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VOL. l.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
What is Being Done in Congressional
Halls for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD —BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION —OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Friday. —Mr. O’Ferrall, of Virginia,
from the committee on library, reported
bills for the erection of monuments to
General Daniel Morgan, at Winchester,
Md., and Nathaniel Greene, at Guilford
Courthouse, N. C. The committee of
the whole, Mr. Euloe, of Tennessee,
chairman, made an effort to secure con
sideration of the bills on the private cal
endar, but the house preferred to resume
discussion of the Craig-Stewart contested
election case, and it was addressed by C.
W. Stone, of Pennsylvania, in support
of the claim of the sitting member.
Monday.— ln the house, Monday, Mr.
Catchings, from the committee on rules,
reported a resolution providing that on
Tuesday, March 22<f| immediately after
the morning hour, the house shall pro
ceed to the consideration of the silver
bill, and should said bill be not sooner
disposed of, the house shall continue
consideration thereof cluring Wednesday,
the 23d, and Thursday, the 24th. The
resolution was ordered printed, and Mr.
Catchings gave notice that he would ask
the house to consider it on Monday next.
Mr. McMillin, fiotn the rules committee,
reported a resolution providing that at 5
o’clock on Fridays the house shall take a
recess until 8 o’clock, the evening session
to be for the consideration of bills grant
ing private pensions, removing political
disabilities and removing the charge of
desertion. This amendment to the rules
is brought in to overcome the difficulty
encountered last Friday, when it was
contended that should the house adjourn
before 8 o’clock it would have to convene
as anew day’s session preceded by read
ing the journal and prayer by the chap
lain at that hour. The resolution was
adopted.
Tuesday. —lu the house, Tuesday, Mr.
Dockery, of Missouri, of the committee
on appropriations, reported the District
of Columbia appropriation bill. Referred
to the committee of the whole. The
house then went into committee of the
whole, Mr. Bynum, of Indiana, in the
chair, on the Indian appropriation bill.
The pending amendment to strike out
the clause appropriating SI,OOO for an
annual allowance to Captain Pratt' of
the Carlisle Indian school, was passed
over for the present. This was done at
the request of Beltzhoover, of Pennsyl
vania, who said that he was satisfied that
Captain Pratt had never uttered the
charges that were attributed to him.
the Senate.
Friday. —ln the senate Friday a con
ference was ordered on the census defi
ciency bill, and Messrs. Hale, Allison and
Cockrell were appointed conferees on the
part of the senate. The joint resolution
to provide for an international bi-metallic
agreement having been reached on the
calendar, it was, on motion of Mr. Sher
man, laid over without action. Among
the various petitibns presented and re
ferred were several from press rep
resentatives and from employes of
the government printing office in favor
of compelling the various street rail
way companies of Washington to run
cars all night. The Idaho election con
test was then taken up and Mr. Yance
completed his argument, begun Thurs
day in support of Claggett’s claim to a
seat. At the close of Mr. Vance’s speech,
the conference report on the census defi
ciency bill was presented and agreed to,
and two public building bills were re
ported and placed on the calendar—one
appropriating $75,000 for Brockton,
Mass., and the other appropriating S2OO. -
000 for Boise City, Idaho. Mr. Claggett,
of Idaho, then took the floor under
the resolution awarding him two
hours to speak in support of
his contest for the seat now occupied by
Mr. Dubois. His argument appeared to
interest the senators very much, and
they listened to it, on both sides of the
chamber, with very close attention.
There was also a large audience in the
galleries to listen to the speech. After
he had spoken about two hours, but with
out finishing his speech, Mr. Claggett
yielded the floor, and the Idaho case
went over without action. After a short
executive session the senate adjourned
till Monday.
Monday. —The senate was entertained
Monday by a bill introduced by Leland
Stanford, to make 25.8 grains the uni
form standard by which shall be deter
mined the value of a dollar. Mr. Voor
hees delivered a speech in favor of free
coinage, after which the senate spent the
day in consideration of the Idaho con
tested election case.
