Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 4, 1890, Page 1

THE STRIKE NEARLY OVER.| Ohicago Oarpenters Will Probably Return | Tur Bri regulate the numbe union deems best. the apprentice system should by adopted by the bricklayers, ench employer is allowed a certain numbe NL\E'I] ENTH YLAR an Wi to Work in a Few Days, ¥ , and the mill- yesterday for d joiners, numbe: sricers, numbering 73 eight hours, A Cheertul Report. New Yok, May 3 cly five thousand | penters went to Webster hall tonight to ar reports made by the Amalgamated So it as to the st ty of Carp nd Joiner s of the eight-hour movement in this city. THE EIGHT HOUR DAY GRANTED. | The :«1- jrts show that the movement had | been successful in nearly nine-tenths of the Differences About Wages, Apprentices, | cases, Will Be Settled by Referees RIPE FOR A _REVOLUTION. and Both Sides Will Abide Riotons Strikers in Barcelona Causing by the Decision, the Authorities Much Troubl BARCEL y 5.—Riotous strikers held . complete possession of the city yesterday for Cmicaco, May 3.—[Special Telegram to | g time, Placards have been cast broadeast ]—The great carpenters’ strike is practically over and - soon the sound of | the hammier and saw will be once more heard in Chicago. 8o far the discussion co between the bosses' from time to time as the The employers By this : of vith and is permitted to apprentices to start v th take one new apprentice evers These are the ouly questions that will be submitted to the judges for decision. What- ever that decision is, both sides will abide by it. | About the recognit eight-hour day the the was no discussion, as | the employers were willing to ac- cedo to the men's demands in these particulars, The bosses made some ob- | jection to agrceing to employ mone but union foremen, but finally conceded the I point without having recourse to the judges. The rate for overtime and Sunday work was settled in a satisfactc manuner, overtime being rated as time and one-hulf and Sunday ‘work as double time. Phe men went out four weeks ago Monday, and since then there has not been 300 ¢ penters at work in Chicago at any one time. None of the union men will work for the old association of builders, and as the brick- | y, layers and masons will probably refuse to | ¢ work with non-union carpenters thut organ- | {7 ization will probubly be oblized to import laborers from the east to take the place of the Chicago men, The strike of the sash, to H my w door aud blind ury mounted pol latter resistod and at | ginning of a social revolution. pe sistance n of the union and the | seviously Be afternoon, tra lie ut the , finally ging the strile 3 to pillage the city, foters, harged the cked th mpelling them to retive. neats arrived in the city rog association and the carpenters’ association | aynor issued a proclamation threatening de council has been perfectly ami. and the i to any of the strikers who interfered with services of the referces have not yet been | yon willing to work. The mob became cowed necessary, at the firm attitude of the authorities and the Everything has now been settled but the ssence of the military and shortly dis- apprentice question and the rate of wages. el The empl maintain that 30 cents an hour |~ At noon today notwithstanding the fear s & minimum rate is high enough, while the | ¢34 further trouble was imminent, the pub- men still hold out for 40 cents, lic maj opened as usual and a number The men claim the right to have the ap- | of worlkmen went back to_their employment prentices directly under their control and 0 | this morning, The anafhists are actively in attempting to foment trouble and alled meetings for Sunday. They are that the time 1 for the be- At midnight the str ssembled in ousands. The troops endeavored to dis- rse them, but w met with stout re- Some revolver shots were fired at The e soidiers who replied with a volley. mob was then charged and scattered at the point of the bayonet. Three were shot and wounded, Many arrests were ade. The Strike at Torrcoing. Panis May 8.—The strike at Torrcoing has ‘come gen 1 the strikers are parading ral the streets and stopping all kinds of work: s lave ing order. g oy SENATOR BECK DROPS DEAD. e S nbs to Paralysis of the Heart in a Washington Railroad Station. WasiiNGTON, May Senator James B, k of Kentucky dropped dead in the Balti- ore & Potomac sta at 4 o'clock this He had just arrived from New ork, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs, odloe, the wife of Major Goodloe of the nited States m He got off the tn with the passengers and alked with his daughter the entire length meuts of troo s iu preser s0 reinfores aid the author of the platform and through the gate leading Frinlige ) to the station proper. He scemtd to walk workers in the lumber district of the south- | (i ofrort and to breathe with labor, but west side was scttled temporarily this morn- | 4),.ia symptoms were the usual accompani- ing in more than half the fuctories, tho men | pet SYHPIOHS WeHe L e gaining what they asked for. The employers | peith - Of Grertion, SUEL S e S granted the eight hour day temporarily. |y, gtation the senator und his Theso concessions wero made on_conditions | gat g o * 0 ¢ ST T that hold good only until Monday morning, when the employers will give the men a final answer to their demand. ““You can say that we will refuse to give eight hours,” said an employer this morning, “begnuse we simply eannot work cight hours and meet the compotition of factorics outside of Chicage where labor is so much ch of di; by his private secreta carriage had been exchanged with regard to the care turned pale and with the remark, ¢ v, who had brought a