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It* A DExlDLY CYCLONE. Seyeral Towns In Kentucky Yisited by a Destructive and Fatal Hurricane. One of the Worst Storms ever Known flow Passing Over the East. CA.IKO, 111., Special—A tornado last Dight struck the east side of the city of Clinton, Ivy., demolishing fifty-five houses and kill ing eleven people and wounding fifty-six. The killed and wounded so far as ascer tained are: Killed—John A. Rhodes and two children, Mrs. William Bone, Burnett Bone, Walter Nance, John W Gaddte aud infant child of Judge E. C. Hodges, and one other person not yet identified. Wounded—Judge E. C. Hodges, wife and two children, G. R. Gwynn, wife, child and father C. W Voorhees, child and two relatives Rev. N. W. Little, wife and two children D. Stubblefield and several members of bis family Mrs. Foster and two children, Mrs. J. A. Rhodes and one child (the child will die), A L. Emerson and two children. A. E Justice and one child William Bone and two children W. P. Boone, Mrs. John W Gaddie and one child Mr. Jackson, Robert Johnson, Sr Robert Johnson, Jr. (both dan gerously) W. R. Nance, wife and child. E FIKS O S E STRUCK was the section house of the Illinois Central railroad occupied by Mr. John Rhodes and family. The house was torn to splinters, and Mr. .Rhodes and two children were killed outright. His wife and one child es caped death, but are both dangerously hurt. The house of Mr. John Gaddies was blown down, and afterward Gaddies was found urdcr the debris with an infant in his arms. Gaddies was dead, but the child was not hurt. The house of Robert John son, Inch stood on the brow of the hill, seemed to divide in half, cutting in two just below the second floor and letting the upper portion fall in. its place. Mr. John son was in a lower room, and the upper part fell on him, pinning him to the earth with a joist across his back. H's moans attracted attention and he was res cued badly injured. His son Robert was up stairs and was badly hurt by lalling timbers. Although suffering intense agony lie begged his rescuers to let him alone and help some one who could live. His brother Da\id was also badly hurt. The storm struck the town without the slightest warn ing. Many knew nothing of it until their roofs were falling about their heads. Be fore the storm the evening was warm and a heavy rain had fallen all day, but after the storm it suddenly turned cold and a great deal of suffering was caused thereby. It is thought the city will be able to supply all demands for help from the homeless and a committee is at work seeking aid. JEN E STORM'S VCK. The storm which vibited Clinton did con sidciable destruction to property at Wick liffe, Ky., and also at Moscow, Ky. The storm at "VVickliffe was especially disas trous The following is a partial list ot the buildings destroyed there: John W At wood's dry goods store, Samuel W At wood's furniture store, John H. Brown's dry goods store, the Atwood hotel, Odd Fellows and Masonic halls and Mansfield's restaurant, Jamts Rollins' lrvery stable and Edwards'resi dence Among those injured are Judge Powell and wife, Mrs. Richardson, Wick Ferguson, Mrs. Brockman and Mrs. Powell. None were killed. A number of freighfrcars and two cars used as boarding cars were blown from the tracks and badly broken. Meager accounts come irom Moscow, where the first traces ot the track of the storm are seen. There the Methodist church and a school house are in ruins, and the country be tween there and Clinton there are said to be numerous evidences of the storm's fury, though no lives were lost. The storm pav»ed north of New Madrid, Mo., crossing theiner near a point opposite Moscow, thence noithwest to Clinton and Wyckline. The path of the storm was about a quarter of a mile wide, audit left a track ot fallen tnubei through the section of forest it passed beiore reaching Clinton. ST I.OUIS CYCLONE. ST LOTUS, Jan. 13.