Tuesday. —The senate finance com
mittee 'Tuesday directed a favorable re
port to be made on the house bill for
better control of and to promote the
safety of national banks. The house
committee on foreign and inter state
commerce ordered a favorable report to
be made on the bill to increase the
pay of the men of the life saving service.
The senate bills introduced by Mesers.
George, Harris and Vance to repeal the
internal revenue tax on the circulation of
state bank notes (and with like titles),
were reported back adversely from the
committee on finance and placed on the
calendar. The amendment to the post
office appropriation bill appropriating
$200,000 for the distrioutiou of mails in
the rural districts, reported from the
postoffice committee and referred to the
committee on appropriations. The senate
then resumed consideration of the Idaho
contested election case.
State nf iafie Ite.
NOTES.
The senate has confirmed the nomina
tion of Rowland B. Mahouy, of New
York, to be minister to Ecuador.
The state department, on Tuesday, re
ceived a list of the verified claims of sail
ors of the Baltimore, against the Chilian
government for injuries alleged to have
been received during the riots in Valpa
raiso, amounting to $2„065,000.
The president left Washington Friday
morning for a week’s visit to Virgin.a
Ueach, Va. He makes the trip solely for
rest and quiet, and will transact no offi
cial business while away, unless it is ab
solutely necessary.
Telegrams of Sunday report that Sena
tor Cameron is confined to his room with
a severe cold. Representative Springer
i< also confined to bis house, suffering
from a severe attack of grip, aggravated
by erysipe as and derangement of the
n<tv ni
Secretary Noble was examined Friday
by the special house committee appoiuteu
to investigate the management of the
pension office. In reply to Mr. Enloe’s
que-tion the secretary repeated the story
now so well known of the removal of
young Green B. Raum from the pension
office. The secretary was also asked
about the reratiugs, which occasioned
so much comment early in the ad
ministration of the pension office,
lie said that the responsibility
oiiginally rested on Commissioner
Black, and when he found Commissioner
Tanner was proceeding to carry Into
effect his predecessor’s rulings to a de
gree highly injurious to the government,
he promptly stopped it. He thought it
intolerable that employes should under
take to rerate themselves, and he made
them feel the weight of his authority.
Those reratings were not for large
amounts each month, but as they went
back a long time, the aggregate was con
siderable. Secretary Noble said he wish
ed to say so far as the efficiency of Com
missioner Raum was concerned, that he
thought he was running the pension bu
reau with great efficiency.
TO CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
General Orders No. 32 Issued from
Headquarters at New Orleans.
Qen. Gordon has issued general orders
No. 32 from Headquarters of United Con
federate Veterans at New Orleans, which
are of interest to veterans We give a
brief synopsis of the order:
The general commanding announces
that the third annual meeting and reun
ion of the United Confederate Veterans
will be held, in obedience to the resolu
tion passed by the delegates at the last
reunion at the city of New Orleans, La.,
on the Bth and 9th days of April next.
All confederate organizations and con
federate soldiers and sailors, of all arms,
grades, and departments are cordially in
vited to attend this third general reunion
of their comrades.
Ex-confederate soldiers and sailors ev
erywhere are urged to form themselves
into local associations, where this has
not already .been done; and all associa
tions, bivouacs, encampments, and other
bodies, are earnestly requested to send in
applications to these headquarters, with
out delay.
Business of the greatest importance
will demand careful consideration dur
ing the third annual c invention—such as
the best methods ot securing impartial
history, and to enlist each state in the
compilation and preservation of the hist
ory of her citizen soldiery; the benevo
lent care through state aid and other
wise of disabled, destitute or aged
veterans and the widows and orphans of
our fallen brothers-in-arms; the care of
the graves of our known and unknown
buried at Gettysburg, Fort Warren,
Camps Morton, Chase, Douglas, Oak
wood cemetery at Chicago, Johnson’s
Island, Cairo and at all other points, to
see that they are annually decorated, the
the headstones preserved and pro
tectcd, and complete lists of the
names of our dead heroes with the loca
tion of their last resting places furn
ished to their friends and relatives
through the medium of our camps.
