Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 29, 1886, Page 1

FIFTEENTH YEAR, THE PACKING HOUSE Cutting Blows Inflicted by the Cleaver of the Slanghter House Orew. SURVEYOR GARDNER WONT: GO. Startling Disclosures of Countless Frands Perpetrated on the Goy- ernment in Sarveying Public Lands in Nebraska. Gardner Will Not Be Removed., v, Jan. 28, —[Special Tele- gram, om of Nebraska democrats to secure the abolition of the office of surveyor general of Nebraska and lowa, located at Plattsmouth, have occupied the at- tention of Commissioner Sparks for some time. The commissioner asserts positively that Surve, r will not be removed nor the office abolished, and that the investigation of fraudulent surveys in past years will be pushed by that officer. From data now at hand this investigation will prove profitable to the government. Exposing Public Thicves. CHICAGO, Jan, 28.—[Special Telogram.]— The Times this morning, in a Washington dispateh, gives a startling disclosure of the land frauds perpetrated upon the govern- it under the guise of surveying publie lands. ‘The Times says: “They have been particularly rite in Nebraska, and the facts about them are likely to come out 1n connee- tion with the fight over the maintenance of the office of surveyor general in Nebraska,” ‘The article then recites the history of the fight for the office of surveyor general, how Gardner finally secured the oflice and how the democratic and republican backers of Clegg united in an effort to get the office abolished. The dispateh continuing s; “*According to the usual course, the abolition of the oflice would be followed by turning over of the records to the sceretary of state, subject to the necessary federal and state legislation. Large frauds are believed to have been committed in the alleged surveys, and if the records of the oflice are turned over to the republican state government a full investigation would be almost impossible. Commissioner Sparks says the oftice of surveyor general will not be abolished. 'The principal reason for this is thata large part of the surveys for which the government has already paid have never been made. They have got to be made now and paid for a second time. Thein- terior lines of townships in ma es were never run in the field and the field notes are utterly fallacious and misleading, and any quantity of legislation is in prospeet because of the uncertain character of the boundary lines, I 3 urveyor GeneralGardner explaining the situation at gth, and saying he was in daily receipt of letters from county surveyors and land own- ers complaining that no surveys were made in many townships. rdner encloses as an illustration letters from J. O. Bent, of Wake- field, saying Le has been engaged for years getting settlers in northern Nebraska and that no interior survey at all scems to have been made in portions of Cedar and Wayne counties. J. Sterling Morton has received from Chief Clerk Birkhauser a long letter declaring that most stupendous frauds were committed and that the whole land oftice in Nebraska was honeycombed with corruption. One man who had several surveying contracts ad- mitted that to get a contract it was nec ry 1o divide with the land oftice and the leading republican politicians of the state, and they could not do good work for the amount of money left them after paying all these sub- sidies. That out of about $50,000 worth of vork he did, only §3,000 went to him. James Slocum told Birkhauser that congressmen ~—~ received two thousand out of a con- tract and for that he was to support re-election to the senate. A number of other Instances are cited. Rottenness in Nebraska. The following is the telegram above re- ferred to, taken from the Chicago Times of yesterday morning, under the caption of I NESS IN NEBRASKA. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—[Special.]—The enormous frauds that have been perpetrated upon the government under the guise of sur- veyilng public lands have been explained In detail in these dispatehes, They have been particularly rife in Nebraska, and the facts about them are likely to come out in connee- neetion with a fight over the maints nee of the oftice of surveyor general of Neb, Under the last adm ation the ofice held by a man named Stephenson. the democratic administration came in he re- signedin favor of one Clegg. Stephenson is a end of Congressman We vand Weaver was a party o thisarrangement. Clegg is nominally a democrat, but in the last congressional election he worked for Weaver andagainst Brown, the demoeratic candidate, Clegg had some demoeratic backers, too, but J. K, Gardner was appointed. Now the re- publicans and democrats who backed Clegg want to get the office of surveyor general ed, and to that end they all of surveying has been accomplished and there is no more use for the office. Gardnex is & man of the highest integrity and a civil engineer, whilo Clegg knows not about surveying. He is a shoemaker by t and a politiclan by occupation. The very men who wanted Clegg appointed are willing to have the office abolished for the sake of getting rid of Gardner, Accord- ing to the usual course, the abolition of the oftice would be followed by the turning over of the records of the surveyor general’s office rv the secretary of state of Nebraska, subject 0 the necessary federal and state legislation, Large frauds are believed to h been comn- mitted in the alleged surveys, and if the records of the oflice are turned over to the republican state governinent a full inyestiga- tion will be almost impossible, Commissioner Sparks says the oftice of sur- veyorgeneral will not be abolished. The principal reason for this is that a large part of the surveys for which the government has already paid have never been made. They lave got to be made now and vaid for a second time, Interior lines of townships in many cases were never run in the field, and the field notes are utterly fallacious and mis- leading, and any quantiiy of r}m\;xunm is in prospect because of the unceftain character of the boundary lines. Under date of December 31 last Surveyor General Gardner wrote to Commissioner Sparks: 1 am in receipt almost daily of letters from X v surveyors and land owners complain- ing about no surveys having been made, or no mark of a survey being found in many lownships of the stite. 