Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 20, 1890, Page 1

S B8 MoiNEs, Ia., Jan. 19.—[Special THE OMAHA DALY BEE e AUTOCRAT OF THE HOUSE. Iowa's Lower Branch Controlled by the Union Labor Member, HE WANTS THE SPEAKERSHIP. The Republicans Say It Cannov Be— Allison Counsels No Compromise rrabs Last Message— Unprofitable Raflroad, '8 An ANl Eyes On One Man Drs Moixes, Ia., Jan, 19.—[Sp - gram to Tur Bee]—The air is fuil of rumors tonight of possible schemes and com promises for breaking the legislative dend- lock tomorrow. The union labor member, who holds the key to the situation, is howe consulting with Lis constituents, He is the only member of the union labor party in the house, and he thinks that his party should have ample recognition, 50 he asks for the speakership as about the proper thing. If the republicans will give it to him he will help them organize the house. They never will do it, but they offer a concession in suggesting a former union labor man for clerk, and \ hope to gev his vote for him, They are also working on the theory that as heis a prohibitionist b ought to uct with the republicans and not with the democrats, who are doing all they can to aefeat pronibition. Lhisis a very strong point with him ana may yet decide his course. Tho republicans have stiffened up their backbone considerably in the lust forty-eight hours. They are now againstany compro- mise that gives the democrats the speaker, They suy they will set here till Christmas before they will surrender the principle that the majority shall rule. Giving the deniocrats all the independents they have but forty-nine votes, The republicans have Hifty votes and thero is one uuidu labor mem- ber who has voted with the democrats 80 far, but hus refused w enter their caucus. The republicans say that since thero ure three parties represented the democrats have 10 right to the speakershipand shall never have it. Senator Allison tells the' republicans not to worry over him or let the senatorship huwper them atall, He has been uoani- mously renominated and he can wait for election with perfect confidence, Ho does not want them to surrender any principle in the organization of the house on his account. Tacy are all agreed that they will keep up the deudlock till the democrats yield, even if it vuts off the inauguration of & goveraor till mdsummer. STILL IN DEADLOOK, Both Parties Stand Glaring av Each Other. to Tne Bee, j—One week of the legislative ses- sion has gone by and the house is still ina deadloct Both parties stand off like gladi- ators glaring at each other and the end is not yet. The four independents, Monk of Lyon, McDermid of Adair, Rao of Monona and Smith of Boone, no matter how inaependent they might bave been when asking for re- publican votes, proved themselves rock- rooted democrats on roll call and have gone over, bag and baggage, into the democratic camp. Ewart of Poweshick, the union labor mem- ber, has not attended the democratic caucus, but he has voted with them steadily all weck and dislikes very much to break the doadlock on his own responsibility, He is intensely opposed to Senator Allison and ‘would ruther the legislature should not or- ganize at all than to see Allison elected. Governor-clect Boies remained in the city only a short time. Ho became extremely tired of the persistence of the oficeseeking patriots anda returned to Waterloo aund the privacy of his home 0 await the good pleas- ure of the belligerent forces in the lower house. It is not believed now that Boies will interfere in any way, nov even by a sug- estion, with the organization of the house. Ho scews willing to vide his time and await the outcome, trusting that it may bring joy to the democratic heart. ‘'he republicans are bravely holding the fort, and as they now haye temporary control, in’ the person of Chuirman Laue, are not disposed to yield or to make any concessions. ‘The members hre chary of interviews even on . the best manner of breaking the dead- lock, The republicans, however, arc abso- lutely unanimous, while a spirit of resticss- ess pervades tho rauks of the opposition. 'glnw can we maintain this present attitude and then face the 500 or 600 republican majority and ask for ure-election is the gues- tion tne so-called independents are nsking themselves. The democrats have put on a bold front, and even their more conservative members have, to all outward appearances, settled down to a regular siege. Representa- tive Hotenkiss of Davis, who is more of grecnbacker than a democrat, in an inter- view toaay, said that the democrats are firm a8 the everlasting hills; that they were con- tending for principle, and the republicans must either come to their terms or not organize av all, + Rae of Monona, who was formerly an ardent greenbacker, said: **The sooner both sides recognize thut fifuy to fifty is just equal the better will it be for all concerned. He- fore this is settled both sides will have to go intocaucus and divide the ofMces and then say to the opposition, ‘Take your choice.” It will have to come this apyway and why delay?!” ‘Ihis is the most woderate view yet expressed by any of the democrats, and shows that the leaveu is at work, Saturday morning the republicans exe- cuted, or attempted to execute, a bold politi- cal maneuver on the democrats, Representa- tive Blythe, in a neat speech, withdrew the name of Benjamin Van Steenberg for tem- porary clerk and substituted that of Henry 8. Wilcox of this city, Mr. Wilcex, until last year, was a radical greonbacker, and it was hoved to catch the vote of Matt' Ewart, the greenback member. Six successive bal- lots were taken, but Kwart was truo to his democratic allies and voted for their unomi- noee us usual. The republicans may yet take up a simon pure greenbacker from Ewart's owu county for clerk, aud elect Ewart him- self temporary speuker. The republicans ‘would far rather bestow these offices upon mewmbers of the greenback party, for the time being, thao to cavitulate unconditionally 1o the democrats, or to allow them to dictate the terws of @ compromise. The people of the state are intensely interested in the solution of this knotty problem, but no one can tell whatanother week may develop, KEX, NT. ALLISO! ENDORSEME Its Unanimity Discourages Chronie Kickers. Des Moixes, Ia., Jan, 19.