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VOL. VII.
THE BEARS ON TOP.
The Situation at Chicago Ee
versed With a Decline on
Everything Except
Lard.
Wheat Quite Active, But Feverish,
With Values Lower and Fluct
uations Rapid.
Corn Active But Weaker—Pork Quiet—Lard
Quiet But Held With Considerable
Confidence.
A Strong Opening in Wall Street, Xew
York Central in the L,ead, Followed
by a Weak Close.
CHICAGO.
[Special Telegram to the Globe.l
Chicago, March 13.—The situation on
'change was reversed to-day, and at the
close the bears were on top, the last sales
showing a decline of %<&%£ on wheat, %c
on corn, J^c on oats, and 2%@5c on pork,
but an advance of 5c on lard. The majority
of the shorts in wheat and corn covered their
trades last night and it is estimated that
from 25.000,000 to 30,000,000 have been
covered here within the past four days, and
it was this buying more tha^i anything else
that has put prices up. But as the market
has been so well evened up there was little
in the market to help prices up
and both wheat and corn presented
a tired look, with trading chiefly local. An
old operator covered the situation in the fol
lowing: "The shorts have all covered, and
the bad crop reports failing to bring in out
side orders, as was expected, the longs be
came disgusted, which gave the shorts cour
age and they put out lines which broke the
market."
Fraily, of St. Louis, has been operating
heavily in this market of late, and his profits
with one house on corn the first of the week
were over $15,000. He has also been short
a large line of wheat, and part of the decline
to-day was due to heavy sales for his account.
Kershaw also put out a large line, but
Jones and Ream sold comparatively little to
what they have been doing.
The corn market turneda "summersault."
Milmine, Bodman & Co., who purchased
1,400,000 bushels of May yesterday recovered
this morning and sold it out through brokers,
Lawrence Newman selling 750,000 bushels
in lots at 57 cents. The big four did a fair
amount of trading but the bulk of business
was between the small fry, and the aggregate
was nearly equal to that of former days this
week.
Wheat was quite active but the feeling was
feverish. Values were lower and fluctua
tions rapid. The previous estimates of de
creased stocks in sight were fully confirmed
by oflicial reports. Liverpool cables quoted
prices in that market steady and
reports from the country were not on the
whole calculated to materially abate previous
fears regarding the condition of the winter
wheat plant. In addition a good export de
mand was reported at New York. But the
bears were encouraged by softer weather and
as a large number of shorts had filled late
yesterday there was little support from that
source, and outside orders at above 96c being
light, the battle was mainly between local
operators, opening at 96%@97c, quickly re
ceded to 96% c on severe pounding by the
beara, including the so called "big
four," from the provision ring.
The decline induced free buying from the
shorts and local bulls, and prices reacted up
to 96%e, and finally closed on 'change at
96%(a)96>£c. On the call 500,000 bushels of
May wheat were sold at 96K@96J£c, Lester
and W ralker being the chief sellers, and a
weak feeling prevailed. Later, on the curb,
the last sales were 96J4@9G> J£c. There were
a number of unlimited orders to-day at 903>^c
on the curb, which were only partly filled.
Corn was moderately active and destitute
of striking features. The receipts were only
200 cars, against 400 Monday and the ship
ments were liberal. Advices from New York
reported that rail freights from here to the
seaboard will speedily j,be reduced 10c per
100 lbs., or on a basis of 10 per cent, to that
city. This encouraged the shipping demand
and induced a firmer feeling in No. 2 for fu
ture delivery which opened SLtv>7^@o7}4c for
May, weakened with wheat to 58c, again ral
lied to 57% c and closed weak at 57J£c.
on 'change, but on the call declined to 56%
@57e, under increased offerings and closed
at that price, the sales aggregating 900,000
bushels. There was considerable trading in
the way of selling May and buying June.
Oats sympathized with corn, opening at
the highest prices; receded %c and closed at
about opening prices. Trading on futures
was chiefly in May. Samples on track were
in good shipping demand.
Pork was very quiet and trading, as usual,
confiued to a small circle of dealers opening
at $18.02}^ for May; sold at $17.90 and
closed at $17.97J£@18.00 on 'change. On
the curb it advanced to $18.10 but it closed
at $18.02%.
Lard was very quiet and steady but held
with considerable confidence opening at
$9.50 and closed same as on yes
terday ofternoon at $9.55, the transactions
being almost exclusively in futures.
Meats failed to attract any attention of con
sequence. The price changes were not
worth nothing although the feeling was
firm. Cattle buyers for export account had
a few orders but they were not in a hurry
about filling them as the receipts were large
—8,500 head, against 7,512 last Thursday—
and they were anxious to buy at lower
prices. Shipping and dressed beef stock
sold slowly at 10@15c decline, but butch
er's stock remained steady. Stockers and
feeders were taken more readily but at low
prices.
Receipts of hogs to-day were 12,000,
against 12,253 a week ago. Early sales were
quite brisk, and the market was steady, but
after the bulk of the buying orders had been
filled the demand fell off, and as packers
bought nothing to speak of prices declined
10c and closed weak.
Receipts of sheep to-day were 4,000, mak
ing an increase of 4,000 over the four days
last week. Shippers are still backward about
purchasing, but the local trade was sufficient
to take all that was left after shippers be
came filled up, but the feeling was weak and
late sales were at a reduction.
