Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 22, 1889, Page 1

" NINETEENTH YEAR, FLUENZA REIGNS SUPRENE. The Epidemic Prevalent in Paris to an Alarming Extent, FRENUH POLITICAL SITUATION, The Chamber of Deputios Still -En- gaged on the Q tion o! Blecs tions — Bitter Newspaper Klings at Stanley. The Pest in Pariae. LCopyright 188 by James Gordon Bennett. Panis, Dec, 2| Nuw York Herald Cable —Special to Tme Hew|—The influenza, sgrippe,” or “denque,” for the academy of medicine seeins in doubt as to what to call it, still reigns supremo. There are today 880,000 persons in Paris alone who are suffer- ing from the epidemic. The weather cou- tinues cold, and a thick, tomb like fog closes down upon Paris at 4o'clock every after- noon and clings to us with the persistency of *‘the o1d man of the sea.” Dolitics are very dull. The depu- ties are still hammering away at the verifcation and invalioation of their own elections and think moro of their coming Now Years holidays thun of the uffairs of state, The conservatives on the rights in the French chamber are ut present in quite a ferment, due to tlio process of reorganizu- tion, and when the legislative body re- assembles in Junuary after the approaching recess, the right will be divided iuto the following sections: Royalist right, headed by M. Jacques and Piousi; independent right, headed by the Baron de Mackan and M. Paul de Cassagna the business group, ticaded by Baron Reilie, and finally a group in favor of the appeal to tha people, presided over by M. Joliboiss. s The French papers still bave their little fling at Stunley. In conversation with a Puarisian Journalist, the French-African ex- plorer, Burdo, he passed the following severe judement upon Stanley and his last expedi- tion: anley is the man who said at Man- chester, *Our enemy is France.,! Stanley is the mun who jeered at the ragged clothes and the naked feet of De Brazza. It was Stauley who only the other day, on reaching he coust, rejoiced that the first white man he met was a Germun., With his blustering obstrusiveness he rescued people who never asked " to be rescued. Iv 18 unques- tionably Stunley who has caused the 10ss of the Soudan to civilization. In short, Irogard Stanley as emphatically a dange ous man and the enemy of all Frenchmen. Other natious have reproached France with not possessing the genius of colonization, but what are the facts? What flag today floats over the most eastern African possessions? \What flag in Africa is most resnected alike by negro and Arabl Itis the tri-color, and wherever that fiag waves in Algiers, in Tunis, in Senegal, in the eastern Soudan aud in the Congo, you will find peace and stability and this while England is struggling against the Mahdi on the Nile, whie Italy 1s exhavsting her strength in Abyssinia, and while Germuny is undone by a handful of negroes in Dusagara. France is the only European wnich the Musselman, if he does not love, at least tolerates. It is a splendid tribute toour colonizing methods to have gained that point.” *What, then, are those colonizing meth- odsi" “Simply that wherever we have estab- lished ourselves among the Africun popula- tion wo have done so, not by violence and brutality, but by kindoess, by fair dealing and by patient effort.” A perfect tempest of discord broke out on Thursday at the meeting of the society of French arusts. It seems that a sub-commit- tee, after doing o great deal of lobbying among the most prominent painters and art critics decided to recommend a com- mission of ninety as a supreme court in the artistic world to declare the de- cisions of awards made by the committee of the exposition simply null and void. The alleged reason for this was that an excessive number of decorations, medals and honcrable mentions had been accorded to foreign artists. *‘Honors altogether out of propor- tion to their merits,” say the sub-committee, {ireuder so many foreigners exempt from Jury examination at the Paris salon as to be most unfair to French artists, who will be necessarily left out in the cold” It s believed, however, that *‘sour grapes” has u great deal to do with it, and thut the real reason 18 an effort to satisfy the discontented painters who did not get the decorations and honors to which “they felt entitled. M, Gervez made n speech, in which he said: “If M. Bouguerean doesn’t approve of the decisions of the jury of which he was a mem- bor and on which he sat for a month without making any remark or observation, he had only to hand in his resigoation, aund he has mo right now to make difficulties and raise protestations. Inspite of the unpatri- otic effort of M, Bouguerean to be little and discredit French art at the exhibitions, the foreign artists bave returned to their homes feeling impressed with the grand artistic manifestations that placed* France in the foremost place.” This was s very sharp thrust at Bouguerean, whom the puint- ers said expected the commander's cross of the Legion of Houor that was accorded to Carolus Duran. Bou- gurean made no reply whatever to M, Ger- vez's spoech and treated his remarks in the same wuy, The outcome of it all is thas Messonier, Carolus, Dulan, Waither, Buzen, Duez, Gervez, Rolt and Daznan Bouveret, have resigued from the committeo and de- cline to bave anything more to do with it e — AMERICAN NAVAL BEAUTIES, The Onicago, Boston and Atlanta Ar- “rave at Lisbon, sames Gordon Beanst!,| Herald ug Bre)—The pride of America’s navy was sighted at 9 o’clock this woraing off Ortares, but the signal station reported only three frigates instead of four, Two hours later the Chicago, carrying the pennant of Admiral Walker, glided grace- fully wto the sunlit harbor. Immediately behiud came the Boston and Atlanta, and on their passing