Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 6, 1883, Page 1

v 4 3 “® Mr. Blair presented a_joint resolution 4 & 1/ &= 1 il LLR PTTTTY P L1id. OMAHA DALy BEE. FILLING THE HOPPER, Plenty of Grivd ng for e Senate Mill When toe Scason Opens, Utah, Internal Revenue, Prohibi- tion and Other Kernels in the Grist. Provisions of the Principal Bills Introduced Yesterday. Mr. Hoar anq atent Non-Stuila. ble Ballot B i —Maho: ¢ on the Fene s, Looking Repube. Heanwa THE FORTY-EIGHIH CONGRESS, KENATE, Wasiizaron, December 5, —Mr, Hoar iresented a joint resolution of the leg ature of Massachusetts, opposing eon- vict labor on public works of the United States, of the legislature of New Hampshire, opposing turther land geants to railroads and any renewal of forieited land grants. The following bills and resolutions were introduced: By Mr. Butler—To repeal the internal revenue laws now in force and abolish in- ternal revenuo, By Mr. Cullom—To reorganize the legislative power of Utah. Mr. Logan—For granting public lands to soldiers and sailors of the late War. By Mr. Cockrell-—For the appointment of a special commission to visit the prin- cipal countries of Central and South Aueri a for the purpose of collecting in- formation looking to the extension of American trade and commerce and to strengthen friendly and mutually advan- tageous relations between the United States and other nationalities, By Mr. Blar—A _joint resolution pro- posing a constitutional amendment re- garding alcholic liquors, 1t prohibite the manufacture or ralv of distilled al coholic intoxicating liguors, except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical and scientific purposes or use in the arts, in any of the states, and importation of such liquors except for purposes named, and provides that should the amendment aot be ratitiet by three-fourths of the states before the last of December, 1890, the prohibition it proposes shall take effoct as an act of congress at the expira tion of ten years. A resolution by Me. Lygan was agreed to, calling upon the seccetary of war for information as to 1he necessity for an immediate appropriatin for the comple tion of work on the Rck Island arsenal Mr. Movrill then read a prepared ad- dress on coinage, giving his wall known views upon the suver question at great length. Mr. Moruan offerel a resolution which was agreed t, instructing the committee on Indian affairs to inquire into the ex- PBAIBICY UF Urcating a military acadenty west of tho Munsissippi river for training and educating Iudian youths and men up to the proper age as soldiers, and to ad- mit them when qualiied into the regular army. Mr. Hoar introduced a bill concerning fedoral elections. Tt provides for the use of a patented ballot box and counting de- vice, and roquiros all the ballotting and unting to be done in open meeting, which shall not be adjourned uatil all the ballots are counted and the result public- ly proclaimed by the officer in charge, which ofticer shall be a United States marshal or gupervisor, who shall be the custodian of the bixs as a representa tivo of the attorney weneral, who shall have primary charge of and the rasp nsi- bility for tho buxes A messyse was reccived from the president, aud the senato went into ex- wcutive session, aud soon after ad- journed. WOUSE, The Virginia cotested election case of Garrison vs, Mayo, was referred to the committee on elecrions, when appointed, with instructions 10 report he lesal con- ditions involved therein, It was ordered that when the honse adjourn tr-morrow it by to meot Mon- day. Mr. Jencs submitted the customary resolutions apn uncing the death of Thomas H. Herndon, of Alabama, and in respect to the memory of the deceased the house adjourned, the understanding being that no business shall be cmmu\-tua to-morrowr. COAPITAL NOTE MABONE 4ND REPUBLICAN. CAU S, WasuingoN, December b,—Senators Mahone and Ltiddleberger received invi- tations o the.cauous of republican sena- werm. tors yesterday similar to those sent re- publicans. Remator Mahone, speaking of his attitude toward the wepublican party, eaid he had no objection toa’s tending the republican caucus and should have attended that yesterday had he re- ceived the invitation in season, He would uot, howover, attend as & member of the esucus mor vote upon any proposition befare it. He held that thirty-eight sepublican senators iheing & majoiity of the senate, had a wight to its control. He had no oandi- «lates for sesate offices, and would not attempt to influenco nominations, He had strong preferences, but should con- tent himsell with voting in accordamnce with his preferences. Bhould he attend republican caucuses, it would be simuly for c.mferenco. He beliiwed his o, iniex was ehaved by Senator Riud cberger, LGGAN'S BOUNTY L AND XJILL, Senator Logau's bounVy dand bill in. troduced to-day, providev that *every person entezing the service of the coun- try uuring the late war, either in the army orfuavy, and honorably discharged ¢heroirom, for any period of sorsice leas than one year, sball be entitled o K0 acres of the publie land, cither for him- we'sf or heirs, for service between one and fwo years 120 acres, and