Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 26, 1885, Page 1

THE OMAHA DALY BEE " FOURTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA, NEB., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26, 1885. " NO. 163, OUR LEGISLATURE. The Regnlar Grist of Litcoln Legis- latire Wisdom, The House Passes Several Bills of Minor Importance. Senators Give Their Views on the Double Deck Car Bill, And Branch Off on Church Howe's Poker Deck, The Benate Cauncus Wrangling Over the Charter Amendment. A Streot Car Lobby arc Working Against the Amendments that Affect Their Interests, THE SENATE. Special Correspondence to ths Bee, LixcoLs, February 26,—Contrary to expece tation, the railway commerce bill did not «come up in the morning session of the senate. Ordinary routine business occupied most of the time. One bill was introduced by Senator McAl- lister. Itprovides that the addition to any county seat ba a part of the county seat. The object of the bill is not apparent and at this late day it is not probable it will be heard of again, 3 Two bills were put upon their nassage. One provides that couties which have suspended the herd law, may, by & majority vote, retarn toitagain. Tae other provides for the adop- :::un of children in the home for the friend- ss Some correspondence between Congressman Laird and Commissioner Lorivg was read. It hias special bearing on the hog_ epidemic now prevailing in many portions of Nebraska and waa referred to the appropriation commitsee On motion of Senator McAllfster the sen- ate went into committee of the whole to con- sider House Roll 115, This was the bill brought up yesterday and postponed by gen- eral consent. It provides for double deck <ars wherever demanded. ‘Senator Hastings, Tobe Castor’s proxy, who said he had talked with some railread men since last_evening, opposed tho bill on the grounds that it worked an injustice to the companies, they being unable to make a re- turn haul in such cars. Senator Skipner said the charges now for hauling sheep, for which double deck cars were intended, were much less than for other stock. Senator Burr wanted to know if they in- tended limiting the charge for a double deck to the same a8 a single deck, and why no bill was introducad to make 80,00) pounds of coal s load instead of 80,000, Senator McAllister rojlied by saying the companies now charged for hauling 20,000 pounds of stck, and if it was theop ouly 8,0.0 pounds could be crowded into a car, In some parts of the state double decy cars are_already furnished aud he wantad the matter equalized, Senator Sowers, B. & M., surgeon, said hy had taiked with some of his _constitaents who were strippers and they had condemed this bill a8 weak and inoperative. Senator Paul &aid hs would favor the bill if a rate bill had been passed but under the circumst nces the vote for double deck cars would ba increased. Senator Meikeljohn was surpris d at the opposition. The bill was inti nded to equalize matters aud compel roads to furni-h all with convenient, cars as well us a soiect few. Senator Sowers said it was a mistake that Aoy road i this state now furnished such cars, The double decks wera put in by ehip- pera themselyos, Senator Howe said it was a malicious bill a8 it gavo any man whom the roads refused the mightto have the companies fined, He could not see the advantage of forcing such bills before tho lugislature and thanked God that there was a conservative end to tha legia- lature whoee wild schemes could be sup pressed. Semator McAllister wanted to know what the Nemaha senator constituent thought of his course. Mr. Howe said the fact that this was his fifth term aud bis last majority was 700 was an evidence, and then twitted Senator McAllister wish his bato majority of nina votes, The motion to recommend tha bill for pas- range was lost by a vote of 9 to 16, Senator Day then called up senate bill 5. “This is church Howe's gambling bill and has ‘been the butt of many a joko ~ After ,many jewts had haen made on the bill and its intro- dacer, the point of order was raised that i could not be ¢omsiderad when the committes luad eat te consider but one bill. This point was sustained and the committeo ross and re- ported. ‘Lhe ayes and noes were called on the report of the committes in order to put the sepstors on record sn the double deck car bill. Those voting aye were thoss who fa- vored an indehnite postponemant of the bill, avd were Buckworth, Burr, Cherry, Olark, Dolan, Durland, Einsel, Filson, ~Goehner, Haotings, Howe, Howell, Hyers, Lowis, Love, Mete, Noiris, Paul, Skioner, Snell, wers, and Hpencer,’ Voting no—Brown, Day, Mc- Allister, McShane, Meikeljohn, Mills, Put. nam, Sherwin, Skinner, Smith of Lan- caster aud Smith of Fillmore, Afvernoon Session, Special Telogram to THE BKe. Lincous, February 25,—Senator McShane baviug dincovered the proposed charter am- endment bill clashes with the present law, a meeting of the Douglas delegation and citi- zens is being held to discuss the amendment, “The MoAraleamendment and makiug the mar- «aaal clective is under advisement. 