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VOL. V11. MANNING. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1891. NO. 8. REPUBLICAN TACTICS. OVERRULING ALL PRECEDENT AND CUTTING OFF DEBATE. The Republicans Stop at Nothing to se cure Control of the Election Machinery and Prevent the Choice of a Demoeratic President in 1s9e. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-lu the Scn ate to-day, immediately after prayer, the Vice President directed the readin of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings. Senator Faulkner suggested that there was no quorum present and the roll was called and disclosed the presence of but 27 Senators. At half-past ten, however, a quorum appeared and the Journal was read. Senator Aldrich inquired whether the question was on the approval of tae Journal, and receiving an affirmative re ply said that he wished to address the SeDate briefly. le continued : "The Journal. just read, furnished a record without parallel in the history of the Senate of the United States. It dis closed the fact that it was the deter min'd policy of the Democratic Senators to prevent any legislation or any action, unless their wishes as to certain meas ures should obtain consideration and be acceded to. The Republicans had long ago been aware of this act, but not until yesterday had all disguise been thrown off. This purpose on the part of the members of the minority was of such a character that it could not for a moment be acceded to. To accede to that intol erant and outrageous domination of the minority would be to strike a serious blow at free institutions. The action of the minority was revolutionany." Senator Aldrich, at the conclusion of his remarks, moved that the Senate pro ceed to the consideration of the resolu tion to amend the rules by the adoption of the plan of cloture. The point of order was made on the Democratic side by Senator Harris that the unfinished business was a motion to correct the Journal of Tuesday's pro ceedings, and that as it involved the status of Senator Aldrich's resolution it must be first disposed of. AN AFFECTATION OF FAIRNE. The Vice Presidentindicated his de sire to hear argument on the point, and the positions on each side were stated by various Senators, Senator Stewart arguing strongly on the Democratic side. I and Senator Sherman arguing that, al though the motion to correct.the Jour nal was a privileged question, it did not necessarily follow that it must be first considered. Any other subject might be taken up inpreference by a majority vote." Up to 1 o'clock a decision on Harris's point of order had not been made, although the Vice President, on several occasions, indicated his readiness to decide it. But Senator Gorman had the floor for an hour and went over the whole ground, discussing general -poli tics in spite of all attempts to cut him off. One of these attempts was made by Senator Aldrich and was met with a sharp rebuke from Senator Teller, and a notification that the Senator from Rhode Island "must not assume the role of i3oss of the Senate." THE MATTER IN A NUTSHELL Senator Gorman said: "If the Sena tors on the other side propose to go on with the public business and to take up such matters as the whole country is in terested in we will meet you as we have done during the session. Itis, therefore, your fault, and yours alone, if the public business is delayed. We believe the elections bill to be in violation of the Constitution ol the country and we will stand here ind fight it under these rules with the fullest and freest debate, and let whatever consequence come we will appeal to the American peaople to sus tain us, because we are looking alone to their rights." [Applause.] A VICIOUS RULING. The Vice President ruled that Sena tor Aldrich's motion to proceed to the' consideration of the cloture rule was in -order, and overruled Senatoi- Harris's point of order. Senator Harris appealed, but the Chair was sustained-yes 35. nays 30. Senators Teller. Wolcott, and Stewart voting with the Democrats. Senator Aldrich moved to proceed to the consideration of his resolution (clo ture,) and Senator Gorman moved to. table the motion. The Vice President submitted the question to the Senate and the vote re sulted-yeas 30,. nays 35. So the mo tion to table was lost, and a vote was taken on Senator Aldrich's motion 1-o consider the cloture rule. The roll-call was suspended on Sena tor Ransom's point of order, that the Journal of Tuesday showed that the mat ter-had already been taken up. The Chair overruled the point of order. and the Democrats .took' an appeal which was -defeated, and the Chair was sustained-yeas 36, nays 27-where upon Senator Gorman made the further point of order that Senator Aldrien's motion must be in wri.ing. CLOTURE TAKEN UP. The Vice Preeident sustained this point, and Senator Aldr:chi wrote out his motion. Senator Aldrich's motion prevatled-yeas 38, nays 32. Senator Jones. of Nevada, joined with the Democrats in opposing it. Immediately, how'ever, Senator Uiar ris called up his point of order made :against tihe cloture resolution on Tues day (that it was not explicit enough to aneet the rules.) The Vice President ru.!ed against him. But Senater Harris took an appeal and was permitted to debate it. Hs c oon began reading from an apparently in exhaustible mass of manuscript. At Senator Aldrich's instance Senator Harris's appeal from the decision of the Chair against his point of order was laid on the table-yeas 33. nays 28. Among the pairs announced onal votes taken to-day in connection with the Republican effort to force the coa aideration of the cloture resolution, Sen ator Allison appears paired with Senator Ingalls, who is absent. Senator Cockrell made a statemlent to show the large amount of legislative work done by the Senate in the last ses sion in comparison with the work done by the House, the so-called buisness branch of Congress, and this amount of business was done, he said, without any cloture rule. In the course of a long speecli Senator Cockrell read in full Senator Hoar's ar ticle published in the Boston Youths' Companion as to the importance of un fettered debate in the Senate. and said he would move to have it printed as a pub lie document with a wide mnargmn to enable its being farmed and hung up in parlors and libraries for the education ef the young. Some of the leading points in the ar ie Senator Cockell read more than once and with much emphasis, particu larly a sentence that "the previous ques tion aud every device to cut off debate was uaknown to Senate proceedings." Senator Dawes, who seemed to be a close and interested listeuer, rose and said that in the absence of his colleague e-Why, your colleague is right here," enat'or Cockrell remarked, looking to wards Senator lloar, who was sitting on the Democratic side. "I am here, and I never enjoyed my self so much in my lire," said Senator Hoar. 