Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 8, 1883, Page 1

e el —— TWELFTH YEATL. THE STATE CAPITOL. The Law-Making Machine Again Moving After a Brief Rest, Reynold's Regulation Bill Over- looked and Finally Killed in the Senate, But the Antis Outwit the Mo- nops by SBubstituting an Improved One. Text of the Report of the BSpecial Ratlroad Committee of the SBenate. The Hcuse Labars Long on Land- lord Licns and Cthor Matters. THE SEN ATE. Special Correspondence of Tin B, RAILIOAD REGULATION, LixcoLy, February 7. - In the son- ate chamber yesterday the bill of Senator Reynolds to regulate the rall- road traffic came up In the committee of the whole, and was roughly haud- led. It was loaded down with amend- moants by the friends of the corpora- ? e, THE OMAHA DALY BEE OMAHA NEB THURSDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 8 1883 holding b'gh officlal positions of some kind under railroad corporations, the remaiader being oltizans of this stste who are engaged in the different pur- suits f industry and business cf the country, Your committee believe the proper and only legitimate relation of rail- roads and telegraphic companies to the people, is that of c mmon ocarriers, whose only duty it Is to receive and with all reasonable spu:d forward to their deetination all pereons, freight or meesages entrusted to thelr care; provided a just and falr rate of freight, fare or fee is pald or secured for the service and risks attendiog sush trans- portation, Aud your committee recommends that laws to confine these corporations to the uces and purposes above stated b p d. We have tound it impos athle 10 draw out from the gentlemen who lave the direction and manage- wment of the railroads in this state, suy material facts of which tho public are mnot well ac- quainted; and when pressed to a full and complete explanation of all theie conduct and management, also the reusous for some objsctlonable features fn thelr policy, they refused to muke such explanations on the grounds that (he states, us acates, have no juriediction over them, and plainly dociare that these are matters over which and to which congres slone has any right or power to contrcl or in- quire into. Wao find, from the evidence adduced in the examiuation of witnesses, that many unjust and inexcusable abuses, tions till it conld hardly be recognized, but just when it was thought that the bill was virtually dead, Brown, of Clay, offered as a substitute a copy f 8. F. No. b4, and the same was adopted by the committee, and the committee was ordered to report back with recommendation that it do pass. The substitute was rubsequently or- dered to a third reading by the senate, This is considered a victory for the anti-monopoliste, as senate file No, b4 had previously been before tho com- mittee of the wholo and loaded down wit's amendments which were calcu- lated to kid it, bus this brings it up in its original shape and places it where the seuatora will have to make a record on the question, In the zenate this mornlng throe bills were introduced, one by Senat r Brown, of Colfax, senate filo No. 133, providing that all bridges costing over $5,000 shall bo the property of the state. Senate file No, 134, by Senator Norriz, granting the right of way to all telephone c¢ompanics along public highways, and senate file No. 185, providing for the sale of wine by the raisers of grapes, The penitentiaty I8 to be investl- gated, snd the following ccmmittee has been appointed for that purpose; Benators Butler, Brown (»f Lancaster) and Case. Senator Canfield was originally on this committee, but upon his own mo- tion was excused. Tlim blind asylom is also to l:a in- gated, scqording o @ Tesslution zg“:h. .m;u, by the following named senators: Reynolds, Thatch and Har- rison. Senator Dunphy introduced the following, which, upon motion of Senator Connor, was ordered printed before any action Was taken: Waereas, No industry can be pro- tected except at the expense of ail others; aad, Wageyeas, The protective tariff on lumberis particularly adverse to the .grlgnmrnl and manufacturing inter es:sf Nebraska; and, WHEREAS, Hon, Charles H. Van Wyek, the republican senator from Debraska in the American congress, /as manfully denounced the lumbsr cariff and fearlesslyadvocated the doc- trine of frae trade; thercfore ResoLvep, By the legislature of the state of Nebratka that the govern- ment of the United States has no con- stitational or other right to impose taxes on the people except with the intent and result of getting money into the public treasury with which to pay the public debt, provide for the common defence an¢ promote the gen- eral welfare; and o1 tariff taxes, call- ed proteotion, laid for a different lo- tent and result, ought to be utterly abolishod. Senator Conaor introduced the fol- lowing: Resorven, That the state treasurer be respectfully requested to inform the senate at a8 carly a day as possi- ble the true amoumt of permanent school fund now on hand and not in- vested in bonds, and whether said school fond, if any not so inveated in bonds, is now in the vaults of the treasury, and whether the same or any art thereof, is now, or at any time gu been, loaned to banks, associa- and wanton exercise of powers, are exerclsed by railroad managers, which are subversive of that friendly feeling and good will which should exist be- tween the people and railroad corpora- tiona, Your ccmmittee finds facts in the testimony taken to warrant them in reporting that the corporations doing business in this state are continually using improper means to control the business of the state, by trying to dic tate whoashall ship grain or sell coal in the towns along the le cf road, and by a classification of freight baced upon the value of property in the mar- kets where eold, and placing rates on such grods which deprive the dealers or first owners of due advantages of the laws of eupply and demand which honestly belovg to them, and not to the carrters of the property. Your committee also finds that the railroad companies of the state, whila professing to obey the law generally kknown as the Doare tub law, have by o change fu classification of freights, evaded the trae and just meaning of the said law, and while doing this have continually, by their officers and agents, endeavored to prejudice the business men of the state against sald Jaw as the cause of higher freights in the state, when really the cause of such higher rates was a change in the claasification of freights made by these companies, apparently for the very purpose of evading the law. Therefore, we would respectfully recommend that just, yet positive re- strictive laws be enacted to the end LAt ail tNe peopto sirould have equal and exact freights, one with another, and all the advantages and conven- iencea the public can derive by reason of the highways which are created by the people, and this belog, or under- stood to be a government of the peo- ple, by the people and for the people, each and every one should be made secure in the enjoymentof every bless- ing, or convenience, on an exactequal- ity. Your committee believes that by a coneplracy called pooling, the rail- road companies owning and controll- ing competing lines are depriviug the people of a proper business competi- tlon, which in many cases was paid for by the people by bonds voted to these companies to obtain such compe- tition. They also deprive the people conviction that through congrees alone can the people receive complete relief; and we esrnestly appeal that their power be iuvoked to the work of re- moving every barrier, to the end that justice may be done to the most hum- ble citizen on perfect equality with the moat exalted, in every respect, as relates to tho benefits that may be de- rived from the existence and opera- tion ot thess public highways Your committeo ask to be dle- charged from tarther duty, as the committee representing the house of represontatives has been heretofore discharged. All of which is respectfaily sub- mitted, 8. S RevNoLps, W. H Dxen, Frra Broww, Committee, SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT, We have further become satiefied that the railroads of the nation are of 80 indispensable a nature to every ed- ucational, and clvillzing iuflaence that they must be controlled by the people instead of individua's for in- dividoals; that the power of a con- solidation of 80 vast an amount of in- dividual capital as is represented in the railroads of this government 1s so contrary to every spirlt of repablican- ism or democracy, ard which must eventually destroy the last vestige of a people's government in the United States. We therefore recommend that the legislature petition, by a jiint me- morial and resolution, our natioual leglalature to formulate and enact such laws as will at the earliest possi- ble time transfer the. railroad eystem 198 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The @uvernor of Montana Goes For Rufus Hatch and the Park Grab, A Bcathing Review of the Plans for a Magnificent Oattle Range., Reduction and Coasolidatio: of the Oustoms Districts Recommended. The Senate Grapples Success- fully With the Mysteries of Millinery, ‘While the House Sits the Day Out on Cold Irom. THE NATIONA L PARK. Spectal Dispatch to Tun Bxs. / GOV, CROSBY'S LETTER. WasHINGTON, Fobruary 7.