Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 7, 1890, Page 1

3 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. NINETEENTH YEAR ORNING, JA - JARY 7, 1890. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS A Bill Authorizing the Loaning of Money to Farmers. GERMAN SYMPATHY WITH SPAIN. Benator Call Protests That the Teu- ton is in Leagune With the Don Against Cuba Springer Fathering More New States, Congress Reconvenes. Wasnineroy, Jan, 6.—The senate reas- sembled at noon after the holiday recess, the vice president in the chair aud with less than a quorum, Among the numerous petitions presented and referred were two from Kansas and Toxas, the former urging the selection of Chicago and the lavter of St. Louis as the place for the international exposition of 1802, Platte presented a copy of the constitution adopted at Boise City for the proposed state of Idaho, Referrea. Among the bills introduced ‘were the following: By Mr. Frye—To promote ocean mail ser- vice between the United States and foreign ports, and to promote commerce. By Mr, Reagan—To prevent the transpor- tation of merchandise in bond from the ports and territory of the United States into the republic of Mexico, and to restore that pr Jege when the free zone along the boundary Detween thd two countries is abolished. By Mr. Cullom (by request)—Authorizing the secretary of the treasury to loan money to farmers at 2 per cent, Mr, Plumb offered a resolution which was agreed to, directing the managers of the na- tional soldiers homes to consider and report upon the advisability of establishing a hoa- pital at Hot Sorings, Ark., to_which all dis- apled ex-union soldiers shall be admitted under proper recommendations, Plumb also offered & resolution regarding the lease of Alaska seal fisheries, which was laid on the table for further action by congress, or until the latest period mude necessary by the ex- isting law, and that ' meanwhile the secretary of war make a full report to the senatg #s to the manner in which the Alaska Commercial company has discharged its duties and obligations under the present lease and also what addi- tional legislation, if any, 1s necessary in order that the interests of the government and those of the uatives and citizens of Alaska may be more fully protected. Mr. Call offered a long preamble and reso- lution setting forth that the German govern- - ment is interested in assisting Spain to ver- petuate her kovereignty in Cuba; protesting wgainst any such comwbination und request- ng the president to furnish the senate such ormation as may be in the possession of ho state depurtment in regard to the mat- tor, Reforred. Mr. Duwes offered @ resolution (which s agreed to) calling on the postmaster general for information as to the progress of the counection of the postofiice department with the telegrapn companies and us to the probable cost of the erection af an independ-~ ent government felegraph line between the cities of St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York. ‘I'ho senate then took up the bill to amend the census uct by increasing the pay of supervisora from $500 to $1,000, and Mr. Stewart proceeded to make a speech on tho silver question, after which the bill passed. A bill 0 increase to $72 per month the pes sions of certain soldiors and sailors totally helpless from injuries receiveda or from diseases contracted while in the service of the United States, passe Adjourned. and referred House ‘WasniNGTON, Jan. 6.—Among the bills in- troduced and referred in the house foday were the following: Requesting the executive departments to change the extradition laws with Great Britian so that persons charged with nd arceny, embezzlemant and other crimes may be extradited from Canada. By Mr. Lane of Illinois—To prevent the contraction of currency; also for n graduated income tax; also to tax trusts; also to ascer- tain the umount of the mortgage indebted- ness of the farmers of the United States, By Mr. Springer of Illinois—For the ad- mission of Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico and ‘Wyoming into the union, By Mr, Perkins of Kansas—For the crea- tion of an office of congressional correspond- ence and departmental busines This pro- vides for an office in connection with the house, with clerks whose auty it shall be to attend to the ‘departmental business of the members, By Mr. Bland—For the free coinage of silyer, By Mr. Pickler of South Dakota—For a public building at Aberdeen, S. L. The following appointments ware an- nounced by Acting Speaker Butterworth: Lodwee and Wheeler, regents of the Smitk. sonian institution ; Hitt and Hemphill, mem~ bers of the board of directors of the Colum- bin institute for the deaf and dumb. Ad- journed. L T THE PACKING HOUSE TROUBLES, Employes ned to Test the Log y of Their Contracts. Cricaao, Jan. 6.—[Special ‘felegram to Tag Bee.|—The employes of the various packing firms at the stock yards wno took action yesterday looking to testing the legal- ity of tha coutracts signed by them after the great strike of 1857, are evidently determined o push the matter, The objectionable con- tracts provided that the men must deposit with their employers a certain amount, to be forfeited to the employers should the men quit without notice. AvBwift & Co.'s ofice today the manager declined to discuss the matter, One of the employes sald to a reporter that the contract 18 unjust, or iustance, a man who gets $3 a. day must deposit §0 in installments. It he gels 83 a day steadily, that would not be so onerous, even despite is injustice. But muuy of the men work only two to five duys a week, A man worked four and a half days last week and earned $15.50. The company . %gglut‘i. and for his week’s work he received “The contract is absolutely silent as to any yment of the mouey to the embloyes,” ntinued the workman. *Sometimes when & man is discharged his whole deposit is given back 1o him, But coming late to work cau bo construed as a violation of the terms of “faithful service’ and made the ground for the retention of the money. Swifs & Co, must have at loast §100,000 0f their employes’ wages in their bands and on this they pay no iuterest, ‘l'o the men who have quit they refuse to pay the balance of their wages and suits will be brought to recover the amounts. ‘There are some fifty men on u strike and we will be supported by the whole working forco of the packing houses who are foroed Lo submit to those actions.’ The packers claim, on the other hand, that this retention of part of the employes' pay is the only method by which they can secure themselves against strikes and wholesaie desertions without notive by the wen. —————— He Gave the Pior Away. IKaxsas Civy, Mo, Jan, 8.—[Spacial Tele- gram to Tug Bre)—-William E. Mjtchell. the condemned wurderer vf Michael K; risky, sentenced to haug next month, today gave away @ plot that was being perfected g u\c.urld h;- escape, Miss Tillie Lafraunce, ichell's flance, gave a man nawed Stepn- ens 80 with which to buy acids and o saw. us was elow about his task avd itehiell became so impatient that he gave the jailer an Order on bum for the wouey. The jailer at once suspected something crooked, and pinning Mitchell down sharply ho got the story. Miss Lafrance and Miss Nina Mitchell, the condemned man’s sister, were the chief plotters, Stephens and the women were arrested, The latter, however, have been released. CELEBRE. Troubles of an Aged Woman Charged With Murdering Her Husband. KAxsAs City, Mo, Jan. 6.—[Special Tele gram to Tue Bem.|—At Olathe today the case of the stata of Kansas against Lucy Tennison, cnarged with the poisoning of her husband in June, 1887, was on trial for the third time in the aistrict court of the county. This has erown to be one of the most celebrated cases on the criminal calen- dar in Kansas. Mrs. Tevnnison is charged with murdering her husband, J. D. Tenni- son, & wealthy farmer, by mixing poison in the'medicine she was i:iving him while sick with a fever, The coroner's jury declared arsenic poison to be the cause of death. She was arrested immodiately after the in- quest, on the coroner's warrant, and the ocase came on for trial in November, 1857. The defendant was discharged by the court d of tho insuficiency of thoe coroner’s warrant. The case was taken up to the supreme court by the state and the decision of the lower court was reversed. Mrs, ‘Tennison was then rearrested -in southern Kansas and tried in January, 1880, Ste was found guilty ana sentenced to death, according to law, which ‘really means a life sentenc in the penitentiary: She was taken to the penitentiary and the case was again taken to the supreme court, this time by the defendant. Awain the decision of the lower court was reversed, this time because he defendant had not testified in her own bebalf, Mrs. Tennison is nearly eighty years old and feeble. Lawsnits among her children have grown out of the daisposition of the estate, only one of the children, a daughter, sympathizing with the mother, B Aol THE MONTANA SITUATION. It Looks as il Repuablicans Will Come Out Vieror ns. ' Arcmsoxn, Kan,, Jan. |Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.|—Hon. Frank K. Arm- strong of Montana, one of the defeated candidates for assoviate justice of the supreme court of that state, is in Atchison Ho gives'it as his judgment that the its will default in the present political muddie in the state and permit the republicans to win a practically undisputed victory. The republicans have plenty of money at their disposal and the national administration behind them, and the prize is 8o great that they can afford to give a great deal to gain their point. There are enough promiient democrats wi'liug to stand 1n with the republicans to complete the bargain and sale. Democrats Meet and Adjourn. HELENA, Mont., Jau. 6.—The democratic legislature met in joint convention at noon but as heretofore avithout a quorum. Twenty-six out of thirty-eight members present took a ballot, each votiug for the c.ucus nominees, Clark and McGiunis, and adjourned. —— A FOOLISH FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD. An Artchison Kid Attempts Suicide Becnush of a Lovers' Quarrel. Arcumisoy, Kan,, Jan. 6.—[Syecial Tele- gram to Tue Bee.]—The attempt at suicide of young Louis Kurth this torenoon, while it is serious and may result in death, has its funny side, and is the cause of much amus- ing comment. The boy is but fifteen years old and is the son of John B. Kurth, & prom- inent and old citizen, The girl who was the innocent cause of the boy's foolish act is the daughter of Charles H. Batenshaw, promi~ nent in railroad circles and the storekeeper of the Missouri Pucitic here. The two be- came attached as schoolmates and their friendship ripened into puppy love. On Sat- urday they quarreled. On Sunday the boy saw his sweetbeart with another fellow and he took an oath to die. He selected 11 o'clock today as the hour and & restaurant as the place, He coolly waulked into the restaur- ant a few minutes before the appointed hour, where he loafed about until the clock struck, and then he drew a #2-caliber pistol and shot himself in “tho left breast. While bleeding profusely he continued to stand, and, flour- i1shing his pistol in a most tragic manner, he ask for chloroform that he might die !)eln:()lully and with “Nellie's name on his ips.” On the lunch counter after his friends had taken him home was found in his hand- writing the tollowing note: DAk NeLn: When this reaches you I will be n h—l, It was all your fault that made me commit this, and I hope you and your fel- low will be happy, but [ couid not see you with another fellow. If this does not settle me I will try it again, The time has come! Hark, 'tis striking 111 My last words are for you. Louis Kunth, ‘The young man is lying in a eritical condi- tion tomight and he still insisis that he wants to die; that life to him is empty and full of SOrTOW. —_—— Suing for Big Stakes. Cioago, Jan. 6.—|Special Telegram to Tae Bee.|—The demurrers of Samuel W, Allerton, John T, Lester and Charles Schwartz to a bill by Charles S, Stettauer were sustained by Judge Horton this morp- ing. Mr. Stettancr is suing these gentlemen, whom he charges with fraud, etc., for un ac- counting. He says that from 1850 to 1883 tliey composed the firm of John T, Lester & ¥ which concern he empl i agonts in transactions in stocks and grain. Mr. Stettaur claims that these transactions amounted in gross, during the three years, to $10,000,000, and that the flrm received as commission a8 much as §250,000 fram him, He says that they frequently cancelled con- tracts made for him on the stock exchange and the board of trade without orders, muks ing losses which he had to stand; that they failed to execute orders given by him, which were sure to_ be profitable, and that they failed to render a proper accountior let him look at the books. ~ The demurrer was sus~ tained on the ground that the allegations of fraud were too general, and that to compel an exposition of the gizantic details of transactions Involvm} $10,000, the de- fendants were entitled to have specifically set out the amounts, time and other facts which were not even referred to in the bill, Stettauer's lawyer obtained leave to amend the bill, . — Nebraska and lowa Pensions. Jan, 6.