Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 29, 1885, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. THIRTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA, NEB., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 29, 1885. NO. 216 IN GOMMONS. Mr. Gladstone's Speech Explaining the B Vot of Credit Which is the Largest Asked for in Seventy Years, It is Received With Great Oheers of Approbation. The Government Labors for Hon= orable Settlement. The Obligations to the Ameer Should be Fulfilled. After Mr, Gladstone's Speech the Vote of Oredit was Passcd ‘Without Discusslon, THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, Special telegram to the Bex. Loxnuy, April 23.—The house of commons on Monday evening had gone into committee of supply, after haviog, at the prime min- ister's request, rejected by a vote of 289 to 186 » motion made by the opposition to sepa- rato the voto of credit, This motion called fora division into the vote of credit for ex- penses in the Soudan enterprise, and another for the special preparations sccount, The object ot this motion plainly was to secure a debate on the government's Soudan policy by questioning the cutlay of that part of the oredit which would by its division bhave been applicable to the exponses of the Khartoum expedition. In the committee of supply, the vote of credit as a whole being up, Mr, Glad- stone proceeded to explain the government's object inasking forit. He disposed of any Embnhlu discussion of the Soudan quustion y » short and powerful argument. In this ho argued that it now was the paramount duty of the government to ‘hold the British forces in the Soudan available for service wherever the call of duty and honor may take chem in the service of the British em- pire., This utterance was received with cheers, MR, GLADSTONE CONTINUED A8 FOLLOWS? T now come to the subject of special prop- arations, with regard to which I heard with great satisfaction the assurance of the hon. orable gentlemen opposed to the government, that they are disposed to forward in every way the grant of funds to use, [Cheers from the opposition benches], which to the best of our mind and judgm:ng are required for the mantenance of what I on a former occasion described a3 the national and imperial pol- icy. [Cheers) Cortainly, an adequate sonte of our obligations to our Indian empire has nover yet been exclusively claimed by any one party in the state, In my opinion he would be guilty of & moral of- fense and_gioss political folly, who should endoavor ta claim on behalf of his own party any superiority in that respect over those who ate habitually opposed to him. [Cries of *'hesr,” *‘hear.”] It is an imperial policy in which'we are engsged. (Cheers.] In re- spect to this vote I have heard that there are comments upon its smallness, but it 18 the largest vote of oredit which bas been asked for ia the last seventy years except that in the time of the Crimean war. What T would observe i this, that the vote is a little larger than it looks, for, though it is £5,600,00, in the first place it Is contemperaneous with the 1arge increase of the charge in the annual esti- mates for the army and the navy, In the wecond it is possible it will receive consider— able addition from other branches of the vote, namely, 4 500,000, which we put down as Likely to be spent in Soudan; and, in the third place, and more important than either of theso items, it must be borne in mind that this case is primarily AN INDIAN CASE OF MILITARY PREPAEATION. Those who might want to know what I tho total amount of the charge now go- ing forward and now likely to bo entailed by the present preparations, we would like to in- \quire what we do_mot _yet ourselves know, namely, what will be the expense of vigorous and costly measures, which we hope and be- lieve are being taken in India, to meet its .ahare of the present obligation The demand for information is al ible, the demand is often respol Y demaud never is # demand to be treated with anything bus respect. Lt us consider what is the pressnt position, and what mode of conduct of the zovernment is adapted to that position, Itisnotn case of war. Though there is not war before, actual, or I may even haps say proximate, though I am siow to eal with epithets 'h are of course liable to some latitude of interpretation, I am not callad upon to detine and woul find great difficulty in defining, since it dees not stand upoa any choico of mine er my colleagues the degree of danger that may be before us, We have labored and we con- tinue to la or for an honorable settlement b; specific means, [Cheers.] Bui one thlnz{ will venture to say with regard to that con- tinvency, an cutbreak of war (a rupture of relations between two great powers like Russia and Eogland), one thing I w.1l say with great strength of conviction, and great™ earnestness in my endeavor to impress it upon the com- mittee, that we will strive to conduct our selves to the end of this diplomatic contro. versy in such a way as that, if unhappily it 1w to end in violence or rup- ture, we may at least be able to (CHALLENGE YEE VERDIOT OF OIVILIZED MAN- KIND rz‘.