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~ li. PAUL, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 21. 1883.
Tiie Kansas legislature has appropriated
sli 1,0(10 for the relief of the flood sufferer*
ey.
I; is said that interest in speculation has
so far declined at San Francisco, that the
dealings in stocks scarcelj average
$156,000 a day, which is *o much the bet
ter for 'Frisco.
T;:e ordnance dermrtment of the army
has now on hand 37,113 condemned and
superceded cast iron cannon balls, weigh
ing from four to forty-three pounds. They
should be turned into plowshares.
"Gexebal, did I lead them straight?"
were the dying words of young Commander
Rawron. leader of the Highland Brigade,
to Sir Garnet Wolseley, after the sanguine
victory of l-Kebir. The brave words
will have their place in history.
A resolution is before the Massachu
setts legislature, asking the members of
congress from that state to use every ef
fort to secure the expunging from the
record of the vote 'of censure upon the
late Oakes Ames. That vote caused th&
death of Mr. Ames, but times have changed
surely.
Counsellor Geoege Bliss, since the
second confession of ReerdeJ, claims with
confidence the conviction of the Star-
Routers. He attributes the aimless pro
ceedings of the first trial, and the ' weak
ness of the government case up to this
time to the fact that Wayne MacVeagh is
not a good criminal lawyer. Now, Mr.
Bliss counts on success.
The compliments 'that sometimes pass
between members of legislative bodies, are
not always ornate, however edifying they
may be for the moment. But Mr. Van
Allen, of the New York Assembly, rather
exceeded the ordinary ingenuity and polish
of personal debate, when he spoke of his
colleague, Mr. Spinola, as "a wrecked post
script of a piece of human life.
The clerk of the supremo court at Wash
ingion has been making $40,000 to $50,000
a year out of his office. Congress now
provides through the sundry civil ap
propriation bill that he shall be paid not
more than §6,000 per annum, and whereas
the cierl; has heretofore been independent
of the world, the flesh, and that other fel
low, he is hereafter to be under the juris
diction of the attorney general. This
causes Mr. J. H. Kennedy, the clerk, to feel
very pool and very sad.
The Minneapolis Trio line concludes an
article advocating tin appropriation for
enlarging the blind asylum at Faribault
by saying '"the Tribune is read to them
daily." If this statement is true there
never will be any occasion for enlarging
the institution. It is bad enough to be
blind, but no one will be willing to accept
the advantages of a public institution if it
carries with it the requirement to listen to
the hog wash of the Minneapolis Tribune.
Scandals, of one kind and another, have
for several years been floating about, con
cerning operations in the New Orleans
mint. The latest one is that the gold coin
produced there is short weight. Thirty
five thousand dollars of this light coin has
been discovered, and most of it his been
put in circulation. The annual assay
commission at the Philadelphia mint pro
nounce the coin as 2.100.000 below legal
tolerance. It is intimated that the mint at
New Orleans will be abolished, and it re
duced to an assay office merely.
The timberless portions of the country
are the greatest producers of grain, and as
lumber is now being manufactured of straw
the absence of timber will no longer be re
garded as a disadvantage. One ton of any
kind of .straw will produce a thousand feet <
of boards that may be handled as any lum- '
ber. The standard size is 32 inches in '
width, 12 feet in length, and the thickness
the same as average surface boards. This
lumber,it is said, can be produced and sold
in competition with wide walnut, at about
one-half the cost of the latter.
The theory that out of a multitude of
counsels comes wisdom is being verrified
by the attitude of the legislature in re- ;
gard to railroad legislation. The com
mittee,' of the respective houses have
agreed to disagree and each one has a
bill of its own. Several ambitious indi
vididuals have supplied other bills, and in
the midst of all the hubub it looks as
though no bill on the subject would be
come a law. That would be the part of
wisdom. We need no legislation regulat
ing the raliroads beyond what is
already on the statutebook. It
will be wiser for the legislature
to postpone a financial crash, rather than
precipitate one.
A vebt meritorious measure is being
presented to the committee on claims in
the legislators It is a proposition to give
Mrs. Bazille, the widow of Charles Bazille,
the sum of $6,000, and she in turn, with all
the other heirs.is to quit claim the block of
land used for state capitol purposes. Mr.
Bazille deeded the property to the state
with the understanding implied, though
not expressed, that in case the land ever
ceased to be used for capitol purposes it
would revert to him or his heirs. To
cover technicalities the deed had no reser
vation and now it is offered to give a quit
claim that would end all question forever.
Mrs. Bazille is much advanced in years and
with limited means, and the allowance of
such a claim would not only be just on the
part of a great and flourishing state, but .
would vent any possible question of}
titie being raised in tin future. j
John B. Gough, who has probably deliv
ered more lectures and addressed more
people than any man at present living,
says that no man ever rose to address an
audience without experiencing a quicken
ing of the heart. The actor, Thome, be
ing asked if he ever felt nervous on the
stage, died "Invariably on the first
night." "Many anil many a time," said he,
"I've gone on in a cold perspiration and
with knees shaking, so that I
thought they would give way. Mr. Thome
related an anecdote which all public
speakers will appreciate, as to the effect
produced even by one auditor, whose in
terest reflects its magnetic force upon the
speaker. "I remember," he said "playing
one night at the utmost disadvantage;
wasn't feeling well: house wa3 light, aud
I didn't care much for the play. Suddenly
I caught the face of a ten-year-old boy in
the audience who was crying. That in
spired me, for I felt that I had inspired
him. I played to that little fellow all the
rest of the evening, and never more to my
satisfaction.
