The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, March 26, 1897, Image 3
"" WMIEY'S HIST MB."
E*tra Session of the Fifty-Fifty
Congress Convenes.
/ BRIEF IW RECOMMENDATIONS
Session Culled to l>cul With Delictts
I and Prevent Same lu Future by
j Fussing >\ Turill' Bill.
I *
Washington, March 15.?The ettraordinnry
session of the Fifty-fifth Congress
was opened l?y reading the President
s proclamation convening it. Sixtyeight
Senators answered to the roll-call,
and the galleries were filled to overflowing.
All*. W A Horrin r*f li nnanu Wrto
sworn iii us successor to Mr. Peffcr.
After appointment of a committee to
notify the Presidhntaud the House that
the Semite was ready to begin its duties,
a recess was taken until 2 p. m.
Assistuut Secretary Pruden announced
and presented the mcsHago, which
was read hy the clerk, as follows:
To the Congress of the United States:
It egret ting the necessity which lias
required me to eull you together, I feel
that your assembling in extraordinary
session is indispensible, because of the
condition in which we find tlio revenues
of the government. It is conceded
that its cui rent expenditures are
greater than its receipts, aud that
Buch a condition lins existed for now
more than four years. With unlimited
means at our command, wo are presenting
the remarkable spectacle of increasing
our public debt by borrowing
money to meet tho ordinary outlays incident
upon au economical and prudent
administration of the government. Au
examination of tlio Hubject discloses
tlliu fm>l i?i HViirv /lulnil ""'I I"""'"
evitubly to the eoucluHiou thut tho revenue
that allows it is unjustitiablo ami
should be corrected.
We lind by the reports of tho Secretary
of the Treasury that the revenues
for the liseal year ending Juno 80, 1802,
from all sources were $485,808,200.22,
and the expenditures for all purposes
were $41 5,008,800.5ti. leaving au excess
of receipts over expenditures of $9,914,458.00.
During that fiscal year $40,570,407.
PS were paid upon tho public debt,
which had been reduced from March 1,
1889, $2.>9,070,890, and the annual interest
charges decreased $11,084,570.(10.
The receipts of the government from all
sources during tho fiscal year ending
June 80, 1898, amounted to $401,710,501
and its expenditures to $459,874,887,
showing an excess of receipts over expenditures
of $2,841,074. cilice that
time the receipts of no fiscal year, and
but with few exceptions of no more of
any fiscal year, have exceeded the expenditures.
The receipts of tho government
from all sources, during tho
fiscal year ending June 80, 1894, were
$872,8* ?2,498 and its expenditures
$442 ,005,758, leaving u deficit, the first
since the resumption of specie payments,
of $09,808,200. Notwithstanding
there was a decrease of $10,709,128,
in the ordinary expenses of the government
as compared with the previous
jiscul its income was stili not sufficient
to provide for its daily necessities and
the gold reserve in the Treasury for
tho redemption of greenbacks was
drawn upon to meet them, ilut this
did not suffice, ami tho government
then resorted to louus to replenish tho
TAcprvP
j 11 February, 1894, $50,000,000 iu
bonds were issued, and in November
following a second issue of $50,000,000
was deemed necessary. The sum of
$117,171,795 was realized by the sales of
these bonds, but the reserve was steadily
decreased until, on February 8,
189ft, a third saleof $02,81ft,400 in bonds
for $50,119,244 was announced to Congress:
The receipts of tho government for
the fiscal year ending .Juno 80, 1895,
were $890,878,20:1 and tho expenditures
$488,178,420, showing a deficit of $42,80ft,938.
A further loan of $100,000,000
was negotiated by the government in
February, 1890, tho sale netting $111,100,210
and swelling tho aggregate
of bonds issued within three years to
$808,815,400. For tho fiscal year ending
dune 80, 1890, the revenues oftho
government from i.ll sources amounted
to $409,475,408, while its expenditures
were $481,078,054. or an excess of expenditures
over receipts of $85,208,245.
In other words, tho total receipts for
th*j three fiscal years ending Juno 80.
1890, were insufficient by $137,811,720
to meet tho total expenditures.
Nor has this condition since improved.
For tho first half of tho
present fiscal year, the receipts of the
government, exclusive of postal reve nues
were $157,507,808, and its expenditures,
exclusive of postal service,
$195,410,000, or an excess of expenditures
over receipts of $87,902,390.
