Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 2, 1888, Page 1

"SEVENTEENTH YEAR. " THE - OMAH {OMAHA, FRIDAY. MORNING, MARCH 1888, . e ———————N—— DALY BEE. o am—o— | NUMBER 258; THE MILLS TARIFF MEASURE. The Groat Unknown Turned Loose on an Indulgent People. ADDITIONS TO THE FREE LIST. No Provisions as to Internal Revenue ~Estimated Reduction in Reve- nue $53,000,000—-8ynop- sis of the Bill. The Tariff Bill. Wasnixaros, March 1.—The chairman of the ways and mcans committee to-day sub- mitted to the full committee the tariff bill upon which the democratic members have ‘been at work for several months, The free- list section is to take effect July 1, 1888, The measure was immediately made public. Among the additions to the list of articles which may be imported free of duty are the following: Timber hewn and sawed; timber used for building wharves and for spars; timber squared or sided; wood manu- factured not especially enumerated or pro- vided for; hubs or wheels, ete.; staves of wood, pickets and pailings and laths, shin- gles, clapboards, pine or spruce; logs; pro- vided that if any export duty is laid opon the above mentioned articles, or either of them by any country whence imported, all said articles from said country shall be sub- ject to dyty as now provided by law. Salt in bags, sacks, barrels or other packages, or in bulk, when 1mported from any country which does not charge import duty on exports from tne United States, Flax, straw, flax not packed or dressed. burlaps, not exceeding sixty inches in width, of which flax, jute or hemp, or either of them, shall be the component material of chief value: tin plates, ternc plates and taggers tin; beeswax, gelatin, and all similar preparations; glycerine, crude brown or yel- low isinglass, soap, hard and soft, all of which are not otherwise specially enume- rated or provided for; oil, croton, flaxsced or linsced oil, cottonseed oil, petroleum, cement, sulphates of copper and iron, potash, sulphate of potash, sulphur, beuzine, spirits of turpentine, all preparations known as es- sential oils, iron and steel cotton ties, or hoops for puling purposes not thinner than No. 20 wire gauge, needles, copper wire im- ported in the form of fores, nickel in ore matt or other crude form not ready for consumption in arts, quicksilver, mineral substances in a crude state and metals un- wrought, not especially enumerated or pro- vided for; brick, vegetables in their nat- ural state, or in salt or brine, currants, figs, meats, gaine or pouitry, beans, peas and split a8, pulp for paper makers’ use, bibles, ks and pamphlets in other languages than English, and books and pamphlets and all ublications of foreign governments and pub- ications of foreign societics, historical or scientific, printed for gratuitous distribution; feathers of all kinds, grindstones, human hair, raw, uncleaned ‘and not drawn, lime, arden secds, marbles of all kinds, room corn, plaster of paris, paintings in _oil or water colors and statuary not otherwise provided for. But the item “‘statuary’’ shall be understood to include the professional productions of statu- ary of the sculptor only. n addition to the free list the following are some of the most important changes proposed by the bill: Iron 1 pigs, $ per ton; now 810 cent per pound. Iron, railwa; ‘bars, $11 per ton; now 7-10 cent ‘per pound. Steel and part steel railway bars and slabs, and billets of steel, $11 per ton; now $17 per ton. {Iron or steel rails, £14 per ton; flat rails, $15 per ton ; now 9-10 and 8-10 cent per pound, respectively, Round iron, 1 cent per pound; now 12-10 cents per pound. On shi iron, there is a uniform reduction of 1-10 cent per und, excepting taggers iron. On hoop, and or scroll iron less than eight inches in width, there is a reduction of 1-10 cent per und on grates thinner than No. 0 wire guage, Cast iron pipe of every de- scription, 6-10 cent per pound: now 1 cent per und. Cut nails and spikes of iron or steel, cent per pound; now 11§ cent. Cut tack: 35 per cent ad valorem; now about 3 cen! per pound. Railway fish plates, 8-10 cent per pound; now 1. Wrought iron or steel spikes, horse shoos, ete., 114 cents per pound ; now 2 cents. Steel ingots, blooms, die block blanks, bars, bands, sheets, cranks, shafts and pins, stamps, paper gun moulds, steel _castings, otc., valued at 1 cent a pound; 4-10 cent per pound ; valued at more than 1 cent and not more than 4 cents, 45 per cent ad val- orem; now 45 per cent on_all values Jess than 4 cents per pound, and from 2 to 84 cents per ‘mllml on higher es. Iron or steol beams, posts, columns, building forms and other structural shapes, 6-10 cents per pound; now 114 cents. Steel or partly steel railwuy wheels and tires, or ingots for same, 1§ cents per pound; now 214 cents, Iron' and steel wire remain unchanged, with the provision that no duty shall exceed 60 per cent ad valorem. Old copper and copper clippings for remanufac- ture, 1 cent per pound; now 3 cents. Ingots and chill bars, 2 cents per pound; now 4 cents, Rolled plates, sheet rolled, pipes, ‘etc, 80 per cent ad valorem; now 35 per cent. Lead ore and dross,,{ cent per pound; now 13¢ cents. Pigs, bars, ctc., for remanufac- ture 14 now 2 cents, Sheet, i 21 cent: now cents. thing and yellow , 80 per cent ad valorem; now 35 per Nickel, ore or matte, 10 cents per pound, or nickel contained therein; now 15 cents, Zine and spelter in pigs or for re- manufacture, 11§ cents per pounds, in sheets 2 cents per’ pound; now 13¢ and 21§ cents, respectively. Hollow ware, 21§ cents per und; now 3 cents, Needles of all kinds, per cent ad valorem ; now 25 and 85 per cent. Cabinet or house furniture, wood, 30 per cent ad valorem; now 85 per cent. Maunfactures of hard woods, 30 per cent ad valorem; now 85 per cent. Wood manufactures unenumer- ated, 30 per cent ad valorem; now 83 per cent. Sugar, not above No. 16d s, is as follows: Tank bottoms, syrups, ete., not above 75 de grees polario o L 1.15 cents per hundred, and for every additional degree 3-100 cents r pound; above 16 d. s. and not ubove 20, .20 cents per pound; above 20 d. 8. 