Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 9, 1883, Page 1

THE STATE CAPITOL Important Measures Thoroughly Tongue-Lashed in the Logis- lature, Oaafleld’s Militia Bill Robbed of Its Youthful Freshuness, Vigorone Debite on the Bill for the Deposit of Ocunty Funds. .A Memorial to Oongress Urg- ing the Abolition of Bridge Tolls. Pearman and Kennard Pool Their Plans for Bogus Claims. THE SENATE. Special Correspondence of Tis Bam. THR SENATOR'S CERTIFICATE, Lincowx, Febraary 8.—Gen. Man- derson was at the capitol this morning shakiog hands with the members and senators. Mrs, Manderson was also a visitor on the floor. The ocertificate of his olection to the office of United States senator was made out, signed and delivered over to the general to- day. RESUME OF THE WORK. In thirteen days from date the eighteenth seseton of the Nebraska legislature will be dead, or at least all the life left in it is what will remain after the rations stop. A brief resume of to-dsy’s session will show satiafactory progress in sev- eral important billz. The joiat resolution introducad by Me. Roynolds, urging our representa- tive in congress to iustruct the proper committee to report a bill limiting charges on Missouri river bridged to $4 per carload for fralght and 25 cents each for passengers, was considered in committee of the whole, The words “instruct” grated upon the delicate nerves of some of the senators and it was changed to “request.”” Senator Qonnor moved to amend by striking out the ‘‘84 and 25 cents” clause and inserting ‘‘that the same bo operated as a part of the railroad corporations owning or operating said bridgee, and all bridge tolls be aboilshed. This amendment was supported by Brown, of Lancaster; Brown, of Olay; and others, on the ground that the resolu- tlon, as it originally read, might be takop as a concession by this legis- lature of the right of the Union Pacific company to charge extra toll over their bridge when in reality it Is as much a portion of their road as any other mile of thelr track and rates should be the same. Senators Rey- nolds, Sang and Butler opposed the smendment on the ground that in its new form it would amount to nothlng bat buncombe, while a roductton of rates to the proposed figures would be appreciated by every shipper in Ne- braska, The amondment was: car- ried and the resolution reported for assage. McShane's bill to encourage the discovery and development of coal mines was also favorably reported. This provides that the state may fur- nish, fres of rent, machinery to be used in boring for coal—the prospect: or to give bond to go at least to a depth of 1,000 feet, unless a 30 inch veln of coal is reached at less than that depth. The machinery and a full re- port of the operations are to be re- turned to the state. An amendment repeals the existivg offer of a bounty to the disooverer of coal Senator Brown, of Douglas, advo- cated his blll providing for the deposit of public funds of cities and counties in banks and securlng to said citles or countles the intecest on the same. He was aseisted by McShane and Sowers, the latter seaator stating that his county (Adams) had lost 50,000 which a law like this would have saved. Brown, of Lancaster, opposed this bill, and an exciting debate was followed by a call of the yeas and nays which resulted in 12 votes to indefi- nitely postpone and 13 in favor of the passage of the bill, When the committee of the whole tackled Canfield’s militia bill, a few shrewd questlons propounded by Brown, of Douglas, caused the seem- ingly innccent clause, that gives offi- cers and mombers the same pay that slmilar grades iu the regular army re- celve, deyelop into figures which would pay the mili‘ia at the rate of $5,000 a year for generals and sixty cents a day for privates. There are evidently more militia privates than cflicers in the senate, and they concluded that $2 a day all round would be a more equitable division of the state militia money, and with that understanding the bill rests untll Mr., Canfisld c~lls 1t vp agaln, NEW BILLS Among the bills attracting the most attention to-day is one introduced in the senate regulating voluntary assign- ments, It is & long document and is belng ecanned clozely by the commer- olal men cf the state. A 'bill for the protection of the traveling public, compelling bkotel ownera and keepers to provide a fire escape for all buildings three stories high or over, was under discusion this morning. Notices are to be posted in each room