In ,1 miliary of this year the receipts,
exclusive of postal revenues,
were $24,810,994 and the expenditures,
exclusive of postal service, $80,209,889
a deficit of $5,592,895 for the month, in
February of this year tho receipts, exelusive
of postal revenues, xzoro $24,- ,
400,997 and the expenditures exclusive
of postal service, $28,796,008, a deficit
of $4,895,059, or a total deficiency of
3IMU nUI "iHII for tl.n tkro,, .......... .....1
V.v>/J WW . | -.VI# 4W vuv IUICU J cut D Mint
eight months ending March 1 Hi, 18117.
Not only are we without u surplus in
the Treasury, but with an increase in
the public debt there has been a corresponding
increase in the annual iutoront '
charge from $22,HUH,883 in 18112, the
lowest of any 3'ear since lstl2, to $34,- 1
387,2117 in 1811(1, or an increase of $11,- '
4113,414. It may ho urged that even if
the revenue of the government hail
been sufficient to meet all its ordinary
expenses during the past three years, '
the gold reserve would havo still been
insufficient to meet the demands upon
it, but bo that as it may it is clearly
manifest, without denying or continuing
the correctness of such a conclusion
that the debt would luivo been
decreased in at least the amount of tho
deficiency? and business confidence iin- !
lneasurabl v strom/l hciicrl tliroiielunif
the country.
( onyress should promptly eorroct tho
existim; conditions. Ample revenue:*
must l>c supplied not only for tho ordinary
expenses of the government, Imt
for the prompt payment of liberal pen
sions and the liquidation of the principal
and interest of 1 he public debt. In
raising revenues, duties should ho bo
levied upon foreign products as to pre
serve the home market; so as to protect
our own producers; to revive and increase
manufactures; to relieve and encourage
agriculture; iucreaso our domestic
auu foreign commerce; to aid
uud develop mining and building, and
to render to labor in every field of useful
occupation the liberal wages and
adequate rewards to which skill and industry
are justly entitled. The necessity
of a tariff law which shall provide
ample revenue, need not be further
urged. The imperative demand of the
hour is the prompt onactraentof such a
me isuro and to this object I earnestly
recommend that Congress shall make
every endeavor. Hofore other business
is liuiisuciod. let us first provide sufficient
revenue to faithfully administer
the government without the contracting
of further debt, or the continued disturbance
of our finances.
iiiflied ! U'w AT,.T.'nit
i'resident of the United States.
The message occupied the undivided
attention of the Senators and of the
audience in the galleries, but no demonstration
followed its conclusion.
COTTON FAJIMINU.
flo'? Two to Four Bnlos Per Acre
Are Made on Very Poor hand.
Wo havo not the slightest desire to
assist in any manner in bringing about
an inoreaee in tho number of bales
annually raised throughout the Snnny
South in general nor in Mississippi in
particular, but wo do dosiro that
Southern farmers everywhere should
roalizo the fact that tho same 6,000,000
to 10,000,000 bales that aro now raised
annually may be just as easily, just an
surely and far moro economically and
profitably raised on ono-fourtli tho
area it is to-day, leaving the other
three-fourths to bo put in provision
crops, fruits or grass. Wo havo had
tho good fortune to seo and walk over
many Georgia farms?farms, too, that
woro worn out and wasliod away many
years ago?that are now mado to produce
from on* to four b?Ua of cotton
per acre. This condition of things is
made possible and actually brought
about by the 'intensive" system of
culture and liberal yet economical
fertilization.
Ah i ?n.r 1 v in f ho now woo r ??a
weather will possible admit of, tho old
cotton stalks are "knocked," or cut,
tbo roots aro then plowed up
with straight shovel; green cotton
seed aro then strewn in this shovel
furrow at tho rate of ton to twelve
bushels per acre; two lialf-shovel furrows
are next thrown on tho seed to
prevent the loss of ammonia; in a fow
weeks this small bed is opened with a
long, nnrrow scooter and '200 to 300
pouuds of some good commercial fertilizer
distributed in this furrow ; phosphate
and potash being all sufficient,
the cotton seed furnishing the
necessary nitrogcu ; the land is then
bedded out and out with straight
shovel and is now ready for tho
reception of tho seed. Under this
plan, persistently followed, Georgia
farmers have succeeded in so increasing
tho fertility of the soil that
with n slight increase in amount of
fertilizer used and a favorablo season
four bales per aero havo rowarded
their efforts.