Is New York City, Lawrence Billiard
boatman, was committed to the Tombs'
for intoxication. While in the prison he
attempted to hang himself to the door of
his cell, but tin effort was a failure. How
ever, for his attempt at suicide he was
brought before the court, and sentenced to
the penitentiary for one year. This is the
first conviction under the New York penal
code which provides for tho punishment
of persons attempting suicide. Several
other cases under this clause of the code
have been tried, but convictions have not
ensued, either from disagreements of juries
or acquitted by the courts. A great many
times persons have been convicted and
punished for trying to kill other people,
but this is tin* firet time a man has been
punished by the state for trying to take
his own life. The judge in
pronouncing sentence in the Bullard case
said he would send him where he would
have opportunity to meditate on the value
of human life, and where he would not
find any liquor. It is hardly probable, on
the whole, that the law will have the effect
to check the tendency to suicide.
A NOTABLE LIFE.
Ex-Gov. Edwin D.Morgan,who died last week,
was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts:
February 8, 1811. His father was a farmer,
living upon a sterile hillside farm in Washing
ton township, and the son enjoyed no educa
tional advantages save attendance at the village
shool during tho winter months. In 1828 his
father gave him his time, the late Governor
being then seventeen years of age, &nl
with the capital of 37K cents
he started out into the world for himself. At
Hartford, Conn., he apprenticed himself to his
Uncle Nathan, a wholesale and retail grocer, for
the term of three years, to receive $60 the first
year, §75 the second year, $100 for the third
year. He speedily developed aptitude for the
business, and at the beginning of his third year
his uncle sent him to New York, to buy supplies,
such as teas, sugars, coffee, etc., and also corn,
then in large demand. Young Edwin went to
the city and made his purchases, but
instead of buying 200 or 300 bufhels
of corn, as was the custom, he
bought two cargoes. Beaching home, his uncle
inquired about the corn, and pronounced the
price and quality satisfactory, but when he had
recovered from his astonishment at the quantity
bought, he cried out, "Why, Edwin, what are
we to do with two cargoes of corn':" "Oh,"
said tho youth, "I have sold all you do not
want at an advance, and could have sold three
cargoes if Iliad had them. I stopped in the
stores and made sales as I came from the stage
office." The next morning the young man was
at his post as usual, preparing to sweep out the
store, when his uncle arrived. "I think," said
he, "we can find some one else to do the sweep
ing here. A young man who can go to New
York and buy two cargoes of corn on his own re
sponsibility, and Bell them, without consulting
his principal, can be better employed than
! sweeping out a store." His uncle took him into
partnership, though he was only 20 years of age,
and the foundation of his success and fortune was
from that point assured, and lie died leaving an
estate estimated at from eight to ten millions of '
dollar-. He remained in Hartford until 1836
(having in the year 1833 married Miss Water
man), when ha removed to New York city. He
was then twenty-five years of age and had $5,000
capital. He formed a partnership, the whole
capital being $15,000, and established a whole
sale grocery. At the end of a year he bought
out his partners, and continued in
business alone until 1847, when, having
amassed a fortune, he formed . the
house »f E. D. Morgan & Co., his partners be
ing his cousin George Morgan and two favorite
clerks, which is still in existence.
His marvelous success in business was due to
his habits, application, and remarkable sagacity
as a buyer. He was a bold operator, had the
valuable faculty of anticipating or foreseeing
a rise in the market, and his ventures were
profitable. Ee was also a good judge of credit.
Mr. Morgan had a natural taste for politics.
In his twenty-first year he was chosen a mem
of the city council of Hartford, but it was not
until 1348, when ho had acquired* a generous
fortune, that he entered politics in New York.
He was successively alderman, state senator,
commissioner of emigration, vice president of
the Republican national convention at Pitts
burg (1856), chairman of the na
tional Republican committee, govern
or of New York. (1858-50), Major
General of Volunteers (1861), United State*
Senator (term ending 1869). As Chairman of
tho National Union Committee he opened the
proceedings of the convention at Baltimore in
1861, when Mr. Lincoln received his second
nomination. When the late Wm. Pitt Fessen
den left tho U. S. Treasury ship,
Mr. Lincoln asked Mr. Morgan
to take that portfolio, but he
declined, as he did again when President
Arthur pressed him to occupy the same position
in his administration.
In 1867 .Williams College, Berkshire Co.,
Mass., couferred upon him the degree of L. L.
D. In his lifetime he was generous in the be
stowment of his surplus wealth. In 1880 he
gave #100,000, toward erecting the new library
building for the Union Theological seminary,
and the library is known as the "Edwin D. Morgan
Library." At Williams College, he built, at the
cost of $88,030, "Morgan Hall," the name being
given to the edifice in his honor. He was a lib
eral patron of art, and had collected. at his house,
in Fifth avenue, jj|0 oil paintings, some of
them of great value and rare merit as works of
art. He was a director of the National Bank of
Commerce, and _-. of the United States
Trust company, also of the N. Y., Lake
Erie and Western R. R. and of Western Union
Telegraph company. He was President of the
board of Trustees of the Woman's and Presby
terian Hospital and a liberal friend of the Man
hattan Eye and Ear Hospital.