Each camp now admitted into the
United Confederate Veteran organization
and those admmiCed before the reunion,
are urged at once to elect accredited
delegates to attend the reunion, as only
accredited delegates will participate in
the business part of the reunion. The
representation of delegates at the reunion
will be as fixed in article 3 of the consti
tion and amendment to the same—one
delegate for every twenty members, and
one lor any fraction over twenty, provid
ed every camp shall be entitled to at least
two delegates.
Attention of camps is called to the
resolution in amendment to article 5 of
the constitution, “that no camp shall be
allowed representation in any meeting of
the United Confederate Veterans unless
the camp shall have, on or before the first
day of April preceding the meeting, paid
all amounts due as initiation fee, $2.00,
and also the amount due per capita.” A
program to be observed at the re-union
and all the details will be furnished to
the camps and to all veterans by the com
mittee of arrangements in due time.
The general commanding respectfully
requests the press, both daily and weekly,
of the whole country, to aid the patriotic
and benevolet objects of the United Con
federate Veterans by publication of these
general orders, with editorial notices of
the organization.
The general commanding respectfully
requests and trusts that railroad officials
will also aid the old veterans by giving
such reduced rates of transportation as
will euable them to attend.
Officers of the general staff are directed
to assist division commanders and others
in organizing their respective states, and
generally to assist in the complete feder
ation of the Confederate survivors in one
organization under the constitution of the
United Confederate Veterans.
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, MARCH 4,1892.
NEWS IN GENERAL
Happenings of the Day Culled from Our
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
WHAT IS TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OUR
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
The total amount of gold ordered Fri
day for Europe, was $750,000; total since
February 9th, $2,750,000.
A cablegram of Friday is to the cff* ct
that Chili has declined to participate al
together in the world’s fair at Chicago,
on the plea that she cannot afford it.
A dispatch of Saturday says: Four
teen persons lost their lives by the sink
ing of the steamer, Forest Queen, run
down by the steamer, Loughbrow, off
Flamborougb, England.
A dispatch of Monday says: Thirteen
new cases of typhus fever have developed
in New York City within the last twenty
four hours. All the patients will be re
moved to the Riverside hospital.
Infoimation was received at Chicago
Tuesday to the effect that Geo. J. Gibson,
ex-secretary of the whisky trust, was ar
rested at Peoria under an indictment
found against the officers of the trust at
Boston.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Cincin
nati says: Orders have been received from
the east to the United States Express
company’s office in Chicago to open a
fight on the brotherhood by discharging
several messengers.
A cable dispatch of Saturday to the
New York Herald from R o Janeiro says
there is the greatest uneasiness through
out the republic. It is reported not less
than 2,500 men are under arms who are
opposed to the government.
A Washington dispatch of Sunday
says: Proceedings in congress during
the present week promise to be of more
than usual interest, for it is expected
that two leading issues of the day, silver
and the tariff, will figure in one or both
houses.
A destructive conflagration visited
Hot Springs, Monday. Fifteen business
houses in the southern part of the city,
including the new syndicate’s stone
block, in which the postoffice was located,
burned. Total loss, $75,000; insurance,
$20,000.
A dispatch from Albany, N. Y., says:
Fire broke out among some oil barrels in
the storehouse of Mather Bros., wholesale
grocers on Broadway and Dean streets,
about 9.30 o’clock Monday night, and by
midnight destroyed about a quarter of a
million dollars’ worth of property.
One of the most violent windstorms,
accompanied by rain, snow and hail, for
several years, passed over Reading, Pa.j,
Monday night, lasting two hours. The
wind blew a perfect hurricane and dam
age was done all over the city and Sur
rounding country. /
A St. Louis dispatch of Saturday says:
The executive committee of the national
committee of the people’s party, composed
of seven members, will meet att Omaha
on May 11th for the purpose of perfect
ing arrangements for the holding of a
national convention of that party on July
4th.
A cablegram of Monday ptates Omt
Minister Reid and M. lioche, the Flgjjfh
minister of commerce have coangtyq an
agreement for a commercial.?#
tween the United States^ jjj^France, and
M. Roche will inVJuffice a bill in the
chambers of deputies to ratify the agree
ment.
