Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 10, 1890, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY = BEE. THE SITUATION UNCHANGED. Demoerats Considering the Latest Ropublican Proposition. IOWA'S POLITICAL SOMERSAULT, A Heaction Against Prohibition and High Tariits—-Des Moines' Starch Factories Bought by the Lrast—Miscellancous, Trying to Compromise, Drs Moixes, I, Feb, 9.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.]—The democratic caucus will consider tomorrow morning the latest proposition for ending the deadlock submit~ ted by the repuvlicans, The general talk tonight is that the democrats will not accept it, but many democrats are in favor of copting some terms and it is probable that this proposition may be moditied 1o suit therm, otherwise the situation remaius un changed. IOWA'S SOMERSAULT. Prohibition and tne Tariff the Prin- cipal Causes. Des MorNes, la., Feb, 9.~ [Special to Tne Bee.]—The deadlock in the lower house is still on, though there are signs of a speedy termination. When the returns came in last fall the republicans were astonished not only by the election of a democratic govdrnor, but still more when they learned that only fifty republicans had been returned to the lower house, with an equal number of the opposi- tion. Twenty counties in the state turned a complete political somersuult, some of them overcoming colossal majorities, and 0ok po sition in the demucratic columns for the first time. Below will be found the causes for this remarkable political upheaval as viewed by the successful candidates themselves McDermid of Adair—Yes, my county two cars ago gave Harrison 05 majority, but last year we reduced it to 373 on the state ticket, and I run ahead of my ticket and car- ried the county by sixteen votes. Thero were only two ‘issues talked of prohibition and the tariff. I am a strong uuti-prohi- bitionist and I gained many republican votes for this reason, Then, the tariff is turning some, and I had quite & number of compli= mentary votes from personal frionds, Mitcnell of Benton—Hurrison’s majority in Benton was 122, but Boies got 514 mu jority and 1 about the same. We young democrats workea hard and fought our bat- tle on the tariff issua and on prohibition. ‘We got the balance of the German vote this year and lots of others who see prohibition is a farce, Smith of Boone—My county is uaturally, republican by seven or eight, hundred, and there are several causes that produced the Jand slide and brought me here. Among them a factional party fight, personal friend ship, anti-monopoly and prohibition. I voted for the prohibitory amweudment, but am dis gusted with the walkings of the prohibitory law, aud am now ready to adopt & wel regnlatad high license statute and knock out prohibition, We ¢ had enough of it. hamberlain of Buchanan—If prohibition 8 the issue the republicans want, we wel- come it. Why, in my own town of Ind pendence over one hundred republicans wio voted for Harrison supported me on this one (destion. They are sick aud tired of trying to enforce the law, and want it repealed. Potter of Cherokee—My county has also been republican, and republicaus elected me. Tariff cut quite'a figure and a good many turned over on accountof prohibition, I am not @ defender of saloons, I want you to un- derstand, but my people all know 1 favor high license as the best meaas of suppress ing intamperance. ‘A good many want the pharmdcy luw amended. Arnold of Decatur ~Our county is pretty close. Harrison only carried it by 250, with several union labor votes which weut to me. I never patronize saloons, and prohivition would be a good thing if it was enforced. I received some votes on the tariff and some on account of prohibition. and some for per- sonal reasons. My majority was only about 30, ‘Addie of Fayetie—I believein mgh license, of course. Tno Germans dp our way have all gone back on prohibition and the repub- lican party. Thenthe radical pronibitionists ran a ticket of their own and drew away some votes from my opponent and belped me that much. Lund of Kossuth—The voters in my county are getting their eyes opened. Thero were just two issues prohibition and the tarifl, Both cut quite a figure. My county gave Harrisun 425 majority, but it will go democratic right along 1f things don't change. Gitchell of Linn—Prohibition was the main cause of the landslide in Linn. Why, dow’t you know, Harrison carried the county by nearly a thousand majority, and we gave Boise 655 and elocted everything. There was a changd of almost 600 in Cedur Rapids alone, and 800 in Marion. We are going to perform our sworn auty and try our best to repeal prohibition, but if we fail, 1 pity the republicaus two vears from now. There won't be any deadlocks then. The democrats will be so thick in both houses they won't know wherv to put us, In my own little town of Walker there was u change of forty votes, all on accoint of pro- bibition, Itae of Monona, who was elected by one vote—Well, I am no saloon bummer, but I honestly think high license is the bestpolicy to regulate tho whisky business, The fight on Allison gained me votes and the low price ot produce had something to do with it. My peovle know my views and [ made the can- vass on my past record, 1 am independent in some things, but I am against the republi- cans on Allison, high tariff and probibition, and they fought me hard, I tell you, Sm th of Wapello~You may say that pro- hibition turned Wapello county over to us, 1t is the bome of the republican candidate for governor, and they rana umon labor ticket which polled some 400 votes, but still we changed Harrison's majority of 150 to 645 majority for Boies, nud I ran along with my ticket, Prohibition is a farce in Ottumwa, where 1 iive, and the people are tired of it and want @ change. We may not get high liconse this session, but lookout two years from uow when the returns come in aud see where we are. Morrison of Towa—We have lots of Ger- mans in Tama and prohibition has brought them over to us solid and no mistake, When you take away & man’s glass of beer you ure @pt to hear from him, Yes, the taviff chanwed & few but not near 8o maxy as prohibition. Jewell of Winneshiek—I believe Harrison did getover five hundred majority a year Ago last fall, but our county 1s full of Bohewidns and Norwegians and they don't like ‘rmhibilmn. Of course 1 hustled around some, and my friends worked for we, but the republicans