Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 25, 1883, Page 1

' THE OMAHA DAIlLy BEE TWELFTH YEAR. .THE STATE CAPITAL. Important Measures Discu W ani Introduced. The Proposed Railroad Com- mission Declared Un- constitutional. A Siringent Anti-Fret-Pars Bill Iotroduced in the Senat:. The Routine Work cf Bota Housee. T1HE LEGISLATURE. Special Correspondence of Tus Brx SENATE —AFTERNOON SESSION, Lincory, January 24,—On motion of Mr. Butler, the sonate went into| ¢ mmittce of the whole, with Brown, of Douglas, in the chair, Bill No. 1, to amend sections 3! and 40, cf an act to provide for revenue, was then considered. Section 49, as amended, will read a3 bif re, except that in r pec fying the the word| property to bo asersed, “franchizes’ io 1ngerted. Seetfon 40 was ameuded by a clause to provide for any board of equaiiza- tion, other than the present, and one to include in the assessment roil all depots and other buildings, whether on the right of way or mnot. It was then resolved to recommend that the bill dv pass. The bill defining the boundarles of Brown county, was then cors'dered, and 1t was resolved to recommend that it pass. The report of the committee of the whole was adopted, and the senate proceeded to the special order, the contested election caso of Sadler vs Bomgardaer. Mr. Butler offered a resolation affirming that Bomgardner is enutled to his seat. / Mr. Reynolda would like to know, if the committee could not agree and the senate had resolved to go into the facts, how they could coneistently pass such a resolution, Brown, of Douglas, said he had looked over the eviience rince the morning and he was convinced that monstrous frauds had been perpe- trated, but while that might be true it did not seem to him a reason for disfranchising all the poraons who had voted legally. If the votes subjact to suspicion were rejecced, evon then the sitring member had & wsjority. Mr. Reynolds said he did not wish to unseat Mr. Bomygardner, nor seat Me. Sadler, but hia idea was that an irregulari y in one direction vitiated the validity of the election altogether. All he wanted was that the purity of the ballot should be vindicated and justice be done to all parties, After some farther discussion the resolution to seat IMr. Bomgardner was carried without dissent. Mr. Butler renewed his resolution that the secretary of state be instructed to distribute papers, stamps and wrap- anmo members of the senate. 'he resolution being objected to went over. BENATE - MORNING SESSION, LixcoLN, January 24 —-lu the dis- tribution of cleckships, 1u epite of the numerous candidates, some favored fellows managed to crry of two priz-s instead «f one. Oae gentleman had obtained a clerkship in the house, and one 1n the senate, and was serenely drawing pay for both, when the impo- sition was discovered and he was com- pelled to surrender one position. I learned ycs'erday that an attache of the senate hclds the permsnent clerkship of one committee aud the temporary clerkship of auother. But the temporary clerkship holds on so long that it has apicious look of permanency. is ought not to be, especlally in a body eo largely com- posed of men -vhose elec:ion was a protest against every species <f job- bary, whether great or small, whether in legislators or clerks. The committee cn railroads reported on the bill to prevent the use of pasaes, etc., in favor of haying the bill tflnud aud considered with other ills upon the same subject. The committee on engrossed bills reported that the several bills placed in their hands had been correctly en- grossed, A memorial to congress was pre- sonted, asking that soms law might be passed that would effectually prevent railroads pooling and coneolidating. The bill to re-define the boundary of Knox county was azain read. This is the result of Siauders’ addi- tiou to the atate « f N:braska, but Nor- ris and Kiocaid vote steadily for Cowin, The bill of Brown, of Lancaster, to OMAHA NEB THURSDAY MORNING: JANUARY 45 1883 mended that the bill to prevent dis- ctimination by rallroads be printed and placed on file, Agreed to. * ~'aresolution to furnish ¢ flisore BlL,. A stamps, came up Lay,,, A to lay the bill on the . atpone its coneid- eratlon indefinites, The motion was lost by a vote of 15 noes to 12 ayes.p§ Brown, of Doug as, asked it boot- blacks were included. Busler retorsed that they had not qot to that yot. They had loft that tor the jodiciary cumuwittee Before the motion to adopt was put Mr. McShane called for a list of the cflizers and employes in the resoli- tion, Twenty-thres npamos were read, but there are o larg, number