&n a review of the correspondence of demands aud refusals, to say whether we bave, or whether we have not, doze all that men ocould do by every just and honorable offrtto prevent the pluoging of two such eountries with all the millions that own their sway, in bloodshed aud strife, [Loud cheers,] Ta 1y opinion the question before the com- mittee at this moment is » simple and very narrow one. What we present to y the case for preparation. Js there, or there not, any case for preparstion. [Cheers.] Liook out the facts before us, Try them by that test and no other, Do not urge your Therefore if T am asked for mere information, my answer n this, it is impossible for us to give you full information, and conld not at this moment open up the correspondence that has been goingon, We could not lay boefore you the unsifted Information and rumors that have reached us. We could not enable you by any possibility to judge of the question that has mot yot resched the stage of _ maturily for judgment, the evidence is complete, The development is simply going forward, Do not let us be too sanguine or point to & able issus, Do not let us despair th and jostice may on both sides prevail over narrower and more unworthy feelin [Cheers,] We onn not give you all the infor- mation we possess, 1f we did givelt it would not placayouin a position for conc'usive judement. Were weto givea part, weshould infallibly mislead you, and therefore we stand simply upon what in patent and notorious, and eay that thers is in these patent and notori- ous facts, with which the whole world is ac- quainted, A CAUSR AND AN ABUNDANT CAUSE EOR PREP- ABATIONS, —[“Hear!"] “Shall I now voice in a few words and sketch rapidly and slightly the outlines of these patent and notorious facts. The starting point of our movement in this case s our allegation of honor to_the ameer, who stands between us and any other consid- ation of polloy, but our obligations to him are not absolute, We are not obliged (God forbld we shou'd ever be obliged) to defend him or anybody elte, were he misled into & course of tyranny against the just resent- ment of his subjects, We are not bound to snstain h m 10 any cause of evll, but we have contingent obligation to give him our aid and] suppor aod T think every one who hears me will say :‘HIAT OBLIGATION SHOULD BRE FULFILLED. inno stinted mavner. [Here, here.] If it really be a living obligation, contingent only upon this one condition—that his conduct ia such that we can_honorably aporove of it. nection with the ameer of Afgha B have stated distinctly to the house that there have been full communications between him and the viceroy of India, and though the lan- guage he holds and the principles he nounces are those which absolutely entitle . im to call upon us to act in concert and council with him, to act for him, and as far as possible, with himr, to protect him in the possession of his just right. [Oheers.] Well, with this viewa plan was formed for the delimination of the trontier of Afghan- 1stan, and what was yesterday the Tarkistan couniry, but what has now become, by a rapid process, Russian territory. We have made very rapid progress owrselvesin various quarters of the world, and tha idea which, veyond all others, I ‘desire to cury along with me at every step of this painful and auxious proces: determination to make every ailowance and concession to thoee with whom we are dealing that we should claim for ourselves, [Hear.] Therefore Iwiil only say that this territory has llpidl( become Russian, and that Russia is nuw inimmediate contact with Afghanistan, and that the plan made for the determination of the Afghan territory has unhap. pily boen frustrated to this extent, that it has not taken effect in action. The circumstancss of the delay may have to be carefully considered hereafter. I am about to examine them now or make a delay of the matter of charge, but I must point out the notorious fact that it allowed for military advance- upon debated ground that were ob- vionaly and on the face of them in a high de- gree dangerous to the peace and dangerous to the future settlement of the question. How- ever we sct ourselves to bring about an agreement with Russia by which wc hoped that those dangers might in & great dogree be neutralized. That sagreement was concluded on the 16:h of March, although it has passed by the date of the 17th of March, insemuch as it, I think that was the date on which it was telegraphed to Sir Peter Lums. den. The agreement consisted of a covenant, and the considerations of the covenant was that the Russian troops should not advance or attack, provided the Afghan troops did not advance or attack, that was the covenant, and there foilowed a reservation, and the reserva- tion was that unless, in case of some extraor- dinary accident, such & disturbance in Penjdeh, the statue should remain undis- turbed, I well recollect the feeling which the mention of that reservation, recited in the house, the same acting had ‘been oreated in cur own minds, it was obvious that we were a8 much entitled to insert reservations on our side, I only mow refer to this matser in or- der to dsacribe as well as I can the spirit in which we have endeavored to proceed, the sphiit of liberal contraction and interperta- tion, wherever we thought we could apply it WITHOUT THE SAORIFICE OF HONOR, or duty, excaptions might have taken to that reservation as covering contingencies, had we been inclined to examine m & epirit of cavillng and criticism, But_wo determined to give credit, and hought it our duty to give credit to the parties to that agreement, and I did not in this house say one word to impute an eyil color to that reseryation, We