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TilIv 54 1 11 ('ONGHESS. KOI 1 INK OK HOI SK 4MI SENATE Uiilb FEY CHRONICLED. _- -m. - —— Pfr-rntisi and Acted I'potl. THE BOUSE. oTu. action on Friday with regard to the prudent’* message. Mr. Pavne, re pub ican, of New York, stated that ’ ivb. nth message was read he had moved that there be printed 5,000 copies for the use of the house. He had since learned that the new print lug law provided for the printing of 10,000 copies for the house. His mo tio'n, therefore, was unnecessary, and he moved that the vote by which it was adopted be reconsidered. Agreed to. Speaker Reed announced the appoint meat of the following committee on mileage: Messrs. A. B. Wright, of Massachusetts, chairman; J. B. Bar ham, of California; Orlando Burrell, of Illinois, and George 0. Pendleton, democrat, of Texas. Various exeen tivo documents and reports from offi cers were laid before the house by Speakef Reed and appropriately re ferred. Mr. Walker, republican, of Massa clniBetts, asked permission to have read the following lesolution: “Resolved, That the people of the United States, through their repre sentatives in congress assembled, here by express their deepest abhorrence aud condemnation of the outrages thus committed on their American fel low citizouH, a, wall «. o„ .Lo other “•'iSSeSlS&S. house, government in ,were ius.itted hnmnnity'lo'viudiente nl tho ft right” o? our fellow citizens aud of their fatni lies in Turkey, and to hinder and pre¬ vent as fur as practicable the continu mice of the outrages and massacres in that land.” Mr. Turner, of Georgia, expressed the opinion that such a resolution should not be presented to the house in its present condition, and he there fore objected. On motion of Mr. Cannon, republi can. of Illinois, the house at 12 :30 ad jonrned until Monday. The first business proposition brought up in the house Monday was a bill by Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, to amend the statute fixing the customs district of Chicago so that the district would embrace all of the states Of Illi nois and Indiana. Mr. Hopkins ex¬ plained that the bill was in the inter est of the smelters of Aurora, who de sired to be able to pay the duties on Canadian ores at the port of Chicago. At present, he said, Aurora was not iu the district. The bill was passed by unanimous consent. The oath of office was administered to Mr. Price (democrat, Louisiana), who had not been present at the previous meetings of the house. A resolution was passed for the appointment of three now assistants to the superin¬ tendent of the document room; also a resolution for the appointment of Isaac Hill, of Ohio, as a deputy ser geant at-arms and the three other employes agreed upon by the demo eratic caucus. The memorial adopted by the national wool growers’ nssoeia tion Saturday, calling for higher du ties, was presented by Mr. Danfortb, but Mr. Crisp objected to its recep tion. Mr. Crisp also objeoted to a resolution presented by Mr. Cannon, calling on Secretary Hoke Smith for hiR authority for an order suspend ing all operations of the laud office by which settlers on Pacific railroad grant lands iu Utah aud Nebraska could perfect their titles. Mr. Me Creary objected to the consideration of a resolution presented by Mr. Wood man, of Illinois, calling for all corres pondence iu the Waller case, including that with Consul Wetter. Objection was offered also io a resolution bv Mr. Jenkins calling upon the commissioner of pensions for a statement of all per sons who bail ceased to draw pensions or whose pensions had been diminish od since March 4, 1893. At 1 :30 o’clock the house adjourned nutil Tues¬ day. THE SENATE. The first move in the Delaware con¬ tested senatorship was made in the senate at Wednesday’s session when Mitchell, of Oregon, presented a let¬ ter and accompanying records to the Benate from H. A. Dupont, olaimicg the right to be admitted as a senator from Delaware, Delaware’s demo cratic senator, Mr. Gray, moved that the privileges of the floor be given his republican qnasi-colleagne pending determination of his ease, and Mr. Dupont was brought in and introduced to senators. Mr. Chandler presented a mass of petitions alleging election frauds in Alabama, and claiming the election as governor of Reuben F. Kolb. Several petitions for the recogni¬ tion of the Cuban insurgents were offered aud Mr. Clark (rep. Wash.) in introducing a hill for fortification of Atlantic, Pacific and lake ports, said the senate was being asked to extend recognition to Cuban belligerents and to firmly reassert the Monroe doc trine - “We are talking of these mat ters as though we had a chip on our shoulders,” lie added, “and we go forts.” Mr. Hoar offered a resolution that congress would support the pres Sr“ z°L“%z m r t f:sJ£ executive session the senate adjourned at 1:35 p. m. ' There