Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 24, 1885, Page 1

F( JURTEENTH YEAR. iB., TUESDAY MOR! NG, FEBRUARY 24, 1885. NO. 161, IN cg!(;gsss. T Sandry Civil Bill Engages Sime Atenton, Frye Wants $800,000 For Trans- porting the Foreign Mails, Debata in the House on the Naval Appropriation Bill, Bill to Quiet Titles in the Des Moines River Settlers. The New Oabinot Continues to Be the Principal Topic, Estimated That 30,000 Will Be in the Procession on the Fourth of March, MENATF, Wasmixoros, February 23, —Ingalls, from te comumittse on Indian affairs, reported a bill %o refor to the court of claims the eastorn and westorn lands of the Cherokeo Indians, Cal. lendar, A rewolution was agreed to authorizing the committee on Indin affairs to continuo dur. ing the racess of congrass tho investigation rogarding the leases of Iudian lands, Auotuer resolution was agrecd to calling on tho secratary of the intorisr to furnish infor- mation regardivg the progress of Indian edu- cation Millor, Caliornia, presented a petition from the aunual cncampment of the grand army of the republic, now in s Francisco, prayiog for the immad of the bill by cangress to place on tha retired list, The tition under the rule was laid on the table, the senate having already passed the bil to carry out the pur- pose prayed for by tha petition, Tha Des Moines settiors titles bill was then placed bfore the senate aud Lapham re sumod his romarks in sugport of his amend- ment, exsmpting from the operation of the act such a3 were covered by tha joing resolu tion of Murch 2, 1861 and whose titles the supreme court were decided to have bean rendered valid by that joint resolution. The amend nout was defeated yous 31, nays 24, Asitisa reoats bill it now goes to the house for consider.tion. The postoffica appropriation bill was then reeumed TRANSPORTING THE FOREIGN MAILS, Fryo offerod an amendment appropriating 8€00,000 for the transportation of foreign mails, inluding transportation across tne isthmius of Pavama, and authorizing the post- mastor general to contrast with the lowest re. sponeible bidder for the carriage of ruch mails at not to exceed 50 cents per nautical mile on a tripowch way actually traveled between terminal pointe; but providing that euch mails shall be carricd on American steamships, and the sguregate of ruch contracts shall not ex- ceed ons-half the sum appropriated by the amendment, Bayard made s point of order that Frye's amendment was general legisiation. Beck said that Frye's amendment wasa subsidy to a certain small ¢ ass of men. It was the old Pacific Mail subsidy, and an un- just discrimination giving $400,000 out of the treasury to a few wen now owning a fow ships, There would be no time to build any new ehips before the subsidy would expite, as it would expire with the appropriation bill. This would enrich u few pats of congress Fryo inquired if it was not a subsidy for a ono hoe stage running through the back bills of Kentucky to get $:00 a year, more than a dollar a yeur for every letter carried, He supposed it was no subsidy for tho rest of the country to make up Kentucky's dsficiency of half a million dollars a year on her mail service, but it became a subsidy when anyoue proposcd to help American steamships by pay- ing a fuir price for carcying the United States wails, In the course of his reply to Fryo, Beck said that Kentucky had paid into th) feleral treasuary more each year than Muine had paid altogether in halt a century, We had only tifteen per cent of the carrying trade of ourown products, because wo had a high tariff. Whon we had a democratic adminis- teation and tow tarifl we had carried eighty per cont of eur own products. Protection ard subsidy, the crippling commsree by high taxation had reduced tho Uvited Statest) a pitiful condition in which they were now in regard to hipping and the smendment of Frye's would nt help them, Vest snid there should be no mistake about the questi n in hand. It was to encourage the building of ships in the Uuited Statee, No legis] stion of cougress,however could build up the shipping or commerce under the pres- ent condition of proddttion in the United t We might as well try to chain the wind, Fryo was making an amcndment which was & naked donation of $100,000 to the Pacitic Mail 1t wasa subsidy and subeidies do On Bayard’s point bsing brought to a vote, the amendment was held t5 be in order —yeas :33, nays 20, Van Wyck offered an amendment to Frye's smendment providing that no part of the azoney should be paid to any steamship com- pany now estaolished, and ~ which had been peyiog dividends, In suppors of his amend- anent Van Wyck said he supposod that Frye's provision was meant for tha proteciion of in- Annt industeles. He thersfore saw no reason €0 pey any, portion of ic 408 strong company Nikadhe Pacific Mail company . Van Wyck's amendment was not sgreed tove Frye's amendmont was then agreod to—yeas nnya 18, ho senate retained the house provision per mi \ng newspaper articles to be marked with- out iucceased poxtage, Tha bill was then read & th.\d time and passed without division 1t Bow | Yoes to the house for concurrenc: or non- concu.rexos of the senate smondment, Mitchali said he wonld to-morrow call up du:» priviate pension bills on the sanate calen- ecutfve asssion, Adjourned, HOUSE WashiNG TO¥, February 23.