—In addition to those previously reported, the following is a list of those injured, as lar as known, in yes terday's storm: Willfam Biady, Mrs. Roberts, Mrs. Charles Miller and child, Charles Miller, employes of erhevden Lumber company, Mis. McQuaid, Mis Ryan aud daughter, Mrs BenjaminVere iield, Ackermau, unknown ladv, James Mc Cosh, W enxel Henzel, Frank Kohler, William Brad, struck by the spue of Emanuel church Benjamin Veretield, blown into a basement, John Charles and two companions, badly in jured by their buggy being blown over "Mrs. Elizabeth Carr and daughter, buiied beneath a brick ,\all The injuries of several will probably result fatally. Quite a number of people were buried in the debiis, but were taken out uninjured. Thestoim struck Stout & Co.'s lumber yard just as a train was pass ing Heavy boards were blown through the coaches, but how the passengers were saved irom deatli or injury is a miracle quite as mysterious as any of the peculiar freaks of a cyclone. SEVERE STORMS Damag by Wind In Various South and Easter Cities. CHICVGO, Special—The rain storm of ves terday afternoon gave place to a gale which raged with great force and velocity all last night, and which has only diminished with the advent of colder weather. While dur ing pait of yesterday the thermometer was 50 and 60 above zero, it began falling rap idly late last night, and early this morning marked only 18 above. The signal service bureau reports the storm general, and tele graphic advices from the West, Northwest, and Southwest fully corroborate this re port. The wind played sad havoc with the electric wires all over the West. During the height of the storm here the wind reached a velocity of forty miles an hour. Reports from Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas indicate about the same weather in those states, the only vari ation being that the blizzard is more in tense and the snow much deeper in "the north. Dispatches from points in Kansas •and Missouri state that the storm has •ceased. No human lives were lost in the blizzard so far as reported, nor was any live stock frozen to death. This morning the weather was moderated. At Detroit, Mich., fConsiderable damage was done but no build ings were destroyed and no accidents re ported. Wires are prostrated in every direc tion around Pittsburg. A local train on the Grand Trunk road was blown from the track near St. Hilaire, Can. The con ductor, brrikeman, mail clerk and three passengers were seriously injured, and sev eral other persons were slightly injured. At Bunalo, N, Y., the wind reached a velocity ot ninety miles an hour. A good deal of damage was done about town, but nothing of a serious nature is thus far reported. To night the hurricane passed over the State of New York. At Rochester many buildings were partially demolished, two laborers were killed and several other persons in jured by falling debris. Steeples of several •churches were blown down and the Normal school badly damaged at Syracuse. The loafs of -several dwellings were carried \.S"J§J away. The wall of the Rome, "Watertown & Ogdensburg freight house at Syracuse was blown down. W. H. Willis, a carpenter, was buried under the wall and was taken out dead. A dozen people or more, mostly carpenters, were injured more or less seri ously. I N IKDIAN A AND ILLINOIS. The storm did a vast amount of damage throughout Illinois. At Macsburg, a little hamlet near Olney, several residences and barns, together with the parsonage of the M. E. church, were blown down. In the parsonage were Philip Nicholson and fam ily. They all escaped wkh more or less bruises, except Mrs. Nicholson, who was killed outright by the falling building. At Cooksville, nearBloomington, a drug store, a general store building and another build ing were completely demolished, and sev eral were unroofed and otherwise damaged Several people had narrow ^scapes, but no one was badly injured. At Brooklyn and Venice, 111., across the river from St. Louis, ten houses were blown down and a dozen people hurt, but no one was fatally injured. A great deal of damage was also done in Southern Indiana, many houses being un roofed, and barns and fences leveled in the tornado's path. NINET MILES A N HOUR. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Special.—The wind here reached a velocity of ninety miles an hour, carrying everything before it and destroying outbuildings, barns, trees, tele graph poles, railway semaphores and fences. The wind struck the building of the Canadian Web company tearing the roof from the brick walls, tumbling the north and west walls in upon fifteen girls who were employed in the upper story. One girl, Alice Deckon, aged fifteen, had her leg broken and was badly bruised about the body. The guys of the foot and carriage sus pension bridge that has recently been rebuilt, snapped and fell into the rive. The bridge was closed to travel, but is still standing. Telegraph and telephone wires are down in all directions. The water rose several feet in the river, washing away a portion of the promende and buildings ot Whirlpool Rapids Park. A TOTAL LOSS. An Elevator and a Steamshi stroye by Fire, BALTIMOEE, Special.