—[Special Telegram to Tuz Bee.)—Pensions grauted Nebras- kans: Original invalid—Afrea Snell, Inwan: Elkhorn; George Bacon, Middleburg; W. H, Harrison, Rising City, Pevsions for Iowan: Original invalid— William H. Jenkins, Corning: Williaw L. Harris, Montour; James Graves, Union Mil Inerease—Nicholas C. Howard, Day- ton; William Mufilery, Osage; Edwin L. Rood, Montrose, - - The beath Record. Yaxgron, 8. D, Jan, 6.—[Special Tele- gram to Tag Bee.]—Jonn P. Crennen, one the foremost citizens and most prominent business men of Yankton, and universully respected by all, died at 7 o'clogk this even- ing, ‘The business community is clothed .o mourning. Mr. Crencan has veen in Dakota several years, His former home was in To- ledo, O., where his relatives reside, i Ohio's Legisiature Convenes. Corumpus, O, Jap, 6.—The geuneral assembly convened today. The democratic caucue nomiaees for the various positions were elected, The governor's message wus road, e —— Anter-State Recommendations. WasniNGzox, Jan, report submitted to congress today the inter- state commerce comumission makes recom- wendations lookiug W an awendment ia the 0.—In its third avnual’ law of the first section 80 as to correct some ambicuities of lauguage and make moro definite aund certain the transportation, both interstate and international, intended to be subjoct to the provisions of the act to routine and interchange of traffic carriers. The new sections suggested are the prohibition of the payment of commis sions by ono railroad company to tho ticket agents of another company for passenger transportation, the abolition of ticket brok- erage, the requirement that mileago shall bo paid for cars used bolonging to private com- panies or individuals, and the extension of thie law to make it apply to common carriers by water routes. — - —-— PROVIDES A SILVER BASIS, A Measure Which Will Soon' Be Intro- duced in Congress. Nrw Youx, Jan. 68 —John Jay Knox has vrepared a bill which will be introduced in congress soon, the principal object of which 18 to provide for the use of silver bullion as the basis for the national circulation, The bill provides that after the vassage of the act every national bank shall be author- ized to issue circulation notes to an amount not exceeding 75 por cent of the bank’s capi- tal stock. Not less than 70 per cent of this circulation shall be secured by United States bonds, or at the option of each bank one-half of said 70 per cent may be eecured by a deposit with the treasurer under regulations to be prescribed by the secretary of the treasury of gold coin or bullion or silver bullion at the current mar- ket price. Whenever the market or cash value of the bullion and United States bonds deposited is reduced below the amount of cireulation 1ssued the comptrollor of the cur- rency may demand and receive the amount of such depreciation in other bullion or in gold or silver coin, to be deposited with the treasurer as long as such depreciation shall continue, or the amount of the circiHating notes of such bauks may be reduced by charging the excess of ciroulation to the re- demption fund. An_account to be be designated the “Na- tional bank safety fund’ is authorized to be opened on the treasurer’s books by reducing the amount of United States notes now outstanding, $1,500,000, and by re- ducing the national bank redemption fund in the same amount and crediting $3,000,000 to the safety fund, To said fund shall be added a duty of one-half of 1 ver cent each half year upon the average amount of the national bank notes in ciroulation. If any national bank becomes insolvent and if any of the ewrculating notes remain unpaid after the assets and individual liabilty of the shareholders are exhausted such circu- lating uotes shall be redeemed, cancelled and destroyed and the amount charged to the safety fund. Knox o explaining the provisions of the bill said it is estimated thut lost and redeemed national bauk notes amount to at least 1 per cent during every twenty years, but only one-nalf of the amount estimated to be lost 18 to be placed to the credit of the safety fund to cover tne 80 per cent of circulation not securea by bonds or bullion. It is not necessary, however, that this appropriation should be used for u safety fund if serious objections are made, as tho tax on ci tion, which amounted in 1859 to $1,410,: abundant for creating and maintai a sufficient fund for the lute redemption of 80 of all issues of all the pational banks, and the comptroller's report for 1850 shows that during the last twenty-five years the total circulation of ipsolvent banks amountea to bu llfi,ow,m4 The amount of insolvent banR® notes each year on the average was $600,000, 80 ver cent of which would be $130,000. The tax on circulation last year was nearly eight times tne amount of the safety fund required. If the circulation is increased the tax will be corres ndingl_v increaséd sothat the amount to be added anvually to the safety fund from 1t is without doubt = abundantly sufficient 1o provide for 80 per cent of all the insolvent banks of the country. The profit on cir- cuiation under this proposition would not be large, but would be sufticieat toanduce many if not all the smuller banks to deposiv silver bullion and take out circplation. Knox esti- mates that at the end of the next twenty years, or at the date of payment of the 4 per cent bonds in 1907, a safety fund would have accumulated ‘of at least $25,000,! 80 that from that time ouward a suflicient amount of national bank circulation would remain permanently in existence well secured by gold or silyer bullion and sufti- ciently profitable to roake the present amount of United States notes sufficient to re- spond of the aemand of the business of the country. It would also givethe banks in the west, us well as in the east, which have con- fidence fn the future value of silver, an op- {mrlunl to 1uvest in that metal, and he be- jeved such investments would be made for the next three years equal at least to $20,- 000,000 aonually and thus relieve the treas- ury from excessive purchases, o THEY WERE ALL CONDEMNED. A Chicago Inspector Charged With Passing Diseased Live Stock. CH10AGO, Jan, 6.