Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 10, 1886, Page 1

SIXTEENTH YEAR. DISCUSSING TARIFF REVISION, | iecest dtmanden s casetyleduction of, taxe: parties on nm! subject. But, who had [u.}\\n T —— ‘f“v m-"lm l’\‘,',”\"y“‘y-(“;,;n:m ietion of m‘!m\d That ]w.uh been intrusted with the power of legislating | in the house, They had vromised in their national platforin to reduce taxation and do it in such a manner as not to injure the in dustrles of the country, But the trouble was Benator Morrill Delivers a Speech on the Bubject in the Senate, DEMOCRATIC PARTY AT FAULT. that the democrats conld not pose any _— an. They conld not agre ‘Allh\vu." them ves, s propositions that had been Beck and Sher ake Part in the | %S The proposition g L Argument—The Proceedings of diverre — and - varions and_ some 5 of them had been o absolutely Both Branches in contrary to the interests of the country that Detail, the party itself had revolted at them. 11 the plan proposed by & member of the demo. p A cratic party in the lllvv:hl' haa bl'l‘;l “and !lv‘x: ~ by congress and had gone into effect it would gy LAty S The. 1 have been the overthrow and destruction of WasmixaroN, Dee. 0. — The louse | tha democratic party, beoause, while 1t might amendment to the senate bill for the relief | have reduced taxation, it would - of graduates of the United States military | troyed the industries of the covntry. ‘Th inocratic party had had control of tiie house of representatives, (the only body where tax ation bills could originate), Tor ten or twe years, and vet the o reduction of bills Which had been made within that time had been made during the only two years the r ncademy and to fix_their pay was among th matters submitted by the presiding office when the senate met to-day. The amend- ment provides that eadets shall be allowed full pay as second licutenants trom the date of their acceptance of the commission. ‘The | £30,000,000 or $60,000,000, and the senator amendment was concurred in and the | from Kentuck v had opposed that law to the bitter end, Mr. Beck said he had voted for ituntil it was changed and manipulated in the conference committee and then e had voted against it If the democratic party wanted to reduce taxation, where was thelt proposition? None had' been made until the denoeratic party, having a large majority in the house, conld send a bill to the senate, The senate had no jurisdiction on the subject. ‘The senata had awaited the action of the louse on that subject for eicht long weary months last session and had waited in vain. The proposition that had been made in the house had created suel revulsion of public opinion, especially in the northwest, that the majority of the democratic party had been lareely rediced. 1t the deno- crats had been able to carry one of tleir bill now goesto the house. Mr. Cameron moved that when the scnate adjourns today it be until Monday next. Agreed to. Among the bills introduced and referred were the following: By Mr. MeMillan—To authorize the con- struction of a bridee across the Red River of the North, By Atr. Sewell To authorize the redemp- tion of trade dollats, The senate theil proceeded to the considera- tion of the resolution introduced by Mr, Morrill, declaring it to be Il|\'xrm||l‘l|! and detrimental to the trade and Ind ustry of the country to make any further attempts at a revision of the tariff by the present | Measures through, their majority would liave congress and Mr. Mortill addressed | disappeared i air. ‘Therefore, until st the senate in support of the resolution. proposition w made to the senate by * the house of representatives, it did not lie in the mouth of the senator from Kentucky tocomplain, or scold, or chide the senate with a failuré to reduce taxes. In He sald it was clear that the democratic pre idential eandidate jn 1854 would have been defeated but for the protective tarifl back- bone inserted in the democratie platform by the national convention at Chiieazo July 10, p conclusion he said that until the democri. 1854, ‘These strone pledges, pregnant with | Party could agree among themselves and fair’ minded protection in every sentence, | ould present to the senatea plan by which had been, he said, introduced into the demo- | the democrats: were willing to stand, they had no Tt to chide or complain of the cratic platform through the insistence of pro- tective tarifl democrats, who were now ceiving vitriolic denunciations from the republicans, When they would send the senate a bill, the senate would show them it Inte half breed allies of free trade because of | had the power to reduce taxes, and thesenate their honest efforts to prevent their pary | Would propose a measure by swiiich the {axes from violating the piodges on which i1y might be reduced without erippling industrics party obtained its victogy by o majority of | OF deereasing wages. B3 e breadih Hotopo the fection, | - M. Dawes ohiained the fioor and will sthe devil was sick, the devil a monk would [ SPeak when the s iblect is next taken up. e, but after the election “the devil was [ Adjourned tili Monday, well, the devil amonk was he” It would seeni that the party of free trade, under the alias of “revenue reform,” has determined to run amuck against nearly all the industries and productions of America, and such as vuse. WASHINGTON, Dec. .—The committee of conference on the fortification appropriation bill reported a continuous disugreement. A :"\'I"‘ e R s eouIl ot hope for | turther conference was ordered and - Messrs, vNounity from the next. He proceeded to | 1 PR T RO ridlcule Mr. Mortison’s sehemes for o hori- | Forney. Randall and Butterworth were ap- zontal reduction of “the taritl, compaying d conferecs. 