Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 10, 1883, Page 1

O | | ) ———— W, -4 L — ST TWELFTH YEAT. OMAHA NEB SAIURDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 10 1883 IHE OMAHA DaIiLy BEE 20) THE STATE CAPITOL. Prosent and Prospeo'ivy Condi- tion of the State Treasury. A Warning to Law Makera to Qo tlow in Hesping Up Expences, The Search for Fossils Ab. ruply Eands in the House. Likewise the Landlord Scheme to Equeezz Tenant Farm:ra, T/ e Mania f.r a Railway Com- mission Strikes McShane, Vile Food and Viler Words in ths Lunatio Asylum. Bpecial Correspondenco of The Bee PILING UP THE TAXIS LixcoLs, February 9.—Unlges the legieiature promptly put on the brakes the pecple of this |.ta'e will be borne down by a mountain of debt and taxa’ tien. According to cffisial figures our stato debt sggregales within a fraction $600,C00, and the lccal county debt aggregates about §7,(00,000. On thls debt the people of this state are taxed to meet Interest at least 7 per cent, or about $750,000 per annum. When to this enordlous draft on the taxpayers is added the cost of state, county and clty governments, the burden becomes almost unbearab'e. The ordinary ex- “penses of our state government are es- timatad at €50 010 a year, or one dol- lar for every man, woman and child in Nebraska. These expeunses are growiong from year to year, while the income is limited, aud the increase in wealth does not keep pace with the outyo, Wo nre now pagiog $109 a day for each day in the year for the keeoing of 219 penltentiary convets. Wihu fivo yoars the numbar of coaviets will re.ch 500, which mean; & tax of §250 a day on the peo ple. The iusans hoepital, the do f and dumb aund other chanty ble and benevolent iistitations are constantly groving sad they meke a heavy demand upon the taxpayers, In the faca of all this the lezielature is lmportuned to vote away more than half & mtllion dollars in appropriations for a new capitol and varfous public buildings that we will not need for somo yeara to come, : Ia addition to 2ll this the are the b'\inu claims of parties who pretend to have rendered the ltfitb servics in all sorts of ways. In Order to puil through tho capitol appropria- tion the Linooln lobby have enconraged & scheme to expend over $60,000 for a new bullding to be added to the Kearaey roform school. This institution is far more in need of roper supervision than of new cost- fy buildings, It costs the state about $4 000 a year for the salaries of the supervision of forty boys and §4,000 more for their living expenses, and yet these boys are reported tobe ina very wretched condition and need soap, water and brushes a good deal more than anything else. Last sum- mer the superintendent spant the greater part of the season in cam- paigning, ard he has been here for the list two weeks, which would indi- cate that the rifirm echool is more cf an asylum for broken down politicians than a place for reformirg bal boys and pirls. ANOTHER FXPENSIVE SCHEME linked with the new cipitol approprl- ation is the proposed pormal school at Geand Islund. The state has a normal school now at Poru, which is & heavy draia on the treasury, and sa # matter of economy ard uscfalness, it should be cousolidated with the university, whers the teachers and pupils would enjry the benefit «f stientific apparatus and musoum and lectures. To establish another normal school anywhere in the atate 18 simply to create another endless tax- ing scheme which would mainly bene- fit a few profeasors at the expense of the whole state. It was a picce of folly to establish the blind asylum at Nebraska Clty, which only coutains 26 Inmates and coste §500 a year for each person with very poor supervision and Inferior educational factlitier, whereas the state could place these nn- fortunates in the Iowa or Missourl ssylums at less cost and with more comfort and better education. This state is too .young for aping the wealthy and older states that boast of various benevolent and charitable ia- stitutlons Auother echeme for taking money out of the treasury 1s the provieo in the bill making an appropriation for the deafand dumb asylum, whish sets apart 89,000 for the purchaso of addi- tional ground. The institation has ten acres of ground, all it necds, and to an unsophisticated observer there appears to bes a darkey in the wood pile for baylrg mro land. When the orizinal slte was chosen vear O:on- ha there was a land soeculation in it, and this looks very much like another such scheme, THE SENATE. 