21§ cents er pound. The present dutics range from 40 cents per pound below 14 d. s. t r pound for sugars above 20d. s lower grade of molasses is unchanged, but that testing above 46 degrees is reduced 8 to 6 cents per gallon. Confectionery, i0 per cent ad valorem; now 10 cents per pound. All leaf tobacco manufactured is fixed at 33 cents per pound, and the present distinction between sumatra and ordinary wrapping to- bacco is abolished. Starch, 1cent per pound; now from 2 to 2} cents per pound, Rive, cleaned, 2 cents; uncleaned, 14 cents, now 21§ and 11 cents respectively. Paddy, 5 cents per pound; now 114 cents. Raisins, 115 cents per pound; now 2 cents, Mustard in bottles, ground or preserved, 6 cents per pound; now 10 cents. All ¢ h per cent ad valorem, pr mulls and crinolines shall v v more than 5 per cent ad valorem; the present tari® divides cotton cloth into twelve classes, with duties ranging from 2'g ceuts per square 3‘: rd for less than 100 threads to the square neh, to 40 per cent ad valorem on colored cottons exeeeding 200 threads to the squuse inch. Spool cotton, 40 per cent ad valoremy now at & minimum duty of 7 cents per 13 spools. Duck, linen, canvas, handkerchicfs, 1awns or other munufactures of tlax, jute or hemp, not specially provided for, 25 per cent ad valorem, and linen collars, cuffs and shirts, 23 per cent ad valorem; now uniform at 35 per cent ad valorem. Flax, hemp and jute yarns, 25 per cent ad valorem; now 85 per cent ad valorem. Linen, thread, twine, ete, 25 per cent ad Valorem; now 45 per cent. Oil cloths, 25 per cent ad valorem; now 40 per cent. Con- siderable reduction has been made in gunny cloth, bagging, tarred cables, cordage, ete. All wools, wools on skins, shoddy, ete., are laced on the free list after July 1. On annels, blankets, woolen hats, kuit ‘hoods, woolen or worsted yarus, and manufuctures of every description, composed wholly o in part of worsted, 40 per cent_ad valorem; the present section relating to this class of gooas, opt such as are composed in part of wool. Woolen and worsted cloths, shawls, and all manufactures of wool of every description, made wholly or in_part of wool or worsted not speeially provided for, 40 per cent ad valorem; the present dutics on the flannel ete., range from 10 cents per pound and per’ cent ad valorem to 85 cents per pound and 60 per cent ad valorem, and on woolen cloths, ete., from 5 cents per ponnd and 40 per cent ad valorem. Bunting, 40 per cent ad valorem, now 10 cents a yard and 35 per centad valorem, Women's and children’'s dress goods, coat linings, Italiaus, etc., 40 per cent ad valorem; the present duties ramge from 5 cents per vard and 85 per cent ad valorem to ) cents per yard and 40 per cent ad valorem, Cloth- ing, ready made, and wearing apparcl of every description, of wool, except knit goods, 45 per cent ad valorem: now 40 cents per pound and 5 per cent ad valorem, All carpets, 30 per cent ad valorem; now ranging from 6 cents per yard for hemp or jute to 45 cents per yard and 80 per cent ad valorem for Axminster and other high Paper, sized or glued, 15 per cent adva and printing paper, unsized, 12 per cent adva- lorem; now 15 and 20 per cent. Gutta percha, manufactured, and hard rubber articles,30 per cent advalorem; now 85 per cent. India rub- ber fabrics, boots and shoes, 15 per cent adva- lorem; now 80 per cent. Marble, sawed, dressed slabs and paving tiles, 85 cents per cubic foot; now #1.10. Murble, manufacturad and not’ oth e enumerated, 30 per cent advalorem: now 50 per cent. The reductions in china, glass and glassware ng. The remainder of the bill, e printed pages, is made up entirely of the leading features, of the old Hewitt ad- ministration bill, such as the similarity clause provision, intended to guard against smugg- ing, exempting of theatrical scenery and wardrobes, when intended for temporary use in the United States, and tourists’ wi apparel ; the clause providing for the ta; of cartons or coverings; the section in- tended to prevent false invoices and un- dervaluations, and providing for punishment of persons guilty of these offenses: extension of warchouse privilege to three years; aboli- tion of allowance for damage in warchouscs; abolition of fees of entries on imported goods and the requirement that invoices shall be sub- mitted to the United States consular ofticers before exportation to the United Statcs; the section relative to appeals in_customs cases and limiting the time within which such suits can be brought; the bestowal of sole jurisdiction in trinls of suits against United States collectors upon Unil t courts, and the penulty clause directed against attempted bribery of customs officials. The latest estimates made by the committee of the probable reductions in revenue that will be effected by the pass- age of the bill_are as follows: Chemicals, £730,000; china and _ glass, $1,000 000 cottons, 7,000; proy fons, $500,000: woolen good ,000; sundries, £1,000,000; paper, §2,500; sugars, $11,000,000; hemp, flax and jute, £1,500,000; motals, §1,500,000; free list, §22,250,000. This would' ‘make the total’ reduction about £53,000,000. Chairman Mills said_to-day int nue changes had been purposely from the bill. The democratic members are still considering that subject, and it was not possible to suy atthis tune whether the re- ductions would result in the presentation of another bill dealing with internal revenue, or the inclusion of some provision bearing upon that system in the present bill at some future stage. s FIFTIETH CONGRESS Senate. WasmHINGTON, March 1.—The senate passed a resolution directing the president to nego- tiate treaties to cut off all Chinese immigra- tion, The credentials of Wilson of Iowa and Walthall for new terms were presented. The pension bill was then taken up, the pending question being an amendment offered yesterday by Mr. Wilson of fowa, to add the words ‘‘from infirmities of age.” Mr. Beck said $50,000,000 would not half cover the amount of expenditure if the amendment were adopted. The bill would settle the surplus for all time to come. The debate then drifted into a Qiscussion of the tariff, during which Beck referred to the demonitization of silver and attacked Sherman for 1t. He sug- gested, reverting to the pension question, that the wealth of the country was protected by the exertions of the soldiers. The sen- ators ou the other side, many of whom were millionaives, should meet the expenditure for pensions by an income tax. Mr. Plumb said the senator from Kentucky was not a free trader, except for revenué. Neither was any other senator on the demo- cratic side, when he had anything to be made by being a_protectionist. The senators on the other side, he said, illy concealed their feelings of regret that it was not the soldiers of the confederate army that were to be pen- sfoned under the pending measure. Without vote on the amendment the senate adjourned till Monday. House. ‘WAsmNGTON, March 1.