the Belem the Chicago fired @ salote of iwenty-one guns, which was replied to by the Portuguese warship. This s the first Awerican squadrou visiting the Tagus for five yeurs, Just as the Chicago was dropping anebor the starboard chaiu suapped and she lost her big anchor, owing to » defective tackle and faulty weiding. The flag suip was in perfect trim, the decks white as snow and the brass Ottings as bright s gold. I was the first person 1o greet the admiral, He said: “We had as good a passage as could be expected in passing the Atlantic at this time of the year, We met pretty heavy weather #2d lost the Yorktown iv mid ocean iu gale of Dblinding and mist, Beivg wuek swmatier, sho provably bove to the other ships under casy steam to save coal. The weather experienced was a thorongh test of the sea-worthiness of the vessels, and thoy have shown themselves first class soa ships.” Just at this time Captain James O'Kane arrived from the Boston to report. His first words wore: “Admiral, T am ready to sail av n moment's not not one leaks, We blow out our packing, but it was remedied. I thought you were going to leavo ufe, ‘‘No," said the admiral, ‘‘not & bit of 1t We understood your signals and slowed down until you sigouled that the boilers were all right, How did your ship be- havei “Splendidly,” said Captain O'Kane. “We shipped no water to speak of and had no trouble at al), but want a day or two aboard to overhaul the condenser.” At this point Captain John Howell of tho Atlanta came in and reported cverything all right. *‘Admiral,” he said, “there is nothing of the craven about our ship, She oehaved splendidly.” Then Captain Robertson of the Chicago Joined our party 1o the admiral's cabin, He suid that as far as the Chicago went he was perfcetly satistied of her seaworthiness and speed. Then all mixed in a general The admiral said: **My ship is as dry as a bone, We could have been here two davs earlier if we had wished, Wo arrived oft the coast yesterday at noon, but did not want to come in, We passed the time turn- fng a circle w regulate the compasses. Then we headed out a bit and came on at four knots an hour. Sald Captain O'Kane: “The Boston 18 o very fast vessel. Wo could have been in aticad of everything, but iv is against etiquet to o ahead of the flagdhip. The Atlanta had terrible trouble to keep up with me.” “'Not a bit of it,” reiterated Captain How- ell. “Ithiuk the Atlanta showed herself very well. At all events wo did not have to stop. She can report not a singlo break,” Captain O'Kane slyly remarked: watched the Chicago very closely, seemed to me she rolled a good bit.” The admiral was up in arms at once, “Not abit. The Chicpgo was as steady us o rock. ‘l'oday, of course, we ail rolled, but after we £OU the most of our -coal out. Bye-the-bye, captain, how much coal have you in your bunkers(” “One hundred and ten tons,” said Howell. “One hundred and fifty tons,” said O’Kane. ‘The conversation fell .on the Yorktown. thought she would be with us,” remarked O'Kane. “That was not my opinion,” said the ad- miral, *‘How much reserve did you have before she took your supplyi” said Howell. picking his rival up, and a good humored argument wok;place. Fiag Lieutenant Staunton of the Chicago said: *We have had a very good passage. We had hight to moderate winds from the west-southwest for five days, and on the 12th a gale blew up from the southward. 'he wind was blowing very considerably, hduling during the night to the southwest i o heavy sea and a rain and mist. We parted company with the Yorktown, she having dropped = mstern out of sight. She probubly have to for greater comfort. From whe 12th to the 1ith we had fresh breezes and moderate gales from the southward and westward, with a heavy ses. Weo passed the Western islands on the 17th. From tbat date to the 2Ist we experienced pleasant weather, with lttle or no wind,” During the passage of thesquadron routine drills were established by Admiral Walker and put into operation, This routine, which is provisional in its character, s to be employed experimentally with a view of sottling upon & scheme which shall morit the domands of the new ships. ‘The Chicago, Boston and Atlanta showed excellent scaworvniness, maintaining speed und station with fow changes in atl weather. The Atlanta’s good speed was particularly satisfactory, there having been so much ad- verse criticism. The ships showed excellent conl endurance, tho Chicago arriving here with 800 tons w her bunkers and the s Boston and Atlanta over one hundred each. The squadron steamed all the way from Boston to Lisvon at a rate of over two bundred miles per day withuut the slightest injury to the machinery, using something less than hulf boiler power. It was decidedly com- fortable and steady in o sea, 80 much 80 that they clearly showed that the guns could be easily fought in heavy weather. Last of all it is satisfactory to know that all vhe officers and men are in excellent health. There were no accidents and the sails were used whenever the wind was fair. The Hotel Braganzat is full of officers who have come to take dinner on land and who wish to say that they are all well und will drink to the health of wll their friends, wives and re- lations at home. R Skavin Bound Over, (Copuright 1889 by James Gordon Bennsth] « LoxvoN, Dec. 2L.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to Tur Bee.]