8pecial Correspondence of Ti1s Lis LiNcowy, Februery s,—1 convened at 2 p. m., and «fur the Lo troduction of several hills, weat into the committec of the whole to consider vides that the occupant shall receive pay for improvements made by him. Tho t11 passed the committeo and was recommended for passage. A bl by Senator McShane, for the purpote cf creating a special fund for the improvement of street that caunot bo touched for anything else, was coueidered in committee of the whole and reoommonded for passags. This bill in for citiea of the hrst claes only and cousequently meaus Omshi An act 10 eatablish & printing law for the state «f Nebrasks, introdve:d by Seuatar Dye, was cousidered, and was eupported by nearly every senator on the flyor. The old printiog law is a grand fraud, and any change, no matter what that change might be, oould not make the state printing any more ¢ mplicated than at the present time, The bill makes an ontire chang> in the leitirg of the contract. Senate file No. 24, Introdaced by Senator Brown, of Douglas, cime up in the committes of the whole. Tais is & bill corupelling rallroad companie! to erect and maintain depots at &l points where two railroads cross each other, The bill was pressed by the people of Nemaha county because 1hey have a crossing near the center of that county where no depot is maintained. Tt was also fought by people from the same county because the town of Au- triot lylng just county, A bill has beon introduced by Sena. tor Rogers to provide for comulaory ednoation. Tan rai'road bill reported by Sma- tor McShane from the ratiroad com- mitter was read at leogth this morn ing. Tais bill provides for the ap- pointmeut of a railroad commirein wth ouly mivisterial powers, This bi iz to bo u substituto for all rallroad hills in the senate, Tae bill of 8§ nator Brown, of Doug Ins, providing for the depomt of pub- lic funda of countiex and citles no ne to obtain interest theroon, wan before the seaate and undor discnssion when the seuate adjourned until 2 p. m, north of Lincoln AF 'ERNOON WORK. Specal D apateh to Tuw B, TWO STFALS ATOPPED Lixcony, Februiry 9 —The after- noon sers'on of the two houses was mainly taken up with routine busi nets and the reading of bills and re ports of committees, Tho geological survey scheme was put upon its passage and defeated by avote of 30to 45 agai-st the bill The house also killed the bill to give landlords a liea on the orops of their barn had been built up under a con- tract with the railroads that no depot should b built at the crossing. Senator Conkling moved an amoud- ment, which made the law apply ouly to crosstugs hereefier mado. Senator Kincaid opposed this bill; id that he was a member of the ju ary committee, to which this bill was referred, and that he knew the reason why this bill was mtroduced-- it was because there was a local fight in Nemaha courty. He kuew that there was a state policy that should be coneidered, but he favorad the peti- tioners from Auburn, Ho read a pe- titlon eigned by a largs number of oliizens againet the law. Ho was opposed to the bill, because it was too broad aud sweeping. He wasin favor of the question being rferred to «fli 'ers who should have the power to determine such questions. He was apposed to tie bili because it would interfere with the rights of the citi- zons of Auburn, Senator Brown, of Clay, favored the bill, Hs saw merit in the bill, and he did not care anythiny about any town sight company. He thoaght the people of tho state at large should have an opporwupity to ship their freight and Lave 1t traveferred from one road to another wherever thore wus o railrosd crossing, Brown cf Loncaet:r said that e bill ought not to pass. If it passed ot all is should by amended, That rail- roads shonld give the greatest accom- modaiions to the public, no one will deny. Hs thought that the railroads were the judges. He was also of the came opiuton as the senator from Holt. He thought that the question should be se'tled by a commission, Senaior Batler said he was like the Lord—he hated a coward, and he spoke upon this bill for fear he would be called a coward, He favored an g e Sl A apply to ter made. He had | ised to vote for this bill but had decided to ‘“‘yarn” a little and do difforently. He did not think that the bill would accommodate the pub lle. Ho said that he would say that this law was in the interest of people in Nomaha county, aud while he would accomraodate old and warm friends by votng for this bill he would injare others who had bought lots in Au- burn, There was no clause in this bill compelling one railroad to take the freight cars of another at these railroad crossings. Senator Schoenheit favored the bill, He sald that Governor Batler was a very gocd man, but very inconsisteut. He said that Buller