Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 28, 1890, Page 1

> tho principal ones. - NINETEENTH YEAR. THE OMAHA DAIlLy BEE NUMBER 21¢ ASIATIC® RAILWAY PROBLEM. Rusela Completiog Her Lines on the Caspian, A PROSPECTIVE GERMAN ROAD. England Must Look to Her Laurels ~Interesting Interview on the Subject With an Anony= mous Diplomat. —— Railroads in Asia. (Copyright 18900 hy James Gordon Bennet?,] Pams, Jan, —[New York Herald ‘able—Special to Tur Bee.]--The Herald's European edition publishes today the follow- ing: 3 Tho Paris edition of the New Herald pub- lished January 23 the following editorial: “The dnnouncement comes from Herlin that the Germans propose a mail route be- tween tho Lovant and Hamourg, and that there will be likewise a great German rail- way into Asia Minor. Itis said this project was materially advanced in the conferences betwaen the Emperor William and the sultan at Constautinople, What with Russia build- ing a railway through Siberia to parallel the Chinese frontier and virtually bring China within the range of her armaments, the steady movements of the French in the Tonquin region, and the quiet advance of German energy and intelligence in all parts of Asia, England will have to look out. Her apprehended rival has been Russia, but now that Germany comes to the front the race for empiro becomes more and more a problem. Tho Englsh, how- ever, are not without imperial wisdom. They have never lost anything they heid except the United States, and that was not lost by the Eoghsh, but by a German prince who would have his own way in spite of the ablest Evdglishmen of the tune. It may be, how- ever, that England is different about Asia, which has been thoroughly looted for two centuries, and stands to win on Atrica, **Wae have thoyght that the Herald read- " ers might be interested in reading the de- tails regarding the sorious problem of the Asian rallweys. The question 18 moreover on'the carpet. At the present mowmant the Russians are placing in completion their lines on either side of the Caspian. A Her- ald correspondent accordingly obtained an interview from a diplomat whose name may not be mentioned, but who is among the men in Europe best informed on eastern matters and thoroughly at home with all the railway plans of the past twenty-five years. The first question brought us to the root of the matte: “What is your opinion on the Herald's —editofal i 1 think it exact at least in its principal lines. Foralong time past Germany has sceking new commercial debouches. She been waits with uneasiness the moment when France, in reviewing her commercial trea- ties, will raise her customs tariffs and de- prive Germany of the advahtages that coun- try enjoys under the clause 1n the treaty of Frankfort assuring her the treatment of the ‘most favored nation.’ “What was the result of Bmberor Will fam’s interview with the sultant *4 cannot say anything decisively,” mter rupted the diplomatist, *'but the creation of railways in Asla is a question altogether too important for Germany not to do her best to obtain concessions. She would benefiv greatly thereby. Austria-Hungary would bo the first power to profit by a railway con- uecting Kurope and Asia by the way of Con- stantinople. Now Germany s just bs- hind Austria-Hungary and is much more of @& manufucturing country and moreover the Germun pohcy consists 1 directing her neighbor's gaze to- ward Salonica, and anything which will aid her will bo seized upon eagorly by the Berlin cabiuet. Baron Bleicnroeder and othor Berlin bankers are helping along these central Asian railways but it s doulbt- ful whether itisin the true interests of Germany that they should be so.” “Do you believe that railways are soon to be opeved in Asial” *What railways Do ou refer to the or Knglish plans? Bear that the Russians have bent their attention both to the east and southeast. They have Sivberia and China on the south, They have planted Jines on either border of the Caspian in Turkistan and in the Cuucasian region,” “What are those pians{” Here my host rose and motioning to a desk of the purest Renaissaince style, took three large maps which he spread outon a table. Black, red and blue lines in auy quantity were marked on the maps. “See, lhere they one of them. do you meant are, every There are This one that goes from Oremberg to Tascnekeit is by M. Joseph Barrande, and daung from 1875. It wus proposed to extend to Tcbardjirie by way of Samarkand and Bohara, In 1876 a rival proposal modified tho route so that it passed by Iekaterinbourg. Now Oremberg is, since 18706, connecting with Moscow, the center of tho Russian railway system, “That line is by M., Hochstetier, gresi- dent of the Vienna Imperial Geo- graphical society. It passes leka- terinbourg, Tiouman, Omsk, Semipalstinsk Vern, Taschkent, Bamurukand, Balkh and Herat, whence it connects with the Anglo- Indian system at Chikarpoor and Lahorte, And those lines to Siberis and Chiia they are a Russian colonel Bodganovitch's, and Baron Derichofen’s plans, The colonel pro- posed a lme 5,800 kilometers loug from Iekaterinbourg to Pekin, passiog Troumen, Omsk, Tomsk, Irkoutsk and Tehata, with a brauch uv Irkoutsk running to Viadi- vostock by way of Nertsohinsk. The line planned by Baron Derichofen, pres- idept of the imperial geographical society of Berlin, goes through the whole of China from Shanghai to Lankow, Wo Thang Sang, Nun Fou Leon, Tehou Fou, San Tenou, Che Tcheua, and Khawil, where it bifurcates, one branch going to Yarkaudo and Tasch- keut, the other to Kouldja, Kopol, Omsk and Iekaterinbourg. Of the four projected routes, all cornecting Tuschkeut to Peshawer, the terminus of the Anglo-Iudian system, two cross the Hindoo-Kouth range and two others, the Karakoroum mountains, passing through Yarklaud in the Chinese emvire.” “All these lices appear to me to have been vlanned in the interest of Kussia.” “Doubtless; but their execution as far as some of them are coucerned is very problem- atical. For example, China will for a long time to come be opposed to all plans for roads that pass through ber territory. Besides it will be necessary to take into account the costof coustruction, as it is not in proportion to the provable trafiic that can be obtained. 