—A com. munication from J. Schayler Crosby, governor ¢f Montana, was precented to the senate to-day by Senator Sauu. women dress goods as misleading. d if prepared as Senator Beck hi ted by a man familiar with the subject, it had been prepared with deliberate inten- tions to deceive the senate, Senator Aldrich, in concluding, said he could hardly trust himself to speak of the speotacle presented here of Ameri- oan manufacturers, honest and re- spectable, bein, comfellei to plead in the senate for their liver, and assailed by means of anonymous communica- tions in the intercst of lmporters, Mr. Allison saia if the paragraph und r discussion was intended to in- clude only all-wool goods, the com- mittee on financo had been unfortu- nate in the choice of phrasoology, and he suggested such phrase be revised by the committee. After some further discussion all the remaindor of the wool schedule, ex- cept the paragraph embracing ‘‘web bings, gorin beltings, ete.,” was informally passed over in order to give the committee on finanoe an opportu- ity to consider it further. The para- graphs thus passed over embrace women's and children’s cress goods, clothing, carpets, and endless belts or felts. The silk schedule was read and left unchanged. The next schedule (books, papers, eto.) was taken up. Senator Ingalls said he wou!d move to put buoks on the free list. Seuator Bayard moved to mako the ders, chairman of the senate commit- teo on territories It rolates gencrally to the preservation and managenecnt of the Yellowstone National park, into the hands of the general govern- ment S S REevxoLps, W. H. Deca. On motion, the report was accepted, the report and the evidence ordered printed, and the committee discharged. THE HOUSE Special Correspondence of Tus B, LANDLORDS' LIENS, LincorN, February 7.—The house convened at 9:30 pursuant to adjourn- ment. Jensen of Butler off:red a resolu- tion that the house hold night sessions during the balavce of tha time alloted to the lepislatare. Tho resclution was placed on the table. The house then resolved itself into committee f the whole to comnider biils on general file with Mr. How- ard of Clay as chairman, After an hour and a haif was cwn. sumed in the consideration of house roll No. 79, a bill to provide for a landlord’s lien upon crops on leased lands, introdased by Mr Tower of Adams. Mr. Robberts,. of Batler, made a motion that the bill be reported back with recommendation that it do mot pass, Mr. Tower, of Adams, moved an amendment that it do pass, After a long and tedious discussion in which a number of mambers took part, Mr. Tower's amendment was oarried ried, Mr. Whedon, of Lancaster, moved that house roll No. 121, to provide for the appointment, compensation and duties of special deputy county treas- urers in counties not under township organization, be reported back with a recommendation that it do pass. The motion was carried. H, R No. 130, an act to grant hon- orable discharge to officers and men:- bers of company ‘‘C,” First regimeat, Second brigade of the Nebrask- mili- tia, wad reported back witt recom- mendation that it do pass. H. R No. 131, makjro Smendments ino the issuance of :z;::;‘g;:g:‘h?:mreporled back with .aon that it do pass. “cnlx:“:.s.?g read a list of the officers of these advantages, when the govern- ment gave them vest estates of land, that the people might have this pro—*¢ competition, Your committee re~uimend that congress be memonkiized by this legls- latare to abs#e such pooling, if pos- ble. e vgnr committee would farther re- port that a system of free passes has grown up, br which the rallroad com- panles, by giving free transportation to officers, jurors and members of political conventions, has led the people to belleve that tteir officers and delegates are lmproperly influ- enced in favor of those corporatios who farnish thera with such passes, That these passes have been ured as a means of seeking favor of their officers and law makers, there can, as we be- Iteve, be no honest doubt; and your committee recommends that any ofli zer or other person accepting a position of trust, in which all persons, or any community, are interested In the ro- sult of their deliberations, shonld not tlons or individuals, INVESTIGATING THE PEN, The chief clerk of the house inform- ed the senate that the house had pass- ed H. R, Nos, 6 acd 17. Butler introduced the following resolution, which was adopted, the rules belng suspended. WHEAREAS, Rumors are in ocirca- lation derogatory to the management of the state prison, and grave susple- fons are