proposed to look upon Aubarn s sacred spot, Ha himself also lived in w sacred spot, Falls Clty, the gods lived there, but for all that he thought that the city of the Gocsshould take its chances What was sauce for the goose was eauce for the gander. Senater Brown, of Douglas, said thid was a question solely between the railroads and the people, and the men who cpposed this were working in their 1nterests, He presentcd a pe- tition signed by 1,600 names from dif- ferent counties, not atking for the in- terest of » few men in oue town, but acking this law for the general good. 1i » town could not stand on its own merits, it should go down. This bill is of a public nature, and no per- tonal coosideration should be taken nto account. Senator McShane opposed the bill, He had received psutions from a large number of citizens in Nomah: county. This bill would injure par- tles who had purchased lota in Au- burn, and he thought that their best in'erests should by looked after. By a vote the committes recom- mended that the bill do not pass, and when the committee aroso it was ac cordingly indefinitely postponed by the seuato. Among the bills considered in the eenate was one defining the biundar ies of Loup county, a new county to be organized out of the territory lay- iug just north of Valley county, the bill patsed the commitiee of the whole, and when it came up before the senate, Senator McShane moved that the name ‘‘Loup” be changed to “Diwes,” Senator Connor fought thie, e said that the name of Loup wus & historical one, and the people residing in that country felt proud of the nawe, sud while he enfertained he highest cpinfons of Governor D ves, ho thought that it was barely postible that we would regret it if the change wes made, He alluded to the farm tenants, Soveral unimportant Dills were passed, most « £ thew beivg for the relief of private claimants, THANKING VAN WYCK The house by a unanimous vote. adopted the following resnlution, with instructions that au «flicisl copy be transmitted to Sonator Van Wyck: Re:oLvep, That it is the sense of this house that the Hon. Caarles H Van Wyek, fie his manly and abe «ffort “in the Uuited States senate in favor of free lumber, ia entitled to the tharks of this . house aud the country at lsrge, DEATH OF SLOCUMB A uncnimous vote of condolence on tho death of cx-Rprossurative Slocumb waa also adoptod. The com missioners f the hou e and seaato on public chartties and beucvolent ins i tations will lewve for Omaha at 7 o'clock to morrew moraing to visit and inspect the etato deaf and duub i stitute, THE INSAVE. ienen of YK BRE, HOW THE ASYLUM I3 M:NAGED Liscoty, February 9 —Thero wa no eession of tho committee to in veatigate the ineane asylum last night, but there was a short eeseion this moroing. Mrs. Matilda Dawson, of Plattsmouth, a former inmate of the asylam, was awcro, She said that she was at the hospital about two woeks, while there sho was for one week in the Second ward and ten days in the Firat ward, She said she was a very, nervous woman., My letters to my husband snd my friends were all read Sp clal Conees THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The Fisherios Question Aran Revived, This Tims For Abr.pation, The Prophet Wig,ina Retires to His Hole to Await the Coming Storm, Some Facts L oncerning tha In. teroational ExYibition at Cork, Ireland. The Currency Reformers Pro- by Dr. Matthewson, My husband noticed that the envelopes were not addressed in my haud, and sent to mo a dollars worth of stamped envelopes, but they never reached me, The food that I had while in the Second ward was vile, not " to Yive to yuur pigs, No butter and no milk forany pur. pose. Some of the patients in this ward were very filthy. Inthe First ward the food was of a better quality but not sufficlent in quantity, The attendants and Dr, Hay were kind to her, but Dr, Mathewson did not use her decent and never spoke kindly to the patlents. Thlis ludy is vary intel- ligent, Hellish Work «f a Black Brute. Spe-ial bispatch to Tus Brx. Paora, Kas., February 9. —Wednes. day nizhe a little colored girl namod Buonings, 9 years old, was found lying upon the groutd insensiole and stripped of most of her clothing, and her arms nnd legs froz:n stiff. Afier several houra’ medical treatment she was rovived and rolated a etory of heilish cutrage by Henry Smith, a notorious negco. Smith was srrosted and taken to jail. Last night a crowd of several hundred colored men gath— ered about the jail and demanded the prisoner. The sheriff had prepared for the attack and refused. ‘Che ne- groes opened fire, wouuding the sher- Iff s 2on, and the sheriff's party rotali- ted, killing