Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 18, 1885, Page 1

THE OMAHA THIRTEENTH YEAR. DAiLy BEE OMAHA, NEB., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1885. NO. 180 recautions to protect his officers and rrwm diseass, which would render it neces for the vesssl to leave that const. SENATOR VaN WYOK. PRECRDENTS FURNISHED BY CORPORATION LAWYERS, WasniNatoN, D. ., March 17.—Mr, Van Wyck spoke substantially as follows: *‘The senator from Colorado (Mr, Teller) regretted that every person who has spoken on this subject was not a lawyer. I suppose he meant of railroad proclivities, so there might be full accord; such lawyers as during most of the last sixteen years have boen at the head of the department of justico and of the interior, making the precedents which the ex secretary boastel he has followed; lawyers who have enjoyed the advantage of a large acquaintance with railrond mag- nates who have been broad enougl to understand and apply the liberal viows of corporation attorneys, The Ameri- ican people probably regret that they (were not lawyers who were not seeking to smother plain, honest common-sense under quotations ot bad Latin and Norman French, = He was right. The secretary of the interior and at- torney-general have for sixteen years been doing these things, Jvery reign has exhibited scandalous transactions, or rather transactions Riviog rise to ‘scandals. Credit Mobelier fre quently repeated iteelf. Locating and con* veying lands to the Sioux City & Pacific, giv- ing lands from Portland to Puget Sound, is probably no worse, certiin'y no better, than allowing consolidation of Utisn Pacific with Kansas & Denver Pucific, when the Union Pacific was made _practically bankrupt snd Gould wnd his syndicate realized not less th $20,000,0 0 at the expense of the nation; and the people between the Missouri river and the TPacific ocean, in telegraph aud railroad char- wes were subjectad to an extortion as outra: goous as England intli ts upn her subjects in India and elsewhere, and which leads to re- voltand war among her serfs in the deserts of Afric AT THE CAPITAL, The President Seut no Nominations to e Ssnate To-Day, The Horde of Office Seekers Dis- gusted and Going Home, Indioations Point to an Early Ad- journment of the Senate. He Will Send no Nominations but those Actually Nesded. The Steamer Wauchusett to Proceed to Panama, President Oleveland Holds His First o, State Reception at the White House, TAE ATE. WASHINGTON, March 17.~ Blair's resolution authorizing the committee on educition and Iabor to sit during recoss was adopted. : Cullom’s resolution for a select oommittee to investigate the subject of inter-state com merce was laid before the Senate, and after a long debate was adopted without division, I provides for a elect committes of five s to sit during recess and make a full e tion of the rezulation of the transp. rtation of freights and passengers b tween the several states by the railroads and water courses in connection, or competition _therewith and report t> the Senate next December. The Senate them went into executive ecssion, Marylana Indignant at the Appoint- ‘When the dours reopened the Senate ad- journed. THE RIGHTS OF THE SRITLERS, “‘It is usual for the corporation attorney to stigmatizs the sattler, whote only eartbly treasure may be a wife and children and the team ha is driviog, 4s an interloper—a specu- lator, The ex-secretary has listened so long to that dialect in the department it was nat- ural he should repeat it in his speech; and, sneering at such men, hunest settlers seoking to outain & homestead of 160 acres, almost in uage of Tweed he asks, “What are you going to do about it ?" UNEARNED LANDS, ‘‘The ecaator says the ‘Backbone’ grant had more equity than the Texas Pacil which fortunately congress declared forfeite and thus rescued it from the tender mercies of tha it terior department and the_cabinet. The Southern Pacific, as did the New Or leans Pacific, antagonized and built in oppo- sition to the rival road. Each came to con- gress and defeated the scheme of its rival, The Southern Pacific completed its road and secured an assignment during the lifetime of the geant, while the New Orleans Pacific took an assignment and completed its road six and eight years after the life of the prant was forfeited by conditions vio lated. The ex-sacretarv eays the Backbone had a right to as-ign a grant thus forfeited. Then why not the Texas Pacitic in_the life- time of the grant? The Texus Pacific built its road in Texas, but not a mile in Arizona and New Mexico; but the Backbone never built a rod of road on the broad earth. Gould and Huntington were always logical. Thev intended 80 make the Backbone the forerun- d if they captured the department on that they were confident of s:curivg the other, Ouly the interposition of coogress provented, FEUERAL BAYONETS AT THE THROATS OF HARDY PIONEERS, “Twenty and thirty years ago congress gave recklessly to any corporation applying for lands, Now the executive department and congress rcfusing to restore unearned lands to the public domain will be_judged by the people as guilty of a crime against the na- tion. The