telling where the ropes or ropo ladders are kept. The bill pro- vides that a watchman shall be keptin every hotel baving fifty rooms or over, and that an elarm bell shall ba kept on each floor of the building, This bill a8 originally introduced’ provided for & watchman oo each floor. Mr, Mo- Shane moved to amend the bill by compelling the proprietor to kesp a guard for each room, and on this ques- tlon the senator from Richardson, Mr. Schoenheit, took the floor and manner in which he handled the ques OMAHA NEB FRIDAY MORNING —e— i a FEBRUARY 9 1883 e e —y - e 199 the guests and the reputation of all hotels need looking «f er, and he thought that under the circumsatances one guard to each room was none too much, and he thought the guard should be kept on the inslde of the ryom. The bill passed the committee of the whole. When the bill came before the sen- ate, Brown, of Douglas, offered an smendment which made the owners of the hotels responsible instead of the koopers. Upon this the ayes and nays were called when the amendment was rejected. The bill was then ordered ergrossed for a third reading, and at 12:10 the senate adjourned until 1:30. HOUSE OF REPR 'NTATIVES. Special Correspondence of Tin Bun. Lincorx, February 8.—The greater part of the session this forenoon was taken up with committee reports, which were, with few exceptions, adopted. Among these are reports recommending bille for the relief of Sheriff Groner, of Lincoln county; Tom Kennard, swamp land commis- sloner, and J. W. Pearman, chronio bogus clatmant. There was also rec: ommended the bill creating a board of health and medical examiners, Mrs, Packard’s pet, the bill to declare and protect the {identity of married women; Mr. Sadelek’s bill for minor- ity representation in electing mem- bers of the leglelature, and Mr. Hall's bill prohibiting the publication of lot- tery-adveriisements. Several bills that had been en- grossed for a third reading were passed, among them the memorial to oongress, requesting the abolition of the duty on barbed wire; Bierbower's bill, fixing the 16th day of May each yesr for the general round-upof oat- tle; a bill prohibiting prairie fires un- der severe penaltier; the bill defining the boundary llnes of Brown county. and the bill for the protection of the inmates of the hospital for the insare —removing all consorship over their corresponden ox: 3 Special Dispatches to Tan Brn. GavLvesToN, February 8 —The loss to stockmen throughoat the state by the recent cold snap will not exczed five par cent. SAN ANTONIA, February 14 —Ad- vices from varions parts of the etate show the average loss of sheep through the recent speli of cold weather from 15 to 20 per cent. Cattle of all kinds suffured to a great extent. Pr hibition 1n Maine- 8pecial Dispatch to Tus Bux. Augusta, Mo., Febraary 8 —The house, 104 to 37, ordered- engrossed the prohibitory amendment. The at- tempt to except cider failed—56 to 80. Sl el The Cape Uod Canal. Special Dispatch to Tin Bk, BostoN, Mass.,, Febrnary 8 —Two different companies applied for ¢ ters to build a ship canal across Cape Cod, and are ready to deposit $100,- (00 or $200,000 as a guarantee before eommen cing operations, Raoes in New Orleans Special Dispatch toTuw B, New OrreANs, February 8 —Track good, attendance light. Five-eighths cf amile, Lucy Johnson won; time 1:04 One mile, Wedding Day won; time 1:44} Hurdle race, mile, King Datchman won; time 1:51% L —— A Protest from Boston. Special Dispatch to Tis Bxr. Bosron, February 8, -- Mayor Palm- er presided at & mass meeting of Irish born citizens to-night, who protest against the English policy of enforced emigration, and demand that the gov- ernment give work to the people in- stead. Texas Stook, Special Dispatch to Tun Bxk. . Forr WorrH, Tex., February 7.— Speclals to the Gazette from about twenty points, embrecing Kausas, the Indian Territory and Northwest Tex- as, report the loss on shoeep very heavy during the cold wave. The cattle are drifting, but the losses are few where they were In good condition. The number in bad condition was so few that the loss ls Insignificant. The weather 18 moderaling. A Chicago Lunatic. Special Dispatch to Tix Bes. CHicaco, February 8. —An applica- tlon has been filed for the appoint- ment of a conservator of the estate of the well-known millionsire and demo- cratic politiolan Perry H. Smith. The firat evidence of failing mental force wes observed in London last summer when Mr, Smith was prostrated with a sudden lllness. The