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All the annua! appropriation bilk
were passed before the close of oon-
ZlLept the river and harbor bill,
and that can be spared without much
inconvenience or loss to anybody but
the contractors who were specially in
terested in its passage.
Of the 10,670 bills and joint resolu
tions introduced into congress during
the session of the late congress, less than
300 passed through both houses. Not
over a of the unsuccessful meas
ures deserved favorable action, and the
country is none the worse because of
their failure.
One of the substantial farmers of
Bparta, Ga, when he was married,
twelve years ago, had to borrow money
to pay for his marriage license, and not
having a decent suit of clothes, the
young woman whom he was to marry
tore the wool from sheepskins, spun,
and made him a suit of clothes.
A gentleman who has been engaged
in the lumber business for several
years is authority for the statement
that the year the Boston, Concord and
Montreal railroad was opened wood
w\s worth $1 a cord more along its
lip.e than it is to-day, and he says fur
ther that in his opinion wood grows
faster in New Hampshire than it is
used for fuel.
An important case probably the first
of its kind in Canada, comes before the
Quebec superior court, the object
sought being to void ananiage between
two French Catholics on the ground of
spiritual relationship, the consorts
standing toward each other in the light
of sponsor and godchild.
Home time last summer the ladii s of
Cleveland, Oswego County, N. Y., made
an autograph quilt, and succeeded in
obtaining the signatures of President
Arthur and Gov. Cleveland. At an auc
tion held in the church the other night
it was knocked down to a Philistine at
the low price of $7.
List Tuesday afternoon, near Gralz,
Ky., a 7 year-old son of Dan Criswell,
while playing witli some other children
hid in a straw-stack, and the others,
while undertaking to smoko him out,
accidently fired the stack, and the child
was burned to death before he could
get out.
Thk “cheekineHs" of Mr. Charles H.
Reed, late; of Chicago, now of Wash
ington, in demanding $3,000 for having
voluntarily defended Guiteau, ana pro
fessional advertisement, is only equal
ed hy the recklessness of congress in
voting to pay him that Hum. The fact
im, Charlie is ‘‘hail fellow well rnov’
with all the senators and representa
tives, and they didn’t have the heart
to go hack on him.
The Toronto Monetary Times says
that in the opinion of lumber operators
there will boa shortage in the lumber
production of the northern Ontario dis
trict this year equal to 20 per cent, ol
the average product. This will be an
other reason, besides the tariff rerson,
far keeping up the prices of lumber to
the detriment of all builders and other
consumers in the United States.
It is estimated that 0ver512.5,000 has
been invested at North Adams, Mass,
in the “ busted ” empire mine. The
scheme was started by tx-date consta
ble McKay, who returned to North
Adams some three years ago, gave a
supper to forty men at the Wilson
bouse and sold them considerable of
the stock at $lO a share, while more
was disposed of later. Over SBO,OOO
was taken out of the town by the Clark
and Bothwell mines.
Boston university founded but ten
years ago, has this year 573 students in
attendance, which is a gain of twenty
eight over last year. Its law school,
the first to insist upon a three years’
coarse, has 104 students, and is the
largest in New England. There are
hut two larger in country, the one at
Ann Ariior, which lias only a si*
months’ course, and the one at Colum
bia college, where the course covers
only a year.
Thk death of Alexander H. Steph
ens, of Georgia, removes another of
our “old school of statesmen. He
was first elected to congress in 1843,
and was re-elected twelve limes—five
times since the close of the War of
the Rebellion. The two incidents in
his life for which the North has most
reason to admire the plucky little man
were his sympathy with Stephen A.
Douglass in 18G0, as against the dis
unionists and southern fire-eaters, and
his opposition to rebellion and seces
sion when Lincoln was elected presi
dent. In common with all prominent
southerners, he was, however, forced
into the secession movement—“going
with his state”—and was made vice
president of the Southern Confeder
acy. Mr. Stephens was elected gover
of Georgia last year. He was a fear
less and an able man, and his death is
a loss not only to Georgia and the
South, but to the nation. He was 71
years of age, and had been physically
disabled hy paralysis of his lower
limbs for some years.
Contrary to the general expectation,
the report of the conferee committtee
On the Tax-Tariff bill was adopted by
both houses before the final adjourn
ment, and was immediately signed by
the President. It is, therefore, now
the law of the land. It had a close call
in the senate, passing that body by a
majority of only one, but it fared belter
in the house. As very few of our
readers will be interested in wading
through the various items of the differ
ent scedules of the bi l, it may be
stated in a geneial wy that it .educ
tions will aggregate from $70,000,000 to
$75,000,000 per annum, the amount de
pending of course on the extent of our
importations.
The skeleton of the bill is the inter
nal revenue reduction bill which was
passed by the house at the Iqst session,
upon which the senate had ingrafted
tariff amendments enough to make it
appear to be more of a tariff than a
revenue bill. As Congressmen differ
widely in their estimates of the aggre
gate amount of reduction the bill will
make per annum, so they differ also in
their estimates of the percentage of re
duction on the various articles, Thus,
tbe democrats declare that the reduc
tions will not amount to more than 10
per cent, from the law as it now stands,
on the average, while the republicans
are of the opinion that the business of
the country will realize at least from 20
to 30 per cent, redaction.
YOL. IVII.
TELEGRAPHIC.
News by Wire Reduced to
Close Quarters for Con
venient Reference and
Easy Reading.
WASHINGTON.
The police of Brusels claim to have
discovered a plot to murder the czar on
coronation day. The papers seized will
lead to the arrest of Louise Michel, the
Parisian agitator.
Phisidrnt Arthur has nominated 8. G.
W. Benjamin as minister to Persia, Wick
ham Hoflman a* minister to Denmark,
and Lucius H. Foote as envoy to Corea.
Alexander H. Stenkns (lied at Atlanta,
G*., Saturday night. At the time of his
death he was governor of Georgia, and 71
years old. He wi-s here in Washington
20 years. He was horn in Georgia in
1812, graduated in Franklin college, and
built up a lucrative law' practice. He
served six terms in the Georgia house and
one in the senate, and hel l a s< at in con
gress for sixteen years. He was a vigorous
opponent of tweesssiou, hut finally accept
ed the vice presidency of the southern
confederacy. In 1845 he was one of the
I'-hel peace eommissioners who held a
conference with President Lincoln and
Secretary Hew-rd. After Lee’s surrender
he was a prisoner at Fort Warren for five
months. In 1864 he was elected to the
United States senate, but was not given a
seat. From 1872 to to 1882 he was again
in congress, resigning lo accept the gov
ernorship of Georgia. Tlje funeral was
held at Ciawfordsville. Tuesday. J, S.
Boynton, president of the senate, will be
come governor.
FOUifIXGN.
Nine Americans have been imprisoned
at Panama on suspicion of taking $50,000
from the vault of the railroad company.
