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WHAT DO YOU WANT? Do yon want Servants, Clerks or Meidinn'c-T Do "you want to rent a Koom. House or Store? Do you want to buy or sell a Horse, Wagon or any kind of TehieJe! Do "yon want 10 Rent or Sell your House, Ofiice, Store, Lot or Farm? Do you wain to Bell your Good- Will and Fixtures? Hare you Second-Hand Goods of any kind thai you wish to Sell or Exchange! If So, Try The Globe Want Columns And You Will Be Happy. VOL. XI. BOSTON ONE-PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE, THIRD STREET. A St. Paul Clothing House Exclusively Owned and Con trolled by St. Paul Men. &2*__j£ 11% IS* \^Jfy till V . WW (riifW&CA Mi DECEMBER THE FESTIVE MONTH. A gay and festive month is December, with its num berless parties and social entertainments of all kinds. It's the busiest month of the entire year -with the Boston. Smoking Jackets and Dress ing Gowns, Imported and American made, from $5 to $25 cash. Crash Bath Robes for $5. These Goods First Counter, First Floor. More of those Boys' Relia ble Suits and Overcoats for $4.50 and $5. Parents are more than pleased with these Boys' garments. They certainly are unusual value for the money. Juvenile Department— Second Floor—Ele vator. __^___ There's no Glove made that combines both warmth and style to such an extent as do our Tan Dogskin Gloves, lined throughout with Chamois Skin. They are a Gentleman's Winter Glove for street or driving. Price, $3 a pair. ■Furnishing Department— First Floor. Seal and Otter Gloves and Caos from $7 to $15. Spe cially attractive Caps, and at wonderfully Low Prices, considering their reliability. Bat Department— First Floor. Our Men's Ulsters and Storm Overcoats for $10 are much better garments than you'd expect to buy for such little money. Extra Long Overcoats for tall men, and for any men who like a very long Over coat, $8 to $25. Our $12 Fur- Trimmed Over coat is a bargain. So is our 850 Fur-Trimmed Overcoat. Bargains in Fur- Trimmed Overcoats at every price from $12 to $50. London-made Cape Over coats — nobby and fash ionable garments for young men. $22 to $30. Overcoat Department— "second Floor— vator. BOSTON ONE-PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE, THIRD STREET, ST. PAUL N. B.—Out-oUTown Orders ; solicited. Cooes sent on ap proval io any part of ihe Vilest fnce-List and Easy Rules lor Sell- Measurement mailed free upon application. v.Vr Joseph McKet & Co. DAILY ST. PAUL GLOBE HAS GONE TO CANADA Cashier Silcott, of the Ser geant-at-Arms Office, Em bezzles a Fortune. Eighty-Two Thousand Dollars Safely Stowed in His In side Pocket. He Bet on the Races and Lived a Jekyll and Hyde Life. Many Members of Congress Are Minus Their Salary for November. Washington, Dec. 5.— C. E. Silcott, cashier of the sergeant-at-arms' office of the last congress, is an embezzler iv the amount of $82,000. ?7_,000 of which is government money. He has bonds filed for $50,000 with good security, so the government will not suffer so se verely as individuals. The chief suf feier will be the sergeant-at-arms of the last house— P. Leedom— who loses $10,000 cash and is held responsible for the shortage of Silcott above the amount which may be recovered from his bondsmen. Silcott is supposed to be in Canada. The defalcation created a sensation in the ; house. Silcott was well known to at least 100 of the old members. His little stooping figure and his gray head was familiar to every one who had occasion to go to the office of the sergeant-at-arms to draw money in the last congress. Many of the new members had become acquainted with him during the past summer. He was, to all appearances, a man of good habits, steady and trustworthy. Among his people in Ohio he had borne a good reputation. It was thought the ser geant-at-arms had accused one of their own number of embezzlement when the members of the house 1 stened to the an ouncement that there was a . ' , shortage in SILCOTT'S accounts. Mr. Leedom seemed to take the mat ter quietly and with some fortitude, al though he told the newspaper inter viewers who crow ied about him that he was in no condition to talk. "All of this money has been drnwn since Wednesday," he said to a reporter, as he sat in the back room of his little office, gazing at the stream of anxious con gressmen who poured in the door to look at the big, empty safe, and to ask questions and offer sympathy. "We did not suspect anything wrong until 4:30 p. m. yesterday." he continued, "and we had no absolute knowledge of the extent of the defalcation until this morning, just before I made the report of it to the house. Silcott went to New York Saturday, telling me that he had to collect some money. Sunday night he telegraphed to his wife that he would be back Monday night. We did not know what had happened to him when be did not appear, but we thought that he had been killed. We never sus pected the truth until his absence be came prolonged, when we began to in vestigate. We did not believe the worst until we had gone to the treasury as a last resort, hoping that he had not drawn the money. There we found that he had drawn $133,000 since Wednesday, apparently with the INTENTION OF CARRYING IT .AWAY. Then 1 determined to report the mat ter immediately to the house and await its action. The shortage is $71,982. I had $10,000 in the safe, and Silcott bad a like amount up to Saturday. That is all gone. 1 suppose Silcott has it with him in Canada." Silcott came from Youngstown, 0., where he was a mer chant for many years. His bonds for $50,000 and liis bondsmen, fifteen in number, are all residents of Ohio, ana in the vicinity where be lived. The only names which Mr. Leedom could remember among them were those of W. A. Blair. William MeCormick. J. T. Wilson, C. H. Ellison and Samuel Dren nan. The boud is in Mr. Leedom's private safe, out West. Mr. Leedom says that his bondsmen are all good men. In answer to a question about Silcott's habits. Mr. Lecuom said: "He seemed to have no more than the or dinary man's share of vices. He was one of the moot economical men 1 have ever known. I used to quarrel with him about his wearing such cheap cloth ing." Silcott has been cashier for about six years. He handled about .