—A few minutes ago I received the following telegram from Slavin at Margate: ‘At a special moeting of magistrates, held at Margate, Mraok Slavin, the Australian champion pugilist, was called upon to- find bail to keep the peace towards Jem Smith and all her majesty’'s subjects, The defendant said he had an objection w0 being bound over, Ho admitted that he had signed articles to tight Swith on the contivent, Inspector Barnettarrested Slav- n atthe Nail and Rock hotel, where ho had established his tralning quarters. He recognizes himself in £20 and two sureties in £100 each to keep the peace.” As [ telegraphed you two days ago, the chances were that the fight would not come off. Blavin feared so, and today the editor of the Sportsman told me that it was five to one that the fight would not come off. The Swith party is trying to sueak out of it. away again Of our four boilers conversation. “r It e Dom Fedro Banished, Rio JANEIRO, Deo. 21,—An executive decree promuigated today fixes the general election on September 15 and the meeting of the con- stitueat assewbly for Novewber 15, By the sawe decrce ex-Bumperor Dom Pedro 13 banished from Brazil, together with the members of the royal family, Viscount De Ouro PFroto and his brother, Carlos Alfouso and Senator Martino. The goveruor of Rio Grande do Sul, charged with treason as the leader of the movement for the secession of thatstate is condemned 1Q travs- portation, The decree recalls and cancels the grant of 5,000,000 milres to Dom Pedre und suspends his allowance o the civil list, R Carnct Lias sne nflaenza, Paws, Dec, 21, —President Carnot is suf- fering from an attack of influenza. Owing to bus 1lloess and the fact that M. Tirard, priwe minister; M, Do Freycinet, minister of war; M. Svuliler, winister of foreign affairs, and M., Faye, mnister of agriculture, ure suffering from the same complaint, the cabi- net council which was to have been ueld toduy was abuudoned. ¢ OMAHA, SUNDAY MOR THE PRINCE IS PERFECTIO Albert Victor of Wales the Pos- sessor of Many Virtues. NEVER SINNED IN HIS LIFE, All the Stories Connecting His Name With the Nasty London Scandal Denounced as the Basest of slandera A Model Young Man, 1 Conright 1889 hy I @orton Banant LosxpoN, Dee. 21 ew York Herald Cable—Special to Tur Beg. |—The author- ized announcement which has appeared in the pupers concerning Prince Albort Vietor will not be misinterpreted by any one who is familiur with the kind of talk which nas been afloat for several weeks past. Over and over agan it has been whispered about that Prince Edady would shortly be recalled from India under circumstances presumably painful to himself and his family, It was 1mpossible either to trace those renorts to thewr source or to check shem, It may, however, put some slight restraint upon gossip mongers to be informed in a semi-official manner that ar- rangements in connection with the prince's visit to India will not be altered fo any way and that he will return At the timo originally fixea, and vot before. The issuc of this notice was no doubt the subject of careful consideration beforehand, and it . There are some people who will ve anything, and there js never any telling how far slander may svread. I have heard, though I have not actually seen the paper, that the New York Journal recently published an article on cer tain avominable. scandals, with a portrait of Prince Albert Victor in the midst of it. If this be so, a more atrocious and more dastardly outrage was never perpetrated in the press. The tone of pubnc feeling in New York must have changed much of late years if this kind of ‘‘journalism’” meets with any sympathy or encouragement. How would the editor of that paper like to have himself or his son, supposing that he has one, accused of complicity with the horrivle scandals in question? He s quite as guilty as the young maa whom he grossly assals, Surely there ought to be something left in our common humanity to restrain a public writer from making an. at- tack of thisdiabolical description. Speaking with some knowledge of the charges in ques- tion and of the persons who ave really com- prised by them, I assert that there 18 not and never was the shightest excuse for mention- ing the name of Prince Albert Victor in association with them. A feeling of delicacy can alone have prevented this state- ment appearing in a form to ~command uni- versal credence, but mow that there are libellers who do not hesitate to assault the young prince at a safe distance, itis a mis- take for the English press to wmaintain absolute silence on the subject. It is much to be wished that the editor of the New York paper to which I refer could be reached by the law which he has violated. Meanwhile, wherever his action is known, it is spoken of with. the utmost detestation. Whatever may be the motive which inspires such attacks as these, .they can have only the effect of injuring the rep- utation of the press and of sirengthoning the attachment’ which the English people aro proud of entertaining for the sovereign and her famiiy. Does not all this, however, point to the justice of the cousiderations which T urged upon you several weeks ago a8 10 the necessity for bringing to justice the persons who are the cause of these scandals, While the culprits are allowed to slink off into darkness the nocent sufferea. Every duy the name of some well known man wio is perfectly free from blame is added to the black list which the cowardly defamers cir- culate in private. Nobody is safe. Of course the person chiefly concerned does not hear of the calumny which 18 88 afioat at his expense. He is pointed at in private as one of the Cleveland streot set, and this goes on week after week, chiefly because some oue in authority conceived a foolish and impracticable idea of allowing the whole affair to die out. But it ouht. to have been known from the first thatthis was the sort of ascandal which would not dle out, but which would rather ncrease and grow by every attempt to suppress it, The only prudent thing for the authorities to have done was tolet thé law take its course. It is in their bebalf