Thu British government has asked of
France the extradition of John Walsh,
who was arrested at llarve last week.
Henri Rochefort urges Victor Hugo to
use his influence t secure the release of
Bryne, now imprisoned at Paris.
In the house of commons, in moving an
amendment to the address t the throne.
Parnell claimed that the power of arrest
in Ireland was abused, the judges were
unlit lo try political causes, freedom of
speech did not exist, and the government
could not rule Ireland without the sym
pathy of the people.
UHIMa.
Tint new judge of the criminal court at
Nashville released M. T. Polk, the de
faulting treasurer, on $20,000 bail.
H. N. Follansiuck, treasurer of the
Boston Police Relief association, has em
bezzled $20,771. He first stole funds to
pay extravagant household bills, and thej
embarked heavily in stock speculations.
He made a confession to Commissioner
Basley and turned over SI2,(MX). He whs
placed in jail in default of bonds for $40,-
000.
Tub grand jury at Milwaukee found a
true hill against George Scheller for firing
the Newhi.ll house, ami he was remanded
lo jail in default of SIO,OOO bail.
A national bank at Union City. Penn
sylvania, with a capital of $50,000 and
deposits of $164,000, closed its doors per
manently last Saturday. The same course
was taken hy the First National Bank of
Peru, Illinois, by reason of expiration of
its charter, hut it is alleged that the con
cern was crippled by a loan of $65,000 to
a manufacturer now bankrupt.
UENEKAJL, NOTBJB.
In a pigeon-shooi ing contest t the Chi
eago Driving park, Saturday, Dr. Carver
heat Captain Bogardns, hy a score of 82
l<* 79.
Rvxn commenced to fall last Saturday
e\ Ag all over western and southwes
tern Texas, where cattle and sheep were
said to be dying by thousands for lack of
water and grass. Buffalo reports a heavy
snow-storm in western New York.
Amono the inmates of the national mil
itary asylum at Milwaukee is Robert Vin
cent, once high sheriff of Cork, Ireland,
and prominent as a soldier in the days of
O’Connell.
A mill to incorporate certain Boston
hankeas as a safe deposit company was
vetoed hy Gov. Butler, on the ground
that it would permit the gentlemen named
to engage in almost any enterprise be
cause t the loosely drawn provisions.
IaKES xJJD CASUAIjTXKS
Tun residence of Peter Dennan, at
Montague, Michigan, wai burned Situr
dy morning, and hia three children and
a servant perished in the fl lines.
Reports from Shawneetown Illinois,
are to the effect that the water is five feet
higher than ever before, and that people
are authoring for aheller and food. The
loaa in that vicinity ia ec incited at $200,-
000,
At the Mingo rolling-mill in Steuben
ville, Ohio, Saturday, the governor sud
denly Hew of the enginge, causing the
ruin of ten atones used to grind the knives
of the nail-machines. Captain James
Prentiss was instantly killed, and William
Pert received serious injuries.
The Dunlap elevator and mill, at Al
bany, took fire Saturday morning from
friction of the shafting, and was wholly
consumed. The filling walla killed four
men and seriously injured three others.
The total loss is $200,000. The freight de
pot of the Jeflersonville road at Columbus
Indiana; a business block in McPhera m,
Kansas, valued at $50,000, and the chemi
cal works of Chappell fe Cos., in St. Louis,
worth $50,000, was also burned.
■ ■*-♦
People H ho Delude TfemaelveH
With the idea. bo*n no doubt of repeated failure
to obtain relief, that dyspepsia is incurable. re
not to bo found among those wh j have tried that
sure specific. Hostetler's Stomaih Bitters, one of
the finest correctives of acidity of the stomach,
flatulence, constipation, and the various symp
toms of chronic indigestion, obtainable in any
lapd. Simple persistence in the use of this medi
cine is the sole condition of ultimate recovery in
the most obstinate oases. When we rec&i the
harrassing symptoms produced b -a fit of indi
gestion, we can form some idea of the protracted
misf r y endured by a confirmed dyspeptic, whose
tortures hare been aggravated and prolonged by
unwise treatment, and we can also understand
the thankfulness which relief may inspire. Such
re'iel is within the power of all so troubled to ob
tain, and tbs earlier it is (ought the better. The
Bitters is also a remedy and preventative of fever
and ague, liver complaint and toallher ailments.
Tennessee's Debt.
Nashville, Tenn., March 6, The
house of representatives to-day passed
the state debt bill exactly as it came
from the democratic caucus to pay fifty
cents on the dollar and three per cent
interest on all but the state debt prop
er and bonds of educational institu
tions within the sta'.e, for which it is
proposed to pay par with contract rate
of interest. The bill will probably pass
the senate also. A resolution censur
ing United States Marshal Gos’ing. of
Texas, for his action in securing the
reward for the arrest of ex-Treasurer
Polk, was defeated.
A Proclamation.
Atlanta, March 6.— Qov. Berinton,
has issued a proclamation making
Thursday Stephens’ memorial day and
asks that all business be supended and
services held in various churches.
lowa County Democrat.
THE FORTY-SEVESTH CONGRESS
Tuesday, Feb. 27.
Senate —The president pro tern. read the
following to the eenatt: “la view of pos
sible exigences that might effect public
service 1 deem it proper to give notice of
tqj intention to resign the c ffice with
which the senate honored m*? at noon
on Saturday the 31 of March proximns.
8 gned, DaTid Davis.”
A message was read announced non
coi.currence in the house in the act on of
the senate on the in ernal revenue or tariff
hill and asking a conference in which the
house should be represented py five con
ferees.
Hen. Morrill moved that the senate
insist upon its action and agree to a con
ference. He said he would ask for the
appointment of as many conferees on the
part of the senate as the bouse should
appoint on its part.
The senate having voted to insist on its
action and to agree to a conference, the
conferees to be appointed hy the chair,
the president named Morrill, Sherman,
Aldrich. Bayard and Beck.
The senate held a brief executive
session and adjourned.
House —Immediately alter readirg of
the journal, the house proceeded to vote
on tne adoption of the Reed resolution.
The resolution was agreed to —ayes 129,
noes 22. Thedemncrvs generally refrain
ed from voting. The following is the ne
gative vole of the others : Bryne. Bur
rows (Mo), Campbell, Convent, Ermen
' front. Ford, Geddis. 11-irdenburgh, Hazel
tine, Hulchias. Jones (Tex), Ladd,
Phelps, R'ce (Mo.), Richie. Singleton
(III.). Speer, Walker, Wilson and Wise
(Penn.).
Mr. Hammond immediately rose to a
question of privilege, and oft-red areeolu
lution declaring the action of the senate
in substituting for the house bill a pro
position imposing both unjust duties and
internal taxation, is in conflict with the
true intent and purpose of the clause of
the constitution which requires all bills
oi raising revenue shall originate io the
bouse of representatives, and declaring
further that the bill, with the senate
amendment, shall lie upon the table. It
also direc:s the clerk of the hou-e lo notify
the senate of the adoption of the foregoing
resolution.