$5,000,000 a year and gave a bond of $50,000. Mr. Leedom gives a boud in a like amount. Silcott has a married son and two little daughters. Mrs. Silcott is distracted. Silcott's son, a young man who had re cently married, is employed in the docu ment'room of the house. He was at his work as usual this morning when in formed of his father's disappearance. The announcement was the first intima tion that Silcott had that anyth _- was wrong with his father, and the enect on him ..;:•;-; STARTLED HIS FELLOW CLERKS. He fell to the floor in a faint, and then was attacked with a fit. from which he did not recover for some time. He was taken to his home when he regained consciousuess. The letter from ex-Ser geant-at-Arms Leedom to Speaker Reed informing him of Silcott's defalcation was not received with any manifesta tions of feeling beyond complete sur prise when laid before the house. The members seemed thunderstruck, and not a c ound was heard while the cl-rk read Mr. Leedam's communication and the resolution offered by Mr. Adams, which followed. Rumors of Siieott's crime had been whispered about among the members, but it had not become generally known, and the an nouncement of the lareeues- of the deficiency had even a more startling effect than the announce ment of the crime itself. While Still cott's reputation for honesty had never been brought into question in any of his official transactions, it was known that he was spending a larger sum of money than he could afford to spend on the sal ary he received, but this was explained in the minds of those who thought any thing about the matter by the belief that Silcott's horse-racing ventures had been successful. He was a frequenter of race tracks and pool rooms, and had gained a REPUTATION. as a heavy better. Although Silcott's family lives in this city, he did not seem to make any effort to disguise his relations with a woman known as Louise Barrett, whom he had met at a house of ill-fame here. On this woman he lavished all sorts of lux uries, and she is believed to have been the principal cause of his disgrace. The Barrett woman cannot be found to-day. and it is l>elieved she is with Silcott. She is a French-Canadian, and has been living in Washington for three years. Silcott recently took her from the house of ill-fame where they had met, and established- her in a very re speclable locality. In several annual reports of different secretaries of the treasury attention has been called to the manner in which the sergeant-at arms of the house is allowed to draw the salary of members from tho treas ury. The eecretares have held that PAINT PAUL, MINN., FRIDAY [MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1889. some change should he made in the method in vogue on the ground that sufficient security is not afforded the government. The issuance of what are known as speaker's certificates, or drafts drawn by each member ana countersigned by the speaker, has frc qmn.ly b.'en condemned in these re ports anil other methods suggested. It is a question among the m embers of the house whether Silcott's offense is an extraditable one. Most of those who expressed themselves on the question inclined to the belief that *"*'.:.•'' '■;■. BILCOTT IS SAFE FROM ARREST if he lias succeeded in netting to Can ada. They think the crime can only be * a led a breach of trust or defalcation, aim this is not covered in the laws re garding extraditions between the United Slates and other countries. If it is shown, however, that Silcott committed theft he may be extradited. Inquiry at the banks in this city where Silcott had deposits shows that he has overdrawn his accounts, and there are reports that a large amount of his paper is out. These reports, and like ones, are being circulated about the capitol, but it can not be ascertained definitely whether they are true or not. Some of the state ments made by Mr. Leedom today are peculiar. He stated very positively this morning to the reporter of the United Press, in the presence of several other newspaper men, that Mr. "•"•'leott had not been in this city since Saturday last; this afternoon a well known newspaper correspondent makes the positive statement that he saw Mr. Silcott in the lobby of one ot the hotels Tuesday evening. Until the house com mittee lias concluded the investigation, suspicion will not be removed from sev eral employes of the house who are being watched to-day. Tbe fact that Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, is said to be on the bond of bilcott has excited some comment here. The correspondent of a Western paner sent out this afternoon a dispatch statins that it was believed that Mr. Campbell^could furnish some interesting corroborative detail in re gard to * . : silcott's peculations. The government will not be a loser by the defalcation of Silcott. His sureties and those of