3 them to Dr. Sangrado’s specifie, and said r. Motrison of Hlinois, from the com- that their effect eould only be to let a flood ot foreign productions pour in {and overrun the American markets, ' Theso measures, e said, not Ing inspired love at first sight among the members of the house anxious (o eseave a Waterloo in the ides of November, a juvenile game of bo-peep had commenced and an amended bill ) hurrie brought 1o the front, while the horizont, umped to the perpendicular, and all about Ton diopped out of sight Lor satety. The authors had seemed to realize “\What perils do eny an that meddles with cold iron,” Finally the farmers had been selected as the vietims of the new experiment, and th vast wool interest, deeply identified with all portions of the country, wasto be exposed to absolute annibilation. It might be, how at the lamb like submissiveness of the d been overestimated. In bers they had a ant’s strength, ana might not consider it tyranuons to use it in self-defense, A new generation has ap- peared in the south. Factories, foundries and maghine shops on” the James river, and | ) on the Tennesseo—as potential as those on | the Merrimac and Providence—wero so many battering rams, before which alien theories and erooked abstractions were tumbling down to raise no more forever, Hostility to and destruetion of these young but promising mittee on ways and means, reported back the bill relating to the taxation of fractional parts ol a gallon of spirits with the senate amendments thereto, with a recommenda- tion of non-currence. The report was agreed to and conferees appointed. Mr. Payson of Illinols, from the committee on publie lands, reported back the bill to re- strict the ownership of real estate in terri- ritories to American citizens, with the senate amendments thereto. In the morning hour the house resumed consideration of the biil extending the free delivery system. Be® arrangement with the committee on posioftices and post roads, Mr. Cannon, of 1linois, withdrew the amendment offered by him yesterday, and Mr. Dockery,of Missouri, on behalf of that committee, offered amendment so as to make the bill that lotter earriers shall be employed for iree delivery of mail matter as trequently public business may require, in every incor porated city, villaze, or borough containing a population’ of 5,000 within its corporate imits, and may' be so employed atevery place ‘containing a population of not less than 10,000 within its corporate limits ac ing to the last general census taken authority of the state or to any postoftice wiich by r United States law, produces a grost workshops involved sometiing akin to the | 9510 81 postor i o Herold's’ slaughter of the Innocents. Jut | Jereiue for tho preceding tiscal year of not tho e would come when It would be saids | \ad (L80 Baq i fir- Docketyls amendinent sPhey are dead which somght the younu [ o3 ! P Su Xy T chllae life. . oieferring to thio funous tree | PORLCY ouse then resumed consideration of %0, he said that the Tro- quois were stillemployed by tomahawk Awericans. He admitted that the extinetion of the public debt had pro- ceeded so rapidly that a temporary surpins might become inevitable, The " ques “What should be done with it?” was question. - Some of the surplus would the electoral count bill. After some debate the bill was passed with the amendments reported by the house com- mittee, The house then went into committee of the whole, Mr, Springer, of 1linois, in the chair, on the bitl ereating a departiment of agricy ture and labor the British 10 to be used for the new navy and for seabogrd Yeaver of lowa, supportéd the bill as on tobaceo mixht be wholly surren- | 'R the i 2 Dt gered, - Thei eonsumpbion. of? tobwoo | N8 SRIN L o oe 4 eiiane onposed dded much to ~the Workingmon’s cost | ho mensure a8 crontiog a political denart- L aving, and cto’ tiem = tlia - repeatll PIGHE RN o' Sontonded: that agriculture £ pho Lax would ‘o a_substantial boon, “In | WORK ot by beselitnl by e By ture conclusion he said: After the democratic Wi % reduction of th What 18 necd pery. L was a reduction of tie oad of taxation party, long in power, had dostroyed the credit of the government, leaying it, in 1851, with e RRALO i e an empty treasuty and Wwith a broken: | (oL G100 08 West Viginta took the same backed democratic tariil whiel wis incapable e A Ty S e even in ti e, of furnishin of pe AICYONUC | pang in the con it o for the pro. for the ordinary support of the wovernment, | {ifatig g the republican party was intrusted with thé | 3% Rnderson of Kansas. supported the bi control of the country and for a quarterof a | A {Titah of Missoumnl defomiaicae b eentury, confronted by unexampled diflicul- | ;o tuninat i charge that it wis uncons tloa during onc of the'kreatest epochs of our | piiigi P Y CHAER LIAt L wive unconstls History, won onduring fame, ‘in_addition to | futand that the, dopariment of erloultno its patriotic achievements, by the integrity, BlILand suceess with whiel it conaueted the tinancial affairs of the nation. Ow the 41n of Murch, 18%, the republicans landed over to democratie Successors the administration of the government in a condition of unequaled credit, with an overtlowing treasury, and a tarifi S0 invulnerable th should be blotted out of the statute books of the United States. It would not be blotted out,and if the xentlemen on the demoeratic had a proper appreciation of the president Uaughter und applause) they would give him an_opportunity of calling into his eabinet council a representative of a great intecest of its free trade op- f gl American people. He believed that the ponents propose to change it because it s president \\'lrl\]ll| vlz as good a selection as only too fertile n producing Wholly | iad been mide in the last twenty-live years, unmindtul ag they appear.to. 1ot and the man who got the position wonld bear prodiial aptitude s national spendthrifts, | {ig proudest title i the world, oxcent tuat of Fho paraniohut credit for financial measures | 31 BRAMCSL1te 1 Lo warld, oxcopt that o which huve boen 8o Tong and e now so | hifSideht of the United States, o agrl closely ldantitied with the growtli and pros- | anted and they dematiieg tiis bil) st whry verity of the country unquestionably belon s going o haye it to the republican party “Whose vestenday y: ‘Tuckor opposed the bill, and ponding looks back with a stuile 10 executive do. | 55 Tieker opposed the bill and. pondin Dartmont of the kovernment early oflicially | ("N, [tanaall reported the sundry elyil bill, proclaimed its policy on the civil service and | ] the silver questions, but 1t is to be feared they Lo letit be understood that these were L was referred to the e and 1he house adjourn muiiitec of the d whole nly Pickwicklan declarations, or that the S - . administration dropped its eggs ke ostriches Hugh McCulloch on the Tariff. With no care whether they hateh or not, and New Youk, Dee, 9.—[Special Telegram that their friends were at liberty to favor or | to the Bre)—The Times' Washington spe- +0pnose any action upon either subject, to win on “heads” or “tails,” with no fear of dimin- ishing their porsonal shades in any future cial sa Iix-Secretary of Hugh McCulloch, hale, hearty and bright as applications for the places of “offensive par- | When years azo he was at the head of the tisans,” provided thoy maintained true alle- [ leading department of the government, talk glauce at the polls to the present adwinistra- | ing freely about the report of Secretary tan, Manning, said to-day: “L have read it all, Mr. Beck desired to know whether ti A10F froth. Y 8rmont propoced. o wd Lapprove it. Ho stands precisely whero the ‘Lreasury ' dvise bis friends in both houses—and he took that to | 1did when Lwas in his place. [ am glad bo the scope of lits romarks to resistall ef- | that he met the tanff question falrly and orts that might be made towards a reduction | g iare his e should longes of taxation. 