Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 23, 1890, Page 1

\.—;\;N | DY (. < e mer S8 UPON thom all 0 rise and show that they been drawn, and the calling of the roll was “ Tesumed without further-depaesssss FORCED TO SHOW THEIR HAND Democrats in the Iowa Legislature Led Into a Trap. HOTCHKISS LOST HIS TEMPER And Boldly Announced the Intention of His Party to Endeavor to Un« seat Sixteen Republis can Members, * Their Schemes Exposed. Des Moines, la, Jan. 22.—|Special Tele- £ram to Tne Ber.]—The most sensational scene that has ever occurred in the lowa leg- islature took place in the house today, when the republicans exposed the democratic mo- tive for the deadlock. It had been rumored in the lobbies that the democrats would try W uvseat sixteen members, if given the chance, and then proceed to elect a demo- cratic senator in place of Allison, repeal pro- hibition and carry things with a high hand through the session, Of the sixteen mew- bers, fourteon are republicans, and they all come from districts that the aemocrats claim are unconstitutional, not having, it is alleged, the requisite ratio of population, The aemo- crats have ridiculed the idea that any such scheme was intended, but the republicans discovered thut this argnment of unconsti- tutionality was bemg used in the petition prepared by Mr. Lehmann, the democratic candidate for temporary clerk, in the interest for one of the republican seats, in which eontest he appears as attorney 1or the con- testant. The republicans therefore deter mined to force the democrats to show their carefully tho hand today. So in specches they attacked position, and bold] democratic intention, 1f given the spe ship, to carry out the revolutionary procecd- ing. There was great oxcitement on both pdes of the house, and the republi- cans provoked the democrats till one of thom, Hotchkiss of Davis county, walked into the trap aud boldly announced that he did not believe that any member elected for those gorrymandered districts should be seated. The republicans then said that there could be no more confereuce between them on any arrangement looking to giviog the democrats the gavel, for they knew very weil that it would beused in & revolutionary way. Hotchkiss quickly replied that if he wero spes’.or he would agree to leave the roll as it is, *Will you put that in tho republicans, “Yes, 1 will,” e answered. “Will your colleagues also” stand by it?" was the next question. *Yes, they will,” cried Hotchkiss, “and I prepared democratic writing?” shouted intend no trickery.” “hen turning toward the democrats, he shouted, *'Stand up, entlemen,” but not a man nrose. “Your silence confirms my charge,” said Mr. Blytbe, the republican loader, while the spectators and republicans cheered to the echo. Tne democrats were overwhelmed wita coufusion ut the trap into which thoy had Hotcbkiss was 8 greenbacker who had been eleoted by fusion with the democrats, but had not been taken into the democravic secret, and unintentionally placed them in a posiion where they dare not afrm and could not deny. ‘The democratic plot to unseat the sixteen members is the talk of tho state, and the republicans are determined now to resist any overtures that would eive the.demo- crals any opportuuity to carry out their plot. A Lively *cenn In the House. Des Moixes, Ia., Jan. 22.—In the house the seventy-third roll call for temporary clerk were taken up. This time eighty-six votes was cast, Ewart (independent) still voting with the democrats, making the tie still on. After the fourth roll call a lively scene took place. Blythe rose to state the reasons why the republicans would not accept tho democratio proposition. He said the repub- licans had decided in caucus that it would not do to let Léhman have the place, as he was a probable candidate for senator. He believed that a number of districts were un- constitutionally made up, una in bis posivion he might exclude members from seats. He spoke " in supsort of this assertion, saying that the democrats had not a clear majority in the house, nor even fifty straight votes, Holbrook said that the proposition haud the support of fifty members: that while they all were not straight democrats they had veen nominated and elected by democrats, and proposea to stay there and press their rights. Ricbman of Muscatine spoke, saying thot the denocrats rightfully demaunded the spoakership because a majority of the voters were with ther and would sustain their de- wand. Chaso (rep.) spoke in reply, saying that the republicans had a majority’ of many of the questions, und especiully on prohibition, and proposed 'to stand together, Hotohkiss (dem.) spoke after Chase. He said that he wondered how any member could at the same time have any regard for nis oath and vote for an infamous gerrymun- der bill. Blythe, In asking a question, got an ex- pression of opinion from the democrats on the representative districts question. Hotchkiss was the only one who would not move in the matter in the session. He ap- pealed to the democrats to sustain him, but not one other ross to support the assertion. Later Hotchkiss said he had reference merely to the matter of organization, After anotber vote the house adjourned until toworrow morning, The Senate, Des MoiNes, Ia., Jan. —In the senate this afternoon the following bills were intro- duced: By Kngle—To amend chapter 9 of the code of 1578 to wake the law applicable to private bunks. 8y Finn—To amend the code of 1878 in reference to the election of county ofticers; also to amend the code of 1878 fu reference to the terms of office of county suditors and tyeasurers, By Mack—To repeal tho first four seo- tions of chapter 12 of the code in reference to the permanent school fuud, and enact a substitute therefor:also to require a United States flag on school buildings, and provid- iug for singing and teachiog patriotic musie, By Nuil—To fix the liability of state banks. By Funk—Restri m'f railway corpora- tions from limiting the life of railway mile- age. By Carson—To regulate the welghing of coul i coal mives and establisbivg a uni- form systew of weighing. A resolution was troduced by Kelly that 1o more bills be introduced until the legisia~ ture s fully organized. This provoked dis- gussion and was inally adopted by vote of 1o 9, Guteh was opposed to more bills being acted upou until the genoral assembly was fully organized. Fhose opposed 10 him ar gued that the senate was ready for business 8nd tual it was not necessary to wait for Ahie house, Thy Yoto shows that & tuority Of the senators wre unwilling to take ,risks 10 geard to legislation, Incendiaries at Work, Makuue Rock, Ia., Jau. 23.