A good heavy cow-pea stubble
turned under will be found to bo fully
as beneficial to tho coming cotton crop
as the cotton seed; either one will
supply all tho nitrogen needed; but
in the absence of a cow-pea stubble,
the cotton seed should by no means bo
neglected. Stable manure may bo
used instead of either of above, but
tho fact should bo kept in mind that
all three of above nro "nitrogenous"
fertilizers, and are used mainly for the
amount of nitrogen they contain ; and
either one,or all three need tho addition
of phosphates and potash in liberal
quantities (seventy-five pouuds of Ma
rmte oi 1'otunli or '<()() pounds of Kainii,
with '200 pounds of Acid Phosphate)
]>er aero in order to mnko a coin plot o
fertilizer that shall ho at ouco properly
halaucod and duly proportioned. If
tho peas have been properly fertilized
(with '200 to 000 pounds Acid Phosphate
and '200 to 1100 poundsof Kainit),
which they always should bo when tho
object in raising them is that may be
turned under as fertilizer, it would bo
hardly necessary to apply any eddi
tional fertilizer directly to tho cotton.
Georgia larmerB break their lands
deep (eight to ten or even twolvo
inches) once about every thrco years;
they say it does not pay to break thora
deep any oftener. In this deep breaking,
the land is broken with a twohorso
turning plow, plowing about ono
inch deeper than tho surfaco soil, thus
gradually doepening tho soil. No crops
nro planted hero at all without fortilizcr
beiug applied, and in tho sandier
portions of the Stato tho farmers socm
to be unanimous in the declaration
that "Potash is tho oloment that is
most needed" and that "any fortilizor
that does not contain as much as four
per cont. of it is not worth applying."
Cotton hero is planted in four foot
rows, barred off with half-shovels and
cultivated tho entire season "with
cotton scrapes"?i. e. "heel-swoops."
Burgess. M Tornbiu
'I'Iic Ambassadors Named.
The President lias sent to the Senate
[lie following nominations to lie uml>us<udors
o\traonlina.y and plenipotentiu
v of the United States: dolin Hay,
>f the District of Colnmliia, to (treat
i'rituin, and Horace I'orter, of New
idrk, to iVaiiee; Henry White, of
iiiiode Island, to lie secretary of tlie
mliai sy of the United States in (treat
i tritain.
<'levelami's Ducli limit Over.
A'dispatch from Norfolk, Va., savs:
" I lie government iij;l:t hotlse tender
? ii> et, with ex-I'resiilent Cleveland
lie1 -ot v on 1 loan I. npne-ire I here at
a id' i Id from Currituck Sound.
The late ('. .leroine Cnry, of Milwaukee,
ilirci led ll,at his body should lie
burned, that the ashes should be us*"l
to nourish a certain rosebush, nnd ilia'
the blossoms should be distribute'!
Ullioim bis friends. His wishes were
carried out, and \erses conimemoratini?
the event were w ritten by ICben IS. t("\ford.
ST. LOUIS* COSTLY FIRK.
i
A Great Dry Goods House Burned.
Loss $750,000.
Firo broke out iu the fourth floor c'
the building occupied by the Ely
Walker Dry Goods company, southwest
corner of Eighth street and Washington
avenue, 8t. Louis, Mo., Monday
evening. The fire department was
badly hampered, and it was 15 minutes
after the first engine arrived before a
stream of water was playing. A maze
of overhead wires had to be cut awav,
ami the street was jammed with the
cars of four lines of the Washington
avenue trucks. Within half an hour
the fire shot up the elevator shaft and
..11 a. a 'im.O
mi iiic ui'i'ui iiuuin ui'uu.r. xuu
building is seven stories high, and
every floor is tilled with merchandise.
Fireman Smith of Engine Co. 18 fell
from the third floor through to tho
basement and was fatally injured.
Mark barton, a porter, was overcome
with smoke and was revived with difficulty.
The east wall fell first carrying down
Pipeman Gtituwull of the No. 8 hose
tower, Towerman Jerry Mahan and I
Lineman McCauu. Gutuwall'was instantly
killed and MeCann badly injured.
