Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 25, 1885, Page 1

f { f | THE OMAHA This bill on'y affects Omahs the missppropriatiog of prop The Oma'a Chart: r Am:ndmeat Creates |cf, decemed perons by the execuzors and " aa a Flatter. Doalers Must Not Sell Any More |5 Tobacco to Minors, ministrators, T came up for final passage at the nighe session, creatad quite o breeza, McArale moved to have the bill recom k wky, and brought the whole D, tion to their feot. aglis deloga. The Senate Pass the McShane |this was an attempt to reject an amcodmont Liquor Bill, for the benefit_of Marshal Cunfuings who wanted bis offion made eluctive, fearing he might not ba reappointed by (he next mey o, He declared the bill was drawa after a full consultation with the louding ciu and They Also Discuss the Amended |reprasented tho interests and wishes ef 8chool Land Bill, Owmaha, McArdle said he knew as much of the feel. ings of the people of Omaha as anybody, and if they were not competent to elect a marshal The HOUEO Pass a Numbar of they surely were not competent to clect o Important Bills, ‘The Rallroad (Tnmllllmn'lnl Bill the | McArile's moticn was voted down, Special Order for To.day—Oher Important News, SENATE, Special Correspondence to T Bk, Lancouy, Feornary 24,—Most of the tim m, \Vinnuflnr and Riley each in their turn denounced McArdle's attempt to change the bill which they declired had been una mously agreed on by thy Douglas dels every member excenting himself voting sgamst it, and the bill passcd, with the ewergency el use, In the committeo cf the whole this after- noon & number of hills were reported ad- versely, amorg these the hill creatinz five or six collegon to be attached to the uviver ity, Also Crook’s bill providing for the rssessment of railroads by the county cowmissioners, of the senato this morning was takon up in | Thit bill brougnt on a lively debate, but was the third readiog and paseago of bills, beivg thoso measures considersl in the committes of the whols on Friday. Tho president signed a nu: ber of bills and the committie put them into tho h.nds of the goyernor for signature, A messnge from tho governor reported that | About 11 o'clock the clerk he had sigued Senato File 13. This is the law finally rejected. THE HOUSH, Special Correspondence of Tur Bre. LiNcoLy, February 24.—At the meetirg of the house this morning business partook more of the nature f routine than excitoment. smmencad the reading of bills on their finul passage and orohibiting the sule of tobacco to boys under | provseded with Houso Roll 140, a bill to pro- fiftoen years of bge, w0 the tabacco dealors | Vida n apecBl lovy Lo procure water in cities con tike notice and govern themselves ac. | Of the eecond clasa, cordingly. Several standing committees reported, the judiciary committes alone reporting on eleven, showing that they hed not been idle since Saturday morning. Among the bills assed was the MoShane| A resulution was tiquor bill, which was so amend.d a3 to wean , to compensate railroad em- @ of accident cansed through and e of the company’s employes, | 147, to estanli-h Sheridan county, and 48, which provides that teachers in schools shull be exawined in physiology and hsgi: ne, were all passed, opted that no more ren- od nntil within thiee days of the day of tinal adjoursment. The object ate bills be co s'des what it says without endangering the Slo-|f this risolution is to enable tho house to cin- cumb law. Tt provides that liconses sball be | sider and pass house bils in time for th ir payable quarterly iu cities of the first-class | F¢ading on three different days in the senate. at the option of the mayor aund coun Saloons in the two mile limit where there hus been free whisky heretofore will be subject to taxation a3 1f located in the city An effort Afternoon Sesston, Special telegram to the Bee, Lixcovy, February 24.—The senate spont will bomnade inthe house to cutout this|three hours of its afternoon ression in further cluuse. It is un‘erstord that a strong lobby | discussion of the school land bill, ard man- will be here from Omaha, of thoss who own #aloons outside vhe city limite, who will en- deavor to deteat this measure if not the entire bill. aged to amend it to such an . xtent that it amounts to little, The minimam price of echool land was fixed at eeven dollars per The renate went irto committes of the [acre Strong efforts wers mads to defeat this whole with Sevat.r McAllister in_the ch sir. en after the committee of the whole report- The amended laud bill, known as Senate File | ed it back to t s house, 64, was called up for discusson, This meas- | Sevator McShane atempted to raise the ure hus been mentioued by fora as making an | price to ten d ars. entire chauge i the methods of handling. | Se: ator Meikl: shn introduced a resolution leaing and pur hasing s hool Linds. 