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VOLUME I.
THE RAGGED EDGE.
HE LIES OJV A BED AND WISHES HE
WEBB BEAD.
Tho Brooklyn Preacher Talks to a Re-
porterHe Argues that He Cannot Have
Sinned Because Mrs. Tilton Said He
Hadn't Some Tiino Ago Hence What
9ho Says Now Cannot Be TrueA Wick
ed and Perverse Generation Persist In
Believing the Scandal, Nevertheless.
[Special Telegiani to the Globe.]
ELMIBA, N. Y., April 17Henry Ward
Beeoher spent four hours in Elmira to-day
with his brother Thomas K. Beecher. The
interview with his brother is reported to
have been an affecting one. The principal
topic of conversation was the confession f
Mrs. Tilton. Thomas K.. when the first in
telligence of the great scandal was made
public, said, "I don't know but Henry may
have done this thing." Between the brothers
there has ever existed a warm feeling of love,
and though the Elmira divine's faith in his
brother's innocence may have weakened, he
has ever remaiued true to him. Shortly af
ter Henry Ward's arrival at Elmira en route
for Bath, where he takes up the
"WASIBS AND BURDENS OV LIFE,"
a correspondent of the GLOBE called on
him at the Rathburn house. He manifested
much excitement and at first seemed un
willing to talk. He said: "I kave sent a
general denial to the New York papers, and
do not know that 1 can add anything to
that.*' While he spoke he nervously walked
the room, and when he had finished he
coreless'y threw himself on the bed. Then
in a voica fall of emotion, he went on to
say:"' lha new statement of Mis. Tilton is in
the face of hor repeated denial for years
AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN AND AGAIN,'*
said he with eniplnsis, bringing down his*
cliaskad haul on the beJ pD3t, ''has he
tnide denials of the charge? I remember
Will when it was bruited around that the
tfiarge of intimacy was to bo made against
me. At that time I went to her and asked
what it all meant whether it was true that
sha had made confession to her husband.
She, of her own accord,
SOI kMNLY AND 1'BELLY. DENIED
that this charge was true and she made a
declaration iu writing, over her own signa
ture, voluntarily and fully retracting the
charges. Then, l3for the church commit
tee of investigation, bhe appeared and reaf
firruel her innocence. Bsfoie the church
inembeisbip she made a
TEAB*T_IL AND HfcUJTY KXFBESSUD RECANTATION,
and not ono of all those who heard her on
that occasion, but will, in their hearts, say
that she was telling the absolute truth. Why,
tor four year.* she has denied the truth of
the charge and lepeatedJy lecanted the
JiiSt original statement to b6r husband.
Before an ecclesiastical court bhe took it
back. Befoie a committee of the best men
in the lane1,
she solemnly declared that what
fllK SAID wvs UNTRUE
in the civil proceedings, she arose in
couit. and facing the judge and jury, de
manded that she be sworn in refutation of
the testimony of her husband. Now she
has leiterated it as against all that she has
said these long yeais to the contrary. I
have kept myself aloof fiom her. I have
been content to let all the investigations
take their course,
CONSCIOUS oy riv OWN INNOCENCE.
The de3ire to be uute to her husband has
been the cause of this new ctatement. The
eilence of months is broken to effect this
object. She loves her children, and Carroll
has been the intermediate agent by which
they have been brought into communication.
Mrs. Tilton is subject to
KXrRFMll FLUCTUATIONS OF MIND,
she is easily impressed. One time she is as
exalted as a clairvoyant, doing things as if
in a trance, and then again she i$ in that
abnormal state that smacks some of the
system in the Catholic chuich they call "do-
ing penance.'' At such times she would
grovel in the dirt and roll in the gutter, even
KISSING THE FE ET
of those to wh*m she most felt herself under
obligation. It was this feeling that led her
to give up her music scholars. It was a
sense of unworthiness coming to her in her
despondency. A feeling of utter abnegation
and utter humiliation at times seemed to
possess her of late. I have heard that she
has more than usual been given to these con
ditions. The price of
REUNION HAS BEEN DEARLY BOUGHT
at the sacrifice of truth. The terms are her
new confession. I think the world will move
right along just the same as if no stirring
up of this matter had taken place."
Daring the entire interview Mr. Beecher
remained in a half recumbent position, and
epoke freely, with much emotion and earn
estness.
HE SELMS GREATLY OPPRESSED,
and even cast down over the revival of the
scandal. To a careful observer, he seems
on the point of utterly breaking down, as
though he would not be able to longer bear
the new anxieties and burdens which the
fresh revival and re-opening of all the ques
tions and facts of the great scandal entails.
MRS. TILTON
sent a message yesterday to Mr. Beecher's
house telling that the publication of the con
fession was premature, and that she had in
tended to consult him first. This but adds
to the woman's ineonsibtencies,and strength
ens the assumption of one portion of Mr.
Beecher's fiiends that
S HE is CSAZY.
She does not, however, appear to be crazy,
but deeply in earnest in ridding her soul of
a load she could not bear. Frank Moulton
calls her a religious, fanatic, and explained
her conduct wholly on that ground. The
only other important addition to the
TTJ/rON-BEEGHER STOPV
is the fact that over five weeks ago Mrs. Til
ton wrote letters to four lady members of
Plymouth church, anticipating her confes
sion of Monday. William A. Beach, senior
counsel for Tilton during the trial, says he
j. had not the slightest knowledge or intima
tion that any such document was forthcom.
ing. The letter, in his judgment, would
have no bearing whatever upon the legal as
pects of the case. It was not in the nature
1
of legal evidence. Gen. Prior, also of Til
ton's counsel, said it
WAS A TERRIBLE THING,
and it was easy to see that the confession
had made a profound impression on the
public mind. As regards the legal aspects
of the case, Mr. Prior said there was no
certainty as to what might happen. The
case was still on the calendar, and either
party could call it up at any time. Frank
Moulton says he had been assured that the
matter would not be taken up by Plymouth
church. It was not probable that Mrs.