Malum clung to tho tower and
was thrown through a second story window
across tho streot, receiving severe
cuts. Sections of the wall fell at short
intervals for half an hour.
A revised list, of the killed and injured
is as follows: Killed: George
Gutuwall, fireman. Injured: Towerman
Jerry Mahan, cut and bruised;
Lineman Luke MoCann, cut and
bruised; Lee Smith, fireman, fatally injured;
Mark Harton, porter, badly
shocked; Mrs. Anna ltice, trampled on
and badly injured; Jerry Cahau, hand
cut.
\V. II. Whipple, insurance adjuster,
estimates tho loss on stock at $700,000,
as some of the stock was saved. The
Scott, Force and Goodbar Hat Company
occip y the west half of the block.
I>nmago to tticir ?took Uy water and
smoke $10,000. Loss on building -will1
be $100,000; insured.
A Fatal Whirlwind.
A whirlwind visited the town of
Mingo Junction, O., Saturday night,
doing considerable damage and attended
with fatal results. Tho wind
lifted up the iron roof of the east house,
which collapsed, the tall brick Avails,
which were hold by log chains, falling
in. Frank liobson and Larry Fahey
Avere caught under the falling Avails. A
force of men avus put to work to rescue
them and Fahey Avas taken out dead.
Frank liobson, aged and single. Avas
so seriously crushed that he died three
hours afterward. John Weikas, a
Hungarian, Avas struck by falling timbers
and bricks and badly crushed.
31 Isslssippl Sulterers.
The valley of the loAver Mississippi is
a vast inland sea. Death, desolation
and distress is spreading from as far
north as Bird's Point, Mo., to the
country below Helena, Ark. ThoheaA-y
rainfall of the past fortnight in tho valley
and the subsequent floods aie tho
immeiate cause of tho frightful swelling
in tho Mississippi in tho vicity of Cairo
and south of there. The break in the
levee near Xodena, Ark., Saturday has
Avrought havoc in Mississippi county,
which is virtually at the mercy of the
raging torrent. Many persons are
thought to have perished in tho vicinity.
Twenty-live negroes are reported
drowned in Bushy Bayou.
Three Murderers Lynched.
A special from Ocala, Fla., states
that three negroes, named Ed Holmes,
TJ... AT; I Tim Oilmnva
f till .u ur ? iiuii i' mi vuiiiiv;tc| w ci u
lynched at Blue Springs Station, southeast
of that place, at :t o'clock Monday
morning, l>y an armed mob of over 400
men. Thev confessed the murder of
Postmaster .T. M. Barfield and his
e erk. J. K. 1 urner, at .Tulletta. The
murder was a cold-blood oue, the ne{jro.es
shooting the two men for the purpose
of robbery. Another negro implicated
in it n am Ad Otis Miller, is reported
to have been caught and served
in tlio same way.
Cashier Kills Himself*.
R. Ij. Lawrence, cashier for a merchant
named Stephenson, at Elberton,
(5a . committed suicide in the Kimball
House, Atlanta, (5a., Monday. Stephenson
says that so far as ho knows Lawrence's
accounts aro all right.
Receiver Appointed.
The Wilmington, Newborn <fc Norfolk
Railroad was placed by Judge Simonton,
of the Circuit Court of the United
States, at Charleston, Monday, in the
hands of a receiver, on application of
John D. Rellamy, of Wilmington, attorney
for the State Trust Company, of
New York, trustee of tho mortgage
bondholders. II. A. Whiting was
named as receiver. The mortgage
debt of the company is about one aiul
a quarter millions.
Will Hold Over.
Postmaster General Gary has made
an announcement of interest to Pemo ratie
postmasters whoso terms expire
n various dates under the new administration
Ho says ho has decided to
adhere to the four-year tenure of office
policy for postmasters, except incases
v here such officials should be removed
for cause.
Three Men Killed.
l ive horses on the track ditched the
northbound Missouri Pacific passenger
train near Kttuwattia, Ivans,, Monday,
and the engineer and firemen were killed,
T. Meadow, of Atchison, Kalis.,
a travelling salesman for the Sims
(Irocery Company, was I>udlv scalded
>d had his leg crushed. Jlo d>ed
later.
iisii at Halt Imore's < 'nsfoili House.
t he rush to get goods out of bond at
in timore's custom house before the
new tarilV bill becomes a law and inei
eases the duties thereon began Monday.