1f this essay were read tor the i v‘A ln“ y b bould no songe: o i this casay wen plead the baby uct as a reason for taxing the purpose of encouraging the senator's fricuds Tt i ¢ oot B each house o resistall efforts at o reduc- | P00 1o ehlidnce the profits of protected in- ter It is well to remind the agricultur- ists of the conntry of the interest they should tlon of taxation the country might as w understand that all sueh efforts were to forestulled and defeat wanifest on the subjeet. It is my opinion Mr. Morri lie only desired to show | Tebeatedly expressed, that the Ameriean that he was opnosed 10 sueh propositions as | Wanufacturers can compete with the world had cowe last session from: the democrats, | WIhout further support from the govern- buthe was quite ready to unite with any | Went. 4 furty that would take lold of the subject in Purchased For the Santa Fe. the Spirit whieh Le ha marks, My. Beek sald the sen, Wis triends to brng up would suit his vie ted in i NEw Yoluk De It was aunounced in Wall street to-day that the purchase of the Chicago & St. Louis road by the syndicate uld adyise e that 53 Dut, 50 tod by Fi ) ; but, represented by Frank C. Hollins was for the was resistance (o conaidefation, that was the | KEROD. Toheks & Hanta s ot one end of all effort. At the present vate of taxa- | that th ipany will hereafter. operate the tion the surplus revenue (after all the pub! road. g debt that was payable was paid), would be i § 125, 000, U0 al, therefo he democratie P’ A ’ - L A mecrolary, o0 the fremce 8¢ | he Mississippi Commission's Work, wanded and insisted’ that taxation on the | WAsHINGTON, Dec. %,—The report of the people should be reduced. ‘Lhere was no | Mississippi river commission shows that its ;nlln'l v:‘l) to get clear of the surplus revenue | work has been | od. Siuee June 80 the lonestly. diture: (TR R TP Syt " Mr. Sherman said he had watehed in vain Mgitires 1 all the districts aggregated for 0ver elght months { session for Javing o avallable balance - of any proposition to redu taxes on the Rl T part of the dewocratic majarity in the house {Whire aloue such bills could oriinate). 1o believed thiat fhe revenues collected were 0o J praska and lowa Weather. Nebraska and lowa: Fair weather, Fur largy wud tuat public safely aud public iu- | followed by ralu; sbightly warwer, WHEN DUKE MEETS DUKE, | An Epoch in Higtory Recalled in the Colin mpbell Divorce Oase, BLOODY BATTLE WITH ARABS. They Force the Whites Stanley Falls in the Congo New' French Ministry Made Up. Abandon he to The Colin Campbell Case, (Copuright 18 by James Goraon Bennett.] LoNDON, Dec. 8.—[New York Herald Cable ~Special to the Brk.]—Itis not often that duke meets duke in the legal tug of the divorce court, but a few days ago the Duke of Argyle, the descendant of that MacCullum More who was, A. D, 1201, Robert Bruece's nominec for the Scottish crown, gazed from the witness box on the descendant of the hero of Blenhein. To-day the gaze was returned with the Duke of Marlborongh entering the witness box. This one of the great features ot the trial. After Lord Colin came AttorneyGeneral Webster, who opened the case forhis chient of Blenlicim in a speceh remark- able for its invective against Lord Colin, who married to obtain a nurse for his loathisome- ness, and who recklessly swore do false affidavits In order to pollute the historie name of Campbell by sending his wife to the hospital for the degraded women of Paris.” was During the speech Lard Colin’s face ns- sumed that ashy hue, which shows a heart oppressed by thie surging flood of repressed Tage. The jurors listened with rapt attention, and two of them expressively nodded in afirmation when Webster remarked that “his lordship seemed to consider the mere mention of the duke’s name with that of a lady as an implication that every form of infquity had been practised by them.” Hisdissection of Jay Gowld's yacht steward was quite on a par with Judge Gresham's disscetion of Gould’s Wabash scheme that the London papers to-day print. He made cobwebs of the keyhole evidences, and de- clared the ehambermaid’s story about an adulterous Christmas and the Paddington love making after Faster to be ridieulously false, because the duke did not meet Lady Colin at Christmas vor return with her after ster, In specch-making Lord Colin’s case stands at a great disadvantage. Sir Charles Russell has the last word for the lady, and Murphy and Gully, both Q. Cs, are with the attorney general and the solicitor gencral. ‘The latter aequitted Mrs. Bartlett, and both are eloquent men and will orate for the co-respondents, while Lord Colin will have but one address, and that a sandwiched one, When the attorney general concluded his address, the testimony of his client was post- voned, it being agreed that each of the coun- selfor the co-respondents should now sic- cessively make addresses. ‘The tory ofticial was followed by the Gladstone Liberal, Gully, menmber for Car who represents Captain Shaw, whose daughter was Lady Colin's bridesmaid. He 15 very Conklingish in his biting sarcasm, and if the promise of his speech is carried out by the evidence the jury will say as to his client what I heard a Temple bencher exclaim when lie read the extraordinary keyhole evidence: HONT pshaw.” "The speeches have obviously changed the atmosphere of the court room opinion. This lias latterly been favoring Lord Colin, as, at the outset, it had given sympathy to his wife: for,1f the counsel to-day are right, the in- trinsie improbabilities of the servant evi- denee in the case are to be weighted with the libi dates, and the physical contraditions rendering their seandalous stories impossi- ble, AD BATTLE, Stanley Falls in Africa Abandoned by the Whites. “opyriyht 1885 by James Gordon Bennett.) Dee. 9.—[New York Her- Special to the Brr.)