—[Special to Tug Bee, |—The little opoosition 10 the renomina- tion of Senator Allison has shruok out of sight since the splendid endorsement he.re- ceived last Thursday night ia the senatorial caucus, There bas never been at any time any foundation for the alleged opposition to him that one or two mugwump papers claimed, They stirred upa big cloud of dust and made @ great noise, but when the clouds cleared away it was scen that gl the fuss had come from a little handful of soured and disappointed politiciuns, They tried to uso the Farmers' Alllance against Allison, and iu response to a call for a mass conven- tion, at which they expected six or eight hundred farmers, they collected together ust sixty-seven men, and not all \en would vote for a resolution demauding the NINETEENTH YEAR. Larrabee instead of Allison for senator. The republican farmers of the Allison and are proud of se6 him re-elected. But the demogogues who are opposing him_pick up the discon- snted and unhappy farmers, the fellows who haven't voted a straight republican ticket for many years, and parade thom as representing the' farmors of this great agri- cultural state. The fraud is becoming very apparent. Senator Weidman of Montzomery county, one of the men who seconded the nomination of Allison in the joint caucus, 18 a farmer from top to b. As ho ex- pressed 1t, he belongs to the “hayseed fra- ternity,” and he made a ringing speech for Allison, ropresenting, a8 ho does, the tard- Workini but happy republican farmers, The attempt to ring in the Farmers' alliance against Allison was made by men who huve been fighting the republican party for years, a complete failure, LARRABEE'S LAST MESSAGE, Considerable iuterest is oeing felt in G © Larrabec 28800 to the legislature oh will be delivered s soon as o perm: organization is cffected. It will be his 1nst state paper, and some of his frionds ex- pect that it will stic up the animals for one figgee howl. The contents of the message n made public, but it is known that it will be very long. It is to treat of 100 differont tovics, and already covers sixty pages of typewriter copy, and isn’t yet quite finished. ~The governor will “point with pride” to the completion of some of the re- forms he began, particularly the raiiroad question. It is expected that he will recom- mend, also, additional legislation, especially in the line of authorizing the railroad com- missioners to fix joiny rafes, and possibly he will recommend the reduction of passenger rates to 2 ceats a mile. But the most of his message will be devoted to areview of the coudition and affairs of the various state in- sututions. It con be said to (Governor Lar- rabeo’s credit that no governor has given more car#ful und faithful attention to the different public institutions of the state than he. He has made a practiceof visiyng them all frequently and giving personal atteation to their management und condition. He Knows the ueeds of each one, and is a’ all times prepaced to act intelligently on all mat- ters relating to th In faot, the governor rurely leaves the city except to visit some of these public institutions, and his tace is a familiar sight at all of them. He has taken a special pride in the various hospitals and reform schools, and they have all found a good friend in Governor Larrabee. A large partof lus message will be devoted to them, with suggestious in their interest. It is expected that Governor Boies' maug- ural address will_be comparatively short— not over three and a half or four columns, AN UNDESIRADLE RAILROAD. It is not ofteu that railroads go begging for purchasers and can’t even get a bid, but that has been the experience of a short line of railroad 1n southeastern Iowa, known as the Fort Madison & Northwestern, [t is a nar- row gauge road and has had a hard struggie for life for some time. When the railroad commissioners made their schedule of rates last yeur the road received the finishing blow for it had to compete with roads of the first class, but the rates were so low that it could only use them at a loss. It was then in the hands of a receiver, General Charies A. Gilehrist and has been ever since. The rond was orginally sold by order of tho court to parties representing a syndicate that, held the most of its bonas. Thesum bid was £37,300 too low in the opinion of the United States district judge, aud he ordered another sale. refusing to confirm the first. The date fixed for the second salo was December 6. No one offered to bid for the road and a third day was fixed, January 9, but no ids were offered on that day. 'The sale was agamn postponed, and last Wednesday therc was anotber chance for offerse. The receiver, Mr. Gilchist, offered $27,900 for the road,and agreed to assume tho cutstanding unadjusted claims, amounting o about §15,000. Judge Love regards that as a fair offer and so the road 18 sold at last. A NEW ARRANGEMENT. There is a new arrangement of the officers of the railroad commissioners for this year. They have elected Spencer Smith of Council Bluffs chairman of the board in place of Mr. Dey who was chairman last year. There is no special significance, however, to the change, a8 the chairman has 1o more power or authority than auy other member of the board, Hut as Mr. Smith is just beginning his new term of three years the compliment was given to him this year, and will proba- bly be given to Mr. Cambbell next year. The commissioners report their work much lighter than it was a year ago. AN ADVENTIST COLLEGE, Some little interest has been created here over a proposition to establish a college of the Adventist faith, in case fair terms were offered by the people of Des Moine: It seems that the Seventh Day Adventists, whose chief stawping ground is at Battle Creek, Mich., have grown in members so fasy farther west, that they want another college for their people, They are now seeking a suitable location ia Towa or Ne- braska, for & school which shall supply the territory of four or five large states, A committee has been at Des Moines, with a view to locating the school here, if suflicient inducement is held out. ‘I'here has for soveral years been a great Adventist camp- meeting ot this city overy summer, and the brethren look upon Des Moines quite favor- ably. They also have @ good opinion of Lincoln, Neb., and it is thought that the ultimate choice will be between these two cities, Atlantie, Ia., would like to get the college, and has made a liberal offer, out the place is hardly large enough .or central enough for the Adventists and thev are more likely to come 10 one of the two cap- itals named, It is claimed that the new col- lege will in a short time bave from 500 to 1,000 students, A REMARKABLE CAPTURE, The police of this city recently made a re- markable capture in getting Mvs, Belle Hen- derson who escaped seven months ago from the Missouri stute prison at Jefferson City, Sho 13 a colored woman and perfect virago. ‘While living in Des Moines she defled the polive and tuough guilty of repeated lar cenies always escaped, tinally going to Kan- sas City, It was after acrime there that she was arrested and sent to prison from which sho escaped and returned to Des Moines. She is the most notorious female crook who has been in the city for many years, Sl COLLIDED WITH A BARGE, The Steamboat Katie Robbins Sinks to the Hurricane Decok, Vicksnura, Miss., Jan, 19.