that they wished to prevent publicity in bebalf of public mor- als, That no doubt in itself is commendable, but the authorities should first have thor- oughly satisfied themselves that concealment was feasible when they ascertained, as they must have done at a very early stage of their inquiries, that the secret was known to ever 80 many persons. It was their duty to Jeave the whole watter in the handsof the law officers. The consequences of their not doing 80 have beon to make the bad ten times worse. Some suspicion of this svems to have dawned upon their minds, for tomorrow we shall see the first stage in the prosecution which they bave set ou foot. Astothe propriety of that prosecution or its, probablo effects of course aot a word can be suid, and it is evi- dent that the authorities desire to antici- pute to some extent the storm which seems inevitable. As s0on as parliament meets Labouchere fully imtends to begin operations against the implicated officials, by addressing searching questions as t the proceediugs which have taken place, es- pecially as to the proceedings which ought to have taken place and did wot. Others will no doubt join in, and it will be quite impossible to silence the questioners, for if any such apempt were made they would immedistely move an adjournment of the house and then a debate would avise and everythiog would come out. If then the government would perceive danger and are resolved to meet it half way some hittle good may yet' be done. To be sure, the persons who ure the most culpable have escaped, but there are still some who are talking abouy the streets of London because they feel coufident the whole story will never. come out. They should be arrested without delay. There must be no fugther atempt to hide anybody, The policy of hushing up has only led to the hidevus attacks upon irre- proachable persons, who are i no position to briag the slanderers to justice. It had better now be abanaonsd, ouce for all, even at the cleventh hour. Newton was the legel adviser of Lord Arthur Somerset, apd he is secussed of aldmg ' and . sbewtwmg in the thight the miscreavt = who kept the house in Cleveland street. This man, Hammond by name, knew most of his customers and kept a list of them, That list is now in the possession of the police, unless it has mysteriously disap- peared with certain other papers which passed between polico beadquarters aud tue of ING, DECEMBER treasury. When Hammond found out that the game was up he defirnded cortain sums of his “nobles” and othee stpports to onable him to fly to America, It Is alleged that Nowton neted &8 a go-betwoen in the businoss, Hammohd got his money and made himsolf gearce. It is very certain that Newton's client disappoared at aboud tho same time, but df all these transactions, except the retirement from tho army and from g country of Lord Arthur Somerset, Nowton alleges that ho has a satisfactory explanation for *‘the pérsons for whom he acted.” As I understand his state- ment, they “id not occupy prominent positions.”” Rhis does not appear to be very material to the issue, but it wouid be unfair to anticipate New- ton's defense in any wav. and probably he mav have a stronger case than a_reporter’s interview with him would lead anyone to suppose. What is quite clear is that the au. thorities are now determined to go on, and that sconer or later the culprita will stand rovealed to the public eye, oven if they manage to escape the bands of Justice. This may perhaps allay the ireitation which has undoubtedly been cre- ated by the belief that the government was shielding the offenders on account of their rank or influence. 1t mray therefore happen that tho threatened attacks in parliament will never bo made. Itis needless to say that if thoy como from Labouchere’s party only they will produce noeffecton the public mind and do no injury to the government or anybody else. They will be attributed to political animosities and to a desire to upset the mimstey by 8oy means, faie or foul, There s nothing that the public re- sents 80 much as that, In the preseot cuse the circumstances alluded to at the begin- ning of this letter would add heavily to the condemnation that would fall upon all who gave causa for suspicion that they were dabbling in the loathsome sianders for the purpose of bringing diseredit upon the min- istry. There would be a tremendous re- action of feeling against: the politicians who were caught in any such manceuvre, It bo- hoves the assailants, therefore, to be very circumspect and to take care that the engi- neer is not hoisted with his own petard. R OF PARLIAMI (oot I MR RUSEWA KR DINED. An Elegant Affair in Honor of ihe itor of The Bee. Cr1oAco, Dee. 21.—|Special Telegram to Tue Bee.]—Mr. H. V. Bems of the Riche- lieu this evening gave an elegant dinner in honor of Mr. E. Rosewster, editor of Tnr OMAnA Bk, and his Chicago_friends. The repast was served in a sumptuously fur- nised private dining room, sud covers were laid for ten. The room and table wero ele- gantly dressed and the' floral display pre- pared by J. H. Gallaghor, the well known florist, produced an entrancing effect, ‘Lhe china and glassware were special for the oc- casion, being selected from the collection which Mr. Bemis has fnade fron: all portions of the globe. Mme. Pauti Nicholihi, who .esteems Mr. Rosewater as one of Lér: oldest und warmest friends among thé wmewspapepr wen of America, graced the desasion with her pres- ence. und the brief spuzcnes that followed the repast were witty ana interesting. Those prescot were; Mrs. General George B. Crook, Mme. Patu’ Nicolini, Mr. Ernest Nicolini, Mr. William Peon Nixon of the Tnter Ocean, Miss Nixon, Mr. J. W. Scott of the Herald, Mr. and Mrs, S, Beman, Mr. Sherman of the Tribune and Mr. Rosewater. e GOSSIP KON FRANOCE. Chat Concerning the Doings of Well Known Persons. (Copyright 159 by James Gordon Bennett.) Panis, Dec. 21.