application was made at the instance of Robert Law, a friond of the family, and it is under- stood to be with their concarrence. A Murdered American Special Dispatch to Tus B, Ciry or Mexico, February 8 — John G. Buchan §Hepburn, son of Sir Thomas Buchan Hepburn, the English baronet, was murdered by miners Sunday iu Pinos Altos, Chiha- ahua Five of the murderera wers shot last Monday. James Salllyan, representative of the Mexican National Couvstruction e¢ompeny, has lett for the United States. Vica Preeident Purdy as- sumes entire charge of the southern division of the Mexican railrosad, e A Bad Man. Spectal Dispatch to Tus Bxm. WasHiNGToN, February Washington paper ssys: Col, pinger, who married Miss . Blaine gained an unenviable reputation in California when stationed there in 1868, It charges him with seducing 8—A Cap- and eloping with a Mrs. Cash, wife of the San Fraccisco representative of The New York Herald at that time, —_—————— A Dead Gevernor. Special Dispateh to Tun B, GaLvestoN, February 8,—A News' tion proved him quite a humorist, not- withstanding he looked as solemn as a judge. He argued that the morals of Austin special says ex-Governor Davis died this morning from pneumonia after a short illness, THE STEAL CHILLED. A Cold Day for the Bilded Dome of the Caulked State 'Houss. by declaring that the taxpayers of the state had not been out a dollar for the oid oapitol bullding, the aniversity or any atate buildiogs. Mr. Howard, of Olay, advised the house to go slow before they inourred such an euor mons outlay. Some counties, possi- bly Cass, may not have been taxed for the buildings, but he knew that Olay county was heavlly taxed, nota. bly for the insane asylum. The atate oan afford to wait. A one mill tax in two years would aggregate $2(0 000 Me. Ashby, of Feaoklin, supported the motlon because the bill provided no limit to tacation. The accommo dations aro ample now for some years, Mr. Dodd, of Howard, was opposed to further taxation, We already had b SEVEN MILLS OP STATE TAX, Half a Million for Ornament|There are hundreds of farmers livlng in dugouts and sod houses ‘With Coal at $12 a Ton. |\ 1K & dffisulty In providing for their families let alone pay taxes for Our Own Gray Works and Votes ;g-nd hniliing.d Johnson of Saun onal " ers was opposed to any extrava e UL cLitiy gance, but thought the demand res- sonable. Gray of Douglass thought THE DAY'S WORK. 1: would cost the man with a 160 acro Bpec'al Dispatch to Tun Bxx, farm only elghty cents ayear. How- LiscoLN, Neb., February 8.—An-|ard retorted, ‘‘No matter how small other lively day in the legislature, The |the tax, but when you get a man's sam and substance of its labors to-day | 10'@ on the gtindstone, an inch is | im.” [Laoghte will, however, fill very little space in 80:;-‘:,;!?“?“.‘::' h[,,',;:surnl pro- the statute books. As yet no measures | gr.ssed. Frani and WhedunAelinch of rellef demanded by the people in|ed in an argument. h.l;flfl“ insisted the matter of cheaper transportation [the Iast legislature voted away han its 3 have been digested and presented to !viggfi).? :;:I;:d' ‘;?. whl;o:m:]r‘:::: the house. The bill recommended by | tioned what the proposied buliding Mr. Grout and a majority of the rail- wn;fld ‘colt, he said th@ architect's road committee is nothing more nor | ¢% lmate wi less than an andacious scheme to nul- vT §400,000. id i babl; lify the decision ef the supreme court moDl':dt:lll‘:l:lllt( :o:‘lirll“ozr'o lThg :Z:z by creating a railroad commission, and | cn Palmer's motion to strike out all to postpone for the next two years any .hefl -eoll_on.:wo ;nhliut by ; :lelry i o, | #mall majority. Field moved At legal regulation cf “"? railroad traflic, the bill be. reported back with the ot AR Lo recommandation that it do pas. A who is associated with Grout in play- 1ising vote rosulted in a tie. Franse Ing lackey for the monopoly, let the|demanded that the chair declare oas out of the bag when he admitted | Field’s mo'ion loat. The chair called to another mem der that A, J. Popple- | for another vote smid sreat excite- ton waa the eminent attorney whom |ment, The result was again a tie. he had consulted about the bill. If| Mr, Nottleton then cast his voto in Poppleton’s advice has more weight | {ha negative und declared Field's mo- with the legislature than their oath |tion recommending the bill, loat, to obey the constitution, they will | which was greeted with considerable pass this bill and earn the everlastivg [ applause. The