—Elevator No. 3, on the north side of the Patapsco river, be longing to the Baltimore Elevator com pany and used by the Northern Central Railroad company, was burned to-night with ail its contents. The total loss is be tween $700,000 and $800,000. The British steamship Sacrobosco. which was lying alongside, was also totally destroyed, in volving a loss of $150,000. Three of the steamer's employes—the chief engineer, whose name is said to be Koby, and two seamen, whose names haye not yet been learned—were either burned or drowned. The origin ot the fire is unknown. A gen eral alarm brought all the fire engines in the city to the scene, but the combined ef forts of the force proved of little avail. The fire rapidly encircled the elevator and em braced the steamship before she could be run out into the stream. There were 500,000 bushels of wheat and corn in the bins, and this, too, is entirely destroyed. The following named, all of the Sarco bosco, were injured: Thomas Knight, the colored cook, of New York, injured about the body with timbers Eh Whitside, aged twenty-four, of England, face hurt, A. Robliisou of England, hands and arms burned, Charles Appleton, steward, of Eng land, hands burned. The British steamships North, Erin and Khio. which were lying aside and were waiting to load, had their masts burned away. So quickly did the fire spread, that the men on the vessels vv ere obliged to jump overboard into the water, and the excite ment and confusion was so great that many of them did not get ashore for over an hour, having to cling to spars and Qoating timbers. TROUBLE IN PORTUGAL. he Old Ministry Resigns and a New One Will be Formed LISBON, Special.—The cabinet has re signed. Senor Pimental, the Liberal Con servative leader, voted with the minority at the meeting of the couucfl when the demands of England were acceded to. The king has accepted the resignation of Senhor Barros de Gomes and has charged Senhor Pimental to con struct a cabinet. Pimental's fuli list will be handed to the king to-morrow. Senhor Gomes has personally expressed to Mr. Glynn Petre, the British minister, his regrets at the insults offered to him. The government officially assured the minister that the escutcheon would be replaced, all damage repaired, and all persons concerned in the outrage punished. There is a move ment for the formation of a Patriotic league to put into operation an interna tional boycott against English commerce. The fermentation in the street con tinues. Crowds of students congregated in the streets in the neighborhood of the cortes shouting "Viva Portugal!" "Viva Pinto!" and at a meeting of students it was proposed to wire congratulations to Serpa Piiuo. The rioting students to-day en deavored to force an entrance into the chamber of deputies But only a deputation was admitted for the purpose of presenting to the president a patriotic resolution. At 11 p. m. the streets were still thronged prrsons bearing the national flag. These visited and cheered every legation in the city except the English. Especial demon strations of good will were made at the Spanish and French and Austrian embas sies. The papers generally give the highest praise to the tupport received from Prance, Spain and Austria. AGAIN THE CRONIN CASE. A am Said to Hav Been Sen to Minneapolis. CHICAGO. Special.—A morning paper says that a telegram, which has recently come into its possession, may, if it is followed up closely by the proper authorities, lead to an explanation of the extraordinary verdict in the Cronin case. The folio vvingtelegram was sent Sunday, Dec. 15: Chicago, Dec. 15 —To Matt Gallagher, Fifth Avenue and Lyndale.Minneapolis: Juror Culver will never agree but for acquittal. He's all r)s?t. p. H. G. Doubtless other telegrams of the same sort found their way over the wires to al leged patriots in ever city in the country The state attorney could easily find outV this is so through the medium of a grand jury, just as he found out the contents of the telegrams Alexander Sullivan sent and received just before and alter Dr. Cronin was murdered. Before Judge McConnell to day the motion for the newferialof the Cronin case came up, and Mr. Forrest, for the defense, asked that the argument be put off for a week, owing to the absence of Judge Wing, one of the defendants' coun sel. Any further delay was