SENATE DEBATE.
A Speech by Morrill on the President's
Message.
Some Effects of the Free Trade Policy on
the Country.
Air. encan Wool at from Four to Six Cents
Per Pound in New York.
Some of the Evils of the Democratic De
parture Described.
Davis, of Minnesota, Speaks for the Ad
mission of Southern Dakota.
Washington', April 11.—The Senate
took up the motion to refer the President's
annual message, and was addressed by
Morrdl. He said the President appeared
to deprecate discussion of protection and
free trade, and with wonderful simplicity
forthwith proposed to recommend absolute
free trade in wool. He would by this
measure cut the jugular of every sheep
in the country and argue with the owners
that they would be better off without
them, or that they lost more than they
gained by protection. Deducting the pro
tective duty imposed for the benefit of
American wool of ten cents per pound,
the value of Texas wool in the New York
and Poston markets would suddenly drop
to four or six cents per pound. No State
would continue to raise wool at that price.
AVool growing in the great State ot
Texas, with an area larger than that ot
Germany, France, Spain and Italy, wonld
l>e known as one ot the lost arts. Ihe
prodigious loss to landed estates from the
abandonment of sheep husbandry was a
problem difficult to solve. He berated the
attempt to excite a panic in financial
affairs because of an annual surplus of
>.",,000,000. The maintenance ot a bi
metallic system of coinage and the preser
vation of a currency of both gold and sil
vei was liable to be effected were the rates
of duties to be placed merely a trifle in
favor of foreign importations. An excess
of imports over exports would soon ap
pear and turn the balance of trade against
this country. This could not continue
long before gold would command a
premium and find its best market as a
commodity to he shipped abroad.
The Senate resumed the consideration of
the bill fo provide for the admission of
Dakota, and for the organization of North
Dakota, and was addressed by Mr. Davis.
He said the Senator from South Carolina
I Putler) was of the opinion that the
admission of the state was purely within
the discretion of congres. Davis denied
that proposition. He denied it from the
light of law, and from the light of history.
As to the claim of the Senator from South
Carolina, that there was great opposition in
Dakota to the bill, he asked why petitions
of dissent had not come to the Senate from
Dakota. The whole territory, he said, con
tained -<>me 000,000 inhabitants, of which
about 1150,000 were in Southern Dakota;
o! the latter, 20,000 were ex-union soldiers,
mho were denied the franchise by the
country which they had fought to save.
They were in all that constituted a state,
more fully equipped than many states
which were now persistently denying their
admission. Why delay loDger that great
act of national justice. The question
should be stripped of all pretence, evasion
and sham, and it should he plainly admit
ted that the commonwealth of South
Dakota had been denied admission as a
state for the sole reason that the party in
power (witn a solid South) was deter
mined not to lose its political ascendency.
Tin pie obtained the fioor, and the bill was
laid aside until to morrow.
Washington, April 12. —The motion to
refer the President's annual message was
taken up, and Coke addressed the Senate.
Speaking of the surplus of $14,000,000 in
the treasury, he said that the causes which
took that money needlessly from the
pockets of the people and the channels of
trade were continuing and produced more
aggravated results each year. Unless the
causes were removed or modified a calam
ity fatally involving all industrial interests
of the country must follow. In view of
this emergency the President had urgently
recommended euch revision of the tarifi'
and a reduction of duties on imports as
would reduce the revenues to the limit re
quired for the support of the government.
The President was simply voicing the de
mand that caine from the people of the
whole country. Coke said the consumers
did not complain of the tax on distilled
spirits, malt liquors and tobacco as that
tax added nothing to the cost of living, and
it was not strange that the president
should recommend its retention, and that
the necessary reduction of the revenue he
made by cutting down tarifi taxes. It the
reduction should be made in this way, $5
of tribute paid by the people to the man
ufacturers wonld be cut oft for every
dollar cut off from the revenue. A high
tariff was demanded on the ground of the
necessity of protecting American labor
against European pauper competition. A
more false, heartless and groundless pre
text had never been invented to justify or
cover up a great wrong. It was oa the
farmers of the country that the protective
tarifi'fell with crushing weight. Wool should
t»e placed on the free list, bnt it ought to
tie done in the interest of the consumer, not
of the manfactnrer, to allow the manufac
ture of free, untaxed wool, with 50 per cent,
protection lor the manufacture of the arti
cle would be an outrage. He regarded
sugar as the best revenue paying item on
the tariff list and one carrying with it less
of the incidental burden than any other,
ami thought it would therefore be wise to
leave the duty on sugar as it was. The
attention of the people could not be di
verted from the real question at
issue. The sectional "bloody shirt" was
really commenced by the Republican party
for the purpose of blinding the people with
passion, so that they might not see how
and by whom they were, being plundered.
At the close of Coke's speech, the Senate
resumed consideration of the bill to pro
vide for the admission of South Dakota.
Turpie spoke in opposition to the bill of
the majority of the committee and in favor
of that of the minority. South Dakota, he
said, not being a Territory or division of
the Union, was merely a geographical ex
pression. He denied the right of the peo
ple of a Territory to establish a division of
it, and said the people of the whole Union
had a right to be heard as to the propriety
of such a division. There had been an ex
pression of the popular will at the conven
tion held in Aberdeen last December. The
people of the whole Territory were against
division, and desired an enabling act, as
provided in the minority bill.
