Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1881, Page 1

VOLUME XL. (QMNON SENSE LONCI ROON, CENTRAL MUSIG-HALL, orner Stato and Kandoloh-sth. — SELECT TAILORING. L o s JESNSSeeey NOTICE! ' 20 per, cent Discounton all heavy Winter Garments, during Feb- ruary, 1881, and {0 per cent Discount on all other Garments during same tjme. EDWARD ELY & €0, Tailors, ____________._—.’—'—:_—_‘—-_—-— PLANOS. cota wanted in every chgent Whero wo SovTo feent, will sell hamplo wholcralc. Templo of Music, 136 Stnto 8t., Chicogo. s e Spectacios suited to nil stghis on sclentifia e Opora and Flold insses o aloscopos, M1 eroscupen, llaromoturs. oic MISCELLANEOUS. 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X0teet on Bouth Hiranch, néar Loomis-nt, . 15, COOKE, Noom 11 Am, Express Bulliing. — A Proposala for HEADQUARTE ory CPARTAENT OF DAKOTA, 1rp QUATEINARTE, Atti 3 2 eriplic veelred b duy they wil Tor 1o at ot Fobruaty, 151, at 'y will bo oponed 1h'tho pres- trnnaporcition of mifitary 011 st followlng daroribed routos bn the 4oL Dnkota, during Ui year commonclig Surel d1nc, (3] WIATION' on’ * ltoute in L rarom wid o stathns h‘ld“\‘i rilory of Davotn, subjuct U sovoentions contained i forns of eoniracy for L-WAGON TRANKIORTATION on "It Homtana " rat i b athtianm i tha ot oLy, ok Torny Mm'll!lucmru-nm with condittona cantained in £ cantract FoF Uit koFYive: VEATER THANSPORTATION ON MISSOUIL M. Fort Lientun, RSk N £l betwean Tinktan, 10 L, l_:;iflmm U stutions on thy Misourd iver, b laces, trom tho Jith of March (0 thy '1ilth il subject to tha coniditions containud et for thnk servicu, w0 nvited—und miat b miada fiver) i trom and beiwech Jowstons Wiser, durii 10 should apecity o rato hied wun, OF omploTn or 1A nillcs for ,mllf - 2 istunce witl b ntaruiieds S ket T and Tl bolween Forl Abmbam Lincoln, D. Fimy Janark, . .y wid “Letweon sutd Fory snd Siiony coeif Gpuostio thoroto” ubject to Tho cone Eachy sontalned I {oru 0 canteaes Tor Lt agrvicy SR g AL bo, I Aripiicate supnrito! fur 1o iuskad acarvated by bond i (o sum o7 Tige serried_Gutlira vEADA),—ux00pt fur h8 40rs ihe priot—tXecutul wiricly In necoriancs wih slnnrur e, d undn tho binifk Torin fure | RURERHTOUING (hut DALY TuAKbI thy Diroguat] -hulf‘luu\tnmlm’{v‘lhn Tom the date annunced foe A1 sald peopuanl fsnevapled reico bl far awarded theros siuys mitor Lobiig nuiiliod of v much notiteation bu indo whinin oiied), neco) sulaly tousund dolinre Wb Tor the 1hoa (3808 OF thiu contract. ' Fur the tace Torlogg s the bond mecompanying 1ho bid will e Al Bier wiphod A0Rurs (FLIAUN, Whd the surcoRss SUm of L an 08 FOQUILE 1o furnish Bonds i iho {0t e ey Ca&1G dolinrs (45 UALW) {OF (1o fulths U propeats, 011 FUASITEA Tho Haht 10 refect any oF 3 Bie cass o yiy, ' MIVIDK BuiLo, tunnag, u bond, und contruete ghe ShaulL A liat of bonts. Gy LAUSOrtalon Liddurs thust |3 Diany for 8 O shipn mads , : £ n:ll.(l)u‘llulflnlnu Iu:::ll‘i Nlmhfl[n.lm B Djos o s Dapartiagig e nrien o -eavenwuri, K, yenwurb, Kuny 1% shoiild bé murkod DUt telion on 10 I M e may by angioe’ * MASGA v fouts I Mo . A o VoL vt us the (isc Brorior of U apa it ho uniurala Pesuty Quartmeiay b wueral, U, 8. Aviy, Cinggiunnirimnsior. i e O¥STLRS, “2~-V---“--.4w ysmrs DRl BAMAZELTON, 100 Madlsai-at. f ,flo PE NW Thye Trilbae, Avoxa the bills Introdueed Into the House yesterday, many of which will find thelr way into that Gehennn of Congressional bills, the Junk store, was one by M, Hawley, of Con- neetleul, providing for the prohibition of the: adubtoration of foud and drugs; one by Mr, Dwight, of New York, to compensate per- s0ns conneetdd with the Iaflwny Mall-Serv- leo and who are. Injured in the discharge of thelr dutles; one by Mr. O'uilly, of New York, to prohibit telegraph companics from charging n higher rato for tho transmission of telegramy than was charged by the Ameriean’ Unfon 'Lelegraph - Com- pany on tho fist day of this year; nuother bl on the same subject by Mrs Springer providing for an appralsement of tho property, plant, franchises, cle, of the telegraph companles now existing In this country, with a view to their purchuse by the Government. Mr. Bliss Introduced a bift fix- fne the duty on caystic sodn at 10 per cént ad valorem; Mr. Weaver one proposing the submisslon ot n constitutional mwendmont which provides for the election of United States Senntors by direet vote of the people; il Mr. Townshend, of this State, Introduced a bill providing for an Inercasy In the pen- sion of soldlers who have lost o limb or are otherwise permanently disabled to 850 per month. M. nis Lussers’ report, read ot n meeting of the Panamn Canal Company at Parls yes- terday, and at which 3¥7,000 franes’ worth ot stock was represented, will be rend with con- sidernble Intevest In this country, M..de Lesseps holds that the Niearngua Cannl projeet is an Impossibility, and nsserls thaé “a completo agrecment has been arrived at with the United States,” the condition ex- acted belng that the neutrality of the canal shall bo nssured. Accordlme to the report, saventy engineers, superintendents, physis clans, and surgeons have been sent to-the Isthmus, where nbont 8,030 men will be soon cmployed, OF tho 1,200,600 shures subscribed for, tho Freneh peoplo have obtafned 994,508 shares, REPRESENTATIV 1, of Missourl, is uncompromishyz In his hostllity to Na- tlonal banks, which fact nccounts for the bill he fntroduced Into the Ilonse yesterday to regulnte tho election of National-bank Di- rectors, It provides that two members of n firm cannol serve as Directors of the same Nnatlona! bank; that no money-broker, pri= vate banker, or Direclor In any private bank- ing-house or savings bank shall serve as Dircetor of o National bank in the snme eity as that in which the private bank or savings institution with which he is éonnceted Is situated; and that when n Dircetor has less than ten shares of the stock of tho bank hoe beeomes disqualified, and cannot continue to serve, > ? Soume days ao Robert Hennegan; o fayme or llving about twenty-five mites from Char- lotte, N. C,, was calledd out of his house py ‘threo men, John Gray, Marahall Daxter, aild Coy Ross, to go to ndance. e consented, but had not gone far vhen s three compan- fonsattacked him with vartous weapons. He defended himselEbravely, butwas finally over- powered and brutally murdered. 