entertained Inthe public mind that undue severity of discipline and occassional acts of gross inhumanity are practiced by the warden and the officlals under him upon the convicts In their charge, ResoLvep, That a speclal committee of three be appointed to investigate the conduct of the officers of the state piison and the treatment of convicts, with power to hold sessions at the prigon or elsewhore, to suit thelr con- venience, and to send for paraons and papors, THE SPECIAL RAILEROAD COMMITTEE, T. Reynolds, from the special rafl- road committee, presented the follow- ing report; Your committee appolnted for the purpose of invetigating the conduct, management, and relation of the rall- roads in all their bearings as regards theis interests and the interests of the people of this state, beg leave to report t we have exam!ined a large number ~ #" of witnesses,several of whom are persons be allowed to accept or use, wkile co- cupying such position or office, any pass or different rate than that given to the general public at the same time and place, to the end that confidence mey be as perfest between officers and their constitueuts as possible. Your committee would also recom- mend that a constitutional amend- ment be submitted to the people, so that & department can be created In the state government to supervise and enforcethe obedlenee of large corpora- tions to the laws within the state; and wo also recommend that there be es- tablished under the present constitu. tion & bureau, to hear and examine as to complaints against these corpora- tions, and report to the proper au- thorities, And aleo, that sald bureau may perfect and anuounce a just and proper rate of freight tariff to be pald by thefpeople; and that said bureau may also collect all necessary informa- tion to enable future leglslatures to legislate with all the facts before them, and feel assured that both and all sides of these questions are justly represented, Yourcommittee further recommends and respectfully asks that all the tes- and -+nployes which showed that they pamberad fifty-one this session, where- as at the previous session sixty-one persons were employed. Adjourned until 8 o'clock this after- noon, e CHICAGO NOTES. The Board of Trade Proteet—Huge Bwindling in Futures—Fears of a Flood. Special Dispatch to Tux Bs, CnicAGo, February 7.—The board of trade passed resolutions against the transfer of the revenue matine, lifs ving and marine hospltal services te control of the navy department and againat establishinga maritime bureaa in that department. Evidences of the extent of the busi- ness done by Fieming & Meriam and other professed grain brokers here, the delivery of money letters to whom was stopped by the po:tal department a fow days ago, accumulate from day to day. Itappears they not only re- ceived money trom farms, towna and villages all cver the country, but also from Capada and some points in England and Sootland, The sum but is devoted partioalarly to a caustic review of the schemos of Rafus Hrtoh, who, it is alleged, alms to so- ocure for his own exoclusive benefit the use of the park and turn the grester part of it into a vast private cattle ranch, Governor Crosby says: ‘M:. Hatch arraigus me by name for guard- ing the interests of the territory, which I have the honor to praude over, and acouses me of posing as a public reformer. I- ocaurot refute tho accusation. Mr. Hitch has achieved a national reputation as a monopolist and speculator, bal f{t would bo wrong to call thess thiuga ‘reform, I am not unwilling to be callad a reformer and I am attadked in good company, for General Shori- dan, whose official report strak a dawmaglog blow at the schems of Hatoh and his cosdjators, is also florcely assailed by the speculator” Crosby theu says: “*The real isus is npational, not personal. It 1s whether the Yellowstone park dall be, in the larguage of the dedicaory statute, a puolic park and pleanre ground fer the benefit and enjoynent of the people, or whether it shall Jo & cattle ranche for -Rufus Hatoh, who proposes to establish a vast cattisen- terprise close to the park and sefure unlimited forsge and immunity ffom disturbance."” | Crosby then reviews at great lesgth and with much serimopy sde and alleged purposos of Hzich mssociates, and cleses W racomum, ing abeolute annulmt Uf srwag authorlzed lease ~ 40y partof ark, for the ¢éson that if doty 16 per cent, Adopted—31 to 18 Senator Vance then moved to strike out the paragraph so as to let books, pamphlots and other printed matter Ko on the free list. Tho motion was agreed to by a vote of 24 to 22 The motion to put pu!p for making paper