one negro, seriously wounding two and wounding several othera, Tho sheriff was slizhtly hurt, About 1 o'clock to day a crowd of whites and blacks collecte] in (ront of the jall and walted for ths marehal to coms with Smith, who, it was reported, would be taken before ihe jastica, The sheriff declined to move the pris- oner on account of the threw s of the mob, Tho crowd, led by a num ber of the best business men ia the city, made an assault on the jail, drove the sherift iuto the interior of the buildirg After hours at work wich hammers and crowbars, they battered Jaway the call only to fiud Smith dead on the floor, having committed suiecide by cutting his throat with a pocket kuife The mob put a rope around the corpse’s neck, drajg d it to a tree and ntrunz it ap. ‘L'ne outraged child is alive, but is expected to die from the rcsult of Smith's act, ROBHING THE MAILS. 140 Registered Letters Stolen at Ce- aar Raplas, lowa. 8p-eial Dispatch to Tue Bk, Cepsr Rarips, Ia,, February 9,— A daring mail robbery ocourred at Unton depot, this city, at a late hour tast night. The mail pouch was rip- ped open in the baggge room and 140 rogistered lotters taken. Amount of iors unknowxn, One leiter contalned claim Taeir Principles and Disappear. Congrars Ocmtinurs Wrestling ‘With Revenus Redustion. CAPITAL NOTES. Spoc'al Dispatcho: to Tus Ban. Wasuinoer N, Febraary 9 —There is no foundasion for the carrent pars graph to the effest that Mra. Judyc John Blair Hoge, of Wes Virgiais, ie authority for the announcemont of the eng - gsment of Senator Divld Davis, A PROPHRET PETKRS, There ars no indications of the “heavy storm’ predicted to-day by weather propohet Wiggias, aud ‘it is anderstood he has withdrawn the propheoy concerning the great hurri- oune and tidal wave for March 11, THE PISHERY QUESTION, The senate committes on forsign «ffsirs will report favorably a renolu tion dirocting the praident to give noues during July to the queen «f (ireat Britain thavitis the wina of the i the “‘treaty of Washiu ing to the tishery question, PAYNE PINNED, Tho war dipartment his been in- formod of the captars oi Capt Payne and hia pirty of Okalah m colonis's. Guoaerol Sherraan sald he supp sed tha cipiives will .bo taken to For Smith and tumed ovar 1o the civil authorities, who will eci them at Lioerty agsiv, o8 was wlecidy dose o more than one ocession. Geueral Shermap thinks more atingent laws shou d be enasted for the punishment of uhis olaes of invaders, THANKFUL CANUCKS, British Minister West Las written o note to the seoretary of state convey- fag the thauks of the government of the Dominion of Cansda to the ssore- tary of the treasury for his aotion in placing at the diepusal (f the authorl franchisoment to imprisonment for all who buy or eell votis, or render false roturns of elections, This ad- drees containg citations from Bonja- min Feanklin, Gaorzs Washington, Momas Jeffeinon, Diniel Wabater, Joha Shorman (rant, Grorge S o phonton, the Duke f Wellington, Aristotle, and Joseph Nimmo, Jr., an nuthorities to illustrate and prove the correctuers of the views of the con- ferenos upon thasubjeet of currency sud class legislation, THE STRENGTH OF SUGAR, In nuswer to the senate as to the waccharine strength «f sugar, &o, Arsstant Scoretary of the Treasury French replied that 75 per cont is the nearest practical mim mam of stand ard of rating for assessment purpotes CONGRESSIONAL. 8pocial Dispatch to Tiw Kxs SENATE PRCCEFDINGS Wasnrsaron, Fobruary 9.—A re. monstreiice was presonted agaiionst plecing lumber on the free list, Seaator Hale reported the naval bit. It appropriates $15 727334 T e senate committes added §518 000 to the aggregato of the bill as it passed the houss, The total amonnt exseeds lant yeat's bill by about §)0),(00, the addiion being due to tho 1tems for an increase of the nuvy, including a sum for the completion of monttors, ties of British Oulumbis the steamer Waleott, for the purpase of proceed: iug to Kort Simpeon to repcl antici pated attacks of Indlans upon the English settlcment at that point., THE CORK EXTIBITION. The United S:ates povsul at Cork, Ireland, has vfltm&nmting dise pateh o tho deparsalu.d of v stitt in regard to the industrial exhibition of arts, products, manufacturcs aud machinery to bo held in that city dur- ing the summer and autumn «f 1883 Former exhibitiors of this character, which have been held in Ireland have failed to produce the hoped for satis. factory results owing to the disrentions of a political charscter amorg their promoters. Prcfi ing by former ¢x- perience, however, those huviug the present scheme in hand have decided upon ignoring all questions