Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 2, 1886, Page 1

THE OwMAHA DAILY BEE PRESIDENT AND THE PAPERS Tho Chief Magistrate Transmite a Caustic Message to the Senate, WILL NOT YIELD THE REQUEST. A Lengthy White House Document Which Sets Up as the Bule wark of Defense the Exe ecutive Prerogative. Message From the President. WAsNGTON, Mareh L—The president sent the following message to the senate to day: o the Senate of the United sinee the beginning of the l) the senate the different hiead at! e o the executive bray ernment have been plied with quiests and demands {rom e senate, from the members of s and at last from the sena thie transmission of reason: sion of certain ofticials dv that bos ot sueh olile ments re doemment tates—Ever ssion of sof departim ol the various re- {ttees of the 1 committees itself, to require for 'the suspen- iz the recess of v for papers tonching the conduct 18, or for papers or docu- wting to sueh suspension, or for all 15 filed in depart- and con- o suspended ofticials. 1o tiie adopt Tomands, th wh other, and the faet that when made by the senate the resolution for t purpose wan passed in_executive session, have led to a_presumption the coireetness’ of which will, 1 suppose, be eandidly adwitted, that from the first to the last the inforniation pers thus demanded for use the United States and its necded in considering the sensions referred to. Though those suspensions are my execu- tive acts, based upon consideration addressed to me alone, and for which Lam alone wholly responsible, I have no invitation from the senate to state the position which I have felt eonstrained to assime in_relation to some, or to interpret for myself ots and mo: tives in these premises. In this condition of aifairs, 1 haye for borne addressing the sen- ate upon the subject lest T might bo of thrusting myself unbidden upon th tention of that budy. But the report of the rlnulnnt-'wvn{\hli‘ ary of the scnate, lately published and presented, which denoune the attorney general of the United States for his refusal to transmit certain papers relat- ing tosuspension from oflice, and which also, if [ eorrectly interpret it, evinees a appreliension of the position of the executive upon the question of such suspensions, will, Thope, justify this eommunication. The president refers to the resolution of the senpte calling for the 1 the reply of the attorney cen s: Upon this resolittion and the thireto, an issue is thus statea by tl mittee 'onjudiciary at the outset of the re- port: “Thie important question, then, is whether it is within the constitutional com- petence of eithér house of congress to have weeess to the ofticial papers and documents in the various publie oflices of the United States ereated by the laws enacted by them- I do not suppose {hat “the public oflices of the United States” are regulated or controlled in their relations o either house of congress by the fact that they wer : ated "f the laws enacted by theinsely must be that I instrumentations were created for the benefit of the people and to answer the general purpe the government under - the tution and laws and that ey are unencumbered by any lien in ¢ of cither branch of congress erowing out of their con- stitution, and unembarrassed by any obliga- tlon to tiie seuato ns the price of tlicir créa- tion, The complaint of the committee that access to oflicial papers in public offices is denied ate is met by a statement that at no it been the disposition or intention of the president, or any department of the executive branch of tlie government to with- hold from the senate official docu: {opersfiled In any of “the public g While it is by no nieans conceded that the senate has the right in any case to review the aiet of the exeeutive in removing or suspend- ing a public ofticer upon oflicial documents or otnerwise, it is considered that documents and papers of that nature should, because they are oflicial, b eely transmitted to tho ate upon its demana, trusting the use of the same for proper and’ legitimate purposes 10 the good faith of that body, and thouzh n0 such paper or document has been spect fically demanded in any of the numerous r quests and demands made upon the dep: ments, yet, asoften as they were found in the publicoflices they haye been furnished in an- swer to such applications., “The letter of the attorney generalin re- sponse to the resolution of the senate in the particalar case mentioned in_ the committee Teport was written at my suzgestion and by my direction. There hias been no official p pers or documents filed in this deps lating to the ease within the per fied in” the resolution. ‘Tlic lett tended, by its deseription of the I} documents remaining in the custody of the department, to convey the idea that they were not off 1, and it was assumed that the resolution called for information, papers and documents of the same chardeter a were required by the requests and d mands which preceded it Everything that had been written or done on behalt of the senate from the beginning pointed to 1l papers of u, 0 as the objects of they were to be found in the departments, and_ provided they had been presented to the executive with a view of their consideration upon the question of suspension from oflice, Auainst the transmission of such p: and documents [ have interposed my ady and dircetion, This has not been done, as i suggested in {he committee’s report, upon the assumption on my part that the aitorney cral or any other fiead of o dopatment servant of the president, and 15 to giv or withhold copies ot documents In his oflic according to the will of the exceutive otherwise,” but becanse I regarded (e papers and documents withlield and addressed to me or intended for my use action, purely unofiicial not infequently confi ing reierence to - the dufy exclusively mine. no pr partme venien perfon of 1 consider them in Jer sensc as upon the files of the de: t, but s deposited there for my co y remaining stiil completely under trol. L suppose If I dosived to take them intomy custody I might do so with en tire