Cullom spoke in favor of the majority
hill, reviewing the history of the question.
He declared that in every instance where
a vote was taken in favor of the admissiou
i»f the State of South Dakota the Repub
can senators had all voted for it, and the
Democrats all against it, and when the bill
went to the House that distinguished
Democratic body referred it to the com
mittee on Territories where it was at once
reported back adversely. This Territory
had been knocking at the door of Congress
for years with a population very much
larger than any other Territory admitted
as a State, when the opposition was based
on the fact that the Democrats did not
want any further political complications
thrust upon the couutry until after the
presidential election.
Bntler, of South Carolina, said that he
voted steadily to admit the whole of Da
kota as a state and would do so now.
Callom continuing said :
The figures of the electoral college will
not be changed until 1892. Yon may pre
vent us from changing the figures through
the admission of Sooth Dakota, bnt we in
tend to change the figures by an honest
vote of the States already in. I think I
am warranted in saying that this bill has
come to be a subject of serions cancns con
vention by the Democrats of the two
houses, and I supjmse it has been decreed
that no bill shall pass Congress admitting
Dakota as a State until after the next pres
idential election.
Butler— I am sure my friend from
Illinois will not require the votes from
Territory at the next election. I under
stand he has been announced as the Re
publican candidate. I think he will have
enough votes without Dakota.
Cullom, langhing— "I think so, too; bnt
still I would like to have them, perhaps."
Butler replied : "Onr amiable friend
from Iowa may have something to say on
the subject."
Allison intimated by gesture that he had
nothing to say.
"Then, perhaps, the Senator from Ver
mont may have something to say," sug
gested Butler.
"I shall have something to say on the
subject," was Edmunds' response.
The Senate then proceeded to executive
business and soon adjourned till Monday.
Washington, April 16. —On motion of
Farwell, the bill providing for the invest
ment of certain funds in the treasury, was
taken up.and Farwell proceeded to address
the Senate on the financial question. He
gave notice of his intention to offer two
amendments to the bill. One of them
directs the secretary of the treasury to
issue and sell to national banks at par for
United States notes, United States 21 per
cent bonds, redeemable after fifty years, to
be nsed [by the banks as security for
their circulating notes, to be issued to the
full par value of the bonds. It also directs
the secretary of the treasury to invest the
surplus funds held in the treasury, includ
ing the amount to be received for these
bonds, in the purchase of aoy United
States bonds in open market, and repeals
all sinking funds. The other amendment
authorizes the secretary of the treasury in
order to enable national banks to maintain
and increase their circulation, and to pre
vent the ultimate destruction of the hanks
by the purchase or payment of the national
debt. To receive from banks, to secure
their circulating notes, state, county or
municipal bonds, upon which interest
has been heretofore promptly paid,
and whose market value is
equal to or greater than their par value,
bearing interest at not less than 4 per cent.
Such bonds, however, are Dot tobe received
by the Treasurer at more than 75 per cent
of their par value, nor until the approval of
of the Secretary of the United States aDd
Comptroller of Currency shall be endorsed
upon them.
Farwell went on to say that the hill was
good enough as far as it went. It did Dot
include the whole question, which he re
garded as of permanent interest, bnt only
proposed to temporize with it. It simply
reduced the interest on 4 per cent, bonds
to 2] per cent. These bonds amounted to
over $700,000,000 and matured in 1907, and
it authorized national banks to receive at
par upon them and npon all other United
States bonds. The bill did not remedy the
evils of the present financial condition.
The two amendments which he proposed
to offer would, he thought,cure these evils.
He would, if he conld, so amend the finan
cial legislation of the couutry that the na
tional hanking system (the best ever de
vised) should he continued. His amend
ments, if adopted, would enable national
banks to use the present debt of the United
States. If that debt conld be continued at
its present value the legislation proposed
by him would be adequate to the mainten
ance of the national banking system, but
he recognizes the fact that the American
people were anxious and determined to pay
the debt.
STEWART SAID.
He did not regard banks as monopolies,
nor did he characterize them as the money
power of the country. He thought them
the reverse of that. He did not believe in
sumptuary laws, legal tender laws, nor
usury laws, bnt he did believe in that kind
of a government which had the fewest
laws, giving the people the largest liberties
and guaranteeing good order, good morals
and adequate protection. In pursuance of
that position, he wonld not require any
one by law to take silver or greenbacks or
national bank notes in payment of debts.
He wonld leave that matter entirely to
agreement and contract. He wonld per
mit any citizen of the United States to go
to the mints and have his gold bullion
coined into money. He would also permit
him to have his silver bullion coined into
money to any extent haviDg a geld stand
ard, bnt he deemed it impossible to have
two standards.
MILITARY AFFAIRS,
Transfer of Troops by the Secretary
of M ar.
Washington, April 13.— The Secretary
of AVar has decided on the following trans
fers of troops, movements to commence not
later than June 1st next : The Third In
fantry and the Twenty-fifth Infantry will
exchange stations within the Department
of Dakota, and then moved to such sta
tions in the Department of Texas as the
commanding general of that department
may designate. The Sixteenth Infantry
will move to the Department of the Platte,
with headquarters at Fort Donglas, Utah.