of patron- age and polities ‘Tho indications are that the forthcoming exhibition will baa grand eucce's In connection with the dlsplay of Irish products there will be held the annual agrloultural, horse and dairy show, the primcipal exhibition of the kind ever held iu the south of Irsland NEW ENGLAND OPERATIVES, Before the scnate committee on education and labor Frank K, Foeter testifiod that the condition of opera. tives in New Eagland living in the companies’ houses was very bad, He sald the French Canadians are to New England what the Chinese are to Cali- fornia and the Pacilic coast, THE CURRENCY REFORM CONFERENCE has closed it seasion and the reform- ers to-day issued an address to the country, in which they defise their position with regard to some cf the principal {ssues of the time, Tho ad dress begine: *Mouopolistic influence threatens the liberty f the people; it nus divided the Aworican eltizens nto clusses of rich and poor—thoee who live on a fixed income, yet produce nothing, and those whose labor pays all taxes and supports all classes I controls the principal avenues of com- morce and travel and tranem'ssion of intelligence. It wiells undue iufla ence over the publie press and elections, It corrupts all legislative, judiclal and cxecutive offisers, and above all ivflates and controls the volume of currency and credits which enables 1t to creato paniss, destroy vroperty values, paraiyzes business, throws labor out of employment and atops the demand for its productions.” Tae attention of all patriotic citizans 18 invited to the statement of prin- oiples in which are advocated in the prompt payment of the debt, the issuance by the government of all car- rency of the couutry, such currency to bs legal tender for ail duck public and private; establish- ment of a govorument postal tcle graph eystem, restriotion of rai'road rations to promote public wel county of Goeper, and said that ow- ing t the name it was impossiblo tc sattle up tho ¢ un'y. The amendmen bills on general file, The firet bill taken up was a bil! for an ast for the relief of occupying claimants of real estate, This act in intended to make the resl estate liable to the person in possension of real estate for all taxes paid by him, even though 1t is subse- quently proven that the title {s in some other person. The bill also pro- of MoShane was voted down,and the bill provi¢ing for the county of Loup was ordered *o a third reading, February 9—The friends of the Dawes movemeut appear to be deter mined that the governor shall have a county named after him, and accord- ingly Benator Heist this morning in- troduced a now bill making a county a 81,000 bill, e Cutting Down Wages. Spectal Dispatch to Tin Bus Pirtssura, Febroary 9, Tt is un- dratood that there will ba a general reduciton of wages on the 15 h ina at all the coke works {n South Con norsville. Tae reduction will be 12 per cent on common laborers au coke drawors, and 15 per cent on miners, The reduction wlill affect out of that portion of the cowboy dis- |2 500 coke ovens and 6,000 workmen. fara, to prevent them from becoming oppreesive monopolies; repeal all ¢'ass logislation and onactment of lawa compelling all property to beer its jast portion of the burdens of taxa tion; retention «f the public domain for the benefit of actual setclors; Senator Hale said the c)mmittee had struck cut from the bill every paricle «f general legislation, <o the bil as reported-was a clean appropria- tion bill, Senator Morrill veported a substi- tute for the paragraph in the tariff bill ombracing “women’s and child rev's dress goods, ete.,” which was agreed to, Senator Elmunds reported favor- ably a joint resolution providing for the abrogation of the fisheries article of the Wushington treaty, Sonator Ferry moved o take up the post route bill. L st - 27 to 33, Tae tar ff il was then taken up, Senator Bock moved his ponding snbstitate for the wool echedule L —-ayes 19, noes 30 Sendtor Morrill smd when the bill seached the senate he would cffer an amendmont to the ply iron parageaph 1o the iron schedute, Scunator Aldrich, from the comn it tee on fioa ¢o, reported smandments to tho rovised piragraphs embracing bonnota, hate, houds and materlals for them, m<king che duty on matorials 20 pr cont advaloram, wod the du'y on ba's, ote., 30 per cont. Agroed to. The resorved paragraph, Inying a daty of aix canta’ per hundred pourids on malt i bags or other puck ages; was taken up. Senator Vanes moved to atriko it out, 8o u8 to let salt o on the feee Jist. Tolsbil, he eald, socmed to be framed upon the thcory of taxirg aii the neocesarios of life and letting the luxuries come in freo, so