1he | to make S-nate Fils 187, the railecad comuis- amendim: nts pending atn peevious sitting of | sion bill, the pecial ordbr for to-morrow and the commitiee were called up. They pro thereafter till settled. The fight will ba brief vid:d that the mi.imum price shuld bs 87 | bue bloodless. The railroad lobby showed i limited soms di-cussion over the latter. Senator Paul sud limitiog the amount would restrict the sale f the lands. tend of §10, a3 now sct forth in the bill, and | them-elves still active avd are planniog for b’ mau t) purchasing 160 acies. | to-morrow, The first amenoment was lo-t. There was CAPITAL LUXURIOUS LIVINGS, Senator M-tz thought there should be no | Bpecial Correspondencs to THr Ber, restriction, homs of prriri s dogs and g phers oo 1o g. s tho Lads had_already been the LiNcoLN, February 28 —Another six days Senator Day favored restiicting, The gov- | Wil brivg the bienuial state l.gislature picuic ernment had “di-posed of allits land in this state by small quantities, and the siate could | bave been down h<re they have not h:d the do the sama Senator Howe said if ths linds wera all ag most pleasant of weather, the thermometer ricultaral he woald not opposs it, bat many o' | registering below zero seven-eighthe of the them wero _grazing lauds, eat'le could vot ba fed on sl racts, v large herdy of | time But considering all thiogs th-y apper to have enjoyed thiwselves on their vhort al- Senat r McShane caused the countenancas | lowance in a mo<t wonderful and heurty man- of the senators to relsx by moving to muke | ner. At the prics they have dons well and the restriction ap.licable east of the 100th | bave demonstrated the fact that meridian, This imaginr, worked well in one it might iu others Senator M-tz could not azree wi-h his col- leagus and 1sisted hat the lands should bo | taken from tho pra rie dogs and geasshopprs, Senator Durland thought Mr Mc3nave's | ) amendment was in his own intorest and op- | posed it The umeudmont was lost by a vote of 12 to 15, The bi | was further amended by cutting out the section giviog s ttlers a rebate on their | /pyis imorovemeuts, Thare wus no debats on | ow this clause, Senator Love offered an amendment that tho«a parties now holding lsnds should not be compolled to puy over §7, the misimum now fixed by law, or the appraised value, Mr, uality of making mea pay more than thsy had com-| his Law shou d uot apply te prans. actions now pased, He said many of bis con-| ned over this ques. | Lrve vad ho doubted the consti uti tracted au stituents were more cono tion than over the railesad problem, Sonutor Browa said th) ke law. Senstor Hows favored :he amendment, uss M. Brown did not, He be- probably b iun teoms popu ar in slmost every bill, and ho tioughs if it | at the rata of to had lost mght of the fact toat it was the school fuad they were tryivg to protect, aud not the settlers, Lot the courts d cude| whether they wera passing a constitusional IT IS POSSIBLE TO LIVE 000 & year tor forty days, or $3 » day. But every member bas nos been wble to p-rform thix extraordiuary trick, and it 1% & qu-stion whether it conld ba dond At all oot of 1 or even thers when the y n session. The radrosd iid t) bo respousibls for o of leger lemain, and like all gool | ! this pi will be at the end of the session, when they pr pose to show how forty d ys can bespant in enscting 1ail road legislaiion without compromising any- thing. The company the raiirads have br ught together o mprisa every varisty of performers, includiug the m-smerist Charch Howe, the tragsdian Fiel |, with the low comn ediaus Wright, Kl d'H lmer, who ara wrcanged in tizhis, the c'mpany Jet out to Bamum the coming sesson. Memb: 4 are begmuiog to return iu groups of three and fours, but thy railroad lobhyises are not 8o varly on the tcens as is cu't)mary, Amonv the bils that pre sure isbeing brought t) bearon thascura its passage is Senator ioved i0 makiog a low ) plaia that 0o re*| Churoh Howe's course to the courts was n ¢ wsary. T e p plo wero crying for some su.h law, Tho dem- PREVENTION OF GAMBLING BILL, ocrats upposed of courss. ‘e commitee in- | Several paople are already here with the vestigatiog the inud frau1s had fouud nothing | obj-ct of getti g the bill througn this week wrong except » very weak law, Seoator Brown said it was not party so | in & few dayq the gamblers gwill have to lvok much as people t' at they were trying to serve, | out for squal and Senator Hastiogs endorsed this sentiment | =~ Last weel and d preca ed the finging of tho red rag Senator Howe, Senator Durland favored the amendment, | agail though ha did not see the necassity. tee rise there were many delegations by | here, among them wore several from diff rent parts of the state, asking senators to vote the house ra lroad bil. This was one pulation of the state as_estimated at 731 as against 230,955 or a majority of 119, noon, Realizing the importance of th's bill, the | 773 of the inha itants. The twenty cleim they senators are giving it much attention, snd th indicau 0 poitant issue you sprung, Afiernoon Session, Special Telegram to THE Bxx, Laxcowy, Fobiuary 24, o | represent the feolivgs of their constituents are thit a baneficial law will be | on railroad matters. placed upon the statute books. Next to ths ralroad question it is, perhaps, the most im- DYNAMITE IN LINCOLN, No clue up to now has been forhd of the small boy who delivered the box contaiviog dynamite to Mr, Egan at the Irish ball hers the cther night, Ths chemists sre busy analysizing the contsvts of the box and it is Jonsiderable busi- ! asserted thav alieady they bave