Th- success of Governor Morgan's career was
phenomenal. Possessed of but a common school
education, in 1828, with a capital of three
shillings, becoming a grocer's clerk
at sixty dollars a year, he
carved his way to fortune and position, hardly
ever outranked by an American citizen, and
added to that, the merit of being a public ben«
tfactor and useful citizen of the best and noblest
type. The life of Edwin D. Morgan was in
deed, notable.
Got. Morgan's .Estate.
Nbw Yobk, Feb. 20.—The late Gov. Mor
gan bequeaths his wife $500,000 and the
income of 1.000,000; to the relatives of
himself and wife $500,000; $22,000 to per
sonal friends and clerks in his office, and
$8,000 to his household servants; to chari
ties is given $795,000. The remainder .of
the estate, valued in all at . $6,000,000, "is
given to the executors in trust, the income
to be paid to his grandson. Edwin D. Mor
gan.
THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21.18F3.
COMMITTEE WORK.
The Railroad Joint Committee Holds an
Ineffective Meeting—The Barter Over
the Dnluth & Iron Range Land Civnl —
Tbe Judiciary Committee Sit in Judg
ment but Don't .Tut! ~c.
The Railroad Committee.
Tho joint railway committee held a brief
session yesterday morning, Hon. D. M
Sabin presiding. Mr. Jas. Smith, Jr., ex
plained that tho bill he had prepared from
the Iowa law, and which was introduced
by Senator Castle Monday was not pro
tended to be the act of the sub-committee
of Messrs. Cole, Clark and himself, the
other two gentlemen not having had an
opportunity to see the draft. Mr.
Cole stated that in his opin
ion the Massachusetts law was preferable
to that in operation in Iowa, while Mr.
Clark thought neither went far enough in
the matter of penalties, especially upon
the subject of discriminations in ware
housing facilities, etc. Finally Mr. Cole
moved that the Moore bill (the Massachu
setts law) bo recommended to pass and
the Castle bill (the Iowa law)
be indefinitely postponed, upon which the
committee stood, yeas '.). nays 5.
The committee then adjourned, and in
pursuance of the action taken the Moore
bill was recommended for passage in the
house, as will be seen by the report.
After the adjournment of the joint com
mittee the senate committee held a bri<jf
session, but took no final action upon any
of the bills before them.
The Duluth and Iron Range'.
The senate judiciary committee meeting,
Senator Castle presiding, held quite a
lengthy meeting in the parlor of the Met
ropolitan hotel last evening to consider
the bill which has already passed the house
extending the grant of swamp lands in
aid of the Duluth and Iron Range railroad,
and allowing the company to de
flect its lino from that pre
scribed in the original grant. The
matter comes before the judiciary com
mittee through antagonistic claims to the
grant, arising as follows: The grant was
made to the Duluth & Iron.Range railway,
at the rate of ten sections per mile, which
was organized to tap the iron range north
east of Duluth. In 18G8 the legislature
transferred the grant of the Duluth & Iron
Range railroad to the Duluth & Win
nipeg Railroad company, a new
organization incorporated to build
a road from Duluth to the western bound
ary of the state, and both companies are
now laying claim to the grant.
At the meeting of the committe
the claims of the Duluth & Iron
Range company were represented by
Hon. Jas. Smith, Jr., who introduced and
secured the passage of the extension bill
in the house, and Judge O. P. Stearns, and
the Duluth & Winnipeg road by
Hon. W. W. Billson, the senator from
Duluth and the local attorney of the road.
In his arguments in support of the jus
tice of the claim of the Daluth x Iron
Range company, Mr. Smith said that the
act of the legislature transferring the
grant to the Duluth & Winnipeg had been
secured by a fraud of two corporators "of
the first named road, and without the con
cent or even the knowledge of the other
eight corporators, and these eight
corporators had • never surrendered
their rights. In the meantime
they had gone forward and
made large expenditures of money in ex
ploring the iron range with the results of
establishing the fact that the bed of ore
was of almost unlimited extent and of
superior quality, and had now secured the
promise of the necessary financial aid for
the immediate construction of the road
and the development of the mines, provi
ded the grant made to the company, and
fraudulently attempted to be diverted
from it, was extended. In speaking of the
importance of the early opening of
the road, Mr. Smith said the
richness of the range - it was desired to
reach, was unquestioned, and that their de
velopment would confer more real good
upon the state than any other road yet
constructed.
Mr. Billson, in answer to Mr. Smith, de
tailed the proceedings by which the trans
fer of the grant was made, showing that
the bill by which it was accomplished took
the regular course through both bodies
of the legislature, some seventeen days
elapsing from the time of its introduction
until it became a law by the
signature of the governor, of
which the St. Paul papers made the usual
mention, as also the local papers of Du
luth, so that all parties interested in the
original grant must have known of the
proceedings, and could have protested if
they had desired. But no protest was made.
Subsequent to the transfer the Duluth &
Winnipeg road has gone into the hands of
Boston capitalists, who have surveyed and
located the line to the western boundary
of the state, and have partially
constructed the road - for a distance
of ten miles and honestly contemplated
its early completion. In answer to Mr.
Smith, Mr. Billson acknowl
edged that there had been
a motion among these latter, parties in
which the Boston contingent had been
ousted, but this had now been compro
mised and the Boston parties were in full
control. He also acknowledged that the
present proprietors had been in financial
straits, and been unable to meet their ob
ligations, but claimed that if no cloud was
thrown upon this grant they were assured of
sufficient means to complete ths road. He
further argued that the state in its sover
eign capacity having made the transfer of
the grant, and innocent parties relying
upon the good faith of that transfer, hav
ing invested in the enterprise, the stats
could not now step in and revoke its trans
fer.