1tis claimed Ghat Attorney Cornell has drawn up provi slous not authorized by the council, board of ado, or citizans ju cancus, It iy surmised that the bill will be eettled in thesenate. The eaucua is & noisy one, and at this hour (mid- night) they are still wrangling, McArdle is the only absentee. A strect car lobby is present towork against the charter amendments that affects their in- terests iv the matter of heating cars, At last the railroads bave driven the sena- tors into passing @ railroad commission bill, Tho entire a{ternoon session was spent in the committee of the wwhole diseussing this bill, (Sanate File 187), and in endeayors to amend 180 a5 to make {s of valus., Henator MoAl- lister's amendment that the commission should make » echedule of rates, to take ef- fect August 1st, wss vigorously discussed and defested. The same arguments were used on it as on the state rate bill. Every senator who sver talks aired his knowledge to-day, much to the edification of tho crowded gal- lery and large lobby. The bill was finally recommended to pass, and on report of the nmittes another t the MoAllister amendment in order to record the vote on it. Those hvorin% ths amendment were Brown, Day, Howall, MeAllister, Meiklejohn, Mills, Puttiam, Sherwin, Smith of Fillmore, and Snell, All the others voted no, Hastings and Hoebel being absent, thus, with a gaap, the friends of railroad legislation swallowed the bitter pill of railroad commission, THE HOUSE, Special Correspondence to Tre B, LiNcowy, February 25, —Immediately after roll call this morning the house recolved itself into committee of the whole, The first bill considered was House Roll 184, prescribing the method of electing road supervisors, The bill was ordered for in- definite postponement, House Roll 117, A bill to provide for the registration and payment of precinct bonds, was discussed also and recommended for passage. House Roll 19, To provide for issuing of bonds by cities of the second class, was or- dered for passage as amended. House Roll 142, Emerson’s bill to amend the Slocumb law 80 as to enable a majority of residents in sny precinet or township to pro- hitit issuance of license by filing a remon- strance with board of commissioners was de- bated for nearly an hour. Amendments were offered and engrafted to abolish the two-mile limit around cities and towne, Winship offered the pr ivisions of the Me- Shano bill that has already passed the senate 88 an additional amendment, but this was re- jected, The bill was finally reportcd to the house with recommendation that it do pass as amended. House Roll 21, which authorizes villages to establish marshals, was reported favorably, and the next, Lincoln seat House Roll 72, providing tor leasing of school lands to Li ¢ lo stoce yards, was talked over for awhile, tha cymmittee rising during the discussion, nothing definite was arrived at, Afternoon Session, Special Telegram to Tie Bre. Lixcory, Fobraary 25.—At this afternoon's session of the house the following bills were rond a third time and passed: A bill House Roll 340, confernng civil rights on all citizens, House Roll 189, to prevent the salo ot diseased doad animals. House Roll 195, to authorize the creation of a detactive agency, House Roll 127, for the relief of Peter Prebile. House Roll 241, to compel insurance companies to cancel & policy when desired, and House Roll 104, the general appropriation bill. The houso then went into committes on House Roll 72, the bill to lease_the school lands in Lincoln to stock yards company. This led to very considerable discustion, the Line ln ring supporting the bill with all their energies, Millor, Stephenson and Casper fought hard and long against the bill which may be charasterized as another Lincoln grab, The bill was, however, passed through the committea, The railroad committee reported fourteen bills to bo indefinitely postponed aud the house adjourned until the evening. At the evening session in_committee of the whole, House Roll 23, Pat Hawes claim was considered. Troup acknowledged knowing nothing about the claim, but supported it, Tiverett said Howes told the committeo thero was 1o contract botwoen Hawes and the state, Harlan covdomned the claim and Kaley opposed the bill. Wri, ht champiosed Hawes' claim and said the stato should pay the amouot, Brunner said Hawes had worked for the stato uud deserved pay for b worl, After considerable” discussion the bill was reported to pass. Business of minor import. angs waa transacted and. the houto adjonrned at ten, The School Land Fraud Investigation, Special Telegram to Ty Bk, Lixcory, February 25.—The school land fraud investigation committse held » spirited meeting at noon to-day, Chairman Buck- worth received a note from Sterling Morton with an afidavit from ons Frank Turner, doputy troasurer of Otoe connty, The paper set forth that M, L. Hayward, who testified #ome time sincs, had leased the land keld by one Shepherd, and that he had leased it with- out due procoss of law. There was consider- able wrangling over the policy of this docu. ment as the testimony committee adjourned till evening. In the meantime tho sub-com- mittee went tothe treasurer’soffice and looked up tha records, and found that Shepherd’s lease had been forfeited. Glen Kendall was put on the rack and ex- amined for an hour this evening, Nothing was elicited that would criminate anyone, but his trial is not finished. It being late an ad- Journment was taken till to-morrow, ——— ACCIDENT ON TH ILLINOIS C! TRAL, A FREIGHT TRAIN CRASHES INTO THE REAR OF TWO PASSBENGER TRAINS, Kankaker, February 25,—At midnight Iast night three miles south of Chebanse on the Illinois Central, two passenger trains were run into by a freight. Tho passenger, which leaves Chicago about 8 