tids of our own aud foreign popu- Iations, which years ago laid the foundations and reared the structure of great states in tho west, is mow repellei by the desert lands, the arid plaing, the sand- hills, the sagebrush, and in its reflex is gathering at the border of the Indian lands inpatient to enter, Federal bayonets sie lmmtud against th> breasta of hardy pioneers ike unto that class who carried the flag of the Union in advance of civilizationover mcuntain peaks and furled it by the waves of the broad Pacitic. No bayonets to drive out the cattle syudicatesalr ady in Oklahoma or to destroy fences illegally enclosiog millions of acres of public domain! “‘The eenator admits that-this road is only entitled to lands earned after tho assignment in 1881—road completed in 1882 ~while in fact he gave lands for road built from 1875 to 1881 —for the entire line, The depsrtment evi- dently had not the time to sscertain what work was dono before and after 1881, and it decided against the government by giving land for the entire line, Why this' hot haste? Why was the question not left to the delib- eration of his successor, who would have determmned what portion did mot properly belong to, the road even upon the admissions of the last ad- ministration? Before 1881 no work was done on the faith of this grant. Did not the great desire of this New Orleans & Pacifiz company to secure patents for nearlv a million of acres of laud 1mmediately, which would subject the lands to taxation from the date of the issuance of the patents, suggest a strong suspicion that the motive must be a fear of the next congress or that the incoming administration might not be completely subject to the railroad cor- poration control?” ——— Striking 1llinois Coal Miners, Ci1caco, March 17.—The Daily News, Danville, Ills., says five hundred miners em- ployed by the Ellsworth coal company struck to-day for a restoration of the price of mining to eighty cents per ton, from which it was re- duced to seventy cents on February 2, They also decided to remaia out until the demands of the miners of the same company at Mount Olive and Staunton were acceded to, Itis reported that one thousand miners, employed by the Grape Creek coal and coke company, will strike to-morrow. e —— The Lake Erie & Western Extension, CONFIRMATIONS . Col, Nelson H. Davis, inspector general, with the rank of brigadier general; Lieut. Col. Absalom Baird, inspector general, with the rank of colonel; Edward D. Clark, Mis- sisaippi, assi tant recratary of the intsrior; Sidney D. Jackmsn, Texas, United States marshal for the weatern di exas. Mr. Clark, above named, is seriously ill with pneumonia, —_—— The Hordes of Office-vcrkors Dis- gusted and Going Home, 'WASHINGTON, March 17.—The president sent word to the senate this afternoon that he would have no nominations to-day. It is further stated that he privately told some sen- ators who called on him that he did notintend sending any nominations to the senate, except the few that were actually neoessars, such as assistant cabinet officers, If he had any chanes to nake, he would make them later. All of this dirgnsta the office-scekers, who have been waiting here, and many of them are preparing to leave fur home to.mght. The indications this aftersoon point to an early edjournment, perhaps by Saturday next, It seems likely that nons of the cfficers outside of Washington, save where terms have actually explred, are o bo filled at presont, The Philadelphin Press to-day creates QUITE A BENSATION hero by publishing & number of serions charges against the charactor of Higgins, who was mado appointment clerk by the allegod “roform admiaistration” on the sole recom- mendation that he enjoyed the distinction of being at the head of the fine workers and the ward's ticker of “Boss” Geraman, The Pross says: “Higgina went south at tho begioning of the war and accepted a_safe and noft berth as deputy under Winder, the prevost marshal of Richmond, whose cruelty to prisoners made the name infamous; that he has been a corruptor of olections in Balti- more and Maryland generally, ana in Tudi- ana in the eloctions of tho past fow yvears; that ho is interested In a gambliog establish- ment and other places of vile reputation in Baltimore,” ——— WASHINGION NEWS, WASHINGTON, March 17.—The secrotury of the navy has secured the services of a profes sional accountant in New York for the pur- pose’of having a thorough investigation made of accounts, and methods ot keoping them in every branch of the navy department, The discussion of Central American affairs begun yesterday, was resumed. The pending question being » resolution offared lsst ¥ri- day by Senator Edmunds declaring 1t to b th3 sense of the senate that Barrios, president of Guatemala, should bo prevented from car ryiog on his soheme annexiug the nelghboring republics. The resolution was_ocriticized as amounting substantislly to a declaiation of Senator Logails proposed an amend- to modify it in this regard, The amend. ment was lost. The sento then adopted tho resolution with only seven negative votes Senator Edmunds moved that the injunc- tlon of secretary be removed from tho_resolu- tion and vcte upon it, but a single objection carried it over under the ulos for a day.