discovered noss of importance was trapsuctsd by the €Bousb maierisl to have blown Mr. Fgan house suring the sftarnoon aud uight session, Among the bills passed wan the bill to em- “higher 'n kite," NEB., WEDNE w8 of life must have ensued, and ona of the and Lincoln, where anditors are to be elected | finest buil in the spring. Another i the bill t preyent v and estates { £ by hoped that the edly nct will be diccovered snd trator of this cow [ CAPITAL NEWS. Honin Roll 401, smbodying the appropria- | YoStorday’s Proceodings in the House A newspaper with sev bogus thousand dollar Jmatend under he was anxions to assist he ——— n members objected | hud never been in | The River and Harbor Bill Under Olmstead had to beat a Omaha charter amendments, which the pretenso t wd to the committee of the whole for|on the ground t committee and s ell lika & thunder clap from a clear The house ordered the bill placed on the Brunner, the father of the bill, charged that the frer 1850, sha od the wis buried leasing of conviot labor fata «f the dissecting bills which rnoon under a monutain of votes, The conelnditg eff debate over the propo: house was the tion to eali & constitn forty-seven mem ®o without a bers voting therefor, uew constitution for reveral years louger, e Tho New York Sto Spocial talcgram to The Brr, Niw Youk, February 24 this afternoon percons in daily c ntact with th, market, the abundanca of uremployed capi- ta' at the present in tha market, is not gen There has not keen so demand for loans for many yearsand the brokers have large amounts cf money in their possereion waiting tor some worthy invest ment to present itself, practically ignorant of the fact, thsiesult is that when a man desires a loan on good securities oither of real or peramal pr B adlog vk TIRTY s ol ot 't | 6o the consideration of business under the spe- Trera isvot a broker in e 000y a0t | Buckner called wp the senate bill authcriz- They htve |ing the CommercialiNational bank of Chicago inctructions to dispose of this capital ko vast | gy incrense the capital stock to $2,00,000, in the nzgregate, ot a rato of iutorest which | In cpposing {he bill, Weller, of Tow. a% the fiist glance seexs ridiculon.ly small One can get a fi.sd motenge loan on good | that it proparty for 3 per cent and on bonds w8 10w |iv w death blow, After tho double holiday | The bill pased, buriness was rosumed on the tock exctiai ge. Amid great buoyncy in the sl advanced 3 to 24 k Market,} The Commercial cept to|A0d Only Receives Half Pay money During That Time. erally known, But the public being pays b per cent interest, or clse doa the money at all. twenty-four_hour's notice, a8 24 per cent with unu-ual excitement, and prominent stocks were on a large scale. advancs was 8 sudden and sharp that it tock the oparators gener: of the sp rts rushed iu to cover, waa the leader of tha market both {n poiut of activity and improvement, risicg 2§ por ceot | chair ruling out the Henmipen canal clause, The un ual statement of pny eulmitted to-duy assisted in the rise in | After the discussion by Hevderaon, of Tlli- — Base Ball News. th LD ro CHIcAGO, February 24. —The Chicago league 9580 the clwus is e'ininated from the bill, Congress, Loomis aud |adopted provid making them the most|may decline to « pend vy portion of the The grounds are to be | MOLEY appropriate f up |Jndgaent, the improveinent for which tuch with the view to mukiog the n:w p.rk, the [»ppropriaiionis wade will not bea public finest in the country. Among the festures nehit. will ba introdve d & spaoe to by ses apart for | Holwan cforcd an_amendment rostrioting carriages and & quarter mily byc wall, aud fitted s P T B Mrs, Sullivan Sucs for Divorce, ‘WasuiNeroN, Febru.ry 24.—Mra. Annie| Inadvocating the amendment Hepburn de- s, wife of the champion puzilist, began | clared that the wor!d on the Missisappi river suit for divoree on the ground of crucl and abusive treatmert and gro-s and ¢ nfirmed habuts «f intoxic tion. ——— ~ale of The Detroit Post, e 5 ke bisnsit s Detnorr, F.brasry 24,—John T Stickney |, On motion of Kean, the sootion authorizing eld at Lincoln, ¢oa close, Sioce members|y . 1y chased the Detrolt Post newepaper's property, ivc'uding the plant and The real estate was 0ot inc ud- d. e — Threatened Strike on the Wabash, S Vebrusry 2f.—The | Proved by him. Amendment adopted—1 Wabasn railroad haviog pr. postd a reduction of ten per cent in wages, » mesting of the | ed pte employes of the shop: here was held to-night | the M seissippi river improvement svall be ex sud a coaferancs committes was appointed, | Peoded under the direction of ths secretary of A strike is threatens on Thursd; P The Iilinoiy O SeriNge kLD, Fobruary 24, —The legislaturs met in joiut convention at noon to-dsy aund |bil to the h use. g Thy rallot roulted 101 ‘The previous question was ordered, and the schemes for the pubic educa ion and amuse- | me.t, wil shortly acsomp ish anotter novelay, | balloted for senator, for Togan and 1 for Washburne, the demo- Crals not votiag. ——— 0, 2,00 miles, for $16 | ably assiatail by supira Uroup, bee of Furnas, | Jobnson, Emerson, with Puteraon, J nes and | McArdls corner mau, i tha two porformers | from Clay, Brown aid Nettlston, wera | would ba