1t appears that the exterior or township lines are otten found in a tolerable state of preservation, while the interior or subdivision lines are sometimes entirely wanting, I think it is the belief of many county suiveyors that no work was ever done i the that the field notes in these cases are a fraud, as wany topographical marks are known to exist which are not referred to in the ftield notes which the law requires the deputy to notice, I understand dml aflidavits have boen prepared i some cases and forwarded 10 wembers of congress on this subje Kuowing this state of facts to exist, in" sunual report I yeferred to the matter so far interior townships, and OMAHA. FRIDAY MORNIN as to ask that a pesuryey might be ordered in this unsurveyed reglon in order that some definfte evidence mignt be procured and mighe legally and properly come before the (Ir{mrlull'llt Mr. Gardner incloses a letter from J. A, Bent, Wakefield, (Neb.), dated October 81, 1885, He writes I have been engaged for years settlers into northeastern Nebra been selling Burlington & Missouri River railroad company lands, I have found great difliculty in nml?m: lands in the following townshi wnship 28, ranges 1,2 and 3, ‘edar count in_ getting and have ¢ i township 27, range ty. No interior surve ave been made in the sal township. All the county Surveyors a antmous in their opinion that no. interior i tablislied, as they n able to find ;me' corners ex- cept on the outside township Jlines. 1 was elf greatly deceived by the incorreet sur- ors notes as 1o the course of Baker creek in sections 16, 98, 3, ‘east. By their notes gthe creek cut through the sec- tion, where it does not touch section 16 at all, and there is no creek in that section. It would seem to be an injustice for the govern- ment to sell lands that have not been sur- veyed, as it will probably Jead to endless dis sensions as to where corners ought to be. dillerent surveyors will be apt to disagree, as they ma W coute at difforent points on the” outside, and the fractional lines on the west and north sides are likely to be very inaceurately wiven in the returns made of the United States survey, ‘The following letter from the chief clerk in the office of the surveyor general in Platts- mouth has been rec (d by Hon. J. Sterling Morton, who is now in Washington. The names of witnesses to the frauds that have been committed are omitted because their testimony has not been taken under oath: As to getting afidavits from the men who divided the spoils of this office for years, will be almost impossible, as you yourself know that they are all republicans, and have in almost all cases belonged to the ring, and done the bidding of theringmaster, For i stance, Mr. — had several surveying con- tracts, He was in this oflice, and, theing ioned in regard to this poor su eying (or, better, nonsurveying) of land: nitted that to get a contract it was necessary to di- vide with thisoflice and the leading republi- ean politicians of the state, and they could not do good work for the amount of money left them after Ffle'lll;: all these subsidies; thatout of about $50,000 worth of w I did only $3,000 went to him, the rest for po- litical influence that he had to have to_get these contr Mr. A, Smith, the Bur- lington & Missouri snrveyor, told me that —~— had to pay $10,000 for a contract of $20,000, Prof. —, who worked under —-, said that they run lines within two or three mileg of whei Ille_v wanted to connect and then ssed the balance. Mr. James L. Slocum, formerly in partnership with me in shipping grain, now t of the Richardson county ban 152,000 out of a contr: support — for re E 1 am |>('n~onnll{ a some of the assistants of Surveyor son and Sloeum, and they told me tha of the surveying was done in the tents, they refused to swear to the field notes, de Slocum and Stephenson pay them 500 per month, instead of $2,500, as ously agreed on, in consideration of their keeping mum, Mr, ——, now a livery man at Stella, repeated this tome a shot time 1 have asked Mr. — [the first person quoted in this letter| to make aflidayit to what he said, but he said in \)rmcm’e of sev- eral witn s that it would eriminate him if he did. Alex. Slagle of Brow showed us a number of affidavits to these bad or non-suryey e has forwarded to Senator Van \Vyck. have plats of townships here in this of- that contain not a sign of a lake or u, neither do the field notes mention ) ¥ Slugle, o practical veyor, tells me that there are a number lakes in some of these townships that te exy are a il county n regard lands, which he inside of these townships, nor were any ever established. In order to run section he Las invariably to go to the exterior where sometimes he can find a corner, Now it seems clear that the party who was paid here for making the government survey never was near these townships, or else chese large lakes would be mentioned in the field notes, as the law requires. ‘These are only single instances; we hear of nuwbers, as I said, almost daily. You can readily see that it would be almost impossible to get these men who have shared in the public plunder to come forward and voluntarily swear their partwers into the penitentiary. It requires that some legal authority bé brought to bear on them to make them testity. —Can this be done? When a republican clerl and marshal seleota jury, a republican district attorney is to proscéite these men, I think if the government would send out here an honest inspector to look up these surveying frands—one who is trye blue n pitt him on the of trauds com- mitted by these m Then let the govern- ment proceed inst these deputies and their bondsmen for non-performance of con- traet in civil action, or criminally for conspiracy to defraud the gov- ernment, —or " both. This will com- pel, I think, these assoclates, and possibly he' principals, to make a clean breast of the whole matter. You will sce the necessity of having democrats appointed for marshal and district attorney as soon as possible, hope that the president may soon give honest, unprojudiced, and capable me those positions. 