—TIn the house to- day the floor was accorded the committee on foreign affairs, and Mr. Belmont of New York, called up the joint resolution accepting the invitation of the French republic for the United States to take part in the inter- national exposition at Paris. Mr, Adams of Illinois, thought the house should not forget French legislature dis- crimination agamst American hogs' products, and should in proper time pass retaliatory measures. He offered an amendment to the resolution authorizing the commissioner of agriculture to prepare for distribution at the exhibition a_concise statement des- tive of swine raising in the United States, the methods used in prepuring pork for export, and giving information the relative wholesomeness of ed in the United States and other countri ‘T'his was offered, he said, in order that the attention of the French republic be called to the discrimination, The amend- ment appropriates §25,000 to carr i It was agreed to. whole, where it was being considered, and ordered favorably reported to the house, Mr. Belmont then called up the joint reso- lution authorizing the president to arrange o conference to be held at Washingfon in 1889 for the purpose of promoting arbitration and encouraging reciprocal commercial rel tions between the United States and the re- publics of Cent rica and the empireof Br ate an amwendment was adopted making one of the questions to be considered by the conference @ means of direct communication between and ithe other countries, 'he resolution was then agreed to, and the committee having risen both resolutions passed. Adjourned. e An Unfaithtul Wife Suicides. Cuicaco, March 1.—[Special Telegram to the BEE.]—Mrs. H. Manice, a young woman who has been a guest at the Leland hotel since Sunday, shot herself through the heart at 1 o'clock this morning. She came here about six months ago by an agreement with Mr, Manice, who has been paying her an allow- ance of $100 per month. It appears Mrs, Manice 18 defendant is divorce proceedings, which her husband instituted in New York. ‘Fhe ground on which the demand for divorce was made was adultery. The testimony ud- duced wus all of & damaging character When the inquiry was adjourned yesterday Manice's lawyer notified the commissioner that he had other and still more damaging testimony for the morrow, and it was_this announcemeent probably thut led Mrs. Man- ice 1o shoot herself. The Fi h Youx, March The big fur re foctory -of Pottier & Stymus, owned by that firm and occupied by several other firms, burned to-day. The Vanderbilt hotel and hospital for ruptured were scovched badly, The whole fire department of Muuhattan island was called to the scene, Loss, §1,000, GROWING MORE COMPLICATED. New and Important Developments in the Strike. PLACATING THE READING MEN. Brotherhood Men Ordered Off the Pennsylvania Road — Prospects That Parallel Lines Will Be- come Involved. To Placate the Knights. Cn1caco. March 1.—Late to-night it was given out that importanc telegrams had left the headquarters of the Burlington strikers in this city regarding the strike. Master ‘Workman Cahill, of the district assembly to which the Philadelphia & Reading striking engineers belong, has been iu the city for twenty-four hours, fixing up a settlement be- tween the knights and brotherhood. As a re- sult the following telegram as sent to-night: Henry Walton, chairman executive board of locomotive firemen, Philadelphia —Sec all members on the Reading road that have taken the places of men that went out December 14, 1887, and reque: them to sever their connection with the com- pany, and I will pay them until they can find employment eisewhere, and allow the men now out to return to work. By doing this the bad feeling now existing will be obliter- ated and will assist us to win our struggle with the Burliugton road. i F. P. SArGeNT, Mr. Walton has wired he would at once transmit necessary orders to the brother- nood lodges. Chicf Engineer Arthur then transmitted the following: Edward Kent, chairman executive board engineers, New York: Go to Philadelphia at once and use your influence to get all brotherhood engineérs who took the places of the Reading strikers to leave the service of v, furnishing them with the finan- cial support of the brotherhood. The C..B. & Q. are using the strikers to beat us in the contlict. We must checkmate them. P. M. ArTnen, Fighty of the striking Reading engineers who arrived here Wednesday night to take places returned late to-night. The local press bureau at a late hour to- night furnishes the following: Intelligence of undoubted reliability was secured at a late hour to-night to the effect that the chair- man of the cngineers’ and fire- mens' gievance committtee upon i intersecting, parallel to cago, Burlington & meet in this city to-mor- row or next day, This meeting is “prepara- tory to a general strike upon all these lines. This includes the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, the Chicago, Alton’ & Northwestern, the Wisconsin Central, the Rock Island & Minnesota, and the Northwestern, A trump card that the strikers are holding in reserve was described to-night by the gen- eral manager of a railroad, other than the Burlington, terminating here, He said: “Granting that no compromise is arrived at between the Burlington and the striking en- gineers, and that the company succeeds in filling the places of the strik- ers, thero is another phase that will present itself which will not only embarrass the Burlington company, but will prove dangerous to other corpora- tions. The Burlington, with all its locomo- tives manned, can resume local business and successfully ‘conduct it; but there it will stick. Through business it cannot do if the brotherhood engineers should take a stand against it. They could, and probably would, refuse to haul ‘trains m which Burlington cars were made up, and such action would be effectual in blocking through business. If the connecting lines should insist upon the performance of the service, it would precipi- tate a strike on their own roads and there is not much doubt that under these circum- stances they would refuse to accept Bur- lington cars. Thut company would have but one resource. It could transfer its freight at terminal points to_foreigh cars, but this would be an_expensive process, and would phu-‘e it at a fatul disadvantage against other rouds. The Burlington road to-day moved a larger number of passcnger trains than on any previous day this week, and also report a partial resumption of freight traffic on most of the divisions. They succeeded in getting four switch engines at work in this city, and cleared out quite a number of cars from the lumber district. An evening paper to-day asserted that a confer- ence had been _held between President Per- kins, General Manager Stone and T. E. Det- wiler, r enting the engineers and fire- men, is was emphatically denied this evening by both sides. Quir The Situation in Chicago. CnicaGo, March 1.