A Washington dispatch says: In the
case of the Church of the Holy Trinity
of New York to the question of its right
to import a rector, Rev. Mr, Warren, the
United States supreme court on Monday
reversed the action of the lower court,
and decided in favor of the church and
Mr. Warren.
A dispatch from Little Rook says: Ex-
Governor Conway was accidentally
burned to death in his own residence
Sunday morning. It is supposed he was
asleep at the time. He was very old and
feeble. He was quite excentric and lived
alone, not allowing any one else to sleep
on the premises.
A New York dispatch of Saturday
says: The total visible supply of cotton
for the whole world is 4,720,872 bales, of
which 448,372 are American, against
3,548,317 and 2,878,214 respectively last
year. Receipts of all interior towns
68,581, receipts from plantations 116,-
659, crop in sight 7,859,235.
A cable dispatch of Friday from Syd
ney, Australia, says the trial of the offi
cials of the Australian Mercantile Loan
Company for fraudulent management of
that institution, resulted in the convic
tion of Messrs. Finlayson and Smith, di
rectors, and Mr. Miller. They w T ere sen
tenced to imprisonment for seven years
a, hard labor.
The Manufactures’ Record published
at Baltimore, was sold Monday by R. H.
and William Li. Edmonds to Waiter H.
Page, editor of The Forum magazine, of
New York; E. H. Sanborn, of Phila
delphia, and Thomas Grasty, who has
beeD lor three years chief southern cor
respondent of The Manufacturers’ Rec
ord.
Exports of specie from the port of
Niow York during the week ended Feb.
27, amounted to $3,259,06 of which
$2,292,426 was gold and $366,600
silver. Of the total exports
$2,288,546 in gold and $206,600 in
silver went to Europe and $607,000 in
gold and $160,000 in silver went to the
West Indies and South America. Im
ports of specie during the week amount
ed to $500,519, of which $497,847 was
old and $2,672 silver.
! A Wa-hington dispatch says: Nego
tiations between the United States and
Great Britain looking to the submission
to arbitration of the long-pending con
troversy between the two countries in re
gird to the Behring sea seal fisheries,
reached a favorable condition Monday.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, British minister,
met Secretary Blaine by appointment at
the state department Monday, and signed
a treaty of arbitration ou behalf of Great
Britain.
Dispatches of Saturday report the street
car strike in Indianapolis as growing
serious. Mayor Sullivan h is ordeicd the po
lice to assist the street car company in its
endeavor to run cars. At G o’clock Sat
urday morning three street cars were
started out of the New Jersey street sta
bles, each car having five or six police
men aboard. From that time until after
1 o’clock the city was in a continuous
riot. Cars were fumed crosswise of the
track with policemen on them. Others
were deposited iu gutters, and the teams
unhitched and turned loose. One driver
vias beaten ivar!y to death.
AN ADDRESS
leaned by the Third Party National
Executive Committee.
A St. Louis dispatch suys: The joint
committee, in whose charge the matter
was voted by the industrial conference
just ended here, met Thursday morning,
and after au all-day’s session selected
Omaha, Neb., as the place of holding the
nominating convention of the newly-born
third party. The 4th of July was se
lected as the date, and that action was
reaffirmed. A formal call was issued as
follows:
To the People of the United States—
The national committee of the people’s
party of the United States, acting in con
junction with the following: C. A. Van-
Wyck, Nebraska; C. W. Macune, Texas;
M. I. Branch, Georgia; J. 11. Powers,
Nebraska; R. M. Humphreys, Texas; L.
D. Laurent, Louisiana; Nathan Cannon,
California; T. H. Magulere.*New York;
J. H. Williams, K.ausas; L. L. Polk,
North Carolina: pierce Hackett, Mis
souri; M. M. Gardett, Illinois; John
Leits, Ohio; Mary E. Lease, Kansas;
Anna L. Diggs, District of Colum
bia; Anna Debbs, Texas ; A. P. Parksen,
Florida, and Ben Terrill, of Texas, rep
resentatives of a certain meeting of mem
bers of various organizations of this coun
try, hei,cl in the city of St. Louis Mo.,
on the 24th day of February, 1892, re
spectfully submit to the people of the
Unitejd States the following preamble
ajidplatform of the conference of said
ialSor organizations of our nation, held on '
tbje 22d, 23d and 24th days of February,
1592, in the city of St. Louis. „
[Here they recite the preamble and
platform as already printed.]