—H. C, McChesney of the state board of live stuck commissioners today sent an open letter to Chicago’s health com- missioner, Dr, Wickershsm, concerning the controversy between the vity and state in- spectors relative to the recent killing of dis- eased cattle at the stockyurds. The letter is written in & most savage vein, and scores ‘Wickersham for his statements that the state board ‘“‘would not be allowed to foist diseased cattle upon the Chicago public.” 1t charges that City Inspector Lamb is in- competent, The 109 cattle regurding which the controversy originated were quarantined by the state bourd because all were diseased with actinofnyosis. They could not betanked at Peoria, aud the state bosra issued a per- mit to the owners to ship them under quar- antine to Hess Brothers, Chicago, in care of State Agent McDonald, the carcasses and all parts used for food to be put in rendering 'éunk- under his supervision. This has beon lone, McChesney says this is the lot of cattle of which City Inspector Lamb condemued seventeen, and would have passed ninety- seven for market, whereas all had peen de- claved diseasea by a board of eight compe- tent veterinariaus. He retaliates on the city officials by saying that no one knows how many cattle affected with the disease have been passed by Inspector Lamnb and put on the market. He informs Health Commis- sioner Wickersham that the public will hold him responsible for Lamb's acts. —— The Weather Forecast. For Omaha and Vicinity: Fair weather, For Nebraska: Light snow; slightly warmer; variable windg, For Iowa: Fair in eastern; local snows in ‘western portion; nor therly winds, becoming variable; warmer except in southeast por- tion; stationary temperature, For South Dakota: Fair; warmer; south- westerly wivds. * ————— A Victory for the Peoploa, SaN Fraxcisco, Jan, 6.—Judge Wallace in the superior court today decided the case ot The State vs The American Sugar Refinery company. ‘The court fiuds that in joinin, tho sugar trust. tho company wbandoned iy the purposes and objects for which it was created and has therefore forfeited its cor- porate franchise. Judgment for $5,000 and costs was also rendered aguinst the cow- pany. Demands Turner's Arvest. MironeLy, 8. D., Jan, d.—[Speoial Tele- gram to Tus Bee.)--Sheriff Hoffman of Headle county wrote u letter to Sheriff Dwight of this county, which was received today, stating that he had telegraphed res questiug the arrest of Dexter roer, gen- eral agent of the Citizens' Life assoclation of Cherokee, la., on the ground of newspaper reports, He asks for a bill of costs, s dlnt Engaged to a Count WiLainarox, Del, Jan. 6.—The engage- ment is reported of Miss Ellen Bayard, the youngest daughter of the ex-secretary of state, to Count Lewenbaupt, forwerly con- nected with the Swedish legation in Wash- 'OUR FLEETING " 'BOUNDARY. Two Plans to Keop Nebraska and | Towa at Home, SUGGESTIONS! BY MR, GROFF, Government Printers Agitating for Higher Wages—What Western Congressmen are Dolng—Lo as & Lobbyist. 518 FOURTRENTH STREET, Wasiiseron, D. C.. Jan, 6 The sccrotary of the interior, sent to the senate today a response to the resolution of Deocember 5 last, oalling for information concerning the boundary line between the states of lowa and Nebraska, The reply comes in the form of & letter prepared by Commissioner Groft of the general land of- fice, who says: “Theact of 1864 cites the mid cnannel of the Missouri as the boundary between tho states, thus leaving lands origi- nally in Nebraska east of the present mid- dle of the channel of ‘the river and lands originally in Iowa west of the said middle of the main channel and leading to serious dis- putes concerning the ownership of such lands and threatening the defeat of justice in civil and oriminal cases on account of questions of jurisdiction, The surveys were mude at various dates from 1845 to 1 This offico 18 in posses- sion of no ofivial data regarding the changes in the courso of the river which have taken place since the date, of the Nebraska ena- bling act of April 19, 1884, and is unable to communicate reliable information as to the effect of such changes upon the ownership aud jurisdiction or to atate in what manner or degree the lands of the United States have been affected by the movement. In regard to the establishing of a boundary be- twoen such states which shall be fixed, de- termined and unfluctuating, two methods oceur to me, as follow: 1, That the middle of the main channel of the Missouri river as it existed at the date of the Nebraska enabliog #ct be adhered to, both states consenting, a8 the line defining 1he jurisdictions of the &tates respectively, the position of he said Midochannel line atv that date to be ascertainéd by actual survey upon the ground, aided by the best testimony obtainable from reside: river pilots and others acquuinted with $he fuots. 2. A survey of the river for the purpose of determining the position of the mid-chan- nel Line as it exista at *8ent and the adop- tion of said line by the Fespective states as a permanent boundary vegardless of future changes in the course gf the channel either by gradual accretions' or' by sudden in- cursions of the river." CLARKSON 18 TiRED, The statement originally made in these disputches several weeks ago that First Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson con- templated resigning was verified today. Mr. Clarkson,.1n a conversation with your cor- respondent, said he had originally taken the oftice ouly under the strongest importunities, and that he had nceepiefl itthen under tho condution thit he wo t'be asked: to hold it more, than a year, ien he accepted the afice hio did g0 only f0 pur ding the party of demog far 08 itlay in his power.""He. hopes to be through with this before very long and then B will return to the maes cangonial fleld of journalism. ‘Timie that he hus spent 1o the oflice as - the most instructive | year of his life, He says he has:learned more of the politics of every county and state in the union in the ten months that he has been in office than the rest of his life put together. Thereds not a county in the states but has had its leading republicans here before him fiehting out their local battles, aud he knows iow the exact stand- ing and exact worth of every republican politician in the country. GOVERNMENT PRINFBRS' WAGES, The effort begun in- the house today look- g toward the adoption of & measure for the restoration of the wages paid av the govern- ment printing omice in 1877 is formidable and will likely succeed, . The prices of 187 were $4 a day and 60 cents per 1,000 ems. rfipmnin at night on the »Congreasion cord. 