propriety, and it I saw It to destroy thewm no one could complain, The papers and doeu- ments that are now the object of the senate quest consist of letters and representations addressed to the exceutive or intended for his inspeetion : they are voluntarily written and presented by brivate citizens® who are not in the least instigated thereto by any ¢ ficial invitation or atall subject to ofticial con- trol, While some of them are entitled to executive consideration many of them are 50 elevent, or in the lizht of other facts, so worthless, that they have not been given the least weight in determining the question to which they are supposed to re- Jate. Areall these, simply because they are preserved, to be considered ofticial docu- ments and subject to the inspection of the senate? If not, who is to determine which belongs to this class? Are the motives and purposes of the senate, a5 they are day b?' day developed,such as would be satistied with my seiection? Am 1to subinit to them at the risk of L £ charged with making a sus- weusion from oftice upon evidence which Wwas not even considered? Are these papers to be rezarded ofticial be they have not ouly been presented, but pre- ved in publie ofi nature and character remain the same whether they are ket in the exeeutive wmansion or deposited in the departments, There is no mysterious power of transmutation in departmental custody, nor is there wagie in the undetined and sacy um.-mnu{ of department file he presence of th uu.wmu.mhnc of- tumbling block in the way of the performance of senatorial duty, it can be ily removed. ‘The papers and doenments {l Liave been described derive no oflieial charaeter from any constitutional statutory or other requirement making then noeessary to the performance of the oflicial duty of tho ative. 1t will be den I suppdse, tat the president way | suspend a public ofieer in the entire absence Sl any papers or documents 10 ald his ofticial dy OMAHA. TUESDAY MORNING. MAROCI 2. 1836, NUMBER 207 Jjudgment and discretion, and I am quite pre- pared to avow that cases are not few in Which suspensions from office have depended more upon oral representation by citizens known to be of ¢ by pembers of the_pouse of 1 a nators of the United States, than u any letters and doenmonts presented for my examination. 1 have not felt justified in suspecting the veracity,” intes- rity and patriotism of senators, and jgnoring their representations becanse they were not in illation with the majority of the reeall a few suspensions which b | proval of individual members identified identically with the majority in the senate. While, therefore, 1 am eonstrained to deny the right of the senate to the papers and documents deseribed, so far as the right to the same i based upon the elaim that they are in any view official, T am also led un equivocally to dispute the mght of the senate by of any doeuments wh way save through ju- al or impeachment to ve- view or reverse the act of the exccutive in suspension. during the recoss of the senate of 1 . L believe the power (o re mo 1d sieh offieial is vested in the prosi one by the eonstitution, which in express terms provides that “the ' exe wer shall be vested in a president of the States of An 1 that “he care, that the be faithiully L) belongs o lative the govern- ment. Whe [ provision, superadaed the right to a ments to office branch of ive dutie sent to appoint- nd to sit as a court of imi tion supposed to be neces the people: and this expi nd spe of such extraordinary powers, not i related to or growing out of gencial s duty, and in atself a departurve from the cencral Dlan of our governinent, shouid bo ield, winder the familiar i the con- struction, to exclud y terference with executive the first — congress after the adoption tion, coprisi who aided in its previ n, | © coustruction_ was given to that instrament in which the inde pendence of the executive in the matter of removal ftice was fully sustained. L think 1t will be found that m_subsequent discussions of this question thero was gener- aily, it notat all times, a praposition pending to curtail this power of the le ion, which furnishes to limit such power it was sup- posed to be necessary to supplement the constitution by sueh legislation. The first enactment of this description was passed under the stress of partisanship and political bitterne: which — culminated —inthe president’s impeachment. "This law provided that the federal ofticers to which it appiled could only be suspended during a re- cess of the senate when shown by evidence sutisfactory to the president to be guilty of misconduct in oflice, or crime, or when in- capable or disquali ullu‘u-r(m ) their duties, and that within tw ays after the nest meeting of the senate it should be the duty of the president “to report to the senate such suspension, with the evidence for his uction in the case. ssed in 1876, When congre and bitterly opposed polit dent it may be rezarded as t even then it was thought nec: s to determine upon the subj xegutive. to legislate itself a law for that purpose instead of at- tempting ch the object intended by an invocation of any preténded constitational vight, The law which thus found its way to our statute book wa pluinln}b terms, and its intent needed no avowal. If valid aind now in operation, it would justify the present course of the Senate and command the obedi- ence of the execative to its demand. 