81 aw inclined to beliove iu the suocess of projects such as those of Kield Marshal Prioce Baritousky, which, startiog from Astrabia, on the Caspan sea, pass the rough Mesched Heret and the Bolan pass and connects with Moulton and lsmail Kahn | with & branch from Herat to the Orensburg line by way of Mert Tchard, Bokhara, Samarkand and Taschkent, or in the other project of the English Baron Renter, from Reicht to Bandar Abbas by way of Teheran, Kachan, Ispahan, Chiraz and Luc." ““But which is the route that has the best chance of coming to somethingi" “In my opinion it is tho one which by the shortest and most direct way places British India in connootion with tho Moditerranean basin” He added, "*here you see marked the as yet unpublished route planned by two young French men which it seems to me Soives the problem perfectly, This broject unites Constantinople und Smyrna to Lahore and Chickarhoor. That is to say, Europe aud the Mediterranean to the valley of the Ganges, and with Wasken India. The line wil run first from Scuwari and Tsmil and thence to Kaisarioh by, way of Angoria, second from Smyrha and from Alad Chehr to Afium and Kara, and pro- ceed from Kaisar Yeh by way of Malatia, Kerkouk, Hamadan, Kachen, Tubbes. and Horat, with branches first to Lahore by way of Cabul Djalalabad and Pechawer and sec- ond to Chikapour by way of Kandahar and Parnia. This route is completed by another branch starting from Djalalabad by way of Tarkand and crossing the southern part of China. That is to say, the most populous part of the celestial empire. Nor is this all. This route includes the other annexed lines on the north from Herat to Malaten, passing through Mesched, Chahs rond, Leheoan, Kasomn, Tapriz and Mousche. The other to be south from Teherand to Caichan und to Isphan, with branches at first to Kirmi secondly to Chiraz, and if necessary to Bandar and Abbas; thirdly to Chouster and Dizful, which may even be extended to Bag- dad and to Moehoul; and lastly u branch to Kandahar and Cabul.” “Do you not think that there will be oppo- sition w0 such a project on the part of Turkey, England and Russia? s “It is certain that the sublime porte will not sce without fear the establisnment of a great railway route in upper Asia. As for the cabinets of London and St, Petersburg, they ave greatly per- plexed, They dread the serious and unfore~ seen consequences which may rosult from a change that will briug about a veritable «economic revolution, and they will hesitate a long while, even in the presence of tho per- suasive effects of marked advantages to bo derived from the project. *'Kugland formerly suspended her construc- tion of lines from Pechawer to Cabul in spite of the fact that millions had already been spent on the preliminary work. Nover- theless the nations of Europe have such a great need of new outlets of trade that a wpeedy solution is imperatively necessary. ‘This project, which favors neither Russia nor Ergland, is the only one upon which thero is any chance of any agreement being made.” “If it depended on Russia, would she adopt?” @"Russia is, above all, desirous of attract- ing the trade of the countries over lines of commuuication crossing Turkistan and the Caucausians, but it it becomes necessary she will consent to a line from Cabul to Con- stantinople by way of Herat, Mesched, Te- heran, Keshvin and Tabriz, because she will construct & branch from Herat by way of Merv connecting with her lines in Turkistan and another branch from Kasvin by way of Redout Kalch to Bakou,” “‘And how about Englandi” . “England would very much prefer a line which, starting from Kuratchi and following the Mekron, would pass throngh Bandar, Abbas, Bouchir, Bassora, Bajdaud and. Alip and terminate at Alexandrette. The reason 18 that this part of Asia is, as you know, within the zone of her influence. Fov the snme reason she would favor a line which, starting from the Persian gulf, would end at the sea of Cyprus after passing through the valley of the Euphrates. For such a line, bemng o shorter route by land, would cost a smaller sum and leave England the advantage, of her naval superiority. There are other projects, but as you can see for yourself by reference to the maps, thoy all resemble, more or less, the ones we have been speaking of, or else are of secondary interest.” “You referred & few minutes ago w an economic revolution. What do you mean by the term " “Very much the same as everybody else. A great railway line between the Indies and the Mediterranean would necessarily call forth very considerable traflic and would open a vast fileld for the products of Europe. It would thus give more cohesion and more wealth to the M selman states. It would result in putting in communication with each other nations what line | which nature has separated and peo ples who are 1gnorant of each other, and 1t would create a current of trade of capital important for the political future of these countr ies,” ‘'ne conversation continued for a few minutes, butin spite of my cursosity the statesmun made me understand that our in- ter view was at an end B MARRIED IN KANSAS CITY. An Omaha Man's Wedding Which Mystifics Kansas Oity. RaNsas City, Mo, Jan. 27.—|Special Telegram to Tue Bee.|—John L. Kief and James Watson, 'both of Omahba, came to this city Saturday and went to the Hotel Bruns- wick. During the day Mr. Kief went aown town and purchased several suits of clothes which fact, coupled with a remark Mr. Watson and himself made to the clerk of the hotel, led that official to suspect that u mar- riage was in the wind uud that Kief was the prospective groom, Thi morning the two gentlemeu arose and lert the hotel quite early, went to the depot and met Kiel's brideselect. At 9:80 a carriage con~ taining the three drové up to the cburch and they were shown into the recoption room, and there were marriea by Father Glennon, Kief was reluctant to give auy information on the matter, but said that the young lady’s bome was Grand lsland, Neb,, and that she was expected to bave arrived last uwight, but did not do ko, The young lady's name before her marriage was Herenice Poe and on the marriage license her home is given as Hall county, Nebraska, and Kiel's as Douglas county, Kief is & railroad man, as is also his friend Watson. e A Fatal lutes Br. PETERSBURG, Jun. 27. Astrabad report that Persian Khorassan is ravaged by an intestinal disease of excessive fatality. Three thousand deaths are re- ported. Owing to the scarcity of doctors he nature of the disease is uuknowu, but thought to be cholera. Atchison Fublic Building Bill. Kan,, Jan, 27.