to take them home. A few words suddenly feel fell into the avms of his companions, the baggage, when the senator 22y They could not support his weight and he { £ A T- | dropped to the floor, where he swooned away. Unless the cight-hour day is made universal | yyjjjiyg hands were numerous and_the limp _wewill shut down Monday, and that is what | ;4 selpless body was borne into the oftice of all sash, door and blind manufacturers will | {1\ seimjonmastor, about. twenty foet G i When the physicians arrived there was noth- The employes of the gas TUSE | 0 g hem to do except to examine the body will on Mouday ~demand elght hours, | 4nq getermine the cause of his death. A and us there is little hope of th superficial examination only was possible at employers granting the demand it is probable | S tren 1t e afieont. to atists the that Monday night will sco between six and | |y ojans that death resulted from paralysis seven hundred gas men out. The trust fore- | by oo o © 80 +of tho packers may bo more fancied than real. JA stroug minority of the men are in favor of seeing the probability of trouble luid their en- tire force off lust Wednesday night with in- The news was telegraphied to the capitol ! | and subsequently spread to all sections of the structions to be on duty on Monday | o Representatives Breckinvidge, Caruth, moruing, cvidently. thinking that VY [ §5t0 it others of the Kentucky congres. doing the threatened = swike —could | o) qelegzation repaired to the station at beaverted, -They guve the men no explu once und arvanged for the removal of the re- tion of the days of idlencss, simply tellin them there would be no work until Monday The men beeame incensed, called a meeting of the union, and this morning decided to have an cight hour day or strike. This will at ty mains to a suitable plac Senator Beck has not been vegular in his tendance upon the sessions of the senate for aws, and was in his seat but a few o ; times during this congyess. The last. logisla- gebull the companics In the trust, includ- 4 yioy of general importance with which he 3 the Chicago gaslift aud = coke | \ug counected with was the under valuation company, thh Consumers gas cowmp B WHIGHIE passad Gihosd idinto in and the ~People’s slight company. | apon * jgs8. Ha worked on that The men are determined to win, and_should [ /eIn Lt GG tion, says Senator tho trust attempt to import men to take the | )jgon, who was ussociated with him, uutil plice of the strikers serious trouble will ve- sult. The union has little hopes of having its demands granted without u strike, and it seems at present very probable that the city it One morning was disposed of. shortly afterwards he came into the room of the com- mittee saying he had been sick the night be- fove and was not then fecling well. That il o aeft In darkness unless un adjustment | g the fivst time he ever lud been kiiown to ghidlaRenons cay bo.afleoied, be sick, and from that time forward he was The strike of 1,200 employes at the Mallca- ’ s lobhae M nover a well man. During the debate on the ’1.[1‘0 iron “I..nf.«“u_muu tu_m:vml.-.}l nulll'llmln.‘l)- senate substitute for the Mills bill he was R IRDARY b ROt rolaed togrant | 00 able to take part, and his absence RESIIANEA 05 Juamon, . was a great loss to the democratic vanks, The threatened strike for Monday noon by | Fre blo s aeatt the waiters and other employes of the largest | L0 W08 not ablo to Do prosen e s et L R 'lll“l at the opening of the special session a“_‘j.fim‘ et okl ‘l‘_ "‘:“”“‘ l“ of thesenate in March, 1889, and was swo e Fegian 0 acced’ng tothe Co- | i by President Pro Tem Iugulls mand made upon thom this morning. Th waiters demanded 25 cents an hour for over- permission to replace broken articles at the lowest possible price and recognition of the Culinary alliance. The alliance will have an offico, and when & man is needed he will bo furnished by the sceretary of the alliance. The packers at the stock yards have con- cluded that all danger of a strike-is passed. The special policemen have all been dis- charged and the extra forco of city officers has been withdrawn, Tho Iuternational packing company, which has been closed for soveral woeks, resumed business this morn- fng with a full foree of men. This security al ' th en th ti: & strike, and only the efforts of the represen- tatives of the Amel n Federation of Labor prevented an outbreak on May 2. ‘The spirit of uurest is still strong, It was said today that there was a movement on foot to precipitate a strike at Fowler's packing house on Monday. It is claimed that the coopers and, butchers are thoroughly organ- ized In that pluce and ave willing to lead the K sh o a afterwards, ators ness and courtesy fo wients have as yet been made Major and Mr daughter of Senator Beck, have ex their willingness to leave ments for the funeral in the hauds of universit He practi Iy since the 0ss, but opening of the tools no part in the proceedings except to vote, mee in the chamb:zr was on of the new Montana sen- and Power, was settled, greatly beloved by the te for his un m kind- nd his active iutsrest in His lust app e day the Saude: Scnator B mployes of the eir welfure, The bod Senator Beck was removed om the station to the house of Representa- No arrange 'or the funeral, Goodloe, the son-in-law and sed ng the ve Breckinridge of Kentucky: all the ar entucky delegation. (James B, Beck He re. hive, Scotlaud, 3 ived an academic education in Scotland id graduated as a lawyer at Transylvania ohi, 1546, er hold- utative Lexington, Ky., m M d law in Lexiugton; ne repre 1y office until elected a strike, Altogether the city of Chi is | ortioth, Forty-fivst, Forty-second and Just now permeated by a restless feeling | third congres Ho was electod to which completely demoralizes all business | tho United Stutes. seuato us 4 domocrat to 3 causes the gravost apprenension for the | Succoed John Stevenson. He took his NI s B PINARRSAGyAn for the | Seat 'on March b, 1877, and was re-elocted in RIS et R and 1583, Ilis term of service would Not Quite so Good have expired on Murch 3, 189, Cnicaco, May 8.