Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 1, 1886, Page 1

THE OMAHA DALy BEE il FIFTEENTH YEAR, BOB DENOUNCES BUTTERINE | The One-Armed Ohampion of the Farm- house Uhurn Talks as He Knows, HE FLAYS THE GREASY FRAUD. A Delegation of Dairymen Bofore the House Committee on Agricuiture— Speech by Col. R. M. Littler— General Capital Notes, Argument Against Olcomargarine. WasiiNGroy, Mareh SL—[Special Tele- gram. | —A hearing was granted to-<day—and 1t will be continued to-morrow—by the house committee on agriculture to a delezation from the dalry interests of the country in favor of a bill to tax imitation butter ten cents a pound, mark it so iteannot be sold for the genuine article, and place its control on the market in the hands of the commissioner of internal revenue, Some very strohg ap- peals were made for the dairy interests, and 1t keems probable that not only will the com- mittee adopt the bill, but that it will be promptly passed by both houses of congress, Aniong those who addressed the committeo was Colonel Robert M. Littler, secretary of the National Butter, Cheese and Egg associ- ation, and of the lowa Butter and Cheese as- sociation. Mr. Littler in the course of his re- marks sald: *No one has the right to make an imitation of a valuable miticle and sell it for the genu- ine. No one has the right to make such an imitation and sell it to men who will sell it for the genuine, any more than he has the right to make counterfeit money and sell it o men who hie kiows will pass it for genu- ine. The manufacture of an imitation or counterfelt article in any considerable quan- tity Is prima facie evidence of an intention to sell it as the genuine. All imitations of but- ter are counterfeits of the genuine, and are sold to the consunier, with rare exceptions, for genuine. Though the manufacturers and wholesale dealers may sell their Imitation butter to retail dealers for what it they well know that the retail dealer can sell to the consumer only as genuine, Those who buy imitation but- ter ot the retail dealers for what it is are lotel keepers, boarding house keepers, res- pers, dining car agents and other caterers for the public, who intend to and so palm off the imitation compound for the gen- uine dairy vroducts. Imitation butter, in many cases, is made of inferior and unwhole- some fat and compounds of other ingre- dientd, known and unknown, which are neither eleanly nor conducive to heaith, In swonsequence of the known fact that imitation tifitters ave filth, unwholesome and fraudu- lent, the consuming public will neither eat nor buy them knowingly, and hence they can be sold only in a fraudulent manner, knowing that they must be fraudulently sold i useal. “Yet millions of pounds of the imitation hutters are fraudulently imposed upon the consumers of dairy goods every week—it not every day. Theso imitations mre not only unwholesome, filthy and frandalent, but are made of in and cheap materials, that onable the manutacturers to undersell genu- ne dairy goods, while at the same time ob- taining a price for the imitation mueh above the cost of their production. These imita- tion butters are not honest substitutes for nuine and their eompetition with the pro- duets of the dairy is not an honest one, They wear a false guise and are sold for what they are not,else honest competition would have no cause for complaint. Their fraudulent character and sale is the evil of which we complain, In consequence of the fraudulent cter and sale of imitation dairy goods and of public knowledge and fear of their frandulent sales, the consumers of dairy goods have been greatly diminishea, the market for n greatly depreciated, and are in danger of having iness utterly ruined, The dairy in- of the ived a stagge ing blow from the fraudulent manufacture sle of fmitation dairy goods. Dairymen disposing of their cows cting to alse more dairy stock. Good judges already estimate the reduction of dairy stock below the normal point (o be at least 25 per cent. This would Le a fearful falling off in any business, and yet prices of dairy goods remain depressed with no in- fons of fmprovement in the future. In consequence of this depresslon in the dairy interest, the small farmers’ sources of revenue from the creamery or private dairy, to meet current expenditures, are greatly re- duced or cut off altogether, and his taxes re- maln unpaid, and in’ wany cases he s in arrears in his payments on mortgages that hang over his premises, The good Lhousewite has hiad the demand for the golden issues of the ehurn curtailed or stopped. and she is elled to ask eredit of her grocer and ant for ¥ erctofore paid for m the mint of the dairy. “L'o such a pass have we already come that dairy production, with the business o upon ity s threatencd with ruin it not annibilation, all because of the frauds pr tleed upon the community by the many turers and dealers in imitation butters, stoek Industry of the country is severely Rt from the effeets of the same ecause, Especially 1s this trie of dairy breeds, which have already experienced a serious depression in prices. And dairy stock which is being sacrifiecd comes in to compete in the beef markets and adds to depress the prices of fat stock. ‘Phe imitation butter business, which Is conducted on the prineiple that dishonesty Is the best policy, s decrading to humanity and = demoralizing to all kinds of business, Permit this frand to go unwhipped of justice, and you open the box of Pandora, letting loose upon the sommunity every form of swindling that eunning ean devise. Dealers in false weights and measires are su rly and Justly pun- ished;n 80 should be the dealer in false values, What is asked by the producers and consumers of dairy goods throughout the country is that stupendous in the manufacture and sale of dairy goods shall be supressed by appropriate congros slonal le ), or 80 regulated that the publie shall bo no longer deceived, im posed upon and defranded. State legislation ean act only locally, and it is difficult—if not Jipossible—to secure sueh uniform legisla- Yon 1n all