Tilton's name would be dropped from the
roll of members, as that would
PRECIPITATE ANOTHER INVESTIGATIOH,
which the church had no desire to make,
nor that the case would be re-opened by
Tilton, and Beecher would certainly not
bring a libel suit merely for the sake of giv
ing Mrs. Tilton an opportunity of testifying
more fully in court to the facts referred to
in the confession. Members of Plymouth
church, are not of a mind on the question
of the advisability of making the confession
the basis of another church investigation.
A few think the case should be re-opened a
few are in favor of treating the matter
WITH CONTEMPT,
but the majority are vacillating and refuse
to express opinions. There was a similar
difference of judgment, as to whether it will
be be3t to summon Mrs. Tilton before the
examining committee, with a view of drop
ping her name from the roll. Many are in
favor of it, but others seed? anxious to find
an excuse for the erring sister. The Rev.
Dr. Ward, editor of the Independent, did not
think the present phase of the case would
have any influence upon church
aspects. The Congregational church had
practically withdrawn from all association.
The only effect the confession would have
would be to aid to the
PINAL DOWNFALL OP BEEOHEB
he was giadually going down, and it was
only a question of time as to when he would
reach the bottom.
THE BELL MURDER.
Arrival of the Remains and Their Buria l
Details of the Crime.
The remains of Daniel Bell, recently shot
in YVinnepeg, Manitoba, arrived in this city
yesterday morning. They were taken to the
undertaking establishment of Steed Bros.,
on Third street. It was expected that the
corpse would not be in a very excellent con
dition after the long journey, but it was
found to bo in an excellent state of preser
vation, and had been most carefully washed,
drossed and packed, all that was necessary
being to place the remains in their final
casket. The interment took place in the
afternoon, the obsequies being quite largely
attended.
Mr. Bell, brother of the deceased, was
found yesterday by a GLOBE reporter, in
charge of the remains. He said the deceased,
as learned from the American Express
company's messenger. had left the
boat, on which he was engaged, with
a companion for the purpose of getting
some washing, which had been left in Win
nepeg on the prevoins trip. On their re
turn, Bell and his companion stepped into
a saloon. Either a row was in progress
when they entered, or was commenced short
ly after, but whether the deceased interfered
therein was not distinctly known. At any
rate, he went out to the sidewalk and fled
being pursued by Gibbon. While thus run-,
ning, Gibbon fired, the shot entering Bell's
body from behind, above the hip, and pene
trating the heart. Bell's death was instan
taneous. The murderer escaped for some
time, but was at length captured, and is now
in custody. Bell's companion having also
been locked up, to insure his presence at the
trial as a witness.
Subsequently, the reporter met a lady who
had come from Winnipeg with the body,
which she had assisted in laying out. She
know very little of the affray, but was ac
quainted with the history of the assassin,
whose misdeeds were wall known in Mani
toba. Gibbon, she said, was a wild, bad
character. He had been sentenced, some
time ago, to a term of fourteen years' im
prisonment, but had been pardoned out. He
was notorious on the border, as he would
commit crimes on one side of the frontier,
and then dodge back to the other, returning
when his acts had been lost sight of.
ANOTIIEK ACCOUNT OV THE DETD.
A GLOBE reporter hearing of a gentleman
just returned from the scene of the foul
deed, sought him out and elicited the fol
lowing. The'^sheds" spoken of as the place
where the trouble began, is not as reported a
place of ill-fame. There are no such places
within the city limits, an ordinance prohibit
ing them being strictly enforced. All such
placesand they do exist even beyond the
borderare out on the prairie. The sheds
is along tumble down shanty on Postofnce
stieet. It is a mere shed divided into tene
ments or rooms by blight partitions, and oc
cupied by half breedsmen and women and
grown up girls. These people get their
living by cleaning offices, doing chores and
it is said taking inwashing. Some of the
boys employed on the steamboat said
that Dan Bell and several others
went up to Provonchia's saloon, Provonchia
having lived in St. Paul, his place is a re
sort tor steamboat men from this city.
After leaving, they proceeded to the "sheds,"
it was said, for the purpose of getting some
washing done. They enteredBell and his
companionsand some of them being pret
ty full of bad whisky, were a little noisy.
Some one in an adjoining apartment
knocked on the slight partition. Bell's
companions repeated the knocks more
loudly. This enraged the occupants of the
adjacent room, who burst open the door and
entered, anxious for a row, and it soon be
gan. The room was in darkness, and Bell
and his mate3 got out into the street and
ran as fast as their unsteady heads would
allow them. They were pursued by the
other party, and Bell was shot down.
Gibbon, who shot Bell, was in trouble
once before to a rape on a half breed, for
which he was sentenced for 14 years impris
onment. The girl, however, subsequently
cutting up and raising cain generally, caused
the people to sympathise with Gibbon, and
he was, after two years imprisonment, liber
ated. He returned to Winnipeg and became
notorious as a whisky jumper on the border.
The government, acting upon the adage set
a thief to catch a thief, appointed Gibbon as
special detective for the prevention of the
illicit border whisky trade and the detection
of smuggling.
ReporterWas Bell drunk
InformantI believe he wasat least that
is what they say.
ReporterBut do you know if he was?
A GentlemanThis is a GLOBE reporter,
Mr.-.
