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THE AlUiUS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 181)3. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Royal Li. rovwdter ABSOUUTELY PURE EX -CZAR AND CKISP Cross Lances on the Question House of Rules. THE SPEAKER TAKES THE FLOOR And It'il;v to Some Oritieisum Mail hy Hi ln'clT"iiir in the hair. Who Clinic I!u It it ( hrit-terl-4ic Cniiiinent IIiiit the I'artien Vntetl on llie Silver Hill Tim snate Aiki-I to I'tmli tlie K-ii-k1 MeHnnrts Washington, Anji. 3t. There vas a clash of oratory in the honse, over t!:e new rules, hctwet-n the t-x-speaktr and the speaker in which the "cz:ir" reiterated hi faith in the rules ff the Fifty-first house and the speaker admitted that some of them v.- re iT'iod, h;:t t.nuited Reed with the fact tiiat Democrats who had de nounced the rules of the Fifty first house, had ; een returned to the next congress. Keed made h rejily in liis dry and sarcastic manner and this wa.s about the only inci dent that enlivened the session. Catchiupi called up the report of the committee on rules, and wanted to limit delmte. Heed antagonized this, and succeeded in obtain ing a general debate. " The Kt-Cmr Sen an Opening. Catchinjrs bei;an to explain the changes in the new rules and when speaking in favor of the rule making a quorum of the committee of the whole M; memliers Catch ings was interrupt d by Kiijrore with the Inquiry whether a quorum of tle commit tee of the whole should not lie the same as th quorum of the house. In reply Catching said that the adaption of this rule by the Fifty-first congress as good and beneficial. Ai.plac.se. Keed twitted the Democrats upon their partial approval of the rules of the Fifty first congress, hut in a humorous vein, and contended th t they had not gone far enough. He then in a more serious man ner argued ia favor of. the rights of the majority, which rights had been firmly maintained in the Fifty-first congress Why not, he said, adopt . svstem of rules which would give to ttie majority control and take away from the filibustered Ins opportunity to stop the consideration of a measure It was better to have a speaker exercise power in the fud light of public opinion than t exercise it in the seclusion of the committee room. Crisp Loaded for the Orra.ion. As Keed sat down it became evident that the rules committee had anticipated his remarks and had prepared for an answer. Speaker Crisp tok the floor, caliinc Kich ardsou of Tenues-ee to the chair. He said there were provisions in this code which were taken substantially from the rules of the Fifty-first congress. Neither himself nor any member of the committee on rules would refrain from reporting rules aimpiy because they were part of the rules of the Fifty-first congress. Very much of those rules was to be commended, very much of those rules had been by the country ubso Irtely condemned. Tiie gentlemau from Maine, when he stood up In-fore the coun try and spoke of the rules of the Fifty-first congress, failed to speak of tiie practices adopted before the rules were adopted, which were s- odious to the country Ap plause. Keed' Flint Akhiiiii pt inn of Tower. Vhcn the charge v ere made aga'nst the Fifty first congress let no one forget that t! e first charge was that without au thority of the house, without the author ity of the committee on rules, the spc.ker Lud exercised a power that had never been granted to hint. Apphn se. He had as sumed upon himself tiie power to count a quorum. The question had gone to the auprcme court of the United States and the gentleman from Maine had never been justified. lie had heard the gentleman from Maine several times say that the su preme court had justifud his course. The supreme court had not touched the ques tion. Left to the Judgment of the House, The gentleman had referred tothe power lodged in the committee on rules. I-t him (Crisp; call the gentleman's nttent ion to the uistinction that existed between the policy of the gentleman from Maine and the present com mittee on rules. The gen tleman from Maine believed that power should be lodged in the speaker absolutely to decide what was a dilatory motion. Un der the section proposed by the committee on rules it was left to the house -.to decide whether the motion was dilatory or not. The system adopted by the Fifty-second congr and now readopted by the com mittee ii rules, was to maintain, not the the individual judgment of the