Judge Stearns said it was correctly re
ported and believed that the proprietors of
the Duluth 4 Winnipeg franchise were
holding the same for speculative
purposes only. As to the legal ownership
of the grant, he held that there had been
no forfeiture of the grant by the Duluth &
Iron Range company, and that the act of
the legislature making the transfer, say
ing nothing about the alleged fraud by
which such action was secured, was inope
rative, and of no effect, for the reason that
the conditions specified upon which such
transfer should issue had not
taken place when the act in question was
passed. Any way, he said, the Duluth &
Iron Range railway were entirely willing to
submit the question of the legal right to
the grant to the courts, only desiring of
the legislature that whatever rights they
had should be preserved by extending the
grant, and to be allowed to make the
detour in the line asked for from the
original location.
Without considering any of the points
raised pro and con, the committee post
poned the subject to this evening, and
turned their attention to other bills re
ferred to it.
"Squatter* Sovereignty."
In commenting on "Squatter Sovereign
ty," to be produced at the Opera house to
morrow evening, the New York Herald
has the following:
Three weeks more and "Squatter Sov
ereignty," with all its roaring fun, its art
istic goat, pigs, chickens, the big telescope,
at tin cints a peep—yea the great pianner
I itself, will have vanished like the insub
stantial fabric of a dream. Cut it is un
like a dream, nevertheless. It
is exceedingly in this
last morsel of Mr. Ed. Harrigan's dra
matic feast. It is solid and profitable, and
on the road it will bo at once a boon of
mirth and a blessing to the people outside
of the metropolis, who have through the
past season had Pelion upon Ossa of
murky melo-draaia, frigid tragedy and
senseless clownish comic opera piled upon
their wearied sense. They have had the vari
ous courses of farce, leg burlesque, extrava
ganza, and shouting tragedians. Now in
'"Squatter Sovereignty" they will have the
champagne, the cream, the fruit, the stil
tou of bright, crisp and sparkling jollity
as wholesome, earnest and invigorating as
it is pure and cleanly.
SOME MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
Why a Leavenworth Official Wants a Di-
vorce— ami Jealousy—Minor
Crimea.
A leavenwoeth divoece.
[Special Telegram to the Globe.]
Leavenwobth, Kas., Feb. There is a
lively sensation in local circles here over
an application for divorce by Col. J. C.
Carpenter from his wife, Eliza D. Carpen
ter, formerly Miss Armstrong, of Pitts
burg, Pa. Col. Carpenter is United States
revenue collector for the district of Kansas,
was a formidable candidate for the nomi
nation for governor against St. John, in
1880, has served in the state senate, and
was a delegate to the Republican national
convention in 1872. It was on his way
from the latter convention that he mat
Miss . Armstrong in Pittsburg,
and a mutual attachment sprang up re
sulting in tlipir marriage March 2, 1882,
and they came to Leavenworth to reside,
where Col. Carpenter has his revenue of
fice. She developed a jealous disposition
and claims to have knowledge of indiscre
tions on tho part of her husband that
made her life miserable. Anonymous let
ters of a scurrilous character and dama
ging to Col. Carpenter were circulated,
one of which was sent to the
Leavenworth Standard, and he claims to
hare traced their origin to his
wife, and also to have discovered a diary
k*pt by her in which she wrote things de
rogatory to him. The result was a sepa
ration, Mrs. Carpenter going to her home.
She returned, however, and apparently in
tended to make it hot for the colonel as
seon as she re-appeared in the city. He
had notice served on her of an application
for divorce, bringing the suit in Neosho
county. The high standing of the parties
causes the affair to be much commented
upon, and gossip mongers are busy.
A high TONED wedding.
[Special Telegram to the Globe.]
Milwaukee, Feb. 20.About three
months ago a German named Wm. Van
seilow lost his wife by death. She left
him with five small children and he soon
found it very difficult to get along. Con
sequently he consulted a friend who told
him to go to the county hospital where he
could get a wife. Accordingly on Monday
he visited the home of the sick
and was ushered into the female depart
ment by Dr. Marsden, where he looked over
the eighteen inmates and soon made a se
lection. Dr. Marsden left them alone for
about ten minutes, when Vanseilow came
out and said he would return the next day
and marry the woman he had talked with.
The girl selected was Catharine Jaeger, a
German maid who had been delivered of a
child about a week before.
True to his ' word, Vanseilow called
to-day, and a justice of the peace
was sent for. Supervisors Eckert, Haze,
Sullivan and Scanian and Charley Hintze
and County Clerk Trteamex having heard
of the queer affair," were present. Haze
and Eckert acted as groomsmen and Dr.
Marsden gave the bride away. County
Clerk Trammer assisted the justice, who
was dull on the ceremony. After the nup
tials the party sent for wine and the health
of the queerly united couple was drank a
dozen times.
BUM AND JEALOUSY.
I Special Telegram to the Globe. 1
Teere Haute, Ind., Feb. —A decided
ly sensational shooting scrape, and one
which will result in the death of one of
tho parties thereto, occurred yesterday.
Elias McVick, formerly an engineer on
the Vandalia railway, lives with his wife at
No. 733 South Ninth street. Some two
or three months since he lost his
position on the railway by reason of his
intemperate habits. Since then he has
been out of employment and spending the
greater portion of his time in drinking.
