Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 2, 1883, Page 1

N s g o P A 2 B e may find rom»> intores W [’L"Hb T ——— TWrLFTH YEAR. SELECTING A SENATOR. Pen Pitare of the Thirty Day's Struggle ab Lincoin, Political Bores aad 8-natorial Oranks Devcloped by the Score, Mortonian Method of Upiting th+ Democrats kroved a Failure, The The Five Hour's Work of Weaver Fiually Closed th) War REVIEW OF THE CONTEST. Editor al Jo respondence of THa Baw. Liscows, Jaouary 31~ The con- tendirg political hosts have disbanded and returned to their homes. The old stamping grounds at the Commercial are desorted and the capitol is as quiet as a Quakor meeting house. The scenes at the depot bafore the depar tars cf the disciplined veterans who had undergono privations, taken part inthe weary marches and counter marches throngh hotel corridors fn- haled the dense tobicoo fumes and grappled with monomaniacs and bores was picturerque and entertaining. “The little band of conquering heroes who had battled from firat to last un- der the standard «f Manderaon were proud and jabilant, The men who had fallen iato line with them on the final home chargo were exultant over their triumph and the grim visaged stragglers who were too late to catch on, wera gloomy and reticont, while the warriors who had gone down to glory and died with thoir boots ou seamad content with theic record, Tho ca loxers fought ths bai- tle over ag and talked boas fally of WHAT MIGHT HAVE BLEN dore had their plans not mis d, The beat «f f.eling provailed, how ever, among all there contendiog ele- meuts, and everybody seemed to ro joice that the couflict way eaded Those who were 105 d tho o, i a brief our line of the political arama that has just closed. At the very utset when the legisla- ture met, it became mauifens that the republicans held the winning eard, if they could ever unite thiic foices. Their majority, however, was very slim, in fact it'is questionable whether they had more than a bare majority of straight republicans elec:ed as such, Of the seventy-five voies cast for General Manderson only eix'y-eight wero straight republicans or cnly une more than a mojority. Of the other eeven Watis was a democrat, Sadelek & etralght anti-monopo- list, McAllister, Gordon and Steever elocted on repablican and anti-mon :floly tickets, Fisher and Fabliuger oted in Nemaha county ia oppoai- tlon to the straight republican or ‘Ohurch Howe ttcket. With their very narrow majority and their factional divieiou under a dozen leaders, republicans were con- stantly exposed to defeat by a con- solidation of the ~pposition composed of democrats, straight anti monops and afew republicans, But the op- position was never able to consolidate because from the outset it was work- ing at cross pusposes, THE DEMOCRACY STARTED cUT under the leadership of Jay S erling Morton whoss sole aim and purpose was to consolidate he democratic vote ou himzolf for party ends in the fatare, Morton 1s sanguine that the next president will be a democrat and Morton wants to be the head and frout of democracy in Ncbraska €0 as to command the controling irfluance in the distribution of pat- ronsge. Beyond this, Morton was anxious to havo Milliard elected sen- ator, and a majority of tho M rton- ians in the legtslatuce had bargained to go over to Millard if ever there was a chabes toeleos him, Tae opposing wing, under th)leadership f Senator Brown, of Douglas, and General Hol- man, resisted Morton's offort to rule and dolvor, and they fought him with such spirit aud vigor t' at Morton finally left Lincoln in disgust, with the injanction to his followers never to vote for an Omaba man. That was intended to hesd «f James E Boyd, who had entored the race and was try- ing to conslidate the demoeratic and antiwonop vote on himself. In spits of Morton, Boyd suc- cseded o far us ths cemoorats were coucerned, but he was never able Lo got the straight auti-monopo- lists, With them aud his 37 demo- crats he couid have wmustered 59 votes, or within eight of the number neces- eary for an election, BOYD WAS VERY CONFIDENT that he would have ten republicars whenever the consolidation took place. I know he had personsl pledres from a number of repablicans, but I doubt whether they would have had the courage to fulfill their pledges. On the one hand, when tho fight grew very bitter between Millard and his republican cpponents a number of Millard's supporters threatened to vote for Boyd, and even Caspar Yost, of the Kepublican, declared that if Mil- lard was beaton his friends would go over to Boyd, Oa the cther