1t may. however, be remarked in~ passing that, under this law, the president had the privilege of presenting to the body whici assumed to re v ecutive nets his rea- sons therelc of being excluded from explanation or judged by the paps found in the department. "Two years after the law of 1867 was passed, and within less than five weeks after the inauguration of a President i * political ~accord with botl ranches of congl the sections of the regulating’ suspensions from ofiice during the recess of the senato wero entirely repealed, and in ficirplace were substituted provisions which, instead of limiting the cases of suspension to misconduct, s, disability or disqualilica- tion, expressly perinitted such suspension by the president “in his diseretion,” and_com- pletely abandoned the requirement obliging 1im t0 report to the senate *‘the evidence and reasons” for his action. With these modi- ations, and with all branches of the gov ernment in ‘mllll(‘:ll harmony. and in the sence of partisan incentive o captious di: cussion, the law as it was left by the amend- ment of 1560 was much less destrue- sive of exeeutive discretion. And yet the great general and patriotic citizen who, on the 4th day of March, 1869, assine lutics of chicf executivi whose freer administration of his’ high office th most hateful_restraints of the Iaw of 1567 werc, on the 5th day of April, 1869, xemoved, mindful of his objection to défend and pro- tectevery prerogative of his great trust, and apprehensive of the injury that thre: the publie service in the continued ope; of these statutes, even in their modis in his first messaze to congress advised their repeal and set forth thele uneonstitutional character and hurtful tendency. I am unable t st whether or mot this recommendation for the of these laws has been since repealed. If it is not, the reason can probably be found in the experience which domonstrated the fact that the necessities of the political situation but rarely developed their vielous character. And so it _happens, that after an extension of nearly twenty s of alinost innocuous desuctide the: Jaws ave brought forth, apparently ropcaied s wellas un \:f-'l and put in- ihe way of an executive who is willing, if permitted, to attemptan improvement in’ the metliods of administration. The constitutionality = of these laws 15 by no means *admitted, But should the pro of 3 w, Whiell required a speeific cause uspension, and a report to 1 senate. of dence and reasons,” be now in effeet applied to the prosent executive instead of the law afterwards passed and unrepealed which nits suspensions by the pr cretion,” and carefully omits the requirements that the “evidence and reasons for his action in the ease” shall be reported to the senate. The requests and deniands which by the seore havo for nearly three monihs beei presented to the diff departments of the government be their form, have but one complesion. iey assume the right of the sc o <1t in judgment upon the exercise of my executive funetion, for which I am solely responsible to the people from whomw 11 ely 1 ived the saered trust of off My oath to support and defeud the constitution; my duty to the people who have chosen me o the exceutive powers of their great oflice and not to relinquish them, and my duty to the chief magistriacy which I must preserve unim- paired in all its dignity and vigor, compel we 0 refuse to comply with these demands, To the end that the service may be im- proved, the senate is invited to thie fullest scrutiny of the persons submitted to them for public ofliee, in recognition of the consti tutional power'of that body to advise and consent to their appointment, 1 shall con- inue, as I have thus far done, to furnisl uest of the confirming body all the formation I possess touching the fitness of the nominees placed before them for their action, both when they proposed to fill vacancies and to take 'the place of suspended oflicials, Upon a refusal to continn 1 shall not assume the right to ask the reasons for the action of the senate, nor uestion its determination. I cannot think Wit anything more s Tequired to securo worthy incumbents in publie office than reful and independent discharge of our re- spective, duties within their well defined limits.’ Theugh ie propricty of suspensions might be betier assured if the action of the president was subject $0 review by the sen- ate, yot it constitution and laws Lave pliced this responsibility upon the executive branch of the governwent. it should not be di mul_nlurlmo discretion’ which it involves quished. 1t has boen claiwed that the present exeeu- tive having pled(:vd himself "not to remove officials except for cause, the fact of their suspension iwplies such misconduet on the part of the suspended official as injures his chiaraeter and reputation, and therefore the senate should review the case for his vindica- tion, Lhave suid that cettain officials should Tunetic which as of our constitu- act not in my opinion be removed during the continuance n(l (Iu-]h-rm h»'r which (Iw{ were appointed solely for the purpose of pn‘finz“’n their place those in political afliatfon with the appointing power, gnd this declaration was jmmediately followed by a deseription of official nartisan- ship which ought not to entitle fhose jn whom it was exhibited to consideration. 1t 1s ot apparent how the course thus an- nounced carries with it the consequences deseribed. If in any degree the suggestion is worthy of considération it is to be hoped e may bea defeise against unjust suspensions In_justice to the executive, v pledze which I have made by which placed alimitation upon iny exercise of itive power has been faithfully redeemed. Of course, the pretense 1s not put forth that no mistakes have been committed, but not a suspension has been made execpt it ap- jewred to my satistaction that the public wel- are would be improved thereby. -~ Many ap- plications for suspension have been denied, nd adherence (o the rule laid down to gov- rn my action s to such suspensions has caused mueh irritation and impatience on the part of those who have insisted on more changes in offices, The \.h-.m.u I have made were made fo the people, and t them L am_responsible for the manner in_ which they have been redeemed. Tam not respon- sible to the senate, and i am unwilling to submit my actions and official conduet” to them for judgment. "There are no grounds for an allegation that tear of being found false to my pro- fessions influences mo in dectining to submit to the domn of the senate. 