About two weeks ago he had some hot
words with his wife, and threatened to kill
her, but left the house, and was not
seen or heard from until yesterday. Sun
day he went home and secreted
himself in the cellar all night, and this
morning went up stairs into his wife's
room and said, "Ann, I have come to do
what I promised," and immedietely open
ed fire upon her with a revolver. The first
shot passed through the left cheek and
ear, the second ball buried itself in the
right arm and the third shot missed.
While attempting to shoot a fourth time
she managed to escape, and ran into
a neighbor's house, wounded and bleeding.
McVick barricaded the doors and ran up
stairs into the second story and when the
police of the district arrived he opened fire
on them from the window. When McVick
saw that the police was pressing him and
would effect his capture, he placed
a revolver against * .his head
and shot himself in the brain.
While on the way to jail he fought the
officers terribly. The doctors have probed
the wound and find the ball penetrated the
brain, and that death will be the result.
He says that he has caught Ann, his wife,
in compromising situations and that he
could no longer live with her, and signs in
the following novel way: "McVick died
Feb. 19, 1883."
BUBNED TO DEATH.
Chicago, Feb. 20.The Inter Ocean's
Fort Wayne special says: A freight train
on the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific road
broke in two on a rather heavy down grade.
The rear portion came down at a high
rate of speed and crashed into the other,
wrecking the caboose and other cars, and
setting the wreck on fire. John Meehan,
of Ft. Wayne and L. H. Turner of Flora,
111., were burned to death.
MAKING IT HOT FOB "BUSTLEBS."
Denveb, Col., Feb. 20.— Tribune's
Santa Fe special says: Capt. Dolazar broke
up a nest of cattle thieves at Lamesa. ar
resting three rustlers, killing Eugenias
Pedras, a noted desperado, who refused to
surrender. Capt. Van Patten's company
is still after Kenny's band. Other military
companies have been ordered out to scout
Socorro and Valencia counties. The rust
lers are already taking alarm and are flee
ing from the territory in large numbers.
- A New Southern Line.
Fla., Feb. 20.—C. C. Bald-
win, president of the Louisville & Nash
ville railroad, accompanied by the direc
tors, are considering the plan of building
the railroad from Montgomery, A! a., to
Chattahoochie, connecting , the Louisville
& Nashville system with the Florida Cen
tral & Western and Transit road.
YESTERDAY IN CONGRESS.
1'ASS.ICE OF THE TARIFF RILL IN
THE SENATE.
The Work of the House oh the Measure--
Probability of Its Passage Before Ad
journment.
Senate. •*
Washington, Feb. 20. The house bill
for extending the time of filing Alabama
claims passed with an amendment.
Mr. Tabor introduced a bill for a mili
tary post in western Colorado. ,
Mr. Plumb introduced a bill for the con
struction of a bridge across the Missouri
river at Leavenworth.
The senate resumed consideration of the
tariff bill.
The pending question was on the motion
to reconsider the vote by which the duty
on green and colored glass bottles, vials,
demijohns, etc., not cut, engraved or
packed, and not specially provided for,
was changed from 30 per cent, ad valorem
to one and one-fourth ceats per pound.
The motion was agreed to. %
Mr. Sewell moved to make the duty one
cent per pound. Lost, thus leaving the
rate 30 per cent, ad valorem.
Mr. Sherman moved to amend the wool
and woolen schedule so as to make it read
i that tho duty on wools of the first class,
j the value whereof at the fast port or place
when exported to the United States, ex-
I cluding charges, shall be 30 per cent, per
i pound or less, twelve cents per pound in
stead of ten as in the bill and making the
duty on wools of the same class valued
above thirty cents per pound, fourteen
cents instead of twelve cents per pound.
Also raising the duty on wools of the sec
ond class, hair of the Alpaca goat, and
other like animals of the value of thirty
cents per pound or less, from ten to twelve
cents per pound, and the duty on wools of
the same class valued above thirty cents,
from twelve to fourteen cents per pouud.
Mr. Ingalls said he would not vote for
the changes proposed unless very good
reasons for them be given.
Mr. Morrill hoped the amendments
would be rejected.
Mr. Hawley felt that the action of the
senator from Ohio in proposing these
changes at this stage of the bill was un
just. The amendments proposed by Mr.
Sherman would strike at the great carpet
making industry of Connecticut, and he
hoped they would be rejected.
Mr. Logan said that injustice would
be done the farmers producing wool, and
he would vote for Mr. Sherman's amend
ments.
Mr. Conger was satified the bill struck a
harder blow at the wool growing interest
than any other, and he was one of the few
senators who always looked after the in
terests of the farmers. He would vote for
the increased duty proposed by Mr. Sher
man.
Mr. Bayard thought the changes pro
posed by the senator from Ohio were a
step backward. Their adoption would
open a door to 'many, other amendments
and so delay the passage of the bill, and
he hoped they would be rejected. ' .
Mr. Sherman said Mr. Hawley had done
him great injustice by the intimation that
he was seeking to injure the manufac
turers af woolen goods. The duties on
such goods as were provided for in this
bill were greater than those reported by
the tariff commission and he had voted for
them. It was the manufacturers who had
shown dissatisfaction with the report of
the tariff commission, and having got the
changes made they desired in their own
interests, they were now indignant because
the wool producers asked protection.
