Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 19, 1885, Page 1

Oar Legislatare Waking Up and Ex- Dediting Basin: s, Thirtzen Bills Were Very Rapidly Ground Ont. Capitol and Home For ths Friend- lags Appropriations Bills, Church Howe's Delinquent Tax Bill and the Railroad Bill, Mr. Troupe is Very Unmindful of Parliamentary Kules. The State “Kow Doctor” 11l is Badly ightered for the Present—Will be Reconsidered, THE SENATE. Special Correspondence to tha Bee, LixcoLy, Kebruary 18, — Whatever may have been the past reputation of the senators for cxecutive ability, they certamly are ex- pediting business this week in a way highly eatisfactory to themselves and constituents, Soon after assembling this mormiog the senate resolved itself into committee of the whole for considering the bills on general file, Thirteen bills were taken up, discussed and disposed of rapidly. @ The most important of these was House o1l 373, appropriating £10,000 for the Home for the Friendless and the capitol approp: tion bill, levying a half mill tax. Neither of these mut with any opposition in committec Two bills authorizing the transfer of money from one fund t) another by the state treas- urer, were passed ; v Thimedical bill. Senate File No, 5, intro- duced by Senator Buckworth near the first of the session, was, after several amendments ordered engrossed for & third reading. To all intents and purposss it is supposed to be a bill to prevent quackery, How well it will succeed remains to be seen, #aThe other bills cousidered were amendments to the compiled statutes and important meas- ures of o general character, T'he committee investigating the insane hos pital are about ready to report. None of the members are wiilling to give away anything, but from the little hirts dropped. it is learocd that no charges against Dr. Matihewson have been sustained by the evidence of the wit nesses who testified, Tt is eaid that the evi cenca shows lack of system in the manage ment of the institution, ~Dr. Matthswson is to be allowed to review the evidence before he mekes his defense As the evidence covers some 300 pages of legal cap writton wlth a type wiiter, he has quite a task before him. he school land fraud investigatiog commit- tee will hold their lust meeting next Thurs- day when they will whitewash all those eus- pected of complisity in tho frauds, Railroad matters are very quict ab present. "The lobby iy not nzgressive, bat appoars smil- ing and happy in view of subsequent victor: A gang ot the lobby aud a few senatora dulged in a quict little wine rupper at one o the hotels last evening. Reporters were not admitted, The BEg correspondents made a flying trip to the penitentiary the othor day and were well eutertained by Warden Nobes, who opaned a keg of nails and « bittle of mucilage for their benefit. Having designs on their lives ho also offered cigars, whicn were, of course, refused. So far as observation ex- tends, the management of the institution is excellont, A lurger number of men w working in the stove shops than anywhers else. Theee are boss Stout’s slaves, snd the work they are doing is for the new capitol, Afternoon Spacial telegram to the B Lixcowy, February 18, afternoon session of the esston. Almost the entire ‘nate was taken up in committeo of the wholo in considering the bill that grovides for a change in the method of selling and Jeasing the school lands, men tioned in theso aespatches yesterday, Many minor amendments wera proposed and there was a little discussion on almost every point <f the law. It was the first bill upon which there hus y political fualing, “MeShane and Hastings, oa the democratic sids, arzued against the Dill at almost every point. The committe Loava o sit g ain, Sayveral bitls considerad in the wera put upon thair final pasea, them the eapital appropriation of tne Homa for th Friendloss, opposition Tho bill allowing the a state corporation w g a sufficient v Soma, who sea DilL. opposs it. roportad progress, and asked morn %, Al 0,000 for Thers was no irbridge to hocome s again vot d on Lick- 0, it was racommendod, ogro in ths timbers of that THE HOUSE, Special Correspondence of the Bix. LiNCOLN, February 13,— After several re ports from standiog committees had been read this morning, Mr. Whitmore introdused the following resolutio Whercae, It bas become evident that a large nuuibier of tho bills upon the general file cannot be reached in the regular order of business, and Whereas, Certain bills are of great import ance ta the people and should be disposed of, “Therefore be Lesolved, That the rules be suspended and the ing bills b taken up and made the special order for consideration in the ¢ anittee of the wholo until the sune are dis posed ot as follows 3 117, 98, 72, 146, , 1.6, 18, 83, ¢ 14, 147, 142,L _The above belug the order in which said bills appear upon the general file, providad, npthiug herein shall be constraed to interfers with the special orders already mado, The debte over the resolution continued up to 1l o'clock. When the vote was finally ordered the resolution was los The houss then went into « whole, House rolis 8 and 111 and senato files 27 and 1 wera taken first, These bills all deal with the system of revenue and taxation and th collgetic mittce of the impose & pealty of 5 per cent. for delin taxes, and