hand Boyd was confident that if Millard carried the caucus th break-up, from whie wouid gain votes encugh to elect him, All these plaus were, however, frustrated by a failure to pot an agrcement with the anti-monopolists, IT 18 A SINGULAR FACT that all but two demccrats who wera elected on anti-monopoly tickets, sid ed all the way through with the dexo crats, and never eatered an anti monopoly caucus, Of the twenty- two antl-monopolists who did hang THE OMAHA DAIlLy BEE £ OMAHA NEB FR!DAY MORNING FEBRUARY 2 1883 193 formerly been republicans. and most of them refosed to go over to the democrats. The latter, on the other hand, seemed inspired with only one idea, and that was to olect a a'raizht democrat and nothing else. In the face of the fact that tho anii monope had given them tho stato tressurer, and had helped elect fully one haif of their numbers, they stubbornly in- sisted that the anti monops should de- sert theit own colors by pooliog on a democrat, IN THE ANIT MONOFULY CAMP there was also a good doal of discord and personsl contention, When the legisiaturo met General Connor had a raspectable followiog among tho anti- mouops while a maj rity favored Cap tsia J. B, Sicklo, but Convor sud his personal feltowers mado them selves 8o generally disagreeable that he lost all his eupport but two bafure the fight was over, Another dlaturb ing tuctor was Captaln Ashby, He had eet his heart upon tho senator ship and was s)intensely imbued with the idea that he was the only man upon whom the the democrats aud anti-monops conld consolidate that he becamo a monomaniac on this subj ct aud never censed his efforts feom tirat to last, Ha had been a democra, and became =& republican and was now an anti-monopolist, and there fore, in his own mind, his election was sure. Thon there was Governor Butler, who also had the senatorial bee in his bonnet aud was bound to disagrre unon cvery other candidate, Oateido «f the lines of all parties and factions the senatorial mania GAD BECOME C NTAGIOUS, and men were bored to death ‘from dawn ti'l late after midnight by the worst set of cranks I have ever 8@ Am'd the eonflist and turmoil begotten by &l thase diff rent forces, the senator- wleet wes finally brought vo Jight— not as the resu't of a preconcertcd oombiuation, or a8 tho product of a oarporation pool, but s the embodi- moat of individusl goice di rected to a commoncenter by a general desiro to 6ud the wearisoms confl ot. To bo sure, there woro t7o or lexding minds who iuspired the bera to that seleciion. Chicf am these was Congressman Weaver, w! efforts had a telling effict. Judge Weaver had beea pastive in ths bo ginnleg, but when he found Laird and Boss Phillips, of the B & M. boom for Uowin he put his shouider to the wheel ard WITHIN FIVE HOURS changed tho carrent, tarned the tide and carriod Manderson iato the sena torial chair, There was a disposition towards the last on the part of the auti-monops to eoncontrato on Ganeral Manderson or on Thayer with a view of placing them on their own pla form, but the conditions were not fivorable, and they decided to stand together and support their own candidates to the end. Ons of their numbsr, Mr. Sadi- lek, of Siline, voted for Gen, Mander- son several times before he was elected and be alone of the stralght anti-mo" nops cast his vote fcr him on the fical ballot. There was an understanding, however, that if any attempt had been made to defeat the election after the caucus had nominated him a sufficient number of anti-monops would have gone over to make good the defection, as they regarded such a course on the part of republicans as dishonorable, Rl PR E. R. A New Fast Fraight. Special Dispatch to 11K BRE, Cuicago, February 1.—The Towa trank line association (Towa pool) has established a fast fraignt Jine to trans. act businees goivg from New York to Culifornia vis the roads in the Iowa pool. This fast freight iine will re- ceive busine:s over all of the exiating Pacific routes: The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, tho Union Pacific or Texas Pacific,. Mr. E. Hawley, the general eastern agent of the Towa pool lice at New York, who had charge of the California_businoss from New York, has resigned to accept the position of general eastern agent of the new Southern Pacific routs by steamor from Now York to Now Or- leans, and theuce via the Southern cific to the Pac!fic coast. It is men- tioned that the California fast freight has been formed in order to be pre- pared to fight the new competitor, Jointly, aud to save as wmuch of the eastern business golug to California as possible Now York Not Bpectal Dispatch to Tan Bun, New York, February 1.