thought it. our duty to give that construction to the reservation, aud I do not say that the con- struction is shown to have been wronz, come what may. [Here, here.] I am bound to say that although the house was somewhat startled by the reservation, I believe the agreement was accepted by the house as a binding covenant. It was a very solemn cov- enant, involving great issues, There were thousands ot men on one side standing for their country, and on the other side for what they thought their patriotic duy placed in a poition. of . da gerous continguity, and in denger of a bloody collision This collision came be- tween the danger and _the psople exposed to it, and we believed that it would be recog- nized as one of the most sacred covenants ever made between two great nations, and that thers would be a rivalry between two great sanctions, and that there would b rivalry batween the two powers to sift the in- cident that followed to the end, and ascertain how it had come about, and who were the persons upon which the responsibility for 1t rested, [Hear, hea.] All this remains in euspense, What happened? The bloody en- Ragement of the 80th of March followed the ocovenant, I shall overstate nothing I s not purposely overstate anything, -Tl I say is this, that that woeful engagement of the J0th of March distinctly showed that one party or both had, either through illegal will or through unfortudate mishaps failed to fulfill the conditions of the engagement as we con- sidered it, and we consider it still to be the duty of both countrics, and above all I will say it for the honor of both countries to ex- amine how and BY WHOSE FAVLT THIS CALAMITY CAME ABOUT. owa foregone conclusions ¢o the misconduct of Russia or any one. Do not enter into the judicial part of the case only, bat also into the part which Iu prudeat upon that aspect of tho | case, and that aloe asking tor o credit as to the future, and no acquittal as to the past osay it ls v cass for proparation, [Ohoere,} The facts within your knowledge are enough o maka 1t your bounden duty 8o to peepare. | 1 will have no foregone conclusion, I will not anticipate that we are in the right, and although I have perfect confidence in the honor and intellizence of our officers, [cheers] I will not now assume that they may have been mislead. I will prepare myself for the issue, and I will abide by it, as {ar as I can, in & apirit of impartiality, What I say it that those who have caused such an engage- ment to fail, ought to become unknown to it | Half; their own government and to each contracting party. 1 will not that we are even mow possession of all the facts of caso, but wo are in posssssion ot the facts which create in our minds an impression, unfavorable to the con- duct of some of those who form the other party to these negotiations, but we will not divert from the strictest principles of justice, in anticipating anything of the ultimate issne of that our inquiry, whi.h we desire to prose- cute, and sre endeavoring to prorecute, The cause of that deplorable collision may bo un. cortatn, Whote was the provocation is & ‘matter of the utmost consequsnce, W o know that the attack was a Russsan attack. We know that the Afghans suffered in life, in spirit and in repute. We know the_blow was struck at the credit and the authority of the sovereign Who is our protected ally and who had committed no offense, all I say is that we cannot, in this state of things ~close the books and say, ‘we will look into 1t no more.” We must do our best to bave right done in this matter. Under these circumatances there is a case for proparation, and 1 bops that the house will feel with me, after what I have said, the necessity we are under of hold- 1,8 the Soudanese funds available for eervice elsewhere, I hope the house will not press upon us for & demand for time, which can have no other effect than of propagatiog and elsewhere the belief that there is some in- decison in the mind of parliament, —[Loud cheers,] ~whereas I believe that with one heart, and one soul, and one purpose, only while reserving the absolute'liberty of judgiog the conduct of the government and visiting them with its consequences, the house will go forward to perform and meet the demands of justice and the calls of honor, and will subject only to justice and honor,labor for the purposes of peace, [Loudandgeneral cheers. ] The vote to pass the entire credit of 855.000,000 ea bloc to the government, as Mr. Gladstone had re- quested was then put from the chair, Ciedit in this form was at once agreed to without discussion and loud and prolonged cheering from all sides. The cheering was remewe and made tumultous when Mr. Gladstone arose from his place and passed out of the chamber, WAR'S GORY HEAD. MUCH TALK BUT LITTLE ACTION, LoNDoN, April 28 —The admiralty ordered all able seamen enrolled in the royal navy. The Duke of Cambridge presided at the de- fense committee meeting last night, Itis re- srted Russia is meeting great opposition in Ker efforts to purchase transport animals, In Turkestan a decree was issued levying on snimals for traneport and when the orders were being executed there was some rioting, THE MARKET. Consols_opened this morning at 95}, at twelve thirty they had advanced to 95§, and at one o'clock 95 5-16. Ruseian securities of 73 opened at 854, Americ.n securities were steady. Stocks opened irregular. 