InformantI don't know anything only
what I heard. A P. P. reporter called on
me and I told him I was only one out of five
hundred others that happened to be in Win
nipeg when it happened. I know nothing
only what I heard and read. I don't want
my name in the papers in connection with
such an affair. And this ended the GLOBE
reporter's interview, for tho gentleman
ceased to interview worth a cent,
CONGRESSIONAL.
YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS IX DE
TAIL.
The Senate Befuses to Abolish' the Color
Line in the ArmyNorthern Pacific Ex
tension Bill to Taken Up Monda y
Senate Votes to Adjouru Jane 10
Lively Fight in the House Over the Reso
lution-High Tariff Democrats Unite with
the Republicans in its FavorAdjourn
ment Finally Forced Without Actio n
Extravagance of the Republican Senate
Senate Supplementary Resumption Bill
Army Promotions.
Senate.
WASHINGTON, April 17.Vice President
Wheeler being absent, the Senate was called to
order by Secretary Gorham, and Senator Ferry
was elected president pro tern. The Vice Presi
dent leaves this afternoon for a brief vist to
New York.
Senator Ferry, from the committee on
finance, reported with amendment* the HouBe
byi to repeal all that part of the act of January
14th, 1875, known as the specie resumption act,
which authorizes the secretary of the treasury
to dispose of United States bonds, and redeem
and cancel greenback currency. Ordered print
ed and placed on the calendar.
Senator Windom, chairman of the committee
on appropriations, submitted a concurrent res
olution, directing the President of the Senate
and Speaker of the House to declare their re
spective houses adjourned without day the 10th
of June at 12 o'clock si. Agreed to unani
mously.
After a brief discussion Senator Burnsides
bill to remove all restrictions now existing in
regard to the enlistment of colored citizens in
the army of the United States was indefinitely
postponed. The following is the vote:
AYES.
Allhon.
Armstrongs Bailey, Beck, Bhrine. Chafee,
Coke, Conkhng,
Davis, 111.
Davis, W. Va.
Dennis, Dorsey,
Eaton,
Edmunds,
Eustia,
Garhnid,
Gordon,
Harris,
Hereford,
Hill, Inr/alls,
Johnston,
Jones, Fla.
Kernan, Lamar,
McCreery,
NAVB.
Conover,
Dovxs,
Ferry,
Howe, McMillan,
Jfat/mos,
Anthony, BOOTH, Brucee Bumside,
Cameron, Cameron, Wis
S8
Pwldock,
Plumb, Sargent,
Saunders,
Wadleiyh,
-17
Senator Plumb, from the committee on mili
tary affairs reported favorably on the
Senate bill to make an additional article of
war. prohibiting gambling in the army. Placed
on the calendar.
Senator Bruce presented a petition of citi
zens of Mississippi, praying for refunding the
tax paid on cotton during the years 1865, 1866,
1867, 1868, and that it be returned to the State
in which it was collected, if not claimed with
in three years.
Senator Bruce said the question was of con
sideiablo importance, and as to whether the
money should be returned to the States in
which it was collected, or to the individuals
from whom it was collected, he was not now
piepared to say, but he felt sure it should be
returned in some form. Referred.
Senator Yoorhees, from the committee on
finance, reported adversely on Senate bill
authorizing the commissioner of internal
revenue, Bubjpct to approval of the secretary
of the treasury, to authorize in special cases
the distillation and rectification of spirits to
be carried on in buildings heretofore erected,
and nq less than five hundred feet apart, and
the committee was discharged from further
consideration.
Senator Beck submitted the following
Jletolved, That the secretary of the treasury
be directed to furnish the Senate with all in
formation in possession of his department as
to the total consumption within the United
States of all manufactured articles to which
tariff duties apply, including those imported as
well as those produced in thjs country, with
the proportion of each. Agreed to.
Senator Dorsey bubmitted a resolution, call
ing upon the secretary of the interior for
copies of anv and all decisions of that depart
ment, relative to the right of Indians to impose
taxes in the Indian territory, and also copies of
all paperb ou file in the department, relating to
the so-called permit law. Agreed to.
Senator Sargent called up his joint resolu
tion, authorizing the President to appoint a
commission to arrange a treaty with the King
dom of Corea, and spoke in advocacy thereof.
He moved reference of the resolution to the
committee on foreign relations. So ordered.
The morning hour having expired, the
Senate proceeeded to consider the calendar.
The first resolution vas that submitted by
Senator Voorhees, on the 18th of December last,
declaring it of the highest importance that the
financial credit of the government be maintain
ed, and in order to do so, the government it
self, in all of its departments, should in good
faith keep its"contracts and obligations enter
ed into with its own citizens.
Senator Morrill moved to refer the resolution
to the committee on finance.
Senator Beck opposed the motion to refer
and said he submitted the resolution some
weeks ago in regard to sinking funds, which
i as refeired to the finance committee and was
never reported. The committee had enough
befoie it now without taking up this subject.
Senator Danes favored the resolution of Sen
ator Yoorhees, and said he was teady to vote for
it. He congratulated the Senator from Indi
ana upon the sound views expressed in his res
olution.
Senator Voorhees returned his thanks to the
Senator from Massachusetts, Dawes, for his
endorsement of the resolution. He had hoped
and prayed that the seed sown by that resolu
tion would spring up and bear fruit, and he
had not hoped in vain. He was glad to see
that the Senator from Massachusetts had been
benefited by it.
Senator Bayard said he held it to be of rather
slight importance whether this resolution
should be lef erred to the committee on finance
or adopted. He thought the resolution was in
troduced only as tho vehicle for the elaborate
speech made*by the Senator from Indiana, on
January last.
Senator Windom thought the resolution be
neath the dignity of this Senate. Of course
no one would vote against it.