that the poor men following plow, and reflacting on the heavy taxes ho had to pay on Lis plow, his traco chains, his hat, his shoes, his vlaukets, might console himself with the thought that congress had not b:en quite inconstderate, bu" to com- ponsate bim for this borden had pro- vided for fres palmleat fans and fiddle strings und ‘‘vuxvomics, myrobalm,"” aud bres of ally ‘ieel shclntons,” that hervaf.er every mat might have a skeleton in his oloset without pay- ing a daty [ Laughter ] Tho specia sonate committes on hesvy ordusuce made areport to the senato thr ugh chairman Logan, The committee recommend that the chief ordunnce cfficer have 100 ten iuch smooth bores now on haud convertsd iuto eight inch breech loading ritles; the proper mounting of 300 fifieen inch guns at the foris; manufactuce of two expoertmontal steel breech loading guus, one to be eight and the other ten iuches in ocalibre, and two oxperimental cast iron breech leading riflee, twelve inchos calibre, and sach number of cast iron guus banded with steul, as shall be neces. sary to thoroughly test tho efficiency of this class of ordinance; that the chtef ordinance cffiser shall select two of the most meritorious breech loading duvices that are uffered by the committeo of the Gaity board and tho ordinanco department, and thorough'y test their efficiency and make & report; that he also make ex- periments with the various now de- vices and with the ‘“‘malti oharge" systom of guns, An appropriation of £300,000 's recommended, Svaator Allison offered an amend- mout, of which he had given notice, providing for refunding 90 per cont of thedaty paid on imported salt used ia curing meats afcerwards exported. Senator Vest offered an amendmont providing for romission cf the duty on alt iwported in bond and used in curing ments, At the suggestion of Sonator Ransom he modifisd the amendment 8o as to include such salt used in curing fish other than thoss taken by licensed fishing vessols, Soenator Bayard argued in favor of froe walt, While traveling tarough the K mawaha valley some years since his attention had been directed to the deserted salt works most advantage- ously eituated for ensy working and ready access to that great pork pack- ing city, Oincinuatl, Upon inquiry he was told that the owners of the works had been paid to abandon them by eait producers of New York -a strikiog instance of the ovils of the system of building up monopolies by law. Senator Conger said he would cffer an amendment cirrying out the reo ommendation of tho tariff commis wion, leaviog the duty on ealt stand had atond for filteon years past—12 cents per 100 pounds on 847 10 pack cigat conts on that in bulk #o rates thy prico of sal ha fullen from §2.69 to 70 cents u barrel §nator Willisms thought God had fntended that light, air and water paid upon ealt used in curiog meats for exp et aud actually expertsd. Af. ter further discursion the whole eub- ject of remission of the du'y upon sAlt was rescived by unanimous con- sent for con ileration when the bill passes from commirteo of the whole tuto the senate. Retarning to the clauses rolative to opium, which were passed over intormally,. Senator Mil- ler (Oal) moved to strike out the clause tmposing duty of $1 a pound on opium and to iusert the following: “'Opium crade, containing nine per cont or aver of morphia, $1 per pound, and the importation of opium contaiving lees than nine per cent of morphia is heroby prohibited.” Aureed to, Sonator Miller then moved to ia creaee the duty on upinm prepared for smokivg from §6 o §10 per pound. Agreed to. The itcmy of lead chemicals, on mo tion of Seuator Aldrich, were amended «f followe, acetate of lead, brown, 14 oents perpound; acetate of lead, white, G conts per pound; white lead, wher dry or balk, 3 ocents per pound; lichage, 3 cents per pound; orange mineral and red tes, 3cents per pound Senator George moved to amend the paragraph exempting fiom duty ma chinery for the manufacture of beet ar, by also exempting machinery for the manufacwure of goods com. nosed of cotton, wool, hemp or ramle, Loat, Senator Sherman moved to strike out the paragraph. Agreed to. The internsl revenue portion of the hill was then taken up. Sinator Beck moved to muke the tax on snuff and manufactured tobaceo elght cents per pound, instead of 12, as in the bill. Senator Beck ivsisted upon a vote, which resulted--ayes 5, noes 17 No quorum present. Sonate ad- journed. HOUSE PROCEEDINGS, Mr. Belford, from the committes on colnege, weights and messures, report. ed a rovoltftion deolaring it expediont to discoutinue the coinage of silverun- der the existirg law, and recommend ing the