—[New York Herald Cable —Special to Tue Bee.}—During the week select dinners, afternoon teas and musicales have in several instances been postpoued owing o illness, and so the fashionable tea houses in the Rue Royal and Rue Cambos have been the resort of,the dames du monde for o cup of tea, hot mufins and a bit of gossip. There was o pretty bevy of young girls present yesterday at one of these affairs, stull occupied with the con- cerns of the De Luynes-d'Uses wedding, 7The dowager Duc De Luynes had with her as guests the Count de Vay and Lady Coustance Harris of London, the Duc Lesse de Luchenberg, who is now laid up with the ‘grippe,) Miss Adele Grant, Mrs. Grant, Miss Scottof Philadelphia, the Misses Kinzella of Brooklyn,who figurs prominently in msthetic quarters, and others. Mrs. Grant has purchased & house in London and intends o occupy it at the beginning of the London season, In the meantime Miss Adele Grant will be the guest of Baroness Von Hoffmann, Monte Carlo seems w0 ba fayored moro than other Riviera sorts, William Danunot has left Paris for that place with his mother, who intends passing the winter in Italy, Mrs, Coleman of Baltamore, has taken a villa av Monte Carlo and is occupymng it with her daughter, Mrs, Fred Decourcey May. Amelie Rives Chandler has taken an apartment in tbe vicinity of Madeline and will eat her Chrisunas dinper in her new quarters, Alexander Harrison was summoned from his tour in Africa by the sudden death of his brother, Butler Harrison, who lived at Amiene. v Mrs. D. C. Corbin ,gave & musicale for charity yesterday in hey new apartments n the Champs Elysees. | Miss Wames and others of the Grand pppra wore soloists. Mrs. Brown Potter about completed ber superb theatrical oythit, aud leaves next week for London to o irk for Australia. Her repertorie conmists 61 *Camille,” “Frou Frou,” “La Tosca,” and ““Theodora.” Talk- 1ng to Jean Worte yeste¥ay be said: *‘Mrs, Pouter is more lovely than ever. She has discardi corsets and is as thin @éad graceful as can be, There are no ¥ngs in her figure, She is only her nutural deif. 'I'his tea gown is for “Krou Frou,” h to view a really gorgeous old rose velvep Oress, the material of which is called wroneq Velvet, which, being pressed, makes alterifate'shades of light and dark, The back was held in at the waist by four pl on each side from the shouldéey to the waist. The frout was of &f old rose silk, which was a straight tablier of white tulle, douted gold, and two rows of gold embroid- ery on the edge. ‘The front of the waist, for it could not be termed corsage without lines or shapes, was in graceful drapings of gauze, embroidered with gold. The slecves were 10 one full puff of rose velvet to . the elbows and finished from the cibow in a close-fitting cuff of white geuze gold embroidered. The walst was covered with rufiies of rare lace, caught on the iwside aad beld by a small kaot of gauze. A uotable wedding took place today at Madelaine, the parties pewg , Mile, Isabella Rowma Rottaza to Lous \'u-g’wv- De La Cuadra, inspector of mines in Spain, e Bix Firem n Injired PriLADELPAIA, Dee, 21.—The Independent Christian chureh bureed topight snd six [ remo:‘ ;:l;“ ;‘erlow injured by the cols 99 iy 1880~-TWENTY THE NEANING OF MORTGAGES. They Represent Assets, not Liabil- ities, in Nebraska. WHAT SENATOR PADDOCK SAYS. Westesn Members and the Measurces They are Rusbing in Congress— Groft's Salary Likely to B» In- creased very Materially, 513 FOURTEENTY 'REET, Wasnisaros, D, C.. Dee, 21. Upon Mr. Hile's bill to increase the com- pensation of supervisors of the census an io- teresting and protracted debate took place this afternoon on the question of the cnum- eration of western farm mortgagos, Sena- tor Paddock made a vigorous and earncst speech denouncing the slunder that <Ne- braska was plastorod over with mortgages, the resuit of unproiitable agriculture due to the republican financial policy, He asserted that seven-eighths of Nobraska's mortgagzos represeuted purchase money, loans for atock or improvements, or on lots bought by home builders. He insisted that the transfers of property often on time ‘payments indicated prosperity rather than adversity, so far as Nebraska was concerned, and that as the mortgages were not reloased until fully paid, there wero millions of apparent in- debtedness which in reality ara asscts. e protested against an investigation which aid not analyze the farm mortgage indebteancss 80 that the country may know exactly what 1L represents. WORK OF WESTERN MEMBERS. Senators Paddock and Manderson today determined that thero should be no amorous Kebraskans wait ng to learn their fate on the senate exccutive session during the hol- idays. The two senators determinoi to give as many of their constitucnts reason to en- Joy the holiday season as thev possitly could and consequently they agreed to ciean uv the Nebraska nominations on the calendar as far as they could. They succeeded so well that tonight the only Nebraska man who has been nominated and whose nomina- tion is still uncontirmed is that of Mr. Kracmer. This nomination was referred back to the committee on postofice and post- roads, in order that the trouole in regard to his citizenship may be inquired into, It will be taken up again as soou after the holidays a8 it is possible to reach it. Senator Paddock today introduced 'a bill to re-adjust the salary of the commis- sioner of the general land ofibe. This bill provides that Comdiissioner Groff shall re- ceive $5,000 per annum instead of §3,600, ve- ginning with the January 1. Itiscertain to receive a favorable