Senator Beck spoke of claims due to individ
uals by the government which had not been
paid, and said, though our bonds were very
good, our word was bad. It was like the mer
chant in New York who telegraphed to the mer
chant in the interior, to know the standing of
a man. and as the reply must be contained in
ten words, he said: "'Bond very good word
not worth a" The last word could be under
stood. It was not continental. [Laughter.]
Senator Yoorhees insisted upon a vote upon
his resolution, and it was unanimously agreed
to.
Senator Mitchell gave notice that on Monday
next he would ask the Senate to consider the
bill to extend the time for the completion of
the Northern Pacific railroad.
Bills on the calendar were passed as follows:
Senate bill, extending the act of July 2d,
1862. donating public lands to several States
and territories, which may provide colleges for
the benefit of agxioulture and mechanical arts
to the State of Colorado.
Senate bill, to donate a portion of the mili
tary reservation of Fort Parker to the State of
Kansas, for the establishment of educational or
charitable institutions and to open the re
mainder of said reservation to settlement, was
discussed at length, and then laid aside under
objection of Senator Plumb. After an exeon
tive session, adjourned.
House of Uepresentative*.
WASHINGTON, April 17.The reading of yes
terday's journal consumed nearly an hour, af
ter which Mr. Blunt moved to go into commit*
DEFECTIVE PAGE
ST. PAUL, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 18t 1878.
tee of the whole on the postomce appropriation
bill. Mr. Cox of New Yorkand others opposed
the motion, desiring to hare morning hour,
and it being defeated, 80 to 150, the speaker
called the committee for reports.
A bill from the committee on banking and
currency i reported, repealing the sot au
thorizing the coinage of thetweutv sent silver
pieoe. Passed.
Mr. Phillips, from the same committee, re
ported a bill providing lor the deposit of sav
ings in a popular loan and-for funding the na
tional debt in home bonds.
The bill provides that any person may depos
it money in any"sum not low than twenty-five
cent* in any postal money order office and if
such deposits reach $10 the postmaster shall
issue to the depositor a postal order for it on
the United States treasury which shall issue
therefor 3.66 bonds, which shall be exempt
from all taxation. Beferred to the committee
of the whole.'
Mr. Hartzell, from the committee on banking
and currency, reported back the bill authoriz
ing the deposit of silver bullion and the issue
of certificates therefor. Referred to committee
of the whole and made a special order for Hay
9th.
Mr. Rise, from the committee on Pacific
railroads, reported a bill extending tho time
for completion of the Northern Pacific railroad.
Referred to committee of the whole.
Mr. House, from tho committee, re
i i" m*B$m- **sam*W*
sal?1
McDonald,
McPherson, Maxey,
Mitcliell,
Morgan,
Ogclsby,
Patterson.
Randolph,
Rollins,
Saulsbury,
Wallace,
Windom,
Ve S*
cine acts, same order.
The pro rata Pacific bill, establishing a Pa
cific railroad commission and the bill amending
Pacific railroad acta, identical with the Thur
man bill, were also reported, and referred to
the committee of the whole.
Mr. Hardenbergh reported back the bill mak
ing it lawful for National banking associations
to sell dr dispose of legal tender notes which
they were now reqnired to hold as a reserve
fund, and invest the same in United States
bonds bearing interest at a rate not exceeding
four per cent., which bonds shall be held as a
reserve fund. Referred to the committee of
the whole.
Also, a bill amending the revised statutes so
an to provide that any banking association
which has paid out obligatory promissory notes
signed by the president, vice president and
cashier of said association, may issue the same
as money but if aach notes are not signed by
the officers of the association, shall befined$20
for each note so paid out. Referred to com
mittee of the whole.
Mr. Hartsell reported a bill author
izing the deposit of silver bullion
and the issue of certificates therefor. Referred
to committee of the whole, and made the
special order for May 9th. It authorizes the
issue of certificates of the denomination of
$10 and multiples thereof, in exchange for sil
ver bullion, which certificates shall be redeemed
on piesentation, in silver bars or dollars, at the
option of the treasury, and shall be receivable
for all dues to the government.
Mr. Blair, from the railroad committee, re
potted back the bill to facilitate the sale and
settlement of public lands granted to aid in
the construction of railroad lines. Referred to
the committee of the whole.
At the expiration of the morning hour, a
message was received from the Senate announc
ing that that body had adopted a resolution for
the final adjournment of Congress on the tenth
of June, phe announcement was received
with a^plauM.
Mr. O'Neill desired to call up the resolution
lor present consideration, but the Speaker re
cognized Mr. Cox, of New York, to move to go
to business on the Speaker's table. The motion
was agreed to, and the Senate amendments to
the House bill for the erection of public build
ings in Kansas City, Missouri, was concurred in.
The concurrent resolution for the final ad
journment oi Congress on the 10th of June,
came up, and Mr. Wood moved reference of
the resslution under the 54th rule to the com
mittee of ways and means.
Mr. O'Neill rose at the
aame time and moved
the House proceed to its consideration now.
The speaker, however, intimated to him that
it was proper for the chair to recognize on that
subject the chairman of the committee on ways
and means.
Mr. O'Neil replied with some warmth, that
he vas presumed to be able to say as well as
the chairman of the committee of ways and
means. The speaker, or any other man
whether the business of the House could be
finished by the 10th of June.
The previous question was seconded on Mr.
Wood's motion 112 to 105, and then a vote was
taken by yeas and nays, and the motion to
refer the resolution to the committee of ways
and means was defeated, yeas 107 nays 129.
Mr. Wood thereupon moved to postpone fur
ther consideration of the resolution until the
third Monday in May.