—The steamboat. Katie Robbins collided’ early this morning with a barge towed by the steamer Josie Barkins, The bargo capsized and sani. The Kutie Robbins' bull was crushed in on the starboard side just forward of the fur- doors, und she sank to the hurricane aeck, Four of the deck crew are missing and are undoubtedly lost. Threa ladies sna several gentlemen passengers were aroused from sloep when the boat struck and got out without dressing, but lost their baggage. I Oklahoma's Repunlican Convention. 81, Louts, fan, 19.—~The Oklahoma repub- lican convention, after a two days’ session, adjourned late last night. A territorial executive committoe was elected to look after the interests of the party and resoiu- tions were adopted endorsing the republican national platform aud the Harrison adminis- tration, urging the necessity of an early ter- ritorial government and extending a hearty and cordial welcome to all houest and in- dustrious colored men as emigrants to Oklshoma and pledging to them the enact- ment of lawa guaranteeing to colored citizens the same rights und privileges as 1h0so en- Jjoyed by whites, Lucre for Lost Love, NEw Youx, Jan. 19.—The jury in the suit of Curoline Cammerer against Clemens Muller for $100,000 dnmnfel for breach of yromise, reudored g vordict, this woraiog in avor of the plaintiff for $12,000. A motion for & now trial was denied. s s ‘Ine Bohemi, Conference. Viexya, Jun, 19.—At the Bohemian con- forence today the delegates signed the pro- tocol, which will be published on the 26th, Count von Taaflein, declaring the conference 1 state believe in | him, and want to | ()MAHA. MONDAY MORNI.N(}, JANUARY 20, 1890. closed, thanked all the delogates and espe- cially Prince Schoenberg. The Czach papers ure not enthusiastic over the results of the conference. The Narodni Listy says: “‘The operation has baen a complete succes | patient is dead. T VICTIM, neral . Chapman cuambs to La Gripne, Wasnixgros, Jan, 19.—Solicitor General Orlow W. Chapman of New York died this morning at his residence in this city of pneumonia, His death following so closely after that of Walker Blaine lias produced deen sorrow here. His ond was peacoful und he passed away surrounded by his wife, Attorney General Miller, who has been with him almost constantly during bis illness, Mrs, Miller and Dr. Johuson, the attending physician. Mr. Chapman was taken il about three weeks ago with Ia grippe, He recovered from the attack and insistod upon immediately resuming his dut olffce. His exposuro resulted in a relapso, accompanied by serious complications in ad- dition to la grippe. The funeral servicos will be held hero to morrow at the lato residence of the deceas and will be attended by the presideat, mom- bers of the cabinet and the justices of the supreme court. His remains ‘will bo taken 0 his home in Bingha Y., for inter- ment. Mr. Chapman was about sixty-six years of age and for a long time was a resident of Binghampton, N. Y., where he bore an ex- cellent reputation as'n lawyer. He was appointed solicitor general last May after the udjournment of the supreme court, but in a comparatively short time since then he had won high estimation as a lawyer among the members of the supreme court and the bar. Haxover, N. H., Jan, 10.—Hon Frederick Chase, treasurer of Dartmouth college and judge' of tho probate court for Grafton county, died today of influeaza. New' Youx, Jan. 19.—Charles Bdward Pillet, jr.,, for’ many years chiof editorinl writer on' the Daily News, died today at his home in this city of influenza. Ciicao, Jan, 0 Forstall, pros- went of the Chicago was company, died to- night of influenza. ~ Mr. Forstall was one of the foremost men in the gas business und was widely known poek g ki ENGLAND AN0 PORTUGAL. A PROMIN Solicitor Suc- first Talk About Submitting Their Differ ences to Arbitration. [Conyright 18% by James Gordon Bennstt,| Loxpoy, Jan, 19.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to Tne Bez.]--It seems w be taken for granted in this country that the Portuguese difliculty is at an end, but there are mauy reasous regarding this view which leave it in doubt. The Portuguese are angry and they intend to press thow demands for arbitration, The Oficial Joirnal of St. Petersburg comes forward with an opbor- tunity for them to enforce this demand. *“Tho Koglish are bound,’ says this author- ity, “‘to submit the case to arbitrators.” If this attitude bo seriously persisted in by tho Russians we are only at the beginning of the complicatious arising out of the African dispute. Arbitration means that Englund will be ruled as in the wrong, and not only that, but she will probably come out of court with fewer rights in Africa than she had wheun she went into it. There was never any other result from arbitration where England was concerned. Russia well knows this and way press arbitration upon us for that very reason. The 1ssue of the affair all depends upon one thing: are the great pow- ers or some of them looking around for an excuse to break the present truce of Europe? It they are, & quarrel between Englund and Portugal will afford them the desired oppor~ tunity and nothing that we can now do will prevent it. e Severe Storm in Great Britain. [Copuright 1850 by James Gordon Bennstt,] LoxpoN, Jan. 19.—[New York Herald Cuble—Special o Tue Ber.]