Mr. Leedom will be obliged to make up the amount of gov ernment money taken by him. Mr. Leedom. in order to recover the money for his bondsmen will be obliged to apply to congress. There is some talk among the members of passing a bill for the immediate relief of the members whose money was taken by Silcott. Several members hold that this cannot be done. The sergeant-at-arms carried on a regular bauk'ng business through his office, and many of the members had deposits there outside of tneir accounts with the government, preferring to tru?.t to the honesty of the sergeant-at arms because of the convenience. Just how much money was deposited to these private accounts is not known, but a statement covering the ground will probably be prepared for the inspection of the investigating committee ap pointed by Speaker Reed when it meets to-morrow. The object of Silcott's visit to New York last Saturday, it is said, was for the purpose of eollectiug $12,000 from ex- Congressman Paige, of Ohio, now living in New York, which amount Silcott had loaned him out of th« funds in his cus tody. It was necessary to have this money in order to have the cash balance when turned over to the incoming ser geant-at-arms. Among the members who lose personal deposits are: Rife, of Pennsylvania, $2,500; J. D. Taylor, of Ohio, $3,000: Boutelle. of Maine, $1,500; Bayne. of Pennsylvania, $2,000; Butterworth, of Ohio, $'J00: Hermaun.of Oregon. $2,500: Pickler, of North Da kota, WOO; Parnell. of Nebraska, $2,100, and Owens, of Indiana, $25. Nearly all the MEMBERS LOSE SOME MONEY on account of salaries due them, but affairs are in so much confusion that a list of the members and their losses can not be given. Some members permitted their salaries to remain untouched for several months, and these are the great est sufferers by the defalcation. Bel den, of New York, loses his entire sal ary since the 4th of March, about $2,400. Some few members made assurance doubly sure, however, and are indebted to the office, having overdrawn their ac counts. Among the reports in circula tion to-night was one to the effect that Representative Turner, of Kansas, would state that he had seen Sil cott in the sergeant-at-arms' office Tuesday morning. Mr. Turner says that he did make-such a statement, but that it was a case of mistaken identity, and that he found that he had been con founding Cashier Silcott and Paying Teller Balleutine. Speaking of the probability of the members of congress being out of pocket by the defalcation, Mr. Turner said that it would dep *nd on whether the act creating the office made the sergeant-at-arms the govern ment representative, or whether, as seemed probable from the fact that the members signed authorizations, he was the representative of the members. In the first case the government and in the second the members themselves would be losers. The law would have to be very clear and indisputable in sup port of the first proposition before he would vote for a resolution to reimburse himself ami other members for the loss of their salary, if Silcott has gone to Canada, as is generally assumed, this defalcation will give. A MOST POWERFUL IMPETUS to the movement for an extradition treaty with Canada. Mr. Leedom made the following statement to-night: "The committee upon the celebration of the inauguration, of which Mr. Hiscock is chairman, was in my office on Wednes day aliout 3:30 o'clock. While there Mr. Ballentiue, paying teller, called me aside and said : 'I am distressed. 1 be lieve something has happened to Mr. Silcott. 1 fear he may have been killed. Here is the combination that unlocks the' ; safe.' I told him that I knew nothing * about the matter and asked him to un lock the safe, and then he said we had better wait until the committee should: go out. which it did at 4 o'clock. I told the messenger to close the door, aud then Ballentiue took the combination that Silcott had given him some four years ago, and as 1 was by his side he unlocked the safe after considerable trouble. Mr. Ballentiue said he wanted' me to count the money.* The first packet 1 picked up was a package of $1 bills with a #100 bill on the back of it. The next was a similar package. That was a very unusual thing. I said: "Ballentiue, THE JIG IS UP. ■•*'*': Something Is wrong." We went through the work of examining the con tents of the safe and found there was $33,400. He should have had in the safe $105,000. I told Ballentiue that was the first intimation 1 had of anything wrong and that we had better suspend criti cism. 1 said we knew but little about the matter, and that I wanted to go to the bank and see how much was there' thinking that perhaps Silcott bad gone to the bank and deposited money to our credit. We closed up the safe and went to dinner, going back at 7 o'clock. We staid there until 12 o'clock, but our minds were in no condition to deal in figures. Ballentine and l went away. At. 2:80. having gone home, I dressed myself and again went to the capitol. Joe Lee. a policeman, was there, and I asked him to go to my office. He asked me what the matter was, and I told him that I wanted to go over the books and see if anything was wrong. That kept me from 3 until 5:30 o'clock, when 1 Continued on Fourth Page. STARVING DAKOTANS. Gov. Melletie Finds Six Hun dred Destitute Families in Minor County. In Bottineau County Settlers Are Subsisting: Upon Bran and Shorts. Montana Republicans Aban don the Attempt to Un seat Senator McNamara. The Prohibition Question in North Dakota Approach ing a Crisis. Yankton, S. D., Dec. s.