A. M. Wright & Co. say: "In reviewing
the statistical situation of the wheat market,
it may be well to state that although stocks
here are large and the outward movement
trifling, there is a rapid diminution at the
seaboard, the decrease at New York last week
aggregating 334,000 bushels, and the falling
off this week promises to be much greater.
The shrinkage in supplies at other
Beaboard points is on a corres
ponding ratio, the aggregate decrease at
all Atlantic markets since the opening of the
year being a trifle over 6,000,000 bushels,
leaving less than 5,000,000 bushels at the
close of this week. Hence it will readily be
seen that unless liberal shipments are made
> rallxord from the west during the nest six
weeks the first of May will find the granaries
at the eastern seaboard entirely depleted of
supplies, and as the receipts from the interior
during that time promise to be little
more than sufficient to meet
the increasing milling demand
from points between this and the Atlantic
markets it is evident that replenishment of
stocks at the latter points can only be made
by a corresponding reduction here and at
other large western points, from whence such
supplies are drawn. Turning to foreign
supplies, we find a still more rapid diminu
tion, the demand of the united kingdom for
the week, ending March Bth, being reported
at 1,974.000 bushels in excess of the home
deliveries by farmers, and foreign imports of
wheat and flour for the same time.
Shepard & Peacock say of corn: "The
long interest seem to feel secure in their
position and we note a continued tendency
on the part of prominent bears to gradually
cover the lines, the milder weather not tend
ing to strengthen their position."
Milmine, Boadman & Co. say of wheat:
"We think the market in. shape now to be
forced lower. It is really nothing but a
great big scalping trade. Wheat is fully 5c
too high for any legitimate use. The long
futures of corn will do to buy on all soft
places."
Crittenden & Harvey say: "The wheat
market, acts as though the short interest had
been largely covered, and yet current prices
should command good buying. But the mar
ket is purely a scalping one, and in the ab
sence of any leading it is safe either to buy
on sharp breaks or sell on bulges. Corn,
the general feeling continues rather confi
dent, but we do not like the constant accu
mulation of stocks, and believe it policy for a
while to sell long stuff on the rallies and en
deavor to buy on sharp breaks. We think
June or July futures will get to a safe buying
point for a big advance soon, and would
work into those months, as we believe pre
miums will increase from this out.
Chicago Financial.
| Special Telegram to the Globe. ]
Chicago, March 13.—The call for money from
all classes of borrowers was good,and all who had
good paper, hacked by'flr.st-elass names, were
readily accommodated ut !>(a>7 per cent. Orders
for currency from the northwest were larger and
deposits of country banks here have increased
of late. New York exchange sold at 25@40c
premium and foreign at $4.85@4.85)5£ for ship
pers' sixty-duy documentary sterling, and at
S4.BGJ4 for bankers'elxty-day bills on London.
The Bank of England has lowered its discount
rates to 3 per cent.
NEW VOItK.
| Special Telegram to the Globe.l
Nrw York, March 13.—Stocks opened ac
tive and strong, with cash sales of New York
Central at 122 which was % above the close
last night. As the short interest was re
duced the price fell to 120. This caused a
weaker feeling throughout. The West Shore
bonds advanced to 56 and displayed consid
erable strength. Pacific Mail was decidedly
buoyant. The market became quite dull
during the middle hours and so remained
for the balance of the day. It is expected
that the return of Mr. Gould to the street will
impart more life. The bears are becoming
very wary and are slow in attacking the bet
ter class of stocks. Many operators who
have become somewhat disgusted with
the apathy witnessed on the exchange amuse
themselves by taking flyers in-the grain mark
ets. The short interest in Central & Hudson
appears to be nearly eliminated. It is not
expected that the shipments of gold on Satur
day will be heavy. Lake Shore & St. Paul
are spoken of as likely to be marked up on
the shorts, who have still large lines out.
There were sales of Alton at 135J^@135%.
The day closed on a dull and uninteresting
market, business being nearly at a stand still
and prices at about the lowest.
A BROOKLYN SENSATION.
The Wife of A Distinguished Pastor
Sues For a Divorce Because of
Cruel Treatment.
[Special- Telegram to the Globe.]
New Yohk, March 13.—Mr3.. Genevicve
J. Hubbard, wife of the pastor of the most
fashionable church in Brooklyn, to-day began
proceedings for divorce suit against
her husband, the Rev. Warren Hub
bard, for cruel and inhuman treatment.
The defendant is pastor of St. Paul's Episco
pal church, Brooklyn. The church is one of
the handsomest edifices in the city and is
elaborately decorated. The services are high
church and the music is furnished by a choir
of men and boys. The congregation is large
and the most wealthy and fashionable in the
city. Dr. Hubbard has been
connected with the church as
pastor some time and stood very
high in the estimation of his parishioners.
He has also been highly esteemed by the bish
op of the diocese and from the beginning of
his pastorate until recently there never has
been even a shadow of 6candal thrown across
the pathway of his life. Mrs. Hubbard was
at onetime a well known leader of society in
this city. Like her husband she always
stood high in the social scale.
Mrs. Hubbard at present is
visiting friends in Philadelphia and
makes application for divorce through attor
neys here. Dr. Hubbard refuses to make
any statement before consulting his lawyers.