1 have not constantly refused to suspend_of- fielals, and thus inctirred the displeasure of political friends, and wilfully broken faith \\i!!lllwk wle for the sake of being false to them her the discontent of party friends nor the aliurements constantly of- fered of contivmations of appointees conditioned ~ upon the avowal that the suspensions have been made on parly grounds alone, nor the threat L in the resolution now before the t 1o confirmation will be made un- less the demands of that body be complied with, are sufficient to d e or deter me from following in the way which I am con- vineed leads to better government for the people. GrovER CLEVELAND, ccutive Mansion, Washington. ——-— OMAHA EI(GHTY-FOUR, Leads Every City in the Union the P entage of Increase. Jostoy, Mass,, Mareh 1.—Tho following statement of the leading clearing houses in the United States, shows the gross bank ex- changes at _each point for the week ending ebruary 27, in comparison with the corre- sponding week in CLEARINGS, Decrease. Boston... Philadelphi Chicago, t. Toui Baltimore San Franc Cincinnati. Denver. Minne: Memphis Columbus Indianapoli New Haven. Portland. Joseph: 1ghield Vracuse. Lowell.. Review of the British Markets. LoxnoN, Mareh 1.—The Mark Lane Ex- press, in its weekly review of the British grain trade during the past weel,says: Snow storms which have prevailed during the week been unfavorable to field work. The markets for native wheats have been more ive; prices sd@ls dearer. Sales of f . Oats are 54 s of wheat were sold, one 1 California, which wag bought for Antwerp at 84 6d: one ¢ drawn and one remained. ward is improving. At d wheat was quict but steady; fo vor of sell pding barleys are 34 dearer on we Sa@hd dearer on the week; n the week. Grain in Sight and Store, CHicAGo, M i 1,—The number of bushels of grain in store in the United States and Canada on February 27, and the amount of inerease or dec ompared wiih the pre- vious week,will be posted on *Changeto-mor- row as follows Whea 148,850 Cort 1404117 Oats, j Rye. Burley The date nam Whea Corn, Oats. Decrease Tnerease Increase. Inerease 827 Deeres Chieago el Elgin Dairy Markot Cineaao, March L—Inter Ocean’s Elgin No cheese was sold on the sales nggro- were pri- Total salos, ————— THE WEATHER. A Maine County Laborin Three Feet of Snow CArA1s, Me,, March L—Cristook county is snowed under fully three feet on the level, Trains are blockaded in all dircctions. A large portion of both the New Brunswick and 8t. Croix & Penobscot railaoads will Lave to'be shoveled out, Trains Ten Feet Weep, st, Jonxs, N. B, March 1.—This city is blockaded by snow, and sinee Friday night no trains or mails from the v have reached here, ‘Trains due Saturday morning and Saturd at Green Point sur- rounded by drifts ten and fifteen feet high, Weather for To-Day. 1ssount VALLEY—Falr, slightly warmer weather, followed by SHOWS or rain; winds generally southerly THE CH PLAYERS, ikertort Resigns the Second Orleans Game. New OrreANs, March L.—The chess con- test hetween Zukertort and Steinitz was re- stied this afternoon, Zukertort having the chose the white, The game was Ruyo Lopez knight opening, and throughout thé early part was a regulation “book game.” On his sixteenth move Zukertort sccured a position which evidently disconcerted Steinitz, who became very restless but he managed in sub- sequent moves to overcome Lis antagonist's {vantage, and afte Under New nitz's, kertort suffered from insomnia last night, and complained of not feeling well to- day in consequence. - The contest will be re- | suived on Weduesday at1p. m. ertort’s playing time was i 5, 7 WEAVER ON THERAGGED EDGE A Very Poor Showi in the Contest Case. CAMPBELL MAY TURN HIM OUT. Frederick's Bill District in Towa—Sparks' Good Work In the Land Office ~Washiagton Notes. The Campbell-Wenver Contest. WasHiNGToN, M gram, | —Governor Campball of Lowa is happy and General Weaver is correspond- to-night ingly ill-natured. flimsy ease made b half filed for W Weaver contested claimed all along that he conld show a clear nd an increased v case are drooping and he Cook, or I sink.” brief shows that all have raked togethier votes cast for Campbell, with all thei masters and revenue agents at work, manufactured testin tempt to use Cook’ dodge” proved a mis load” of aarkies fa idiots and conviets ali having voted for Weaver, they are in prove two or three v at Ottumwa by republi Campbell beats this, craf the same city Weave his oceupation as cle tion developed him without character. nesses are, many of sinee paid off with postofiice: son ot Montezuma, Klise of Baxter, Starkman ot Richl a dozen others who worked for the s of things hoped for. now happy as comum and has gone to the The brief presented weaker in testimony, and it is even hinted A give-away that it is to run next fall and W certainly rec If this democratie above its weeks and *go west FOR A > To-day My. Freder] introduced his pet sc cial district in his ‘The bill provides that the act of congress {0 divide the state of [owa into five judicial dis- triets, approved Ju amended as follow Cedar, Johnston and Tama shall be tra ferred to the northern district and made a and that said counties and the part thereof: counties of Grundy Blackhawk,Benton !Lynn, Jones and Clinton shall constitute a new #ivision in said north- . to be ealled the Cedar Raplds di- vision of the norther district, and that the terws of court for which shall be held at the ern distrie city of Cedar Rapids ac division created by holding court in the the northern district day of February and the second Tuesday of The Iowa delegation Is almost against the advisabilty of the passage of this bill, and say Mr. Fredericks knows it can not September. succeed. They say judicial districts in tl SPARKS 18 DOING GOOD WORK. homestead, timber culture and Eighty other entries, and were cancelled for Spari ground eighty-onc ty-two pre-emption filings. He also during that period recommended erlinindl proceed- ings against fifty-se: on government lands, and élvil twenty-two o value of the tit cases which he has brought against, is t| pany of San Frane 10,000 feet of timbe: i fraud that the land office has ¢ terfere with. BILL D Indications do not the educational bill, tribute among the st for public