states as will be effective.” SICK OF CIVIL SERVICE, wre still some people here who be- tthe civil serviee law will not last cite the fact that many of the tat and senators who voted for it esitate to ridienle it, and expres- { contempt for its operations are con- stantly ingtulged in with the utmost freedom by pt ent men of both varties. Senator 1 specch of last Friday voiced andd purposely —the sentiment of the leading wmen of the ey Al party towa e class whieh { for the doctrine of eivil vice teform, Were they to express their real opinions, the majority of both parties in the two houses would probably vote for the repeal of the law. Policy, however, inter poses \n the way of such action now, but as ahove intimated, it will not be surprising for cossaries 'he Neve U They o esponsil frauds practiced | | failure. | This little 7 made to civil service reform on the floors of the two houses have been supplemented with outspoken denunciations of the law and its effect before three state associations—ary- land, Virginia and Ohio—by members of con- gress from the states named, and other mem- bers are only uwaiting an opportunity to fol- low their example, INTEREST PATD ON WAR LOANS, The honse committee on war claims has determined to report adversely the bill to reimburse the several states for interest paid by them on war loans, Mr. Lyman of lowa favors the reimbursement of these outlays. As a member of the committee on war claims he will submita minority report for the bill. Mr. Lyman holds these outlays which were male by the states on loans they secured for equipping troops shonld be paid and that hey form as just claims against the government as those for the principal of the loans. The principal was reimbnrsed, and e thinks the interest paid on this money borrowed should also be reimbursed. Mr. Lyman made an earnest effort to secure a mujority report in favor of the bill but failed, and has been granted leave to file a minority report. [owahas con- siderable interest in this matter. She was very liberal in equipping troops and had to borrow money todo it with, Nebraska, Min- nesota and many other states are intcrested also. AN ORNOXIOUS WHISKY RULING. There 1s to be ademand for an inquiry into the recent ruling of theattorney general permitting whisky when reimported to lie three years in a government warchouse, The more this order is furned over the more 1t is talked about, and the more complaint there i in regard (o here was great complaint when Scerctary Folger, by his famous order, gave the whisky trade seven months’ exten- oion of the bonded period, but it is now sug- gested that by this ruling they get seven years—three before the goods are sent abroad, one year in transit, and three in a customs warchouse when brought back. “There is talk of congressional inquiry and of a request for a suspension of the ruling in the meantime, CONSTERNATION 1N THE CAMP, So mueh coustornation as was caused by the resignation of Jacob Rich, United States pension agent for Iowa and Nebraska, has not been seen for wany years among the Hawkeye democrats here. 1t completelyun- nerved them. Itis rumored that the yarious candidates are rushing here trom all parts of Towa, and that they will be groomed and pre- sented to Prosident Cleveland as early as possible. The democrats in lowa’s congres- sional delegatien were never so smiling at each otheras now and never did so much damning when backs are turned. 1t is gen- erally believed Mr. Riel’s suceessor will be named withina few days. MIS. CAPTAIN CROCK The senate committee on pensions has re- ported favorably the bill passed by the house afew weeks ago, to pension the widow of Genera D. Crocker of Iowa. A great deal of interest is taken in the final suceess of this measure here as well as in Towa, where the famous general was so well and favorably known. It will undoubtedly be passed by the senate soon, PERSONAL, White M. Grant of Davenport, Towa, ar- rived here to-duy. FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Senate, WAsHINGTON, March 81.—The army bill was placed before the senate. Mr. Logan did not feel called upon to answer what M Teller had said yesterday, but wonld reply to one or two remarks personal to himself. It would not do for him to enter the ficld of sarcasm with Mr. Teller. Mr, Logan could not say what he had said to induce the sen- ator from Colorado to make the remarks he did. The senator from Colorado was the first man that had ever complained of a want of courtesy in Mr. Logan. He (Logn) did not claim all the graces, or that he would make a Chesterfield, He would greet the senator from Colorado hereafter as the Chestergeld of the senate. That senator’s reference to Mr. Logan’s military service, and that he (Logan) was parading his military services before the country, were unwoithy of a republican senator.representing a loyal state, On the other side of the senate were men wiio fou ainst the union. They had more respect { an who was a soldier and who st Ainst them than to insinuate in_any sueh_low, mean despic- ablo way as this. True, Mr. Logan did what little he'could for this country. e Gid help preserve the flag that sheltered the senator from Colorado. He did help protect that rights and did help keep this union while that senator reposed in quie in his own home, For doing. that should I ) be criticised by arepublic n not in his (T A 1 or in the way of any of his friends. His insinuations aboit my aspirations were without foundation. I have no_aspirations other than to represent my constituency hon- estly and fairly, What justiieation is th for suclh an insinuation? I ask for nothi L want nothing, Lam not in the way of any wan. Continning, Mr. Logan had been cabinet offiecrs were not necessarily statesmen, When the senator from Colorado had said that Mr. Logan was nof lie biad said 10 wore than M. He was sorry that there were some men who did not know so much about themselyes, T'lhe senator from Colorado had attempted to id that men who this chamber of high charac away What he (1 n) said in ref Maime (Hale), why Tug that in? thas