It is stated by the friends of the doctor that
the reason for the divorce proceedings on the
part of his wife was his refusal to gratify her
desire for pleasure. She wished to mix more
in society and attend places of amusement,
and this desire her husband would not
gratify.
SKIPPED WITH THE FUNDS.
A Peoria Representative of a Chicago
House Embezzles $12,000.
[Special Telegram to the Globe. |
Chicago, March 13.—George H.McClellan,
representative in Peoria of West, Andrews
& Co., of this city, has disappeared, and it is
alleged $12,000 of the firm's money has ac
companied him. McClellan was con
sidered a ladies' man, and one
or two episodes in his life
which became'known induces-the belief that
he was a man of many admirers. For ex
ample, McClellan was stopping at Peoria with
a woman whom he called his wife; he was
visited by another woman who claimed to
stand in that relation to him and in order to
avoid trouble he entered into some monetary
arrangement with her.
Mr. West of the firm was seen with regard
to the embezzlement of $12,000 of the firm's
money by McClellan. He stated that he
never had any reason to suspect the default
er who to all outward appearances was a steady
going married man. The money could not,
he thought, have been spent in dissipation,
but probably in unlucky lard speculations.
The firm was determined to bring
the delinquent to justice. "I'll give
$100 to find out where he is," said Mr. West,
"and $500 to see him behind the bars for ten
years. I've put the matter in the hands of
solicitors. McClellan is a family man and
won't stay away long. He is sure to come
back." As to his alleged second wife Mr.
West said: "She is a highly respectable lady
but whether she was married to him or not
Ido not know." He was ignorant of her
whereabouts.
ST. PAUL, MINX., FRIDAY MORXING, MARCH 14, 1884.
CONGRESSIONAL
TheFitz John Porter Bill Passed
In the Senate by 36 to 25.
logan Makes a Bitter Attack on Him
and the Southern Members.
The Preamble Forgotten to be Passed Causes
Another Bitter Wrangle.
The Honso of Representatives Exercised
over the Postoffice Appropria
tion Bill.
Thn Senate
Washington', March 13.—Senator Dolph
presented a memorial from the chamber of
commerce of Tacoma, on Pueet Sound,
against the forfeiture of the Cascade land
grant to the Northern Pacific railroad.
Senator Harrison, from the committee on
territories, reported favorably and had placed
on the calendar a bill for the admission of
Dakota.
Senator Pendleton, by request, introduced
a bill providing for the erection of a public
building at Akron, Ohio.
Senator Plumb submitted a joint resolu
tion, which referred to the committee on ag
riculture, appropriating §25.000, to be made
directly available under direction of the com
missioner of agriculture, for the suppression
of the foot and mouth disease among the
cattle in Kansas. Within a few minutes of
the reference Senator Plumb, from the com
mittee, reported the joint resolution favora
bly, and asked for its immediate considera
tion.
Senator Sherman objected to the resolu
tion. He said, as I believe the object of that
resolution will, be best accomplished by the
passage of the house pleuro pneumonia bill.
I will object for the present and hope the
house bill may be taken up and passed
as quickly as possible." Plumb gave notice
he would call up the resolution to-morrow.
The bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter
was taken up. Senator Manderson address
ed the senate in opposition. He understood
the claim to be. that, on full examination,
no fault could be found with the conduct of
General Porter. He had not examined,
until recently, the report and
procedure of the court martial
which tried Gen. Porter. He had read Gen.
Grant's paper in the Nwth American litvieio,
and that, with other reading, had aroused
within him a sympathy and interest in the
case. He felt it his duty, then, to examine
the matter thoroughly, and he was sorry to
be compelled to say that from the examina
tion he had given the case, whether this be a
case of judicial review or an exercise of
clemency, he felt bound to vote "no" on
this bill. The bill asked congress to set
aside the verdict of the court martial, to re
view and set aside the decision of one of the
highest tribunals,a most dangerous precedent.
Senator Manderson said the bill was a re
straint upon the proper independence of the
executive. If the case, he said, should have
come to the senate as an original proposi
tion, on the findings of the court martial,
and congress should take to itself to review
the record and let the prisoner go, the advo
cates of this bill would stand aghast. Presi
dent Lincoln had written to Leonard Swett
that he had read every word of the testi
mony in the Fitz John Porter case, and said:
"I tell you he is guilty and ought to be
hung." Were corroboration of Swett's state
ment necessary, it was afforded by the testi
mony of Robert Lincon before the advisory
board, as to the statements of the president,
his father. Porter had expressed to Burnside
a feeling of contempt for Pope, and that ferl
feeling was so plain to all the
officers who had come in contact
with him, that even General McClellan had
to beg him to be loyal to his commander. He
did not wish disaster to the Union army, but
he did not wish Pope to succeed. This jeal
ousy of leaders had been a curse,it had caused
the windfall of many commanders of the army
in the east. McClellan, Hooker, Burnside,
Meade and Pope all fell by reason of it.
Thank God, Manderson said, the armies west
of the Cumberland and Tennesee were free
from it. Among McPherson, Logan, Sheri
dan, Thooias, Grant and Sherman, no heart
burnings,no jealousy or hatred existed. (Ap
plause in the gallaries). He opposed the
bill, because of law and facts, because of the
dangerous precedent to the army and be
cause he believed it to be eternally right so to
do. (Loud applause in the gallaries.)