--Thecham- ber of commerce adopted a petitlon to congress ssking suspension of coinage of silver dollars and will memorialize congress upon tho eubject of prohibi- tion of imporration of American pork. The widow f John O. Green Las given the chamber £567,000 for the benefit of honorable but unsuccessful merchanta, A the rcquest of the society for the prevention of croelty to children a nolle proseqni was entered in twenty- four indicuments remalning against Rav, Edward Crowley, who sorved a torm i the penitentlary and paid $200, boing couvicted of cruel treat- mnt to a child in the Shepherd’s Fuld, of which ho was manager, James D, Smith was chosen com- modore of the New York yacht club today. Tho regatta is fixed for June 21st [ B'jou Heron snd Henry John Mil- ler, tormorly of the Union Square then'er, married *o-night. - — New Nickels. Spec'al Dispatch to Tue Bre, Puruapereuis, February 1,—To- sy 102,4.0 new five per cent pi wera pit into circalation, The new eoin 18 heingz strack at tho rate of o per day. A fuit Against the U, P, Spectal Dispatch to Tt Wasnmoron, F obruary 1.—The 1- | commissioner of railroads, Armatrong, {s preparing a commaunication in rela- ion to the Unfon Pacific lndebtedness and which he projozes to submit to the secretary of the luterlor to-morrow together from firat to last, twenty had or next day. Tne communication will recommend the government to bring a suit agalnst the Union Pacifie rond or about 1,600,000 which it is claimed {s due the former. The Union Pacific fe required to pay 26 per cont of its net earnings to the government less u fair price that may bo seked for transport oopa or sapplies. This d ffarence, amounting to sbout half a million dollars, has never been paid The communication alao refera to the b per cent not earnlngs of the Kansss Pacitio for which suis bas been pend- ng some t'ms i st PHOTECIION AND PLENTY. A Huge Meeting In New York. Special Dispatch to Thn Lixn. New York, February 1.—A mass meetl g was held in Cooper: Unlon to. d.y uuder the avspices cf the New Y rk association for the protectton of American industry. Tho great hsll was crowded, Petor Ooopoer presided, armisted by W, B, Dodge. Among the vice preridents were Hamilton Fish, John Jacob Astor, Edwin D Morgan, A, A. Law, Whitelaw Ried, Judge Noah Davis, Wm. H. Robert- son, Russel Sage, David Davis aud others, © Mr, Qooper said ‘‘he was glad to see the attention «f the American people fixed on the question of free trade and pro- tection, The free traders ¢f other countries have tried to persuade us to adopt their teachings. Our country would, if those theories were adop‘ed, bs rendered to the condition of Ire. lind, Spaln and Mexico. We would proiuce the raw material and others would do the manufacturing. Sucha policy would brivg ruin upon hun- dreds cf thousands of Amerlcan work- men, who would have nothing to do. Should the tariff bs reduced 26 per cent it would cost us at least §1,000,- 000,000 Froe trade in Kogland pro duced a coundidon of wrotchedness among the werking pople and gave them bare'y suffi ient to waintain life The effect in America would be the samo William ¥, Dodge followed in an ffctive address on the nactual con dition of the labcrer in Eagland and Wales as compared with the laborer in the Uni ator, tpeaking from p raonol obear : William M. Ev late electionas huve proven anything, that the propls sro to be masters; that extravagane and willul inisuse of public monay by public servants :auss be stopped. The question now comes, whether in re. ducing the revenue the governmont taniff system shail be g0 arranged as to benefit our own industries or the industries of foreign countries. Tne Amerioan laborer knew on which side his bread was buttered, and thers can be no doubt what their answer to the question will be, Hvarts then gavo a wkatch of the causes of the panio of 1837 and traced the ups and downs of wniff legislation from the time of Henry Clay. Dexter A. Hawkins, and others, followed with addresses, showing that during the period when the tariff had been low, financial distress and panic affected the country, while prosperity has attended periods of history in which the tariff was high, The address to the publlo of the board of mansgars ot the Now York assoclation for the protection of American industry, was then read. The addrees is s'gned by all managers, with General Grant's name at the head. It concludes with the follow- ing resolations: *‘REsoLvED, In view of the exces- sive