—[Special to Tug Bee. |~ Tho little town of Nora Sorings 10 Floyd county is all torn up on sccount of EENTH YEAR. THE OMAHA DAiLy BEE an attempt to burn their seminary three times in tho past weck. Thore has been a row between tiie people of Nora Springs and the prizncipal, and the attemoted incen diarism 1w the ontgrowth, Last summer the principal made the citizens a probosition, 80 they aver, that if they would put in $3,000 he would put in the other £3,000, build a sem- inary. conduct it on his own plan as other in- stitutions, and at the end of fifteen vears it would revert to him, A contract was drawn which in fact did not bind him to that, and as fur a8 can be ascertained, he did not put in anything of the #3000 ho promised, claim- ing that his contract (ovs not 8o specify, A morteage of §00 was placed recently on the institution since its compietion, and ho has ved sowe $40 for the fall term tuition which they think should go toward the pay- ment of the mortguge. The heaviest con- tributors have ondeavored to forco & sottlement, Last week tho building took fire in tho third story ana was bavely saved from destruction. Two more attempts were made since, but were discovered in time to save the building, Public excitement has run high. Indigna- tion meetings have veen held and measures devisod to ascertain the ncendiary. An at- tempt will be made to have aboard of direct- ors appointed for the istitution and the whole matter amicably settled, to avoid fur- ther attempts on the part of some disgrun- tled party to destro; Gas Works Siovx Crry, Ta., Jan, 22.—[Spec gram to Tue ¥ —Atv 11 o'clock last night two large iron purifying reservoirs at the gns works exploded. The shock smashed window glass and sashes within several blocks and shook houses in remote parts of tue city. The entire west end of the gas works building was blown out and reduced to o mass of debris. Theloss 1s about £10,000, as lights all over the city were suddenly extinguished. The cause of the explosion is believed to be a leak in the res- ervoir, but the actual maanor of ignition is not satisfactorily explained. The Saprome Coure. Des Morxes, Ia., Jan. 22.—|Special relo- gram to Tue Bre|—Tho following decis- ions wery rendered by the supreme court today: State of Jowa vs H, C. Shank, apppellant; Montgomery district; aflirmed. H. Fitch and Phaove J. White va M. Reiser, uppellants; afirmed, Achasal Newans vs John Newans et ul, executors, appellants; Benton district; af- firmed. N. S, Beal & Co., appellants, Stevens; Tama district; aftirmed, ZAtua Iron and Metal Works, appellant, v Martha Chickasaw district; vs C. J. Kossuth county; Kmmett district; re- versed. A Conl Famine Threatened. Forr Dovag, Ia., Jan. 22.—[Speciai Tele- gram to Tue B —Northern ITowa 18 threatened with an immediate coal famine, wiiich, if the present cold weather continues will entail much suffering. The Fort Dodge and Lehigh coal fields are the principal source of fuel supply for this region. At present more than half the miners are suffer- ing grom the grip and unabie to work. The remainder are working night and day, but can not supply the demand. Special trains are run from the mines to meet urgent de- mands, but dealers announce that thoy can noy fill half their orders. The Per Stook Assoolation. Booxe, Ta., Jan. 22— [Special Telegram to Tae Bee, |—The ninth annual mecting of the Towa State Poultry and Pet Stock associa- in in this city today. Members are here from all over the state, and the largest amount of poultry is exhioited ever kaown in the history of the organization, there being over three hundred fowls in the coops. 1. K. Felch, the well known Massachusetts poultry fancier, is the judge in_tho contests. A business session will be held tomorrow. A Collision at Stanton. CnEstoy, Ia,, Jan, 22.—[Special Telegram to Tur Bee.]—An oxtra eastbound freight collided with a passenger trai this morning at Stanton, Fortunately the sve - er train was brought to a standstl <siore they struck, aud the passengei’ ~:»4ly knew what was the matter. Eogic.ec Giapp re- ceived a broken leg in jumping. The freight Was running on the passenger train's time. Eloped With a Gambler, Sioux City, [a, Jan. |Special Tele- gram to Tue Beg.]—James Carroll, kuown among the gambling fraternity as “Foxy,’ left this city a fow days ago in company with Miss Jessie Halverstone, a handsome girl of seventeen vears, the daughter of re- spoctable and prominent parents. A brother of the giri left today for St. Paul, where the police have located the runaways. Potts Gets 1bree Years. INDIANOLA, T, Jan. 22.—|Special Tele- gram to Tme Bee.|]—Constable Potts, the noterious prohibitiun searchar who was con- victed of perjury in a trial here, was sen- tenced today to the penitentiary for three years. The charge of perjury grew out of a former trial for bribery in connection with whisicy cases. A Prominent Dubuqus Man Dead. Dunuque, I, Jon, 22— [Special Telegram to Tug Bee]--Dr. X, P. Lull, one of the leading capitalists ana business men of this city, died today from an attack of conges- tiou of tho lungs, following la grippe. He Wwas a very prominent citizen and was con- nected with many leading industries, Suicide of a Convict. CEDAR RAPIDS, Ta., Jan. 22.—[Special Tel- egram to Tnw Bk |—George Taylor, re- cently sentenced from Maquoketa to a term ot eighteen months 1 the penitentiary for robbery, nung himself in his cell at Ana- mosa this morning with bis neck scarf. Creston Note, CresToy, In, Jan. 22.—[Special Telogram to Tre Bee.]—Mr, George Hobbs, an old aud highly respected eitizen of Creston, died of malaria this morning. A. R. Fuller today twok possession under a chattel mortgage of the stock of hardware #nd groceries of his son-in-law, L. H. Grifiin. Judge Macomb Daad. Drs MoiNEs, Ia,, Jan, 22.