—Chief Arthur's head- quarters at the Grand Pacific hotel were much more cheerful to-day. Leaders of the brotherhood who were assembled there, evi- dently have great hopes as to the result of the conference between Chiefs Arthur and President Perkins of the Burlington road. All maintain the greatest secresy concerning the conference, and would admit nothing beyond the fact that it occurred, and that they expected it to be resumed to-day. “Well, Mr. Arthur, what about the confer- ence!” asked a reporter, “Ah," he answered, “‘youare touching on a delicate ground. We have promised to say nothing whatever about what passed be- tween us lst night at this stage of the pro- ceedings. The men can_ rest assured, how- huve done nothing to compro- iterests in any way.” ““When is the conference to be resumed?” “That T can't say.”? “Do you feel encouraged at the progress thus fir wade in your uegotiations with Per- ins " “Well, I would hardly put it that way, but you may say that 1 have hopesof a fricndly settlement of this trouble.” The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy officials were more confident than ever this morning “They said a number of freight trains in Ne- a, lowa, Michigan and 1llinois had been Sonie through trains came in this > full suburban service is go- 0 Reading engineers have g0 and are being examined. Many have already been put to work. ‘e With the Rock Island. engineers and firemen, and C. J. Ringe, & prominent member of the organization, ar- rived in Kansas City this morning. They are acting under the direct order of Chief Arthur and arve here for the purpose of aiding the local committee and to arrange matters with the Rosk Island road. The strikers do not wish to interfere with the business of any disintercsted road unless it is absolutely necessary and the local managers of the Rock Island having complained that their business here was hindered by the strike, Chief Arthur av once sent the committee to see after the mat- ter. Mr. Ringe is not a striker, but a Rock Island man, and will pay particular attention to the company’s interest. The committee and the Rock Island officials held a confer- ence at the union depot hotel this morn- ing at which the commiitee bound itself to see that Rock Island freight engineers were not interfered with and also gave permission to the Rock Island to handle passcnger business between Kan- sas City und Cameron, between which points that company uses the Burlington tracks. Trains will stop regularly at local statious. Passengers must have tickets of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacifict issue and the busi- ness must be done in Rock Island cars with Rock Island engings run by brotherhood en- gineers; g Mr. Stevens left for Cliigago t0 night, bat Mr, Ringe will remain in Kansas City and assist Mr. Murray, the chairman of the local committee, in the mamagement of the strike. Mr. Ringe said to-day: “Mr. Stevens and myself held a conference with Chief Arthur yesterday and were ered to come to Kan- sas City and arrange things with the Rock Island and give any assistance necessary to the local committee. The brotherhood does not wish to injure any road's business except that of the Burlington as yct, and everything has been satisfactorily arranged by the ofticials and the committee. Everything i8 in as good shape for the men as could be asked. The company is handling no freight, and the passenger trains they run do no carry any passengers. The class of men they are hiring are the very gmro!h An engineer took an engine out for ‘hicago day before yesterday who was so drunk that he had to be helped upon the en- gine. The chief of police has taken the mat- ter in hand and will see that no more such men get on engines there, The local committee held a secret meeting to-day at which a com- munication was read from the engineers of the Wabash system, offering them £100,000 if they need it. Cheering dispatches werc also received from Chicago. The members of the committee say that whatever measures are ordered there will be no violence. They think the policemen who man the Burlington engines are an insult to the men as the road understands they are intelligent men and not t0 be classed with rioting strikers, The trains here are moving about as yesterday, although the officials say that throughout the system they are running much more regularly. regular passen- ger trains left with empty coaches about on time. The Council Bluffs train came in_at 6:45 o'clock, half an hour late. TheT Moines and St. Paul express due at 9:35 o'clock was marked ‘‘abandoned between St. Joseph and Kansas City.” The company commenced to handle Denver business this morning. No attempt has yet been made to send out @ freight train from Kansas City. The switch engine which was at work in the yords yesterday was running to-day and as there is no freight coming it is handling all the busi- ness, There werea great many applicants for positions at the Burlington office this morning but the strikers are active and to any man whom they know to be a good engi- neer out of a job they offer to pay his board and also to pay him engincer's wages. The brotherhood is now keeping about & dozen men at a hotel here. The Local Situation. The heavy rain storm of yesterday did not tend to lessen the crowd uf strikersand their sympathizers about the B, & M. depot. There was no disturbance of any kind and the men conversed together carnestly and as far as could be ascertained without any threats of violence or even an intimation of such a thing. A special tran arrived at 4 o'clock yesterday morning from Denver, carrying only through passengers to Chisago. No. 4 due here from the west at 9:40, was forty minutes late, owing to poor connections at thebranch road junctions. Its arrival was greeted without any demonstration, The 10:05 dummy train brought ten engineers. They were it charge of aman _supposed to a Pinkerton operative and he watched them as closely as a hen watches over her brood. Notwith- standing his great care a BEE reporter man- aged to talk with four of them before the de- tective could block the game. Three of them admitted that they were non-union men and came here from Newark, Ohio, and other castern points ando that they were formerly employes of the Baltimore & Ohio. In cach case the detective interrupted the conversation, and just as the fourth man was being interviewed he came up and said to the reporter: “Now you just:dcop this. These men are all members of the brotherhood and they are not to be interviewed.” “If they are brotherhood men what objec- tion can they have to stating their business here?” asked the reporter. *‘I don’t propose to argue the matter with you, You just let 'em alone,” was the reply, The reporter was persistent, however, and the Pinkerton operative took his flock into the ticket office and sat there until the east bound train came in. Then they all jumped aboard. Their destination could not be learned, but it was the general belief that they were taken down to the yards at Gib- son. One of the incidents of the morning was the refusal of a Union Pacific engineer to back on to the B. & M. track and take out a Pull- man car to the transfer depot. The strikers cheered him and the Pullman compeny were forced to get a gang of men and push the car over to the Union Pacific tracks. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SOABS. At half past 10 o’clock last night the Bur- lington depot was in full possession of & special policeman, who was unassuming in his authority and quite obliging in answering questions as far as his knowelage extended. He told a BEE reporter that the active of- ficials of the road had departed for their re- spective homes an hour before, after having witnessed safely the departure of all the trains for both the east and west for the night. Train 8, an important link from the east with the might western run, had shown up about 9 o'clock and had aboard a large number of Pinkerton police, who re- bR A e R et prep- arations were completed for forwarding the train on_its western journey an hour later. They did not disclose their objective point, and were adverse to speaking with any one outside their own crowd. To the surprise of everyone the Kansas City ‘'stub,” whicl had been abandoned since Sunday night, was made up and departed on schedule time, with astrange engincer and fireman in the cab. It was rumored about the yards that two freight trains had been dispatched, one to the west and one to the east, early in the evening, but proofs of these staries were lacking in con- firmation when a B reporter extended his fix\'ent(gulluun among people in a position to now. A Burlington official told a reporter at a late hour that 150 engineers and firemen from Pennsylvania and Ohio had left Chicago at 5:45 last night to be distributed through Iowa and Nebrasia points, and that the train con- veying them would arrive in Omaha about noon to-d Another sensational rumor was to the ef- fect that the company had tired of the strug- gle, and we ady to concede the demands of the stri Resigus In Disgust. M. Cavanaugh, one of the special police- men appointed to defend the property of the B. & M. company during the strike, came into the chief of police’s ofice yesterday and turning over his star, said he resigned, that he could not conscientiously perform his duty. At Lincoln, LixcoLy, Neb., March 1.—[Special Tele- gram tothe BEe.]—The situation of the strike remains unchanged. Not a brotherhood man went to work under the final penalty of dismissal issued by the company. The offi- cials report increased service to-day and that preparations are mearly ready to handle freight, Three freight trains were started out to-day to feel the road and a number of w men were put to work. In the mean- time, however, the brotherhood had won over four of ‘the new arrivals and a8 uo eastern engineers have appeared yet on the scene no great progress has been made to-day in overcomipg the difficulty. A carload of Pinkerton's went through the city westward this morning but none have been kept here. In fact there is no occasion forthe small army of specials that now parade the platform to the inconvenience of the public und at no time has there been a particle of necessity for it. Nothing has reached this city yet that is through from Denver and no report was received to-day from the country west of Hastings. The branch lines have 10w one train a day each way, but main line trains renain very uncertaiu. At the headquartors of the brotherhood the boys were a8 confident as ever and stated that everything thus fur was satisfactory to them, From their experience they - believe [E!.;'_",‘"W on Second Page,]’ THE OMAHA BUILDING BILL. A Conference Committee of Both Houses Appointed. ¥ THE OUTLOOK IS FAVORABLE: Laird's Measure For Soldiers in State Homes to Be Favorably Reported— Paddock's Postoflice Bill— Other Capital News. A Fair-Minded Committee. ‘WasniNaToN Bureav tie OMAnA Bee, } 513 FOURTEENTI STRERT, Wasnixarox. D. C.. March 1. The conference committee on the part of the senate and the house on the Omahd public building bill was appointed to-day as follows: On the part of the senate—Spooner, of Wisconsin, Quay of Penusylvania, and Vest of Missouri; for the house—Dipple of South Carolina, McShane of Omaha, and Kennedy of Ohio. The committee will not have a meeting for several days and Mr. McShane leaves for Omaha to-morrow. All the members of it are liberal- minded and will be inclined to comiply as nearly as possible, it is believed, with the wishes of the people of Omaha. Mr. McShane will make a fight for the full amount which the original senate bill appro- priated, and says he believes the three con- ferees on the part of the senate will be with him. But the democrats in both houses are making a fight to keep the appropriation for public buildings down as low as possible so a8 to give tariff revision as good a showing as possible, the theory being that if the surplus 1n the treasury is reduced the chances of suc- cess for tariff revision is proportionately re- duced. Everything is being relegated to the interest of tariff reform. The outlook is hopeful, however, for the full appropriation in this case. SOLDIERS IN STATE HOMES, The sub-committee of the house committee on military affairs having the measure in charge has agreed to make a favorable re- port on Mr. Laird’s bill giving £100 a year for the support of each soldier received at state homes who would be entitled to admission to the national soldiers’ homes. Mr. Laird’s bill is the same as the one recently introduced on the subject in the senate by Mr. Manderson. FAVORABLE TO PADDOCK'S BILL. The senate committee on public buildings and grounds have had under consideration for some time, and have finally agreed tore- port favorable, upon a_bill introduced carly in the session by Mr. Paddock of Nebraska, providing for the ercction of a postoftice build- ing in every