p. m., was being closely followed by the New Orleans express, The lesding passenger train stopped on account of & broken truck, The New Orleans train stop- ped, and nent back a signal half a mile to warn the approaching freight, and went on to the place whero the first train had stopped. Just a3 it stopped still tho freight came at full speed CRUSHING INTO THE REAR OF THE BLEEPER, the engine reacking the middls of the car, #nd telescoped soveral cars ahead, Tho wild: est confusion at once ensued, Keady hands at once chopped into the debris, and extri- cated the iojured, T'he following is a list of the killed and in jured: Joha A. Mclumw, Ingersoll, Ont., neck broken, killod instantly; Alderman Gy nor, of Chicigo, bruised about the chest, con- tuslon on back of head, right foot and hip ia ured, very painful; Rev.J, M. Abbots Brown, Ch'cago, severe buri on sole of the 8. M. Bearsall and wife, of Grand Ra- Mich., both severely bruised on back of head; H. 1 Serry, of Chioago, abrasion of lef chest and knee; F. M. Butts, of Oicago, scorched on forehead, sole of foot, hand aud face terribly burned;' Dr, Isabel A, Mitchell, of Chicago, fracture of right leg, left ankie wprainod, slight injury on head, internally in- jured; Jenks Mitchell, porter of the sieeper, hands and fi saverely bumed, body badly bruised, Mr. McInnis was enroute to New Orleans to n eet his wife and daughter, Conductor J. Cladius testified before THE CORONER'S JURY as follows: We stopped about balf & mile be- fore the forward paesenger, when it had stopped on_account of a broken teuck, I went to the rear of the tr.in to send Paul Holt back to put out the danger signal to pre- vent the following train from running into us. Holt had left the train to torpedo the track before I eaw him, He went down the track half a mile, After stoppiog there a few min- utes, we whistled for Flagman Holt. He got on the train, and we pulled up within two or three oars length of the forward passenger train, I stood soveral feet out at the ride of my train, endeavoring to ses why the forward passenger did not move on, when suddenly I saw the freight coming at full speed, at which rate it crashed into the train, The flagman told me he had placed seven torpedoes down aloog tha track, The pastengerssaid they heard the torpedors explode before the freight struck them. Relief with eurgeons and wreckers reached the scene from Chicazo at 10a. m. The injured are well carod for. The wreck is cloar, and the passengers were taken to Chebanse at 1 p, m, to'day. — FOREIGN EVEN T3, WALES IN IRELAND, LoNDON, February 25,—The wajority of the Trish papers hope for a cordial welcome to the Priace of Wales. The Parnellites will probably hold a meeting to decide what course the Irish should take on the occasion of the prince's visit. Tho government decided against the echeme of New Zealand Islands to annex Samoa Islands, GERMANY AND ENGLAND. In the Blue Book igsued this morning is set forth that on May 5th, 1884, Bismarck sent the German minister at London a dispatch which stated that Eogland could render Ger- many signal eervice in the latter's policy of colonial extension, In case Englacd should grant the fayor Germany would in return sup jo t Iinglish interests nearer home, but if hn;{lund refused Germany would be under the necessity of seeking from France on simi- lar terms assistance Eogland refused, 3 Eogland had aud would give no_definite answer to Germany had come to such an un- derstanding as reforred to with France, THE ITALIAN CONTINGENT. Naries, February 25—Gen. Ricei, who has Iakes command of the Italian contingent at Suakim sails for Kgypt to-morrow wich six torpedo boats. A BRILLIANT VICTORY, Svakr, February 25.—Latest news from Agig and Sami_confirms the report of a brill- 1ant victory for the muhdir of the Taka and Shukria tribe of friendly Arabs against the Hadendowah tribs in an” attack made by the 1atter upon some friendly tribes for supplying the garrison of Kassala with grain, It 1s now stated that during the battle no lesa than 8,600 Hadendowahs wers killed, and among the slain was Shiekah Mooea, Kassala gaarison is ehort of food and am- munition, and as the place is hard pressed by the enemy, despite the recent repulse, surren- der must soon result unless the garrison is re lieyed. THE DREADED KAMSIN WINDS, T.oxpox,February 26.-A dispatch from Kortt says the dreaded Kamsin winds which do not generally begin before March, already began to blow over the Soudan and ‘assumed almost the inteneity of the Sirro i hot and air is accompanied by blinding clouds of sand which cut like needlo points, ' Troops only find shelter by lying down with their faces to the eacth until the storm has passed, when they struggle out of the sand almost choked and bliuded. The cuvnlr{ horses euf- fered terribly from the effects of the hot blasts, and many of them bave been so injured they had to be shot. It1s supposed the Kemsin will 1ast about a month. THE EARL OF DURHAM IN THE DIVORCE COURT, LoxpoN, Tebrusry 25 —Earl Darbam brought suit, for divorce against his wife who is & grauddaugthor of the arch bishop of Armagh, and daughter of the lats Henry B. Milner, The earl alleges that his wife i3 in- sano, and was iosane at the time of marriage Tt is admitted she 18 now ineane but denied that she wns iusane when marned, When Miss Milnor married the earl she was a reign- ing belle, beautiful, ascomplished and a gen- eral social