4 p. m,—Consols, 95} Princ) and princess of Wales have returned to Liondon. THE TALK 1N BERLIN, The Berlin National Z-itung states Germany remains neutral in the present crisis in the relations of England aund Russia and that no request has been received for her for medita- tion, The Zeitung also denies that the czar wrote the emperor of Germany that the chances of peace hud diminished. NO MEDIATOR WANTED, A Berlin special to the Journal of Debates states Germany is not disposed to becomo mediator between Russia and Fogland, that Russis even refuses arbitration as a means of settloment of the presant difficultp, WAR PREPARATIONS, % Four torpedo boats'lying at Sheerness have been ordered into commission for immediate service. ‘War news caused an advance of four shill- ings in the price of wheat in Kent. Tmmense quantities of coal are being ship- ped to Cape Town, South Africs, for use of titish armed croisers and men of war in event of war between Russia and England. RUSSIAN AGGRRSSBIVENESS, Loxpox, Aprl 28, 3:30 p. m.—A special dispatch from Tirpul says the Russians oc- ocupy Akhdeb, and are whxlll{, at work making a military road from Penjdeh to Herat. ENGLAND ACCRPTS THE NRW BOUTH WALES CONTINGENT, LoNpoN, April 28,—The government ac- cepted the offer of New South Wales of their contingent mow in Soudan for service Tudia or elsewhere, 8s the military author- ities may request, WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS, SvaxiM, April 28 —Government troops are returning here, orders having been recsived to withdraw. Catro, April 28.—Orders were received for the withdrawal of all troops from Wady a. BETILEMENT OF THRE BOSPHORE REGYPTIRN AFFAIR. Pants, April 28.—The journal Des Debats says the Bosphore Egyptien affair has been sottled, through the iutermedisry offices of England, upon_the following basis; Egypt ologizes to Tallandier, French charge de affairs, the offico of the Bosphore Egyptien will bé reopened and the_journal allowed to reappear forthwith, and France abandons her intention of a demand for the recall of the officials who forcibly entered the Bosphore Egyptien office, in view of an apology. RUSSIANS NAKINQ A MITITARY ROAD TO HERAT, Loxooy, April 2).—Advices from All habad, Hindoostan, says: Tirpul dispatch e that the Russians have occupied Ak- ope, and are making a rosd to Herat through Penjdeh. _Supplies are reaching Sir Peter Lumsben's forces slowly and in small uantities. Supplies for one month for indle-Kill and Abdulla, while provisions for two corps for three months are stored at Quetta, Bixteen field hospitals are ready for service, In addition to large goneral hospi- tal at Quetta, RUBSIAN ORUISEES, 8r. Perersnuge, April 29,—Five steamers have been purchazed in America for cruisers in the Russian service, RUSS'A REJECTS OONCILIATORY MBASURES, Baussxis, April 28,—A dispatch to the dondence Helge from St. Petersburg, s A council was held at the palace to-day at which the czar presided, rejected the proposals made by Do Giers to adopt conoiliatory meas- ures towards England, Tha reply of the Rus- sian goverameut to Earl Graasille firmly malntains the tenor ot the former dispatches RUSSIANS OCOUPYING MERUCHAK, LoNDoN, April 8, —The Standard's special sthat the Russlans have occupied Meru- twenty miles south of Pendjeh, on the river The ameer, while carcless not stated d, CUSTOM HOUSE ROBBRRY, 4 Paso DL Nogrk, Mex., April 27,—A box containing $60,000 In unsigned bank notes of the Banco Mexicano, stored in the custom | th house, was broken open to-duy and robbed of all but a $5,000 package. Three custom house officials are under arrest on suspiclon, WASHINGTON NEWS. The President Anpoints Numerous Col- lectars of Iuternal Revenne, The Reduction of Postage In- creases the Revenue, Widows Who Have Remarried Fradulently Drawing Pensions. A Hundred Pensions Drawn at Philadelphia for Dead Men, Attorney-General Garland’s Opin- ion in Lawton's Oase. The Pardon Makes Him as Innocent as Though no Offence Had Ever Been Committed. The Alleged Extravagance Land Office. Special Telegram to the Ben, WASHINGTON, April 20,—The last procla- mation of General Sparks, commissioner of the land office, in relation to the extravagence in the discovered by him in the land service, should | P8 be taken with a large grain of salt. It bears on the question of the traveling expenses, of the apecial agents of the land office, who are engoged in the investigation of fraudulent entries, under the preemption homestead and timber culture acts and upon the derredations upon the timber lands of the United States, The commissioner says: “The people may say that this is a very small affair, but it must be remembred that there are seventy agents employed by the land office, Their traveling expenses under the past management have run up in the neighborhood of 810,000 a year each. The aggregate expenses of the agents for a year will foot up nearly $1,000,000, & careful cutting of unpardonable, extravagant and dishonest items, will result in a saving of $100,000 or $200,000. That may be very small business for the republicans to contemplate, but it will be nothing to the dissredit to the new admim tration, This is an amazing statement to come from the general land office. ‘‘General” Spurks ought to know that the entire appro- priation for the current fisoal year, on ac- sunt of special agents for the purposes above named amounts to $200,000, This amount includes the salaries