§ SECHETARY BAYARD HAS WRITTEN letter to Semator Muller, chairman of the to commitieo on foreign relations, saying the state departmeut sent o dispatch to Unlted States Ministor Hall, at Guatemala, instructing him that this government, while believing the voluntary atsociation of inter- ests in the Central American states was de- sirable, it would not countenance any dis- play of foroo by wny oue or more ttates to coerce others, and that the United States stand ready to exert their influence to avert a conflict and to promote peace. The, depart, ment bas no_intimation that any aropsan ower has wterfered or contemplates_inter: erence in the present difficulties in Central America. ¥ The sccretary is unable to suggest any ac tlon of the senite. A ditpatch from tho pres: | BLoowixato, Tils,, March 17.—Surveyors ident of San Salvador alluded to in Bayard's Hy latter statea that Barrios is trylog to enforce set out this norning to survey the line for the Contral American union with the avowed | 9xtension of tho Lake Erie & Westera from purpose of annulling the canal treaty with | Bloomington to Peoris, about forty-five milee, icaragua. Bayard adds that he has learned | The constiuction begins about May 1st and that on the 10ta inst. the Guatemalian ex- ¢ peditionary movement against San Salvador ;L‘,[igf‘;‘;;“fi“l‘fl“"‘ »3'1?.1‘:‘.‘1;’5,‘.' 2ok foush was stopped, and Burrios asked President Zaldivar to send two commissioners to ar- range a settloment. THE PRESIDENT'S FIRST STATE RECEPTION, Prosident Cleveland’s 'first state reception oceurred to-night and was given to the diplo- matic corps, to judiciary, the army and navy and the renate and the house of representa- tives, The sffair was one of the moat brilli- ant ever held in the White House. The pre- sideot, assisted by Miss Cleveland, Mre, Hoyt, Miss Bayard, Mrs. Monning, Mrs. I dicott, Mre. Whitney, Mrs. Vilas aod Mrs. Lamont received the gueats in the blue room, All the members of the csbinet, except Attor- ney-General Garland were 'present. Mr. ayard presented the members of the diplo- matic corps, will reach the bridge f the Peorla and Pelan Union at Peoria, RAILROAD KACKET. Ci10aG0, March 17,—The Lake Shore and New York Central railroads bave arranged for expedited servico between Chicago and New York to go into effect when the spring schedule is arranged. The time from New York to Chicago will be about an hour short er thau at present and that from Jhicago to New York about two hours shorter, ——— The Fight Between Burke and Ryan Declared off. Cnicaco, March 17.—The proposed prize fight between Jack Burke and Paddy Ryan was declared cff to-day, and the woney was drawn becausa they could not agree on the place at which to figbt. GEN, BLACK, the new commiseioner of pensions, to-day as- sumed charge of the pension office. Secretary Whitney to-day sent 4 _dispatch to Commander Mahan of the Wachusett, at l[l»;.,l..m.:;::‘!:m:xng {:(..:, that homlmi“L ‘are THE SULLIVAN-M'CAFFREY FIGHT, ely P woen some of the Cen- | PrirapkLruia, March 17.—The Sullivan- “d‘mr:g:n": 'uu‘-’-d Bnm:. -;M{;n mll McCaffrey fight is filed’lurmllucuh] w“;x o | s aud property of Uniten e S M ety ot poulted | April . Sullivan prefers the latter date, with his vessel to La Union and La Libertad and oth r poiuts on the Central American coast to Smhcs American ioterests, The necretary also /pited in Death, Faiimoust, Mion, March 17,—Bortha lso durects Commauder Muhan to | Reynolds and her lover were drowne while protest sgainst any attempt to cut the cables | attempting to cross Cedar creek 1 night. or intexfere with their use, and to take all | The bodies are still missing. at Farneyville, and by the way of Morton, It | Dake GENERAL NEWS. Further Pariicnlars ¢f the Fairfield Doable Lynchieg, The Case of Auditor Brown in Iowa. Col, Morrison on the Illinois Senatorial Question, The Dakota Woman Suffragists Denounce Gov., Pierce. The Revolution on the Isthmus of Pauama. Treachery nder the Guise ot & Flag of Truce in Morocco, Further Particulars of the Fairfiefd Double Lynching, 8pecial Correspoudence of THE Bek, FamrieLp, March 14,.—For a number ol years there has lived eight miles southwest of here a family named Taylor, consisting of Mrs, Lib Taylor, her two sons and dauvghter. The oldest boy is sixteen, the second is four- teen, and the eirl is about seven years old. About one-half a mile this way on the banks of the Littlo Blue, lives Mrs, Taylor's mother, pamed Jones, about seventy years old, and with Mre, Jones lives her Aon,'{'homns. There have been numerous crimes committed 1 the neighborhood, and have always been laid at the doors of Lib Taylor, but ~there never was any conc usive evidence. On January 8 a man named Roberts, a ten- ant of Mrs, Jones', was shot by the two Tay- lor boys, who have been coufined in the county jail since, At the time a vigilance committee was formed, who notified Mra, Taylor and Tom Jones to vacate inside of thirty days, but forgetting toleave, They forti- fiied their sod heuse on the banks of the Little Blus, and had Wm, Seeley, ‘‘Tex- as” Bill, R. Farrell, Wm. Clark and a bey herder to help them in caso of need. Last night, at 12 o'clock, the vigilantes called on the Jones' to come out. They crawled out of thewindow, one at a time. They tied Tom Jones' and Lib Taylor s hands behind them and put & rops around their necks and swung them off the iron bridge across the Little Blua river, and thus cnded the lives of two of the worst criminals cf Clay county, C. J, Furen, e —— The Case of Auditor Brown in Towa, Des Moings, March 17.