city and town where the post- office brings to the government a revenue of $10,000 a year. This measure has been very widely endorsed by the newspapers throughout the country, and a number of pe- titions have been sent in asking for its pas- sage. ‘The bill provides that the building to be erected shall not cost more than the ag- gregate revenues of the postofiice for the last three years, and Mr. Paddock argues that it is not only a measure of convenience but_economy. Itis shown that the rentals raid Dy the government for _postoffice build- ings amount to much more than a fair rate of interest on the sum of money that would be required to carry out this plan, and that a handsome public building in each town and city of more than five or six thousand inhabitants would be & public bene- fit. A bo is provided for, consisting of 'the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of the interior, and the post- master general, to superintend the erec- tion of such buildings, and the plans are to be drawn in the supervisingarchitect's office. An appropriation of $2,000,000 dollars from the surplus revenues of the postofiice depart- ment and $3,000,000 from the public treasury is made by the bill, and 1t is expected that the committee on public buildings and grounds will report it on next Monday. THE TARIFF BILL REVEALED. ‘Without any ceremony the administration tariff bill was made public at half past 10 this morning. Asanticipated, the republican mempers of the committee on ways and means had no suggestions to offer to the ar- bitrary majority, who have framed the bill without consulting their minority collcagues, and the committee was in session but a few minutes. Chairman Mills expected the min- ority to have considerable to say about the Dill and to make requests concerning the pro- cedure to be taken into considering the measure in the committee and reporting it to the house, and was surprised when he was informed that as he had composed the bill without suggestions from the minority the ‘majority ought to be able to proceed With- out its directions as to the con- sideration. There was no discussion of the measure at all by members of the committee, and their meeting was but of a few minutes duration. Members of the house were supplied with copies of the bill as they arrived at the capitol, and at their leis- ure glanced over its provisions. Very few have so far digested the Dbill sufficiently to warrant them in giving a deliberate opinion, but the best informed members on the subject of tarift declared that it has mot a ghost of a chance of passage. In reality it gopears that there will be a less following for the administration bill than there was for the Morrison horizontal bill, the consideration of which, it will be remem- Dbered, was refused by the house by a _very decided vote. The sharp reductions of the duty on iron will keep the Randall following solid in Pennsylvania, while the cuts on sugar, rice and a few other articles produced by the south will enable Randall to have an increased vote from Louisiana, Georgia and the Virginias and Carolinas. Free wool set- tles the democratic support in Ohio and drives all members from that state into the line of opposition to the bill, while the Pacific slope is made solid in the opposition, by not only free wool, but the material reductions on almost ever article produced on the Pacific slope. If Ran- dall was enabled to command over forty votes in opposition to the Morrison bill, he will be able to vote a third more men on his side of the house, if one estimate this early upon the expressions being given; the majority members of the committee on ways and means, a8 was true in the last two con- gresses, claim to have enough votes in the house to secure the passage of their bill, WHAT REPUBLICANS THINK OF 1T, To-night I met General Brown, of Indiana, one of the leading republican members of the committee on ways and means, and asked him what he thought of the bill. He said: “The bill was graciously stuck under the noses of the minor- ity this morning for the first time. 1 can give no opinion of its merits.” I haven't read it and have given it but a hur- ried glance. That, however, satisfies me that in its secret and mysterious preparation the democratic majority has had an eye to the partisan as well as to the economical parts of the tariff question.” AMENDMENTS TO THE G. A, R. PENSION BILL. It was a golden opportunity for the senators who are bidding buncombe and notoriety when Mr. Manderson called up his disability pen- 8100 bill, and they embraced it. By propos- ing more liberal provisions for the bill certain senators hoped to gain favor with those who are the bene- ficlaries, even though the amendments had the effect of killing the measure. Others who are at heart really opposed to the bill offered amendments which increased the liberal provisions of it, with the view to loading it down. Between the two classes it begins to look as though the bill would be 80 ameneded that the house, if not the sen- ate, would refuse to pass it. The senate committe had the measure under careful consideration for weeks, and when it was reported it not only met the unani- mous approval of the members of the G. A. 1. throughout the country, but the commit- tee, and why. real fricads of the measure should now want to amend it is dificult to conceive except it be for bumcombe. r. Manderson is conducting & good aud faithful fight for the soldiers who entrusted him with their bilk PUBLIC PRINTER IN A HOLE, It is absolutely painful to see Public Printer Benedict wince under the cross- examination of the republican members of the house committee now investigating the affairs of his office. If he has impressed anyone who has attended the meetings of tho committee that he is competent to fill the office of public printer, I have not found that one. Benedict cross-examined this afternoon Ly Mr. Gallinger, a republican member from New Hampshire. He acknowledged that he haa discharged a number of ex-union soldiers from his ofice who were competent and who came within the scope of statutory protections and he not only refused t give them his reasons for discharg- ing them, but he refused to tell the committee. He said his reasons were satistactory to himself; that he was respon- sible and that was sufficient. Mr. Gallinger pressed Benedict for au answer, but the dem- ocratic members of the committee protected the witness. Mr. Gallinger stated that it was his purpose to impeach the witness and that he could not do so if his interrogatories were to be treated contemptuously. POTTER'S