opposed by the state's attorney, and, after considerable dis cussion, the court adjourned the argumeat in the matter until to-morrow, SATISFACTORILY EXPLAINED,. CHICAGO, Special Telegram,—The mysterious dispatch sent to Matt Gallagher of Minneapolis by "P. H. &J' on DecLl5, while the Cronin jury was tryinjrto frame a verdict, has been satisfactorily explained by P. H. Gibbons of Minneapolis, the sender. In the dispatch Gibboas stated that Culver would never agree but lor acquittal, and added. "He's all right" said to^ night: "I based the dispatch Tjpon the ru mors that were published in the newspa pers and flying around the streets. Perhaps some part of the dispatch was a trifle fool ish, but no harm was meant by it. I have always been in favor of the prosecution." Gibbons called on Judge Longeneekerrihis evening, and after telling his story was' readily acquitted of having any fcnowltedee of Juror Culver's intentions. CLAIMED BY DEATH. TheEldest Son ofthe Secretary of State Succumbs to Pneumonia. La Grippe, the Primary Cause of His Almost Painless Death. "WASHINGTON, Special.—Walker Blaine, examiner of claims in the state department and eldest living son of Hon. James G. Blaine, secretary of state, died suddenly and without premonition at the family res idence in the old Seward mansion, lacing Lafayette Park, this evening, of acute pneumonia, superinduced by an attack of the grippe. There were with him at the time of his death, only his two unmarried sisters, Harriett, and Margaret, though all the family, except Mrs. Coppinger and James G. Blaine, J*., were in the house at the time, those absent from the city having been hastily sum moned here by telegraph to-day. The endt was painless, life passing away while the sufferer, who had beeu delirious all day, was unconscious. He had been ill only a few days, and his death is a sudden, and severe shock to an unusually large cirele ot friends, who were not aware that lie was dangerously ill this morning, while the family, who are all devotedly attached to him, are totally prostrated with grief at the sudden bereavement. Mr. Blaine-,, while comparatively strong, had not entirely re covered from the accident in the-spring by which his leg was broken and from an at-' tack of malarial fever from- which he suffered during the autumn. The news of Mr. Blaine's death quickly became known and many friends called during the, even ing to express their sympathy. The presi dent and Mrs. Harrison called very soon after Mr. Blaine's death, and Vice President and Mrs. Morton came soon afterwards. Justices Harlan and Gray, of the supreme court, most of the members of the Maine delegation, Representative Hitt and many others well known in official and social life also called. No arrangements for the fun eral will be made until to-morrow, the family being too much overcome to give a thought to the burial as yet. Walker Blaine was born in Augusta, Me., May 8,1855. He first went to Washington to live in 1867, five years after his father's election to congress. He was graduated from Yale in 1876. and from the Columbia law school in New York two years later. He went to Washington in 1881, and was ajmointed third assistant secretary of state. In the winter of 1881-82 he 'went to South America with Mr. Trescot on a special mission to use the good offices of the United States to negotiate a settlement of the troubles between Chili and Peru. He was then charge d'affaires for several months. Late in the year 1832 he was appointed assistant counsel of the court of Alabama claims, which office he held until 1885. He lived in Chicago irom 18S6 to 1888, returning to this city Jan. 1, 18b9. He assisted his father in the work which devolved upon him when he became secretary of state, and on March 13 last was nominated by President Harrison exam iner of claims in the state department and as such was legal adviser of the depart ment and confidential representative ot the secretary. Walker Binine hid agisteUif,-ai his father greatly throughout his 'pC careei, and was most closely and intimately associated with him in all his plans, enjoy ing not only the great affection of his father, but his complete confidence as well. He was a young man of marked attain ments, great tact and decided ability. He wa'j highly respected bv those who knew him in official and social life, many of whom picdicted that he would have achieved an even higher fame for him self but for his devotion to his father's in terests. It may