Mr. Haskell offered a substitute for the
Hammond resolution that created a long
debate in which many members partici
pated.
After further discussi3n the question
recurred on the Haskell substitutes,
Mr. Hammond demanded a separate
vote on the preamble and resolution.
The resolution was first agreed to, yeas
143, nays 133. It is in the following lan
guage;
Ruvlved, That if this bill (senate tariff
bill) shall be referred to a committee of
conference it shall bo the duty of the con
ferees on the part of the house on said
committee te consider fully the constitu
tional objection to said bill as agreed to
by the senate and herein referreu to. and
to bring the same together with the
opinion of the house in respect thereto
before said committee of conference and if
necessary in their opinion, after having
conferred with the senate conferees, said
conferees on said committee may make a
report to the house in regard to said bill
herein referred to.
The preamble was also adopted. 117
to 36.
Mr. Hammond’s resolution as amended
by the adoption of the Haskill substitute
was agreed to, yeas 139, noes 122.
Kelly immediately movod to suspend
the rules and take from the speaker’s
table the internal revenue bill with sen
ate amendments, non-concilr in those
amendments and appoint a cuumilioo of
five members on r of tKs taonve.
Agreed to.
Wednesday, Feb. 28.
The senate went into executive session
and when the doors were opened ad
journed.
House —-The house was in committee of
the whole all day on the general appropri
ation bills and adjourned without action.
Friday, March 2.
Senate —The conference report on the
tariff bill was, after a long debate, adopt
ed, ayes 32, nays 31. as follows:
AYES.
Aldrich, Hawley, Mahone,
Allison, Hill, Miller, (N. V.)
Anthony, Hoar, Morrill,
Blair, Ingalls, Platt,
Camorcn (Wig.), Jones (N’ev.) Plumb,
Conger, Kellogg, Hollins,
Havis (III.), Latham, Sawyer,
Hawes, Logan, Sewell,
Kdmunds, MaDill, Sherman,
Frye, McMillan, Windom—32.
Harrison. McPherson,
NOES.
Barrow, Herman, Ransom,
P>ayard, tiroome, Saulsburys,
Brown, Harris, Slater,
Butler, Jackson, Vance,
Call, Jonas, Vanwyck,
Oamer.m (Pa.), Jones, (Fla.) Vest,
Cockrell, Lamar, Voorhees,
Coke, Maxey, W.lker,
Fair. Morgan, Williams—3l.
Garland, Pendleton,
George, Pugh
House —The conference report on the
District of Columbia appropriation bill
was agreed to. Mr.Caswell submitted the
conference report on the postoffice appro
priation hill, which states a continued dis
agreement ru items provided for special
mail facilities, and limiting compensation
to be paid as subsidies to railroads.
Mr. Robinson, of Mass., moved the
house recede from its disagreement as to
two of the ame ndmente, and agree to the
same. Agreed to —ayes 125, noes 117.
The effect of this vote is to pa*s the bill
retaining an appropriation of $145,000 for
special mail facilities and without the
clause limiting the compensation to be
paid subsidized railroads for mail tranfi
portat ion.
In the contested election case, Bucham
against Manning, of Mississippi, a reso
lution was adopted confirming the right of
Manning to the seal. This is the Manning
who ran against Chalmers last fall. He
will now get SIO,OOO without doing an
hour’s work.
SENATE. -
Washington, March ,3. —The house
bill to conform certain entries on pub
lic land* passed.
The unfinished business, the bill to
exclude public lands in Alabama from
operation of laws relating to mineral
laws, passed.
Bayard t fibred the following, which
was agreed to unanimously;
Reeolivd, That the thanks of the sen
ators of the United States are due and
hereby tendered to the Hon. David
Davis, senator from the state of Illinois,
tor the courteous, impartial and able
manner in which he has presided over
their deliberations, and tnlfilled the
duties of president pro tempore of the
senate.
Sen. Tabor presented the credentials
of his successor as senator from Col
orado, Thos. M. Bowen.
Sen. Plumb called, up the bill direct
ine the postmaster general to readjust
salaries of certain postmasters. Passed.
At 1£ o’clock. Sen. Davis, president
pro tern. of the senate, in resigning that
office, pursuant to notice given some
days since, delivered the following ad
dress:
Senators —Gratitude /ails to express
the feeling which moves me in respond
ing to the generous expressions in the
resolution you have adopted. As the
presiding officer of this honored body,
I have received courteous co-operation
from both sides, and constant kindness
in the discharge of official dnty and in
personal intercourse. I have striven
to consider all measures solely with
reference to the public good and without
the least regard to their political bearing.
Above and beyond all other objects,
my great ambition has been to extin
guish the strife of sections and to aw
the anion restored in all its integrity,
with refreshed and increased grandeur.
Thank God that happy day has at last
come. North and sooth are only geo
graphical expressions. Fifty millions,
free, happy and prosperous people re
joice in a re-united country, strength
ened by storms of human trials.
MINERAL POINT, VIS., FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 188-3.
HSen. Anthony offered a resolution de
claring Geo. F. Edmunds, senator from
the state of Vermon, preeident pro tern,
of the senate.
Sen. Pendleton moved to amend so
as to make the resolution apply to
Thomas F. Bayard, senator from Dela
ware. Tne amendment was lost, and
Sen. Edmunds was then elected. The
secretary having announced *he result
requested Sens. Anthony and Bayard
to conduct him to the chair, and they
did so.
Sen. Edmunds, standing by the clerk’s
desk said; “Senators—l beg to thank
the senate sincerely for the honor it
has conferred upon me, and to
say I shall endeavor to discharge
the duties imposed with fidelity. As
1 think that under the law I ought to
take the oath of office, I ask the sena
tor from Rhode Island, the eldest sena
tor present, to administer it.
Sen. Anthony administered the oath
and Edmunds then took the chair.
Sen. McMillan from the committee
on commerce, made a report on the
river and harbor bill, stating that owing
to want |of time to examine and con
sider the propriety of numerous items
in the bill they did not feel
justified in recommending its passage.
On the other hand, in view of the great
importance, annual appropriations
for the improvement of tire water ways
of the country as protection against the
oppression and exactions of railroad
companies, the committee did not
feel justified in retaining the bill in
their possession, and thus preventing
action by the senate, and therefore re
ported it back for such action as the
senate might deem proper.
Ingalls moved that the report be pre
sented, and that it lie on the table until
to-morrow. Agreed to.
The bil: for the relief of the German
National Bank, of Louisville, passed.
The other amendments of the com
mittee were agreed to. On motion of
Senator Plumb the amendments were
agreed to authorizing and directing the
attorney general to pay Charles H.