—Randall,ehair- man of the c vinwittes of appropriations, re ported the sundry civil appropriation &ill, Referred to the ecmmittee of the whole, Bland reserving all points of order. Lefevre offerecl & resolution reoiting that Germany is discri winatiog against imported American products, ard igstructing the com- mittee of forcign affalrs, to Inquire and re port wrether the intercats of the United States do not require a like_discrimination on articles imported from the German empire. Onmotion of Payson the senate amend. ments were_concurred in the house bill, for feiting tha Texas Pacific land grants, On motion of Hopkins the Senate smend ment was concurred in to tho House bill pro. hibitiog the importation of contract labor Perkins introdvced a bill to open up the Oklahoma lands to the eame homestead settle: ment, Randall then moved that the House go into committee of the whole for the further con- sideration of the naval appropriatien bill, and though opposed by tue supporters of the river and harbor bill the motion was carried, yeas— 36; nays—125, Long concluded his speech in support of the roporttion to incrense the navy. He thought e spoks for his side of the f'ln“w. when he said he was ready to engsge in the work of building up the navy, if even, if that work u;nk place under the demociatic administra- tion, Hewitt, of New York, was ready to vote 830 000,000 for the reconstruction of the Am- erican navy, The government was bound to expend thatsum within the rext five years, and he was willing to give & pledge to-day that the American congress had the patriot- ism to vote the necessary money. Cannon, while he wanted ths American navy, did not corsider the pending bill pre- sented n proper and orderly way of ecuring one, e criticized the proviclon for creating board composed in part of civilians, and the consequent abolition of the present naval ad vieory board. The ouly result would be the buildiog of four ships at a ccst of the Lord only knew what. Such reckless appropria. tion of money as was proposed would wreck any administration and debiuch any service. Holman saw no necessity for any baste in building a navy an « thought congress should wait till the Léw cruisers were completed, and their utility demonstrated, Townshend expressed his veadinees to res- poud to the demund of the people for rebuild- ing the American navy; but he could not see why the democratic party of the house sh uld become se quickly pauic stricken, and should leap from the conservative policy which it had followed so many years into the opposite extreme, Therefore he wonld move at ths proper time to limt the amount for rebuild- ing the navy to $5,000,00%, Ha thought the proposition under covsideration would resnlt in opening the doors of the treasory to John Ro ch, and would ineffect subsidiza to the full extent of the $120,010,000 surplus which remained in the treasuary, Ried said the preposition hoth in matter and manner was ¢ nsistent with thelife of the democratic party. It was always giving chromos for incompetency. Thomas opposed ths proposition as beiog to build the hulls of four vestels at an unlimited [ 1t was not known whather they were to be -wood, or iron, or steel, or whether they were to . be frigates, gunboats, or rame, Thera was not one cent given for & gun or for machinery or for rizging. There was nothing in thy proposition but a provision for places for a lot of democratic politicians who are alliged naval architects, Keifer oppoted the provisionsof tho bill as thay would not give the country a navy. Randall eaid vhat an effort had besn made to create the improssion that the democratic party was hostile to the nayy. Its history was tho reverse. He argued in support of the peading provisions of the bill. If they wers taulty i detail, they could be corrected. This clo ed the debate on the second rec- tin of th bill, and Thomas raised & point of order ngainst the second section, that it changed the exisiing laws and was not m the intersst of economy. The chair sustained the point raiced by Thomas, and the section was stricken from tha bill, Talbot offcred an amendment to the appro- priation of $1,780,000 for the completion of a stezl cruiser of not le-s than 5,000 nor more than 6,000 tons displacement or armament therefor, authorized by au act of congress ap- proved August b, 1832, Thompson favored the amendment as being a practical bogioning of the work of building up the navy The amendment was adopted. On motion of Randall the amendment was amended by adding a proviso that tho secre- tary of the navy shall approve of the con- struction of such vessel, Thomas offered an amendment aj 201,000 for the completion of **Puri'an,” “Manadnock,” drite” and “Miantonomah,” provi that their completion shall be recommended by the secretary of the navy., Lost by 64 to 95, On motion of Boutelle the amendment was adopted providing for the return of the Alert with tho thanks of this government to the government of Great Britain for the transfer | of the Bear to the treasury department, to bs used as a revenue catter inthe Aliskan | waters, and for the use of the Thetis in the Davy as a surveying vessel. The committee thenrose and reported the bill to the house, The action of the commit. tee in the adoption of the Talbot amendm-nt was ratifind by the houe yeas 111, nays 9. The bill passed, and the houss took a recess till the cvening session for t e comsid- eration of business relativg to the District of Columbia. ppropris ha “T o Awphi Washington Gossip, Special telegram to Tiie B WasHiNaToN, February 23.