CONDITION IMPROVED. General Manager Tom Potter, of the Union Pacific, is reported slightly improved to-night but he is yet in a critical condition, and those who have seen him do not believe he will re- cover. The physician is very cautious in iving information about the condition of Mr. Potter even to the latter's most intimate friends, and it is easier to get favorable than unfavorable report A CONSPIRACY FOILTD. Last night there was u conspiracy to get hold of copies of the tariff for premature pub- lication, but it accidentally failed. Early in the evening Mr. Bryan, foreman of the government printing ofice, received a message over the telephone purporting to come from Mr. Mills, the chairman of the committee, who had exclusive charge of the bill, asking him to deliver ten cop of the same to his house at 10 o'clock. Bryan replied that he feared it would be possible to do 8o, but he would try. At 10 o'clock he sent a messenger to the house of Mr. Milis, to say that ho was unable to de- liver the copies of the tariff bill as requested and was very much astonished to learn that Mr. Mills knew nothing of the order that had come over the telephone. It appears that an enterprising newspaper man, knowing that the long-expected meas- ure would be a valuable piece of news, en- deavored to obtain it in this way: At 10 o'clock, the hour named for the delivery of the tariff bills, a man was waiting outside of Mr. Mills' house with a package in his hand, ready to act in case the conditions were favorable. It was his plan to watch the mes- senger from the government printing office, and if the latter delivered a package at Mr. Mills’ house he knew it would con n tariff bills. Immediately upon the messenger leaving the house he proposed to ring the bell and explain that the wrong package had been delivered and exchange the bogus one in his hands for that which had come from the government printing office. But a8 the public printer was not able to do the job, the scheme miscarried and the bill was not prematurely published. Three hundred copies were found lying all right in the room of the committce of ways and means and under lock and guard. Perry S. Heatn, Nebraska and Iowa Pensions, WasmiNGTON, March 1.—(Special Telegram to the Be ‘The following pensions were granted Nebraskans to-day: Original in- valid—Benjamin Dye, Chapman; Samuel P. Henderson, Lavaca. Increase — Edmond Hoyle, Raymond; Luther Jaques, Cordon; Robert H. Quiggle, Blue Hill. Mexican sur- vivors—Milton H. Lacy, Minature. Increase —michael Logan, Gretna. Pensions for Iowans: Original invalid— Theodore Pyle, Fort Madison; Azotus H. Graver, Rowley; Earl F. Baldwin, Lake Mills; Andrew J. Barr, Webster City; Mar- tin N, Hubbard, Van Buren; Ananus' Lutz' Woodburn: Jesse Melick, QuasQueton; Piram 8.8ly, Kilbourn City; James B.A. Rob- ertson, Keswick; John Randolph: Talleyrand ; Pierce Cahill, Lamotte. Increase—Edmund Davis, Ellington; John Stockwell, Winter- set; William C. Cutlom, Bonaparto; Josiah B. Goodall, Ottumwa; James Reagin, Ham- burg; Cyrus J. Momier, Allerton; John Sny- der, West Burlidgton; Thomas Gates, Lime Springs; David J. Garrett, Leon; Joseph Hickman, Holstein; James A. Russell, Mil- ton; Willlam H. Gibson, Hilesville. Reissue and_increase—Humphrey Weil, ~ Corydon, Origlinal, widows, etc.—Mary A, widow of Thomas M. Norris, Des Moines. Mexican survivors—Rufus Simmons, Per National Capitol Notes. WasmINGTON, March 1.—Among the mem- bers of the republican congressional commit- tee chosen by the jowt caucus to-night are Senator Farwell, of Illinois; E. H. Conger, Towa; James Laird, Nebraska; Senator yer, Wisconsin; O. 8. Gifford, Dakota. The debt, statement issued this afternoon shows the reduction in the public debt during the month of February amounted to $7,756,- 366, Total cash in treasury $572,5@R959. DIED FROM EXPOSURE. Sad Fate ofan Old Man Near Rush- ville, Mo, Sr. Josern, Mo., March 1.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—Yesterday afternoon about 6 o'clock two men passing along the public road two miles southwest of Rushville, this county, discovered the body of a man laying in the fence corner, on the farm of Jasper C. Allison, in Hush township, and upon examination ascertained that the body had been lying there several days. Coroner Stringfellow was notified and arrived at Rushville last l!Veninf, and proceeded to em- pannel & jury of six men, who, after viewing the body, removed it to Rushville, where, upop examination it was nscertained from letters upon his per- son that his name was Henry Williams, aged eighty-six years, Among his papers was a printed slip saying: *I am eighty-six years old, have had one leg broken; please contrib- ute a small sum to enable me to support iny self and family,” and £5.37 was found in his pockets. It appears from one of the letters that his family resided ncar Osborn, Kan. The jury, after hearing the evidence, re- turned a verdict that the deceased came to his death on or about Friday night last, from exposure to the cold during the night. The postmaster at Osborn has been requested to notify the family of the sad affair, A Midland Victim Found. Kaxsas Ciry, Mo, March 1.—[Special Tele gram to the Bee.]—The body of Frank Edison, who was caught by the falling roof of the Midland hotel, was to-day discovered beneath a s of debris, The other men in- jured will recover, ——— Taking Depositions, Kaxsas City, Mo, March 1.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]—Messrs. John B, Carson, James D. Carson and Colonel John L. Cooper, of Chicago, ave in the city for the purpose of taking depositions in behalf of James D. Carson in the diyorce suit_brought against him by his wife, and began_ impeach- ing evidence at the Coates hotel this morn- ing. Colonel Cooper and Mr. Fairey are con- ducting the taking of depositions privately. Mr. Knickerbocker, of Chicago, rcpresents Mrs. Carson. Several wilnesses were ex- amined but the testimony was trivial. - Durvrs, Minn,,March 1.—The worst storm by far of the winter set in during the night. 'he high winds provailing and the thick whirling snow rendered it impossible. to see across the strect. ins are arriving late on all roads, and departing trains are using two engines, with’'small chances of getling through., N e ‘Will Visit Denver. Cueyexse, Wyo., Mar Special Tele gram to the Bee.]—An invitation from the Union Pacific to the Wyoming legislature to visit Denver has béen aceepted, The legisla- tors and their, friends will leave here * day. for Denver and will return .Sunday. evening, | NEARING THE BOILING POINT, | The Perkins County Contest Asé sumes & Serious Aspect. THREATENED APPEAL TO ARMS, Four Hundred Madrid Men Want to Move on Graut — Sensation Arrest at Central City— Fire at Sarge: Bound to Have Blood. Mabnio, Neb,, March 1.