—|Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee ]—United States Senator Jobn J. Ingalls writes that the supervisivg architect of the treasury department has recommended 10 the bouse aud senate com- mittees that the Atchison public building bill be pussed. Weat Virginia . ubernatorial Contest, Cuantusroy, W, Va, Jag, 87.—The gubar- natorial court met again this worning. Gen- eral St, Clair closed the presentation of the Flewiog coutest, { THE 10WA DEADLOCK BROKEN A Temporary Organization Bffected in the House. TERMS OF THE COMPROMISE. They Result in a Lull Which is SBure w0 Be Followed By a Storm of Gigantio Proportions. The First Break. Des Moixres, In., Jav, 27.—|Special ‘relo- gram to Tmr Bre.|—4¥he first break in the deadlock has come after two wecks'fof 1ruits less ballotiug for temporary offces. The house fixed up a compromise today. The republicans made the overtures for the sake of transferring the fieht to & permanent basis. The situation in this state 1s paculiar from the fact that the custom here has been to elect a set of temporary officers, from speaker down to doorkeeper, and then after the members had been sworn in, select a new set of permanent officiuls. This year the opposition vote in the house being the same as the republican vote, there was & tie at the very beginning. So that for two whole weeks the house has been trying to elect these tentporary officers, who must be elected before the members could be recog- nized as members or be sworn in. ‘There is no special political advantage in the oftice of temporary speaker, but the ro- publicans were afraid that 1f the democrats had it they would unseat a number of repub- ljcans on trumped up charged. So they re- fused to yield until an agreement was made by the democrats that they would nov at any the time in session attempt to unseat mem- bers on the ground of alleged unconstitu- tional districts, That stipulation was put in writing by the conference committee and agreed to by the democratic caucus, and on that condition the republicans consented to allow a democrat to preside until a perma- nent speaker 18 elected. The terms of compromise nclude also the selection of a republican oclerk, ser- geant-at-arms and chief doorkeeper. ‘The dewocrats are given the other minor ofticers, but allof them are only for the te porary organization. The caucuses of each party were held this morning, and the terms ol the compromise were approved. This afternoon there was a great crowd in the house of representatives, the Iuhlic gen- erally expecting that there would be some lively scenes, but the agreement having beeu made and approved on each side, there was no chance for dispute and the session whns as happy as a love feast at a campm ing. Democrats seconded the motions of re- publicans, _aud republicans returned the courtesy. ®Everybody was painly po- lite to everyhody else, and & stranger would ‘'mot have kuown that two parties were in the chamber, each ready to fight at the drop of the hat. It was like the lull before the storm, for the real battle of the session 18 fought. ‘This compromise ends the first deadlock, but renews the second. The house can do nothing now except vote for permanent offi- cers, and the temporary speaker has been bound hand and foot by stipulations, 8o that he ¢an do nothing except preserve order and put motions, However, since the members have been sworn in they are not now a town meeting, as they have veen, but are a body with a recog- nized legal status, 'fhe real fight will begin tomorrow ‘when each side will present its own candidate for speaker and the balloting will begin. A deadlock is, of course. inevitable (or a while, but there is much speculation as to how long it will continue. ‘The republicans huve spines as stiff as ramrods on the question, and will not yield the speakership and the cootrol of the committees if the deadlock lasts all summor. The democrts are going to huve great trouble to hold their line. It wcludes one union labor man and vwo or three independents of republican snteced- ents, They will get very restive if the dead- lock is long protracted, and some repub. licans expect Lhem to break away very soon. « ‘The republicans will hold a caucus to~ morrow morning w0 nowinate their permanent officers. 1t looks tonight as if Representative Wilson of Cass county would be nowminated for speaker on the theory that he can capturc one of the independent votes and break the second deadlock, But the feeling among the repub- licans 18 that if he is nominated it must be with the understanding that if he doesn’t win in a few days he must stand aside and let some other republican try it, In that event the republican candidate will ve Luke of Franklin, The senate is walting for the house to organize, having decided that no bills wili be introduced until the orgunization is made. Governor-elect Boies 18 still waiting at his home in Waterloo for » chance to be n- augurated, but the letter that he longs for hasn’t come, )mise Reached, Des Moixes, Ia., Jan. 27.