never have elected a (rabibitionist yet to tne legislature. The cnator Was beaten 1o his owa county on thiat very issue. Clarke of Woodbury—Sioux City wants to boow and doa’t like o be hampered h,v‘|‘)ru hibition, The republicaus up our Svay are awful sick. Don't you think they must be when they glve 600 majority for Havreison, one year and the next roll up over a thou- . #and for Boies. Our county is naturally re |g“\.hrun. but probibition will keep it in the “democratic column by constautly increasing mgonuel until the law is repealed. ent of Plymouth—My county used to be ropblicyn by a g6od wmajority, but our pedplo couldo’v stand prohibition, They first elected Curtis, an_suti-probibition republican, but he felt awful lonesome among the republi- cans down tere. Theo I was elected witn- out auy trouble and ran squarely ou the issue of prolubition. Our majorities bLave been crawhug up ever since, We gave Cleveland 485 over Harrison, but last year our county went wild aud Beles' majority ran up to over a thousand. If the republicans stand by pro hibition egain this session and congress fails 10 modify the tariff our wajority will grow still larger, and that is not all. 'Tne whole northwestern part of the state is coming in line with us on these questions and Lwo years from now we will have both the house and the senate by good working majorities. ‘These mewbers, as will be scen, all come from sections where, for some_reason or other, the democratic gains in the last elec: tion were very heavy. The republicans in the legislature will undoubtedly disagroe with these sanguine democrats and decline to stampede to the democratic view of things as given above, Rex. AN ABSULD ASSERTION, The Democratic Clann of Political Ascondancy in lowa, Drs Moixes. Ia., Feb, 9,—(Special to Tar Bee, | —The democrats have been claiming all the while that they were entitied to the speak- ership ou the ground that they were now the dominant party of the state. Tho offcial returns show that instead of being evenly balanced in the houso with the republicans they are not entitled, on their own showing, to thirteen of the members who sit on their side. The aemocrats have claimed ever sinco the election, that the vote for Gov- ornor Boies reprosented their strongth in the state. They claim that thoy made their fight on the prohibition issus as ro presented by him, and pail nc attention to tho legisia- ture. The returns show that the following thirteen districts now reprosented by oppo- sition members of the house gave separately and collectively more votes for . Hutchi- son than for Mr. Boies: Winneshiek, Decatur, Fuyette, Buchanan, Powoeshiok, Floyd, pssuth, Adair, Osceola and Lyon, Chevokee, Monona, Adams and Boot Osceola and Lyon constitute one district, each of the o ther counties named 18 a dis- trict by itself. According to the demoorats’ own method of reckoning, these are ropubli- can districts, for every one of them gave a majority for Mr, Hutchison. On the re publican side of the house, but one county is found that gave a majority for Mr. Boies, that is Marion eounty, which gave him just twedty-five majority, ‘although it electod u republican representative, Deducting this one member from the republican side, loaves it with forty-nine districts that sre ropubli- can on the test vote for governor. Then adding to it tue thirteen republican districts now reprosented by persons not republicans, thero ft a total of sixty-two republi- can districts and ouly thirty-eight demo- cratic districts, And yet the democrats claim that thoy are entitiod to the speaker. “This showmg has convinced the republicans that they ean never justify themselves if they surrender the speakership whoeu thero ars sixty-two republican districts 1 the state and’only thirty-eieht democratic. ADIOURNMENT TALK. Some of the members of the legislature are aiready besinning to talic about the time for final adjournment, although no business has yet been transacted. he average length of a legislative session in this state has beon seventy days. Iu one instau it “exceeded one hundred days, and in one instance it was only forty-three days. But on the average 1t lkeeps in the vicinity of seventy days. The usual time for adjournment until tho last few years has been the latter part of March. Some think that tha deadlock will neces- sarily prolong tho session so much the longer, but the deadlock did not have tiat effect n 1874, for tho session that year lasted only sixty-seven duys. It 18 quite likely that after the legislature does organize the members will fecl the importance of wasting no tiwme, and will rush business through %o as to adjoura about the usual time. Iour weeks have passed in idleness. If the members business right away they can do tha tittle that needs to be done in a burry. AS OTHERS 8EE TIM. Judge Macomber of Ida Grove Las been enjoying an experience which do2s not come to most people till after they are dead. He has been fiuding out what people thought ot him supposing ho was dead. A few days ago ho was very sick with the influenza. The roport was sent to the newspapers that he was dead, aud it was 50 announcad by the Associated press. Then his wife bagan to receive lotters and telegrams of condolence from all purts of the state and many expres- sions of respect and complimeuts for the late jurist were made public. The amusing Teature of it was, however, that four can- didates started post-haste after the supposed vacant judgship, aud within twenty-four hours had either appaared before tho gov- ernor i person or by proxy, requesting to bo appointed as successor to the judge. i'hen came the news that he was not dead and it overtook some of them here in Des Moines as they were just in the act of apply- ing for his place. They are now a very crestfallen sot of candidates and they don’t want to hear any allusions to dead men's shoss. Tho Macomber family is now receiv- ing daily a sack full of letters of congratula- tion from those who first sent condolences, THE LITTLE NARROW GAUGE. The little narrow gauga railroad kaown as the Keokuk & Northwestern is still the sub- ject of controversy. It has been offered for sale several times, but would not command a price that was regarded as at all fair, It seems now that Judge Love rejected the last bid made for the road when the receiver, General Gilchrist, tried to buy it. In dowmg 80 he mado some remarks that have been construed as meaning that