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CONGRESSIONAL.
House.—S aturday, January 27.—The
speaker laid before the house the credentials
of F. W. Rockwell, member elect of the
Twelfth district of Massachusetts. He took
the oath of office. Mr. Hatch (Missouri),
of the committee on agriculture reported
bill for the establishment of a bureau of an
imal industry to prevent the exportation of
diseased cattle. It provides for the sup
pression and extirpation of plcuro-pneumo
nia and other contagious diseases in domes
tic animals. Ordered printed. The house
went into committee of the whole (Springer
in the chair) on the Fltz John Porter bill,
several members taking part in the discus
sion.
Senate— Wednesday, January 28.—
Mr. Hoar from the committee on judiciary,
reported the original bill relating to the en
forcement of law in Utah. Petitions were
presented and refened—By Mr. Slater,
from the citizens of Oregon ' and Washing
ton territory, praylngthat the lands granted
to the Oregon Central railroad company be
restored to the public domain; also, that of
the Northern Pacific. By Mr. Logan, from
ex-soldiers of the Union army,
the enactment of (a genera
the relief of that class of citizens.
By Mr. Platt, from Prof. Theodore Wolse
ley and others, praying for the passage of a
law for the collection of divorce statistics.
Mr. Logan, from the committee on appro
priations, reported favorably the bill mak
ing an appropriation of $11,000 for the Im
f the dam above the pool at the
praying
for
for
provement o
Rock Island arsenal, and asked unanimous
consent for its immediate consideration.
Pending action on this a message was re
ceived announcing the death of Representa
tive Mackey, and the matter was laid over,
and the senate, after appointing a commit
tee to attend the funeral, adjourned.
Senate— Tuesday, January 29.— Mr.
Vest, from the committee on public lands,
reported fovorably the bill repealing the tim
ber culture laws. Placed on the calendar.
the establishment of the terri to 17 of North
Dakota. Mr'. Platt offered a resolution for
which he asked Immediate consideration,
directing the committee on postofflees and
post roads to inquire whether telegraph
charges had been injuriously affected by the
large stok dividends by the Western Union
company or consolidations of contracts with
competing or other companies, and whether
through gold stock, telegraph company or
otherwise, the Western Union company pre
scribed rules or regulations' for
the transmission of press
news.
Mr. Sherman's resolution on the Virginia
and Mississippi elections was taken up. The
matter was brought to a vote and the reso
lution passed—33 yeas, 29 nays. A resolu
tion appropriating $50,000 for the main
tenance of destitute Indians was increased
to $100,000 and passed. The house bills
making appropriations of $375,000 rebate
tobacco tax, and $21,065 for the expenses of
the legislature of New Mexico were passed.
The bill providing a method for settling
complete titles to Mexican land grants on
lands derived From Mexico by the United
States in New Mexico, Wyoming Arizona
and Utah was discussed at length without
action.
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House.—T he speaker laid before the
bouse a communication from the secretary
of war in response to the,resolution calling
for Information as to the average number of
commissioned officers in the army from the
4th of March, 1857, and 4th of March, 1861,
and between the 4th of March, 1857, and
the 4th of March, 1881. The secretary
states that for the first period the average
number was 2,474, of whom 150 were tried
by court-martial, and 122 convicted.
Bills were Introduced—Mr. Mason, to in
crease the pensions of widows and depend
ent relatives of deceased soldiers. Mr.
Woods, to prevenUthe employment of op
eratives on railway trains more than twelve
hours out of twenty-four. Mr. Wilson
(la.), providing for the inspection and cer
tification of meat products for exporto
*ion. Mr. Morrill, pensioning widows
and children of deceased soldiers.
Mr Wood, to reduce the tariff rates on the
to
be
to reduce the duty on woolen goods, flan
nels, blankets, women's and children's
dress goods and ready-made clothing. Mr.
Hewitt (N. Y.), to authorize the" titles of
newspapers to be copyrighted. Mr. War
(Ohlo), to better secure the stability of
paper currency.