—The committeo on arbi tration, discussing the points at issue between 2 striking carpeuters, was in session all day | Ui he BY ‘“f,‘ vom Livery At Bultimore—~The Rossmore, and evening. Reports were current this afternoon that a satisfactory agreement had | been reached and that the men would go to | N vork for the new associution Monday. Tonight this is * denied. The details | of the arbitration, however, will be laid be- foro the journeymen's council Monday. “The members of the new assoclation said | (o late touight that the strike would be declared | off 500n and that the points in dispute, rela- | tive to minimum wages and apprentice sys- tem, would be left for arbitrution after wards, San Francisco Car Iraxcisco, May bosses 10 nters Strike. ~The carpenters here, was thi from Liver- At Loudon ew York. At Queenstown k for Liverpool. ———— Hundred and Fifty Feet. Pirrsbuno, Pa., May 8.—Thomas Caroy, orking on the new government building 0 from the top of the structure 0 the ground, a distance of 150 feet, by the Sighted, the Victoria, from ‘The Etruria, from New breakiug of the scaffolding this afternoon, | and lnstantly killed, | two other men, knocking them to the ground, | One was fatally seriously hufl. In his descent he struck injured and the other quite CTHE BOURGEOISE BANDING. fo O\IAHA SL'\I)AY \I()R\I NG, | ‘ THE OMAH NAY4 German Employers Preparing to Organize Against Strikes, SEORET OF BISMAROK'S DOWNFALL. A Curious Story Told of Plotters Who Imposed on the Young Emperor's Credulity-A Patching Up of the Quarrel Under Way. [Copyright 1590 by the New York Associated Press.] BERLIY, May 3.—The first prominent result of the May day agitation has been a formida- ble movenment among the manufacturers, merchants, mine owners and others employ- 1 large numbers of hands to promote the mation of a German union against strikes, The idea had its origin in the communfcation that pussed between the Merchants' and nufacturers' associations here and kindred izations in other places regarding the ¢ demonstrations, at the time when ened to paralyze trade. If this plan is carried out a league will be formed covering Germany with a net- work of employers' associations. The declured aim of the scheme s united co-operation against wanton strikes, but there will be an easy and inevitable transition to co-operation against workers' claims in general. The speakers at Chemnitz, reflecting. the opinion of the majority of the employers, hailed the May day fiasco as a victory for the masters of the men. Most of the newspape similarly draw conclusions that theemployers if they work in unison can defeat the utmost cfforts of the malcontent workmen. The Freizinnige Zeitung says: *“After the social- ist leadrs had by their ambiguous manifesto betrayed their desire for as an extensive abstinence from work as possible the limitation of the movement to isolated groups demonstrates how weak is the influ- ence of the socialist deputies in everything beyond registering a sceret vote at the elec- tions.” But both employers and commentors over- look the fact that the socialist leaders, with nearly the unanimous approval of the work- men, opposed any form of demonstration that might lead to collisions with the autho or employers. A Berlin socialist organ declared on the eve of May day that no workmen in poss sion of their senses would resort to illegal manifestations when trying peacetully to win over legislative bodies to accede to their demarns The socialist leaders do not deem the cele- biation a failure. In a conversation upon the subject Herr Licbknecht said the public ex- pectation of demonstrations menacing peace arose from erroneous reports, which were widely cireulated, as to how the workmen in- tended to observe the day. It was a pacific and orde cbration, in accordance with the plans of the socialists. An article intoday’s Volksblatt extols the day as the grandest and most complete celebra- tion conceivable, establishingan international social holiday. The writer adds: *Although mang German workmen were compelled to worl, this did not detract from the success of the festival.” The Hamburger Nachrichten gives a new and startling phase to the secret history of Bismarck's retirement by fact that the empero: was prejudiced by enemies who influenced him to believe the prince took such large doses of morphine that he often lost the power of connceted thought. The emperor summoned Dr. Schweinniger regarding Bis- marck’s condition. Bismarck resented the inquiries put to his doctor, although the answ received by the emperor couvinced him that the. reports were At the same time in- terested persons busied themsclves with, ercating in the chaucellor’s mind the impression that the emperor was resolved to get vid of him at any price, The manipulators of the intrigue in the meantime kept assuring the cmperor that Bismarck was firmly re- solved to resign. The article indicates a de- ou the part of Bismarck to renew his er close relations with the The dispatch sent by the peror to the ex-chancellor from § burg was couched in the old terms of cordiality. Since the imperial aidedecamp, Lehndorff, returned from his sojourn at ed groundless, for) perof em- em- chsruhe the clouds between the em- peror