others to refund the penalties that bave ‘already been collectel. House roli 3 was the first to attract atten. tion, and broueht a speech from Me, Trouve, which hae not been excelled rince the session et for conr<a personal abase of the support eraof the bill generally, acd Mr, Howard and a'l bankers in_patticular, Mr, Troupe was frequently called to order by the chair and requested several times to confine his re maiks to the questionbefore the committee, He eventually subsided, after an hour's harangue, in which ke raved incessantly, m ich to the amusement of members and the visitors who were in the houss, Mr. Howard said he would not reply {0 the tirade of abuse and pettifoggery of Mr. Tronp, Ho was unwilliog to occupy the time of the house in personal abuse of any kind, And unless he had an argument he would kesp quiet. Mi* Stevenson now moved to substitute Senate File No. 1 for House Roll No, 8. This lnd to more confusion, in the midst of which Senate File 27 was made to appear upon the aceae, which appear; o matters worse Houso 1ol 111_wa ntrcduced to the committee, and the confusion having become geneeal the committeo rose and reported to the house that H, R 3 has, and 101 be, indefi- ly postponed and that S. F.1 do paes. Senate file receiving no report from the com:- mittea, Mr, Nettleton had moved that Senato File be indefinitely postponed, and without e rivibg at any conclualon the house took o ro cess after a stormy morning's session with no practical result so far as legislation I8 con Carned, Afternoon Eer Special Telegram to Tik Bre, Livcory, February 18.—Considerable ex- citement prevails here to night and there is Rreat rejoicing in some quarters over the pass- age through the house of House Roll 524, a railroad biil, One unacquainted with the present state of legislation, and who did not know better. would be led to believe that something very wonderful in the way of am ating legisla: tion had been ¢ ccomplished, . A close exami tion would reveal the fact rhat absolutely nothing had really b.en done, The members who supported the bill knaw right well that it woald never bucome a law ‘The scnate kad rejecyed & similar bill of their own, and would not accept this, but the mem bera thought it would bea menas whereby they might obtain a cheap notoriety, and be placed on record as having supported a rail road bill, This 18 their ambition, ard to-day they found an opportunity of satisfying it, avd at the eame time gulling and (iieting their constituents, The bi 1 in quastion was house roll 3 bill to establish maximum freight rates regulate passenger fares to 3 and 34 according to the class of railioads. In the committee this bill was ruehed through without consideration, tte members having no other desire than to usa it that they might tormulate a record. They bave succeeded in doing this for to-day it passed]and, as far as the house is concerned, is & law. The people, hewever, will have something to say of the perauna who build up records on such false principles. The following voted against the bill: Ad ams, Blaco, Conger, Heimrich Hocknell, Holies, Krony, Riley, Lievesteldt, Taylor, Troup, Waite, Winspesr, Wright and Mr. Speaker, What is called the contagions diseased am- mal act, which in reality 15 a bill to provide a state cow doctor and to compensate ttock raisers for losses sustained by death from dis: eaces among cattle, is & yicce of legislation which would mulet the etute in the sum of 000 yearly. 'he Fill met its fate, Voo only. bill be granted, Church Howe'sbill,senatafile 27, to refund the five per cent penalty en delinquent tax passed to-duy, also @ bill making county w.rrants slo in ten days instead of ninety ©s av nt. Both laws being considered very beneticlal, 1, o ad to cents a being rojected by one But its promoter asked that the recommitted, and bis request was THE HOUSF, AFTERNOON SESSION. Special Correspondence of TH: Bee. LINCOLN, , February 17.—The house met this afternoon at 2:30 and proceeded to business in « workmanlike manner, The first biil that came up was H. R. 156, now well known as the Kearney reform school bill, which was on its final reading. The bill seeks to set aside $3),000 of the states money for the construction of new reform school build ings at Kearney, What is called the old buildings, although only built tome three years ago, are now deemed insufficient and unsuited to present requirements, This fact was ungettled ia the minds of the committee which went to inepect the present schosl over a good lunch, Tu It aud the factthat the lobbies here at present working to obtain sll the new state buildings for their respective lo cations have FORMED A CONFEDERATION to help each other in their respective efforts to secure their wanty was enough for the com- mitteo, The picnic has caused the committec to make 1o report but had placed them in a state of mind to suppors the bill. Mr. Nichol was the first to oppose the bill and he moved its recommittial to the counnitiee of the wl He said the bill had been pushed through the house and members did nov understand it, and Le strongly urged the recommittal of the bill, Mr. Olmstead, who was one of the picnick. ers, could rev no roason why the houss should chazge its action in committer, 1o thought it ezonomy and good sence to allow the grant. Ho always