'This ofmce, as you know, has furnished the corruption funds years to the republican ring 'in this state, We have defeated the scheme of their turning this oflice_over to one of their democratic tools, and I hope the time is near by wlie ve shall be able to prove on them their lity and place them before the public in their trie light, Yours respectfully, C. P, W. BIRKiTA of oyer d terminer, before which Gen, Alexand haler has been on trial for bribery during the past two days, came in this morning after being locked all night in ry room, The jury came in at 11:24. n annouticed the jury had found it impossible to agres It Barrett sent (}m Jury back to consider the case still fur- ther: “The jury inthe Shaler bribery case came into comrt again at2:50 and aniionnc they were still unable to agree. They charged. It is said they stood ten for con- ietion and two for acquittal, —_— A Shower of Dust In Texa: Aust Te: Jan, 25—Tuesday after- noon, towards 4 o’clock, from out of a clear sky ashower of very fine dust began falling, ‘Theze was no wind at the time, The ‘shower increased towards night and continued through half the night. The dust had a culiar effect on the lungs and throat, causing irritation and hoarseness, A similar phe- nomenon was witnessed here eight years ago. An Excellent Law. CHICAGO, Jan, 25.—A telegram was re- ceived this afternoon from the clerk of the supreine court, saying the court had declared the habitual criminal act constitutional. A year ago Joseph Kelly was convicted of burglary in the eriminal court. He was in- dicted under the habitual criminal act. The jury was charged®to give him the full ex of the penalty—fourteen years—as he s a term previously for robbery, Kelly’ torney avpealed on the ground that the pun- ishwcnt was excessive. I'he higher court rules it was not, and also declares the act constitutional, e . Weather tor To-Day. Missovrt VALLEY—Fair weatfer; slowly vising temperature in northern portion: slightly colder weather in southern portion, followed by slm\'l{ vising temperature; winds becoluing varlable, preceded iu south- ern portion by northerly winds. R An Opera House Burned. FrankLiy, Pa., Jan, 25, —The opera house block, valued at $185,000, was entirely con- sumed this morning. Iusurance on build- ing, $38,000, ‘Ten fixms in the buikdlug had their stock destroyed. Loss not obtainable, | Senator Sherman Explains His Silver Bill Introduced Yesterday. IT SUSPENDS SILVER COINAGE. A Flood of Labor Petitions to Or- ganize Indian Territory—Pros- pects of Sioux City's Pabl Building—Gleanings. gram. J—Senator John Sherman was seen to- night by your correspondent, and asked to explain the object of the bill introduced in the senate by him to-day. Thesenator re- “Its provisions are simple. First, thesuspension of the coinage; second, the issue of coin certificates on silver bullion and last, the issue of similar certificates upon gold or silver coin, or gold bullion deposited with the treasurer as security, - The bill authorizes the purchase of from two to four million tray ounces of silver bullion each month instead of the purchase of so many dollars worth as now provided by law. By fixing the standard of purchase at ounces. 1 believe o mere staple arrangement is made.” “Do you think your bill will receive the support of the silver men, senator? “1 ha wde no effort to ascertain how the Dill will be received by any one. It is asub- Jjeet which nceds a great deal of study. 1 have thought over this bill for about a year.'? “Is it not in the nature of a compromise measure?” “It ought to satisfy the silver men because it provides for the purchase of as much silver as is provided by law now, and I see no rea- son why it should not satisty the gold men, as it suspends the coinage of silver.”” WVhat is to become of the silver bullion?* “I'hat will have to be providea for in the future. If the bill becomes a law, it will be held to secure the coin certificates.” “You make no provision for the ultimate coinage of this bullion in the bill?” “No; that can be attended to future,” “Why is it, Senator, that you do not make the coin certificates full legal tender?” *“The bill makes them receivable for taxes and customs du I do not know that we could make them full legal tenders, and [ doubt the propriety of attempting to do so in times of peace.” PETITIONS FROM TT LABORING CLASSE Labor organizations are flooding congres: men from the west, northwest and south- west with petitions, asking their active coop- eration in securing the passage of a bill to organize a territorial form of government over Indian territory, in opening all public and unoccupied lands in that territory to set- tlement under the homestead laws, the allot- ment of lands in severalty to the Indians upon their present reservations, and the pu chase of the surplus of the lands of the reser- vations by the United States and opening them to settlement, to the end that speculat- 88 e their control and occupancy of the lands, that no injustice be done to the Indians, and that the laborer, the mechanic and the homeless may at once ure homes, A number of these petitions, from Knights of Labor organizations, were to-day received by the Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa delega- tions and introduced in the house, SIOUX CITY'S PUBLIC BUILDING. To-day the bill appropriating $100,000 for the purchase of a site and the construction of a public building at Sioux City was reported favorably and without amendment to the senate from the committee on public bulldings and grounds. 