The companies of the Sixth Infantry now
at Fort Donglas, Utah, will go to Fort
Lewis, Colorado. The Twenty-second In
fantry will move to the Department of
Dakota, with headquarters at Fort Keogh,
Montana. The commanding general of the
Department of Arizona will order some
company Dom his command to Fort Marcy,
N. M. The Thirteenth Infantry, in the
Department of Arizona, will exchange
stations with the Twenty-fourth Infantry,
in the Department of Missouri. Battery
G, First Artillery, in the Department of
the East, will exchange stations with bat
tery F, Firet Artillery, Department of Cali
fornia. The portion of the Eighth Cavalry
now in the Department of Dakota, will be
concentrated at Fort Mead, Dakota, and
then moved to Fort Riley, Kansas. The
Eighth Cavalry will be concentrated at
such point in the Department of Texas as
its commanding general may designate
and moved to Fort Meade, Dakota.
Interstate Commerce.
Chicago, April 13.— Chairman Cooley,
of the interstate commerce commission,
said to-night that the commission had
recommended to the congressional com
mittee on interstate commerce an amend
ment to the act to cover transcontinental
competition of Canadian roads, ^prin
cipal feature is that no United States rail
road shall charge more for localfreightthan
their share of the rates charged on Cana
dian freight they have received. The
commission has also made suggestions
looking toward the control of €X P r ?*
panieefpipe lines and other forms of special
BPTVÎAA.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Celebration at Springfield, 111., of the
Twenty-third Anniversary of
his' Death.
Letters and Telegrams from Governors of
States, Senators and Others.
LINCOLN.
Anniversary Celebration of the Death
ot the Great Man.
Springfield, 111., April 15.—The twen
ty-third anniversary of the death of Abra.
ham Lincoln was celebrated in this city by
the Lincoln Memorial League. The services
were held at the national monument in
Oakridge cemetery. The sarcophagus was
appropriately decorated. Letters and tele
grams of regret were received from gover
nors of the varions States, including Mar
ble, of Alaine ; Hill, of New York ; Foraker,
of Ohio; Gray, of Indiana; Beaver, of
Pennsylvania ; Senators Cullom and Sher
man ; Generals Sherman and Sheridan;
Judge Gresham ; Harriet Beecher Stowe
and others.
PACIFIC RAILROADS.
A Kill to Solve the Vexed Question.
"Washington, April 16—Anderson, of
Kentucky, introduced a bill which pro
poses a new solution of the Pacific railroad
problem. It applies to those roads that
remedy for exchange of the evils in gen
eral railroad practice which is proposed by
Hudson's book on "The Railways of the
Republic." The bill is drawn for the pur
pose of providing a feasible method for
operating a Pacific railroad after its acqui
sition by foreclosure of the government's
mortgage. The method, which shall at
once yield to the United States an assured
income on its investment and also secure
the people against the abuses of discrimi
nation in pools and monopolies. For this
]iurpose it enacts that the government
shall purchase the first mortgage bonds
with the surplus in the treasury in protec
tion of its own second mortgage, and alter
foreclosing the latter debt the road shall
be operated as a public highway and be
open to any carrier of freight upon pay
ment of the uniform and regulated lolls
for the use of its track.
MORMON CONFERENCE.
Woodruff's Epistle to the Twelve
Apostles.
Salt Lake, April 12.— The annual con
ference of the Mormon church which has
closed a four days' sfssion, brought people
from all the states and territories where
there were Mormons. The feature of the
occasion was an epistle signed by AVilford
Woodruff in behalf of the twelve apostles,
which differs materially from similar
papers issued by his predecessors. It is an
exhortation to the people to live pure lives,
being simply snch an epistle as any bishop
or pastor of a Christian congregation might
make to his flock. The late President J.
T. Taylor used to make use of these epis
tles to advocate polygaaiy, and argue its
rightfulness by references to the old testa
ment, and alleged Mormon revelations, bnt
President Woodruff has ignored the sub
ject, evidently being determined to keep
the church in line with the movement in
angnarated a year ago.to abolish the plnral
wife system. A significant circumstance is
that during the conference a young eider
from the country, named Clawson, being
called to the pulpit, spoke in favor of the
practice of polygamy ; ever since which,
deep indignation has been expressed by
the public. Interviews with the leading
Mormons proves that they are deeply
chagrined by the young man's reckless and
unauthorized utterances.
The elder is openly censured and his
advocacy of polygamy denounced by prom
inent churchmen, as well as the public,
which believed in the fact that, by the
adoption last year of the proposed State
constitution forbidding it, the last of its
advocacy had been heard. The sensation
which Clawson's utterances occasioned, and
the earnestness with which his discourse is
condemned and repudiated, go far to prove
that the Mormons are sincere in their
declarations in the press and on the witness
stand that they have abandoned polygamy.