Senator Logan then addressed the senate:
In 1865, he said, when the ministering an
gels of the country had ceased to smooth the
brow of the weary soldier, who, of all those
that had been administering the laws to put
down the rebellion, could believe that the
power of the law would be invoked in aid of
such a measure as that before this senate.
Traveling back to 1865, we found that forty
five days were consumed by the court mar
tial in the trial of an individual, who, by its
decision, was discharged from the army of
the United States. Part of that court mar
tial were learned in civil law, and all of them
were conversant with military law.
What is the trial now going on?
Is it the trial of Fitz John
Porter? No, it was the trial of those that
were dead, on the charge that the men who
had tried thi3 man had destroyed facts.
Fitz John Porter had, after all these years,
become a prosector. It was the trial, not of
the living but of the dead. It was the trial,
at this late day, of Abraham Lincoln rather
than of Fitz John Porter. Without desiring,
said Logan, facing the Democratic side of
the chamber, to criticise the vote of any one,
I hope I may be pardoned for making one
remark. It is perfectly natural for those
who have been engaged in rebellion against
a great government like this, when they failed
of success, and have themselves been pardon
ed by the government, that they should, with
out examination of evidence in the case, all
feel sympathy for those who, during the war
had been dismissed the service of the United
States. Why? Because they would naturally
sympathise with him and say, "I have been
forgiven and therefore I forgive everybody
else." Continuing, Logan inquired, what
it was that was before the court martial that
tried Porter? The question was, had there
been disobedience of orders? Military law
showed that there was no excuse for diso
bedience of a lawful order, unless there
existed physical impossibility to its execu
tion. Had*there been such a physical impos
sibility shown? Not at all. He charged
here, "and defied contradiction, that Fitz John
Porter was the cause of the loss of the first
battle of Bull Run. [Loud applause in the
gallery, instantly repressed by the pre
siding officer, Frye, who announced
that under no circumstances could applause
be permitted, and if repeated the offenders
would be removed by the sergeant-at-arms.]
The gentleman said Porter could not obey
Pope's order. Why did not the gentleman
show that he tried to obey the order? The
evidence showed he never tried to do it. The
road was open from 2 o'clock in the morn
ing and he didn't move for five hours. What
excuse was given py Porter's friends? That
it was a dark night. Logan would only say,
the evidence contradicted that statement.
And suppose it was a dark night. He would
appeal to every senator in the chamber, con
federate and federal, that such a reason for
not moving under the circumstances was
absurd. Logan had himself, on an exceed
ingly dark and rainy night, with 10,000 men
crossed the Mississippi river, marched
twenty-two miles, and fought a battle, and,
as he believed, saved the field. Take all the
marches of the men on either side; take the
marches of the very corps of Fitz John Por
ter, when he was relieved of its command.
All evidence showed the armies marched
night after night in total darkness. Take all
the great battles of history, and the same
will be found. To fight the battle of Arbelia
Alexander the Great marched all night to
reach the battle ground in the morning. So
with Demosthenes at the battle of Syracuse.
One of Nero's marches had been so 3wift,
notwithstanding the darkness of the
night, that the first that Hannibal
knew of his presence, *-as receiving the head
of his brother, which Nero threw over the
city ■wall. The night marches of Napoleon
were the distinguishing characteristic of his
military methods, and were one secret of his
success. Logan sent to the clerk's desk and
had read-from Motley's "Dutch Republic" an
instance in 1572 where 3,000 soldiers
marched nine miles through an arm of the
sea that came up to their chins to reach their
goal in time, and they did it and accom
plished their objects. Yet Porter's distance
from the point where he was wanted was
only nine miles on dry land. Will any
American say an American soldier cannot
do what a foreign soldier could do ? In the
name of heaven and allihatwas made, could
notan American do what other men could do?
Had Porter been ordered to march through
water four feet deep that night, and had
said he could not do it, what would be thought
of him in the light of the extract just read?
It was easy to denounce the action of the
dead for they spoke not, but it did not al
! ways succed. Logan knew of some gentle-
I men who were very anxious to show in this
that he might have been unjustly condemned.
He held in his hand the condemnation of
ffftv-one officers of the army. He read a
nr.inber of those to show the offenses for
which the men were dismissed.
One was for absence without
leave, and in that case the general
announced, he regretted that he (the gen
eral) was the instrument to inflict the pun
ishment of death, and not one of those fifty
one men had even had the benefit of a court
martial, but were summarily dismissed by
their officer. And who was that officer? It
was Major General Rosecrans. Who ap
pealed to that general on bchaif of those men
dismissed without court or trial, or anything
but the mere whim of the commanding of
ficer? Oh, but they were only volunteer
officers, nobody cared for them; and that is
the way things are running in this country
at the present time. Men had been kicked
out of the way because they had been volun
teer officers or volunteer soldiers, no matter
how much they might be shattered. Nobody
ever put them on the retired list. Men that
attempted to destroy the government, and I
say this without disrespect. Come forward
and attempt to rever^e.history and get some
assistauce from our side, and on the ground
of charity. Charity for the benefit of the
man who, on the hour of trial, failed to per
form his duty to his country. Logan was
charged, he said, with following the man too
far. If he (Logan) was the only man in the
senate chamber whose opinion opposed this
bill, he would stili be found maintaining that
opinion. The senator from New Jersey
(Sewell) had had a letter read from Gen.