— Governor Mellette arrived in this city to-day di rect from Minot county. He says there are 600 families on his list of absolutely destitute people in Minot county. Many of these people. Gov. Mellette, says, will die if relief is not furnished them at once. Gov. Mellette is mak ing an effort In the counties along the Missouri river where the crops were abundant, to secure aid. The people,; he says, need food, grain, clothing, coal and boots aud shoes, and he asks lor liberal contributions. HUNDREDS NKKD HELP. Bottineau County Settlers Sub sisting on Bran and Shorts Fargo, N. D., Dec. The following, which needs no explanation, was re ceived to-day: Office of Commissioners, Fifth Dis trict, Bottineau County, North Dakota —I unhesitatingly say that both last year and this there has been a consider able amount of destitution in this county and many families have been, and now are. short of the necessaries of life, and 1 leave it to any intelligent man, when he reads tne following facts, to judge how It could be otherwise. In 1886 immigration may be said to have fairly uegun at the commencement of work on our line of railroad. Settlers, up to this time and for a year after, had to transport their produce 110 miles. Devil's Lake being tt.e nearest market. The settlers of 1886 in most cases broke up enough of land that year to yield wheat for bread for 1887 and sod ' for the spring of 1888. But by far the largest number settled in 1887, and made a good showing, get ting up good buildings and breaking from 100 to 6 > acres each that summer. The harvest of 1888 was a failure.caused by frost. With the exception of a few farms on the high, dry land on the foot hills of the Turtle mountains, what wheat was threshed was only fit for ground feed. This year '.the drought made a clean sweep of this country, ' the report of F. H. Haggart to the con trary notwithstanding, as . <•■ -..-'- • REPORTS FROM ALL THRESHERS *-• show that there was not 100.000 bushels of wheat threshed this country, while the amount of oats and barley harvested was almost nothing. The assessors' re turns show over 88,000 acres in wheat which did not yield an average of th.cc bushels to the acre. Ye Gods, where are the twelve to twenty bushels Mr. Haggart reported? And right here let me say that there is something wrong with Mr. Haggart's report of the crops in. this county. The gentleman who furnished the agricultural department with the crop report from this county, stated in a public meeting recently in my presence, that the report was not as he made it. He stated that his last re port was a yield of three burhels of wheat per acre, and that it gained five on the way to Bismarck. The reader can see at a glance that settlers who came here in 1886 have just one crop— the first— and we all know that is generally small and not of the best. Settlers who came here in 1887 have never got any crop, as the two last crops were failures. Your readers all know how many poor people come In and settle upon government land, depending on the first crop to carry them through. The town in which 1 reside is a fair sample of the eight that compose this commissioners' dis trict, and is above the county average. One town had nine bushels to the acre, the best in this district. One-half of the farmers did not thresh at all, aud over 1,000 acres - WERE NOT CUT AT ALL. The wheat on It could not be taken with either binder or mower. Now in the light of these facts is there any question as to there being destitution in many cases. It is true there are brave boys to-day who have gone west to Montana and the Pacific coast, and are sending some of their hard earnings to keep lite in their old people and younger mem bers of their families. It is also true so.m* of the settlers, in a manly spirit of independence, have left their families and their hundred acres ready for crop and are many hundreds of miles distant struggling for bread and their brave wives are holding the fort with the help of their oldest boy or girl attending to the stock and managing to keep life in themselves. There are many houses full of children who are destitute of clothes to cover their bodies, and who ou cold days dare not go out or they ; would freeze, but there are many who 'cannot- leave their families who have ' many causes to keep them at home, and '. who In- ; almost every case have their ' I stock mortgaged to supply them with bread in times that are past. 1 say that ! I ought to know if 1 do my duty the state ■of each family in my district as well, ! and possibly better than any other man, j and 1 most emphatically say that how so. ■ many of them are managing to keep * *' BODY AND SOUL TOGETHER is a mystery.' v Worthy men, as a rule, do not parade their poverty all the time. 1 have, since hard times came, found it difficult to eet at the fact whether a family were suffering or not, and in eight'cases out of ten they have only le vealed their condition when their last loaf has gone. Let me give one in stance. Last winter a near neighbor of mine was so reduced that bis wife and children, eight in number, lived two ; weeks on bran, lie only made me ac quainted with their condition when one of the children became very sick and he was afraid it would die for lack of nour ishment. Let me give another. Three brothers-in-law, whose united families number seventeen in all, all these fam ilies have to depend upon for existence is the profits one of them can make by peddling goods in the Red river valley, which a generous Grand Forks mer chant has