The absence of any mention of it in Wood
ruff's epistle is favorably commented on by
the masses of the Mormons and by the
Gentiles, who begin to believe that the
Saints are sincere in their professions,
especially as there are no evidences of po
lygamy having taken place for more than
a year. The Mormons and Gentiles are
working harmoniously to bring in people
and give an impetus to Salt Lake City.
POWDERLY.
Protest Against Unjust Criticism of
the Press.
Philadelphia, Pa., April 12.— This
week's Journal of United Labor will pub
lish three letters from Master Workman
Powderly. In one of them he complains
bitterly of the treatment the Knights of
Labor receive at the hands of certain
papers and says : "An editorial in one of
them takes me to task for entering into
compact with the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers to conduct the present strike
on the C. B. & Q, road. I have entered
into no deal. I cannot enter into any ar
rangement which will countenance the
handling of "Q," cars on any road by the
Knights of Labor. While I do not ap
prove of strikes, I will never lend my
sanction or aid to the Knights or others to
assist a corporation to break up any labor
organization. The future welfare of the
toiling masses to-day is centered in the
Knights of Labor more than any other
order, and the man or woman who wonld
destroy the hope of millions deserves the
hatred and scorn of all.''
Confirmations.
Washington. April 12.— J. L. Logan, of
New York, associate justice of the supreme
court of Idaho.
Indian agents—Thomas McCuniff, South
ern Utes, Colorado; J. B. Lane, Siletz
agency, Oregon.
Register of the land office— J. E. Pardee,
Snsanville, Colorado.
Postmasters— S. W. Coffmon, Watson
ville, Cal.; Thos. F. Meagher, Spragne, W.
T; Henry Pope, Sr., Jacksonville, Oregon
These Were Nominated
Washington, April 16.— The President
this afternoon sent to the Senate the fol
lowing nominations :
F. Nicholson, of Missouri, to be Assayer
of the United States Assay Office at St
Louis.
Robt. Colvert, of Wisconsin, to be Sur
veyor of Customs for the Port of LaCrosse,
Wisconsin.
W. T. Waltham, of Mississippi, to be
Consul of the United States at Demarara.
Harvey E. Shields, of Indiana, to be Re
ceiver of Public Moneys at Seattle (formerly
Olympia), Washington Territory.
CAMPAIGN BOODLE.
The New York Legislature to Inves*
tigate Governor Hill's Election
8 wag.
Albany, April 11.—In the senate yes
terday a resolution was introduced by Sen
ator Fassett, Republican, for the appoint
ment of a committee to investigate certain
published charges in regard to alleged cor
ruption in the administration of some of
the departments in the municipal govern
ment of New York City. While the terms
of the resolution were general, it was
understood the real point of attack was on
Governor Hill, concerning whose "alleged
deal'' with the aqueduct commission
during the last gubernatoral canvass cer
tain New York papers had published arti
cles. The story published was in effect
that Gov. Hill had secured a change in the
personnel of the aqueduct commission by
having the mayor and comptroller released
from ex-officio service th.-reon ; that the
governor then appointed his political
friends to the vacancies with the result
that the firm of O'Brien & Clark, contrac
tors were enabled to secure a new contract
for a section of the new aqueduct, though
they were highest bidders, and that they
sublet it to another competing firm at a
profit of $50,000 ; that O'Brien & Clark and
O'Brien individually endorsed Gov. Hi i's
notes for $20,000, to be spent daring the late
gubernatorial campaign, and John Keenan
the boodler, now in Canada, discounted
one of 'bein, and that the governor's cam
paign Dills were paid out of the aqueduct
contract. The resolution in the senate
caused a heated debate in that body to
day, in which personal charges of cam
paign and legislative corruption were
very freely tossed back and forth
between the frieDds and enemies
of the governor. The resolution was
finally adopted unanimously, and one of
the Democratic members gave notice that
he would introduce a resolution to investi
gate the charges of corruption in the elec
toral canvasses of certain members of the
State Senate as to the use of money in the
Senate itself in the last two elections of
United States Senators. Governor Hill
made a statement to an Associated Press
reporter this evening in relation to the
matters charged against him. He said
that near the close of the campaign of
188C, the Democratic State Committee
appealed to him to aid them. In con
nection with certain other Democrats, he
drew two notes, aggregating $15,000, which
he gave them. They were discounted and
the mouey used in the legitimate work of
the campaign. When they were due they
were paid, various well known Democrats
contributing the money. Governor Hill
declared that this attack on him was insti
gated by the quarantine officials of New
York, of which department Ex-Senator T.
C Piatt is the head. The Governor de
clares that he has nothing to conceal in the
matter.
ALL FOR MON TANA.
Indian Reservation and R. It. Right
i
of May Legislation.
Washington, April 13.—Peele, of Ar- .
kansas, presented the conference report on
the bill to ratify the agreement with the j
Gros A T entres, Piegans. Bloods, Blackfeet
and River Crow Indians, in Montana, and
it was agreed to.
Also the conference report upon the hill
dividing the great Sioux reservation into
other smaller reservations
The House committee on Indian affairs
ordered a favorable report on the Senate
hill granting to the Billings, Clarke's Fork
& Cooke City Railroad Company, right of j
wav through the Crow Indian reservation.