he would order the apandonment of the road und the taking up of the track. He disclaims avy such in- tention, however, and bus madé a public statement us to what he did mean. The judge says that ofter two bids had been made for the road, which were not of as much value as the road would bring if sold for old wron, he intimated that somo pur- chaser might take the road and sell it piece-meal for old 1ron or anything else, He did this, he says, to stimulate local parties interested in tho operation of the road, to take hold of it and keep it from being abandoned by some suzh plan of purchase, ‘The judec's ‘explanation possibly explains, but 1t loaves the situation about where it was, which is that unless svoms one puts enough mouey into the road to keep it going it will be sold for old wron, and the Keokuk & Northwestern railroad will be no more. The situation in which this road is placed 1s very much like that of the Clarinda & St. Lows road which is also 1 tho hands of a receiyer und not making daily expenses. Towa'has over eight thousand miles of rail- road, but it looks us if a few of the wmiles had been built before they were needed, ALL SOITS OF PREACHERS. The legislatura is no respaoter of persons in the matter of devotions, Ipinvites clergy- men of all creeds aud colors and sexes to pray for it. 1t has had for chaplain men proachers, women preachers, negro preachers, and an indian preacher, The latter, who officiated a few days ago,is a full vlooded Digger~Indian. His name is Peter O, Matthews, He has had quite a career, During the rebellion he served in the Uniou army as a member of the Fortioth Iowa infautry, After the war he was an Indian scout for the regular army and went through several memorabie cawpaigns out on the plaius. Then ne became converted and Degan to work foran caucation, He went through an lowa dollege, became n minister, and for saveral years has been a teacher in Indian schools. He lived for many years in Marion county, a0d coming here on @ visit the other day he visited the legislature and was invited to pray for the statesmen. From a Digzer Indan in California to chap- lain of the Iowa iegislature is quite a large stop even in theso rapid times, THEY FEAR TARIFF REDUCTION A combinod effort is being made by the linseed oil manufacturers of lowa to prevent any change in the tariff on flax seed, The desire for free flax sced comes from eastern manufactuzers who ean xmport it from India at less cost thau they can get it from the west, and if the duty wers taken off the western wills would “have to close, Some idea of the extent of the linseed oil business in lowa can be obtained from tne figures which the manufacturers have recently made public. Kighteen years ago there was uot an oil mill in the state, now there are eight, representiug an einvestment of over 2,000,000. They furnish ewploywent and support to several bundred families, and they furnish a market for 8,500,000 bushels of ‘flax seed annually. The fax seed com- wands & better price than wheat on an average, and isa very profitable crop for the farmer, Before the oii mills were started there were but @ few thousand bushels of flax seed raised iu this state. Now the yield amounts to several wmillion busoels, The linseed oil manufacturers will request the lowa members of congress to stand by tbis growing industry and help the farwmers as OMAHA. MONDAY well as the manufacturers by keeping it in a prosperous condition in lowa, nt. Fab, 0.—[Special Tele gram to Tie Bee|—~Tne attorney general has decided to begin suit against several railroads to determine a novel point under the Towa raidroad law. It is to find out whether or not the railroads can be com- pelled to answer any questions which the governor may think of public interest. Last fall he requested the commissions to find out seyeral things which the railroads had not been accustomed to report, Hoe wanted them to tell the salaries they paid to their general officers, the nambor of attorneys they employed and what they were paid, the names and postofice addresses of all the stockholders, the number of mileage booKs they 1ssued, ete. Most ol the rou flatly refused to give the information, inti- mating that it was none of the governor's business, He has now Instructed the attor- ney general to bring suit to compel them to answer, and the papsrs have boeu prepared and suits will bo' bogun against the Rock Islund, the Buviington, Cedar Rapids & Nortlfbrn ana tho Minneapolis & St. Louis at ouce, A Novel Po Drs MoiNes, Ia. Gobbled by i Starc Drs Morxes, Ta., Feb. 9, gram to Tie Bee. | —The two starch factories at this place have been sold to a syndicate that has bought with one exception sll the starch factories in the country. The Gilbert starch works, the iarger of the two, is sold for £500,000. The Sleeper starch works sells for $120,000. It 18 understood that tho pur- chasers are backed by English capital and the factories will all” be controlled by the trust. It1s probable that one, and nossibly both of the factories here will be closed, 'he Gilbert factory has done a business of £500,000 annually and employs over one han- dred hands. It" has been owned heretofore chielly by Buffalo parties. ‘Ihe Slecper fuc- tory isa new institution controlled by Des Moines people and employs fifty hands. h Trat, Special Tele- Fell Under the Wheesls, CEpAR Rarips, la, Feb, 9.—[Special Telegram to Tue Ben. |—Jumes ner, aged twenty, of Otis, la., while attempting to board a train at Beverly today fell under the whoels and received injuries which will prove fatal. He was brought to this city and taken to St, Luke's hospital, whore everything possible is being done for him. He ¢annot survive. i5te Broom Factory Burned. . Des MoiNes, Ia., Feb. 9.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Beg.| ~The Des Moines broom factory, a small but growiug institution, was burned this morning. One or two ad- jacent buildings were also destroyed; loss from 3,000 to £5,000, R Lt o SENATOR WASHBURN. Ho Gives His Views Regarding the Blair Bducational Bill, Cnicago, Feb, 9.—[Spacial Telegram to Tne Bee.]