st the rates [of $1,600 a year each. 1If there be seventy of them the salaries would amount to $112,000, leaving $88,000 for traveling expenses, and other items, From the appropriation mentioned are paid also the fees and mileage of witnesses in hearings at the local land offices, of charges preferred by the special agents, In view of the fact that the entire appropriation 18 only ; | coln, $200,000 it is difficult tosee how ‘*‘the past management” has been able to expend nearly $1,000,000 in & year, The truth is that the traveling expenses of the special agents average about $1,600 & yesr sach; the number employed to investigate thepntries under the homestead, pererpiion and timber culture acts, has been abofit twenty-five. Total amount of | appropriations for salaries and expemises of such agents for the current fiscal year, and for fees nnd expenses of witnesses, who attended the hearings, _ being 81 000,000, which inoludea’a deficiency of $25,000,’ granted at the laat session of congress. |This explanation shows how reckless have been the of extnvaflnu and dishonesty which have em- anated from the general land offica since_the present commissioner took charge of it, In s dispatch published April 21st, some criticism was made upon the order suspending the issne of all land patents except in_cases of entries by cash and land scrip, and it was stated that one effect of the order would be to enbance the vni:a o:m scrip, 1 h-s afle;ot has al- ready been ~produced. It appears that the land scrip which was worth in Washington $13 an acre the week before the order was issued, experienced & sharp advance immediately after its promul- gation, and within a week was held at $17 an acre, About 5,000 acres of this scrip, it is said, are held by Washington speculators, into whose hands, Commissioner Sparks order of April 3 put the pretty sum of $25,000. THE LIEUTENANT-GENERAL'S AUTHORITY. For a number of days rumors have been rife in the war department that an army order was forthcoming that when issued would create considerable surprise, While no au- thentic information is attainable from officials, it 1s understood that an order ia to bo issued by the president, and is to define the limit of authority of the lieutenant-general of the army. It was an open secret for months prior to Secretary Lincoln’s retirement that a controversy existed between him and Lieut.- Gen, Sheridan, relative to the authority of the Intter. Tae secretary of war finally wrote a letter to the lieutenant general in which he defined the latter’s authority, It is asserted that Gen. Sheridan has come in conflict with tne new secretary of war In regard to the eame questions a3 to their respectiva rights of command, On the 8th inst. a general order ed for certain regiments to exchange byJune 1, The order was, * command of Lieut, Gen, Sheridan,” It did not contain the name of the sccretary of war, nor the words, ‘‘with the approval of the secretary of war,” Simlilar orders, as shown by the records, when issued by Gen. Sher- man, contained the nsme of Secref Lin. In the general order above re- forred to the Second regiment of ar- nlle:dy. stationed at Washington, was or- dered to exchange with the Third regiment of artillery, stationed in the gulf states, Cortain surgeons of the army have expressed themselves as bitterly opposed to this change, at this season of the year. They say {t would endanger the health of an un- acclimated regiment, and that the transfer would be especially dangerous because of the threatened sickly season in the south, They say that the regiment south is acclimated and can remaln there withou danger. Other officials say this is the first order of the kind issued In the spring of the year. Secretary Endicott is now in Boston, The expected order, which promises much surprise, will probably not be given out until hi o depsrtment next Thursdsy. great indignation among y and the people generally, who know of Endi- cott's intentiol The attitude assumed by young Lincoln towards the lieutenant general of the army; in which the secretary dll\!lnyul his fgnorance and an sbsurd sssumption of power, was severely criticized, but the fact that Endicott intends to follow out the policy of his predscessors in this regard is unusually condemned, Itis felt that the nation owes too much to Gen, Sheridan to have him treated in any such way, It is hinted in one quarter that any attempt to curtail Gen. Sheridan’s power will result in e resigna- tion, e — WASHINGTON NEWS, A CORRROTION, WasHINGTON, April 28, —The secrotary of the treasury appointed Alphonso M. Bullock shipping commissioner for the port of Nor- folk, Va., not for the portof New York as announced yesterday. APPOINTMENTS, The president to-day appointed the follow- ing collectors of internal revenue: Cornelins Voorhees for the Fourth district of Missouri, vice David A. Stewart, resigned; John Whiteaker for the district ~f Oregon, vice John E, Oartwright, n\né)ended: Frank Brad- lay, distriot of South Oarolina, vice Emery M Breyton, suspended: Hambleton I, Shep- rd, Sixth district of Virginia, vice William . Oraig, suspended. He also appointed John Hobson to be collector of customs for the district of Oregon, The commissioner of pentions_to-day di- rected the suspension at the Philadelphia agepcy of 102 pensions, which have bsen drawn, although the pensioners are dead, In some cases, the commissioner says, the pe sons in