supporters of the bill gratitude of Mr. Poppleton’s prin- | then moved an adjournment of the cipal ciient, the Univn Pacifia. On|houte, which was carried, The result tne face of the bill 1t js an ouiragoous | iy regarded sa tndicati g the fiaal de- fraud. It creates a commission ap- |feat of the capitol appropriation. ponted by the governor with sa artes, — e — including clerks, amounting to §15,- 000 a yoar. The fiteenth eeclion of the bi 1 prohibits the commitsion frov: doing anything that is not done BY DIRECTION OF THE GOVERNOR, who is clothed with supreme control over all their actlons. Why the state should piy for a commissioner while the governor has absolute con- trol over its governmoent ls simply preposterous. Senator McShane, chairman cf the senate committte is draftivg and com- piling another bill which will be lees objectionable, although by no meaus what the people have a right to ex- The Oapitol Appropriation Knocked Out of Time on the Firet Round. A Lively Night in the Lower House, Backed by the Old Lobby. Speclal Dispatches to Tun Bun, Prirssura, February 8. —The flod in the Mounongahela reached the high- est point, 28 feet, at 3 o'clock this morning, and soon &fter began to re- code, owing to the cold weather which shut cff the small sireams, The water did no* get as high us anticipated by noveral feet. 'he damege here is almoat wholly from inundation, but tho loes from these is conslderable. All mills along bota rivers aro sub- merged and operations suspended. Many stores in the lower portions of the two citles are under water and hundreds of families on the South Side pect or demand and in Alleghony have been compelled For the firat tmo since the logis- | i) 1,yy ¢haie home: watil the floods e somtons which lsted t1l afts | ubeds. Dispuishmfom Lovos sloog "E’"' ':'d 'l-t'l; flrht.‘: e“:f’ :‘;:l::t from inundatlon. The water at cheee :i‘:w n.ml}.t ;:: & :alde iy i FrU e inte is subsiding and no more danger field night. The scrlmmage took o ;,"Af:};::fl;ia W. Va,, Febraary place in committee of the whole, |g _p;o prell’l’lé is the h’ighut flood which had under consideration a i 8 here since 1860, the river being 44 number of bills on the general file. feet above low w’ntur. Houses on the After several unimportant bills had | i ide are inundated, also on the been past over the clerk reached Kavawha side. Three hundred per- THE CAPITOL APPROPRIATION BILL, |gons are homeless. Every mill in the which he read section by section, |city is under water. Loss fally $100,- without any material objcction from |00, No lives lost. The Kavawha any quarter, until the bill was read | river is rushiog out at a tremondous through. The Lincoln lobby, both|rate. The wator is within a foot of behind aud inside of the bar, ap-|the furnace fires at tho postcilice. peared delighted with the seemiog| CrxcisNaxi, February 8.—The Ohio indifference exhibited by the house, | river ia rising along the whole length, when Palmer, cf Dixon, suddenly|an almost unprocedented case, At moved to strike out all tho bill after| Wheeling it is 36 feet and still rising. the preamble that recites the necessity | B.ate cannot pats under the bridges. for pulling down the old capitol and | The river here is rizing throe inches makes it the duty of the board of pud-'| an houar, lic works to contract for its rcmoval. CincinNaTi, Fobroary 8,—The The motion was seconded and created | Gommercial-Gazatte's epcials report quite a sensation. Roberts rose to u | that the Ohio river rect R o e point of order, that inasmuch |at Marietta, but the city s in dark- a3 the speaker had ruled that|ness, the gas works being flooded. where no objeotlon is made|The loss in the city s very great, to any part of a bill read by sectton, | merchants not having time to save no amendment is In order after the|goods, Mrs. Groves was found whole has been read. ‘Lhe chair, Mr. stuwnsd in a house this evening. Nottleton, ruled the point was not|(Railway connection is cut off. The woll taken, Mr. Franse supported Mr. | joss In the township to farm property Palmer's motion in a vigorous and |{g estimated at §50 000 telling speech. He was opposed to| At Pomeroy, Ohio, the flood ls levy a tax for a costly structure as|greater than any since 1847, and long as the state could not meet the | promises to exceed that before morn- just claims of Its citizons that re-|ing, Three huudred buildings have mained unpald for many years. Past | from one to fifteen foet of water. In legislatures had refused to pay