'The inquiry I wish to make was," said Senator Dawes. "If the Senator from Missouri does not draw a distine tion between freedom of debate and an eternity of talk." [Laughter.] Senator hoar defended himself from the imputation of inconsistency. There is nothiug in the article, he said. ihat says that by reason freedom of debate it shall be in order for the minority of the Senate to spend days and nights and weeks in talking about something else than the subject before the Senate. and thereby overthrowimg the great con stitutional functions of the Senate as a legislative body. There is not a phrase in it which I do not stand upon and will not defend. It is a notorious fact that the Senator form Rhode Island has been told that if his amendment were brought in as it was orginally proposed amead ments enough would be offered on the Democratic side of the chamber to con sume the entire time till the 4th of March next. The attempt to defeat the will of the people expressed through by Con gress the process of long debate and' tak ing up time (as we have seen it this very session) is as much a conspiracy against the Constitution and national authority as was the Rebel congress that met in Richmond. [Applause in the galler les.] Senator Gray: "Was that true in 1879 wlhcn that side of the chamber lili bustered ?" Notices of amendments to the pro posed rule were given by Senators Stew art and Gibson. Senator Stewart's amendment looks to allowing other than pending amendments to tile measure to be offered and voted on, also to allow motions to recommit and lay on the table, and Senator Gibson's requires the demand for- closure debate to be seconded by two-thirds, instead of a majorsty. of the Senators present. Without concluding his remarks Sen ator Cockrell yielded to Senator Aidrich, on whose notion at 6 P. M. the Senate took a recess till 11 A. M. to morrow. The object of taking a recess instead of adjourning is supposed to be to avoid questions being raised as to the correc tion of the Journal, as there will be no ,Journal until the legislative day of the 22d is tinished, which may not be until the pending question is finally disposed of. Between Cotton Bales. NEW You, Jan. 28.-The Clark Thread company has. managed to in duce sixty-seven men to go to Newark to take the places of the strikers, but at no time since the strike has the number at work exceeded twenty-four, end the others have refused to stay upon learning that their liberty was to be curtailed, ant that they would have to eat and sleep in ths hose house of the.Newark mill. Those who re main have unlimited beer, and musical entertainments are furnished for them almost every night. They are guarded from intrusion or attack by a corps of special officers employed by the com pany, and all the fresh air they catch. while crossing the yard to the mill. The manner of getting the ne w spin ners into the mill has been a puzzle to the strikers until it leaked out that they were taken in between bales of cotton on one of the company's trucks. The bales are built up on the truck so that a space for the men is left in the centre, and the load goas through the streets to the mill yard without any body suspecting that the men are con ealed in it. The spinners who are on a strike say that-it is necessary to keep the new men in ignorance of the true condition if affairs, becaus~e the strikers, when they can get a few miinutes' conversa tidn with the newcomers, can always infnence them to turn back. The Force Bill. WAshlINGTON, Jan.29.-It nas a mat ter of talk about the Capitol to-day that several Republican Senators-su f icient in number to meet the needs of the Democrats-had assured the Demo ratic managers in the Senate that un er no circumstances would they vote agan to take up the election bill this session. An inquiry shows that there is a basis of truth in the report. it annot be learned that anything like formal pledges on the subject have passed, but it is certainly a matter of assurance amiong the Democratic Sena tors that the bill is not to arise again~ to trouble them, and they have notified their party friends in the lieuse that there is no longer any necessity to let, the possibility of the return of the elec tion bill to the House enter into their1 ealculation when considering the order of business in that body. So, too, it is learned on the Republican side of the Senate chamnber that any effort to re sume the consideration of the bill will be resisted by certain lepublicans Western Repubilicans.-though these Senators do not care to be quioted in the octter. Victorious Crusaders. MAiRinvILLE, Ind., Jan. 2t.-The town of Afitchell, one of the most law ies places ini the $tate, has been changed to a peaceful commutnity by a crusade of wome~n. The numerous sa iools say they are doing no business, andI a .coue opera company playing there was forced to disbaud. As a re slt, Fred Brown placed his stock of liquors in; a shanity boat and started dlown White Rive-r to Williams, a few miles below; where the boat was anch ored. lie (htd a thriving business for a few d2ays. The ladies had Brown sent toijail and one Sim pson lined. One of the women's husbands, nlamed 2ol ton, who hal be.en gettitng drunk on~ the shanty boat., was hauled ashore with arope and told to promise to care for his family or he would be hanged. He promisedi. Th~e shanty boat and liquors were destroyed, and now the la-. (ies are masters of the situation. "Thankfu"~ n~ot Thankful. At-oVsTA, Januairy 25.-Thankful Xlore-d Baptist Church was closed by the sheriff this mloring, and 31r. E. E. Pritchard was apipointed temporary re eiver by ,Judge Roney. The trouble is caused by the dilssatisfaction of the congregation with the pastor, the Rev. James T. Jaibe-rt, who, they claim, is too ignorant to preach to an educated cogregtion of this enlightened 'ae, and who has denied them their rights at Conference meetings by allowing the minority, who favored his views, to rule. In other words they claim that the Reed rule, which has been so ob noxious in politics, has ruled in their, church with Talbert as moderator. Tihis wrangle has been going on since last October, and will be settled at a hearing before Judge Roney on the 2nth of February. SIDE TRACKED AGAIN. THE REPUBLICANS DEFEATED IN THEIR INFAMOUS SCHEME. The Demeerats With the Aid of Six Re publican Senators LayA aside the Closure Rule--The New Received With Wild Cheers in the House. WASIIINOTO,-,Jan. 26.