1t is belieyed the bill will be passed within a fortnight. Representative Struble is preparing to address the house committee on public buildings and grounds n support of his bill of like character and now before that committee. He will submit his argument as soon as he hears from the postoflice department in reply to a request for statistics relative to postal matters at Sioux City. M. Struble is confident the bill will be passed and hopes to have a report from the house committee by the time the senate bill is adopted, so the latter may be called up from the speaker’s table and passed without taking the usual course of the endar, which would consume too much time, He would like a larger appropriation than $100,000, but if he were to ask it he might be defeated altogether, PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, he distillers in all parts of the country are bombarding the committee on ways and means, ing delay in action on the bill taxing fractional parts of gallons of spirits in packages, ‘The members of the committee say, however, that nothing further can be done in the committee, as the matter is now in the house. The indications are that the bill will be very promptly passed in spite of any protests, The rumor that Public Printer Rounds is to resign at onc evived by the presence here of ex-Cougressman Rogers of New York, who is understood to be the president’s choice as hissuccessor. The labor committee of the house is urging Round’s removal. Secretary Bayard has sent a communica- tion to congress in reference to oleomar- garine, arguing in its fave will prove a valuable article of export as laboring classes abroad become al qualities. to-day comini ster at Lowden (Towa), and William Oak. A ‘postofiice has beci established at Green, Custer county, (Neb) and Rachel A, Green appointed postmaster, Senator Van Wyck was at the white house for some time to-day in consultation with the president. WORK OF THE WASHINGTON, Jan, bunking and eurrency eonmittee of the house to-duy gavea hearing to Messrs, Panl Bow- en, Lee Crandall and others, enting the Knights of Labor, in advocacy of the bi l.ruuus« to be intioduced in the house by topresentative Brumm, known as the < its of Labor currency bill. The bill as drafiad trovides tiat: ARy person ey dor posit gold or silver in the " treasury and ceive therefore leal tender Uni notes at the rate of one dollar, 4125 silver or 258 grains of gold, All United States notes are to be convertible into coin or bullion at the holder’s option, r old or Iver certificates al bank notes are to be issued, but they are to be replaced with United States notes. Il use committee on publie lands held an extended session aftar the adjournment of the house to-day, and finally 4 bill declaring forfeited all land: grant to the Atlantic & Pacific railway opposite the unconstructed portions of” the raflroad, Chairman Cobb was instructed to report the bill back to the house committee as agreed to. A favorable report was made on McRae's bill to protect homestead settlers within railway limits, COMMISBIONEL EPARKS EXPLAINS. In veply to varlous qestions in - respect to the rul u} of the general land oftice, Commis- sioner Sparks has made public a letter in which he says: “My decision Lolding that a person who has made and perfected a pre- cimption entry caunot afterwards comunute a homestead, sfuce that would be equivalent to two pre-euiptions, is not expeoted, should it ve aflirmed, (it is now on appeal) to effect cases finally settled under previous ruling: Conveyance after flual entry and before patent, are held to be legal and allowable as etween parties, but thelr effeet as to claim in the G. JANUARY 20, 1836, NUMBER 190, against the Unil States pends upon the validity of the entry. The only questions before this offiee in any case are whether entry was made in good faith by a q|ml|lliml harty, and it the law has been com- plied wit X SENATE BILL& REPORTE Mr. Mahone, from thes committee on public buildings and grounds, reported favorably bills appropriating thefollowing named sums for the erection_of public buildings: Port- land, (Ore.), $550,000; Oshkosh, (\Vl.ni{, 00,000; Vicksburg, —(Miss), $100,000] ix ( t&‘“&l’m\m, #100,000; and Pueblo, (Col.), $100,000. CAPITAL GLEANINGS, The cabinet meeting to-day lasted abont two hours, and was_devoted almost entirely to the discussion_of the question arising out of the recent Indian outbreaks in New Megico. Letters were formulated in answer to the requests of the senate touching on the changes in the ofiice of United States mar- shal for the southern district of Alabama and in the oftice of collector of internal revenue or the district of South Carolina. The ex- act language of the letters cannot be learned, but it is known that they Inform the senate that it is not deemed advisable to with the requests intheir present fo is understood that it is the desire of the ad- ministration to force the senate to state its position on this question so that the matter may be brought to an issue and settled as s00n as possible, o A TUSS! FOR BLOOD. A Sensational Match Between Jap and Lewis. Cricaco, Jan. 2%—An exciting contest, with incidents bordering on the sensational, was witnessed to-night by a large audience at Central Music Hall, in a wrestling match between Matsada Sorakichi, the Japanese athlete, and n Lowis of Madison (Wis.) The terms were $250 a side and 75 per cent of the gate receipts, best three in five falls, catch as cateh can. Sorakichi was hardly a match for Lewis in point of strength, but as to quickness and agility there could be no choice, and in skill the Jap was a trifle superio the t fall was won by Lewis in_exactly two minutesand a hel', "With a rush Lewis secured a hold on his opponents legs, and lifting him high in the airthrew him squarely on his ck. In the second bout Lewis ot a terrific neck hold on the Jap, and was choking him_with adeath like grhv when the referee interfered. A moment later Sorakichi, with a sudden jerk, pitched Lewis head foremost off the stage, " The Jap profusely apologized and s I he shook hands. grasped each others should- Quick as flash the form orakichi went straight over the footligh and sprawling below on the reporters chair The referes without hesitation declared this action on the part of Lewis wilful, and gaye a fall to Sorakichi. Both wrestlers rush at each other wickedly, and in the third Lewis lost no time in getting _ his ° favorite hold and pressed the Jap's neck he was too feeble to resist. Sorakichi at gain the declined to wrestle the rewaining | bouts, declaring the choking process unfair, Lewis offered to_leave it out. The Jap feared to trust the Wisconsin man and firinly refused to proceed. - AL9:45 p. 1. Lewis was declared the victor. el A SPOILS! INSTITUTION. Cook County's Hospital Governed by Political Favorites. SPrINGFIELD, [IL, Jan, 28.