—The caucuses of the two parties of the house this morning had not finished consideration of the compro- mise pyoposed at the time of calling the house to order at 10:30, s0 when called to order a recess was taken for an hour to give further timo for considering a comprom The caucuses finally agreed to a compromise making Henry S. Wilcox temporary clerk and L. D. Hotchkiss temporary speaker,and this action was subwitted o the house. On being called to order at 11:80, the first thing done was the verification of pairs, The caucuses had agreed, and the report was presented by Blythe, as follows: Recoguizing the desirability of an early permauent organization of the house of the Twenty-third general assemby of Iows, the republicans who claim to mbers sub- mit to their democratic frie, ho tlaim to be members the following proposition : 1. That it is mutually agreed upon be- tween the democrats and repuolicans claim- ing to be members-elect of the house of the Twenty-third general nssembly that atno time from the acceptance of this proposition to the final adjournment of the house, and at no time during the ion of suid house, ‘will either party prevent from voting, un- seat, or offer to consider any proposition to unseat, anyone whose name 18 on the list prepared by the secretary of the state of lowa, and now in use for roll calls of this body, on account of any objection to the ap- portionment act of the Twenty-third general assembly, creating a districy from which he was elected. A Comp 2, That Heory 5. Wilcox bo_elected tem. | porary clerk; that L. D. Hotcbkiss be elected temporary speaker, aud & republican be elected pro tem; that D. C. Kolp'be elected temporary assistant clerk: that the repub- licans be allowed to name the doorkeeper aud sergeaut-at-arws, the democrats three anv doorikeepers, each side one-half of cessary pages and other officers, said ana’ employes to hold during the rary organization, 8. Tnat said temporary clerk be instructed to receive certificates of election of persons claiming to be members of the Twenty-third general assembly, and to make up the roll of members by placing upon the roll the names appearing ou the list prepared by the sec- retary of state, and now in use in roll calls of this body, o 1-1. That a committee of tive, composed of the following gentlemen—Daleson of Buena Vista, Hobbs of Calhoun, Coyle of Hum- boldt, Hamlin of Lyno and tes of Fre- mout—be named by the house as & commit- tee on credentials; that sald committee be instructed by this 'body 10 report persons whose names are entered upoa the roll of mewmbers of sald temporary clerk, as coutem- plated in the preceding section hereof, as wembers of the T'wentysthird general as- sembly, each one of whom sball be entitied to act aud vote on all, questions until the yet to ‘be; house is permanent] manent speakor electod, and that eacts pe: £0n whose name appears ipon - said list shall be aworn in as a member of the Twenty- third general assombl¥, and shall be a mom- ber of said house during the entire session until final adjournment, Golss unscated by the house after a regular coptest for cause other than objection to the anportionment act of the T'wenty-third general assembly creghing the distiict from which he was elected. 5. That no objection OF protest shall be mado by either party 10 &ny one whose name appears on said list of members, voting on any question until after said hotse is per- manently organized aud the permanent speaker elected. ¥ 6. ‘That immediately ‘after the perfection 1 the permanent organizution of the house a committee on electiond shall be avpointed. Said committee shall cofisist of six membors, three of whom shaull be republican aud three democrats; that @l cuses of contested seats shall be referred to said committeo, and none of said ¢ontests shall be taken up or acted upon by the house except upon recommendation of & wajority of ull the menivers of said comm| Tha republican and democratic mewbers of said committee shall be chosen by the réspective caucuses. 7. After temporary organization as herein before provided hus been reached, no other business snall be 1o order except the election of permanent speaker and the busivess in- cident thereto, ncluding motions to take a recess and adjourn from day to day. Additional agreement. providing for the appointment of & committee on pairs was presented. A roll call was ordered on the report, and 1t was unanimously adopted. The announce- ment of the result was received with ap- piause, Duripg the reading of the agrees mont, very close attention was paid by every- ody. The house adjourned until 2 p, m., when organization will take place. When called to order this afternoon the house immediately proceedsd to the elec- tion of temporary officors as per agreement. On motion of Luke, Henry Wildox was was elected temporary secretary. On mo- tion of Dayton, L. D. Hotchkiss was elected temporary speaicer, . Alvert Head was made temporary speaker pro tem, and D, C. Kolp - assistant secre- tary, A committée on credentials was appointed as follows: Dobson, Hobbs, Coyle, Hamilton and KEstes. Credentials were handed in and the committee went to work at once, Hotclikiss was sworn in by cx-Governor Walden, ‘The other temporary officers eiected were swora in and the report of the committee on credentials adopted. The members then appeared before the bar of the house to subscribe to the oath and were sworn into oftice. Byers of Lucas introduced a resolution electing the rest of the teniporary officers on the republican side, ana it was adopted. Dayton of Alamede introduced a similar resolution from the demodcratic side, and 1t was adopted. The temporary officers were then sworn in and the hotise adjourned until tomorrow afternoon, e TOSSED ABOUT THE CHANNEL, orgnized and the | A Night of Terror Exbheriencd by the Passengers on the Stenmer Paris. [Copyright 189 by James Gordon Bennstt.\ LoxpoN, Jan. 2.—[New York Herald Cuble—Special to Tne Ber.]