that got to do with the proposition abgut 5,000 men? Yet it insinuated —and even insinuated he struck it ouc of his speech, “Why has it been persisted in on this floor that 1 am trying to make insinuations on some! y outside of this chambel onee for all, that F made no sueh allusion thiat the man wis 1ot in my mind, that 1 had no such intention, nor can” my language be construed or twisted into any ‘such shape as that. What | ators and in senators by sena body outside, chiracter of argument or cliaracter of asser- tion. 1 wiil say turther to the senator from Colotudo, and desire i to understand it, und have notice now, that all attempts made by senators here in this chamber to aronse a quarrel or 1l feeling between that gentle- man alluded to and myselt will be a He and are better friends than tliese gentlemen who are trying to make us enemies. Thatis all in referénce to that. in this little game is too small a thing for senators to engage in.” Alr. Logan then entered upon a discu; @ of the details of the bill, Al Mr. Plumb in opposition to the bill, Mr. ¢ uddressed the senate in support of Lis'bill to repeal the civil service aw. Alr, Dolph then addressed the senate in sup- port of the bill for the admlssion of Washing- fon territe He claimed that from_every point of vicw that territory was entitled to admission, Afier an executive session the senate ad- journed, nee to any- deal in that on House, rox. March 8L—Mr. O'Neill, of Gulabor, re- abill to provide for the spcedy set- it of controversies and differences be- tween eoumon carficrs engaged in interstate and special tiansportation of property and passengers and their ewployes. The bill was referred to the committce of thé whole, and the honse immediately went into com- | mittee of the whole for the consideration of the ieasure, My, Kelly said he would vote for lll{ bill which would give relief 1o ab pessed hor, Itiee ue hereattor. The sarcastie allusious | but Lie would uot vote for this wass of words OMAHA. THURSDAY S— MORNING APRIL 1. 1856 ———— NUMBER 229 unless his vote was accompanied by a notice that the bill meant nothing. Mr. Foran was no more opposed to the bill than he was to ?rlnkluuu glass of water— both were harmless, Mr, Weaver said that the remedy for the labor troubles must come from a proper law to regulate intetstate commerce, and from a law which would create a condition in our economic system so that the employer conld afford to pay laboringmen what his labor was worlfi. There was no disposition on the part of workingmen to violate law. ~ They desired to earn their living in ~ the sweat of their faces, ‘Tne trouble was that they could not eet the opportunity to work. The remedy was to give the country an increased volume of cur- rency. This labor guestion was purely and simply a question of monoy. Mr. Cutcheon favored the bill beeause it was an ¢ffort in the direction of an equal aistribution of the joint product of the operations of labor and capital. Messts. Buehanan, algo tavored the bill. endin discussion the committee rose, Willis reported the riverand harbor MeAdoo and Dingley The report of the majority on the Hurd- Romeis election case was submitted, and Mr. rtin obtained j2ave to lile a minority re- port. The house then adjourned. BLACK'S INVESTIGATION. The Commissioner Failing to Prove His Scathing Denunciations. WasniNGToN, March Black was ugain before the e commit- tee this morning. He was examined by Sen- ator Plumb in respect to the case of Mark Robinson, chaplain of the Fifty-second In- diaua Volunteers, one of those submitted by the commissioner in support of his charges, te what there was in the records to indicate that;Commissioner Dudley had allowed this elaim for and not upon merits, I among the papers in the c: ter written by elai 2 mmissioner Dudley, setting forth his father's incapacity to main- tain himself, and stating that' preinpt action upon the case would gratify the members of the family, all of whom were staunch repub- licans. I ‘answer to Senator Plumb the com- missioner said t there was nothing in the case other than General Dudley’s order based upon the letter of the claimant's son to show that improper influenees prevailed in the dis- position of the case. Adjourned, The Pan [Electric jInvestigation. WasmiNaToN, March 81.—The telephone investigating committee examined Senator Harris of Tennessce to-day. He told the story of the orzanization of the Pan Electric company, whi reed with the statements already made by other witnesses, “Senator,” inquired the chairman, *was there ever any tion that the company should profit by 1 position of any of the persons who might be engaged?” “l answer no,” replied the witness, emp! ally but slowly, “and [answer further, that if it had beén intimated to me that my oflicial action as a senator was to be invoked, direetly or ind rectly, it would have ended forever all ne- gotiations,” 31.—Commissioner Confirmation. ; WasmNGToN, March 51.—The following confirmations were ofticially made public Allen R. Bushnell, United States the westeru district of Wisconsis al 0. O. Howard, major Pope retired. . C. Strader, Geneva, 1IL: W. Kirkwood, Sullivan, 11L.; T, E. Given: Abington, 111, H. Lantry, Algona, Io J. Etzell, Clear Lake, Iowa; W. B. Gillespie, Traer, Iowa; R.. J. Harrison, ‘Toledo, Lowa; 1. R, Bisbee, Valentine, Neb. To Investigate the Strike, WasmNaToN, March 81.—Tn" addition to the arbitration bill, reported to the house to- day, the labor committee agreed to Lawler's ion appropriating £5,000 to pay the penses ofa special commission o visit_the west and make a thorough investigation into the present labor troubles. Internal Revenue Collections. 