—Word has just been received here of the death of Juage Macomb of the district court of Ida county, which occurred at his home in Ida Grove today trom an attack of 1a grippe. o L CIVILIZATION'S SAVAGES, Plymouth Poles Desecrate the Dead Or a Rival KFaction, WiLkessakke, Pa, Jan, ‘The Polish church war at Plymouth was renewed this evening, The Polish faction went w0 the cemotery and dug up the bodies of the Lithu- anisus buried uuder police Hruwcllon yester- 'ho coftins woro broken open and the dragged all over the ground and thrown over the fence. Two bodies were horribly laceraipd by pick axes used in breaking open the cofius, When armed Lithuaniaus arrived the Poles ted. There 18 talk of lynch law. e Board of Indian Missions. WasmNGTON, Jan, 22.—The board of In disn missions beld its wnnual meeting today. This evening Senator Moody of South Da- kola wade au address in which he opposed toe severalty act and cootended that o white settlers were not permitted to take up more thun 160 acres the Indian should not be given a larger amount, e — No Contract Labor for Oanada, Orrawa, Ont., Jav, 23.—A bill was intro- duced in the houso of congress yesterday to prohibit the Iu‘xiporul.lon aud immigration of foreigners and aliens uder coutract or agreement to perform labor in Cavada. ?‘ THE BACILLUS OF INFLUENZA. A Very Important Discovery by Two Young Scientista. VIENNA MED:!CAL MEN AGITATED. The Belief That La Grippe 16 a Fore- runner of Cholera KEffectually Disposed Of—Comts De Paris Cuming to Amerioa. A Wonderful Discovery. (Copyright 1590 by James Gordon. Benn eth,| ViENNa, Jan. 23, —[New York Herald Cable ~Special to Tie Bee. | —The medical faculty of Vienna1s groatly agitated over the discov- ery of the bacillus of influenza by Drs, Maxi- milian and Adolphe Jolles of the bacterian labratory of the general hospital. The young scientists had desermined to keep their discovery secret until Saturaay, when, at a special meetiug of the medical faculty, they proposea to relate their experiences and studies of the last two months, which have been so successful. I was let into mto the secret by one of the wmany American scientists who are studying in the labratory. I presented mysolf at the farm of the bacilli breeders and found them quite ready to accord the primeur of their discov- ery to tke Herald in recognition of its arti- cles from Spain about cholera innoculutions, and from Vera Cruz about the peronospera lutea of yellow fever. “*We camo upon the trace of the baceilli quite accidentally,” said Dr. Maximilian Jolles, “ubout the middle of December in a sample of urine sent us by a prac- titioner who thought that hi patient was suffering from a kidney disease. Examining the urine microscopieally we discovered a bacillius which, owing to the poculiar cassock formation of the head, wo called ‘the bishop of bacilli’ It was a bacitlius we had never seen before, nor had it ever been sighalled by any bucteriologist. W2 immeaiately set to work with the whole staff upon the examination of the urine of influenza patients in the general hospital and in private practice, and in every case bishop bacilli were found in great numbers, while in the execre- tions from various other maladies examined at the same time the bacilli could not be found, This we aid to avoid the argument brought againet the Mexican doctor, Cordo. via, to the efrect that perenospera lutea is found in the blood of all who die in certain seasons at Vera Cruz, whbether yellow fever be prevaleny or not.” The doctor then introduced me into a laboratory where iv inserted glass tubes the bacill were seen at rest and where the cultivation of the bacilli was in success- ful progress. i 'As yousee,” said the doctor, “they re- sembla in no way the cholera microbe, but have many points of resemblance with the bacilli of pneumonia, discovered by Dr. Friedlander.” I'then carefully examined the bacilli in the glass tubes stopped with cotton and half full of gelatine. On top of the gelatine I no- ticea what with tae naked eve looked like a mlky white spot, round in form. With a microscope I saw a small animalculm, elliptic in form and sharply defined. The ereat majority were yellow in color, but in the largest and oldest the cassock-shaped heads were dark blue. They were lying parallel and very close to each other. Then the doctor showed me a tube containing Asiatic cholera microbes, which looked like fine cotton threads, atd differed in every way from the influenza bacilli. Asseen through a microscope the cholera microbe resembles an infinitesimal. “I hope,” said the doctor, that the Her- ald will accentuate the absolute difference in form and nature between the two animal- culae because it 18 atill popularly believed that infuenza is a forerunner of cholers, which belief, I think, we have scientifically disposed of now. Ou the other hand, the in- fluenza bacilli and the pneumonia bacilli-are undoubtedly of the same family and anal- agous,” Then I was shown the bacilli of pneu- monia, discovered and cultivated by Dr. Friedlunder, They were less brilliant, less yellow iu color.and not nearly so elliptic in form and also much larger, with heads quite as clerical-looking as the influenza bacillius. In the case of the influenza bacilli one doos nov see the azeous bubbles to be seen in gelatine, m which the pneumema bacilli are cultivated. Looking around at this poiut I noticed various sized jars re- sombling those in which last spring two of M. Pasteur’s talented assistants endeavored 1o cultivate, attenuate aud brepare for innoc lation purposes the bacilli of diphtheria, *'I see, doctor,” I romarked, “thut you are getting at the practical side of the discovery. When will you begin vaccination, or rather innocu- lation, against influenza " “*Well, I huve no 1dea, but would not like 10 think that the happy process 18 postpoued very long. Had you not noticed the prepa- rations I would not have spoken of our at- tempts at all, as up to the preseut they have not been very satisfactory. We have bred the bacilli and attenuated substantiaily the virus, but our first case of innoculation killed the patient, aravbit, on whom we tried it & week ago. He died immediately of blood poisoning. I cannotspeak about the experiments upon which we are now en- gaged except to say that they promise well. Another curious discovery,” concluded the doctor, “‘was.madae on December 28, when the epidemio was at its height. I then examined some of the water which comes to the city from the Kaiser well, a bundred kilometers away, i the Styrian mountains, and I find 228 bacilli 1 every cublo centimeter of water.” The young discoverer is a Viennese by birth, of small size, blonde and with a Van- dyke beard. He has only recently taken up his present position, having been for six yoars professor of bacteriology at the University of Wurzburg, e THE COMTE DE rARIS, He Will Visit North America and the West Indies. [Copyright 1850 by Jamss Gordon Beanstt,) LoNpox, Jan. —[New York Herald Cuble—Special to Tue Bee.)