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Dimmick will spend the day hero @bing some shopping, returning to Cape May this after- Boon. of ——>___ Dr. McGonigal Indicted. New Yorx, Augast 6.—The grand jury this sfternoon found indictmen‘s of manslaughter in the first degree against Dr. Honry G. Mc- Gonigal, Mrs. Fanny Shaw and August Harri- eon as princip: causing the death of Annie Goodwin, the cigarette maker, by malpractice, Saratoga Races. Saratoga, N. Y., August 6. Weather clear. Track heavy. First race, for maidens, three year old and upward, one mile—Princess Annie, first; Fel- lowship, second; Architect, third. Time, Second racey six furlongs—Mora, first; Ran- cocos, eecond; Fairy Queen, third. Time, L474. Thea race, mile and a sixteenth. B. B. Mil- lion first, Austerlitz second, Uncle Rob third. Time, 1.5234. Fourth race, six furlongs, for two-year-olds, Mra. Dennet first, Belle of Orange second, Wood- ben third. Time, 1.17. Fifth race selling, mile and seventy yards, Sunnybrook, first; Satisfaction, second Ma- cauley. third. Time 1:5034. costs a FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, ria New York Stock an. = fo! opening and ¢ the New York wiock Market, 4a reported by special Wire to Corson and Macartney, 1410 ¥ street: Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—Regular Call—12 o'clock m.: D.C. 1891, $1,000 at 102%. Eckington and Sol Home Kailroad, 11 at 68. mac Telephone, 10 at 73. ernment Bonds—U. 8.4}, 1891, registered, bid, 103 asked. U. 8. 4i¢s, 1891, coupon, bid, 104 asked. U. 8. 4s. registered, 1007, Chesapeake and F LOS 5g in3ig bid, 124 asked. U. S 4s, coupon, 1907, 123% bid,"1244 asked, Vistrict of Columbia Bonds—Por imp. 6s, 1801, gold, 101 bid. Per imp. 7s, 1801, currency, 1024 bid, 103% asked. Market stock 7s, 1802, currency, 1Uy bid. 20-year fund, 6s, 1892, gold, 102 bid. 20- year fund, 68, In, gold, 111 bid. Water stock, 7s, 1901, currency, 1:1%3y bid. 40-year fund, te. gold, 1902, 12u bid. "Water stock, 7s, currency, 1905, 13934 bid. J-Hds, 1924, 1nd, ci! rs 13034 bia. Miscellaneous Bonds—U. 8. Electric Light bonds, Ist Us. 10U bid. U. S. Electric Light bonds, 2d Gs, 150 vid. Washington and Georgetown Railroad. 10-40, 6s, 103 bid. Washington aud Georgetown Convertible bonds, 6s, 200 vid. Masonic Mall Association 5s, 18us, 106 bid, 10834 asked. Washington Market Company bonds, imp. 6s. 117 bid. Washington ht Intantry Srst wortgage Os, 1004, bid. Washington Light Inianuy bonds, 2d 7s, 1994, 96 bid. Washington Gas Light Company bonds, series A, G6, 117% bid, 120 asked. Washington Gas Light Company bonds series B, ts, 11s bid, buy asked. Hygienic lee Company, first mortgage, 6s, 9 bid, 103, asked. American Security and Trust, 100 bid, National Bauk Stocks—Bank of Washington, 458 bid, 470 asked. Bunk of Kepublic, 205 "bid. Metropolitan, 279 bid, 2 asked. vid. Faruers’ and Mechanics’ asked. Citizens’, 165 bid. ia, 185 asked. Capital, 119 bid, 125 asked. West End, 100 bid, 104 askec. Traders’, 1273 bid. Lincoln, Ws bid. dailroad Stocks — Washington and George- woy"n, 300 bid, 460 asked. Metropolitan, 160 bid, 175 asked. Columbia, 72 bid, 78 asked. Capitol and North O Street, 63 bid, 70 asked. Eckington and Soldiers’ itome Railroad, 6¥ bid, 7u asked. Georgetown and Tenaliytown, 60 bid, 5 asked. insurance Stocks—Firemen’s, 47 bid. Franklin, 35 bid, 56 asked. Metropolitan, 80 bid. Na- Uonalj Union, 20x bid. Columbia, 18 bid, 20 asked. German-American. 180 bid. Potomac, 80 bid, 100 asked. Kiggs, Sj Did. People’s, 5:4 bid. Gasked. Lincoln, o5y bid, 6 asked. Title lasurance Stocks — Columbia Title, 6% bid, 7 asked. Heal tsiate Title, 125 bid, 132 asked. Gas and Electric Light Stocks—Washington Gas, 47 bid. Georgetown Gas, OU bid. U.S. Electric Light, 165 bid. _ ‘Telephone Stocks — Pennsyivania, 25 bid, 30 asked. Chesspeake and fotonac, 77 bid, 80 asked, American Graphopho VW assed. ‘Miscellaneous Stocks— Washington Market Com- 21 asked. Great Falls Ice Com- id, 240asked. Bull Kun Panorama, ked. Washington Safe Deposit Company, 127 bid, 140 asked. Nauonal sypo- raphic, 35 asked. Pneumatic Gun Carriage. E bid, 13g asked. Washington Loan and Trust asked. American Security and ‘Trust Company, 57% bid. Lincoln lial, 60 vid, 100 asked. Hygienic Ice Comany 50 bid. Inter-Ucean Building Company, 102 bid. sean en Sa Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE, August 6.—Cotton stoady—mid- Ging, 12%. Flour quiet but firm. Wheat—south- strong, higher; Fultz, 9ha96; Longverry, 9a S stoamor No. 2, red, 94; wontern ln- tive and higher: No. 2 winter red, spot, 05%0 oo” e gs%a0w; September, YO aIOK: - _Corn—southern mpany, 47% bid, steady; white, strong: mixed spot, ber. 45; ungraded Western white, 47a48; do. graded No. 2,’ white, 48; do. do mixed, quiet bat firm—cholce, 0; common to fair, is to choice timothy, 11.50a12.50. B3aSe; August, 5417; Septem- ts moderately 3g. Oni rovisions fairly active. Butter firm—creamery, fancy, 16; do. fairsto choice, 15a17; do. imitation, 12a14; ladle, fancy, 12: do. good to choice, 8410; store packed, Gu9. ‘Eggs quiet—16\a Coffee ‘firm—Rio car- r, 20; No. 7, 183,418}. Sugar stro’ ‘aD- —<— “hong mete aot 18 Whisky frm, good demand—1.16a1.17. Freights to Liver- I per steamer dull, steady — cotton, yur. 11s.3d.; grain. 1d. Cork for orders—3e. Keceipw—fiour, 7,927 barrels; wheat. 