commiiteo on appropriations report a provicion for additional vau't room at somo point in the Mississippt valloy. Referred The conference report on the mill- tary academy bi'l wes submitted aud agreed to. Tne house then went iato oommittee on the tariff bill. The ftem impoeing a duty of 11 10 cents per pound on tin plate, eto., having besu rencied, Mr, Kision moved to reduce the duty to ono ocent, though he was not sure but that it should be roduced to three-fourths of a cent or put on the free list. Me. Bayne moved to increase the du'y to two cenes a pound, He char- acterizod the pending paragraph as departure from the princlple which ran through the bill. He criti:sed the committee on ways and means for having abandoned its duty, It listened to that clamor and violated the great priveiples which was. supposed to per meate the bill, The Standard Oil company had a very large interest in aseing that the duty on tin plates should not be reduced, Mr. Anderson moved to strike out the whole clause, stating his intentlon was to move to place 1t on the free liat. If there was anything which he was absolutely op‘rvnd w0 it was class 1000poly, and in partiouls: tiue Btund. ard Oil company, This was a tax of $500,000 levied on the people who bought aoy articles of tin, Here was, thank God, one little rift In the clouds, one gleam of sunshine, one breath of fresh air, where their was n chance to reduce the revenue and Jifc cff taxation, Mr. Hammond, In response to a suggestion made by Mr, Kelly, that soms time in the fature tin plate in- dustry might grow up which ought now be protcc ed, likened the sug- gention to the action of Mre Toodlen in buying a door plate bearing the name of Tacmpson, ‘‘withap,” in oxpectaiion thut she might have a daughter v ho might marry & man with thet name, The motions of Bayne and Ander- son were lost, Katson's motion was ageeed to, so the duty cn tin plate is fixed at one cent a pound, O motion of Mr. Haskellthe c'ause imposivg a duty of 19 10 ocnts per ponhd on corrugated or orimped Iron or steel was struck from the bill, The momont the next clanse, pro- posing a duly of 4 10 cents per pound on cotton ties, was roached, half a dozen members from the Southern statos were on their feet olalming rec oguftion. Mr, Mckee was the fortun- ato man, Ho moved to reduce the duty to 35 percsnt. advalorem, Ponding action the committee rose, and the house took a rec:sa. The house, at the evening sersion, passed o large number of pension bills and bills granting condemned cannon for monumental purposes, Among them, was a bill granting a pension of $20 & month to the widow of Major Hawk, lateé representative from Ilili- nois, and a bill granting eight brouze cannon for the purpose of erecting a monument to General Willlam H. Lytle'at Cidcinnati. Adjourned. Anti-monopoly Convention. Spectal Dispatch to Tuw ux. Unicaco, February 9. —A call signed by anti-monopolists in all parts of the country for delegates to a conferonce for the formation of a vew party, was issued hers to-day. The conference will be held here on the Fourth of July onu basis of fonr representatives from cach congreasional district, four from each territory and four from the Dis trict of Columbia. The principles wsived in the eall are: “‘Oppositior to eonfederated mooopoly, public fcorners in the weces.iuvs of 'iiy opposition to protective tanff ¢ ths election of the prestde i preeldent aud senators by s dicest vote uf the people.” shou'd bo free. I'he cost of transpor- tation was all tha protections needoed by salt and to tax ic was a crime agawat humnity, sgainst natare economy in public expenditures, hon ¢8'y in administering the government; Amorican civil service that will place officials more directly under control of the people, and finally purity of the ballot through adding dis- Senator Vancs's motion to strike out ealt and let it go upon the free list was lost - ayes 22, noes 24, Senator Allison moditisd his amend- ment #o as to allow a refund (in sums not less than $100) of the entire duty Millions Given Away, Millions of Bottles of Dr, King's New Discovery for Cousumption, Coughs and Colds, have bin givon awsy as Trial Bottles of the large size. This enoimous outlay would be disastrous to the pro prietors, were it not for the rare worlt possesed by this wonderful medicine, Cal at O, ¥, Goodman's Drug Store, and fiw » Trial Bottle free, and try for yourself, never fa'ls to cure. lauds for motual setilers, supprecsion | “ | own aispotel states that the build THE OLD WORLD. Prinoe Jerome Secures His Lib- eriy Through the Oourts, The New Ministry Prepared to Resign 1his Hvening. Bismarck's Biennial Budget