on the tree liat was lost —ayes 22, nays 27, The sundries schedule was next taken up The paragraph embracing bonnets, hats and hoode, chip, grase, palm-leaf and materials tor hats was passedover informally The button par- ageaph wi nded by adding “not in- cluding brass, giltorjsilk buttons,” The duty on candles and tapers of all kinas was made twenty per cent and on care clothing twenty per cent, adval- osem, On motion of Sonator Davis (W. Va ) the daty on bitamiuous coal and shale was made 70 cents per ton— ayes 21, noes 20, Oa motion of McPherson the olause imposing a duty of $6 per ton on emery ore was struck out. Senator Bayard, under fustructions of the committee on finanee offored an amendment imposing a duty of 6 per cont advaiorem on friction or lacifer matches of all deecriptions. Agreod to. Senator Aldrich, from the finance committee, offered an amendment im posing & duty of 50 cent a pair upon ‘‘gloves, kid or leather, cut to shape or otherwise partially manufactured,” but at the suggestion of other sena- regulate commerce as applied to tele- graph communication, Referred Also bill providing that *‘No owner, ngent, master, or consignee of any ship or vessel shall by virtue of the laws cf any state be compelled to take, omploy or pay a pilot, not voluatarily omployed, en entering or departing from any port or harbor, or passing through or leaving any channel or s.rait within the waters of the United States.” Reforred, Rocees. When the houss met this evening only fifteen or twenty members were present, but in half an hour a quorum put in an appearance and the house went into committee of the wholo oo the tariff bill, the pending amend- ment being that redocing from six- tontha to three-tenths of one cont per pound the duty on steel ingots, etc., weighing over 6500 pounds, Mr. Batterworth moved an amend- mont by fixing the rates at four- hs of one cent. Agreed to-—ayes 05, noes 72 Mr. Huskell then moved, amid de- risive laughter on the democratic side, to fix the rate at forty-five per cent, advalorm. Agreed to— 88 to 85, Mr. Tucker moved to reduce the duty on steol railway bars weighing wore than 26 pounds to the yard from oight-tenths to seven-tenths of one cent per pound. Mr. Morriton moved to make the duty 816 per ton. Pending ac'ion the committee rose and houre ad journed. i Al TELEGRAPH NOIES. Spocial Dispatches to Tun Hun. BostoN, February 7.—The house, 80 to 107, voted not to make election day legal holiday., New Brousswick, N, J,, February 7.— The police are looking for & gypsy band who fed n dend baby to & b Nkw Yonk, February 7. —17,700 reichs marke, collected prinoipally in Ohfo, were day forwarded to the Rhine sufferers, ®w Yok, February 7, —The Red Star line people eay no information has been re- ceived m.\mfng the steamer Noderland, and they do not believe any accident has befallen her, MonTkrey, Mex, February 7.—G pushed on the Mexico Nati tarcia. The road will p ably be comploted to Saltillo by J une, withstandiog 2,400 feet nscent to forty-five miles, KaNsas Criy, February 7.-In the Rauer aud Whistier, tor 8500 » side Whistler won, gaining the ficst fall in twenty two minutes, and the s:cond in eleven winutes, Provinesce, Fobruary 7.—The estate of Lev., Dr. Mercor, of Newport, soon ofter his death estimated at $200,000, is found to amount to over $1,00%,000, It has been taxed at $10,000, There is great sur- prine at the revelation SeuiNaFiELD, Lils, February 7.—Capt. B.,(.x? s to-dwy gave an exhibition shoot at bis home, at ons hundred pigeons. He wcored reventy nine, He will give ao- other i efore going to Louisville to shoot with Dr, Carver on the 22nd inst, Nkw Youk, Februmy 6,—~The Unlted States cirouit court to-day granted judg- diog il ment for 1,843 againat the government | Whole. WORTHLESS WORK. A Harvest of Barren Regrets for the Taxpayers of Nebraska, The Reform Legislature Pro- viding Poeitions for Po. litical Foseils, Piling Up the Pay Roll the Main Ambition of the Monops. The Ponderous Grout of Otue Serves His Master Well, Special Dispatch to Tur Bax. Lixcown, Febraary 7.