—The storm which the Herald weather bureau in New York predicted for Friday, due warning being printed in the London edition’s cable dispatches, has reached this coast with all promprness, Severe gales were experienced and much damage is reported. ‘Twenty cross-channel steamers were driven to sheltér, Two deep depressions have passed over the northern parts of our area from the southwest, causing a very rapid fall of the varometer in those regions and southerly to westerly gales in all parts of the kingdom. The gales were much more severe over the northern and north- western parts of the islands than in the southeast. At 8 o'clock a. m. today the barometer was 28.3 at Lumburgh heaa, while it stood 20.5 in London and 30.2 in south France. There were disturbances ac- companied by thunder and lightning over all the northern and western parts of the king- dom and by a ‘fall of rain, Throughout Great Britain and & greater partof France hail fell in a few places, The storm in Ire- land and off the coust was very severe. In- coming steamers report tremeudous seas, The Bothnia and Wisconsin were much de- layed. o The Mey: rling Tragedy. [Copyright 1890 by James Gordon Hennait,) VIENNA, Jan, 19.—[New York Herald Cable —Special to Tue Bee.|—An extraordinary and very sensational version of the Meyer- ling tragedy has been published in the Vienna papers, but 18, however, not credited in court circles at Housburg. It is that Archduke Rudolf and the young Baronness Vetsera were brother and sister, It 1 whispered that £mperor Krancis Josof made love to Baronness Vetsera and the heroine of the Meyerling tragedy was born to them; that when the facts were told to Archduke Rudolf he was so affected by the revelation of the horrible secret that he suicided. The only basis for the story seems to be the re- port that when Count Hoyos brought the news to the emperor he exclaimed: **My son, my daughter.,” The story has recalled and renewed much gossi The Banquet 1o Stanley. | Copyright 18% by Janies Gordon Bennett,| Cairo, Jan, 19.—|New York Herald Cable —Special to Tug Bee]-—Great prepara- tions huve been made for the vauquet to Stanley tomorrow night w be given by the Egyptisn governor. Riaz Pasha will pre- side, Last night the whole party dined with Sir Evylin Bariog. Stanley, thougn quite well, will not go to Europe for sowe time, but will remain i Egypt for rest und to re~ coup his strength. Private telegrams re- port Kmin’s progress towards recovery slow but sure, e Influenza Disappearing in France, [Copyright 18% by James Gordon Bennett,] Paws, Jao. 19.—| New York Herald Cable Special to Tue Bee |—~The influenza is gong —almost gone.e Returns for the past few days show that the mortality in Paris is fast falling to its normul rate. Telegrams from the provinces fall like a gladsome tale except in Lalle, Marseilles, Limoyes and St. Etienve, A Fatal Saloon Row. Kaxsas City, Mo, Jan. 10.--John Kinney, » packing house employe, quarreled with Thowas Carey, in the latter’s saloon, Carey followed Kinney home, asked hiwm out avd renewed the quarrel. Kinuey stabbed Carey in the bip and be himself received a bullet in the heart, THE SAME OLD BLAINE STORY A Democratic Paper Says He Will Resign, REED'S CHART. CHARACTER YK Means “Kioker" “H, K. is “Hard Kicker,” and “H. B K. Ap- pears Afcor Somo Name—Mrs, Harrison Quits Handshaking. 513 Founteesta STREET, Wasmsaron, D, C., Jan. Today's Washinglon Herald (dem.) gives minence toa half column statement to the effect that Secrbtary Blaine intends to resign. The Herald g0os 1nto tho details of the alleged dissatigfaction of Secretary Blaine and attempts to show that the rela- tions between him and the president have never been very ¢lose or ploasant and that the points of sympathy botween the two men are few, It says thatif Mr. Blaine were younger and he had ?n-umr political honors in view he might contjnue to bear the bur- dens of office despite! the disappointments and annoyance to which he has been subs jected. @It affects to think that the death of his son Walker will furnish additional and strong reasons for Mr, RBlaine to quit the position at tho state department. This statement will doubtless be sent broadcast by reprosentatives of democratic papers and eredence will be given t0 1L by those who have not the good of President Harrison's administration at heart. Your correspondent has made some inquiry for the purpose of ascertaining whether there,is uny foundation for the statement and he can say without mental reservation that there is no truth fn it @Mr. Blaine is not robust in health, yet} he has plenty of physical as well as mental vigor for the performance of his official duties. o has a very high appreciation ot President Harrison and the latter is well satistied in in every respect with nis scoretary of state. Mr. Blaine has no intention of leaving his ofticial position. : BPEAKER REED'S LIST, It is said that Speaker Reed has a private list of the wmembers of? the house in the drawer of his public_desk .on which he has marked characters indicating the disposition of each member. " He does this so that {n the hasty formation of committees he will kuow something of the personal characteristics of each member and not put the wrong ‘men in certain posi- tions, nor recognize thé wrong man in de- bate. He knows the cranks and the lobby - 1sts for prohibition, logal option, silver and gold, bimetalism, greenbacks and all that sort of thing. He also knows the kickers; that 1s, the men who croak and complain and are never matis- fled. He has as. character marks for the kickersy wrmfn. opposite each of the recalcitrant members’ names, a lotter indi- cating the degree of hisgeneral dissatisfac- tion, For instance, it ithe man is an ordi- nary kicker, he marks fafter his name the letter “K.” " If hois aBard kicker he has warked “H. K." A'friend the other day saw after a fow membes nes the ini- tials “H. H. K..” mark§ which he ascer- tained meant “H—Il'of. aid of this list Speakes ; form committees and 3 I hasty debates without making any errors, THE FIELD AGAINST CHICAGO. It will be 8 very warm and exciting fight from now on till the question of locating the world’s fair is settled. There is nothing krown ,about who 18 to heud the special committee to consider the subject. The name ot Mr. Buchanan of New Jersey, u gentleman of high Character and with no prejudices for or against any city, is inentioned favorably. It is the field against Chicago now. The best calculators ‘believe that if a vote should be taken