sehool purpose; mora stoutly opposed in th was In the Jast one, dently, in the long d The constitutional obje tor Morzan and some others of the debaters have had more weight than was ex- peeted by the friends of the bill, thers through the senate, prospects of getting MOV S Senator-elect Mood in Dakof Govery other prominent wor hood, including Senator- expected here in a few days, eral well known territory, de Harrison bill, whiel the house commit WANT A TE The Towa delegation house and senate to-day duplicate copies of a joint resolution and memori their state legislature, lishent of a nort home for disabled and indigent union sol- The documents were di i sailors, terred to the commit each house, WESTE at Neel, a new office iel T, Kennedy at Keya Paba county, been (Towa). WILD IDEAS A large number of hay eonstitution of to be selected by the FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS, Senate. WASHINGTON, May wittee on public lands voted to repoit ad- versely on the nomination of Surveyor Gen- eral Dement of Utah, T'he minority repor comwittee on the sented, Itis thice the majority report, tious, er to-day in the Campbell- A careful analysis of the shad to pay $4 apiece for republicans in s evidence was by a person giving However that may be, Weaver has ed a black eye, and feels it. intense would take Greeley’s ady] W 10WA JUDICTAL DISTRICT. t of July 20, 1882, shall be applicable to the during the month of February, and ho held for cancellation upon the ses to recover §2,031,%05, the her cut. recom among whow are and C. €, Frost of Huron, N POSTAL CHANGES, James Neel has been appointed postmaste nnmissioned (Neb.), Peter J. Korth at Portsmouth (Lowa), nd Robertson Gannay petitioned congress o so amend the the United jolish the presidency. ecutive’s functions performed by a tribunal ng in His Brief Filed for Another Judicial areh 1.—|Special Tele- Tne cause, the weak and Judge Cook in his be- clection. Weaver has but his feath cries, “Help me, Cass over the district they barely two dozen_illegal DPost- with nony and all, Their at- old “colored colonization ble fiasco. The “ear iled to materialize, and a bad straight, They otes of demoerats boug nsat $1apiece, but showing that the demo- ek, but a eross-examina- into a clerk of Weaver's principa them, men wnom he ha; Brown of Prairic City, 1lis attorney in ¢l nissioner to the Na happy hunting grounds, is weak in language, but nd that Cook intends wants Weaver out of the louse could only rise partisanship, Weaver e in less than two » icks of Jowa, introduced cheme to create a judi- congressional domain. Iy 20, 1882, shall be ‘That the. counties of ns- Hardin, Butler, Brewer, All provisions of the this act. The time for dar Rapids division of shall be the third Tues- there is one too many he state now. 145 pre-emption filings, fraud by Commissioner me timber culture and twen- ven for tiiber tréspass, suits In The largest of these nded suit to be he Sierra Lumber com- isco, for the cutting of argest had to in- 00MED TO DEFEAT. poini to the pass which proposi tes, pro rata, large sums Indecd, it seems congress than it It has lost ground, evi- iscussion in the senate, on urged by Sena It may get but there scems small it through the house, OF DAKOTAIA ly has left for his home nor-clect Mellette and kers for 1 et Edgerton, There are se it here from the William T Love at work for the L will be considered by on territorles next week BOLDIERS' HOME, presented in PLL0C the passed by ing for the estab- hwestern branch of the Te- tee on militarya fairs of in Dundy county, Dan- Pekin, a new oftice in . John Norwood has postinaster at Laird at Pleasant Grove FROM DOUGLAS, Douglas county citizens ates as to They want the ex- Deople or by congress, reh 1,—The senate com- Jf the senate judiciary Dustin case was pre- or four thmes as long as 1t cwbodies no resolu- l Mr. Pugh asked that the report be printed and placed on flfc ealendar, It was not read in the senatae. The report says thatgwhen President Cleve- fand eame fnto gfice he found about cent of the of h-% fl“‘ by republicai: pointed a¥'a fowird for palty services. party to whom the president \is ~ nomination and ~ election had been exiled from all rlll(lcip:\'inu in the ¢ivil administration of the government for nearly a quarter of a century, The triends and supporters of the president made application for a redistribution of blic No other president has ever been subjected to stieh a severe trial, or had met with so many grave difficultics, and no other had such an abundant supply of valid reasons and causes urging him to the free exereise of the ower of removal from federal oftice, and none other ever resisted more than he the just claims of his supporters or used his power of removal mos sclentiously, —cautiously and Notwithstanding these facts, the 650 n nations sent to the senate in suspension ases had been allowed to remain before the committee without consideration and tinal disoosition, Dustin has made no complaint before the judiciary committee, the pr or attorney generali that he was wronged by the suspension, The committee was fully informed that Barrett was recommendad to the president by all the members of congress from Alabama, on personal knowledge of his high character. Stripped to the naked truth, without any special pleading, the ease made for the senate on th resolntion and the answerof the attorney general is whethe the senate D a right to demand of the attor- ney general the fransmission, against the grder of the president, of the anly paper or document of the description mentioned in the resolution, That paper or document, it isstated in the request, relates lusively to the removal of Dustin by the president, one is ot transmitted. minority of your com- at v-sixth congress, o demo- crats had a” majority in_the senate, no such spectacle as that now exhibited to the coun- ver witnessed in the history of its Pproceedings. “T'lie report is signed by Senators James L. Pugh, Richard Coke, George G. Vest, and Howell Tackson, The senate then went into exceutive ses- sion, and