—The senate to-day paseed the bill authorizicg the attor- ney general to briog suit in the United States court of Towa to determine the propristor- ship of the lands alone the Des Mones river, granted for the improvement of that stream, and now claimed by parties living on them as having been forfeited to the govemment by the improvement compavy to which they were ranted. The bill has not passed the house, utit possibly may slip through, as the house has in & former sassicn paseed a similar bill, . The defeat of the motion to take up the river aud harbor bill is believed by many to be the death knell of that mcasurc, WASHINGTON NEWS, WASHINGTON, February 23,—The sundry civil bill just printed contains an appropriation of $17,000 to complete the public buildiog at Quincy; for completivg an iron finishing shop at Rock Tsland, §3,500; armory shop, $50,000; completing store house, $5,000; new office for the armory and arsenal, $30,000; for comple- tion of the water pool above Rock Island bridge, $18,500, The cabinet continues to be the peiaci ject of discussion, Gradually the lines are drawing closer and if Bayard, and (iarl and Taurman, and Viles, and Manning, and Lamar, are not six of the seven, there are & good many disappointed people when thoe list 1s aonouuced, There s quite a scramble to get the procssion on the fourth of arch, 1t 15 estimated tbat there will be | business. according to location and whether or not they are reserved. THE SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL Reported to the house to-day provides an ap- propriation of 822,20 177, o reduction below the estimate of $10,146,225, The bill author- izes the secrotury of the treasury in his discre- tion to suspend in whola or in part, from Ju'y 1, 1885, to June 30, 1886, the execution of s0 much of the Jaw as to direct tha coinage of not Jess than two millions of standard silver dol. lars, nor more than four million standard sil- ver dollars per month, The bi 1 further pro- vides no plan shall be approved f.r & public building until a site is purchased and paid for, and that no mora money shall be expend ed for any public building than the smouut specified in the law authorizing its erection, 'I[hu socretary of war is authorized to seli at public auction the arsenal at Allegheny and at Tndiavapolis. The following are the items of bills: For repairs of custom house and sub-treasury at Chicago, $10,00'; completion of the court house and po-toffice at Columbue, Ohio, $110, 000; continning the public building at Peori. Tllinois, $50,000; completion of the public build. ing at Q Tllinols, $47,500, The bill rec- ommends the appropriation of §213402 for light houses, beacons and fog signals, of which the sum of & ¢ is for the completion of the light houss at Grand Marins, Minn, The secretsry of the navy is directed to transfer to the treasury department for use as o ravenue cutter in the waters of Aia-ka, the Bear, one of the vessols of tne late Grealy re- Jisf expedition. An appropriation of £130, 000 is alko recommended for the propog stion of food fish in the waters of the United States, Tho president is authorized m case of a thre.tened or an actual epidemic, cholera or yellow fever, to uso tho unexpend- &d sum appropriated therefor July 7. 1884, together ~with an additional 04,000 tae same to be immediately available, Tn aid of the stats and local boards. or other- wlee in preventing and suppressing the spread of these diseases. Tne otter appropriations recommended are as follows: $40,000 for con- tiwuing the construction of the state, war, and naval department buildings; 84,000 for tho Washington monument, to complete the interior stairways and platform; $165,%00 for new buildings at and the enlargement of sach wilitary posts as in the judgment of the eec- retary of war may be necessary, Of this sum, 5,000 is recommended to be paid Mrs, Mary T. Barnes, widow of the late Surge.n (ieneral Barnes, for special and meritorious service rendered by her husband in the last illness of Presrdent Garficld; €36,000 for coutinuing the prblication of the official records of the war of the rebellion of both union and confederate armies, An appropiiation of £300,000 to hedisbursed under the direction of the secretary of the treasury i3 rcommendsd in further aid of the world’s fair at Now Orleans, The sttor ey-general 18 directed to pay to Charles H. Reed a sum not exceeding $3 00) and George Scoville not exceeding $2,000 for servicas renderad in the case of the United States versus Charles J. Guiteau, Ttis proposed to repeal the law providing for taking the tenth and subsequent cen- suses. The bill to quiet title in the Des Moines river settlers, as it passed the senate, provides that all lands improperly ified to in Towa by the department of the interice under the aci of August 8, 1846, for which indemnity the lands were selected and received by the state of Iowa shall be public lands of the United States, Tho bill also coufirms and validates the c'aims of all persons who, with inteut in eood faith, to obtain a titlo under the pre-emption or hometead laws, entered or remained upon any tracs of land, prior to January, 1580, not exceeding = 160 acres, and pro- vides that upon dune proof thereof, and the payment of the usual price or the fees (where not already paid) a patent shall issue, It also contirms snd validates tha titles of all bona fide claimants unds» the color of a title from the state of [owa, and tho United States eran's or the Umted States and United States grantees, which do not come in conflict with the persons who with in- tentions of good faith, to obtain a title under the preemption or homestead laws of the United States, ecttled upon the lands prior to Javuary, 188), It is made