of others whose names were not read. Connor and Brown (Dovglas) held consistently to thelr polut, and Batler ficcd up, making one of his rattling speccher, full of anecdote and point, and making considurable fun of the constitutional lawyers on the fl or He closed with a warning that it de- feated he would make the senate vote on a similar resolution every dav, The motiou was lost—nays 16, yeas 13 At noon the genate sdjourned to go into joint oconvewtion for vhe eleciion of Ulited States sonator. HCUSE PROCEEDINGS January 24 —Among the bills bifire the house to- duy was one ligalizing vrimary eleo- tius. H R No 204 isa bill appro- priating money for the payment of as. signed claims against the atatein the case of J. P, Oliver. H. R. No. 159, 13 a bill to repair rocf of the universicy and baild outhou:es, ete. Tae amount appro,riated is £6 000 The bill of T P Kernard, H, R, No. 163, was read a sec ..l time. This bill asks over §3,0C0 w pyy Mr. Kon- nard his fees ard expenses as attorney in collecting morey from ths general governmant for Nebraska. The second reading of a bill was had to-day apprcpriating $2,000 for the purpose of eracting a ssldier’'s monu- ment near Lincola. The question of making the old Gille:pie residence, which is now the property « f the state, into an executive mansion, assumed the shaps of a bill in the house. Thy commitiee on normal schools mide some recommendations in rela- tion to appropriations needed for the normal sckool, and moved that the eamo be referred to committes on finance, ways and mear 8 A bill apprcpriating $500 to assist in buiiding the Lineoin moanment at Springficld, Illinois, was to-lay re- farced to the commiitso on finance, ways and means, The mambars who have been fivor- ing the passage of a law providing for the appoiniment or eleciion of rail- road ccrumiszioners as is now the case in Iowa and Ilinois, have ran square- Iy sgainat a rock in the shape of a de- cision of the supreme court which is to the effoct that under our conafitn- tion no such law can be enforced. A bill has already been introduced pro- viding for the submission of the ques- tion of changing the state conatitution 0 that such cflise of railroad commis- sioner or commissioners may be legal- ly created, but as this will require two yeara something muat be done for im- mediate protection, and thls is what is belng considered by the anti-mon- opolists &t this time, A btll was introduced this morning by Me. Haven, of Baffalo county, ap- propriating $75 650 for the purpose of erecting a new building to be used by the reform school at Kearney. This bull provides for the erection f an en- tire new building to be used for the school, while the old building, which 18 considered much too small, is to be fitted up as a work shop. The house passed H. R. No. 6, and N, 9 this afternoon, The former ri- fors to the recording of patents to rail- road lande, and the latter prohiblts the importation, wselling or running at largs of domestic animals or animals iofected with infections or contagious diseases . A bill providing for the publication of tha proceedings of the county com- missioners in county newspapers, was introduced and referred to the com- mittee on counties and county bound- aries. H. R No. 11, by Mr. Sessions, was defeated, The bill had some merit, but Sessions and death are synoni- mous terms in this body. The contest over the soat occupied by McGavook, from Douglas, has been the special order for this afternoon at 3 p.m. W. E. The Newhell Inquest. Special Dispatch to Tix Wex, MiLwavkee, January 24, —The night clerk Delaney was examined this forenoon in the inquest on the Nowhall houee disaster. The salient puints of the testimony are that he thought che firo originated in the bar- room. The hose in the halls had not beeu used or exam!ined for the last abelish the corrupt use of railroad [tWo — years. He counld have pestes, appears to be absolutsly com |ca'led the guesta if he plete In relation to its object, It|had not ~been engaged upon meets with general favor in the sen- ats, and if the house will do its duty it will become a law, and a lasting monument to the legal skill of its framers and purity of its author, It makes crlminal both the giver and taker of a pass, or transportation ba- low the general rate, 1 specifies all holders ot office under the state laws, and when acting in the state, of fed- eral officers, and all delegates to nom- inating conventions, 1t impoaes fines both upon the persons and corporations violating the provieions of the act, matters which he considered more im- portant than alarming the