—The state board of public charities, in session to-day at Jacksonville, adopted a lengthy report re- garding their late investigation of the insane asylum of Cook connfy. Their deductions on the facts elicited the testimony at the time are brief, aking of the manage- ment of the establishiment, the report say: 1t was shown that political considerations very largely govern the election of ofticers by the board, and to a less extent the appoint- ment of employes by the oicers; there is much Insubordination on the part of em- ployes; the discipline is la: ies when needed cannot be immediatel easil, cured, and the patients suffer various incon- veniences in consequence. Not many cases of positive abuse were brought to our notice, though the attendants were sometimes very rough. 1t is suggested as a remedy for the existing that the county board give the com- on public charities control of the funds. The committee should have power to make rules and regulations for the govern- mont of the institution, to appoint a” single exi ive head who should be a medica and to audit his accounts and report upon his official conduct as superintendent. All ecutive power should be vested in the super- intendent, who should be required to appoint and discharge every subordinate officer and employe, to make dll needed purchases at his own discretion, and to administer the aff of the institution, el LA Pl The New York Sub-Treasury. WASHINGTON, surer Jordan returned to V morning, Jor- dan Canda, the new nt treasurer of New York, was sworn st night and took formal sion of the oflice. The count of moneys and securities began at once and will be pushed to completion. It will ake about three weeks to complete the count. i Among the bills introduced in_ the senate to-day was one by Sherman to discontinue the eoinage of the silver dollar and provide for the purchase of silver bullion in bars, not Iess than two million ounces nor more tha four million r month, at the price, and for the issue in payment th coin certi of not less denomination than 810 he bullion to remain in the treasury as seeurity for the payment of the certificates, o P The Spirit of Compromise. CoLuMmBUs, he conference com- mittee on the | ‘republican and demo- cratic senators will meet at 10:30 to continue their wol A mutual understanding has been arrived at that the joint senate will adjourn at 10 o'clock to give the committee further time. All is quiet, and the spirit of compromise is uppermost, The senate conference committee to ar- range a compromise basis had agreed upon no single Jolut up toLp. m. It’is not prob- able that they will haye anything to report to the senate to-morrow morning, There {s now talk that the senate will to-morrow morning adjourn over to Monday and give the com- mittee full time for consideration, n' Rankin's Funeral, Manirowoc,@Wis, Jan. 25, —Immediately upon arriving at'é o'elock last evenin, the remains of Congressman Rankin were taken to the Episeepal church, escorted by the congressional and loeal delegations. The funeral services, whigh were conducted by Rev. I, T. Bray, werd held at the church at 10:30 this ‘morafn cial “trains brought hundreds ul’émp 0 1) various quarters of the state, and the attemdance was so large from Rankin's congresslonal aistrict it was jmpossible for late comers to get within a block of the church; The head of the funeral procession had reachod the cemete:y, two miles from the chugeh, before formation at the church had beeneomplel et ey A Long-Winded Suit Settled, SAN Fraxcasco, Jan. 25,—The state supreme court rendered a decision to-day in favor of the plaintiff in the case of the city and county of San Francisco nfalnat Hal- laday. ~The action involved the title to Lafayette square, and also indirectly the title o a vast amount of property claimed by the ('i‘f\' under Pueblo graut. The éntire vifue of the property which by this decision will revert to the l'HI' is about §5,000,000, The case has been in the court almost since Ban Fraucisco becawe a eity. Congress e — A Terriblc Kentucky Tragedy. LouvisviLLe, Jan, 28.—A Courier Journal special says ineagre details of a tiple tragedy in Leteher county (Ky.), were re- ceived at Frankiort to-day. Wm. Wright, an old wan, and Y. Wright, his son, and W Wright, ' colored; were killed by James, Sawuel and Elijah Wright on Wednesday night. The wurderers have been airested, i and the trial set tor Friday. DOING THE THING UP BROWY. A Field Day in the Iowa Senate Over the Auditorship Investigation, FACTION FRACAS OF HOT WORDS. The Democrats Demand Provision for Representation on the Commit- tee and Succeed in Securing Their Coveted Desire. The lowa Legislature. DEs Moinks, Towa, Jan. 28.