Mr. Wright moved to postpone till this day
week.
Mr. O'Neill claimed that he had the right to
recognition by the chair, and he moved the res
olution be concurred in.
The speaker gave precedence to Mr. O'Neill's
motion, when Mr. Wright moved to reconsider
the vote refusing to refer the resolution.
Mr. Garfield moved to lay that motion on
the table.
Mr. Springer interposed a motion to adjourn.
Rejected: yeas 87, nays 146.
Mr. Clark, Missouri, moved when the House
djourn to-day it adjourn to Monday, Rejected
on a yea and nay vote.
After two hours spent in voting on these and
other dilatory motions, on which the anti-tariff
Democrats voted with the Republicans in order
to force an early adjournment, Mr. Durham
piesected the conference report on the deficien
cy bill^or temporary clerks in the treasury de
partment and to protect timber lands. He was
proceeding to reply to the statements of the
Senate conferees the Senate when he was in
terrupted by a point of order made by Senator
Banks and sustained by the speaker, that it
was unparliamentary to refer to proceedings in
the Senate. He said that he could get at it
without a violation of the rule, and he there
fore asserted in denial of the
claim that the Senate was as economi
cal as the House, that the Senate had
tacked onto this bill amendments increasing the
appropriation to the amount of about $90,000.
It had also been alleged, he said, that one of
the points in controversy was in reference to
the appointment of special agents to look after
"moonshiners." He represented a district
which was largely interested in distilling, and
where, he was sorry to say, "moonshing" ex
isted to some extent. He never would protect
a "moonshiner," knowingly, but neither
would he vote money to the commissioner of
internal revenue to send out spies to entrap
men. The extravagence of the men,
he said, was as plain a proposition
as was ever yet on a man's
nofe, (laughter) and he insisted the House
should put down the brakes on such extrava
gance. As to the item for postal clerks he
would give an explanation about that to his
colleague on the committee, (Blannt).
Another motion to adjourn was made and
was again resisted on the Republican side of
the chamber, although the Speaker in response
to inquiries, said that the conference report
and resolution for adjournment would come up
again to-morrow under the previous question.
The vote was taken by yeas and nays and was
decided in the affumative, 109 to 96. The
House thereupon adjourned.
Supplementary Resumption Hill.
WASHINGTON, April 17.The following is the
full text of the resumption bill agreed upon by
the Senate finance committee to-day and re
ported to the Senate with a favorable recom
mendation:
An. aot to amend an act to provide for the
..resumption of specie payments and for other
purposes:
That from and after the passage of thi3
act United States notes shall be receivable
in payment for United States bonds now
authorized by law to be issued and on and
after October 1, 1878, said notes shall he
receivable for duties on imports and said
notes, in the volume in existence in October
1,1878, shall not be canceled or permanently
hoarded, but shall be reissued, and they may
be used for funding and all other lawful pur
poses whatsoever, to an amount not exceeding
in the whole the amount then in circulation
and in the treasury and the said notes, wheth
er then in the treasury or thereafter received
under any aet of Congress, and from whatever
source, shall be again paid out, and when again
returned to the treasury, they shall not be can
part of the aet of January 14th, 1875,
entitled an act to provide for the re
sumption of specie payments, authorizing the
retirement of eightydper cent, oinoperative United States
no r"v"
e,w *an become on
Matter said October 1st, 1878.
Sec. 2. All laws and parts of laws inconsis
tent with this act shall be and are hereby re-
The bill was reported to the Senate as a sub
stitute for the House bill to repeal* the specie
resumption act, and was ordered printed and
placed on the calendar.
Pacific Railroad Commisston.
WASHINGTON, April 17.The bill reported
from the House Pacific railroad committee to
day, which was referred to the committee of
the whole of the House and made the special
order for May 5th, "To establish aboard of Pa
cific railroad commissioners," provides that
Charier Francis Adams, Jr., of Massachusetts,
Albert Pink, of Kentucky, Thomas M. Cooley,
of Michigan,and their successors to be hereaf
ter appointed, are hereby appointed a boajd of
commissioners to be krown and designated as
thePacifio railroad commissioners, who shall
bold their offices from the date of the
enactment of this law until
three years from the first day of January,
next. Before the end of said term, and of
each succeeding term of three years, the Presi
dent of the United States shall nominate, and
by and with the advice and consent of the Sen
ate, appoint three commissioners of said board,
wfitfeuail hoMtheir offices for TI term of three
years from the expiration of the preceding
term. In case of any vacancy in said board,
occurring by declination, resignation, or other
wise, the President shall in like manner ap
point a commissioner for the residue of the
term, and he may in like manner
Temove any commissioner. One of the
commissioners of said board shall be
skilled i-i the management and operation
of railroads said board of commissioners
shall have general supervision of the roads of
the Central Pacific railroad company, the Union
Pacific railroad company, the Kansas Pacific
railroad company, the Denver Pacific railroad
company, the Sioux City Pacific railroad com
pany, the Burlington and Missouri Pacific rail
road company, the Western Pacific and the
Central Branch of the Union Pacific railroad
company, and of ail the railroad corporations
which hereafter receive any aid in lands, bonds
or credit by act of Congress granting the same,
renewing or continuing any grant heretofore
made. Said board shall have an office in the
city of Omaha, State of Nebraska, where its
records shall be kept. It shall be the
duty of said commission from time
to time, and as often as need to be, to examine
the several roads ot said corporations, and their
books and papers, and to inform themselves of
the condition of said roads, of their rolling
stock, stations and station houses, and of the
manner in which they are operated, and of the
rates and charges for which they transport
freight and passengers, and of their connections
and relations with each other, and with other
roads, that they may know whether said cor
porations respectively furnish to the pub
li and each other, safe and convenient
accommodations at reasonable and proper
rates, and perform and discharge their duties
to the government, the public and each other,
and fully perform and accomplish the purposes
for which they were established, in accordance
with the various acts of Congress under which
they were organized, and the laws of the land.