The receipts wereS47,71:1, Nearly
dl of tlm v ithdrawals consisted of to1
acofe
MS, SIMS Wilis
A Very Serious Situation Along the
Mississippi River.
NOTHING IN SIGHT BUT WATER.
Storms and Cyclones Add Terror to
the Situation?One Hundred Miles
of Country Under Water.
Memphis, Tenn., March 10.?A further
liulf-inch riso in the Mississippi
means the devastation of property and
probably n loss of life uuequaled in tlio
flood history of this section. The riso
is threatened, becauso rain is still fall
ing. Seventeen persons are rei>orted
drowned below Curruthersville, Mo. A
stretcli of land over 100 miles long,
from a point 70 miles north of Memphis
to a point 00 miles south of the Tennessee
metropolis, is submerged, in places
to a depth of 10 feet. The fertile valleys
of Tennessee and Arkansas are
completely inundated and inauj- lives
have been lost and stock drowned.
Fencings and dwellings have been
swept away, and the inhabitants are
destitute and homeless, left to starve
or drown by tko remorselessly rising
tide, lteports from tributary streams
show rains and rapidly rising rivers all
of which will help to swell the rising
waters. The Hoods now partake of the
nature of a deluge. As far as the eve
can seo nothing but water meets the
gaze.
Hix hundred peoplo were rescued yesterday
on the Arkansas side of the river
and taken to Memphis, but there are
flooded districts which relief lsoats eau
.not reach the stricken ones. On island
80, one hundred sufferers and considerable
live stock were rescued by thp
steamer Itasca. Neither man nor beast
had tasted food for 24 hours. Human
beings and helpless brutes are huddled
together awaiting assistance ull along
the Iron Mountain and Kansas City,
Fort Scott and Gulf tracks. Five hundred
people were forced to flee from
the floods in Dyer and Obion counties,
Teun.
OVER 100 HOUSES DAMAGED.
11 rn r v ' ?
x/ui iun, ia., iuurcu is>.?.special
telegrams, received this morning, stale
that northern Texas was swept by a
windstorm last night, that at times developed
the proportions of a cyclone.
The worst damage reported so far, occurred
at Denton, where over 100
houses were struck by the btorm and
all more or less damaged. It is believed
that the storm in the vicinity of
Denton has caused damage to the extent
of 3100,000.
DROWNED BY UPSETTINO ? 'DUO Ol*T. "
Gavin Ark., March 0.?For many
miles the country is flooded, and the
water is up on the iron Mountain
track. Hundreds of hands are trying
to keep it hack with dirt bags. At
every station the negroes are gathering,
waiting to be taken away. Many get
011 the trains and are carried w ithout
pay. The list of fatalities is said to be
long and probably never will be known.
Several lives have been lost by the upsetting
of a "dug out," and many more
fatalities are reported. A mountain
of household goods is piled up at every
stotion. Whites and negroes beg
for help from every train crew. I I ouses
along the roads are submerged to the
roofs, and cattle are standing in the
fields with only their heads above the
water.
THE MOST SERIOVS SINCE 1882.
New Orleans, March It).?A special
to the States from Vicksburg, Miss.,
says the river situation for the next
thirty days promises to be more than
serious. There is a higher stage at
t'uiro and Helena, the two main points
of observation, than since 188(1, and bv
their reported rain falls in the past
twenty-four hours, both will score extreme
high water marks. The pressure
is going to be excessive all along the
levee lines. It will first appear between
Helena and the mouth of the Arkansas.
On that reach, levees have been put in
front of the White river basin since the
last high water, and the etl'ect of this is
now to be tested. From there down tho
levees have been raised and enlarged
greatly and ought to hold unless tho
flood is prolonged. Altogether, it is
the most serious situation Tor the delta
sinco 1882.
A dispatch from Anniston, Ala., says
a strong wind storm did great dniuago
iu this section, but no loss of lifo is reported.
At Jackson, Miss., and vicinity the
storm did great damage to property,
but no loss of lifo is reported at this
time. All telegraph wires are down.