11is body was discovered yeglerduy In a creck near the sceno of the wmurder. Gray has confessed. Itappears that tho mirderers were criml- nally utlmate with Hennegan's wife, and wanted hilm out of the way. Gray tells the horribly brutal story that lie spent the nignt after the murder with Mrs, Hennogan. — Tite clreunistanees connected with the deathh of the Ponen Chlef Big Suake wete the subject of un oxelting and nat thnes an angry debate In tho Senute yestorday, Sen- ator Dawes sharply crlticised the methods pursied In tho Interlor Department, rofer- ring to thom s un-Ameriean awd vindictive, He niso Insinunted thet the Department had practiced double<dealing with the Senate, Secretary Schurz found n chimplon in Sen- ator Logan, 1e eulogized his management, characterizing It ns honest, capuble, aud Just, Mr. Hawes modified his first utterances, and Intlmuted that he complained of a particular clreumstance only, Mr. Plumbd also took ex- coption to Mr, Dnwes’ speceh, M. GrnstoNs stated In the Ilouso of Commons yesterday, In reply ton quustion, that there was much dissatisfaction In Great Britain that the timo ot the Tlouss Is so ex- clusively taken wp with the considerution of Irish business, 1lo promised’on the part of the Government that steps would soon be taken to provent the continuance of such a state of aifuivs, which menns that some meas- uro to prevent obstriction will soon bo pro- posed, 1o sald that ihe Irish Coerclon bill would be pushed without unnccessary de- Iy, but he was probably eversanguine when ho expressed the bellef that the first rending would bo uccomplished I a single sesslon, e — ‘T the honest huttor und cheeso dealers of Chicago ure thoreughly In earnest In thelr desire to suppress altogdther the handling of Imitation dairy products In tWs market is shown In thelr offer to pay the salary of an oflefal to bo appointed by tie Muyor for the inspeetlon of buiter and cheese, An ordle nanes was lnst evening passed hy the Conie mon Councll authorizing the Mayor to ap- point such an Indpector, the fatter to serve without salary from the clty. 1le will be parldd by the denlers thomselves, who fecl suro thut with the akd of an oftieinl clothad by the elty with full ppwer to examine and Inspeet thoy can prevent the sale of bogus stuff, Gex, 1lancoek hins beon Invited to attend the festivities on tho occasion of the inangu-» yation of President Garfleld, and I8 under- stood to huve aceopted, The ceremonles of the oeenaslon promise to bo u grand success, Gon, Garfleld will be escorted by o military guard of honor conslsting of 20,000 militia- men and fourteen companles: 6t regular troops . awd mnrines, nrshaled by Gen, Shetman, President and Mre, Ilayes, Gen, and Mrs, Grant, and other dlstinguishedl peaple will attend the veception ball In the Museum Bullding, = ’ BevinaLoxtensive contlngrations acourred at varlons polnts in the United §tates yustere day. At Hattield, dass,, Shoattuck’s pistol augt breeehioading shotgun factory, valued ab 925,000, md Insured for H18,000, was de- stroyed, At Qrand Raplds, Mich,, the Lod- yagd Block was dumaged §3,000, and Shepard & lnzelline's stock of drugs was Injured 35000 worth, 3Mrs, Hoss Lowe, who acenpled apartinents on the thixdl flaor, was _ suffocated by the smoke, At DPhifadeiphls, Mortleultural Hall, valued ut 873800, and insured for $30,600, and Betblehem Baotlst Chuseh. valued ot - TUESDAY, 817,000, ami Insured for 10,000, were de- stroyed, and several adjolning houses were more or less Injured by water. At on, in his State, tharo was o 815,000 fire, | Tk St Albans, o propeller belonging to tho Northern Transportation Company of Milwnnkee, was sunk about twenty-five miles northeast of that city Sunday. The erew, with the exception of one deck linnd, andall the passengers were saved, and innde thetr way Lo Milwaukeo in two lfe-hoatsand a yawl, Thocargn of tho vessel consisted of 2,800 barrelsof flour and four head of live stock. A Nuw eable company lies been formed in Paris, and has just issued a prospectus. It is proposed to conncet all tho Central Amerl- enn countries and Cuba with the United States and” Europe. The English Govern- ment: guarantees an annual payment of 84,000 for tho next twenty years as conmpen- sation for Government ielegramsa hetween London and Britlsh Hondurns, The capltal of tho new company Is 600, Jouy IIowano Rebpsonn, who in his electornl address described himself ns “a member of the Land League, and a deter- mined enemy of British rule In Ireland,” has beey elected to Parlinment from New RRoss, an Irlsh borough, and without opposi- tlon, Redmond’s father, who died about two months ago, was Member of Parlinment from Wexford Borough, ‘T1ns British troops in the Transvaal at the outbrenk of tho rebellion nimbered 4,100, Mr, Childers, the Engllsh War Sceretary, stated In the Commons last night that by the 10th inst, there wonld be about 8,600 troops In the disturbed district.. Ilosald it was the intentlon to treat the Boer rebels according to theusages of clvillzed warfare, Josepir B, Mopesto BrAxco, the Spanish Consul a% Philndelphla, died yesterday. Capt. Joseph Lawson, of the Third Cavalry, dled at Fort Steelo, Wyoming Territory. 