guests, He had twenty-five minutes between the discovery «f the fire and the time be- fore he knew the hotel was doomed. He could have ran through every hall in the hotel and alarmed every guest in that length of time, but he had to attend to the office duties in saving the papers, he knowing the hotel safe to be useless In case f fire. et — Th» Savage Beheaders. Spectal Dispatches to Tun nn = o SaN Franorsco, January 24 —In- For the fio oenteoehe osisll formation has beow ricoived ay shall pay not less than §20 nor more |y \po ()yeenland, that a large three $100. The sscond offense disqualifies ¥ him from ho! state therca will be fi which srainst ti the state, ai the use and benefit of the school fund, T send you a copy of the bill, which} has boen reported favorably, and 1 hope you will endoreo it and join in the emphatic recommendation that it do paes. The bill for an act to define the boundaries of Brown county was read & third time and passed. The committee on railroads recom- chooner was lost on the shore th of the Fly river, Now Tha crew, seventeen in num [ ia. were killed by the savages, Their off ives, and aistributed Ths Wanther Improvis Special Dispatch to Turk Brr. this worning has greatly moderated, The thermowmeter is 20 degrees higher is now 12 degrees above tho rising, The blcckades on western and north. western roads are removed and trains are runcing ve.rly on time, Cn10aGo, January 23, —The weather | than it was yesterday morning and | (o FREDERICK THE GRAYT. Millard's Chief Capper Snubbed in the Moropoly Cavcus, Joeeph's Brethren Decide on a Forlorn Hope To-day. The Prorprot of an Eor'v Settle- meut us Romote as Evor. The Last Two Ballots THE OUTLOOK. Spectal Dispatch to Tik Bus, Lixcoun, Nub,, January 2 in all the campsa. ginniog to show signs of restlossnoss and anxiety for decisive action, An effort was made to-night to consoli date forty republicaus in a cancus on & majority vote, but when Gay, of Douglar, made a motion for a ballot, twenty-four members picked up their bats and walked out, Another effort to select a candidate by a conference botween fif een republicaus and twelve anti-monopolists failed, becauss the a proposition to select a candidate from republicans refused to consider among the anti-monopoly repablicans. At midnight considerable excitement | Rich, Cook (of Jefferson ), Town, Werhan, was croated by the report that Millard | Whitz 1 and Young 8. would make a desperate onslaught on his rivals to-morrow. that he may develop considerably on the next ballot and jump up above|— thirty, but he cannot stampede the men into an olcction. The democrats and anti-monopolists agreed in their caucuses to stand out by their candi- dates to-morrow. E R ANGTHER DISPATCH. LiNcowy, January 24, —The senato- rial contest is growing warm. The democrats and anti-monops have agreed to concentrato on Boyd (lemo- crat) to-morrow., He will probably have fifty votes, Tae policy of the anti-monopoliats in this strategy is to force the republicans to name s man agrecable to them It is difficalt to say what the result will by, factor entera into the tght to- night., To.day the supreme court gave an informal opinion by the anti-monopolists, Judge Geo. B. Lake, chief justics of the supreme court, Ia now annonnced ae a oandl- friends claim he will bs the compromige can- | The opinion of the court has imbittered many members who occapy a conser- date for the senate. His did This I very doubtfol, vative pusition on railroad legislation. The contest will ba full of Interest The from now till the conclusion. republicans were in conference to night, but no decisive action wae had WILL BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL Spocial Dispatch 10 Tus Ber. LiscoLN, Neb,, January 24.—The eupreme court by a unanimous vote have decided that a railroad commis sioner bill made after the style of the laws of Towa or Illinois would be un conatitutional under the Constitution This decision will be published on Thursday or Friday. It was brought forth in response to a introduced in the house. This decislon will have the effect to shelve a large number of bills of this kind that have been Introduced in both of Nebraska, resolutior branche In the joint convention THE FIRST BALLOT for United States senator was as fol lows: Saunders, 156; Millard, 16 Cowln, Royd, 34; Dye, 1; Hall, 1; Stickel, 9; Thayer, 16; Manderson, 8; Lake, 4 Dorsey, 2; Crounse, Ashby, 1 Weaver, 1. THE BECOND BALLOT resulted as follows: Sauuders, 15; Mil lard, 15; Cowln, 13; Morton, 3; Con nor, 4; Boyd, 34; Dye, 1; Hall, 1 Stickel, 8; Thayer, 16; Manderson 8; Lake, Ashby, 