be truthfully said of him that those who knew him bpst esteemed him most. The regard in which he was held was shown when hi** nomination 10 his last office was sent in to the senate, that body on motion of Senator Edmunds doing him the very unusual honor of confirming the nomination at once without reference to a committee. WAS N O W N I N ST. PAUL. Judge C. E. Flandrau was personally ac quainted with Mr. Biaine and was much surpused to learn ot his death. "I am somewhat a believer coincidences," said he to a PIONEEB PBESS reporter last evening. "Only a few moments ago I was talking about Walker Blaine, and the very next bit of news I hear is that he is dead." Judge Flaudrau knew young Blaine when he first came to St. Paul in 1879, and during the time he was in the law office ot Hon. 0. K. Davis. About a year later he formed a law partnership with Tilden R. Selmes, a son-in-law of Judge Flandrau, under the name of Selmes & Biaine, and occupieed an office on Third street. Two years afterward Blaine went to Washington and remained about a year, when he came to Chicago and opened a law office. During the administration of Presi dent Arthur he had a commission to visit South America, and upon his return he was appointed United State3 attorney before the commission appointed to adjust the French spoliation claims. Judge Flandrau speaks very highly ot Blaine, and at the time of his residence in St. Paul he was one of the leaders in literary and social circles. FOR A NEW NAVY. The Construction of Man Ne Wa Vessels Will be Recommended WASHINGTON, Special.—The naval board of policy appointed to formulate a plan for the building of a navy commensurate with the dignity and ''power of the nation, in their re#ort to the secretary of the navy, will recommend the construction of ninety two vessels of different tyyes and sizes. These will be built, according to the plan of the board, in fourteen years, and will cost, to gether, with their maintenance during the fourteen years, $280,000,000. They say that the cost of maintenance of a fleet of vessels such as tbey propose would be only one quarter that of keeping up the same num ber of old style vessels. The scheme of the board comprises the following vessels, the estimated cost of which, with the arma ment complete, is appended: Ten battle ships of 10,000 tons $5,000,000 •each eight of 8,000 tons, $5,000,000 each: twelve of 7,000 tons, $4,500,600 each: five of 6,000 tons, $3,600,000 each ten rams of 3,500 tons, $1,800,000 each nine armored cruisers of 6,250 tons, to make 19 knots an hour, $3, 300,000 each four protected cruisers of 7r4Q0 tons, to make 22 knots an hour, $3,500,000 each nine protected cruisers of 5,400 tons, to make 20 knots an hour, $2,800,000 each two protected cruisers of 4,000 tons, to stake 19 knots an honr, $2,030,000 each five yte cial cruisers of 1,200 tons, to make 18 knots, $500,000 each fifteen torpedo cruisers of 900 tons, to make 22 knots an hour, $5004000 each three artificers'ships, $2,000,OOtT each. The eight ships -which Secretary Tracy recommends in his report shall be begun at once, are not the eight proposed by the board, hat eight of the first ten. TRACY'S VIEWS. The naval committee of the house devot ed two hours to-day to hearing Secretary Tracy giwe his general ideas toward the fur ther inssease of the navy, and the policy to be pursued by the department on naval matters* His opinions were those expressed in his annual report ftr W8di In regard to increasing the naval establishment, the sec retary thought the time had come for build ing fighting vessels. Our ability to con struct them had been satisfactorily demon strated, and he urged the conamiittee to en deavor to enact legislation for the building of them. The work, he thought, should commence at once, and the vessels should be as large as the size of our harbors would permit. While the secretary did not in stance any particular kind of vessel that he wanted constructed, he introduced some de signs, not in detail, indicating a general type of battle ship. This sMp is novel in regard to the distribution of its battery. All the guns can be used at once, the armor is heavy, and the speed is placed at seventeen knots per hour. In regardtathe question of coaling stations for foieagn squadrons, the secretary used as a further argument in favor of building fighting ships that it would be necessary to maintain these sta tions when established. RIGHTS O E RACE. Colored Men oft he Countr Hold a National Convention. CHICAGO, Special.