71,000 bushels: corn, 58,000 bushels; oats, 5,000 bush- els. Shipments—fiour, 4,546 barrels; wheat, 84,- 000 busitels. Sales—wbeat, 188,000 busheis; corn, 14,000 bushels, ate ree KE, August 6 —Virginia consols, 49a51; pis Sonat: 40. threes, 69: Baltimore and hid stock, 10351044: Northern Central stock, 683at9; Consolidated gas bonds, 11401144; do: stock, 3134852. Chicago Markcts. August 6 (Closing). — Wheat—Au- ere Co sepiembers Or: May, 100%. Corn August. 495 August, 383 Seprember, i130. ribs—Septem ber paces oS ee MONEY FOR ATTORNEYS. The House Passes the Bill to Relieve the District Attorney’s Office. Mr. Cates this afternoon in the House by Unanimous consent called up the bill increasing the compensation of the assistants to the attorney of = — — for the Districs of Columbia and amending tection 903 of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District. Mr. Oakes drew Attention to the great and pressing need of the Passage of this bill on account of the condition of the attorney's office. The act would allow of an additional assistant district attorney he said, and tbe bill should be passed at onge. at once The bill which has already ape Senate provides that the statutes amended so as to read, refei to the district attorney: “‘He shall pay to his or assistants not exceeding inall 6 anni also hiv clerk hire, not per annum; office rent, fuel, stationery, feisca Lrevr. Starrox’s Successon.—Pirst Lieut Prank L. Denny, United emptor yd has reparted here for duty in office judge advocate general of the navy, in Line of Lieat Stayton, who recently resignot. € statement, within ten da THE NEW DEATH. ——_—_ [Continued from Second Page.] Kemmler, the murderer's brother, who had married = sister of she dead woman. ‘The woman was described by the Buffalo pa- pers at the time as 4 prepossessing brunette of about 135 ‘and quite stylish looking. Serb eten eben darer refused to talk of the crime, and at one time there were doubts as to his sanity. He made no attempt to es- cape after the assauit. bs bape Sgr to gives reason for the deed he only said: “I wanted to Kill her, and the sooner I hang for it the better." Nearly @500 in cash was found at his room. The coroner’s jury pronounced Kemm- ler a murderer, and immediately after the in- quest he was taken from the jail to tl ice court and arraigned on a charge of m the first degree. He plead guilty, had no use for & lawy. Judge Childs sentenced him to die within the week beginning June 24, 1889, by the no Plication of electricity as provided by the code, at Auburn state prison. Counselor Hatch took exceptions to the sentence upon the ground that the punishment was cruel and unusual and contrary to the spirit of the Constitution. Kemmler reached Auburn Fri- dav, May 24, at midnight, A writ of bi corpus was se upon Warden Durston just before the fatal day arrived and upon June 25 an exhaustive argument was heard by County Judge Day, The whole argu- ment was as to the coustitutionality of the law substituting electricity for the gibbet, upon the round of the former being cruel and unusual. Seago Day dismissed the writ and the case was taken to the general term of the supreme court at Rochester, where the constitutionality of the lew was upheld. The last resort was the court of appeals, and here, too, the decision was adverse to Kemmier's counsel. The criminal was resentenced to die in the week beginning April 28, 1890. It is hkely Kemmler would have been electricized on April 30, but on the 29th a United States writ of habeas corpus was served on the warden, and the case was then carried to the United States Supreme Court on the point of constitationality of the law on tl» same grounds as urged in the state courts, The New York courts were upheld in the final ap- aland Kemmler was again sentenced to be illed in the week beginning August 4, groin omar dh THE DEATH CERTIFICATE. Signed by All the Witnesses of the Exe- cution. After Kemmler was electrocized Warden Durston took from his inside pocket a prepared certificate of execution, which the law requires shall be signed and filed in the office of the county wherein the conviction was had, together with the post-mortem fter the execution takes place. Each witn twenty-five in all, besides the warden—signed his name to the certificate of execution before he left the death toom. This certificate reads: Court of oyer and terminer in and for Erie county: People of the state of New York against Wm. Kemuler, otherwise called John Hort, State of New York, county of Cayuga, s.8.: I, Charles F. Durston, agent and warden of Auburn state prison, at Auburn, Cayuga county, state of New York, do hereby certify, pursuant to section 508 of the code of crimmal proced- ure of the state of New York, that, in obedience to and in conformity with the judgment and sentence of the above named court and the warrants of said court,a copy of which is hereunto annexed, I, said agent and warden at the said state prison at the city of Auburn, county of Cayuga, state of New York, on the 6th dey of August, 1890, did attend upon the execution of the said judgment and sen- tenceand that the said William Kemmler, other- wise John Hort, the convict therein mentioned, was then there in conformity tothe said judg- ment and sentence of said court and in accord- ance with the [selec of the code of criminal procedure of the state of New York. I do further certify that the persons whose names are hereinafter signed were the persons invited by me as such agent and warden of such state prison to be present at said execution and that