0N, Mare —The collections 16,355 ovey ponding period of the last fiscal y Refused to Confirm Him, WasmNGToN, March 8L—The senate in executive session thls evening rejected the nomination of the new postmaster at Web- ster City, lowa, A considerable number of postmasters, whose predecessors were sus- pended, were reported upon favorably, m—— IRISH LAN 3 AN The Freeman's Journal Explains Its Probable Provisions. DupriN, Mare! ‘The Freemun's Jour- nal states that the Irish land bill which Glad- stone will vropose, does not involve either compulsory purchase or the advance of any specified n from the imperial tr What the measure will enact will be the ri of any owner of land in Irel: from the government of Ireland, rule has been granted, the privil bought ou n regulated by A sum will be arrived at by multiplying the amount of rent by a t rs to be agreed _upon by parliament, Il cases where the owners put in sueh’ elaims to be be bought out, ‘the imperial is to provide ‘the purchase money Irish government is to guarantee r and is to attend to the business of ing the empire for all these outlays, by di posing of the purchused lands to occupiers, ing in the shape of payments therefor, such rents as will cover thé whole sum back in forty-nine years, Asat present framed the bill fixes the rents to he paid by tenants at four per cent per annwm on the amount of the purchase, When the tenant has paid rent to the Irish government the amount the land cost the government he is to becowme the owner, Althongh the tenant is to pay the Irish government 4 per eent per annui, the latter will be responsible to the imperial treasury for but 3¢ per cent per annum, the difference to go to the sinking fund to méet bad debts, the cost of collections, ete. The measure as outlined by the Freeman's Journal is so vastly ditferent from the one attributed by ‘certaln radicals and tories to adstone as (o occasion astonishment, ‘The present bill does not compel an exodus of Englishmen from Ireland. It simply enables the government in a gradual and reasonable way, without increasing pub- lie burdens, or running the risk ot loss, to adjust the confiict of Iterosts between the peasantry and land owners of Ireland, en- abling those who find residence in Ireland to remqain there as long as they d assisting those who find it desir- able to leave without suffering injustice, he Three Sick Secretaries, INGTON, Marel 'here has been eptible change since yesterday in Manning’s condition, His physi- clans say that the danger of a return of the attack to that portion of the brain first as- sailed is past, though they still feara re- currence of the trouble in some other loca- tion, The attorney general and Secretary Lamar will return to their duties to-morrow or next day. Th 1s Peris! LoxNpoy, March 8L—An explosion of petroleum occurred to-day on board a vessel at Baku, Kussia. The vessel was wrecked aud the eatire ciew of thirteen Veisons per- ished, yient, refinbuy in Wask no perc Secret Coming to God's Country. ST, PETERSBURG, March M. Desttuve, Russian minister to the United States, started for Washington to-d Cincinnati's Po CorLuaBUs, 0., March 3 aker this morniug app.int ce commission as follows T'wo years—Thomas C. Miuor, democrat; George R. Topp, republican. Folir years-- Kobers J. Mo, Ailo G, Dodds, dewoerut, ~Governor For- the Cincinnati n, republican; ALL HANDS RETORK T0 WORK ® 1 The Local Leadera of the Great Strike Obey the Orders of Their Ohiof, DONE WITH DISSATISFACTION. s The Warlike Sita Louis Practically Unchanged—Fif- teen Engines Disabled at Atchison. jon In East St The Great Struggle Ended, St. Louvts, March 8.—The announcement received last night that Powderly had di- rected the exeeutive committee of district as- sembly 101 to order the striking members ot rization to return to work was re- ceived by the Knights of Labor here with dis- satisfaction. They had expressed the belief that Powderly would ultimately be able to bring about negotiations for a settlement of the difliculty, but they admit that they an- ticipated more complete recognition by the 1ailroad authorities than seems to have satis- fied Powderly. Chairn Irons was seen last night by a reporter and asked if he eonsidered the basis for the settlement of the strike suflicient rec- ognition of the Knights of Labor, said: “*Yes, it is & victory,” but almobt inmediately mod- ified his utterance by adding, “to some ex- tent.” When Irons was asked" when he would is- sue his order to the knights to resume work, and when he would appoint his conferehee committee to wait upon Hoxie, he said: “I vrefer to wait for further developments be fore 1 say anything. I have not de- cided upon what action I shall take vet. . 1 may wait until the arrival of the executive boards. Another member of the committee was scen early this morning, and in reply to an inquiry as to whether Irons would obey Powderly’s in- structions to order the men back to work, d: It is imperative, and must be obeyed. Telegrams will be sent along the lines proba- bly this morning, ordering the strike off.” No such order as the above has yet been 1s- sued by Irons, but it Is generally believed that he will follow the instructions of the executive board some time to-day. The basis agreed upon for the appointment of an arbitration committes to adjust the differ- ences existing between the Missouri Pacific and their employes will affect only indi- rectly the strike upon other railways. Itisa generally accepted fact that the strikes which have occurred sinee the inauguration of the Missouri Pacifie strike were in support of the latter. When the latter is settled all will besettied. This will not apply to the East St. Louis troubles. It is understood that they nave sevarate grieyances wi must be arbitrated independently. Perfect order prevails in the Missouri Pacific yards. No crowds of strikershave as yet congregated in that vieinity and 1t is not ex- pected that nn{ r:}‘wbla will attend the resumption ot frdight traflic, whenever the attempt shall be made. = There has béen 1o movenent of freight this morning, 'The. different depots of the Missour{ ic rail- rond are wido open, ynd tRightiol all idnds is being received in large amounts in_ anti pation of speedy Tesumption of regular '%mm""fif on °n'l‘|’u“é' of district a. m.— ot assem- by<Ko. 101 ot s m{r@mmm"n sostion and have not as vet taken any action upon the question of obeying Powdarly’s. order to end the strike. Committees from assemblics 105 and 93, which embrace the East St. Louis men and bridge and fumface men, have been summoned to confer with then, ) St. Louts, March 8L.