—Advices from Lisbon leave little doubt, according to the Freoch press, that the Comte de Faris in- tends to visit North America and the West Indies before returning to England, aud that nis journey will extend over some two months or more. This information, which in view of the Comte de Paris' close rela- tionship with the royal family of Portu gal and the existing little difienlty be- tween that country and Greav Britain, is easy of comprehension, but of course the official reasous given for the trip are ou a different basis. In conversation with a rep- resentative of 8 Paris newspaper, an influ- ential mewber of the royalist party, while absolutely confirming the truth of the state ment, gaye as the priucipal motive for the ()MAHA. 'le‘lN])AY MORNING, JANT JARY journey the Comte de Paris? desire to pay a visit to his old companiows-in-arms during the American war of sccossfon, The inter- viewer endeavored o obtaina more precise avswer to bis questions, but was met with the reply: “There is somathing certainly, butit is a delicate matter, which can only be touched upon with the greatast caution. o < .4 Ex-Minister Pendieton’s Remains. | Copyright 1590 by dames Gordon Bennettl Darrsovrn, Jan. New York Her- ald Cable—Special. to Tue Bre.]—The American sloop-of-war Eaterprise has ar- rived here, huving on board the remains of Mr. G. W. Pendleton, ex-United States min- ister at Berlin, for conveyance to New York for interment. The Enterprise will coal ana sail in a day or two. A TARIFF KEFORM. Oleveland Olaims & Monopoly of It for Democracy. New Yok, Jan, 22.—Morrison Munford, editor of the Kansas City Times, who s visiting Now York, has had an interview with ex-President Cleveland, which he tele- graphed 1o his paver tonight. The following portions of general interest are taken: Mr. Cleveland has lost none of the zeal for tariff reform which ibspired his celebrated message, It is most gratufying to me,” ho said, “‘that the musses,as well s the leaders of the party, are taking hold of the tariff issue with such spirit and evident determin- ation to win, My leticrs from overy part of the country show the extent aad depth of the agitatfon. 1 was genu- inely pleased,” suid Cleveland, “to find in Boston a degree of eagncstness and fervor beyond that of men ‘engaged in politics. From my observations thcre and in New York and from my correspondence, 1 con- clude that the thinking men of the country are massed almost solidly on the side of tariff reform.” Ithen said to Cleveland, the democratic party ie already preparing for 1892 and look- ing forward lo that eampaign with con- fidence, and the sentiment was virtually unanimous that he shoald be our head. A8 to that,” he replisg, *at 18 the cause and not the personal Cousiderations that should concern us, If I consuited my own feelings I would prefer to have some one clse take the lead.” “‘But no one else 1 thougut of among the democratic ma ses.”” ““Men who have tHe elements of leadership develop rapidly and it is along time till 1892, quickly replied the ox-president. “It is not a matter of men butof: yrinciples. It would be a pity not to carry. forward the work which the party has 8o geandly inaugurated, and there ougnt to be no bhlt until the ends aimed at are compassed and the people are in the full possession of the beuetits and bless- ings which the sccumnulatipn of the inequal~ ities, called into existence by apathy on the one side, _and self * interest on the other, have divs d. from them. I rejoice in the feeling the democratic Durty is tho Tepository of he bast principles and purposes; that its teem with the intelligent young mauhead of the country; that 1t enjoys a complets: fuonopoly of avery American policy nob ‘mérely sectional or time-serving.” SOU.TH DAKO1A l,DES'l'llU e, Terrible Suffering in Ninctoon Coun- tie ed. CHIcAGo, Jan, 23 —~An FAssocinted press reporter just returned ffom the northwest brings with him a tale 4# ‘terrible sufforing aud:destitugion in niugtesftgonntiesof South Dakota, gathered from ¥ who have buv recently been eye- “'.P._"’:o what they. s0 graphically describs. Mr. F. E. Paxton; a well-to-do business man of Shabbona, DaKalo county, this state, who spent some days in the afllicted dis- tricts, says: p ‘*HoweVer hard land sharks and other in- terested parties may try to keepthe true state of things from the people of this country they caunot long be successful. ‘The successive failure of four years' crops have reducod those formerly well-to-do to a condition of sorest distress, Many thou- sands of families are without means of any kind. They lack the wherewithalto pur- chase the necessaries of lite.” *‘In Miver county,” Paxton smd, ‘‘they have no flour, the staple of life being baaly ground corn meul, und there is deplorably Little of that. Every farm is mortgaged, in many places for more than asale under present conditions would realize. Most of their stock has basen levied on and sold by the sherift at public sugtion. the ridiculously low prices obtained beidg eloquent, not only of the starving conditdoniof the catule, but of the scarcity of means in the community, cows fetching as low as 5 a piece, horses $3 and $10, while sheep and pigs are simply un- saleuble, there being nothing to feed them