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i Xtattp @ (Slobc Ofieiil Par:Ar of the City &nd County. Prin:ecl and Published Every Day in the Year. . BT TEE IT. PAUL LOBE PRINTING COMPANY No. 17 Wabashaw Street, St. rani. THE DAILY globe. SEVEN ISSUES PER WEEK, "- Daily and Sunday Globe; one pollab pc month. SIX ISSUES PER WEEK—BY JlilL, • Pne m0nth...... 90 cte I Six months. ...$ 5.0 C throe m0uth5....52.50 I Twelve months.. 10.00 THE WEEKLY GLOBE. An eight page paper published every Thurs lay sent post" paid at §1.15 per year. Three months on trial for 25 cents. SI. PAUL. WEDNESDAY. DF<V>>. ix*2. SUBSVItIPTIOX its* IS*. ''['-::;•-, Seven issues per week, delivered by carrier, mail or upplied by newsdealers—ONE DOLLAR PEB MONTH. Six issues per weak (omitting Sunday) by mii 1! as follows: .Or^'H-!:- One m mth, 90 cents; three months, $2.50; ■lx months, $5; twelve months, $10. Postage Is prepaid on all papers sent by mail. The Globe on the Trains. The Globe has always been supplied to the news men on the trains, but at the previous size encountered difficulties which do net now need to be recounted. At the present size it ought to be found every vhere. Parties who cannot in the future obtain it on the trains or of news dealers will a af er a favor by reporting the mat ter totnis office with narticulare. The Piegan Indians are apt pupils of the.Republican officeholders. They threat en to steal their neighbors, the Crows, poor before winter is over. The Republi can officeholders have been stealing the people poor for twenty years, and the Piegans are only following the example set them. • ' .. At five minutes before midnight, last Saturday night, the goody goody Nettle ton, of the Minneapolis Tribune, hastily vacated his office and went home, an nouncing that he would do the remainder of his work by telephone. He • was ready to break the Sabbath by proxy, and allow his employes togo to jail for it, but it would never do for this able Sunday school orator himself to be a victim. Hell is full of just such hypocrites. The editorial labor of the Minneapolis Tribune during the present week is devoted to attempting to prove that it is a proper sheet to be issued on Sunday. It concedes that its proprietors and employes came yery near spending last Sabbath in jail, but nevertheless argues that they are capa ble of inculcating good morals, even from behind the bars. Incidentally it flatters Chief Munger and Detective Hoy, probably ■with a view of having little delicacies al lowed them when they receive their merited punishment. - Excessive railroad building depreciates railroad securities, weakens public confi dence, taxes people to support lines not warranted, and precipitates a panic and general financial ruin. President Porter, of the Omaha road, calls a halt. However much he may be governed by selfish inter ests, his vie sys are correct, as a matter of public policy. It is advantageous to have all the railroads which the country legiti mately demands, but the reverse of the proposition is equally true. The editors who are abusing Porter are stupid dolts. The committee on ways and means yesterday introduced a bill in tha house repealing all taxes on tobac co, snuff, cigars and cigarettes, from which a revenue of about forty millions is now derived. The bill should not pass. Tobacco is a luxury in every sense of the word, and should be taxed as heavily as it can bear. We are not aware that the consumers are asking a remis sion of the tax, and it is very doubtful if they would reap any benefit in case of its abolition. There are scores of other ar ticles that should be placed on the free list before tobacco and its products. Attoexet Genekal Bbewsteb must have a peculiarly jaundiced vision. He has.ever since his induction into office, acted as if there were no honest men in the world save himself and a few of his bosom cronies, and he has repeatedly insulted men a thou sand times better than himself by express ing doubts of their integrity. In his com munication to congress yesterday he cast a slar upon the entire body of witnesses and jurors in the federal courts of the West by intimating that the interests of the government suffer through their ill will, produced by insufficient pay. Brewster may view others from his own standard when he declares them capable of com mitting pur jury for the sake of a few pal try dollars. The "prayer care" is attracting no in considerable degree. of attention in many enthusiastic circles, and has its advocates and opponents. But prayer, recently in Maine, took on a new phase, and in a court of judicature, is supposed to have influ enced a judicial decision. The women of Richland, Maine, have entered upon a prayer crusade against rum-sellers, and develop a measure of bravery, equal to their faith. A short time ago they invaded a court room, while the court was in session, and while there was some hitch and delay in a liquor suit. one of the women asked permission to pray, after which the judge sentenced the culprit liqnor seller is pay a fine of §10 and to serve out a six sentence at hard labor. It is supposed that the legal argument and influence of the prayer, so moved upon the judge as to increase the severity of the offender's sentence. The Windom men thought they had things solid in the Forty-sixth district They knew that Messrs. Billson and Parker were elected, but they had cooked up a scheme which would throw out Cass and Ita3ca counties. This would give the cer tificates of election to Ensign and Jordan and compel Messrs. Billson and Parker to' contest. This they would most certainly have done, but meantime the