amount of revenues row collected by means of import and excise duties and taxes, it is deemed incumbunt o the present cougress to reduce the duties in the direciion ird cated by the report of the tariff commission within a reasonable limit, so as to prevent imprudence in expenditure, and that this should be done so as to give adequate protec-ion to our own industries and labor against destruc- tive and pauaperizing competition from abroad, Res Lvep, We are in favor of re- storing ocean navigation under our flig to the posltion required by tho exigencies of trade, commerce and manuofactures and to the advantage and safety of the country, bat in Amoerican bullt ships; that 1t is one of tho highest duties of congress to place the great iudustry of American ship bullding on a foundation necasaary for succeaefal competition with the world at large. ResoLven, We recommend to the legislature of atates to pass laws au- thoriz'ng all domestie corporations of megnitude (0 wake allowancs or pen sions for faithful and long contivued service in theic behalf by persons who have bccome old or infirm in such services. “The s New Fenator: Speclal Dispateh to Ti Lne, St Pavl, Miun,, February 1.— Sabin wes elested on the seventh bal- lot to day by 81 votes, 69 being neces- sary for choles, The 20.h ballot, by which D. M, Sabin was nominated, stood: Sabln, 81; Windom, 30; Cole, 16; Habbard, 9; Wakefield, 1, Thirty democrats voted for Subin, the rest divided betweon other republcans, Sabin's republican votes wero drawn from all other caudidates. The chavges of democrats to Sabin began on the 27(h ballot, when he gained rapidly to the close. Sabin {1 a prominent and worthy manufacturer and state prison contractor of Suilwater, Ho has never held offics excopt in the legisl tare. He is 30 years old and a native of Connecticut, e G no to Join Pulk. Special Dispatch to Tie Lirk 81 Louis, February 1, —Advices from Texas says: The safe of W. Wood, thetreasurer of Jackson county waa blown open at Edoa yesterday by order of the court. Wood has bsen abaent soveral weeks, ostensibly for medical treatmont, but it is belleved beis a difaulter for a constderable smouat, It was expected there was $25,000 In the safe but nothing was thers, Wood had also in castody a large smount of private funds, none of which were found, THE TARIFF TilK:RS, Both Houses of Congress in Duty B.und to Protect Amer- can Workmen, The Bugbsar of Paup:r Labor Sucoceet fully Bmployed to Prevent a Reduction I'he Fepablicans of the House Wotiflad to Be in Their Seats Monduy, The Monthly Btatement of the Pubic Debt and (ondi- tion of the Treasury, The Row at Annep lis tion of Teas Ge Jdultera= ral News. CAPITAL NOTES Special Dispatch to Tus Bar. ADULTERATED TEAS, WasniNatoN, Febraary 1, — The soniate cummerce committoe to day guve a hearing upon l.%:nll to prevent impoo+ation of adultemted teas. The way 8 80 considered the sutjsot this morning and it 1s usserted will again make a favorablo repurt thereon. TRIAL BYVJURY IN UTAH Jere Black argued baforo the houso jndictary to-day that there c)uld be no constitutionsl trial by jary 1o Uiah s long as the Mormove are excluded from the juriea. A BOND C'LL has been issued for 156,000 000 of extended b's, priceighl and toccued interest to be pmd atihe e May 1, and interesé o o thay day. PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT, Fivae per cents, $813:8750; 4}, $260 010 000, 4's, §758 967 8U0: S'e, 1,444 1) Vol t boar $1 376.13) 050, al dobt, 8102 533,634, Lousliatorest, $10,- 158 890. Cusn in treasnre, 8318 785 ¢ rosss auring Koveua Ase since Ju 1882 J)in ) bonds issued to Paciti: by Measrs, Blair and Mahone, 25 by the form:r and 32 by the latter, The uniformity in the slgnatures of a great majority of thees memorials has ore. ated rome curiosity as to their genu- 8% ropiesentative petitions, Lo msny Justaoocs all signatures on tha petition to the number of 60 or 100 are found to have been writtan by the same porson with neither orose nor memoranda to explaln the r fact, The peii iors are not duted and with but one exception are from the routh, THE RETIRED LIsT, The following is a list of vessels atricken from the navy register under the provieions « f the naval approprin- tlon act of 1882, they belog unfit f r fucther service: Corgeens, Guail, Kansas, Massachusetts, Sibine, Con- neotiout, JTows, Niagara, Oreoon, Onio, Peunsvivania, Fiorida, Vir- einia, N w Ocleans, Oolossus, Java, Susquehana, Barliugron, Sapply, An fetam, Decator, Frolio, Relief, Pawnee, R necea, Old Monadaock, Nurrapaneett, Nyack, Saco, Tuses