when the doors reopened, ad- Journed. owed House. Wasmixeroy, March L—Mr. Bramm asked unanimous consent to have printed in the senate a memorial signed by J. P, Brig- Bam and others, asking the impeachment of Daniel Manning, sccretary of the treasury, for high erimes and misdemeanors in the ex- ccution of the silver law. Mr. Eibridge moved to suspend the rules and pass the Mexican pension bill with a pro- viso excepting from its provisions persons politjcally disabled. After debate, and pending action upon the motion, the house adjourned. I ebruary Debt Statement. Wa arch L—The following is arecapitulation of the debt statement issued to-day for the month of February: Inferest bearing debt, principal and interest, $1,25 222,500,642 debt on whicl interest has since 1 2 interest, and inferest, ase of debt during the monh, ; cash in treasu ble for reduction of the public debt, S04 reserve fund, $100,000,- 000; 'total casli in the treasur Shown by tlie’ treasurer's general account, S494,459. 935,52, ncipal e~ THE OVERLAND WAR. No Decrease in Rates—4 Ficrcer Fight Tiooked For. Ciicaco, Mareh 1.—[Special Telegram.]— n Francisco passenger rates are stiil aslow as they were—s80.50, for first class limited riding from Chicago. Commissioner Midgley, who went to New York to induce the trunk lines to prorate with the overland Californin lines so that they could better compete with the Sunset route, which takes its freight by water around to New Orleans, has returned without accomplishing his purpose. The Southern Pacific, by having a steamer route to New Orleans, appears to Le able to control a majority of the business, do what the other roads may. The Rock Island claims that by not meeting the St. Paul’§ §8 cut to Council Bluffs except on through business, it has greatly surprised and djsgruntled that road and its ally, the North- western, On the other hand the St. Paul claims thpt it and the Northwestern are car- rying all the Council Bluffs business, and that it wants nothing better than the present state of things. Railroad men are expeeting more active fighting on this Missowri river business. The Rates Ruling From 'Frisco. SAN FraNcisco, M —Owing to the demand of the lowa roads that full fare be charged between Omaha and Chies on unlimited: ti New York to $95.25, and Chicazo $72.50. change in limited tickets. The Southern cific made a new move in the fight th afternoon by cutting third el Their announcement was immedciately fol- lowed by similar action on tie part of all the other overland roads, and scl 5 of open rates were conspiciiously posted at all the oflices as follows: To Omaha and Kunsas ;, £12.00; Chicazo, $17.50; New York ton, £20.50. Heavy sales of third ss tickets resulted in consequence of this reduction. The Illinois Central's Annual. CuieaGe. Mareh 1.—The annual report of the direetors of the Illinois Central railroad for the year ended Deccnbe; shows that the gross sum r 812,621,000, an inere: of §464,000 for the lines in 1ilinois and the south, and a decrease 0 in lowa. The nel earning were 0. o' report attributes the der Towa leased lin © of business consequent upon the lessening of immigration into lowa and the states I causes mentioned are higher taxation, building of opposition lines and lowering 'of freight and passenger rates, 2 A Big Out By the Sunser, SAN Fraxcisco, March 1L—T, C. Stubbs, traflic manager of the Southern Paciie company, made one gencral rate of #10 per ton on all freight to New York r gardless of class. _He also ordered two rates 10 be made from New York to this point of £1 por hundred on freight heretofore eharged §hon over per hundred, and 7 conts for freight previously carried for less than S e FOREIGN FLASHE The Wife of the American Ministc Complimented by Queen Vie, L.oxpox, March L,—Queen Victoria spon- taneously paid a great compliment to America to-day in receiving Mrs. Phelps, wife of the United States minister, in_a pri- vate audience at Windsor castle, Mis. Phelps was gecompanied by the Earl and Countess Roseberry. The party mef at Windsor sta- tion and were conveyed to the castle by special court_earr The countess pre Mrs. Phelps in the ambassador’s room. queen received Mrs, Phielps most cord and_conversed with Ler some time, ‘The r ception of & minister’s wife privately by the queen is alwost phenomenal.” That fiorior is due only ‘o the wives of ambassadors. | honor is more_ markel because tho quee will hold @ drawing room shortiy, which it is_customary to present ministers' wives to her. Mrs, Phelps was atlired in mourning, The pirty Tunched at the castlo and was conveyed back to the station in the same royal care wostilions. Mr, Phelps did not accoump: s wife, Oficial nowce is given in t cowt civeular of the presentition of Mrs, Phelp Welsh Opposition to Home Rule. LoNDoN, Mareh 1.—The Welsh membel of tie liberal party united in iutimating to Istone that it will be impossible 1@ 1 ti to support any proposal tending to t lishuient of a separate parliament in Ire 1 e, preceded by gorgeous | belonging to the oileloth works of G LABOR TROUBLES, McCormick's Reaper Works Resume operations. Crreaco, March 1.—The McCormick reaper works resumed work this morning, 150 men reporting for duty. Great crowds were in the vicinity of the works early in the morn- g, and to their presence 18 asceribed the fact that a larger number did not apply for work through fear of intimidation. A large force of police were on hand to preserve order, and arrested three or four men who were nofsy and aggressive, ‘Tne lockedout men arg to lold a mass meeting this forenoon near the works, When the great bell sounded at_the works not to exceed 150 men had entered the yare Large numbers of working men had ap- peared carrying their dinner pails, but were taken in ch v strikors, A great many “cxurw\mlml upon to remain out. Great crowds of strikers lined Blue [sland avenue facing the works, with the evident intention of intimidating any men expecting to go to work, and finally” the police ordered them back. They weré slow fo move at first, but when the order to disperse came a