said persons were all the persons present and witnessing the execution of said judgment and sentence upon the said Kemmler, other- wise called John Hort. Dated at Auburn, Cayuga county, state of New York, this sixth day of August, 1890, Cuauces F’, Durston, Agent and Warden. Woe, the undersigned, being the persons pres- ent and all the persons present and witnessing the execution of the judgment and senteuce set forth in the foregoing certificate, do hereby, pursuant to statute in such case made and pro- vided, and at the city of Auburn, county of Cayuga, state of New York, aforesaid, on the 8th day of August, 1890, subscribe to the fore- going certificate, Signed: Louis Balch, W. J. Nellis, J. M. Jen- kins, W. I. Jenkins, Jos. Fowler, Henry Argue, C. M. Danicls, A. P. Southwick, O. A. Hough- ton, C. R. Huntley, H, E. Allison, T. K. Smith, Robert Dunlap, E. C. Spitzka, Carlos F. Mc- Donald, Geo. Fell, Oliver A. Jenkins, Jos. C. Beling, Horatio Yates, Tracy CG, Becker. Michael Conway, George Granthan Bain, Frank W. Mack, Geo. F, Shrady and Geo. W. Irish. ——— a SOURCE OF THE DEATH CURRENT The Machinery and Appliances of the Death Chamber. By a small window in a loft above the marble shops, in Auburn prison, is rigged a dynamo which takes power from the shop below. It is a fifty-horse power machine, which is the me- chanical force, allowing for waste in gearing and transmission, deemed necessary to main- tian fifty of the arc or big white street lamps. The qualifications of this dynamo are: Comm fi Speed vrevolations of artasture): z This machine is so constructed as to generate what is known as an alternating current. In lay terms it may be said that in alternating current dynamos the electric force undergoes rapid periodio changes, being one moment at zero, increasing to maximum, diminishing to zero; then, reversing in direction, it again rises to a maximum, to fall again to zero. The average of ‘these rupidly changing strengths is sometimes called the electro- motive force of the dyuamo. The Auburn ma- chine ia capable of about 230 of these reversals every second or about 14,000 every minute. When applied to the criminal, as in Kemmler’s case, thexe rapidly alternating throbs have exch about the physical force necessary to lift 137 pounds 1 foot in one second. The nerve cells and tissues are believed to be racked and smit- ten, firstinone direction and then another, by ‘this terrific and mysterious force, about 14,000 times every minute. It is like beating an object with a heavy hammer alternately on either side with great force very rapidly. In the case of electriciging the nerve ceils aro believed to be torn from the glands, or the ganglia, disintegrated—killed. Edison has stated under oath that one-tenth of an ampere (the electrical unit of quantity) ‘and 1,000 volts (a volt being the electrical unit of eomere) would be cnough to killa man. If Edison is right then the silent machine in the loft of the prison marbi p bas within its mysterious thews the generative power to decimate a great city in an incredibly short space of time. COULD HAVE KILLED 369 sex, A fifty-horse power machine would produce ® quantity equal to 37 amperes at a pressure of 1,000 volts, If Edison’s statement that a tenth of an ampere at 1,000 volte will kAl human life then the machine which was used on Kemmler might have destroyed 369 other men at same moment it did Kemmler There are, however, well informed electricians who wil! not fully accept Edison's figures, but they say the conditions he names “might” result in death. However, there 1s ample margin above the force required to kill, for the dynamo has a possible force of over 2,000 volts, which, while it red quanti at a given point of the cir- cuit at a given instant of doul the pressure cited by it of placing an ineh nozzie on a 4-inch pipe through which water , is A less quantity of water would eecape instant, but its force would be vastly D. C. the and vines cover it, down to the basement ensh b tee polor nie ie Matai ee room. ————_ DRAMATIC INCIDENTS AT ALBANY. The Passage of the Law and the Excit- . ing Debate Upon It, Avpary, August 6.—Dramatie scenes at- tended the passage by the New York legis- Isture of the measure under which Kemmler today suffered death. The bill came from the hands of a commission which had been ap- pointed to consider a change in New York's method of executing murderers. it was first presented in the assembly, and gray-haired Saxton—he of the electoral bill—as chairman of the assembly's judiciary committee, had as- sumed its championship. It was a winter night and the great capito was thronged. A measure which should abolish the noose and the gibbet was to be placed on its final ps ein the house, and Charles T. Saxton, an able law: and a man, would make the chief speech in its behalf. Thatastruggle would be made against “the new-fangled notion” by those who al- ways oppose innovations was well The committee hearings on the bill had foreshadowed this. There was another anda more powerful influence to be pitted against the measure, for it was well known that the Cetholic members would bitterly oppose the clauses of the bill which consigned the mur- derer’s remains to the prison yard, with quick- lime to hasten dissolution, and that without re- ligious rites. Every member was in Hts place. The floer the galleries and the speaker’s platform even held curious spectators, The bill to substitute the mysterious