action of the senate and there is a good chance for its passage in the house. Mr. Hansbrough of North Dakota today introduced a bill appropriatiog $300,000. for the construction of locks and dams in the Red river of the north, Congressmun Pickler sacured the passage 0f a resolution to divide the furaiture, fix- tures urid other property used by the late territory of Dakota between th» two states of North and South Dakota. It is similar in its provisions to the resolution which passed the lower house in bebalf Montana and Washington. Mr., Connell mmtroduced a bill today to remove tho railway mail employes from the operation of the civil service commission. + NEBRASKA AND IOWA ASSIGNMENTS. Speaker Reed’s nssignmeat of western men Lo committees has given very general satisfaction, although of course there was some kicking in iudividual cases, ‘This was to be expected, Nebraska is very well satis- fled. Dorsey was honored with the chair- manship of the committes on banking and currency just as I predicted several days ago. Healso secures & place on private land claims und on territories. Mr, Dorsey is very much pleased with his assignments and 1t is pleasiog Lo nim to know that on the territories committee he will be associated once more with the*two gentlemen with whom his relations were 8o pleasant in the last congress, namely, Straube of Iowa and Baker of New York. Mr. Conuell bad his choice of two or three committees, among them the postoftice, labor and Indian affuirs. He chose the labor com- mittee and was assigned to that today, In addition to being given a place on this com- mittee, which will have charge of bills re- lating to the irrigation of arid lands, ke is also assigned to the committee on gexpen- ditures Tor public buildiugs, which may give him more or less to do with Nebraska's public buildings indirectly. Mr. Laws gets o place on the committee on railrouds and canals, education and in- valid pensions, He 18 very well pleasod wath his assignment, but of course would have liked to have had a position on public lands of public buildings, but the applications for theso places were 80 many that the speaker was compelled to recoguize the older mem- bers first, Towa bas no caase to complain, She gets three chairmanships, one of which, the com- mittee on territories, goes to Struble and ‘besides this Struble is on the committee ou alcoholio liquor traffic and 4 special commit- tee o investigate the ballot box forgeries in Ohio. Mr, Couger is made chairman of the coin- age commiltee, very much to the satisfaction of western inen, who feared that an eastern mao controlled by the gold influence wight get this, Mr, Conger is also associated with Mr. Dorsey on the bauking and currency committee. Mr. Henderson besides his place on the ap- propriations committee Is made chairman of the committee on wilitia and is assigoed to the committee on elections, Mr. Reed has a place on the judiciary com- mittee and on the committee of expenditures 1 the interior department. Mr. Dolliver 1 on naval affaws and war claims committee, Mr. Lacey is on public lands and ventila. tion and acoustics, Mr. £weeny is on rallways and canals, commerce and education. Mr. Kerr is on public buildiogs and grounds, Mr, Fleck is on postofice and post roads aud invalid pensiona, Mr. Gear is on private land claims and ex- peuditures in the department of justice, The democratic member from lowa gets a place on the postoffice aud postroads com- mittee. ‘The western men are varticularly well sat- isfied with the appowtmeat on the committee on coinage and weights and wessures, snd it not only gives them very great satisfaction, but it shows that Mr, Carter of Montana was far sighted woen be concluded to vote for Mr. Reed for speaker. It was urged that Mr. Reed wus governed by Wall street influences, but this charge was absurl, as seeu in the perusal of the list of members of the colnage commit- Wasmizaroxy Bureav Tiee Ovany Bee, } lm That committee means, if it weans avy PAGE thing, that the legislation of the house in the Pifty-first congress will be far more liboral 10 this metal than it has ever boon beforo. BAD MAN P Indian Commissionor Morgan writesto the Nebraska senators concerning the discharze of R. O, Pugh, master of transportation at the Pine Ridge agency, as ho thinks the position a useloss the chargoes against Pugh omb tions of all sorta of foderal reculations, Ho is charged for instance with having Afty or a nundred horses on the reservation contrary to law and with keeping liouor there, besides with undue familiarity with Tadian women, It is said that he also shows partiahity to his relutions in furmshing hay and that ho is married to an Indian woman, Mergan is strongly opposed to Pugh's retention in oftice. one race viol THE CHRISTMAS SEASON, Washington will sottle down now to tho quiet enjoymont of sociel lifo and the festi- valof Christmas, Without the hubbub and noise at the ond of the avenue, life for the next tendays will bo trausferrod to the west end. Most of the congrossmon leave toduy for home, and the vrains going out are well laden with them, Indeed it has been hard to securo sleeping borths in any of the wastern or northern trains for the last two days, but anumber of members will remain here to spend the holidays and some to work This is especially 8o with the membors of the ways and means committes. They will begin hearings on the proposed new tarift bill immediately after Cnristmas, and will it throughout the recess overy day until January 10. hey will be busy hearing com- mittees und men of prominence from allover the country who wish to give their views in regard to the proposed changes. Al classes of men will be b efore them, and much good is pxpected to come from theso