Senate— Wednesday, January 30.—
Mr. Hale called up the report of the com
mittee on conference of both houses relating
to the Grecly relief expedition. The report
recommends that the senate recede from Its
amendment requiring that only persons who
volunteer for service shall be detailed for
the expedition. Mr. Sherman said if he had
known that the bill authorized the secretary
of the navy to order any man outside the
line of his duty, and thus take his life in his
hands, he would not have voted for it. Mr.
Saulsbury opposed the bill. If the secre
tary of the navy wanted to punish any of
ficer, such assignment would afford the op
portunity. Tne hour of 1 o'clock having ar
rived, the senate proceeded In a body to the
house to attend the funeral of the late Rep
resentative Mackey. On their return the
senate adjourned.
House.— The following reports were
submitted from committees: Mr. Hatch
Mo.), from the committee on agriculture,
to establish a bureau of animal industry
and prevent the spread of contagious dis
eases among domestic animals. Mr. Pu
sey, from the committee on public build
ings, appropriating$100,000 for the comple
tion of the public building at Council
Bluffs. Referred to committee of the whole.
When the hour of 1 o'clock arrived the pub
c business was suspen ded, pending the
funeral of Representative Mackey, of South
Carolina. The casket wis borne into the
chamber and placed in front of the speaker's
desk, selections of scripture were read by
Rev. Dr. E. D. Huntley, and an appropri
ate address delivered by Rev. Dr. Rush
Shippen, of the Unitarian church,
the benediction by the house chaplain, the
funeral procession left the chamber, the
roll
After
Senate.— Thur-'day, January 31.—
The conference report on the Greeley relief
bill was taken up and the senate refused,
25 to 27, to concur in the report, and re
solved to appoint a new committee. The
chair laid before the senate further papers
relative to discriminations against the United
States commerce between Cuba and Porto
Rico. Also, a communication from the
attorney-general saying that his force
was not sufficient to supply copies
of the papers called for, and ask
ing for an immediate appropriation.
A resolution directing the committee on
postoffices and post roads to investigate the
cost of telegraphic correspondence, and if
it had been affected by contracts between
the Western Union and other companies,
was taken up and agreed to.
House. -Mr. Anderson, from the
committee on public lands, reported a reso
lution, which was adopted, calling upon the
secretary of the interior to explain by what
authority 189,000 acres of land were certi
fied in the state of Kansas forthe benefit of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad.
At the conclusion of the morning hour the
house proceeded to the consideration of the
calendar. The first bill was that declaring
forfeited certain grants of land made
certain states to aid the construction of
railroads. It forfeits all lands granted in
Mississippi under act of August 11, 1856,
except the grant to the railroad from Jack
son to the Alabama state line ; also the grants
in Alabama under acts of June 3, 1856, and
March 3, 1851, for a road from Ely ton to
the Tennessee river, and the Memphis and
Charleston and Savannah and Albany roads.
The speaker laid before the house the re
port of the secretary of state and accom
panying papers relative to the restrictions of
American hog products into Germany and
France. After a clash as to what commit
tee it should go to, it was ordered printed
and laid on the table.
House—Friday, January 27.—The
conference which was asked for by the
senate on the Greely relief bill was agreed
in
to. Randall and Calkin« were appointed
conferees. The speaker appointed Ellin,
Holman and Ryan as conferees on the part
of the house on the bill appropriating iföO,
000 in support of destitute Indians In Mon
tana. The morning hour was dispensed
with. and the house went into
committee of the whole (Springer
the chair) on the Fitz John Porter bill.
A number of short speeches were made
both sides of the question. Mr. Steele
moved to strike out the name of Fltz John
Porter and insert the name 15. Rarnet. Re
jected. Mr. Calkins offered a substitute
providing for the convening of a court
martial to review the case. Lost.
Mr. Converse offered an amendment making
Fltz John Porter's retirement compulsory.
This was agreed to in the committee, but
subsequently reversed in the house. Mr.
Bayne offered an amendment striking out
the words "appointmontunderlt, " and in
serting the ' 'passage of this act. ' ' Agreed
to. The bill then passed—yeas, 184; nays 78.
When Poland cast his vote in the affirma
tive there was a round of applause on the
democratic side. The following members
were among those who paired: Blackburn,
White (Ky.), Brown (Pa.), Ermcntrout,
Howey, Hitt, Eaton, Wall, Budd, George,
Kasso'n, Talbot, Kelley. Randall, Miller
(Pa.), Ketcham, Warner (Ohio), Wilson
(Iowa), Rice, Covington, Holton, Valen
tine, Hardy and Ellis.