1le Dehaved with great gallantry on tho ocension of the Thornburgh massacre at Milk Creek,. Colorado, whero he fought aguinst tho Utes who had surrounded his force. | SueneTAny Scrunz has made public n statement In'which he asserts that the testi- mony progluced betorathe Ponca Copmission will bear out his statoments that the Poncas are quito satistied at thelr present quarters and with oxisting arrangements, and that the report made by tho Commlission will be ' shown to be unfuir aud unjust. | CirAnrrrs RyAN and James Caffrey drank togethor Sunday at Buffalo. They retired In the evening to thelr boarding-liouse aud be- gan to quarrel, Ryan: threw Caffrey from tho top of n steep stalrway, The latter died yesterdny from the result of the Injurles re- celved In the fail, — ‘I'tie: Coroner's jury in the case of Mrs, A. B. Cook, kllled on the 10th ult, in the raill- ronu colliston nt Oak Glen, returned n ver- dlet yesterday, declaring that the conductor of the express-traln which rau’ fnto the Lib- ertyville train wns gullty of gross and erlm- inal carolesness, . 2 — Tue Pall Mull Gazette and the Dally News, the two chiet metropolitan Liberal Jjournals, emphatically condemn Mr, Forster’s Irish Coercion blil, ‘I'hoy nssert that It Is too sweeplng and stringent. The retronctive clause of the bill {s regarded with particulur disfavor, % —— AX express train on the Northorn Raflway ran off the track -near Holland Landing, Ont., yestordny. Severnl pnssenzers werse somewhat hurt, but nons sorlousty. A cat- tle-trover named Fulford jumped off ona snow bank, fell through, and was smothored. —— T vemalns of Cardina! Kutschker, the Inte Archbishop of Vienna, wers conslgned to mother carth yesterday with grand and imposing ceremonies, Emperor Francis Jo- seph and other members of tho Austnian Royal famlly nttended the funeral, A TRAIN consisting of seventeen frelght- cars and 8 passenger-conclt was thrown off the tiack near Glbsonville, N, O, Sunday night, Conductor lnlsey and Fireman Ilar- ding wers Instantly killed, and Engineer Murphy was serlously injured, , SeNATonr McI'nensoN presented a bill in the Senate yusterday, providing for an ap- proprintion of §100,000, to bo used in fitting outa war vessel to go In search of the missing Jeannctte, James Gordon Bunnett's Arctle oxploring vessol. ] Weir, Kuay & Co,, manufacturers of cignrs, dolng business at Ciuetnnatl, falled yesterday. ‘The llabilities are placed at $200,000 and the assots nt 8150,000, ‘I'ho prin- [ cipal creditors are New York and New Qulenuis parties, S——— Tk Stato Supreme Court, entered an br- der yesterdny denylng n rohearing of tho Nuwhorry will cuse, which means that Chicn- go will not hnve the Newbersf Public Li- brary until after tha death of the witdow of the testator. Etanr Chinamen wero kitled near Sauta Cruz, Cal,, last Saturday by an avalanche. ‘Fhioy were cutting, timber on the mountain shle, when the entlh camo down gud com- pletely burled them, / S———— By the burning of n lampburner factory at Forestyville, Conn,, Snturday night, the wman- ufacturing company will suffor . not loss of $75,000; and 800 men are thrown outof em- ployment, ey A snoE-TORE A n tenomont-house at- tached wera burndd to the ground at Union, Conn,, Friday nfght, Mrs, George Stone and lier two chitdren porished In the flames, platiite.Aeuieoy Tug recent rains have swollen tho Sacra- mento River so that It* has flooded much ot the country through which it flows, thereby causing dsmago to the extent of $1,000,000, Si JouN Magnoxarnw's Paclfio Rallway biIL was ordered to n second reading In the Conndian Parliament Jast night by a vote of 100 to 40, ———— ‘Tueng 18 lttlo hope entortained that Thowmas Carlyle will survivo his present at- tack, 1le s sutlering from a complication of lseases, Fon this reglon to-day thronwn?u wenther and snow, wind from northeast ta north- west, and s alight fall In tomperaturo are pro- dlcted. THERE was a balance of §1,060,775.83 In the City Treasurer's hands &t the closo of last vaar | FEBRUARY 1, 1881— WASHINGTON. The Democrats Go irito Cau~ cus on the Electoral Count. An Ancient Procedure Accept- ed as the Party Pro- gram, Peculiar Metamorphosis of the Political Sianding of Scere- tary Schurz., The Stalw;me Now Fight His Bat- tles and Boston T'rics to Orush Him, Probability that Boston Has Bit- ten Off Much Too Large a Mouthful. Important Bill on the Subject of Tele- graphs Introduced by, M. Springer. Resolutions and Speeches in the Su- preme Court Touching Justice Swayne's Withdrawal, 014 Probabilities Asked to Glva Grass- hopper-Indications—Stanloy Mate thews? Case. Two Groonback Contostants’ Oases Kicked Out of the Honse—Hrrying Up— Notes, , ELECTORAT. COUNT, A COMPLOMISE. Speeiat Dispatch 10 The Chicago Tribune, WasniNaros, D, C,, Jan 8L.