rora, Worcestor, Canandaigua, Shaw- mut, Savanoah, Santee, Wyoming aud ;R auoke. Most of the vessels menticned will be broken on the atocks, while a fow will be sold at aue- tion, FOLGER ON THE REVENUES, Seoretary K. lg r said to-night that hix action 1n issuiog a call for 16 000,- 000 extended b's was mot intluenced by sp culations as to the course which congress would pursue with reference t redecing t xes. 1o belioved the surplus of reveau s which woald ac- orue before avy law mukinga reduc tion could go into «ff ¢t would un- doubtedly provide f r redemption of these boi.ds, and under such olrcum- cumstancos it was his plin duty to tssue tho call wi hout regard to the attitude of COngross pres ent or proep cive. Of course it ho had thought it probable thy bouds could rot be redeemei without reduveing tho treasury reserve w would 108 have isued the eall, b 1l snch was not hie opinion. Kyen ad- mittiog for a more.t that congrees might reduce the taxes aud import daties ot the prescut eession, it did vot, he thotght, fillow as an Inevita: ble consiquence thet the reduction of rovenue would he correapondingly g-eat. The lowering of custom dutice and intornsl rovenucs and tho tixes would efimt fmpotation and conunmp'i v, 1o that 1 firss eff et of such legieliiion mighi by to increase v reveuuss inctosd of dimshing thom, railroad compauy, interest payale i laxful movey, priveipal outatand ing, $64 623512 L'rarest acsraed aud not yet patd, $328,117; in‘erest p:id by United States, $57,283 388, Interest repsid by company by traus. portation service, $16 317 0d48; by cash payments b uer cent. «f net earnings, $655,198. Bilance of in- terest paid hy United States, §40,- 310,610. THE STAR ROUTE, In the otar route oases to-day, Ed. win Hail, postmaste. at Oanon Oity, with regard ; to lloe-B.ker Oity route, testified that ‘raudulent signa- tures , were A0 netitions, and, awiong ctherd; pYiwf. sut his own as as frandulent. Wilkon protesteld, but the tostimony was sdumnitted, Wilson declarad the detense would bring per- sona here from Oregon to swear to their eignatures though it would take all summer. Wilson ventured to ex- press to Murrick his disapproval of the ruling in rejection of the paper the defense attempted to introduce to show a spscimen of witnees’ handwrit ing to impeach his testimony, and was sevirely arreigned by the court for a disrespectfal remark. Adjourned, THE ROW AT ANNATOLIS, Secrotary Chandler expressed his opinion ot the recent troubles at An- napolls as follows: ‘““The disturb- ances and ineubordination among gadets will doubtless sutslde if the superintendent ia allowed to work out the result without interference. But if cadets are encouraged to persist by thelr parents and friends, diemissal of forty or fifty may result, The great difficulty in the mansgoment of the academy is that boys and their rola- tives fail to roalizo that the achool is not an ordinary sewinary of learning, where students pay for the education which they receive, but is an institu- tion of mililary discipline, where boys have thelr expenses paid by the Unlted States. If boysexpsctthe same privileges, libortiesund eaey life which they may have in an ordinary acad- emy, they should resign and let their places be filled by young gentlemen who are willing to unreservedly com- mit themselvos to the privations and labore of the academy. 8o far as the department now undoretands the dif- ficulties in the academy, it will ens- tain the superiotendent, even to the extent of diemissing a larger part of one of the classes,” The president gave a state dinner to the justicea of the United States supreme court this evening. A bill was reported to the senate to-day, establishing 866 now post routes, principally in the west and south, CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, A joint resolution was introdused into the renate to.day providing for an amerdment to the conntitution au thoriziog the preeident to veto any one or more items in an appropriation bill when in his jud.ment the expen- ditare would be ‘1 judicious and con- teary to publis policy, snd that the veto shalietand as againet euch item -| or items unless overridden by a two thirds vote «f both houses of econgress, the veto, however, not to cffect other portions of the hill, A QUOKUM DEMANDED, The followivg ciurcular was eer each rapublican member of tho houie: “A quoram of repablican mem! is demwarded for Monday, the bO'h inst, It has been fally domonstrated that if the important husinees of this sesslon is to recelve finul action 147 republicans must be in