—The national conven tion of Afro-American leagues was called to order to-day by T. Thomas Fortune, ed itor of the Age, of New York. Delegates were present from twenty-one states and the District of Columbia, but the delegates from the State of Illinois more than outnumbered all the rest. Altogether there were 200 col ored persons in the theater when the pro ceedings commenced. T. T. Fortune was chosen temporary chairman, and addressed the meeting. He said: We are me* here to-day, representatives of 8,000,000 free men, who know our rights and have the courage to defend them. We are met here to-day to emphasize the fact that the past condition of dependence and helplessness upon men who have used us for selfish and unholy purposes who have murdered and robbed and outraged us, must be reversed. We have been robbed of the honest wages of our toil we have been robbed of the substance ot our citizenship by murder and intimidation we have been outraged by our enemies and deserted by our friends. It is time to call a halt. It is time to begin to fight fire with fire. I speak as an A'.ro-Ameriean first, last and all the time, ready to stab to deatli anv political party which robs mo of my confidence and vote and straightway asks ine what I am going to do about it. In conclusion he urged the convention to leave each local league free to pursue such political course in its immediate com munity as the best interests of the race seem to indicate. In national affairs the league should not commit itself officially to any party. C. J. Taylor, ex-minister to Liberia, who came to Chicago to report the convention in detail for a number of pa pers in the South, left the city bv an even ing train. In an interview he declared the proceedings were deprived of any practical force by the absence of delegates from the South, where the colored people were most vitally interested in the race question. In addition the leaders in whom the colored population ot the country had confidence, and whose names are familiar to the public, were almost absent to a man, IDENTIFIED TH E EARL. Fou Person Testify to Seeing he Earl of to in he Wes End House* LOJNDOJN, Special—The case of the earl of Euston against Mr. Parke, editor of the North London Press, for criminal libel in charging that the earl was implicated in the West end scandal, came up lor trial in the Old Bailey to-day. Sir Charles Russell, counsel for the earl of Euston, opened the case, and said he would prove that Mr. Parke had published a libel. Mr. Lockwood, of counsel for the defense, in reply censured Sir Charles for withhold ing the carl of Euston for cross-examina tion at the preliminary hearing until the evidence for the defense had been given. Mr. Lockwood declared that the earl had shirked going into the witness box, and preferred to rely upon Sir Charles' attack upon the witnesses for the de fense, who were necessarily tainted. A coal dealer named O'Loughlin, living twenty-seven yards from Hammond's house on Cleveland street a railway porter named Grinley, a barman named O'Lough lin, and Hannah Vorgan, residing opposite Hammond's, wore called to identify the earl of Euston as a visitor at Hammond's. After some hesitation, the earl ot Euston in the meantime standing bv, bv Sir Charles' directions, they said they had seen him enter the house on different occasions. Sir Charles commented upon the hesitation shown by the witnesses, and declared that their identification of the earl was valueless. John Saul testified that in May, 1887, he met the earl of Euston in Piccadilly and drove with him to Hammond's house, where thev com mitted a criminal action. The earl of Euston testified that, with the exception of the time when in consequence of receiving the pose lila-stique card in Piccadilly he visited Hammond's house and leit indignant upon learning hVtrue character, he was never in Cleveland street in his life. He did not know the witness Saul, and denied that he had made any of the visits to Hammond's house testified to by the preceding wit nesses. ..VTUST WAIT UNTIL SPRING. Settler Canno Tak Land on he Sioux Reservation for Several Months WASHINGTON, Special Telegram President Harmon, in proclamation opening the^Sioux reservation, will prob ably take piecaution to save what he be lieves would be a calamity to many intend ing settlers by fixing a time when settlement maybe made. It is not known at what date he will allow settlers to take up the lands, but