whose name drawn have been di also directed the pension at the same agency, pensions to seven widows who re- married in 1881, but who have continued to draw pensions since. The commissioner has asked the attorney general to bring suit inst the pension agent for moneys so un- lawfully disbursed, ALM E¥FFEOT OF THR NEW POSTAGE RATE. Third Assistant Postmaster-General Hazen in a;reportyof . the effect, during the first year of the reduction of letter ‘)MM from three centa to two, says the resulta of the two cent postage have more than raalized the most sanguine expactations of its most ardent advocates, He thinks when the law making the single rate weight limit one ounce, inste: of half an ounce goes into effect, it will add to the revenues by inducing persons sending Tight packages, to tend them under seal in- stead of at parcel rates, ATTORNEY-GENERAL GARLAND'S OPINION IN LAWTON'S CASR, ‘The opinion of Attorney-General Garland upon the eligibility of A. R. Lawton for the osition of minister to Russia was made pub- ic to-day., Lawton though having held a commission as lieutenant in the federal army bore arms against the United States in the late war. In 1876, however, he received a full pardon and amnesty from the president. One vear later came the adoption of the four- teenth amendment prohibiting, except by con- sent of congress any person from holding civil office who, having previously sworn to support the constitution, nevertheless engaged n an insurrection. Garland holds that at the time the amendment went into operation Lawton had, by the pardon_previously granted, been restored to all his rights as a citizen and had become by virtus of the pardon as innocent as thouxh the offense forgiven had never been committed. The attorney general belioves it was not the purpose of the amendment to cast reproach upon the executive by repudiating his act, nor to violate the national faith, of the solemnity pledged. It now sppanrs that Law. ton while expressing the tirm belief in his own eligibility twice requested his name to be not further considered. President Cleveland has written Lawton a personal letter reluctantl; acoepting the latters . -‘unselfishoss” and “patriotic” decision and adding: I can but feel that the country is greatly the looser by i BECRETARY BAYARD. told » Post reporter to-night that A. M. Keiley had declined the Italian mi Bayard would not, however, say whof not Kieley would be asked to go to Rassia in place of Gen. Lawton, THE ORUP OUTIQOK. SUMMARY OF REPORTS FROM 1300 OORRES- PONDENTS. Speclal Telegram to Trz Bex. CHICAGO, April 28.—The Farmers’ Review in summing up the reports from it 1200 cor- respondents concerning the crop outlook will say: ‘‘At present very little can be sald about the winter wheat crop which bhas mnot been said, We have been able for the last three months to say very little in ite favor, and a great deal against it. We have had an abundance of rain ail over the wheat belt, and this stimulated influeuce has had only the effect to start up the live wheat and confirm the great majority of the reports which have been from time to time printed with reference to the very large proportion of the crop which has been winter- killed, ~The spring wheat seeding Is progress- ing satisfactorily and we do not look for an: increage in the acreage over 1884, We lool for no end of oats, First, for the reason of the failure of the winter wheat crop, and, secondly, to take the place of spring wheat, and, thlnzhy, on account of the very large increased consumption upon the feature of the corn crop in 1883, which has kept up ever since. The ocorn acreage now promises to be very great, owirg to the fact of the condition of the wheat crop. The win- ter wheat lands which have been and are to be plowed up will be put into corn and oats, 80 that we have every promise of the largest feed crops the country has ever known, e — OHICAGO'S NEW 'OHANGE, THE FRATIVITIES ATTENDING THE CHANGR, Cuicaco, April 28, —Notwithstanding the rather exciting tenor of the foreign dispatches, trading on ‘changejhas been unusually tame this forenoon, The reason assigned is that the board of trade has voted to-morrow a holiday to colebrate their formal occupancy of the new palace at the foot of LaSalle street, four blocks to the southward of the present atructure, and that an inclination has pervaded brokers and commission men to hold open very fow trades between now and Thurs. day. In addition to this & majority of the members are busily engaged preparing for the ceremonios of tonight, to- moerrow and to-morrow night, while the young element is arrangiog for & carnival this afternoon to propflrl{ »ig nalize their departure from the old bullding. A band of music has been engaged and a platform been erected in one corner of the present trading room upom which apeakers and a number of prominent singers and actors will appear after the close of the afternoon session to carry out a varied programme, A marching column will then form and proceed to the new building. To-night a promenade concert occurs fn the new hall and to-morrow the formal dedicatory ceremonies ncour, To- morrow_night a banquet will occur at the Grand Pacitic hotel, A large number of in- vited guests from all portions of this country, Canada and Engl nd are in the city as invit- ed guosts to join in the festivitics, i el Lindell Hotel on Fire, ST. Louts, April 28,—The Lindell hotel is on fire