted the American people were not far removed from the English ideas. In his opinion the power vested in the president was too great and should bo limited. During the debate on the postoffice bill Mr. Wolcott, republican, of Colorado, made an earnest civil service speech,in which with Senator he said Gorman that he that did the uot^jigree corner grocery was the corner stone of the republic. He did agree with that senator, however, in denouncing the habit of cabinet officers making speech¬ es all over the country. He himself had had a great mind to call the atten tion of the country to that abuse on the part of the cabinet officials of the present administration. The last cab inet officer he had heard of doing it was “barn-stalking down in Georgia in favor of gold monometallism.” He should have called attention to it earlier had it not beeh for the fact that that official was better away than at Wash¬ ington, so far as his public duties were concerned and his performance of them.” Mr. AlleD, in charge of the bill, after remarking that the question of civil service reform had nothing more to do with the pending question than it had to do with the war in Cuba, moved to lay Mr. Wolcott’s amendment on the table. The motion was agreed to, and the amendment was laid on the table— yeas 48, nays 7. Mr. Pasco offered an amendment that nothing in the bill should author j Z e the establishment or maintenance D f any station, sub-station, or branch postoffice, beyond the limits of any city or town, 25. This was adopted—yeas 36, nays The committee amendment appro priating $80,000 as additional corn pensation to the Oceanic Steamship Company for ocean mail service from Urancisco to New Zealand and New South Wales was agreed to—yeas 32> 2 1. And the item of $196, £ qj . uecegsar y a nd special mail fa c jjijj eg on trunk lines from Boston to an( j Orleans by way of jj ew ^orkand Washington was retained ^ Mr. Vilas’ motion to gtrike it out having been voted down— Teag 15> 89 “ amendm fc requiring the Aq nt ex¬ diture of $50 ,000 for experiments - n rursd f ree delivery was offered by m Bat] populigt> of Nort h Caro } ’ flnd wa8 ed to __ yeaB 2 7 , 2 g was t^ en passed and th*. geuate at 5 ;55 adjourned until Wed , GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Industrial Situation as Reported for the Past Week. The reports of industrial and busi¬ ness affairs in all parts of the southern states for the past week indicates that the iron industry continues to be very active. Production is fully maintain¬ ed and no accumulation of stocks is reported. Recent combinations among iron and steel producers have much strengthened the market for southern pig iron. The building of steel mills in the Birmingham district is now. as¬ sured, adding greatly to the prosperity of the region. Prices are still irregu¬ lar, but stronger than last week, al¬ though sales have been very heavy. Southern cotton mills report that business is active with them, but that prices are low and there is no early probability of an advance, especially as cotton is weak and in large supply. The new crop is to be a very large one, judging from the acreage, the ex¬ tra amount of fertilizers and the care given to its planting. All the south¬ ern cotton mills are running on full time, and each week adds to their number. For the past week is re¬ ported the organization at Spartan¬ burg, S. 0., of the Arkwright Cotton mills, with $ 200,000 capital, of mills, each with $100,000 capital, at Allen¬ dale and Orange C. H., S. C., of a cot¬ ton mill at Harmony Grove, Ga., and a knitting mill at Lynchburg, Va. The lumber market is active and is steadily improving in all parts of the south. The demand for both home and export business is increasing at Atlantic coast and gulf ports, and shipments by rail to interior points have much increased, with more rea¬ sonable freight rates and larger sup¬ plies of rolling stock. Grain ship¬ ments through southern ports are aid¬ ing the lumber trade by furnishing re¬ turn freights. Southern lumber, of all kinds, is by this means introduced into new territory, and once intro¬ duced it makes a market for itself. General business is good in all parts of the south. Weather conditions are favorable and spring trade is sat¬ isfactory. Among important new in¬ dustries organized or incorporated during the week were the Texas Yel¬ low Pine Lumber company, of War¬ ren, Tex., capital $50,000, the Stew¬ art Mining company, of Texarkana, Ark., also with the same capital, and the Columbia Dessicating company, of New Orleans, La., capital $50,000. The Fayetteville Wagon and Lumber company, of Fayetteville, Ark., cap¬ ital $40,000, the Villegas Tanning company, of Laredo, Tex., capital $30,000, and the Bee Confectionery company, of San Antonio, Tex., cap¬ ital $ 10 , 000 , have also been organized during the week. There was also reported brick works at Centerville, Miss., bicycle works at Savannnh, Ga.; an electrical plant at Gallatin, Tenn., a flouring mill at Pineville, Ky., and foundries and ma¬ chine shops at New Orleans, La., and Dallas, Tex. The new woodworking plants of the week include bent wood¬ works at Wickliffe, Ivy., a heading factory at Johnson City, Tenn., and a planing mill at Columbus, Ga. En¬ largements of industrial plants as re¬ ported include a cotton mill at Knox¬ ville, Tenn., a carriage factory at Barnesville, Ga., a chair factory at Columbus, Ga. The new buildings of the week in¬ clude a $40,000 church at Monroe, La., and one costing $ 10,000 at Owenton, Ky., a $20,000 court house at Lexing¬ ton, Ky., and a $10,000 residence at Petersburg, Va.