—There prom- ises to be u plan devised Tor the peaceful counting of the Electoralivoto next week, The failure on the part of .the Democrats to obtaln a quorum for the passaze of the Mar- gan-Bicknell resolution, and the probability that somoe measure liko tho Inmtlls resoln- tion would eventunlly be' agreed upon in Its stead has, bronght some of tho more con- servative Democratic leadors to the front, aud to-day o enmpromise imeasure was Tu- formally agreed upon, which was ratified to- night by s enucus of Democratic Senators. I'o Itepresentative Carlisle must be. given the credlt of having; proposed, s a Inst resort, resolutions. simtlar to those ndopted by thio two Iousps tn 18231, in 1837, and, with some imodifteation, in 1869, In 1887 thero was o doubt whethel Michizan was a State; and, to meot thé dldulty.in. connting the voto in the absence of uny specifie in- structlon in thoe Constitution, THI FOLLOWING RESOLUTIONS wefe ndopted: Resoleed, That tho two flouses shalt pssemblo In tho Chnmber of the Hougo of Representutives on Wednesday next nt 12 o'olock, and the President of the Seonto sholl be the pre- slding officor; that one person be appointed atelier on tho purt of the Senate and two on tho part cf tho House to mnko n list of tho votes ns they sholl bo deelared; that tho resuit shull bo delivered to the President of the Sennte, who shall announce the stato of the vote amd tho persons elected to tho two Houses nssems bied ns nforesall, which shuil bo deemed u dee- Inration of tho persons clected President and Vico-Fresidont of tho Unlted States, and, to- gothier with n llst of the votes, be onterud on tho journals of tho two Houses. Resolved, In rolation to the voted of Michlgan, 1t tho countlng or omlitting to count them shan nat cssontlally change the resutt of tho eleetion, that thoy shull bo reported to tho President of the Senate in the following mannor: * Wero tho votes of Michigun to bu eounted, tho result wonld be for A 1} for Presidont of tho Unlted 8tates, — votos. If not counted, for A I3, for Prestdent of the Unitod Stutes, — votes. But, in olther event, A BB 18 olected Presldont of the Unlted Statos, and in tho sume manner for Vice- Prosldent.” ¢ TUESE RESOLUTIONS, wlith the word *“essentlally”” stricken from the sccond, and *“Michlgan? chunged to “(eorgln,” are those agreed upon, In the present Instances it hus been agreed that, Inasmuch as 16 will be practieally Impossible to pass the Bleknell resolution, and as there aro but elght days remniniag In which to prepare for countiing the” Electornl votes, the old resolutions will tide'the country over tho present erlsis, ‘The firt resolution, of course, only provides the machlnety for counting tho votos, and conforms to the gonerut usago almost from the ilrst count down to the presont thme, The second reso- lution Is designed to mect the case of AEORALA, nbout the legnlity of whoso voto therels a questlon, 1t was agreed to-day between lead- Ing Democrats and Republleans that, it these regolutions counld be adopted ua- the polley of the majority, there would bo no factious ob- Jection on tho other shie, Senntor Morgan, who distikes oxceedingly to ave his pet res- oluglon go to tho wall, mule an nttempt to- duy'to present a modlitieation of ity but, ut tho conference It was rejected as Impracticn- ble, Thon Mr, Carllslo proposed the pro- gram st forth above, which at oncy et with genernl approval. At the Seunte caucus to-nlght this proposition was adopted without opposition, and after very lttle debate. Democratle Congressuien ex- press thewselves ns very woll satisfled with the result, and sny they do not bellove THE REPUBLICANS can mako a valid objection to the present proposition. *1f they do,” sald Mr, Carllsle, “ then, for one, Lshall buin favor of doing nothing mare, leaving the Republicans to get ont of the difilenlty ns best they ean, 1 think, though,” he added, *‘that the newspapoers will state tho cnse fairly, and the business men of the country will approve §t, beesuso it lem’she country out of.uny possible difl- culty, I'o such & proposition as-that mado by Mr, Carlisle tha Republicans would, under the clreumstances, hardly interposs auy objec- tions, 1t Isas completon surrenderof the position taken by the Senute at the lost ses< slon and by the mnjorlty In tho Iouse lnst week, 18 the lepublicans conid well inslst upon at this Juncture. liesides, as the Dem- ocrutlo lenders solemuly declared carly this evening, beforo the result of the caucus was reached, this was thelr very **last diteh,” and no further, under any clreumstances, would !:lwy retroat. ‘This declaration was mado by * MR, CARLISLE, who s at the samo time the ablest and one of the most consorvativa Democratic members of the,louss of Representa- tives. In his adherence to this prop- ositton he would, under any clreum- VELVE PAGERS. stavices, recelve tho support of a consid- erable number of Democratic Representa- Lives. 1f the seleet Conumittee of the Senate upnh the Electoral count does not report back Senator Ingalls’ resolution to-morrow he will introduce another, providing for the appolntinent of three members of the Senate #s o comunittee to meet and eonfer with a almilar committee of the louse, taking the whole subjeet of providing for the coming Electornl count, Into conslderation, with n view of reeommending & course of etion for the two Iouges, THE CAUCUS, 70 the Western dssoctated Press, Wasmyaroys, D, C, Jan, 3,—Upon the Senate’s adjournment this afternoon the Democratle Senators assembled In eancus for the purpose of determinmyz what course should be -purusued In regard to making ar- rangements for the count of tho Electoral votes next week, After some discussion it was tnanimously deelded, in the first place, that the dominant magority in the Senate will not consent to the cstablishment of the pre- cedent proposed by the Ingalls resolntion, or any similar regulntion deviating from tho long-established practice of counting the Slectoral vote fn Joint convention of the two by s of Congress in the hall of the House of ltepr ¢ second, that the resolu- tion ttow on the table of the Senate, deelar- ing that the