-The Senate met at noon in continuation of the leg islatve day of Thursday last. the pen d ing question being the resultion to amend the rules by -'roviding a method for closiu debate. Morgan resumed the floor ana con tinned his argument lie began Saturday in opposition to the proposed rule and to the election bill, both of which meas ure he claimed (on the authority of the New York Times) to be for the advance ment of Harrison's project for a re-clec tion. At 1:20 Wolcott asked Morgan to yield the floor to him so that he niigZht move to take up the apportionment bill. Morgan said that lie would do so although he was at a very interestiqg point in his speech which he trusted he would never have.the opportunity to resume. Wolcott then made that motion and Dolph moved to lay it on the table. The point of order against the latter motion was made on the Democratic side, but the presiding officer overruled it and held that the motion was in order. The vote was proceeded with amid great excitement and there was much confusion and some ill feeling in rela tion to the pairs. Daniel said that lie had been paired with Squire, but as he was informed by the Senator from Nevada (Stewart) that the Senator from California (Stanford) was in favor of proceeding with the business he would transfer Squire's pair to Standford and would himself vote. Aldrich objected to the proposed transfer and- insisted that there was no authority for it. Stewart admitted that he had no direct authority to pair Standford with the Sen ator in favor of the proposed rule, but said that Stanford told him before leav ing the citv for New York that lie was in favor of taking up the.apportionment bill. Aldrich asserted, on the contrary. that tanford had toli him distinctly on sev eral occasions that lie was in favor of the pending resolution and of its con sideration, and lie (Aldrich) intimated that the proposed transfer would be taking an unfairadvantage of Standford's absence. The controversy developed some acri mofnious feeling en both sides, but the matter was settled by Daniel saying that if there was any doubt or dispute about it he would let his pair with Sqeire stand -and that was the upshot of it. Some question also arose as to the pairs of Shoup and Moody ; but the final result was that the pairs stood as fol lows: Pierce and Brown, Plumb and Gibson, Pettigrew and Pasco, Squire and Daniel, Shoup and Colquitt, Sanders and Ingalls, Chandler and Blodgett, Moody anI Hearst, Higgmns and Voorhees. Standford stands as absent and not paired. The result was announced as: Yeas 34. nays 35. So the motion to laj on the table was rejected. The announcement was greeted with applause on the Democratic side and in~ the galleries. This was resented by Edmunds, who insisted that the chair should enforce the rules of the Senate, and that if there was any repetition of the disturbance the galleries should be clearedl. Tihe following is the vote in detail: Yeas-Aldrich. Allen, Allison, Blair, Carey, Casey, Cullem, Davis, Dawes, Dixon, Dolph, Edmunds, Evarts, Far well, Fr-ye, Hale, Hawley, Hliscock, Hoar. McConnell, McMillan, Mander son, Mitchell. Morrill, Paddock, Platt, Power, Quay, Sawyer, Sherman. Spoon er, Stockbridge, Warran, Wilson of lowa -34. Nays-Barbour, Bate, Berry, Black burn,~.Butler, Call, Cameron, Carlisle, Cockrelh, Coke, Eustis, Faulkner, George, Gorman, Gray, Hampton, Har ris, Jones of Arkansas, Jones of Nevada, Kenna, McPherson; Morgan, Payne, Pugh, Ransom, Reagan, Stewart, Teller, Turpie. Vance, Vest, Walthall. Wash burne, Wilson, of Maryland, Wolcott The vote was then taken on Wolcott's motion to take up the apportionment bill and it was carried by a like vote yeas 35, nays 34-the only divergence bemng that Pettigrew's pair was trans ferred from Pasco to Call. There was no distict outbreak of applause at the final success of the movement against the election hill and the proposed rule, but the feeling _of jubilation was no less great on tne Democratic side ; and Blair interposed the remark that when a man was down that was the time to get up. and so now this was the time to take up and pass the education bill. [Cries of "Order" r the Democratic side.] The resolution for the amendment of the rules having been thus displaced and relegated to the calendar (as the election bill had previously been) the Senate pro ceedd to the consideration of the appor tionment bill, The reading of the bill and the report continued ill 3 o'clock and the bill was then laid aside till to-morrow at 2 o'clock when it comes up as unfinished buisness. The Good News in the Heouse. When the vote was taken in the Seni ate the lHonse was taking a vote on the same question, and the Clerk had called but a few names when Mansur and Heard. returning fromi the Senate sidle, spoke a few words to their Democratic colleagues, whereupon lRogers rose, and interrupting the call, informed the House that the force bill had been defeated. Then the Democrats gzave cheer after cheer. Trhie Speaker's effort was ineffecttial for some moments to chieek the Demo crats in their enthusiasm. "Another Bull Run." ejaculated Brewer. Hatch suggested the propriety of dis pensng with the further :ai'.mg of the roll. There was no longer any necessi ty for the roll call. The roll call was continued and the House went into committee or the whole. But the battle was not yet over. Breckinridge of Arkansas, in criticis ing McKinley's action in cutting off the debate on the approval of the jominal, denounced the McKinley bill. Kelley of Kansas said that the gentle man on the other side had said that good news had been received from the Senate. ~e did not doubt that it was good news to the assassins of John M. Clayton. [Democratic hisses.] They would throw. up their hats and cheer and say: "That will give us lurthier power to as sasinate and kill." Something had been said about the betrayal of party pledges. le knew of no such betrayal so far as this end of the capitol was concerned. The gentlemen on the other side who had betrayed their party pledges (it they had been betrayed) were responsible to their constituents. If there was any betrayal it caine from those men who had been instructed by their State Legislatures to vote for a certain bill. and who had turned around and voted against it. le had no doubt that the person who killed young Matthews of lMississippi could take the news as good news. Lewis declared that the killing of Matthews grew out of no p'litical causes. The causes were purely personal. A Romance of the War. PrrrsBUR, Jan., 25.