Reed for his services in defending
Guiteau, whatever sum he fixed upon
as a proper compensation, net to ex
ceed, however, $3,000. The amend
ments reported by the committee on
appropriations having been agreed to
except as above stated, the bill was re
ported to the senate, and the amend
ments made in committee of whole
agreed to except the one striking out
certain deficiency appropriations for
government of the district of Colum
bia, whioh was disagreed to. The bill
then passed.
At the evening session the house bill
to modify the postal money order sys
tem and for’ other purposes passed
without amendment.
Sen. Allison reported that the con
ferees of the two houses on the sundry
civil appropriation bill bad failed to
agree. The senate insisted upon its
action and new conferees were ap
pointed.
On motion of Sen. Harrison, the
house bill to amend the law relating to
recovery of damages for infringement
of patents was taken up, amended and
passed.
When the shipping bill was reached
on the calendar, Coke objected to its
consideration on the ground that it was
too important to be dealt with properly
at this uooper and Pry urged
consideration of the bill, and upon their
agreeing to oppose certain changes in
its provisions, withdrew his objection
and the bill was then taken up and dis
cussed. Pending the consideration at
115, the senate went into executive
session.
The doors were reopened at 1:28.
The amendments reported by the com
mittee on commerce. Sen. Sawyer
called up the house bill to adjust the
salaries of postmasters and it was
passed. This bill was passed yesterday
by the house. Tne house bill to create
two additional land districts in Dakota
passed.
2:40 Sunday Morning.—At 2:40 the
senate went into executive session and
will probably soon take a recess until
some hour this forenoon.
HOUSE.
Washington, March B.—After the
transaction of some miscellaneous bus
iness the house proceeded to vote upon
the resolution in the Cook-Cutts con
tested election case, which declares the
contestant elected to the seat. The
resolution was adopted; yeas 156, noes
81; and Cook appeared at tbe bar of
the house, and toek the oath of office.
Calkins then called up the South Caro
lina contested election case, Lee vs.
Richardson. Kelley, with the confer
ence reports in his hand, raised the
question of consideration, and the
house refused to consider the election
case. Kelley then submitted the con
ference report.
Mr. Hubbtll and Bayne demanded
a reading of the report; before it was
read, however, Bayne raised a point of
order against its reception. He based
his point upon rule 29, which provides
there shall accompany every confer
ence report a detailed statement of the
effect of the report. He understood
there was no such explicit statement
accompany this report.]
Mr. Kelley maintained that an in
dex of changes was sufficient.
The speaker sustained the point of
order on the ground that the index
was not such a statement as was re
quired by the rules; whereupon Kelley
again sent up tne index, but attached to
it a statement to tbe effect that the bill
provided for an aggregate reduction of
$67,000,000. Mr. Carlisle raised the
point that that was not a sufficient state
ment. The speaker overruled the
point of order, Mr. Kelly had a state
ment read for the information of the
house, correcting some typographical
errors in the printed bill. The clerk
began to read the report of the confer
ence committee. The reading of the
report included the reading of the
whole bill,
Mr. Kelley proposed to limit the de
bate to two hours. Several democrats
laughingly suggested to “make it
short/’ Mr. Kelley {then suggested an
hour and a half, but finally it was ar
ranged that a vote should be taken at
i o’clock. He offered to let the oppo
nents of the report be heard, but Mr.
Carlisle thought the usual and proper
course was to have the effect of the re
port stated to the house. Mr. Kelley
admitted the force of the suggestion
and proceeded to open the debate. The
first section of the bill, he said, was the
bill which the house passed last session
for reduction of the internal tax with
amendments made therto by the sen
ate, touching tobacco, cigars and snuff.
These reductions wonld diminish the
internal taxes from thirty-five to forty
millions. He was not able to make
an estimate of the immediate effect of
changes proposed in the tariff law. The
estimate was that the tetal redaction
in revenue under this bill weald be
from sixty-five to seventy millions.
Some provisions of the bill he could
not detend, bat upon the whole.he con
sidered tbe bill an improvement on the
present law.
Mr. Carlisle proceeded to argue
against the report. The pronosition
now submitted, he did not believe,
would make a redaction o t more than
ten per cent. Some 30 to 45 mil
lions of the whole redaction would
come from internal taxes, leaving only
from 20 to 25 millions to come from
tariff duties, of which 11 millions would
come from the single article of sugar.
Mr. Wilson (W. Va.) exgressed the
hope that the proposuion which would
reduce taxation by #70,000,000, would
be accepted. It was not perfect. The
artis’e of wool should have had more
protection given to it, bat on the whole
the bill was a fair compromise.
Mr. Converse condemned the disre
gard to rules in connection with the
bill and the hasty manner in which the
measure was rushed through.
The b ; " *ben passed; yeas 152, nays
114. The announcement was greeted
with applause. Then, after IS minutes
spent in a vain tffjrt to accomplish any
further business, the house took a re
cess. ,
At the evening session the usual last
night assemblage thronged the corridors
of the house, and standing room even
was at a premium in the galleries.
At this point Mr. Hiscock submitted
a conference report on the sundry civil
appropriation bill, annonucing a dis
agreement. The report was agreed
to and a farther conference ordered.
On the floor disorder reigned su
preme. No one teemed to know what
was being done.
The Lee-Richardson contested elec
tion case from South Carolina came
up, and the minority report in
favor of the mulatto, Lee, was
adopted as an amendment to
the majority report. This action in
cited a burst of indignation from the
democrats, and when the question re
curred on adopting the majority re
port as amended, the democrats re
fused to vote. Call after call followed
and no result.
At 24)5 a. m., the speaker announced
the enrollment of the tarifl bill, and
affixed his signature thereto.
3 a. m.—There is now no quorum
and will not be until several hours
later, so the repoit ends.
The last proceeding before the quo
rum failed was agreeing to the confer
ence report in the deficiency bill.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Tuesday, Feb. 37.
Senate— On motion of S<*n. Reed, the
vote by which senate bill to provide that
all easements, right of way, transactions,
grades or other work done belonging to
railroad corporations shall forfeit to the
state in certain cates, was indefinitely
postponed, and the bill
was referred to the smator as a eommittee
of one.
The following bilk were passed; relat
ing to the register of "probate: to appro
priate to the fish commissioneis $6,000; to
repeal chapter 321, laws of 1882, entitled
an act to provide for laying out a state
road from Westboro, in Taylor county
through Pierce county, to Glidden in the
county of Ashland; provide for the ap
pointment of school commissioners of the
city of Oshkosh, and for their terms of of
fice; to legalize the action of the board of
supervisors of Wood county is regard to
certain officers of said county; the follow
ing senate bills *>s indefinitely postpon
ed ; relating to Engineers in state institu
tions; relating lo the appointment of no
taries public, amendatory of section 173,
chapter 13, revised statutes; relating to
the duties of derks of circa it courts, ar and
amendatory of section 748, chapter 37, re
vised statutes.