fazorite, Th ntiff sites many instances of the defendanta conduct to prove she has long been of unsound mind. One of thess was her extreme taciturnity towards her husbaud, cven beforo martiage. Another was her abnormal ingensibility to pain, Before his marriage the Earl was much worried about the strange silence ma‘ntained by his affianced, Ho attempted in every way to make her more talkative and communi tive, but tono purpose, When the marriage engagement had been entered into, he wrote ber: “I wonder if you will ever talk to me sfter marriage, 1 could gaze on your charms for hours every day, but it will become monctonous if we maintain this gloomy silence the rest of the time.” Doring this veriod of their acquaintance, the Barl calle Miss Milcer “‘His silent, shy divinity,” The plaintifi states that she frequently before warrisgs said to him: “'Oh, there's something awful, dreadful, I ough to tell you.” But |1 whenever ho would press her to tell him or explain what she meant she would retroat from tho entire subject. Daring their court- ship she never used a single word of endear- wment towards him, Her invariable answe, to his questions was, “I don’t know,” Lvidence 1s adduced showing that the defend- ants mother committed suicide during & fit of tsmporary insanity, To.morrow is et for a special and private hearing of medical testimony to establish tha nature of to-day's affliction, Justice hus given ns o reason ffor having the hearing private, it is undesirable for this part of the case to be made public, THE ASSOCIATED CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE discussed the present depre:sion of the British trade, Concerniog the possiblo remedies, the greatest varieties of opinions expressed. Some spoke in favor of retaliatory duties sgainst protective countries, while others defended the policy of free trade. The attention of the meeting bhaving finally been concentrated on the proposition to ask the appointment of & royal commi sion, to inquire 1mto the cause of the depre mon and report upon the forms of a remedy, The proposals were rejected, 44 to 27, The majority were influenced by the argument that to request such & commission would ba to raise falis hopes among the paoole suffering lrall_lzlcumuamld depression aud therefore im- politic, o — Grant on the Retired List. 8r, Pavt, Mion,, February 25,—The house of representatives, by unanimous vote, passed a joint resolution memorializing congress to place Gen, Grant on the retired list of the army, ———————————————————————— Tho wind, | tic AT WASHINGTON. A Complete Report of the Hous Pro- oeedings. The Senate Indignant at the Swaim Court Martial, Inealls Considers it a Disgrace to Civilization, Jealousy of West Point Gradu-|discussi ates Over Volunteer Officors, President Arthur Will Attend the Inauguration Ball, The River and Harbor Bill-The Lot Wright Investigation—Other Interesting Oapital News, SENATE. A DISGRACE TO CIVILIZATION, ‘WasHiNoToN, February 25,—During the discussion of the army appropriation bill, Sewell said the house provision had so amended 94 article of war asto enable the courts martial to control the hours of their own session, Inthe discussion which followed, Ingalls enid, there were other matters connected with trial by court martial that needed more weri- ous consideration than the hours of meeting. He referred to the trial of Gen, Swaim, El tho statements published this morning were correct, Invalls said, the proceedings were a disgrace to civilization, 1t was a shame that any tribunal of law should be subjected to the pressure of the violent irterference that appears to have been brought to bear, not only in the interests of justics, but for the purpose of compelling a verdict more injuri- ous to the accused. The findings of the court had jbeen several times returned the last time with THE MOST OFFENSIVE EPITHETS ON THE DEFEN- DANT, TIngalls hoped the senate would stand by its rules and not give way on proposed amend- ments, Sherman thought T \ls hypocritical, but there was one great evil connected with trials by court martial. The judge adyvocate was prectically nothing but o proecuting officer and in the Swaim case he had proved a most aggreesivo one, “If that is the law of the United States,” said Sherman, *'God help me from ever falling into ths power of a court martial,” Dawes thought it trifling to talk away the hours of the session, of & court martial, while the preas was reporting, as 1t this morning re- ported, things that would be a DISGRACE TO AMERICAN JUSTICR for all time. Better had it been if the Swaim court martial hud never been convened, than than to have afforded to the poople of the Umited States the spectaclo presented this morniog, shocking every man’s ‘genge OF jus- ica, H:Ia defended the members of the Swaim comt. Togalls said he had not meant the slightest imputation on them, Hale said there was nothing in the record 28 to the personal character of the secretary of war that gave color to such an imputation, He had in the term of public service gained the universal respect of the people., Sherman remarked that no senator or other person had assailed 1he secretary of war, Hale said we were told this decision of tho Swaim court was & humsn outrage, aud thut it had been influenced by a euperior author- ity, and that must mran fome one, Sherman had not heard a sipgle person re- fer to the secretary of war. Ingals had no reflection to make