—Senator Washburn was in the city today for a few hours on his way home from Washington to Miunneapolis. Tn con- versation with a reporter he discussad vari- ous proposed picces of legislation, Asked whut the senate will do with the Blair bill be said: “Well, if they are like L am, it wont pass, The principle is bad. It gives national funds to the stutes to be spent un- der state control; that is a bad principle; it croates a possible corruption fund, and it is. chiefly for the benefit of a section; that is bad. The south 18 amply abls to take care of its own educa- tion, and it ough to be left to do it.” The senator did not think there would be any 18800 made of Speaker Reed's recent ruling in the house. *“‘The one unfortunate thing about bis action,’” said he, “is that it came up on an election case, Unthinking people are apt to think it is a purely partisun meas- ure. The better plan would have been to let the fight come up on a report from the com- mittee on rules, butit is all right” as it is. Tom Reed has been entirely consistent. KEvery one who has been familiar with legislation in Washiugton knows that tho old house rules wers practically the worst possible rules to work under. Under them at any time two or three men could and did stop legislation, Reed has advocated a change in these rules for years while n the house, ou the platform as well as in his mag- azine articles, and public opinion will sus- tain him. The first business of congress when the rules are settled will be to presont atariff bill. It is pretty well understood that the house will frame a bill on the senate tarif bill of lust session. It will be passed by both tho house and the senate without wuch deviation from the lines laid down in the origioal senate vill,” sl CON G itESS, of the Busin:ss Laid Oat for the Week. WasuiNgroy, Feb, 9.—The new code of rules will be the chief subject of interest to come before the house this weel. 1t is the intention of the committee on rules to call it up as early as possible and ask the house to limit the debato that flnal action on the sub- ject may be reached within two or threo days. While many features of the rules are obnoxious to the democrats 1t is not probablo that opposition will be manifested otherwiso than by speeches and adverso votes on th em, provided the mnority are afforded what they regard us reasonable time for dis- cussion, ‘fhe committee on elections may report the contested election case of Atkinson vs Pen- dletou and action upon tuut case will con- sume the remainder of the weck. “There are indications that the Blair eluca- tion bill in the senate will run through the week and perhaps for a longer period before a vote is taken, "The bill to providea territorial government for Oklahoma will probably be disposed of in the morning hours, and sy odd ends of time therein remaimog will be devoted to miscellaneous “unobjected” busiuess on the calendar. In exccutive session, the senate, it is ex- pected, will consider the nomination of Mor- gon 1o be commissioner of Indian uffairs, Dorchestor to ba superintendont of Indian schools and Warmouth to bo collector of cus- toms at Now Orleans, all of which are sub- jects of coutroversy. Stoamship arcivals. At New York—The Umbria, from Liver- pool; the Dania, from Hamburg; La Bre- wgue, from Havre; the Pennsylvania,. from Auntwerp, s At London—Sighted: The City of Chicago, from New York; La Champagne, trom New York for Havre; the Roaetia, from New York for Hamburg. s AR The Won Forecast, For Omahd and vicinity: Fair weather. For Neoraska: Fair, southerly wiads, be- coming varisble, colder Tuesday night. For fowa: Fair, warmer, southerly winas, IPor South Nakota: Local rains or suows, southerly winds, colder Tuesday morning. el Salamanca's Funeral, Havaxa, Fob, 9.—The funeral of General Salamanca, late captain general of Cuba, took place toduy with splendid ceremonies. ‘The route fiom the palace to the cemetery wus lined with troops and due’military honors were paid to the deceased, e Orleans' Line of Defenss, Panis, Feb. 9.—Counsel for the duc de Or- leans will argue that the new recruiting law abrogates the clause in the expulwion: law forbidding French princes to enter the atmy, and that the due has uot therefore rendored bimself lisble to the penalty, me An Ocean Steamor Wreckeod. Loxnoy, Feb, §.—The steamer Spyridion Vagliano, from Constantinople, was wrecked near Falmouth. Eight persons were saved. The captain was drowned and thirteen others are missivg. PREPARED FORTHE STRUCCLE The Assault on the Marmon Sirong- hold to Bs Made Today. LIBERALS PERFECTLYORGANIZED Allthe Minute Dotails Looked After For Bringing Outa kull Vote— The Turning Point Utah's History, in A Perfect Organization. SALr Lake Ciry, Utah, Feb, 9.—)Special Telogram to Tre Bee.|—The Walker house in this city is tonight & surging mass of bumanity, occasioned by the fact that the proprietor, Major George 5. Erb, has for the Past twenty yeurs been & most persistent yet consistent antagonist of the Mormon methods of churen and municipal govern- ment. ‘The Walker housd 1s the headgnarters for the liberal central committee, of which Judge O. W, Powers i8 chairman, and to whom is due the credit of one of the most thorough and completd political campaign organizations ever known in the United States. ‘Lhe city and voters, under JJudge Powers’ management, i8 divided into wards, precincts, blocks, etc., With captains to each. Besides, the liberal voters are divided into blocks of ten with & daptain, ete, to soe ry one of the ten votes are cast. It is to the credit of the central committees that every saloon in theCity has been closed today nad will not be opened untit the polls close tomorrow evening. While great ex- citement prevails, yeteverybody appears do- termined to see a fair aad peaceable clection tomorrow, Mormonism Doomed. Saut Lake, Utah, - Feb, 9.