—10 a. m.—The sitnation in this city this morning is one of quietude. The crowds congregafed around the relay depot and In the railroad yards are smaller than at any time since the strike was inaugurated. No attempt has been mado by any of the roads to run_out any freight trams, Adjutant General Vanco is sta- tioned at the depot, where he will witness ef- forts latér in the day to start out trains and \ill'be governed by the results whicly follow in a decision whether or not to call out the Quiet still prevails in_ the railroad Officials of the attempts to move freig ) movemeht is ey strikers, No disi John Walsh . Harvey w in East St. Louls to-day by Marshal Webber for interfering with employes in the Wabash yards Iast Sunday, and_were_imnied Sent to Springfield, ML Efforts were made o send out frelght trains inthe Chicago & Alton and Chicago, Bur- lington & Quiney yards this afternoon, but o the engincers and firémen led to leave the engines, and the abandoned. No disturbance as any assembling of took place, KAN§AS Crry, March frei, trains are runninz police protection without from the "strikers, The latter NEW Yonk, March ence Dotyveen Tepres 1 the Missou esterday, tributed to him that “G " Gould addressed hin ly uld furnish lim the names of the men who destroyed the company’s property, ey would be' expelled fram the order of Khigl St, Lovts, March centive committee unde ierence till out. the confer- f the Knights itie , 2350 p.m.—The ex- s just decided upon an order which has been telegraphed to outside assemblies, the purport of which is that the men on the Gould system are oxdered to ra- urn 1o work at 10 o'clock to-morrow morn- e committee is now consulting with ition from I s, o Missourl Pa- sent out three ¢ yinds, the regular this morning freight trains from the nuniber, Tt is now. wled that the road is practically open. ‘Phe Iron Mountain road also succéeded in sending out three trains, A Post-Dispatch special from Houston, Texas, says: The oficials of the Missourl Pacifie road are doing their utmost in moving aceumulated freight.” ‘The strike seems to be over. The men in the Wal Louis returned to wol yere received., 2 following 18 the text of the order men- Lin a previous dispatel, It is addressed to the assemblies of district 101: “You are ordered by the general executive board to go to work,” Honor demands that you see that those who came out irst &0 to work first. We will telegraph you hour and da, ALARTIN CiicAGo, Mar L—~The: Inter Ocean’s Mattoon, (1L, special says: As the result of the labor troubles at Louis the shop em- ployes of the Indianapolis: & St. &Jmin railway in Mattoon have beem put on half time, JHICAGO, March ~The Springfield, 1L, special says: as boen deluged with. teles St. Louis, At noon Adjutant General Vance returned to this city fiom the scene of the troubles, and was in econsultation with Gov- ernor Oglesby until 4 p. m., when he took the train for t St. Louis. A fresh and liberal supply of ammunition has been shipped to all the companies in the Fifth ullJ l‘ltghlh regiments. These companies are practically under arms, awaiting orders to move. SEDALIA, Mo, March 3L.—A dead calm still prevails in this eity tod Freight trains are moving without intertuption, Martin Irons has not been heard from, and itis believed here that e will not ao as or- dered by Powderly, Arcyison, Kan,, Mareh 81,—The work of maskel strikersat the Missouri Pacific shops and round house last night was comy and this worning the company was help Fifteen engines were disabled. Two passen wer engines were spared. Atnoon a telegram from St. Louls ordering the strikers io ) back to work pending arbitration. T) rike was then declared off, and the 1 committee sought Superintendent Hozan and asked if the men should roport for duty. Asthe company Wikl hiuve no work until the b vard in North St, atZ:16 this alternoon, Thoxs, ms from TN T shops can be put in shapo the answer was in the negative. 1t is tie p:ostammo of the company at present to re-cmploy only enough men to run the shops on full time, and to ake back none who have been guilty of overt acts, PAnsos, Kan,, March 31.—The Knights of Labor have declared the strike off, taken their men off guard, and will go to work in the morning. S1. Lovts, April 1.—Up to midnight to- night no information has been obtainable from the joint executive committtee of dis- triets 101, 93 and 17, who were in session nearly all day and to-night, in rezard to whether the strikers in East St. Louis have been ordered back to work or whether sueh an order will be issued to-morrow. The Cloak Makors' Strike O, New Yorg, Mareh 8L—The manufactur- ers have sent the cloak making strikers word that they are welcome to return to work at any time, and that no one would be dis charged on account of membership in the union, and that the manufacturers would do what they could to control the contractors, but that the system was necessity. ‘The ex: cutive committee of strikers leld'a consu tion of several hours, and finally decided to ccept and s notified the manufacturers, lo-morrow the inside clonk makers, finish: ersand most of the cloak makers employed by the contractors will resume work, The rike has Isted two weeks, about 7,000 per- sons had been idie, and the families of many of them had been brouzht close to the starva- tion point, manufacturers estimate their losses 000, Miners Gain an Advance. Prrrsuukc, Pa, Mareh 81.