Viee-Irestdent hns no constitu- tional authority to count the Electoral votes, shall be ealted” up at an early day (probably to-worraw), and pr (| Lo prsgige wt A CONTINUULS SESSI0N, BUNNING TItHOUOI THE NIGHT, If necessary; third, thnt the select Commit- tee on thiysubjeet shall report and the mn- ority In the Sennte pass, ns soon 18 practica- e (ns asubstitute for the Ingalls resolue tion), & concurrent resolution providing in substauce that the two [{ouses shall assem- blein the hall of the llouse of Itepresenta- tives 2 on tho 2Mh prox's sthat ets of Electoral votes shall be mndehy two or more tellers on the part of the House, awd one or more on the part of the Senate: that the totals for each P'residentint and Vice-Presi- dentin] candidnto (excepting the votes east for the State of Georgin seven dnys nfter the time preseribed by the Federal law) shall be handed to the President of the Senate and that he, AS IRESIDING OFFICE| A) it OF THE JOINT CON- 10N, shall announce the results In the snme way which the results were announced under similar cirenstances In the years 1816, 1857, aud 1860, when the Eleetoral votes af the Btates of Missouri, Wisconsiu, and Michi- gan were foind to lmve been east on duys other than those fixed by the general Inw. Fhe annonncenient, according to thls pro- posed arrnnzement, would be n ltxj)'nuuwllcnl declaration a9 to wint would be the fotal for enel candldate, *if the votes of Georzin be counted,” and “if tho votes of Georgin be not counted,” but it is to be provided in a con- current resolution that this hypothetieal declaration shall he supplemented by an an- nouncenent by tho presiding oflicer that, “in any event, James A. Garflield and Chester A, Arthur have yecelved a constitutional mafority of allthe Electatnl votes, and are duly electéd President and Viee-P'resident.” L4 SCIIURZ . AND BOSTON. Spretal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. WastiNaros, 1. C,, Jan, $l.—Secretary Schurz has nt Iast declired war upon the gentiemen who represent the Boston-Tibbles slde of the Ponea question, In spiteof the denials which Senator Dawes has made of the Assoclated I'ress dispatch In relation to the proceedings Leforo the Ponen Comnnlittee on Saturday last, Seceretay Schurz to-tay affiring that this report was aceurate. Ilo furtber states that he, had full shorthand notes of allthe evidence taken, and that Sen- ator Dawes will find, when the oflicial ‘re- port of ‘their proceedings s -printed, that it will fully sustain the nccount which he mnow sees fit to deny. . Senator Dawes followed his publlc card to the vress last night by an attack wpon the Seeretury from his place In the Senate to-day, and to this Secretary Schurz will soon reply. Sen- ator Logan, who, 08 I8 well known, hns no sympathy with that branch of the Repub- licun party which Sceretary Schurz repre- sents, eame to Schurz’s defensein the Sen- atein A MANLY AND MOST EFFCTIVE WAY. ‘The removal of the Poneas was provided for by the Congress which preceded the Admin- istration of President linyes, and all the steps precedent to the romoval hind been taken at the time Seeretary Schwrz en- tored the Interfor Department. This re- moval, which was completed soon after e eame [nto oftiee, was done with very consld- orubla hardship and loss to the Poneas, All this oceurred In the execution of an act of Congress for which the Secrctary was not In any way responsible. The general reader would suppose, from the report of the Bos- ton Commission, that thg wrongs done the Ponens were first brought to thenotice of the public by persons OUTSIDY OF SECHETARY SCHUNZ'S DEPAUT- MENT, and that he had constantly resisted the nt- tempts to right their wrongs and to do them Justice. The truth is that, In his first report, fu November, 1577, move than twe years be- fore uny of those men In Boston whv are now attacking him were ever heard of, or at least ever sald or dld anything for tho rellef of the Poncas, Sceretary Sehuwrz hlmsolt catled the attentlon of Congress to the hard- ships and losses eansed by thelr removal, and asked for nulhorllf tq relmburse thew. In Tis second and third reports he ngain nsked Congress for. authority to purchise 102,000 seres of Innd at their new home, aid asked for 840,000 with which to purelaso thelrland and wnke such fnvestment for them as the ustice ad cquity of the ease demanded, From the day of miking his tirst repott to the present timo the Secretary hos exerted Iimsolt, and tho Indian Ontee under him has oxerted itself, to induce Congress to pive thom the_mweans of dolug Justico to the X Whilst it s trng that, in the first s, they were dissatistied with thelr v wovitd, which proved to have been to an un- hertthy section, they are now to a man, us fns been abunduntly proved by the ovidenca tuken by this snme Boston Conmission, PERFECTIN SATISFIED wlith the reservation whieh they now nccun‘y, nnd stoutly opposed to lmlnf sent back {o their former reservation fn Dukota, The very frst page of tosthnony tuken at the counell of the [ndluns on the Tonca reservie tion, und fuynished to. tho U'resldent, shows that these Indians desipa to remnin whers they ore, und that they are not dissatistivd, s thelr Boston friends huve \m'slamully churged, “Fhe Councll, which was with the - entlre tribe—men, wowen, and ehitdren,—was opened by G, Crook, who renl and had - expounded - to those nresent the agreamunt wntered Into with Seeretary Schurz a few weoks shice by tho defepntion of Ponen Chisfs. Tho verbatim testimony furnished the D'reshilent by the Connnisslon on the point rends s follows: The agreoment signod in Washington was read nnd expounded, o (lvll,Cnul}(—NuV. if this oxprosses the wishos of uil whe uro boro, thiey aro 10 sny &0, aud if not thoy nro to say not. . 