advocates good sence but should try and show a little more of that which he is ever avxious to advocate “Me. Toomas, of Cass, strongly opposed the bill as being unnecessary, and too much to burdeu the state with at the present time, Mr. Varner also opposed the bill, and said members had told him they did not under- stand ths purport of the bill, He thought it very unwise to throw away 30,000 of tha people’ woney during the present hard times, Mr. Holwes thought it & bad preecdent 10 undo what the house had already done in committee of the whole, He supported bill, and thought the appropriation of ,000 o wise economy, Mr. Miller opposed the bill and said he would ke athamed If be way oue of the come mittee of inguiry if he aid not know more abeat the state of affairs at the reform sehool than they do. Mr. Riley supported the Lill at some length and thougirt the state should make its appro- priations to meet the increasing requirements w of the same, Some bills propass to | of the stat . He dd not think the appropri ation a steal and he felt assurcd the money would be expended peoperly . Mr, Wright hoped the house would pass the bill and on the wotion of Mr, Nichal being put it was lost by 48 te 34 against The bill was then read a third time, OMAHA DALy BEE OMAHA, N KR FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE was passed on it third reading. The secretary of the senite announced that tho senats had appointed Semator« McShane, Burr and Skio toact withalike committes f the hovse Lo arrange for the conclusion of the sossion. The house ther win, to into committes of the wholo and house roll 14 for i consideration, This is a bill which aeeka to change an old law and appoint only 16 spersisor to every 8,000 inbabitants in atead of 1,000 as heretofore ley strong Iy opposed the bill as it wor re with the rights of the people Mr. Lempe sald he could not uaderstand Mr, Riley's objec ion, becauss the bill wou'd rot affect Dougl county, to which Mr, Riley replied he was legislating for the state and not D uelss only, Mr. Leinps now attempted to substitute other bill for the one under consid: ration and wfter some wrangline was ruled out of ord On a motion of Mr. Riley the biil was ordered to bo reported to the hovse with the recom: mendation that it bo indefinitely postponed. After bouse ro)l £5 had been dispored of satisfactonly without comment, the commt: tea took up house roll 78, a bill to amend the criminal ¢ de, and to allow pereons indicted for foony the power of calling fifteen wite 2B., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRU WASHINGTON NEWS. Ohio People Confidsnt That Thurmsn ots Tut) tke Cabinet, The Senate Passes the Foreign Contract Labor Bill, The Old Renault Olaim Again Sprung on the Government, The Text of the Foreign Labor Contract Bill, The Penalties For Violation Are $1,000 Per Man, nesses in their behalf, and compelling the state to pay their expenses, Mr. Holmes opposed this bill with some force and eaid it was o dangerous bill to pase, a8 it would bavkrupt some of the counties 1f prisoners were innocent they could get wit neeses without pay. Mr. Field supported the bill, and thought it should recommend itself to all good Jawyers practicing in the criminal courts, There ‘can be no such thing as justice to prisonera until they are placed on & level with the state prosecutors, the latter u'ways having plenty uf money, Mer, Stephenson hoped the bill would jass and after Mr, Johnson had epoken the com mittee ordered the bill to be regorted for pas- sage. Senate File 8 was tho next bill dealt with and after Mr, Colfax bad explained its pro visions to the house it was recommended to pase. The committea now rose and the house took a recess until 7:30 p. EVENING SESSION, On tha motion of Mr, Ruesell the house held an evening sersion to-night at £:30 to consider House Roll 170, a bill to provide for A STATE GROLOGICAL SURVEYOR, and to provide for a mineralogical and geolog- ical survey of the state, Mr. Russell intro- duced the bill and in a very lucid manner ex plained its meanirg and object to the hons» which was in_committee of tha whole. Ilis speech was of the nature of a sclentific lecture which & few only listened to, oth ra having no dount assured themeelves they wouldn't if thoy had listened. He said every other state had a geol ‘gist and it wa3 timo for this st to adopt means to secure similar services, Heo str. ngly urged the paesage of the bill, Mr. Winspear object=d t) the bill because the state had got on_ well up to now and geologists had never been any good. They bad never found minerals but could tell you all about them when they wero found. He also opposed the bill on thescore of +conomy and ho objected to voting the peoples’ money for any state geologist. Ho does pot object t science but objects o pay for it. Mr. Win- spear evidently (orgets he was ono of the committee who a few days ago recommended an appropriation of $13,600 for compensation to stock raisers in_casc their cows died of disease. Ard he then proposed to pay a sal- ried veertinary surgeon $2,000 a year. This I was paesed, too, main ly on the racommen- dation of ths committee, Mr, Whitmore strongly and ably sapported the bill and taought the state should do more than raise more corn tor hoge, He thought it was time the state did something