—[Special Telegram, |—To-day was a field day with the Brown matter in the senate, 1t had been set for a special order at3p. m,, and at that time Senator Johnson (dem.) ealled up his resolution asking for a committee of two from the senate and three trom the house to Iuvestigate on the lines of his resolution already printed. He stated that he had drawn his resolution of his own accord, and without consultation with his colleagues, but because he believed the grave charges made through the public prints against Auditor Brown demanded an_investigation. Senator Woolson, who had been chosen by the republican cancus to look after the matter for that side of the house, sald that he was quite as willing to have an investigation, but he would go further than the democrats who for interested purposes proposed only a partial inquiry, and he and his colleagues wanted a full and gomplete investigation of all the questions ‘u\'ol\-ml in the Brown controversy, But he could not consent to have the senate go on record as approving all that was contained in Johnson's resolution, It contained unwarranted reflections on state officers, and made unsupported charges against the executive, so he would offer as a substitute a resolution of larger scopeand fairer field. Hethereupon had read a substitute reciting briefly the several important acts in the his- tory of Brown's removal and restoration, and providing for a joint committec of three from each house to sit as an investigating committee, with full power to summon wit- nesses and examine all the books and papers involved in the controversy. This was opposed by Johnson, who tried to have the resolution go over and be made the special order Monday afternoon. ‘T'his was generally resisted by the republicans, who urged an immediate consideration of the subject. Johnson said that as Woolson's resolution did not state that democrats were to be appointed to the committee, it sug- gested that they were trying to get up a whitewashing scheme, as had been intimated to him would be done. This brought Young (rep.) of Cass county to his feet, who made a spirited re- ply, sion for the purpose of making political cay tal foranybody, and he challenged the demo- crat to point tc an instance where the re- publican party of Towa had ever sought to h any official or official acts. Ile y and willing to have the axe fall justice demanded it should. He said he was greatly surprised to hear the mi- nority pleading for more time in which to Dost themselves on this Brown matter, when before election they claimed to know all there was about It, and he himself had heard a distinguished democratic speaker devote the whole of his speech to the discussion of these subjects during the campaign. Woolson then challenged the democrats of the senate to name an instance where the minority, howe mall, had not been repre- sented on every committee of the kind pro- posed. The venerable senator, Casey (dem.), fror Lee county, got the floor and astonished his party associates by declaring that he was op- posed to any investigation whatever, He donbted the power of the senate to inquire into the executive acts of a coordinate branch of the government, and did not think such a proceeding was either democratic or consti- tutional. 1f he were governor, and a legisla- tive committee should come to inquire how he had been conducting his oflice, he said he should pay 1o attention to them. He did not think that the senate ought to constitute itself an inquisitorial body when it might be called upon to sit as a judicial body in case of impeachment, Johnson’s motion to defer consideration was then lost, and the contest was resumed on theoriginal resolution, Senator Bolton (dem.) from Il son county made a long speeeh, in which he de- clared that either Brown, Sherman or Lar- rabee had done something dreadful, and led to be investigated, but he wasn’t pre- t was, 50 he wanted a al investigation, He insisted that the democrats ought to be expressly included in the committee toinv ate, and so moved an amendment that thero should be at least one democratic senator and one demoeratic rep- ntative on the joint committee. ‘T'his called out a lively debate, Woolson saying that he intended and expected that the democrats would have representatives in the joint committee, but he would not corfsent that this investigation should be de a par- tisan matter, e insisted that they should undertake it,not as republicans or demo- crats, but as representatives of the state of Towa, sworn to do their duty fairly and fm- partially. The roll was called, showing 23 yeas and 23 noes, wherenpon the chair voted with the affirmative, declaring the amendment adopted, Then the debate was resumed on the old lines, Senator Sutton opposing any investi- gation as incompetent and beyond the pow er of thesenate, as the question involyed wus simply a matter of judgment between two governors, both of whom provably acted from sincere motives. Senator Knight (dem.) also opposed the in- vestigation, claiming that if anybody was aggrieved at the turn matters had taken, they had an ample and speedy remedy in the courts, and the senate should not stop its work to mix in any personal quarrels, Several unsuceesstul attempts were made to lay the whole matter upon the table, and after wrangling over it for nearly three hours, the senate adjourned, leaving it just where they found it, having accomplished nothing, ‘The house was more expeditious, for there the same substitute was introduced as in the senate, butafter a little debate it passed by a f 82 1019, The trouble in the senate ned to be that the republicans did not hold together well and stand by their party cau- cus, If they had they could have put theiy measure through at once. Now they will have to fight it all over to-morrow or some subsequent time, — 2 Foul Play Suspected. St. Louis, Jan. 28.—Johnston Morrison, a wealthy and well known contractor doing business at 612 Chestnut street, is reported 10 the police as huving disappeared on Jan- uary 25th, and since has not been located by friends. Atthe time of his aisappearance Lie was supposed to have a large amount of money on his person and it is feared Lo wmet with foul play. - ireat bargains in books at N. B. Fal- | coner’s Friday and Saturday, 4 THE TIMES PROPERTY, Surprising Proceedings in the Storey ‘Will Contest. CirreAco, Jan. 28.