A dispatch from Memphis, Tenn., of
March 18, says: Tho work of rescuing
the people in tho flooded district is be
ing carried on night and day and this
morning "noil a nd/.eu steamers brought
to Memphis over 1,000 refugees. The
steamboat men tell some harrowing
stories of sutiering and death. One woman
who was rescued from an lndiun
mound, 15 miles west of here, held in
her arms a dead infant that had perished
from cold and hunger. Another family
of four wliou rescued, related that
two small children were drowned in
sight of their helpless parents.
islands Nos. 40, ;i(i and H4 in the Mississippi
river are completely submerged
and the inhabitants to the number of
ubout ti(K) have abandoned their homes,
ltnin began to fall here yesterday afternoon
and at noon today there lias been
no cessation of the downpour. The
river now marks M. w. The levees are
I sutnuiiig ino Hiram laucii nutter tlinu
was expected, but ft break is liable to
occur at any moment.
For Military Service.
About 700 Greeks, it is reported,
sailed from New York Friday to their
native country to be enrolled and equipped
for military service in licr behalf in
tlio event she engages in an early war,
which is among the probabilities.
Kcfiised to Fight Cornett.
After the big pugilistic light at ('arson,
\e\., l itzsimuions refused to fight
t 'orbtt aguin, and ('orbett said lie \\ oitld
puneli l ity.'s bead on sight, and the
latter replied: "Jf you do L will kill
you."
| FIFTY-FIFTH CONURESS.
Report of the Proceedings from Day
to Day.
SENATE.
Monday.?The extraordinary session
of the Fifty-fifth Congress was oj>oned
by reading the President's proclamation
convening it. Sixty-eight Senators
answered to roll-call, and the galleries
were tilled to overflowing. Mr. W. A.
Harris, of KansaH, was sworn in as successor
to Mr. Peffer. After appointment
of a committee to notify tho President
and the Houso that the Senate was
ready to begin its duties, a recess was
taken until 2 p. in. At this session the
President's message was road and referred
to committee, and on motion of
Mr. Allison, Republican, of Iowa, the
Senato at :t:Ur> p. 111. adjourned until tomorrow
at noon.
Tuesday.?Many bills were introduced
and referred, among them bills
from Mr, Allen, Populist, of Nebraska,
directing the foreclosure of the government
lien on the Union Pacific Railroad;
to prevent over-capitalization of
companies doing an inter-State carrying
trade; to prevent professional lobbying;
to preserve the purity of national
legislation, and to increase the circulating
medium. A bill to facilitate
the construction, working and maintenance
of telegraphic communication
between the United States, tho Hawaiian
Islands, Japan and Australia,
WflH illfrHilllPOil TVfp PKon/lliiv Alan
a bill to provide for the twelfth ami
subsequent censuses. A bill for a government
telegraph was introduced by
Mr. Kyle, Populist, of Soutu
Dakota, nud 0110 to amend the
immigration laws by Mr. Lodge,
Republican, of Massachusetts.
A now Nicaraguau Canal bill was introduced
by Mr. Morgan, Democrat, of
Alabuma. Also a bill to create a board
of trustees of the Union Pacific and
Central Pacific Roilroad Companies
to fund their bonded indebtedness,
bankruptcy bills were introduced by
Senators Hoar, Republican, of Massachusetts,
and Nelson, Republican, of
Minnesota. Altogether there were 438
"ills introduced and referred, most of
them coming over from the last Congress.
After a short executive session,
at which today's nominations were referred,
the Senate at half past 3 adjourned
till Thursday next.
Thchsdav.?After a two day's recess
the Senate re-assembled and a large
number of bills, mostof them survivors
of the last Congress, were introduced
and referred. (Jear, (Rep.) of Iowa,
from the committee on Pacific railroads,
reported tue bill, which was
pending last session, for the adjustment
of the government debt through
a commission, to consist of the Secretary
of the Treasury, the Secretary of
the Interior and the Attorney-General.
It was placed on the calendar.
The constitutional amendment for
the populer election of United States
Senators was introduced and will be
debated Monday.
At tho close of the morning business
the Senate proceeded to the consideration
of executive business?the arbitration
treaty. Morgan mado a speech
against it. A long debate is in prospect.