the duty of the attorney general within 90 days aftor the pacsage of the aet, to iostitute such suits as way be needed to awort and protect the title of the United States to the Jande; and until such suits shall be determined, and con- gress shall so provide, mno part of the land shall be open = for settlement. THE U, P, SIXTY-YEAR FUNDING BILL, Senator Sherman to-day introduced the following as an amendment to the D.citic railroad sixty-year funding bill: That no divi dend ghall heresfter be made upon the stock of either of the railroad compinies named in aud accepting the provisions of this act except from ths net earniogs of the sad company within one year preceding each divi‘end uficr all the interest and other fixed charges ehall bhave been paid or provi led for, and the cur rent expenses of running the road of the said And in computing charges an amount snall be in- icient to preserve and maintain the cars, track apd oth property in it then condition for six m nths, and to provide by loan or otherwise for all bettermsnts or equipments needed to cover the ordinary wesr and damage, and to eoable the c anpuny to p rform its increased i Tnat whenever it shall appear that th net earnings of ecither of the eaid com- panics, as ascertalned according to the pre- ceding ection, that during one year preced- iog, the amouut to be more than six per cent of the capital stock of such company, then one-half of such excess shall be paid to the United States on the debt of such company, and shall be applied on the principal sum due thereon, and the other moiety of such excess may be divided among the stockholders, or applied for the betterment or equipment of the road of such company, It is expected that the senate will be con- vened in special eestion almost immediately after the adjournment of the preseut congress, and that sauch time a8 is not consumed in the ccnsideration of sppointments, will be de- voted to the discu sion of the pending treaties, The house committee on public bui dings decided to favorably report tha bill providin the following appropriations: $50,000 to M braska City, Neb.; 825,000 additionsl to Quincy, TIL; $100,000 to Oshkosh, Wis, The prososed appropriations have no relation t» the items for the public buildings mentioned in the sundry civil bill. At the evéning session several unimportant bills were passed and the bouse adjourned, DEATH OF GEN. CAPEON, Gen, Horace E. Capron died last night from the effects of a cold contracted while attend- ing thee dedication_ceremonies of Washing- to’s monument on Saturday, He commani- ed @ company which took the part of laying the corner stone of the monumeut, and sub.e. quently removed to Illiuos and entered the union army. He was appointed commissioner of agriculture in 1861, and held that office un- il 1871, He afterwards epent three years in Japan, having been appointed by that gov- 000 in line, and of course it is to be & secene tnessed only once in four years, Tha oely Fesorvation mlong the avenuo 1s filled with seats for which §f or §2 is allowed to be avked ernment to take charge of a scheme to develop the resources of the island of Yezr, For his services there he recelved many distinotions from the Japanese government, — TRANS-ATLANTIC. Hestile Arabs Reappear &t Abn Klea And Are Dispersed. Reported That El Madhi Has Re~ turned to Khartoum, The Burton-Cunningham Casge Postponed For One Wezk, The Marquis of Lorne on the \Egyptian War, Three Unsnccessful Attempts to Exeoute a Orimioal, ¢ Sir Stafford Northeots's ¥peech in the House on the Egyptian War— Other Foreign Notes, TOREIGN NEWS, THE MARQUIS OF LORNE ON THE EGYPTIAN WAR® LoNpoN, Febroary 23,—The marquis of Lorne publishes a letter in the Pall Mall Ga- zette this afterncon in which he deprccates to the British advance upon Khartoum, now that Gardon is dead. The Britisb, the Mar. quis continues, should be satisfled to take up a position on the Nile to blook the Mahdi from advancing on lower Egypt. THREE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS TO EXECUTE A CRIMINAL, LoNDON, Febru ry 23,— A singular incident happened to-day in connection with the carry- iog out of the death seutsuce passed upon John Lee, recently condemned for the murder of Emma A. W. Keyes, at Babtacowbe, Three attempts were made to hang Lee but each attempt proved futile on account of the failure of the trap to work properly, Lee was an ex-conviet who obtained the position of valet to Miss Keyes, by meana of forged lettors of recommendation, Lee wished to marry Miss Keyes who was an elderly lady of wealth, ehs refused, whereupon Lee assauited her then murdered her aud set fire to the house to cover up the crime. He was after- wards captured and convicted, After the first trial by the sheriff to perform the duty, the gallsws was examined and the machinery found to be swollen from having been wet by water. The machinery was then overhauled and wall oiled and auother attempt made to hang the condemned man, but the machinery again refused to work. It was all overhauled again and a third attempt was made, whi h also failed. At the cud of the third trial the prisoer suuk in a swoon and had to bs carried from the place, A superatitious dismay overcame the sheriff and they abandoned all further attempts to perform the duty. The eheriff telegraphed the particulars to the home secretary and asked tfor instiuctions what to do next. WILL MOVE A VOTE OF CENSURE, LoxpoN, February 2. At a meeting of conserva peers, hold at the rasidence of the marquis of S bury this evening, it was unanimously