over fw years gervice 160 acros SPECIAL MEwA(ES. will make the Missis the Hennepin The president ippi river improvements, 1 canal and other public works the subject of specinl messages to congeoss. Refer enee to these subjects was omitied from the regulir weessgs with a view to tradt THIRTEENTH YEAR. ing ‘hem moro in detuil in supplomental commun cations”® CULLON'S UTAR BILL. The bill introduced by Senator Cullom | to reorganize the legislative power of the territory of Utah provides that the lative power be vested in a gover nor and legislative counzil composed of | 9 mombers to be appointed by the president. THE REVENUR BECEIPTA, The deputy commissioner of internal revente says the internal taxes already collected for the present fiscal year aro at the rate of £123,000,000 per annnm, He | estimates that the collections of the year will amount to £130,000,000. This estimate includes $6,000,000 and §7,000,- 000 to be collected in special taxes in April and May, but does not include the increase anticipated from spirits forced out by law. THE COLOR LINE, Senator Sherman presented in the senate to-day a petition from w. Niles, colored, of Arkansas, se forth that alleged unlawful combinations prevent him and his colored associates from exercising the right to make entries of public lands, charging cruel treatment | on_the part of white citizens of Arkansas and asking reliof. ANOTHER BOUNTY LAND BILL. Senator Plumb introduced a bill pro- viding that every mnon-commissioned officer, private ov other person dis charged from the army during the war of the rebellion, within 2 years from date of enlistment, on aceount of disability incurred in line of military daty shall receive a warrant . 160 acres of land. CUTTING DOWN EXPENSES, The secrotary of the treasury has sub- mitted to congress cstimates for appro- priations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, The amount estimated to be required for all expenses of the govern- ment is 8283,125,305, which is $22,323 282 less than the aggregate appropria- tions of the present fiscal year, and 67,154,857 less than the sum “calied for in the estimates submitted last year. The appropriations for the present fiscal year, including deficiencies and miscellaneous, are $300,448 ST, the estimates on which those appropriations were based calling for 2340, 280, 1 The estimates submit- ted to-day are divided as follows: Civil establishment. £22,045,663; foreign in- tercours , 1,56 ,601; m 1 tary es'ablish- ment, §2.150,102; naval estahlishment, %22,747,757; Indian affairs, $8 4066 3 pensions, $40,000,000; public works, S17,760,214; postal service, $2,058,112; miseellancous, $25,203,965; permanent annual appropriations, $115,147,037 The estimates inall the above cases ex cept pensions, foreign intercourse and permanent annual appropriations were for larger sums than those appropriated for the present fiscal year. The estimates for rivers and harbors are as follows: Examinations and sur- veys, south pass of the Mississippiriver, 217.500; gauging water of tho lower Mis- sissippi and 1ts tributaries, £5,000; gaug- ing waters of the Columbia river, $3,000; £3,000; improving rivers and harbors (o wded in such works as may be ed by congress), $8,000,000. ——— A SULD RIZOM TEXAS, A Man Secks ¥ pated for His Emanci- aves., St. Louis, December 5.—The Globe- Democrat to-morrow will state that prom- inent parties in Texas will soon bring a suit in the court of claims at Washington to recover the value of slaves emanci- pated during the late war. The action will be based chietly on certain clauses in the state constitution, which were ap- proved and endorsed by congress at the time of annexation and which it is claimed made the government of the United States liable for slave property. The plaintifi in the case was a stroiyg and very pronounced union man during the war and the proposed action is en- | dorsed and will pushed by some of | the best lawyers in 5. —ma— CRIMINAL RECORD, A CHANGE OF VENUE Uxtonrown, Pa., December morning session of the court was oceupied in the examination of jurors summoned to serve in the Nutt trial, The panel embraces eighty jurors; fifty have been examined and but one secured out of that number. The attorney for the prisoner stated this morning that they would base the defence entirely on the theory of emotional insanity, They have summoned a large number of wit- nesses to prove the prisoner had been peculiar from infancy and that ho was twbued with an uncontrolable desire to take life. 7The trial promuses to be long diawn out and exciting, At the atternoon session of the court the panel of jurors was exhausted and only threo sworn, In despair the coun- sel for Nutt moved for & change of venue, This was grauted and tho case ordered to be certifiod to the courts of Allegheny county. The intention is to sccure as .Keady a trial as pomsible and it is thought arrangements can bo made to bagin in two or three weeks. The change is considered by Nutt and friends as greatly in his favor. If possible the opinion that the killing of Dukes was justitiable is more pronounced in Pitts- burg than in Lafayette. At Nutt’s home, Dukes has many friends, especially | among a certain class of politicians. In Allegheny county no political feeling has entered the cise and a verdict of acquittal is confidently predicted. THE POCARKETY ‘‘SACRIFICE BarnsTasLe, Mass.,, December The trial of Freeman, the fanatic, for the wurder of his little daughter Edith, opemed to-day. The story of tho sacrefice aud the religious frenzy of the father were rotold by the awitnesses, IN NUIT'® CASE,L —The tirely | No Mystery About 87, Pavr, December b.