and Bismarck have been clearing up and all the misunderstandings are being explained. The emperor left Pottsdam this after- noon for Altenburg. The duke of Altenburg, and the ducal p cess and the municipal authoritics of Altenburg reccived the emperor and the duke drove him to the castle. Along the route were several arches beautifully decor- ated with flowers. The populace gave the emperor an enthusiastic reception. The stay of the cmperor is to be short as he is to pre- side at a council of ministers on Monday and n the reichstag on Tuesday \ Minister Phelps required the in fluen lor von Caprivi to obtain a permit for *Buffalo Bill's" Wild West show to enter Germany. This subject led to a veference to the embargoes on Amevican pork and other products. The chancellor's allusions to the embargoes tended to encour- age Minister Phelps to persist in his efforts to secure the modification or abolition of the re- strctions, Numerous complaints have been recelved at the chancellorie regarding the severity of the new passport regulations in Russia, The regulations provide that the passports of ull forcigners must state the religion of the bear- ers, who,in case of failure to comply with this provision, will be registered ns Jews and will not be allowed anywhere except in the dis- tricts where Jews are permitted to re- side. A number of ‘German commercial travelers who omitted to declare their religion were driven from the country, The regulations also make it in- cumbent upon all forelgners sojourning more than a fortuight in the country to go to the capital of the province in which they are staying and bhave their pass- ports viewed. This often entails expensive journey upon the traveler. sides this, foreigners are not allowed to re side in the country more than six months without a ministerial permit and if engaged in trade must pay 600 rubles annually, The edicts are declared to be in violation of international law and will tend to close Rus- siun intercourse with the world, The Cologne Gazette states that the Relchs- bank hus declined to resume the making of advax urities, Charged With PuiLaveLruis, May 8.—An afidavit sworn by Mr. Morris, & beorbottler, was issued today against Lewis E. Pfeiffer, president of the Bank of America, on the charge of em- bezzlement. The charge was made on the ground that Pfeiffer accepted money from depositors after he kuew the bunk was in- solvent, to ) THE TAMMANY ERAUDS. McCann Makes Some More Sensa- tional State; New Yonk, May 8.=Th; ‘Imm committee on cities, of which , I8 chairman, sat again in this city tody o hear further developments concerning the workings of the city departments, Mayop Grant was present with W, Bourke Cockran, his counsel. Cock- an opened the ball by saying he had made no statement as published aceusing the commi tee of suborning perjury. in the testimony of McCann, He had, however, said the suborn- ing of such testimony 8howld be punished. McCann was put on_the stand and cross examined. He related the story about the furnishing of supplies to the family of his brother-in-law, Croker, Questioned as to the date when Croker ¢amg to him with #180,- 000, witness said he could not tell the precise date. Ho was not surprised at Croker’'s hav- ing 150,000 with him, a8 there was plenty of money at thut time among the people connected with the Lboard of alder- men, Croker said to him that thero were two aldermen whom he wanted to reach and that Tom Adams knew them. Croker subsequently said he had seen these two aldefnien and understood exerything was satisfactory. “I knew,” he said, “somebody had been seen.” Q-—Who were these alderment A—Pierson and Wendell [sensation]. Witness said he had been on the best of terms with Croker until Mayor Grant came in between them. Witness continued : “Croker has been mis- led by his advisers—men who hold high posi- tions in this city, It is these men who have driven him from home and family. I refer to Grant, T thiuk it is & disgrace to the cf that a man like Grant should be its mayor. Witness said John B. Halloran told him the £180,000 had been returned to those who con- tributed it on the New Yédars following, * Witness said he could make charges which he did not wish to put fotward voluntarily at present and “that the these gentlemen have to say the better for themselyes."” When pressed, witne$s admitted having had a conversation with Grant about his con- nection with the Broadway railroad bribery in 1884, Mayor Grant here arosq and said he wanted McCann to withhold nothing he knew con- cerning him, Witness then told of the day when he, ant and Alderman Mooney had been to a lawyer's office fogether, and Grant, referring to the Broadway railroad bribery and to his obligations to Croker, said: ““If it had not been for his advice I'd have been in that degl with the other fellows,” meaning, as the witness ox- plained, the aldermen who accepted bribes. Croker and wituess hgd a conversation with Mrs. Croker In Jautary or Februg 1885, about 180,000 Croker brought to his orc about a month before. She told him t Croker had brought home a large sum of money about that time and that she up at night to guard {t until he arr home. McCann's examination: being concluded, Bourke Cockran called as 8 witness James B Dunham of Dunham, Buekley & Co., dry goods merchants, He testified that he would not believe McCann undey dath if he had any motive to testify falsey. At the' afternoon aess);z the cmlm room was more thronged than Ex-Mayor Edson said. ., hr as he knew Grant was not in 1584 ‘a candidate for com- missioner of public woilks and had never spoken to the witness about the matter, Then Mayor Grant was called. He