Grant. If any man in the senate had more
respect for Gen. Grant than he (Logan) he
did not know who the man was. He would
say nothing to detract from the well
earned fame of Gen. Grant. But he
would be permitted to say, that as a lawyer,
General Grant could not be regarded as first
class. It had been said, there was no battle
on the 29th of August, 1863, and so Porter
could not be guilty. Well, then, if there was
a battle on the 29th he was guilty according
to the views of Porter's friends. Logan then
read a letter from General Grant to Porter,
in which Le (Grant) said he had condemned
Porter on insufficient information. That is,
since General Grant had ascertained that
there was no battle fought on the 29th, and
then he had said that Porter was not guilty.
In this Logan frankly agreed with General
Grant. The gentlemen did not like federal
testimony. They wanted confederate testimo
ny, and he would therefore take confederate
testimony. Logan then read from the state
ment of General Lee to show that there was
a battle on the 29th, and that, as General
Lee said, "it raged with great fury." Logan
could prove, by the testimony of every union
officer, that there was such a battle.
Senator Sewell said there was no question
of fact that there hud been heavy fighting
during the da;.* bn 4t wag by isolated brig
ades.
Senator Logan said there evidently was
one isolated brigade that did not fight,
(laughter), and no battle was fought in these
times in which all the forces on both sides
were simultaneously engaged. If the gentle
man admitted that there was a battle on the
29th, that settled the case. Instead of there
being 25,000 troops in charge of Longstreet,
in front of Porter, as was claimed,
Logan said it was proved that there were
not 5,000 men in Porter's front. General
Longstreet, and several other gentlemen
that belonged to the Confederate army, had
tried to make this thing as easy as possible
for Porter, but Logan had taken their re
ports, made at the time and analyzed it, and
found how things were, and that was other
testimony than the memory of these men
twenty years later. When Pope concluded
to attack the enemy along the whole line,
and issued his afternoon order, he expected
Porter to be where he ought to be, instead of
which, Porter was some miles away. The evi
dence of Pope who issued the order, and the
orderly who delivered it, said, it could not
have been delivered later than 5:30. The
sun set that day at 6:36, and if he
had only got the order, it indicated that he
had still nearly two hours daylight. This
man Porter, being a wiser man than Pope,
and knowing better when to fight than Pope
did, did not fight. The last assault of Wel
lington's guard upon Napoleon was made af
ter 8 o'clock at night, and when the old Iron
Duke gave the famous order: "Up guards,
and at them," and notwithstanding the late
ness of the hour that charge passed into his
tory. Bnt our "bandbox" soldier could
not fight until he got ready. When the word
was handed to Porter he folded it and put it
in his pocket. Gen. Sykes' was by his side,
but that officer and Gen. Morell had said that
Porter had not told them he was ordered to
fight. The only order Sturgis received that
day from Porter, was not to fight
but to have his troops back to Manassas. so
that there could not be found in all the evi
dence a single order that Porter gave to en
gage the enemy even as a skirmish. As
suming he had received, even at 3:30 a. m.
order to move on the enemy's flanks on the
rear if possible, why did he not obey it?
Logan desired any friend of Porter to show
that he obeyed any order at that time. He
utterly failed to obey any order to fight. The
only rule of warfare that Logan knew was to
strike an enemy where you find him, and to
tell him that you were not
to fight, because you feared you
would be whipped, was to tell him a new
principle of military action. He had never
heard that, till be heard Fitz John Porter. It
had been said that Porter had been a good
soldier, and that the next day after this dis
obedience he had done well. That was not
the point here. He was merely insistlngthat
Porter had disobeyed his orders. So far as
the argument of sympathy is concerned, all
men in distress were entitled to our sympa
thy. The poorest man who had fought in
the army was entitled to our sympathy for
his wounds and privations. But there was
no proposition to put him on the retired list.
Sympathy should not over-ride law, sympathy
shonld not over-ride justice, sympathy
should not over ride the
principles underlying our government,
"and," said Logan, turning to the Demo
cratic side of the chamber, "I say to-day, in
all kindness, to this side of the chamber
(though, of course, it will have no effect,
and I do not expect it to have any), that the
course of your people, assisted by a few of
ours, is one which will prevent the people of
this country, as long as you go on in this
way, from having any confidence that you
intend to administer the affairs of govern
ment fairly." "This opening of the doors,"
he continued, "meant the breaking down of
the barriers between loyal men and disloyal
men, so far as the foundations of army dis
cipline were concerned. It meant the
opening of the retired list to other
men to come in as Porter was coming in.
But it meant more than that. He did not
care what the few gentlemen, who were in,
and few who were out of the union army
might say, it was his conviction the great
body of the American people did not believe in
the breaking down of the barriers between the
men who failed in time of need and those
who stood their post, and when I say that"
continued Logan "I am speaking of our
own people. They do not believe in your
coming here te regulate our court martial of
war period, tbe; do not believe it 1» just,
j they do not believe it is right that you should.
I tell you, I am speaking to you truth, as the
people will speak it to you.