Atsembly—'P‘ilit\v‘' paying lor a con
siimiionui "amendment prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors were presented by Messrs. McDill,
Huntly, John.ton. Foster, Hawke, Nichols,
Putnam and Macauley.
Mr. Sharp preatnted a memorial of the
school board of Skeboygan, praying for the
establishment of a deaf and dumb asylum.
Speaker Finch one of the same import
from the Oshkoaj school board.
Bills indefinitely postponed were to
amend section 484), of chapter 197 revised
statutes, to authorize the issue of search
warrants to discover liquors illegally kept
for sale.
Relating to highways, and amendatory
of section 1265, chapter 52, of the revised
statutes.
The bill passed relating to the public
schools of the city of Prairie du Chien,
and to provide for the maintenance and
support thereof.
WsDNiSDiY, Feb. 28.
The day was devrted to committee re
ports and general lifcnfsiocs. Only one
bill passed, which ras in relation to high
ways.
House—The home considered the game
keeper and constable bill but adjourned
without coming to vote on it.
Thursday March 1.
Senate —Senate bil,No. 108, amendatory
of a state road law :n the northern part
of the state was passed. The bill amend
atory of laws creatiig the office of atate
oil inspector gassed The Wausau char
ter bill was then pasted.
House —Bills passel: Appropriating sl,-
000 to the Wisconsin Dairymen’e associa
tion—lsoo each for tho years 1883 and
1884; appropriating |SOO to Kelly A.
Knott, member of thr Ludington guard
of Menomonie, crippled for life while
hunting the Williami brothers, despera
does. in the Eau Chile woods, in 1381.
Ayes 63, noes 26.
Fribay, Nahch 2.
Sennle—The following bills were passed:
To incorporate theciDof Hartford. Rs
lating to corporations and amendatory of
section 1775. revised stuutes. To provide
for the preparation anl publication of an
index of the session lavs of 1883, and the
laws thereafter enacted and published. To
provide for the appraisement of exempt
property Jin certain cases. To amend sec
tion 892. revised status?, entitled of vil
lages. To amend the ict to incorporate
the city of Baraboo.
Heuse—The followinj bills wtre passed
To incorporrte the dty of Hartford,
Washington county. Authorising the
improvement of Robinson creek, Jackson
county, for log-driving purposes. Relat
ing to tax-sale certificate, the assignment
thereof, and i (uue of deads thereon. To
provide for the annua, publication of
3.000 copies of the state nilroad map, and
appropriating money therefor.
The Billiard Hatch.
March 6.—The second
game in the Brunswick and Fclke bil
liard tournament was played this af
ternoon between Lon Morris, of Chi
cago and Randolph Heiser, of New
York. Morris won in 59 innings and
the score stood: Morris, 500; Heiser,
408. Best runs: Morris, 52, 44, and
44. Heiser, 38, 34 ana 13.
Fires.
Detroit, March 6.—A fire in Manis
tee, this morning, destrsyed the Sey
mour Brothers’ double More and two
or three small adjoininj buildings
nothing saved. Reyt oldeßrothers lose
$45,000; insured for $15,000; other
losses $6,000.
Bespect to the Dad.
Btrlisgtos, VujMarch I —The state
offices will be closed, and the capitol
dig at half-mast during tic day of the
funeral of Gov. Stephens, cf-Georgia.
The Slag Slag Xstueer*.
Sisc Sbg, N. Y., March ring
leaders in the recent revolt In the state
prison have been sent to Aubom where
the discipline Is most severe.
A hotel clerk named Brume,
Stubbed his foot out in 'Faaco
It hurt him like thumhvT^
Bat the pain was got uaUr
By SC Jacobs Oil rubbed oe birtoe.
a conductor who lives at fklair.
Got hurt, being thrown onschair.
They took him away.
Bat in less than a day.
Sc Jacobs Oil made kin al square.
MONOPOLY WARS.
The Mutual Union Still Kept Out
of Chicago.
The Southwestern Railroad Pool
Finally Broken.
The Mutual Union Wires.
Chicago, March 6. —The motion for
an injunction to restrain Abe city from
interferirg with the Mutual Union Tel
egraph company in reconnecting its
wires cut by order of the mayor some
day’s since, was before the United
States circuit court to-day. After
hearing argument. Judge Drummond
held that the Mutual Union Cos. having
come into into the city on an agree
ment that its wires should be laid un
der ground before March 1,1883, it
must abide by the terms of that contract;
that i’s right to carry wires on poles
expired by limitation. On the other
hand the mayor of the city in causing
the wires to be cut did an unlawful
act. His course properly was to ap
ply to the court for an adjudication on
the contract. Owing to the expiration
of the contract the oourt declined to
iteue an injunction, the term of which
would allow the wires to be cenected
again. Plaintiff desired to restrain
the city from any further summary in
terference with its property.
Mayor Harrisson says the decision
leaves him nothin , to do but station a
force of police at the point where the
wires are cut to prevent the company
frem reconnecting them. Suoerin
tendent Chapman of the Mutual Union
said under the ruling of the court the
company could sue the city of dam
ages.
Au Anti-Pool Railroad.
St. Louis, March 6.—The present ar
rangement between the St, Louis and
San Francisco and the Kansas City, Ft-
Scott k Gulf railroads of which anoth
er direct route has been opened be
tween St. Louis and Kansas City prom
ises to become one of great import
ance. Already a large amount of grain
from the west is seeking this route and
owing to the crowded condition of the
pool loads, great quantities of general
freight is being offered Ibis line, both
here and at Kansas City. It Is also ex
pected this route will do a large busi
ness beyond Kansas City. Neither of
these roads are on the southwestern
pool. *
Chicago, March 6.—The Fort Scott
k Gulf road was refused a peicentage
of business between St. Louis and
Kansas City by the southwestern pool,
on the ground it was not properly a
competing line to those points, its
route being neaily twice as long as the
more direct routes. Since that refusal
this road bedding for through business
between St. Louis and Kansas City.
To-day, Commissioner Midgley issued
instructions to the southwestern pool
lines to withdraw all oonrtofcloa, way
counting, through tickets and way bills
from the road.
The Alabama Claims.
Washington, March 6. —The clerk of
the court commissioner on the Ala
bama claims has made a partial esti
mate of the amount involved in the
claims now penoing before that court.
There are 2,200 cases out of 5,700 filed,
an aggregate of nearly $14,000,000 with
out interest. If judgment were render
ed for the amount claimed in the cases
the interest would-- probably aggre
gate up more than $20,000,000.