Bcheme Killed in the Reichustag. A Large Varisty of Genaral News. FRANCE Special Dispatch to Tux M, Panis, February 9 —The health of Fallieres ia shattered. He will prob- ably be unable to join the newcabinet. He lind another aitack of congestion of the brain, The bront of ths dabate on the ex- puision bill in the senate to morrow i1l fall on Daves, minister of justice. He informed President Grevy that the membors of the cebinet will re- sign to morrow eveniug if the bill be rejected Prince Napoleon was liberated at half past three this afternoon, the tribunal having quashed the indlot- ment against him, At the salo of the Sara Bernhardt's jewels, a necklace of black and gray poarls brought 12 (05 frano'; a brace- lat f rubies aud sap hices 4100 fraros, and two necklets of brilliants 5,000 franos. © GERMANY. Speclal Dispatches to Tun Brr, Beruiy, February 9, — Blemarck says he does not think he shall ever enter the reichatrg sgin. The re- dactlon in the military budgetamount to 9 600,(00 marks. The reichet' g rejected the estl- mates for 1884 85, thus sealing the fate of Bismaik's biernisl tudget echeme, At the court of inquiry at Hamburg Saturday into the disaster to the steamer Cimbria the following persons from the steamer Sultan will be ex- amined: Cuptain Cathill, first and socond cflizers, first engineer, curpen- tor, hoatewain and two seamen. At the time of the colllalon one seamen was on lookou'; the other and boat- swain at the helm, Witnesses at the preliminary inquiry will o nclade their depisitions, Offisers saved from the Cimbria will be cross-ex- smined. Witnesees of the Cimbria will bo examined Tuesday. Seusation- al disclosures are «xpected Taesday. It {s roported the officars of the Ham- burg-American line had news of the disaster at 10 o'clock on the morning of the 12th, ENGLAND. Bpecial Dispatches to Tra K Loxpon, Febraary 9 —In the shaft of the Severn tuanel works, to-day, four men were killed outright'and several serlously mangled. A steamer building onthe Clyde for the Inman line will be named the “Qity of Obis L ladsione 3 Oannes till his health 1s restored. wlll be absent till the opening of the commons, The Times eulogizes Judah P, Ben- jamin and says Eoglish mercantile law peofited by the recepiion accorded the accomplished jurist. IRELAND. Bpecial Dispatchos to Tax Bru, DusuiN, February 9.—Archbishop McCabe'e condition is regarded dan- gerous. O'Donnell, member of parliament for Dangarvan, writes to the lord myor of London that the Mansion house, in its relation to Ireland, is a letgh sucker, not a huiper. Tho Na- tional league elected W. O'Brien, M. P., member of the executive comuit- 08, EN.NBUM, February 9. — Treve- lyan, chief secretary for I.eland, in & epaech denied the statements made that the dimunition of agravian crime in Ireland was more apparent than real. He referred to the rapid- ity with which murderous crimes had diminished when it became apparent the murderers would bs ex- ecuted. He denfed the government suppressed freedom f epeech or the liberty of the press. The government was ready to work with the Irish members of parliament in advocating legitimate schemes of reform, - TELEGRAPH NOLES Special Dispatches to s Bux, New Yonk, February 9.—Willism G, Dudge died this morning, He had been ill for & week, but it waa thought not seri- ously. PANA, I1I,, February 9.—Peter New, & former resident, was killed, togother with five other men, at 7 o'clook this morning, by # boiler explosion in the tile factory at Tagloryille, 1l Henry New, nephew of Petor, ia in a dying condition, Detnotr, February 9.—B. J. Grier's saw will at Charlotte blew up this morns ing, instantly killing the proprietor sud William Gordon, engineer. CiiicAo, February 9, —The Commercial Exchanye to-lay passed resolutions call- ing on congress for the enactmont of an cquiatlo bankrupt law during the present teasion, New York, Fehruary 9.—The United States T ansit of Venus party, operating in South Amerios, arrived this evening from Aspinwall. Proviokxck, R, T, February 9.—The veyenun custec hus returned from a fruit- ss s2arch for the disabled stesmsr State Geor i, wiwt ¥, N, 7., February 9.—A Jobas farm of P, Lorillard, used as & tor draft horses, and also as a carpenter shop, burned this evening, Twenty-four drafs borses, s'x mules and some carpen. ter's tools were burned, Tosted by Tim For Throat Diseases, Colds and Cougl Buown's BRONCHIAL TROCHES PrOVe thor cfficacy by & test of many years, Price 25 cents, The young people of Des Moines have leveloped W species of influsnza, which commences with hoarseness and coughing and is attended with violent vomiting, L proliig bis - e gt L4