—Tradesman, (Chatta¬ nooga, Tenn.) Missouri Conventions. Democratic conventions were held Saturday iD seventeen Missouri coun¬ ties to elect delegates to the state con¬ vention. Every convention but that of Warren county passed free coinage resolutions. The majority of them instructed their delegates to vote for Governor Stone, Senators Vest and Cockrell and ex-Congressman Bland for delegates at large. ** CARLISLE DECLINLS TO PARTICIPATE IX THE CON¬ TEST EOR NOMINATION. The Secretary Writes a Letter to That Effect. Secretary Carlisle has given out the following letter to Chairman Long, of the democratic state committee of Kentucky, declining to enter the con¬ test for the democratic nomination for the presidency: “Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary, Washington, D. C., April 4, 1896.—Charles B. Long, Chairman Democratic State Central Committee, Louisville, Ky.—My Dear Sir: Yonr favor of March 30th, in which you say in substance that many of my friends in Kentucky and elsewhere desire me to become a candidate before the ap¬ proaching national democratic conven¬ tion for nomination to the office of president and requesting me to give ‘some authoritative or definite expres¬ sion’ upon the subject, was duly re¬ ceived and has been maturely consid¬ ered. Many communications upon the same subject and of similar import have been received from my friends in different parts of the country, and while very grateful for these numerous expressions of confidence and esteem on the part of my democratic fellow citizens, I have not been able to reach the conclusion that the existing condi¬ tions require me to comply with their request by authorizing them to an¬ nounce me as a candidate for the pres¬ idential nomination. “While I feel a profound interest in the welfare of my party, I am much more concerned about its declaration of principles than in its selection of candidates, because, in my opinion, its failure or success at the election, as well as its capacity for useful service to the country in the future depends upon the position it takes or omits to take upon the public questions now en¬ gaging the attention of the people, and especially the questions affecting the monetary system of the country and the character and amount of taxation to be imposed upon her citi¬ zens. Its position upon this and other subjects having been agreed upon and clearly and distinctly announced, the convention ought to have no difficulty in selecting an acceptable candidate who will fairly represent its views; and, in order that its deliberations may be embarrassed as little as possi¬ ble by tht contention of rival aspirants and their friends, I think my duty to the party will be best performed by declining to participate in a contest for the nomination. “The obligations assumed when I accepted my present official position require me to devote my entire time and attention to the public interests committed to my charge, and I shall continue to discharge the duties im¬ posed upon me to the best of my abil¬ ity and in snch a manner as will in my judgment most certainly promote the true interests of the country; and if in the opinion of my fellow democrats in Kentucky my service entitled me to their commendation and approval I would regard their indorsement of my public course as an ample reward for the little I have been able to accom¬ plish in behalf of honest administra¬ tion and a sound financial policy. With many thanks for your kind let¬ ter, I am very truly yours, J. G. Carlisle.” CONTRABAND LIQUOR. Constables Make a Big Seizure in South Carolina. A Charleston special says: Officers Toales, Brabham and Peterman, of the dispensary service, made a raid Satur¬ day night on Long island, about six miles from the city, and found 1,000 gallons of liquor for their trouble. This haul is the biggest yet made and the value of the contraband liquor can be placed at leaet at $ 2 , 000 . The officers received a tip in advance and got every drop of the immense stock, although it was hidden in email quantities all over the island. The invading officers went down the harbor in two row boats and state that they knew that their game would be big. The officers value the liquor at $2,500. While the stuff was being loaded into the boats a well-known gentleman of the city, who was form¬ erly in the liquor business, came up in a boat, but had nothing to say. It is believed that the liquor was landed on the island at night and was to have been brought in small quantities to the city. The 1,000 gallons was in kegs and half-barrels and there were fifteen cases of flasks. The entire treasure will be shipped to Columbia. Long island is the island of which Elgar Allen Poe wrote in the story of “The Gold Bug” and has oniv one family living on it. Fifteen Lives Were Lost. Further particulars received from the flooded territory in Clay and Owsley counties, Tennessee, show that it may be several days before the com¬ plete list of the persons drowned in Jlondsy’s cloudburst can be given. Yabsley— Absurd] y ^nuia,. 1 I <35 aaotiiaj wheuhe ~T~ **“■ u did “ai a g it fr ,i°; in 8 his Mudge—Well findit u 38 0 %u J* tailor’s bill I I w I 8 «°» d it had BtS 1 d U aQ was 8t *a spoils Journal r " ^aing._ rescued This is from what inacttoL ijjens^?^**. Jfafai ach Bitters. 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