-Mile Gaston and his bride arrived here last night from Georgia. and they are spending their honeymoon with Mr. McLain. Gaston's brother-in-law. McLain tells this ro mantic story : -In 1862 Gaston. who is a natiye of New Hampshirejoined a regiment from that State and went to the front. He was captured, and while on his way to Andersonville prison escaped. le wan dered about through woods and swamps for nearly three weeks. When famished with hunger and crazed by what he be lieved to be continued pursuit he decided to give himself up. One evening lie scrambled out of the thicket and made his way to a large old-fashioned south ern home. A cold rain had set in. and caring little whether lie lived or died, lie walked boldly up the driveway and knocked. "The place seemed deserted. A few minutes later he became conscious that some one was scrutinizing him from a window a few feet away. He was finally admitted by a young woman who car ried a revolver in her hand. She got him some supper and said she was alone in the house, but expected her father, who was home from the confederate army on a sick leave, to return at any time. She seemed to taxe an interest in Gaston. and laid him in a dark corner of the garret. There she fed him for two weeks and showed him how to get in and out at night without arousing her parents, till lie finally escaped. "After the war he returned to Elber ton and heard that his benefactress had married. Gaston is now a railroad con tractor. Last summer he was building a branch on the Georgia Pacific when lie learned that his old love was a widow and had a family of five children. He immediately went to the old home near Elberton, made himself known. and the result was a marriage. which took place yesterday. The pair will soon leave for Mr. Gaston's home in New York." The Fair and the Force Bill. WASHINGTON. Jan. 25.-Senator Gorman characterizes as fiction the re port that a deal has been arranged by which the Democratic members of the Kansas Leaislature are to vote for Sena tor Ingalls in return for his opposition to the force bill. This same story was circulated sever al weeks ago, and it was then said that Senator Gorman, as leader of the De mocracy in the Senate, was authorized to pledge certain Democratic votes in the Kansas Legislature to Ingalls if lie would openly oppose the force bill. When Senator Gorman was interviewed on the subject tonight he said he could not undertake to assume the responsi bility for all the ingenious statements sent out from Washington at this time. The opponents of the force bill are greatly encouraged in their fight by the general drift of public sentiment in their favor. The action of several States in refusing assistance to the World's Fair unless the bill is beaten causes alarm in A dministration circles. The promoters of the Fair now tear that the Legisla tures of New York and New Jersey will follow the example or those States. As the force bill is said to be aimed dir actly at New York and New Jersey as well as the Southern States, the Demo cratic Legislatures in the North should not hesitate to join with their Southern brethren in any scheme calculated to preserve the rights of their people. Three Wrecks in the Gulf. MOBILE, ALA., Jan. 28.-Capt. OS borne, of the schooner Georgiana, re ports three shipwrecks in the lower part of the Gulf of Mexico during the last (lays of December. The first was the foundering or a bark at Caymnan Brae, on December 25, name unknown; six of the crew were drowned, others drifted ashore on the ship's house. The second disaster was the going ashr e of the American schooner Maggie si. Gray, of Baltimore, on the northwest end of Little Cayman Island. Capt. Osborne offered to try to pull her off, and also offered to save a portion of her cargo, but he was warned off by G: Henry Williams, agent of the phos phate company where the vessel lay. The schooner soon went to pieces and proved a total loss. The third case was the capsizing at sea, fifty miles east of Bianote, on Decemt.r 28, or the schoon er Contest, of Ruatan. The v'essel had set sail the day before for Jamaica with thirteen persons, including the wife of the captain, Kirk Connell. Only three persons escaped, makng their way in a skiff with an oar for a mast and a shirt for a sail to the mainland, reaching there on the 26th. One of these was a colored mani namied L. Johnson, who gave Capt. Osborne information of it. Sacretary WInduom Dies Suddenly. Ni:w Yo~i~i. Jlan. 29.-) tust as Secre try Windom concluded his speech atI the Board of1.ade dinner to-niight, he grew deadly pale, his eyes shut and opened spasmo?dically and he feli on his chair. theince he slipped to tthe floor, where hie lay unconscious. The moss itanse excitement immediately en sued. .Judge Arnor, ex-Secietary Bayard and Captain Snow were the first of several who ran to .\r. Windom's aid.1 They found hum app.arently uncon scious. They lifted him gently and carried him into anr ante-room, where several physicians proceeded at once to his assistance. A later dispatch from New York than the previnius one says Secretary Win domi's attack resulted in death. Alr Windoma left here to-day in apparent[ good health to attend the banquet of his New York Board of Trade, where he was to respond to the toast: "Our Country's Prosperity D~ependent Upon its instrumjents of Commerce." His address was prepared in advance and embraced about 5,000 words. Appoinited to Onfice. COLUMBIA, S. C., dJan. 24.-Govern or~ Tillman has appointed HI. RI. Thomas., of Sunter county, a member of the board of state railroad commissioners, to fill1 the vacancy cauised by the death of exf Governor Bonham. The Governor states aa. a reason for the appointment that as the vacancy occurred in the case of a member from the middle section of the state, he felt compelled to appoint some n from that sein.n THE BOYCOTT OF THE FAIR. Joins In the Protest of the Staxtes Against the Iniquity of the Force Bill. iNDIANAPOLS, January 27.