—It is ascer talned that the skeletons of the soldiers fousd in Dickey county, Dak some time ago are those or soldiers killed in a tight with Indians during Sully's expodi- tion, aud no mystery is connec with it - — ' Good Tndlans Tomustoue, A, T., Dccember §.—A Mexan courier from Fronteras arrived | this morning with news to The Epitapl | thet a hand of Apaches, prabably Ger- onueos, whom Crook left at Sonora in the neighborhood of Frontoras, had attacked and badly weunded two Am OMA HA, NEB. also left here eight days ago. Tho two men mado such a gallan and desperate fight fo. their lives that Indian~ ted A surzoon and assistan - wis disputehed for the wounded men. ‘Tnere 1s great excitement again and Crook's policy of harbori the women and children aad loaving the fighting buoks to make 18idsis strongly cond - mued. l Cm— AN LAND GRANT, An Amended Bill Implicating Chaf! Chileott and Holly tn o G THE MEXI Desver, December &, In the United States circuit court this morning the United States filed an ammended bill in the Mexican land grant suit. It sets forth that the origmal Mexican land grant was 97,000 acres, that in 1869 or 1870 a survey was made and the original boundaries were fraudulently enlarged so as to include amillion and a half acres in New Mexico and nearly three hundred thousand in Colorado, Objec tion was made and in 1877 tho case was decided by the supremo court by which those interested thought they had suubstantiated theiv claim and a title was granted them on application. Subsequently in vestigations pointed strongly to the be- lief that the land had been f obtamed and the present suit is bronghit by the government to vacate the title. The new bill gives specitied details of the history ot the frauds alleged to have been practice 1 in procuring the title and implicates ex-United States Senators Chaffee and Chileott of Colorado, and Judge Holly, deceased, of New Mexico. The old hill conceded 1,500,000 ac hence the new bill. — SRAL FORLIGN NEWS, . CRAIG DEEALCATION There GE TH Moxmre great excitement over the Hight of Thos. Craig, president of the Exchange bank, and the feeling has turned completely from the great defaulter to the directors who allowed him to escape, and some of is December whom are alleged te be at least privy to his delinquencies. The condition of the bank is considered far below that repre- sented by the statement of yesterday, and men of good judgment consider that without doubt when the deficiency is paid up there will still be a deficieney of 25 or 80 per cent t wards liquidating the ha- bilities to depositors and other creditors The president went west by the Grand Trunk railway Monday night. Admis- sions I been made that George W. Craig, secretary and treasurer of the Montreal Loan and Mortg: ompany. and a brother of the absconding prei dent, has been tampering with the tunds of that institution, but to what amount is not known, AT BLAZE, ConsTA December 5. Hhskieni quarter, inhabitated by Turks and Jews, has been on fire all day. Hundreds of houses have been destroyed, The and much distress prevails. THE EVE OF WAR IN CHINA, Hoxe KoNe, -Decembor 5.~ Admiral Peng “u Lin at Canton notified all for- cigners that war with France is im- minent, and is massing all available land and soa forces for protection -of Canton. The admiral Lolds France answerable for precipitating war and warns _neutral powers to observe treaty stipulations and rules of international law. SHUT UP OR RESIGN. BeruiN, December 5.—The su church council has summoned Dr. er, court chaplain, to either abandon the anti-Semetic agitation or resign, A FIGHTING EDITOK, Phillips, editor of The Volks Zeitung, and member of the Reichstag, challonged Wagner, another member of the Reich- stag, in consequence of the latter rpeak- ing offensively of the liberal press. He also chullenged Dr. Stoecker for the same reason, but the latter declined on the ground that he i3 a minister, ISH 7 £S5 ON THE MESSAG LozvoN, December 5,—The Times thinks President Arthur's message some- what colorless, and sees a tribute to the Irish vote] in the Janguage used in reg to pruper emigrants, The press generally express disap pomtment that the president did not rec omend reductions in the tarifl this ses- sion. All, howover, refer to the picturo in the message of the present great pros- perity of the United States, SUFFKAGE IN ONTVRIO, . CarneriNes, Ont.,2Dscember 5 The Welland county council resolved to memoralize the Ontario legislature to grant woman suffrage, TRYING T0 SAVE 0'DONNELL, LoNnex, December 5. 