far science. Mr_Holmes was in favor of the bill as also was Mr. Emerson, Me_Tie/d supported the bill at somo length and thought the state should do eomething moro than raiso hogs and hominy. Mr. Nichol was surprised to kear objections bocauso thero was an_appropriaiion to be made. The houso wes alwsys very willing to rpend meney wntil now. Ho supported the bil). fter con iderable confusion in which Mr. Brown made himeelf conspicucus by svening a point «f order with the chair in which L was altagether out of order, the committce re- ported the bill to be ixdetinitely postponed. Ta the house Mr, Jobnston tried to save the bl by moviog that the report be not con- curran in, hut his motion was iost and the bill indefinitely postponed 1t bsing now 10:30 the house adjourned, A Protest Against the I're Participating in the Washing ton Mooument Exercises, "masons BENAVTE. WasHINGTON, February 18.—At 11 o'clock the only senator in the chamber was 1d- munds, who promptly at that hour entered with the chaplain. Edmunds, observing the hsituation, abstained from taking the chair and he and the chaplain tcok seats on the floor. After afew minutes delay Merrill came in with sbout two or three others, The days proceedings were go far begun as that the chaplain offered prayer, scnators §resent indulged thewselves awhile in eloquent sileoce, which was finally broken by Morrill, who moved to cull the senate, The call bagan with four senators and con- cluded with sixteen. Thatnot being a quorum the names of the absentees were called, This brought ten more, but that being thirteen short'of & quornm matters came to a stop Conger inquited whether it was safe to pro- ceed with readivg the journal of yesterday. Tha chair said ne, Cunger remarked that he was not an alarm- ist and had only inquired for information, An amendment was offered by Plumb and agreed to excepting the professional artists from the provision bill, Hale agked that the unanimous consent be given to dispense with tha reading. The chaiemun refused to retain the propo the calling having thown the absence Juorum, At 11:20 the chair announced a quorum present and and the journal was read and the morniog bnsiness proceeded with, Dawes, from the commiftee on Indian af- fairs, reported the original bill to enable the president to negotiate for the purchase from the Creek, Siminole and Cherokee pations their remaining interest in the so-called Okla- homa lands, Calendar Lapham’s remarks were inter- rupted by the regular order of the anti-for- eign bontract lubor bill, Lapham offercd an amendment to the con- tract labor bill, providing that the whole pen. alty recovered thall be paid into the Uwnited States treatury, instesd of, as by the bill, permitting onc-hnlt the penalty to ggto the person who may firet bring s Tho amendment was sgread to, notwith- tanding the energetic attempts of Blair to explain it would rericuslyy imnair the efficacy of the bill. Blair then’ciotied sn amend- ment, makiog it the duty of the United States wtrict attorney of the 'proper distriot to prosecute at the expense of the United States every cate of violation of theat, Agieed 10 15 42, nays 15 19 bill then passed. Yeas nrys—9, Vote i detail: Yess—Aldrich, Allison, Blair, Bower, Erown, Cull, Camden, Cameron, (Wis ), Chase, Cooger, Cullom, Dawes, Dolph, Fair, Frye, George, Gibson, Gorman, Hale, Horris, Hurrdson, Ingails. Jackson, Jonas, Jones, (Nevads), Kenna, Lamar, Lp- ham, McMi lan, Mctherson, Mahone, Miller, a.), Miller (N, Y), Mitchell, Menill, slwer, Pike, P , Pugh, Ransom, Sabin, Sat S Van Wyck, Vest, Voorhe ker and Wiison. Nays— Ratter, Groome' Humpton, Hawley, Maxey, Morgan, Saulisbury, Vance and s of a ( P, Tt is intended that to-morrow the most im portant bills will b selected from the general file and presented to the hoose in the order of importanct Cabinet Speculations and Ad ment Talk, Special telogram to the B, AvLuaNY, February 18.—1It seems to be con- ceded that Cleveland is now devoting his at- tention to his inaugural address. Having determined to his own satisfaction at last the chief knotty poiots ccncerning his cabinet, It was not intended that apy publicity should be given to the fact that the composition of the cabivet was practically settled, and would become known this week. Those who are personally interestad in it will huve all the knowladge they dosire within o few days. That its officfal promulgation will not follow until after the _inauguration goes without sayirg T mo definite informstion resches the outside world within the coming week it 1 be because a change of plan has teen determined upon by Clove- land, astiog under the advice of his friends, There i3 no doub- at this moment that four, if not five, portfolios are su disposed of that no change at all is probable, v adjournment of the tho week” of itauguration is much desired by number of democrats, They are talkiog up the subject with the republicans, There 18 no precedent for such a demaod. and the latter are not onthusiastic over the ide; much as moet of them dislike legislative labor, Ar rangements will probably be made to allow the democrats to get away by pairing on the political question Y — The Whisky Pool. CHicAco, February 18,—The western ex 11rt association met here to-day to consider the trouble which has arisen with one of the