—The legisla- ture hus now resumed wore in earnest. So far the leglalative mill has ground out nothlog but chaff, It now looks as if the taxpayers of Nebraska would not only have to settlo a big tax bil', but this legislature, from which so much economy and wholesome law- makiog was expected, would saddle upon them a hoard of supernumerary salary grabbers in the shape of atate weologista, state chemi emigration flroad secretaries, med- ical examiners, and other sloners of high and low degree. fin spite of the general demand for retrench- ment there is a disposition on all hands TO ENLARGE THE STATE PAY ROLL by the creatlon of all sorts of needless oftioers, under various pretexts urged by an active lobby of political barna les who are out cf meat, The legitimate state expenses necessarily grow from year to year as our penitentiary, re- form schools, asylums, charltable and educational institutions are enlarged and the numbers dependent on the state for support and education in. crease, To this must be: added the demand for and eonsequent expense of additional district judges and dis- triot attorneys, together with the ex- peuse {ncident to numerical increase of the legislaturs by nineteen members, All this will make the state tax levy MUCH HEAVIER FOR THE NEXT TWO \ YEARS than on any former period. In the face cf all this thoe leglalature keeps on framii g and recommending bills that will pils np the agony mountains high and make the taxpayers fairly groan, On the other hand, so far, not a thing has been done to relieve the people by cqualizir ¢ railroad taxes or by passing any- bill reducirg the passergsr or frelght rates, The malu feature of the proceeding in the house to-day was the debate over a number of bills that wereconsidered in committeeof the The most exciting discussion tors, accepted an amendment, making | for excessive duties on *‘steel blooms,” | was over Mr, Tower's the rate 60 per cent advalorem. ta Amor Bayard Olmrca « aubbibn ta lor the paragraph embracing gunpow- Rufus | der und all explostve substances —the atoh and 18 associates are to be | provisionof the house tariff bill—levy- permittel have made Nisgara a by- worfl of A:]l-un-t will attend such ad- w~alistration. CAPITAL NOTES Special Dispatches to Tux Bun. THE GARFIELD FAIR, WasniNgroN, February 7. — The Garfield monument fair notted $7,600, RAILROAD TIES, The secretary of the interior bas decided that railroads are not limited to lands immediately acjoining the roads In ontting ties or obtatuing other coustruction material intended for the ute of rallroads. PAYNE'S RAIDS, Offislals at the Indian burean awert thas Capt. Payne's raids upon Okla- homa lands in the Indian Territory al- roady cost the government about $200 000, and this expenditure might have been saved if congrees had adopt- ed the repeated recommendatious of the commissioner providing for the fuuishment of intruders on pablio ands, SHUTTING OUT A RATLROAC, The house committee on Indian af- fairs has decided to report adversely on Mr, Oraven's bill authorizing the Misslesippl, Albuquerque & Iater- ocean railway company to construct a railway through Chootaw and Chicka- saw natlons, A LIVELY ‘‘gpar.” Daring the discuesion of the tariff bill in the house to-day a brief but oxciting ‘‘spat” cocurred between Mesers. Horace Page and Anderson, The latter offered some amendmaents, which Mr. Page opposed, when Mr, Anderson became very much excited and said he would not be ran by the gentleman from California, CUSTOMS DISTRICTS, transmitted to them for investment in grain futures is estimated to reach into the millions, and it 1s intimated that certain rmpec(ed and highly con~ nected persons joined hands with the recognized gambling element in work- ing the scheme, The clty authorities exprese fear of great damage by the flooding of basements in the clty incase of a sud- den thaw, The entire winter snow accumulated in the streets is piled above the sidewalks, and if a gorge forms in the river there will be no out- let for this vast volume of water, . Editor Medill’s Health Special Dispatch to Ts bua, Cuicaco, February 7.—The pub. lished reports concerning the condi- tlon of Samuel J. Medill, who for many years has beem managing editor of The Chicago Tribune, are exagger- ated. Mr. Medill had gone to Las Vegas for the winter aud was slowly improving o health when the recent timony taken, together with the pro- ceedlugs of this committee, be printed, to the end that the people may know in what manner these corporationd respond to an inquiry for Information a8 to thelr manner of dolng business Wao further report that it ls our firm “norther’” swept over Texas, There was a drop of 70 degrees in tempera- ture within twenty foor hours, and Mr, Medill haa a relapse, He was then taken to his father-ln-law’ home at Quaincy, where he now is ina slightly improved condition, Seoretary Folger sent a letter to congress to.day, recomwending ow. solidation of the customs dlstricts ’lL ny instances In oxder to effect @ saving of the salary of the officers at ports where business is very small and does not Increase from year to year. The secretary’s recommendations would In effect not only lessen the numbers of collection districts but in some cases reduce the number of of- ficers at the port, which after reor- ganlzation, would comprise all con- solidated ports and reduce the ngere- gate cost for salaries by $494,275, The greatest reduction of citicers and em- ployes will take place at the chlef eastern ports, CONGRESSIONAL, Special Dispatch to Tun Bew, BENATE PROCEEDINGS, WasniNoron, February 7.