1; Wenver, 1; Wells, 5. THE VOTE IN DETAIL 2. The hall of repressntatives was|vote for United Stafos senator, taken crowded as ueual, many ladies occupy ing forward positions on the flyor. The followiog is a statement of THE EIGHTH VOTE in joint convention in full: For Saunders Knox), Gow, Grimes, Hon'r, Johnson, Miller, Palmer (of Dixor), Ramsey, Rat cliffe, Roche, Westeott--15, For Millard—Filley, Harrie, Schoenheit, Browa, Castla, Charlaton, 3ria- | Ste )lan, Babcock, Christoph son, Gorden, Hall, Sowery, Walker rown of Clay, Fisher, Jook of Nuckoll Butler, S'eadwell - 7 Dovglas), 4, Conkling McSh Patterson, San oatzh, Ashby, Barl Carnaby, Clark (of Douglas), Clark fax), Davenport, Denmap, Draper Cass), Frause, Freeburn, Graver, Harrin n, Heiurich, Hoebel, Hollman, Laird, in Detall ~The legislative dead lock continucs. There are noindications of a choice to-mor- row, although there is great activity Members aro be- It is poseible A new that the railrond commission law would b anconstitutional. T'his is applauded 13; Morton, 3; Connor, 7; 3; Dorsey, 2; Crounse, 3; Brown (of Lancaster), Heist, Beirbower, Colpetzr, Draper (of Nevll Luthey, McGavock, ] Ayne, Schroedet, Thomas, Tower, Tuitle Payne. “chroeder, Thomas, Watts—384, i For Crounse—Hatch, Kuoney 2. Duopby, Rogers—3. L For Hall - Dech -1, For Stickel —Ileynolds, Rich, Armitage, Berkley, (o k ( { Jefferso), Town, Wer han, Whitzel, Young - % For Weaver—Chapip--1. For Dorsey ~ Grant, Worl—2. For Like- - Tones, MoAllister, Palmer of Saline), Whedon—4, For Ashloy—Turner—1, A SECOND BALLOT was had with the following result: For Boyd—Brown (of Douglas), Brown (1f Colfa), Cantield, Coukling, MeShane, Pat terson, Ling, ‘Uhatob, Arhby, Baiton, Carnaby, Clark (f Colfax),Ciurk (of Doug: mvort, Denman, Draper (of Casr), . Froeburn, Geaser, Harriigtou, arich, Hobsl, Hollman, Land, Luttey, i I'ayne, \\yn-.- H MG :drh‘mexlvr, Thomy Noeh, wer, Tuttle, For Alvin §undera—Brown (cf Lancas- tor), Heist, Bierbower, Colyetzor, Draper (of Kuox), Gow, Grimes, Homer, J hn Miller, Palmer (of Dixon), tocha, Weatett - 10, For Cowin —Dolan, Kineaid Norris, Bab. cock, Christopherson, Coliine, Dawson, Gordon, HL.l}, Lee, Taylor, Wisscnbergand Waolph--13, For Mand-rson—Bomgardner, Walker, . C.x, Robberis, Welker, Huw: ) Jenaen—8 Tonver Brown of Clay, Fisher, m, Howell, C:le, Cook of Nockolls, Fablinger, Howard, Martin, Russeil, Spancgle, S Grinstead. Ranney, 5, Harris, Schoenheit, Charlston Field, , Sessions, Steph+ Britton, Brown, Ca Gray, Morricon. enson, Suessenbach, Thompson - 15 For Wells—Barker, Dye, Palwer of Sa- line, Ramey, Sadolix—d Fir Connor—Butler, Armitage, Dudd, Stedwell—4, For J. H. Stickel—Reynolds, Berkley, For Morton Case, Dunphy, Rogers—3, For Hall—Dech -1, For Dya—Connor—1. For{Dorsey —Grout and Worl—2, For Orounse—Hatch, Haven, Kouncy 3. For Liaske—Abei, McAllister and Whe- don—3 For Weaver -Chapin- 1. 1 LOUISE LEAVES., fne Departure From Charleston, South Carolina. Special Dispatch to Tus Lxx. Cuarvreston, 8. C,, January 24,— Princess Louise embdarked on the Dido a6 p.m. Au immense throng lined the battory to witness the dapar ture. As she drove with the Marquis of Lorne in an opon carriage to tho carpeted and decorated Ianding stage, arected by the city authorities, shs ac- knowledged the cheors of thousands of spectstors by constantly bowing and smiling, I'wo ten-oared bargss con- veyed the party to the Dido, which was gaily dressed with bunting and the yards manned. Assoon as the royal standard was disvlayed from the firs. barge asalute of 21 guna were firad by the Garman artillery of thia city at the instance of the mayor. This was answered by a double salute from the Dido in greeting to the princess and the marquis. The princess expresses berself delighted with Charleaton. | The marqis loaves tonigic by *)Lt for Washiogton, The Dido will sai early to morrow morning. THE CREDIT MOSILIER. The Uclon Pacific SBult Against It. Special Dispatch to T Brn. New York, January 24, —Argument was heard to day In the supreme court upon the motion in the suit brought by the Union Pacitic railroad company against the Credit Mobilier of Amer- feato open defeult of defendent, to vacate judgment and all proceedings - | taken, snd for leave to petitioners to defend the action or be made parties to the defendant. This motion is made on behalf of six potitioners as stock- holders of the defendant corpora- tion, Oliver Ames is the principal petitioner, tha others joining in with him, The aftilavit of Sidney Dillon, president of the Union Pacific rail- road company, sets forth the items upon which this claim is