Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 4, 1895, Page 2

THE OMAHA DAILY ey ney MONDAY, AT A " MARCH 4, 1895, forcement was lent by our naval officers, anx- fous as they were to expand their commands and their importance. AGREED ON THE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL. At this point Mr. Cockrell of Missourl pre- sentel the conference report on the sundry clvil appropriation bill. Mr. Frye expressed regret at the action of the conference relative to the retirement of revenue marine officers, being a distinet discrimination against and an injustice to these officers. Me. Cockrell remarked: “It was that or nothing.” Mr. Stewart of Nevada uttered a warning against the projected monetary conference, holding that it was a device of the enemy to defer the day when silver should be rehabili tated, Mr. Woleott of Colorado defended the monetary conference amendment, as it was reported, holding that the house amendment relative to the appointment of the house members of the conference by the next con- gress should be concurred in. He and his colleagues had been attacked in the new papers of their own state as untrue to silver; for stabbing silver in the back. Whatever might be the reason for these criticlems, he should be glad that in these closing days of the congress he had the opportunity t attempt to reach out and seek {o Induce and help and meet nations of the world in a final effort to do away with the poverty and suffering and paralysis which had overtaken humanity. The conferenco report on the sundry civil appropriation bill was then concurred in and the naval bill came up again. Mr. Gorman rencwed his request for a final vote on the naval bill prior to 10 o'clock tonight and that after that hour business be limited to con- ference reports, house bills and senate bills without house amendments. This agreement was entered into by unanimous consent and after the passage with an amendment of a house bill appropriating $50,000 for the pay- ment of salaries of judges and court officers in Oklahoma, at 6 p. m., a recess was taken until 8:30 o'clock. At 8:30 the senate galleries were filled to overflowing and great crowds stood in line in the corridors seeking to gain admission. The attendance of the senators was small and scattering carly in the evening, but was augmented to nearly its full strength as the time for the final vote on the naval bill drew noar. Mr. Chandler supported the broviding for two battleships. In view of his service as secretary of the navy, his review of the developments of our new navy was followed with close interest. At that time, he sald, we were spending about $16,000.000 annually for the improvement of the navy, now our expenditures reached $25,000,000 annually for that purpose, and he hoped it would be continued. Mr. Hawley of Connecticut urged the need of being ready for war. There was no knowledge when it would come. was possible any day that some stubborn nation might la s on Hawaii, compelling us to say “‘hands oft." VOTED FOR TWO BATTLESHIPS. At 10 o'clock the vote was taken on the amendment, fixing the number of battle- ships at two, instead of three, and it was agreed to, 33 to 29, Yeas— Allen, Allisan, amendment Fautkner, Gos Gr 1 Jon 1o, ndsay, Millan, Martin, Mitchel (Wis), Mor Patmer, Peffer, 3 Pettigrow, s 5 (Ark). Cullom, Dan: Nays— Aldrich, Blanchard, Burrows, But < Sameron, Ca Clark, Dubois, ey Wolcott—33. Murphy, Perking, Platt, Quay, Hunton, MeLaurin, Manderson At (Ore), Wilson, i Morgan, (Wash.)—20. The provislon striking out twelve torpedo boats and_inserting six light draught compo- site gun boats of about 1,000 tons displace- ment at $230,000 was agreed to. Another provision for three torpedo boats, one to be built on the Pacific coast, one on the Miss- fesippi river and one on the gulf of Mexico were also adopted. A new amendment was .;gpml ‘remitting the penalties against the bublders of the Yorktown, Philadelphia, Balti- move and Newark. Tho naval appropriation bill was then passed without division. Mr. Blackburn presented another conference report on (he diplomatic and consular appro- priation bill, stating that no agreement had Deen reached on the Hawatian cable, and that thers was no prospect that the house would ever yleld. The bill would fail, he sald, if the senate persisted on the vote about to be taken In keeping the cable appropriation in the bill. He believed also that the bill was doomed to failure even if the two houses ac- quiesced in the bill. Mo. Hawley quickly asked If it was meant to intimate that the president would veto the bill. “T am not able to say,” replied Mr. Black burn, “that the president would veto, but 1 know that if I were the president, I would veto it.” WARNED AGAINST AN EXTRA SESSION * Me Blackburn warned the senate that an- fusiatence on the cable might mean an extra seszion, He thought perhaps that might ba desirable, as he believed it would show the next cougress as helpless m dealing with the financial question as this congress had been. He moved that the senate recede from tho Hawailan cablo amendment. Mr. White of California announced he had herctofore supported the cable item, but be now felt compelled to change his vote. Mz, Blackburn's motion to recede on the cablo ftem was then put to a vote and carried without a division. The conference report on the diplomatic and consular biil was then agreed to. The senate then went into executive session and the galleries wero cleared of the