3 Auswer front All—=Weo all hear nnd undorstand 1t ‘ma] Chiofa of tho Pouvad b this point con- sultoal, o Gun, Crook—Thoso Who agreo to it ave to hold up 1heIr hands—inon, women, and ehildren {w gonoral showing of hunds], ASIDE FROM THIS GENEHAL AGREEMENT entered futo with Seeretary Schurz, tho tes timony turnished the President by the Con- misston shows throughout a suuluf dusirn on the part of_tho Poneas to remainin thelr new homes, and that &umx\'al to their ald home woull bu regardel by them as o great hapdship, ‘The slmplo factof the wholw mat. ter Is that the Boston Commission not only utterly falled to show that the loncis were dlssnlrsllml with their presont condition, but thoy did estublish the exact contrary, Thls Jias beon n Ponen duy in the Senite, No sooner had the morning businuss been dls- pused of and the statue of Jacob Collatier lwun presented, thun Senator Dawes gave his account of the kiliing of Blk Sunke, N - The Chicage Daily Teibue. PRICE 'FIVE . CENTS. which sllrred up the friemds of Sccretar Schiurz, and one of thom, 4 UL, KIKKWOOD, will “probably malce an elahorate reply to- morrow. Later in the day, after n tedlous debate on the Indian Lawd bill, Senators Allison and Hoar had a little it on the Ponea questlon on the actlon of Secretary Sehurz, It is very evident that the Seeretary and N friends are very sore over the ecriticlsms of his ofiielal. aetlon, and especlally over the reeent Insinuations that information has heen withiheld, In n few days the Presldent wil transmit the re- portof the Commission, with the nceotn- panying testimony, to Congress, and 1t can then beaseertained who is right, “cHT EyeEs” was in4ho gallery of the Senate while Mr, Dawes was speaking, IL1s o curious Inel- dent it this 'onca business that, whilo Mr. Behurz Is denotied by Mr. Dawes and the Boston sentimentalists, who tormerly saw in his diberalism a goml denl to ape laud, B fs Csupported b Messrs, ¢ si.m. Kirkwood, Pluinb, Ingalfs, and n{hur Stalwarts who have been fu_biger hostility to the Secretars of the Interloft Mr, Plum! defended the character of Agent Whiteman fn'the wmatter of the killing of Big Snake from the uspersion -of cowardice east tipon m by Mr, Dawes. Ile wns no coward, he saitd, but n brave man - who had served with honor aind distinetion in the Inte War, STATEMENT IV KECRETARY SCHURZ . Tothe Watern Asoctuted Press, WASIHINGTON, JJat. 3L—Sec -nrf Sechurz furnishes the following statement In regard to the published report of Saturday’s pro- cecdines hefore the Ponea Iuvestigation Connnittee of the Sennte: 2 The report of the examination of Mossrs, Btickney and Alleit, w8 In tho papers, whife, of cutree, not giving every word sald upon cver; brinteh of the subject, s correct fn il that {t does gtate, but It leuves out pll the essential features of tho examination, Thiswill fully np- weur when tho olticlnl report comes out, Mes: Allen_und Dawes lllllnllmlhllle{ admit thut, for they do not speettienlly Impeach i single state- ment eantainied in tho report, and mercl vy I general terme. that it b not complete and talr, Jithout giving on instance i Which 1t 18 not. i 1 MY OWN STENOGHAPHENR with me, who took down overy word that woe futld, o that 1 ntn in full possession of every de- tail, Heveral Journallsts were present at thy aminution. Tho rent trouble thut thess gen men have Is that, at iast tho truc fucts with re sard to the conditlon and srishes of the I'ouceas fn the Indintt “Tervitory ure cominy out, nnd they know that nobody will bo permitted any loniter 10 cover them up or misrepresent thoni, which those who have attempted todoso will Aoon discover, It 13 no womler lnoi' are Irri- tated, tor the I'onces themsclves hnve now spoken [n unqualified and unmistakable words, and thelr pretended friends muy he eonfused by tiie light shed upon that subleet from such it quarter. Tho Poneus pronounuce themsclves cuntented and happy, and this fct scems to INTERFERE WITH TIE UAIMPINESS of thelr pretended ndvoentes. The munuseript papers alluded to by Mr. Allen that 1 bad in my hands, nnd declined to surrender to tho Committee, were simply extriets from testimony mnde to refresh my own memory. The wholo testimony has been open on the Prealdent’s table to members of tho press, to- wethor with the report, and will, us 1 nuder- Atand, be transmitted to Congress by the Presi- dent offivinlly at nn early day. They will have, then, plenty ol opportunity 1o compare my ex- tracts with the orlxinal, una it will turn out that the comparison will not he ugrecable to them, 1 think the original will bo stiil tess pleasant to them than my extracts. POSTAL TELEGRAPIIY. TWO BILLS. Spectat Diapates to The Cuicago Tridbune, WasniNgToy, D, C., Jan. 81.~The tele- graph monopolles had two mensures declded agalnst them fn the Iouse to-day. One wus by O'Rellly, who Introduced a bill to provide that no telegraph company shall charge more for the trans- mission of nny messages than was chnrged on the 1st of Jannary. 