sittings. There will bs very few sonate committoes in session. In factonly a strazghng handful of senators will remain in town, The opeming of the social will be on New Year's day when the white houso reception takes place. I'his is always the commencement of social ety at the capital. The presidont’s New r's reception is one of the sights of the scason, and this one promisas to bd an especially wroat occasion, It 18 the first ofticial recaption of Prosident Havrison, ana on this account will call forth a large gather- ng of celebrities, It will give the diplomutic corps their first chance to oficially welcome Mr. Hurrison to the white house, and the diplomatic corps generally turns out in large numbers onthis occasion. Within the last few days the signal service bureau hus been in recipt of a large number of lettors making mquiry in ard to the weather for Christmas. The officers in charge have not been able to give any satisfactory unswers. In fact, one of them said that the weather is in a most iusolvavle condiuon, and that we have not had a settled enough state of the weather to permit a pre- diction for over twenty-four hours in ad- vance with the assurance of satisfactory re- sults. They would not, therefore, dura to make a prediction for Christmas before Monday night. 1T NEVER OCCURRED BEPORE. The fact that the appropristions committee had prepared and reported one bill before the recess caused the utmost surprise in the house whea the action of the committes was unuounced today. It1s said to be absolutely unprecedented in tho history of congress, and it is to be attributed to the earnest efforts of Mr. McComas of Maryland, chairman of tne sub-committes of the district of Columbia appropriatiom bills, Mr. Me- Comas saia today that it is the intention of the committee to get all of the bills referred 10 it out of the way at the earliest possible moment. He says that the biils from this committee will no longer be used as clubs to defeatlcgislation, aud that it is the deter- mination of the committeo to bring its bills forward as rapidly as possible and to clean the calendar as 800n as can ba dono, The committee on the election of the president ana vice president of - the United States is rather stronger this year than it ever has been betore. It is under- stood from oune of the mein- bers that it proposes to do some active work, Among the bills which it will certainly present is one changing the date of the - auguration of the president and 1n conse- quence the date of the conveuning of congress. Another bill which will be presented will be one looking to the matter of & federal elec: tion law, and so far as the bill is now con ceived in the mind of the membars it pro- poses nion of the Australian ballot sys- tem together with measures calculated to prevent intunination at tie south and bri- bery at the north.” The application committee very Dplainly shows that the Blair bill is 0 be brought up if the commitiee can do so, and is to be passod through the houso this session. A number of bills introduced by the southern members shows that the Blawr bill will bave not only the support of the republicans, but of many of the democrats of the south, MOW GERE GOT THERE, The nomiaation and confirmation of Mr. Gere as postmuster at Lincoln wasone o the quickest pieces of work ever hoard of in the United States senate and it may be sald to bo almost unprecedented. Congressman Connell, and Senator Paddock, at his suggeation, went to tha post- office department this morning and talked the matter over with Postmaster General Wanamaker and at nis suggestion called on the president. ‘Thes presented the case to the president and by authority of Senator Manderson used his name also, The presi- dent agreed to make the appointment and the two gentlemen immediately drove to the postoftice department again where the nom- ination was made out and by the Ne- braska men carried up to the white house and the president at once signed it and sent iv to the senate. On motion of Benator Pad~ dock the postofice committee promptly made a favorable report, and as soon as the senate went into executive session the rules were suspended and the vonfirmation followed, ‘The last case where a rush of this kind was made was when President Arthur signed the bill to place General Grant on the retired list of the army and followed it five sec- onds later with the nomination from the room whicn was provided for the president 1 the capitol The senate imwmediately took the nomination up and confirmed it with & cheer that shook the roof. It was one of the mosy memorable 1ustances in the senate and will never be for- gotien by those who witnessed it. The whole thing was accowpiished witthin five manutes aud was the lust wct of the dying congress, season of the education NEW PQSTMASTERS, Towa—Tioga, Mahaska couunt, W. Wilsyon, vice J. L. Meyers. South Dakota—Fairview, Lincoln county, N. T. Speacer, vice H. ody, resigned ; ‘Willow Lake, Clark county, O, O, Hateb, vice 1. P. Hopp, removed. ny 8. Hearn, ——— Went to Steep Forever. Krokuk, Ia, Dee, 21.—[Special Telegram to Iue Bee.]—George L. Pearce of this city died this worning from an overdose of worphine taken W cause sloep, PAGES 1. NUMBER 185 | EUROPE'S EYES ON PORTUGAL Monarchy Feara She Will Follow in Brazil's Footatepa. PRINCE BISMARCK'S SOLICITUDE i He Asks Salisbhury to be Very Oaveful in the Pending Dispute Over Afri- can Possessions — Wilhelm's Royal Whim, e (Copyriht 183) by New Benuy, Dec. 3 80 ill as to be —The omporor ompelled to keep since Thursd Heo arose for the f today ana received oficial rosorts malady was catarrh with a fover, and it provoked tho recurrence of tho old trouble with his ear. The trouble originated 1w a cold caught whilo tho emperor watched the effoct of the night alarm in the garrison at Potsdam, one of his military amusements being to test the rapid- ity with which the various regiments can be turned out in an unexpected moment. But that is not his majesty's only mitary amusement. At the fleld maneuvors at Borne stadt a vegiment of cavalry was suddenly ordered to ndvauce at full gallop. 