—News [ BrussgLs, ald Cable from the Congo gives circumstantial and au- thentic details of the causes which have led to the abandonment of Stanley Falls by the Belgian Congo authorities. The chief of the station, an Englishman named Deene, hay- ing refused to surrender to the Arabs a female sl who had taken refuge in the station, the Arabs attacked the latter, Deane and his native forces fully against the Arabs fought success- tor three days, at the end of which time the natives, having exhausted their ammunition, fled, leaving Deane and a fan ofticer, DuBols, alone with four men, These decided to retire aiso, after bur ing with etroleum guns and powder, 2 the station build- and destroying their During the retreat Dulols fell in the river and was drowned, The Arabs have occupied Stanley Falls, This is a great moral blow for the free st of Congo. However, it is believed that the respect ot the natives for white men will in- crease, as in the fight g stthe Arabs sixty of the latter were killed, while Deane and DuBois only lost two men. . Von Moltke Not Dying. [ Copyright 1855 by James Gordon Bennett.] BrnLiy, Dee, 0.—New York Herald Cable —Special tothe BeE. [—A rumor that General Vou Molike was dying spread like wildsire this afternoon, ‘Fo-night I called at Von Moltke's residénce to make inquiries. I was about to knock at the door when it was opened and the old warrior himself walked out, hearty as ever. He got into a carriage nd drove off to the royal palace, where he spent the evening vasions, 9.—A majority of the powers have replied to the porte’s elreular asking advice as to the solution of the Bul- uarian difficulty, ‘The replies are all either evasive or indefinite, Some of the powers ask tor further explanation and none throw any new light on the matter. The British forcign minister refers the porte to England’s views on the Bulgarian solution previously expressed. Ltaly is a little more explicit, al- ludes 1o the alleged difliculty, and what Bul- garlans must exveet in accepting 1rine Nicholus, of Mingrelia, It isnow thought the porte will suggest a solution of the culty Italy refers to England and Egypt CoNSTANTINOPLE, Dec, 9.—Sir William White, British minister here, received from Lord Iddesleigh a dispateh saying the porte intiwated very distinctly its desire to discuss the subject of the evacuation of Egypt by the British, and he has promised to consider the porte's intimation, Count d’Aunay, Freneh agent at Cairo, bas informed the public debt commission that bis government will decline Diplomat CONETATINOPLE, | to enter into any arrangement looking to Eey) lmini n_reforms untll date has been tixed for the British Lo eva-uato Egypt. New Ministr Paurs, 0.—The following are the probable members of the new ministy Goblet, president of the council and minister of the interior; Duelere, minister ot foreign affairs; Dauphin, mintster of finance; Bui- dean, minister of public instyuetion ; Sarrien, OMAHA, FRIDAY wwinister of justice: General Boulanger, min' ister of warj Adwiral Aube, winister of wa- l MORNING, Granet, minister of Lockray, minister of rine and the colonies posts and_telegraphs commerce; Richard, minister of agriculture. Germany and Her Army. BrRrriN, Dee, 9.—-General Brousart von Scallenderf, minister of war, met the com- mission on the military bill to-day. It is re- vorted hie said the government desired the immediate passage of the bill for the purpose of mobilizing the arm The wmilitary year began April 1, and it was impossidle for the war department to make the necessary changes in the proper time unless the bill was passed by January 1. Ravages of Cholera. Brexos Avies, Dec. 9.—Telograms from Rosarlo ot the date of December 7 say that on Monday the heat was terrific and that heavy rain fell during the night. Twenty two deaths from eholera occurred on that day. During the past twenty-four hours there have been seven deaths itom cholera, and no new cases: in Cordova, during the same veriod, seventeen new cases and ten deaths, The English Storm Loxnox, Dec. 9.—The storm yesterday was worst in the British channel. The sea walls were demolished and many freight cars over- turned. ‘The stofm has not yet abated on the northern coast. ‘The sea is running moun- tain high at Holghead, Ballinamore castle fell in to-day, ~Miss Cody, one of the in- mates, was killed, Count Kalnoky's Receptio IENNA, De Count Kalnoky ved the delegates very cordially. They were highly pleased, and are hopetul of the sue- cess of their mission. Count Kalnoky told them that no occupation of Bulgaria would be permitted, and that Austria wonld vort whosoever Bulgaria ciceted as prinee Collision at Sea. Loxpox, Dec. 0.—Dispatehes from Bris- bane state that the steamers Keilawarra and Helen Nicholl have collided off Queens- land, resulting in the drowning ot forty-two persons. Germany Will Not Object. Brneiy, Dee. &,—The German goverument has informed the porte that it will not object to any arrangewment of the Bulgarian ques- tion, especially concerning the choice of a prince, it Turkey and Russla agree upon the conditions, — THE STOCK MARKET. Yesterday's Transactions in Scc ties on Wall Streer. NEW York, Dec. 9.—[Speciai Telegram to the Bk |—The course of the stock market to-day atforded another illustration of the controlling influence still excrted by the bull cliques. The list was held steady azainst all the sclling of the bears, and several special- ties were advanced shortly, which in turn strengthened the bull feeling and a belief in afurther advance. Reading, Louisyille & Nashville}New England, and Susquehanna & Western, were lifted by the cliques, and Vandeibilt stoeks were well bought and showed some gains. It was generally be- lieved that Gould and Field had seeured a controlling interest in the New England, and would connect it with Manhattan, guaran- tecing 4 percent on New England stock. ‘The Woermers were Leavy buyers of Read- ing and gave the point to their friends that thisstock was to have another boom soon, Coal stocks were all alive and higher, and the advance in New York, Susquebanng & Western was i\lml‘"sl'll to be jn S8ympathy with the strength in Laskaivann: Louis- Nashvillé touched the highest point ville & N in several years, The bull party in_ this e stock were contident that a much higher range of prices would soon be recorded, They elaimed that it would earn and pay a dividend early mext year and was likely thereafter “to remain on the list of sire dividend payers. Bull points were thick on Canada Southern, but there was 10 inportant ehange in the price of the stock to-day. Western Unjon was heavy and the impression seems to be_growing thit the people most heavily interested in it are favoring a future decline. The sales to noon were 220,000 shares. ‘The market eased ofl a traction towards the close, when the rates {or money were run up as_high as 12 per cent, ‘The list closed rather easy at a fr tional decline from top prices, The total sales were about 450,000 shares, An extract from aletier to a~ Boston brokerage house says that a prominent member of congress, well known in Wall street, and who stands high in * administration eireles, tells his bearish friends to cover their shorts in Union Pacifics, beeause the Hoar debt extension bill, as recommended by the government diréctors, is suro to go _thiongh, He knows that 40,000 shares of Union Pucific have heen bought' by sonebody who has supplicd calls to about that extent among Washington members, Ihese congressmen, of whom some 300 go out of oflice at this session, are zoing to make all the money they cab get now. - CHICAGO'S ENTERERISE, Descrintion of Her Contemplated Theater and Hotel, Citcaco, Dee. 9.