there is an intimation that some time in the spring lias been decided upon. The president wished to declare it opened before the time fixed by law for the expira tion of the treaty, aud at the same time save settlers the disasters they might meet in going upon the land in wid-wintcr. will, therefore, proclaim the pro visions of the treaty complied with, and fix a '^time when settlers may go upon the lands. Ih South Da kota members are anxious to have the proclamation issued early, so that they may secure legislation on several matters. They want to place Pierre in one of the lattd: districts' and Chamberlain in the other. They want to establish these lahd offices and appoint the officers. There are several minor matters that will need atten tion in congress and in the interior depart ment as soon as the proclamation is once issued, and the South Dakotans are in a hurry to get the business cleared' up. If Representative Gifford's-bill allowing the location of Sioux scrip upon the reservation becomes a law the townsite trouble will be obviated, and the man who has a town site can secure his scrip and title to the lands. It will prove a-wise provision, inasmuch as it will enable some good towns to be buill where they are needed. DOINGS OF CONGRESS What our NationalLaWmakers Haye Been Doing the Past Week. f- jr SENATE. The quadrocentennial committee the senate met to-day and ha ard arguments in favor of holding the world's lair in Washing ton. The principal reason set forth why the fair should be held in Washington was that the permanent building could be used*by the government, which is badly in need of adV ditional buildings. HOUSE. A conspicuous objeet in the house to-day was the vacant desk of Judge Kelley, which was draped with black and was decorated with a bouquet of pimple white flowers. The chaplain in his prayer made a feeling allusion to the death of the "father of the house.'-' SENATE. The galleries of the Senate chamber were •crowded to hear the arguments of gentlemen representing New York and Chicago in the interests of the world's fair. Ghanncy 8L Depew presented the claims of the Gotha mites which wa« followed by humorous and sarcastic remarks of Thomas-B. Bryan ia behalf of Chicago. HOUSE. Dr. Hill, of the Cherokee nation, appeared before the House committee on territories and made an address on the Springer bill to organize the territory of Oklahoma. He argued that the bill would be more accepta ble if the two judical districts- provided for would be reduced to one. SENATE. In the Senate Senator Davis, for Senator ^pooner, from the committee on public buildings, reported favorahly the bill appro priating $150,000 lor a pubVie building at St. Paul. HOUSE. In the house a large hatch of bills and petitions were introduced. Among them were several petitions asking for pension legislation recommended by the pension committee of the Grand Army of the Repub lic, Pickler, of South Dakota, prestnted one from ex-aoldiers of hie state, and Carter, of Montana, a large one from ex-soldiers of his state, Hansborough Presented a petition of residents of North Dakota, praying for speedy and liberal appropriation to irrigat« arid lauds also a memorial from the first legislative assembly of North Dakota, pray ing for the maintenance of Fort Abraham Lincoln as a military post and asking for appropriation for various improvements of the same. Also a bill authorizing the pay ment of $464 toC. K. Lounsberry, late post master at Bismarck, for amount expended by hiin for rent and oth er expenses from July 1,1883, to Sept. 30,1885 which amount was disallowed in settlement of his account. Also to establish a penitentiary in North Dakota, near Graf ton, aDd for a survey of the state for irriga tion purposes, appropriating $150,000 for the purpose. Aho bills appi opriating $75, 000 each for public buildings at Bismarck, Fargo and Grand Forks. SENATE The interesting feature of the proceedings in the Senate was a brisk bebate between Senators Call and Plumtb on the Florida swamp lands resolution. Among the execu tive communications pres^ted to the Senate today was one from the President, recom mending the erection cf consular buildings, tit Bangkok, Siam. DOUSE, A joint, resolution, introduced in the House by Representative Chipman, of Michigan, di rects the secretary oi war to can»»* and.An estimate *f a purvey S of at c'f I the construction of a basin for the anchorage and turning of vemseld in the river Rouge, in the State