senator would have been elected, and Ensign and Jordan would have voted on that question before any contest could ha\e removed them. That was. the game, but there's ma a slip,, and the canvassing board at Duluth -.cry properly counted Cass and Ita^ca counties and gave the certificates to Billson and Parker, who were legitimately elected. So the scheme of the Wisdom men to hold two seats by fraud until the election of senator had taken place, has come to grief.', v. -. ; { THE SOVIIIEIiS IRON IXIEREST.S Since emancipation, the material inter ests of the South, and manufactures of various kinds have been developed to an extent not only surprising, but of a mag nitude of the most hopeful promise for the future growth and wealth of that por tion of the country. Plantation interests and cotton growing do not now absorb the leading idea in that section as formerly, but enterprise is driving on in other direc tions, a new business impulse and grasp is inspiring the people, and the vast, mineral and other resources of that region are be ing brought to light. Manufacturing en terprises are yet in their: infancy, but are assuming an encouraging growth. North ern and English capital, to a considerable extent, is being attracted in that direction, and it is safe to predict that the material wealth of the South in the future's near-by develop ment will make no mean item in the aug mented aggregate of the nation's indus tries. Take the iron interest alone, which is being brought to the front, and which is only one of the many industrial and manufacturing interests strug gling into existence, and the South has emphatically the prophecy of a great and prosperous future. Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and West • Virginia are already having a great if not controlling influence in the western iron trade. Sloss iron from Birmingham, Alabama, and South Pitts burgh, Tennessee, and Sewanee iron from Tennessee are being transported from GOO to 800 miles and laid down at the Pittsburgh mills with lib eral profit to the furnaces. The West can use a great deal more Southern iron at fair rices, if general trade condi tions remain undisturbed, without giving up entirely its supplies from the East. A correspondent quite familiar with the details of the Southern iron interest, says: It will interest iron makers. and consumers everywhere, no doubt, to review the latest de velopments in the growth of this vigorous in dustry in the South. For a while past the cen ter of activity has been Alabama. In April the large Sloss furnace at Birmingham was nearing completion. Now.it lias been in successful op eration for several months, and has its second stack, of still greater capacity, nearly completed. Alice furnace, also at Birmingham., lias another stack far advanced, its capacity to be 100 tons per day. A little below Birmingham, the Wood wards, late the owners of the Labelle Iron works. Wheeling, W. Va., have established a now "Wheeling,", the center of which is the Wood ward furnace, nearly completed, 75x17 feet, with three Whitwell stoves. At Oxmoor, the . Eureka company, now making 100 tons per day, is making improvements that will nearly double its capacity. The Mary Pratt furnace .at Bir mingham, intended for charcoal iron, is Hearing completion. It will make fifty tons of car wheel iron per day, At Jonesboro, in the same district, Mr. H. b'. Debardaleben, the foremost spirit in Alabama iron and coal enterprises, has selected the site and is preparing plans for the largest furnace of all. It will be of the same order and dimensions as the famous Lucy and Isabella furnaces of Pennsylvania. In addition to this there are other sim ilar enterprises completed or under way, developing a healthy growth. The most important organization is the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad company. This has absorbed by purchase the Southern States Coal, Iron & Land company's works at South Pittsburgh, on which English capitalists have expended $1,500,000. It has $3,000,000 capital and owns three fur naces, with an average daily capacity of 200 tons. It also owns the Tracy City coal mines, from which its own furnaces and some others in district are • sup plied with coke. In old and West Virginia the most im portant enterprise is the Victoria furnace, now nearly ready for blowing, At Goshen. near Staunton, on the line of the Chesa peake & Ohio railroad. This is being built by the Iron and Steel associa ciation of Virginia, composed of English capitalists, and is by considerable the lar gest furnace in the United States, if not in the world. The foregoing is but a limited and im perfect view of the vast and increasing interest growing up in this branch of in dustry at the South. It is a mat ter of great encouragement, that the South is interesting English, as well as Northern and Northwestern capital to de velop its immense resources. While the iron interest is thus rapidly growing, other lines of industry and manufacture are springing up, the not least considerable of which is, and is to be the manufacture of cotton into fabrics on the soil where it is raised. In view of these rapidly unfolding projects and prospects, the New South has a far greater promise of material wealth, prosperity,grandeur and greatness than the old could ever have had under its impov erishing system of servile labor. Any article bought at 145 East Third street has saved the purcliaser 25 to 50 per cent. A greater savirg can be made now. PEKSON.4L. Hon. J. A. Thacher, of Zumbrota is at the Metrolitan. A. C. Hickmau, Esq., of Owatonna is paying St. Paul a visit. Hon. T. B. Clement, Faribault. was