large crowds. At 1355 a. m. the doors were opened and the regular session resumed. The conference agreement on the deficlency bill was pre- sented. Stewart moved the abandonment of the appropriation for the Southern Pacific and Mr. Higgins criticized the abandonment of the French spoflation claims. Mr. Mitchell of Oregon sald that the sen- ato had surrendered everything and Me hoped the senate would reject the report and 1f necessary, defeat the bill, The agreement was sustained, 34—14, The motlon to reconsider the vote by which the bil for the suppression of lottery traffic was passed and tabled, Mr. Power presented another copy of the credentials of Mr. Carter, senator-elect, and withdrew the former credentials which were criticisd by Mr. Hoar. The senate, at 3:15 a. m., entered upon the consideration of unobjected bills on the calendar, and at the conclusion of these will take & rccess until Monday at 9:30 a4 m, CARLISLE REFUSES TO EXPLAIN, House Request for Keanou for the Discharge of Veterans Not Given. WASHINGTON, March 3.—Secretary Car- Usle has rveplied to the resolution of the house requesting the names of the soldiers of the late war discharged from the public service in the Tresury department since March 4, 1893, and the cause of each dis- missal. The secretary’s reply eaclosed a statement and says it will be observed there have be:n 135 removals and 135 appointments and relustatements between March, 1893, and the present time. Mr. Carlisle add “I do not recognize the wight of the house of representatives to re- quire the secretary of the treasury to state the reasons for making removals, appoint- ments or reinstatements, but deem it proper, nevertheless, to say that all the changes ahown were made for the purpose of pro- moting the efficiency of the public servico and that in making removals no discrimina- tion has been made against soldiers, while 1o making appolutments and reinstatements preference has been glven to that class of applicants, due regard being had in cach caso 10 their physical and mental qualifications.” No More Sirife Over Confirmstio WASHINGTON, March 2.1t has been de- termined by the senate that no more nomi tons (0 which there arc objections will confirmed ut this session. This will carry over quite a nunber of cases now on the executive calendar, Lut wil not prevent elr being appoiuted during recess. Seed Graln Amendment Kiled, WABHINGTON, March 3.—(8peclal Tele- gram.)—The Pettigrew sced grain amernd- t was ruled cut in the eoufereace on wivil bl W CLERNAND GETS A PENSION One-Logged Dan Sickles' Eloquence Wins for His 0ld Tim3 Comrade, HOUSE PASSES MANY PRIVATE BILLS Pablic Business Laid Aside in Order that Many Minor Matters May Bo Rushed Through-Reports from Confer- ences Cause Wrangles. WASHINGTON, March 3.—After the sharp fight last night over the senate provision in the sundry civil bill appropriating $5,000,000 for the payment of sugar bounties earned up to June 30, 1895, which resulted in the adop- tion of the amendment shortly after midnight this morning, tho dragged wearily on through tho silent watches of the night until the sundry civil and Indian appropria- tion bill had been sent back to conference. As the gray dawn was breaking the house took a recess until 2 o'clock this afternoon and the worn out members hurriel home to citch a few hours of rest and nerve them- selves for the seige which promises to last until tomorrow noon. When the speaker again took the chair at 2 o'clock more than half the members were in thelr seats, Tho bright sunshine and balmy air of a spring day and the attraction of the excitement of the closing hours of a dying congress, fillad the public galleries. The private gilleries were also thronged. No conterence reports were ready when the house reconvened and tha speaker graciously rec- ognized several of the half hundred members clamoring for an opportunity to secure con- sideration of measures of local or personal interest to them. Tho following pasied: Senate file to in- crease the pension of the widow of Joseph H. Potter trom $30 to §50; a jolnt resolution pro- viding for the two houses of congress partici- pating in the dedicatory exercises of the Chickamauga military park next September; senato resolution making provision for a di- gest of the laws and decisions relating to tho appointment, salary .and compensation of officers of United States courts, and also the senate bill for,the relief of Silas P. Keller. A motion 10 suspend the rules and pass a bill granting a pension of $100 to Major Gereral John G. McClernand encountered the aggressive opposition of Mr. Jones of Virginia. This opposition drew from Mr. Sickles, the one-legged hero of Gettysburg, an_cloquent appeal that fairly made the celling ring with the plaudits from the floor and gallerics. “Let us pass one good bill," said Mr. Sickles, “as an atonement for all the bad ones we have passed. A grateful country should not allow General John G. McClernand to die In want. “I well remember the words of Lincoln to me when he spoke of Douglass, Dix, Logan and McClernand. In my humble way I had offered my services for the union, and Mr. Lincoln said to me that the action of such men as Logan, Dix and McClernand and myself had lifted a great burden from his shoulders. ‘It this is to be a party war,’ said he, ‘then it cannot succeed, but when I see great democratic leaders coming for- ward from the ranks, I lift up my hands and thank God that such success is within our grasp.’ " At th the bill session conclusion of Mr. Sickles' s passed with a whirl, A serics of resolutions to pay the funeral expenses of house employes who had died during this congress, and a bill to instruct the auditing of the quartermaster’s claims of John Quinn of St. Louis were passed, after which Mr. Holman called up the second conference report on the Indian bill, which showed the senate had abandoned one item to appropriate $48,500 for the Miami Indians of Indiana, thus leaving two senate amend- ments still in_dispute, one to purchase for $300 from the Ogden Land company the title to the lands within the Cattarraugus and Alleghany Indian reservations, in New York, and the other striking out the house pro- vision to continue the reduction of the ap- propriation for contract Indian schools pro- portionately, so that all such schools should cease at the end of five years. After some debate, the house decided to further insist on its dishgreement to both amendments in dispute, and the bill was again sent to conference. Then, at 6:10 p. m., a recess was taken until 7:30 p. m. BUSINESS RUSHED THROUGH. There were but few members presant when the house met after recess at 7:30. The bill to prohibit thie sale of intoxicants to Indians, which had been objected to when brought up before, was called up by Mr. Metklejohn and passed. At 8 o'clock the conference report on the sundry civil bill was called up by Mr. Sayers. When the proposition for an inter- national monetary conference (to which the house conferecs had acceded) was reached, the silver men demanded time. Mr. Sibley called attention to the satisfaction with which the proposition for & monetary con- ference had been received by the mono- metallic press of the east. The friends of silver, Mr. Sibley de- clared, had held the doctrine that a wider use of eilver was necessary because they saw the curses that had followed the falling of prices the world over. What the United States should do is to act, not consult, and Mr. Sibley expressed the opinion that a monetary conference would simply postpone the day when silver could go to the mints for free colnage on the same terms with gold. Mr. Simpson eaid the proposition for a con- ference was the same old game twice played on the people of holding out a promise that would never be realized. It would post- pone free coinage at least six years, and slx more years of gold standard would so com- plete the financisl bondage of the country as to make it forever impossible to break the power of the gold kings. He was opposed to again entering on the farce of a monetary conference. PENCE INDULGES IN SARCASM. Mr. Pence, in a ringing speech, argued that no good could come from & mosmetary commis- sioin. “Possibly,” he sald, “it might result, it the speaker should name as the members of the committes from the house threo presidential candidates, in smoking them out on the silver question, and I trust if the speaker Ts called on to make sclections he will not overlook the distinguished republican leader, Mr. Reed." With some bitter sarcasm he detailed the address of the silver democrats last Friday. Ho commended the bold, courageous and manly action of those who had signed the address, but rebuked some of them for al- ready looking with favor on a proposition to go abroad for a further consultation, Mr. Springer called Mr. Pence's attention to the fact that the proposition for a confer- enca had emanated from the silver men in the senate, not from the gold men. Mv. Hepburn of lowa favored the proposi- tion for u conference. At a time when the great gold countries of the world were show- ing the first symptoms of & favorable senti- ment toward silver he expressed his surprise that avowed friends of silver like Mr, Pence and Mr. Simpson should oppose propositions for_ an international monetary conference. By a neat parllamentary maneuver, Mr, Cannon got the floor at this point and yielded b o debato by demanding the previous ques- tio The conference report was adopted and the sundry civil bill was out of the way so far as the house was concerned. Several bills were then hurried through by unaninmous consent, among them being the senate resolution calling on the president to insist upon Spaln carrying out her agree- ment with the United States relative to the claim of Antonlo Maxim Mora, amounting to $1,500,000, At 10 p. m. Mr. Holman presented the final report on the Indian appropriation bitl. Tt showed that the senate had yielded to the house on the provision for the extinetion of the contract school system ut the end of five years &0 uf 1o remove the time limit and ihe house bLad yielded to the senate amendment for the purchage from the Ogden Land compauy the title of the lands within the Cxtaragus and Alleghany Indian reserva- tions (o the extent of authorizing the xecre- tary of the interior to examine into the re- ports (o congress without appropriating auy mouey. The report was agresd Lo, The wilitary telegraphers bill was passed speech, —~164-T2 Ahen @ resolution was preseated by Mr. | debts, was passed | 1ar time to Mr. Sayers, who immediately cut | ! brought about as a slur upon Speaker James Bailey of Texas reciting the provision of the sundry civil bill authorizing the speaker of the house to appoint three delegates to an international monetary conference and added: CALLED FOR CRISP, “It is the earnest desire of the house of representatives that the speaker shall be one of the delegates on the part of the