denied positively any knowledge of any agreement by which Croker was to receive any sum per barrel on cement if he (Grant) was appointed commissioner of public works. He denied that he ever told anyone that if it had not been for Croker he (Grant) would have taken his share of the Broadway railroud boodle. He knew nothing about the 8180,000 MeCann had spoken of. He never had been a candi- date for commissioner of public works, never contributed to or had any knowledge of any fund to sccure any one’s appointment to that office, Questioned by Choate as to his relutions to the Croker family Mayor Grant said he had been ve intimate with them. He was sponsor to Croker's child Flossie,. When hg amed that responsibility, as he had no nearer relative than cousins and no obliga- tions, he determined to make some provision for the child. On one occasion he had given her $,000 and subsequently o like amount. He never gave her any other presents except such as he gave all the Croker children on holidays. The money was given the child in the presence of her fathérand mother and the child handed the money to her mother, The presents were free and without any under- standing or agreement, Mr. Boardman took up the questioning, and the mayor repeated that, he was never a can- didate for commissioned) £ public works. “You did not go so far as to secure counsel to aid your appointment £ ure counsel! No, sir," “Did you not retain Colonel Bliss?" “Oh! At the suggestion of Mr, Kelly T re- tained him to have the injunction dissolved that restrained the board of aldermen from ing on the appointment of the commis- sioner of publie works,” Mayor Grant further states that he had no personal knowledge of ;what was done with the money he gave Flossie. He did not know it had been used to pay off a mortgage, enator Fassett questioned the mayor about his candidacy for the mayoralty and was told that he was not assessed by Tammany hall. He contributed about §1,500, and this was to the printing fund for logal oficers, Fassett questioned the mayor about his letters to the president of the senate, Choate objected, when it was aygued that the letter had been referred to the cemmittee, Cochran, on behalf of the mayor, here said that he would withdraw any intimation that the committee its counsel had been a party to a conspiracy against the mayor character, There had been such a conspirucy but they would entirely exonerate the com- mitte Inreply to the final question the mayor said he had never influepoed or sought to in- fluence the paric commigsloners to refuse to renew McCann's lease, ssistant District Attorney Nicoll said that throughout his extensive investigation matter of the hoedle alderigen of 1554 heard anything about Grant being a candidate for commissioner, Adjourned, e The Weather Forcoast. For Omaha and vicinity : Fair weathor, Nebraska: Fair, except rain in northeast n; southeasterly winds; warmer Mon- rain in north: Fair, except preceded by southeast portion; cooler; asterly wind, becoming variable. Southern Dakota: - Rain or snow followed by faic Sunday eveilng; winds becoming southeasterly; warmer Monday moruing - Boulanger Iuterviewed Loxvoy, May 8.-Boulanger interviewed toaight at the hotel on the Isle of Jersey, sild he had no iutention of yeturning to France it vreseat, | States not subject to entr) | authority the se 1890—~TWENTY CLEVELAND AND CAMPBELL Southern Demoorats Indicate Their Pre- ference for 1802, A HOUSE TO HOUSE OAMPAIGN, Bourbons Circulating Among the Farmers, Kissing Babies, Ete.— Another Clerical Ervor—The Irrigation Question. Wasnixatos Buneav Tie Oxara Ber 618 ForrreeNTn STREE } Wasmixaroy. D, C., May 3, President Cleveland has gone back to ew York without having argued the case which he came to lay before the supreme eourt. Mr. Cleveland’s warm friends claim that thero was 1o politics in his trip and they aver that his meeting with the democrats in the parlors of the hotel where he was_stopping | was just an informal reception. The Critic tonight says point blank that Mr. €leveland was here to start his boom for 1 It fur- ther says that this boom was started the Free Trade Reform club ent city of Hagerstown, Md., last night. This was attended by Mossrs, Springer, Wilson of West Virginia, and Breckinridge of Kentucky. The Critie says: “The Hagerstown meeting was gotten up to present an opportunity for these gentlemen 10 outline the desives and intentions of the wing of the party to which they belong, the great southern froe trade wing. The real in- tent and object of the meeting was to set going the boom for Cleveland and Campbell in 1802, The three gentlemen noted are all warmly in favor of that ticket which they fondly believe to be a winning one. Besides this a letter was read from Mr. Cleveland in which he reiterated the views on the tariff question which he advanced in his famous message. It was received with tumultuous enthu: Another letter was read from Governor Ohio, which was warmly received. letters were , mostly from Ma politicians. That the meeting accomplished the purpose it avas gotten up for is evident from the satisfied and complacent looks today of the gentlemen named. It has started the Cleveland aud Campbell boom going, and much to their own satisfaction, started it in a southern state, and they did so by authority.” A HOUSE TO HOUSE CAMPAIGN. The executive committec of the national republican committec will hold a meeting in this city on Weduesday of next week. The meeting is anticipated with much interest on the part of the leaders of the party and it is expected that many prominent republicans who are not members of the executive com- at a meeting held in the an ames