—|Special Telogram to the Bk, |—The great new hotel and amuse ment edifice that isto be ereeted in the city ata cost of $1,75,000 on Congress street, cx tending from Michigan avenue to Wabash avenie, is now positively assured, nine lease of the ground virtually secured and the work of removing the buildings now on the site and of excavat- ing for the foundations has already begun. A suflicient amonnt of the capital stock of the company has been subscribed to justify these preliminaries. The ediiice, a5 adopted, willbe a monumental ailair of unusually classical design. 1t will be ten stories high with entrances on Congress streatand Mich- igan ave nue, the main hall entrance being on the former. ‘Tne proposed structure will A ninety- years' has been bean or air gned upon lines of speeial magnifieence, The fir wo stories, are 1o be of faney desizn, inc luding facades, poortieres and” street en trances, — The puild Ing's face will b re lieved by swell fronts, “The roof the build- inz will ‘b perfectly tlat, unornamented ex- cept with a carved cap stone and frieze over the main_auditorium entrance on Congress street, There is 0 be a tower 500 feet hizh, ‘I'he first seetion of this structure is square and surmounted by & fac-simile of the pyra- mids, presenting altozether a unique and classle appearance, The detail of the build- ing involves 4 vast amount of carvinz, super- ficial and ornamental, without conveving in its use even a suggestion of gaudiness or over display, From photographic impres- sions it appears to bo @ structure that has everything 10 commend it, both from an artistic and convenient point of view. The interior of the great edifice will be devoted almost ex- clusively to the grand auditorium, seating 5,000 people onordinary oceasions awd 5,000 for convention purposes, and a Kuropean hotel of 500rooms, 'The interior of the opera house will be arranged after the most i vroved plan, There will be two balconies and fifty-one private boxes. ‘The wain floor Will seat 5,000, In stage capacity there will De nothing lacking., The main floor will be T0x120 feet and eon rently fitted out with all the modern oppurtenanees, There are only two st s in the world that will have greater dimensions, - - The Collapse 1n Oil, PITTsBUneG, Dec, %.—The ol market took another tumble this morning, declining nearly five cents. ‘Thie market opened fover- ish at 70, deetined to 6ic and reacted to Gxe at noon, One failure was reported hore this morning, After 1 o'elock the session was devoid of exeiting features, ‘I'ne market beeawe more settled and closed steady at 05’5 - A Miser's Big Bequest. BostoN, Dec. 9.—The will of Eziekel Prico Greenleat, of Boston, filed this afternoon in thie Sutfol k county probate coust, bequeaths 8500,000 to the president and fellows: of Har- vard college (in trast), for the Lengliy of the college, J STILL WORKING FOR OMAHA. | Nebraska's Oongressional Delegation Now After Part of the Indian Depot. VAN WYCK SCORES A MONOPOLY The Ex-Andersonville Guard in the Pension Oftice to Bo Tnvestigated — Manufacture Looming Up the South, Chance For a Half Loaf, Wasnivaroy, Dec Telegram to the Brw.|~The Nebraska delegation in congress are preparing in written form the advantages of Omaha for certain features of the Indian supply depot and will lend their efforts to securing a portion of the patronagy I'hey have come to the conclusion that it will be more feasible to work for the removal of only those features of the depot which sup »ly to the Indians food, ete, which must be secured west of the Mississippi, and let those which supply clothing and other articles bought in New York remain there. 1t has been argued with a good deal of foree that many of the supplies must be secured at New York, and that therefore it is unwise to_sep- arate the base of supplics and the depot proper. The argument for a division of the depot and removal of a portion of it to Omaha will likely be (aid before Indian Commis- sioner Atking to-morrow. SCORCHING A MONOPOLY, Senator Van Wyck fired another center shotata Washington monopoly to-day. Ile introduced in the senate a resolution direct- ing the Distriet committeo to investigate cer- tain impositions and neglects by the Metro- politan Street Railway company. Although this corporation owns the exelusive right of way for street railroads here, it is alleged that it neglects to run cars on certain routes at times when most needed if it does not suit its convenience. Since it is trying to keep out competition, and demands so much at the hands ot congress, the senator means to aseertain if the people have not some rights whieh even a corporation must rospect. This evenini’s Star has this on the subjeet: “Mr. Van Wyck said hie offered the resolution at the request of many - citizens of Washini- tan, who are compelled to_depend upon this railroad line for means of transit. He said this was only one of the many grievances the people of Washington have to suffer. 