chair, but the judgment of the majority of the house. Can't IJictate to the People. Tohirti it was a source i.f pleasure and delight that the people had endorsed th'tt course and had returned a large Demo cratic majority to the house. The people had decided that they did not lielieve that any man who was sent here as their repre sentative should become their master. Applause. No man could dictate to them. Applause. Whenever of recent years Republicans had come into power in this house their lease of power had been one term. Mr. Keifer had been speaker one term and then he und his party had been repudiated. Charges Reed With Arrogance. The gentleman from Maine (Keed) had stated Ly arrogant assertion that the Fifty-first congress should be regarded as an exair pie thut should be followed by all congresses. Against that proposition he (Crisp desired to enter his protest. He felt the people of this country felt that the Fifty-first congress was a usurp-v-tion that ought to be repudiated a. I with the people be repudiated it, here and now. Applause. EX-CXAR EXPRESSES REGRETS. Sorry That Crisp Feels Badly 6t Long Deu.ocrac; on the Road. Reed, in reply, said 1 bat it was unusual for the presiding officer of this body to leave his exalted position and to take part in the discussion on the floor. It was eveu Question whether he ought to do it at all. Hut ot this i.ction he maae no ques tion. The geutlei iau from Georgia (Cris; ) alone -vas the jud;e of his action. If the gentleman did not believe th:it the other members of the committee on rules were adequate for the discussion, it was for him to decide when hi.- powerful aid should be ! thrown into the bilance. He (Heed) le i trretted that: he speaker had taken the j floor not only on general principles, but because he had u.lroilueed into I he debate a certain amouu' t" p-ii tisariship, t hereby showing that tiioi gli the rest of the housj had survived the measures of tiieFifiy tirst congres.-., tt.e prist-nt s;eaker had not. To what had leeu said ubjut him per sonally he would not reply, for he would not allow t lis de'oate to degenerate into a personal question. This was a pub lic question, and as such he wool I address it. He lielieved that the policy of the Fifty-first congress had received the ap proval of the si preme court. If he had their support he culd do without the ap proval of any iiid.viiiual who headed the opposition. He r- gretted that the Pemo rrats had merely adopted one-half of the rules of the Fi ft -first congress, but they were on the roa i to adapting them all. He was reasonable in asking the Demo cratic party to catch up with the Kepubli can party within the next four years. Applause. An analysis of the votes in the lions on the propositions s ibmitted Mondayjsbows that a majority of the Democrats voted against the 16 to 1 free coinage amend ment, but for tiie Bland-Allison proposi tion, while on tlefcote on repeal of the purchase clause of the Sherman act they had a majority oter all, counting out the anti-silver Republicans. The following analysis of the voies on the three proposi tions is given: On the 1. to 1 f -ee-coinage proposition: For Den-ocrats, 1 1; Republicans, 12; Iop ulists, 11; total, 12 r. Against Democrats, 111: Republicans, 114; total, St, Bland-Allison amendment: For Demo crats, 111; Republicans. Ill; IVpulists, !; total, i:. Again -t Democrats, 102, Re publicans, 11!; tot il, 21& The Wilson bill: For Democrats, ISs, Republicans, li2; total, 24't. Again; Democrats. 75; Republicans, 24; l'opuli.-ts. J I; total, 110., GORDON WANTS WORK DONE. The Georgia Sena or Call on the I'pprr Horn to Hustle. The senate got into another dreary debate about the resolution calling on tne treasury for information whether there will lie a deficienc this year. There was a little break in the monotony when Mc Pherson asked Stewart who offered the resolution wheth.