It will thus be seen that the
court will have have difficulty
in disposing of the undistributed re
mainder of the Geneva award, about
$9,500,000. The court now Das under
consideration questions of considera
ble importance to claimants, namely:
first, whether in certain cases awards
shall be made upon a gold or currency
basis; second, what, within the mean
ing of the act creating the court, is a
confederate cruiser 7
Fire at Fond dn Lac.
Fond lu Lac, March 6.—A. K. Ham
ilton’s lumber mill at Luco, two miles
from this city, was totally destroyed by
fire at midnight. The origin of the
fire is unknown. Loss, $30,000; in
sured for about one-third. The lum
ber in the mill yards escaped destruc
tion.
Accident on the Alton Railway.
St. Louis, March B.—Last night,
about seven miles from Jerseyville,
111., two freight trains collided on the
Chicago and Alton railroad, wrecking
both engines and about twelve cars.
Conductor Stone was injured, and
many of the stock injured.
The New Haven Election Case.
New Haven, March 6.—The quo
warranto proceedings m the case to
test the legality of the mayorality elec
tion on the ground of inaccurate returns
are dismissed. The action was urged
by outsiders to decide wagers rather
than with any hope of reversing the
result.
Prof. Higgins and His Storm.
Ottawa, March 6.—Prof. Wiggins
left for Halifax to get the fall benefit of
the big blow he predicted for the 9th,
10th and 11th inst. A heavy mow
storm is blocking the roads.
Quebec, March 6. Terribly cold
weather. The storm predicted by Wig
gins is setting i*.
IN MAINE.
Banook, Me., March 6.—The ther
mometer at Fort Fairfield this morn
ing registered 40 degrees below zero. A
fearful rising.
Moktreal, March 2.—A heavy snow
storm has been prevailing here all and ay.
The Flooded Districts.
Cairo, 111., March 6.—The recent
flood caused very slight damage to
tracks of the Mobile & Ohio railroad
and Illinois Central railroad on tbe
Kentucky bottoms opposite here.
Trains from the south on these rail
roads are ruimrig regularly into tbe
city.
Memphis, March 6 — The Avalanche’s
Helena, Aakmosas, special says the
rise in the river here daring the past 12
hoars amounts to two inches. The
river lacks five.inches of last year. Lev
ees gave way last night, one a mile be
low Friar’s Point on the Missiaeippi
side and two or three oat Che Arkansas
side which no doubt checked tbe
rise. The river here is now
rwing more rapidly. Stain is falling
and fears are entertained of a wind
storm to-nighi which, if violent, will
break the levee at Iron Mount depot.
Railroad authorities have telegraphed
for help. The roadmaster said he
would work all night.
Memphis, Tenn., March t> —The Ap
peal’s Helena, Ark., special says:
Breaks in the levee last night occurred
at Appearsons, nine miles below Old
Town atd at Fiiars Point; water at the
latter place is from five to eight feet
deep in town. A large number of
stock being drowned in the Old Town
country from last night’s break.
A Prize Fight.
WHERE WERE THE PjLICE.
New York, March 6.—As desperate
a prizi fight as the city ever witnessed,
took place to-nigVt in the basement of
Matt Graves’, the Bowerj r sporting
house. Tne principals were George
Fulljames, light-weight champion, and
Patrick Gallagher, the noted pugilist of
Philadelphia. Themen wore apologies
for gloves to evade the law. The battle
was for S4OO and light-weight cham
pionship. Fourteen rounds were fought
in 24 minutes. The championship and
money were awarded to Fulljames, as
at the end of the 14th round Gallagher
failed to come to time. Both men were
terribly punished. In the middle of the
fight there was a cry of “ police ! ”
but it proved a false alarm, and the
men returned to the ring and finished
the mill. Steve Taylor seconded
Fulljames and (Fiddler) Neary handled
Gallagher. Over five .hundred (people
were present. Philadelphia sent a
strong delegation This city was large
ly represented. The fight was within
a stone’s throw of police headquarters.
No arrests.
Milwaukee.
A REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
Milwaukee, Xlarch 6.—The republi
cans will soon hold a convention, but
the date i not yet fixed. Fred. J.
Johnson, the lawyer, is spoken of for
municipal judge, and Florian 'J. Ries
for clerk of the municipal court. It is
said P. J. Somers refuses to allow his
name to be used by the democrats in
connection with tha municipal judge
ship.
MAJ. BWTZ’S RESIGNATION.
Maj. Henry Bsetz has tendered his
resignation as secretary of the state
board of immigration, and Charles
Gertz has been appointed to till his
place. His nomination will undoubt
edly be sanctioned by the board. Maj.
Bw'z, who has served the board long
and well, will take a position with the
Best Brewing Company.
AT THE POINT OF DEATH.
Martin J. Higgins, local freight agent
of the Wisconsin Central road, is lying
at the point of death at his residence,
comer of Sixth avenue and Lapham
street. Mr. Higgins is a prominent
member of the Masonic fraternity, and
is the present high priest of Kilbourn
chapter, No. 1, and past master of Kil
bourn lodge, No. 3.
UNLAWFUL OFFSPRING.
The Evening Wisconsin contains the
following editorial: The annual report
of the doings of the Milwaukee county
hospital for the year 1882, contains
some information which, if not start
ling, is certainly not pleasant. For
instance, of the 51 women admitted to
to the wards for obstetrics, 42 were un
married. This is the index to a fright
fully advanced condition of the social
evil in this city. These 42 illegitimate
mothers represent only a certain por
tion of that certain class who are too
poor, or whose friends are too poor, to
hide their shame from the public.
They must therefore, perforce, go to
the public hospital.
Tnis leaves the greater share of the
offspring of unmarried women un
known to the public. Many of the
births, through the aid of quack doc
tors, are premature. Thus the crime
is doubled, through the material evi
dence of degvedation Is destroyed. If
full justice could be done, it is probable
that upwards of 200 men would
go out of Milwaukee every year
to the state prison, to be
punished for illegitimate parent
age. Even if the fortv-two fathers of
the unlawful children born last year in
the county hospital could have been
placed behind the bars, some check
upon Ihie monstrous festival of crime
wculd undoubtedly be noticed.
Many people will fail to understand
why, if it was publicly known that 42
unlawful children were born last year
in Milwaukee, the proper officials did
not go forward with 4 2 vigorous and
unrelenting investigations and arrest as
many of the authors of this wicked
ness as could be discovered. Undoubt
edly there was dereliction of duty
somewhere, which should be stopped
from this day forth.
Of Interest to Pensioners.
Washington, March 6 —The follow
ing circular has been ismed by the
commissioner of pensions and approved
by the secretary of the interior;
The following regulations are pre
scribed for the purpose of carrying into
effect as speedily as possible the pro
visions of the act of congress, approved
on March 3, 1883, increasing to S3O per
month the pensions of those who lost
a leg at or above tbe knee, or arm at
or above the elbow “and of those who
have been so disabled as to be incapa
citated from performing any manual
labor, but not so much as to
require regualar personal aid
and attendance and who are
now receiving pensions at the rate
of $24 per month; and to $24 pei
month the pensions of those who have
lost one hand or one foot or been
total’y or permanently disabled in the
same or otherwise so disabled as to
render their incapacity for manual
labor equivalsnt to the loss of a hand
or foot, and who are now receiving $lB
per month.