based, and that the judgments obtained were cor- ract and had not been paid, and de- nied that any fraud existed in the procurement of this judgment. The sftidavit of Jay Gould was read, stat- ing that he was president of the Credit Mobiiler and a director of the Union Pacific company; that he owned some i | stock of the latter at present, but not to such a large cxtent as he had formerly, Gould asserted the treas- '|ury of the Credit Mobilier did not 7| contain any money and there was no i|avatlable assets, At the tlme of bringing this action he inquired as to the nature of the claim, and he there- vpon satisfied himself it was a just one, ard that no jost dcfsnse could -|be made. He saya this wasthe only ; | resson he did not defend the action, s | Benatorial Contests in Other Statcs. Special Dispatch to Tuk livk. Torexa, January 24.—1In the joint seesion of the legislature to-day the -|in separate hounses Tuesday, was an- nounced and P. B. Plumb declared elected. Denver, January 24, —Bat five bal- lots were had in the senatorial cancus to-night, and while these do not indi- cate a change, yet there is a manifest , | dispostiion on the part of many mem- ~|bers to bring the matter to a crisis, and there {8 a etrong probability that » | this will be done to-morrow vight, That some of Pitkin's friends are be- coming disheartened there is no doubt, and that a dark horse may yet win the race is rather more than con jocture, ) The Whipping Post * | Scipeal Dispatch to Tuk ks Dover, Dcl, Janoary 24.—The house to-day killed the senate bill to abolish whipping persons convicted of * | murder in tho second degree—10to 3 Dye, TheSuit Dismiss:d Specinl Dispateh to Tiw Ber New York, January 24, —The court has dismissed the sunit of Colonel i 85 o James M. Selover against ex-United States Seuator Jerome B, Chaffoe to recover §760,000, [ THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The House Vigorous'y Welds the New Steel Clad Monitors. The Huge Job Turned Over to the Secretary of the Navy. A Few Trifling Tarlf Reductions Sroured in the Senate The Census Bureaucrats Gradually Looeing Their Senses CAPITAL NOTES. Special Dispatch to Tin Brn. BELFORD'S SMALL BOY V. sHiscron, Janoary 24 — Ropro sent e Bolford, of Colorado, got o letts from his 9-year old boy in Col orsd to-day, In which ho spoke «f tho o aatorial contest now going on there. The lad concluded, *‘Though things are in a muddle, my opinion is a dutk horse will win, T hopo he will have red hatr.” The poiut in this will ba recognizad by those who know Me. Bolford or efther of his sons They ull heve the reddest kind of red halr, THE HAWAIIAN TREATY, Tho foretgn affairs committee has innirusted its chairman to make an effort to gou the house to fix a day to cozalder the bill abrogating the Hawaiian treaty aud the bill to incor- porate the Nicaraguan canal com- paay. PETITION FOR A POSTOFFIGE, Henator Miller to-day presented in tha senate the petition of the Merchants’ Exchange of San Francisco askiog for the pasaage of the bill for the erection of a postoffice building in that eity. SPRFCKELS' SCHEME, Some ono started the story here yea- torday that Claus Spreckels was work- ing $0 seoure annexation oi Hawaiian islands to this country and it found its way in one of the morning papers Theenly comment heard on the prop unitfi 18 from a southern ssnator, who suid ghere were as good reasons for annexation of the Sandwich islands, as there was for the purchuse and ar- nexation of Alaska, as private indi viduals who owned 1nterests in them would be the only persons hencfilted by snncxation, He thought it a l{ttle stogp for Spreckels to ask the govern- m to buy the entire islands so that he cauld got them to extend his sugar plantations and increase his number of coolies to work them. THE AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION reassembled this morning. John H, King, prestdent (f the United S:ates Agreultural society, reviewed its his- tory. and stated its objeots and pur- poBas, resolution was adopted authorizing President King and the secretary of the soclety to confar with oth = state societles for the purposeof ap .he practicabllity of hold- 1 * fais during the coming season in some section of the country, Discussion of papers consumed the sfcernoon. THE CENSUS ELEPHANT. Nearly two months have elapsed since tho compendium of the cersis was promised, without its appearanco The fact is that, as stated In theso dispatches some time ago, so many errora resulted from the preliminary preparation of matter for this publica- tlon that they were found not even fic for tnis preliminary