whs a very good attendance when the senate met at noon Thursday, The first bill introduced was one by Mr. Mills, democrat, Texas, for the coinage of silver in the treasury. A bill introduced by Mr. Chandler, re publican, New Hampshire, for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 15 1-2 to 1, the bill to become operative when England, Germany and France pass similar laws, was listened to with great attention by the members of the sen ate. Petitions from Florida for the recognition of Cuba and from the leg islature of Montana against further issuance of bonds were presented. A resolution offered by Mr. Call, of Florida, was adopted calling upon the secretary of state to send to the senate the correspondence relating to the case of General Sangnilly, an American citizen, sen fenced to life imprisonment for alleged complicity in the Cuban revolution and directing him to procure a cbpy of the record in the ease if it is not on file at the department. Mr. Gallin ger, of New Hampshire, introduced a resolution declaring it to be the sense of the senate that it was unwise and lne*p<"Iienh to retire the. greenback., ™ cruelty against which the Cubanswere contending, and their long struggle for freedom. He considered it an out rn 8 0 tbat the Unlt ed btates should not hold out an encouraging hand to those 1 were struggling tor independence. But instead of speeding the Cubans on their cause, he insisted that this government was actually retarding the revolution-was, in fact, furnishing aid Spanish tyrant. “This govern “ent,” said he emphatically, “is re¬ sponsible for many of the outrages tLat hnve been committed. I do not “e 1111 to 8a Y tbat the president and hls cabinet are responsible, but the aclion of tbls government, negatively, b y uot recognizing the insurgents as belligerents in our ports and territory 18 a]dln S toda Y the P° wer of 8 P am ? n the island of Cuba. T In conclusion he described Cuba as the Queen of the Antilles the future centre of a con federated republic that would include a11 the lslands of the West Iudles and cnlled u P on the committee on foregn affair8 to consider his resolution in lu the spirit of our fore fathers and Fep° r t R favorably at an early day. Then at 1:20 o’clock the senate went into executive session and at 1:35 o’clock adjourned until Monday. The senate iu executive session confirmed Matt W. Ransom, as minister to Mex¬ ico. ^be chief interest . in . the senate pro codings Monday centered iu a speech of Senator Morgan, of Alabama, chair man committee on foreign af ^irs delivered in the afternoon on tbe Behring sea awards. Mr. Cullom. oi ' Ilhnol8 < 8 ave uotlc ® that he wou ld addr , ess the senate Tuesday on the , Monroe doctrine. Among the bills m tr'iduced was one by Mr. Voorhees granting a pension of WOO per month to the widow of the secretary of state, General W. Q. Gresham. Mr. Baker (rep.. Kan.), offered a elution, wb ich was a « reed to - calll “g u P on P re8ldent x , not incompatible . ^ lth tbe public interest, . to transmit to the 80uate a11 d °cuments and corres P°, ndenoe at the state Apartment ^ elaBn ? to the ca88 of ^-Consul John L- Walier, now under arrest in France, After the ad ®Pti«“ a resolution di rectlD 8 th ® dl8t J flc ‘ committee to report whether , the laws ot the Dis¬ trict of Columbia permit what Senator Hale' called the “in tolerable and barbar ous” right of a parent to “provide for the custody of minor children by the terms of his will,” Senator Morgan delivered a carefully prepared speech iu reply to strictures made on him by Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British inibassadoi. The senate in executive session at 3:55 p. p. confirmed the nomination of Rufus W. Peckham, of New York, to be associate justice of the supreme conrt of the United States. The judiciary committee also agreed to re port favorably the nomination of Judges Springer, Kilgore and Stuart, ______ Ran Fourteen Knots an Hour. The Comanche, the handsome new steel boat of the Clyde line, arrived at Jacksonville, Fla., Saturday morning and tied up at her dock at 10:30 o’clock, having completed her initial voyage from New York to Jacksonville in sixty hours, or at a rate of a fraction over fourteen knots an hour. P V/xiA A PTT A I \OTFS ________ GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON IN * KKm.F I dapai AK Vl,K pipb« - Various Departments. - «■«■»>>« ^ Dus » us., wmcn recently tailed So far as Speaker Heed’s influence goes, the conclusion reached in the contested election cases now before the house, will be based on the law and evidence without regard to parti sau considerations. Great disappointment was expressed by members of the house Saturday that the president should have left the city and thus have delayed laying before them the information contained in Lord Salisbury’s reply to Secretary Olney’s letter, which reached Wash ington Friday evening. The pres ident has amended the civil serTice ru ] es atu j brought into the c i ass jfi e< j se rvice about forty-five addi tional employes. The amendment reads that 8pecial departmental rule No. 1 is amem j e( j by striking from the list of p j acefj accepted from examination in tJle department of labor statistical ex perts au( j temporary experts. So much G f executive orders as provides for the appointmellt 0 f special agents in the department of labor by non-competi tivQ exam i na ti on i s hereby revoked. ine “““en report nf ot Juage Tndae Har ^ J'^oMnstt^fnr ’ t-he^oiferations ^heTast of the depart >™ '“ ,0 fiscal vear — - length S f. “oS £ ,3?