given him on credit until he can sell them. These three men have 300 acres of land ready for seed and not a bushel of seed to sow with. I have said enough to convince any: reasonable per son that all need . help. On the first of, October last the county board spent over $400 in supplying the poor with* food, and a great deal more was re quired as the following fact will show* Some ago I went to Harrison « Kalfalsh's grist mill to purchase shorts' wilh which to feed my stock. Mr. Har rison said they were out of shorts at that time, and gave as a reason that R POOR PEOPLE IN THE MOUNTAINS La* purchased as much as they could lor the winter. ••Why," 1 said, "do they use shorts instead of flour?" he replied: "I know lots of families who have lived on shorts for moro than twelve months with a fair grade of flour selling at $3 a sack." There is only on 'solution of this problem. As to the statements that the people are as well off this year as last, the reply of 0110 of our storekeepers is conclusive. A few days ago when 1 asked him that question he said: "I am not taking In $1 in cash now for 210 received last year at this time, and as I cannot afford to give much credit now I am doing $10 a day less in that business also." The dis trict 1 represent is probably populated with as self-sustaining, • industrious sober, bard- work a lot of farmers as can be found on the face of the earth. 1 do not believe there is a man in it who was ever the recipient of charity out ride of this county. And it is only when actual want stares them in the face tbat they can be induced to accept it. But at a public meeting held in Oak Creek township on the 25th ult it was decided that it would be impossible for many of them to pull through the winter and re main in this county unless outside help was to be had. it was found on compar ing notes that all were provided with buildings that they could comfortably live In during the winter. It was also found that on an average each family had eighty-five acres ready for crop. It was also found if next season SHOULD RUING A FAIR CROP and ordinary prices should prevail, nearly all could meet existing liabili ties. The laud was declared to be in better condition for seeding a crop, and that it had been better tilled than at any time since its first settlement. In view of these encouraging facts it was unanimously decided to appeal for help to carry us through till we could get the next crop off the ground, and to publish such appeal In the newspapers of St. Paul and other papers. The writer and James McVicar, justice of the peace— our address is Bottineau— were unanimously appointed as a com mittee to give ail information and re ceive all contributions that a charitable, friendly people might send, and to dis tribute them, whether provisions or clothes, to the most needy. Now, there fore, we, the said committee, are at the disposal of inquirers, to answer further questions, to receive any contribution in money, clothes or food, and we will promptly acknowledge the same on re ceipt, and, if required, will furnish names and addresses, and also the re ceipts of the needy who receive them. We trust that our more fortunate neigh bors will not let this appeal for help go unanswered. Your most obedient serv ant. George Miciiie. County Commissioner Bottineau county. j? N.D. . j*i BETWEEN TWO FIRES. i! * Montana Republicans Afraid to L Stove Forward or Backward. Special to the Globe. •*. i, Helena. Mont., Dec. s.— Owing to* the refusal of two Republican . senator's from Northern "Montana" to "Indorse the scheme to declare Senator McNamara's lection void, 'the Republican: senators mve apparently , abandoned theirspWr 6 - MH to seat his defeated Republican opponent, .Watson. The endeavor now is to have the lieutenant governor de clare that, counting himself, the Repub licans have a quorum in the senate: and proceed to organize that body. The Democrats do not pay much attention to this, as the less discreet of the Repub licans have talked to' their friends freely about so many different plans to break the senate deadlock, and each one has been exposed before opportunity was had to put it in execu tion so that it is thought the Republic ans have about reached the point in the game where they will come in out ot the wet and allow tne business of tne state to proceed. The Democratic senators held a caucus to-night, and as a result it is understood that to-morrow they will matte a proposition to the Repub lican senators that each side appoint three senators, who shall make a thor ough investigation of the iunnel pre cinct case, and throw out all votes known to be fraudulent. Then let those members of the legislature shown to to be elected by the proposed in vestigation, take their seats. If the Republicans want to act honorably the Democrats say this is the last chance they will have, as the latter will listen to nothing short of a complete sur render if their proposition is refused. The Democrats will make the proposi tion for the benefit of the large body of people of Montana who are not party people, and to show them, as they know they can. that the charges of fraud made only in Republican papers were made for the purpose of covering up the attempted theft of the f Btate. APPROACHING A. CRISIS. Tbe Prohibition Question Worry ins North Dakotians. Special to the Globe. ./"Bismarck, N. D., Dec. s.