; hereafter. Your confederacy could regulate
j its own court martial, while you had a con
i federacy. But sirs, do not come here in
; numbers sufficient to put back in our army
I the men who failed us, and thus destroy the
! discipline of our army, cast slurs upon the
] men who did their duty, trample in the dust
i their bones,and put a stigma upon the names
iof the Union soldiers. Let not your feelings
Igo so far. If you do, I assure you, that more
j years than you think will pass over
| your head before you will have the confidence
of the American "This was
an act of injustice," Logan asserted, "not
only to the army, but to all tjie loyal people
of the country, an injustice to the memory
of the faithful dead, an injustice to Abraham
Lincoln and those associated ■with him. Thou
who wert friends of the Union in the hour of
its trial, should not falter now in its time of
triumph, while every day poor crippled offi
cers were applying to the military committee
to be put on the retired list, and* could not
succeed. Were we to put this man Porter
there, and while the faithful wounded soldiers
were receiving a paltry pension of $8 a
month, how could the senate pass a bill to
give a salary of £3.000 a year to a
man who, in the hou. of peril, had failed
I to perform his duty to his cottatry.
The war for the union has been fought to
preserve a great government, and preserve
equality and justice. If this bill passed and
this wrong was done, it would be declaring to
the world that those who failed in the hour
trial were the men who should now be hon
ored, and that the glory of the union army
could as well be maintained by honors lost, as
by honors won, that the principle would have
a most demoralizing effect upon our army
and upon the country. The idea of replae
ingsueh a man in his position was too revolt
ing to Logan's notion of right and justice.
Senator Conger expressed a desire to
amend the bill by striking out the word "the"
and inserting the words "an additional" be
fore the words ''retired list of the army."
He objecting, he said, to save from disgrace
the regular retired list of the army, and have
a separate retired list provided for Gen. Port
er and those like him.
The chair declared the bill not subject to
amendment at this time, except for addition
al sections. The bill was then read a third
time ami passed, 30 yeas,2s nays. The result
was received with mingled applause and hisses
from the galJaries. The vote was as follows:
yeas :
Bayard, Groome, Pendleton,
Brown, Hampton, Pike,
Butler, Harris, Pug",
Call, Hoar, Riddle berger,
Cockerell, Jackson, .Sabin,
Coke, Jonas, Saulsbury,
Colquitt, Jones, Fla., SeweU,
Fair, Jones, New, Slater,
Farley, Lamar, Vance,
Garland,* McPherson, Voorhees,
Gibson, Masey, Walker,
Ggrman, Morgan, Williams.
nays:
Aldrich, Edmunds, Mandersi.n,
Allison, Frye, Miller, CaL,
Blair, Harrison, Mitchell,
Bowen, Hawley, Morrill,
Conger, II ill, Palmer,
Cullom, Ingalls, Platt,
Dawes, Logan, Sherman
Dolph, McMillan, VanWyck,
Wilson.
During the vote following pairs were an
nounced: Beck aye with Hale no; Cameron,
Wis., aye with George no; Miller, N. V., no
with Camden aye; Plumb no with Vest aye;
Sawyer no with Kenna aye. The motion to
go into executive session was agTeed to, but
while the doors were being closed it was dis
covered the preamble to the bill had not been
passed, and a motion to secure its immediate
passage was made. Edmunds, however, in
sisted that the order of the senate be first
executed, so the doors were closed and im
mediately reopened. The preamble then
passed, 33 yeas, 22 nays. During the vote
MiUtr, of New York, expressed a wish to
vote, and without objection he transferred
Camden's pair to Aldrich, who was now ab
sent. Miller then voted no.
Before the preamble was passed Senator
' Hawley expressed a hope that the majority
would spare the senate from a vote annull
ing the decision of the court martial, which
was as lawfully a constituted authority as the
supreme court of the United States.
Senator Conger remarked, it was disgrace
enough to have been a member of a body
which would pass such a bill, if that was dis
grace, or honor enough if that was an honor,
but the preamble was something no senator
should vote for.
The preamble to the bill as passed recites
that the board of officers convened by the
president to examine and report upon the
case of General Porter, stated that jus
tice required the president to an
nul the findings and sentence of
the court martial in General Porter's
case, and restore him to the position of
which the sentence deprived him, such
resroration to take effect from the date of
dismissal from the service;that the president
shall remit so much of the sentence as dis
qualified Gen. Porter from holding office,
and that in order to do justice to Gen. Por
ter it was enacted, etc. The bill then au
thorizes the president, by, and with the ad
vice and consent of the senate, to appoint
Gen. Porter to the position of colonel in the
army, the same grade and rank held by him
at the time of his dismissal, and authorizes
the president, in his discretion, to place Gen.
Porter on the retired list of that grade. Gen.
Porter, however, to receive no compensation
or allowance prior to his appointment under
the act. Adjourned.
The House of Representatives.
"Washington, March 13.—A resolution
was adopted, directing the committee on
public lands to investigate matters pertain
ing to the grant of 200,000 acres to the state
of Michigan, in aid of the construction of a
breakwater, harbor and ship caual and by
that state given to the Lake Superior and
Portage Lake Canal Co., and to determine
whether the grant is liable to forfeiture.
The house went into committee of the
whole, Mr. Blount in the chair, on the post
office appropriation bill, pending an amend
ment, being that of increasing the appro
priations for the payment of letter earners
and incidental expenses of the free delivery
service, from $360,000 to $400,000.
Mr. Townshend opposed the ameudment as a
step in the direction of extravagance, which
ought to be stopped, and here now. He call
ed attention to the fact, that out of one hun
dred and fifty-four free delivery offices, only
fourteen were self-sustaining. He asserted
that Boston and Chicago were the only self
sustaining free delivery offices in Massachu
setts and Illinois respectively. The Democ
ratic cities of New York and Chicago were
sustaining the free delivery system in the
Republican states of Colorado, Nebraska,
Rhode Island and Maine.