Mr. Beck said ho was at a loss to under
stand why tho subject was now to be re
opened unless to kill the bill. The iron
men and Other manufacturers deeply in
terested in the tarriff had come to tho un
derstanding that if they could get every-,
thing they desired in the way of duties
they would let the bill pass, but that oth
erwise they would defeat it and enjoy at
least two more years of plunder. Under the
existing tariff he was glad the senator
from Pennsylvania, (Cameron) had shown
their purpose openly in even day by
his motion to recommit the bill, with
instruction to repo/t a measure for the
reduction of internal revenue only he,
(Beck), represented a large wool-growing
community and his only son was engaged
in the same business, but ho would vote
against the increase in the interest of the
wool growers, of consumers and manufac
turers also, because there could be no
great or real prosperity of manufacturers
in this country so long as raw materials
were kept clear.
Mr. Allison thought the bill as it stood
made very fair adjustment of duties on
wool and wool manufacturers. As to
classes of wool to which the Sherman
amendment would apply the importation
of» them was very small. The American
wool grower, substantially controlling the
American market and understanding that
our wool producers would have a protec
tion of 45 per cent, under this bill, he
would not vote to increase the duty when
such an increase must necessarily increase
the cost of all manufactured woolen goods.
He did not believe the senators could justi
fy their claims that they were reducing the
burdens of the people, if they should
restore the higher duties upon a great
schedule like this.
Mr. Sherman's amendments were voted
upon together and rejected.
..On motion of Mr. Morrill, a duty of 20
per cent, ad valorem was laid on extract of
meat, and 30 per cent, on "vegetables pre
pared or preserved," not otherwise pro
vided for.
Mr. Bayard called up his amendment lay
ing a duty of 2*4 cents per pound on iron cr
steel, sheets or plates, galvanized or coated
by any process with zinc spelter or any
other of those metals commonly known as
galvanized iron or sheet steel. After dis
cussion he modified the amendment so as
to make the rate one cent per
pound, and later, at the suggestion
of Mr. Morrill, offered it as
a proviso at the end of the paragraph em
bracing boiler or other plate iron, sheet
iron and black taggers iron in this form.
provided that on all such iron and steel
sheets or plates aforesaid not thinner than
twenty-nine wire gnu^e. when galvanized
or coated with zinc, spelter or any alloy of
these metals one cent per pound additional.
Agreed to —yeas, 49; nays. 29.
Mr. Kellogg moved to have the bill, take
effect in respect to the articles embraced
in the sugar schedule, on the 1st of June.
1883. instead of the 1st of April, as in the
bill. '
Messrs. Morrill and Frye opposed the
amendment, but it was agreed to —yeas,
34; noes, 18.
Mr. Dawes moved to "insert pistols of
all kinds at 35 per cent.nd valorem."
Agreed to. v:c-^ v.^^C
The various amendments offeredjwere re
jected and the debate on the bill closed
with the understanding that the amend
ments might still bo red.
Mr. Brown moved to make the duty on
gold watches 40 per cent. Agreed to —
ayes, 20; noes, 15. .
Mr. Brown moved to make the duty on
champagne and other sparkling wines in
bottles holding not more th m a quart each,
$7 per dozen. Agreed toayes, 33; noes,
21.
The duty on small bottles was fixed in.
proportion.
Mr. JoDes, of Nevada, moved to mate
the duty on refined borax five- cents per
pound, instead of three and to add, "pure
boracia acid, five cents" per pound; com
mercial boracia acid,four cents per pound:
borate of lime, three cents per pound;
crude borate, three cents per pound."
Agreed to—ayes, 27; nays, 13.
Mr. Windom moved to strike out section
2..~>i<> of the bill relating to the free admis
sion of fish from Canada
and Newfoundland during the continuance
of the fisheries provisions of the treaty of
Washington, and insert the following:
"Nothing in this act shall in any way
change or impair the force or effect of any
treaty between the United States and any
other government, or any laws passed in
pursuance of it for the execution of any
such treaty, so long as such treaty shall re
main in force in respect to the sub
jects embraced in this act, but
when any such treaty—so far as the same
affects such subjects oxpireorbe
otherwise terminated, the provisions of
this act shall be enforced in all respects in
the same manner and extent as if no such
treaty had existed at the time of tho pas
sage hereof. Agreed to.
Mr. Gorman offered an amendment pro
viding that from and after the passage of
this act every manufacturer of tobacco or
snuff shall, in addition to all other require
ments of law, print or paste securely
upon each package containing tobacco or
snuff manufactured, a label on which
shall be printed the number of the manu
factory, the district and state in which it
is situated, and these words, "Notice —The
manufacturer of this tobacco has complied
with all requirements of the law. All per
sons are cautioned under penalty of law
not to use this package again for tobacco."
Agreed to.
On motion of Mr. Hale the duty on
'•stones unmanufactured or undressed for
stone, granite, sandstone, or all building
or monumental stone, except marble not
enumerated, was changed from $1.50 per
ton to 20 per cent, ad valorem.
On motion of Mr. Aldrich, cotton dam
ask inserted 40 per cent, ad valorem.
Mr. Bayard moved to amend the book
paragraph in free list by adding engrav
ings bound or unbound. Maps and charts
which shall have been printed and manu
factured more than twenty years at the
date of importation. Agreed to.
Mr. Voorhees moved for the admission
free of works of art, the production of
American artists when imported expressly
for presentation to any national institu
tion or any state or municipal corporation
so as to make its provisions apply to re
ligious societies and corporations. Agreed
to.
Mr. Logan moved to add a quarter of a
cent per pound to the duty on zinc, spelter
or tutenag so as to make it 2% per cent,
per pound. Agreed to, ayes . 28
noes 26.