on the trinl, President Arthur had no personal con- nection with the transaction, he was merely the executive officer through whom the tind- ing was promulgated. Ingzlls exonerated the precident from all personal connection with the transaction, It would be unjost to the_members of the court to suggest that they conld have beon in fluenced by the idea that semebody would profit by the viconcy if one were created, Tugalls would muke no such suggestion, but it wes ons of the incidents of the situation. No man, he said, could read the history of the proceedings without coming to the settled conviction that thero was a deliberate pur- Dose somewhere not to do justice, but TO ACCOMPLISH VENGEANCE against the ac-used officer, That officer had not had the honor of having] had the oil of coronstion poured on him at West Poing. Since his appointment to his present office he had been pursued with a studied and revenge- ful malignity that had not a parallel in the annals of revenge. Conger agreed with ngalls in_ ascribing theZ—Rspi rit complained of to the jealousy entertained by West Point graduates against the voluuteer officers of the army. On motion of Allison, the senate further in. r | sisted on its amendment tostrike out the house provision permitting the coprts martial to control their own hours of session, ‘The chair reappointed the conference com- mittee already acting on the bill, The legislative, executive and judicial ap- propriation bill being reported, it was taken up and the reading proceeded with, Senator McPherson introduced in the sen- ate to-day an amendment iutended to be pro- ed to the naval appropriation bill when the atter reaches the senate, which provides for a constitution for the BOARD OF NAVAL COMMISSIONKES, to have control, subject to the approval of the secretary of the navy, all questions relat- ing to the constrnction of veasels for the navy of the United States. It provides that this board shall consist of the secretary of the nayy, chief constructor, chief of the bureau of steam engineering, chief of ordinance and chief of the bureau of equip- ment of the navy and such other officers, not more than three in nomber, as the secrotary of the navy may assing to such service, and two civilians fully conversant with the vari- ous branches of knowledge pertaining to the naval construction, who shall be selected’and appointed by the president; and _that the sec- retary of the navy shall be ex-officio presidest of the board, The board shall have authority to award contracts for the comstruction of veasels andproposals shallbe invited by the sec- rotary of navy from all American ship builders and builders of machinery for the construc- tion of all naval vessels. ~ All contracts shall be with the best and lowest; responsible b der, The national navy yards shall be util- ized, as far as possible, in building such stips, or parts thereof’ e million dolars each your is appropriated for five years to carry intb effect the plans of the board, The board shall decide whether the five unfinfshed mon- itors are worthy of completion, and whether they should be completed and armed, and pro yides for the appropriaiion of 1,000,000 for such work in the event that the conclusion of | 84, thy board be favorable, and are approved by | 59 the president The committees amendmenta were concnr. red in with but unimportant exceptions. Harrison moyed to so amend the bill a3y to make the position of cletk of the committee on territories, an annual one, Miller (New York) moved to amend the amendment by adding the clerk of the com mittee on agriculture, which was sgreed to VanWyck moved to amend by extending the annual provision to the clerks of all stand- ing sommittees, Finally after considerable jion, it becoming apparent that the bill mmd be disposed of to-night, the senate ed. WASHI NaTON, February 25.—On motion o Woodward the senate bill passed withamend- ments appropriating $100,000 for the erection of the public building at Lacrosse, Wis, On motion of Strait the senate bill . passed with amendments for the payment of citizens for sup) farnished the Sioux and Dakota Indians between 1860 and 1862, Henley, from the committee of public Jands, reported a joint resolution, instructing the attorney-general to institute ‘procsedings to vacate and set aside so much of the list of lands certified to the state of Michigan, for the benefit of Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canal Company, as cover the lands not subject to private entry, at the date of sslec- tion by that company, and also all lands sel- ected which were not at that date of selection vacant, avd nnlprmprhwd odd eections near- est the said canal. ‘I'he houss then proceeded to the considera- tion of the river and harbor bill. Upon the third reading of which the previous question was operating, an i proceeding to a vote on th? amendmenta reporced from the committeo of the whole, the amendments were adopted in each case withont the yea aud nay vote, until that was reached striking out the clanses ap. propriating for the improvement of the Mis- siss1ppi river from the head of the passes to the mouth of the Ohio river, and recommend- ing the president to appoint James B, Eads as advitory engineer of the Mississippy river commiesions, This was stricken out in the committee of the whole with the assent of the committeo on rivers and harbors in order to fa- cilitate the consideration