A Frightful Oasoline Explosion at
Alliance, Ohio.
Alliance, Ü., February 1.—A fright
ful gasoline explosion occurred in F. M.
Orr's stove and tin store, demolishing the
building and burving in the ruins an un
known number of people. The catastrophe
occurred at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Orr's
block was leveled to the ground, and two
brick blocks, one on each side, succumbed
to the shock, while others, further were
shattered, riddled and badly injured. In a
few minutes fire arose from the ruins and a
fire alarm sounded.
Men, women and children, bareheaded,
were ringing their hands, and relatives of
the inmates of the burning buildings wan
dered about In hopelessness and despair at
their inability to save the unfortunates. F.
M. Orr, Elmer Orr (his son), Mrs. Homer
Highland and daughter, Mrs. Frank Evans
and two children, aged 2 and 4 months,
were known to have been in the building at
the time of the explosion. These all per
ished. The women and children were in
the second and third stories, and are sup
posed to have been killed by falling walla.
Orr and his son were both spoken to while
under the debris, but they burned to death.
Besides those killed a number were out
and bruised by flying bricks, etc. John
Curry and Charles U. Hayden, of Duprez &
Benedict's minstrels, wer«, blown out of
Orr's store through a plate glass window
and carried clear across the street. They
were badly injured, but will recover. Busi
ness is entirely suspended.
Missouri River Passenger Rates.
Chicago, February 1.—The com
mittees of the Missouri river lines
pointed yesterday for the purpose of draft
ing an agreement for the maintenance of
passenger rates both ways between all river
points and Chicago, reported to the general
passenger agents of these lines to-day. The
report was satisfactory; but it was decided
submit it to the local passenger agents for
the purpose of deciding whether any local
conditions wore affected. It will probably
adopted to-morrow.
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Public Debt Statement,
Washington, February 1.— Decrease
of the national debt for January,.$11,958,004;
decrease since June 30, 1883, $65,007,488;
cash in treasury, $393,415,233; gold certifl
silver certificates,
cates, $101,250,620;
$110, 137,051; certificates of deposit, $16,
880,(00, refunding certificates, $306,950;
legal tenders, $3,466,810; fractional curren
cy, $6,987,250.
The Bankruptcy Bill.
The bankruptcy bill, which the Com
mercial convention held in Washing
ton recently, agreed to recommend to
congress, is substantially the Lowell
bill as amended by the senate judiciary
committee of the last congress. The
recommendation of the committee that
a person who is actually insolvent who
has been "dealing in futures" shall be
deemed liable to bankruptcy was strick
en out by the convention. Another im
portant change was to give bankrupts
an exemption to the amount of $1,000.
There was no exemption at all in the
Lowell bill, as agreed upon by the ju
diciary committee. The Lowell bill
abolishes the fee system of remunerating
officials, and provides for their compen
sation by the payment of salaries. The
powers of the commissioners acting as
ancillary judges are enlarged for the
accommodation and protection of suit
ors, especially in sparsely settled dis
tricts, and in those districts where the
business does not warrant the main
taining of extra court machinery,
the judge himself will perform the la
bors of the commissioner. The trustees
must account more expeditiously and
the estate must be wound up more rap
icly than before. No expenses can be
incurred save by sanction of a commit
tee of direction elected by the credit
ors. The entire proceedings are placed
under the care of a new salaried officer,
termed a supervisor, whose duty it is
made to guard the interests of all
cerned by detecting wrong-doing, or
omissions of duty, and reporting the
same. The composition clause con
tains many provisions tending to pro
tect the rights of creditors as well as of
debtors. Discharges cannot be ob
tained as easily as under the former
law, and the section devoted to crimes
and their punishment has been found to
overcome the constitutional objections
urged against the former provisions on
the subject. The convention adopted
about twenty changes, the most im
portant of which are mentioned above.
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California Millionaires.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Who is the wealthiest man in Cali
fornia?