The committee will also repoit favorably
on the hills authorizing the appointment of
a superintendent of Indian schools and
granting to the Washington & Idaho Rail
road Company right of way through the
Cœur d'Alene Indian reservation.
Washington, April 16 —Theconference
reports on the hills to divide the great
Sioux reservation into separata smaller
reservations, and to confirm and ratify the
agreement with Gros Ventres and other
bands of the Blackfeet Indians in Montana,
were presented and agreed to by the Sen
ate.
MISSISSIPPI FLOOD.
Kailwav Tracks Under Mater
Houses Afloat.
and
St. Paul, April 12.— The water in the
Mississippi passed the danger line for the
people on the northwest side of the river
at 2 o'clock this morning. One or two
families moved oat yesterday, but before
daylight this morniDg a number found it
necessary to vacate. The water rose two
feet between 2 and 3 o'clock this morning,
and at 8 o'clock stood thirteen feet at the
signal service gauge. It rose this after
noon at the rate of three-fourths of an
inch per hour. Danger from the Hood on
the fiats west of Dakota avemie is immi
nent.
Winona, Minn , April 16. —The Missis
sippi river was never known to be so high
in April. The rise of yesterday and to
day is unprecedented. The water is cross
ing the railway tracks at the ferry's land
ing. At the west end everything is afloat.
All the houses on West Third street,
between these limits are in the midst of
a broad sea, stretching from Fourth street
to the Wisconsin shore. On the north side
f Fourth street the water is driving people
out. The lake is rising aDd the water is
running over Huff street and backing np
into the rear yards of Market street. The
water is still rising, and a few inches more
will prove disastrous.
English Financial Affairs.
London, April 13.— In the Hjure of
Commons this evening Mr. Goschen an
nounced that the total amount of consols
converted was now £473,000,000
leaving £85,000,000, most of which
was in the hands of trustees. On a motion
being made by Smith that the county gov
ernment bill be given precedence over the
private members' bills, Labonchere offered
an indignant protest, saying that Smith
played an astnte game, and was hurrying
his bill to prevent the Honse taking time
to consider its merits. Smith said the
magnitude of the bill was such that the
government wonld be remiss in dnty if it
failed to take every chance to forward the
measure. Smith's motion was carried by
243 to 143. ^ _
Interstate Commerce.
Washington, April 12 —The Interstate
Commerce Commission, daring the month
of March, entered npon a somewhat ex
tensive investigation of the matter of un
der-billing. As a result of the examina
tion the commission aononncee that it con
curs with varions boa.ils of trade and com
mercial bodies, have requested an amend
ment of the law by imposing a small pen
alty upon shippers who, by faire billing or
other devices, knowingly and wilfully ob
tain transportation at less than regular
rates.
Washington, April 16.—Representative
Amos Cummings, of New York, to-day in
troduced two amendments to the interstate
commerce bill. One provides that all con
tracts between railroads and others for
freight or passenger tnffic shall be public,
and the second prohibits all snch transpor
tation in bond through Canadian territory
as it now takes place between San Fran
cisco and eastern cities by way of the
Canadian Pacific.
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RAILROAD' WRECKS.
Fatal Accidents on the Pennsylvania Road
and on Lines in Iowa and Kansas.
The Casualties Principally Confined to
Engineers and Firemen.
City of Mexico, April 14. —One of the
walls of the former convent of San Ferdi
nando in this city, which was in progress
of demolition, fell in yesterday morning,
burying mauy of the workmen in the
rnins. So far three dead bodies have been
recovered. Fifteen or twenty persons were
wounded more or less seriously.
Washington, April 15.—The train that
left New York on the Pennsylvania road
at 5:30 this morniDg was wrecked by a
collision with an engine in the Philadel
phia yards. The engineer and firemen and
several passengers were badly bruised. The
collision occurred on the elevated tracks in
the Philadelphia yard, and was caused by
a misapprehension on the part of the engi
neer of a light engine, who understood that
the passenger train had gone by and started
out on the main track. Both engines and
four passengor cars were turned over and
badly smashed. None of those injured are
in a dangerous eomlition Frederick Hastl
den, of Honolulu, received a severe cut ou
the head.
Chicago, April 15.—A special from Cres
ton, Iowa says : The fast mail on the Bur
lington road collided with a freight train
near here this norning. Fireman Shoot,
of the freight train, was instantly killed.
Engineer Osborne, Brakemen Gibbons and
Miller and Engineer Carpenter, of the mail
train, were badly bruised. Two mail cars
were thrown down an embankment and
totally burned, together with a bridge, near
which the accident occurred. The mail
clerks were rescued. The wreck is said to
have been caused by the freight train run
ning past the station, where it should have
side tracked.
A special from Fort Smith, Arkansas,ie
port8 that a passenger train on the St.
Louis & San Francisco road ran into a car
of ties at a station in the Indian Territory
yesterday. The engineer and fireman were
killed and several passengers were badly
injured.
OCEAN PERILS.
Vessels
Blockaded by
bergs.