K. Campbell of Other mittee will be here. The committee s composed of Matthew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvanis afrman; John €. New of Iudiana, M. H. De Young of California, G. A. Hobart of New Jersey. uel Fessenden of Connecticut, J. T, Fas New York, Colonel Clarkson of Towa, A. L. Conger of Ohio, George R. Davis of Illinois and W. W. Dudley of Washington. There is u vacancy to be filled, caused by the death of Colonel Cussius M. Goodloe of Ken- tucky. On the surface of affairs (hc democrats ave doing nothing in the way of campaigning and the republicans ave ac The republican organization has headquarters here which seem to be active with men who are attending to the work of the committee. It looks as if the organization were doing effective work, while the democrats were asleep. The re- verse situation is true and the meeting the coming week will discuss the situation. Tho republicans ave not doing a fraction of the work the democrats are. The leay, weights of that party are carry ing on a v crafty still hunt they are making an expensive compaign. “They ave doing house to house missionary work for the spread of the gospel of free trade. Chaivman Brice, Colonel Willinm Seott of Pennsylvania, Miles Ross, Oclerichs Barbour and Senator Gorman and others ar behind the work. The party has a lavge force of “walking delegates” seattered over the country, These apostles of democracy go to the farms. They stop at the farmer’s house. They kiss the farmer’s baby and aro deeply interested in the coudition of his crops. When they have worked the farmer into the proper frame of mind over the depressed condition of the farming interests they use their eloquence to pursuade him that all this is due to failure of the democrats to carry the country at the last election, and having planted this sced in his bosom they are gone for another man. This sort of campaign is very expensive, but the democrats have already levied for the necessary funds, To some of the states large amounts have been sent to be followed with more as soon as necded. This is the situation which will be discussed by the re- publican leaders at the meeting next weck. ANOTHER EREOR, An error was made in giving the date of President Havvison's proclamation of last year opening to settlement a portion of the territory of Oklahoma in the bill providing a temporary government for the territory, which signed by the president last night, This was brought to the attention of Mr. Springer, one of the conference committee which prepared the Dill in the form it passed cong: ays the error will not affect. the that it will stand and the go torritory will be established as intended. He ww s a whole; nment of the i the clause containing the error is held to be invalid Mr. Springer says the only effeet will f the futerior inder the home- be to wuthorize the secretar to issue patents to claimant. stead law for lund anywhere within the ter- ritory instead of being restricted tothe limits of the land opened to settlement by the terns of the proclamation of the president on March 2, 1850, THE IRRIGATION In its discussion of the irrigati the seuate will investigate clos of public lands withdrawn from the public domain and sctaside as property of the United under the act of senator Teller this morning n question October 2, 1888, 16 passage of a resolution asking the ary of the interior for complete infor- mation as to the amount bf lands withdrawn under the act. He also wants to know just what consideration the secretury of the interior gives to this act and how much tary thinks he has by its terms. A great many entries have been sus- pended under the provisions of this act, and Senator Teller also asks for a statement of just how many there The secretary of the interior has for some time had this ques- tion under consideration, and recently re- forred the subject to the attorney general for cousideration It is not unlik that the tract of lar which have heretofore part of the public lands and which have to some extent been cutered upon by settlers and corporations will be withdvawn pending the question of PAGES y tho amount | the feasibility of the irrigation systems now ) . A SuNDAY BEE & — % % under consideration by congress, of Octobe , 1888, does not sary authority on the offic ment of the intorior, it is act may be passed at this session 1\ this result. This will be done to gi\ possible facility, by rving publ\ which may be nece in tho of the reservoirs necessary for the irrigation system. The sub-committee of the house committee on ir o held a long session this morn- ing. Representative Connell, who is a mem- ber of the committee, took the position that in view of the present depressed condition of he farmers, and to avold excessive produc- fon, that all arid lands be for the present withdrawn from the market and that the work of the government be directed to sur- veys and experiments in regard to artesian wells, The reason for withdrawin from the market at this time the act @ nece: confa very Auds construction carrying corporations and private individuals from quiring possession of all the desivable tr for basins and holding them for futun utilization. This proposition scemed to meet | with the apy sub-committee and it was agreed to report it favorably to the full committoe, The sub- committee favors turning over to the depart- ment of agriculture the development of these arid lands. It s the opinion of nearly ail tho members of the committee that the appro- priations which have been made for this pur- pose have been largely diverted to geological surveys. THE COPYRIGHTT BILL Almost the last chance of any further dis- m on the