"Jim Flood, worth $106,000,000 ; he
is a liberal man and a shrewd one. He
has built up on San Francisco Bay a
new port called Costa City, with mag
nificent storehouses and piers, from
which the wood of those rich countries
is shipped direct to Europe and the
world. O'Brien, Flood's partner, is
dead and his fortune distributed. Mack
ey,one of the Bonanza crowd, is thought
to be worth $606,000,000 and Jim Fair
worth perhaps $40,000,000.
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Caldwell, Idalio
Haskell & Smith, Proprietors.
The Haskell House is the best hotel imddwell. It is pleasantly situated on Front
We ii ive a first class cook, hence we have tirst
Come all and give us a call.
avenue in the upper portion of town,
class meals served at all times. Charges reasonable.
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The new Oregon Short Line town of Caldwell is advantageously located on the south bank of Boise River, at an altitude of 2,600 feet above the sea, a little more than 400 miles
northwest of Salt Lake by rail, 150 miles northwest of Shoshone, 30 miles west of Boise City, and about 100 miles southeast of Baker City, Oregon. Silver City is due south 55 miles;
the principal settlement of Payette Valley about Emraetsville and Falks Store are from 15 to 20 miles north; Idaho City and the "Boise Basin' ' country, so famous for Us rich mines, is
from 45 to 60 miles northeast; the great Malheur and Owyhee farming regions are from 25 to 35 miles west, and the widely-known Weiser Region, with Welser City for its centre
50 miles northwest. In other words, Caldwell is in the heart of the vast agricultural region formed by the Junction of Boise, Payette, Weiser. Owyhee and Malheur Valleys with
Snake River Valley, the junction of all these important rivers being within a radius of 60 miles.
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Boise Valley, 70 miles long; Payette Valley, 100 miles long; Welser Valley, IOO miles long; Malheur and Owyhee Valleys from 50 to 75 miles long each, and dozens of smaller
valleys, ail within a day's drive, abound in evidences of successful agriculture, and invite the newcomer to settlement. In these valleys tributary to Caldwell there are not less
than 7,000 inhabitants.
Along the Boise, 40 to 75 miles east, and along the Payette from 50 to 75 miles north, are some of the heaviest forests cast of Puget Sound. There are hundreds of thousands
of acres of pines equal to the best in Michigan, which can readily be floated down the river and worked up at Caldwell.
Within a day's drive, and naturalh' tributary to Caldwell, are the great gold and silver mining regions of Silver City, Snake River, Quartzburgb, Placcrville, Idaho City,
, which have made Idaho famous. These various raining regions, vast in extent and richness, will always furnish a splendid market for farmers in the country tributary to
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Caldwell, and will furnish us much bnsincss of various kinds.
Climate mild as Southern Illinois or Salt Lake Valley, ripening peaches, melons, corn, tobacco, etc. Water good and Inexhaustible for domestic uses, power or irrigation.
Superb wagon roads to all points as notecUon accompanying map. Building-stone abundant and good. Market for produce first-class at the railway and in raining camps. The
Oregon Short Line Company has secured very extensive grounds at Caldwell, and will doubtless do much to make it the best point between Salt Lake and Portand.
Our three-months-old town has some 600 inhabitants, 40 business houses, and about 150 structures in all. Our cash sales aggregate about $200,000 per month. In the past
sixty days our town received 200 car-loads of lumber, 150 wagons, 600 car-loads of coal, and several hundred car-loads of merchandise. We have shipped 2,000 sacks of flour, 100,
000 pounds of wool, 75,000 pounds of hides, 120,000 pounds of Boise Valley fruits and 200,000 pounds of vegetables. Cash receipts at Caldwell depot arc about $40,000 per month.
We have a telephone exchange and are building a branch telephone line up Boise Valley to Boise City. We have four hotels, five general merchandise stores, heavy stocks of hard
ware and agricultural implements, two drug stores, jewelers, news-stand, lumber yard, blacksmith shops, livery stable, the usual quota of saloons, good free school, town hall,
public park, etc., with tie life, nerve and improvements generally of eastern towns twenty years old and containing ten times our population. Arrangements have been made for
storting astrong banking house, building waterworks and some very handsome residences. Town lots range in price from $40 to $300, and are a very tempting investment. Those
sold have doubled in value in some cases in sixty days.
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