force of electrieity for the rope was moved, and Saxton, standing in his place in the brilliant chamber, made his plea ror its pease. Then came the battle, and it was otly waged. Ridicule and taunts were leveled at the commission which framed the bill—one of them sitting beside Mr. Saxton. AN ANGRY SCENE. Men grew angry, some insulting, others nsed vicious sarcasm, and at each onslaught the gray-haired Saxton, with magnificent voice and keen mind, stood ready. Finally, within ten feet of the bill's defender, arose War Veteran Longley of Brooklyn. He cited the agony of (eos relatives must suffer at not being able to ury their dead. though the dead be 8 mur- derer, Then he referred to the war time and tothe sad comfort afforded those who were | noieoety to receive and bury the bodies of e loved ones killed in battle. “I move to amend,” concluded Mr. ley, “that friends or relatives may reclaim the of the executed man.” There was both heart and brain in the re- sponse to this. “When a man by his crime forfeite his life to the state,” spoke Mr. Saxton, ‘the state has undoubted right to dispose of the murderer's body as public policy may direct. What com- fort can be afforded those who loved the crimi- nal by viewing the remains which in life had failed of self-respect, and which in death bear the stamp of the state’s righteous desecration? “In Chicago,” continued the speaker, “the bodies of executed criminals were exposed to relatives and to the public, and that city was brought very close to an insurrection. Public policy would have been better served had the provisions of this bill been operative there.” ‘There was a pause, in which the throng was hushed, and Mr. Saxton, turning toward Long- ley, looked into his eyes, “Finally,” he broke forth in a searching monotone that reached every ear, ‘does the gentleman wish to force upon me, who served as did he in the Union armies, @ comparison of the sacred sorrow for the dead soldier with the passion of regret over the corpse of a dead murderer?” THE BREATALESS SILENCE, Interest of the crowded chamber was too in- teuse for cheers, The crowd just waited in si- lence. This was broken by new anticipations as Mr. Roesch—who since, as senator, passed the weekly payment bill—arose to speak. It was known that he would voice the Catholic opposition to the bill, Said he: “I hold that where relatives claim the re- mains the state has no right to retain them. Property exists in human bodies, and besides (and his voice rose) this bill takes away the right of burial in consecrated ground.” ere was the challenge made by religious convictions. “Consecrated ground!” thundered Saxton. “Is the plea here made that hardship follows retention of a criminal cory from conse- erated ground? The criminal who in life would not respect the flesh protected yy the law he broke may not in death have demanded for it that which himself nad forfeited.” “But,” shouted Mr. Roesch, “was not the body of Christ stamped with the mark of the law's desecration, and was it not afforded decent burial?” The mets was launched upon the air with vehement emphasis. ‘'here was not a sound in the chamber where hundreds waited in sus- pense tocatch the response. Saxton stood a moment with bowed head, face as white as his hair, and then, tossing back his locks like a mane, with quivering lips and reverent tone, he said: “I will not stand here to answer @ question based upon the association of the Holy Savior's memory with that of men executed by the state of New York for murder.” He looked squarely into the face of Mr. Roesch, who had remained standing, but who, after a moment of intense stillness, slowly re- sumed his seat. ‘The tension on the listeners was relaxed, the bill went through with some amendments and was sent to the senate. After less dramatic history there it passed and Gov. Hill signed it, It took effect January 1, 1889, and Kemmler was first to commit murder in this state after that date; hence, first to suffer death under its provisions. —_—__.___. TEXT OF THE STATUTE, The Law Authorizing Death by Electro- cution. The vital and more interesting sections of the law (chapter 439, laws of 1888) providing for execution by electricity are as follows: “When a defendant is sentenced to the pun- ishment of death the judge or judges holding the court at which the conviction takes place or a majority of them, of whom the judge pre- siding must be one, must make out, sign and deliver to the sheriff of the county a warrant stating the conviction and sen- tence and appoint the week within which sentence must be executed. Said warrant must be directed to the agent and warden of the state prison of this state designated by law as the place of confinement for convicts sen- tenced to imprisonment in a state prison in the judicial district wherein such conviction has tuken place, commanding such agent and warden to do execution’ of the sentence upon some day within the week thus appointed. Within ten days after the issuing of such warrant, the said sheriff must deliver the defendant, together with the warrant, to the agent and w: n of the state prison there named. From the time of the said delivery to the said agent and warden until the infliction of the punishment of death upon him, unless he shall be lawfully discharged from such imprisonment, the defendant shall be kept in solitary confinement at said state prison and no person shall be allowed access to him without an order