with, ! The women and children bear evidences of the bardships they have undergone, with their pinched and meegre faces. In many instances they are quite uoprovided with clothing with which to‘yithstand the rigors of winter, what they naw have being in a ragged and worn out condition, “Elour is tho thing. most needed,’ said Paxton, “especially in Kingsbury and Miner countics, and clothing for the womon and children. Provisions-of any kind just now would be a God send to thousands who are in a sem1-starving condition, Unless relier is given with a hiberal hand this winter in South Dakota you will hear of many deaths from uhsnlgm starvation, and the reports will undou$tediy have their foundation in fact.” Mrs, A, C. Cleveland of Esmond, S D, confirms Mr. Paxton’s story. T'nis lady is now inMinneapolis, where she is maging heroic efforts in behalf of the sufferers, e A Wenlthy Philnatbhropist's Wil'. Pierke, S, D, Jan, 22 —[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.]—~The will of the lute Dr. Francis P, Wright, a wealthy philanthropist of this city, has been filed in the probote court. After remembering handsowely sev oral distat, relatives, heibemng childless, he gives 220 acres of the mogt valuable land in, ‘Tazewell county, Illinbis, valued at$50,000, to the American Bible by of New York, if it will accept, but if nos Yhen iv goes to the Woman's hospital of W. The balance of the estate, representing #75,000, will be jo- vested ingbonds and spcupisies and be made a permanent fund to be used:for the benefit of the indigent children of 1t is a grand bequest. South Dakota's Delmgunent Taxe Pienue, 8. D, Jan. 23.~fSpecial Telegram to Tue Bee.]—In the fi-m today the time was mostly occupied in@ebate on the gues: tion of extending the sfme for delinquent taxes from February to September. Aftera bot debate u substitute, was finally offered by Seaator Caine, in pldos of tho original motion and awmendmenty 40 extend the time of puyment of taxos tadaoe 1, with no pen- alty or wnterest. The sublstitute was awended 0 rexéuu-e 1 por oent afsgrJune, The ques- tion finally went over, r-— The Woather| Forecast, For Omaha and vicloity: Light snow, followed by clearing weather. Nebraska: Snow in eastern portion, fair in western portion; gouthwesterly wind, be- coming variable; warmer In eastern, station- ary temperature n western portion, Towa: Threatening weuther, with snow; generally warmer; southerly winds, South Dakota: Fair, followed by local SnOWS; warmer 1o eastera and western por- Lions, stationary tempersture in central por- tion; variable wind Fowd:r #ill Blows Up. EpINusuRa, Jau, 33.-By the emplosion of a powder mill atRoslyu five meu were killed aud many iujured, Passing the Sociaii¢ Bill. Berlia, Jup, 2.~ Dhe reichstag bas passed eleven clauses of the socialist. bill. TWO UNFAITHEUL STEWARDS, Recosivers Steinmetz and Hudso) 2 Short in Their Accounts. THEY wiLL BE DISMISSED. Other Land Office Delinauents tility to the Kussian Extradition Treaty—Senator Paddock's Brother Dead. 0s- 513 FOURTEENTH STREET, Wasmixaros, D. C., Jan, 22, It is learned tonight, from the socretacy of the interior that Receiver Steinmetz of Mc Cook is short in his settloment with the land oftice about §2,300 and that Receiver Hudson at Lincoln is short about the same amount. They will be dismisaed from their positions and forced to setsle. They are democrats. GOOD CAMPAIGN THUNDER. The investigatious that have been going on into the accounts of holdover democratic ofticials and those who have been ulready removed by the present administration will furnish the republican orators with a good deal o) materiai for the next campaign, When the Arthur administration went out of office their successors did not discoyer one solitary defaleation, nor wore any of the Jjudiciary ofticials found to be shortin their accounts, but so far a large number of democratic officials have failed to make good the money due from them to the governs went and in the land office there have re. cently been several serious cases discovered. UNDOUBTEDLY DEAD, The Russian extradition treaty is un- doubtedly dead. Whea it was called up for consideration in the executive session of th senate the other day there were some ver) strong speeches made in opposition to it The clause providing for the extradivion of persons guilty of high crimes was adopted, but when the clause defining what a bigh crime is_and providing that attempts upon tie life of the czar or any of the imperial family should not under this treaty be con. sidered political crimes, but classed with at- tempts to murder, manslaughter, forgery, ete,, and exvraditable, was reached a very very obstinate objection was raised. There 18 .8 groat deal of sym- pathy among the American legislators as well as Americau citizens in private. Life with all persons who are under imperious Rovernments. The natives of Ireland have no mere sympathy thun the IRussians who are trying to secure & government for tho people und by the people. The clause in the treaty which would make 1t impossible for the free thinkers of Russia to flee to this country for refuge was most bitterly at- tacked and on its account the treaty was sont k to the committee on foreign rela- tions for further consideration. Unless this clause is stricken out or modified the treaty will never be raufied. SILCOTT'S VICTIMS, Since the vote of the house of representa- tives the cther day refusing to pass tho bill to reimburse certain members the money lost by the defalcation of their cashier, those who suffered most haye been trying to 1vent a scheme to accomplish the same pur- pose, aad several bills have already been ins troduced bearivg on the subject. There was not 80 much consclence io this vote as av- cared upou the surface, but mars pohicy, 'or, mindful, of the fate of the mewmbers who voted for the salary grab some . fifteen years ago, those who represent.doubtful dis- tricts were very careful to record themselves on tho negative side of the proposition, bt it may be regarded as pretty certuin that the depleted purses of the statesmen will be re- filled froin the public treasury in some way or another, or human ingenuity has lost its