—[Special Teles gram to the Bee.) ~The excitement throughe out Perkins county is intense and the prose pect for bloodshed growing out of the county seat fight are increasing. Madrid's citizens are boiling with rage, and many people are bound to make an attack on Grant. The best citizens, however, are doing their utmost to prevent mob_violence and have the law re spected, but it is difficult to control 400 angr; men, The greatest animosity is exprossed against A, 'S. Parsons, now a rosident of Grant, but formerly police judge at st Line coin, and it i hinted. that climatic chunges in Perklns county will prove to be astuns healthy to that m«li\'nl\m‘ as did those of Lancaster county. Ready For an Graxt, Neb., March 1.——[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—The returns for the county seat election are now all in and the canvas will probably be made to-morrow. It is asserted that tally sheet forgers at Madrid increased the vote of the precinct o hundred in order to put Lisbon out of the field should another election oceur, The vote from Grace precinet hasalso beerd doctored, changing the vote for Grant from forty-four to cighteen, The result of the of- ficial count cannot be foretold at this time. Intense excitement still prevails all over thg county. It is asserted to-night that 100 armed men from Madrid precinet will come to w-morrow _to intimidate the canvassing board. _ Should they — make any move whatever to bulldoze the people off Grant, blood will flow. At least the voters of thi$ precinet will defend their ballotss McKenzie, a Madrid man, is said to vorn to kill two of our mien and the air is full of threats of incendiarism. Mg Kenzie has said, *“Blood must flow at Gran and I will see that it does flow.” ttack. A Sensational Arrest. CextraL Ciry, Neb., March 1—[Special Telegram to the Ber. | —Quite a ripple of exe citement was caused last evening by the ars rest of N.Barnes,a prominent citizen, for threats against L. C. Hart, u wealthy farmen and stockman living near this place. Hart let Barnes have large sums of money to loan out at usureous rates of interest. Hart being a religious man, the money was loaned i Barnes' name aud Barnes held notes. Then, by an understanding between them, if pare ties plead usury, the notes were to bo ine dorsed to Hart, who would be an ine nocent purchaser. short tim ago Barnes’ safe was burglarized and a lary number of papers taken, among them t| notes referred to above, Hart claimed fou! play and attached some property of Barnes? which brought out threats from Barnes, Barnes gave bonds and was released. An Important Transfer. Nenraska City, Neb, March 1.—[Special Telogram to the Brx.]—An interesting trado was closed herd to-day, involving #5000, through the agency of Colonel A. Neidig, the Omaha real cstate dealer, by which Hor, H.W. McClure, the O'Neil banker, well Imown in Nebraska, has bought D. C. Hor- ton's large stock of dry goods in this it and Horton becomes owner of the celebrate McClure ranch, Holt county, stocked wi horses and cattle, an important transfer propertics. Buried Alive. HAy SeriNes, Neb,, March 1.—[Special to the Bee.]—News has just been brought in that Jerry Lewis, a colored well digger, hag been buried alive in a 140-foot well about six miles north of Hemingford, in Box Butte county. He was engaged in curbing the well about fifty feet from the surface when the wall gave way near the top and ca i to the bottom. The body has not yet been recovered. Lewis leaves a wife and twq children, and had @ homestead in the vicinity of the accident, ey A General Store Burned. SaraeNT, Neb,, March 1.—|Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—The general store bes longing to R. Y. Carr at West Union, burned down yesterday. Nothing was saved. The stock was valued at $14,000 and the building at $2,000. The insurance is not over §2, 008 Carr was the principal merchant of the plac§ and was engaged in_other enterprises, Hi was the first business man to locate in thi‘ part of the state and is well known, Evangelist Moody at Hastings. HasTixgs, Neb.,, March 1.—[Special Tele, gram to the Bree]—D. H. Moody, the celcbrated evangelist, is holdin| a scries of gospel meetings in this city, commencing to-day. The opera housq is crowded to its utmost capacity and hune dreds of people from surrounding towns ara present. Great enthusiasm is manifested, Stock Cremated. Norpey, Neb, March 1.—[Special the Bee]—C. P. Lively's blacksmit shop and barn burned to the ground at 5 o'clock yesterday morning. Nothing was saved. Four head of cattle and a pony werq in the barn and perished in the flames. The fire is supposed to have been started by an incendiary, as there was no fire in the shop, 1,088, $500; no insurance, Suit Against the Western Unio PiiAveLenis, March 1—[Special Teles gram to the Bee.|—A cipher telegraphic dise patch, misinterpreted as it is claimed, by s telegraph operator, has caused the financial embarrassment of Frank J. Primrose, a wool merchant of Front end Arch streets, whohas sued the Western Union telegraph company for $100,000. Mr. Primrose, in his bill of complaint, states that the teicgram which ha sent 1n July last to his agent W. B. Toland, in Waukeeney, Kan., which ordered no purs chase of wool, made to buy all kinds of wool. In accordance therewith Toland bought 400,000 pounds of wool, which Mp, Primrose was forced to dispose of at a great loss. He now sues the Western Union for the amount of his loss, which he places a¥ £100,000, - Pinching a Speculator. EW Yourk, March 1.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]- Jerome L. Hill, of the Union. club, has not yet been arrested on the charge of the executors of the Lattimer estate that he uscd the money of the estate, of which he formerly executor, in speculation. They however, that he will be arrested shorte : legal opinion in the Union club is Hill will hear from the governing committes immediately, and be given an ope portunity to defend himself. Business Troubles, Sax Fraxcisco, March 1.—The failure is' announced here for $0,000 of Rossiter & Smith, importers of calfskin and shoe mi chinery. Bad devts are the priucipal caus of the failur Maxis Mich., March 1.—The Manisf salt and lumber company made an assi ment this morning for the benefit of thel creditors, Assets $1,800,000 and labiiif §04,000. The liabilities & O] ¢ wostly of flouting iudsbiedussa 1o Ranka