and will burn down. Later—The Lindell hotel fire is out. The flames were confined to the collar Later —The Lindell hotel had a very nar- row escape from destruction_this afternoon, About 5 v'clock smoke was discovered issuing from the cellar over the whitewasher's room and pouring out of the box which encloses the annuncintor wires, and which runa _from the cellar to the upper story. Up thls box the flames rushed with great fiorceneas to the roof, but fortunately there were soon suppressed iu this direction,and by desperate and persistent exertions of the firemen were confinad to the cellar. Holes were chopped through _the of- fico fioor and_pipes directed through them and all the other openings to the cellar, The entire basement was flooded with water, and after two hoare’ hard work the flames 'wero quenched. About ~ ffty feet squate of the rotunda floor is _burned out, the offico is nearly wrecked, and the reading room greatly damaged, Tho carpets and furniture on the parlor floor and in sev- eral rooms on the other stories, aro very se- ciously injured by water, and 'the wall dec- orations are destroyed by smoke, A large art of tho cellar was burned out. The loss s variously estimated at from $30,000 to 850,000, covered by insurance. When the firo was discovered thero wae groat alarm among the boarders and guests of the house, but overyone had time to get, out safely, and no injuries or mishaps are yet reported. e Mr. Goudy’s Mission, Speclal telegram to the Br, CHICAGO, April 28,—The attention of W. C. Goudy was called to-day to an item in a morning paper which set forth that while in ‘Washington recently he had been offered a mission to Stansfordeburg, and had declined. Goudy bad applied for nothing, had refused nothing, and had no anticipation of bein| offered a mission abroad or at home. He di; not know ot any position in the service of the vernment that he would accept; he be. mved the report that Congressman Springer had been offered the Russian mission equally a8 improbable as the part of the statement referring to bimself, The Illinois democrata had already done remarkably well in having secured a large number of important ap- pointments, ———— Death of Lige Tusler, a Large Stock Man at Sidney. Special Telegram to THE BaE, Spoxey, Neb.. April 26,—Lige] Tusler, | one of the largest stock men In this county, died here to-day, He stepped aboard of a passenger train to see an old friend, General Stanford, of Oslitornia, when the train sud- denly moved, throwing his head against the car, oausing apoplexy, He lived a few min- utes, This untimely death is deeply rogretted by the entire community. His,age was 60. He leaves a wife and child. e —— The Northwest. WinNereG, April 28, —The wire has been down north of Fort Q’Appelle since noon to day, and information has been ebtained re- garding the movements of troops. The in- snrgents are supposed;to have moved north to Dumont’s Crossing, and appsrently there is not likely to be uny fighting for a day or two, March April May ! YWhen the weather grows warmer, that want of appetite, aflict almost the entire buman family, and scrof- ula and other diseases caused by humors, 1t is im- possible to throw off this debility and expel humors from the blood without the ald of a extreme tired feeling, dullness, languor, and lassitude, manifest themselves with many. reliable medicine like Hood's Barsaparilla, 1 could not sleep, and would get up in the morning with hardly lifo enough to get T had no appetite, and my 1 bought out of bed. face would break out with pimples, At no other season {s the system 80 8us- ceptible to the beneficial effects of a re- liable tonic and invigorant. The impure state of the blood, the deranged digestion, and the weak condition of the body, caused by its long battle with the cold, wintry blasts, all call for the reviving, regulating and restoring influences so happily and effectively combined in Hood's Sarsaparilla. “Hood’s Sarsaparilla did me a great deal of good. I had no particular disease, but was tired out from overwork, and it toned me up.” MRS, G. E. SIMMONS, Cohoes, N, Y, Hood’s Sarsaparilla a’vottlo of Hood's Barsaparilla, and soon began to sleep soundly; could get up with- out that tired and languld feeling, and my appetite improved,” R, A, BANFORD, Kent, O* “I had been much troubled by general debility. Last spring Hood's Sarsaparilla I derived an 1 never felt proved just the thing needed, immense amount of benefit. better.” H. F. MiLLET, Boston, Mass, Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by all drugglsts. $1; six for 5. Made only by C, I. HOOD & CO,, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar “For seven years, spring and fall, T had serofulous sores come out on my legs, and for two years was not free from them at all. T suffered very much, Last May I began taking Hood's Barsaparilla, and before I had taken two bottles, the sores healed and the humor left me.” C, A, ARNOLD. Arnold, Me, ““There 18 no blood purifier equal to Hood's Barsaparilla,” E.8, PukLrs, Rochester, N.