We urge that all citizens who support
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bIiCOC ULUIUIIUO O.janu lIIUC U Uli b 14U ■ (toil k'at/"
urday in March ifext, in their r/spectivit
towns and villages, and hold public
meetings and ratify these demands, and
take steps toaorgarrtre preparatory to
electing delegate to the national conven
tion, and we call upon all duly qualified
voters of the United States who are in
favor of these principles and of nominat
ing candidates for president and vice
president on the above platform, to send
delegate to a convention of the people’s
party, to be held in Omaha, Neb., July
4, 1892, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon.
The executive committee of the peo
ple’s p<*y in each state is charged with
the duty of regulating this call, and of
fixing the time, place and methods by
which said delegates shall be chosen.
The basis of representation shall be four
delegates from each congressional dis
trict, and eight delegates from each state
at large, making the total number 1,776.
We call upon all citizens of the United
States to help us make our principles tri
umph. We believe that if voters neglect
their duty this year, it may be impossible
in any future canvass to protect the
rights of the people and save the free
institutions of our country. Voters must
protect themselves. They can expect no
one else to defend them.
In the name of the rights of the peo
ple, the homes of the land and the wel
fare of all future generations, we call
upon all honest men to come to o.i • sup
port in this great contest.
H. E. Taubeneck, Chairman,
Robert Schilling, Secretary,
National Cammillee Pennle’s Portn
THIRD PARTY TALK.
Casting About for Suitable Presiden
tial Candidates—Some Possibilities.
A dispatch of Sunday says: The
echoes of the St. Louis convention have
scarcely died away ere the rank and file
of the allied industrial organizations
have begun to discuss the possible presi
dential candidates of the national peo
ple’s party. A convention for the nomi
nation of candidates for president and
vice president will not be held until July
4th, at Omaha, and as both of the other
leading parties will have made their nom
inations by that time the people’s party is
in a position to make the strongest pos
sible nominations for the purpose
of carrying doubtful states in
which their organizations have in
the past manifested the greatest
strength. General James B. Wcaver, of
lowa, once a candidate of the greenback
party for pre-ident of the United States:
Hon. L. L. Polk, pf North Carolina, now
president of the National Farmers" Alli
ance; Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, of Minne
sota; United States Senator Leland Stan
ford, of California; T. V. Powderly,
grand master of the Knights of Labor;
Hon. A’son G. Streeter, cf Illinois, late
candidate of the Farmers’ Mutual Benev
olent Association for United States sena
tor from Illinois, are a few of those now
being discussed as possible presidential
and vice presidential candidates of the
people’s party.
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF
Ihe News of Her Progress Portrayed In
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs
AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN
INGS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
The president, on Friday, nominated
Homer C. Powers to be collector of in
ternal revenue for the Louisiana district.
A. Richmond special of Friday says:
There is a proposition in the general as
sembly to sue West Virginia, unless her
share of the debt is adjusted.
A dispatch of Friday says: A strike of
’longshoremen is on at New Orleans,and
2,000 men are out at work. The demand
i< an hour’s pay for fractional parts of an
hour.
Information was received Tuesday of a
fire at Hillsville, the county seat of
Carroll county, Va., which is said to have
destroyed half the town. No particu
lars.
A telegram of Saturday from Memphis,
Tenu., says: Miss Lillie Johnson, charged
with being accessory in the murder of
Miss Freda Warde, has been admitted to
bail in the sum of SIO,OOO.
Sales of leaf tobacco at Danville, Va.,
in February, were 3,0 00,000 pounds.
Sales for the first five months of the to
bacco year were 14,715,428 pounds, a
decrease of 1,300,000 pounds as compared
with the same period of last year.