of the court, except the offi- cers of the prison, his counsel, his physician, a priest or minister of religion if he shall desire one and the members of his family. “The week so appointed must begin not less than four weeks and uot more than eight weeks after the sentence. The time of execution within said week shall be left to the discretion of the agent and warden to whom the warrant is directed; but no vious an- nouncement of the day or hour of the execu- tion shall be made except to the persons who shall be invited or permitted to be present at said execution as hereinafter provide: “The punishment of death must, in orey case, be inflicted by causing to pass — the body of the convict a current of electricity of sufficient intensity to cause the application of such current must be until such convict is “a th, and continued notice, of a justice uf the supre: wherein tho conviction, was had, together wi con’ was two physicians and twelve reputable zens of full to Seay’ g felatives of terred the person so executed, shall be in- in the cometery attached Matters are getting pretty badly mized with the majority of the House, The discontent of but insists bers, who are mad about the treatment of their public build- ings there are many others who have measures in various stages of progress and are very im- patient of delay. ACCUMULATED ON THE SPEAKER'S TABLE. During the consideration of special orders and appropriation bills business has accumu- lated on the Speaker's table. Many bills are Pp up there which members want to have id before the House for action, but it has not been possible to get at them. One favored or privileged matter after another comes up tience and watch the time go by. Many of mare get- ting ‘ively importunate, Others besides the public building victims are talking about taking the matter their own hands to Bee what they can accomplish by following the example of Mr. Payson, who successfully antagonized the com- mittee on rules with his land grant forfeiture Dillsome time ago. At that time Mr. Reed did all he could to hold Mr. Pay- son back and finally got very mad at his independence, but it did no good; tie Illinois man knew just what he wanted done and how to do it, and he succeeded, Some pretty hot words 1d between the two men, but the bill passed through the House. Now there are some other members who jagine they can do what Mr. Payson did and ey are anxious for an opportunity to try it, AN UNDERSTANDING. Mr. Grosvenor has been waiting for some twenty-one days to geta bill off the Speaker's table. He came to the House this morning with the determination to see what he could do to put an end to the delay, He claimed the floor for a privileged question im- mediately after the reading of the journal, but the conference report the original package bili intervened and meanwhile an understanding was reached with the Speaker that after the deficiency bill wes disposed of the Speaker's table should be leare PLENTY OF TIME, IT 18 SAID, Members are given to understand that there is plenty of time for all these things yet, as the committee on ways and means will not report & resolution to adjourn until the Senate has nm given ample time to pass the federal election bill, whether they want to or not. THE CIVIL SERVICE INQUIRY, The House Committee Will Resume Its Sessions Tomorrow. The House committee on reform in the civil service did not continue the investigation into the general workings of the civil service commission this morning, as was expected. The investigation will be resumed tomorrow, how- ever, and will be continued from day to day until finished, It is thought that it will take not less than two weeks to entirely close the matter up. THE PRESIDENT’S RETURN. He Will Spend ao Few Days Here Before Leaving for Boston. The President returned to the city this after- noon at about 12 o'clock from Cape May. He will probably leave on Saturday for New York to take tbe cruiser Baltimore for Boston to attend the Grand Army en- campment at the Hub, Some time week after next he will make another trip to Cape May and about the last of the month he. and the family will go to Cresson, Pa, where the ladies and children will spend the rest of the summer, —— A WHEELMAN FINED. Judge Mills Thinks Bicycles Should Go Slow at Crowded Corners, This afternoon in the Police Court a young man named Jackson H. Wood was charged with recklessly riding a bicycle and with as- saulting Thomas Allen. colored, by the bicycle striking him. The affair occurred several days ago at the corner of Pennsylvania avenuo and 7th street. The prosecution claimed that the defendant was riding at the rate of six or seven miles an hour, and at the 7th street junction the bicycle struck a buggy and then strack the colored man, who was crossing the avenue at the time. The defendant explained how the accident happened and said it was the first time he had ever run against any person, He said that he was going slow at the time and the buggy drove against him knocking his bicycle against the colored man, Judge Mills said that any man who rides uch _a rate of speed Pennsylvania avenue and 7th street should be made an example of and made to pay for it, A fine of $10 was imposed for reckless riding and the assault charge was jissed. ee CAPITOL TOPICS. The final meeting of the conferees on the land grant forfeiture bill for the purpose of siguing their report, which was expected to have been held several