“ recommends an amendment of the law so as to exclude the words “other in¬ famous crimes” from the cases subject to appeal to the highest tribunal and to remit minor cases to the courts of appeal. Members of the house who have had interviews with Speaker Reed during the last two or three days on the sub¬ ject of committee appointments, be¬ lieve that the committee list will be announced before or not later than the fifteenth of the month. Formerly speakers have not been able to make their selections before the Christmas holidays, as a general rule, but Mr. Reed has had the advantage of a year, practically, in which to make up his mind. He has said to several that he is anxious to have congress finish its business and adjourn as soon as possi¬ ble, aud all the time he can save on selections will tend to that result. Favorite of Labor Organizations. The labor organizations of the coun¬ try are making a concerted effort to secure the appointment of Representa¬ tive Phillips, of Pennsylvania, to the chairmanship of the house com¬ mittee on labor. Their action is a decidedly complimentary one since Mr. Phillips is not identified with labor organizations, but on the con¬ trary is an employer of many work¬ men in connection with his many oil interests in Pennsylvania. Letters hove been presented to Speaker Reed from the chief officials of the Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor and fifteen other organizations asking for the appointment. Carlisle’s Estimates. Secretary Carlisle has sent congress estimates submitted by the several cabinet officers of money required for conducting government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, amounting to $418,091,073. Appropriations made for the present fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, amounted to $412,753,264. Among the detailed estimates noted are improving the harbor at Charles¬ ton, S. C., $100,000; improvement of harbor at Galveston, Texas, $1,140, 000; for expenses at Norfolk, Ya., navy vard, $75,750; the naval station at Port Royal, S. C., $338,182; the dry dock at Algiers, La., $100,000— total cost of which will be $1,250,000; public building at Savannah, $100,000. Order to Postal Employes. The postmaster general issued the following significant order respecting all postal employes: That hereafter no postmaster, post office clerk, letter carrier, railway postal clerk or otner postal employe shall visit Washington, whether on leave with or without pay, for the pur pose of influencing legislation before congress. Any such employe who vio lates this order is liable to removal, Postmasters and other employes of the postal service are paid by the gov ernment for attending to the respect ive duties assigned them, which do not include efforts to secure legisla¬ tion. That duty is assigned to the representatives of the people elected for that purpose. If bills are introduced in either branch of congress affecting the pos tal service, upon, which any informa tion or recommendation is desired, I am ready at all times to submit such as lies in my power and province. Running at a Loss. The comparative statement of gov ernment receipts and expenditures for the mouth of November and the five months of the fiscal year to date has been issued by the treasurv department. year $15,869,327. ’ ’ Th g r eceipts for November were usssszs: while the expenditures are $1,250,000 less than for November, 1894. For the tive mon ths of the current fiscal the receipt <, are $141,279,116, whioh ia $2,750,000 greater than for the C0rresp0 nding five monthsof 1894. For the same period the expenditures have been $157,148,443, or $2,700,000 less than the corresponding five months of 1894. The recnipts of No vember were nearly $2,000,000 less than for October last au l the expendi tures $7,000,000 less, due to interest payments in October. Customs re ceipts for the five months of this fiscal fear are $120,000,000 greater than for the corresponding five monthsof 1894. Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller has compiled the collections of internal revenue for the four months of the current fiscal year. Theyaggre gate $51,494,692, a decrease of $13,- 264,992 as compared with the corres ponding four months of 1894. The principal sources of internal revenue were: Spirits, $26,877,637, a decrease of $14,417,013, arising from the with drawals in 1894 to evade the increased tfl x. (/i 20 cents a gallon; tobacco, $ n j0 36,350, an increase of $658,915; fermented liquors, $12,964,612, an increase of *793.273 : oleomsie-erine. » decease of *172,848. and "he? MORE BONDS PROBABLE If No Remedial Legislation is En¬ acted. A Washington special says: The statement is made by persons who are among those best qualified to judge that in the absence of legislation to relieve the financial situation a bond issue is altogether probable within the next few months at the farthest. The present condition of the exchange market, and the commercial situation generally, it is said, point unmistaka¬ bly to further large exports of gold, and without something is done to pre¬ vent the usual heavy exports during January and February, which for the last two years have forced the issue of bonds to recoup the depleted gold reserve, a similar situation will con¬ front the treasury before the new year is far advanced. The available cash balance in the treasury Monday, including the re¬ serve, was approximately $175,500,000, and as the government has realized from its three bond issues about $182, 000,000, it appears that but for these issues the government would now be without one dollar in the treasury, ing ipnd in obligations addition would amounting have outstand¬ to about $6,500,000. In the meantime the ex¬ cess of expenditures over receipts amount to about $130,000,000. The exports ot gold during the last f >ur months have been as follows: A igust, $16,267,000; September, $17, a 24,000; October, $2,165,000; No¬ vember, $16,000,000; so far during December, $3,540,000; making a total of $55,796,000. So far this calendar year the exports of gold amount to about $95,000,000, Iu 1894 the exports amounted to $101,819,924. From the best informa¬ tion obtainable it is believed that the present month will show a surplus of at least $1,000,000, which will leave the deficit for the fiscal year to Janu¬ ary 1, about $15,000,000. It is ex¬ pected that this amount will not be materially increased during the re¬ maining months of the fiscal year. IS THIS TRUE? Report That Cincinnati Soldiers are on Their Way to Cuba. A Cincinnati dispatch says: Seven members of the Fifth regiment of the Ohio national guard, while with their regiment at Atlanta, deserted their companies and went to Cuba to enlist with the insurgents. A letter received from Savannah, Ga., stated that they would leave for Bermuda, where they would catch a boat and sail for Cuba on December 15th. The leader of the party is First Ser¬ geant Arthur Burdge, of Company K, and officers of the regiment fear that there is a number of other desertions. FUN AT FORTY. Banker HIgginson’s Spouse Elopes With a Young Barrister. Mrs. Francis L. Higginson, wife of the famous Boston, Mass., banker, and a social favorite, has forsaken her home and family, leaving no word behind her. She has been gone over two weeks. There is also missing from the same social set Mr. James Wheatland Smith, a young lawyer. Mrs. Higginson is within a few months of forty years of age, and the mother of four children. A FATHER’S DESPAIR, A Sad Affliction of Four a Years Child. Olj From the Citizens’ Journal, Atlanta, Tuesday morning, August Te Xas of the Journal in 13th, the edh ° ? lor, the , company -with Q- W r stableman of Linden, Texas ’<i out seven miles northwest of ’ ° T9 residence Lind en t0 th, of Mr. John Miller, ceived and welt entertained were re. Miller. Their by Mr and ir ^ son, Buford J. Miller at ah four years old, became pale and nothing weal-, '* n<1 seemed to do him any g00d continued in this condition He about until he Was twelve years old, at times eati much for D eaf°° » , one or two meals and then but little for weeks afterward At snxs$sa?ja's t was a bad case of dropsy. 1 y aa sai <I treat Mr. him; Miller first had two "good Olive™oH?, phveieiun s to Dr. A. J. den - aud then Dr. J. P. Mills, of Alifflra -v > They both, after making a trial <, a i p , ^ ths case. Mr. Miller They could not benefit the lT,’ then tried a number 0 medicines, without any good remih n 1 had spent much money and his apnetibi son pi,r appeared to have no blood, no * £ , dred was so yards weak without that ha could not wait.V U d Miller had given stopping in despair to rest w ' day neighbor, up when lit a Rev. S. G. Eohnls wV, near Mr. Linden Miller said advised he had him to h^pe try i>ink f'Ti 83 no 4 not want to make the trial, but his nriehi insisted. couid he get The the next pills. question Ho was .TefW® whil and found that went to J. P. Grow, a druggist hea them. Mr. Crow was an old neighbor The friend and persuaded him to give a thorough trial, promising that if he would