A telegram from Pensacola states that
Dr. L. N. Mclntosh, head of the Mcln
tosh Optical Company, of Chicago, an
nounced to lecture at the Florida Chau
tauqua, died at DeFuniak Springs of heart
failure Tuesday night. Mrs. Mclntosh
will take the remains to Chicago.
At a banquet Friday night of the
wholesale grocers of Richmond, Va.,
among those who responded to toasts
were Governor McKinley, Mayor Ellyson,
United States Senator Daniel, Congress
men George D. Wise and H. H. George
Tucker, Lieutenant Governor Hoge Tyler
and E. E. Hooker, of Tennessee.
A dispatch of Friday from Nashville
states that there is a movement now on
foot among the negroes of that city to
start a migration to Oklahoma next fall.
A negro who has great influence among
his people is agitating the question and is
procuring the names of those who want
to go. About one thousand names are
already on the list, and the indications
arc that muny more will be adde. ;.
A telegram from Raleigh, N. C.,
states that the transfer of the Roanoke
and Southern railway to the Norfolk and
Western, was completed Saturday and
the contract has been signed. The stock
of the Roanoke auu Southern was prin
cipally held at Winston. The Norfolk
aid Western will at once extend the
Roanoke and Southern southward from
Salem for independent connections. The
present officials of the latter road are re
tained.
A Savannah dispatch says: On Friday
a meeting of the naval stores producers
of Georgia will be held in this city, to
provide for concerted action towards re
ducing the wages of labor, and otherwise
curtailing the expenses of production, in
order to meet low prices. Delegates will
be present representing the producers of
Florida and South Carolina, and an
agreement affecting the entire naval
stores interests of the three great pro
ducing states will be entered into.
A frightful explosion occurred at 6:15
o’clock Monday morning at Savannah.
The stationary engine in the Savannah,
Florida and Western railroad shops ex
ploded, wrecking its own house and ad
jacent buildings and killing the engineer
and his fireman and mortally wounding
the porter, the only persons who were in
the vicintv of the disaster. Had it oc
curred a half hour later, with all thb em
ployes in the building, the loss of life
would have been fearful.
The executive committee of the North
Carolina State Colored Agricultural and
Mechanical College met at Raleigh, Tues
day, and received a committee from
Greensboro. It had been agreed last
autumn that Greensboro would give $15,-
000 and twenty-five acres of land to
location. But the committee
appeared with SB,OOO and asked that the
remaining $7,000 be reduced $2,000.
This was not accepted, and a call for a
meeting of the full board March 23d was
issued.
The executive committee of the Texas
Bankers’ association have issued an ad
dress to the farmers and business men,
urging a reduction of the cotton acreage
15 percent, giving as their opinion that
the effect will be to raise the prices 30
percent. They cite the increase in
prices of 10 per cent in 1871 by de
creased acreage of 15 per cent, and refer
to the example of Brazilian coffee plan
ters raising the price of coffee from 7 to
24 per cent in 1880, and up to 1886, by
reduced acreage.
A MONETARY CONFERENCE
Will Likely Be Arranged Between Un
cle Sam, England and Germany.
A New York uispatch of Friday says:
It is understood that Great Britain will
positively join the United States, Ger
many and France in calling an interna
tional bi-metalic conference on the con
dition that British representatives will
not pledge their government in advance
to abide by decision of the conference.
The fact that England has expressed her
willingness to join in the conference to
ward the recognition of silver as money,
even with a cautious condition coupled
to it, was regarded in financial circles as
of great importance.
TRADE NOTES.
Nominally Encouraging Though Con
siderable Dullness Prevails.
Business failures occurring through
out the country during the week ended
Feb. 27, as reported by R. G. Dun & Cos.,
number for United States, 236; Canada,
34 ; t0ta1,270; against 299 previous week.
The state of domestic trade has not
changed. The continuing dullness is
perhaps more generally felt. At Phila
delphia money is easy, though trade is
much depressed by southern sales. Hard
ware is dull iu the city. At New Or
leans, general business is dull, although
sugar is strong and active. Rice is in
fair demand, but cotton is dull and low.