'The prices paid now are about 23 psr.cent lower, The bill introduced today is tacked up by a tabu- lar statement showings the cost of living here compared to other dities, from which it appears that the wages paid printers here are comparatively -lower than in otnher places, that 18 compared with the cost of liv~ ing elsewhere. The western unions are asked to send to their representatives in congress resolutions fayoring the step in- augurated today. REV. JOINRR'S CASE, The announcement was made this after- noon from North Oarolina thata Raleigh paper would print in the morning o state- ment thut no one inNorth Carolina knew the Rev. T. M. Joiner, wno s here seeking Brit- ish as well us government protection against the white ruflians of North Carolina who as- saulted him and his wife on December 20. ‘The dispatch also says that un inyestization hus been made in Wade.county. Very likely no such outrage should have been discovered in Wade county, as the Holly Springs where Mr. Joiner lived is situated in l“lll.lfll{lh county, Mr. Joiner has brought with him the minutes of the Methodist ochurch showing his reco, a8 & minister m North Carolina since 1860. Accord- the hodist church he h every year to a dif- ferent parish aud only for the last fow months has he had ohargeo! the Stout chapel at Holly Springs. Mr, Joiner is well known in Ashboro, and if she Raleigh paper would take the trouble to investigate it would find out that friends of Mr, Joluer and members of the Methodist church at Gireenboro, N. C., took up a collection tasend him to Wash- 10gton to place his gase before the authori- ties, The counsel at Charleston, N. C., is now investigatiog the cpse for the British ministor, and as S000 &8 report is made Sir Julian Pauncefote in the matter. Mr. Joiner and h{.:‘vu most satisfac ish menister this afternoon’in regard to case. TUE WO There is to be ue sp world's fair in th ‘Ibhat was pracl ©an not be autho the committee on ri WasnmixeroN BUREAU Tir Oxawa Ben, } P, pommittee on the representatives, & d . One tiout the consent of ‘and & majority of b, it Mr, Flower le chicf boomer of b_resolution for a the resolution has rules, which will bfithe. committes on jurisdiction of fLupou the bill drawn Jowbr nas beeu doing e house on the shanan of New be chairman of the 1o line for it, has been . ublican side. Mr, \rman of the com- mitteo on foreign irs, has called a meet- ln1 of the com for tomorrow and will refer the Adams bill %o a sub-committes that will take acuon at once aud an effort will be made to get the bill before the house duriog the present week. This bill, as is well koawn, sim| rovides that an expo- sition shall be to celebrate the Colum- bian centonnial, names no pluce. 1N PHE SENATE, In the senate v there was presouted memorials from waha board of trade in favor of u red of postage to 1 cent per ounce e of the Torry I‘;:nwkrum ‘:}l" e » . on tlrnml I?n rans in Keith' goun < pension legis- lation before there is o o on of fno revenues. T . WS wemorial from the Baptist of New York, that city, bas introd: cial committes snd gone to the com b, by Mr, Adams. r. ¥ %ronl. deal of lobbyin ubject today apd M ersoy, Who Wants to comuittee and s mmmr him op Hitt of llhnols,” wi [ 8l J of Nebraska for number of the veterans of O'2 %o incroaso the ial from eouay, in favor of further legislation on the resolutions of the Nobraska Vetoran ussociation for tho revenl of the arrearages of ponsions. Mr. Wilson of Towa presented numerous | wilt not only have a con = | effoct to tho private pension bills for his coustitucnts and | vetitions and memorials in favor of prohibiting speculation on the ducts of the count Bills wore as follows: Providing for a steam vessel for the of the civil governmen: in construction of a railroad bridge aci Missourd river in Monona county, Iowa, and in Thurston and Burt counties, Nebraska; to J. Welch, an army nurse durmg the late WEr; increasing the peusion of James H. Showalter; authorizng the sccretary of the interior to issue an honorable discharge to David H, Miller. ~ There jere Also presentod afidavits of citizens of Thurston county refuting allegations in a petition prosented to the senate in Decem- ber last by Senator Voorhees concerning the interference of Indian Agent Ashley with Indians on election day. ‘The afdavits are . Lemmon, William Myers, I, Barcus, Charles Bamuley, Alex Steyr, Charles Dpcora, Charlos Prophet, Samuel ik and other citizons who deny the charges set forth in the resolution of Senator Voorhees in toto. Senator Paddock ntroduced a bill provi ing for the disposal of Iorts Hartsuff, Sheridan and McPherson, military reserva- tions in the state of Nebraska, to actual set- tlers under the homestead law, ‘The bill is preceded by a preamble stating that the tracts of land embraced in theso reserva- tions are no longer needed or of use for mil- itary purposes and have beon -abandoned as military reservations by the executive au- thorities, future nro- IN THE HOUSE. In the house today Dorsoy presented a ros- olution in favor of the reduction of lettor .postage 0 1 cent per ounce; also another resolution from the board of trade in Omaha in reference to national bankrupt laws; also a_petition from Sedgwick post, Grand Army of the Republic,asking for the passage of the Grand Army of the Republic ponsion billy also petitions from citizens of the Third dis- trict asking that 50 cents per barrel be paid for all flour exported in vessels belonging to citizens of the United Stiates, and from sol- diers and sailors of the state of Nebraska asking for the passage of the Grand Army pension bill. Mr. Gear of Towa introduced in the house today a bill providing thut 8o much of tho Iowa river within the state of Iowa as lies south of Napello to the mouth of that river shall .not be deemed a navigable river or publié highway, and that dams and bridges may be constructed across it. Mr. Gear also fntroduced n bill to regulate imurigration {lhlch prohibits aliens from being admitted into the United States if they be insane or %aupers or liable to become a public charge, or those who have been legally convicl 1 a felony or other crimes involving moral turpitude, or who are polygamists, anarch- 18ts, sociulists, or persons seeking to chunge our’ rolllicul economy or social system by forcible means or who are affected with any loathsome oOr contagious diseases, or who have entered into a contruct to perform labor or seryices for any person, firm, company or corporation in the United States doing busi- ness, or who receives money with which to pay their passage, or who have a promise or an understanding or an agreement to Jabor for any person, firm or dorporation within the United States. Mr. Gear proposes