honest | three-fourthe ¢f the business houses debts. It was a great comfort lnd]wnur is six feet deep. “The damage pleasure to the lagislature to sltin & |to dwelllngs and business houses is great hall with Bfussels carpet and|estimated at $160 000. costly chandeliers while the creditors | At Ironton there it fifiy-five feet of of the state who have just claims are | water in the river and rising. The compelled to pay 12 per cent interest. | lower part of tho city is flooded and Mr. Fi 1d, of Lancaster, appealed to | all factorios are stopped. the house whether the preesdinglegis-| At Portsmouth the river is rising ture who had appropriated money for | threo inches an hour. The e water the two wings had committed works and nearly all factories are AN AUT OF FOLLY. stopped. Ono hundred families have The state is not insolvent and he | been driven from their houses. The did not believe It would repudiate any | rallroads north and east are under just debt. If they wanted to vote the | Water. . bill down lot them do 80, but he ob. | FREMONT, O, Febraary 8 —Throo jected to the motlon to dispose cf it thousand dollars have been collected in this way. He urged the house to lo_r the relief of the flood sufforers, 1t pasa the bill without amendment. will be severai days before the dwell- Jonsen said he hated appropristions, | ings can be occupied. but he hated to see the old hog pen between the two wings, He was a farmer and in debt, but that he thought Ths Mexioan Lobby. Spocial Dispatch toTin £ek, the glory cf the state demanded the | New York, KFebruary 8 --Hon. copiol building with Its domo should [ William Henry Hurlbert, of the be an ornament to the state. Seesions | New York World, General followed in a similar strain, It was|Grant, Poter Cooper, Gencral not. for Lincoln or Lancaster county | Dodge, Gayco, minister, and Commis- he appealed, but for the whole state, | sioners Romero and Cenedo, of Mex- which needed better accommodations. | lco, were guests to-night at the ban- The lawyers (f Nebraska who attend | quet given by the proprietor of the the supreme court want it, Thomnas (’;mnd Central hotel to Senor Malo, Burt, in a very sarcastic way, backed — — e * Sesstons by saying the senate chamber The Loagus Wants Tariff. in one of the new wings S Special Dispatch to Tus Brk. ’THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The Bankers of New York ard Boston Get the Best of the Troasury, The Transfer of Silver Blyly o Becured by Means of Certifloates. Teller Demands the Return of a Huge Farm from the State of Iowa. The Senate Rapidly Approach. ing the Hnd of the Tariff Bill. ‘While ths House Continues Ham- mering Irom. CAPITOL NOTES. Spectal Dispatch o Tin Bax. THE TRICKS OF BANKERS, WasuiNaroN, February 8. —The treasury regulations governing the distribation of standard silver dollars and the law aathorizing the issue of silver certificatos are belng used by New York and Boaton banks to obtain tranefer of large amounts cf money from one city to another without ex- pense to themselves, but with consid- erable cost to the government for transportation charges. The msnner of dolog this is to deposit currency in the sub-treasury in one city and ob- tain orders for standard silver dollare to be sent the correepondent in other clties from the mint, and the ocorres- pondent immediately upon receipt of the crder presents it to the sub.treas. ury in his cityfand asks for silver cer- tificates, Several million dollars have beon transferred in this way recently, costing the governmeut several thou- sand dollars without lessening the uumber of silver dollars in the treas ury, but in effect completaly glutting the vaults of the New York lng-treu- ury, A LAND STEAL IN 10WA, “=The necrotary of the interior has ad- deessed the governor of Towa a letter, demunding that thy state roturn to the government 83 043 acres of land pat. ented to the state on account of the Sioux City and St. Paul railroad* The lands patented were in exce:s cf what was due the road. OON GRESS. Special Dispatch to Tux Ben. SENATE PROCEEDINGS, WasuiNagToN, February 8 — The senate took up the tariff bill and con. sideration of the free list began. Souator Slater moved to put jute on thy freo list. Senator Beck asked for division of the qaestion, Senator McPherson favored the mo- tion; Senators Sherman, Williams and LC%I!I opposed it. 