After consultation with the officers of the cor
porations interested said commissioners shall
proceedjfto establish rules and regulations to
govern the operation and management of the
roads of saidcorporatioiib, and shall supervise
the observance thereof so as to afford
and secure to the government and publish
all advantages of inter-communication, travel,
and transportation over said roads, as well as
to secure and enforce the reciprocal rights and
duties of said corporations, which rules and
regulations shall govern said corporations in
the operation and management of their respec
tive raads until the same shall be revised,
altered or annulled by said commissioners or
by the decree of the circuit or supreme court of
the United States.
The bill further and fully details the method
of enforcing the powers of the commissioners.
The commissioners are each to receive ten
thousand dollars per annum, and be allowed a
clerk at $2,500 per annum, and an office and
incidental expenses, the same to be borne by
the railroads in proportion to the gross re
ceipts.
The Adjournment.
WASHINGTON, April 17.The House by a vote
of 101 against 129 to-day, refused to refer to
the committee on ways nd means, the concur
rent resolution of the Senate fixing the 10th of
June, as the time for adjournment of Congress
without day. The ante-tariff Democrats voting
with the Republicans against the motion to
refer. They desiied to pass the resolution.
Heretofore resolutions of this character have
always been referred to the committee of ways
and meant,, for tho^reason that the committee
was the best informed of the condition of
public business. The dilatory motions to pre
vent the vote on the passage of the resolution
were made by the Democrats, one of whom
in private conversation Feemed to express th
views of the opponents of the resolution. He said
that an adjournment at so early a day would
be a defeat of the tariff bill, and perhaps of
legislation on financial and other measures
beneficial to the country, and that they could
not go home and face their constituents with
out passing some measures of relief. With a
view of reconciling differences among Demo
crats, a caucus was held to-night at the capital,
about 70 members present. Representative
Blackburn in the chair, and Clark, of Missouri,
secretary. Representative Wood, of New York,
offered a resolution to postpone action on the
Senate concurrent resolution for adjournment
until the 15th of May, and spoke of the justice
and propriety of the House taking the initia
tive of adjournment, and against what he
termed the dictation of the Senate in this par
ticular. Representative Wright briefly ex
pressed his views against the passage of the tariff
bill, which he thought would have a depressing
effect upon labor. He was well satisfied that if
the House would closely apply themselves to
business.Congress could adjourn by the 10th of
June. Representative Hardenburgh also op
posed action on the tariff bill, and was in favor
of postponing action on the Senate resolution
until the 15th of May. Representative Harris.
Virginia, advocated prompt action on the tariff
bill, and also on the bill pending in the ways
and means committee to reduce the tax on to
bacco. In reply to some of the
gentlemen who preceded him in the
discussion, and who had eentsured Democratic
Senators for permitting a resolution of adjourn
ment to pass the Senate he said it was wise in
them to permit the resolution to pass, as it
placed in the Democrats of the House the
power to control publio business. Other gen
tlemen took part in the discussion, expressing
views similar to those above mentioned, and it
was generally agreed that every represen
tative should vote on the tariff bill
according to the interests of his own section,
irrespective of party politics. The resolution
for postponement of action on the Senate reso
lution until the I5th of May, was then adopted,
Representative Briggs being the only one who
said he would not be bound by the action of the
caucus. The business in the Honse tomorrow will
be of such a character as to place the Senate res
olution in the same condition it was at the time
it was received from that body, so that the
views of the caucus may be carried out in ac
cordance with the resolution for postponement
of action upon it until the loth of May.
Armtf Promotions.
oeled or destroyed, but issued from time to I here to-day, decided to hold the next 8tte
*te wit qnalitjes, and all that' convention at Cincinnati June 12th. likV
WASHINGTON, April 17.The Senate confirmed
Thos. H. C. Smith, of Ohio, paymaster in the
United States Army, with the rank of major.
Army promotions: Major Jas. W. Forsyth,
100th cavalry, to be lieutentant-colonel first
regiment of cavalry, vice Elliott, promoted
Captain Anson Mills, third cavalry, to be major
of tenth cavalry, vice Forsyth, promoted Lieu
teaant-Colonel A. L. Elliott, first cavalry, to be
colonel of third cavalry, vice Devin, deceased
First Lieutenant John R. Johnson to be captain
of third cavalry, vice Mills, promoted.
The President nominated Geo. B. Chamber
lain, of Georgia, to be Indian agent at San
Carlos, Aruona.
OhloBepubllcans.
COXTJMBTJS, O., April 17.The Ohio Re
publican State central committee, in session
ANOTHER FALL.
THIS ME IT 18 THE BISHOP
MICHIGAN,
OF
Following the Illustrious Example of
Beecher, Bishop McCoskrey Indulge* Ja
Unholy PracticesImproper Conduct
With His Ward and Also OthersFifty
Tears of this Crireer~He Follow* Beech
er's Wxamnle and Denies.
[Special Telegram to the Globe.]
DzTBorr, April 17.An accusation rivalling
Beecher's has developed itself in this city.
The hero is none other than Samuel Allan Mc
Coskrey, for more than 40 years bishop of the
diocese of Michigan, but who has recently re
signed in consequence of the publicity of the
facts about to be narrated, and will shortly sail
for Europe. The facts are apparently that the
bishop has been for many years decidedly pro
miscuous in giving vent to his inclinations.