house, therefore, be it resolved, that Charles F. Crisp, speaker of the house, is required to designate himself as one of the three dele- gates to be selected by himself."” Tho resolution was greeted with great ap- Plause, the members Interrupting the reading clerk in their enthusiasm at the mention of the speaker's name, and the resolution con- ferring a most unusual compliment upon the speaker was adopted with a loud shout and without a dissenting voice, The senate bills to establieh regulations for the payment of accrued pensions to the heirs of dead pensioners and exempting the pension money from being held as part of the assets of the estate for the payment of Mr. McCreary of Kentucky reported for the s conferees on the diplomatic and consu- bill that the senate had receded from its amendment for a Hawalian cable and the conferces were consequently discharged. Midnight was at hand and the scene in the hou was becoming more animated and in- formal. The entrance of Mr. Read, Mr, Aps- loy, et al, late diners-out, in full evening dress, gave an air of elegance to the assembly. Me. Bryan of Nebraska moved to pass the bill to place anti-toxin on the free list under suspension of the rules. A second was de- manded and it passed. Mr. Breckinridge presented the conference report on tho general deficiency bill. The provision for the expenses of the participants in contested election cases gave rise to an ani- mated debate, in which Me: Sayers, Wise and Taylor took part After further discussion the conference report on the whole general deficiency bill was agreed to. The debate on_the anti-toxin bill was then resumed. Mr. Bryan of Nebraska urged the importance of the measure, and said it was in_the interest of public health. Mr. Henderson of Iowa humorously re- plied to Mr. Bryan. The bill was then passed, 143 to 31. ORDERED A CONFERENCE. The naval bill (the last of the appropria- tion bills), having been received from the senate, Mr. Talbot asked that the committee having it in charge be given time to con- sider the various amendments made by the senate. A brief, but spirited, debate arose as to the action to be taken. Mr. Boutelle of Maine, with a view to securing some con- sideration in conference of the amendments, moved a non-concurrence therein, and re- quested a conference. Mr. Talbot moved concurrence senate amendments. The previous question was ordered by Mr. Talbot's motion and a half hour was al- lowed for debate. Mr. Talbot, however, promptly entered a motion to suspend the rule and agree to the amendments, and on this Mr. Boutelle demanded a second. A quorum failing to vote and a deadlock be- ing imminent, Mr. Reed of Maine interposed his good offices, as a result of which Mr. Boutelle explained that his objection to the proceedings were that the houte was called on (o act on something of which it knew nothing. . Mr. Talbot, having the bill in charge, made a brief statement and then the motion to suspend the rules and agree to the senate amendments was carried—yeas, 150; nays, 3. The house then took a recess until 8 a. m. CLOSING ho in the SCENES AT THE CAPITAL, Great Crowds Attracted to the Ga'lerles and Much Confusion Ensues. WASHINGTON, March 3.—The unusual at- traction of a Sunday session of congress in the pleasant setting of mild, spring-like weather, furnishel to Washington a holiday in the modern acceptation of the word, Throughout the afternoon all the drive- ways and walks approaching the capitol were crowded with carriages and the Sunday pro- cesston turned their steps from Connecticut avenus into the swell northwest to the other end of town. Tho broad steps of the capitol had somewhat the appearance of inauguration day, the great plaza to the east was dotted with strolling groups and lines of carriages were drawn up, stretching clear across the strects, waiting for the business which they would have won had they been favored with rain or slush. Within the building the crowd was so great it interfered with business. The doorkeepers in the galleries were kept fighting to restrain tho people, for whom there was not room. Tho elevators were loaded to the limit every trip, two streams of people elbowed their way from the house to tho fenate and from the senate back to the house, while pages plied thelr way at angles through the jam. The comparatively small detachments which could bo accommodated in the galleries of both the houses kept up a babble, which, combined with tho rushing back and forth and clamor- Ing of members like a busy day in the pit of a stock exchange, almost overwhelmed the routine procecdings and kept the speaker's gaval hammering incessantly. The house was the theater of the populace, which preferred a lively scene, while in the senato tho spectators were more orderly and fewer, though more of the notables were seen in the reserved gallerics, particularly in the diplomatic seats, where the sky blue robes of the Chinese minister were the center of inter- est. After nightfall and until the street cars stopped running at midnight the crowds pusied in and out, hung about the rotunda, looking at the historic paintings, when they could pot secure admission to the galleries, and not a few spectators were holding their seats nto.tho carly hours of Monday morn- ng. Patonts to Western luventors. WASHINGTON, March 3.—(Special.)