complete aud might b | They ars coufldent of success, and sssert that | H uVIt‘a rallway restriction bill, which |tu-ri pides that the maximum freight rates shal 3 [ not bo higher thas races i frrco Jauuary 1, | Would tend ‘groatly to the public peace. It 1885, ana tnat passenger ratos shall not” ex- |Yhe editors of such papers examined the} T per mile, nas passed both bou:es | Guestion they would be coavinced that under of the Oregon legislaturs, and awaits the gov- ernor’s signature. A street-car horao at Portland, Oregon, was, | Plumb on the 16¢h inss,, impaled on the pols of a TUNBWAY CATTIFg8 plunged four f et 1to the animal's & €ut was the impetus cf the runa ways that the struck hrss was torn fron its fastaniogs ed a block and a half, means why the Lill was thrown out Takiog | At this point it was moved that the commit. | the ise, Tepurt and a-k leave to sit avain, | 581,080 the people repro-ented by the twenty after wiich a recess was taken unul after: | senators who voted sgainst the bill were to the car gud car o —— Raphae! Mauco, now a residout of Los An-| Cullom thought if there w; g les, was in the employ of cne of General | ence of opinion in tl Gor on's subulterus iu the Crimes, and §:nats, Discussion, Martial, He is Suspended from Rank Duty for Twelve Years, littl* | Concerning Daniel Manning's Eligi- bility to the Office of Secretary of the Treasury. HOUSE. oN, February 24.—Immediataly WasHL cial rule. ate tacked the national banking rystem, declaring s the duty of every patriot to strike The wusl couflich between'the appropria 10 list, which | tion aud river and harbor committees took a per cont over Saturday’s | place afier the motion to take up the first pen- cluging, the upward movement was attendd | vion bill on the calendar was carried, The dealingg in | 1iver and horoor commirsion was victorious The | A inotion by R.ndall to proceed to the con- sideration of the deficiency bill beingdefeat-d, y by rurprise, and many | ghe house went iuto a committes of the whole Lackawana | on the river and harbor bill, the pending ques- tion befvg an appeal from the decisron of * the com- | on powt of order. nois, Sp ioger and Stone, in support of the appeal, and by Turner, of Georgia, agui st, the dedi-ivn of the chair waa suatained 109 to On motion of Hepburn, the amendment was base ba'l cluh management having been com- | sdopted granting jurisdiction to the Umted pelled by litigation to abandon their luke | States circuit court to condems any real ertate front grounds, having secured a long leass of or mateiial n-eded in auy improvement author- grounds in the west diviion of tho cily, bounded by Throop, Harrison stroots, ample in the coutr; surrounded by a b ized in the bill. On motinof Rowell, the amendment was 1g that the secretary of war by shis bill, {f, in his the appropristions for the improvemeat of the Mi:sissippi viver below Cairg to” the comple- tion of the works on Plum Point and Lake Providence reaches were experimental | and should be confined to the two reaches «pe iified, Thomas emphati¢ dly denied that the work Mrs Sullivan desires | was au experiwental one, and called atteotion the custody, and arks th .t Sullivan’s property | to the fac, that at Plum Point resch the work to the mteut of §20,000 by attached to eecure | had secured o depth of filtsen feet, where suppo.t for herself ard child formerly the water bad been but five feet deap, The amendment was adopted—131 to o4, the secieary of war to remove and rebuild brivg-s which may.be obstructions to naviga- 0nd-will, | tion was strick:n from the b IL. b Tho paper | Holman offered an awendment providing will ba couticu-d as & moruing republican | that the money appropr tad for the improve- provewent of the Missiesippi river shall be expended under the direction of the s cretary of war, and in accordaice with the plaus 2 to 57 Ou motion of Cool, the amendment was providing that the aj propriation for war, and in sccordauce with plaus approved by him Amid a groat deal of contus number of smendmonts were adopted to *'sir- vey” a s ction of tho bill, and it was not until 5 that tha committee rose and reported the 2 house adjourned, BENATE, WasiiNGton, Febroary 24 —The chair laid Tho high liquor licanse bill was defeated in | before ths sonate & memorial from tho le. islu- the Nevads souate, Tussday, Tho railr ad offsrs tocary barley from Walia Walla t) Chicag ture of Wisconsin urgivg the placiug of Gen, Grant on the retited list of tho army, Hoar, from the'committes of privileges and Tho cultivation of rice fs to be undertaken | electionr, submitted o written report regard- by 8mo now ssithrs in vhe vicinity of Mii. |i0% the dual sebs of crede ford, 3ou horn Oregon. Over 155,00 pounds of dried fruit have been hused 1a Albaoy, Oregon, ducing the past It season, wod 16 is stab d tha ensirs product of Liun county is 0alf & million pou: ds, The popalation of Portland the new city dircto uot inclu 1w 2,00 Chiaese, nor E wt Portland | were nocossary to,determins that question, it and Aldins, waich would swell the total to |was for the Forty-uinth and Forty-eighth tialy of Senator Allisun’s elections The subs ance of tho re- port, Hoar said, was that as Allis n appeared tbo selected, in either