cunning. Two members have gone to the court of claims to recover the money they lost by the defalcution. SENATOR PADDOCK’S BROTHER DEAD. Senator Paddock was greatly shocked this morning upon the receipt of a telegram from New York announcing the sudden death last evening of his brother, the Hon. Franklin A. Paddock, of that city. Senator Paddock had been expecting & visit from his brother, which was to begin on Saturday of this week, and the news naturally was a terrible blow. He took the firsttrain for New York, where he will remain until aftar the funeral. Franklin A. Paddock was the oldest son of Ira A. Paddock of Glenn Falls, N.Y., and was several years the senior of ' the senator, For many years he had beea a prominent practitioner at the New York bar, and was closely iaentified with the political reforms of the republican party in that city. He was one of the earliest members of the Union League club, in which, up to the date of his death, he was an active and respected mem- ber. For a number of years he had been on the committce on political reform of that great organization and had been several times one of its directors. He was also chairman of the judiciary committee of the bar association of the city of New York. More than two years ago Mr., Paddock suffered from a slight stroke of paralysis due to his excessive labors in his profession, and was compelled for a nuwber of months to reure from active labors. He had Jately resumed his practice, and with increasing health was sanguine of the future. He leaves a family in New York city. and a brother and sister, the former. Senator Pad- dock of Nebraska, and the latter, Mrs. John Higby of Beatrice. POSTMASTERS APPOINTED. Towa—Conred, Iowa county, B. F. Rog- ers, vice Gallup, resigned; Pilot Grove, Lee county, C. A, Lee, vice H. J. Mercer, resigned; Plymouth, Cerro Gordo county, Mary H, Wareham, vice R, A, Wareham, deceased; Readding, Ringgold county, J, A, Andrews, vice D, M, Smith, removed. South Dakota — Hill City, Hennington county, J. Hare, vice C. E. McEachron, re- moved} Lennox, Lincoln county, P, L. Haas, vice Wilkinson, removed; Wentworth, Lake county, E. E. Stevenson, vice C, H. Weiss, MISCELLANEOUS. The commissioner of the general land offce has informed Senator Manderson that ho is considering the question of surveying the lowa Indian reservation in Nebraska, with a view of bringing the lands into the market. Upon the recommendation of Representa- tive Dorsey a medical board of pension exam- iners was toduy flgpfllnwfl for Litehfield, Sherman county, Neb., as follow: Drs. G, W. Kettell, J. W, Goff and W. Archerd. 3y direction of the secretary of war Com- missary Sergeant George W. Perkins, now at Fori Randall, South Dakota, will, 'upon the arrival of Commissary Sergeant enja- win Hirdsall, be relieved from duty at that post and proceed to Kort Pewbina, North Dakota, By direction of secretary of war Howard A. Lyon, company A, Seventeenth infantry, now on furlough, will bo discharged, W. J. Carroll of Omaha 1s here, B, A. Demony was today appointed post- maswer at Genoa and Albert G. Pickering at Kowanda, N b, Secretary Windom hes written Lind of the nouse commitiee on commerce, stating thut he perceives no reason for making Sioux Civy a port of delivery or Rock Island, I, a port of entry, ‘I'he senate committee on foreign relations today ordered ae adverse report made on Seoator Call's Cuban resolutions. W. Laoniog is at New York for a day, J. H. Damont and W, L. Adams of Oinaha are at the Ebbitt, Judge S. P, Duvidson of Tecumsen, Neb,, is here on busiuess before the supreme court, Hon. John M, Thurston daily now, « M. H. Day, of Rapid City, 8. D.; is at the WASHINGTON Buneav Tie Omawa Bew, } is expected nhere National. Perpy 8. Hean, e Governor 's Protest. Wasuinaron, Jan, 22 —Willam L, Bird, Koveruor of the Chickasaw nation, in & vom- munication ioduy laid before the senate a protest against the proposed establishment of & territorial form of government in Okla- homa as & violation of the treaty of 1830, He says such a change would be the an- nihilation of the Indian tribes in the Indian territory. - THE SAMOAN TREATY w't Will be Made Publi A Syno psis -4 of the Compact, ¥ Wasimixaroy, Jan, 8 The senate today Z secret session resolved to make public the ‘i noan treaty negotiated in Berlin last % ing. Secrotary Blaino's letter to the © ssident accompanying the treaty is very The subj a8 to which the com soners were instructed come under five heads. 1. They were directed to ask the restora- . of the status quo in order to remove the disturbance caused by the forcible inter vention of Germany and the depositation of Malietoa. 'This was not to be, however, an ultimatum which would close the conference. 2, The organization of a stable govern- mental system for the islands wheroby the native independence and autonomy should be preserved free from the control or prepon derating influence of any foreign govern- nent, 8, The adjustment of land claims. 4. Tho prohibition of the sale of and alchobolic liquors, 5. Tho question of the municipal adminis tration of Apiaas a foreign settloment under due reservation of extra territoriai righ Tho secre says: The protocols of soveral sessiona he ith submitted sh the discussion which took place on of these importunt heads and fircarms ) the ind successive stages by which the views of the three gov ments thercon came into har mony. ‘Iie resultis in the wain entirely 10 accord with the instructions under which the American plenipoteutiaries acte 1t is proper to observe that the matters in respect of which the agreement scemed most difticult were the restoration of tho stutus quo the formation of a statle government without n preponderence of influcnce on the part of any of the troaty powers und the raising of revenuo for the waintenunce of that government. As to the first of these poiuts the chief ob stacle to the uvqualifioa rencwal of the status was found in the reluctance of Ger many to admit such a situation as would ay- pear to leave Mataafa, agaiust whom sho had declared war, eligible for tho froe « of the natives as king. It is dently believed that these dific are removed, and the Samoans