days ago,was postponed at the request of the Alabama Senators. They received a request from parti interested in the Mobile and Girard road, a part of whose grant is declared forfeited by the bill, for an oO} | qeeyy Sade before the conferees some ditional information respecting that grant. The conferees consented to delay finai action until that could be presented, and were assured that the gentlemen who are in possession of it will be here tomorrow. DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. A CONTRACT FOR BRICK. The Commiesioners have awarded the con- tract for furnishing brick to the Washington Brick Machine Compaoy. Paving brick are to be supplied at $10.43 per 1,000 and arch brick the city, $8.98 in Georgetown county, at within and $9.93 in the VITAL STATISTICS, Health Officer Townshend’s report for the week ending August 2 states that there were 9% deaths; white, 42; colored 55. The Principal causes of death were: Diphtheria, 1; consumption, 5; diarrheal, 23; typhoid fever, 8; scarlet fever, 2; congestion of the } 1; bronchitis, 1. ‘There “and 18 . were 77 births marriages reported. The building bail the fol- a: Agnes V. bell, New Jersey avenue, $2,400; ‘dwelling, Graut road, Manager Ted Uncertain. Manager Ted Sullivan said to a Stax reporter today that the other clubs of the Atlantic Asso- > WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1890; ” SENATORS NOT VERY WELL. PAYING OFF STATE DEBTS. Statesmen Whose Health Has Suffered | A Bulletin of Statistics Issued by the by Protracted Labora, TEE PRYSICAL EFYECTS OF THE LONG srsstox— DEMOCRATIO MEMBERS SEEM TO HAVE sUP- FERED THE MOST—QUITE A GOOD MANY OX THE LIST OF IXDISPOSED. There are sick men ip the Senate. The elongated session of Congress is responsible for the general air of weariness that marks the daily meetings of the upper ‘house, and it is the continual strain which is responsible for the upset condition of a great many legislators, Up to this time it ie probably correct to say that the democrats have worked barder than the republicans, Asa general thing the minority in the Sen- ate does not have to labor excessively, but ever since inst December the republican leaders have so contrived and controlled things as to make their. antagonists hustle pretty nearly all the time. They made assertions and then have thrown the burden of proof on their friends the enemy. The result is a padiy- wrecked ion of statesmen, every one of them willing and anxious to adj nm. Of course there are several of the republicans who have suffered from the continuous labor their aggressive campaign made necessary, bat taken oe whole —t my ged are in better shape, i , than the gentlemen on the te side ‘of the chamber, any of the affected ones are hardly aware of the changes that have taken place in their a ince, but the decadence of senatorial pulchritude is very apparent to the observers in ‘the press gallery. ‘Mr. Carlisie has been seriously indisposed for the past ten day; his friends say his trouble is malarial. His colleague, Mr. Blackburn, is also afflicted similarly, but to a lesser extent. Chills have made some of the hot days quite bearable for Mr. Biackburn. Mr. Kenna’ trouble is one which worries nim a good deal, but the doctors say that absolute rest will cure him; he is suffering from accelerated action of the heart. Mr, McPherson has been devoting a great desl of time to legislation of the larger magni- tude and he weighs several pounds less than he did last spring. Mr. Pugh also has lost weight and with the vanishing avoirdupois has de- parted much of the ity of countenance which was his, A sure index of Mr. Morgan's condition is his voice; this is much weaker now than it was earlier in the session, and if Mr. Morgan were to exert his vocal organs to the utmost they would not give forth such strong tones as they did when the Montana senatorial contest was in progress, Mr. Cockrell, whose interest in all matters is always prominently active, has a haggard ap- pearance; he only resembles the Senator Cock- rell of six months ago in his general outlines. Mr. Coke suffers the pangs of a well-developed case of rheumatigm; his right knee is affected. If the ‘Texan could only go home and stay there for a while he would recover, for the southwestern climate does not encour- age the disease. Mr. Coke has a big tariff speech ready and he would have delivered it ere this had it not been that his affliction pre- vented him from standing up for a sufficient Jength oo One = —_ ‘thit n or that speech will be buried: Pyheumatiz must cense to torture or the Senator must secure unanimous consent to deliver his oration sitting down. Mr. Gorman's face is much thinner than it has been for many months, but he sticks very closely to his desk. Mr. George's complexion has beon blanched toa surprising extent, and it will take three months of Mis- stssippi sunshine and moonsbine to replace the bronze hue which bas ordinarily been the color of his facial features, Mr. Faulkner feels the effectof the activity which bas marked his senatorial work this session and ho makes frequent trips to his home to ro- cuperate. Mr. Voorhees is another of the generally epervated but not specifically sick, THR REPUBLICAN SIDE. On the republican side the sickest-looking man is Senator Davis. Reaily he is not sick, but the wide expanse of whiskerless face still shocks those who think the Minnesotan ought never to have removed his