their soats from 11 a. m, till adjournment, PETITIONS asking paseage of the bill to extend national ald to common schools were presented In the senate this morning In the senate Mr. Morrill offsred o resolution enaparding nuch ct the a0t of February 28 b, 1878 as author- z2 and directs the eccretary of the treasury to purchare silver bullion at the markct prioce, not less nor more than foue milion dollars worth pee wenih, and cavse the same to bo ing as a substitute for the second par- agraph: *Tobacenin leatunmanufactared and not atemmed, whan the greater por tion of the bale, box or pickage is suitable for wrappers, 756 cints per pound; apon’ the wholo contents of bale, box or packsge, if stemmed, $1 per pound; tobacco manufactured, all deecriptions, not ape-islly er unerated or provided for in this act 40 conts per pound,” The question was taken on the firat par graph of Senator Hawloy’s amond- meut as above ending with “‘one dol Inr per pound.” Lst—ayes 18, nays, 20. The reomaintng provisions of Hawley's amendmont were agreed to, The poriion rejected was then mod- ified by Sherman and was adopted as followe: “Tobacco in leaf, unmanu. factured, when the greater portion of the bale, box or other package Is suit able for wrapoers, 75 conts per pound upon the whole contents of said bale, box or other package.” Cons dera fon of schedule “G” (pro vislour) having been entered upon, coincd into dollara as fastas purchased. CONGRESSIONAL. Spectal Dispatch to THR Bun. SENATE PROCKEDINGS WasHINGTON, Fobruary 1.—At the close of the moruing busines the tar- ff bill was taken up. The pendin, question wes on Fry's amend. ment proposing an s&d valorem daty of 40 per comt on el sugars, Carlislo moved to ntrike out the item imposing a duty of } of 1 cent per pound on sulphate of iron or copper as agroed to. Senator Frye subscquently modi- fiod his amendment so aa to make the duty on all sugars under thirieen Dateh standard 30 por cent., and on sugars nbove thirtcen 45 por cent, A long dabato ensuod Seuator Kellogg said that if Frye's amendmnt wes adopted it would ruin Loulsiana eugar producers, who gonerally voted the repablican ticket. Ho was eorry 1o see the attack made from the repub ican sido «f thecham- bor upon thcse black eohorts, K log gave statisticy of eugar produsim in Louisiana, Ho said it ewployed about $90 000,(0) cpital, of which 810,000,000 wus 14 machinéry, Four handred thousaud peop'e lived by it; sixty or saven'y thousand moen and women wero ei:ployed as labarcrs, of whom more than two-thirds were col- ored. The numnber of ex-alaves own- ing homes and other property was two or three times as largo in Louistana as in any other state, and that class of popnlation was more quiet and orderly there than in other southern statcs. These results were largely attributable to the sugar in- dustry. Senator Beck said the more he con- ridered the question the more satisfied he became that the effort to get wway feom the finance committee bill was in the interest of refiners. That bill was more favorablo to plantors than any other proposition and was the besi they could get. Frye's amendment was rejectod, The substitate cffered by Senator Morrill, on behalf of the committeson finance, for tho gugar cchodule in the comuwitteo bill was then adopted. Senator George offered an amend- ment reducing the duties lald in the schedule 10 per cent. upon articles imported from countries where slave lahor is uot employed. Lost, Sauator Morgan gave notleo of an amoudment which he would offor fn thu seuste probib ting the adulteration of sugar, molasses, etc., by mixing glucose with them Sunator Beck gave notloe «f an amondment to prevont tha sale of any mixture of sugar and glucose us sagar without advising the parchaser of the fact of its being & mixtur Senator Ingal's deprecated the ef- forts to bring glucose iuto disrepute, Senator Sherman offored sn addi. tional proviso, to be printed and re ferrod to the committes on finance, i an additional duty of 10 per rticlos named in hedale, wher export duty is Senator Bayard moved to strike out the clause imposing a daty of 1 cent per pound on beef and pork. Senator Williams, advceating the motion, characteriz:d the tax on pro- visions a8 ‘ flummery” and asa ‘‘tub thrown to the whole” in order to deocive farmers by pretending that they came in for their share of pro- tection, Asa farmer he scorned all this nonsense. Nobody was going to import hogs into Tadiana and Illinols, wheat into California, whisky into Keontucky or terrapine into North Carolina. This duty did not benefit the