—Pat- ents have been issued as follows: Nebraska —Jay Burrows, Lincoln, device for affixing names and addresses upon newspapers, ete. Frank E, Coulter, Omaha, making detergent compounds; Orrin A, Knox and J, Frane Omaha, carpet exhibilor; Horace 8. Ove York, cultivator; Charles Palme ink, car coupling; Henry O. Thomas, Kimball, ook, : Towa—Harry B. Cornish, Hampton, buretor; Wil Eilliott and C, A, Barnes, West Liberty chment for wheel cultivafors rrison and L. B, Wadlelgh, instrument; Jol W. Haughawout, Tort Dodge, steam boiler; Lewis I Kimball, Towa, seeding machine; Charles A, and H, A enger, Lake View, corn haryester; Ricl ard T, Skinner, BEldora, windmill regulator John T, Smith, Lime' Sprinss, remov 1id support for cook stoves; Noah W. Bto Lucas, weather strip. car- Bryan's Court Kecord Bill Signed, WASHINGTON, March 8.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Just before the adjournment of the house on Sunday morning Congressman Bryan called up for consideration his bill requiring the filing of United States court liens in Lancaster, Madison and Adams countles, where the court sits, but keeps no permanent judgment records, On mo- tion of Mr. Bryan the house concurred in the senate amendments, The bill was at once enrolled and this afternoon carried to the white house, and the president ap- proved it. AMr. Tiryan says the provisions of this mct will biing a needed relief to e Nebraski counties, in that records of judgments must be placed on file immediately upon their ren- dition, so that it I not be necessary to ort’ to the records at Omaha and other cities, as heretofore. Temorra to 1 WASHINGTON, March 3. gram.)—Several anti-Crisp d been today conspiring to force a roll call tomorrow on the resolution extending a vote of thanks to Speaker Crisp for his sery- ices in the chair. This procedure was Crise. (Special Tele- mocrats have K. Polk at the conclusion of the » fth congress, and upon Speaker Thomas 1. Reed at thé conclusion of the Fifty-third congress. The present program is discoun- tenauced by Tom Reed and his needless and fruitiess act of discourtes: Speaker Crisp. R Englishman ¢t ommits Seicide. CHICAGO, March 3.—Percy G. Chamber- lain, an Englishman, committed suiclde here by sheoting himself through the head. | Chamberlain had lived in Chicago for elght years and was n comfortable circum- stances, having an income from an estate in England. 1.08 ANGELES, March Ward, a well known attorney, cide today by shooting him Twen 3.—~Frank M. ommitted through t ascribe his act to despalr over tion, dition. TELD, I, March 3.—General MeClelland's condition was worse today than at any time since his filness began. Last night he did not rest well and has constantly grown aker, NOTABLE FOR DOING NOTHING Oongress' Olaim to Fame Rests on What it Has Not Acoomplished. SHORT SESSION'-IAD A SPLENDID CHANCE Approprintfen Mils and Some Minor Mensures Affthat Could Get Through Both Hran#hes—Important Legis- Iation that Failed. WASHINGTON, March 3.—The work this last session of the Fifty-third congre must necessarily deal more with what w attempted to be done than that which was accomplished, since most of the important business considered has been relegated to the first-class. The term has been par- ticularly marked by the inability of the senate and the house to agree upon any of the most important problems presented by thom Congress met of on the 4th of last, with one imperative task, to frame and enact the various appropriation bills. Next In importance was the financial ques- tion, for which no definite plan of settie- ment beyond many free silver bills and various individual schemes were then in vogue. Several important bills came over as a heritage from the preceding session. Foremost among them were in the house the Nicaragua canal bill, the railroad pool- Ing bill and the bill for the settlement of the indebtedness of the Pacific railroads, known as the Reilly bill. The Nicaragua canal bill has not been able to secure a hearing In the house. Largely through the enthusfastic efforts of Senator Morgan of Alabagna, the senate bill was pushed to a vote In that body after protracted debate and was sent to the house, where the con- ference committee substituted its own bill, which had been on the calendar throughout the session, and which differed in several points from the Morgan bill, The pooling bill was passed by the house early In the session, but the senate refused to consider it by a negative vote of 42 to 24, on the question of consideration. ~Strong opposition to the Reilly bill was developed in the house, and after a very sharp debate it was recommitted to the committee with- out instructions, SLUMBER IN THE SENATE. Several important bills were placed on the calendar of the senate at the beginning of the term, handed down from the long ses- sion when they had been d by the house. Prominent among them was the bill to establish a uniform system of bank- ruptey, which was debated intermittently, but finally sidetracked. Another unsuccessful anti-option bill. There were also on the senate calendar the four bills which the house had sent over, to place on the free list sugar, coal, iron and barbed wire, but the attempt to secure consideration of the freo sugar Dbill was negatived by a small majority, and the opposition to the three others was so apparent that they have been allowed to pags Anto: oblivion. Tho most interekting chapter of the his- tory of the session was made by attempts at financial legislatipn in_both houses. These are too well fown to require recapitulation. No financial legisiation has yet resulted from the host of bifls introduced