Pekin, 1lls,, distilleries, growing out of an old and unpaid assesement. Two propositions were cousidered—ons, to keep the association intact, regardless of the ekin firm; the other, to dissolve the pool and let all the houses ran at will. No couclusion was reached, Another mecting will be held tom rrow, e — Onlo Defeats the Amendment, CoLumuus, Ohio, February 18 —A ressly tion proposing the submitting of the proposi. ton for an amendment to the covstitut on to license the liquor traftic was defcated in the house of representatives to day by five votes, slature during e Willisms Adjouned, HOUS WasiiNeToN, February Upon recon vening this morning the continuation of yester- day’s session, the conferenco report upon the District Columbia approvriation was agreed to. The house then went into the committee of the whole on the river and harbor bill, Under agreement half an hour was divided among the opponents of the bill, Potter opposed any appropriation for the Hennipin canal. He said Illinois would alone be benefitted and the state was able to con- struct the canal with her own wealth, New Yurl{ state had built and maintained the Erio canal, Peading the vote on the amendment pro- viding ths 1 ard should inclnde the proposed improvement of Galveston harbor raport to the secretary of war, the ocmmittee rose the house adjourned and the Wednesday session began, The morning hour was dispersed with Hutchios moved the house go into commit tee of the whole on the raval bil The motion was lost, yeas 102, nays 129, end the house went gmto committes of the whole on the river affl harbor bill. Perding the amegfiment which was offered a4 a substitute for 4l entire paragraph rela- tive to the Galveston harbor was adopted, Tt approppriates 550,000 to the improvement of Galveston harbor, snd directs the harbor board to proceed at once to examine the plans specifications and estimates for the improve- ment and report to the secretary of war for his approval On motion of Price $he emendment was adopted increwsivg from § tho appropriation for the' barbor at Superior Bay aud the harbor at S¢. Louis Bay, A large number of amemdments were offared but with one or two unimportant exceptions wera voted down, Pending further action the committes rose and took a rece:s uutil to-morrow, WASHING 10N NOTES, al Telegram to THE Bk SENATOR THURMAN'S PHOSIECTS, WasniNGTON, February 18,—The Obi) peos ple are very confident to-day that cx-Senator Thurman is to be teniered a place tn the Sy inet. In this view they are supported by | Hewitt sud llandall, who say there remains no doubt that a place will be tendered, and it ribCarolina Smoking Tobacco. ARY 19 will probably be that of secretary of the in- terior. There 1« strong pressure from the people generally, who with admiration his course in the senate with refercoce to railway and land matters, in favor of his being given a place, and Hewitt, who said thres days sgo that Thurman would not bein the cabinet, now saya be feels confident that a place wiil be tendercd him, Che change in the situation is brought about largely by the_exposition of the stories which put dcwn Thurman s a drankard, remember BRIDGE BILL PASSED, The bill authorizing the construction of bridge across the St. Croix river at Stillwater, Mion,, passed the house to-day, and_goes to the president for his signature, This will permit the completion of the Minneapolis & Sault St. Marie road, which the Minneapolis people believe is golng to carry all their wheat to Bt n and Portlard, as it is by the way ef the Canada Southern road some 300 miles nearer tothe teaboard than by the way of Chicago, Awociated Press, CLEVELAND WANTS THAT PETITION. Representative Reagan to-day received communication from President eloct Cleve- land, reqnesting that the patition of the dem. ocratic members of the house, urging him to refrain from committing himself in regard to the coinage of silver, in his inaugural addrexs, bo forwarded to him by mail, 1t is under- #tood that his requost is in respones to an in. quiry whether he proferral to reccive it by mwil or at the hands of a delegation of signers. Repreccntative Millard, of the committee on REFOID IN CIVIL BRRVICE, Submitted minority report, signed by the republican members of the committee, in fav. or of Representative Taylor's bill to prohibit the discharge of honorably discharged soldicrs, or sailors, or dependent relatives from any office in the civil serve of the United States, except for cause. The report eays in part: This clags of government employes bhave a c'aim upon the gratitude of the nation that csnuot ba easily compensated. They eaved the country from dismemberment and dis- honor. We submit it is but a just and proper recognition of their claims, they should be re- tained in the government’s service as long as they can faithfolly and effectually perform their official duties. The bill is “eminently just inits provisions, and should be passed with the following amendment: “It ehould not apply to o slass of officers embraced in the original tenure of office act paesed March 3, 1867, and amended April 5, 1869,” The general deficfency bill reported to the lmusutuwu}'pmvidmlnt]‘pmprmtiu 501, - 916 of which smount 875,000 i8 appropriated in ompliance with the recommendation of the postmaster general for clerk hire 1n the vari fices