eovent, it was not rofitable to euquire whether the ligal slec: tion was that which took ptace on the second Tuaceday aftse the temporary orgenization of acsording to |the legislaturs, or on tue second Luesday after ths permaneut orgenization, and if it congress to determine. Hoar .dded of course It isreported that “ths Shoshons, Idaho, | th re was no doui t about Allison’s election. machise shops will s0on have 200 coal cars to | ~Oullom presented a memorial from the leg- c nstruct for the Utsh & Nort ern othir oar repiriug for the AL |t ready » loug line of cars is staniog in the | tion. % yards and work has bsgun in the eardepart-| Dawes said that if the newspapers that had felature of Ilinois urging some_early aud sat- isfactory rettliment ot the Okl.homa ques. publi hed o many articles favorivg the im- mediate opening of these lands to settlement would publi:h the true :tate of the case it th existivg treatios 1t was impossib e to opsn such lands to ettlement in the present siate of the titl whatever the title the Indians muy have remaining 10 the lands in question, Wit | it was one that ¢ould only find expression in 50 | poney; it was not a title ths, Indians could avail themselves of, Dawes believed that it was such romarks as those of Plumb that had led people to go to Okalahoma 80 much differ- ab.ut the state an i wit- | of the lands in question, the people in Illinols nowed the famous chargo of the Six Hundred | might as well be excused if \hsy did not quite at Balaklava, which hu svys waa the groiest understand how the matt Tha fall cocked loaded revolver of itself was | blunder in history R e stood He was also a federaly Duwes asked the unanimous consent to at The Findings in the Swaim Court uchool. The hill is stibjact e a maj ity of malo adults andhesd men. and CONCERNING * DANTEL MANA of Danisl Maning for the secreta ury the question was raised ag to his elf i dire for the purchase of the remaining rights of the Seminole, Creek and Cher kee Indiaus to these Jands, Sherman thought that the bill had better be considered at the regnlar time, Dawes said that a regular time would never come. Unaninous consent was given to take up the bill and in less than five minutes is was read and passed. 1t uow goes to the house for action of that body. The naval appropriation Lill was laid before ths senate and referred to the committee of x.,.&.n.,.rmm s The tirst peneion bill on the ealendar passed and the taotion prevailed to take up in their order all the pension bills favorarly reported and they were accordingly proceeded with, These having been disposed of, Cockrell ealled up the house bill already favorably re. po.ted by him from the committee on mili- tary affairs th claims of offic:is aud enlisted men in the army for loss of private prop. rty, destroyed in the military service ot the United States. Cockrell #aid the bill wou.d not include any Josses suffered in the war, and only such articles as deemed useful, necess.ry snd reaconabla for officers and soldiers To have when on duty. On the sug- gestion of Sherman time for prosentirg such claims was limited to two years and as 8o auwended tha bill passed, C alo ca'led up the house bill her: to- orably reported from the committee s limiting to three years time for pre- sent claims for bounty or back pay or for ser vices in the late war, or previous wa &, and limitiog to six years the time for presenting all clairs orivinativg heretofore agamst the United States, except in onse of pen-ions. Aftera short debate Sherman offered an amendment providisg that the act should not apply to bonds or other securities of the United States, Hoar - ffered an amendment excluding also from opera'ion of the act, the claim of any stato sgamst the Unitad States, Dolph, saying it was impossible to pass to. duy a vill of 80 much fmp r avce, moved to exieutive seesion. Agreedl to, aud whan the docrs reopened the senate adjourned. Before adjourument & mess g from the house announced a dis: greemens with the sen- ste on the avricultural appropristion bill, The senate insisted on it amendments, and the chair appointed a committee on confer- ence, e —— WASHINGION NEWS, ‘WASHINGTON, February 24,—The house commities on public lands decided to report favorably on the Des Moines river bill, which was passed by the senate yesterday, THE UNADILLA INDIAN LAND BILL, ‘The bill which passed the husa to-day, on motion of George, in relation to the Unidilla Tadian reswrvation, is a sevare bill, but us some amenduwieuts were adopted. it requires further action by the simate. The bill, after allo.ting the lavds in severalty to the Ladians, provides for the rurvey and appraisement of the surplus, and for their ealo in tracts of 160 untinber:d lands snd forty timbered lands, at public auction at the lund office to the highest bidder of an actusl rettler, and atajrice not less than the appraised value, the payments to be part iu hand aud the balancs on time, The fund realized is to be used to sid the Indians in improving theiz severalty lands aud for the education and future welfar ot tha Indi Tt swpropriates 830,000 to carry the provisions of the bill int8 effect, $10,008 af which can bs used in * estublishing an i nproval of chiefs before going