—Judge Conner of thecircuit court this morniog delivered a 1engthy opinion in the case of J. 0, Cottell »gainst ex-Auditor Brown t5 obtain possess sion of the office by a writ of mandamus, The court held first that the statutes under which Governor Sherman acted in suspending Brown are constitutional, Second, that the governor had tho power to suspend him on the report of the commmission. Third, as the question necessarily involved in the answer, tho defendant, the only appropriate remedy inlaw was by quo-warranto and for that reason the maudamus would not lie, As the opinion did not_involve the merits of the controversy, but simply deciding that the court had no juriediction in_this form of proceeding the case is now back to where it was two weeks ago. Krokuk, March 17.—Judge O'Connor to- day overruled the plaintiffs demurrer in the case of Cottell agninst Auditor Brown, The auditor’s friends are very jubilant over the result. Counsel for Cottell has not decided whether to proceed on the facts or carry the demurrer to the supreme court, . —— Col, Morrison on the lllinois Scna- torial Question, SprINGFIELD, 111, March 17,—This after- noon an Associated Press reporter had a brief interview with Col. Morrison on the sena- torial question. The Colonel was not at all inclined to be communicative, nor did he ap- pear to know what was going on in that di rection. When asked as to whether his visit to Chlcago was for the purpose of inducing Mulberan to come into line, he said that it was not, but admitted that while there he had seen Mr, Mulhaern, and had a conversation with him, but it was in company with other partics, The reporter asked him what was supposed to be the outlook tor to-morrow, asit had been rumored that a shell might be expacted ¢ explode some where, but he said going to happen. In reply to the question as to whether he expected Haines and Streoter were going to vote for him when it came to that point their votes might elect, he said_ he could not say what theso men would do, but they wore elected by the democrats and he supposed he was entitled to their votes, whether they would bs givenor not, He ho was not awaro_that any such thing was | T wished the reporter to believe, in fact, that he had no idea on the subject whatever, while at the same time he appeared to be ‘a good deal worried, The general impression here, beld by outsiders, is that either to-morrow or Thursday there willbe some new develop- ment_in the renatorial question, whether it bein favor of Morrison or not, but a Jast desperate struggle for him will be made som- day this week. The republicans, however, bero feel no uneasiness for the result, and ap- pear to be quite prepared for whatever may be brought out, Benator Bell’s bill, regulating convict labor contracts, a substitute for the one already de- feated in the senate, will be brought up in the senate Thursday. It will also probably be defeated as not " covering the ground. ¥x‘hu Iatest reports to-night »re that mno vote will be taken to-morrow except to conform with the law, —e— Dakota Woman Suffragists Denounce Gov, Plerce, Avpaxy, N, Y., March 17,--At the Wai an’s Suffrage society meeting to-night Kat Stoneman (slster of Gov. Stoneman, of Cal fornia) and others denounced Gov. Pierce of akots, for vetoing the woman's suffrage act, passed by the legislature of the territory. e —— A Revolution Endea. New York, March 17,—Reliable advices state_the Panama revolution is ended, LaTer PANAMA, Galveston, March 17,-~Heay: firing ceased at 9 o'clock last night. The reb. els retired to Buena Vista to recruit, The British gun boat Heroine landed seventy-five men to protect property. Traffic on the Pan- ama railroad and business is suspended to-day and there is great excitement, as the second attack is expected. President Arosemana took retuge on the Heroine, The colony fs reported i possession of the rebels, A tele- gram via Galveston was delivered in Panama without delay. Paxama, March 17,—Gen, Gonems, come mander of the Columbian guard, arrived with reinforcements this morning, avd the rebels retired outside the city to await help from Baranquilla and Colon, Colon is in the hands of the rebels commanded by notorious crim~ inals. Btores are being Pllhgad‘ and the leader declares that he will reduce the city to ashes if the government troops attempt to re- oaptu ‘The marines of the United States steamer Gslena are in Colon, and the Eng- lu:n force guard the Papama railroad prop- erty, FOREIGN EVENTSs, RXTRA MATL FACILITIES, ,oNDON, March 17.