¥, Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for §5. Made only by C. L. HOOD & C0., Lowell, Mass, 100 Doses One Dollar | ato a bill FRISKY TRADERS. A Great Day For The Buys on 'Change. Business in the Wheat Pit was Left Untouched, All Devoted Themselves to the Festivities of Moving Aud Catting Up All Sorts of Antios, Big Heavy Cattle Were Hard to Sell, An Overstock of Veal Oalves—Hogs ‘Were Fairly Active—Provisions Lightly Traded in. OBIOAGO MARKETS, WAS A GREAT DAY FOR THE BOYE ON 'OHANGE, Special telegram to the Bk, CHICAGO, April 28, As far as practicable have business was concerned, there might as well boen no session, What trading was indalged in was simply of the evenivg up character, so that operators could spend to-morrow in colebrating moving into the new building without fear that they were loning fortunes by reason o8 & holiday, Instead of a crowd in the pits the members clrculated about the front door cutting up all sorts of antics, and making more noise than usual, The exuber- ance of spirit however, did not make itself prominent until after the close of the morning geasion about 11 o'clock, some of the selli callers who could not hold 0 their enthusi- asm any longer, were the cause of a great deal of excitement, and drawing an immense street crowd by shooting off cannon and fire crackersin the rear old building. Thefun did not last lone and it was described as the tak- ing of Herat.” In anticipation of a riotous time on the floor, the gallery was packed to the utmost limit by & crowd of spectators. They looked down with laughing eves on the play of the bulls and bears, waiting for the expected rampus. In the meantime the floor manager of the afternoon’s sport was buty ef- fecting their plans. The programmo s a follows: Music by the First Regiment d, which entered the hall amid great cheering; an address by ex-Congressman Dunham; song by the Imperial quartet; a recitation by Nat Goodwin and a selection oy the quartet. It had been contemplated by the committee of arrangements, It became evident, how- ever, that the boys were not in the humor for business, #o at noon Secretary Stone appeared in the gallery and announced that by special request, the closing ceremo- nies would commence at 2 p. m. The an- nouncement was met with cheers, and in the excitement two or three silk hats were smoshed, Grain samples had been removed from the hall earlyin the day, and conse- quently the usual throwing of them was dis- with, The real fun, however, com= ‘menced after regular order of the programme bad been gone through with, It was in the form of a “‘Stag” dance to the music ef the band, The sport was uprorious in the ex- treme. June wheat opened at 914c, dc over the close of last night, sold up to 91fc and closed at 913c. There was a good deal of ac-. tivity in the 4 ORN pit opening at 48}c } over the olose, it sold up to 470, where it closed, There were no features atall in provisions. What little trade was induleed in was simply the changing over of options, June pork opened at $11 85, be over the close, and sold up to $11 874 and closed at 811 85. Late dispatches from Lon- don by private wire to the effect that 87 was id for Russians on rumors that difficulties were likely to be peacefully adjusted, CATTLE Trade was active and prices strong, sud 10c higher on light bardy and medium steers, while on_the other hand, big heavy cattle wero hard to sell, and if ‘auything & shade easier, The export trade is domoralized and prices in the British markets are about as low a at any timo sinco tho trade began. Ship- ping orders wore light, but dressed boef oper- ators were liberal buyers, Stookers and feed- ers are 10@15c lower than last week, and upon the inerease, So far for the week apeculators and yard dealers are about the only buyers, Theio are a few orders from tho country, but at_lower prices than sellers can accept, The market 18 overcrowded with veal calves, Thoey are selling around about $2 per 100 pounds, lower than a week ago. Springees aro wolling from 80 to 4 oents lowar per head; 1,060 to 1,200 pounds 4 6@ 50;1,200 to 1 350 pounds 85 0U@5 25; 1,8 pounds and upwards 85320@5 60; butohers’ common $2 40@3 40; good 33 50@4 65; stock- ers and foeders $350@0 00; Texas cattle, 1,000 to 1,287 pounds; $4 374@5 15, HOGB, The market opened active and ruled steady most of the hogs selling at once, as the specu- lators went in freely. Towards the close, however, the speculators found themselves with a_greater number on eale than they wanted to carry down, and would bave been willing to shade the merning's prices if t! could find & oustomer. & few lots sold lower at the close than at the opening, Rough and common packers again sold around about $4 40@4 45, and best mixed at 24 6@ 4 60, with choice assorted heavy at $4 65 and Phifadelphias at $4 70, e ——— The Illinois Legislature, SrriNariewp, 111, April 28,—In the house this morning the sesslon was taken up by die- cussion of the state house appropriation re. pair bill, Before its completion the senate was announced, In joint session one vote was cast, which was for Logan. In the sen- to render valid sales and leases of railway rolling stock passed, sa did also & bill mcmuimI the pay of jurors ‘to $2 per day, with an amendment that five ceats be paid for mileage instead of ten as proposed, A resolution which passed the house yesterday regarding the appoint- ot of & Jolut conmitien 0. take steps to- ward suppressing pleuro pneumonia was adopted, The kouse bill for conelderation of railrond corporations was sent to the judici- ary committee, Dell introduced & resolation for the revision of the ooustitution of the United States, where recognizea 1 Seal of North Carolina-=— moking Tobacco. ad i:zc]iAEerwifi{’e fo Peafer a\og 7 by? Gonsdumer, Lne, and store i&iew.