1831, - by. ‘the . Amerlean Telegraph Company for the same distiuce, and Imposes severe penalties, The other measure, pre- sented by Mr, Springer, of 1llInols, isof a uiuch more practicable character, and pre- pores the way for an Intdlligent consldera- tion of tho postal telegraph system by the mnext Congress. The existing law (THle 065 of the Revised Statites, in wiich Is the nct of July, 1866), provides that all the telegraph companies taking ad- vantage of the henefits conferred upon them by that act shalt be compelled to sell at uppraisal to the United States for any purpoese thelr Iines at tho option of the United States Government, The Governinent by that Inw provided that all telegraph companles then organized, or thereafter to be orzanized, should have the right to con- struet, maintain, nd operate lines of *tele- graph over the public domaln of the United States, and alonz ol mill- tary or post ronds, and under or across navigable streams -of water and to take from the public lands through which 1ts lues. might pnss all neeessary stone, timber, and otlier materlals for posts, plers, statlons, or other needful uses in the construction, malntenance, and operation of its lnes, . IN RETURN FOR THIS ORANT, which has been n matter of great importance to many of tho telegraph companies, Con- gress Insksted upon a proviso, which Is tained In the following scetion of the Revis Statutos: . 8ee. 5,207, Tho United Btates mny, for postal, mliftary, or other purposes, purchase nll the ‘property, and offects of any or ting under tho provislons of tho act of July 21, 14, ontitied “An act to ald fn the construction of toloyraph lnos and to seeuro to the Governmont tho uso of tho Rame for postal, mititary, and other purposcs,” or wiider thie title, at an appraléed valuo ta b nucortuined by five dialuterested persons, two of whom stull bo ‘seleoted by the Iostmaster- Gencral of the United Btates, two by tho com= pany Intorested, and one by the four so pro- viously selected. Mt SPRINGER'S DILL is bnsed upon this section, and providds all the wuccessnry machinery . through a committeo for the preliminary Investign- tlon for the appraisement of these lines, for ascertalning the nctunl cost of tho plan, the expenses of maintenange, and constraetlon,. and overy possible defafl which an intelll- gent businessman cwomld wish o know beforo waking such & pure chase; nnd, . in addition, the DIl dircets tho President of the Unitedl States to {nstruet our Diplomatie and Consular ofileers stationed In Europonn countries wihero the postal telegraph s in exlstence to report In full by Sept, 1 noxt ns to’ everything relating to tha cost, method of operation, and profi of the Government telegraph system in thelr respective conntries, SPEAKING OF TIE PURIOSE OF 1S BILI, My, Springer suys to-nlghts ‘This I8 the only mouns provided by law for asvertalning the valuo of the property. In Doe comber, it this bill shull pasy, Congress will huve hefore it complote {nventory and oxhibit of tho tolugraphic business of this conutry and all ot tho Government tolographs fn Nuropo, 1t is too lato now In thls - Coogress to undertake any legislation upon thla quostlon. Wo can at best prepare the way, 1€ tho Government 18 going to control tho teloe graph business of the country, it wust have a monopoly of this buslnoss, vtherwise privato companies would do ull the puymg bual- pess, snd tho Governmont would havo tho ‘non-paylng Lusluces to do. If tho Govorument should undertaku the wmonopoly, It would not bo uujust to oxisting lincs te tako thom nt such un appraisal ua Is proposcd by this qutof 1860, Tho companios vannot complain of this course, They huve Hled tholruceoptunces of 1iys condition i acoordanco with tha very torms of the uct, which roquire that, hefore any telo- graph ocowpnny should exerclso any of tho power or privileges conforred by thut law it shall filo 8 writton dcceptanco with tho Posts master-Ouncrul of tho restrictions and oblligas 1ions required by law, AT e TRAT 1AB BEEN DONE u & great many instances—uotably lo the caso of nll the Iarzo companics. 'In fact, most of the - telegraph lines of tho country como within the operation of that act and of my pro- posed law. The fvo-year lmit proposed by ihe not, within which the Govern- ment should not Lo permitted to purchase those lines,or any of them, bas clapsed. In 1870, whicn tho postal telegraph subjeet was dis- cussed; tho Western Unlon appeared befora Congress and maintained that, if the Gowern- ment shoutd undertako fo do this work, ft would do it nt constant loss, and that no Government hnd gver dssumed tho telogrnph business except nt'h foss. If these statements wero truc thon thoy are mot truo now. On the contrary, I havo obtained a Inrgo nmount of information as to the operations of TELEURATIS IN BUROPE which show that thoy yleld a large profit at (mlcs one-third less than aro pald In this couns 1303 - “nut how, Mr. Springer,” was asked, “wlil you overcome the opposition to any such bl which will bo made, particalnrly within your party, on the theory of central- fzatlon 2 “That objection,” Mr. Springer replied, ‘“ean 110 inote be ralsed to telegrapha than 16 is to_the postal system. If a postal tele graph system should be adopted, the Government would slinply send the : corre- spondetice of the peoplo by wire fnstead of by rail, and deliver it fu the cltles a3 it now deltvers letters, 1t woutld be simply n differ- ence In the medium of transinission, Be- sldes, It 14 wrong for the Government {8 al- low its people to he PLUNDERED BV PRIVATE ENTERPRISE, when the Government ean interfere and se- cure justics and falr play for the masses of citizens who nare not able to enjoy the nd- vantages which organized monopolies secure. The system, If adopted, woukd greatly fucili- tate the bushiess and social Interconrse of tho people, and would undoubtedly be alibern] civilizing ngency. Tt wonld b wetl for the Government to control the system as it does the maily, and, beeause it does control 1he mails, the two brauches of the service could be operated together,” SPNGER'S BILL, . To the Western Anoclated Prest, WasiiyagToN, 1. C,, Jan, Sl.