Inasmuch as said act has immediate
•fleet upon such admitted cases as
have been adjudicated at the rate of
$24 and $lB per month
no formal application by tbe I .nefi
ciary is necessary to be made other
than to forward to tbe commissioner of
pensions the pension certificate, ac
companied by the letter stating in
the handwriting of a pensioner his
present postoffice address. As soon as
possible after tbe receipt of pension
certificates aforesaid the commission hr
will reissue to him anew certificate for
his new rate and will forward the
same to tbe proper pension agent to in
sert the name of such pensioner and
to enroll him at the increased rate and
to the pensioner make proper payment.
In case of amputation a certincete will
be re-issued without medical examina
tion. The intervention of agents or at
torneys in such admitted cases as are
affected by this act being unnecessary,
will not be recognized.
Milwaukee Fire Marshal.
Milwaukee, March s,—Mayor Stow
ell to-day appointed Alderman Foley
to be chief of the fire department,
vice Lippert resigned.
NO. 31.
Tabor’s Double Marriage.
A qfKKR CASK.
Washington, March 5,- -Some of the
people who were announced as having
been present at the Tabor wedding,
but who w. re not there, are much an
noyed at the statement that they were
present. Senator and Mrs. Hill de
clined to go, and Mrs. Teller and Mrs.
Belford were opportunely ill Thursday
night. The wedding was about the
thinnest society event on record.
Plates at the wedding supper were laid
for twenty-five or thirty persons, but
not a dozen were there. The bride
was ha’f an hour late, which may be
good style in Oshkosh, but is not in
Washington. The president went, but
remarked to another gentleman that
he thought he had come to a wedding,
but Ure affair seemed much more like
a funeral. There were none present
except a few relatives of the bride and
half a dozen official gentlemen who
went because Mr. Tabor was in the
senate. The bride’s relatives did not
shine in conversation, and the whole
thing was a bore. At midnight the
bridegroom was found in his wedding
suit alone in the banquet hall, moving
the sofas and chairs back info place,
and now Father Chapel! aays that if
he had known that either of the par
ties to the marriage had been divorced
he would not have married them, and
he intimates strongly that somebody
lied to him. Mr. Tabor appeared in
the senate a little while to-day.
HOW IT IS REGARDED IN DENVER.
Denver, March 5 —The marriage of
Senator Tabor to Mrs. Lizzie McCourt
Doe, caused comparatively little com
ment, and excited lets surprise. It is
what has been foreshadowed for some
time, and was expected to have oc
curred earlier in the fall, when the
groom procured a divorce from tis
late wife, wh resides in Denver. The
bride ia the divorced wife of Harvey
Doe, and accompanied her husband
hither about two and a half years ago.
At the expiration of a year’s residence
Doe became a member of the legisla
ture, and Mrs. Doe an aspirant for the
admiration of gentlemen whose mar
ket matrimonially had not yet been
made. The grounds of the di
vorce have been variously stated, but
the generally accepted belief is that it
arose from her too enthusiastic admira
tion for Senator Tabor. That the ad
miration she is said to have manifested
was reciprocated after the most pro
found fashion, general rumor asserts.
It even goes further, alleging a condi
tion of affairs which can only exist un
der regulations specially provided for
by statute. During last year the sen
ator journeyed to one of the interior
counties cf this state and procured a
divorce from the wife of his youth, up
on grounds which public sentiment and
the district court of Arapahoe county
declared to be without existence. The
proceedings were unconfirmed, but Ta
bor procured Mrs. Tabors consent to a
divorce for a valuable consideration.
A LEGISLATIVE HUMOR.
Just prior to the convening of the
legislature last January the report was
circulated that Tabor, who was then
actively canvassing members for his
nomination to the United States sen
ate, had been married to Mrs. Doe in
the preceding fall at Las Vegas, and
she was then installed at the Windsor
as his wife. So notorious did this be
come that one of the daily papers as
signed a reporter to interview him on
the subject. The senator denied Ithe
fact, aUo, that he contemplated a
union with the lady, or that she was in
the city. He related that bis atlairs
with the divorced Mrs. Tabor would
be amicably disposed of, afier which
he should take counsel from no one as
to the policy he would adopt. The pub
lic has since become familiar with
what that policy was.
THE ST. LOUIS MARRIAGE.
St. Louis, March 4,—A secret which
will no doubt cause much surprise, not
only to those concerned, but to society
generally, has just been revealed here.
It is that Senator Tabor, of Colorado,
and Miss Elizabeth McCourt, of Osh
kosh, Wis., were privately married here
on the 30th of last September. The
ceremony took place in the law office
of Col. D. P. Dyer, who is an intimate
friend of the senator, and was perform
ed by John M. Young, a justice of the
peace, and witnessed by tbe father of
Miss McCourt, who accompanied her
to Bt. Louis for that purpose. It is said
on the authority of Col Dyer that the
ceremony was kept a strict secret, be
cause at that time, although Mr. Talior
had been granted a decree of di
vorce from his first wife, she had
a suit against him for alimony, and it
was feared the announcement of this
marriage during the progress of that
suit would complicate matters. Mr.
Tabor’s visit here was ostensibly to at
tend to some law business, but it ia
pretty clear that the meeting was pre
arranged, and for the S'le purpose of
being married. He returned at once
to Denver, while his wile went back to
her home in Oshkosh. Why the mar
riage should have taken place when it
did, or why there should have been a
second ceremony at Washington list
week, unless it was to satisfy the pa
rents of Mrs. Tabor, who are Catholics,
Col. Dyer does not pretend to know.
Death of Alex. il. Stephens.
GOV. fcTEPHEHS’ SUCCESSOR.
Atlasta, Qa., March s.—Hon. Jas.
Boynton, president of the senate, was
sworn in as governor. He ordered an
election to fill the vacancy caused by
Stephens’ death on the 24th of April.
The democratic executive committee
of the state has been called to meet
next Thursday in Atlanta to consider
what action shall be taken. The re
mains of Stephens were carried to the
capitol at 3 p. m. to-day to lay in
atate in the hall of the bouse of
repiesentalives until Thursday next,
when they will be interred in the Oak
land cemetery. A committee of the
egis lature is acting with the citizen’:
committee. The indications are the,
funeral will be the largest ever seen in
Georgia. The city is heavily draped
and flags at half-mast.
Gov. Boynton invited all citizens and
officials of the state and county to the
funeral memorial services in the capi
tol, Thursday, a day set apart for me
morial service* all over the state.
Morgan's Will.