1% rode helter skelter down the badly lighted stroets of Potsdam, Some of the horsos wer killed und several townspeoplo hurt, For many days now tho attention of tho foreign office has been contered upon tho des velopmonts in Brazil und the threatehed contre coup in Portugal. Loug daily dis. patenes from Lisben und Madrid have cons firmed the intelligence recently given i this lotter. Portugal is Ikely to foilow the example setby Brazil., The gevernment hore shares the unoasis ness felt in every kingdom in Burope. It Portugal takes firo the movement of the Portugese republicans will, it is helieved, be tho signal for arising m Spain and this will bo followed by an acitation in Italy und by & general upheaval of the social forces throughout Europe. In regard to the dispute between England and Portugal over their African possessions Bismarck, according to the report afloat in ministerial circles, has written to Salispury expressing the hope that nothing will be done to humiliate tho Portuguese ministry in view of the imperial, catastrophe in Brazil and the position of the monarchy in Portugal face to face with similar forces to those that cast down Dom Pedro. An article in the National Zeitung indicates that Bismurclk favors the English claims this diffcronce botween the powers. This 18 due ch the intimate relations of the courts and the #eneral concurrence in their foreiwn polioys It is also furthered by the attempts of the French press to foment an irritation * in Portugal against England, Some German official experience wivh Serpa Pinto goes a certain way toward confirming the opinion that the Portuguéso hive made a mistake. Serpa Piuto was the officer who, while Portugusso consul at Zanziiar, caused the ocapture of the sultan's yacht by s Portuguese crulsgr. German intervention in that case at first supported Pinto, but ended with the admlis sion tnat the sultan bad beon wronged, and that the quarrel had originated entirely in the rashness of Serpa Pinto. The justice or injustico of Enge and’s demands i8° regurded as of mno importance to the government here, and little nterest is felt save in the possibility that if it is pressed against the king it may afford the republicans in Lisbon a lever with which to overturn the monarchy. Advices received at Hamburg from the province of Rio Grande de Sul, in Brazil, are entirely contrary to the opinion that the Ger man colonists desire vhe protection of the fatherland, They appear hopeful that the federal republic will increase the general prosperity. The official world here is conse= quently disappoluted, The miners strike still remains unsettied. The directors sent out placards today pros claiming that all men who are not returned 10 their work by Monday will be treated as having rejected the terms offered them, Anarchists from Belgium have been fnciting the men to refuse the terms, Many police agents from here have been sent through all the districts where the trouble is to watch the operations of this anarchist propagands. Although the strikes aro not directly traceablo to tha operations of the socialists, the government is posscssed of information that they are formented through a socialist committee, The recent swike at - Luckenwalde was directly due to tho Berlin committee, Agitation thus active and demonstrated will o the baslts of Priuce Bismarchk’s argument in his forthcoming appeal to the reichstag to pass the socialists bill eutirely as it stands without enfeebling it by qualificatlons The government expects to make the pres- sure strong enoughvupon the national lipers als to force the withdrawal of their opposis tion, There are signs in the national liberal press that that party will ace copt the expulsion clause, The truth of th position is that the national liberals balieve they have done enough to justify themselves 10 their constatuents before election and they will now yield -to the demand of the chancellor. Although the mandate of the reichstag opened on February 21, thery 18 some doubt about the date of the clections, The journals are discussing the constitutional right of the government to delay until sutumn the convening of the new reichstag, ‘The renewnl of the agreement or coali= tion programme known as the car tel has not prevented some lively disputes between the deputies of the allied groups. The more liberal end of the coms bination is acoused of making itself subser- vient to the royal will and the emperor is imagined as the author of the programme, the wits saying he originated it by saying in the style of Louis XIV. “Car-tel est mon plaisir.” The socialist trial at Eberfield 1s likely to result in the enforced absence from the electoral struggle of @ wuumber of the most active of the socialist leads ers, The public prosecutor demands thab Bebel be scntenced to fifteen months® ime prisonment, Gilienberger and Harm to ong year and Schumacher to six wonths. | The soclalist delegutes in a reuuion at Rise dorf, a suburb of this city, decided to joim the ioternstional demoustration May 1 ia favor of eight hours for a day's labor, Count Von Moltke, who was 11l with ine fluenza, hus bad a relapse and is down with bronehitis, Von Zastrow, under secretary ot state fow the interior, died suddenly toaay, —r— Murder and Suloide, OwatoxNAs, Mion,, Dec. 8L, ~Chris Bats, worthless coaracter, killed his wife #nd theu suicided in & Bt of drunken rage, has been