during the session, with more or less weight of authority behind thent. The principal class of legislation accom- plished by the short session was that making appropriations fo Fhe support of the govern- ment. Not a litfJ# general legislation was in- corporated into th®jappropriation bills. These bills, in the ggder fu- which they were passed December measure was the by the housed wgre: For the miitdry academy (West Point), army, pension, fortifications, diplomatic and consular, Distfct® bt Columbia, postal, agri- cultural, Indi: sqr;dry clivil, legislative, ex- ecutivo and judiefal, navy and general defl- ciency. When the 1a%t week of congress began the house had passed all except the general de- ficiency bill, and the senate had the last four yet to consider. The pension bill, as enacted, contained provisions that pensions shall not be pald to non-residents who are not citizens of the United States, except for actual disa- bilities incurred in the service, directing ex- amining surgeons to state the ratings to which they think the applicants are entitled, and fixing the lowest rate of pension at $6 a month. LOADED WITH RIDERS. The diplomatic and consular” bill increased the salaries of several foreign representatives, and the senate placed in It an amendment au- thorizing the president to contract for laying a cable between the Hawaiian islands and the United States, and to use $500,000 in the work, an amendment which the house refused to_aceept. The agricultural bill empowered the secre- tary of agriculture to enforce rules for the inspection of live cattle whose meat is in- tended for shipment abroad in any form, and regulations to prevent the shipment of con- demned carcasses abroad or from one state to anotber, and fixed regulations for thelr en- forcement. Considerable legislation was added to the sundry civil bill, and much more was at- tempted in the, senate by proposed amend- ments, The completion of several public buldings was provided for in the bill as it passed the house and sums were added in the senate for new buildings. Another senate amendment provided for the purchase for $150,000 of the site of the Blaine mansion. Provision was also included for the transfer of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan,, to the Department of Justice, to be known as the United States penitentiary and maintained for keeping United States prison- ers who have heretofore been held in state prisons under contracts. The naval bill was notable because of the “new navy” provision for two battle ships and six torpedo boats and the increase of the enlisted force by the addition of 1,000 men, The general deficiency bill reported to the house amounted to $6,619,639. An amend- ment requested by the secretary of state to pay the clalms of Great Britala for $425,000 damages for selzures of sealers in Bering sea was voted down by the house. The most conspicuous personal leglslation passed was the revival of the grade of lieutenant general of the army that Major General Schofield might be promoted to the rank, while the act of greatest importance to thie government departments and congress was the printing bill, which practically places the control of all of the printing in the hands of a committee of six from each of the two houees. WITH RELATION TO COMMERCE. Laws affecting shipping were passed—to es- tablish rules to prevent collisions on the great' lakes and the tfibutary waters; another of the same effect aplylng to harbors, rivers and inland waters, suplementary to the act of August 19, 1890, for preventing collisions at sea, The time, for making the report of the board of engingers, surveylng canal routes from Lake Erle to the Ohio river was e tended o the DEXt session of congress Numerous brid@e bils were enact The Commerclal Travelers' organization secured an améndment (o the inferstate com- merce law, perfifting the issuance of joint interchangeable 5600 wile tickets, good over more than one'rotl. The house adoptell a joint resolution or an amendment (o ‘the constitution and providing for the electidt of United States senators by direct voteUbf the people of the states, but the resolfjtion’ was reported adversely by the senate:Commitiee on privileges and elections, The most important of the senate bills which falled to pass the house: A Jjont resolution for inquiry into the practicability of deep water ways between (he ocean and the great lakes and the bill for the regula- tion of steam vess:ls, Among important house bills which died in the senate was ous for the reorganization of the line of the army and one o punish train wreckers by capital punishment and at- tempts: at train wreckiog by Leavy terms of imprisopment. Dramatic authors of the United States se- cured a report of a bill for puni: pent by imprisonment of play pirating by theatrical managers, but in the house considerable op- position was manifested by thos2 who ob jected to pensl punishments for viclation of Clvil etatutes, so the bill was withdrawn, TARIFF LIGHTLY TOUCHED. The only legl:lation affecting the tariff act was a reeolution to extend to April 15 the time for making returns to the Iinter- rogatories under the income tax sections and modifying the questions required to be answered. SOME ELEVENTH HOUR AGREEMENTS, Senate Conferreos Roceds from a Nomber of Amendments. WASHINGTON, March 3.