second time and the ofticers ady and ran across th 1 all divections. dispersal of the restored condidence to mindd: wavering ones, who had been prevented fron and they started hurriedly Tn five minutes, according to X ) men were at wents, Superin- a number of men re- frained irom returning owing to having re- ceived threatening notes In night, By to- morrow he expected the work to boe in full tion, Mr, MeCy pened the yards uld work in the varl tendent Averill sa; not “shut ¢ policoarrested twenty men for ereating adisturbance. one of whom was making a speech advocating that the strikers use their revolvers and slioot any one entering the “They were taken to the police station raiened for earrying coneealed weap- ey were fined nd costs each. Revolyers were found on their persons, pur Movement. Cneaao, The eight hour movement is assuming formidable provor- tions in this city, and promiscs to be very general among wa and unorganized, union have decided to work at eight hours pay, on May 1, 18 recommended by the Féderation of 1 Labor unfonis of the United States and Canada, and as they number 4,000 men—in fact all 'working at the trade in Chicazo— their demand 15 likely to be acceded to. The Plasterer’s union, numbering some 1,500, have taken like action, as also the lath- e rpenters and all building trades. The Yigarmaker's union has also decided to make a stand for eight hours, and_the "Typograph- ical union, numbering’ some 1,500 ‘members, yesterday decided to fall into lme and work eight hours from and after May 1, and in- vited the other printer's unions in the coun- try to co-operate. The general feeling amoung tlie worlkers seeiis to be to accept eight hours pay for eight hours work, and manutacturers and employers zenerally do not scem to strenuously objeet to thelr proceeding, The Chinese Must Go. PorTLAND, Oce,, Mareh 1.—Between mid- night and 2 o'clock this morning a mob of eighty masked men, divided into two squads, visited the Chinese working back of ast Portland and Albina, the eastern suburb of this city, and drove them out. There were 180 Chinese in all, all of them engaged in wood chopping and grubbing on land lyiug one to three miles back of town. Some of the men wore masks, others had their faces blacked, ‘and some wore sacks over their heads with holes for eycs, and all of them W rmed. They came to the camps where the Chinese were asleep, routed them out, displayed yevol , and ordered them to up and leave at once. The Chinese of- Forea o resistance and ailowed tiemselves ven to the ferry boat and takel this eit, The mob worked with ar secrcey.” ‘The night was dark, and the oflice, The the Bricklayers’ and for eight hours to be of the law knew nothing of its action until the Chinese arrived here, marching up the street about 2 o’clock in the morning. st S5 WYOMING WAIFS. Substantiai Business Men Incorporate a North and South Railroad. Cn Wyo., March L.—[Special Tel- egram.]—Articles of Incorporation of the Cheyenne & Northern Railway company filed with the secretary of the territory Capital £3,000,00, divided into 30,000 shia ‘The incorporators and trustces for the first year are Thomas Sturgis, secre- retary of the Wyoming Stock Growers’ asso- iation and vresident of the Stock Growers National bank of Cheyenne; Henry G. lay, cashier of the same bank: Francls L, ren, governor of Wyoming and president of the Warren Mercantile company and the arren Live Stock company: W. M. C, Irwin, ice president of the First National bank of Clieyenne; Morton B, Post, banker and ¢ delegate in congress; Joseph M ent delezate for Wyoming: Erasmu: and W, Corlett. 'The line of the road is from Cheyenne morth to Fort Larmie, thence nortliwest to Fort Fettevman, and through Johnson county to Montana, thence north- west to the Northern Pacifie. The company is organized upon the strength ot $500,000 subsidy to be given by Larmie county to a north and south road. It wiil probably be operated In - conjunction with the Union Pacific., The Lance Creek Cattle §1,000,000 capital, and A, I Hord and 7' B, Hord, with some New York gentlemen, as trustees, also incorporated to-day, - —— THE FIRE RECORD, Northern Pacific Depot at Winunipeg Totally Destroyed, NIPEG, Man., March 1.—A fire broke out at an early hour to-day in the Canadian Pacifie railway depot and the stiucture was totally consumed, T 1 of the e is a mystery, unless it was by gas or some com- bustible substance in the baggage room where the fire started, ‘The building and contents were valued at $200,000, and their only insur- ance s $40.000, Al officos have been thoroughly gutted, except what may be saved of th itents of the safes, Business was resumed in the old station to-day pending the construction of a new building, company, with Fire in Toronte, ToroxTo, Marel 1.—A fire yesterday at Point Perry yed many fine houses and uncompleted blocks that had been erected since the fire of eighteen months ago. While the fire was in progress a terrible explos of gunpowder stored in a o one of the burning buildimgzs, took place, but no one was injured, ‘The weather was ver old and water iroze in the pipes. ‘The fire spread so rapidly that many poor people were com- pelled’to flee from “their homes without any- thing else than the clothes they wore, 1lie will not exeeed §100,000, t New Brighton, West New Baianron, 8. L, Mareh 1,- A fire started in Bodine Bro's lowmber yard this afternoon with astiff ga'e blowing, En- gines from the neighboring towns were called to assist in tighting the s At 10 o'clock to-night the five was thouzht to be under ecoutiol, loss, $ 13 insurance, $31,000, At Philadelphia, PoiLApeLrnia, Mareh I--T'wo buildin r WL Blabon & Co,, burked to-day, Loss, $35,000; partly insured, | AtWhitehall, N. ¥, ! March 1—E. W. Hall's operas | itehall, and & number of smaller | © burned to day. L.oss, 55,000, — Before buying get prices at the Central | Luwber Yard, 18Lh and California. ) deal A WAIF WITHOUT A FATHER. The Surprise Party Played on a Nebrasks Oty Merchant, FOUND AN INHABITED BASKET, The Covering Removed Reveals a Squalling Infant—He Commences Criminal Action Against the Alleged Mother, A Babe Without a Papa. NERRASKA Crry, Neb. Fob, Speclal.] 