of the bill in the committee, ‘Wells asked the unanimous consent that should the amendment committee of the whole be rejected, and the Missippi river clause be again placed in the bill, that portion referring to_Captain Eads should be eliminated. Hiscock objected and the yeas and nays wero called amid much confasion npon the the amendment committeo. The amendment was carried by a small majority but when it was siated In o private conversation that a motion would be made to recommit the bill with instractions to the committee cn rivers and harbors, to report it back with the Eads clanse atricken out. Several members changed their votes to the negative, and the vote was declared t) be yeas 137, nays 13). This re- stores the Mistissippi river proposition to the ill Hunt moved to reconsider the vote and moved to lay that motion onthe table, Car- ried yeas 145, nays 134, The opponents of the bill then resorted to filibustering tactics, and’ ssveral motions to adjourn were voted dawn, Then the motion for a racess, and nd quornny having voted, the call of ths House wasYordered. UAROARIOUS PROCEEDINGS. The sergeant-at-arms having be:n des- atched in quest of the sbsent members, the Pouto Iapsed into & comatoro atato s far. a8 busine:s was concerned. The greatest leatless- neas was evinced by the members, and the proceedings under call wero not even marked by the bilarity which usmally characterizes them. This continued until half past nine, when White, of Kentucky, secured the floor, Tmmediately the members raised a_great up- Toar, and a scene of the utmost disorder en- sued, Neverthelass, White was not to be di verted from making & speech which he continued to do, to the in- tenke enjoyment of the house, and at large, but o the manifest annoyance of the friends of the river and harbor bill, Jeers, laughter and shouted greets him on all sides, and confusion reigned supreme, Amid tho hisses from the dsmocratic eide, ho referred to President-clect Cleveland, as being in a saloon in Buffalo with the boyz. *“Oh,” said Gibson, ““Tais is disgraceful,” Thegentleman should not utter falsehoods on this floor.” Brown of Indiana, cemanded that the words be taken down. Soveral democratic members, “Withdraw _them.” *No,” roplied ~ Gibson, “I do mot take thom back, = but repeat them.” The langnage was road at the clerk’s desk. Brown moved that the gentleman from West Virginia b subj cted to tho censure of the House, but significantly added he had no hope that the gentloman from West Virgiia would be censured whatever language he might have employed. The motion to cesure was tabled and filibustering continued, Tinally at midnight the weary House yielded to adjournment, ‘WASHINGTON NOTES. ARTHUR'S GUEST. WASHINGTON, February 25.—The president has invited President-elect Oleveland to be his guest at the executive mansion from the time of his arrival in this city until heis formally inaugurated, The invitation has been deelined with thanks as apartments had already been secured for Cleveland, and be- csuze of the present uncertainty as to the ex- act time of his arrival at the national capital, Accordig to the programme, as at present arranged, the retiring president will call upon the incoming president at the hotel ard escort him to the capitol to be inaugurated, Presi- dent Arthur hus accepted the invitation to attend the inauguration ball and has assured the general committee of his cordial support and co-operation in their endeavor to make the affair a b:illiant success, COMPLETE REPORT OF PHE HOUSE PROCEEDINGH, Townshe¢nd asked the unanimous consent to take from the speaker's table for reference to the committee on appropriations, the post- offics_appropriation bill with the senate amendments, but Payson objected. Under suspension of the rules the following imports aut ameudments reported and incorporated in the deficiency appropriation bill: Appropriat- ing $238,448 to pay judgment rendered by the court of claims, $162,340 together with unex- pended balances for the completion of the new cruisers and despatch boat, abolishing the office of the census, and providing that the work ef the census shall be completed in the office of the secretary of the interior, THE MONE{ WILL BE REDEEMED, Two safes of the Adams Kxpress company whieh were In the car burned at the scene o, the recent collision at Four-mile Run, were opened to-day. Most of the money in the safos has boen identified, snd will be re deemed, the loss to the express company will be but trifling, The collections of internal revenue for the first seven months of the fiseal year are 805,841,847, against £69,96 the same period the present fisoal year. A decreace of 1,332, There wans an increase of $301,- in collections from fermentod liquore, & decreate of £1,462,706 from spirits, n decroase 685 from tobacco and & decrease of 8274.446 from;miscellaneous sources, THE LOT WRIGHT INVESTIGATION, Representatives Springer and Van Alstine, of the sub.committee appointed to investigate tha conduct of Marshal Wright in the Ohio October election, will submit the majority re- port that am};luym!