Mr. Davis (Ills.) said Chicago had no Dem
ocratic member, elected as such, in the
House, and controverted the assertion that
the free deliver}- system was not self-sustain
ing. He opposed the bill because it would
reduce the carrier service at least one hun
dred men.
Mr. Morey thought, coming from a state
in which there was not a single free delivery
office, he advocated the amendment on the
ground that the people of the cities were not
the only beneficiaries of the system. It was
an almost equal benefit to the people of the
country. When congress legislates for the
postoffice, it should legislate for it as a whole
system, and not answer whether a part was
paying here or not paying there.
Mr. J. C. Wise, of Virginia, thought it was
idle to stand here and swap two shirt buttons
for one coat button in the calculation of what
office paid and what did not.
From a political stand point
nothing would be more grateful
to him than to have the Democratic house
cut down the free delivery system. If the
gentleman from Illinois Townshend, con
fined that system to cities where it was self
sustaining, his southern Democratic friends
would not have a pea in the dish. The party
which struck a blow at this system, would be
held responsible for it. The amendment
was adopted by 122 to 55. Townshend giv
ing notice he would demand the yeas and
nays in the house.
Mr. ilughett, of New York, offered an
amendment providing that periodical publi
cations other than daily newspapers, when
delivered within the city wherein they are
j published, shall be charged with the same
postage as is now, of may be imposed by
law in such publications when delivered
elsewhere, than in the city of publications.
Mr. Horr moved to strike out the proviso,
that the land grant railroads shall receive for
j mail transportation but 50 percent, of the
compensation allowed other roads. He sfrid.
the proviso would work injustice to fifty little
roads, for it did not effect Union and Central
Pacifies.
Mr. Shaw opposed the motion.
Mr. Dun inquired, why the committee on
appropriations had not extended the 50 per
cent, provision to the Union and Central
Pacific railroads.
Mr. Holman replied, they had not been in
cluded, because the committee was of the
opinion that the government could be better
protected by amending the sinking fund law,
than by draining the revenues into the post
office department from these roads.
Mr. Cameron opposed the proviso as un
just and inequitable.
Mr. Mills thought the compensation allowed
ali the railroads enormous, and gave notice
of the amendment reducing it lOpe.r cent.
Mr. Belford favored the fifty per cent
clause, because it contained a'substantive
assertion of the power of congress to control
the land grant railroads.
The committee rose for the purpose of
limiting the debate on the pendins para
graph. Townshend suggested one hour, but
Horr, representing the Republican side
asked three hours. Townshend
then moved the debate be
closed at 5 o'clock,but this was not acceptable
to the Republican side, and on a demand for
the. previous question a body of Republicans
abstained from voting, but didn't succeed in
breaking the quorum.
Mr. Wait, who voted in the affirmative,
moved to reconsider and table that motion,
and pending this, Horr moved to adjourn.
This being voted down on a yea and nay
vote, Wait's motion was agreed to. And the
hour of five having arrived, the house on
motion by Towhshcnd, adjourned.
A PREACHER INTrOUBLE.
A New York Divine Held to Answer to
a Charge of Bastardy.
[Special Telegram to the Globe.]
New Yokk, March 13.—An interesting
trial was in progress in the special Bession
court room of the Tombs to-duy, and hun
dreds of would-be spectators w.n
turned away. Under the new code a
defendant in "certain" criminal cases
may ask for a private examination. The re
quest was made to-day and the justices were
obliged to obey it. The defendant was the
Rev. G. 11. Humphrey, pastor of Welsh
Presbyterian church of this city. The com
plainant was Laura A. Jones, of 349 West
Seventh street. She is about twenty-two
years of age and good looking. She wore a
seal skin sacque and black silk dress. She is
a member of Mr. Humphrey's church
"An exhibit" in the case was a ten-weeks
old girl baby. It was a quiet little thing, and
didn't look like anybody in particular,
but Miss Jonca said Rev. Mr. Humphrey is
its father.
Mr. Humphrey hag been pastor of the
church seven years, and is about thirty-live
yoars of age. He was arrested on
Miss Jones' complaint that he was the
father of her child, and that she
had no means of support but was likely to
become a charge ou the county. Mr. Hum
phrey was called as a witness. He denied
that he was the father of her child and said
there had never been improper relations be
tween himself and Miss Jones. The exami
nation was adjourned for a week- A ma
jority of the church side with the minister.
MORE OF THE FENIANS.
Tneir Activity at Fargo, Their Base of
Operations, Continues
Unabated.
[Special Telegram to the Globe. |
Faiigo, March 13. —Some additional par
ticulars have been gathered to-day in regard
to the movements of the Fenians here. The
efforts of the leaders to keep their operation?
secret renders it diilicultto obtain exact data,
but it is learned that the committee appointed
yesterday consisted of twenty-six members
and M. G. McQnire as chairman. Ten have
gone to Winnipeg, and there seems to lie
satisfaction with .some reports received from
there. A meeting of the committee was
held to-day over a saloon, and at the time a
Fenian was in the room below with two
agents of the Canadian government, whom
the latter had paid $50 to give the matter
away. He took the money aud pnt them on
a false scent.