— The pro hibition question is Hearing a crisis on the point as to whether the saloons of the state shall be closed on Jan. lor July 1,1890. The bill, as agreed upon by the prohibition alliance, embodied the emergency clause provided for in the constitution, and, if passed without amendment, would go into effect on Jan. 1. While the legislative commit tee on temperenee has been considering the bill there has been a grand row in the committee room over this cause, and for a time it looked as though the committee report would favor the pas sage of the. bill without an amen lment. The majority finally consented to amend, and to-day reported recommend ing the striking out of the emergency clause, thus letting the law go into force when all others will, on July 1. But this is not agreed to. for a minority report, submitted by Messrs. McCor mack, Richardson and Cole, recom mends the passage of the bill with out amendment. This would close every saloon in the state on Jan. 1 and there is a loud howl against it. Zimmer. of Grand Forks, threw a bomb, brat least what he thought would be a bomb. into tht legislative proceedings to-day, by introducing a proposition for the amendment of the constitution on the question of the scat of government, providing that the location of the cap itol may be changed by the legislature. The location at Bismarck was fixed in the constitution and threats were made that this would be changed as soon as the people could get another chance at it. Under the constitution the proposed amendment might pass two successive legislature assemblies, and Zimmer's ' memorial if to the next, which meets in '1890. praying that it be passed and sub mitted to a vote of the people. There ' is very little serious sentiment back of the memorial. Senator Haggart intro duced a bill to-day providing for the lo cation of an experimental station and agricultural college at ■ Fargo. This is a desirable institution, as congress ap propriated $15,000 annually In its inter ests. Bills were introduced in both bouses authorizing the governor to .purchase seed to the value ... of $100,000 to be distributed among desti-. 1 tuto. farmers. A novelty was presented by Representative Lutz in the torm of a bill compelling compelling attorneys to take a license, for which they shall pay a fee of $25 to the county treasurer. LULL IN LEGISLATION. Both Branches of Congress Shut Up Shop Until Next Monday. Serjeant-at-Arms Leedom's Loss Is Reported to the House. Sarcastic Ingalls Selected Speaker Pro Tempore of the Senate- Senator Moody Seeks to Pro vide His Constituents With Water. -r< Washington, Dec. s.— The speaker laid before the house the following com munication from J. P. Leedom, late ser- geant-at-arms of the house, directed to the speaker: I regret to report that C. E. Silcott, late cashier of the office of the sergeant-at-arms, has departed from this cny without settling his accounts, and I have been unable to as certain bis whereabouts, and there is a defi ciency in the cash of the office. In view of these circumstances, 1 respectfully request an immediate investigation of my accounts, under such action as the house of represent atives may take in tbe premises. Mr. Adams, of Illinois, therefore of fered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted: Whereas. J. P. Leedom. late sergeant-at arms of the house of representatives, nas re ported to the house that C. E. Silcott, lato cashier of the office of sergeant-at-arms, has departed from this citp without settling hi? accounts and his whereabouts are unknown, and that there is a deficiency iv cash in said office of $75,000. Resolved, That a select committee be ap pointed by the speaker to examine the ac counts of said office and report thereon to the house. '.' • . :; The commitete, which has authority to administer oaths and to report in whole or in part at any time, was ap pointed by the speaker as follows: Messrs. Adams. Stewart (of Vermont), Payne, Reed (of Iowa), Holman, Blount, and Hemphill. The speaker also ap pointed the following committees: On Rules— speaker and Messrs. Mc- Kinley, cannon, Carlisle and Randall. <?*>'■£* On Accounts— Messrs. Spooner, Boothman, Kelly, of Kansas: MfrC'ord, Hansbrou^h, Hayes, Orimel, Lee and Kerr, of Pennsyl vania. On Enrolled Messrs. Kelly, Town send, of Pennsylvania: Moore, of _<ew Hampshire ; Kil {core and Williams. FOR THE WORLD'S PAIR. Senator Ingalls Introduces a Bill Appropriating $8.000,000.. Washington, Dec. Senator. In galls to-day introduced a bill to "aid and secure the commemoration of the 400 th unnlversary of the discovery of Amer ica. The bill" provides that the presi dent shall appoint, by and with the con sent of the senate, a commission consist ing of two members from each state, of different political affiliations, two from the District of Columbia, and one from each of the -territories. The president is authorized to extend an invita tion to all the American na tions and states, inviting them to unite in celebrating the anui very. Should it or any European power desire to join in the celebration, they shall be invited. The bill provides that the commission shall meet in Washing ton after thirty days' notice, and organ ize. It should then secure a site by purchase, or otherwise, for the convoca tion of nations of an area not less than 300 acres of ground. The president shall apportion the land for the build ings of the various countries, each one to select its own style of architecture. The appropriations are as follows: For the purchase of grounds, $5,000,000; for grading and clearing, 11,500,000; for buildings of the United States, $500,000; for incidental expenses, $1,000,000; total, $8,000,000. MILLER'S LI--LE MESSAGE The