appearance in the compendiom. Sach groes errors were discovered in the tables relating to agricultural and manofactures that after the matter was put into type at the gov- ernment printing cflize 1t was re- called, and the work of correetion began at the census bureau. Such blundering not only involved the loss of clericsl Iabor, but the work of the printing cftice also, owing to the delay «f the discovery until after the tables had been set up In the meantime Mr. S:aton, acting superintendent, has not teen at his cftice forsix weeks, having, It is reported, sustained ® severe mental shock from overwork. It i that his mind is in a con- fased state, and the utmost effort is made to prevent a reference by him to the subject of figures, His friends en- courage the kope ‘hat his afiliction will be but temporary. Things are at nixes and sevens at the census bureau, and it seems to bsextremely problem- atical whether order will ever be brought from the chaotic state into which its affairs have fallen. Sill another 200,000 has just been appro- priated by the house, and no doubt will be concurred in by the senate, to carry on the work, THE TOTAL DEFICIENUIES of appropriations in the variovs de- partments for the fiseal year ouding Juae S0th, next, is §640 830, THE PROPOSED EXTRA SESSION, The Star says the president recently told a Now Eogland senator that while he was anxlous to have congress pass a bill revising the tariff he was fearful on accoun’, of the lateness of the ses- slon and diversified interest in tha bill that it would fail. Being asked 1f he would call an extra session if the bill did fail, he said, *‘That is an emer- gency | will not conslder until it arlses,” BUIT AGAINST THE UNION PACIFI( Tne commissioner of railroads, is proparing papers to enable the attor. ney general to bring euit against the Juion Pacific railway company to ra cover o bLalance of about §1,000,000 alleged to be due on aczount of per cen: arnings. In the sct. tlement hy whish the amount of balance was ascortalned, the items for “‘naw conotr! and new equip ment were excludod and for this reason the riilway company rofuses payment of the sum cla med by the United States, and arserts un der liberal conatruction of the act of May 7th, 1878, and under the decision of the United States supreme court, these items should be deducted from the gross earnings as being neccasary 23 in operating the road and keeping the |000 as the maxlmum cost of the same in repair, The sult ral earnings under the law. JANSEN, the resurrectioniat, who exhumed the body of Coarles Shaw, who killed his sister, has been sentenced to imprison- ment for 11 months and 29 days, PUBLIC LAND PATENTS, The commlssioner of the general land officy requires that naturalization pipers ba produced, or evidence of their destrustion beshown, to entitle foreign born cltizons to a land patent, WHAT WOMEN CAN DO The wowan's suflrage convention adopted resolutions declaring that woman's suffeage means e'able inatitu- tione, happy homes, cqual wages avd equal purity for men and women; pro nouncing the pending roforms in the civil anrvice dishoneat pretence nole:s women are graded in tho sorvice the AAIDE A8 M denouncing the propo sltion to disfranchiee tho women «f Utsh for no crime whatsoever as a oruel display of power which lics in might alone; asserting that women should bo given the ballot to preserve the integrity of sccioty and the per- manonce of American institutions, CONGRESSIONAL. Special Dispatch to T Iixx, SENATE PROCEEDINGS WasmiNaToN, January 24 —1In the sonate Voorhovs cffered a resolution providing that the reciprocity treaties be coneidered in open session and he said he would ask for a voto on the resoiution as soon as pcssible, At the close of the morning business the tariff bill was taken up, the peund- ing question being on Senator Cam- den'samandment to make the duty on iron ore GO cents a ton. It was de- foated. Senator Maxey moved to strike out the latter part of the paragraph (covering pyriter) as thus smonded Lost—ayes 27, noes 28 The next piragraph, embracing pig irou, iron kentledge, epiegeletsen, wrought and serap iron and sorap steel of every deseripion, was taken up. Sanator Sherman moved to strike out £6 a ton and make dn'y 3 10 of a cent a pound, equal to §6,72 per ton, the rate rco mmonded by the tantl commiesion. 