1t was apparent that the determination of this com- pany is first, sccond and Iast, to operate the road for their own beneiit without regard to the comtort or conyenience of their patrons, that when the road was chartered some idea of the peoply’s rights seemed to prevail, but now all that is _ignored. and that_the people are unable to vrocure relief, Mr. Van Wyek satid the ehaivman of the District committee liad expressed an intention to investigate the street railway question of the national capi- tol, and he (Van Wyck) hoped he would do 50 Mr. Van Wyek, continuing, said the cars of the Metropolitan line are overcrowded, norses and drivers overworked, and that the patrons are overworked in_being compelled, in addition to paying tares, to perform the dutles of conduciors, He deseribes the in- convenience of passengers inan overcrowded car, passing up farcs, and making chanze, stepping upon the toes’ of other passengers, and jostled about over the shoulders of tellow-suffecers. Lo said persons dependent upon the ling nopth of Duvont Cirole lose ton minutes each trip, as these is only one to draw an overcrowded car. ‘The rate of speed, he de- clared, is not equal to that of a dray team drawing a heavy load. lle declared that the unfortunate people of Washington have no power in themselves to compel these corpo- rations to respect their rights, and that it s high timo congress should interpose. e des- cribes the railroad compan S @ corporation that had grown rich out of the people it now oppresses. Ite said it has the peoble by the tiiroat, and is robbing them.” i jihlie’ resolution” wasadopted without any dissent. Special DABNEY'S RECORD. A good deai of confusion existsat the in- terior department over the statements made respeeting the military career of Dr. Dabney, who was Tecently appointed a_spe iiner in the pension oftice, It was cha imediately aftortiio doctor’s uppo that during the war he had served as a_con- tederate guard at the Andersonville vrison. Chere have been bitter comments on ti policy of appointing a man who had stood the “dead line™ to pass_upon_ the claims of union soldiers for pensions. Dr. Dabney has written a card stating that at the tine he is allezed to have been aguard at Andersc ville b was only fourteen years of age This is “all the explan tion “or denial he will mak and the most diligent inquiry fails to_securd further information on the subjeet. Dabney 15 said to have been appointed ivom Kansas, but statesmen from that state disavow any knowled hiis past career or war record, ‘The deputy commissioner of pensions suid to-day that’ the charges against Dr. Dabney would be taken up at onee, and that the eoim wissioner of pensions inténded to make an investization for oflictal action. Hesid that the matter was only brought to the attention of the burean yesterday, and they were un- prepared to express an ovinjon af this time, S0 1t seems t Dr. Dabney’s explanation is not altogeth sutistactory to the ofiicials responsible, PROGE S5 OF THE SOUTIL Jud:e Kelly, of Pennsylyania, father of the house, hias just returned s third tip into the south and sp quent terms of what he saw ther Kelly has for many years been the leader of the re- publican side of the house for tariil protec- tion, and says he sees no necessity for more vigor in this direction as it will eifect the in- terests of the south, e reports the nogroes making money und saving or spending it wisely. Ile thinks the people in’ the south are making more money and progress than those in~ the worth, *The south,” d he to your correspondent to day, “can produce rough . iron more cheaply than we can in Pennsylvania he cause the materials are in such elose juxta- position. 1stood on coal beds which bl iron mines on both sides of me, not more than two miles away, and lmestohe b In Pennsylvania it costs $7 to zet th tenals together before the mauntacturin iron begins, In the south it does not more tian Then land is much cheaper, They don’t make enough to meet the de watids there yet, but they will soon be Penn- sylvania’s sharp competitors,” A FALSE BEPOIT, This morning's Post has statement that Marvin 8. Hughitt, gen- cral manager of the Chicago & Northe western railrond, and president of the Chi- cago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaba road, called upon the president Tudsday and asked for an order allowing his road the right of way through Fort Meade military reserya- tioi in the Black Hills distriet in the terri- tory; that the president refused Mr, Hughitt's request, and that the latter retreated from the white house asserting that he wonld go to congress for the permisston, is absolutely withiout foundation. Mr, Hughitt has not been at the white house ina year, and the matter has never been referred tothere,” SENATOR MANDERSON'S HOME, ‘'his evening's Oritie says: “Senator and Mrs, Manderson will occupy Senator Pal mer’s house during the session, This superb mansion was 0 greatly admired the lst few days of the lnstsession, when Mrs. Palmer was at ho friends, that there is ge pleasure that so attractive o Kianderson will be there this son to welcome both her own and Mrs wer’s friends, ALMY AFFAL putenant Paul Clendenin, assistant irgeon, fhas been assigned to station at rt Davis, lexas. | Captain Henry L ‘Parrill, assistant surgcon has been assigned to duty st Fort Spokane, this: “The First 1 Washington territory, | Licutenaut W. L. Simpson, Third cavalry is assigned whi to duiy at Fort Leavenworth awaiting his fransfer to the infantry Captain George W. Dais, Fourteenth in. tantry, has been ordered 1o San Francisco as a weinber of the general court martial sitting ther ‘I'he following aripy promotions ave caused by the retirement of Colynel Lo P, Bradley, | I'hirteenth | Robert 8 colonel Captain n Charles infantry: Lamotte, of the Thirteenth William F. Dram, lieutenant colonel of the Lieutenant Colonel Cweltth infantry, to infantry: Major Fourteenth {nfantry, to Iwelfth thfantry: A. Wickol, Eleventh in: fantry, to ajor of the Fourteenth infantry ; First'L fantry, to captain o the Secor Jonas lieuten; Army leaves g Coolidge, Seve fentenant A, Em ant. Atbert Meyer, leventh in- iteuant to first § Li Eleventh infantry n Charles A Fort Laramie, infantry Wyoming ten days further extension: Lieu: tenant William A. Mercer, Eighth i Fort Robinson, Nebraska, two months, permission 1o apply for two months’ slon, Itisacn ofticer Colone i to- 1 W G. Moore was » police lie would have b fantry, with exten said an army very day that inted chiet of a_deputy pay colneidence, lhat on the master general had he remained in the army, owing to the retirement of ch was First Lientenant ¢ alry, has been ordered to tempor defferson barracks, the first detachment of W et Colonel Feblger, inced vestorday, L. South urth cav- ry duty at Missouri, and to conduct recruits that may leave for the department of Arizona, GG PERS Hoyt, of INTER-ST Vexe WasHiNaToy, Dee. 9, Questior ONAT MENTION, Beatrice, is in the city - COMMERCE. inally Agreed Upon T by the Conferecs, ~Tlie conferees npon the inter-state commerce measures, popularly known as the Reagan and Cullom bills, rea early date. the con s s001 od an agrecmont to-day upon the differ ences between the senate and house report of presented igned, and its adoption will be asked The bills passed by the senate The nference committee will be dasitcan be prepared and Y and house propose different plans for the regulat! fon of th he inter-state traflic of