—~The governmont has provided £25,000 for extra mail facilitics with Amer THR SOUDAN GOVERNORSHIP, British officials at Cairo are urging the gov. ernment to _appoint General Wolseley gov ernor general of Soudan, thus reassuring jhe natives who joined the Mahdi for fear the English woold abandon Soudan snd place them at the mercy of the Mahdi unless they jowed himnow. ~The government tofuses to make the appointment, ns it J;mlnng the Briti h stay in Soudan beyond the limits at present intended by the government, FRANCE AND CHINA Pants, March 17.—It is rumored Germany will mediate between France and China, A ST, PATRICK SPAT, Duniiy, March 17.—Portadown was the scene of a serlous riot to-day. A body of nationalist yioters wreoked the houses of cer- tain obnoxious persons, Bands of Orange. men paraded-the streets, Great excitement provailed, A SIGNIFICANT FACT, BeriN, March 17.—Baron Van Bleichro- der is uegotiatiog with othor capitalists with a view of placing the new Russian loan, Baron Von Bleichroder i not only oneof the most ewinent bankers of Berlin, but is also the confidential advisor of Bismarck in finan cial affairs, His appaaranca in market as fi agent of Ruseia would therefore be very siv- niticant and would indicate a war with Eng- land was seriously intended by Russia, THE FLAG OF TRUCE BETRAYED. MaDRiD, March 17.—There 18 great excite- ment here over the nows to the effect that the governor of Alhucemas, a emall island con- tainiog a fortress and prison settlement, be- longing to Spain on the coast of Morocco, while parleying with a number of Morocco tribes made the suppozed protection of a flag of truce was attacked. The governor and several other Spanish officials were wounded THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT, Loxnoy, March 17.—Gladstone, 1 the commons, ' this afternoon, read a dispatch from Sir Idward Thoraton, British ambassa- dor at 3t. Petersburg, in reply to Barl Gran. ville's request to know if England’s under- standing of the arrangement wi h Russia was the same as that entertained by DeGiers. DeGiers, Gladstone read, statds that the Russian’ troops will not advance from the position now occupied by them provided the Afghans do not advance, or unless some ex- traordinary reason be given, such as distarbances in Penjdeb. Stringent orders were sent to the Russian com- mander to use every possible means to avoid a conflict or an incitement to a conflict, The above orders are to be repeated. Several in- terrogatories were at once put. Gladstone de- clined to answer them, and deprecated any further questioning of 'the gnvernment upon the question at present, Gladstone, in con- nection with the Afghan inquiries, stated that the demand by the British governmout for the withdrawal of the Russians from their ad- vanced position had lapsed. This_sannounce- ment was recorved with ironical cheers, KASSALA H. FALLEN, Suakny, March 17.—Native spios report that messeogers have arrived from Osman Tema's camp with tho news that Kaesala has fallen, PARNELL'S SPEECH AT THE ST, PATRICK'S BAN- QUET, LoxnoN, March 17.— Parnell prasided ¢ a banquet here i honor of St. Patrick. He said 1f the Irishmen and Irishwomen all over the world would use the excellent products of Lrish toil, wherever practicable to the exclu- sion of all other products the material pros- perity of Ireland would ho more quickly de- veloped, her financial indspendence be secur- ed, and her political independence would spoedily follow. e e A Gallows O.nament,» PrILADELPitLS, March 17.—Charles Brigge, the wifo murderer, was hanged 1n the corridor of the county prison this morning, Briggs killed his wife July 7, 1883, Ho had been on a prolonged spree. came home, callod his wife down into the cellar, and cut her throat with arazor, He was arrested slmost in the act. ——— The Appeal of the Chicago Krauds. COnicaco, Diarch 17,—Judge Gresham, in the United States circult court, this morning heurd an srgument on the motion for super- sedens in the cases of Mackin and Gallagher, under two years’ sentence to the penitentiary for election frauds, and suid he would decide the motion next Thursday. ——— Texas Cattle to be Shipped by a New Route, WicHira Farts, Texas, March 17.—Ar- rangements have just bsen consummated, whereby Texas cattle for the northern mar- ket will be shipped to Harold, the mew ter- minus of the Fort Worth and Denver railway, thence driven north to Caldwell and Huone- well, on the Kansas state line, and from there led to their dsstination, The danger that the Texas stock interests will be seriously crippled this year by tho quarantine regula- tions of Kansas and other s'ates 1s thus averted. e — New York Dry Goods Market, New Yosk, March 17.