former in any way. Senator Bayard's motion waa lost, ayes 11, nayes 28 The provielen echedule having been disposed of, schedule “‘H" (liquore) was taken up and some progress made when the eonate adjourned. HOUSE PROCEEDINGS, In tho house the committes of the wholo rerumed the counsideralion of the tanfl bill, Me. Tucker moved to reduco the A FIERCE FIRE. A Blaze on the Inman Steam- ship Pier in New York Threatens to Olean Out an Im mense Amount of Bhip- ping. The Steamer Ezypt Partially Destroyed. The Loss Now H:timated at $1,000,000, A Fall and Gr-phlo Account of the Scen: The Latest News. Speclal Dispatch to Tan Ban. New York, February 1,—A con- flagration that promised at,one time to destroy a large amount of sbipplng along the North river front, in the viomity (f the piers of the Inman, Cuoard, Teans Atlantique, Generale aud White S:ar companies, broke out at an early hour this morning, and is not yet (4 &, m ) under control, The fira broke out in the carpenter shop on the Inman company’s pler, which is at a point where the shipping ot this class is very numerous, and enor- mous storehouses filled with goods of overy deecription are very close to one another, THE STEAMSHIP EGYPT, of the onal company's line, and which was sometime ago chartered by the Inman ocompany, soon took fire and was immediately towed up the river. As the steamer was towed into the stream, the flimes were running awiftly up the rigeing and gaining headway elsewhere as she came into tho breeze swecping along the river, The spectacle was one of grandieur, daty on brown acetate of lead from 4 to threo cents per pound. The mo- tion was opposed by Mre Kasson and others, Atter a long discussion Mr, Tacker's amandmont was lost by & vote of 80 to 96, Kasson acd Ander- eon (K 8), voting with the democrats, and Kussedy, Jones (Tex ) and Frost with the republicans, Otbher motions to reducs the duty on lead tn 1t vari ous f rms wero loct, On motion of Mr Kolley the clause imposiog a duty of 10 cents a pound on white acetate flead tit for medical use was struck from the bill. In the courss of the diecussion Mr, Anderson (Kae ) re- tonted what he claimed to bs anat tempt of Belford to send him out of the republican party, Kvery oue of the Ponnsylvania democrats voted with the high tariff men, Had they ‘or that remson to turn republican? He gave notice he should claim for himself the right to do his own think- ing. Mr. Randallsaid he recognizyd the fact there could not be free trade be- tween nations where wages of labor varied. He would cover the gap ‘ be- tween forrign labor and the labor of Elonh of the United States, He did dieve ocongress need go much further, Taking the three bills and comporing them he had deliberately to the conclusion that the commission bill was faz preferable to tho ways and means bill. He had voted in every instance in favor of imposing the duty recommended by the committee. The sonate bill was preferablo to either. His object was to so regulate the revenues that they would give in- cidental protection to the people of his state and nothing more. Mr. Cox suggested the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Kolly) withdraw his forces and discipline them, “Call caucus and direlpline the gentlemen Towa and Kansas,"” ~You and your friends ap: laudod them to day. M. Cox—1 lova to see an indepen- dout man, eepeolally when ho 'is lean- ing toward the right. Me, Calkins said, speaking as a poli- tician, he would rather tho demoorats should sheuld defeat the bill than not. They could not pass a tariff bill of their own, Soveral democr: botter bill than thi Mr. Calkina—You tried six years to paes a tariff bill, and it died. Mr. Ellis moved to strike out the item proposing a duty of 25 per cent. advalorem on bone char or bone black fit for sugar refining, the intention being to place the article on the free list. Agroed to, 80 to 756, A number of republicans voted with the demo- crats in the aflicmative, On o of Mr. Randall the duty on oxide zine fit for medical use was reduced from 10 to 62 & pound, Mr Morrison moved to strike the duty of §1 a gallon on tusil Lost. Mr, Willis moved to lncrease duty to 2 Lost. T'he committeo rose and the house adjourned. —“We can pass & out oil. the Kansas and the Railroads. Spocial Dispatches to T B Toreka, Ky, February 1,—A con- concurrent resolution iustracting the attorney-general to commence quos warrants proceedings against the Kun- eas Pacificand Union Pacific railroads, explained a fow days ago, passed the wenate to-day. It has pissed the house. The resolution asking Con groes to ostablith a national cattle trail through Texas, Indian Territory, Kansas and Nebraska, was rejocted, Kute Craxton Siok. Spectal Dispatch to Tis Brx New York, February 1.