—The strike arranged for to-morrow among the miners along the Baltimore & Ohio raiiroad and its branches will not likely take place, as & ma- Jority of the operators have agreed to pay the advance of 3 cent por bushel for mining. There are about 2,000 diggers on these roads, and about one-third of them have already resumed work at the ase. The board of arbitration appoined to arrange prices for mining at the pits of W. P. Rend at McDonalds, T have decided ag st the diggers and a ' mecting of the men will be neld to-ntght to accept or reject the award . Fatiier Hickey, Rev. E. R. Donahoe and Victor De Loge constituted the board. The Board Leaves New York. New York, March 8L—The excoutive board of the Knights of Labor left this city this afternoon, Before departure they said they had received a telegram from C Irons, asking if the order of Tuesday night referred to other lines than the Missouri cifie. "The board declined to say what reply liad been sent to Irons. The Grand Master Workman T1L SCRANTON, Pa, March rand Mas Workman Powderly arrived in this city this afternoon. quite i1, and had to be conveyed to his residence in a carriage. He is still suffering from the effects of his recent fall. Ha is also troubled with quinsy. He refuscs to see reporters. PACIFIC RAILROAD DEBTS, The President Urged to Take Action On the Matter. NEw Yonk, March 8l-[Special Tele- gram. |—The World prints this morning from its Washington correspondent three and a half columns under the head of “Pacifi i road Plundermg,” in which_it_says that.the. “IPrctfie Tiitronds“now owe the zovernment $105,030,000 In round numbers and have from the first to the last done everything in their power to swindle the government. The writer adds that the only remedy for the go ,arnment is to move at once for a receivership those roads. The fnterior departmet has had before it for ncarly a year the question ot this great Indebtednes of ~ §105,000,009, but as yet it has evolved no plan of practteal pro- ceedure, Ithas been urged upon the-presi- dent that he should send a special message to congress upon the subjeet, asking that a re- ceiver be appointed to secure the millions due. The president is considering the sub- ject, realizing that nothing would redound more to the credit of his administration than the recoveryof the government's millions from a band of the most redoubtable plun- derers who ever grew fat in robbing the pub- lic treasury. It is believed that the president will send a special mesSage to congress upon the subject, and that he will take suwong grounds against the present plan of extend- ing the time of paying the debt due the gov- ernment. Union Pacific Directors. Bostox, Mareh 8. —The annual meeting of the Union Pacific Railroad company was lield here to-day. The following board of directors was chosen: Charles Francis Adams, Frederick L. Ames, Elisha Atkins, Ezra A. Baker, F. Gordon Dexter and John P, Spauldings of Boston: Henry H. Cook, Sidney Dillon, David Dows, Andrew Green, Colgate Toyt of New York; S. Callaw: aha® G, N, Dod Couneil Blufis: James Rumrell, Spri and John Sharp, Salt L SAN Fraxcisco, Ca 31,—The habeas corpus case of Thomas Baldwin, ar- rested by the United States marshal on the charge of having assisted in expelling the Chinese from Nichola Yal., was decided in the United States circuit court to-lay, The case w «d before Judges Sawyer and Sabin. The petitioner clained the” federal authorities had no jurisdiction in the matter. The defense was answerable only to the state authorities, Sawyer rendered the de- cision. He says the charge is apparently founded on 5 . Revised Statutes of the United States, Which imposes a heayy penalty on persons ¢ 4 e any person, or ¢ al protection of the la that ion is valid, what known as ‘boycotting’ is criminal.” The writ was dismissed and the petitioner | re- mand udge Sabin dissented, The was released on his own recog- An appeal will hardly be taken to Imited States co steamer Rio is popularly wneiro arrived to-day, with Hong Kong dates to Marel 4, Yokn- ato March 18. A correspondent of the a Mail writes it fournal iroin Corea that the king issued an edict February 5 abol- ishing slavery in his kingdom. It is es mated that over half the population of Corea are slaves, A terrible :\m-n&n-nl oceurred at a ‘e in Heromal, a Japanese town, Febru- ary 23, The root of the theater give away from the weight of the snow and tell npoh the spectators, One hundred and fifty were serlously injured or killed. - EINDIOTED FOR MURDER. Double Tragedy of a Year Ago Re- vived in Novth Platte, Nowrn Prarre, Neb,, March 81, —[Special Telegram.]—One morning April last word was brought in that Richard Bascomb's house, three miles north of the city, was in ashes, A casual examination showed that the charred remains of Richard Bascomb and his wife were in the ruins, How they came to their death has remained a mystery until to-day, when the grand jury brought in an - dictwent against Jefl Long, George H. Gerda- man and Ernest Myers for murdering the Bascombs. The indictment was formed on the testimony of Eugene Myers, a brother of one of the ace There is considerable ex- citement in the community over the afiair, ~ Steamer Reported Sunk. New Youk, March 51.--1t is reported that the steamer Capitol City, of the Hartford & New York line, was sunk at Passenger Point, It t night. 1 re bows on, and is ly- ing in about tweiye leet of water. The pas. sengers were all safely landed. The extent of the damage to the ehip Is not yet kuowu. FRESHETS AND FLOODS. Remarkable Phenomena Witnessed in New York—Rains in the Sonth. Berorr, Wis. Mareh 81.—|Special Tele- gram.]—A heavy snow has been falling here incessantly for the last twenty-four hours, Rock river is hicher than ever before known. The dam at Janesville {s endangered. Sever- al bridges have already been swept away and others are tottering to their fall. Much dam- age has been done in Janesville, Beloit, Rockford and other towns along the river, The water is still rising and the worst is yet to come. When this immense body of snow melts, a flood of vast proportions Is antici- paged. P Yonx, Mareh 5L.—An unusual season of metco rological disturbances, covering the most of the present week, culminated here to-night. It has been raining most of the time for the past seventy-two hours. To- night the raiwis falling faster, accompanied by lightning. A gale is blowing, a thick fox covers the city and an aurora borealis is added to this” rem le_combination of natural phenomena. ‘Fiie result Is that tele- graphie communication hag been almost wholly suspended between New York and the rest of the world. Again and again elec- 1 convulsions have stopped the working of every wire in the Western Union oflice, followed by a partial re-establishment of com- munication and another break. LYNCHB URG, Va., March SL—The heavy rains of the last days have caused a great rise ir iver at this point. 