—[Special to ‘f'ue Beg |—The chaotic condition of Sult Lake City cannot be imagiued. The turning point in the history of Utah is not ‘being made without upsetting a great church goverament and spilling out saints and sin- ners alike. And when the upheaval occurs there will bo great flssures in the new foun- dation that will have to be bridged over by laws of reconstruction sumilar to those that were passed for the south at the end of the civil war, & With a grand jury Indictment hanging over the head of the preseut mayor, Francis Armstrong, for misappropriation of the city revenues and a like noose around the neck of the sheriff, with the Mormon church property, including strees railway franchises, 1 the hands of a receiver, to be woand up under the law passed by the federal con- gress, and with a Mormon legislature and a Gentile governor holding an absolute veto, and the county offices filled with Mormons —loyal to their church—the condition of the governments of Utah, state, county and mue nmcipal,have a hard raad to travel before ud« justing themselves to the now order of things. } ‘T'he determination of tho opposing forces beggars description and to such a high ten- sion are the feelingd of the contestants drawn that should a riot/break out it will be furious and destructive. . % In 1883, prior to the .passage’ of the BEd. munds-Tucker law, the Mormons polied 19,605 votes in the territory to §2,210 Gentile votes, while Salt Lake’ City was carried by such majority as the Mdrmons cared to call out. 3 Since the passage of the Edmunds-Tucker bill there have been five elections held in this city, which resuited s follows: i Mor- mon. .1,854 Gen- tile. 927 46 1,090 August, 1887, February, 1885, August, 1888.. .. . November, 1888, 833 August, 1889...,. ..., 2,036 ‘The last, election, for legislature, was car - ried by the Gentiles (liberals) by forty-one majority. This was 8 great eurprise, as it was not anticipated: Scarcely was the re sult published until both parties were put ou their metal and their lines swollen by every known species of political multiplication until the registration books show an increase of more than two thousand voters since the August election. The August election was but a skirmish compared with the desperate vatile that has been goingon for ive months, The fury of the closing days is something unparalleled in the conduet of politicsl cam= gns. The liberals can turn out a_proces- o of 7,000 torehbearers and fire off such a display of fire works as would make an cast- ern city ashamed by way of comparison. There i» a great armly of loyal, patriotic citizens, who at last see a way ta vote out of ofice the men who trailéd the national colors in the dust and hung the sturs and stripes at half must on the Fourth of July to show their contempt for a goyernment that would not protect a lot of rebellious traitors and make the beautiful Salt Lake valley a harem. The eity and county fayored fumilies of the from father to son uut] runneth not to the cont of the church help themselves to the ciy revenues us if ey were collected in the tithe yard and not pard’dut of the pockels of Gentile and Mormon alfke. ‘The Mormon, on the: other hand, claims creait for all thut Umh‘,ls. but the anti-Mor- mon retorts to ths that Utah 1s as the Al- mighty made it, exceptithese Mormou bouds. 1 uoue of the publicispeeches have I heard discusscd the question Avhether **a man with wite is an angel and thy man with two wives a devil,” The one topic uppermost is the making of Salt Lake un American city. The Mormon points with ‘prido to the present order of things, while the liberal sees nothing but mud, mules and Chinese carts, and a place where the Moors of Spain would die of enoui, 1f one can take the stories that are floating about, eveu with all the grains of salt that are 1 the great lake, hu cannot but believe that the earth is beiug hatrowed and the sky scraped for illegal voters, ‘The approved methods of atiaining the de- sired result of uwomux‘t:w registration that have proven most produciive are *‘railroad- ing" ‘and ‘“‘sewering,’ e Mormons are credited with im) rtu&w 1,000, more or less, of the riff raff and keeplug them in tho sewers at day av the public expense, and harboring them at night six deep s @he adobe houses with but a single blanket betwesn their bare backs and the floor. Aimong the Bonfield of “'desperadoes’ was one O'Brien, who Faimed somo uotoriety by mistaking on3 McGinty for a Cronin sus- pect. O'Brien came here in his “Sunday clothes" and in place of ralling through the pavement and having aton of coal dumpod on his “Sunaay best,”’ fellanto the heart of & young lady ~so deeply -that, morally speaking, he could not bawe tumbled much lower without becoming & Mormon. This fall of the married young man was placed beforethe bishops andit was decided that this species of detective work was mmical 10 the best interests of polygzamy, and to save the yauuw lady, the church aud the coming elsction O'Brien was bounced, O'liricn had also reported certain. intervibws and inside information to bis ehief, and the = ghtning rapidity with whieh the young detéctive un- veiled the secrets of the liberals excited a suspicion as to the genuineness, and & belief that be was carrying on a double flirtation witn his chief and the falr young lady io- stead of attending ta business, In place of goingto Chicago, O'Brien went straight into the bosom of the liberal camp and vnfolded all he koew, and, if we are to crediv a Latter Day Saiut, backed by the statement of a detective, O'Brien again un- bosomed mueh more than he kuew. The harem-scarem detective business has set both parties Lo rights, and there is a disposi- tion vow shown to pay some heed to the forms of uoldiwwctlon- prevailing 1 civi- lized communities. The heart of the people is loyal and a more patriovic arwy thao the liberal forces caunot ces are held in the vored church, going the mind of man ry. Those creaturcs be found east or west of the Rocky moun- tains. Whatever crookedness may be going on belongs to the few, and the many are in total ignorance of their devices, ‘The Mor- mons, a8 well of the Gentiles, demand a fair, peaceable election, and what has been done out of the honest 'way will bo repaired as much as possible. To prevent an outbroak on eclection day both parties have agreed that there shall be an equal number of United States deputies a8 of Mormon police posted about the poll thus giving fair play wnd protection to bot sides. Statements From Both Sidoes, Saut Lake Crry, Utah, Feb, 0.