-The House yesterday, after a long and vig orous debate, adopted the following resolutions by a strict party vote: Whereas, a bill has been introduced in the General Assembly providing for the appropriation of $200,000 to make a display of the industries and resources of this State at the World's Fair, to be hell at Chicago in 1893; and wbere as, the measure now pending in the United States Senate, known as the force bill, is revolutionary, which, if it passes the Senate, it is believed will in volve the people of the SouthernStates in a race war, will prostrate the indus tries of many of the States of the Union, will disrupt amicable commer cial and social relations existing be tween the North and the South; and whereas, if said measure shall become law and such conditions thereby be brought about, the World's Fair will fail to adequately display the magni tude and Tariety of our country's re sources, will fall short of the purposes for which it was contemplated, and will bring shame and reproach upon our whole country; and whereas, it is the sense of this General Assembly that no appropriation should be made by the State of Indiana unless it can be made in fact as well as in name a world's fair, and can exhibit the magnitude and va riety and advancement; therefore, Resolved, by the House of Represen tatives, the Senate concurring, that no further consideration of the said appro priation bill be had until the Senate has fially disposed of said force bill, that this Assembly may know what is to be the character of the exhibition of said World's Fair. The Democratic members of the Sen ate concurred in the resolution and de cided to vote for them solidly to-day. NEW JERSEY JOINS THE COLUIN. TRENTON, N. J, Jan. 27.-The Sen ate this morning concurred in the reso lution adopted by the House last week denouncing the Federal elections bill, and asking New Jersey Congressmen to oppose the same. A resolution offered last night, that New Jersey withhold the appropria tions from the World's Fair if the elec tions bill passes Congress, was adopted by the Assembly this morning. The vote on the resolution was a party one. ILLINOIS IS IN EARNZST. SPRINGFIELD, ILLS, Jan. 27.-In the House to-day the resolution instructing Senators from Illinois t. - vote against the Federal election bill was passed by a strict party vote of 77 to 73, the F. M. B: A. men not voting. Mr. Springer on behalf of the Demo crats gave notice that if the Senators from Illinoisshould vote for the Fed eral elections bill, the Democrats in the State Legislature would nit vote a dol lar in aid of the World's Fair. The Senate this afternoon, after a long debate on the merits of the force bill, adopted the House resolution not to make an appropriation for the World's Fair if the force bill becomes a aw. NEBRASKA CONDEMINS CLOTURE. LINCOLN, NEB., January 27.-Reso uations were adopted in both branches >f the Legislature this morning ap proving the action of the Senate in lay ing aside the cloture rule. The Inde pendents, with only three exceptions, voted with the Democrats. - WEST VIRGINIA IS THERE TOO. CIHARLESTON, W. VA., January 27. The Legislature yesterday, after an ac imonious discussion, passed by a vote f 40 to 20 a resolution that in case of he passage of the- elections bill the state will make no World's Fair ap ropriation. NORTHI CAROLINA FALLs IN LINE. WASIIINGTON, January, 27.-A spe ial from Raleigh, N. C., says: "The leneral Assembly, in session here has assed a resolution opposing the appro riation for North Carolina's exhibit at he World's Fair in Chicago until the Ilections bill, now pending in the nited States Senate, is voted down in hat body. The resolutions are very trong and passed with high enthusi sm. Governor Fowle had recoin nended an appropriation of $25,000 for hat purpose." Imagination Killed Her. CINC1NA TTI, Jan. 28.-A remarkable nstance of the hold superstition has pon the mind of even t'he educated ~nd religious was recently exhibited in he case of Mrs. Rebecca B3yrnes. of [Iena, Ark., a lady noted for her in ellectual attainments and pious life. ne morning, arising in what seemed er usual health an~d spirits, she sum noned her children to come to her. One son was r esiding in Topeka, Kan., ne in New Orleans, two daughters were married and living in Sadalia, ~do., but obedient to their mother's call. bey came at once, though ignorant of he reason of their summons. When 1 were about her the lady informed ~hem that she had a dream, in which er husband, who had been dead for early fifteen years, bad warned her Lhat she had only ten days more of life. he sent for her children to bid them ood-bye, which she proceeded to do with much calmness, but with the air f one who had not t he slightest doubt ~hat she was already dying. 11er friends attempted to reason with -rer and to point oul 'he foly of placing iuehi perfect confidenice in a dream, but il to no purpose, for the lady persisted nf asserting that she would deiart rrom earth on such a doy and exactly Lt a certain hour. 11er pastor remonstrated with her, nd even brought the severest censure o bear on her superstitious credulity, nd at last Mrs. Blyrnes ceased to speak )f the matter, so that her family had egun to think that she had conquer d her fancy. She continued in good -realthm ani pulrsued( her usual daily ife. but just before the hour she had rdicted wouil be that of her death ihe sought he-r children anid bade them ood-bye, then, seating herself qumetly n an arm chair, expired j-must as the iour was struck. The physicians declare hat her death was due solely to her maination.-nquirer stealing Another State. HIAIRTORn, Jan. 28.-Thme Ilous. met d received the report of the commit s appointed to canvass the vote for state ollicers. T he committee finds .at 1,289 ballots were rejected for in umlicient cause and that in many towns .he number of votes returned exceeds he total number of votes cast. The ~ommittee states that it is unable to letermine that any person was legally ;hosen to filll any of the State cilices ~xcept the Com'ptroller's, to which the 'ace of the returns indicate that Nich )las Straub, Democrat, was elected. h Ilouse accepted the report and idopted resolutions olfering to join with the Senate in a general recount of he vote of the State. The Senate, without important action. took a re ess at 2 o'clock. Ini the Ilouse, after .he presentation of the reports, general lebate was opened, which bids fair to ~ontinuu for a day or two. NING KALAKtUA, of the Hawaiian [slands, is dead. le died suddenly at .m Franciscone nay nast week. INGALLS MUST GO. HIS CHANCES FOR RE-ELECTION TO THE SENATE ARE POOR. The G. A. R. Ietitions in ilis Favor Is Spread on the Records, But Reported on-Alliance Candidates State Their Qualities to the Caucus. TOPA:KA, KAS., Jan. 24.