—Kate Claxton was taken home seriously 111 yon such articles by the coun- try dacing them. 'the counsideration of the sogar schedule iu commi'teo of the whole being concluded, the senate tock up |the tobacco schedule. Thoe amiend ment of the finance committee, fixiog the duty on cigare, , at $2,60 per pound and 25 per cent advaloremn was adopted. Senator Hawley offored the follow- at the close of the performance at the Park theatre, Brooklyn, last night, e METROPOLITAN HOTEL, OMA HA, NEB, Tablos supplied with the beat the market attords, The traveling public olaim they get better accommodations and more general satisfaction here than at any other house in Owmaha, Rate, $2 per dav. aug2ltfm it being seen by the people on the tags that ench a thing as saving the Egypt was ontircly out of the question. They got out of harm's way as soon as posaible, THE FIRE SPREAD into every part or tho ship with great rapidity. The fire rolled and cracked in groat sheets from the hold, now lapplug the very tracks with its torked tongue and then agsin swooping down with resistless fury upon the deck and rollin d tumbling back and forth like great waves in the restless sea. Presently there came a terrifls explo- aion that was hesrd clear across Man- hattan Island, and the flimes shot up- ward with renewed energy. Then came a second, third, fourth and fifth explosion that bade fair from their violence to rend the blszing hull in twatn, The steamer will be entirely destroyed. The steamer Alaska, of the Gulon line, which arrived from Liverpool to- day,as well as Novada of the same line were thought to be in so much danger that at one time they were lylng at the pier adjoining the Inman company’s, but the wind fortunately being from the southeast drove the flames boyoud the €Guion company’s pler. At the last accounts these two steamers were safe. It is supposed that the origin of the fire was a TOBACCO SMOKER, who violated the rules and took a quiet whiff at the end of the pier, and when he thought he had overstald his time put the pipe with an ember in it in the lockey. After towing the Bromen steamor Honry to a point of safely the tugs set to work to remove the canal boats from the dock north of the Inman pier, as their docks were cov- ered with embers, and their crew had deserted them. The crefts in the dock south of the Inman pier were not in any great danger, as astrong south- oast wind blew from them to the pier, I'he Egypt was completely burned. When the flames wers at the highest a rumor was started that SOME LIVES HAD BEEN LOST, bat such reports could nov be verl- fied. The watchman on the pler atated positively that all the workmen got off and that there was no one on the Egypt when she was towed into the stream. lln(;‘ WILDEST EXCITEMENT revailed on the neighboring ple: End it was foared at one limoyth':: thousands of casks filled with liquors and goods on the bulkhead opposite the Inman dock would be destroyed. The fear among the captains of the varlous boats was intensified when a large cinder, carried by the wind, fell into a clewed-up maintopsail of a three masted schooner and set fire to the masts, A sailor, bucket in haud, ran up the rigging and put out the bliz3, bat other similar fires occurred until the busy little tugs had emptied the docks of the vessels, They were mostly all towed down toward the Bat- tery, but a large number sought eafaty on the Jersey shore, It is impoesible to state LOSS CAUSED BY THE FIRE but a rough estimate furnished by the police is placed at nearly $700,000. Other ostimatcs make the loss over $1,000,000, A LATER TELEGRAM. At 9 this mornirg the Inman dock is still burning aud sost of the buiid- ings on the pier and contents are con- sumed The lossis roghly estimated at 81,000,000, The Ezypt was not totally destroyed, The fire departe ment and two fire boats are at work on the lames, Of the large covered sheds on the pier, nothing remsins, and the pler itself is burat to the water’s edge, NOT S0 BAD, Beyond the pier itseif and the con- tonts the loss has proved inconsidera- ble. The Esyptis iron and a thou- sand dollars or two will mend her in. jary. THE INSURANCE, At meeting of the board of fire une derwriters to-day, committecs were appointed to adjast the losses on the pler buildiog, machinery and mer- chandize. The amounts of insurance ara on tho pier $80 000, on the -.-;;g‘;flnary $21,000 and merchandiza