among the visitors to St. Paul friends. Hon. R. B. Langdon, Minneapolis, was looking about the saintly city yesterday. Hon. H. B. Wilson, Red Wing, was among the callers upon Gov. Hubbard yes terday. Auditor-elect Crocker.. of Rice county, was among the callers upon State Auditor Braden yesterday. S. A. Plumley, Esq., a leading attorney of Litchfield, yesterday paid his respects to the governor and other state officials. Among the callers at the state capitol yesterday were R. H. Gore, Esq.. Roches ter; Hon. G. W. Bachelder, Faribault, and Wm. Hodgson, Esq., Hastings. ; ; C. B. Jordan, Esq., Wadena, who suffered defeat for the legislature from having too close an alliance witl* the Nelson wing of the party, was among the callers upon the state officials yesterday. John Splan, the well-known trotting horse driver and trainer, having perfected negotiations to enter the service of Com. N. W. Kittson, left for Chicago yesterday on private business, to return on or before Jan. 1, from which date his engagement commences. Don't buy a winter cap until you see the great sacrifice sale at 49 East Third street. . * Business Troubles. Cedab Rapids, la., Dec 5.— H. Israel, a clothier of this city, closed to-day. Lia bilities reported at ,*40,000, and assets are unknown. ■ • - - ■ CisciNNATi^Dec. —Fred B. Burekhardt, doing business as ■ F. Burekhardt & Son, and also as the Danbury ■ Hat and Fur manufactory on Main street, made an as signment to Okas. Hoeffinghoff. Estimat ed liabilities §10,000; estimated assets §15,000. ■;'■■■;■■•■ ;;.-•'-:■-. " Men's winter cars from 15"cents upwards at iSEsst Third street. • • THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6 1882 TEBBITOEMRJuHTS. PRESIDEXt PORTER'S XEir THEORY or CLAsirrxG RAILROAD IXTERESTS. The Views of Prominent Magnates on the Principle— Declare . the Position Well Taken, but Others Say It Is Stuff and Nonsense—An Interesting Addition to the Literature of the War. « ••■■:• "->. [Special Telecram to the Globe. 1 :\ ■' Chicago, Dec. 5. —The position lately taken by Mr. Porter, president of the Chi cago, St. Paul. Minneapolis & Omaha rail road, has raised a question comparatively new in the West, and one of far wider im portance than any other growing out of the recent railroad complications. The public is comparatively uninterested in the percentages, divisions, private' compacts, or internal workings of the warring roads, so long as it is > served at a reasonable compensation. It views the present rail road war much as it would a game of chess or the latest comedy, knowing full fell that when the last move has been made and the curtain has fallen, old rates will be restored and the roads will pocket their losses. Surplus earnings may be a little less and dividends smaller, but pub lic interests have not been hurt, or it is thought they have not. and everybody is willing to trust to the sport of rivalry and emulation to secure more equitable treat ment from the railroads than hostile legis lation can secure. • Mr. Porter, however, will not let the present war . cease, or even call a truce until he has se cured the recognition of what he called his principle, which he presents as the panacea for the overbuilding of railroads, for bankrupt railroads, and for an impend ing panic, compared with which the panic of 1873 will be a period of remarkable prosperity. Mr. Porter's ultimatum, in his own language, is as follows: "The railroads should agree as to what territory each will protect, and what terri tory has a legitimate business connection with each line, and each railroad should agree to occupy and protect the territory consigned to it, and should build such ex tensions from time to time . into it as the buriness should require and will support' Further, each railroad should guarantee not to trespass on the territory of other roads by extending its line into the territory which it has been decided has a business connection with another road."' In the view that the opinions of railway men, when years spent in the service has served to make them experts on matters relating to railroads, would be of interest on the now absorbing question of territo rial division a number of representa tive men were seen yesterday on this sub ject, and succinct statements of their opinions are given clow: H. H. POBTBB. president of the Chicago, St. Paul, Min neapolis & Omaha road, has expressed an opinioa-on this subject, which has already been given. If the present condition of things continues, • he regards a panic inevitable. Yesterday he said he had no faith that the meeting in New York on Friday would result in any agreement. The principle which he had enunciated, however, was a sound one, and was bound eventually to win, and until the doctrine of territorial division was recognized, there would be no restoration of rates in the Northwest. ALEXANDEB MITCHELL, president of the Milwaukee & St. Paul, is quoted as having said that Porter's de mands were unjust. The Milwaukee & St. Paul claim the right to extend its lines in to any part of the country when necessity seems to demand it, and where the conditions of the : country warrants to aid construction. Mr. Porter's demand was against the interests of the people, and meant monopoly and high rates, and if carried out would result in a serious crippling of the railroad in terest of the country. A division of busi ness or an agreement to maintain rates might be fair enough, but no road could consistently agree not to extend its line whenever and wherever necessary. Such an agreement would be in direct opposi tion to the interests of the stockholders and the