-The c mittee to which was referred the memo rial from Lincoln Post, G. A. R., of To peka, praying for the election of Ingalls to the United State Senate, submitted its report to-day. The committee was composed of three Alliance members, all old soldiers. The committee recom mended that the memorial be spread on the record, but made an adverse report on the prayer of the petitioners. The report was adopted, all the Alliance men voting in the alirnative. It transpires now that the thirteen Alliancemen who voted with the Repub licans yesterday do not favor Ingalls' re election, but voted as they did yesterday because they thought the reference of the memorial to committee was disre spectful to the veteran petitioners. As an offset to the petition in favor of Ingalls, a numbei of old soldiers to-day presented a petition condemning the senator. and begging the Legislature to elect in his place an Alliance candi date. Ingalls arrived last night and was in conference all day with the Republican managers. The first caucus of the Farmers' Alli ance members of the Legislature on the senatorial question proper was held to night. It was governed by the rules of the Farmers' Alliance, and was strictly a star chamber session. The members were pledged to secrecy. and little can be learned of the proceedings. The Alliance senatorial candidates were called before the caucus one by one, and were permitted to give an account of their accomplishments and qualities which they thought would entitle them to the honor of succeeding Ingalls. Before a candidate was permitted to even address the caucus, he was obliged to bind himself by oath to abide by the decision of the caucus and not bolt the noninatien. This leads to the conclu sion that the caucus nominee will receive the full party vote. All candidates were on hand to-night, that is, all who were Alliance men and who were not ruled out at the caucus of last Thursday. The ineligibles are Alli ance congressmen-elect and those mem bers of the Alliance who have joined the organization since the gecent election and who did not contribute to the Alli ance victory on that occasion. This ru!cs out Jerry Simpson, con gressman-elect from seventh, the most popular man with the rank and fle of Alliance, and John Davis, congressman elect from fifth district; Col. W. A. Harris, ex-Confederate from Leaven worth: Gen. C. W. Blair, Democrat, Ex-Governor John P. St. John. and two or three less others prominent. The candidates who appeared before the caucus and pressed their claims were: Speaker Elder, of the lower House; Judge Pfelfer, editor of The Alliance Advocate; Judge Doster, juage of the district court at Holton: John F. Willets, Alliance candidate for gov ernot at the late election; S. M. Scott, farmer, C.M. Scott. State lecturer, Frank McGrath, president of the State Alliance, Judge Hiram Stevens of Kansas City, Kan, who made a vigorous campaign against. Ingalls at tile election, and Rev. A.: Cc le, Representative from Hutchinson's district. __________ The Chillax Convuilon. Loxnox, January 28.-Dispatches received in this city from Chile, via Buenos Ayres, brings further particu lars concerning the revolution in Chile. Rebel Ciliian war vessels oc upied the roadstead at Ponto Co quimbo or, a day not specified, but supposed to be abcut four or live days ago. The war vessels also fared shots into the own and probably at the troops defend ng the coal depots. Troops from Valparaiso are occupy ng La Serena in force. Coquimbo, or Ponto Coquimbo, is some distance by ail from La Serena, or Coquimbo City. The .Balmiaceda troops were quartered n the hospital and schools of La Serena and are supposed to have been driven ut ofPortooqu'.mbo. The insurgents ave blockaded Tongoy Bay, about thirty mliles Irom UCoquimbo. Tongoy is onnected by rail with Tamaya and Dalle, the latter town being in turn onnected by railroad with Coquimbo. Tarbarallis is also announced to be blockaded by rehel forces. Three thous and Government troops hlave been sent to reinforce the garrison at Tongoy. Later advices state that it is reported that a battle has been fought at Tongoy. The rebels have occupied Limache-AI to, a town only fifteen milies from Val paraiso. At Linmache-Alto the rebel forces took possession of the nationat factories, and expelled the director and adnerents of President Balmiaceda from the town. Thue rebels have also occupi ec Quillota, in the province of Vralparai-. so lifty miles from Santiago, en the An onaua, twenty miles from the Pacific. The property of foreign residents is suffering considerably from the rebellion i spite of the efforts of the representa tives of foreign powers to protect the interests of their countries. The diplo matic representatives, becoming dlis ouraged, have fornmally informed the Chiian Government that they will em ark on board of~ foreign vessels if tihe odfict continues. Presidlent Balmace ia'mn reolv, has asked the foreign repre sentatives'to dlely embarkation for a ew (lays. Sheds His Skin Eyery Yuar. CmIcaGo. Jaii. 18.-lIn one of the yllice rooms of St. Elizabeth's hospital angs a frame containing four photo raphs rep)resenting a man In tihe act of sieddng his skin. One of the photo raphs shiows this strange human phe omerton with his arms outstretched, the old skin peeling off and hanging from his body in shreds like a tatteredi shirt. while the new skin can be detected v the whiteness of the phlotographl. Last July lie left his home nt Phillips urg, Mont.. and arrivedi in Chicago the latter part of the month, and as his skin eeling spell of sickuess always begins July 25 of each year, he decided to use letter of introduction from a Montana riend to Dr. Jacob Frank, of No. 17 incoln avenue. Hie -.nformed tihe doc tor what lie expected would happen to him shortly and applied for a room in the hlospital. Dr. Frank suspected that the man was insane, but lhe nevertheless ae the patient a room. At the ex-' >Cctd timle the skin shledding began,and in two weeks lie was covered with tihe kin which is to last him another year. ie is the second oldest child of a family >tirteen, all of whom are living. is ~randnothler is 97 years old. He (de ine ta have his name published. INGA L LS'S SUCCESSOR. Pfefler Is the Mau and he was Noinihated by the AHiiance Caucus. Toi:.:i, KANS, January :2.