'The water is sixteen feet above low water mark and is still rising at the rate of one foot per hour, B 1 Ky., March 81.—The North T et higher than ev nown and still vising. A di flood is feared. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., M Sl—Ileavy rains n led throughout Tast ‘I'enne last night, and the water is still rising. damage has been done here except the siis- pension of all trafiic on the railroads, no trains having left the city or come in since Monday. CiatraNooca, Tenn., hes from all points in cast of washouts, floods and great damage. special from Rome, s there 18 four feet of water in the Union oftice there, and the town is submerged. MONTGO. ty, Ga., March to the Advertiser to-night st 000 will not_cover the loss in "Tallade; the destraction of bridges, mills ‘and" stock. “osa river is still rising and great destruction orted all along its bank LouvisvitLe, Ky., Marcl .—Rain has been falling almost continuously for nearly three days throuzhout this state. At Williamsburg, Ky., the Cumberland river higher than ever known, and farms are so inundated that 100ramilies moved to higher ground for safety. Large losses of 1 are repoited. Flood of the Biz Sandy is threatened at and above Catettsburg. At Jellico, near the state line on the Knoxville branch of the Louisyill shville, houses are all subme re unable to get thro the East Ten- nessee, V have arrived at Jellico for thirty-six hours and it is_reported that 400 feet of Meed’s tunnel has caved in. Railroad ridees in the soutk on the Louis ville & Nashville and Cincinnati Southern are reported washed away. THE LEUROPA SUNK, INGTON ris eight Csterh Feet of Water in the Vessel's Hold—The Crew Saved. ONOGUE, L. L., March 31.—The officers and |_crew, twenty-gaven in all, ot the steamer Hu- Topa, have been brought ashore after consid- erable difliculty, owing to the high and- bois- terous surf. ‘They are quartered at the life- savin fon. The eaptain reports five feet of water in the Europa’s hold, The sea is running higher every lour, and 'is _ breaking over the stranded steamer.” It is feared that she will bo driven over the bar and wrecked. The Europa is an iron steamship of 1,006 tong, 200 feet long, draws 22 fect of water, and is Ten rated A 1. She is owned in Hambur: - Broken Tic and a Numb EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 3 west bound prssenger train from Louisville on the Air Line road was thrown fr track between Huntington and by a broken tie. There were passengers injured considerably, and others slightly. - ‘Che-bodily fnjured were cared for, The Tollowlng aredamong the serionsly in- Juied: B Baer, Mettopoils, 1113 . Mor ouisville, Ky.! R M. Burks, Owensboro, Ky.; John Poulk, Mills, ‘I'enn.: Charles Reicht, New Albiuy, Ind.; T. C. tardin, ainfield, N, .0 W, nd_Mrs! 1y Givens, * Provigenc W. B Mih, Tuntingbury, Ind.; G. Love, New Injured. West. 1.—It is impossible to ascertain the individual losses by yesterday s five, Hundreds of persons spent the night in the street watching their eifcets, Mer- chants will hold a meeting to-day to make some arranzements to order some provisions to prevent famine. ‘They will_probably ask the Morgan line people at New Oleans to 4 to-morrow morn- ing to fill telegxaphic_orders for food, The wind has suddenly shifted to the north, with danger of bringing the fire,which still burns, back azain into the city, Four or five un- dred people have been thrown out of employ- ment by, the fire, An Election Fraud Discovered. CINCINNATI, Mareh 8L—The Sun (ind, dem.) will tomorrow publish an article clayming that a glaring fraud was perpetrated in the October eleetion, by which Frank Rotterman, democratic eandidate for county treasurer, was deprived of 50 votes, and his republican opponent, William B ited with about 500 more than e Hon. Isane M. Jordan has this frand and will introdu in cout, returns are si ¢ and one republican judge, and one democratie and oue republican elerk. - Missouri’s Murderesses, St Lovis, March 8L—The Post-Disps special from Springtield, Mo, preliminary examination of Co Mrs. Molloy, for the murder of Mrs, nated this morzing, The justice d d at Cora Lee was an Becessory 1o the crime before the fact, and that she be held without bail. and that Mrs, Molloy w sory after the fact and be held in $5,000 bonds. The court room was densely crowded il the decision gave general satistaction. The women received the verdiet quietly, — - Shot by His Mistress. MEMP Maich 51,—A. Bennet, agent hiere for Diebold’s Safe and Lock company, was shot and instantly killed to-day by | May Porter. Shecane to Memphis two y ago from Cincinuati, She was known in Memphis among the demi monde as 1da Reed. They have been livi ther over a year at 52 Casey street, se is given for the shooting. - Cremated in Their Bed CARVER, Minn,, March Ihe chants’ hotel burned this morning. Swenson, aged 60, and an unknown man were creiated in their beds, The loss on the Lotel is not estimated, but fully covered by insurance, Mer- Andrew - Greece Threatens War., Loxnoy, March The Times says it is possible that Greece may precipita within a week, and it beliooves the to do their utmost to avert an outbr hostilitie - sident A Maieh #l. improvement in President Arthur duris is not yet able to leave - - Weather For To-Day. Missount VALLEY—Fair weathery winds generally northwesterly; slighly colder in northern portion: rising - tewperatuee i southern portion; followed by falling tins perature, s Health, There has been the lealth of s the past we 3 house, New Y a marked Ex H ORK, A 12\0N TELEPHONE LINES Bill P Th the Towa Semate to Treat ke Telegraph Companies, wiLL 8§ LY BECOME A LAW. Brown Al: \pates the Committec's Report th a Fund of Pub- lished Protests That Are Considered Weak. General Assembly Proceedings. Des Moives, lowa, March 8L—[Special Telegram.]