—The Dieppe and Newhaven steamer Paris is now lying in Dover bay. The vessel left Dieppe shortly after midnight on Saturday on a re- turn voyage to Newhayen. She had about Bty passengers on board, of whom a little more than one-third were ladies. It was blowing a heavy gale at the time she left the harbor, but it was npt “thought to be suffi- cient to prevent the Vvessel crossing. The boat, however, had not ioft the harbor more than haif an hour when it was found that there was a tremendous ses ruuning in the channel, and the wind had either increased terrifically or the harbor had been sheltered by the land. The wind was very nearly west, with a point or tuwo of worth fin it. The wind was in @ direction throwing the wnole weight of the sea, which is desctibed as terrific, on to the F'rench shore, aud consequently was dead against the vessel, which from this time for the next twenty-four hours was doomed to undergo @ most severe testing and frightful voyage, Having got so far to sea, nothing could be dgne' but keep steadily ahead, which Captain Sharpe resolved to do. Indeed, there is no doubt that the captain’s action and keen judgment tkroughout kept the vessel from foundering. Steaming slowly across the channel in' a fearful sea, the ves., sel sometimes rolled almost on beam ends, but nothing serious happened until nearly 4 o’cloek. The vessel was then about thirty miles from" Dieppe, when suddenly A great crashing noisé was heard in the starboard paddie-box, were now entertained and the engines were stopped in order to ascartain the cause of the sound. It was already apparent that the paddle-wheel had failed, but the sea was running so high- that adequate examination was impossible. Tt wiis discovered, how- cver, that the paddlo-box had been ripped up, and from the peculiar indications 1L was evident that some of -the floats and *geariug of the wheel which direets the floats had been torn away by the fury of the ses which washed up into the paddlebox, The position was a most serious one, which the passengers fully realized. The captain then consulted the officers on the dangerous position of the vessel. It was found that by driving the engines some dis~ #ster might happen to the ship and she might founder, while on the other hand she was at the mercy of a fearful sea and the violence of a gale blowiog dead on the French coast, where not so very long ago a sister ship of the Paris, namely, the Victoria, came to a disastrous.end, The ship was lit- erally helpless ‘and drifted nearer and nearer to land: ugtl Cave Grynez was in dangerous proximjty. Two courses lay open to the captain, {Either. the vessel must go ashore aud founder, the sea dashing in tremendously high along the shore, or the engines rust bo ‘used m the risk which previously had been thoy 00 great must now be chanced. Thé swarting of the engines by the chief epginesr d the greatest anxiety. It was 8 o'clook U the starting of the engines at the slows possible speed ahead was followed by @a terrible crash, witich startlea everybody bn board, even the crew, ‘T'he crashiog uo cawe from the damaged wheel, the wholé.of which is made of steel, In this way a night of awful suspense was | spert in the channel, the vessel | being driftea p‘rovullm’; rather thun Just. before daybreak the lights of ‘the south foreland were descried and two. hoges later lana was visible. The captaiu e mally found his way into Dover buy withofit the aid of a tug and put hig vessel alos o the Admiraity Crowds of people assembled %o wit- ness her enter the bay and the landiog of the who wefe sent to London by ‘The saljors, some of whow have been crossing thé chanvel wwenty or thirty years, describa the voyage as awful, stating that they had never secen such sens. w———— George Augustus Sala Marricd. [Copyright 1890 by Jumes Gordon Bennett, | Loxpox, Jan. 27.—|New York Herald Cable—Special to . Tig Bee.]—George Augustus Sala has marricd Miss Bessie Stannurd, third daughter of Mr. Robert Stanpard, C. B, Mra. Sala bas for sowme time acted as opcusionsl amapucusis to the well known journalist and is Lerself a clever writer whose cheerful word is welcomed by more than one London uewspaper. The worst fears { THE SERVICE PENSION BILL. Governor Hovey in Washington to Work For ths Measure. GRAND ARMY ENDORSEMENTS, That Organization Practically Unar fmous in Favor of 1ts Passage —Otoes ana Missourias Visit the Oapital. WasHINGTON Buneav Tas Owima Bas, 518 FounteesTi STREET, Wasmivaron, D. C. Jan, 27, Governor Hovey of Indiana, who is one of the leading champions of the interests of soldiers throughout the country, and who is president of the Service Pension Association of the United States, arrived hers today. Almost 400,000 of the, 424,000 members of the Grand gArmy posts throughout the country have been heard from on the Grand Army of the Republic service pension bill, and not single negative expression has boen made, Governor Hovey says that it is a political necessity that the party now in power should take immediate and favorable action on this measure; that the party, in the platform upon which President Hurrison was elected, made certain pledges to the soldiers, and this proposition is the most equitable and satisfactory way in which the pledges can be fulfilled. Ifthis measure is adopted by con- gressho says that it will be in sharp contrast to the instructions by President Cleveland to the house committee on mvalid pensions to take no action upon a service pension bill in the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth congresses, so that the surplus in the treasury might pile up and vhere would bea seeming demand for a reduction of the tarifft. Governor Hovey will have a conforence with the republicans of the house committee on invalid pensions and nther leaders ot both houses of congress with a view to concerted and harmonious action upon this measure at an early day. The governor advocates the measure, which has been endorsed by about eighteen hun- dred Grand Army posts throughout the country, and he has the endorsements with him. The manuscript of them weighs al- most seventy-five pounds. These he will present to the house comimitteo on invalid pensions, The governor will ask to have presented 1n the house a synopsis of the en- dorsement given by the Grand Army posts, showing the name of each post which has up to the present time passed unanimously resolutions endorsing the bill, Tae synopsis of the endorsements which precedes the long list of posts which have passed resolutions i3 as follows: “‘Resolutions of various posts of the Grand Army of the Republic approving and endors- ing our appeal to the loyal people of the United States and their representatiyes n congress by Alvia P, Hovey, president of the Service Pension Association of the United States and praying the Fifty-first congress of the United States to pass an act giving to every soldier, sailor and marine who served in the army or navyof the United States between April, 1861, and July, 1865, for the period of sixty days or more a service pen- sion of &3 por month, avd to all who served a period of 800 days au additional smount of 1 cent per day for each day’s service exceed- ing that period.” 