-.- In the House the ballot for United States Seua tor resulted as follows : Pfeffer 96. In galls 23, Blair 5 ; in the Senate. Inzalls 35, Pfefler 2. The Alliance caucus that noiniiated Judge Pfeffer' last night f.or Urited States Senater, to succeed Ingalls, did not adjourn until 1.15 o'clock this mniorn ing. There were seventeen candidates, and on the "drop-one" rule it took an equal number of ballots to arrive at a choice. The list of candidates in the order of their strength on the first ballot was as follows: W. A. Pfeffer and Elder, Speaker of the House; John Willets. the defeated Alliance candidate for Gov ernor; John Davis, Congressman-lec t from the 5th district: J. W. Briden thal, from Chetopa; Frank Doster. Judge of the District Court of Holton; A. 11. Snyder, formerly Union Labor organizer; Judge Vrooman. of Kansas City; Gen J. II. Rice. of Fort Scott; W. 6. Cogswell, David Overmeyer, a Democrat. of Topoka; S. M. Scott, James Maxson, W. A. Olds, John Hart, of Sedgwick County ; J. R. Osborn, de feated Alliance candidate for Secretary of State, and W. A. IHarris, a stock rais er, of Leavenworth County. On each ballot the candidate receivlng the lowest number was dropped from the bottom of the list in about the order named. Balloting finally narrmwed it selt dowon to Pfetfer, Willits, Elder and Doster. The latter was dropped on the fourteenth ballot. The next ballot threw out Elder, and the final ballot stood Pfetffr 76. Willits 38. The Elder forces, it is said, took this defeat very bitterly. Pfeffer is 60 years of age. six feet tall and slim as Ingalls, with a deep guttural though pleasing voice, and slow and de liberate in speech. Up to a year ago he was a staunch Republican. Ile favors the unlimited coinage of silver and a conservative expans!on of the currency, moderate protection of home industries, but dbes not believe in protection as a principle. He favors the Government loaning money at 2 or 3 per cent on farm mortgages. The House was half an hour late in as sembling this morning. The attendance of spectaeors was large. The Senate's chief clark appeared at II o'clock and presented a request from the Senate that the House returns for further considera tion to the Senate its concurrent resolu tien providing for a joint session of the two houses to-morrow at noon, for the purpose of electing a United States sen ator. The request was refused by an overwhelming vote. Mr. Douglass. of Sedgwick. moved for the reconsideration of the rcsolution and granting of the request. The debate de veloped the fact that the Alliance Leared that the request of the Senate concealed a snare. The motion wss finally voted down. There were no nominal ing speech es. The result of the ballot was as giv en above. At noon the Senate proceeded to bal lot for Senator. There were no nomina ting speeches. and the result was as giv en above. Ingalls was declared the choice of the Senate amid considerble enthusiasm. and the Senate then ad journed till 2 P. M. There is talk of the Senate declining to meet with the House in Representa tive hall. Speaker Elder issued all passes to outsiders- and the IHouse de lined to return the Senate joint ses sion resolution to be amended so as to permit Lieutenant Governor Felt to al so issue passes. The Republicans are n caucus this evening to consider the atter. The Fated Seventh Cavalry. TOPEKA KAN, January 29.-The par iculars of a bad collision between a assenger train and a special bearing roops from Pine Ridge, wvhich occur ed last evening on the Union Pacific Railroad at Florence, a small station ear Irving. Kansas, have been received ere. The special was carrying about four undred soldiers, part of' the 7th cav Iry, and Battery E, light artillery, ound for Fort Riley. The train con isted of seven passenger and twenty four freight cars loaded with horses and several pieces of artillery and am - mition, bautled by two large engines. and several cars are a complete wreck. Many of the soldiers were seriously and at least t wo fatally injured. The ead so far as can be ascertained are Sergt Scharsbalt Battery E, artillery, :ut all to pieces, and .Private Meil, roop G, 7th cavalry, left leg cut off and head mashed. Among the wounded are Capt. God rey, Troop D. 7th cavalry, and ten en isted men. None of the passengers on he other traiin were in.jured. A brake an was hurt. The conductor of the military train s held responsible for the accident, as le was running on the express train's ime. Ie has disappeared. A large umber of cavalry horses were killed. , Hie Loved His~ Native Land. MormIIs. Tenu.. Jan. 27.-A crim ual withi rather a remarkabhe history as been lodgzed in jail at Lexington, Mss. At the December term of ihc Cir ~uit Court of that County Eugenie Story ascovicted of murdering Barney Clein elde and sentenced to be hanged. IHis ai tttorneys appealdl to the Supreme Court, mnd while the appeal was pending~ Story ~vas forcibly released byV his friendls. Ie nmade his way to Central America, ~ut did not ike the country and return d to thte t'nitedh States, saying he would ather be hiaused here thtan live there. ie wandereid over the South and w asI inally trailed to (Gallatatin, La.. we re ast ~Thursday a detective and a shierhi valked in on him whiile he was dinmug. ie drew a revolver and fataliy shot the etective and wounded the sherill', and ras himself wounded in the cheek. SmI:Lilpox Raging in Texnts. SloFvoRD. Texas., Jan. 2t.-Smnall >X is becoming a ragmi . epidemic ~hroughout the cntral and Southe-rn arts of Texas. The facts have been vthiheld from the press on account of'th~e upposed injury to the commercial inter ~sts of th3 State.- It is learned. how ~ver, that there are at least 500 cases of| rell-developed smallpox in this cit,.| hie city hospital has been converted ato a pest house. The city hiigh school as yesterday adjourned indefinitely. iotwithstanding that every precautin rv measure is 'being used to stop the piead of the disease. it goes steadily on. aiming new victims_. Worldl's Supply of Cotton. NE~W OiR, -Jan. 24--The total vis: )le supply of cotton for the world is 4, 16.302, of which 2,885,502 is Amnericanl. gainst 3,093,t002 and 2,0,502, respect ely last year. Receipts of cotton this eek at all .interior towns. 