'he preaiding officer laid before the senate a message from the president transmiiting » eommunication from tho secretary of the interlor setting forth the urgent neoeseity of stringent mensures for repression cf evasions and violationa of laws relating to pub- lio land. The jate dlscussion was continued by Senators Beck, Allison, George, Morgan, Sla‘er and Jonas, The motlon to put jute on the free lint was lost —yeas 31, nays 33, . Jute butts were put on the free list. Senator Morgan moved to strike out raw sllk as reeled from cocoon and silk cocoons and silk waste so that he might move to put them on the silk schedule at ten per cent. ad- valorem. The debate whioh followed the motion was devoted to statements concerning the silk indusatry in differ- ent states, seme senators declaring 1t worthy of speclal encouragement, while others doubted whether it could be made successful here. The motion waa lost—ayea ¥, nays 39 The reading of the free list was comploted. Senator Allison offered an amend- ment which was ordered printed, pro- viding for rofunding 10 per cent. of the duty paid on imported salt used in curiug meats exported. The senate went to the paragraph passed over informally yesterday, lay- ing a duty of §1 on stones, unmanu- fictured or undressed, except marble, not specially enuwerated, ‘The para- graph was modified by striking out stones unmaavfactured or undressed, leaving it apply to free stone, sand stone, granite and all building or mon- umental stoue, except marble not dressed nor specially enumerated. An amendment was added fixing the duty upon stones as above, hewn, dressed or polished, at §1.60 per ton. Agreed to ayes 31, nays 21 ‘Asphaltum snd bitumen were added to the free list Sanator Ingalls moved to add books, pamphlets, bound or unbound, and all printed matter not specially enum- erated or provided for in this act; en- gravings, bound or unbound; otchings, illustratod books, maps and charte, Agroed to—syes 20, nays 25, Senator Bayard moved to add *‘nat- ural mineral water” in the free 'ist. The words *‘together with bottle which they are contained” were offar 6 an emendment, pending which the senate adjourned. HOUSE PROCEEDINGS, A jolnt bill was passed to admit free of duty o monument to George Washington, to bs imported by the Philadelphia society of the Cinclunati I'he house then weut into comuwmittee of the whole on the tariff biil, pendirg amondments being those offered by Messra, Tucker aud Morrison, fixing the duty on steel rails at seven-tenths of one cont per pound sud $15 per duty por tonon steel rails, may bars and ralling bars, made in part of steel, THE Asvlu" s"uucsns' weighlog morethan twenty-five pounds to the yard, at 816 per ton, by a vote of 110 to 90. By a yote of 91 to 95 the clause rel- ative to bar iron was amended, making the duty on bars less than one inch or more than six wide, 9 10 ¢f one ocent por pound; more than two Inches thick or less than one or more than six wide, eto, 12.10 of one ceut per pound; but all iron in slabs, blooms, loops or other forms, less finished than iron in bars and more advanced than pig iron, except castings, shall be rated as iron in barsand pay & duty acoordingly, which shall not be at less rate than 36 per cent advalorem (be-| (Hven Before the Investi- fore amended at 356 per cent, the olnulhs applying to the whole para- gatiag Comittes, rap! S — The Sicker the Loon the More Thorough the Whaling. Mathewson's Mob of Brutal Thugs at Their Favorite Pastime. The Insane Patients Kicked, Ohoked and Otherwise Horribly Punished. Testimony of Hye Witneeses Mr. Cartin offered a proviso that all iron bars, sizes and shapes of an kind, on the manufacture of whic charcoal is used as a tael, shall be sub- ject to a duty of $22 per ton, Agreed to— 066 to 14, On motion of Mr. Haskell the daty on bara of rolled iron, not specially enumerated, was changed from 1 3 10 cents to 12 10 cents per pound, and the duty on the second olassification of bar iron from 1 2:10 to 1 1-10 par cent per pound, On motion of Mr, Mills, the clause imposing a duty of 24 cents per pound on armor or other plate was struck from the bill, Mr. Haskell moved to reduce the duty on sheet iron thinner than 112th of an inch and not thinner than No 20 wire gauze from 13.10 to 1210 cents per pound. After debate the committee rose, Mr. Kelly made an attempt to limit the discussion on the pending para- graph to five minutes, This was op- posed by the democratic side. After roll call a compromise was agreed to, limiting the time to thirty minutes, The houss again went into committee, and without acting on the pending amendment, the committee