mustache. Mr. Davis’ health has, however, deteriorated considerably, his work as chair- man of the pension committee and the troubles arising out of the St. Paul- Minneapolis census fight having bothered him beyond expremion, Mr. Morrillis far from lori well, and his colleague, Mr, Edmunds, com- plains quite frequently that his physical con- dition is far from satisfactory. Mr. Hoar has thinned down until he probably weighs twenty pounds less than he did last wiater. The long session has affected Mr. Blair. When Mr. Blair is feeling well he not only likes to make speeches himself, but he also 1s willing to bear others talk. Now his indisposition is apparent in his desire to shut off much spoak- ing and to say but little himself. Mr. Farwell has not been in the Senate for some time. He is avery sick man. Mr. Manderson, who has been quite ill, is much better now, but he owes his improvement to absence from his senatorial jabors, Mr. Power is evidently ont of health; he is jd and looks even more sickly than Mr. jorrill, When Mr. Power came from Montana he Jooked much better thun he does now, Senators Allison, Aldrich and Hiscock—hard workers on appropriations, tariff and silver— all look woaxiek and would hail adjournment with a large-sized hail. Mr. Hawley atso shows the effects of a too close application to public business, HE AGREES WITH THEM. Some of the Senators look as though long sessions agreed with them. Mr. Call is tough and shows no signs of exhaustion. Mr. Dolph seems to be as fresh as ever. Mr. Reagan is as heavy as of old and apparentiy just as contented—last year's clothes will fit bim. Messrs. Vance and Ransom are beyond question O.K. and Mr. Vest’s activity and pug- nacity have undergone no change. Mr. Sher- man is hardened. for he shows no signs of wear; six or seven hours of tariff each day do not dis- turb him at all. Mr.Spooner also seems to th: on abstruse discussions of “specific” and “ad valorem.” Mr. Platt bas had a hard time of it, for, in addition to his legislative duties, he has been much worried over the serivus iliness of his wife. but he seems to hold his own so far as outward appearances go. And every one of home. WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. Senators wants to go To Cuaxor tHE Hovn.—Several petitions have recently been received by Statistician Dodge of the Agricultural Department from the Chicago and St Louis Board of Trade asking for a change in the hour for issuing the monthiy crop re; ‘The department has notified the petitioners that if they can se- cure a majority of the exchanges in’ the west the report be issued at 1 o'clock p.m. in- stead of f p.m. and that no change will be de this month, but, probably, beginning ith September, the report will be issued at 1 o'clock. Tue Appraisers’ Decisiox.—Secretary Win- dom has written a letter to the members of the board of appraisers, calling their special at- tention to section 16 of the law creating a board, in regard to the publication of the deci- sions by the board and individual, reports thereon, &c, The Secretary says that all im- tant decisions should be promptly forwarded F'the Department so that a proper Bynopsis may be made of them for publication. Anmy Onpers.—The leave uf absence granted Capt. Wm. H. Bixby, corps of engineers, has been extended fourteen days on account of ls itt A H r ; A F f i i i | F F $ é i f E | Ht! ree t i i i f Ht HE lh HI ‘ Census Office. ‘One of the first results of the work of the Consus Office was embodied in « bulletin iaewed today, which gives a preliminary report relat- ing to state debts and presents a summary of the outstanding debts of the several states Jume 1, 1880, and June i, 18%. Superintendent Porter states in regard to these statistics that “it is impossible, in dealing with state and local finance, to give all the returns as of June i, 1890, and the act for taking the eleventh and subsequent censuses, approved March 1, 1859, Provides that returus shall be of and for the fiscal year having ite termine tion nearest to the ist of June, 189% As this plan was substantially adopted ten years ago the comparison of the total debt fm 1880 with the total debt at the present time doth fair and accurate. From these returns ft will be seen that in the decade end ing 1890 state indebtedness hee decreased in round numbers about 55,000,000," Mr. J. K. Upton, who as in charge of this work, in speaking of the decrease in state im debtedness states that in most of the states reducing their indebtedness during the decade the reduction has been accomplished by ing to the extinguishment of their obligations the revenues not needed for chrrent expenses, In a few states, however, the apparent decrease of the debt has arisen from the enforced re- funding of the old debt into a new one at a die count varying from 20 to 85 per cent. Taking from the amount of decrease in all the states the amount thus arising from the discount in refanding and there is left as paid by cash €29,497,766.19, nnd the geographical section, which includes the states named, in- stead of having a decrease of debt of €27.598, 587.36, as shown by the statement, will have am increase of $929,577.49. The amount of debt of the states in 1880, as published in the reports of the tenth census, is, to a small extent, in excess of the amount of bonded debt herein stated, arising from the classification in the reports of certain negob- able school bonds bonded debt, they being so reported by the states, The bonds appear in this sammary as floating debt. In Maryland. according to the report. the bonded debt in 1880was €11,280,00,69 and in 1890 $10,370,596.56. There Is no floating debt. The cash and fundson hand in 1880 was €4,450.