international copyright bill vanished in the house today. After the feat yesterda f this measure to removs mination against American autho motion was pending, made by Hopki linois, to reconsider. At the opening of to- day’s session Hopkins called up this motion but the speaker ruled that it was not then in order, The ght bill was before the unde a reso- lution adopted Thursday moruing that the house should first reconsider the anti-trust bill, next the copyright bill, next the national bankruptey bill und afterward such other ju- diciary committee bills as that committee should call up. The limit of the the special orders was fixed at the end of erday session, conse- quently no motion in regard to the copyright bill avas 1 order today. The expiration of the special order carr bankruptey bill, which will not be again con- sidered unless a special day is fixed for it by the committee on rules, If that be done at all it will probably not be until late in the session of this congress, NEW POSTMASTERS, Nebraska—Spring Ranch,5Clay county, A. J. Orendorfr, vice R. E. Terry, removed Towa--Ale Carter, vice W. son. Clayton Tangeman, r ander, Franklin count A. Roberts, county, resigned; Wat- J. M. Uth, vice J. C. White Cloud, Mills county. M. Pace, vice C. H. Peere, resigned. MISCELLANE Senator Pettigrew introduced ate today a bill to inercase the salaries of th Tndian commissioner, assistant commissioner and financial clerks. The bill will give the commissioner £,000, the assistant commis- sioner 4,000 and the financial clerk £2,500 per annum, Mr. Henderson of Towa introduced in the house today a bill to prevent the transmis- sion of obscene matter through the ails. For the violstion of this act the bill impos a fine of not greater than 5,000 and impris- oument for one year, or both. Mr. Dorsey has recommended the appoint- ment of W. A. Cole of Oakdule, Neb., teacher in the industrial school at th Indian agency. The scuate this afte troduced by Mr. in the sen- s a utee noon passed a bill in Pettigrew two months ago ool at Pierre, S, D, s authorized by "Phe secretary of the inte this bill to expend £,000 for the purchase of not move than 100 acres of farm landnear the ing school as an industrial fi in connection with the sche Pernry S, Hearm, - MINNESOTA ll}llluNT FIRES. An Immense Amount Wright O 3urFALo, Minn., May al Tele gram to Tuk Bee.|—The most (lun”t rous fires that have ever been known are sweeping through Wright county for miles. Tn Rock- ford township, about two miles southeast of here, the fires have destroyed much property in cordwood, fences, hay, meadows, ete. Onc farm house, a barn and other outbuildin have been consumed thus far and others arc in great dan, Ou the west, thrce miles away, the flames have burned for a distance of over five miles and are unchecked. At u switeh two and onc-half miles from here over two thousand five hundred cords of wood were licked up. There are also fives of Damage in ng in the woods half a wile north, and, like the others, is spreading very rapidly. CGireat excitement prevails, and us black clouds of smolke roll up one after anothe Ne the scene more terrifying. every able-bodicd man in this v fighting the fire and doing his utmost to keep it from spreading, but theirefforts avail noth- ing, as all the sloughs and swamps are as dry as powder, and instead of furnishing a supply of water only add to the fury of the flames The loss so faris hard to estimate, but is more than §100,000. The village of Buffalo is inthe greatest danger and requests will be sent to St. Paul and Minneapolis for and firemen, e —— QUAY W OT RESIGN, He Will Stay on the RRepublican Na- tional Executive Co BeAver Favis, Pa., May gram to Tue: Bex.|—In an interview tonight Senator Quay again pronounced the rumors f his resignation as chaivman of the repub- lican national exccutive committee as with- out foundation, “The report,” said he, “is pu newspaper business, the 1l for I know nothing of it except when I hea rumor immediately succeediug the ¢ the nation executive committee a few weels ago. Tmmediately after the election of 18881 thought of resigning, for the reason that the duties of chaiymn are laborious and exacting and interfe:e with my senatorial work. Objections were made, however,” he continued, { the idea was abandoned, I have no idea of resigning," said the in a tone and with & manner which indicat that that matter was settled in his mind, In response to an inquiry s to his attitude in the gubernatorial contest, he said: not interfering in the mattc fight it out among themselves," senator will leave tonight or sometime nator 1 They may i tomorrow for Washington, Bombarded Pawis, May 8.—Advi Lagos, west Africa, state that a man-of-war bombarded Whydah, Dahome April 20 and 30, After the bombardment, th French commander sent an ultimatum to the king of Dahomey demanding the surrender of the Kuropean prisoners now in his hands and declaring that it prisoners were not dered be would sgain bombard Whydah May 5. 1 from Freuch © surren 1 am | out | id lands | n is to prevent ‘ oval of all the members of the | with it the national | CTHE GREAT NORTHERN (UT. Westorn Lines Have About Abandoned All Hopo of Meeting It, TRUNK LINE ASSISTANCE NEEDED, | Unless They Come to the Rescue iv Will be Impossible to tthe Reduced Rates - Goddard Did Not Resign. Ciriea Special Telegram to Toe: Bre.