0'Donnell's so- licitorisendeavoring to induce the jurymen to sign # memorial to the home secrotary asking him to commuto the death sen- tence of O'Donnell, Some jurymen are willing to sign the paper, but it is ex- pooted the majority will decline, THE LOST MAJOR. Loxnos, December . Major Secken- dorf, with Hicks Pasha, and who wrote the lotter to The Vienna Presse depict- ing tho suffering of the expedition just prior to the battlo with EI Mahdi, is supposed to ‘ho the English ofticer lying wounded at Birkett. - — Bale of Thoroughbreds, Lancaster, 0., December &.--1rhe salo of thoroughbreds belonging to the estato of the late John Reber, was the most complete success, there being a very large number of bidders. Twenty-four animals sold for $27,625 heing an aver- ugeof 81147, Tmported Kyrle Daily was boucht by John Mackay, of Califor- nia for §8,300. He al«o hought Bonnie Kate for £2,000, Lady Middletonfor #2,- 600, Nellie Peyton for 8700, the Chest- nut colt Weanling, by Kyrlo Daily for 485, Mr. ! C. Millor of Pickaway county paid 81,021 for tho imported ~stallion, Champion. W. H, Fearning, of New York, bought the imported Hurrah, foaled in 1862, for £1,600; Dora, brown mare, for #750; Waueulla, filly, $1,800; Fannie Peyton, filly, $180. Belle of Lancaster, filly, was bought by John Hyland, for the Preak- ness stable, for &1,92 Mr. London, of unada, hought Lloyd Daly, a colt by Clyde Daly, and a chestuut colt by War dance, for #2,600 cach. —— Nowhern Paciiic Bomds, New Yorg, December 5. The North- ern Pacific ralway company apulied to caus, B, €. Scoti and T, Honnett, who | the stock exchange to list 2,750,000 first mortgage bondy, ——— THE NATION'S INTERIOR, The Maragenont of the Tndins and | toe Demands of Civilization, The Upward Tondency of the Pen- sion Roll and the Millions Paid Out. The Work of the Pat nt Office - Aftain. | in Alaska, Ete, 1t is belioved that it is guite possible, with a wise and judicious treatment of the Indian question, to prevent the ro currence of hostilities between the Tndian | and his white noighbors that have marked | nearly every year of our history. The Indian ean 1o loyrer hide himself in the | fastness of the mountains or in the soli- | tude of the wildernees, Contact has come | between the settler and the Indian in all | parts of the country. Civilization and | savagery can not dwell togother; the In. | dian can not maintain himself in a savage | or semi-civilized state in competitionwith his white neighbor, and he must adopt the “white man’s ways” or be swept away by the vices of savage life, intensified by contact with civilization, Humanity r volts at the idea of his destruction, yet it | is far botter thathe should disappear from the face of the earth than that he should remain in his savage state to contaminate and curse those with whom he must nec essarily come in contact in the future. The destruction of game in the country renders it impossible for the ludians to sontinue to support himself by the fruits of the chase,and he'must support himself by 1abor or be supported by the govern- ment. If supported by the government, he will be a pauper and a vagabond, an expense to the nation, and a curse to the people among whom he may dwell. His ovil influence will be felt far beyond the the neighborhood in which he may live. Ho has no clains on the government for support heyond the time when he has acquired the ability to suppart himself. 1i the government has purchased his land he should be paid for it according to the contract, having, however, due regard to his interest. 1t the system: of annuities provided tor in many treaties will keep him a savage pauper, payments should Ve made to Lim in sucha way a8 to save hun | m such a state. He will not advance if the government supplies all his wants nd demands nothing from him; and no greater injury can be done him than to supply his wants and allow him to live in idleness. If allowed to continue in idle. ness, he will continue in vice and siwvag ery. He must be taught to labor and care for himself, by persuasion if possible, by compulsion if necessiry, The govers ment should provide schools for his chil- dren, where they should be taught the English language, and all kinds of useful labor, and the attendance of all children of school age should be required. 1t he chooses to be a farmer, he should receive suitable assistance in the firat instance, with the understanding that such assis- tance is only temporary and must soon cease. L he p » as lie would iti most & ses, should V furnished stock suitable to hio wants, and instructed to care for them, and then left to his own exertions The manual labor schools should instruct the male children in labor on the farm and in the shops, and the females in household affairs. In my former report I recommonded the disarming of the Indians,and I renew that recommendation. 