—[Special Telegram. |- There was no abatement of the interest in the progress of the Storey will case, which resulted at the close of the day’s testimony in a surprise, the attorney for Mrs. Farrand, a sister of the deceased editor, and who had asked for the appeal from the probate court, asking to have the appeal dismissed on the question of insanity, which has been urged as the reason why the will of 1851 should not be probated, The attorneys for M to-day offered the testimony of Hon. B. Washburn, Dr. Moses Guun, J. H. Me- Vicker, H. E. Sargent, Hon. James R. Doo- little, Elmer Washburne, Dr. Alexander Cook, who in addition to Judee Lucius B. Otis and Carter H. Harvison, who testified yesterday, all joined in declaring that Mr. Storey was of sound mind and memory during 1880 and 1881, This was deemed a very strong showing as against the testimony of three witnesses of the will, whom it had been charged were interested persons, when the attorney for Mrs. Farrand moved to dismiss the appeal. He said he had informed his client that he was now con- vinced that the will could not be probated. Judge Trambull=This action is not en- tirely a surprise to us, your honor. ‘I'he Court—\Well, I mustsay it is to me, I every day dismiss appeals. Mr. Herrick—We would like to be heard and produce authority on this point. The Court—1t looks to me at this time as though the appellant has a tight to dismiss the appeal. Itis anovel and new question tome, and [ would like to hear argument on the subject. 1 will give yon until to-morrow morning, gentlemen, to look the matter up. Judge Trumbull—We heard something at the start of this case from the other side about thimble rigging. We are now pre- pared to argue this quesgion, being prepared through our rorethought to do so. From the beginning it has been urged by Mrs, Storey’s counsel that Mrs. Farrand's attorney is really acting in the interest of Mr. Goudy’s elients, and that he came into the case in the dlsguise of & proponent of the will solely for their advantage. The very positive evidence of Mr. Storey's sanity given by the gentlemen who oceupied the stand, it is urged, was not of a kind to dis- courage any one who wished the will pr bated. It would be almost impossible to re- fuse probate without proving them unworthy of belief. The Iron Prince Speaks in a Remark- able Manner. Br Jan, 28,—In the landstag to-day Prince Bismarck made a remarkable specct wherein he characterized the Poles as dis- 1to the German crown, and said the h agitation in Germany always ap- peared to him an element of dangex and had compelled him to keep a watch on Russia. “Hence,” continued the chancellor, have deiermined tobuy out all the real estate owned by Polish natives in Prussian-I’o and place German colonists on the property hitherto occupied by the expelied people. 1 order to make the colonization inure permu- nently to the benefit ot the the colo- nists will be ]:ruhlbllml from marying Poles. The cost of the undertaking will be about three hundred. wmillion matks (875,000,000), but the state Wwillonly. lose about ten per- centage of this loss, made necessary by the exigiencies of the case by buying out an ali class, and reselling to the the gain to the empire willbe immeasurable. The chancellor’s speach was the principal topic of conversation to-night. The Ministerial Muddle. LoNpoN, Jan, 28, he (ueen has sum- moned the Marquis of Salisbury to confer with her at Osborn. He will dine with her jesty this evening and be her guest till to- w, when he will return to_London he Evening News says it has auth for stating that Lord Sallsbury has ad the queen” to summon Lord "Hartington to form a cabinet. LoNDON, Jan. 28,—It is reported in the lobby of the house of commons this evening that'the queen Is sounding Lord Hartington as to his willingness to undertalke the task of forming a coalifion ministry. ‘The Standard this morning says the queen will unquestionably summon Gladstone to form a cabinet. The Greeks Ba Down. Panis, Jan. 28.—A telegram received this fternoon from Athens states the G bhinet has )es] Nis would of Europe.” ho Political n fleet will o Corres- numbering the commanc instruetions NDON, ) . h from Berlin he Greek ministry has resigned. The Great Canal Digger. , —The De Lesseps party unusual adjunct of a doctor, When leaving Paris, De 1 ald: 1 will be back in sixty days. nnot die before opening the canal” A large con- urse witnessed the distinguishea departure, ‘There was nwich enthusi crowd cheering and shouting, “Vive De Les- seps,” The party will embark at Southamp- ton to-day. Turkey and Bul, LoxDON, Jan. 2%.—The Thues correspond- ent at Constantinople, in a dispateh con- cerning the the understanding arrived at be- tween Turkey and Bulgaria, says: The Porte will bestow upon Prince Alexander the title of mushivand governor general of Eastern Roumelia, ‘The rumoris current here, tha skirmish between Greeks and Turks ken place at Glasseva, the fronticr of Epirus, e TELEGRAPH NOTES, St. Paul and Ellendale (Dak.) report sevire cold weather, A fire damaged the Albany (N, Inz company’s malt house $125, At the end of lst night's play the billiard mateh stood Sehacfer 1,500, \ignanx 1,75 Newburyport (Mass.) was visited severo sleét storii, causing great destru to trees and shrubbe Y.) Brew- B My, Ljam's New Gate. The oflice of W. H. Ijams, clerk of the distriet court, is divided into two 5 by # counter which extends from the east to the western wall, To get into his desk the clerk has to walk from one side to the end of the room to reach an open- ing, unless he should like to jump the count which he does; ‘The county ners are about to secure Mr, ces to cut another gate in the middle of the barric Vermont popuiated by explod- ing o quantity of dynamite’ underneath the 1ce. Every fish apparently was killed, — The most valuable postage stamp known to collectors is said to be one issued by the postmaster of Battleboro, Vt., in 1847, which was suppresscd after a few woeks. A specimen’is now worth six or eight hundred dollars. e According tu the Progres Medical, o method of treating rabies by inoculation was diseussed 1n a Leipsic medieal journal as long ngo us 1849, and the doe- tor recommending it was stated to be Constantine Meriug of Philadelphia, A VAST CORRUPTION FUND. Republicans Should Go Slow in Aiding Schemes to Replenish It, A NAVAL REBUILDING STEAL. Meagre Chance for the Repeal of the Limitation of Arrearages Bill— The Crowd at the Capital— The Telephone Suit, Folly to Assiat the Scheme. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28— [Special, |—Many republicans here, while forecasting the fus ture, are dicidedly of the opinion that the republicans in congress should go slow in committing themselves to the scheme of the administration for appropriating vast suf tor sea-const defences, for rebuilding the : navy, and for furnishing vast stores of heavy rifled ordnances for it is believed that, judg- ing from the past, these appropriations will form a vast corruption fund for paity uses, and this too, whether the money is expended” through private contracts, or through the national vy yards. If contracts are lety | the contractors will be heavily assessed for* the use of the national treasury of the demo- cratie party, ete,, contractors being recouped by being allowed large sums in the way off | “eqtras.” It the work is done in the navy | yards, those places will become what they"! were twenty-five and thirty years ago, dcqx:o;’ cratie elubs in disguige, dgminating by force and fraud the districts, if not tho states, in which they are located. ‘Therefore the more Jjudicious republicans here think republican senators and representatives should go very slow in placing in the hands of the men now in power vast sums of money, a goodly percentage of which will be used in debauching our election: after the Ohio and South Carolina plan, and thwarting the real will of the people, If some means could be devised whereby the rehabilitation of our navy could be secured under non-partisan supervision, then it would be well enough to enter upon the work at once. But with the Ohio example staring them in the face it would be folly for republicans to put a knife into the hands of v foes with which to cut their own And they will not do it if their eflect the will of their republican constituents, ME : CITANCE FOR ITS REPEAL, 1t is not thought probable by those who have watelied the sentiment in congress closely during the past few days that the proposition to repeal the limitation of ar- rear 5 of pensions can become a law even t bill extending the limita January 1, 1885, which would be for a period of not more than cighteen months, While ' all recogn the justice of paying arrearages and acknowledge that if it is rigiht to pay a pension at all, it is right to pay it during all of the time there was disability, the proposi- tion to allow arrearages opens up too broad an expenditure when it is the intention to rebuild the mnavy at a cost of from §40,000,000 to £60,000,000, and: make various other improvements which | must cut a large hole in the bottom of the | treasury. The same objection is now offered to a universal pension bill—that is, a bill | pensioning all honorably discharged union soldiers lors. Lor years the pebple have been howling for a distribution of the surplus in the treasury. Then, it seems, it’ ' did not oceur to congress to make the qjs- - tribution to those who fought to preserve the | union, and make this imcrease. Now it | comes, it appears, a littlelate. Other schemes * for expending the surplus have been agreed upon, PACKED FULL OF PEOPLE. There has not been so large a crowd here as now since the consideration of the tariff Dbill in the first session of the Forty-seventh congress four years ago. Washington is cked full of peopla. Most of them are visitors, During the past fortnight there have been a number of conventions in ses- sion, which have contributed largely to the crowd, but there is a constant surging, swell- ing mass that overtlows the hotels and fijls the boarding houses. Just at this time there | is very little to attract attention before con- | | gress. The debates are as tame as the seg- sions are brief. No measures are pending to excite interested crowds, so that those who come mnst come for pleasure, not business. In previous congresses thers have been many measures affecting the bugi- ness interests of the country, and mien have flocked here to work for the passage or defeat of those measures, 1tis not likely that there will be any elamor on any account from the world in this congress, Lven the tion of the yiver and harbor bill, which is of great interest and usually attracts hundreds and often thousands of people, has failed to excite the slightest interest. LAMA RLAND, action in re- ases is looked n to the general Attorney General Garland, with lis 00,000, will of course, when the cases reach the United States courts, do all in his DOW ard securing - verdiet that will give substantial value to his stocks, ‘Taking the case alt ther, it is now looke upon as one of the most infamous that has come to the surface here for many years, - Captain Craw SAN Frascisco, J ates to-day that he felt cert cans who attacked Captain Crawford were not regular troops, but renezades who took the Anmericans for hostiles and attacked thew in hope of obtaining the sealp money oficred by the state of Sonora tor the hoss tiles, info the darker does it public. S1 s - - A U The statement of My gard to the “late unpleasantness,” was based on the eflorts of his imagination, I did not take the goods from the safe bee fore showing my “authority, I did not- even draw a revolver; but 1 did get what I was after, and “‘the: Preissman may learn that the only ime that wa wis in resist- ing un oflicer in the performance of his duy, J. D. Rusy - Petitioning 1o artition., Horace 8., Helen, Mary I Newman, minors, by their guardian, Newman, filed a petition in asking that deceased, 1l estute, Preissman with compelled to partition his v @iving to ch plaintiff one tieth us their share of the praperty. Forbes diegd in 1878, without leaving a will, and the property has never been divided, - . d, aday or nd a bull dog. “The mare tinally Kilied the canine by Talling on it, bhut had to be Killed herselt after d on wecount of the injurics she nad received during the encounter A Red Canon (Cal) prospector gathe ered rabbit meat enough during the late storm todo him till Ju cut down a lot of troes, painte ends b and the rabbits butted thel wins ont 1 to jump into what they took for Iolcay i He got 140 the lirst night,