thoms in the exercise of the freedom which they are to continue to enjoy appear to have effected a practical solution of the matter, On the second point the dunger of a pre pouderating influence on the bart of any one of the threo powers is obviated by taking the chief foreign adviser and judge from a neutral natiou. The revenuc question has been adjusted with due regard to the limited resources of the nutives In conclusion the secretary expresses tho hope that the act may be conducive to the good government of Samoa under native au tonomy and to the lasting settlement of the vexed questions which have ugitated the three powers in their complex relutions to these islands. . e NON-PARTISAN W. C. T. U. Oae Hunared Delegates Present from a Doz :n States, CreveLAND, O., Jan. The convention called by a committee of ladies connected with the nom-partisan Women's Christian ‘Temperance union for the purpose of the or- ganization of a ational union was opened this worning. One hundred delegates from a dozen states were present. The morning was devoted to prayer and bible work. The afternoon scssion of the convention A :.:-p&nnd with devotional excrcises after whicn ér8 wers read, \C thern one from Mrs. Bishop Nowman of Omaha. On motlon of Mrs, Aldrich of lowa acommittee on ¢on- stitution was appointed, consisting of one member from each state represented. Among the members are: Illinois, Mrs. E, M, Har- vey; lowa, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, A committee on resolutions was_appointed as follows: Ohio, Mrs. Hatch; Minnesota, Mrs. O'Neil; West Virginia, Mrs. Swaney; Maine, Mra. Joues; lowa, Mrs. Miller; Penn sylvania, Miss Clark; Now York, Mrs, Al- ford; Michigan, Mrs. Cudlum; Hiinois, Mrs. Webster; District of Columbia, Mrs. ‘Iiton. Mrs, Aldrich offered a resolution that the new organization huve not less than threo nor more than five general departments of work whicn could be sub-divided. After considerable discussion 1t was decided ~that the board of managers should consist of not less than three nor more than five members, Recess was taken until evening. At the evening session addresses of wel- come made by the delegates were responded 10 by Mrs. Aldrich, B SENSASIONAL TESTIMOMY, A Very Positive Witness in the Chi- cago Gambling Investigation, CH1cAGO, Jan. 22.—|Special Telegram to Tar Bge.]—Sensational testimony against the democratic city administration was pro- duced today before ihe grand jury in the investigation of gumbling in Chicago, Among the witnesses called by the citizens’ association was Henry L. McLean, *'I have been in almost every gambling resort in town,” said he, “and I can give the names of the proprietors. 1 have played in them and have lost. Ican prove that houses are kept open for the purpose of gaming and can swear o the nawmes of the proprictors, 1 can go further, I know and can prove It, 100, that the administration has been bought off by the ring.” “Are you sure of thati" “I certuinly am, Iknow my business and would not make o statement which was not true, My lawyer knows the facts which I have mentioned, and 1n fact there is no rea- son why everybody should not know it. All that i8 necessary is to make a few inquiries,’” A A COUNTY SBEAT WAL, The Partisans of Rival Texas Towns Fighting, AusTiy, Tex,, Jan, 22.—News was received this morning of a terrible shooting affair av Johnson City, Blanco county, For about fifteen years there has been a heated controversy over the removal of the county seat from Blanco, located four miles from the county line, to Johnson City, Five years ugo an elsction was held to muke John- son City the county seat, but it resulted io & failure. Another election to decide tne ques- tion was held Mondey amidst intense excite- ment. Whnen it was known that 1t resuited in favor of Johnson City there was a clash and a fight o which pistols were used, Ben Cage, 4 prominent business man of Blanco, gotintoadificulty with Zach Lioyd, a Johnson City mat, in which he shot Lioyd through the right lung, Lloyd will die. The shooting between the two factions then became gencral snd Daputy Sheriff Crosby was wounded in the tbigh.” The dis- turbance was tically quelled and Cage is in chargo of officers, and friends conveyed Blanco to Jail to prevent his being lynched, A gentleman just from Johnson City says tense excitement prevails in the county and believes many men will be killed before the affair ends, i r— Wire Works Lestroyed. Sr. Louis, Mo., Jan, 22.—The extensive mill und works of the Freemun wire and irou company located in KEast St. Louis, caught fire about 10:30 this worning, and with the exception of the warehouse in which there was a lurge amount of manufac- tured stock, were entirely destroyed, The plaot was valued at $100,000, on which there Wwas §0,000 insuravce, ‘Yhe works em- ployed 200 bands and will rebuild at once, - Will Submit to Arbitration, Panis, Jan. 22, —The Siecle says France will probably submit the New Fouudland dificulties to arbitration, but adds that thers must be Ko repetition of 1885, “If England is unabie to exercise authority,” suys the Siecle, ‘‘we are justified in desiring the autovomy of New Foundland or its anpexs- tion to the United States WASHINGTON, T NUMBER 215 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS The Farm Mortgage Bill Sent Baol . to the Census Committee. OUR AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION Teller Denies That Protection is the Cause, and Attributes it to Bpecie Payments ~Fed- eral Prisons nate, WasHINGTON, dan. 22 —Among the bills reported and placed on the calendar in the sonate today was one increasing to £2.500 o yoar the pension now allowed to the widow of General Kilpatrick. Me. Chandler offered a concurrent sesolie tion, which wont over till toworrow, authord izing the committee on immigration in the two houses to investigate the workings of the various laws of the United ates and several states in rogard to immigration from forcign countries: and also to investigate the working of contracts by the secretary of the treasury under the law of congress of August 2, 1882, with the various state coms missions, boards and officers. ie senato then resumed govsideration o the bill that discussed yesterday to ascertain what percentage of the people own their farms, the number of furms uuder mortgage and the amount thercof. In resvonse to Mr. Vest's remark of ye teraay Mr. Teller remarked that the presens agricvltural depression was not peculiur to the Unitea States. 