1f we subsist the Indian, he has no use for fire-arms, and it is not economy to allow him to retain his arms for the purpose of supplying himself with game, far better to give u sufliciency of food, and require him to re- mainon his reservation. If the Ludian is disarmed he will cease to he an object of terror to his white neighbor, and the frendly relations that ought to exist be- tween the white scttler and neighbor will not he wanting. It is un- safe to trust an Indi with a gun; the ery possession of it incites in him a de- sire to use it. The unarmed Indian is as eafe inany country as the unarmed white man; it is the possession of his weapon and the knowledge that he may be tempt- ed to use it that creates hostillty towards him on the part of the settler. Disarm him and put him under the protection ot the law, and his person and property will be as safo as that of his white neighbor, His arms ougt not to be contiscated; for every rifle give Liman ox of twice 1ts value to till his field, cows, shecp, or horses, as he may need. In my former report [ urged the neces- sity of puttiug at least one-half of the children of school age in manual labor schools, and _koeping them thero until they should be sutliciently instructed in the industrial arts to support themselves. 1t has been demonstrated during the last year that even more than that proportion of the children can be put in manual- labor schools, if suitable appropriations are made for that purpose. Accommoda- tion should be provided for at least teu thousand children in addition to those now in manual-labor schools, which would secure to about one-half of the children of school age the advantages of at least a partial education, while under present dppropriations only about one-fourth have any school advantages at all, three-fourths growing up in ignorance and vice, A large number of reservations are uated within the arid regions, where griculture can not be carried on without irrigation, In some instances the cost of constructing ditches is very great, and it can not be done by the Indians without material assistance on the part of the government, It is folly to attempt to farm such reservations without provision for an adequate supply of water. I there fore recommend that an appropriation be mado for the purpose of constru:ting ditches on wsuch reservations as can be farmed only by irrigation Itis quite comes more diflicult to obtain, the Indi ans will increaso their depredations, espe- cially those who are suticring the pangs of hunger. 1t would be difficult to re strain white men under like circum stances, and it is much more difticu t to vestrain Indians, who have very loose ideas concerning the rights of “others. |large population there another year, and [ was dis 5 c his Todian | THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1883, and in consideration of such moditication they should bo supplied with work and stock, eattlo or agricultural implements, or both, One gre ulty in keeping the Ty dians on their reservation and the whites ofl' is the uncertainty of the boundary lines, The exterior of all the reserva tions should be surveyed and plainly marked, 8o that neith Indians nor whites would have difficulty in detormin ing the boundaries thereof, and I recom mend a suitable appropriation for this purpose It is difficnlt to make the peoplo under stand that the executive department of the government can not declare a grant forfeited when the corporation for whose Loncfit it was made has failed to comply with the conditions thereof. Petitions are presented to the executive demand ing the forfeiture of grants for non-com pliance with the conditions thereof. In v d lividual claimants declare themselves out raged because the commissioner of the general land oftice retuses to allow filings on the odd sections of land within theun forfeited railroad grants, The govern moent is dorided as the government of the tich and opposed to the poor, because the exocutive department of the government does not do what the courts have repeat- edly declared could bo done only by the legislative branch of the ernment that is, declare a forfeiture of a grant, The ceport »f the commissioner of pen sions shows that at the close of the last fiseal year there were 303,658 pensioners, classitied as follows: Army fuvalids Army widows, winor childro pondent relatives 3 Navy invalids Navy widows inor children, and do. peudent relatives 1Eq0 v 1,907 Survivers of the war of 1812 4,881 Widows of those who served iu the war of 1812.. 0., LT 21,336 There were added to the pension roll during the year the names of 38,162 new pensioners, and whose names had been previously dropped from the pension roll were restored, making the total nun ber added to the roll during theyear & b8, being an excess over the number added the previous year of 10,645, Du ing the year 20007 pensionors wero dropped from the rolls for various causes, leaving anet increase over the rolls of 17,961, The number of persons dropped from the rolls included the names of those who have been carried on the rolls after death until tinal settloment and payment ot the amount due such pension- ers. The average annual value of ench pension at the closeof the yearis €106 18, wnd the aggrecate value of all pensions is 192 43, an increase over s for the previous year of $2,004,- 000 81, pensions during the year was 860,064, 0 The excess on the annual value sions covering the allowance of the claim. vice amounts to 496,721, of which 245, on a been allowed. The total claims filed since 1861 number ol During the same period there has for onm, wil of disl L went, the duta of 8621,074 297, G0, interest paid by