and it also provides that the accounting officer of the treasury department shall not receive any claim against the United States unless it shall have heen fil:a within onelyear frem the passags of this act, or with- infive years after it shall bave occurred, or unless it shall have arisen under obligation or (ability of the United States incurred by the authority of law, or under some appropriation originally applicable to the payment thereof. THE OLD RENAULT CLATM for lands in Illinois which had been before the interior department for years, and has on several occasions been presented’ to congress for consideration, formed the basis of another m of the secretary of the interior to- y. The case came up on petition, by one of the claimants to have a patent 1seued to him. The secretary doubts the authority of the de- partmeat o issue o patent and thinks it wonld be improper to do so_without legisla tive authority, in the light of infou dep rtment now possessos, he_therefore de- clares to grant the petition, Forty-five fine farms are iucluded within the lands claimed e petitioner, IRACT LABOR BILL, The following is the text of the house *“‘for- cign contract labor” bill a8 amended avd passed Ly the senate, Be it enacted, et Section 1, That from and after the passage of this act it +hall be unlasful for any person partoership or corp: ration, in_any munner whatever to prepay transportation, or in any wuy a8kist or encow age the impo: tation of im- migration of any alien or alicne, oreigu cr or for-igners, into the United State ritories, or the District of Colun | contract or agreement, parole or &pe press.d or implied, or made previous to the importation for immigiation of such alien or aliens, foreigner or foreigaers, to perform la bor or or service of any kind in the United States, its territories or the District of Col umbia, ec, 2. That all contracts or agroements, express or implied, parole or s<pecial, which may hereafter bo mads by and between any pexson, company, partnership or corporation, and any foreigner or foreigoers, alien or aliens, toperform laboror servics, or haying re o the performance of labor or servica by any peraon in the United States, its terri- tories or the District of Columbia previous to the importation of any person or persons whose labor or ecrvice i contracted for, into the United States, shall be utterly void, and of no effect. Sec 3. That for every violation of any provision of section one of this act, the person, partuership, company or corporation violating the same, by knowiugly, assisting, encourag: ing or soliciting the migration or the importa- tion «f any alien or aliens, or any foreigners into the United Stafes, its territories or the District of Columbia, to perform labor or ser- vice of any kind under contract or agreement express or implied, parole or special, with such alien or aliens, forcigner or foreigners, previons to bacoming a resident or citizen of the United States shall forfeit « FOR EVERY SUCH OFFENSE ono thousand dollare, which may be sued for and recovered by the United States or by sny person who shall firet bringhis action therefor, wcluding any such alienor forcigner who may bo a party to any such contract or agreement, a8 debts of like amount are now recovered in the circuit courts of the Usited States, the {nn‘c:mluhbe paid into the treasury of the Toited States, and separate suits may be brought for each alien or foreigner being guilty to such contract or agreement aforesaid snd it ehall ke the duty of thedistrict at:or. ney of the proper district to prosecute such suit at the expense of the United States, Siotion 4. That the master of any vessel, who shall knowingly bring within the Unitad States on any tuch veesal and land, or permit to be landed, from any foreign vort or place any alien laborer, mechanic o artisan who, previous to embarkation on such vessel had entered into a contract or agreement, parole or special, express or implied, to peform ser- vice or Istorin the United States, shall be decmed guilty of & misdemeacor and on con- viction thereof shall punished by a fine not more than 50) for éach and every such alein laborer, mechanic or artisan so brought, and may als0 be imprisoned not exceeding i+ months, That nothing in this act sball be so d as to prevent any citizen or subject Seen teverywhere, Because every- where recognized ad igc{iAEerwifi?e fo Peafer a\oz , 1885, of any foreign country temporarily residing in the United States, either in private thicial capacity, for epgeging r contract or otherwise, persons not residents ot citizens of the United States, to act as privatasecretaries serventsfor domestics for such forcigner tem porarily residing in thy United States, nor shall this act be #o coustiued a8 to prevent any person or persovs, p rtnerships or corpor ations from engeging under contract or agree- ment, sk lled workmen in foreign countries to perform lator in the United Siates, in or upon any new industry not at present ostab din tho United St.tes, Provided, that skilled labcr for that purpose cannot others wito be obtained. Nor shall the provisions of this act apply to professional actors, arlists, lecturers or surveyors, Lor to persons employed atrictly as persinal'or domesti: sor vauts; provided that nothiog in this act shall bs constrund a8 prohibiting