rose and the house took a recess. Upon reassembling the house went into committee of the whele on the legislature appropriation bill. After brief explanation of the mea- sure by Me. Cinnon, Mr, Flower took advantage «f the general debate to discuss the pending tariff bill and con- cluded a long speech upon the sabj 2ot with a statement that there is no pro- bability «f any reduction of revenue by this congrees. Tho legislature bill was then read by eections for amend ment, The item appropriating $14,- 700 for maintainancoe of a botany gar- den in Washington having been reach- ed, Lefever moved to strike it out, stating it was his intention when the sundry civil bill was before the house to move to consolidate that garden with the agricultural department gar- den. After quite a long discission a vote was taken and resnlted yaes 33 nays 83, No quorum. The roll call followed, the committee rose and house adjourned. THE INSANE. Special Correspondence of The Bee INVESTIGATING THE ABYLUM, LixcoLN, February 8.—The special committee in the senate appointed to investigate the alleged cruelties and abuses at the hospital for the insane has beon in sension two half days and one evening. Twelve witnesses have been examined. They were all work- men employed In building the pew wings of the institution, Dr, Math- ewson is present during the taking of the testimony, and also Judge Mason there to cross question the wit- nesses. The following is a brief synopsis of the testimony taken thus far. Anton Hosar testified that on sev- eral occasions he saw the guards throw patients Into the gangway. On one ooconslon he saw three attendints beat and choke a patient cruelly, the blood came out of his nose and his throat was bloody when they choked him. The patient was doing nothlog out of the way. Aleck Brastrom said that he once saw two attendants leave a patient on the ground Inthe yard. They kicked, pounded and choked him violently. They Lelped him up and pushed him towards the asylum but got him down again near the door and again jumped onto him, pounding and chokiog him. Ohrist Kulr testified that he was a mortar mixer at the building of the new wing at the hoepital. One day a patient came to him and asked him if 1t was hard work, and said that he would try to work, and took up the hoe and commenced to mix mortar. An attendant came up and cried to pull him away; patient said ‘I am doing nothing wrong, let me alone.” Then another attendant came and they knocked him down and kicked him, whon a third attendant came up and ohoked and beat him till the blood ran out of his mouth and nose and there was blood on his throat, Wit- ness went to them and told them to lot him up and they did. When the patient ¢ot up he went off to a pile of lomber and crled. Charles Sturm, a teamster, testified that he saw two attendants with a stient on the ground; one sat across gh breast and the other was pounding bim wherever he could get a chance The one on his breast choked him by placing his two thumbs on the patient's throst and pressing down very hard for four or five minutes. Thomas Carnahan testified that he saw Dr. Mathewson choke a patient. This was some three or four years ag» while he was at work on the new wing to the hospital. John Robinson eaid that he once saw an attendant strike a patlent twice in the face with his fist, knocking him down and then choke him ‘‘power- fally.” He also saw another attendant knock a patient down and kick him soveral times after he was down. The patient rose and was bleeding when he got up. Witness was about five foet away at the time. Andrew Nottles awore that he saw an attendant hit a poor, sickly patient behind the ear with abrick-bat, knock- ing him senscless. All the patient had done was to complain because he had been hit by the same attendant for walking around in a olrcle. After the guard had struck him with his fist, he said, ‘‘You strike me as thongh I wes a d-d dog,” and for this ne was knocked down with a brick. They carried him {nto the asylum, C. F. Dllley, a stone mason, who was at work on one of the new wings, saw two attendants jerk a patient down and kick him. The patient only went out of the line to geta drink from a pail ¢f water that stood by the work, as foreman cf the stone work for Keys & Bullook; was at work for fifty at one time and fifteen another; saw no other act of o ——— FROZEN TO DEATH. Fatal Effects of the Htorm on the Plains, Special Dispatch to Tra Bax. Rawuins, Wyo., February 8.