Friday.?The calendar of business in
the Senate this morning contained only
lour items: J he notice hy Mr. Turpio
(Dem.) of Indiana, of his intention to
address the Senate in favor of the proposed
constitutional amendment to
make United States Senators eleetivo
by the people. The amendment itself,
which is on the table, and the two Pacific
Railroad bills which were reported
i Thursday. The number of bills introduced
in the Senate since Monday last,
up to this morning was 7?>s. Mr. Butler,
Populist, of North Carolina, to
establish a postal telegraph system;
and one bv Mr. Chandler, Republican,
of New Hampshire, as to
first and second-class mail matter,
t)n motion of Davis, (Rep.) of Minnesota,
acting chairman of the committee
on foreign relntions, the Senate at 12:50
p. 111. proceeded to executive business,
and at 4 p. m. adjourned until Monday.
The Senate confirmed the following
nominations: Charles U. Gordon,
postmaster at Chicago; John Hay, of
the District of Columbia, ambassador
to Great Britain; Horace Porter, of
New York, ambassador to France;
Henry White, of Rhode Island, secretary
of embassy at Loudon; Perry S.
Heath, of Indiana, to be First Assistant
Postmaster General.
HOUSK.
Monday?'The opening of the Fifty
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was witnessed in tlie House today
by an immense corwd. Alexander
McDowell,_elerk of the last House,
called the House to order, "i'lio election
of Speaker was then proceeded with,
the result being: For Mr. Heed, 100:
for Mr. Bailey, 114; for Mr. Bell, 21;
for Mr. Newlands, of Nevada, 1. The
President's message was read and referred,
on motion of Mr. Dingley, to
the committee on ways and means. Mr.
Dingley then introduced his tariff bill,
which was also referred to the committee
on ways and means. Permission
was given to the committee on ways
and means to sit during the session of
the House and to have all necessary
printing done, and then, at 4 p. in.,
the Houso udjonrned until Thursday
next.
TiirnsDAY.?'The Speaker laid before
the House the recommendations of the
Postmaster General for an appropriation
of $200,000 to be immediately,
available, to enable the government to
defray the necessary expenses of the
postal congress which will assemble in
Washington in May next. The Department
finds itself in the emhurrassing
position of having the congress on its
hands, and with no means to provide
for its reception and entertainment.
Henderson (Hep.), of Ohio, stated tlio
committee on ways and means would
not be ready to report until Friday,
therefore he moved that the house adjourn
until then. This was agreed on
without division, and at 12:1(5 the
House was declared adjourned by
S-veakor I\ced.
Fkipay. The first executive day o*
the House of the Fifty tilth t'ongresa
gave every indication of an unusually
lively session. IMngley, from the coinlnittee
on ways ami means, returned
the tarilV lull with the recommendation
that it do tiftss, which, with the ae*
eonipan>inir report, was phi *ed on the
ealendar, and the general debate will
hogin Monday and end Thursday. The
vote on the passage of the sundry ei\il
hill was: Yeas, 157; nays, 7:t. The
Republicans only voted for it, all
| others against it. The reading of tho
general dolicieney hill was eoinpleted
at 8:10 o'clock, but its third reading
(by title) was ordareil without a division,
and the bill was then passed?181
to 89. One minute later the House adjourned.
The Democratic members of
the ways and means committee havtt ?
authorized Mr. Bailey, of Texas, to
prepare the minority rejxlrt on the
tariff bill. It will be laid befose the
House on Monday next.
NEWS ITEMS CONDENSED.
Southern Pencil Pointers.
Fire in the mailing room of the Richmond,
(Va.,) Dispatch caused damage
to the auiouut of $2,000.
Col. A. E. Buck, the Georgia Republican
leader, according to tho Atlanta
Constitution, is to get tlje Japaueso
mission with $12,000 a year salary.
John I). Smith, a negro preacher,
was shot dead at Scottsboro, Ala. He
was charged with outraging the wife of
a white farmer.
Mr. 1). A. Tompkins, a leading manufacturer
of Charlotto, N. C.. contributes
to last week'H Manufacturers'
Record an article in advocacy of groater
flexibility in banking methods.
Fletcher Kennedy, a prominent young
man of Clayton, Ala., committed suicide
by taking some drug. He left a
letter stating ho was out of emploj'ment
and could get nothing to do.