into « ff-ct. NG'S ELIGIBILITY, Regarding the question as to ‘the eligibility hip of the treasury while a stockhol fer in a ntional bank;s Judwe -Lawre: ¢, first comptroller of the treasury, eaid to-day: “Tha rame ques- tion was carefully examined by Judge Foiger when he wax ajpointe ] recretary of the treas- ury, and he d.cidad that the srcretary might be a stockholder in a national bank. During the whole time Folger was secretary of the treacury he was a director in the Geneva Na tonal bauk.” When Sherman was sacretary of the trea bility because hs was a stockholder and di- rector in a rallway company, and 8o was he interested in c nmerce, Dut the objection was entirely unfounded. The statuts only prohibits a pers n from dealing in public se- curities, or from engaging in comm-rce, and does not prohibit him from beivg a stock- holder in & corporation. The statute relatos to the man, not to the corporati: A rule in each branch of congres«s prohibits members fuom voting on any question in which th y are personally ivtereswed, hut it has always beea held that members who are siockholders, in ba ks or railroad companies, may vote on questions affec:ing them.” THE SWAIM COUBT MARTIA The findings of the court warti the case f Swaim were ma ¢ public this evening t gether with the sentence as approved by P)esident Arthur, The ¢ urt found the accused not guilty upon all the ch rges, except that of conduct to the pr judice of good order and military disci- plinie, whereiu he was found guilty and sen- tenced *to be suspended from rank duty snd pay for thres y " When President Ar- thur had examined the findivgs of the coart, he sens tha records ot the cass back to the court with a letter saying that he belioved the sentence was Lot commensurate with the of- fen es s found by ths court, in the first snd third specifications under the first charge and ting a reconsideration of the rawe. Thy president’s letter contained a communication from ihs attorney genera', in which he ex- preesed his opiniun tha BWATM SHOULD HAVE BEEN FOUND GUILTY on the first_charge, Upon_reconsideration, the court adhered to their first findings but changed the sentence to susponsion from rank | aud duty for oue year with the fcrfeiture of all pay £or the same period and at the end of that psiod to be roduced to the geade of judge advocts with the rank of majr in the Jjudgs advocace generals department. The records of the peoceedings having been submitted to the president wero again sent to the court with a communication sstting forth that the ssntence could not be enforced in respect to the office of lower rank a8 the #ae could only be filled hy nom nation by the president sui confirmation by the senate, and then only in case of vacaucy, Lt was s necessary elo- ment in the sentences of the courts martial that they shall, en approval of the appointing vower, be cypble of eafurcement by tha ex ecutive suthotity charged with the uty, Part of the uded sentence as related to changiog the accused from one offica to an- other wis not of character, The court threupon revoked its former sentence and ad- judged as follows: *“I0 BE SUSPENDED FEOM BANK AND DUTY for twelve years and to forfeic one half of his monthly pay every month for the same perivd.” This sentence Arihar to-day ap- proved. It will befobserved that the sentence of th court as approved by the president sus- pouds G.neral Swaim from office up to and | beyond the date of his possible retirement on not a fit playtbing lu the presence of so many 'soldier during the ‘American rebell is | once t.ke up the bil d by | December 22, 1896, The trial of General power city auditors to audit the school board dancers, * Had tho dyuas, X = fasin andle ) gpse hlrioto ispduon Ry NORTH CAROLINA | the dynawite exploded great now o member of the G, A, R, him, to authorize the president to negotiate Swaim upon the charge that he had sold for- aga issned to him for b p in his honorabla acquittal, The pi advancement f'his grade for two yoaes, HOUSE ATPROPRIATIONS COMMIITER. When the house appropriations committes, by vole of 8 to 7, directed the sub-commi:t o, ot which Eilis is chairman, to briog in the fortitication bil), based npon that of Iast yenr, Ellis rasigaed his place on the sub-conmittec. He will n'w offer his own bill, which appro pristes §2,000,000 for the defense of the four great harbors of th country as a substitute tor the majority bill, which will appre priate imply for the epairs of theold fortitications The Uvitad States dustiict aftorney at Chi cago has mado a N Madame Arline, recommer divg that her offer to compromire be not ted. J. H. Foxworther of lin oln, Nebraska, has been restored to practice as an attorney before the interior department, THE COMMITTRE ON PUBLIC reported to the senats with a1 bill to prevent alieus from ac he terriiones. As amen 1o 16 provides that ANDS ndments the irlng land in | Bancroft, the historis has signified his desire to present the city fund with $10,000 to form an * Aaron and a8, Lucratia Vavcrofe scholaship fund.” The e to be devotad to the liveral education hereafter 1t shall by unlawful for per ons 1ot citizens of the United States, or who have not declared their intention to become such, or for foreign