Mr. Brown moved to insert gold watch
cases 40 per cent, ad valorem.
Mr. Morgan called up his amendment,
offered yesterday in the nature of a
substitute for the tariff provisions of the
bill, providing that on and after July 1,
1883, and until July 1, 1884, there shall be
levied, collected and paid 85 per cent, of
existing rates of duty on goods, wares and
merchandise imported into the United
States, and after July 1, 1884, 75 per cent,
of such rates. Lost, ayes 15, noes 42.
Those voting aye were Barrow, Beck,
Cockrill, Coke, Farley, Garland, George,
Harris, Jones, Fla., Maxey, Pendleton,
Pugh, Vance, Walker and Williams. Mor
gan himself was paired, and Butler, but
for his pair with Cameron of Pennsylvania,
would have voted aye.
Mr. Harris offered a substitute for the
tariff portion of the bill providing for a
discount of 10 per cent, from existing
rates of duty after July 1, 1883, and addi
tional discount of 10 per cent, after July 1,
1884. —ayes 15, noes 40.
The tariff portion of the bill which was
a technical amendment to the original bill
to reduce tho internal revenue tax was
then agreed to by the following vote:
AYES.
Aldrich, Frye, Miller (Cain.),
Allison, Gorman, Miller, (N. Y.),
Anthony, Hale, Morrill,
Harrow, Harrison, Piatt,
bayard, Hawley, Plumb,
Blair, Hill, Rollins,
Brown, ■ Hoar, Sawyer,
Camden, Ingalls, Slater,
Cameron (Wis.)Jackson, Ts.bor,
Conger, Kellogg, Van Wyck,
Davis (111.), Logan, Windom—
Davis,(W.Va.), McMillan,
Dawes, McPherson,
NATS.
Beck, Hampton, Sewell,
Call, Harris, Sherman,
Cockrill, Jones, (Fla.), Vance,
Coke, Mahone, Vest,
Edmunds, Maxey, Voorhees,
Farley, Pendleton, Walker,
Garland, Pugh, Williams—23.
George, Ransom,
Mr. Butler was paired with Cameron, of
Pennsylvania, and withheld his vote. Mr.
Jonas was paired with Groome. If he had
not been he would have voted no. Mr.
Jones, of Nevada, was paired with his col
league. Mr. McDill would have voted aye,
but for the fact that he was paired. Mr.
Mitchell was paired, otherwise would have
voted no. Mr. Morgan was paired with
Mr. Lapham, and Mr. Saulsbury with Mr.
Saunders.
At 9:30 the senate passed the tariff bill as
amended by agyote of 42 to 19.
Upon the passage of the bill the vole
was as follows:
AYES.
Aldrich, Frye, McPherson,
Allison, Gorman, Miller, (.Vs.,
Anthony, Hale, Miller, N. Y.,
Barrow, Harrison, Merrill,
Bayard, Hawley, Piatt,
Blair, Hill. Plumb,
Brown, Hoar, Rollins,
Camden, Ingall?, Sawyer,
Cameron, Wis., Jackson, Sewell,
Conger, Jones, Fla., Sherman,
Davis, 111., Jones, Ntv., ■■''■ Slater,
Davis, W. Va,. Kellogg, Tabor,
Dawes, Logan, Van Wyck,
Edmunds, McMillan, Windom42.
NAYS.
Beck, Hampton, Vest,
fall,. Harris, Voorhees,
Cockrill, Maxey, Walker,
Coke, Pendleton. Williams
Farley, Pugh,
Garland. Ransom,
George, Vance,
Mr. Butler, but for his pair with Mr
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, might have
voted aye, though reluctantly. Mr. Jones
was paired with Mr. Groome, if not he
would have voted no. ' Mr. McDill was
paired with Mr. Lamar,otherwise he would
have voted aye. Mr. Morgan would have
voted aye but was paired. Mr. Saulsbury
was paired with Mr. Saunders.
The title of the bill was then made to
read: "An act to reduce internal .revenue
taxation and for other purposes."
Mr. Logan called up the army appro
priatiun bill so as to make it unfinished
business for to-morrow.
Adjourned.
House.
Washington, Dec. 20. —Mr. Hiscock,
chairman of the appropriations committee
moved to go into committee of the whole
on the sundry civil appropriation bill. He
expressed the opinion that the bill would
not occupy more than two or three days,
and said it would be followed by the de
ficiency bill. v0
Mr. Calkins, chairman of the election
committee, gave notice that ha would, as
soon as the sundry civil bill was disposed
of, ask action on the various election case^
now on the calendar.
Mr. Call moved to restore the existing
allowance of 5 per cent, on effervescing
wines for breakage or damage. Lost —
aje3 21, noes' 32.
* Mr. Bland raised a point of order against i
the clause authorizing the secretary of tho
treasury to purchase additional real estate
in San Francisco for the storage of bul
lion. The point was sustained.
Mr. Mills offered an amendment order
ing the secretary of the treasury to pay
out of tho bonded debt of the government
now due all the money now in the treasury
in excess of §50,000,000. Ruled out on a
point of order.
Mr. Bland offered an amendment pro
viding that all moneys appropriated by
this bill shall be paid out of the silver dol
lars now in the treasury. Ruled out on a
point of order.
Mr.Belf moved to strike out the clause
appropriating $10,000 for enlarging "the
vaults for the storage of silver and said
that if half tho zeal or earnestness or hon
esty was used io put the silver dollar into
circulation that was used to keep it out,
there would be no question of building
additional vault room.