—Ta the way of specialties of a seasonable character, such as dress goods, ginghams and printed fabrics, there has been a very good trade for Tues- day, but staple cottons have been quiet, The export of cotton goods the past week have been 10,000 packages, very largely $o China and Africs, making since January 1 a total of 48,173 packagey, against 38,340 the same ghn‘p*]s;nt year, 33,821 in 1883, and 29,905 in 1882, o — arylaal Indigasac at the Appoint- ment of Higgins, BALTINORE, March 17,—The executive com- mittee of the civil service reform agsociation nf Maryland adopted a resolution to-night saying the selection of Eugene Higgins for the responsible position of appointment clerk in the treasury department has been & painful surprise to assoclation, and all friends of honest government in the state of Maryland, and is explicable only on the supposition that the secretary of the treasury was ignorant of the character and antecedents of the person chosen, The resolution adds: “Tae Civil Servicy Reform Association of Maryland urg- ently suggests his immediate removal thercirom, showing as a cause for such action that his reputation in this community is ot that of a man of integrity and honor,” C—— The Coal Miners Strike Extending, 81, Louis, March 17.—The coal miners strike which began at Staunton Olive on the Wabash railroad in 1) two weeks ago is extending to other mines. To-day one hundred men in the Gillespie mines on the Indianapolis and St. Louis road quit work, and a large delegation from Staun- ton and Mount Olive, are now making & tour of the Bellevillo district with the view of in- ducing a strike throushout that region, ——— QCoffee-Laden Bark Sank, New Yonrk, March 17.—The bark John Chase, coffee laden, sunk ather dock to-night. The captain’s wife and iofant child were drowned, — —— The National Home for Disabled Vet~ oerans, Avausta, Mg, March 17,—Geperal W, B, Frauklia, president of the board of managers of the National Home for Disabled Veteran Saldiera, appointed Col, Andrew J, Smith, of the old Sixtieth corps, now treasurer of the Saldiers’ Home a8 Magus, f the Leavenworth branch of the ‘N sl Home, clvil service commissionars provide that no ereon hall be permitted to make application or a clerical position in tha postoffice depart ment who is over 85, and that no person shall be permitted to make application for a post tion in the treasury department who is over 49, unless in either case the applioant may chance to have been an honorably ~ discharged Union soldier or sailor. A strict interpreta: tion of this rule would exclude any person who was in the Confederate army from clarioal position in_the postoftice department if he waa moro than 11 years of age in 1800, or from service under the treasury if he was more than twenty-oue years of age when the war began. The discovery of this fact has created n very marked excitement among the southern men, Maj, B, A, Burke, of the New Orleans Times-Democrat and manager of the great exposition, who is here, is cred- ited with this discovery. He aays: ““Why, the civil service regulations DISFRANCHISE RVERY EX-CONFEDRRATE, The average age of enlistment in the Con- federate army was from 15 to 20 years, There certainly must have boen very few enlist: ments under 15 years, but you will see by these regulations that, as twenty-four years have elapsed since the war began, and the period in within which a per: son_can become an applicant for a position 1n the postoffice department is fixed at thirty- five years of age, unless he is n discharged union soldier, no one who was in the confed- efate army can come Within theee regulations 1f he was more than eleven years of age when he enlisted, and it is under the postoffice department that the vast majority of the appointments are to be made in the southern tes; and no one who was in the confederats army, in a like manner, could secare an ap- pointment under the treasucy uvder the civil servioe rulos, who was over twenty-one when the war began, Such a proposition would make a torrible havee in the ranks of the eouthern office seekere, It would bar eur people pretty nearly all out., The elect within such limitations would be rare exceptions,” **What are you going to do about it?” “Lhat's the point. If these rules are to ba rigidly enforced we thall demand & re-exami- nation under the civil servloe system of al THE MARKETS. A Combination of Circumstances Canse Dulleess and Weakoess, Wheat 1-80 Lower Than Twenty= Four Hours Ago, Some Holders of Corn are Be- ooming Tired of Carrying. Cattle Were Rather Slow and Prices About Steady. Hogs Were in Fair Demand and Receipts not Excessive. Provisions Weaker and Lower— Pork Active and Easier— Lard was Qulet, OHICAGO MAKRKETS. WHEAT Special telegram to the Brk, CHicAGO, March 17.—Wheat started out rather firm on account of the cold weather, and large stocks coupled with tame advices from England and a decline of 1 penny in Liverpool, together with a lack of outside support eoon turncd the scale, and during the major portion of the session dullness and rely on his henor ten chance to one he will be honest. “'If we watch the gues's some of them will thiok it a fine trick to boat us just for the fan of the game. How did I know just how many meals that last man took here! He lnn{nd like an honest man for one thing. That goes along way, Tho beat betrays signs in +pite of all he can do that the olerk makes & mental note of when he reglaters, and looks out for any game he may try. 1t is roally curious how a man shows in small things what he really s, Signs that you or I would not notics he detects instaut- ly, and the man cannot beat the hotel oat of acent.” “‘The oclerks quletly look over the guests during every meal, and can tell from long practice pretty close, but of courso smo elip through. 