During these years stories have now and then
been whispered abroad, but have been sup
pressed. Recently, however, one came to their
knowledge in so
STABTLTNO A FOBM
that it was impossible to suppress it, and the
result ht a vacant bishopric, a wandering ex
bishop, a terrified family, an Episcopal com
munity trembling, lest the cloud should burnt,
and the worldly crowd praying in a sinful way,
that the crisis may be precipitated. A few
months ago a prominent vestryman overheard
two men talking in an adjoining room about
Bishop McCoskrey, and heard enough to satisfy
him that something was wrong. He entered
the room, and after some little parley, was
taken into their confidence. They showed him
a number of letters, evidently written by the
bishop to
Tanss FANNIZ BICHAUDS,
a young girl of the city, wherein were expres
sions that rendered it obvious that he had been
aad was on terms of too great intimacy with
her. The vestryman was astounded, and con
cluded it must be a deep laid scheme to black
mail the bishop, or his friends. He was told
that the letters bad been left iu the safe of the
Michigan Farmer by a printer named Qerge
McConnell. Quietly he obtained permission to
take possession of the letters, and confident
that he could work up a clear case of blackmail,
he set his wits to work. McConnell was sent
for and responded. HiB story was
ANOTHEB ALTONXSHEB.
He said that for several years he has been on
terms of too great intimacy with Fannie Rich
ards, and that he had known the bishop was in
the same boat. A year or so before this he had
been assisting the girl and her mother to move,
and had discovered
THE BISHOP 8 LETTERS
lying on a table. He examined them and
placed them in his pocket for his own protec
tion. All efforts to extort any other Btory from
him only excited additional particulars of his
knowledge of the bishop's intimacy with the
girl. All that McConnell wanted was that he
should be protected, as he was innocent of
intent to levy blackmail, and on re
ceiving the assurance desired, be surrendered
the letters. The bishop was summoned before
prominent churchmen, acknowledged some of
the letters and denied others. He swore that
be had
NKVEB LAID HANDS ON A WOMAN
except in kindness, but in the very profuse
nees of his professions of innocence he fre
quently gave himself away to the determin
ed men who had summoned him to undergo
the trying ordeal. While he did not admit
that he was the author of these anonymous
letters, he said be bad no recollection of hav
ing written them, that he certainly should
have remembered them if he had written them,
and all that sort of talk. They are
SEVEN XU NUMBEB.
One of them was a drop letter. Another was
evidently sent by a messenger. One was sent
from Saginaw City, one from Mount Clemens,
and the remaining three from New York, in the
latter part of 1874, when the bishop was there
attending in his official capacity. In one he
tells her how anxious he is for the time to come
when he can return, and urges her to write and
tell him her inmost feelings of mind and body
tells her that her kindly offer
OP ONE-HALF THE BED,
and all the cover she knows he will accept,
cautions her to write at once, directing to Sag
inaw City, and is freighted with a world of
love, and any number of datbes which are
intended to represent kisses. Heooncludes by
being hers very affectionately, and trusting
that she will burn this letter as well as all
others. In a letter from New York
he wishes he could see her
just then and see her all (underscored).
He says he has given her all and she has given
him all, they must not deceive each other.
Their whole hopes depend on this. She must
write again immediately, as her letters are so
sweet to him and their leva is so great for each
other that it consumes the whole person. An
other letter says, "Oh, how I would like to see
you and see you
W ALL VOUB LOVELINESS."
Be cautious, and remember that secrecy can
protect me, and burn the letter at once." Here
follows a number of dashes, understood to
represent more kisses. In the last letter the
bishop says, amongst other things: "Remem
ber that yon are mine, and that I am your all.
You will see, when I am home again, the win
dows open at my house as you
pass by. Come in as you go
to school, for my whole happiness depends
upon whether you are keeping your promises
with me, as I shall certainly keep mine with
you. We must not and cannot betray each
other. My own sweet darling wife, I send you"
(here follow fifty crosses, meaning as many
kisses.)
The standing committee of the diocese, when
it became settled that the letters were true,
waited on Bishop McCoskrey in a body, and
laid the case before him in a calm bnt deter
mined way, and demanded
HIS UNCONDITIONAL RESIGNATION.
He did not fully admit his guilt, but sought
to prevaricate as before, and suggested that he
be relieved ostensibly on the ground of age
and increasing infirmaties, and that an assist
ant should be appointed to administer the
duties of the Episcopate. To this the commit
tee would not consent. Nothing short of an
unconditional surrender would meet their
views. They would not even agree that a
resignation should stand in the way of a sub
sequent trial before the court of bishops. One
pledge, however, they would make him and that
was that in case he should resign instantane
ously y,
THE Of .1ENDING LXTTEBS
should be sacredly kept in their possession,
closely sealed and securely looked is the vault
of a bank, never again to be seen by mortal
man unless demanded by the diocese in con
vention, in which* ease they were only to be
shown in executive convention under pledge of
the strictest seoresy, and then recommitted to
the
4J $.* S1UST TAtXX. l^j^Ni^
Pending tho proposition, the bishop was ad-
NUMBER 94.
vised to go to Bnffalo immediately, there to r*-
main for a short time, and then to go to Enroro
and spend the balance of hi. dsysin tho aoeS
ty of his only daughter. The girl is about
twenty years of age, an once the bishop's
amanuensis, and later his recognised
was while acting as
amanuensis, the report has it, that the
bishop had educed her to yield to his wishes
although ,t would appear that she had prior to
that fame been too free with McConnell. Th
city is literally alive with rumors of
I-ASCmOCB HAPPENINGS
between the bishop and divers women, most of
the scenes being located in the bishop's study,
where he is said to have provided himself with
peculiar facilities. A certain collector tells
of having caught him with
his lap, when he
bill for carpets.