any individual feom ¢a isiing any membe: of his fawily or any relative or parsonal friend to migrate from any foreiga eountry to the Uni'ed States for tho purpo.c of settlement here, Sec. 6, Rtepeals conflicting lawe. The bill now goea tho house for concurrence or non-conourrence in the senate amendment, WasiiNa1oy, February 18 —The senate in utive session confirmed the nomination of pear for United States district judgs of the southern district of Georgia, The vote Senator Halo voted in the d Senator Brown in the afilrma The division was otherwise upon party ox tive. lines, A CRANKY ETITION, A printed protest of large propartions against permitting masonic societies to partici- pate in the dedication of the Washington monument next Saturday has been received by the congressional committee charged with the arrang ments. The signers claim to have 18,000 signature The protest come too late for action by th committee, The chief complaint of the pati- tioners ia that the Catholics have been snub. bed and Free Magons honored in the matter. - — The Tlinois Senatorship Progressing, Special telegram to the I ~orgen, Ills., Febroary 18, ~When the joint assembly was called to order to-lay 51 senators and 151 representatives answered to their names, Sittig and O'Shea were the only absentecs. There was an apparant disposition on the part of the assembly to come to a vote, Senator Campball, (Rep.) snd Duncan (Dem.) announced that an sgreement bad been made whereby the balance ehould be pres:rved in the event of the arrrival of vither Sit ig and O'Shea, and the fagrecment was by unanimous consent, made & 1ule of the as- sombly for to-day. Oa the first ballot Logan received 100 votes, the o'id republican vote, and Col, Morrison 93 votes, Sevator Strester voted for Jobn Simith and senators Campbell and Duncar did not vote, Brachtendocf, Schleslinger and Dorman of Qook, and Morgan of Will, voted for Haines, Matt Murphy of Cook, for Frank Lawler and Muihearn of Cook, for James H. Ward Haines voted for Morrison and Macmilllan, after a little pressure had been brought bear on him, for Logan, After the roll had been verifies Campbel snd Dancan voted making the re sult. Logan, 101: Morriton, 91; scattexing, 7 absent, 2; necessary to a choice, 102, *'Long’ Jones bad figured out the vote 1 ng before is was anuourcad by the ch.ir and the Logan men were fairly dancing with joy. Democrats made an effort to have a second ballot but this was fought down by the re- publicans, and the joint assembly dissolved 1 Doon to-morrow, hat vote kills Morrison,” remarked a ngfield politician aftor the re ult had vanfiounced, Certain it is that the hori- zontal statesman and his friends are in the cave of gloom this afternoon, In certan quarters the report has been in- dustrionsly circulated that Morris m 15 vigo ously applying the party lish to the backs of the recalcitrants, This story is altogether perhaps that will be done later on, but g0 far nothing of the kind has been at- tempted, On the contrary 4ll efforts are di- ed toward the conciliation <f only two icago members who continuo in the dumps. *“I think al the Chicago delegation will come around al! right,” replied Col, Morris in reply to @ correspsndent’s question, **We have had no real test of their fidelity o fa He added. “but 1 think when their votes are of service they will be cast in the right direc- tion, d, Senators 8 ———— Important Postofiice Test Decided, INDIANAYOLIS, February 18, - A special to the Journal from Bloomingten, Tlls., eaye, let ters have been received there from the attor noy general and the postmaster generl of the United States, announcing the termination of a very important case concerning first clasy postoffices. The point at issus aroso in the Bloomington postoffice, Gen, Dick, post master, was defendant in a test cise in which he retained money,order faes to the amount of nearly £5, 00, though the work was performed by the assistant and the latter raised the claim that cither the fees should in part or in ths whole have i paid to him, or covered into the treasury of the United States, The attention of tho postoffice departinent was called to the case and a test case was mado, A syndicate of postmaeters interested was formed to provide mear s to defend the e, which paseed through the courts with varying results, until it hys now been decided in Dicks favor, The decivion will add very largely to the expense muintaining the mall service of the country, — The Propellor Michigan Ice Bound. Ciieaco, February 18,—The Inter-Ocean’s South Haven, Mich., special says: The pro- pellor Michigan, which loft Girand Haven o week ago last Monday, has been heard from She is locked in theice twenty-three wmiles west of here, unablo to move, Seventeen of her crew crossed the intervening ice and cached the ghore kome miles north of here last night, They bad o perilous and weari some journey, One of the men gave out and was carried five miles on the back of another, They say thirtcon men remain on board the propellor; that they have rations for twenty- five days, and niety tons of conl; that the ice extends westwurd " into the lake as far as the eye can reach, —it— Railway Assessment, February 18,—The clevaed « to-day signified their assent’to the scheme of taxation proposcd by the corpo rotion council, and have filed the returns in the office of the tax commissioner, Tne n tire assessment of all the elevated roads sg An Case evated D ON CHANCE. The Leading Artices in Te-Day’s Mar- ket Dragged Quite Heavy, NO. 1 Fat Oattle Were in Fair and Steady Demand, Hogs Were Bought Up as Fast as They Arrived, Wheat Opened a Shade Easier Than It Closed Yesterday, Corn Opened Steady and Showed COonsiderable Heavinoss. Oats Continued Quict and Steady— Rye Quotably ovis- fon Quitea Active a:d Firm, figher. OHICAGO MARKETS, Special telegram to Tite Bk, CHICAGO, February 18.