tomorrow Chicago would re- ceive three-fifths of the votes of the house, Undoubtedly the Wivdy city is far in the lend. Every man in cougress is anxious to have the question disposed of, and efforts will be maae to get a bill before the house at. the earliest possible date. The bill which locates the fair will make some kind of an ap- propriation and will give goneral instructions as to the management of the exposition, It is ‘likely that befors the middle of next month the whole question will be out of the hands of congre AN INNOVATION BY MRS. HARRISON. Harrison has auit the custom of aking at the white house receptions, Some years ago the middle finger of her right hand was crushed by the shutting of & carriage door. _Since that time the slightest pressure ufficient to cause pain, so that out of necessity, no less than choice, Mrs. Harrison concluded to abandon the senseless custom which has heretofore proven 5o se- vere a tax on her predecessors. HARRISON HAS THE GRIP, Presldent Harrison has a slight attack of la grippe. Mrs. MoKes, his daughter, b been suffering with a wild form for ten days or a fortnight past and her attendance at the diplomatie reception resulted in increas- ng it to such an extent that the attendance of a physician was found necessary the fol lowing morning. Mrs, Harrison was the first person in Washinton to suffer from the grip and since hor recovery several weeks siuce her two little grandchildron have suf- fered with the prevalent disoraer, though in a mild form, WasniNaToN BUREAU Tire Oxund Bes, } b BIG GUNS, The oMcers of the ordnance department are discussingthe problem whether big guns are a failure, ‘I'his question has been raised by the an- nouncement that the 110-ton guns carried by the British cruiser Benbow have proven worthless, Chiet Clerk Sailor of the naval bu- reau of ordnance says thefact that the English guns have failed Will huve no bearing upon the guns which the United States proposes to construct; that, as a matter of fact, the failure of English guns is not a common occurrence. “Fthink the¢110-ton gunc which the United States intends to build will be successful. An inspec of the forges is now in progress at Betblehem, Pa, It will be but a short time befre the forges are delivered, The guns ‘mot due till three years from now and of, coirse snything is a conjecture on puper, yob énough is known to warrant “the statement that the States will have 110-toa guns which will be equal to unygtest.” POLITICS DON'T PAY. Congressman Peters of Kansas follo example of Scuator in_declining further p sole account of their e; se. His letter to his constituents refusibg B renomination for a fourth term states suecinctly his reasons, He wforms his distriet that after three terms spent in its seryice he finds his law practice gone, his saldry exhausted and no prospects of bonestly laying aside money for the future provision of bis family. Kor the reason that he canuot afford the honor be asks not 1o be again cousidered as a candi- date. ‘The statement is an interesting one, es- pecially coming from & man of the sturdy in- tegrity and independence of Mr. Peters. He has faithtully and earnestly served his state and his district, and has won a well earned reputation for industry aud hosesty both at howe and at the naupual capital, No taint of corruption 1s on his official garmen He Las lived sumply and frugally in Washing- ton with no atiemnl at personal ostentation or socigl display. is failure to live within his salary of 85,000 a year is due to other causes than extravagance or waste, A bill introduced early iu the session by Mr. Peters throws some light upon the daily Araing DPOD & WESLErD CORETERSMIAL'S Purse, By it he proposed to creste o bureau of in- formation at the national capital where all letters of counstituents upon official business should be answered at public expeuse. Mr, Polers at the wme stated that @ large part the of . Rhode Island honors on the of & wostern congressman's salary was ex- vended every year in clork hire, ago hire and postage and stationery needed to secure information called for and to keep up | with the enormous bulk of corresdond: from constituents, Ho then insisted t was unfair and unjust to tax con assist in_expediting oficial business and tc force them to pay out of their pockots for keoping taxvayers informed, as they had a right to be, of the progress of affairs at the capital, There would probably be little objection on the part of the public to the creation of a burean, such as that suggested by Mr. Peters, which would take in charge and prompuly answer all calls for official in formation made upon congressmen, Such a bureau would immensely reliove the strain upon the time and pocket which exists under the present system, whilo hall the time of A conscientious congressman is spent in rac ng between tho pension, land and postoftice buildings, while p: and stationery bills, running from 2 tc v, are rolling up 10 mike 1t possible for congressmén und sonators to live within their incomes and be houest at the same time, the public would be in every way the Rainer, WATC THE DEMOCRATIO LEADER, Ex-Speaker Carlisle's career on the floor of the house will be watched with great n- terest in Washington during the next few weeks, 1f not wdeed through the entire torm of this congress. He is the acknowledged leader of the democratic side, and his col- leagues are curious as to his development, It has been some yoars since Mr. Curlisle made a labored effort in congress, Whether his three terms in the speakers chair have had the effect of making him more crisp and attractive and therefore more powerfal, or whether they have made him dry and sedate, men on both sides of the hall are anxious to ascertam. His first speech will, therefore, be listened to attentively, that all may koow what to expect from the head of the opposi tion to the majority. . Since Sunset Cox died the democratic side has not found a man who was both eloquent and wise. Mr. Cox was a logician and an or- ator, aleader in thought and action. Mr. Carlisle is not an attractive orator, He isa stroug thinker and a telling talker, but not attractive. His ideas rather than his words mauke him the leader. He has genis, and a plain way of giving it expression which 1s of- fective among men of strong winds; but ho would never be clussed with such orators as his colleague, Mr. W. C. P. Breckinridge, In the hottest debates Carlisle and the elder Breckinridge are espected 10 take the lead on the democratic side, and collectively they make a strong team, while individually they would not come up 10 the requirements with opponents like Me- Kinley, Henderson of. Iowa, Boutelle of Maine, Dalzell of Pennsyivania, and Bur- rows of Michigan. Mr. Caslisle is too thoughtful to bo attractively eloauent, wiiile Mr. Breckinridge appears to look too much after the flowers of oratory to be impressive in nis argument. He s musical to the ear, but leaves nothing for the mind to feed upon. One admires the beauty of his words while failing to be convinced. 