benefit take three from boxes them and he would Buford charge received T I Mr. Miller took three uoihio™ boxes of Pink Pill" hid home with him, and says before Buford taken one box there was a wonderful’ im provement. ago. To-day This Buford was Miler about eighteen is monthi hearth about nineteen a stout y young man years old. W e met several of his schoolmates at Linden who state there has been a wonderful ch-im™ in Buford Mi Her. He is well known bv yma th« people of Linden. His mother, Mrs. Miller, was also afflicted with dropsy about seven years, suftering much in the spring of the year. After seeing that Pink Tills wero benefiting her son she concluded to try them for herself. This was about a year ago, and she remarked that if it had not been for Pink Pills she did not know what would have become oflier. She had no symptoms of dropsy the past spring She said too much can not be said in crane of Pink Pills. Mr. Miller referred us to J. P, Stoveall.tha druggist in Linden; Eb. Prarxier, merchant, and many others who are well acqnaiuted with his family and know the facts. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are not a patent medicine in the sense that name implies. They were first compounded as a prescription and used as such in gen¬ eral practice by an eminent physician. So great was their efficacy that it was deemed wise to place them within the reach of all. They are now manufactured by the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold in boxes (never in loose lorrn by the dozen or hundred, and the pub¬ lic are cautioned against numerous imita¬ tions sold in this shape) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for #2.50, and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Will¬ iams’ Medicine Company. PROTECT USERS OF “ROYAL.” Raking Povrder Company Wins Its Case 1 in United States Court. The decision of Judge Showalter in a re¬ cent case that came up before him sustains the claims of the Royal Compan-T-to the ex¬ clusive use of the name “Royal” as a trade¬ mark for its baking powder. The special importance of this decision consists in the protection which it assures to the mill¬ ions of consumers of Royal Bak ing Powder, The excellence of this article has caused it to be highly esteemed and largely used almost the world over. Its high standard oE quality having been always maintained, consumers have come to rely implicitly upon the “Royal brand as most wholesome aud efficient. If other manufacturers could sell under the name of a well lrnowu. reputable bramd incalculable damage would he done to the public by the deception. The determina¬ tion of the Royal Baking Powder Company to protect the users of the Royal baking powder against imitators by a rigid prosecu¬ tion of them makes such imitations of its brand extremely rare. Di’nlness Caimoi be Cured bv local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is onlj one wav to cure Deafness, and that is by const tutional remedies. Deafness is caused ny a inflamed condition of tbe mucous tube scp| 1 he Eustachian Tube. When this inflamed you have a rumbling sound or - p°rfect hearing, and when it is entirely co» Deafness is the result, and unless the inn -, illation can be taken out and this ““V..,,! stored to its normal condition, Rearm, wi ■d destroyed forever; nine cases out ten q caused flamed by condition c itarrh, of which the muebns is nothing snrfao-• but j I We will give One Hundred Dollars. for > case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) tliat ca 3 not be cured bv Hall’s Catarrh Cure. for circulars, & Co Tol ed„, 0. „ {3fSold by Druggists. 75c. A Truthful and Wonderful Re “) rd- J ileman. Listen wliat he says: I have with indigestion ever since_tne Tyner’s ' va Dy^Ps JV , )S ii years ago I began taking My wife JWJ Remedy and it cured me. take J also, and in fact all the farm y they eat anything that disagrees vi n and Is not say it that is the good best testimony. m-dicme °u B a e ' ^ w cs!)t j I per bottle. For sale by all druggists. FITS-topped free by Du. Km*'i- ItRKA Nerve Restorkr. No fitsafter br-t-w; ^ 1 Marvelous cures. Treatise and S-h p i j tie free. Dr. Kline, 031 Arch b>t.. I Jlany Influences Combine toRcdncf IF®, u to the danger limit. Tonic The overcome reviving P tn • j-J j of Parker's Ginger - A Rare Coin. When Louisiana seceded, J anliar 26, 1861, the new government seize the United States mint at New Urie»“ and struck $254,820 in double wg and $1,101,316.50 in silver halt <» lars, using the United States dies 1861. The bullion was exhaustea May, 1861, when the coinage ceas and the United States dieswer States* _ stroyed. A Confederate for 1 was then made, to be used * half dollars, but it was not fit for in a coining press, the relief b el = high. Four half dollars were s with it on a screw press, of aa ) comprise the entire coinage worth federate States. They are