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AT THE CAPITAL. Evarts Speaks on the Mon- j tana Contest. Arguments in the Case Worn Threadbare. The Question to be Voted on About Next Monday. The Quadro-Centennial to be Ushered in by an International Naval Review. Capital Cullings. Associated Press Dispatches. I Washington, April Ll.—ln the Senate today among the bills reported from committee and placed on calendar, were the following: A bill to provide for an American register for a steamer to be named Australia, owned in Cali fornia; Senate bill to provide and equip two steam launches to be used in collec tion in the district of Paget sound. Consideration of the Montana election case was resumed. As no Senator sought the floor, the yeas and nays were ordered on the first resolution. The vote was about being taken when Evarts suggested that if no Senator on the other side desired to speak he would make the closing argument in support of the committee's report. Morgan said that after hearing the Senator from New York he might feel himself required to say something. Evarts then proceeded to state in detail the facts and circumstances of the Mon tana election, and to discuss the powers of the Territorial canvassing board. Af ter a long dissertation on the duties and doings of the county and Territorial canvassers, in the course of which he criticised the Governor of the State for placing Janitor A. Cerberus at the door of the court house Assembly, to admit only such persons as were entitled to go in, "(thus making him for the occasion the judge of who were and who were not elected as Representatives), Evarts said the proposition on the Democratic side was that the Senate was to be a can vassing board, while the proposition on the Republican side was that the Senate had no such power of revision. The latter, he said, was the proposition of the Constitution, of the safety of the Senate and of the States. Gray defended the Governor of Mon tana from the criticism made on account of his instructions to the janitor, and asserted that the only direction given the janitor was a letter of instructions that he should admit everyone who claimed to be a member of the House of Representatives. After further debate, Hoar gave notice that on Monday he should ask the Senate to remain in session until the Montana case was disposed of. Hawley, from the select committee on the Quadro-Centennial celebration, re ported back, with amendments, the House bill for the World's Fair at Chicago, and said he hoped to have it passed Monday. After the executive session, the Senate adjourned. HOUSE PROCEEDINGS. Another Contested Election Case Taken Up—Waddcll vs. Wise. Washington, April 11. —In the House today the contested election case of AVaddell vs. Wise, of the Third District of Virginia, was taken up. Eaey made argument in favor of the contestant. O'Ferral, of Virginia, supported the resolution of the minority, declaring the seat vacant. After considerable debate and without disposing of the matter, the House took a recess until evening. QUADRO-CENTENNIAL.. The World's Fair to be Ushered in With an International Naval Review. AVashington, April 11.—Just before the Senate adjourned this afternoon Hawley reported the World's Fair bill, with the amendments agreed upon by the committee. The following was pro posed as a new section : Section B.—The President is hereby empowered and directed to bold a naval review in New York harbor in April, 1893, and extend to foreign nations an invitation to send ships of war to join the United States navy in a rendezvous at Hanijiton roads and proceed thence to said review. The President is further empowered to make arrangements for the unveiling of a statue to Christopher Columbus at Washington, with appro priate ceremonies, under his general direction, after said naval review and not less than five days before the open ing of said exhibition, and invite the attendance thereat of foreign represent atives. The committee modified the provision with respect to the President being sat isfied of the bona fide character of the Chicago subscriptions by making it read that be shall be satisfied of the respon sible character of the subscription before inviting foreign nations to participate. CENTRAL AMERICAN UNION. Details of the Plan Upon Which It Is Founded. Washington, April 11. —Information has been received by the delegates to the International American Conference, that the union of Central American re public is complete, with the exception of Nicaragua which is expected to ratify the articles of the union at the m meeting of Congress. This union is omy