pensionars for money: in three months. ceived from the government for thei support. so small that i to the money lender to secure a smal the next pay day. 1n most cases the in tercst o cent per month, Con hibited the use of ceru for money loaned, the lender has no se rity, aud mukes that the excuse for ex torting such conscienceless interest fron 89 having pro improvident and needy would in some wistances bo robbed of the real their pengions protection of the pension r, having do may need to carry him to the next pay wheneve inconvenience and loss to the govern ment, 1 think the agenn should be al lowed by law to advance at the end each, month the amount the pensic cenwsity of submitting to such ~extortion- ate rates Of Hays: The work of the oftice is largely in ar. roars, growing out of the insuflicient forco and rapidly increasing business in the oftice. The commissionor and all his assistants have made commendablo ef- forts to keep up the work of the office, and the facc that the work is in arrears on their part. As the fees exactes unreasonable on the part of such invent- ors to demand that their work should be promptly done by compotent men. 1t is a great hardship on the inventor,who has paid the full cost of determining sl que tions concerning his application, to be told that for want of suflicient force he must wait. woeks, and perhaps months, for the result that ought to be declared in us many days, The commissioner recommends an OF Aliska The departinent of the interior could not, in the absence of legislation, atford the petitioners the relief sought, The re- ported discovery of very rich mines on the Yokun river will doubtless attract a the The total amount paid cut for of ponsions is muinly for arrears of pon- The total number of claims filed for disabilities mourred while in the ser- 210 have been allowed; and by widows count of deaths chargeable to tho service 312,029, of which 206,716 have is 880,137, of which number 510,938 have beenallowed. beol Wburaoy The secrotary refers in virong terms to'| aver that'the sewe: the system of swindling by pretended | perfe not pension agents, and says of the excessive | sual illness at this time. are wholly depondent on tho amount re- The amount paid is generally | great alarm is felt. It 4 is exhausted before the | when cold weather sets in the causes wiil next pay day, and the pensioner resorts loan, at exorbitant rates, to bo paid at acted is from five to twenty per |light this morning the Beo Lin tive, backing to thetlats, plunged through ates as security |an open draw into the river, and Amon value of The government, for the nied to him the opportunity of using his certificate as a sccurity for the money he day, ought to provide for the psyment of the money as it becomes due cach month, t can be done so without great or i | sim of tho rubjec ) h entitled t per month, By so doing the | trade is reported fuir, with stocks still peusioner will bo relieved from the ne- the patent office the mecrotary the gold fields should net prove product ive. The total population of the territory of Alaska is not far from thirty thowsand Of this number about five thousand are Alents, who are not barbavians, if they are not of the highest order of civil zatio', Bofore the cession by Russiagood schocly were maintained among them, but since tho cession the schools have been diis continued, e— Senator Ingalls' Pension Bill, Wasnixatoy, Decomber 6. The bil, introduced by Mr. Ingalls to remove cor tain limitations of the avreara of pension which have been, or may hereafter be, granted in consequence of death ur ring from a cause which originated in the servico since March 4, 1861, or in conse quence of wounda or injurics recoived, or disease contracted since that dato, shall date from the death or discharge of the | discharge, then from the date of the actual disability, or from the termination of the right of the party having a prior titly to such pension, and in cuu-i«\. . tion of all claims for pensions in_conse quence of the death from or for disabili- ty resulting m diseases contracted in the serviee during the late civil war, The person on whose account said pension is claimed shall be conclusively claimed, shall Lo conclusively presumed to bo sound and free from discase at the date of entering the service,” — It Wil dekle Loring. Lovisviteg, December b - The farm- ors’ congress of the United States con- vened to-day, sixty delegates being pros- ont, representing Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Colorado and Indiana. Other delegates are expected to arrive to-night. The president of the congress, Major Thomas J. Hudson, of Missiasippi, oponed the congress with an address of some length, sotting forth the demands and wants of agriculturigts, and especially urging the appointment of the commissioners of ag- ricultural as a member of the president's cabinet. At the conclusion of the presi- dent’s address, committees were appoint- ed for various duties, and the eongress adjourned. It will be in session three days. e Scholarships ve, Mortgago, Cutreaco, Decsmber & —The tinancial troubles of the Chicago university took a now form to-day, The Union Mutual