1. was tha opinion of those b st inf rmed that the reduction proposcd by the finsnco commitioe, if onacted, won d stop half the furoaces in this industry. Sherman's amend ment was rejoc'ed—ayos 18, nays 37 On motion of Seuator Platt, boiler, pusching or clipptogs <f iron vr stoel beam or barn, were added to the list of urticles to be admitted at $6 por ton. By general consent tho proviso was reserved for firther considera tion. The committeo or tiranes next par agraph was read, steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms and alabs, made by the Bessomer or any othor process exoep’, the crucible process, and fixing duty at nix tenths of one cent per pound. Senator Aldrich offored an amend mont striking out this paragraph and subatituting one proviaing tor a duty of six-tenths of one cent per pound on artioles above enumerated not ex- oedding v valad two cants par poand; one and two-tenths cents psr pound gain the question what constitutes net o8t trigate and §1 400,000 asthe maximum cost of the corvette. Mr. Holman (Ind )offered anamend- ment to the original tex', 8) aa to pro- vide that new cruisers shall be built by contract with the lowest and best re- sponsible bidder, mace after 60 days advertisement in five leading papers of the United States, inviting proposals for constracting said vessels, rubject to such rules, regulations and pro vielons as to bonds and securi'y for due competition of the work a: the sooretary of the navy may prescriba, and no such vessel shall be accopred unless completed fu strict conformity with the contract, Adopted. The Harris and Whithorne proposi- tions wero luat, Many motions were made and re- jected, and finally tho Monitor clause was sgreed to in the following form: “The money to be applied by the rec- rotary of (he navy under theaporopri- ation burcaus, and for cowplet in accordance with the cecommen s of the naval advisory board, the en. gines aud machinery of the double turretted fron-clads, which suid board wiay advieo shall by fira® compluted in the government navy y r'r, ur dor the direction of the navy d.carimet, by officers and employes of the govern- ment, and not by contrac vy, pro- vided he can ¢u work of the sime quality in the vavy yards s c!ouply snd thoroughly and with as much ad- vantage to tho government; snd pro- vidod, that f he shal not decide to c¢o this wok 1w the navy yards of the United S uten, he shall then Invite propusals from all American ship builders whose ship yards are fally ¢quipped for re- puiting or buildiug iron or steel ships and for construction of elgines, bril- ors, machiacry, and shail build the sume by & new contract, or otherwie, 83 the secrotary msy think best for the interest ot the governmant, but the excoution of the new contract ehall not by entered on fir competitden of either of these vessols until the terms theroof ahall ba approved by the ad- visory board, who shall approve only tuch contracts 8 may be to the best advantage of the government and fair and reasonably, according to the low- market prico for elmilar work from responeiblo and competent bidders, aud that the total cost shall not exozed the amounts eatimated by the ndvisory board, in its fall repors, as required by the not of August bth, 1882, And the secrotary of the navy shull take possestion of the double turre'ted iron clads, and, if he thinks best, remove the same to the govern- ment navy yards, and ho shall ascer- tain thoawounts which ought 1 be paid the contractors severally f = ihe use and oooupation of their yaras with said ehips, and for the care t'.creof, and report the same to congress, with all fasts in connection therewitl. Mr. Harris (Mass ) under irection of the naval commictee, «ffired sn amendment in the nature of a substl- tute, appropriating $2,300 000 or vne steel cruiser of not less than 5,000 nor more than 6,000 tons displacemant: $1.357,00) for one of not less than 4,000 tons displacament; $2 (87,000 for three of not less than 2 600 tons digplacement; $430,000 for a diepatch boat, bnlnlkn average speed of not on those above two cents and below five cents per pound in value, the rates prescribed for crucible cast steel. Senator Brown moved to amend the amendment by substituting five- tenths forsix-tenths. Agreed to. Senator Brown moved to further amend by sabstitating one cent for for 1 2 10,cents. Agreed to, Ssnator Aldrich’s smendment, thus amended, was then agreed to, ‘I'he next paragraph makes the duty on iron rails weighing more than 256 pounds to the yard 7 10 of 1 csnt per pound. Sonator Vance moved to make it 6-10, The amendment was rejected ~-ayes 22, noes 20, Senator Vance moved to amend the next paragraph so as to made the duty on steel railway bars and railway bars made in part cf steel, weighing more than 25 pounds to the yard, 7 10 of 1 cent per pound, instead of 8 10 of 1 cent, as in the bill. Agroed to--ayes 