provisional, having in view within the next ten years the adoption of a Federal constitution similiar to that of the United States, should that be the popu lar will. In the meantime the confed eration will act as practically one gov ernment in public affairs, through a chief executive, a cabinet of five mem bers and a diet composed of three representatives from each of the five republics. The latter, like our own States, will retain independent statutes as to the supervision and regulation of their own domestic affairs. The Presi dent is to hold office one year, the honor to be drawn for successively, that every State in due course may be represented at the head of the General Government. The name of the union will be the Re public of Central America. The new republic 'vill be inaugurated at the capi tal of Honduras on the 15th of Septem ber next. District Troops Reviewed. Washington, April 11.—A review of the District of Columbia National Guard and troops of the several branches of the regular army, stationed in Washing ton, was today "given in honor of the delegates to the Pan-American Confer ence. The President, several members of the Cabinet, General Schotield and THE LOS ANGELES HERALD; SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1890. other officers of the regular army occu pied the reviewing stand. TO BE ABANDONED. Garrisons Ordered Withdrawn From a Number of Frontier routs. Washington, April 11.—The Secretary of War today issued an order directing the troops from the following posts to be withdrawn as soon as the department commanders concerned can provide suit able accommodations elsewhere: Fort Maginnis, Montana; Fort Jlridger, Wyoming; Fort Sidney, Nebraska; Fort Crawford, Colorado; Little Rock bar racks, Arkansas; Fort McDowell, Ari | zona; Fort Thomas, Arizona, and Fort ; Verde, Arizona. The respective depart j ment commanders are to report to the ; Adjutant-General of the army the dates ; when the posts can be abandoned, with a view to necessary arrangements for , the reservations, with buildings and ! other improvements, to be received •by the Department of the Interior for i Indian school purposes, or for disposal I under the public land laws. The Carpet-Weavers' Kick. Washington, April 11. —Carpet man- I ufacturers of Philadelphia, representing I 4,000 looms, had a hearing before the ' Republican members of the ways and : means committee today with reference to the proposed increase of the duty on I carpet wools. They opposed the propo : sition and declared that the increase I would make raw material for ingrain ; carpet cost more than the carpets are ; now sold for in the open market. The President's Signature. I Washington, April 11. —The President | today approved the act making an ap propriation to supply the deficiency oc casioned by the defalcation in the office ! of the late sergeant-at-arms. DEALING IN FUTURES. ARGUMENTS AGAINST BUTTER WORTH'S ANTI-OPTION BILL. : The Produce and Cotton Exchange Men Think the Passage of the Law "Would ! Ruin Both Farmers and Traders. Washington, April 11. —The House committee on agriculture today heard arguments against the Butterworth "Anti-Option" bill. Murray Nel ''■ son, of the Chicago Board of Trade, said | that organization and all the exchanges in the country were in sympathy with ' the first section of the bill to abolish ■ trading in puts and calls and bucket ! shop dealings, but to enforce the pro vision againsl trades for future delivery ' would force out of business the small dealers and concentrate' trade in ! the hands of large capital \ ists, who were able to pur chase crops and hold them over for I a rise. To stop sales for future delivery I would be to interrupt and disarrange the entire financial system of the country. The bankers of the country move the crops and depend upon the transactions of the small dealers in the country towns for the basis of their transactions. The bill would place the farmer at the mercy of the large capitalist, who would buy cash grain at such a price that he could hold it until Gabriel blew his horn with out sustaining any loss. 1 George Martin, of the New York Pro duce Exchange, maintained that the , farmer never before received so great a per cent, of the value of bis crops las now. In his opinion the low prices i now prevalent are because of the recent series of large crops from which had ' been accumulated in store two hundred million bushels of corn more than ever before in the history of the country. The merchant has suffered losses along with the farmer. In 1875 the commissions ' on a bushel of corn amounted to2}4 cents, now the entire crop was marketed