1f Mr. Carlise had more of Mr. Breckinridge's flowery oratory ana at the same time lost none of his argu- mentative powers he would have no equal in the house. Mr. Randall’s cnergy in debateand wonder- ful earnestness will no longer be felt. He is undoubtedly on his death bed. Judge Kelley of Pennsylvania is no more. The latter was one of the most powerful men‘in debate the house ever had. He was an orator of great brilliancy, una possessed a thorough knowledge of his subject when he tatked. General Browane of Indiana was a debator of the same schodl. Ho says he will retire from public life at the end of this term. ‘There is no man better fitted as an all around debator since tho retirement of these men than Colonel Henderson of Iowa. Hels s soarer after the tail feathers of the cagle, and at the same time ho is a s well squlpperl | the concrete as Mr. Carlisle, COLORADO'S ORATOR, One of these days the senate be electrified by its new and unheard or- ator, Senator Wolcott of Denver. Mr. Wol- cott has the reputation of being the most eloquent lawyer in Colorado, He is said to be of the Breckinridge cluss and a_classical scholar, With Ingalls, Spooner, Edmunds and Wolcott there should be enough sar- casm, law, oratory and wisdom. on the re- publican sido of the senate to make the re- publican party in that' branch of congress equal to any and all emergencies, PAKTY ISSUKS BEING MADE, ‘While the 1ssue which divide the two political parties at the elections this fall will be as usual the tariff, in the muin, managers here say it will stand upon a different foun- aation than the one it has for years oc- cupied. All concedo that the tariff should be re- vised, modified, reduced; but where to bogin and where to end—there's the rub. ‘The south demands the abolition ‘of the tobacco tax; the north and west say it mast remain while there is a tax levied on woolens and wany ovher articles of necessity, The rairie states ask for fres lumber; Michigan, isconsin and the south say it must pay a duty. It thus appears that while one feature of the tariff is popular in one section it cannot be successfully urged in another by either party. The national banks will undoubtedly take part in the approaching campaign. Their side of the finunbial problem has be- come a party issue in congress. The demo- crats refuse to increase tho ociroviating medium through banks. They waut the money to go directly into the hands of the peoplo, they say; but how this is to be done 18 left for'other theorists and demagogues to explain, romises to A MORMON DELEGATION. In an interview which your correspondent recently held with Utah Commissioner. Rob- ertson and which was published throughout the country, the doctrines, aims and brac- tices of the Mormon church were thoroughly ventilated. The intorview is something to suir up the Mormon leaders to a pitch of painful nervousness and agitation and they have just 1ssued a decree, 8 copy of which ‘was sent L your correspondent, in which an effort is made to attract public attention from their church, and to switch off public condemnation, This decree is in the form of a circular letter ent'tled, an *Ofcial Declaration,” in which it is stated vhat the Mormon church regards the shedding of blood with the utmost ab- horrence; that it regards the killing of a buman being, except in conformity with law as & capital orime which should be punished by the shedding of the blood of the criminal, after a public trial before a legally consti- tuted cburt of the land, This is the first decluration of the decree and is intended to refute the statements of Commissioner Rob~ ertson to the effect that the Mormon churc! has o well organized militia and that it would, 1f driven to bay bylsevere legislation, take up arms aud resist the laws of the fea- eral government. ‘The official declaration denies that the church 18 guilty of killiug aposta It siws that hundreds of seceders from the chureh have continuously resided and are now liv- g in Utah territory, many of whom have amassed considerable wealth though bit- terly hostile to the Mormon people; that ‘'even those who have made it their business to fabricate the vilest falsehouds and to ren- der them plausible by culling isolated pa sages from old sermons with the explanatory context, and have suffered no oppor- tunity to escave them of villifying and blackening the characters of the people, hove remained among those whom they have thus persistently calummated until the present day, without receiving the slightest personal injury.” It denounces as untrue the allegation that the Mormon church favors or believes in the killing of persons who leave the church or apostates from its doctrines. It says, “the revelations of God to this church make death the penalty for capital crime and require thav offtnders agaiost life and property shall be delivered up to and tried by the laws of the land. A declaration is made in conuection that ‘no bishops or other court in this church cleims ~or exercises the right to supercede, annul or modify & judgmeat of any civil court! The ofticial declaration declares the ballot free in Utah territory aud deaies that the Mormon church attempts to control the franchises of the peo- ple or regulate the courts. The church does do both of these things, it is well known,and this ofticial declaration is made for the pur- pose of pulling the wool over tue eyes of congress until shood and other legisla tion is wiven W 5 n, which will enable the Moruion churcl % fasten its fangs so firmly into the govern, = of the country that they can never be lot % 1. The circular donies that there is S g in the ceromony or he endowment 1 is nostile to the gov. ernment of the & - %id States, and says