=The western lines have abous | given up hope of mecting the reduced rates orthern to all Missouri river und western points, and unless the trunk lines come to the reseue it will be ime possible for the western lines to meet tho | necessary reductions alone, and even if t do the Great Northern is on record as saying de by the it will keep up the war until Chicago lincs | are fought to a standstill. Hitherto the hopes of the Chicago lines in corresponding but nover as reductions, have been placed on the Erio as being o line which would help the Chicago lines by quoting lower rates and accepting less propositions. But this hope is dest s fact thet the Erie has jo cut, consequentiy Aho westorn lines ay out of the dilemma unless the trunk lines abandon all their pro- cedents and come to the rescuc of the Chicugo lines by agreeing to a reduction in rates. Tho trunk line association meeting in New Yorlk next Tuesday will decide the course of the castern roads, Goddard Did Not Resign. Crricas May 3. ial Telegram to Tue Bir.]—“Vice Pre Goddard of the Atchison will not only remain with this road in spite of his reported resignation, but ho can vemain with an increased or changed uthority if he wishes,” said President Mans vel this afternoon. 1 heard the rumored resig- nation only a few nmoments ago. It was complete news to me, aud consequently X judge there was a stretehing of the imagina- tion when the rumor started. Serious] m¥ relations with Mr. Goddard ave of the o cordial nature, We havenever differed, and ho | has only to mention any change or increaso in authority he wishes to have it grauted. Ho knows this, and he also knows that 1 esteem him very highly and would under no circum stances agree to his resignation.” Vice President Goddard did not the rumor worth denial, apparently, tented himself with saying: “You sc haven't quit work. As far as the any serious friction between e and anager Hanley, it is pure bosh.” considep ana cons I s being Tramo Northern Pacitic Deal. Ciicaco, N The Journal this afters noon says the Northern Pacitic railioad come pany has completed a deal here by which it will take possession of the propertics of the Chicago & Gireat Weste road compiny and the Calumet Chicago & R nal company with lines outside n-xlylimit and with valuable terminal facilities at Hae rison street and Fifth avenue, in the business heart of the city. It is over this come pany’s tracks that the Wisconsin Central hag secured entrance to this city, and the Northe ern Pacific will come in over the Wiscoust Central line. The Calumet terminal wnnpnn; has docks on the lake shore at Calumet, jist south of this city, and the belt line connccts them with the Great. Western tracks, Thé Northern Pacific will, it is said, issuc a new series of honds to the umount of £30,000,000 on these propert Itis said the elreumstances point to a elose alliance between this system and the Bultimore & Ohio railrond, HI\X’ alizing Villard's dream of the great trans) continental route, It is stated that the general offices of the Northern Pacific will be remo: o as soon as the ne is tinished THE ) ported to the House from the Come mittee by i WasHINGTON, May 3, Comas of Maryland toda; house from the conmitte gevrymuandering. The report is long and inp cludes au elaborate review and discussion of the constituttonal questions involved. Tt in part, speaking of gerrymanders ing: “At the last election for congrezsmen in Indiuna, for instance—the majority vote for congressmen elected three reprosentatives, but the minority vote elected ten representas ti Such gerrymandering is a crime against the general government and the people of the wh This bill will at least compel the representation of the suppressed white minority in white states, 1t will check reckless gerrymandering in the states of the black belt and make it casier for representatives elected therein to obtain certification of tion. It will respecd cqually states' rights and the rights of the United States, It permits the states to cone tinue to make regulations for the election of congressmen, but warns the states that sational coustitution has been adopted estabe ‘d to the his bill o prevent lishing a real and not u shadowy government of the people, reposed in the o and congress, and thut congress erciso its powers to muke or alter stato’ regulation of the time, place and manner of holding elections for representatives in coneress, to secure districts more compaet as to territory, more stable in duration and to secure greator equality of the population behind the repres sentatives in congress. These things the states have failed to do. Tucker of Virginia submitted the report of the minority. After a bitter criticism of the bill, it says in part In this day the spirit of refor It would talse from the states the arvanging their own congres ach might think best for its own people, and 0 that right to congress against reason precedent and the constitution itself. It would uproot the luws of sovercign states without cause and supplant them with the unconstly . stive, | 0 0t onal districts as tutional acts of a partisan congress, * * his spirit of reform must bo arrested op consolidation, despotic and hopeless will be our destiny. It must be checked, or upon the mournful ruins of state preponderance will arise & mammoth cmpire stretehing its broad arms from the Atlantic to the Pacifio an empire whose sway will dwarf imperial Rome, boundless in its domain and limitless in its authority: with no guide but its willy no restraint but its own discretion, stitution but its flat, no law but its own power, an empire decked with all the gor= geous splendors of centralized domain and no cons | side, proudly wielding the sceptre of its absolu swiy over the broken and crounching viée tims of its ruthless usurpations.” - Famine anl Misrule. Massowas, May 8.—Famine prey n Tig Owing to the misrule of th ment hosts of people are migriting, Many of these have died from hunger on U " ge