the country. Both prohibit unjust diserimination between persons and plac the giving of special rates, preference, otc., as well as cor- tain other practices, which unlawt ul. Both re declared to be bills require the railroads to publish their rates and to adhere to them when published. rially in the penalties provided for violation ‘They did not differ mat of their general provisions, but they d fered widely in the methods pre posed for securing their enforcement. Tho houso bill gives every shipp with a grievance the right of action in sta and United States courts, on his motion and in his own behalf, for the recovery of the damages he may have sustained, with a pro- vision that a beallowed in_every ease of recovery. eas senate bill did instituting suits in their own behalf, but it required the creation of a commission re- quired to investigate all complaints 1 onableattorney's fee should The ot preclude shippers from and to settle them by arbitration, if possible, and If courts when it finds not, to titled to redress. ferees and to retain the remedial fe ‘They will recommend that the house agree to the commission system, as It bills. been the case in the the shipper is_en- prosecute that By the compromise ch agrecd upon the con- Propose — to put both of egulation into operation plans of tures of both stands in the senate bill, and that the Senate agree to the provision allowing such shipps may elect to do so to prosecute suits tor covery of damages in on their own belalf, with the pro they road. seemed toby the v railroad to char; hall not bave the right o pursue thety remedy 10 the courts and thidugh the com- in the sanie case, nuch debated question of lone and short haul. a compromise ha I'he house bill absoluf e for shorter than which includes shorter The provision in prohibited a greater chargd than for a longer distance similar eircumstances the same line, in the same dirc the same original point of de the same point of arriv. the comm general rule in spec proper. on United Sta courts sions that On the vexed and been agreed upon, prohibited a greate for longer distance upon any one rail- the senato bill for a shorter wnder substantially and_conditions over ction and from ture, or to uthorized 150 sion to make exceptions to (his eases in which it ‘I'he substitute section agreed precs kes it nnlawiul for ore for transporta- tion of passengers or of like kind of property, under and conditions, for shorter than substant ally ‘similar ecircumstaneis for longer distance over the same line and in the same direction the lon in spe: after in seribe shall be reli section vestiz; the io upon the subjeet conferees have vi vision of the ho of publicity of i extent to ed from the operation of . “Fhie house bill contains an wrohibition of pooling, while the se provided fo e commission of the question of leiis the shorter being included within ¢ distance, with a provise that I cases, upon application and 1 the commission may pre- which such railroad this bsolute e bill n by ation Upon this point the senate clded. and accopted the pro > bill. Upon the question ites Uiere was no dificrence immediate investiga: of “opinion. The senate bill made it the duty of the commission to the publi- cation of such through rates as it might be found possible to publish, A substitute has been agreed wpon which is that ench railroad is tequived to print and keep in every depot for the inspection ot the public therates it may establish between points upon its own Jine. ‘Other modijcations of miner importance fiave been made, but these are the prineipal ones upon which differences of oninion existed, Wien the substitute bill has been printed the committes will go over it earefully, and may find it make some tially a Cley Nrw the BEI t 1t po eland’s Yonrk, De I'he T nges, but sary yet to they have sibsta 1 their recommendations. - alenlations on 1888, e, .—{Speeial Telegram to ribune says: “Itis under- stood from a close, personal triend that Goy- ernor Hill to whom Senator Cockrell, of Missouri relited the incident, that during the Benton controversy, Coc little pognact fous as well as his enator Vest gue, ' colle had occasion to eall on President Cleveland The ling of 1555, state, become. the country without New Y ork just returmied from and 1 Hampshire, and (4 azainstany one excey states in the northwe and Mi with th on N Crry Moral, mversatiol volitical Cleveland was warned of th of alienating his party friends in His responses clared in he could nnesota ol th York, 0¥ MEex n naturally ran alongz the discussion with reference to dangoer v York indicated that he kg the can carry state. e had Harvard commenceme: emphatic terms that he be ey Massachusetts, New nnecticut, and Maine as Blatne, and enough t, Michizan, Wisconsin ssibly, to win the election o solid south, not counting - Grit to the diast 100, Dec 9.—Francis Del cution was set for to-day, whose exe was the murderer of a French resident of this city nearly two years ngo. His ease has oc- cupied much attention and the French min- igter, in his private capacity, even went so far as to ask that his sentence be commnted But President Diaz refused to allow the law 1o be interfered with and the eriinin, " shot to-day by a file of soldiers. He died bravely, protesting his inn {0 the Last — - Proclaiming Pleuro-Pneumonia, LANsiNG, Mich,, Dee. 9. —Governor Alger to-day issued another and more peremplory proelamation regarding pleuro-pnenmonin in Cook county, 111, e orders that until fur ther notice no live stock will be shipped to any place in this state from said Cook county, either for breeding. slaughtering or other purposes, and that a le shipped throngh this sf shall not be unloaded 1 fod within the state, exeent ut such points i vill not exposze othe attle, Probably a Crank's Confession Ricuvonn, Va., Dee. Chid Police Poe to-day received ter f1om Super tendent Murray, of New York, containing a letter of confession, signed *Litlian Mad son's murderer I'he letter gives no part ulars, alleges rem on the part of writer, Who promises to present Ginseif on the morning of the day of Cluveriug exi tion. Thie police bere Teghid the wiiter as u crauk, " NUMBER 175 END OF CUT-THROAT RULE. Judge Gresham's Knock-Down Blow toJobe bers and Railroad Wreckers, THE COMMENT OF WALL STREET) A Chance For Legitimate Investors to Follow the Oyerthrow of Gould's Wicked Chicanery and Scheming, Gonld's Black 1y NEw York, Dec. 0.