New York, March s.—The will cf
ex-Gov. Morgan is filed. Besides char
ity bequests Already published, a large
number of relatives and their children
are left amounts ranging from SBO,OOO
to $5,000 each. The income of the
testator’s residuary estate gees to his
grandson, Edwin D, Morgan, Jr., for
fife and at bis death to his lawful
issue. If the issue be one child then it
shall be paid one-fourth of all per
sonal estate; if two, then they shall
receive one-half; if three then the
whole personal estate shall be paid
them. If die grandson dies without
ifue one-half of the residuary esUt®
afcall be divided into 410 shares an“
distributed among a number of col
leges and charitable establishments.
The executors, or a majority
of them, are authorized to pay the
grandson when he arrives at
the age of SO, and in the event of his
having one lawful issue living, $250,000
at the age of SS years, with two lawful
issues, a further sum of $250,000, and
at the age of 23 years with three lawful
issues, a still further sum of $250,000.
The President's Sen.
WHY HK WAS B CNCED FROM VRISVETON.
j Washuhtpcmt, March 5. —Young Allen
Arthur, the son of the president, was
recently suspended from Princetoa col
lege. A gentleman who recently visit
ed Princeton ot liege gives the follow
ing account of the cause of young Ar
thur’s suspension in company with a
son of Gen. George B. McClellan and
a sou of Libby, the New York man who
has givtu so much money to Princeton.
Several Harvard students came to
Princetoa for a visit. Twenty Prince
ton boys, including the throe above
mentioned, arranged a wine supper for
the Harvard visitors at one of the local
hotels. When the supper had reached
its conclusion tue young men
were in the usual happy frame
of mind natural to the con
clusion of a wine feast. The guests
concluded not to go home. Just above
the supper roo was a line of bedrooms
assigned to the chambermaids of the
hotel. It was thought to be a go*d lark
to go up and drive out the girls and
capture their quarters. The frail doors
were kicked in, and the girls tied,
shrieking, down stairs. The ancient
housekeeper, awaitened by the racket,
came out just as the hall was cleared.
She left her door open and walked
down the hall in her night gown, hunt
ing for the cause of the trouble. Two
of the supper crowd came up near her
room, supporting in their arms a very
tired student. Seeing her room open,
they ran in then; and put their weary
friend in the old lady's bed. As they
came out the door slammed to
and fastened with a spring lock.
Ss when the houskeeper returned she
found herself locked out. Then she
raised an outcry which brought ail of
the students out of their rooms. Young
Arthur and McClellan came out with
guitars and began to serenade the thin
ly-attired housekeeper. She thought
the young men wore bringing disgrace
upon the chambermaids and sounded
a fire alarm. This aroused everybody.
The students were captured. It was :>
o’clock before the housekeeper and her
girls were restored to their quarters.
All the students connected with the
frolic were suspended, but as the esca
pade was really innocent, no com
plaints being made, the students were
last week taken hack.
The Indiana legislature.
A MIXED CASE.
Indianapolis. March s. — Gov. Porter
sent in his veto of the Metropolitan
police bill this morning to the legisla
ture and it was passed over the veto.
There is no probability of an extra ses
sion being called.
Indianapolis, Ind., March 4.— The
failure of the house of representatives
to pass the general appropriation bill
last night is occasioning much com
ment iu political circles here, and
Speaker Bynum and his circle of sup
porters arc being bitterly denounced
because of their arbitrary course in the
matter. The issue, it will he remem
bered, was made on the metropolitan
police bill, the passage of which was
prevented by the republican minority
in the senate by unfair and illegitimate
means. Tha luman ilomeu’.ratu,
(ore, reconsidered their vote passing
the appropriation bill and held it as a
menace over the heads of the republi
cans. Had Gov. Porter sent in bis
veto to the police bill yesterday, the
appropriation would have been made
iu regular form, and even up to ten
o’clock last night it was thought this
would bs done. According to the con
stitutional limitation no bills could bo
passed after midnight, and a short
time before that hour it became ap
parent that Speaker Bynum ami his
intimate supporters were determined
to prevent any consideration of the
appropriation bill. The democratic
senators and the cooler-headed men of
the party urged upon them the folly of
such a couise. claiming that it would
throw upon them the responsibility for
not providing for the stale institutions,
and an extra session, if it was called.
A messenger was dispatched to Senator
McDonald, who replied that the demo
crats must not endanger the appro
priations on account of the police hill.
In spite of these things, however,
Speaker Bynum peremptorily ruled
out of order all motions lw call up the
appropriation bill, and, just before mid
night, took the door himself and spoke
until it was too late to be considered.
Under an act of 1877, a number of the
state institutions and officers will fie
provided for under the old appropria
tion bill. But this does not include the
educational institution, the female
reformatory, the asylum for feeble
minded children, or any provision for
the payment of interest on the state
debt. Gen. Porter states positively
that he. will not call a special session of
the assembly, and intimates that
mcanr will be contrived whereby the
above-named institutions will meet
with the requisite support. The demo
crats have been anxiously discussing
the situation all day. and the feeling is
genera! that this is a crisis in
the history of the party. Judge
Stotsenberg, Senator McDonald,
J. H. Rice, W. H. English, and others
of the older leaders express the fear
that the actim last night will hurt the
party in tbe campaign of 1884, because
the people will not readily understand
that n revising to pass tbe appropria
tion bill the democrats in the legisla
ture were contending for the principle
of majority rule. The younger and
more active members of the party,
headed by Will E. English and Speak
er Bynum, are jubilant over the result,
and claim '.hat the end justifies the
means. They say that the republicans’
revolutionary opposition to the police
bill justified the democrats in refusing
the appropriations, and that the party
as a wbo'e will support them in this po
sition. Tbe general feeling, however,
is directly to the contrary, and tonight
it is guen out on good authority that
leading democrats have approached
Gov. Porter with a proposition that if
he will call an txtra session they will
give their personal pledge that it shall
not i tat longer than three days, an!
that nothu g shall be considered but
the appropriation bills.
Jere Dunn’s Condition.
Chicago, March s.— An inqnest in
tne case of James Elliott, the prize
fighter, was postponed to Friday after
noon on account of the illness of Jere
Dunn who shot him. The physician
certified ho is still sufienng too much
from the wound to appear. Elliott’s
funeral occurred at four o’clock and
the remains left for New York an hour
later in charge of Fred. Krahne, the
pedestrian.
Where is Marvin U. Bovee !
Augusta, Maine, Feb. 28,—The bill
restoring the death penalty passed the
boose, with amendments permitting
tbe jury to recommend the prisoner to
tbe mercy of the court and giving the
prisoner’s counsel tbe closing argument.
A Case of Suicide.
Montgomery, Ala., March 3.—Moses
F. Ray, bookkeeper of the Merchants’
and Planters’ bank, killed himself on
coount of troubles of a private nature