—At the close f the morning business the sen- ate held a brief executive session. When the doors recpened the tariff blll was oalled up. The subject was further discussed by Senators Morrill, Dawes and others. Senstor Aldaich criticlsed the tabu- lar statement presented by Senator Beck In connection with “duties on od «0_keep a hotol there, all [ing a duty of 6 cents a pound on pow- der, etc., velaed at 20 cents a pound or less, and 10 cents a pound on that valued above 20 cents, Agreed to—- ayes 30, noes 15. On motlon of Senator Sewell, hat- tera’ plush, composed of silk or silk and cotton, was insorted at 26 per geont advalorem, 2 The prevision embracing calfskins was made to read “‘calfskine tanned or dressed, etc.” Senator Hawley moved to insert ‘‘garden seeds, excepr seeds of sugar beet, 20 per oent advalorem,” Agreed vo—ayes 22, noes 20 Senator Allison moved to make the duty on marble in block 60 conts per cubic foot. and on marble elabs and paving tiles $1.10 per cubic foot. Agrecd to, Benator MoPheraon, from the com- mittee on finance, offered amendments to ‘“pencil paragraph, making the daty on pencils of wood or other ma- terisl §1 pet gross and on pencil leads not in wood 10 per cent ad valorem,” but modified it so as to leave the This was a test case. of money. S Y S SERRY Oat on the Rauges Bpecial Dispatch to Tia Bun. The government will be required to repay a large amount|on uunl.::mb'.:‘l:n BILL il bl opposed mvasuro with w great GJ of ability vigor as caloulated to put the poor tenant farmer under the heel of money Rawrins, Wyo,, February 7.—Ad- |lendersand land sharks. Wheedon vices from the country state cattle had | asked whether there was not & me- sufferod serfously. Suow on the Swoet. | chauics lien on thestate books, and waterand Upper Platte was not as heavy | Roberts retorted, ‘“That was for pro- as In eastern Wyoming. The lossus | teoting mechanios and securing them 80 far are reported insignificant—. thelr wages.” Tower argued in favor tle about ono per cant and sheep per- | of the bill on the ground of juatice haps two per cent. It the Bitter [8nd the bill was finally reconimended Croek valley the loss of sheep was|although its passage is very doubtfal. heavier. A high wind is blowing from | A good par: of the afterndon session tho weet to-day, which will soon clear | Was wasted in debating half & dozen the rangen of snow, Cattle drifted | unimportant bills that ought to have badly during the storm last weok and |#one in the waste basket, and finally ranchmen have as yot no means of as. | quite a breezo was stired up by Bler- cortaining positively the amount of | bower's bill for damagoe done the herds. Not moeting A GEOLOGIUAL SURVEY, with any doad stock upon their ranges | The bill oreates a geologloal corps they are tecling safe, of ;l;rgg‘;-luied cfliclals; a geologist e at $2, a year; assistant geologist at - Trial of Neal and Craft. $1,000; chemist ’fl 800 & gnr gemh pocial Dispateh to Tug Bxx.. An sppropriation of $4,000 is also GravsoN, Ky., Feb 6,—To- sy i X ] #AYSON, Ky., Febroary 6.—To-|made for surveying expenses and day the prisoners Neal and Craft were | chemicals. The governor is to fill the removed from Lexington here for | position with competent scientists and trial, under the protection of four experts of known integrity. The hundred state guards. Horses for the geological corps is required to " make artlllery and mouuted Infantry were|the entire survey of- the sixty-five sent across the country. The prison- | gounties and the unorganized ‘terri- present duty unchanged. Agreed to, On motion of Benator Vance, plpes of wood were inserted at the same rate as those of clay—a35 per cent ad- valorem, Senator Vanoe moved to make the daty on dismonds, cut or uncut, and precious stones of all kinds 25 per cent :gulorum Agreed to—ayes 21, noes When the free list was reached San- ator Vance moved to adjourn. No quornm voting, the seuate roll was called, when 62 senators answered, Senator Cooke moved an executive session. Motlon lost and the senate adjoarned. HOUSE PROCEEDINGS, The hcuse went Into commitee of the whole on the tariff bill, Mr. Carlisle offered an amendment impesirg a duty of filty cents per ton of ote, or pyrites, or sulphurets of