The report that Governor Bradley, of
Kentucky, had respited Walling, one
of Pearl Bryan's murderers, is not true.
In the trinl of the mayor and chief of
police of Knoxville, Tenn., for their
part iu the recent riot they were acquitted.
The building occupied by the Western
Union 'telegraph Company, at
Charlotte, N. O., was gutted by fire
Sunday morning. Loss,
The annual meeting of the grand,
lodge of Independent order of Odd Fellows
of the State of Florida, met in
Jacksonville Monday.
At Sheffield, Ala., on Sunday eleven
hundred bales of cotton were burned
and the damage io placed at ooo,
most of which is covered by insurance. T
The compress was destroyed, it being
the largest in northern Alabama.
At Jackson, Miss., A. A. McKenzie
was nrrnigned on the charge of passing
counterfeit silver dollars, and. in default
of 8^00 bond, Commissioner.
Moseley ordered him to jail to await
Federal Court in May.
Governor Jones, of Arkansas, has de-.
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of tho legislature. He said the appro-'
priution bills have not been passed and'
be has no funds with which to run the
State government for tho next two
years.
At Houston, Texas, Walter Hughes
was shot dead in attempting to kidnap,
a daughter of Frank Dunn, a wealthy
resident of that city. The purpose of
tho would-be-kidnupper was to keep'
the girl in captivity ojul demand $40,000
ransom for restoring her to her
parents.
A washout on a branch line of rail,
way extending from Shel'moundTeuu.,
to tho convict mining camp at.
Cole City, (Ja., caused the wreck of a
switch engine and tho death of the engineer,
J. T. Stewart. The fireman, by
name of Cogle, received internal injuries
that will prove fatul.
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AU About the North.
Representative Lambert charges
gross corruption in the Iowa Legislature.
The Si>euker of the House has
resigned, and demands an investigation.
The Pacific Loan and Homestead Association,
of Chicago, has gone under,
the stockholders charging that the secretary
of tho concern got away with
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uv/u.
Engineer Monroe Hay and Fireman
John Cody were killed in a railroad
wreck near Danville, 111.
Chicago (111.) plumbers havo demanded
an increase of twenty-five
cents a day, and if refused will strike.'
The Phonix Savings Hank of Phenir,
It. I., suspended payment and refused
deposits for the first time in its history.
William E. Harding, sporting writer
for the New York Daily News, died of
pneumonia. He was about 55 yea* ? old
and was born in Canada.
The sugar refinery at Williamsburg,
N. Y., belonging to the American
Sugar Helming company, after a shut
down of over live months, has opened
with a force of nearly 500 men.
The firm of Wliithman & Keith of
Hrockton, Mass., shut down their shoo
factory Tuesday afternoon, summarily
discharging its 250 employes. Humors
that a strike would occur in u few da3*s
was tho cause of the lockout.
Unemployed men and women to the
number of several hundred held a mass
meeting in Chicago, at which they
launched a "declaration of independ- .,
euce" against "King Plutocracy."
Clias. Z. Lincoln, of Albany, N. Y.t
Governor black's legal adviser, has
completed the preparation of the two
anti-trust bills which are intended to
carry out the recommendations of the
T AVAnr Ifiitd ir?v/xo4ir?a*itii? n/vrn?ni4 4no
AJUAV/ n uuov iu i wuiiuiiii^o,
At Fort Wayne, Tnd., W. E. Coleriek,
a prominent young lawyer, and
his fiancee took carDolio acid, lie was
found dead and she iu an unconscious
condition in the hall of her home.
Miscellaneous.
The Australian steamer Oceanic, from
Sydney to Melborne, was robbed of
825,000 in gold.
The Crown Prince of Japan is dead.
The Railway Mail Sorvice Mutual
and Benevolent Association met in Sun
Francisco.
Judge Brown of the United States
Circuit Court declined to take bail in
the case of Turkish Consul iasigi, who
is wanted in Boston on a cliurge of embozzlement,
but gruuted a motion to
place him in the custody of the United
States District Court.
The family of ('onsul-Oetiernl T.eo
will return to the t'nited States within
two weeks. This is thought to he preparatory
to a change in the consulship.
The iron ore abundantly found in iho
eastern pert of Orange County. Florida,
is to tie tested. If it works successfully
another source of wealth is in store Cor
the people of that section.
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