President's Old Law Partner Speaks lor tbe Blind Goddess. Washington, Dec. Attorney General Miller, in his annual report of the business of the department of jus tice during the last fiscal year, says that 800 suits, involving $2,000,000. have been brought' under the ordinary jurisdiction of the court of claims during the year. Eleven hundred and eighty-seven cases, claiming upwards of $20,000,000, are now pending In the court. Five thousand £ five hundred and sixty nine petitions, representing 2,386. vessels and about $30,000,000 have been tiled in the court of claims under the French spoliation act. Of these cases each petition being treated as a case. 154 have been dismissed on claimants motions, and the court has reported to congress, with findings favorable to claimants, 276 other cases amounting to $1,651,439. The aggregate amount of judgments rendered in favor of. the United States in civil suits during the last year was $629,132, and the amount actually colleted on these judgments was $86,073. while $51,638 was obtained during the year on judgments rendered In former years for the United States. and $78,976 was Otherwise realized in civil suits. The aggregate amount of tines, forfeitures aud penalties imposed during the year in ■■:- -; .*. .-'. >'■ CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS was $478,6^9. and the amount of these fines, forfeitures and penalties collected during the year was $78,778. while $18, --135 was realized on tines, forfeitures and penalties imposed in former years. The court expenses during the year paid by the department, including marshal's fees, attorneys' salaries, witnesses, rents, special deputies at elections, etc.. aggregated $3,453,608. The attorney general earnestly urges the construction of a model United States reformatory for the confinement of juveniles and prisoners convicted for their first offence, and also the con struction of a United States pen itentiary for the receptien of other than those who have committed their first offense. The criminal sta tistics in the report show that during the year there were received in the dif ferent penitentiaries, reformatories, etc., throughout the United States, 1.083 prisoners. • The total number in cus tody during the year was 2,307. Thero were discharged during the year 1,025, and on the 30th day of June, 1889, there were still in confinement 1,252. Of law lessness during the last congressional elections, the attorney general says that in every case where . •V ■'.. "_""" INTIMIDATION OF VOTERS by destruction ot ballot boxes, false re turns, etc., was charged, instructions were given to investigate and prosecute, and he Is able to report in a number of cases such prosecutions have been suc cessful.*; A large "number of indictments have been returned; upon some of them trials have been had, and in a number of cases convictions have been obtained. A largo number of these cased are still pending, and the Instructions to the district attorneys are still to push them to the end. It is proper to say, the at tornej general adds, that in some cases efforts have been made,soine of them very recently, to prevent and cripple these prosecutions by attempts to intimidate the marshal from serving process, and witnesses from giving their testimony; much intimidation going; to the extent of actual assassination. Hostility to the United Status courts, and United States officers, he says, is not confined election matters. Civil proceedings and criminal prosecutions wholly discon nected with the elective franchise, he says, cannot proceed because the lives ot necessary witnesses are in such danger, that it would be simply inhuman to enforce their attendance, and the giving of their testimony; while evi dence is abundant that in certain locali ties no occupation is so dangerous as a faithful performance of duty by United States marshals. Of course such law lessness cannot be tolerated. In every case the INSTRUCTIONS TO prosecute have been coupled with the assurance that no means within the power of this department will be spared to protect officers and witnesses in the discharge of their duties, and to bring to punish ment every man who illegally attempts to thwart such pro ecutions. WANTS ARTESIAN WELLS. Senator Moody hecks to Provide •-. y Water for south Dakotans. Washington, Dec. s.— After a num ber of bills had been introduced and re ferred in the senate . to-day. Mr. Reagan addressed the senate in advocacy of his bill introduced yesterday for the repeal of so much of the third section of the act of 1875, as provides for the sale of bonds, so as produce a reserve for the redemption of legal tender notes. The vice president having inforn ed the sen ate that he would be absent two or three day next week, Mr. lngalls was, on motion of Mr. Hoar, elected president pro tempore during the absence of the vice president. The senate then, at 1:26 p. m., adjourned until Monday. Among the bill- introduced in the sen ate to-day were the following: :'■: By Senator Moody: Directing the secretary of the interior to cause the necessary surveys to be made, and arte sian wells to be sunk to develop the ar tesian basin underlying the state of South Dakota, with a view to the use of the waters for irrigation. An appro priation of #150,000 is asked for. Also a bill to prohibit officers and agents of the government from requiring payment of special taxes under the internal reve nue laws for the manufacture , or sale of intoxicating liquors in states where such manufacture or sale is prohibited by the state constitution. Referred. By Senator Wilson, of lowa— Last year's bill to prohibit the mailing of newspapers containing lottery adver tisements. ••-••...