Suqseqnently Mr. Beiford withdrew his
amendment.
Mr. Fisher offered an amendment pro
viding for the coinage only of such a
number of standard silver dollars as is re
quired to supply the demand therefor;
but such coinage shall not be less th.m
$1,000 a year.' Ruled out on- a point of
order.
The clause appropriating §100,000 in
aid of state and local boards of heal in
preventing the spread of •identic diseases
having been reached, Mr. Manning offered
an amendment, providing that the money
shall be expended under the supervision of
the national board of health.
Mr. Ellis in opposing tho amend
ment expressed his opinion
that the national board of
health was the most stupendous humbug
and fraud ever created and quoted from
its own report, to show it had made mis
expenditures of public money. He could
bring home to that board a deliberate at
tempt to create rumors of yellow fever in
New Orleans. Dunn advocated the amend
ment and declared that the Louisiana
board of health concealed the existence of
pestilence in New Orleans slid were willing
to peddle, death through the county, to
keep up the commerce of the state.
Mr. Manning defended the national
board of health from adverse criticism,
and reflected upon the Louisiana state
board, attributing to it in a great measure
the yellow fever epidemic of 1878.
Pending action the committee roce.
Mr. Townsend, of Ohio, from the com
mittee on commerce, reported river and
harbor bill, which was referred to tho com
mittee of the whole.
The house then took a recess.
The house immediately on reassembling
proceeded, in committee of the whole, to
consider the sundry civil appropriation,
bill, the pending amendment being that to
provide that the appropriation of $100,
000 for the prevention of the spread of
epidemics shall be expended under the
supervision of the national board of
health. After discussion the amendment
was lost.
Mr. Hiscock offered an amendment for
the sale of the following: Allegheny ar
senal, Pennsylvania; Augusta arsenal,
Georgia; Indianapolis arsenal, Indiana;
Kennebec arsenal, Maine; Watertown ar
senal, Massachusetts, and Watervliet ar
senal, New York. Ruled out on a point of
order.
Mr. Townsend, of Ohio, from the com
mittee on commerce, reported back the
river and harbor bill and recommended its
passage. The additions made in commit
tee amount to $50,000. A provision was
added to the bill which specifies all appli
cations for surveys shall be made to and all
authorizations of surveys be made by the
secretary of war. The report explains the
bill and discusses the president's messages
relating to it which had been referred to
this committee, and in conclusion states
the work recommended and de
manded by the necessities of
commerce has been provided for
on an economical scale in compliance
with the wishes of t!.a people.
There is an appendix in which twenty
five items objected to by the secretary of
war are discussed and statements of
engineers compared with statements in
the secretary's letter of objections to show
why objections are not sustained by the
action of the committee, is instances
where the expenditures had been recom
mended on stream* designated by the sec
retary as not demanding improvement
in the interest of commerce.
Representative Burrows, of Michigan,
will to-morrow offer the following resolu
tion, which will be referred to the com
mittee on rules and|acted upon at an early
day: Resolved, I hat during the remain
dor of this session, immediately after the
approval of the journal each day, the
speaker shall call committees in regular
order, when it she 11 be in order for any
committee called to designate a bill on
any of the calendars of the house or on the
speaker's table, which bill shall be
taken up for immediate consideration and it
will be in order to debate such bill for three
minutes, when the previous question may
be moved and if seconded a vote shall then
be taken, but if not seconded the bill shall
resume its original position whether on the
calendar or speaker's desk, provided that
pending the consideration of any bill but
one, a motion to adjourn shall be in order,
before the vote is taken on such bill.
Mr. Kelly said, recognizing the impor
tance of the passage. of the appropriation
bills in time for action by the senate,' he
would not antagonize them, but as
soon as they were disposed of he would
again press consideration of the tariff
bill in the hope of ' reaching a result.
Incredulous laughter.]
The house went into committee of the
whole on the sundry civil appropriation
bill. General debate was dispensed with
and the bill read by paragraphs for
amendment.
In committee of the whole considering
the item appropriating $150,000 for the
completion of the Washington monument,
Mr. Hiscock staled the monument would
be completed in two years from July 1
next.
Mr. McCook offered an amendment pro
viding that all lands reseived for military
purposes which, in the opinion of the pres
ident, may be no longer desirable for such
purposes, shall be placed under control of
the secretary of the interior, to be by him
sold to the highest bidder for cash. Pend
ing action the committe rose and the
house adjourned.
A Pacific Coast Windfall.
[Special Telegram to the Globe. ]
Pittsbubg, Pa., Feb. 20. —A few days ago
the members of a family named Gillespie,
who reside on Gibbon street, Sixth ward,
received news from California of a death
and a large fortune which was left to them.
The details of the somewhat romantic
story are as follows: In 1858 James McKee,
a brother of Mrs. Gillespie, came to
America from Ireland. Instead of having
a bout with fate in the east he imme
diately went to the far west and finally
settled down at Stockton, Cal.
How he ohtained the nucleus
of his fortune is not stated, but he event
ually stocked a sheep ranch and engaged
in the sheep breeding business until the
time of his death. Years rolled by and
the country became more thickly populat
ed, and the city of Stockton grew up about
him. His wealth increased year by year,
and from independence he merged into
affluence, to be worth in the neighborhood
ot $300,000. He remained a bachelor all
his life, and died about two weeks ago,
leaving his entire fortune to Charle3 and
Emma Gillespie, his sisters children.