0Me person or persons, who are at present unknown, between the hours of 8 and 9 o'clock last evening left a basket containing a male infant who was apparently not over two days old, at the side door of the resi- dence of F. Rottarann, the well-known merchant and landlord of this city. The servant girl employed at the residenee of Mr. Rottmann had oceasion to go to the barn at So'clock ora little after to look after acow 1 lad been ailing all d Ir. Rottmann 1ot being uble to ook after the animal on ac- count of being under the weather himselfs On her return to the house, about fiye min= utes later, she discovered a small | market basket on the steps of the side door which she had just passed out of a few minutes before, a white cloth being spread over it Placing her hand under the cloth her surprise turned to fright when she felt something warm, She at once ran into the house and notified Mr. and Mrs. Rott- mann, and the basket being brought into the | house, the contents were discovered tobea ' “bouncing little baby boy,” apparently about one or two days old, well dressed, and evi- dently then under the inflfence of some opiate. Sheriff McCallum was at onee sunmoned, and in company with Constable Hail began atonce to see it they could trace up the my: tery, They found footprints along the fence in the alley, and also the print of the bottom of the basket, cvidently the place where the party was in waiting before put- ting his or her plans into operation, Tho ne foot prints were also traced for over half a mile, and also at one the print of the basket was discovered again. The night ing stormy and dark the officers gave up. earch until this morning. It is thought that the reason the babe was Mr. Rottmann’s was from the fact that one of the wealthiest men of our nd having lost his little bably & fow weeks since, the party thought that t he little stranger might receive the benefits of a good lhome, a be more welcome, in a measure filling the loss Mr, and Mrs. Rott- mann have met with so recently Nenraska Ciry, Neb,, March 1.—|Special Telegram.|—As an outcome of the baby four:d on the doorsteps of K. W. Rottmann’s | residence Saturday night, that gentleman swore outa warrant acainst Mrs, F. Dunke | evening, charging her with mali- el and slander againsthim, by charg- and maliclously and in a public | manner that he, Rot was the father of a certain illegitimate child which bad been abandoned and left on his aoorsteps. The preliminary examination will take place to-night or to-morrow in the county court. It is thought before the matter is through with there will be%ome Intoresting develop- ments. Mrs. Dunke denies the eharge. Some Creditors Got Left. EXETER Neb., Mareh L—[Special|—W. J. Sullivan’s general merchandise stock was sold at anction here Saturday for $1,575 to Meyer & Raapke, Omaha. About $1,100 of this with notes and book aceoynts will cover the first mortgage held by D. H. Mullholland. 1t is generally thought here that the stock brought about full value. The other creditgrs, principal among whom are Meyer & Raapke, Omaha, and_Plammer, Perry & Co., of Lin- coln, $500; Reed, Jones & Co., Omaha, $500, will get practicaily nothing. This stock of goods has canged hands six times in the past five years with two failures(?), and during this period of time it has not been at all plain who owned the stoc Tribute to Judge Mitchell, eAsKA Ciry, Neb., Mareh 1.—(Special gram.]—The court hoyse at this place was draped in mourning all day Sunday and the great bell kept tolling during the hour Judge Mitehell's funeral was being held at his old Towa home. The following delega- tion from this city attended the funera M. L. Hayward, Wiltiam Vallentine, W, A. Cotton, T. B, Stevenson, S, H. Calhoun, W, E. 11ill, Dr. Bishop and William MeLennan, Besides a beautiful home in this city, Judgo Mitehell had $10,000 insurance on his life. Died from Natural Causes. PrATTsMOUTH, Neb., March 1.—[Speclal.| T'he Morning Mail, a daily paper established in this eity some three months ago, died a natural _death on y morning of this 1t demonstratedthe long established fact that a morning daily without dispatches was a misnomer, and a burden to its projectors, o~ Her Husband Her Murderer. SpriINGFIELD, Mo, March 1L—The coro- ner’s inquest in the Graham wife murder caso was reswmed this morning. After several witnesses were examined the fury returned averdiet that Sarah Gaaham came to her death at the hands of George Grahamn by means of o pistol shot wound in the right breast, and other unknown means, Lima Malloy and Cora 1 thereto, ete. “The Ier ment from Mrs, Malloy, with seriptures, . and nd Cora to-night. will print a very lenzthy and It bears hard on € rotests the innocenee of Powder House Demolished, DAYTON, Ohio, March 1.—1lie dry house of the Miami Powder compan y near Xenia blew up this morning, killing three men wnd blow= ing the building and machinery to atonis, The shock was direetly felt here all over the ty, There were 2,400 twenty-five pound kegs in the house when the explosion oe- curred, 1t was. caused by the explosion of the boiler used in drying the powder, The loss is heavy, but cannot b imated, Father, Mother and Child Drowned, HALiFAX, N. 8, March 1.—Alex McDone ald, wife and cLild, while crossin Bras d' Dor, Cape Breton, Saturday broke through the ice An T esting Lecture, good audience greeted Rev. A, P, Mead last evening at the Seward strees M. E. church, to listen to his lecture on “Romance of the Polpit.” Those whe were present with the expectation of hearing u dry pulpit oration were haps ily dusappointed, for the speaker e ribited a talent for intevesting his audis ence in everything that he said. The lecture itself is extremely interesting, and the mannor of its delivery was elos quent, full of pathos and sparkling with intruction -~ Rheumatism loses_its Jacobs Oil is applied. tle grip whenever St Filty cents o be - Low prices (& £00d des and a squar, entral Lumber Yard, 13th & Calar B