resilved to move in the house of lords the vote of cautura against the govern- ment for its Egyptian policy, The mail and paesenger steamer Princess Beatrice, bound from Sarne for Strancear, Scotland s missing sinca Saturday. LATEST ADVICES FROM THE SOUDAN State that hostila Arabs reappeared &t Abu Klea on the nieht of the 19th, and wera dis- versed by a few rounds from General Buller’s Gar nerguos, This intelligenze, which is conveyed in a dispatch dated Abu K'es, Feb- ruary” 20, also contains the statewent by Avrabs takon prisoners by Genersl Buller that EI Mah Ii has returned to Khartoum, THE BURTON-CUNNINGHAM CASE POSTPONED, Loxpoy, Kebruary 23, —The Burtin-Cun- nipgham cass i+ adjourned until Monday next at the requo-tof Poland, soliciwr for the treasury, Poland, said at the next hearing, the crown would produce an entirely new branch of testimony : gainst both Burton aud Cuanningham. The prosecuticn was receivii g ho said, fresh evidenca sgainst the prisoners every day, aud the polics were kept busy in- vestigating it, i SECRKT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IRISH PARTY, LonpoN, February £3,—Secret negofiations are beivg carried on between the government and the Irish party in regard to the terms on which the Irish members of parlisment will support the governmeat in a division on the auestion of the vots of censureand the govern- ment sgonts, it is expected offerred a8 a re- torn for such support, moditications of the crimes act, but Parnell insists upon a pladge that there ghall be no renewal of the acs, The 1 ospects ars that the government will obtain the majority of the brighter, The Marguis of Salisbury’s noticeof the motio n committinz the To:ies to the palicy of & prolonged occupation of the Soudan, bas driven the radical section back into the gov- ernment ranks and the cohesion of the eroup of peace extremists will secure to the govern- ment thirty votes hishert » doubtfully, THE RUSSIAN TRCOPS TO WITHDRAW FROM THE AFGAN FRONTIEN, LoxnoN, February 23,—The foreign office has received a communication from DeGiers. Russian minister of foreign affairs, saying no advauce of the Russian troops toward the Afgan frontier has been authorized, avd that the troops will be withdrawn to thé positions they held before the frontier commissions were appointed, 1t is reported that Bismarck is supporting the pacific policy of DeGiers against the wilitary policy of Russia, who want war with Eogland, and that he sent a protest to the CZAT BRAIDS wuy aggrossive movement on the part of Ruesia, BHALL WE HAVE ANYTHING TO EAT TO-MORROW GExEvA, February 28,—The society to pro- pogate anarchism holds @ meeting in the morning, The programme will include the divcussion of the question, *“Shall we have anything to eat to-morrow!” The eituation in Germany will also be considered, NORTHCOTE ON THE EGYPTIAN WAR. Loxnox, February 23.—Northcote, in the presence of the full hou'e of commons to-dey, moved that an address be presented to the Queen, representing that the course pursued by the government in regard t> Fgypt and the Soudan has involved a great sacrifice of valuable lives and heavy expense withont any bensficial results, rendering it impera- tively necessary to the interest of the British empire and the Egyptian peoplo that the government should distinotly recognize and take decided measures to fulfil the responsi bility not incumbent upon them in a good, stable government for tions o the Soudan necossary o its security, Northcote then delivered an elaborateZapeech with bitter de nuncistions. Said he: “‘Unless a complete | and entirs change takes place in the spirit of the government, it will still be our lot to, fail in whatever we may be called upon to do, While brave soldiets ate going to Egypt there is a voiee proceeding from the conucil of her majesty that deprive the expedition of half of 1t strength, A voloe of uncertainty concur. 1ng in what the government is trying to attain in Figypt ” The minister’s words hitherto have implied that the great object was to make the stay of the tioop: in Egypt ns short as possibla. Nothing is more dangerous to the interests of England than such declerations, Any talk about withdrawing as foon as possible is osleulated to dishearten and discourago the troops and make a serions impression upon the native chiefs, The country has heard quite enough of the policy of rescie and retire, and we have Deen too much a slave to the phrases, Now rome distinet announcement is demanded Is the war_one of vengeance, or for the purpose of attaining a useful object?” Gladstone replied that the government had not wavered or swerved a haii’s breadch from the covenant to send General Gordon sesist- ance when vecessary and when possible t - do t0, He referred to the statements of Gen. eral Gordon’s colonels that under no circum- stances could relisf have been timely, as Farog had long ago agreed to betray Khartoum as #oon a8 he British airived, The English mis- sion in tho Soudan was the safety of Egypt. The goyernment ight have had com- mitted errors in its judment, but throvghout it had asted with honesty of puc- pose, He felt satisfied that neither course #as open to them, Ho referred to a better government aud othar reforms cstablished in Erypt, and said there was no longer any davgor, there was & rupture with the Fren b, which hud cordially assisted in the measure which he hoped in & few days to see formally complotsd, and which should save Egypt from bankruptey. If Sir Stafford Northcote wantod to eatablith a good stable government