There is reason to believe that 1,500 gov
ernment muskets, breech loaders, have been
received recently. Captain Hadly, an old
soldier and citizen, has been elected captain,
but whether be has accepted or whether there
are any privates in the command is not
learned. Among leading Fenians of
Chicago now in the city are Wm.
Sheehan and Dan Kirk, the latter a soldier, in
the Union army. It is predicted by Fenians
here that there will be a lively time in
Manitoba within a few weeks. They claim
that the Ontario government has 2,000 avail
able troops, and that the line of communi
cation witti Manitoba will be interrupted
when necessary.
OLYMPIC THEATER!
TO-NIGHT !
The Latest New York Success,
NOBODY'S CL1I1!
Replete with Picturesque sketches.
Striking situations and magnificent stage ef
fects.
Popular Prices—2s, 50 and 75 cents.
FAMILY MATINXB Saturday, at 3:30
p.m.
Reserved seats on sale at Merchants hotel news
stand.
CLOTHIERB. .
B. O P. C. H.
"We can make it to your interest
fc£*\ to trade with us at any season of
V^s4 the year, particularly at this sea-
Jg£y son, as we are cleaning out the
/f<£*<3>\ balance of our winter stock at
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j^V^^ ¥ W*vJi line* We are ©nabled to offer a
/\y>\ err i J^i&L/r ar^e assortment and lower prices
/yy d * I n yfy^^Si *nan Bmaller houses can do.
b/ JL 9 * /A/1 « yij We make a specialty of Ohil-
S^K 9 ° >—"O/J dren's Clothing,
=\jj ** r -^* Latest Hats, Finest Clothing,
fr^ Best Furnishing Goods.
BOSTONonePriceCLOTHINGHOUSE
4 Cor. Third and Robert Streets, St. Paul,
NO. 74.
MUSICAL INBTBUMEOTB.
LOOK
Here!
Having sold all the Bargains in second-hand
Pianos offered on Monday, we now offer the fol
lowing Instruments, received since, at bed rock
prices:
Loardman & Gray, G octaves S 50
Emerson, 7 octaves 100
Kurtzman, T octaves 135
Phelps, 7 octaves 150
Call at ouce. First come first served.
BKOWARD
148 & 150 East Third St.
AMUSEMENTS.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE,
L. N. SCOTT, Manager.
Three Nights and a Matinee, commencing Men-
Ha 7, March 17.
HURRAH FOR SAjvTPATRICK'S DAY!
A grand Laugh Divided into Breaths.
Roland Reed
Supported by an exfrllant Company, in Mars
den'a
CHEEK.
Mr. Reed introduces his Songs and Medleys,
S:iU> of seat! commences Saturday, 9 a. in.
Reserred teats $i.uo and 75 cents.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
ORIGINAL
Madison Square Theater Co.,
Comprising:
O. W. COT7LDOOK, ANNIE BUSSZLL,
.!.<;. QRAHAMK, MBS.B.L.DAVENPORT
DS Wol.F HOPPER, ADA (iII.MAN,
W. H. CBOMPTON, Mbs. CSCILB RUSE,
and others will appear in the. Greatest Driiinatia
"HAZEL KIRKE."
ST. I'ACL, March 34, 3«, 2C.
MINNKA POLLS March 27, itH, '4>J.
S3r*l£legant Sonvenin presented to the Ladles.
BRISBIN & FARWELL,
LAW OFFICE.
ROOM G,
Comer ofWabashaw and Fenrth streets.
Over Exprecu Ofllce. 270
PROPOSALS.
NOTICE
TO
Warden's Ofphk, Misnksota Statk Prison, 1
J. A. Rkkd, Warden, >
Stillwateh, .Minn., March, 1884. )
Sealed blda dimrtrd to the Warden of the Mia*
nesota State Prison uill bi? received at this offlce a
until U M, on the :; Ist day of March, 1884, for
furnishing the material and patting on an Iron
J{oof on the Cell Room Building, ami that portion
of the Main Building between the Cell Kooui and
Office, in accordance with plan.-! ami ipedflcatloni
to be seen at tut? office ot A. M. Radcliffe, in St.
Paul, and at this ollice.
Bids will be for so much per square. A certi
fied check for $500 must accompany the bids as a
guarantee of good faith.
The committee reserve the right to reject any
or all bids.
By order of the Building Committee
-70-91 J. A. KEBD, Chairman.
CONTRACTWORK.
Construction of Sidewalks foJ
the Year 1884.
Office op the Hoard of Pcbi.ic Works, ?
CiTYoy St. Pail, Minn., March 11, 1834. J
Sealed bids will be received by the Board of
Public Works in, and for the corporation of the
City of St. Paul, Minnesota, at their office, in,
said city, until 12 m. on the 84th day of March,
A. D., 1884, for the contraction, relaying and
repairing of such sidewalks as may be ordered
built, relaid or repaired by the Common Council
of the City of St, Paul, from the Ist day of April
to the Ist day of November, 1884, according to
general plans and specifications on file in the of*
fire of said Board.
A bond with two responsible sureties in the sum
of five thousand dollars, ($5,000,) mast accom
pany each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to reject any
or all bids.
JOHX FARRINGTON, President.
Official: R. L. GoBXAJt,
Clerk Board of Public Works. 72-82