-r he was aware that the Democracy was in power in the setiate.and was responsible. Stewart replied: "No. I do not know that. I know that the cold party claims to be in power. I think that there are more administration men on the Kepublcan side of the chamber than there are on the Democ: itic side."' Laughter Gordon took the door to speak on finance. He was for the in mediate passage of the house repeal bill, and would vote against the Yoorhees bill. The Denocratic party, he satf, had made to the people four dis tinct, emphatic, ai d unequivocal promises. They were: To red rm the tariff; to repeal the Sherman law; to place gold and silver on an equal footing; and to remove the talc on state banks. C mi pled with those prom ises there had beet, the one condition that the people should turn out the Republic ans and tnrn the government over to the Democrats. Thereople had met the con dition, and now with anxious, even agoniz ing suspense, looked to Democrats to see what they were f-oing to do. There was no escape for the party. It had either to redeem or repudiate its pledges. Teller addressed the senate in an argu ment to prove tin t the Sherman law is not responsible f r the financial troubles of the country. Almost without excep tion, he said, every one who had addressed the senate had spo en as if there was some great calamity imj ending ever the people of the United Stat ;s. He wanted to enter his protest against "the calamity howlers of the senate." 'I here undoubtedly was a financial stringency. lUut was this the first time that t ie people of the United States hail faced a financial stringency, or in common terms a panic? Was it of longer duration t ian any preceding one? W" flu if innra friirl tlnl i .. I. .1 I- ' " ........ .1 ifei lull ill LllillUClcr LUHIl ordinary panics? He denied it. The Congressional Summary. WASHINGTON, At g. 3' i.' Voorhees, in the senate, report d t!ie house bill to repeal the Sherman law with the Voorhees bill as a substitute, and asked that the debate begin immediately. Teller objected and it went over. Stewart's resolution asking the treasury if thirewill be a deficiency this vear was sent to the finance commit tee. Gordon and Teller spoke on the finances ami the senate adjourned with Teller stiil on the f:oor. The house referrt d to the rules commit tee a resolution f ir investigation of the Ford's theater disaster, to determine as to relief for the bcieavetL The report on rules for the house was then taken up and debated without action. Springer intro duced a bill to coin the seigniorage s'lver in the treasury. Wruin'l a Cent Missing. Washington, Aug. 30. The official count of the treasury cash begun on Mav 31 last, necessitated by the transfer of the office of the treasurer of the United States from K. H. Xebeker to D. X. Morgan, has been completed, treasurer Jordan has signed a receipt :n favor of E. II. Xebe ker for the sum total and by this act Xelieker's bond for J5O0.0O0 was released and the bond of Morgan as treasurer, which was filed and approved some time ago, became responsible for the vast stock of money in the treasury. In counting and weighing this vast sum of money not one cent was missiag. The total weight of the coin counted was about 5,000 tons. The waste of a great city might easily feed its desperate poverty. We waste our coal and our smoke, our gas and our water, our food an I our refuse. What we want is more forethought in times of comparative prosptrity. Exchange. IS IN XO DANGER. The Alarming Reports About Cleveland's Health. EXPLANATION OP A GOTHAM D0CT0B ! The Operation Performed on the President ' on the Yacht Oneida Entirely for Den- ' tal Purposes, and No Sign of Cancer J Two Teeth Pulled and a Portion of the Jaw Removed No Iteason for Alarm. I Xew York, Aug. 30. The papers have j been full of reports to the effect that the ' operation performed on President Cleve- ' land on the yacht Oneida July 1, which 1 was described at that time as simply the J pulling of a tooth was in reality an opera- j tion to remove a cancerous growth. Dr. j Hasbrauch, of this city, an expert in ana?s- ( thetics, was present at the operation. He, has been interviewed regarding the matter, i but said that he really ought to say noth- ing about it, as anything regarding the j case should come from Dr. liryait. ' The Stories Kxaggerated. ! However, he would say that the story ' now current is much exaggerated, and added: "The operation performed on Mr. Cleveland was similar to cases we meet with every day in the course of our regu lar dental practice. It was neither n.ore nor less than that, and on any less promi nent person than the president it would not have been noticed. It consisted of the extraction of two of the upper teeth and the removal of a slight portion of diseased tissue and bone back of theiiose. The disease causing the operation was not at all iu the nature of that for which the operation was nade on General Grant; nor were there any signs indicating sar coma. Sufl'errd from I'lrerated Teeth. The president