corporations to hold rel ext e in the teritories, The bill also provides that no rail- roud. turnpike or canal corporation sh.ll here- wftor acquire or - wn Linds in the teyritories, oxcept cuch as are neoess ry for their opera- tion and have been gronted by congre w»nd wll such Linds whstheracquired befo, the pasange of t.is act whion are not necessary f.x the operation of the ¢ m disposed of within ten of this ace, and if not v fritd to the United S acquired in v feited to the Usited States, coretary Frelinghuysen, in a long letter to Senator M1l i iof the senate com- wittee on forelen re/ations, takes the ground st look to tho natons inferioe to us in wealth and - pu'ation for any marked en largement o f our export trads, wnd that the reciprocity teeatios a e only profi such nations In proot of this asertion he submits the trade statistics already familiar to the public, of the Soush Ameican states, the West Tudies and Mexico, Regulating thy Chinese in British Columbia, Ortawa, Febrnary ba ed on police and eanitary principles be on fo.ced by rigid regulations and o goverument shall porng & tux of ten dollars upor every Chineseman, woman or hild comivg into the provinca, the reverue hus raised to be devoted to the puyment of inspectors, whose duty it shall e to rep rt the number, rex and condition of all Chiness immigrants, and sep rt upon all matters per: taining to the Chinese'in that province, The that the - Dom enact lerislation report also reco.umends the provincial legi ture to pass an act to regulate the dow affairs of the Chinere. _ Cleveland . Bendricks, & BenIANARULs, JInd,, Fobruary 24.~Gov erner Meudticks’ tolegraphed the following letter to Cloveland lastmigh: Inpranarorts, February 25, 1885.—Hon Grover Uleveland, Prosident-clect: My Denr | “tampararily” weil Sir—Mrs. Hendricks and I huve been” much dent wlso approved the findings d sentorc: in the case of Colonel Morrow, by which the Iggter is daprived of all right to ard t) the case of rafier ey shall be ears after the pissnge osed of <hill be for- ates. All property tion of this act, shall by for- The report that the Chinese commission pretevted to Parliament to-night stat & that tha rapid development of the resources of Dritish Columbia depends largely on the continued influx of the Chinese and recommendsmoderate re. trictive measures DAILY BEE SDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1885, NO. 162, Leading Artlcles On ’Change Were on 1he Down Tarn, ttle Raoeipts Were Heavy and the Mark:t Rather Slow. Hogs Wera in Heavy Sapply and Values Lower. Little but a Sealping Trade Done in Wheat, Oorn Lightly Traded in and As~ sumed the Same Tone. Oats Oontinue Nominal-Ryc Ruled Quict—Some of the Pork Op- erators Get Left, OHIOAGO MARKKETS, Specinl telogiam to the Bk, CHicaco, February 24— Londing articles in the market to-day wero slightly on the down turn, and while fairly astive ¢ uld not ba call:d much better thun eawy. The abrencor of any v supply statement was in a meas- ure disappoivt ng, though from: curcful unof- ficial estimates it is said there will be but litilo change from last weck's Sgurca, The greatest activity, ard Jikewise easiness, was in the provision list. “ WHEAT Oponed rathar higher but conditions were un- sctiled, in that the visible supply siatement was deluyed nearly a day, with 1o provpe Leing ported until evening, Local trading warked the pr up 3 i which they listle e & modento wealping trade being don York all showed a decrea e, CORN Was lightly traded in and assumad the same goveral toue as wheat, advavcing § - ently, than weakening, acd clo ing «t the bottom. No. 2 ca h was callod nominully at 383w 38)e, The close of the morning ses-ion was casy and featureless, Stocks lu New oATs Continue little better than nominalat 31@313e for seller May to which futuse ail' speculative trading is coufived, RYR Ruled quiet with no ssllers appearing for No,. 2; Gic was hid for fresh reeeipts, ani t3c for qular. “Its hard to kick agamst the pricks” Was the scriptural iament. of o traderin the pork pit this morning, Wken May pork was quoted st 81360 und Armour was selling steadily but very quietly this trader, together with a”euprlsing largs wumber of oihers, th ught the prics of 1he “articls was on the ecenlng scale,, and lcaded up with the | tafl, ing wbout that time that thd ot, rermed to oo tridecs thought they could sfford to risk’a httle of thuir sup- annoyed by the publication in_some of ke [ port. So they bousht more pork. To-day, newspapers of a picture sumewha’ résembling | with the opti 'n reférred, i s lling at 81280, her, and an article in bad taste, attributing te | Theso holiers of \ay pork £t that circum: her'an smbition quite sbeurd I nerd ot say thut the patiicati n was without our knowl- €dgo; that o no pers m¥ csn it bo ko offens ve [ wouli guickly respond: by dropping a_peg as to ourselves T understand that such _pic- M tures and articles are prepired in New York and furnished to subscribing newspapers for o n swiall prico. We trust that it will not_be stances were againgt them, Hers and there one of them would let ¢o his holl and prices “The lowest point reached by May -y was £12 80; the opw ing wes bo Jower at $13 056 und the close weak at 8 2 85, Trade