that utterances of ent men in the church ata time of i tement have been so. lected and grc onvey the impression that present s are 1 It also denies tl o Mormon church claims to be an nacpendent. temporal king dom of God or to be an imperium in imperio, aiming to overthrow the mfluences of any other civil governwent. It suys that the chureh bas been or Redeemer; that it proclaims ti dom of b o i8 u hand;" thavits mombers are commanded of God to bosubject unto the powers that be until Christ coumes, whose right it s to reign. There is a general d stutements that have the teuth of tho Mormon Ehurcl n circulated giving inside workings of the showing how it controls volitics, administers laws and designs to have Utah made an_indopendent state, so that it can elect n majority of the legislature, wake its own laws and give the Mormon church: a foothold which can uever be up rooted. The names of Wiitd A. Cannon and Joseph k Smith, the presi dents of the church of Jesus Christ, the lat- ter days saints and the members of the coun- cil apostles are sigued to the official declura- tion which is being circulated in large num- bors here for the oxpress purposs of influencing congress in the efforts to throttle furthor legislation intended to stmp out polygamy and tho further puroose of carry- ing forward the projocts of the Mormon caurch in the way of statehood for Utah, AIMY NEWS, Upon his own application, Captain Lous cker, Ninth cavalry, will be relicved uiting ofiicer at Jefferson barracks, as s0on a8 anothier officor reports for ¥ his stead. hie superintondent of tho recruitng s vice will cause thirty-five recruits to be as- signed to the Seventeenth infantry and for- waraed under proper charge to such point or peints in the department of the Plattoe as the commaading general of the department shall designat AU the war department it is stated that in- temperance in the army has beon preatly de- creased by the post canteen systew, It is noarly a year sinco the introduction of the canteen system into the army-as an ofticial adjunct of tho mlitary administration and it proves quite sats! . Of whe one hun- dred and ten garrisoned posts of the army, fiftysseven have cantoens in activeoperation. More than $100,000 was spent during the past year by the soldiers at the nost canteen and of this amount over §15,000 has been returned 1o their companies in the form of dividends for the improvemeat of table fare and social amusoment. A few llustrations are furnishod showing the operation of the post canteen. At Boise barracks, a two company Dost, the receipts for tho first seven weeks were $611, the expendituro $155, leaving $150 to be distributed among the companies of the garrison. At Fort Wadsworth with 120 men the division of profits for the first four months was §3i9 or an average of $25 a month o each battery, At Fort Maxinnis the profits of the tirst month were £360 over and above the expenses of organization. At Fort Lewis the profits for the fifty days amounted to §263, 1 Woodruff, George MISOELLANEOUS, James S. Megeath of Omaha has sent to Senator Manderson a very large and unique potatoe which the senator has had transmitted to Secretary Rusk throvgh the senate committee on agriculture. It isa very curiously shaped vegetable and creates 4 good deal of amusement at the agricultural d«zlrtmenk “&olonel J. G. Tillford of the Ninth cavalry 1o Washiagton, i . Toduy’s Post says: Mrs. Henry F. Blogat of Welling place, Fourteenth ~ street ex- tended, will be at home to her friends on Monday assisted by her daughter, Miss Blount, and the Misses Groff, Perny S, Hearn, — THE CLEARANCE RECORD. Financial Transactions of tho try Forthe Past Week. Bostox, Jan. 10.—| Special Telegram to Tne Bge.|—The following tablo, compiled from special dispatches to the Boston Post from the managers or leading clearing houses of the United States and Canada. shows the gross exchanges for the weck ending Junuary18, with the percentage of increase and decrease, as compared with the corre- sponding weelc in 1800, Coun-" CITIES, CLEARINGS, 5 2 g E 8 Boston Philadelphis Onicazo St Lowms, New Orieans Baltmore. . Pittsburg. San Francisco, Cinciunati . Kansas Uity Louisville. Providence Milwaukee. Minneapolis, Detroit. Bt. Paul.. Omaha Denver. . Clevelund. " Columbus. Memphis. Richmond Indianapolis Galveston Dalias ... Fort Worth Teoria, ... « . Duluth | Hartford 8t Josepn New Haven Portiand, Me, Springtield.. Worcester, =, soentus 5,467,000 4,580215 076 $2=0 | £38,700) 2IRGHAD) Wichita. . 108 Angel Toneka, . Sloux (i Montreal *Rulfalo *Portlend, € *Rirming +Beattio Tacomun *Halifax, Total ...........[ 81140,600691 Outside Now York. 40,117,727 “sNotmcluded in total this time last yoar, 6.4 No clearing house at T Packing House Coopers Restloss, Curoacd, Jan, 19.~Itis possivle that the coopers employed in the shops connected with the packing hiouses at the stock yards will strike tomorrow. Delegates from forty shops met privately this afternoon and 80 decided, according to several of the dele- gates, 'The men are receiving 80 cents for barrels and 35 ceats for tierces, The cause of the proposed strike is the re- fusal of their demand for an ncrease of 5 cents, This is the bnsy season and the coopers are confident of success, ———— The Fire Record, A1700NA, Pa., Jan. 10.—The business por- tion of the village of Frugality was destroyed by fire this worning, Several occupants of the hotel bad narrow escapes. The losses will aggregate £60,000, Kaxgas Cyry, J 19,—~The Industrial iron* works were destroyed tonight by fire; loss, £30,000, —~——— Ten Thousand Oars of Nebraska Corn Orrawa, Ovt, Jan, 10.—Ten thousand c: of Nebrasia corn for the casteru states have accumuluted at Sault Ste Marie, and passen- ger trains are also being badly delayed, i Steamship Arrivals. At New York—The Britanic, from Liver pool. offered to all the | ——— ey 212, NUMBER An Immense Fall of Snow Along the OUentral Paciflo. FEARFUL LOSS OF LIVE STOCK, Gngines and Snow Plows Stue! the Drifts—Four Hundred Pase sengers Sidetracked on the Oregon Short Line, n Snow K ywhore. Oapes, Utan, Jan, 10.—[Special Telogram to Lk BEe.]