I nuncuse Ice
Ne\V York, April 12—At the Hydro
graphic office a reixirt was received to day
that large quantities of ice off the New
Foundland coast were drifting into the
steamer channels. Captain Dawion, of the
steamer Portia, which arrived yesterday
from New Foundland via Halifax, says he
was blocked in the ice at New Foundland
with other vessels for three weeks. The
continuous strong east winds picked the
ice so close to shore that from the signal
hill at the entrance of the harbor, giving a
view of over sixty miles, no open water
could be seen, and during that time the ice
was so solid that he walked over four
miles on it to another vessel. His vessel
was set free by a westerly breeze, and it
passed thiity icebergs within as many
miles. The steamer Austria got wedged
just as the Portia cleared out. Her captain
reported, upon her arrival at Boston yes
terday, hoving passed forty icebergs be
tween St. John and Cape Race.
COLORADO TRAGEDY.
Cold Blooded Murder
Men.
of Two Young
Cheyenne Wells, Col., April 16—Sat
urdav, while N. B. McConnell and John
Morrison, two young men from Iowa,
were passing the houseof Frederick Baker,
five miles north of here, the latter com
manded the men to step. They paying no
attention to the order, Baker fired upon
them with a shot gun loaded with slu^s.
The driver was uninjured, but both Mc
Connell and Morrison were riddled with
shot and died five minutes afterwards.
Baker was arrested, and to-night fifty
armed men went to the jail and demanded
the deputy sheriff to turn the prisoner
over to them. The officer refused to do so,
but the men say they are determined and
will take Baker ont and bang him before
morning if they have to tear the jail down
to get him.
Suicide.
Chicago, April 14. —In the presence of
hundreds of people, on the lmsiest thor
oughfare in Chicago, Simon Rosenfeld, a
traveling salesman, stabbed himself to the
heart with a pen-knife, this afternoon and
fell to the ground, dead. State street, near
Washington, the center of the fashionable
shopping district, was the scene of the
tragedy. Rosenfeld is a member of a
wealthy Detroit family. He has been una
ble to retain positions long for the past two
years, on account of drinking. He had re
cently been at work for a billiard table
company, and used $50 collected from a
customer with which to have a spree. As
he was standing on the street this after
noon a messenger brought him word that
the manager of the company wished to see
him, and it is supposed that Rosenfeld
killed himself, fearing imprisonment for
his short comings.
Effects of the Tornado.
London, April 15. —A dispatch from
Calcutta says : The damage caused at
Deccan by the recent tornado amounts to
100,000 rupees. One hundred and twelve
bodies have been recovered from the rains.
Over 1,000 persons, who were more or less
injured, are in the hospital.
No Horses Injured.
Albuquerque, April 16.—Stuart Har
old, in charge of Lucky Baldwin's horses,
was interviewed about the recent accident
on the Atlantic & Pacific railroad. He
said: "At Wash Fork, Arizona, one car
loaded with horses jumped the track; the
draw head was broken, and the axle bent
so it was two and a half inches oat of
plamb, bat the car was not overturned nor
the horses injured. The following day at
Ynoca the other cars were derailed but did
not npeet. This last accident occasioned a
delay of twenty-four hours." Harold says
none of the horses were seriously injured,
or thrown oat of their stalls. He admits
they were badly shaken np. He conld not
state whether it would interfere with their
engagement at Nashville or not. Volante
was in the last accident.
Bold Robbery.
Faribault, Minn., April 16.—The
lodges, dormitories and private rooms of
the Shattuck school were entered by bur
glars last night, the inmates chloroformed
and $3,000 worth of jewelry and money
taken. _ __
Pension Bills Vetoed.
Washington. April 16.—The President
to-day sent to the Senate unsigned the
acts granting pensions to Hannah R. Lang
ton, Betsy Mansfield and Lanra A. Wright.
These acts are vetoed on the ground that
death did not result from injuries received
daring the war or sickness incident to army
service.
KNOCKING AT THE DOOR.
Admission of South Dakota Under
Discussion In the Senate.
Washington, April 16 —Bills intro
duced and referred : To make an arsenal
at Benicia, Cal. ; an arsenal of manu
facture, construction and repair ; For the
erection of a public building at Salt Lake
City. Under instructions from his com
mittee Blanchaid, of Louisiana, moved to
suspend the rales and pnt the river and
harbor bill upon its passage. Anderson
demanded a second, and the motion was
seconded.
After a sharp debate the motion to sus
pend the rules and pass the hill was lost.
Yeas 134, nays 120—not a necessary two
thirds in the affirmative. WatkiDS, of
Ohio, moved to suspend the rules and
adopt the following resolution :
Resolved, by the House of Representa
tives that is is the sense of this House
that section two of the act making appro
priations for sundry civil expenses for the
year ending June 30, 1882, and for other
pui poses, approved March 3, 1881. which
is as follows: That the secretary of the
treasury may at any time apply surplus
money in the treasury, not otnerwise ap
propr ated, or so much thereof as may be
considered proper, to the purchase or re
demption of United States bonis ; pro
vided that the bonds so purchased or re
deemed shall constitute no part of the
sinking fund, hut shall be redeemed aDd
cancelled, is intended to he a permanent
provision of law, and is hereby declared to
have l>een since its enactment, and to be
now in the opinion of the House, in full
force and effect. Mr. Weaver, of Iowa, de
clared that this resolution meant nothing
more than the defeat and burial of the
House suiplus resolution, with the Beck
silver amendment. The resolution was
adopted —138 to 64.