to levy a tax of #1 upon each alien who immi- grates to the Unlted States, Representative Lacy of lowa today intro- duced a bill for the protection of the lives of miners in the territories. It Provides that the president shall appoint in each organized territory & mine inspector, who shall hold vhe 6ffico until his successor is appointed and qualified. Such lnlrauwl’ ghall give bond in he sum of 10,000 for the faithful hertorur ence of his duty. ‘The inspector will make careful inspection of each mine operated-and report the condition 6f, the mines and miuers, look after the shafts of ingress or egrgss and generally after the condition of the mines for the safety of the workmen. He “shall “have auttority to compel mine owners to prlavldo every means of safety for operatives and look after the health of the miners. Mr. Lacy also fntroduced a bill providiag that i receiving and weighing in pension claims the commissioner of pensions is directed to re- ceive the testimony of enlisted men as of the same credibility and means of knowleage as other wituess who may testify in such es. Mr. Lacy also introduced bill providing that hereafter. the aunual army register shall contain the names of all distinguished marksmen of the army and opposite or under the name of each ofticer as shown by the corps or regi- ment on which he has or shall have qualified as a _sharpshooter or distinguished murks- man shall appear a designation to that effect with the year in which the qualification or distinction was acquired and that opposite or under the name of each officer who snall have won a medal in the military service of the United States shall appear & designation to that effect and in what year it was won and the winners of such medals are author- ized to wear the same with their uniforms, RED LOBBYISTS. A very peculiar and at the same time pio- turesque sight was witnessed at the capital today. It was a delegation of six Sac and Fox Indians from Iowa. ’I‘ho&’ trooped through the corridors of the building wear- {ug paint and feathers and partislly colored blankets and some incongruously carried dude-like silyer headed canes, They made a great show of this appendage and twirled tho nobby sticks around their fingers with evident delight and av times sucking them in pure dude fashion. Tho Indisns came hero to procure legislation for their rights, At one time the tribe owned the whole of ITowa ana their chief, Keokulk, after whom the city in Jowa was named, madoa deal with the government, selling piece by piece their land, The Sacs and Ioxes now receive $50,000 anoually from the government. A portion of their tribe is situated in the Inaian territory and they are very few in number, The tribe in Iowa only receives §30,000 total sllowance, and they came Lere 10 say that as they were in the ‘majority and 8o fow beinig 1 the Indian ter- ritory a larger proportion of the allowance should be given to the lowa tribe, They spent a good part of the time rapping on the appropriation committae door and endeav- ored to see Senator Allison, who had invited them to come here and lay their claim be- fore congress. The Indians werevery much surprised whan told that Senator Allison was out of town, and thought it rather strange that he should be absent for 8o small # matter as a senatorial election when they came bere to see him., MOVEMENTS OF MIIATARY MEN, . First Licutenant John F. McBain, Ninth cavalry, on leave of absence in this city, will report by letter on January 20 to the superin- teodent of the recruiting service in New York city to conduct recruits to the depart- ment of the Platte, On the compietion of this duty he will join his hroag. Cngl:ln John Cartand, Sixth infantry, hav- ing been found by an army retirng board incapacitated for active service on account of disacility incident to theservice, is by direction of the president relieved from active service this date. MRE. OXNARD'S ARGUMENT. Henry T, Oxnard, the Grand Island beet sugar refloer, made an argument today be- fore the house committee on ways und noeans lwvor of the beet sugar indu: rfl. a8 anticipat in a special to Trne SuNxpax Bre. Awmong other things he said: “I ask that the protection which has been granted for the past twenty years or more 1o the sugar industries of the United States be continued some years longer, and thereby allow a new industry of great promise to demonstrate its avility Lo supply in a fow years the home market with all its sugar at & cheaper price than it has ever before en- joyed. This is theouly course for the gov- ernment to take if it wishes to supply its in- babitants permavently with sugar at the lowest possible price. It an undeniable truth that the only way to decrease the cost of an article is to increase the production of that article be- yond the actual consumption d by this method, practically applied in the beet sugar producing countries of Kurope, we ure today enjoyiug sugar at @ very much lower cost than woald ever bave u possible had not ihose countries by @ high protective tarift fostered and develoned an industry which produces wore sugar than all the rest of the civilized world combined, Any reduction at this tiwe from that policy by our government presented | pension Mary | alaw | one desired, namely, ohe % permanently destroy in u industry which is toaay | durce of* great national weaith to Gerl'2 7, Austria and France, and which is the * & commercial, agriculiural ana manufac <2 mdustry of Europe. All this nas been ud, lished within the last fifty years by sotive tariff which is continued to this & ry coun- tey in the world which ean - uce a pound of sugar, Today France hae eotive tariff on sugar of 5 cents a voun #lg cents and Austria a littlo_over while we have only & brotection of 9 conts a pound. We will not have to waitfifty years, for we can take advantage at once of that which the science of Earope has _discovered and developed into the art of producing sugar.” *In 1520 the sugar beet only contained 3 per cent of sugar to the weight of the beet, and ten years ago 9 per oent was a good average, whilst in 1930 un average of over 14 per cent has been obtalued. Now every per cent means an ineroase of twenty pounds of sugar 10 the ton of raw beots, or about three hun- dared pouuds to the acre; that tho refiuer with the same labor, with tho same fuel with the same plant, and same capital in- vested obtains 100 pcurds more sugar than he did ten years ago. The rosult of this is to decrease the cost of sugar to the producer and eventually to the consumer, urd by this process of seloction aud broeding