—The snow blockade on all tho roads in this part of the country continucs, No train on the Central Pacitic sineo Uhnrs- day and none on the Short Line for six days. Twent, on rolief enginos sent out from stations on the Central Pacific yesterday ana today are stuck in drifts, as ave ulso several of the patent suow plows. The Ceutral Pacific has ordered u scrow snow plow from the cast and even ft s side tracked at Sherman. Word comes to- night that there s no assurance of getting this plow through before June. A special from Reno says the storm ended there lust night, and that half the cattle ana sheep in the state will perish. Sparks & Tinnins, in southern Idaho, have lost 8,000 head of cattle, Reports from the Quin river section of Idaho sny all stock will train that lefthere for Sun Franc went out to Reno and roturned this city tonight. Trainmen the snow in the canons in from thirty to sixty feet deen. Stockmén in that country say four-fiiths of the live stock will _perish. No suchstorm has been kuown since the first wihite mun peuctrated these mountuins. George Grays son, a wealthy stockman of Nevada, 18 feed- ing twenty tous of hay aduy and suys he will lose a thousand of his fed cattle and all on the outside. Four hundred avest-bound passengers aro sidetracked at Buker City, on the Oregon Short Line, wailing the open- ine of the blockade. They have now beon accumulativyg for six days, It is thoaght the blockade will be raised there tomorrow or Tuesday, Passengers are getting anxious and accommodations are poor. Several snow plows ure at work from both ends of the blockades. 1118 reported that a terrible snow rred av Red Jacket Saturday, destroying ®uildiogs and the tramways at the mines, No lives were lost, As a sample of the experience of the rail- roads with the storm it might be stated that at Truckee, Cala, huudreds of spow shovelers are working might and - day on the drifts, Five engines undertool to work their way to Reno, but were only abloto go one mile, when they stopped for ten hours in a drift. Five engines were sent out to help them out, but they were doomed to the same fate. After shovelng snow for severai hours they were able to back up to ‘Pruckee, West of Truckee it 18 even worse. Passengers are held in Blue cano A suow plow pushed by five eugines bus been thirty-six hours going to Tunnel 13, about six miles from ‘Truckeo, Provisions stuck in the drifts and cut off are being carried to them on snow shoes after * being taken by suow plows west from ‘Pruckee us far as possible. Twelve engines and a snow plow were only able to go two mwiles and thenstuck fast in the drifts, which seemed to roll badic apon them, although the rotary plows throw the snow ffty feet.’ Eastern people on their way to Californin are now at ‘Lruckee enjoying the California climate with a vengeance. A lot of snow- shovelers who were being paid 2 a day and board struck yestorday for .50 and lost their job and are now trying in vain to get their old jobs back. S. Jacobs, a line ropairer sent west from Truckee Saturday, has not been heard from, wnd 1t1s feared he has ;orished in vhe storm. Snow sheds are breaking n, rendering it dangerous to use the suow plows, so that shovelers do the work. Iileven hundred men reinforced the gang in Blue canon yes- terday. On all the lines' blocknded the pas- sengers are hoing cared for at the expense of the railroad company. s - WYOMING WEATHER. eport Nevada lide oce 1ts Severity Oausing the Shipment of Cattle to Nebraska. Larayie, Wyo., Jan. 19.—|Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.]—The continued severity of the weather in estern Wyoming has caused a number of prominent owners of range cattle in Uinta county to form a pool’ for the purposo of rounding up their cattle and sheep and shipping them to Nebraska, where feed is pienty. A large gang of cow boys are now engaged in the round-up, By this uction the loss of range cattle in Ulnta will be much less than anticipated. This is the first season in many years that the range has not been open there with plenty ot feed. Two thousand Snake river cattle in Carbon :_i(;:mly are reported to be in a starving con- 1o, Not Edna Wilson, Lanaviz, Wyo., Jan, 19.—[Special Tele- gram to Tuz Bee.|—The fomale body re- cently discovered in the Big Horn basin proves not 10 have been that of the missing Edna Wilson. A portion of the dress founa on the corpse and a description of the rings worn were sent to the girl’s mother and she says they have no connection with her miss. ing duughter. There is little doubt, how- ever, that a murder has been committea and an attempt will be mude to iuvestigate the affuir, Iast June u headless horse and woman’s saddle were washed ashore from the Big Horn river, fifteen miles below where the body was found. ——— Pifer Endorses Wickersham's Protest CnicaGo, Jan, 19.—A letter has been write ten by Governor Fifer to the health departe ment of Chicago practically endorsing the protest of Dr. Wickersham against the ships ment of cattle afilicted with lumpy jaw to Chicago under the direction of tho state board of live stock commissioners for slaughtering and rendering. The governor 8ay#, in substance, that if he ascertains from an opinion to be rendered by the sitornoy general that the board acted in conforwmity with the law and had the right to make the shipment of the 109 cattle complained of he will request the commissioners nou Lo exer- cise the privilego in the future, e Non-Partisan W, O, T, U. CreveLasDp, Q., Jan, 19.—Mrs, J. Ellen Foster of lowa aduressed two large aud 5 to-day, in the morning at the First M, E. church and in the evening av Music hall, Mrs, Foster explained the object of the non- partisan Women's Christian Tewperance union to be the promotion of temperance re- formn with 1o side issue: The recent politl- cal pbase of the Wowmen's Christian Tem- perauce union work, she said, had driven wany workers from the old order, The new order would profit by the mistakes of the old and would wish all God-speed in the work of reform, R The Weather Forecast, For Omaha and vicinity: Fair weather, Nebraska—Fair; northerly winds; slight vise in temporature, Towa—L.ocal sn0ws in eastern portion, fol- lowed by fair weather; fair in the western portions; northerly winds; colder, except in extreme westorn portion; stationary teme verature; cold wave in eastern portion. South Dakota—Iair, except light log snows in eustern portlon: northerly wind slight changes io temperature ; cold wave, et ey Thinks Peters s Dead, BERLIN, Jao, 19, —Lieutenunt Rust, who was & mewber of Pelers’ expodition, has ar rived here. He appears couvinced thad Peters 1s dead,