on a commission of one-quarter of a cent. If the bill was passed three-quarters of the export trade of the country would be proscribed. J. 0. Bloss of the New York Cotton Exchange, read an argument against the bill prepared by a committee of that ■ exchange, prefacing it with a protest against, the bill, signed by the leading bankers of New York, in which they state that the passage of the bill would work great damage to legitimate trade, and that the banks find their risks of advances under the present system less ! than under the old. The argument of I the Cotton Exchange committee holds I that in effect the trading for future de i livery has given the world's markets a less violent character, has reduced the ' risks of merchants and bankers, and at I the same time secured to the cotton j planters a higher range pf values than ; was the case before the existence of the ! method of trading for future delivery. If j the future system was wiped out, the ! exchanges of New York and New Orleans j would cease to exist, and this would transfer the business to Europe and build up exchanges there. THE SILVER QUESTION. A Special Committee to Jiraw a Bill for the Republican Caucus. Washington, April 11.—Chairman Dingley has appointed a special commit tee, ordered by the Republican caucus ' last night, to prepare a silver bill for the ! caucus. The members of the special ' committee are the eight Republican ! members of the coinage committee — ! Conger, Bickham, Walker, Carter, Com | stock, Bartine, Knapp, Taylor—and the following additional members: McKin ley, Cannon, Bayne, McKenna, Perkins, ! Henderson and McComas. The com nittee held its first meeting this after- I noon. ! Lieutenant Steele's Punishment. Washington, April 11. —General Scho field today issued a formal order approv ing the finding of the court-martial in the case of Lieutenant Steele, of the Eighth Cavalry, for striking Private i Wild. The reprimand provided for in j the verdict of the court is not couched lin severe language, but takes rather the j form of fatherly advice to young officers I about the necessity of controlling their I tempers, and deprecates the bad taste I shown by Steele in occupying the double I position* of prosecuting witness and judge advocate in the trial of Wild for insubordination. The Death Roll. Omaha, April 11.— Philip A. Warrick, assistant general agent of the Union Pa cific, died this morning of typhoid fever. Philadelphia, April 11.—George H. Stuart, for many years prominent in commercial, financial and religious cir cles, died this morning, aged 74. Earthquake In Maine. Dover, Me., April 11. —An earthquake shock was felt here this morning a few minutes before 3 o'clock. Clocks were stopped and small articles thrown from | their place*. GENERAL TOPICS. Congressman Plielan Pub lishes a Card. (Jeneral Fremont Seriously 111 in New York. The Chicago Strike Reduced to a Question of Endurance. A Big Labor Strike Inaugurated at Gotham—A Flurry in Wheat in the New York Market. Associated Press Dispatclics.l Washington, April 1 1 .—Representative Phelan, of Tennessee, has written a card with reference to his trouble with Colonel Fleming, of Knoxville, in the course of which be says,from one who had seemed to be anxious to force him to the wall, be (Phelan) did not expect the plea that be (Fleming) ignored the code. Phelan says he does not defend the code, but has never been able to see the moral distinction between doing another a malicious mischief forbidden by the laws of God and offering an expiation forbidden by the laws of man. That lie acted hastily in sending a mes sage designed to elicit a challenge, to a man who ignores the code, Phelan admits, but adds: "I assume that the bullying tone of Fleming's refusal to accept a hearty apology was the result, among other contingencies, of an overweening personal courage. Col. Fleming in his answer says I have made myself ridicu lous. This is true ; but then I did not know Col. Fleming as I do now." Phelan concludes that in view of the scornful and insulting refusal to accept a frank apology, he thinks he can safely leave it to that portioh of the world which is brave, just and generous to say whether what he did was without palli ation. A QUESTION OF ENDURANCE. The Carpenters' Strike in Chicago Likely to Be Protracted. Chicago, April 11.