- 466.30 and in 189 = €7,646.413. In Virginia the bonded debt i 1880 owas 831, 113,938,30, and in 1890 €28,687,603.79. The floatin, tin 1880 was €4,075,120.96. and im 1890 $7,521,651.83. Cash and funds on band im 1880 $3,925,445 and in 1890 4,683,720, Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued by the clerk of the court to Wm R. Embrey and Emma A. Morgal, both of Montgomery county, Md.; Edward Maurice Taber and Ann Eliza Moffette; Thatcher C. Yates of Fredericksburg, Va,and Alice J. Lee of Leesburg, Va; B.D. Bowman and Martha Green. nocd Real Estate Matters, Richard Ryan has purchased for €7,000 of G, H. Parker part square 473, 48 feet on 6th street, runniug to Water street between M and N streets southwest, J.B. Henderson has bonght for €10,409 of P. Shoemaker part resurvey New Seat, &c., 14.87,actes on Broad Branch rag W. F, Johnson hi: rchae @ for $8,000 of Sarah E. Schneider sub 68, sq¥are 240, 20 by 100 feet on Q between 13th and 14th streets northwest, G. A. Riggles has purchased for $8,000 of T. F. Schneider sub 236, square 362, 19 100 feet. on 9th between Westminster and T chreets northwest. B. F. Leighton and Richard E. Pairo have bought of Joh Lynch for £35,000 all of square 5A7, between 41, street, Delaware avenue, O and P streets couth west. James Keliher has bought for €5,690.89 of D, T. Hassan parts 159 and 160, {7rd H's eddi- tion to West Washington, fronting 89.85 on $4. street near High, A Renz has bought of Mitchell Renz for $6,000, lot 11 square 1028, 8,100 square feet, fronting sms fons on Maryland avenue, between 13th and 14th streets northeast, —— Transfers of Real Estate, Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: Susannah Mills to John C. Slater, lots 1 to % 6 and 7, gq. 59; S$ Rosina B. Knoch to Christina C, Mublhofer, part 7, sq. 8%; @— Catherine Heenan et al, to W. M. Caton, part 177, 6q. 84. W.W.;8—. F. A. Ankam wo Mra Ellen F. Maloney, sub 7, sq. 900; @2.023. 0. L. Green to H. Kuhlman, lots 22 and 23, sq. 2, Chi- chester; $500. Sarah W. Brown to Susannah A. Moreland, sub 15, sq. 228;€—. G. G, Ring- walt to John Albert, part 89, eq. 1003; @1,100, Dr. J. T. Sothoron, who has been very ill for some weeks, is recovering. ————— Having made up your mind to sign the petition against the Atkinson bill, do not delay doing @ Sign at once, —— Range of the Thermometer Today. The following were the rondings at the Sig- nal Office today: 8 a.m., 75; 2 p.m., 86; maxi- mum, 89; minimum, 72, “ BUELL—SCHMIDBERGER. On A pat vr ee PO, ences, © 2PR bride's parentx. JOSE BUELL of Mass., to WANDA A. SCHMIDBERGEK of unis city. aX EXMAS SROEMAR: BR. e Kev. Father Barry,usmisted by Hey. Father o' Or ny Hey. Pat mee On Augost 4, 1890, by nell, CHAKLES SHOEMABEK ——— eee DIED BAKRICK. On Wednesday, Ausnst 6, 1890, Parents’ residence, 214 Thirtecnthund-s Walt cuter southwest, ADA, beoved daughter of Mayvie Barrick, aged six mouths. Funeral private, ° COLBIRT. On Moday, august 4, 18! LEN COLBERT, the brioted husband of Meee bert, departed Luis live iu the #iach-seventh year of age. Funeral will take place Thursday, Auguet 7, o'clock Sharp, from Galbraith Churek, Sixth between L an M streets northwest, DORSEY. On Tuesday, August 5, 1890, at 6:65 m., Mrs. MARGARET DURSEA, wite of ‘James Doe: neral will take place from her late 1 1 street northwest, on Friday morning at orglock. and from thence “proceed to Ss; Sepben’ Church. Friends and relatives are inv attend Interment at Hoy Rood Cemetery. ca FIELDS. On the 4th day of Ancust, 1890. ROG! B. FALLS, aged twenty-two year apd ome — WMAN and Miss AB! i A voice We loved is sti‘led, A place is vacautin our Which never can be fille By His Uxcux, Wruuam Bowen, Funeral wil! take plece from his late residence, 3006 M street, Thursday, ot 4-30 p.m Heistives and friends invited to attend. * GOCKELER. On Tuesday, August 5, 1890, at o'clock ami, 2 lone illness, 3 GRULGE. beloved ‘Muuuie Gockeler, aged thirty-three years Funeral irom his late resideuee, . comper of Mistrects nomnwest, on tnureday, Regast eS o'clock jum. tives and inends are respectfully invited to at » rted this life Tuesday, August ‘kam, CAMTKM, only wun of dam and baunal Matthews aud Rusbend of Bae Matthews, aged thirty -one years, Funeral fron his late res.aleuce, 312 G street west, Ibursda) at z o'clock. Relatives aud fi invited te attend McCONVEY. On August 5, 1890, at Mount Bopa, tinote couity, Md., ANN ACCUNVEX. suddenly of pneumonia, in the sixty-sixth year of bet are. Fuvoral will take piace Cliurwdas ut 11 aie, fram B. Wheatley’s, SU7 Kicg etreet, Alexandria, Va (Alen andris end Charlestown. W. Va, papers ploase oupy. COONNELL On Tuesday, August 5, 1! at 3: am, WILLIAM L., cidest sun of Mary aud "the late Michael O'Counell, ad aged twenty-four > Suueral at 3 o'clock p.m. residence, 2608 | strat tan lives invited to attend. — oe Fred ood be Deusa Toe Scauce Moxzas AVOID STIMULANTS. ’ ‘Take the Genuine Imported CARLSBAD SPRUDEL SALT early in the moruing, before breakfast. It increases appetite, repairs imperfect Gigestiva, tones andcosie ‘the aysiem, ‘It is the best Aperient, Laxative and Diuretic yoo oul Beware of tmitaticns. Thegennine has the sigue zx Car rom Piromas® CasToRI4 a8 4 “