‘nt and payment of special deputy marshals on the day after the election was without legal warrants, and all the moneys paid to such persons for services on that day should be returned to the United States * treasury, In view of the impracticable ~ nature the - peachment proceedings and _especially at this Iate day of ths congress, the report will not recommend the adoption of the arti- cles of Impeachment, but ask that the clerk of the house of representatives be instructed to tranemit a copy of the report and the testi- mony in the case to the president of the United States; and that the president bo re- spectfully requested to immediately removo right from office, and cause the attorney- general to institute such proceedings in the courts as may be deemed necessary to recoyer the sums illegally paid out by him, and to in- stitute such criminal proceedings against him as tho facts may require, Stewart, the re- mainiog member of the sub-committee rad- ically dissents from the majority report. e — Wants to be Relieved of a Hornet's Nest, Special telegram to THr Brx. ‘WasuiNeroN, Februsry 25.—A certain democratic membsr of the Illinois congres- sional delegation finds himself in hot water politically speakiog. Tmpressod with the be- lief that Cleveland would “turn the rascals out,” he ecattered his promises of place avd preferment rizht aud left among his constitu- ents, lmmediately after the election was settled, When he came to Washington at the commencement of the seseion, te b ought with him at least twenty applications for postmasterships and other government posi- jons, Gradually it began to dawn upon his mind, a8 it has upon most of his collenguen that Cleveland will make no changes ex- cept for cause. The Illinos gentleman has recently written this fact to his constituants, but the explanation has been met with strong reproaches from the applicants all of whom threaten to knife him at primares eighteen months hence. Last week he was ecarcely in bis gcat an hour. The remaindor of the time he was pleading with the different bureau officials to find him some sort of a place, “anything,” as he expressed it, to settle this hornets nest raieed about my eara, At last accounts he had secured n_messengership for one of the hungry crowd who was confiden- tially preparing to receive a $2,000 clerkship, —— Mr. Oleveland and the SilverUoinage, ‘WasHINGTON, February 25,—Representa- tive A. G. Warner received a communicatlon this evening, addressed to himself and others, from Iresident-elect Cleveland relative to the stoppsge of tho colnage of silver, The gen- tlemen who have the communication dechine to pive it to press to-mght, It is a document of some length, and contains an acknowledge* ment of the ‘letter recently forwarded t Cleveland, which juested, him to hear.all sidey before committing. himself on tha silver question in his inaugural address. The president-elect says that the import- ance of the nubject and the receipt of the com: munication, from the memboars of the house of representatives maks it necessary to give his earnest attention to the question betore his ws are presenied to the public, in bis inangural, ¥e favors the suspension of the silver coinage of dollars, giving and expresses fears of a financial crisi legislation to that end is enacted, No referencs is made to tha proposed legis- Iation on this question, in conection with the sundry civil bill, nor ‘are any recommenda- tions relative to legislationbefore the adjourn- ment of congress offered, The letter will be submitted to-morrow by Warner to other gentleman interested in the subject and afcer- wards it will ba given to the press, ————— Heavy #now Storm in New York, Special telegram to the B Niw York, February 25, —The snow storm which visited this city half an hour before midnight and continued until 9 o'clock this morning, extenced along the Atlantic coast from Boston to Savannah, The fall was es- pecially heavy in New Jerssy, Pennsylvania, Delewars and Margland, ITn this city the snow is six inchies deap on tho level. The storm, which was central yesterday in the gulf ttates, has moved northeast, and this morning was central on the North Carolina coast. A hsavy snow 13 reported in the north- ern part of the middle states and rain in the southern part of tho mddle Atlantic states, Tair weather prevails generally elsewhere. Within twenty-four hours thetemperature has risen from 10 to 20 degrees in all districts ex cept the gulf states, where it has fallen light. ly. (Travel in this city was seriously impeded, Rivers were covered with floating 1ce an1 in many places the slips were almost choked up, No large cakes of ice wers afloat, aud tho navigation of steans vessels, though delayed considerubly, was not seriously interfered with, No sailing vessels were 0 be see in the stream, —— The Perjurers on Trial. OnicaGo, February 25,—The preliminary examination of Chas, E. Gilmore, J. 8, Sulli- van and Thos, T, O'Brien for committing per- jury io the late trial of Mackin and the other parties concerned in the election frauds, began before the United States commiesioner at noon to-doy. _ Sullivan, when he took the stand repeated in substance his confession of one week w denying that he had met Gilmore on the day preceding the election, or that he had been concerned in procuring the bogus republican election plate, Judge Blodgett ssid to-day he would hear the motion for & new trial in’ the Mackin case next Tuesday, e —— “"Put Grant on the Retired List,™ INDIANALOLIS, Fobruary 25,~The Indiana department of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic, in eession hero to-day, adopted & resolu- tion urging congress to place the name of Gen, Grant on the retired list, VICE PRESIDENT- ECT HENDRICKS And