—Representa- tive Springer Introduced Into the House to- day a vl to provide for the appralsement of telegraph lines owned and operated by com- paniesneting under the provisions of theact of Congress pnssed July, 1564, entitled * An nct to aid in the ,constructlon of telegraph lines and secure to the Government the use of tho sawme for postal, miliary, and other purposes, and to procurs lnformation concerning postal telegraphs In othier countries,” ‘The first sce- tlon provides for the appointmentof . ¢ A BOARD OF APPRAISERS, ' under the act .mentioned, consisting of five persans,—two appointed Ly the Postmnster- General, two by the Company Interested, and one by the four previously selected,~who are nuthorized 1o ascertain the actunl cash value of all the plant, property, and effects of the Company Interested, Iucluding the vulueand charucter of all leases, contracts, and franchises, and also the receipts of such Company from all sources, the operating ex- penses, the rates chiarged for trausmitting messnges, the royalty pald to nventors, and all other facts necessary to a thorongh kunowledee of the mlb{eul. ‘The nvpralsers for each Compnny shall meot In the City of New York within one month alter the pass- nreof this act, tnke oath for the faithiful per- formance of thelr duties, appoint a clerk, experts, ete., and rre required to keep record of thelr vroceedings, preserve all tho evi- denco taken, have power, and are required to examine books, contiracts, abstracts o tltle, leases, and all I)npers deamed by sald appraisers necessary in order to enable them to ascertain and report the true and ACTUAL CASH VALUE of all the plant, proverty, and effects of sucl company, The reports are to be forwarded to the Fostmaster-General by the 18t ot Sep- tember, and by him to l)urr nted and trans- mitted "to_ Congress at its next December sesslon., The President ot the United States Isnutharized and directed to widress cireu- Inr letters to diplomatic and consulur bificers of the United States residing in Govern- ments having adopted the postal-telegraph systems, requiving themn to report upon tho worklng of such systems in the Governtugnts to which they are nceredited, and furnish all the required information on the subjec which reports shall also bo printed " ane transmitted to Congress nt its next Decon- ber sessfon, The bill was read twice, ordered rrlmml. and referred (o tho Comnmitten on Pust-Ofliees and Post-Roads, The bill 18 drafted In accordance with the not mestioned in its title, whieh wus passed in July, 1888, 11y the provisions of THIS ACT OF 1800 the telegraph companles aré required Mo ace cept from the United States the amoeunt o the uppraised vilue of thelr property, aud sll threg of the companles now promhiently be- fore the publio have each filed an nceentance . of this provision of the Jaw, nnd obligated itself to aceept the atiount of its appralsed vilue whon the sume Is tendercd by tho United Stutes, i IN TIIE IIOUSE., NURBYING UP, Bpecial Dispateh to The Chicago Tridunes WasiuxNatos, D, C., Jun, 81.—The House seamed to renlize, as It has not dono beforo this sesston, that thors are but a very fow days remutning In this Congress, and that, whatever 13 to be done must le qulekly done, The exporiment of resorting to night sessfons to sceure additional time for the *transactionof public business has not proved successful, The Democratic organ here saya that some members of Its party aro fondor of the bottle than they are of their . (uty, but, whatever may be the rensom, noth- g hag buen nccomplished this year at night sesslons excopt that, at the last one, which fasted untit 6 o’clock in the morning, the members so exhausted thelr strength that the next dny's sesslon was lost. Ae- cordingly it was declded to-tny, by the adop- tion of & new rule, that far the reininder of this Congress the dnily sessions of the Tlouse shall begin at 11 o'clock fn ‘the morning, Meanwhilo great efforts aro making to - HASTEN THE APPROPIRIATION BILLS, ‘The Sub-Committees of the Apvropriations Committea have completed thol work, ex- ecopt ns to two of the large bills, he Commerce Committoe, whlch I to - report the River and Harbor bill, has that nearly ready, subject only to somo revislons, The Agrleultural Connnlttee will soon bo ready with fa bill, wiileh, tor the first tume, it will report under the new rules, and the District of Columbia Appropriatlen il wos consldered to-dny. “Phero was a goodl deal of business transctod to-day without dobate which under other elretustances mlght hava led to protracted disunssion, It.had been threatened, for ln- stance, that when any one of’ the nunierous Bkl to gruut e AMERICAN REGISTERS TO PARTICULAL BHIPE should be Intreduced somo of. the Free-, Tradors would . objeot, unless n genaral measure providing for the madification of tha Nuvigation laws 50 as 10 admit all forelgn ships to reglstry could be’ presented for. debate, The attempt was, indeed, mado to do this Dby Chaluers, of' Missls sippl, who dld object to the passage of the bill to grant an American reglster to the .’ Egyptian ship Dessoug, which brought the obelisk over, but which feans, Chalmers suid: “If you will prosent a gonorsl bill I will vote for 1, buk Lobject to sopnrute lugislation.” However, ho was finglly Induced by Gen, Joo Johuston, of Virginla, to withdraw his objectlon, and . tho blll wus passed, glving the Dessoug ad- ntages] with respect to Ingpection which are not enjoyed by Amorlean-bullt ships, Pho nuxt bill of this churacter will bo one I3 ovped by Amers 1