—The conferces on the sundry civil appropriation bill, after sitting for several hours, reached an agree- ment about 6 o'clock on the items remain- ing unsettled after the first conference. The senate conferces agreed to recede from the following senate amendments: For the purchase of the Blaine property in Wash- ington; to enable the government to partici- pate in the proposed centennial exposition and appropriating $125,000 for that purpose; for the cost and charges of state peniten- tiaries and striking out the house provision that the money expended for the maintenance of military convicts “‘shall be expended in the current support of military convicts,” leaving the proposition as it came from the house; also, from the amendment strik ing out the provision for the transforma- tion of the military prison at Fort Leav worth, Kan, to a United States peniter tiary, leaving the provisions as originally made by the house. The other amendments upon which there was a disagreement after the first conference, were substantially agreed to. Verbal changes were, however, all of them. The smendment providing for a retired list for incapacitated officers of the revenue cutter service was accepted by the house conferees with the provision that the retired officers should receive only one-half pa In the case of the amendment author- izing the president to convene a board to pass upon the infirmities of candidates for retirement the phrase “from time as he may deem proper” is stricken out. In the senate proviso amendments, making pro- visions for the payment of exponses of en- graving and printing, the word “hereafter’ is stricken out, leaving the amendment (o read: “Provided that no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing: United States notes or treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be can- celled or retired. The amendment providing for a board of engineers to_investigate the feasibility of the proposed Nicaragua canal was changed 0 as to require the board to make its re- | port not later than November 1 mext. The house accepted the amendment appro- priating $4,000 for the reimbursement of Colonel F. Gainesworth, chlef of the record and pension office, for the expenses incurred by him in the legal proceedings growing out of the Ford theater disaster. The house conferces also accepted the amendment providing the means of selecting members of the proposed international mone- tary conference with an amendment lodging the selection of the house members of the committee with the speaker of the present house, and providing the delegates selected by him shall be members of the Fifty-fourth congress. WORKED UNTIL MIDNIGAT, made in Conferces Were Four Hours in Trylng to Compromise Differencos. WASHINGTON, March 3.—It was 11:15 tonight when the conferees emerged from the conference room where they had been for four hours trying to compromise tho differences between the two houses. The conference resulted in a general triumph for the house in a majority of the amend- ments made by the senate making large appropriations being receded from by the senate managers. The house conferces took a_ positive stand against even reporting a disagreement on the amendments which they opposed. Among the items which were stricken out were _those providing for the purchase of the Mahone square in Washington as a site for the government printing office; pro- viding for the payment of the war claims of the states of California, Oregon and Nevada, the claim of Delaware and the Southern Pa- cific and French spoilation claims. Among_the amendments agreed to were those making appropriations for army trans- portation_and for the territorial courts of Utah. The matter of allowing an extra month’s pay to clerks of members of the house was modified so as to require that the clerks shall be required to perform a month’s service after the adjournment of congress, Progress of the Good Konds Campaign. WASHINGTON, March 3.—Recent reports to the Agricultural department show ‘an in- creased interest in the good roads movement among the etate legislatures, General Roy Stone, in charge of the bureau of road in- quiry, has returned from California and Texas, where large road conventions were held, the former having concluded to adopt convict labor in preparing road materials, Several bulletins to stimulate the movement will so0n be issued by the department. They will treat of wide tires as bettering the conditions of roads, convict labor in making roads and preparing road materials and of the messages of various state governors on road questions. Germans Like Our Art Work. WASHINGTON, March 3.—It should be en- couraging to American art students to learn that through United States Consul Stevens at Hamburg, that not only has our art worlk in the precious metals found favor in the critical art centers of Germany, but that the experts there freely admit that they find In this work somo lessons and many features worthy of adoption. The industrial art museum of Ber- lin purchased a number of specimens, pro- ductions of American art and skill in’ fash- foning precious metals, that were exhibited at the World's fair, and these are now being publicly shown in the German industrial cities, meeting with most cordial encomiums on the part of the expert judges. KFac rr ounced a Fraud, WASHINGTON, March 3.