—Now that each side in the carpenters' strke has issued its ultimatum,the trouble seems to have settled down to a question of endurance, and the general impression is that the right will be a protracted one. The boss carpenters say they propose to go to work to fill the strikers' places on Mon day next. About fifty small bosses, not members of the association, have formed an organization and appointed an arbi tration committee to meet a similiar committee of the journeymen. A Big Strike Begun in Gotl.am. New York, April 11. —This afternoon one thousand workmen on down-town buildings struck in obedience to the commands of the Central Labor Union. The strike resulted from a disagreement between the Central Labor Union and Paulsen & Edgar, Green Point Iron Works contractors. Carpenters, stair builders, steam-fitters, plumbers and plasterers were ordered out. The iron workers refused to employ union men. A FLIIBKY IN WHEAT. The Government Crop Report Sends Prices Up Rapidly. New York, April 11. —There was great excitement in wheat today. By I o'clock there was the extraordinary business of 20,000,000 bushels in options. The traders were feverish and all anxious to cover contracts,while outside speculators were attracted by the possibilities of big profits in the rapid changes in prices. Wall street, Western and foreign bouses took up large blocks of May, June and July options, at a radical advance in prices, while December options jumped up 2 5 / B , las covering the new crop. The whole I position was simply effected by the I Government crop report, its estimate being much under the calculation of the most extreme bulls. Heavy margins are being called for, but there is no sign of any trouble in a financial way. General Fremont Seriously 111. New York, April 11. —It is reported that General John C. Fremont, who has been confined to bis room two weeks with a heavy cold, is seriously ill. TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS. Scintillations from the Over-Burdened Wires. The Brooklyn City railroad machine shops burned on Thursday night. Loss, $200,000. Fire which broke out in the Nugget saloon at Aspen, Colorado, destroyed property valued at $15,000. Frank W. Burks, the defaulting cashier of the Atchison road at El Paso, was ar rested at Salina, Kansas, on Thursday. At Lebanon, Ind., the employees of the Midland railroad went on a strike on Thursday, claiming that their wages were five months in arrears. Austin, Texas, has decided to erect the greatest dam in the United States over the Colorado river. It will cost $1,500, --000 and afford 14,000 horse power. At Waynesboro, Miss., the trial of Reuben Smith, of Lamar county, Ala., partner of the notorious Rube burrows, on the charge of robbing a mail and ex press train on the Mobile and Ohio road, is in progress. Near Mount Vernon, Ky., Emmet Snodgrass and his brother, Squire Snod grass, met, and at sight both men began tiring. Squire was killed and Emmet was badly wounded. The Democratic State committee of Vermont voted to incorporate in the next State platform the specific high license plank, also one favoring ballot reform, revenue reform and a uniform poll-tax. The late David Dows, of New York, left his entire fortune of over $20,000,000 to be kept within his own family. His will substantially gives one-eighth of the estate to his wife and one-eighth to each of his seven children. Mrs. Annie Heaslitt Gould, of Au burn, N. V.. daughter of the late Thomas Gould, a noted young society woman, a graduate of Wells College, and a friend of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, has run away and married George L. Winters, her coachman. At the Warren foundry, Phillipsburg, N. J., while some men were running off molten iron, an immense ladle upset and the contents fell on the damp ground, causing a terrific explosion. The men were thrown in every direction and three were frightfully burned. At Fort Yates, N. D., the court-martial investigation into the charges against Captain Feichet, of the Eighth Cavalry, of drunkenness and brutally maltreat ing a private, rendered a vordiet. of acquittal. Several witnesses testified that Feichet was a model of sobriety. Miguel Coloma, the banker from Guatemala, who was recently arrested at New York on the charge of smuggling several thousand dollars' worth of watches and jewelry, has been released, he having proved that he was taking the jewelry for presents. Convict Ferdinand Ward,of Sing Sing, is deeply affected over the death of his wife, but will not be granted permission to attend her funeral. She died at Stamford, Conn., Thursday. She had been a regular visitor at the prison since Ward's incarceration. At Detroit, Mich., M. R. Freeman, a colored coachman, became angry be cause Mrs. Sarah Sidmorc, aged 63, mother-in-law of his employer, locked the door on him, claiming it was an im putation on his honesty. 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