had been suffering from ulcerated teeth, and as is often the case, the ulceration had extended up and back to the antrum. Because of that it became necessary to move some of the bone and diseased tissue. No Iteason for Alarm. ,-I have not se--n the president since I left him at Gray Gables, just after the operation, though I have heard fiom him. What I have heard is1 that everything is progressing nicely. So far as I can see there is no reason for alarm. The president has simply had what any one is liable to have, and what is not considered at all dangerous"." CAUGHT A BABY A SERPENT. The "Varmint" Comes at Its Captors With Mouth Wide Open. Rostov, Aug. 3d. The fishing schocner James H. Stetson, Captain William Wolfe, of Provincetown, has just arrived in Bos ton bringing with it a young sea serpent to all appearan?es. It is alKiut five feet long and is nearly the same size at the tail as at the head, and about three and one half inches in diameter. There is a long fin some ten inches high running nearly the entire length of its back. It has a head shaped much like that of a bca con strictor, and its teeth are long and sharp. The jaws are long and when open in an or dinary position have a gape of fully eight inches. The fish is of a bluish color. This young sea sertient was captured southeast of Ra Hare bank, Xova Scotia, in lii fathoms of water. William U. Mc- Cabe and W. H. Detiully were in ja dory some distance f:om their vessel wljen they ! saw tins queer-ioc.Kiiig thing, winch ap peared to lie a snake, coming directly for the dory with its head and about one and a half inches of its body out of the water, and its mouth wide open. It was rather a dangerous thing to do, but McCabe got. his gaff ready, and when the fish was close enough plunged it into its 1km!v, and then, with Denully's assistance dragged it over the side of the dory nnd killed it. It died hard. The fish had little food in its stomach, which probably accounts for its attack upon the dory. Saved Their Lives by Jumping. .Xew Castle, Pa., Aug. 30. A landslide on the Pittsburg and Western tracks near Xew "Cast le Junction, caused an engine and fourteen freight cars to be derailed. Two negroes who were seen on the cars are missing and it is thought that they have been killed and are buried beneath the wreiked cars. The train hands saved their lives by jumping, several of them be ing injured. Soup Houses at Ironwnod. Iroxwood. Mich., Aug. 30. Soup mouses were opened here today by the county poor commissioners at which Finns aud Poles, 500 of whom claim to be suffering from hunger, will be fed at public expense. Many of the unemployed indulged in threats of violence and riot during the past three days and citizens will organize to prevent .ootingand suppress any out break that may occur. France and Her Siamese Gobble. London, Aug. 30. Dispatches from Bangkok and Singapore to the Pall Mr.ll Gazette say that a French protectorate nverSiam is imminent. The Pall Mall there fore urges that all chambers of commerce in Great Britain hold a convention at once and agree upon a protest to the govern ment against permitting France thus to execute a policy ruinous to British trade in the east. - Iteunion or Illinois Veterans. Pr.or.IA, Aug. 30. The Eighty-sixth regiment of Illinois volunteers, which was organized in Peoria in 1S52, held its regu lar annual reunion here with a large at tendance. E. C. Sillimau of C'heuoa was elected commander for the ensuing year. The veterans adopted resolutions severely condemning the administration of the pension department. The World's Fair Scandals. Chicago, Aug. 30. The- committee in vestigating the chi.rges against National Commissioners Beeson and Mercer has its report ready and will present it today. It is stated that Beeson has been found guilty and Mercer acquitted. Juror Hig bee, in a card, decides the charges against him are false. A GREAT STATE IR HIDING, While' a Blob Hants It on Lynching Par poses Intent. Mipdlesbokough, Ky., Aug. 30. The mob of 100 men from Wingo, reinfoiced by 100 more, arrived here on time to lynch the men who fired into the Belt Line, but Sheriff Colson and Cffief Conway had fled with the prisoners. The mob then began a systematic earch. A more determined and orderly set of men could not be found. Every hiding place was searched. The mob went through the Knoxville, Cumber land Gap and Louisville train, and also searched the Louisville and Nashville train which arrived from Horton, but the officers out-generaled them. The prison ers were hid in the woods and guarded by a posse. Finding their endeavors fruit less, the men quietly dispersed. ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. FFFF A L l l yCJM tK:o JP noo I,,,,.. JJ GO oo oj, Utj, jLw!aa Xrirl&ir' o go 8 oo J ! V f ' lr JAr(tr o g o o o o r Konian Catholic Foresters. Chicago, Aug. 30. Delegates to the number of 378 were present at the open ing of the national convention of the In ternational Catholic Order of Foresters at the North Side Turner hall. They have come from all parts of the United States and Canada and represent a total of 23,000. Attendance at the Fair. Chicago, Aug. 8L The attendance at the fair this week so far shows a falling off from last week. Yesterday it was 20, 000 less than Aug. 23, the total paid ad missions only footing up 135,912. The refusal of the United States senate to give Lee Mantle a seat is a practical de cision that when a legislature fails to elect a United States senator the governor has no right to till the vacancy by appoint ment. A heavy frost has almost totally de stroyed the cranberry crop of Jackson county, Wis. An unknown man, fift years old and well dressed, dropped dead on the plaza near the Casino at the World's fair. He had a return ticket to Milwaukee in his pocket. The Xew York World prints a list of twenty banks which have resumed busi ness, also a list of about fifty manufactur ing establishments which have resumed operations since Aug. li By the capsizing of a yacht in Lake Cham plain George P. Witherbee and five companions were drowned. Benjamin Larghrey, a wealthy farmer near Sunbury, Delaware county, ., dis covering that he had been made the vic tim of an adventuress, took the matter so much to heart that he committed suicide. An appeal has leen taken which carries to the United States supreme court the strange case of the man claiming a pen sion as William Newby, of Illinois, other wise identified as Daniel Benton, of Ten nessee. Five hundred Arkansas couvicts will be put to work on Mississippi river levees. Mr. and Mrs. William M arts have celebrated their golden we . x at Bun nytnede, Yt. Fred Grantham, son of Rev. Mr Grant ham, has been ai sted at Marseilles, HI., and taken back to Omaha, where he is charged with embezzling il.fiOO from ColT man Bros. & Smiley, his employers. Gustave SchartT, who murdered his wife and stepdaughter at Milwaukee and threw their bodies into the river, has been sen tenced to life imprisonment at Waupun penitentiary. A committee representing the 15,000 creditors ol the late Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, has laid their case before Mgr. Satolli and the matter will be re ferred to Home. The Trade and Labor assembly of Col umbus, O., refused to permit Gov, Waite, of Colorado, to speak at one of its meet ings because "of his efforts to divide the east and west." Iowa's corn is reported maturing rapidly enough to make a good crop without rain. A swarm of locusts has passed over Tunis, Algeria, the immense proportions of which can be realized when It is kuown that the sun was obscured for three hours during the progress of their flight. Obituary: At Freeburg, 111., Joseph Reichert, president of the Iieichert Mill ing company, aged 04. At Iowa Falls, la.. State Senator K. S. Smith. At Upper Sandusky, O., ex-Postmaster William Thompson, aged 00. At San Fransisco, Henry A. Cummings, assistant treasurer of the Southern Pacific company. The czar of Russia, with Mi-s. Alexan der and suite, have arrived at Copenhagen to join the Danish king's family party. Were Enterprising Thieves. Toledo, O., Aug. 30. Thieves stole a canal boat on the Miami and Erie can.'!, which was tied upabout'thirty miles south of here. They next caught a horse in a neighboring pasture, hitched him to the boat, and hauled it to Defiance. Here the thieves broke into J. li. Weisenberg's ele vator and stole about fi'M worth of clover seed. This they loaded into the boat, aud a start was tiieu made for this city. Being closely pursued after getting into the Maumee they ran the boat ashore aud es caped. Harvester Woi h to Mart I'p. ST. Paul, Aug. 30 The Walter A. Wood Harvester works will start up in a few days. The starting of this plant means that from 1,00 to ,000 men, nearly all of whom art now out of employment, will be provided with means of earning a comfortable livelihood. 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