1t goes hard with them when they are caught you oan believe. Wo havo got tired of arresting them, and the ediot has gone forth that hereafter the biggest porter ahall kiok the beat from the dining-room into the streot Bat wo dont have many of them—not two this year,” “Isn’'t the meal-ticket arrangement botter.” ‘‘Ihat is very easy to get around, 1 hava known «f one fellow makiog enough to piy his board loaning his ticket to meals after ho had come from the dining- room. His cronies paid bim full price for the uee of the ticket for the pleasure of getting ahead of the hotel. There 18 no geod way to get around it elther, for after a man goes into the dining room with a ticket, that is supposed to end, aud a clerk would only get in trouble by asking people for tickets which they would produce and that wounld end it. It seems easy to beat a hotel, but it ts hard. 1|er t!} n it looks for one not In the myster- ien. the federal officials who now; hold office in the south. If youtaie evenn hasty glance at the civil service requirementa you will oo that very few of tho_persons now holding offic could be reappointed under any such condi- tions. This is probably not one-twentieth part of those in office who could pass an ex- amination under the civil service eystem, We shall bring this question prominently to pub- lic notice, and I do not know of any other way in which we can make the demand known, Should that be refused, our only remedy would be either to insist upon & mod- ification of the regulationsor m reorgani- zation of the board of civil-service commis. vioners, It is a pretty vital question for the people from our section, and I do not._belisve that the neople of tho country are quite ready to admit that & man is to be deprived of serv- ice under the government because he served in the Confederate army. weakness existed, and prices finally closed about gelower than twenty-four hours ago. No. 2 for May opened at 79@80gc, and dur- ing the session sales wera at and hetwoen 78§ @30%c, cloing at 80c. Receipts to.day were 178 car loads, 105 beivg delivercd on contracts, The amount in storo is 15,705, 834 bushels and pesels fnthe hurbor aro Iaden with 225,% ushels, cORN was less active and weaker, and an_easior feeling existed. Some holders were realizing, having become tired_carrying, and prices closed o lower for May than twenty-four hours ago. Sales at the opsning were at 4130, and during the session the range was 41 @2, closing at 419c, Vessel room was taken for 175,000 bushels at 2§c, which includes storage until the opening of navigation and the freight to Buffalo. ——— GEN, BLACK HIS CONFIRMATION AS COMMISSIONER OF PEN- BIONS, Chicago Times Special. WasHINGTON, D. C., March 16.—The delay in the confirmation of Gen. Black as pension commissioner did ot arise from any opposi- oATS were dull and 3 to fc lower, No. 2 sold at 278@27c for April, and closed at 278@27}c; May sold at 305@TLhe closing at 30{@30%c, PROVISIONS 4 were weaker and lower, The weaknees in wheat and running out of marging incresed the flerings. Pork was active and easier and sales of May opened at $1245 and ranged at | o bub resulted from a clerical error, 15 37h @12 50, oloning. at $12 408 Laed way | Ho was nominated to succeed Clarke, ‘‘re- quiet; May opened at 86 95 and §0ld at$6 92} |signed.” The nomination went to the senate 4, closing at 86 95, CATTLE, receipts were only moderate and demand rather slow with price just about steady on the ordinary run of dressed be>f and shipping steers, Thare was a brisk demand for ali grades of butchers’ stock and prices ruled tirm, Btockers and feeders were not in as ac- tive demand as last wools, Rub few countiy buyers were present and but few orders from tho country 8o far this week, - The supply is not heavy yet and if demand does not im- prove values must go lower. L'he only trans- actions of note ths past two days were ba- tween yard speculators aud prices are only about nominal, 1050 and 1200 lbs steers, $4 35 (@4 75; 1200 and 1350 lts, 85 16@5 bv; 1870 in that ehape, while in fact Clark had not re- signed. It eeems he wrote,bis resignation, but did not forward it to the premdent. The nomination was returned and corrected so as toread f'vice Clarke, removed,” and then Gen. Black was confirmed to-day. The re- ports telegraphed from here that the senate committee_on pensions had thought of making the appointment of Black a test of the president’s power to remove offi- cials, etc,, are entirely unfounded, The com- mittee has not held a meeting this session. The Black case was passed upon informally by members of the committee while on the floor of the genate. So far as that committee is concerned not one word of opposition to Black was uttered, nor was anything of the and 1600 Ibs, $550@b 75; cows, common, | kind suggested in the sen: 250123 75; good, $3 50@1 25; stockers, $3 60 ———— @4 20; feeders, $1 25 @4 G0, THE ARMY. SECRETARY ENDICOTT SAID TO MEAN MISCHIEF TO THF BOFT-SERVICE BRIGADE, Chicago Tribune Special.’s WaSHINGTON, March 16,—It is said that Secretary Endicott means mischief to thesoft- service brigade of the army, and that the men