—The bill that passed the senate to-day taxing telephones is quite brief, but of great importance to both parties affected. 1t it becomes a law it will add several thonsand dollars to the annual revenues of the state. ‘The bill is as follows: Seetion 1. That all telephone lines built and operated in the state of Iowa shall be subject to nssessment and taxation in the same manner as is provided for the taxation of telegraph lines, as provided for in chapter 50 of the acts of the Seventeenth general as- sembly. Sec. 2 That all the provisions of chapter 50 of the acts of the Seventeenth gen- eral assembl lating to the manner of assessments and taxation of telegraph lines shall be alike applicable to the assessmen and taxation of telephono lines, now or here- atter doing business within the state of lowa, §0 far as practieable, ‘The bill went to the house this afternoon, but was not taken up, A special order had precedence, but it will probably come up within a day or two, and will undoubtedly be passed, as the bill was Introduced by the ways and means committee, and has very general support, The illness of one member of the Brown investigating committee has delayed the re- port so that it is not yot in. Auditor Brown has feit the drift of it for several days, and has been doing what he could to forestall public opinion and let himselt down easy. Anticipating that the repoit would be pre- sented this afternoon, Brown had pnblished this evening a series of protests against vari- ous matters in conneetion with the investiga- tion, which he tried to have filed with the committee but failed, Ile protests acainst not being allowed counsel to cro: examine witnesses; against the action of the committee in refusing to investigate the expenditures of other state ofticers and o outsigle of the scope of the investigation ordered by the legislature. e protests be- cause the committee did not let him direct how they should conduct their investigation, and about every point of evidence admitted that was damaging to him receives a protest gainst its admission opimion re- gards his protest asa v Kk attempt to anticipate an untavorable verdict of the com= mittee. ‘The senateadopted a resolution authorizing the president to appoint a sifting committes of nine, and passed on its third reading the joint resolution providing for woman suf- | frage by ameniny flie constitution so as {o strike out the word ‘“‘male” in:prescribing the qualification of sulrage as 20, noex 17, “Phe resolution has not been 1 upon in the house. The Miles bill prohibiting railroads from discriminating in furnishing cars or in ransporting. property, and vrohibiting un- reasonable charges for transportation, was passed on the third reading. The Gatch bilk fixing the salary of deputy state oflicers at $1,500 was passed, with an amendment that all fees hercafter paid to a deputy state officer by reason of his ofticial position shall he turned into the state Nossury. The bill appropriating $20,000 for the expenses "of the Iowa exhibit at the New Orleans exposition was dis t length and defeated—yeas 16, noes 15, The bill being for a special appropriation required a two-thirds majority to pa The governor to-day reappointed E. Hutehins commissioner of the bureau of I statisties, and the nomination was confirmed by the exccutive council, ‘Thie opposition to the bill appropriating $20,000 for the expenses of the Iowa exhibit atthe New Orleans exposition was on the ground that the expenditure had been made without authority, and the bill was besides unconstitutional. The house to-day engros appropriation of £32,000 to the stato university. It spent the afternoon on the Clark prohibitory bill, and passed it substan- tially as itcame from the senate. 'The house i 1 the senate amendment to the Sween lomesticating forclgn cor- noratioms. ning session was spent in discussing the bill abolisking the capitol commission, The bill was ordered engrossed, it e B o) Rea' Estate Transfers, The following transfers werc M h 30, with the county cler] veported for the BEE by Amcs Lstate Ageney: Jas L Py and wife to Franklin Conway, 1ts 5 and 4 bik 15, town of Waterloo, Douglas county, w d $500, Jno L, MeCazue and wife to C F Harrison, It 1 blk 16, Hanscom place, Omaha, w d $1,- 000, Andrew Tracy and wife to € F Harrison, 7 and b of IS bik 1, flunscom place, 1, single, to Juo H Collins, Its nd 12 bl s, Hillside add No 1, Owabia, w 58, ed the bill grant- filed and Real Couzalin, single, to Jno 8 Collins, It 8 Hillside add No 2, Omaha, w d $1 Touzalin, single, to Jno S Collins, 1t 3 blic s and 1015 bik 6, Hillside add No 1, O ha, w d 81, A l'ouzalin, single, to Jno 8 Collins, 1t 2 Hillside add No 1, 1t 7 blk 2 and 1t 5 blk 4, Hillsid, ld N Omahu, wd 52,250 Anna b ey, widow, to D L Thomas, It 8 !hnlk 61, city of Florence, Douglus county, w d 50, Augustus Kountze and wife and others to Jno Lindblad, 1115 blk Y, Kountze & Ruth's add Omabia, W d 31,000, Frederick Diexel and wife to Isaae 8 Has- subdivision of s a1, Okahioma, Douglas county, w d M A Upton and wife to Jno A MeShane, part of It 1'bik 1, South Omuha, w d 51 Jas G Tavlor, single, to Clinton N Pow 11, 1t 4 blic 1, Hillside add No 2, Cualia, w d 51, 0N Hicks and wife to 8 A Ha It Hanscom place, Ondlia, w d $1:550, H B nd wife to Geo B Tzschiick, Omiaha, w d $600, Tz ; 10 ino Nelson Dennis, 1t 9, Clitton place, Qumalia, w d #1000, rank D Brown, widower, and oth o hos o Rogers, Its 14, 15and 16 bk Boggs dd Omaha, w d $11,00), ina Graddy and husband to Jno J Murpiy, 1ts 10 and 11, Graddy's subdivision of blk 7, %l add Oual 1 i wife to Thana Snook, and 9, ol 20 town of Waterloo, Douglag county, w'd 5275, W S Connell and wife to Amanda Bauses neck, it Hickory place add Ouahia, w d $300, - Wanted—To rent by May 1st. J. L nd 508 8. 15th St. 10 or 12 room hou Braudeis & Son, 504 You can buy turniture cheaper of A Fiteh & Co., 12th st., bet Farnam and glas, than any other place in the city, ~ 15th Lawton & Male, Do 1. ) th Printers, and -~ | Lewwber lower than ever at Bradford's