public. S. S. MEE3ILL. general manager of the same road, states that the arrangement suggested by Mr. Porter would be so plainly against public interest that the legislatures of the West ern states wouli rise up against the rail roads and enact laws much more unfavor able than any now in effect. This was a broad and a free country, and corporations had already advantages enough in the ag gregated capital which they could com mand, without uniting in a compact to drive out competition and make rivalry impossible. B. it. cable, - of the Rock Island, said that Porter's de mand for territorial division was perfectly just. Such an arrangement would be bet ter for the railroads and for the people. Whenever two or more roads get into a war the inevitable result was to pool the business, and the people had to pay for the fixed charges of two or more roads and sustain the pool besides. If the territroy had been divided, as Porter's proposition contemplates, the people would have to sustain only one road. ..... ,'" n. c. wickeb, traffic manager of the Northwestern, said a system of territorial division was in ef fect . in England, which had been found •perfectly satisfactory. Any person or corporation desiring to build a new road was required to show that a necessity for such a road existed, and that the road when built would probably pay. This being done of the company which already ac cepts that treaty refuses to build a road, the person or corporation that had applied for a permit was empowered to construct the road. A system similar to this was desirable in this country. There existed no danger of monopoly in pursuing this course, and public sentiment will - always regulate the question of rates. W. 8. MULLEN, general freight agent of the Northwestern, said that, while ;he was opposed to rparal leling for speculative purposes,he failed to recall an instance where the business of a road has been seriously . injured by competition. The Northwestern had been parallelled at a number of points, but its business at these points had steadily increased. The interest of the stock hold ers, with the people, and the interests of the people demanded live, active competi tion. W. K. ACKEBMAN, president of the Illinois Central, said that he had not considered the question, but that Mr. Tucker knew all about it and could speak for that road. 3. F. TTJCKEB, traffic manager, said that Porter's princi ple was- sound and sensible, and presented the only permanent solution of railway complications, which were becoming by far too common. E. O. BIPLEY, general freight agent of the Burlington, said that he sympathised with Porter. It would be better both for the railroads and the people, if territorial division could be adopted by roads. A law should be enacted similar to the one in effect in England which required a projector of a new road to show that a road was needed and that it would pay. PEBCIVAIi LOWELL, general passenger agent of the Burlington, said that Mitchell was right in what he said about monopolists and Porter's prin ciple. This talk of dividing up the country among railroads, saying to each road: "Thus far shalt thou go and no farther," was wild and arrant nonsense. Competition should exist among railroads as much as any other business. It might be wise to pass a law against paralleling roads for a speculative purpose. Wild schemes should be severely and heavily sat down upon, but it was assuredly against public policy to admit Porter's claim. Building into another road's ter ritory, when the building was pushed by the responsible company for legitimate ends, was a species of competitive enter prise which most roads engaged in at some time or other. WM. BABNEB, western agent of the Pennsylvania coir - pany, said that he thought a railro; d was justified in building wherever it chosr. Railroads usually built to pay, and if lints were extended into territory which dots not pay a fair dividend on account c f competition as for other leasons, the owr. ers of such roads must lose as a matter of course. The principle of territorial ditis ion was vicious, and no powerful, inde pendent and progressive railroad company would ever concede Porter's demand. JUDGE SECKWITH, the general solicitor of the Chicago & Al ton, when Mr. Porter's plan was brought to his attention, said: "I don't know any state or comity where such a state of things exist. I think the scheme is simply impracticable. I don't know any legal process by which its pro visions could be carried into effect, and I don't think the courts would sustain any such an agreement. It is certain that the sentimont of the county would not." "Would the railroads themselves be likely to keep the terms of such a com pact?" "No. Suppose one of our big dry goods firms should agree to sell its goods only in the north division of the city, another only in the south, and a third in the west. How long do you think they would keep that agreement? Or, if they did, it would not bind all the other firms in the dry goods business to follow that course. It is the same with railroads. The first one i 3 generally built into terri tory which promises to pay eventually. Then, as soon as its business becomes good, another company wants a share of that business and builds another line. Men will bu Id railroads wherever they think there is money to be made, and they have a right to. A second company might be kept from building another line tem porarily, but pretty soon a third company would come along and would be under no obligation to respect agreements made by others not do so and so. There are some places in Colorado along the line of the Denver & Rio Grande, where there is not room for more than one track Argument might work in that territory. But out here on our broad prairies, where every company that wants a share of the business has a right and the will to reach out for it, such a doctrine will never hold up." I'ortrr Denirx. Chicago, Nov. r>. —President Porter ie nies that Vanderbilt has any interest in the Omaha road, and all other rumors about his resignation. Gone to Conference. Chicago, Dec. 5. —The railway managers interested in the war on rates in the North west left to-day for New York to attend the coming conference with a view to peace. Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. .">. —Alexander Mitchell and S. S. Marrill. of the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul road, left to-night for New York to take part in the con ference of presidents aud managers of the contesting northwestern roads to settle the rate war. Mr. Mitchall would not give his views as to the probable result of the conference. Mr. Merrill said he didn't know how it would end, intimating that he is not very hopeful of a satisfactory settlement of the difficulties, ■Jloitd I'urehased. St. Aleass, Vt., Dec. s.—The Grand Trunk and Vermont roads have bought the North Shore road from Mon treal to Quebec. The control of the road caused considerable strife between the Canadian Pacific and Southeastern roads on one side and the Grand Trunk and Central Vermont on the other. For the racifie. LuUJUfIuUE, Ky., Dec. 4. —A special train passed through this city to-day en route for San Francisco via the Southern Pacific through Memphis, and New Orleans. C. V. Hrntington andJGen. Bntterfield, of New York; T. W. Pierce, of Boston, and Chas. Crocker and W. E. Brown, of San Fran cisco, were of the party. Election of Directors. Mempitis, Term., Dec. 5. —Telegrams from New Orleans state that at the elec tioa held there yesterday the following were chosen the board of directors of the New Orleans & Northeastern railroad: J. H. Olesby, Henry Abraham, Robert Mott, of New Orleans; George Hoadly, Alexan der McDonald, John Scott, of Cincinnati; Fred Wolfe, Otta Plock, of New York. Boys' winter cape «t 12^ cents at 49 East Third street. The License Issue. Boston, Dec. s.—"License" or "no* li cense" was the main issue in the town elections in Massachusetts to-day. While many towns voted no license the majority at present report seems to hava favored license. The largest line of fine underwear in tho city can be found at 145 East Third street, prices away down. :.- WASHINGTON. ' THE - .JOLLY SEXATORS . BACK IX THhlli OLD PLACES. The Democrat s Feeling Good at the Chanced Aspect of Affairs—Ttlr.- Be«lt's solution K*gar<ling Political Assess ments—Supreme Court Decision Involv ing the Arlington Estate —The Star Koute Examinations—ltems of Interest. " [Special Telegram to the Globe. ] Washington, Bee. —The agreeable and select club of elderly and well-to-do gentle men.called thejsenate of the United States, has resumed its sessions after an interval of unusual brevity, during which events have occurred as satisfactory to one-half of the members as discouraging to the other half. In the house it was the Demo crats who made the allusions to the elec tions, but in the senate it was that venera ble and learned Republican senator Ed munds, who recalled the political black Tuesday, and he added to his allusion a partial endorsement of the Republican defeat. Tarty man though he is, he referred to events which indicated that the people objected to some thing or everything that congress had done at the last session, and he was dis posed to think that in a large degree the popular judgment was correct. Perhaps it is characteristic of the superior breeding of the senators that the allusion to the sub ject was not made by a member of the suc cessful party. The senators, rested and refreshed from the labors of the last session, seemed to look younger and handsomer. Mr. Lamar, shorn of his superfluous locks by the hap py thought of a Western barber, ap peared ten years younger. Beck's long trip to the Big Horn country, and Bayard's expedition to the Yellowstone park, had done full as much for them. Senators James and Kellogg were both in place. Mr. Edmunds, whose ill-health, together with sickness in his family, had occasioned a long absence, reappeared, locking especially strong and ready for his old role of an industrious senator. Ma hone was missed, but not mourned. The jollity was all in the cloak room on the Democratic side of the chamber. The tone of the public proceedings was quite dull and uneventful. There was little on the surface of affairs to foreshadow the course of the season. MB. VOOEHEES' BILL. A valuable bill is that introduced by Mr, Yoorhees, providing that in all * ac tions for debt or damages against a rail road corporation whose property and fran chises are in the hands of a receiver, the jurisdiction of the circuit and district courts of the United States shall not be exclusive for the trial of the same, but con current, at the option of the plaintiffs in such actions, with the courts of the various states within whose jurisdiction such ac tions may arise. This bill is an im portant one in the interest of local justice. Under existing laws everybody is driven into the distant federal courts to recover for the loss of stock, fences or crops de stroyed by a road while in tie hands of a receiver. This amounts to a practical denial of justice nine cases out of ten. Senator Voorhees proposes to allow claimants to bring suit in their own counties. He also has a bill printing, in troduced last session, repealing