—The coach which left Pacifia STD'I, Sweetwater stago line, last week, was oaught in the storm of Friday. The coach was abandoned and the party started back on foot, The stage driver, W. J. Stewart, was found frozen to death, standing in the snow, and Thomas S8sott, superintendent, was found standing straight up in the snow. frozen so that he could not move. He wlll lose his hands and feet. W. V. Stark, a passenger,had not yot been found. They were out three days and nights. Another atage driver was badly frozen. He reports two feet of anow on the level and cat- tle starving. This stage line runs from Green River, on the Union Pa- cifio, te Washakle, Wyo., through the South Pass of the Rocky mountains. —_—————————— The Thumpers' Exhibition Specal Dispatch to Tus Bxn, New Youk, February 8 —Mace and Slude gave thelr sparring exhibition in Madlison Square garden to-night. Notwithstanding the great amount of free advertising it recelved the at- tendanco was small, The spectators at no time numbered over 2,000. The performance was of the thinest nature and a failed to awaken the semblance of enthusfasm. A very large force of police, under command of Captain Williams, wore present. Mace and Slade appeared in fall ring costume— Mace in blue and Slade in white. Slade's pose was oasy, movements quick and reach long. In four rounds given he showed himself active in get- ting sway, quick in roturn and a good stopper. Maco assumed his old cruelty, sciontific form, hands well up, and firm | 0. T. Aldrich awore that he was a on his lega. His whole object seemed | carpenter sud worked on the new to be +» exhibit the good points of his | wing of the hospltal for the Insaae. rotege. In the tinal round, the About the middle of last January I aorl got In the upper cut, that al- [saw an attendant slap a patlent and most floored the ex-champion, Dar- | knock him down and kick him several ing the evening Mace was presented | times; did not know exactly how with a gold headed cane by Boston ad- [ many times he kicked him, but saw mirers, the attendant kick the patient a good Richard K. Fox, of The Police|many tites, Looked througha hole Gazette, has given $1,000 security not | 0 ;h:, pfirmlon and saw the striking to repeat the offence of promoting a |8nd Kicking. prizupfight within twelve months, A, P. Hollenbeck, & carpenter and —— joiner, foreman of the carpenter work A Failing Politiclan. on the new wing, saw an attendant Special Dispatch to Tus Buw. slap a poor, eickly patient at least a Cu10Aao, Fobruary 8,—An applica- | dozen times, when tho said patlent tion has been filed for the appoint-|wns strapped to a bench with her feot ment of conservator for the estate of | tied, and her hands tied together. the well known millionalre and demo- | Same witness also saw Mr. Burns, an cratic politician, Perry H. Smith, |attendant, throw two patients into The first evidenco of failing mental |seats tn the hall, one of the patients forco wes observed in London last|spoke a few words, did not hear what summer, when Mr, Smith was pros- | be eald, but it evidently prc voked the trated with sudden illness, The ap- |attendant, when ho struck the patient plication made at the instance of |two or three blows in the breast; he Robert Law, a friond of the family, |also choked him yiolently, and then and undorstood to be with thelr con- |struck him several times again. I carrence, then called siother man to come and —_——— see the performance; also saw an at- R ton respectively, Mr. Tucker with- drew his amendment and accepted Mer, HAD TO BE CAULKED New York, Feb. 8.—The Union to keep the wind out, and the other | League clab passed resolutions re- wing would soon be in the sawe cou- [ questing congress to pass a tariff bill dition. Mr. Wolph, of Cass, came to | for protection to home industry and the rescue of the Lancaster delegation | favoring suspension of sllver coln, Morrison's fixing the rate at §15 per ton. Soveral amendments were offored and rejected, and after a discussion of | to be 17} inches diameter, 63 Inches some length, the committee fixed the | bulge, length of staves 284 inches. A Standard Barrel. tendant by the name of Merr(ll strike Spocial Diepatch to Tus Bux, a pattent in the breast a number of New Youk, February 8,—The do- | times, and then throw him into a cell. mestic fruit trade ask the leglslatare [ Merrill afterwards went Into the cell to enact's standard barrel for apples, | and whipped the patlent for talking wauoy to him, The investigation will continue to-night.