—The leading arti- clesin so-duy's market dragged quite heavily, receiving little if any sapport from any quar ter except probably the New York stock list. Receipts were ogain very light, the blockado still provailing. The close of the morning sassion was quiet but steady and featuroless excopt 10 the provision list which was weak WHEAT opened a shade easicr than it closed yestorday, but run through the morning sossion in a very steady aud featureless manner, only showing fluctuations of je. Trading was far from active, and was carcied on by the local crowd, An easicr tone prevailed after the noon hour, values droppieg_back to only fraction over opening, No. 2 sprivg sold at 793@70%c. The close of the mornmg sesslon was «uict and about steady, CORN opened sbout steady, the only feature of the market being a bulge in February, in responso to the rapid advance ¢f this delivery in New York, it being the popular belief that a corner in this month's delivery is being run there, In other futures the tendency was downward, and the tone of the market one of consmdera ble heavinese, No. 2 cash was quoted nomi- nally at 88c, oats quiet, very inactive, and about steady, with speculative trading confined to seller May at 4c fluctuatien, . RYE rued quotably Ac higher, but_there was nono received, and little if any traded in. ForNo, c was bid, for March 3¢, for April Wic, and for May S PROVISION were quite active and mederately firm early in the day at elightly higher prices, W hat shorts there were in pork and lard were cover- «d early, advancing, the former 24« 5e, In a Reneral way trading was slack, and after the tirst_hour or £o values tended slightly down- * ward, the tone of the market bncumK:g per- coptibly - eatier, February cptions were not mentioned, these and cash ruling the same s March, The close, at 1 o'¢lock, was weak, at arapid decline durirg the last hour's trading, On call both ‘grain and provisions were & chade easier, CATTLE, There was a fair, steady demand for fat attle, and prices ruled a shade strovger. Taking an advance of to-day and yesterday, and the appreciation would be 10@15e, though some buyers were strongly of the opinion that the advance was equal to ; 'J'thlm[l 1y of tat cattlo was pour, cing ecarcely =.iu. dload among the &nxnh. R%h.,.;u»m were complaining of the scarcity of c: buts the railroud men, on the other band, said there were plenty of cara for their regular cus tomere, Choice fat cows and heifers and high grades of butcheis’ stock are in gocd demand and firm, Mo:t of the cans nirg houses are rgoin operating, and canning stock was in better cemand, with lit tle or no chavge in prices 43 compared with Tost week, but amoug to-day’s arrivals were n large per cent of o.d cows that old st very low figures, Dinlls were ecarce. Stockers and feeders were in light supply and only a few buyers on the market, henco businees was mainly limited to tho buying snd selling of T8, S 5, 1,000 D@5 00: 1,200 t0 1 500 Tbs,, SH bulls, lors, 00 13, §4 0; hers’ cowr, 2 H0@ | stockers, §3 00@1 20; fer Texans, $1 00@b 00, HOGS, The market was fairly active with both packers and shippers buying fresh receipts Ebout a fast as they areived, © Common. ad medium were strovg and H@108 higher; par ticular and fancy ports was wanted, Tho buyers had to pay a fancy price, & vance of 10@ 1o¢, vuch_selling to with rumored sales at £) 35; light were scarce and generally quoted at 84 60; packing and elupping 325 to 400 1bs., $4 90@b 00; light, 160 to 210 bs., 84 0 @ ——— Fraudulent D, ENSUULO, I'a,, February 18,—This niorn ing & supicious looking box covered with tin was found in the corridor of the court houss and the report quickly spread that an at tewpt had been made to blow up the building with an infernal machine, The box was carefully unwrapped and in i found the clock works of & dsncing toy, a monkey with a piece of rope hanging out of the end which had been sivged, ro s to give it the appearance of bavicg been ret off, but failed to buin, The amusement created by the hoax was ouly excited by indignation st a spolled sensation Dynamite in Portland, Ore. VORTLAND, Ore., Februsry 17,—The Ore. gonfan's special from Whitcomb, W. T, says: The new residence of John H. Stinger, presi dent of the Washington culny, wis blown to atoms to-night by dyn e, Lows is §3,000; no lives lost. The cause cabuot be lcarned but s supposed to be the cutcome of lund grogated 11,527,364, —— Two Steamers Bur Mexrhis, February 18,—Steamers Ida Dar rogh aud Helena were burned to-day, 8105,0,0; insurance, $75,000, Loss, My Gondumer, ke, and stote it tewn. troubles, which bas been brewing two yeuts, e Homeward Bound, QuERNSTOWN, February 18,—Canadian voy- E"..‘"‘“ took Genegal Wolseley's boats up the Nile arrived herMn their way home,