the juris diction now possessed by the federal courts in all actions between citizens and national banking associations. These are useful reforms in the administration of justice, and eught to be adopted without delay. THE MESSAGE was endured with respectful silence and partial attention, but the recommendations of the president also emphatically repudi ated as Mr. Arthurs opinions will weigh very little with congress. Senators are disposed to regard his message as a sort of death-bed repentance. The professions of virtue on the subject of political assessments are so flatly opposed to the practice of Mr. Arthur and his sec retaries and friends, that he would be more respected if lie had said nothing on the subject. People care little for his views; on the tariff, and his suggestions on the subject of the river and harbor bill will be ! disregarded, especially his request for a constitutional amendment to give him the control of the purse string. The report of the action of the TA2IFF COMMISSION seems to be favorably received. Some prominent Democrats said to-night that it ought to be accepted. Members of the ways and means committee say that the bills of the commission will be reported to the house as a basis of : action. Mr. Tucker favors the abolition of all internal revenue duties except the whisky tax. Sen ator Beck delares for a reduction of whisky tax to fifty cents per gallon, and tobacco to twelve cents, with features simplifying collection and reducing the number of government employes and spies. The two parties are so evenly divided that it is hard to forshadow a result, but the drift of opinion to-day about the capitol is to some moderate bill, which will move the ques tion from the scope of the next congress. POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS. Senator Beck, of Kentucky, has offered a very stringent resolution, attacking the system of political assessments. The res olution recites first the law of con gress of Aug. 15, 1876, prohibiting assessments, and also the circular of Jay Hubbell, signed "by. Senators W. B. Allison, Eugene Hale, and Nelson Aldrich, and. also certain representatives, calling on govern ment employes to fork over their money, and also the famous, or rather infamous, circular of General Mahone, calling on the government employes for their money for the readjuster party in the Virginia campaign. The resolution next directs the committee on the judiciary to investi gate thoroughly the conduct of said com mittee in . requiring money from the government employes. They are also to ascertain how much money has been colleted, by whom it was collected, the amount paid by each. and to whom it was paid, how the money was .expended, stat ing where and to whom in detail, etc., and if any member of the committees has any portion of .the money so collected in his possession. The committee are" to report the names of all government * employes dismissed since May 15, 1882, and to state how many of them had failed to pay their assessments. The committee are em powered to summon and compel the at tendance of witnesses and enforce an swers to all questions by fine or imprison ment, or both. They are to sit during the recess of the senate, and report on or be fore Feb. 1. 1883.: It is empowered to re port by bill or otherwise, legislation that ,:u effectually prevent' the collection of money from government employes for political pur pose?, and to consider the propriety of de barring guilty persons from any place of honor or trust under the government as a part of their punishment. The idea of the resolution is to lay the ax at the root of the tree, and expose the charnel house of Jay Hubbell, Senator Mahone and other asso ciates. Its introduction will probably give rise to a very lively debate, and some revival of partisan bitterness. The Re publicans will naturally prefer a milk and water substitute, but this resolution of Beck's will make them face the music. THE ABLINGTON CASE. The supreme court has decided the celebrated Arlington case by affirming the opinion of the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Virginia in favor of the title of Gen. G. W. C. Lee, to whom it was devised by his grandfather, George Washington Park Curtis, after the life estate of Mrs. Robert E. Lee. This case was argued at the last term of the court. The court then was equally divided, Justices Miller, Field, Harlan and Mathews affirming the decree in favor of Lee, and Justices Waite, Brad ley, Woods and Gray holding that the United States could not be tried in a court of law. If the court had then announced its division, the effect would have" been to confirm the decision of the court below in favor of Lee. But on the accession of Mr. Justice Blatchford to the bench the court directed the case to be reargued at the present term. In the month of October last this argument was made by some of the ablest jurists of the land, namely: Judge Robertson, of Virginia, Judge Shipman, of New York, and Mr. Beach, of Virginia, for Gen eral Curtis Lee, and by Mr. Willoughby and the solicitor general for the United States. The fact that this property is oc cupied as the cemetery for li), 000 federal soldiers makes its possession essential to the government and undesirable to Gen. Lee. The effect of the decree is to insure him a just compensation. The court will proba bly withhold its remittitus to the court be low for some time, so as to allow the president an apportunity do what ought to have been done long ago, namely, to condemn the property for public purposes, or ask congress to make a suitable appro priation for its purchase. The price can not be exactly stated, but probably some §200,000 would be viewed by the jury and accepted by the owner as a reasonable com pensation. The property covers 1,100 acres, and lies on the south bank of the Potomac. The mansion is stately, and a land mark in the landscape looking west ward from the capitol at Washington. It was here that Robert E. Lee married the daughter of Mr. Curtis and spent many days prior to the civil war. His son, whose title is at last recognized after long years of narrow means and patient appeals to the justice of the government, is the president of Washington & Lee university. He is now about fifty years of age. He re sembles his father. ITEMS Or INTEEEST. Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, was among the president's callars to-day. The president and cabinet attended the funeral of the late Rear Admiral Wy man. Representative Kenna, of West Virginia, says he is neither a candidate nor a dark horse for the speakership of the 48th congress. Senator Farly, of California, will not be here until after the holidays. He is de tained by sickness. Ex-senator Conkling is in the city to make an argument before the United States supreme court. The president was at the White house early this morning and received quite a number of visitors during the day. Mr. Barrow, Ben Hill's successor, was at the capitol to-day. He is a small, neat, trim looking fellow with the cut of a gen tleman. TWestern Associated Prws.l Washixgton, Dec. 5. —The star route trial is further postponed on account of a failure to complete the jury. Attorney General Brewster lAs commu nicated to congress his view upon the in adequate compensation to United States witnesses in the Western states and terri tories. He believes the present law causes many suits in behalf of the government to fail because of the ill will of witnesses, and recommends the enactment of a law providing that witnesses and jurors in California, Oregon, Nevada, Colorado and the territories, be paid actual expenses while attending court in lieu of mileage and per diem now allowed by law. He also suggests as a remedy to overcome the complaint that because a judge who pre sides in the district also sits in the su premo court when his decision is reviewed, that either au additional judge be appoint ed in all the territories for that circuit, or a judge be appointed ac in states. Win. Coakley, of Chicago, has been ap pointed bank examiner for Illinois aud ' Wisconsin. The Arkansas National bank at Hot < Springs was to-day authorized Ao begin business with a capital of &")0,000. The report of the committee on ways and means accompanying the bill abolish ing internal revenue taxes on tobacco, etc., says the revenue derived from tobacco in 1882 aggregated nearly §48,000,000, and adds the committee is persuaded that the time has couie when these taxes should be repealed, as tobacco is one of the staples that enter into our international trade. The government should at the earliest pos sible day remove every restriction there from as a measure of sound commercial policy. Mr. Kasson, of lowa, will probab ly draw up statements containing the views of the minority. New postoifices were established to-day at Murnane and Cload, Colorado. Ealston and Hacraft, Ky., Mohawk, Ind., and Hawkey c. Mo. In the preliminary examination of Dick son, charged with attempting to improp- ! erly influence the star rente jurors, Me-1 Nelly, one of the jurors, testified that ac- i cused, while in the jury room, read a news paper article to the jurors, a majority of the panel having voted to hear it read. McNelly, after a long examination re specting the paper read, which contained an article about the alleged interview with Bowen,at Driver's restaurant, during which it is said he attempted to bribe Dickson, said the paper was introduced to influence the jury, but it did not do it. McNelly'e statements were corroborated by other witnesses, and Alexander, stenographer, then testified to the correctness of the printed records of the star route trial. Ninderman, in the Jeannette court, to day continued his narrative of th« journey South. He detailed the separa4Ri from De Long upon the occasion when he and Noros started in search of a settlement in a very pathetic manner, and explained how they prepared a boot sole by soaking and burning until they were able to eat it with their willow tea. After this was ex hausted they ate deer bones. A commission representing all the larger postoffices, assembled at the postoffice department to regulate uniformity in sta- I tionery and other supplies instead of al owirig postmasters to contract separately lor the same. Col. Thos. T. H. Laedley, United Sta'e army, was placed on the retired list to day. The court of claims to-day adjourned till Monday next. The warrant in the Soteldo case was nolle prossed this afternoon. A report is received at the Indian office from Fort Custer to the effect that a party of twenty Indians, supposed to be Piegans, made a raid upon Crow scouts near the Little Big Horn and ran off 400 head of ponies; that the Crows pursued the ma rauders and recovered the stolen stock and killed two of the thieves; that the Piegans threatened 13 steal the Crows poor this winter. The question of Chinese immigration was informally discussed in the cabinet to day. • The secretary of the interior rendered a decision to-day sustaining the position of the commissioner general of the land office in the matter of Byron, Roberts & Co. vs. Henry Foote, et al., denying the re quest of the former that the filings of de fendant be cancelled, and plaintiff be per mitted to make