1a accordance with the resoluwons of the Grand Army of the Re- public passed at Cotumbus, O., in September, 1888, and Milwaukee, ., April, 1880, Besides the seventcen or eighteen hundred endorsements already received Irom Grand Army posts the vernor says that there are on the way ere probably three or four hundred more endorsements from as muny posts. Forty- 8ix Graud Army posts 1 Nebrasku have passed resolutions uvanimously endorsing this measurc and sixty-eight Grand Army posts in Iowa have taken the same action. Undoubtediy the members of these posts hold the balance of political power, and they will be glad to learn not only thav Governor tovey is here working in their interest, but that the republicans in both houses of con- gress are in accord with the resolution, OTOES AND MISSOURIAS. A Jdelegation of Indians whose faces would be familiar to many Nebraskans wandered around the capitol today, looking at the pic- tures on the walis and aimlessly staring at the proceedings ou the Hoor of the two houses of congress. They were Otoes and Missourias. About 1 o'clock they called upon Senator Manderson for assistance in securing o hearing at the interior depart- ment. The Otoes and Missourias, which cre now substantially one tribe of [ndians, were formerly residents of Nebraska. About nine years ago they left that state and went to the Otoe rescrvation in the Indian terri- tory, where they now reside. ' They number about three hundred and forty men, women and children. Under the provisions of the law the lands formerly owned by the tribe in Nebraska were ordered sold. There seoms to be considerable misunderstanding or & lack of knowiedge on the part of these Indians as to the condition of affairs con- cerning their lands, The tribe has sent here George Arkcktah, head chief, Big Bear, second chief, James Whitewater and the in- terpreter, Dadisti Deroin, for the purpose of presenting to the commissioner of Indian affairs the condition and needs of the tribe and to obtain detpiled information as vo the proceeds of their lands and whatever money there may be from other sources t which they are entitled. They also want to pay their respects to the secretary of the inter- ior, and later in the afternoon they called at the department. BILLS INTRODUCED, Mr, Dorsey introduced a bill 1 the house today extending tne time of payment to pur- chasers of land of the Omaha tribe of In- dians in Nevraska to December, 1804, and muking them toxable; also a bill amending an act entitled “*An act for the relief of cer- tain settiers on public lands acd to provide for, the repayment of certain fees, purchase money and for commissions paid on void entails of public lands, approved June 16, 1880 He ajso introduced bills to pension John D. Mane and J. Fisher of Nebraska, Mr. Struble of the Sioux City district in- troauced a bill establishing the oftice of com- nussioner of immigration, such officer to receve a salary of $4,500 a year, whose duties shall he to see that the immigra- tion laws are enforced and Chinese kept out of this country; also a bill prohibiting tue transportation of intoxicatiog liquors from any state or territory of the United States or the Disyrict of “ Colum- bia into any other state or territory contrary Lo and in violation of the laws thereof— meaning states with prohibition laws—and a bill restoring the names of widows of union ofticel oldiers and sailors of the late war to the pension roll, Mr. Henderson of Towa introduced a bill making it mandatory upon govarnors of states and territories to not only 1ssue requisitions upon the production of testimony that a fugi- tive from justice is wauted for @ crime— murder, arson, forgery, ete.—by the author- ities 1n other commonwealths, but to give all necessary assistance in the apprebension of the person whoso arrest is desired, the cost of the same to bo charged to the state or tor- ritory demunding possession of the griminal. AFTER PUBLIO LAND RECEIVERS. The investifation made by the wnterior de- partment of the receivers of land oftices, which resulted ‘in several being rewoved, has caused & suspension of confirmations by the senate. Becretary Noble today requested Senator Plumb, chairman of the committee on public lands, to bold up all conrmations of receivers until the investigution is cow- pleted and a report made upon which a bill can be framed to prevent the oceurrences in the land oftices, MIBCELLANEOUS, L. Wessel, jr.,, of Livcoln, editor of the Cabital City Courler, and Edward Wessel, also of Lincoln, paid a social call to Tus Lzs bureau this evening, ‘L e special wall service at Fairwell, Palo Alto county, Jowa, will after Fevruury 27 next. Prany be discontinued 8. Heant, A CHINESE n 10K, The Olestial Minister Makes a Howl About the Broken Treaty. WASHINGTON, Jan, 27, ~The president to- day sent to the senate the correspondence between the state department and the Chi- nese government, the substance of which tonk plac during Mr. Cleveland’s adwinis- tration, ¢ hus been published from time to time. Th uly now feature is a letter from Chang Ye *t 'oon, Chinese minister, to Sec- retary Blains, July 8, 18%. In the letter the minster saya: “lu my country wo have acted upon o conviction that wkere two nutions enter upon trealy stipulatious they form a sacred contract from which they could not be honorably discharged except through friendly negotiations and new agree- ments, 1 was therefore not