in the next fifteon years the average will surely be 20 por cent of sugar to tho weight of the beet. have polarized beets in Nebraska which contained 22.per cent of, sugar, and by se- lecting these boete and by breeding from them in the course of u few years we shall be abld to gbtaiu a crop with a general aver- age up to that standard, and for this very reason the sugar beet is destined to outstrip all other known sugar producing plants. “Now in'this country five states which can today be called sugar producing states, namely, Louisiuna, Texas, California, Kan sus, and last_but not least, Nebraska, have an area of 619,000 s¢ wiles—more than the total area of c rmany aud Austria ccmbined—and I may add in all truth that nearly every one of our northern states are just us well adapted to the growth of the sugar beet. In Nobraska 885 analyses of different beets zave me un average of 10.1 per cent. ‘The soil and climate of this country is better adapted to the growth and development of sugar beets than those of Burope, For many reasons I prefer our northwestern states, but if notning detri- mental In the way of legislation occurs I am convinced that i 1000 we will see beet sugar factories started and working successfully in every one of our mnortiern states east of the Rocky mountains, sua right up to the Atlantic ocean. “I wish to call attention to a popular error. People often speak 6f raw sugar;as being raw material, but 1o one cau deny that raw sugar is a manufactured article which comes directly mto competition witi all sugar fac- tories which produce sugar from the original plant. Why should we not retain the profiv to be derived from thatsource in our own country, and at the same time develop an industry which benefits our farmers, and is the only sound basis on which we can ever build our hopes for cheap sugar{" Mr. Oxnard’s argument was of considera- ble length, and covered every phase of the subject of beet sugar. He gave the climate and soil of Nebraska the best endorsement for agricultural purposes they have prooably ever hud in Wasbington. aisdRLANEO Mr. Conger of Des Moines introduced a bill authorizing the treasury to pay O. W. Boyd of Winterset, Ia., $34, the amount aue him as the rebate of the tobacco and cigar tax. Byron Differbach was today appointed clerk av the Genoa industrial school. gon do W Lucker pras joday - appolnted plerk at the Tndian scl o%?:t glemfi”na, b, Ben S. Paddock, post trader at Fort Rob- inson, 1s in Washington for a few days, the guest of ‘William E. Annin, his brother-in- luw, Perny S, HEATIL ugar, but may ited States an conts, &L O i A Decision on Dnties, WasmINGTON, Jan. 6.—In an opinion ren- dered in the well known Edelboff customs case the supreme courp holds that silk and cotton ribbons used exclusively as fiat trim- mings are dutiable at20 per cent under a provision in the tariff act of 1883 for trim- mings for hats, bounets and hoods, and not av 50 per cent under t he provision for ma- terals of ‘which silk is the component of chief value. The government will by this decision ba compelled to refund' about $£600,000 to importers in Philadelphia, New York, Boston and other places. ————— Auditor Olayton Ousted. ‘WasHINGTON, Jan, 6.—The supreme court today rendered an opinion in the case of Clayton, Appellant, vs The Pcople of the Territory of Utah. Claywn was elected au- ditor of public accounts in 1879 and has held the office ever since, refusing to turn over the office to Arthur Pratt, appointed to the place by Governor Murray of Utah, It was contended that the act of the leislature of Utah creating the offite and providing that it should be filled by popular electiou is in con- travention of the organic act of the territory. The supreme court of Utah decided againsy Clayton and this court affiras the judgment. ——— Presidential Nomiuation ‘WasHINGTON, Jan, 6.—The president today sent to the sendte the following nominations: Register of the land office at Sidney, Neb., George F. Blanchard; United States at- toroey for the northern district of Iown, Maurice D. O'Connell; postmasters, George W. Dunhawm, Madnchester, e Pun Webster, S. D.; Joh Wis. ; Robert A. Scott, LaCros Bynum's Kesolution. ‘WASHINGTON, Jan, 6.—In the house today Bynum of Tndiana offered a resolution which was referred to the committee on rules, for the sppointment of @ special comtnittee to 1nvestigate certain charges made against the United States district attorney for the dis- trict of Indiuna, Smiley H. Chambers, and s predecessors. ‘The charges cousist' in the alleged suppression of the testimony pro- sentedfor the procurement of an indictment against W, W, Dudley in connection with the “blocks of five” letter, . FrrT Judge Brewer Sworn In, WasniNGToN, Jan, 6—Judge David J. Brewer was sworn in as associate justice of the supreme court of the United States at noon today, and immediately took his seat upon the bench, The ceremony was ‘per- formed mn the court room in the presence of a large audience immediately after the as- sembling of court at noon, e Poisoned the Whole Family. HuxTiNGTON, Wa. V., Jan. 0,—Edward Church, a seventeen-yoar-old boy living with his father near this place, is' charged with l)ul.loulnl{ the entire family by putting poison n the bread. One litule girl is dead and four of the family are in a 2ritical gondition, The young wurderer confessed to a friend and then fled. e Nothing New From Oh'o. CovLomsus, O., Jan, 6.—There has been no new development in the sendtorial situation today, the time of the members being tuken n open legislature. The joint commitiee has done pothing as yet in regard to the time of holding the senatorial caucus, but {t is thought it will uot take place before Thursday night. v Dr. Peters Probably Ally Beruiy, Jan, 6,—More doubt is now cast upon the report of the massacre of Dr, Pe- ters. Denhardt wires to the Emin relief committee that be has received from Dr. Poters, uddressed to the committee, letters which are of u later date than that of the reported wussucre. and which were written ata :luu on Dr, Peters' route beyond that &t which it was reported he was killed, N0 CONFIDENCE IN BOUNTIES, Sugar and Silk Mon Plead for Protection. FUTURE OF THE BEET ROOT, Twenty Yeacs of Tariff Encourages meat Wall Place it in the Load, Says Mr. Oxanrd of Nebraska. Afrald of Dircot Subsidy. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.2Tho ways and wenns committee th morning heard the arguments of sevoral gentlemen interosted in the sili mdustry. Thoy wore follawed by John Dymond, president of the Sugar Planters' association, who reatl a memorial asking for protection sufficient to enable the United States to produco its own sugar. Mr. Dy- mond said freo sugar from the Sandwich islands did not affect tho price of sugar in this country and was not therefora a detri- ment to the sugar industry of the United States. Ex-Governor Warmouth of Louisiana spoke at some length. He said that during political campaigns in his state he had been met at various points by “‘Reprosentative So-and-So” from Pennsylvania und Ohio and Michigan in favor of ‘a reduction of 50 per cent in the tariff on sugar. In tho face of theso speecnes he had not veen as sucs cessful as he would wish in converting his democratic friends. Warmouth thought the offcct of o bounty after & year's exs periment would be the destruction of the sugar mdustry. “If you want friends in Louisiana,” he sad, ‘'you must not touch the sugar taviff. We cannot stand a redaction of 3¢ cent a pound. It would be ruinous to thé" industry, and without sugar the city of New Orleans would be depopulated. ~ If the committee could guarantee to the planter thut a suce ceeding congress would not disturb it, he would be glad to accept a bounty of 2 cénts pér peund on the sugar he raised. Ho wanted, however, to stand on the same ground with other protected industries.’” Governor Ware—You don’t stund on the same ground with them; you don't produce anything like enough to supply the demands of the country. Warmouth--We bid fair to if we are given the encouragement oxtended to other indus- trics. What we want 18 to be let alone. Represontutive Peters of Kunsus said he was interested in silk, sugar and sult. He asked protection for his silkk ruising con- stituents by a suitable duty on raw silk. He cited statistics showing the Kansas sugar product from sorghum cane and how it was. increasing under the protection of the tariff, Mr. Peters doesn't think much of a bounty. It is @a departure from tho tariff policy with which the people are familiar; its imposition wouldg invite constant and _detrimental agitation of the question, Kansas needs additional capital 10 put up sorgbum sugar mills, but that cap- ital can not be obtained under a bounty. The witness argued strongly in favor of the retentiou of the duty, and turning his re- marks into a political vein, said there wus & feeling of uurest amoug the farmers of hip atate which if not allayed might result in smaoking Kansas with its 82,000 republican _majority a democratic state. ¥ Heary L. Oxnerd of Grand Island, Neb., made an argument in favor of protection foF the beet ‘sugar industry, predicting thi with the retention of the present - duf the beet root would, within twenty years, outstrip sugar cane and sorghuin i the pros duction of sugar. A reduction of the duty would kill the inaustry. 2 Prof. Wiley of the ugricultural department did not anticipate very high results froi Kunsus sorghum, as a 10 per cent article liki sorghum could not. compete with & 14 per cent aruclo like beet. Sorghum, however, made excellent alcohol, and he thought Kap- sas stood 1n its owa light in preventing its people from making alcohol. In secret ses- sion the chairman was structed to report tomorrow the admimstrative bill, A BRAVE RESCUR, s Miners Go Through Flame Imprisuned Comrades. WiLkesBaRrke, Pa, Jan. 6.—At the Not= tingham mine in Plymouth, where the cave-in ocourred last week, A torrific explosion of gas occurred this evening, The timber at once caught fire aad burned furiously. Five men were caught between she cave-in and the fire and their exit cut off. The report spread, and in @& few inutes hundreds of men, women and children gatnered at. the mouth of the slope, The wives and childaren of the imprisoned men lost all control of them- selves, and muany sorrowtul scencs were wite nessed. . Avout half an hour after the fire broke out John Humphreps and John Richards were lowered into the mine, Whou thoy reached the fire they heard cries and shouts on the other side, Putting their hands be. fore their faces, they rushed through tho. fire and drwgeb the fiye imprisoned men out one by one uninjured. Thomas Richards, Who was in auother parg of the mine, was fatally burned. Water is Mmlnq through near where the cav-ein occurred last weel, and the miners fear the river may break into the mine. If this should happen mwany mines would be drowned ont beyond hope of re- clmmiog them and operations would have te be suspanded. i DEADLY NAUPTHA EXPLOSION, to Save Two Men Fatally Injured and Several Severely Hurt. i Liya, O., Jan, 6.—<This afternoon one of the Jarge stills of the Naptha works at the Standard’s solar refinery expioded with & force felt all over the city. A number of men working near were covered with debris, The oil immediateiy caught fire, causing con» siderable excitement, . William Culver, the foreman, was found 1sensible under a pile of brick wich @ bad gash in his head. Peter Devine had his rightleg broken in two vlaces and was badly burned, Their injuri wre fatal, J, K. Deyman, Williaw Murphy, J, L. Galler, L, E. Helser, Walker Evans, Frank White and John Sulllyan were sel iously burned. Charles ,Landkammer was thrown quite a distance ffito u tank of water and caome necar drowning. The fire was quickly extinguished. P A Boulaagist Plot. Panis, Jan. 6 —~Upon the reassemyling of the chumber of deputics, Chautemps, s radis cal republican and formerly president of the Paris municipal council, moved the reorgan= ization of the police of the pre fecture of the Seine. ‘I'he wo tion 18 importaunt for its rola. tion to the old dispute between the centr government and the authorities of the out; of Paris. The Boulangists arc concentrate ing their poutical efforts in Paris. Houp langer, it is sald, will coutest the Eighteenth arrondissement. The latest phuse of the Boulangist conspiracy is consequently that the municipul government shall control the police and thav Boulanger shall control the wunicipal government. Loss of Catile Feared, Rawwixs, Wyo,, Jan. 6.—[Special Tele- wram to Tne Bee. | —Considerable snow has fallen here, Cattle are drifuing a good deal, and feed being scarce along the Platte where the cattle are collecting, it is feared there will be heavy loss. Other parts of the cout= try report pleuty of feed and cattle in goed condition, Murdered by Horse Thieves. Forr Davis, Tex, Jan. 6.—A band of Mexican horse thieves awbusbed a part, consisting of three men, Lwo women an four children near Chibushua Suturday and shot and killed two of the men, The mure dered men were oficers of the military gusrd sent to arrest the Mexicaus. )