Washington, April 16—The Senate re
sumed consideration of the bill for the ad
mission of the State of South Dakota, and
for the organization of the Territory of
North Dakota.
Spooner addressed the Senate in favor
of the bill. He argued that the question
of division of the Territory had been sub
mitted to the whole people, and had been
decided in favor of division by a majority
of over five thousand. As to the sugges
tion made by Butler that thirty thousand
voters of Dakota had been so indifferent to
the question that they had stayed away
from the polls and that therefore the vote
was not a fair expression of the popular
will, he drew a distinction between the
cases of voters in the Northern States who
remained away from the polls through in
difference and of the voters in the South
ern States, who were kept away through
intimidation. As to the claim made by
Butler that there was no danger to be ap
prehended from imperial States, he ques
tioned it, and asseited that the great em
pire State of Texas did menance by their
monstrous territory the interests of other
sections of the country. She had now in the
other house the chairman of the judiciary
committee, chairman of the committee of
ways and means, which dealt with the
dearest interests of New England, New
York, Pennsylvania,and all the country,and
the chairman of the committee on claims,
while the great State of New York had
no voice on the committee of ways and
means. It was not due to the wealth,
loyalty or intelligence of her people. It
was due to two things—her solid Democ
racy and her territory. No more such em
pire States were wanted in the Union. He
did not believe South Dakota would he
admitted by this congress, hut thought he
might, safely predict that before long there
would be elected a Congress that would
recognize her rights and gladly welcome
her.
Fifty
LOCKED OUT.
Thousand Hrewers' Employes
Paid Off and Discharged.
New York, April 15. —The Central
Labor Union to-day declared a boycott on
pool beer.
New York, April 15. —Preparations for
a probable lockout at the breweries to
inoriow is actively carried on to day in
labor organizations of the brewery em
ployes and unions affiliating with them.
According to the programme the lockout will
he declared at noon by the brewers in the
"pool." The "pool"' employers say within
thirty-six hours after the lockout they will
be able to resume work with new forces of
employes. This the men admit, but they
threaten to sqnare matters by boycotting
"pool" beer.
New York, April 16 —A brewery lock
out has begun, and more than fifty thou
sand brewers, brewery wagon drivers, mal
sters, helpers, wagon-makers, coopers, paint
ers aDd apprentices, in this city, Brooklyn,
Jersey City, Newark, Patterson and Staten
Island, are out of work. The financial
week of the workmen ended at noon
to-day. According to instructions of the
unions, every brewer in every one
of the above named cities retnrned to work
as usnal this morning, and there were few
outward indications that the greatest
lockout that has ever occurred in this sec
tion of the country wonld occar in a few
hours. Just before noon the proprietors of
each brewery met and informed them that
there services were no longer wanted ; that
they had unanimously decided to be their
own bosses, and wonld not submit to any
thing dictatorial from their men. How
ever, if the men sought re-employment as
individuals, and disconnected themselves
from the unions, they wonld get work.
The men passed quietly to the cashier's
desk, after they had heard what the pro
prietors had to say, received their weekly
pay and departed. At noon time, accord
ing to agreement, every brewer's door
closed, and business for the time is sus
pended.
Killed by Falling M alls.
Pittsburg, April 11.—A wall of Has
' age's building, which was recently de
stroyed by fire, fell this afternoon, crushing
a small building adjoining. A servant girl
who was at work in the kitchen, was in
stantly killed and a number of others were
rerionsly injured. The natural gas pipes
in the bnilding were broken and the escap
ing gas ignited and set fire to the buildings,
bnt the flames were subdued without mach
damage. The names of the killed and in?
jured have not yet been learned. The re
poit that several persons were bnried in
the rains fortunately proved to be nntrne.
French Elections.
Paris, April 15.—In the election for the
department of the Nord, Boulanger re
ceived 172,272 votes, Toucart 75,781 and
Morean 9,643. A revised vote showed a
majority for General Boulanger of 9,662.
A large crowd gathered in front of the
office of the Bonlangist newspaper La Con
corde, a transparency representing Ferry
as a clown taming a somersault, which ex
cited derisive howls, while another repre
senting Boulanger was wildly cheered.
New French Regime Advocated.
Paris, April 15.—General Dnbarails, who
has been elected president of the imperial
ist committee of appeal to the people,
through the columns of the Figaro vannts
the strong plebiscitry condition of the im
perialists and arges that their votes be
given to General Boulanger to overthrow
the parliament regime and prepare the
way for Prince Victor.
Foreign Emigration.
London, April 12.—Two thousand six
hundred emigrants left Queenstown dur
ing the past week.
LOWELL S LECTURE.
The Literary Mugwump of New England
Makes a Talk on Independent
Politics in New York.
Some of the British Free Trade Theories
Brought by the Ex-Minister to
the Court of St. James.
INDEPENDENT POLITICS.
James Russell Lowell's Address
Before the Mugwumps.
New York, April 13.—A large and dis
tinguished gathering was present in Stein
way Hall to-uight to hear an address by
James Russell Lowell on, "The Indepen
dent in Politics," delivered under the
auspices of the New Reform Club. Mr.