of Michigan, betneen the mouth of the river and the bridge of the Michigan C'en. tral railroad across the same. SC^A E In the senate Mr. Morgan's resolution rec ognizing the United States of Brazil as a tree, independent and sovereign state was taken up and Mr. Turpie proceeded to ad dress the senate in its support. He hoped that the recognition of Brazil would come BOOU enough to be of value and of real sig nificance. The resolution went over without action. Senator Davis introduced an unusually larce batch of private pension bills, also a bill authonzing the payment of $310 to Geo A Fairbanks, of White Earth, Minn., that be ing the sum advanced by him for transpor tation in 1881 under the Indian bureau. The transportation was performed by the Indians, and as the agent at that time was not furnished with money to pay for same, Fairbanks, by the advice ot the agent, paid them, they turning over to him as security the certificates of their work with the guarantee of the agent on the back of them. Such pajment, was a great accom modation to the fieighters and relieved the agent from annoyance by the Indians, who were clamoring day after day for their pay. HOUSE The house committee on territories heard arguments on Mr. Springer's, bill to admit the territory of Oklahoma. Judge Lowe, of Guthrie, and Judge Martin, of El Reno, ad dressed the committee. Both favored the bill in generul, but objected to that section which proposed the HtatutesofKansasforthe government of the territory, and pio posed the adoption of the Arkansas statutes. They also objected to the prohibi tion features ot the Kansas laws and the clause concerning th? pay county officers. The house committee on civil service will hold a meeting to give a hearing to the com missioners and those who have introduced resolutions favoiing the investigation of the committee's methods of doing business. Congressman Lind of Minnesota, as a mem ber of that committee, has made an almost complete canvass of it, nnd finds the pre vailing sentiment in favor of an investiga tion. SENATE. The senate took up the bill introduced by Mr. Butler on Dec, 16 to provide for the emi gration of pei sons of color irom the South?'n States, and Mr. Butler proceeded to add*M8 the senate at some length. Mr. Hoar re plied to Mr. Butler. It seemed to him that this proposition was the most astonishing that had ever beeu heard in the legislative history of the senate or in the legislative his tory of any free, civilized and prosperous people. The difficulties of the race problem existed in excited imaginations and ineradical prejudices of a few white men. notbetween the races themselves. As to the idea of the sen ator from Alabama (Mr. Morgan) that the choice was between murdering the negroes or marrying them, between killing them or assimilating them, he thought that a course of lecture on the sixth and seventh com mandments would settle the whole tliinjr, and that no more would be heard of a doc trine that was an absnrditv and an insult to our common humanity. The bill went over without action. HSL HOUSE. *tikl*»i*$^ -„i The time of the house we«f almost entirely taken up in discussing a resolution reported by Mr. McKmiey from the committee on rales providing for the appointment of a special world efair committee of thirteen to report mthin thTee days a plan by which the house can determine the site of the proposed fair and snbseqnently to report a bill pro viding for the fair. Mr. Cannon of Illi nois, as the minority of the committee on rules, reported a substitute resolution in stractlmr the committee on foreign affairs to report to the house a method of seleetint! thelocahty ofthe world's fair. First,whether the lair shall be held castor west of the AHe geny mountains second, the selection of the place for the location of the fair, and after the location has been decided bv the house, that the committee report a bill providing for a world's fair in 1892 at the place select* ed by the house. A long discussion followed, in which a score or more of representatives took part. *fV & G.B. GHADBOUBJV, rraaideali fo. Hinn. and Centra Strs.r IfEW ULM, .•*.* MINN Orilecttoasaac sll tantaft Mrtstaiks t* taakta* Vwmyclr attests* t*. Individual Responsibitiy, $50Q 00Q, Eagle Mill Co. Mannfactumi of O E FLOTTB BY THB Gradual Bednclioji Mist NEW ULM. KINK Obtained, and all PATtXT &UXMESS, tended to for MOD Kit ATS FJSX8. Oar office opposite the O. 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