—To an As sociuted press correspondent tonight Mr. Richards, chairman of tho pegple's (Mor- mon) party, made a lengthy statement, He reviewed the charges which had been made that the liberals have had complete control of the registration and have without warrant or reason thrown out many people’s party votes, Also that the liberals rana epecial car down to the Colorado line a couple of weeks ago and registered a whole colony of railroad luborers who never saw Salt Lake. In a general talk on the situation he asserted that the Edmunds and Tucker acts had been used for political purposes. He usserted furtier that the idea that tho Mormon church and the people’s party are one is erroneous. Governor Arthur Thomas, one of the lib- eral leaders, said the reports that tho elec- tion tOmOrrow may precipitate serious trou- ble 18 ridiculous 1 his mind. He thinks the Gontiles will _carry tho city by 1,000. The question which dominates ‘in the election is the same a8 in every other—that the atti- tude of the majority of the people toward the government under which they live should be proper. The Gentiles demand that the laws shall be obeyed, and when the courts of last resort pass upon questions there shall no longer be controversy. Chairman Powers of the liberal party de ies in toto the charges of fraud by the mons and makes counter-charges, say. ing they brought in 1,200 men whom they put to work on public works and intended to vote. Tho liberzls ran these men down and had them stricken out. The law under which tho registrars have acted was adopted by a legislature unatimously Mormon and against a Gentile protost. Now that the Mormons find the ofifcers under it appointed by the Gentiles th out against this child of their own creation. =g THE OLEARANCE RECORD. Financial Transactions of the try forthe Past Week. Bostoy, Feb 9. —|Special Telegram to Tne Bri.|—The following table, compiled from special dispatches from the managers ot the olearing houses in the eities named shows the gross exchanges for the last weok with the rates per cent, increase or decrease, as compared with the similar amounts for the corresponding week in 18 Coun- CrrIEs, - aswazouy | -osvazeq New York Boston..... 0T Philudelphia., . Ohieawo .. i1 St Low. KLY Baltimor New Orieans Pittsburg. . Sun Franc Cinetnnati Loulsville. Kansas City. Milwaukes. Providence Omaha... Detroit... Oleveland Denver .. St. Panl Minnex Memphi Indianapolis . Columbus. . Duluth ..., Gaiveston Richmond. Harttord. ... Peoria....... 8t Joser Springtield New Have Washington Portland, Me. Worcester..... Norfolk, ... =Wilmingron.. | Wicita .. Sioux Oity Syracuse .. Grand Rapids Lowell .. i.0s Angel Des Molues, New Bedfor: Lexington, K; Jopeka. . Montreal *Buifalo *Portlend, Ore .. *Birmingham.. ... *Soattle.. . ...... PN o Outside NeW Yori:| wjaadTDe 4. XA 4,453,831 2148174 TR0 1153 178 450 Partly approximated, *Notmeluded in totals. thistin ast year, THE No clearing houss at S1I0UX BOOMERS. They Are Impati President's I° Crasneriary, 8. D, Fob. 9.—[Spelal Telegram to Tiir Ber. | —All has been quict here today among the boomers and settlers who are awaiting presidential permissios to go upon the Sioux reservation und selact claims, but it can b plainly seen that all are much excited and anxious to enter the prom- ised land when it is thrown open. The boomers who made the unsuccessful attempt 10 locate upon the reservation a few nights ago are rather impatient, but will be pre- vented from repeating the attempt. Late last evening Indian Agent Andorson was told that about fifty boomers had crossed the reservation many miles north of her itly Awaiting the pelamation. and that they had at once lefv for the i terior, where they are selecting land and erccting dwellings. He notified his Indian police and told them to run every settier off the reservation and confiscate their lumber, ete., in case they refused to remove it from the land. The police are now after the boomeors, but nothing as yet has been heard from them. Besides the immense crowd of boomers now gathered here, there are said to be hun- dreds congregating at s point below, directly opposite the mouth of White river, where they will cross when the proclamation open- ing the land is issued, Tomorrow promises to be au exciting day in this vicinity, as the boomers fully expect the proclamation to be issued during the day. '"'he weather is warm aud very favorable for the great rush, - - Murderea His N WiINNIPEG, Feb. 9.—A special from Maimi says: Yesterday during the absence of John Morton, aged fifty-two, his father, aged soventy-five, abused Mrs. Morton, his daughter-in-law, aged fifty-four. When the son returned he remoustrated with his father, whereupon the old man took down & gun and shot and instantly kiled bis son. He then turned the gun on Mrs. Morton and shot her in the abdomen, She aied within 80 hour. The old man does not deny the crime and says be did it intantionally, — In Session all Night, HeLexa, Mont., Feb. 9. ~The republican bouse and senate were in session till 2:30 this morning, and passed eight appropriation bills. Becker, the democratic senator who was brought in by the sueriff lust night, took no part in the proceedings, but was counted present by the lieutenant governor, thus wakiog a quorum, — - The Death Record. SANTA Baxpaga, Cala., Feb, 9.—Heory B, Williaws, of the well knowa firm of shipping merchan, Diamond & Co., San Fraucisco, died here last night, aged seventy. New OnLEANS, Feb, 9.—Colonel Isase W. Patton, @ prominent citizen who has held wany ofices of Lonor and trust, including - Z % the city treasureship d died this afternoon of ST, PETERSHURG, L formerly minister of thy terior, is dead. LoNDoN, Feb, 0.—The death is announced of Honry Bentick Boyle, fifth carl of Shan non, from influenzs. the mayorship, loxy Count Valonieff, - “ CAME IN ON A TRIOY O The King Caraival Kes Entey tnio Nies [Copyright 1590 by James Gordon Bennett.) Nice, Feb, 9. New York Herald Cable Special to Tur Bee.|—There was but one cry in Nice tonight, and it was “Carnivall Carnival is comog?’ and come hs did, bat notthe carnival of old. This year King Carnival would have nothing todo with dteam, or even later moans of locomoti So, instead of arriving as he ofton has dono at Gare, ho camo strolling quictly along the Promenado des Angelais, On his feot? O, dear, no, & later invention still—a tricycle It was § o'clock whon his majosty, who is to rule the revels for duys to come, appear cighteon feot fn heighth, dressed in a rose and yellow jacket, with knee breecnes, striped hose, pointed shoes and hatted with a jockey's cap. His golden tricyelo wheels were nine feet high. and his suito was us elegant as his majesty himseif. Thereywere the municipal firemen, bands without uumber, torch bear- ers, and a wholo party of punchinellos on horseback, whoso duty seemed to bs to keep the redlight boys up to their work and tno torch bearers i their places. Throughout the whole route the pavements were crammed, and nover perhaps have vis- itors to Nice witnossed so brilliant u sceno, Laughing, cheering, shouts and music mnglod created a true pandemonium Nice uad gone mad onco again, Firoworks flow in all directions, every baicony was filled with sightseers and standing under tho shelter of dark trees the sight was one long to be remembered. 