iron contdning more than forty-five per ‘“nt mlphur and moce than three per O™t wpper. Amendment lost, 72 to & A" ;?t, after consideration of the ‘" h “1 of the metal schedule for our d"“' and a balf, the committee P"“h 8¥q from it without making 0y ehanien tho rate of duty, which Is B‘lfl at fill gonty per ton, d r. Calkitimoyed to reduco the uty of steel ‘gotn, cogged lugots, blooms and slaf weishing more than 800 pounds, MmaGhy any prooces ox. cept crucible prowg, from six.tenths to threo-tonths of von per pound Pending action B commiitos rose, Mr. Blogham intijgeag g bill for the appolntment of & gommigsion to oonsist of seven metgry threo of whom may bo membarf the present house and two whnmu, be senators, to enquire Into thecyndition and value of the plant of g yarious telo. graph companies of the untry ad ro port to the next congresyhat mothods are at present avallable reduce the cost of telenraph commugggioy, and whether u'z legislation iflooeut’ry o carry out the power of ingress to ers and part of the soldlers are quar- | tory within elghteen tered at the jal ; others in a train of pu'it the specimeus o;n::l‘;::;l::l d.:lr; nine ocars, and bones n the state university, The colleotion of natural curlosities would be more cuntl! than rare, If the gov- ernor oan find a renowned geologist for $2,000 a year to make personal inspection and survey of seventy-six thousand square m{lu in elghteen months, he will accomplish a feat greater than Sampson wheu he slew a thowsand Philistines with the jaw bone of an ass, FOUR YEARS AGO & wonderous man from Otoe county, Capt. Mitchell, as chalrman of the dlroad committee of the house, dis- ed effectively of all the raflroad ills of that session by reporting back ““That no railroad legislation what- ever was needed.” To-day, another ponderous son of Otos, Mr, Grout, as chairman of the railroad committee, performed a slmilar feat by recom- Gould were summoned as a coroner's | mending to the house that all the bills jury in che cass of Goorgo Mahon, |Pending in the committee be shelved, who killed a fellow patient in the hos- | and that in their place the house pital Sunday, should substitute a bill, which, if en- The American Agricultural associa. | 80ted, would be dead letter. The tlon resolved to hold the national fair | bill, a8 outlined by Mr. Grout, creates in the place offoring the most induce- | & board of commissloners, composed of menta’ state officers, who are to be empowered to regulate the railroad traffic, Mr, Six Persons Drowaed in the Floed. | Grout and a majority of the committes Wpecia! Dispatch to Tux Bue, have doubtless taken their cue from INviaNarorrs, February 7.—The|the rallroad wanagers, who want streams In this vicinity are falling and | simply to defeat all regulation by no farther damago is expeoted Atout | A BILL THAT WOULD NOT HOLD WATER 100 families wero driven from their | before the courts, Grout's report says homee. It has beenraising sincenoon | the committee have consulted emi- at Poru, and thirty families are flooded [ nent counsel—mosning, of course, and are losing largely, It is reported | John M. Thurston or Citizen Mason. to-night that a family of slx persons | Had they consulted the constitution wero drowned at Keller's statlon, of Nobraska they would have discov- —— - ered that the power to regulate rail. L Corn Jufoe Turned Loose. Bpecial Dispatch to T Bee. LouisviLLe, February 7.—I s esti- mated that a quatter oin million gal- lons ~f whiskey go out of bond in this district under the law requlring the payment of taxes on this date. There 18 no excitement whatever about the matter as it was apprehended, and no failurcs are reported yet, A henvy sleet fell here last night turning Into rain this morning and contlnuing to-night, There is no ap- prehension of floods however, S — A X {istinguished Jary. Bpecial Dispateh to Tin ux, New York, Fobruary 7.—kax. Mayors Hall, Kly Grace, Cooper and Wickham, General Grant, ex-Senator Conkling, Wm. H. Vandorbilt and Jay Snedlal Dbk JOREIGW, lruml mi? {s vested by it {n the legls. THEY NEED TIME TO CALM. ature and that body cannot delegate 4 its power to any board of commission- Sr. Pererssura, January 7 —The | ers, whether composed of atate officers czar's manifeato on his coronation | or outsiders. Grout and his commit- saye: ‘‘We are determined in our|tee have either fallen into a trap or heart not to perform this sacred rite | else they are playing stool plgeon, unless the k«aling}:0 exclted by the|Thelr report was mccopted and the orime which the benefactor of the[bill held over for further considerss people fell a victim had tlme to calm, | tlon,