proof and payment for land embraced in his survey. The matter at is sue in this case is the title to the Pagoda mineral springs of Colorado. The secre tary holds that the question of the non mineral character of the land has been fully settled heretofore. The Utah commission in a report to the secretary of the interior recommend that a marriage law be enacted by congress which would form an auxiliary in the suppression of polygamy. The commission say that owing to the peculiar state of affairs in Utah the territory law allowing women the right of suffrage is an obstruction to the speedy solution of the vexed question, and should be repealed or annulled by congress. The commission say the law thus far has been a decided success in excluding polyg a mists from the exercise of suffrage, and they are of the opinion that the steadjr and continued enforcement of the law will place polygamy in a condition of gradual extinction. The commission notices as au encouraging sign that many of the liberal meetings have been largely attended by Mormons, and that thtsj meetirgs have been charac terized by exceptionally good order and good huiror. In conclusion the report says, after counseling moderation: "If, however, the next session of the legislative assembly elected under the act of congress, shall fail to respond to the will of the na tion, congress should have no hesitation in using 'extraordinary means to compel the people of the territory to obey the laws of the lands." STILLWATEK GLOBULES. The case of Patrick Burrett vs. J. H. Townsend and D. M. Sabin is on trial. Mr. and Mrs. McMullen's children, who •were ill with scarlet fever, are convales cing. The jury in the case of Le Mare vs. Me - Hale, returned a verdict in favor of com - plainant for $400. Capt. Mendes, who recently purchased the steamer White, will put a new hull un der her this winter. The roads leading into this city are said to be in excellent condition for traveling— just snow enough to make good sleighing. The Stillwater Mannerchor will have a Christmas tree at their hall, where they and their families will celebrate in a social way. Thomas Hanly, convicted at the present term of court of the crime of larceny from the person, has been sentenced to the state prison for two years. John Terron,who stole the overcoat from the Pitman house has, in default of $250 bonds, been committed to the county jail to await the action of tha grand jury. The Presbyterian social which was to have occurred at the residence of Mrs. Goodhue Thursday evening, has been postponed until Tuesday evening, Dec. 12. It is stated that there are 1,000 men in the city at the present time seeking for employment in the woods. If such is the case some of them will be sadly disap pointed. Tn the case of the Union depot and street railway, respondent, vs. Escatus Rheiner, appellant, the latter has been given thirty days in which to prepare their case. Pro ceedings have been stayed for that time. More dressed hogs were offered yester day than at any other iime since the open ing of the season. Seven and one-fourth cents per pound was paid. Considerable dressed beef was in market, the best brought *5 per hundred. On Monday evening, at the" office of J. N. and Ira Castle, Capt. Taylor, comman der of Muller post, effected a partial or ganization of the Sous of Veterans. The elective officers were chosen. The others will be appointed at the next meeting; which takes place on Wednesday evening. The city hall is filled with lodgers every night, but among these men are some who do not properly belong to the tramp or der. The class referred to have been dis appointed in obtaining employment, they having come here under the impression j that there was an unlimited demand for working men in Stillwater. A number of Scandinavian gentlemen of this city assembled Monday evening at the Sons of Herman's h ill, to carry out their intention of inaugurating a social and benevolent society, composed exclu sively of that nationality. The society will be known as the Norden. The following named gentlemen were selected to fill the various offices until a permanent organiza- • tion is effected: S. C. Strand, president; A. Swanson, vice president; Martin Thore, secretary; A. A. Ulen, treasurer. A com mittee was appointed to drr.ft a constitu tion and by-laws, and instructed to report at the next meeting, which will take place Monday next. LATE MINNEAPOLIS NEWS. Stephen D. Moore, who is in the county jail hell to wait the action of the grand jury at the next session of the district j court for false pretenses, is playing tho | insane dodge again. He failed to hood | wink the examining physician with hi 3 ludicrous antics before, and his attempts at playing the mad role will meet with a signal failure at this. Last evening when a number of his follow pi soners were near at hand, Moore lied his silk handkerchief to the slats of his cell door, then placing a noose around his neck with a great noise well calculated to attract the atten tion of his associates, awing off In a jiffy Brown, the colored man held for shooting a white man, untied the knot, re leasing Moore and ending the farce. At the meeting of the Northwestern. Laundrymen's Union last night the follow ing officers were elected: President,J.R.Pur chase; vice president, J. P. Billings; treas urer, J. O. F. Meagher; secretary, W. M. Lawrence. Officer Burns ran in young Moriarity, who was attempting to rob a boozy individual at the Sailor's Home on north Second street last night. SontU Carolina. Columbia, S. C, Doc. 5. —Gov. Thomp son was inaugurated to-day and United States Senator Butler re-elected.