104,813; re-' eipts fronm plantations, 14.28: crops H UNDE'S OF 'ILES OF POLES AND WIRES IN A TANGLE. The G rent Snow and .S!eet and Wind Storm Wreccd the Wires -Telezraphic Com munie:ti:m AhInost (;ompletely Cut Off. Ni:w Yo . Jai. 2.- it is just three days since the terrific storm swooped down upon this great city. The first authentic account of the wreckage caused by the snow and sleet and gale is given in the Sun. That pa per devotes more than a dozen columns in describing the situation in New York city and state, and surrounding' country. The greater part of this vast amount of information was received by incoming trains and special service not by telegraph, for the wires were all in a tangled mass on the ground. The first wire service has just been established, and other are being righted as rapidly as men can work, and in a few hours regular outside communica tion will be established again. In speaking of the storm, the Sun says: Within the city the wreck of aerial lines was unheard of. 'Rows of poles toppled, broke off and fell. overbdrne by the snow coating of the wires. Such was the maze and tangle of wires of all sorts that it might have been man slaughter to turn on the are light cur rents last night. The streets were left to the moon, as they were when the mayor's ax was falling on the poles. After this dose it is not likely that any electrical company which can get itself underground will want to inhabit the upper air. As for the magnitude of the event, look at these items. for instance: Philadelphia was a dead city to us. Every wire by which she is usually reached was gone. . Every instrument in the olice of the Postal telegraph was silent, for every wire out of the city was lost. Even the blizzard had not so absolutely demoral ized the service. The Western Union could boast of just three wires in use at 8 o'clock Sun day' night. These ran to Buffalo and Albany, and by these routes all busi ness, northsouth, east and west, was transacted. . The- long-distance telephone lines, which withstood the blizzard bravely, surrendered completely to this storm. The state of New Jersey is a tangle of wrecked poles and wires from one end to the other, and it will be a week before the telegraph service is restored. Five lines of wires across the Newark meadows look as if a cyclone had passed over them, so completely have the damp clinging masses of snow done their work. The destructive effects of the storm extended over a comparatively limited area. A short distance below Philadel phia was the southern limit of telegraph demoralization, and Boston was the northern limit. The storm was prad ticallv confined to the coast, and ex tended no further north in this state than Peekskill and Haverstraw. It started as a comparatively harm less affair down in Texas. At 7 o'clock on Saturday morning its center was in Alabama. while the entire gulf was de luged with rain. By 8 o'clock on Satur day night the storm center had jumped up to the neighiborhoodof Cape Hatter as, with a lively wind coming down to meet it from the centre of high barom-. etric pressure to the northeast. The storm slid un from Cape IHatteras un der cover of darkness at lightning speed, and was upon us before the sig nal service folks were ready for it.. Philadelphia caught it early in the evening, and the advance guard came to us in the rain which began at 10.45 p. m. The mercury fell, and snow be gan just before midnight, when the temperature was just a degree or two above freezing. That was what play~ed havoc. The snow hatl come down through an upper statunm of cold air. The 11akes took on their most clinging nature when they got down near the earth in a warmer temperature. Every thing was wet with the rain, and the lakes clung to whatever they ~touched This condition of things kept up until 10 o'clock Sunday morning, with the - snow coming down continuously and the mercury trembling around the freez ing point. . The poles began to go down when the wind freshened from the North. through the early morning hours, At ~4 o'clock a. m. it was blowing a thirty-five-mile blast. The storm centre, though, had lready wyhipped to the northeast, and now it is out of the grip of the civil. service men somewhere ott Ihalifax. It was such a storm as the telegraph. ompanies have not been called upon to ombat in ten years. Old telegraph hands say that there has been notlune' ,ike it since the famous sleet storm of unday, Jan. 23, 181. just ten years ago almost to a day, when the telegraph ines all through the east were par lyzed. At 11 o'clock Sunday night only one Eispatch had reached the Sun oitice romn its hundreds of telegraphic corres >)Ondenlts through the country. This ispatch came from Scranton by way of. hicago. The correspondent said the oly wire working from Scranton con eeted with Chicago. Of the scores of ires ibetween Chicago and New York one was in wvorking order, and the Scranton item reached the Sun by this oundabout route. The land conn.ec tnons of the cable service were almost ,holly out of order, though a few ords were occasiona lly received. With all the wreck and tangle there ere only tw-o persons reported injured. rs.( Caherine Mc(.ormnack was cut about the face, h:uids and neck by fall nii v wies.IJohn .J. iurke wals struck ithe shul~dier by a bunchi of wire and i'shouler was dislocated. TeGoat 's iiood Cuiro. lirg, of the Nantes fDculty, have cre ten ee'nside-rable stir in me~dical circles ere. TIhe two doctors, aftrer mucii >rtssoa discussion in and out of he medical journals, exhibited to-dlay otheir colleagues in this city another ew treatmfent for tuberculosis. D~rs. etin~ and Pieg; explained that they njected lifteen itrams of goat's blood ntot the~ muscular tissues of the thighs f two patients and asserted that cures an: be arought about by renewing such ijetion~s Svery ten days. A iar~ng safe ]iobber. ,I.:>ON, Tenn., .Jan. 28.-A daring ale rot~bery was committed at Saitil lo, TJenn., ~vcsterdlay mo ding. The afe of C rav'en & 'Williamson. fier hants, was- crackedl by dynamite and.,,.,. everal' tim'usand dollars stolen. The xQlsin aok anber of citizens, o' the bura'lars escaped in a skiff 'o we the~ Tenness:o river. They were "idently excperts, and it is believed h er'~ cane fromt Lomsville or St. Louis. Ths ould be a happy land if a -an' own faudlts were as apparent to ite ocl~i to his neichhor.