Life lusurance company of Maine, helds a mortgage on the property for 160,000, which 1s liable to foreclosure Some years ago, in considoration of $1.000 vach, the university issued o large num- ber of perpetual scholarships. Seventy of these scholarships are represented in the bill filed in the federal court to-day, asking that they be made a lien on the institution and claims prior to that of the mortgage and that the holders of the latter be restrained from foreclosing On the surface it appears to bea friendly suit as regards the university. ¢ e Sickness in Yule College, New Haven, Cony, Decembo ‘The prevalence of typhoid and malari; fever nmong the ilpuulinp‘%ha Tacultf, > and drai doath aro exaggerated. cation. There are a number of student r [ more or less ill of malarial fe disappoar. ——— » River. ! A Plung .| Cieverasn, 0., Decombor - [ Chow, the engineer, was drowned, Goo. Whitmarsh, tho fircman d escaped. The | the company’s cmplo; twenty years. Drawing the Nails Prerssuna, December The West- orn Nail association met to-day, and, after a protracted session, a resolution, passed at the last meeting, ordering a general suspension of nail mills for five wecks, from the 22nd inst., was rercind- ed. This action 15 brought about by a number of nmnufacturers refusing to _| shut down, as they did not consider sus- of | pension at this time advisable, Discus- ot was heated. The low and ill assorted. | = Gilmour Aftter 8churz, New Youk, December 0.—-Charles 1. Gilmour recently brought suit_for £300,- 000 damages against Carl Schurz in the supreme court in this city, Gilmour was formerly a practicing lawyer in Washing- ton and nlleges that when Schurz wassec- retary of the interior in 1880, he mali- ciously and by exercise of arbitrary au- thority, had plaintift disbarred and pro- cannot be attributed to any lack of effort | hibited from practicing in any of the de- d of | partmenta of the interior, where Gilmour inventors not only pay all the expense of [alleges he had a practico of $160.000 a the patent office, but furnish surplus | year. for the treasury, if does not appear to be | the United States court. —e— The suit was removed to-day to A Terrible Explosion, CHioaao, December b.—Between 9 and 10 o'clock to-night two fertilizing tanks in Glick Bros'. rendering ostablish- ment at the stock yards exploded, wreck- ing the entire building, aone-story struc- ture, 30x40 feet. There were fourteen men and two boys in the place at the time, and it is thought some of them are burned in the ruins, The following two boys are less dangerously hurt. The damaye to property 1s between #4,000 and £,000, o Fire Record, BAN Frascisco, December b Fire vered this morniog in the hold The only remedy in to keep them on their | if there isnot u stable government neither [ of the British four master, Lord Devon- resorvations, and this canuot be done un | property nor personal rights will be re. | shire, latsly arrived. less they are supplied with suitable food, either by the goverument or through their own exertions, and whenever they have in treaties with the government re- served tho right to hunt off of the reser- spected. Soveral establishuents for the canning of fish and the manufacture of tumber have been established in difforent pwts of the tervitory, and it is believed thut the fishories and forests will soon The cargo con sisted chietly of coal. Lesa unknown. Avausta, Ga., December H.—Three nogro childven were burned to death in Co umbia county. The parents went to ohurch, having locked the childven in vation, such treaty rhould be modified, |at ract large number of persons, evon if | their cabin, T t, and ca..not aceount for the unu- The reports of But two stu- Payments are made to pensioners once [dents have died of typhoid fover; one Very many pensioners | contracted the disease abroad during va- er, but no It is thought that Before locomo- | jumped to the ident s sup- NO. 145, BILLY, DO YOU HEAR? The Virginia Legislatare Wants Its Litlle o enator 1o Re ign, The Governor Gives Some Good Advice on the Danville Riot Matter, The Pennsylvania Sluggards have Grown Tired Enough to Quit. The Hiinols Prohibitionists Going In person on - whose oceasion it has been or [~ 7 is hereaftor granted, if the disability oc- | For Themselves, It the Other Par- curred prior to discharge, and tles Don't Molly-Coddle Them, i such disability occurred after i B Mahone Asked to Res tienmosn, Va,, Decomber b,—The gonoral assembly met at noon. Both houses elected democratic office Goy- crnor Cameron’s message deals mainly with state affiirs, and says an investiga. tion should be had in relation to tho Danville riot, Witnesses should be al lowed to testify, should be made to tes- tify, and the truth should be made ap- parent, so that the commonwealth of Virginia could be placed before the world as one of the atates which tries crvime, no matter who may be criminals. A resolu tion was introduced in the senate calling upon Senator Mahone to resign. The preamble consista of a sharp arraignmeut of the senator. Better Late Than Never., HArRISBURG, December 6. —The senate and house have passed a resolution to ad- journ sine die to-morrow. —— The Prohibition