—([Special Tologram to the Ber, I'he Times says that Wall street lias had 1o news I many a day, save only announcements that have led to disaster or developments suddenty whitling the stock market upwards, in which so much interest has been manitested as was yestond: Ay shown in the decision of Judee Gresham of 1linols, in the Wabash receivership case, Such bold words as Judge Gresham used are not often heard from the beneh in these days, At one blow he knocks out ane of the wickedest pleces of scheming and chicanery that thig country has ever known Inall its long line of corporation corruption. A black eye fog Jay Gould, a kic king of Gould’s dependents out of ofticial vlace, a scathing rebuke te Gould methods, a elieck to an almost inimits able plan of rascality and robbery—this, from the bench, has seemed sufficient even for wonderment in Wall street, where alf theories are based on the idea that the “httlg man' owns the courts and has a sort of vested right in everything thut pertains to Judges and judgments. But there was nof more wonderment than admiration, Judge Gresham's independence was everywhere aps plauded outside the eirele where Gould’s de- pendents sing for ever the endless song of their waster’s praisos. The story of the Wabash receivership has long been a by+ word in Wall street. The recelvers haye been Gould men for y One was hig lawyer, ono bas been his figurehead in dozen enterprises. Gould, among kindred clever men, was every where applanded when it beeamd known that he had been <o able to manipue late thiugs as to keep the bankrupt Wabash system in his own hands for the protection ot security holder “Protection !’ Thig was the court’s phrase. Gould's men lost no time in hureying to inake plain the eynieal humor of it, It is not so long a0, only a month or two, since a meeting of Wabash security holaers was held in this city. 1t was storiny to the point ot disorder. Tliere were those present owning Wabash securities who scemed alive to the ‘situation. Jay Gould was then say: agely denounced. On all sides was dissatiss faction, distrust, and denunciations. None, thougn, seen 0 know justhow or where to turn to get relief. - Buttheir quandary wi not shared by another part of the company’s security owne They decided on some= thing more than words “and wailings. They hired a_lawyer, they went searehing for an honest judge, Fortmate in getting Henry Crawford, of Chicago, as (he attorney tg champion their cause, they were in eéqual good luck in finding a clancsio get a hearing before J resham. Henry Crawford, Il'a young man, is rapidly beconnng the Iroad lowyer ot the west. e is aking a record seldom parallcled in cases, Judge Gresham, before s case came before him, had been given ofe ficial experience, in which the audacity and double-dealing of Gouldism kad been openly flouted before him. Thus it was told that the - aggrieved security holders were sure nof only of able ehampionship, but sure, as welly of a full and hotest hearing. That they needed no more in amply shown by the pers emptory deeree of the coutt after the trial th the bond holders have rights and that Gould’s men must go. All_this ‘was what the men interested i the affairs recited to one_another vesterday, declaring their gladness in- the result as ol in the Chicago dispatches. “The decision wil 0 far, so those whio discussed 1t ngreed, ta give Tavestors eoniidence that Intely it hos not been possible to cultivate. In this dos cision, so general comment ran, clear and positive notice is served on stock jobbers and railroad wreckers that, after all, the men wiha sy honest dollars for stock and for bonds have some rights which the law will see re« spected, Investors have been safe in_ racent years only by the gra e of stock market rigs gers. Thieir incoties have been regular or irs recular as it has suited the knaves n corpor- ate control, InJudge Groshan’s decree, sq those who talked of it averred, is declirdd @ departure from this ent-throat reginie. Gould's Compliments to € ham. NEw Yors, Dec. 9 (Speeial Telegram to the Bre, | cferring to Judge Gresham's Wabash decision Jay Gould suid to n Tis bune reporter yesterday: The road to the white house begin: abuse of Gould and Sage. From what 1 hear I think Judge Gres= Ban's opinion in the Wabash case was owe ing to the buzzing of the presidential bee in his bonnet, but the charges azainst me are wholly without foundation. Judge Greshan lays great stress upon the fact that L was in- terested in the Ellsworth coal company, and on it he bases the charge that we sougzht to fii that company at the expense of the abash. I have done preciscly the same thing in the Misson cilie, and shall do | al whenever 1 liave an opportunity. As savid, the decision Is hased on something bes sides facts and probably on the political ams bition ot Jiidgo Greshan. 1 aim not concerned about the el cainst me beeause | know they are buscl Northwest ger Pool, CiteaGo, Dee. 4. —Not being able to agree upon the stion of putting Milwaukee loeal business into the Northwestern Iassenger pool, the wembers to-day brought up the ques- tion of & division of pereentage. All the roads were in favor of arbitration excopt the ock Island, which hung for per cents ng bused upon unount of business done for the past threo years. As there wag no pool during that time and the Rock Island received a large amount ot second-elass busls ness, as s eompetitors claim, by lieavy commissions for it, they objec this ‘method_of eivision’ Pércentages, ag well as the Milwaukeo problen, were fully referred Lo a committec o sisting of Messrs, P WATALOTS, 00N chitt, Cable, Jefs frey, “Newwmian, Swith " and Miller. The meeting tlien adjourned subject to the call of the chairman Business Pailures, MiLwAvkeE, Dee. 9.—Tho kvening Wige pecial from West Bena, Wis., sayg Franckenberg, Heipp & Seivers, consin’s the firm of doing a general wercantile and produce business at West Bond and Jackson, made an assign the benefit of their eroditors issets estimated ag $54,000; Labilities not given BostoN, Dec. %,—The old and well-known oot and shoe louse of Field, Thayer & Co, 175 Congress street, made an assigninent this ternoon to J. O, fenry, with liabilities @s- 1 t 860,000, Alout $500.000 of the dness 15 sald to 1 e hel i by banks and o5, and the failure 15 aue 10 e unwills nghess of these creditors to earry such & 14rce amount of any tim's piper. fhe Public Raite ding B WASINNGTON, Dec hose coms tee on Pacilic ra held the firsg ceting of the session this morming and ins structed the chainman to call up the Paélfie railrond funding bill ut the earliest opportus tl Mining Siocks BAN Fraxcieco, Dee. 9.—Mining stocks were all Jower this wornme. Consolidated B last it and wider Jight sales weny Vo b, closiig b $30. WD v -~ - srws rE=T