wife will leave to-morrow for Washing- ton, goivg from here to Cincinnati and_thence east. Hendricks will be accompanied by Judge Rand, Davis Turpie, William H, En- glish and a fow others, TRADE AJID_TIiAFFIG. Yesterday the Most Active Day on 'Chavge for @ Month, Little or no Change in Prices of Fat Steers, A Fairly Active Trade in the Hog Market, Small Holdors of Wheat Uncere= moniously ‘‘Shaken Out.” 633 Cars of Corn Materialized and Postponed the Boom. Provisions Etiffened Up-May Pork Opened at $12.70 and Then Saw Its Lowest Point, OHICAGO MARKETS, Special telegram to the B, Cr10AGo, February 24,—LUhat of this after- noon was unanimously pronounced the most active lsession of ‘chanve for tho month, A host of small holders of wheat wero unceri- moniously “ehaken out” and the emall thorta had an opportunity which they pretty generals ly embraced to cover their sales of May wheat at from 82§c down to 81§c, The big shorts— the professionsl spoculators of the wheat pit— are shrt, and to-day went shorter, They ro- gard May wheat even at 8lc, a eale, and thoy are certainly living to theirtheory. Compared with that of the past week or two the sceno on the floor of 'change this forencon was nothing short cf an innovation, The p:incipal features of the murket were such that the ma- jority of the local traders, who are long, were left no choice, They couldn’t stand the de- cline »s it was, and the remarkable weakness frightened them. They wcre compelled to throw everything overboard, and in doing so created a Bceno of animation in the pit that has not been witnessed, The fow capitalists owning wheat of course held it irm. Even though prices should not again touch the point at which they purchased they felt safe in calculating on at least & tem- porary reaction after the break had run its present course. Provisions “‘stiffened up” to-day. May pork opened at $12 70 and then eaw 1ts loweet point for the day. Though the receipt of 712 cars of CORN did not materialize this morning, 633 cars did, which was quite enough to indefinitely post- pone any boom that may have beed projected, still the market was firm; May closing o in advence at 41jc and showing a range of flluctuations covered by just } lost of broker— age, Receipts of wheat were 250 cars, CATTLE, Best steers,and there were only a few of such, underwent little or no change, but ordinary and dressed beef ateers were again quoted 10@15c lower and rathier dull, A good many of the above classes were selling bo- tween $4 75 and $4 90, and such as count) men classify as good fat cattle were makiog $5 00@b 50, and exports would make 85 76@ 625, First-class butchers’ stock was in plen- tiful supply and firm; canners’ stock steady: stocker and future trade was fairly.active, buti demand centered on fino-bred young steors, and when such could be had they realizod as high prices s at any time; 1,060 to 1, 200 pounds, $400@4 65; 1,200 to 1,500 pounds, $190@b 00; 1,350 to 1,500 pounds, $550@ 600 cows and mixed common, $225@3 (03 good, $3 20@d 00; steckers, $1 00@4 70; Tex- ans, $8 75@4 70. y- HOGS, With the frech receipts there wero nearly 55,000 on tho market, an unusual number for 0’ lato in tho season, Salcsmen soon dis- covered that if they wanted to make ssles they would have to meet the extreme views of buyers, and the general markot opened 5@100 lower than lowest of yesterduy, and at this decling there was fairly active trade, yet tho morket closed steady with nearly half the of- ferings unsold. Packing and shipping, 200 to 425 pounds, $4 60@H 10; light, 160 to 310 pounds; $4 00@4 CuEpass, Il February 25.—A collision be- tween a passenger and a freight train on the Tllinois Central occurred near hero early this morning, One man killed and eight or ten wounded, some of whom geriously but none thought fatally, The njured train was the New Orleans passenger, bound south, and was crashed mto from the rear by a freight train, The two rear sleepers were demolished. One pussenger named Mclnnis was instantly Fillod "and_several other passengers badly scalded, No cause for the accident is etated, but it is said tha danger lights in the rear of the passenger had been allowed to go out, —— SerixarieLD, February 25,—In the roport of the committees yesterday the name of Settiz appears g5 chairman of the committee on claima® Settiz and Fuller were the only re- publicans given chaiimanships, In joint session the house and senate the republicaus refused to voto on account of the absence of Lawrence, breaking the quorum, Two ballots were taks Morrison res 98; 5. H. Ward 2; Haines 1; J, M, Palmer 7 The second ballot was the same. Adjourns Immediately after reconvening the senate ad- journed, e e—— Death of a Nebraska Man in Iowa, Prrrspung, February 26,—The body of a man found in the snow near St Claic station yesterday was evidently lying there #ince the heavy mnow of two weeks ago, A card was found on the deceased that bore the name of P, J. Hoder, Schuyler, Neb, Tha position of the bady indicated he had fallen trom a train and killed and the body snowed ander, - » in Baltimore, Bautinons, February 25,—The protracted cold weather has caused almost & famine in oystera in this city, the supply not being one- fourth equal to the demand even at quadruple prioes, Seal of North Garolina Smoking Tobacco. Seen teverywhiere, —_— ! Because every- where recoanizaa as indispensibfe fo Peafer a\o:z 1 Why Gondumer. line, and store it . e