in the Soudin, such a covenant was nat compatiable with cymmon prudence, becanseitmeant the establieshment of a British C hristian goverument over tho Mohammedans, This would entail an endless ttruggle, for the people were courageous by birth, and were made reckless by fanaticism, The govern- ment declines to enter into any covenant not reasonable and _ prudent, . He hoped the house would gve expression to their confidonce and thus strengthen the hauds of the whole country in the face of the w hole world, Awong the several other speakers who fol lowed was Redmond, who said that the Irish people desired to see the mahdi successful in his struggle for liberty, Adjourned. DYNAMITE CONGRESS IN PARIS, ToNDON, February 23 —A Paris dispateh to Reuter’s news agency gives an account of the long talked of congress of Fenian dynamitors in that city to-day., An eye witness to the proceedinis mays: Around the table were seated eleven delegates, Two of these repre- sented the Trish revolutionary party in Great ritain, three extremists reported from the Ubited States, two from Ireland, two from the continent, and two _others _rep- resented the Irish invincibles. Three Feniaus eat bohind n tablo against the wall. Theee wero prohibited from taking part in the debats. A Ruseian nihilist stood in one corner of the room in company with a manufacturer of dynamite, who was present for the | urpose of arranging for the sale of his wares Every person present was armed with & reyolver in roadiness to shoot any de- tective who might interfere with the proceed- ings. The moeting v as called to order by a man designated as Kikul, but whose real name is John Morrisy, » mnativa of the county Curlow, Ireland. An individual named Hannery was appointed reporter to congress, Several lettrs of apology were read expressing o bitter batred to Bugland. Kikal rising to speak was grocted with_thres cheers, He referred to the past work snd future achievements of dynamite and in the delegates present to discuss the means which would lead to the end ot England’s ov: government of Ireland. Patrick Cor made a reported resolution Lo _punich laud’s crimes by pursui g tho dypamite war oa an extendedscaleand more vigorous means and to causs explosios not only in London but inall the towns and vi'lages in logland, GORDON'S LAST LETTERS, LoNnoN, February 23, —A number of dis- patehes from Gordon to the home government in regard to the situation of afairs at Khar- toum previous to the surrender of that ity are publiched to-day, They were written on No vembsr 4, Gordon declives to agree with the heme government that the expedition under Wolseley was for the purpose of resening him, but was, he says, designod to rescue the gar- rison at Khartoum, On September 18th he wrote as follows: ‘““How many times havel written neking for reinforcements but wy letters have never been answered. The hearts of the gallant men weary with this long wait- ing for ussistancs and failure to receive ao: word of eucoursgement which would lead them to expect help shortly. While you eat, dritk and resiin good beds we are always fighting.” It appears from a letter dated De- comber 14th, that G rdon never eaid “I can hold out for years,” as has been published, but on the contrary declared food scarca snd relief should be sent him at once, The Ezytian Blue Book i-sued to-day taius _letter sent by Gordon to Wolssle, Decemb:r. Itsays: ‘I have five steamers and pine euns at Motemneh awaiting your orders. I can hold out forty days longer with ease. After that it will be difficult. The loss of Col, Stewart is terrible, 1 to.d him to give you all information pos-ible, He bad my Journal from Jaouary 3d to September 10th, The Mahdi is eight miles from Khartoum, Senaar’s all right. The garrison there 13 aware that you are coming, My journal from September 10th is on board one ot the steam ers which you will find at Me- tempeh, I continue to have occasional fights with the Arabs, It is rumored that all | Europeans with the Mahdi, including Skatir | Bey, and nuns, have hecome Mussulmans.” ““Lupton Bey has surrendered. T have sent out scores of messages 1n all directions during the lust eight months. Do not send private letters to me, The risk is too great. Do not write me 10 cipher. 1 have none and it is no use, The Mahdi knows everything, Take the rosd from Abullot to Metemneh. You need not fear the Mahdi. Both Greek consul and Austrian consul are rafe, TheMahdi has captured a letter from the king of Abby.inia to me, Your expedition, as I understand, is for the relief of the garrison ot Khartoum, which I f.iled to accomplish, I decline toad- it it is for the reccue of me personally,” A letter from Gordon dated September 19th, contains the following: “Wo bave sufficient provisions and money here at Khartoum to last four months, At the expiration of that period weshall be much embariassed, At Senaar there is doura enough, The garrison at Galahat and the people in that neighborhood are continually figh! The people oppose the false Mahdi, Although we wrote you 1t was impossible to send Stewart to Berber on account of many things which happened here, we afterwards t and those por- saw fit to send him, together with the French and English consuls, In & small ¢teamer to Dongola to communicate with the British commander there concerning the Soudan We detailed two large steamers to accompany them to Berber to keep the way clear for them to pass by Barber towards Dongola. Stewart ttarts in two days The reason for sending him is because you have been silent ull this