Oraze, BroomiNaron, I, December 6. The Tiinois state union temperance conven- tion which has been in session in this city for the last two days, practically closed this afternoon, The session of the convention was abbreviated by the temperance union voting to consolidate with the national prohibition and home protection party. Much interest has been excited by this action. The step was vigorously opp.osed by many of the delegates some claiming that the ques- tion was sprung unexpectedly and with- out notice. The opposition was led by Mr. Sheldon of Champrign and Rev. Strover of Greenfield. (. C Christian of Chicago, championed the movement and after debating the question all day it wasg, at a late hour, carried by a vote of 74 10 18, The convention recommended immediate party organization throughout the state, and suggest tha: the national prohibition convention be held after the republican and democratic conventions, and further suggest Louisville, Chicago or Buffulo as the possible place. Mary E. Haggart, of Indianapolis, loc- tured to-night to a large audience in the opera house, under the auspices of the convention Aff A An Excited Organ, ' Sarr Laxe Ciry, Utah. Nacambor f.-— The News,a Mormon organ, in a leader, says the president's message will be hailed by the hireling clergy with pleas- ure and will receive a large amount of 4 [popular support. It is not shown in what way the destruction of our local government would affoct the question _ of polygamy. Plural marringes of the Mormons are not recog- nized by terrritorial laws, could not he dissolved by the commissioners elect, avmies or other carthly power. They are eccleriantical, perpetual, eternal. Until Mormons become recreant to their faith with high heaven those unions will be recognized by the Almighty Being who established them for the benefit of His people and the fuilness of His the needy horrower. If the pes-|pesed to have been caused by the engi- | glory. The president’s remarks on Utah doner was allowod to pledgo his|neer not observing the signal Jights on|und” polygamy do not add force to his certificate for the payment of | the bridge, swung to let a steam ba message, are no credit to his statesman- wanall loans, he would doubtless be able | pass. ‘I'h nan was oiling thee ship, are a sop to bigots and a breath to et such loans at better rates; but the [ Chew leaves a family. Te has b the flame of popular passion. It is doubt- ful if it will have practical bearing on congress, and certainly will create no commotion among the God-fear of Utah, The same journal t sop to the democrats and hopes t! defeat the measure in the house, e Simply Colncidence, New Youk, December b.— Munager Clark, of the Union Pacifi rcad, and Mr. Cablo, of the Rock Island road, deny that their roads ** tacitly agreed”’ with the Milwaukee & St. Paul road to withdraw trom the Towa pool. They say their visit to New York at this time was purely one of general business, and they Imd not come to meet Mr, Mer- rill, of the St. Paul road, or sign any agreement of the natui indicated. Bemg liore the same time is simply & coinci- dence. Catarrh. At this season of the year everybody has a colé and some very bad ones, ~ By frequont exposuros the mombranesof the nose become very sensitive, and catarrh and Lufluenzas aro epldemic.” Reliof may be ob::ll.nud by the uul of He ‘:Imb.‘h ‘or many years in suocossion, ning so far back 1 dou't yomember. whe, 1 had tho caiarrh i my hoad, It consisted of & contioual flow frow my aowe, Ringing and Bursting Moises o my head. Bometimes the hearing In my loft oar wanaflectod. Five years ago, about this sosson of tho your, I began to use Hood's Sarsaparilla. 1 was helped right away, but I ned to use it until 1 folt my “wyeolf cured.—Mrs. Eliza M. Coulfield, Lowell, Mars. R Hrownell merchant and extensive miller a8 Ontario county, N, Y., wiites: 1 bave Houd's Barsapasiila for my Catarrh, and it has belped mo. | conside: Hood's sarsaparills ono of thej bes remedies for blood discase to be obtained, in- B crense in the salaries of examiners and [ar0 known to be seriously hurt and one 100 D assistant exammers, It has b found | oF two w l, probaly die, ~I' Kolusky, oses One DO//GI’, very diflicult to koep many of the best | forem Frank Stobin, Thomas Con- Lave heen troubled with that distressing com rtain that as game be- | examinors and ussistant examinors at the [nors, Henry Prussing, Thre men 878 osh SARE Tinds SN salary paid. named Lavard, Kruse and Holha, and | vor taken. My trouble has lastod yoars, and never could g Hood's Sarssparill til | o menced 80 e i Slideld, Chicago, 1 Dange. frem Catarrh and cxtent of the Scrota: s upon the amon fous ini sonsunpt Thery i @ violent distres-, prostrated and coughing spells, the ey wrgos coploutly sud the head seoms to split. 1n wuch cases Hood's Farwaparllla corrcets the oa- tarrh by its dircet action in discharging the polson from the blowd through nature's great outlets, so that healthy, sound Liood reacies te mewbranes and 1s wholedome. Hooas Sarsaparilla Sold by druggists, 81; six for . Propared by €, L HOOD & 007, Apothc caries, Lowell Muss. a short gession in the morni i eee— W AR . TR e = ——