prepared to learn through the medium of that great tribunal (the Unitea States supreme court) that theve was a way whereby your govern: ment could releas itself from treaty obliga- tions without consultation with or the consent of the other party, When it is remembered that treaty relations were established at the express solicitation of your government and that its every request for further stipula tions have bien met in the highest spirit of compluisance, I think you must aympathize with my ustonishment that that body, which itself initiated this poligy and which repre- sents the inteliigence “and justice of the great American peopie, should trample these treaties under foot and grossly offend a na- tion which always held these compacts in sacred osteen I trust some way will be found whereby the hasty action of congress may be undone, the wrong and datage to thousands of my countrymen avoided and the high affroot to the Chinese goverument and people removed,"” Ia the earlier correspondence the minister complains to Secrotary Bayard that he had assured him (the mister) that the presi dent wouid veto any such legislation. In re- ply Boyard denies any s rance and informs him that the act passed congress with such unanimity as to palpably render a veto wholly futile. e BRI e THE OMAHA POSTURFICE, A Favorable Report to the Senate on the Increase Bill. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—|Special Telegram to pooner, from the committee on public buildngs und grounds, today reported with favorable recommenda- tion, the bill increasing from $1,200.000 to 2,000,000 tho cost of the site and super- struction for the public building at Omaha. It is accompanied by a letter from Supervising Architect Windrim who says: “It was found neccssary 1o request the department of justice to institute \pro- ceedings in condemnation against the prop- erty selected as a site for the building, and from information re- ceived it appears that the aggregate of the awards of damages and costs in_con- demnation against said property will equal the amount of the cost placed by the act of Junuary 21, 1880. From information verbally received 1 am of the opinion thut 10 provide proper accommodations for the present, and prospective needs, the appropriution should be extended as proposed. Stould the limit of cost be thus ostonded, a public building about 00 fect by ' 230 feet, three stories high, with base- ment and * attic, of fireproof con- struction, includiog heatiny apparatus, tire prdof vaults, elevators nnfi approache which would afford all ample accommod: tions, ean be constructed within the amount r_e'z:’x’lnfing after payment is made tor the sl MANY NO® ATIONS MADKE. A Long List Seut to the Scnate by the Pres.dent. ‘WAsHINGTON, Jan: 27,—The president to- day sent to the senate the following nomi- nations: Augustine Heard of Massachusetts, winister residont and consul gencral % Cores; Louis Gottschalk of California, con- sul at Stuttgart; John F. Winter of Illinois, consul at Manbeim; Richard Guenther of Wisconsin, consul general at the City of Mexico; T homas McDermott of Tennessce, consul at. St. Thomas, West Indies: George M. Pepper of Ohio, consul at Milan; Sumuel Bauiley, jr., assistant treasurer of the United States’ at’ Cincinnati: John [, Haggart, United States marshal for North Dakota; Elihu Colman, United States attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin. Postmasters in Nebraska—Charles <. Wood, North Platte; George M. Prentice, Fairtield; Samuel L. Brown, jr., David City. g Al Greaser Quarantine on Our Hogs, WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Secretary Rusk was today 1aterviewed in relation to the re- cent quarantine restrictious placed by the Mexican government upon hogs shippéi {rom this country. He said the trade was a large and increasiog one and the inspection fees would practicaily destroy it if thoy were continued. He hud laid the matter before the state department. Asked if he intended retaliating by placing restrictions on the Mexican cattlo trade, the secretary was non- committal, but stated that the department had frequently been urged to pluce a three months’ quurantine on all cattle imported from Mexico in order vo avoid the introduc- tion of disease. He thoaght a regulation of tiois chuaracter justibable on savitury grounds. e 2 on Rules, 70N, Jan, 27.—Mr. Hitt's resolu- tlon to increase the wemboership of the world’s fair committge from nine to thirteen and instructing it to report to the house in three days was aiscussed for a few minutes this morning by the house committee on rules, but was allowed to o over without action, The committee then turned its attention to the new code of rules and pro- gressed 80 fur toward its completion us to indicate a report to the house within a day or Lwo, e —— e St uip Acrivals, At Glasgow—The Norwegian, from Bos- ton, At more. At New York—La Champagne, Hayro; the Russia, from Hamburg, Al Philadeiphia—The Lord Gough, from Liyerpool. . 4 At Baltimore—''he Missouri, from Lon- on, ondon— T he JAranmore, from Balti- from The Weather Forecast, For Omaha and vicinity—Fair weather, For Nebraska—¥air weather, winds shift ing to easterly and southerly; slightly warmer. For Iowa—Tair weather, winds shifting to easterly and soutlierly; slightly warmor. For South Dakota—[air; warmer; south- erly winds, The Rio Grande Again Blockaded, Dexver, Col Jan. 27.—A heavy snow today again filled the cuts and czused a blockade on the Rio Grande road between Alamosa and Durango, which probably will not be raised for several days, Houth Park trains are blockaded at Kenosha Hill, The drifts are fourteen feet deep. . ———e The Western Snow Blockade, PowrrAND, Ore, Jan. 27.—The blockade wll along the line of the Union Pacific is re- ported raised again, A through train arrived this evening. On the Southern Pacifio the blockade romaias unoroken and there is no imediate prospeot of fta- betvg raised, Whalesale Eviccionsin Pennsy lvania. Puxxsvrawney, Pa, Jan, 27.