while, You negloct: ed us. We have lost time and done no good. 1{ troops be sent us the rebellion will coase, When they reach Beiber the inhabitants will return to their former cccopations, There fora it is heped you will listen to all Stewart tells you and reeard eeriously the sppeal to send troops wo have asked for without delsy, RUSSIA WORRYING A dispatoh just received from Cabul says no little uneasiness prevails in government circles on account of the large numbers of Russlans pouring into the Afgh.n capital, os. tonsibly s travelers, Itis thegeneral belief of the natives that ths a'leged Ruseian travelors are really military men and their visits are connected with the rumored rcheme of Russia for the snnexation of Afghanistan The remains of Mrs, James Ru were intarred day. GLAND, 1 Mo | 11 Towell nt ensal (ireen cemetery to- Tho funeral ws strictly private, TREATY REJEOTED, Birg, Fobruary 93, - The bundesrath haa rejectod the neutralization troaty with th Unitsd Statas, N i Loxboy, {February Exprees 1 a review of the British grain traie during the past week says: Hoglish wheats declined 64 Friday, Exromo dullness pre- vails in the market, The eales of English wheat dwing the past week were 58,100 quart- ers at 226 40, against 53,196 quartors at 86s 11d during the corresponding weck last year; flour is 6d cheaper. There is a limited busi- ness in barley and the tendency is weaker, Oate are improved in price, Foreign wheat trade is wretchedly slow and pricesare against sellers, The prospects are of deeper gloom, if that is possible. Foreign flour is_ very dull and difficult of sale ~ American maizs in Loa- don is quoted at 226 Gd ex-ship; at Liverpool it 13 quoted irregularly, butin favor of buyers, Round corn maintained much higher relative values, owing to its scarcity. Four cargoos arrived and one was sold and three remain, T'wo are Californian, About twenty cargoes are due, chiefly California, Inferior samples of Euglish is lower. Foreign wheat is cheaper to-day and Ecglish flour is 6d lower, Foreign 15 tlow with dragging sales, Maizo is steady and malting barleys dull and weaker. e C. B. & Q. Passenger Train Wrecked. Ds Moiwgs, 1 reached hera of an accident on the O. B. & Q. on Saturday evening, on the Chariton & Indisnola branch, Passcnger tram No. bi, bound for Indiancls, jumped the track for some unaccountablo reason, and plunged over an embankment ten fect high, resulting in the injury of seven persons, a8 follows: Jos, S. Cesford, conductor, residing at_ Villisca, severo cut ou the head; Cenductor Avery, o the wrecked train, injured in tha bask; Mrs, Vao Winkle, Oakley City, cut over the eye; Dr. Todd, Charitin, hurt in the side; Mr, Hiil, Keolul, badly bruised; C. 5. McDan- iel, Ostumwa, bad scalp wound, Tha pasten- ger cosch was complotely upset, and the bag- gage car was hurled from the track but pulled back on the track and then plunged over on the other side. Physlcians wero rent to the scene immo: diately acd the ivjured were properly cared for. The remainder of tho passrngers were brought on £ Tudianols, arsiviog at 1:30 on Sunday morning. E. e Capraia Bedford Pim's Newspaper Projeet, Cuitcaco, Febiuary 23.—Captain Bedford Pim, & well-known naval engiveer of England and ex-member of the British parlisment, who has just completed an - extended tour of the United States ard the Canadae, has ex- pressed o desire to send to the British mu- seum a single copy of every daily newspaper in the United Statos and Canada, and also a copy of each weekly. Of the dailics he desires & copy of March 5, and of t @ waeklies a copy of the issue of the first week in M wrch, the papers tobeaddresred to Captain Bedford Pim, No. 2 Crown offica row, Temple, 15 C., London, Eogland. 1t is Captaio Pim’s intention to classify and bind the papers 1n volumes by atates, provinces and terntories, and request the British g ment to place them in the public archives of tho Beitich museum, where thay will b open to inspeetion by visitors and be carefully pre- served, e Oregon Crop Reports, PORTLAND, Ore,, February 28,—The Ore- gonian to-morrow will publish the crop re- ports from the entire district in Oiegon and Washington torritory lying east of Cascade range. Reports from all accounts agroo that the heavy fall of snow was & splendid protec- tion for wheat, and that fivesixths of the snow when it ‘melted was absorbed by the soil, giving the wheat a remarkably good stand The best e of winter wheat at r cent above last your, and tho surpug for ¢ 200,000 tous, —— The Nlinois Contest, Spuixarieen, i, Febraary o'clock the house and eenate met in joint Forty-three senators nud 103 convention, representatives answered the roll call. On motion on a call for a vote for United States eenator only Hainos responded, voting for Morrieon, journed, Tt is belioved here that the full vote will bs taken to-morrow, und the joint convention ad adjourned till 10 o'clock to-morrow, An Indian IRluw in Mexico, Guavyas, February 28.—An insurrection has brokea out in Senora, Mexlce, aod Tawiopi'n ranches have been burned, The encounter between the Yaqui Indians and federal troops under Gen. Topts occured The near Miga, The Indians were routed, Mexican loss three, the Indian loss not accer- tained, —— The Beven Mite tun Wreck, Waenington, February 23,—John T, Francy, the coloréd postal clerk injured in the collision at Four Mile Run, Thursday nisht, is dead, making the seventh yictim of the ac- ident. It is stated the express comp 250,000 pounds burned in their ear, , February 23.