—Bulletins on the flat pea and the glant knotweed or sacaline have been lssued by the Agricultural de- partment. ““The greatest value of the flat pea,” says one of the bulletins, “should be a s0il renovator. The plan has succeeded in the arid reglons of South Africa, and may prove an eflicient ally of farmers in similar regions in the southwestern states.’” Caution fs urged in the introduction of glant knotweed owing to its strong, spread- ing and persistent root locks. Investigations made by the department indicate that its success (n the arid regions of the west is very doubtful. Under an Avalanche of Bills, WASHINGTON, March 3.—During the last few days the president has been at work on the avalanche of bills that have been poured into the white house from both ends of congress. Private Secretary Thurber was closeted ‘with him for this purpose until midnight last night. He 1s with him again tonight, and s expected to remain until an even later hour. WASHINGTON, March 3.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Hon, John F. Lockhard, commis- sioner of education for South Dakota, was at the capitol today Juhin Adin WASHINGTON, March 2 gram.)—-John Adlund was today commis- Hloned postmaster at Westmark, Nebraska. watch his ears ‘When rubbing a horse down wateh his ears. If he backs 'em it's because he's sore where you rub. Apply Mexican Mustang Liniment to the gpot and the soreness IA mighty good one for. FOR MONETARY CONFERENCE| Oongress in Its Olosing Hours Proposes Another Debate on Finance, JOINT COMMITTEE TO TAKE T UP Provision in the Sundry Clvil Bill is Agreed to in Both Branches and Members from Senate and House Chose WASHINGTON No sooner had the house agreed the plan appointing delogates to a possible bimetalic conference than members on hoth canvass looking to an agreement upon candi- dates to recommend for the speaker's con sideration. It was generally understood that two of the delogates named would be s:lected from the democratic side of the and one from the republican. The populist con- tingent had already informed the spea that jt was opposed to the plan and did not care to be represented at such a conference. Two petitions were started on the republican side, one for Mr. Hitt of Illinols, the other for Mr. Hepburn of Towa. The Hitt petition was circulated by Mr. W. A. Stone of Penn- sylvania. The Hepburn petition charge of Mr. Hartman of Montana and was soon signed by nearly all the republicans Mr. Hepburn is a pronounced friend of silver, but one who is said to believe in international bimetallism rather than free colnage by this government independently. The provision inserted by the senate in the sundry civil bill making three of its mem- bers representatives to the prospective inter- national monetary conference, has been the cause of considerable rivalry among t factions on both the democratic and re- publican side of the chamber as to repre- sentation on the commission. From the time the amendment was voted on by the senate the silver men, believing them- selves to be in the majority, It was ultimately arranged that the matter should be settled in executive session, and, therefore, there was no surprise when at' 10: Senator Wolcott moved that the senate pro- ceed to the consideration of executive busi- ness. Senator Vilas led off against the selection of three pronounced silver advocates from the senate, but confined his remarks largely to the construction of the provisions under which they are to be appointed, contending that according to its wording “that when- ever the president shall determine this government shall be represented at any in- ternational conference,” mneither the senate nor the house would be entitled to select representatives until the president should decide whether the houses should be repre- sented at the proposed conference. Senators Mitchell of Oregon and Wolcott of Colorado contended to the contrary. Mr. Mitchell made the point that explicit pro- vision was made for appointment by the speaker of the present house, which he claimed was direct authority for present action by that body, and imperatively so by the senate. Senators Gray and Morrill sustained Mr. Vilas in his contention. The names of Messrs. Teller, Jones, Danlel and__ Allison were put forward by thelr friends. The men- tion ‘of Mr. Allison's name brought that gentleman to his feet, saying that he did not desire to be selected as a representa- tive to another conference. He, however, made a brief speech, advocating the selection of conservative men who would represent all shades of opinion and the entire coun- try. He contended that such a course would be in the real interest of silver, for if the commission chosen should be based too much one way or the other ,the country would not be satisfied with the report when made whatever it might be. Senator Aldrich fol- lowed in much the same strain. The execu- tive conference closed at 1:50, and ended with the selections of Senators Teller, Jones and Daniel by the unanimous vote as senate representatives in the international confer- ence. b the sides began a house was in —— Found a Fortune In Jewels. RIVERSIDE, Cal., March 3.—Mrs. James F. Heryey of Chicago, who owns an orange grove In this city, where she spends the winter, dropped a satchel containing dia- monds’ and_other jewels valued at $3,000, while out driving Saturday afternoon. This morning the littie daughter of a Salvation army officer found the satchel and returned [} o Mrs. Hervey, recelving a reward of $50. RECOMMENDED BY VICTORIA England's Queon Drinks Lipton's Tens LONDON, Feb. 27, 1805.—(Cablegram.)= Lipton, the Ceylon tea planter, has just been appointed tea merchant to the queen of England. 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