—~The sheriff evicted nineteen families at Watston and Adrian today. There was no excitement. The winers do not seem av all discouraged by the wheiesale evictious. DASHED OFF A HIGH TRESTLE, Terrible Plunge of a Passenger Train Into a Oreek. SEVEN KILLED AND The Cars Take Fire and Are Cons sumed Before All the Bodies Could B Rescued--The Death Roll, MANY HURT, Caused by Spreading Rails, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind,, Jan. T'he passens ger train on the Monon route which left Chicago Sunday nieht, was wrecked at7:50 this morning one mile above Carmel, a vile lage sixteen miles north of this city. The train was ranning at a rapid eate aud was approaching a long trestlo across Wil- kerson creek, when the tender of the engine jumped the track. The encineer roversed his engine, but before the wir brakes could check the speed of the teain, the locomotive and baggage car had ¢! ed the trestle, bus four coaches went over into the creck. Tho ladies’ coach immediately caught fire ana in ashort time was reduced to ashes. Fortunalely for the occupants of this coach, train 52, which ieft this city for Chi- cago at 7:90, had been ordered to meet tho wrecked train at Carmel. und us soon as word of the wreck was received the passengers hurried to the scene ana went to work reseus ing the occupants of the burning car. A horrible scono mot thoir o In plain view of all were two boys avd a woman, They were dead, but their bodies were being rapidly consumed. An arm of one projected through the side of the carand could be touched by those on the outside, but the opening was not large enough to draw the body through. Immediately in front of the boy was a lady Who got on the train at Frankfort and is yet unidentified. Her body was enveloped in flames, but there was no possiblo wuy to get her out of the burning Across from this lad y was Mra, Euabanks of Broad Ripple, Ind Her head was borribly crushed. A brakemun and a pussenger seized her by the arm and by a aesperate effort pulled the body through the window. She lived only a few minutes after being taken out. Another of the rescued *who has since died was Mr. Deming of Sheridan. He was pine ioned to the floor by falling timbers aund hor- ribly crushed. , Some men seized him, and after a few minutes’ work cut away the timbers that held the body, which was removed to the north side of the track. There was no medical aid and the man died n a few minutes. Buckets having been securea from farm houses near by the flumes were soon sub- dued and prevented from communicating to the sleeper and other coaches. As s00n as it was possible to dojso a search was made for other dead. The body of a woman, identified as Mrs. Lizzie Fitzpatrick of this civy, was found, It was burned to a crisp. Tho Oldham children were found side by side, the heavy stove lying across thew bodies. W. J. Callins of the Indianapolis Sentiael, who was on the train, furnishes the fol- lowing accurate list of the dead and inw Jured. THE DEAD. MRS. NELLIE ENBANK, Hroad Ripple. C. O. DEMING, Frankfort, Ind. ° MRS. D. 8. OLDHAMS and twin clile dren, Sheridan. MISS MARY HOOVER, Horton, MRS. HATTIE HENSLEY, Cycloue. THE INJURED, J. D. Pransox, Sheridan, Ind,, right shoul- der and arm crushed; injured internally. H. C. Mi.Ler, New York city, commercial traveler, badly cut and bruised, right leg crushed; cannot live. Louis NEWMAN, internal injuries., GEORGE MUNGER, express agent, foot badly crushed. CuAnLes G, Wint, Frankfort, bruised on the head and hips. B. 8. Winzerr, Indianapolis, head badly cut and back severely wrenched, J. P, Avrzien, breuised about head and back—seriou: G, W. StiNagLy, Rossville, logs cut, arms severely bruised and back injured. Hanrny ExoLE, son of conductor, elbow cut off and head cut, Eight others received slighter mjuries Investigation revealed that the aceident is duo to the spreading of the rails about 150 foet from the trestle. The rcpair of tlis section of the track was:done Saturday. Two Additional Katahciss, Curcago, Jan., 27.—Adaitional particulars of the accident to the passenger train on the Monon route wrecked near Carmel, Ind., add two more to the list of those killed, while the list of those injured will probably be increased. Up to this hour the numes of the two additional killed hava not been ascertained. The oficiais o1 the roud hero say that the train was going quite slowly when it struck the broken ruil. The engine got clear over, the cars immediately next to it toppling over on the iucline and taking fire, whether from lamps or stoves has not yet been ascertained. No. 2 train, arriving on the scene of th accident shortly afterwards, the dead an wounded were put on board and taken back to Indianapolis. The wrecked train was mnot @ vestibule, Nearly alt of the killed were in the slecper, which was among the first of the cars (o Tho curs are almost totaily cons sumed, Immediately on hearing of the accigent several ofticials of the Monon route, includs g Superintendent Woodward and Dr, Davy, surgeon-general of the road, left for Carmel Lo render all assistance possible to the sufferers, Not President ) M. . Ingalls was among the injured in the Monon wreck this morning at Carmel, Ind., gave rise to the supposition that It was President Ingalls ofvthe Big Four road, This is wrong, as Mr. Ingalls hus boen 1o thé cast for two weeks, and loft Wushington this morning for New York Died of £neir njarivs. Dexven, Colo,, Juu. 27, —Engineer French and Fireman Richmond, who were sgalled Saturday nieht 1 the railrond accident near Berthoud, Luve died from their injuries, ‘rom Siboria, v, Conn, Jan, 2.—Herman Kempenski, a nuturalized citizen, visited Russia & year ago, wus arrested for evasion of the military luw and bauished to Siberia, Secrczary blaine demanded his release,and & cablegram was received here today anuounce ing that ke had been set free, e National Builders and O:on’ractors. 81, PAvL, Minn, Jan, 87.—~The fourth ans nual convention of the National Associas tiou of Builders and Contractors opencd here today. — celiire Record, IsnpemiNG, Mich,, Jan, 27.~The iron store of Meyers & Co. burned this worning. Loss, 000,