1t prevailed in all the countries of the world except France. A recent partiamentary enguiry had shown that British farmers haa within twelve years sunk more than halt of their capital. The condition of the British farmers could not be attributed to the protective taviff. The trouble wus neither free trade nor protection. Since tho United States resumed specic payments in 1879 there had been a continuous drop in the prices of farm produc It was that which was making the discontent and trouble. He moved that the bill be recommended. The discussion was kept up for nearly two hours, going lurgely over tho questions of tariff, silver, overproduction and steamship subst dies. Iy was further participated in by Messrs. Morrill, George, Stewart, Spooner, Vest, Rlair, Plumb, Berry und Keagun Finally Mr. Hale, the chairman of the cen- sus committee, expressed nis ‘willingoess to have the bill recommitted, a8 suggested by Mr. Tetler, and believed that it would be the best disposition of it. 'I'ie committes would then undertake to perfect the bill and would revort it back av au early day. 1 uestion of recommittal way taken by tho yeus und na The first vows resulte Yeas - nays 14, As there was 1o quorum votmz there wus u cali of the senate, which showed there were fifty-throa senators present (some of them paired). Ine second vote resuited: Yeas 20, nays 20, nce complished by the transfer of pairs, and ihe bill was recommitted to the census com- mittee, The Blair educational bill was then takon up, Mr, Blair demanding its reading in full, At the close of the reading and after some discussion it was arranged by uusanimous consent that the bill be pcllpoPod until & week from Monday, and be then “unfinished business.’’ e After au executive session the senate ad= journed. House, . 3 in, 22 —In the house to~ day the following bills were ntroduced and referred: For the improvement of St. Mary's river and the Hay Lake canal; to forfeit land grants to aid in the construction of railroads, and one making Des Moines a port of dee livery. Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio, from the commite tee on rivers and harbors, reported back the senate joint resolution appropriating §250,~ 000 for the removal of snags and other ob- structions from the Missouri river between St Joseph and its mouth. The committea proposed o substitute reducing the appros priation to £75,000. The substitute and joint resolution as awended passed, Tift house then went into committee of the whole for the consideration of the Okia- homa town site bill. ‘The third section of the town site bill was finally agreed to after some amendments, and the commitiee rose, The bill was then reported to the house and pussed. Nir. Stewart of Georgia, from the come mittee on judiciary, reported a bill for the urchase of sites for the erection of builds ngs for the confinement of federal prisoners, at a cost of £500,000 each, and appropriating $100,000 for the erection of workshops, Tho house went into committes of the whole and on motion of Mr. Clunie of Cali- fornia an amendment was adonted providing for three buildings, ono to be located north and another south of the 30th degree and cast of the Rocky mountains, and another west of the Rocky mountain The eecond secuion provides that the convicts shall be employed exclusively in the manufacture of supplies for the government, Mr. Spmnola of New York offered an amendment providing that they shall not ba employed in the manufacture of any goods or merchandise that are manufactured im any part of the United Statas, Rejected, Mr. McCreary of Kentucky offered an amendment providing that the convicts shall not be worked outside of the prison enclosures, Adopted, Mr. Reines of New York offered an amendment [uuvldlnu that the convicts be employed exclusively in the manufacture of such supplies for the government as can bo manufactured without the use of machinery, Agreed to, Pending further action the committes rose. ‘ Mr. McKinley reported back the customs administrative bill and it was referred to the committee of tne whole. Mr. McKinley moved that the house go into commit: ot the wholo, stating that as soon as the come mittee was 1n session he would move thut it rise and the house adjourn, 'This did no prove satisfactory to the democrats, and Mr, Crisp moved an adjournment. The speaker decided ' the wotion lost by @ vote of B to B8, and the ycas and nays were called for. The motion to adjourn was lost; yeas 94, nays 100. The motion then re- curred on Mr. McKinley’s motion to go iuiv commitee of the whole, but as it was evideut. the democrats would demand the yeas and vays, Mr. McKioley moved to “adjourn, which motion was agreed to, The reusons underlying Mr. Crisp's mos tion to aajourn was that he feared that the committed on elections might report upou the contesied election case of Smitl va Jackson, from the KFourth, Wesl Virgmnia aistrict. He does not desire, and in this he has the full supportof the democratic side of the house, that uny coutested election case shall be called up while the house is de- void of any regular rules for its government and is dependent only on geveral parliamens tary law as construed by the speaker, e No Conciu-ion Reaohed, WasuiNGToN, Jan, 22, —The sub-committee of the special committee ou the world's fair was called together this morning and dige cussed Springer’s proposition 10 select a site for the world’s fair by a ballot in the Lo tomorrow, ‘I'he sesaion did not lust mor than half ao hour, L was evident that the sub-committee was Lopelessly divided upon the propositiod, It will report tomorrow to e full committee thay it could cowe Lo ne conclusion, The Fope Rumored to be Dsad. Rome, Jan, 22.—There s a widespread rumor that the nope is dead. This uppoars to buve been caused by the unusual and uge looked for wpnouncemest that be s in pror health