At Savannah, also, the low price of
cotton is depressing and money is in ac
tive demand.
Speculation in breadstuffs has been
much less active since gold began to go
abroad, and wheat has declined 4 cents
during the past week, the Atiantic ex
ports being small. The receipts at thg|
west were over 2,000,000 bushels in three
days. Corn has risen Jof a cent and oats
J cent, while scarcely any change ap
pears in pork products. Oil is 1£ cents
lower, and coffee t stronger, with small!
transactions in both; but cotton declined
1-16, with sales of 468,000 bales, and the
receipts will exceed those of the same
week last year, while the exports have
fallen off during the past week. The only
great branch of manufacture which
makes discouraging reports at present is
the iron and steel industry, and the diffi
culty is, there is no shrinkage in the con
sumption, but an enormous increase in
the production.
In cotton there is a larger consump
tion than has ever been known. This is
sustained by the demand being so active
that advances in some qualities are occa
sionally reported in spite of the cheap
ness of the material.
Money continues in abundant supply
at 1£ per cent on call at New York, with
no pressure at any interior market, but
the large shipments of gold, said to be;
for Russia, led to the belief that money
must be dearer soon.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
Speaker Reed’s Rules l’phe!d-*McKin
ley Act Constitutional.
A Washington dispatch says: The “no
quorum” case in which the legality of the
Dingly worsted act was attacked by Rol
lius, Joseph A Cos., importers, was on
Monday decided by the United States
supreme court. The Dingly act was
passed through the action of Speak
er Reed iu counting a quo
rum when there was a quorum of mem
bers preseut but not voting. The im
porters maintained that Speaker Reed’s
action was iu violation of the con
stitution, and that an act passed in this
manner whs void. The supreme court,
in au opinion bv Justice Brewer, holds
that the “no quorum” rule was valid,
and that the house of representatives had
a right to make such a rule.
ATTACKING THE M’KINLEY BILL.
Three cases iu which the importer*
sought to test the constitutionality of the
McKinley tariff net were also decided by
the United States supreme court Monday.
The title of these three cases are Boyd,
Sutton & Cos. and Herman Sternbach &
Cos., eacti versus the United States, and
Joel B. Frhirdt, collector of the port oi
New York, and Marshall Field & Cos.
versus Clark, collectof of the port of
Ch cago. The grounds on which it was
maintained that the tariff was unconsti
tutional was that the tobacco rebate sec
tion of the bill had been omitted in its
enrollment after passage by con
gre s, an i therefore that the bill signed
by the president was not the
bill passed by the legislative department
ot the government; that the reciprocity
feature was a transmission to the execu
tive of law-making power and therefore
are void, vitiating the whole act, and
1 stlv, tnat act was void because of the
sugar bounty provision. The court af
filined the judgments of the New York
and Illinois cirtuit courts of the United
Stites iu favor of the constitutionality ol
t e act.
A REAR END COLLISION
In Which Seven People Lose Their
Lives and Others Injured.
The Watertown local train, due at
Milwaukee, Wis., Tuesday afternoon, ran
into and demolished the rear end of a
train loaded with employes of the West
Milwaukee shops of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul railroad, killing
seven and injuring several others. The
trains were moving in the same direction,
the workmen’s train having just left the
main track on a short switch and strung
itself out on the track with the main line.
The switchman failed to turn the switch
after the workmen’? train, and the local,
a moment after, passed on the short
switch, and, in a minute, had telescoped
the rear car. The seven men killed were
terribly mangled.
HUNTING DYNAMITE.
The Paris Police Make a Raid Upon
Anarchist Haunts.
A cablegram from Paris says: Some
excitement was caused a few days ago in
police circles by the receipt of informa
tion that a large quantity of dynamite
had been stolen from a factory belonging
to the state where that explosive was
made with many safeguards as to its
manufacture and as to its subsequent
storage and disposition. It was imme
diately concluded that the theft was the
work of anarchists, and on Tuesday the
police searched all houses in Paris in a
vicjnity known to be occupied by anar
chists in the expectation of finding the
dynamite. The police refuse to divulge
the result of their search.
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