1t a Novel wag a pantomimic transformation scene in real life. “Tho procession, amidst dancing and music, wended its way along the boulevards to the Placo Garabaldi, where for a minute the Kking stopped to pay his respects to the gen- eral de division and gouverneur. It then went straight to the Casino, where the keys of the town wers with a tremendously flowery speech—too flowery, indeed, to be taken down in shorthand —handed to King Carnival XVIIL, who afterwards was conducted to his throne, where, With his back to the sun, he will be monarch of ail he surveys and the condoner of ail deeds, good or evil, that may happen during his reign of a little ten days, when, hke Gny Fawkes of old, he will suffer the extreme penalty of the law. Nice is full und still the visitors come. Among tho latest arrivals are the Baron aud Barrone Dedanz, Comte and Comtesse ISess- ler, Comtesse De Semberg, Comte and Coms tesse De Neuville, Comtesse de Visart, Comto Tibotti, the painter Gervax, Baron de Wolffe, and who knows wh e M A GRITTY PRIZE FIGHTER, Sick With La Grippe, Andy Bowen Fights Three Hours, Nrw Orueans, Feb. 9.—-Andy Bowen, a loeal light weight, fought Charlie Johnson of Minneapolis with skin gloves at Abita Springs today. | There has been bad blood between the men since the recent idowen-McHale fight. Bowen told his managers a fight with Johnson must be made regardless of money, 80 the stakes was fixed at 100 a side aud the Rute receipts. Howen was taken sick last Wednes- day with la grippe and his backers wanted to forfeit the stake, but he would not permit it. All lust night he suffered with fever and came into the ring this mora- ing looking badly and weighing 134 pounds. Johnson was @ head taller, had a longer reach and was in the pink of condition. He owned up to 137 pounds, but apoearad heavier. Only about two hundred people were pres- ent. 1t proved a preat fight, lasting tnree hours and twelve minutes. and would have been goiug on yet, but for the arrival of the train, In the first round Bowen rushed Johnsen and knocked him down threo times, punish- 10g biim severely around the body, Bowen was not burt, but exhausted himseif so thut he was not strong enough thereafter to de- liver the fimshing touch. After the first round he continued to force the fighting, but his plucky leads mot with clinches and upper cuts from Jobnson, In the sixth round Bowen cut his eye uraiust a stake 1n aclinch nd had his lip cut in the next round. After that he waited for Johnson to lead, and as tho latter could not be eoaxed or soused into doing it the fight lasted forty- three rounds. Bowen disobeyed his seconds and rushed his man ut intervals, got ting_in some fiad body and jaw blows and receiving upper cuts in return, Bowen's face was terribly swollen and he bled freely, and Johnson’s chest, sides and back were cut and bruised. Io the last few rounas Joluson led seve: times, but Bowen rushed him in return and did terrible punishment cousidering his con- dition. Johnson's upner cuts served him in good stead, although his returns did not phaso Bowen, When train time came the end of the fight was as far off us ev and the men were told to come forward to shake hands. Bowen objected’ but finally yielded and that endea his first drawu fight. Johnson is said to be really a well known northwestern hightweight, al- though some decluro that he 18 Jimmy Collins of St; Louis, who is wanted in con- nection with a recent fatal fight there, The pet gate receipts were divided bo- tween the men, while Bowen's manager gave him the §100 stakes. Bowen smashed two knuckles of his right hand on Johnson’s head during the fight. A party of roughs gave considerable trouble at one time, but were finally ejected by the sheriff, who witnessed the affair as @ spec- tator and peace officer, ————— TWO SERIOUS WRECKS, Spreading Rails in One Case and a Open Switeh in the Other. HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 9.—This morning at Marsh's run, near this city, two freight trains were being sidetracked to allow the Pacific express to pass, 7The brakeman of the first section of the freight left the switclh open, supposing the second section would come in on the same track, but it took another switch, Before the brakeman could remedy his mistake the expross rounded the curve and dashed inw the freight. The track bhus been blocked all aay. Fireman Kmerton was the- only one killed, Engioeer Stermer and Engioeer Vogle were seriously hurt, but will probubly recover. 'I'wo express messengers were badly injured. Several others were scratehed and vruised. Roaxoke, Va, Feb, 9.—The westbound passenger train on the Norfolk & Western was wrecked by spreading rails near Bris- tol, Tenn.. today. Kxpress Messenger Kerr was killed and Mail Agent Bock fatally in- jured. BBaggage Master Adams was badly hurt. Conduator Burnes aud two pussengers were slightly injured, The others escaped with a shaking up, —_—— A Job for kifteen Hundred Men, RoseBukG, Ore., Feb, 9.—It is estimated by the Southern Pacific oficials here that it will take 1,500 men one month to repair. the railroad track damaged by the flood between here and Ashbland, & distance of about one hundred and forty wiles, ix wiles of track were carried out, — UMBER 231, Dissatiefled W.th a Civil Rogulation. Servics A STRIKE VERY PROBABLE, Remain in the Cibin ot Case of the Mon s ants Claim« it to Washe Mother, A Monume ington's 518 FounteeNTH STRELT, Wasnixaroy, D, C.. Fab, 9, Tho victory of the plate printers in their fight against the introduction of steam presses into the bureau of eneraving and printing last summer has made them very sanguine and they have now undertaken another crusade which seems likely to result in a general strike and porhaps the tempor- ary suspension of business in that institu- tion. The admimistration 1s placad in a position where 1t must either recognize the color line in the government serviceor offond the printers’ union. An octroon numed Frances Flood, from Buffalo, who 18 described as a very preuty and geateel girl of twenty or twenty-one years, who was formerly a school teachor, passed the best examination boforo the civil servico commis- sion and was certified to the superintendent of the bureau of engravingand printing with two other girls to fill vacancies among the lute printers’ assistants, Their duties aro 0 1ift the sheets of bond and bank note paper to and from the printing presses aud thoy stand all day beside the priuters, For this service they receive $43 dollars o month, No colored girl was ever before assigned to this work although there are several anong the “countesses,” as tho women who eount the sheets arc ealled. ‘The printer to wihom sbo was assigned, a man named Johnson, refused to nccept her and was disnussed from the bureau by Suberintendent Meres dith with the approval of S Win- dom. She was then assigned to another printer named Levy, whoalso declined to re- cewve her, and immediately tendered his resignation on the ground tuat he would not work with a “nigger.” His resignation was not accepted, but he was likewise dismissed. That left no' other vacuncy, bul the girl is still on the roiis and will be assigned w duty whenever o vacancy oceurs. Yesterday the exccutive committee of the priuters’ union called upon Superintendent Meredith and Secretary Windom and made a formal demand for the privilewe of selecting their own helpers, which was denied for ob- vious reasons, This branch of the service is under the service commission and va- cancies have to bo filled uccording to the law, like all other positions in the exveutive department, They did not raise the ques. tion of eolor, but simply insisted upon choosing their own assistants, and were willing to select them from any number of cundidates certified by the commission. The socrotary declined to yield and the printers’ upion héid u meetiog fast night at which the executive committee was instructed to draft a formal protest and given power to take such action as in their discrotion was proper in the cuse, The department declhined to accedo to their demands, The printers will not say what this action will be, but it is well unaerstood that if the secretary of the treasury declines, as he must do, o strike will be ordered, 4 TAE MONTANA OL3 IMANTS, Montuna’s four claimants to the two seats in the United States senate are ecxpested here tomorrow. The senute committee on privileges and elections are to take up the contest now and dispose of it. No eicetion will Lkely be recognized and since no one has ever filled these offices, the failure of the Montana legislature to elect will not create vacancies, and so the democcralio governor cannot’ appoint any one to the piaces, This will let the question go over to another legslature. IRACY TAKES A DRIVE. Secretary ‘I'racy went out for a drive with the president and his son this afternoon and afierward spont an hour with bis duughter, Mrs. Wilmerding, who 18 still corfined to the residence of Lieutenant Mason by her broken arm und sprainea ankle, 1t is proba- ble that the secretary will take a trip down the river on the Disvateh if the weather con- tinues fine, but he insists upon going to the department for'a day or two firs! in order to dispose of somo_important matters that are there pending, His immediate plans thore- fore are indefinite, but it is decided that he will remain in the cabinet and b s olready eiven orders to huve the ruins of his houso removed as soon as the underwriiers give the necessary permission. The house wis insured for only $25,000 which will barely cover his furniture, ormaments, pictures, library, etc , that were destroyed, 'T'he total pecuniary loss will amount 10 about §60,000, MOTHER WASHINGTON'S GRAVE. The row that has been goiug 00 iu ericksburg, Va., over the ownership and coutrol of the grave of the mother of Wash- ington has resulted in the organization of un association of ladies to purciase the property and erect a suitable monument. ‘The widow of Chief Justice Waito is tho presivent avd Mrs. Lyman Trumbull bhas been nusmed as the vice president for Ilinois, PETTIGREW'S DENIAL. Senutor Pettigrew of South Dakots, who arrived last night from a business trip to his houie, saia to your correspondent this evens ing that plenty of seed for the spring plant- i would be procured from Chicazo and elsewners through the efforts of the legisla~ tive committee, of whicn Governor Melictte is chwirman, *It is unfortunate,” said he, “for the people and thg country thut these exaggerated roports wore ever started about alleged suffering in Norih and South Dakota. It is truc that there was a short crop in some localitio: a3t season, but there is now and has heen no suffering for either food or fuel. Our furmers in u very few counties will need assistance in the wiy of a loan of wheat and oats, of which they can got an abunaance from graiu dealers in Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis, but they will need nothing further. The reports; greatly exaggerated and sent out by un- princinled persons who simply wanted to collect money, clothing aud provisions 1o ba appropriated for their own use, have created the iupression in some sections of the east tuat there are starving or freezing people in the Dakotas, which is untrue. It will do our country harm with those who will nov take the trouble to_ascertmn the teuth, A mistake was made by the lemslature not authorizing the issusnce of county bonds to raise money for the purpose of advancing seed wheat 10 the farmers who need it. We are thoroughly able to help ourselves. Ivery new prairie state has found itsell some time in the beginning of its career called upon o do such things. We have a very bright fu- ture before us this season, ‘There will be an fmmense immigration on account of the opening of the sioux reservation and the general development of the state, The state of South Dakota is rich in everything. The need of some seed wheat in a few counties and one short crop 1n them will not burt pres ceptinly., We bear little said about the mate ter one way or another at home.” MISCELLANEOUS, Mrs. Senator Moody of South Dakota will give her last formal reception tomorrow from 8 until 5, She will be assisted by Mra, Hatcuer, Mrs. Livingstone, Mrs, Jonn L. Wilsou and Miss Hawpton, Great astonisment is being expressed over the countenance being given the proposition to locate the Louisisna lottery in North Da- kota, Men in congress say the state will disgrace itself if it accepts the scheme. KEf- forts are being made here to stop the sale of tickets in the District of Columbi Pruxy 8, Heary, WastiNgToN Buneaw Tur Ovany Bag, } e lace Burned, be forwer palace of Marguerite of Navarre ou the Rue de Seine burncd today. Loss, $400,000,