Lowell was introduced by Aoson P. Stokes.
He said in part: "In speakiDg the inde
pendent in politics it is my intention to
treat the subject in its general
rather than special application. If
one would know the difference between
a statesman and a politician, let him
compare Burke's views of the American
troubles with tbat of Dr. Johnson. Never
dever did two men show more clearly the
quality of true statesmanship than Sena
tors Fessenden and Trumbull wüen they
dared act independently of party. In the
impeachment case against President John
son they saved us from the creeping
paralysis which is gradually benumbing
the politic organs of France. In our early
days we produced statesmen not endowed
with Burke's ge nias, but comparable with
him in breadth of view and perhaps his
superiors in practical sagacity. 1 believe
there is as much of raw material of
statesmanship among us as ever. If parties
wUl not 1 »ok alter their own drainage,
there must he some one who will do it for
them. This duty can be done only by
men disassociated from the interests of
party. The Independents have undertaken
it. and, with God's help, will carry it
through. A moral purpose multiplies us
by ten, as it multiplied early abolitionists.
They emancipated the negro and mean to
emaneijate the respectable white man. I
am struck with the fact that while we pro
duce great captains and political managers,
there seems to he a pause in
the production of leaders id states
manship. I am thankful to have
been the contemporary of one, and among
the greatest whom posterity will recognize
as the wisest and most bravely human of
modern times, Abraham Lincoln. What
will be of immediate advantage to the
party is the first thing considered, what of
permanent advantage to the country the
last. Both parties have been equally
guilty. Both have evaded the living ques
tions of the day. Parties beiDg necessary,
there must be politicians to represent
them. There should be a neu
tral body large enough to moderate
between both and to make both more cau
tious of their choice of candidates. If we
have not got all that we hoped for from
the present administration, we have got
more than we expected. We have com
pelled the discussion of the question, and
I have so much faith in the good sense of
the American people as to feel sure tbat
the discussion means victory. Two great
questions have been opened by the Presi
dent, which resolve themselves into one,
that of war tariff. I say war tariff, because
it is a mere electioneering device to call
it a qnsstion of free trade or protection
pure and simple. The advocates of pro
tection have bean unwise in shifting the
ground of debate. They have set many
people to asking whether robbing Peter to
pay Paul is a method equally economical for
both parties. The tendency of excessive
protection, which thoughtful men dread
most, is that it stimulates an unhealthy
home competition, leading to over produc
tion and disasters, which are the tainted
offspring. I cannot take a cheerful view
of the future of New England, when her
leading industries will be gradually drawn
to the South, as they will be by the cheap
ness of labor.
Gladstone on Irish Local Government.
London, April 11.—Gladstone speaking
at the National Liberlal club to-night,
criticized W. H. Smith's reply to Sir Ed
ward Watkins in the House of Commons,
in refusing the extension of local govern
ment. Gladstone said Smith had entirely
dispelled the brightest idea of the two
million loyalists. The question was
whether the Irish were to be permitted to
entertain and act npon a purely political
opinion. The Irish did 'hot eüjoy such
privileges of local government as existed
in England, yet they were to remain thus
till they abandoned an idea which in his
opinion was dearer to them than life. It
was only natural that the Irish should
utilize everything in their representative
institutions. He was very agreeably sur
prised by the rapid change of public opin
ion in England, and thought Smith's dec
laration was scandalous and dishonoring
to the English nation.
O'Brien's Trial.
Dublin, April 15. —O'Brien, who has
been arrested, arrived at Longhrea about
night. The magistrate remanded his case
to Thursday and admitted him to bail.
O'Brien states that the only charge the
government has against him is that he
gave Balfour the lie in his threat last Sun
day.
Detectives are watching Dillon's house
in Dabi in. To-day four bands serenaded
Dillon and an immense crowd gathered in
front of the house and cheered for the
home rule leaders and groaned for Balfonr
and sang, "Hang Bloody Balfonr on a sour
apple tree" until the police interfered.
France Agitated.
Paris, April 16. — The Opportunist
journals admit that the Opportunist party
suffered a defeat in yesterday's election in
the department of the Nords.
The Republique Française says : "There
is madness in the air and we must stub
bornly fight the battle."
The Journal Des Debats says: "Efforts
to concentrate the Republicans have failed,
and the Moderates will no longer vote
with the Radicals."
The Chinese Premier Exercised.
Washington, April 16—Advices fn
China state that Li HnDg Chang, Chim
Premier, on behalf of his government, h
peremptorily demanded that the King
Corea explain, why tb - Corean Minister
the United States, piesented letters
credence to President Cleveland witho
the intervention of the Chinese Minist
which act, Li Hang Chang claims, was
breach of the explicit conditions np
which China permitted Corea to send e
voys abroad.
Big Fire Loss in Kentucky.
Owensboro, April 16.— The fire
night destroyed half a block in the h
of the bnsiness portion of the city. C
narily the fire could easily hare been <
trolled, bnt the water works company
shut down without notice to the city,
the fire department was for a time use
allowing the fiâmes to gain great head?
The loss is placed at $150,000 ; insure
$75,000.