was not at ull active aud apy annoyance to yourself_or the ladics of your | secmed to yindicate tiat the markit w uld family. With great respect. (Signed) T, A. HENDRICKS, The Nineteenth € tary Olub. New York. February 24, —Mrs, Cortlandt hava been o decling one with no salo of long stuff, CATTLE, The receipts were heavy, and the general market wos rather sl w. | Big export steers f Palmer’s recidence was throngad to-night, the | 1,600 to 1 600 pounds and there .bouts may be occasion being the regular month'y ninsteenth | quoted fully as higb as atany t cantury club, tha feature of whic . was a paper on the elective gystem in collo.e studies, by tof Harvard, Hethougnt the average Americon boy of eightien y.ars President El of sga culd be led hat not driven Such a youth can select for himself a better course of study than any college faculty can map ontfor him. The only wiss coured wa8 yorg within tha abo.e rauge thy past_week to lec him fillow his own inclinations, the elective sy-tem. he continuad, a great ma- jority of students selct sowe particnlar sub. Jject and wisely devots the gr ater part of thei tima to it, The discussion followed in whi Dr. M. Gosh of Princeton, vigorous) President Elliot:'s theory. — Bancrof's Donari ‘WorcesTER, Mas#,, February , anative of this city, of cholar from Worce: 19 0 ter. r h tacked | 16 lust. woek, one car load of such sl g vt %6 40, Ordinary shipping and dressed brof sor of steers, of 1,300 to 1,400 pounds audthereabon's, were a «hade easfer, and wero s arcund o) ont. 85 60@b 90; a choice lov wight sell fr§6400, M dium stecrs, such an countrymen wually classify as fat, are mnking $1 50@H 25, per- baps more, S0 called’ fub ca'tlo buve sold than for anv other pric.s. ) rrge numbers bave g ne over the scales at $490. Ticse W re strong, but 10c Liwer to-day than at the close of last week, Common rteers, 1,500 pounds, me alw. yu plentiful, elow of sale, They aré selliug at $4 25 Fat cows and heifers aud choics butchers” stock is commandiug the highest prices for & your past Tners are e Jarce cotablishwents —(Georgo | now in sciual op rution tiat have n special demand for this class of st isnot as plentiful as last we main about the same. 15 stock , but prices re- ‘With the frash roceipts there wore from 40, 000 £ 45,000 on sulo, aud wnder this heavy supply urd the break of 20c ou moss pork, Beware f Scromui Secrofula is pred sk mory general than any other diseas>, 1 ¥ insidious in character and manifests itself in running sores, pustula eruptions, boils, swellings, enlarged joints, abscesses, sore eyes, ete, Hood's Sarsaparilla expels all trace of scrofula from the blood, leaving it pure, enriched, and bealtiy. “I was severely afilicted with serofula, and for over a year had two running sores on my neck. Took five bottlcs of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and consider myself cured.” C. E. LoveJoy, Lowell, Mass. C. A, Arnold, Arnold, had scrofulous sores for seven years, spring and fall, Hood's Sarsaparilla cured him, Salt Rheum ‘William Spies, Elyria, O,, suffered greatly from erysipelas and salt rheum, caused by handling tobacco, At times bis hands would crack open and bleed, He tried various prep- arations without aid ; finally took Hood's Sa saparilla, and now says: ** Tam 'entirely well My son had salt rheum on his hands and on the calves of his legs. He took Hood's Sarsaparilla and is entirely cured.” J. B, STaNTON, Mt Vernon, Ohio. " Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for 85, Made only by C. 1, HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One ™~llar. Smoking Tobacco. adeen &verflwfigre, where recognized fo Peafer 0\02 Because every- 2t Sealof North Caroling == = asd |2c]i0perwi6?a Why? WW wy«c‘anbo%.g'(a—btda ém. @OMUMGP. é&mw, and store & vern. VIV tectthetent valucs dropped 10@16e on ull rorts, and st the dechice there wes wn sctive demwd from. shippers snd epesulators, but up to a late hour the packers hat bought only half their utual numb They were Loking for more of ad in the aiterncon. Prices are 15 Jower than a werk ago to-d 'y A noticesble feature wes the extraordinery demund of enstern shippers for Jight sorts. Packivg and shppin g, 200 to 450 ponnds, $4 70@5 165 light 150 to 210 pounds, $1 16@4 75, - — Mrs Dudley Kails 1o Obtain Bonds men, Special tolegram to TE Brk, New Yous, February 2/,-Mrs. Dudley has 6o far faled to obtuin bail notwithstand- ing the combived efforts of her cou:sel. Mr, Butts said this morniug that he sxpected to find bondsmen for the bonds of the woman this aftornvon or tomorrow. The great trouble about procunag bail is the fe.r that Mure. Dudley, the moment #ho gebs her liber- tyy will Seo to Englind where sho hae every expeotation of beiag lioni B Dey Goods Niw Youk, February 21— Phere has boen & very fair ordex tr.do which has taken many assortments, bt worth of the Obio river trans- portation Is +o intorrupted that foswardiogs wro restricted to necessitivs by expess, For she southoern trade thore b # been more doing. Eaports of domestio ootk ms for the week 2181 packgee, snd for the expised portion of the year » total of 839 6 agwnss 22,389 pick- uges the ssme time last year: 32068 1853, againet 12,481 in 1682, and 90,137 1n 1881,