In
woman
went to collect a
Some of these stories, equally
as well authenticated as that on whioh the com
mittee based their demand for his reeighation,
date baok more than a quarter of a century.
The bishop is 74 years old.
[To tho Western A ssociated Press,]
M'COSKBET'S FALL.
CHICAGO, April 17.-The Tims* this morning
had a long account of the alleged improper
conduct and scandalous proceedings of the
Episcopal Bishop Allan McCoskrey of Michi
gan. The substance of the story is that for a
long time he has cohabited with a
young girl whom he has recently
married to a young man of Detroit named
Bannister, who discovered the guilt of
McCoskrey, and indirectly through him the
latter has reached the public. The proof of
the story lies a number of amorous and
broadly suggestive letters written by McCosk
rey to the girl, Funny Richards. In his sud
den resignation to the committee of the dio
cese in the confused denial which he made
to the committee in his acknowledgement
of unusual intimacy with the girl in his
identification of some of the letters in his sud
den departure for Europe, and in the reticence
of the dignitaries of the Episcopal church, who
although they do not affirm the story, refuse to
deny it. On the other hand, the
stories are so little authenticated
that they cannot be said to be more than
rumors at present. Bishop McCoskrey denies
the whole story, declares he re-
"8e
on account of ill-health
and old age, and points a life of recti
tude for 74 years at his vindication. It is in
timated, though not urged in ex
planation of the letters, that he was be
coming deranges on some points and
that he wrote them while out of his head. Tho
matter has beeu kept a profound secret and
leaked out casually. There are said to be more
facts ljing back, but the Detroit papers pub
lish nothing about tho scandal, and no inter
views hitherto held have elicited any facts here.
BOSCOE'S EAID.
The "World" Report of nis expressions
Not Denied, but Somebody Accused of
Betraying Private Conversation.
WA&HINGTON, April 17.The Conkling in
terview, as published this morning, occasion
ed much comment everywhere, particularly
in Congressional circles. The Senator iu
reply to an inquiry by a reporter as to the
correctness of the expressions attributed to
him said: "You are at liberty to state that I
cannot recall any circumstance within the
past few months to warrant any such inter
view as I learn has been attributed to me,
and feel perfectly sure that if there should
turn out to be some plausibility in portions
of it, some one to mo unknown, just at
present, has been guilty of betraying a
private conversation.
Miscellaneous Wanhiugton.
WASHINGTON, Apiil 17.Gen. Logan attacks
Senator Sargent's plan for putting a large num
ber of generals on tho retired list, himself
among the number, and makes an eloquent ap
peal in behalf of Gen. Shields.
The House committee on railroads and canals
to-day, adopted the report of the sub-com
mittee on Representative Schlercher's bill, to
provide for a cheap transfer of freight between
the Atlantic coast and the Ohio and Missouri
valley'6, and agreed to report the bill to the
House with a favorable recommendation.
The committee also decided to report a bill
authorizing the Washington, Cincinnati & St.
Louis railroad company to construct a narrow
gauge railroad fiom tidewater to the cities of
St. LoniK and Chicago.
The House coniraitti on public lands to-day
agreed to report to the H-mee, with favorable
recommendation, Representative VVigginton's
bill for the relief of settlers on public lands,
and to provide for the repayment of certain
fees and commissions paid on void entries of
public lands.
Pirate Sherman's Victims.
LTVEBPOOL, April 17.Darbyshire, McKin
nell & Co., merchants and ship owners, have
failed. Liabilities estimated at $1,250,000.
They were engaged chiefly in* the South
American trade, but had some connection
with the United States.
PBOVIDENCE, It. I., April 17.The Cod
dington savings bank of Newport has been
enjoined from doing business at piesent.
BOSTON, April 17.Jackson & Whittier,
leather dealers, 76 High street, failed to-day,
liabilities reported $100,000, assets not
known.
Shot His Sweetheart's Father.
BOSTON, Mass., April 17.John Lyons,
wholesale liquor dealer, at the corner of
Beach and South streets, was fatally shot in
the bowels in front of bis residence,
163 Harrison avenue, this evening,
by Charles H. Lenman, 21 years
of age, residing at 26 Worcester
street. Lanman has been paying attention
to Lyon's daughter, and this evening on re
turning from a walk with her was met by
the father, who objected to their intimacy,
and an altercation ensued, resulting in the
shooting. Lanman was arrested.
Moses Being Taken to South Carolina to
Answer.
N EW YOKE, April 17.Upon the withdraw
al of the writ of habeas corpus in the case of
ex-Governor Moses in court to-day, the pris
oner was placed under the control of Ser
geant Haley of the Central office, who deliv
ered him to the agents of the State of South
Carolina, who had first arrested him, and it
is supposed that be is now on his way South
Trial for Bigamy.
TOBOKTO, April 17.Eev. V. T. Ray, Bra
min priest, was committed for trial to-day on
the charge of bigamy. Bev. Samuel Dur
barron, Episcopal minister of Philadelphia,
swore to having married Bay at Philadelphia
in December, 1875, to a woman named Mary
Elizabeth Whitlaw, his first wife, who now
appears against him.
Weather Indications.
WASHXSOXOW, April 18.Indications for
Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri val
leys warmer, southeast to southwest winds,
falling barometer, cloudy and rainy weather,
possibly followed by cooler westerly winds
and rising barometer, attending a storm
oenterin Iowa. AAiiroaU Freight War.
CmcAoo^pril 17.The only cat in freights
to-day was by tho Chicago roads, which re
duced the rate on live stock from the Mis
souri to Chicago $o $20 per car. The last
rate was fSa
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