who have been away from thelr regiments for dozen years in snug _berths about Wash- ington and New York will be compelled to go to the front. Mr Endicott has already ordered one of the favorites away. Army people are_interested in the first im- portant appointment that 1s to be made which will test the sincerity of the professions of the new administration. Secretary Endicott says that 8o far as he contols the department it will be conducted without reforence to poli- tics and without favoritism to individual Thetest will come in the scloction of & captai of theline to fill the vacancy in the inspector- general's department, in the_seleciion of an- other captain to succeed Maj. Joseph Taylor, of the adjutant general’s department,who re- cently died at Fort Omaha, and in 't hs ap- pointment of a captain and assistant quarter-- master April 9, whon Gen, Dana of that do- partment goes on the retired list, The ap.- pointment will be especially important, HOGS, There was a fair demaud and receipts were not excessive, yet the continued weakness in provisions and anticipated heavy receipts for to-morrow and next day had a rather dopress- iog effect on the gen-ral market, and the ay- erage run of packing and shipping sorts scld strong at bc lower and in some Instances 10c below yesterday's prices and 5@10c_below any day last week; packing and shipping, 260 to 400 pounds, $470 g4 95; light, 150 to 210 pounds, $1 35@4 85. —— Gen. Grant's Condition, New Yorrg, March 17.—At the residence of Gen. Grant this morning Colonel Grant stated that Dr. Douglas was mistaken in be- lieviog the general asleep when the doctor left last night, The general dreads to be a burden upon any one, and closed his eyes and Jay quiet until the physician left tha house, Then he became restloss and was awake all night. This morning he has had no long sleep, but dozed while sitting 1n two easy chmirs. Mrs, Sartoris will arcive in the steamer Baltic. —— A Desperado Sentenced for Life, AvusTiN, Texas, March 17.—Dick Brannon received a life sentence in the United States district court to-day for robbing the South- wick postoffice, Brannon was an accomplice of desperadoes Pitts and Yeager, who a couple of weeks ago murdered Marshal Gos- ing in & railroad car, but were themselves killed by the deputies ‘and tramn men a few moments later. o —— BEATING HOTELS. Not as Easy as It Looks—How Clerks Recogoize a “Beat.” Chicago Tribune, ¢ How much is my bill? I had three meals and no room,” sald a departing guest to the cashier in one of the hotels yesterday afternoon. Without looking at the books the cashier named theamount which was paid, and the traveler left. “You have a good deal of confidence in that man's honesty.” was suggested to the cashler by a reporter waiting near by. ““‘How are we going to help ourselves,” was the reply,‘ss the cashler thrugged hls shonlders, Y¥ — The lowa Egg Dealers Association, Cinar Rapips, Tows, March 17,—The Towa 1gg Dealers Association s in convention here, this afternoon and evening, J. R. Morin, of Cedar Rapids, was elected president, C, H. Bennett, Musoatine, secretary and treasurer, —— Salvation Army Officers Indicted, Nonth Apaxs, Mass,, March 17.—Lieut. Jobn W, R.chard, of the Salvation Army, was arrested here, Indicted with threa others for obtaining thirty thousand dollars worth of TUTT’S PILLS 25 YEARS IN USE. The Greatest Medical Triumph of the Age! 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Gray su goods from merchants in different cities and disposing of the goods for their own business, e ———— The Great Gould Strike, Sepavia, March 17.—The strikers’ execu- tive committee, after a long conference yes- terday afternoon, announced their acceptance of the terms of the circular issued Sunday, Trains began moving last night, all demands of the men have been conceded and the strike declared ended on the Gould system, | —— ‘When the w r grows warmer, that extreme tired feeling, want of appetite, dullness, languor, and lassitude, afiict almost the entire human family, and scrof- ula and other discases caused by humo manifest themselves with many. It is i possible to throw off this debility and expel bumors from the blood without the aid of a reliable medicine like Hood's Sarsaparilla, “I could not sleep, and would get up in the morning with hardly life e out of bed. I had no appe face would break out with pimples The Weather, WasniNa1oN, March 18,—For the upper Misslusippi: Falr weather, followed by in- creaing cloudiness and local rains or snows; westerly winds; warmer weather, For the Misiouri valley: Fair weather in southern portion; partly cloudy weather and local rains or snows {n northern portion; generally warm. er northwestorly winds in northern portion; westerly winds in southern portion. A STARTLING DISCOVERY, THE MAJORITY OF THE BX-REDELS BARKED OUT OF OFFI Chicago Tribune special, Wasuinoton, D. C., March 16,~The southern _spoils-bunters bave discovered a novel point in thelr examination of the civil sexvice regulations, and it is one which they intend (o emphasize to *fire the southern heart” sgalnat tha civil service system. 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