26, noes 21, Adjourned. HOUSE PROCEEDINGH The committes on rules this morn- ing, in view of the sction of the cau- cus to press the tariff bill, concluded it inexpedient to re-enact the ‘‘Pound rule” of the last sesslon for proceed- ing to business on the calendar and speaker’s table, The house then went into a commit- tee of the whole on the naval appro- priation bill. The pending paragraph being that in making the appropria- tions for the bureau of coustruction and repalr, Mr. Harris, « f Maswachusetts, moved that a contrect, of elther of the veescls be approved by the naval advisory board, instedd cf the new board, as provided by the bili, Adopted. At- kina gave notlce that he would ask a vote in the house. After the chair had overrulod sev- oral points of order against the para graph, the committee proceeded to the consideration cf the parsgraph providing for the completion of one of the double turretted monitors, Mr. Robeson moved to smend by adding a clause permittivg work o be donein navy yards provided it can bs cheaply and with much advantige to the government, as by contracts, Adopted Mr. Atkins (Tenn ) said there hed been spent sinco the war $300,000,000 on the American navy and it was a commentary on the government for the gentlemen to make appeals in be ha'f «f his amendment, Someth bosides the mero pay of the navy should have come out of such enor mous appropriations, Mr. Whitthorne cfisred as a sub- stitute for the provision for construe: tion by contract undor the supervision of a board of three officers, a steel steam frigate of 5,900 tons displace- mont and a steel steam corveite of 4,000 tons displacement, The substi tute details elaborately the duties of the board, provides no money shall be paid until the vessels shall be ac- copted by the board and fixes §1,800,- less thanfifteen knots per hour; $350,- (00 for a torpedo boat not less than 100 foet long, and $1,161,000 for the manufactare of guns for the srma- ment of these boat Harrls, advo- cating tha amendment, said that on the subjcet f building the nuvy his ccm- mittee was not divided by party lines, and gentlemen representing both partios had pledged themselves to the consideration of the stern demands of the country. Mr. Borry offesed an amendment to the naval appropriation bill appropri- ating §1,6(0,000 8o as to comy lete all the monitors. In support of hisamernd- ment he made a strong speech, He tirat called attention to the fact that these mot itors had been lald up in the ship yards for the past ten years, and if thay were of no account they should be broken up and sold for old iron, If they were of sccount they should be completed. The naval board had sald they were of value and he pro- posed to see if congress would not or- der their completion, In regard to the charge that the engines for the moni- tors could not be made as chesp at Mare Island as at the the eastern navy yard, he said: “The facts should be the reverse and that the navy de- partment admitted that monitors could be completed as cheap and better at Mare Island as anywhere else. Atkins s1id it wonld take two millions to com- plote the monitors. Mr. Hickock (N. Y ) sald the same amount of money could be used better by building new vessels entircly. He alsoc'zimed that monitors were still an experiment. In reply to these state- ments Mr, Borry made another speech, He spoke of the danger the port cf San Francisco vow stood in, that any «f the small republics of South A merica could eoud an fron clad thore and de- stroy the eity if 1ta demands were not paid The amendmert, however, was vored down. The ciause appropriating $20 000 for testing the praclcability of d.flae- tive armor having been reached, it was amouded, on motion of Mr, Harrls, so 23 to apply ouly to d-flestive points designed by Assistant Engineer N, B, Qlark, Mr. Thomas ([11) as additional section, cflired anamendment provid- ing that auy person ia the pay corps of the navy who ehall receive any present or gratuity of any kind or value whatever, by reason of any pur- chase or pryment made by him on ac- count of the naval service, shall be lismissed feom tho service, imprisoned for a term of not less than one or not more then ten years, and fioed not less than §100 nor more than $1,000, Adopted. Tho committeo arose and reported the bill, and the previous question was ordered on the bill and amend- ments, The amendments were adopt: d in bulk except that providing that the ohiofs of bureaus shall receive no ad. ditional pay, and that relating to the appropriation for torpedoes. Pending action on these amendments the house adjourned.