—News has | tiniates place the acreage brt 15 put down at be- twe:n 165,000 and 175,00 tons, These figures do not include the Willame tes valloy, in weet- ern Oregon, whose surplus will approximate b, Tinwediately after the joint convention both the senate and house La Misa ON 'GHANGE. Wasting on's Birthday Being Observed Thronghont the Conn ry, The Transactions On 'Chango Were Very Meagre And as is Usueal on Such Ocoa= sions, The Cattle Market Was Rather Quiet and Receipts Light. Fat Steers Reported Steady at Last Week's Prices, And Hogs Were Rather Dull and the Prices Wers Weak and Lower, OHIOAGO MARKETS, Special telegram to the Bk, Cuicaco, February 23,—The general mar- ket was rather quiet, the receipts light and demsnd especially on shipping account was indifferrent. There was aguin somo com- plaint from shippers of the lack of transpor- tation but the railrosd men reported plenty of cars for regular customers, CATTLE, Fat steors, eithor exports or other sorts wera generally reported steady with prices about the eame as at the close of last week, Thero were no faucy export steers on sale aud prime steers weronot plenty. Fair to gocd steors were also scarce but then the demavd was limited, Fat cows, heifers and buills were making = strovg prices. Common cows and canming stock steady as compared with the close of last weok, Stock- ers and feeders in light supply and but fow outeide buyera on the market, A good trade is anticlpated the coming week; there is somo inquiry for Midlesex cows and springers; 1,050 £o 1200 pounds, rteers, $1 25@4 90; 1,200 0 1,300 peunds, 85 00@H 50; 1,350 to 1.600 $5 60@6 40, Cows and mixed, $2 40 @2 45, mainly 3 00@3 50; 1 tockers $326@4 15; feeders, $4 26@4 70; Texans, $3 75@4 75, HOGS are rather dull avd prices in a general way were woak and low, especially on medium and common light sorts, most of which sold 5@10¢ lower; fair to good and ctoice sold as go.d s on Saturday. There was a large per cent of common and light amcng cents to-day; among packera were not averaging in a «pecial way; packers would have brought greater numbers cou d they bave been guarunteed transportas tion; fair packivg and rthipoing, 270 to 450 pounds, $1 76@5 20; light, 16 to 210 pounce, 84 30@1 85, NEBRASKA UKGISLATURE. HOTBE. Special Telegram to THE BER. LixcoLy, February 23.—The burleeque called the echo 1laws investigation has been conoluded. The committee will submit the result about Wednesday, Some of the charity which covereth a multitude of sins will be brought to bear, and the nvesti- rate” whitewashed by the investigation. The committee w:ll report having found every- thing all secure, Senate file 145 will be up in the house this week, and becauso of the persons who are supporting its passage, requiris coneiderablo watching, It is able to report the present law Textricting the county treasurers to two terms of office. It has baen pushed;through thesenato by the railroad striker, turr, who is backed upin his efforts by Ciraham, the Lavcaster county tressur The latier, haviog dono his share of the schemery for the B. & M., now asks them, through Burr, to remove the obstacle in his way that he may have a third term of office. Tt is to be hoped that the honest mewmbers of the house will exert thom= selves to defeat this piece of ring legislation, which deserves an early and lasiing burial, e Frank James a Free Man, L1k, Mo,, February 23 —Late § urday sfternoon the only two charges ponding against Frank James 10 the Cooper county circuit court were dismiseed and ho is now a frea man. The matter is keyt very quiet and oven is not generslly known, Intere:t in felc here whether Governor Marmaduke will ad the requikition from the governor of Minnescta for the removal of James to tho latter stato for trial there. 81, Louis Feb, 23— Additional informa- tion from Boonev.lle re,arding the diemissal of the charges sguinst Krank James is to tho cffect that the case was docketed in the cir- ouig court for taday, but was quietly called up by the prosecuting attorney on Saturday evening just at the close of court, when no one way present except the officers of tke court, The attorney said when he procured the ro- moval of the prisoner from Alabama to souri he was conhdent he had sufficient ev dence to convict him, but since then the chief witness had died, and the other evidence was wiesicg; he therefore moved that the charges be dismigsed, Ths court granted the motion, There are no other charges sgainst James in the state and he is therefore free, After the prisoner was released he went to the hotel where_he receiyed tho congratulations of a few fricads who knew the ion of the courts e ——— RAILROAD RAOCKET. Kanskakee, 1, February 23,—The first passeng ¢ train from Bloomington on the Illinois Central reached Kankakee today. It left Bloomington last Monday, It stuck all a'ong the line. Tt has been 108 hours run~ ning eighty-six miles, CiticAco, February 28,—A. §. Mellen, gen- eral freight agent of the Chicago & North- western railway, has been promoted to the pos IR Ah P ) T R, McCullough, first assistant general freight agent, will succeed him, and O, H. Knapp, second assistant, will suceeed McCullsugh, — Gem, Hatch Aficr the Boomers, Wicmira, Kas., February 23,—Gen, Hatch, who, with some of his off spending soveral days here, day to bein reaciness for the new boom which is to start for Oklohoma on the 5th ef Soal of Nordh Carolin Smoking Tobacco. Jeen tn\verflwfiere, Because every- where recognized RS et asd izdiAEerwifife fo Reafer u‘oE Wty tegions of Horth baro. ! @oMumer. aw, and store (tven.