•-. ;": ;. By Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin- Increasing the limit of cost of the Mil waukee public building to $2,000,000. Also to require that all accounts of gov ernment bond-aided railroads shall transmit all bills for services against the United States to the commissioner of railroads. ,- * , • ... ' ». "/ By Senator Mitchell, of Oregon—Pro viding that any : person or , association which for any reason fairs* to make good its entry to public land, and .abandons shall have. the right to make another entry under the land laws. CASH FOR N WAL HEROES. Senator Hale Would Provide for the Sufferers by the Samoa Dis aster. Washington, Dec. s.— Senator Hale to-day introduced a bill for the relief of the sufferers by the wreck of the United States men-of-war Trenton and Van dalia and the stranding of the Nipsic in the harbor of Apia, Samoa, la-t March. The bill provides that the survivors of the officers and crews of the wrecked vessels shall be paid a sum equal to the losses sustained by them; but, in no case, shall the compensation for such loss sustained exceed the amount of twelve months' pay of the grade occu pied by the sufferer. In case of death, the widow or children are to be entitled to the money; and the expense of removal of the bodies already re covered shall be paid to the relatives. The bill also directs that the relatives of Pay Clerk A. D. Alexander, who died on board the Trenton while en rrute to Samoa, he compensated for his personal effects lost by the wreck. Also that the sum of $120 be given to Lieut. J. Wilson, being the amount of public money stolen from him while going from the Samoan islands to Auck land to communicate to the navy de partment the news of the stranding of the vessels. The bill authorizes the secretary of the navy to remove the re mains of the lost officers buried at Sa moa, to the United States at the expense of the government, and to have them interred in the national cemetery at Mare Island, Cal. . • - ; ; ,' Ben Wants to Hear Patti. Washington, Dec. The president has decided to leave here to-morrow for Chicago. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Harrison. First Assistant Postmas ter. General Clarkson. Mrs. Clarkson, Miss Wanakerand Private Secretary Halford. The party will go by way of lndianapoiis,aiid probably remain there over Sunday. _ - .-y mm Bid Against the World. New York, Dec. s.— Rumple, Smith & Co., 40 Wall street, have been award ed by the authorities of Havana, Cuba, a contract to erect a system of water works for that city at a cost of *2,000,000. The firm nid 'against a number of Euro pean houses, and they express surprise as well as gratification at their success; for. as a rule, Europeans are given the preference in Cuba. E. A. Smith, of the firm, thinks the influence of the Pan-American movements accounts for the result. . Yti-Y: — Lew Dockstader Goes Broke. New York, Dec. s.— Dockstader's theater was closed to-night, owing, it is stated, to Lew Dockstader's illness. In fact, however, Mr. and Mrs. Dockstader. under assumed names, left the city this afternoon for Canada. Mr. Duckst-der's new play, "The Tallapoosa,'" had proved a failure, and his creditors were becom ing clamorous. It is stated that .Mr. Dockstader has sunk all his money and $7,000 of his wife's money in his recent theatrical ventures. An Army's Tribulations. Special to the 01oi>e. BED Wing, Dec. s.— The war be tween the city authorities and the sal vation army goes merrily on. So , far this week eleven have been committed to jail on sentences,' making fifteen In all in the last ten days. Notwithstand ing this the army continues to Appear, the places of those arrested being filled by recruits from other cities. B»?ied Under lons of Sugar. Prague, Dec. 15.— A large sugar mill at Sweleniowes, Bohemia, collapsed to day from the weight of the sugar, of which there were 1,500 tons stored.witn in. Eight persons wore killed and many injured. : "... %- v ,v-' - r- WHAT DO YOU WANT? Do you want Agents? Do you want a Situation? Do you want to buy anything? Do jou want Boarders or Lodger? Have you Lost or Found Anything? Do you want any "Help," male or female? Do you want Pupils? Do yoi wan. a Partner? lice Be Globe "Want" Columns And Secure the Greaetst Results. NO. 340. JEFF DAVIS IS DEAD. The Ex-President of the Southern Confederacy Gone to His Fathers. Physicians Thought He Ha 4 Passed the Crisis in His Illness. It Was Contracted While on ft Visit to His Planta . tion. Fever Accentuates the Infirm ities of Age, Causing His Sudden Demise. New Oijeeans, Dec. Jefferson Davis died at 12:45 this morning. Jefferson Davis was born June 3. 1808, Jn that part of Kentucky now Todd county, though his parents removed to Mississippi while be was quite a boy. He received aca demic instruction at Transylvania college, Kentucky, and in 1824 was appointed a cadet, at West Point, by President Monroe. graduating in "IS2S. He at once went Into active serv ice and in the Biaek Hawk war of 1832 j distinguished himself for his bravery. He was made a lieutenant of dragoons and served with honor in the various Indian out breaks in 1834 In 1835 be resigned and re turned to Mississippi, having married a daughter of Zachary Taylor, afterward presi. dent of the United States. He early entered a political career, and after being elected an elector on the Polk and Dallas ticket in . 1844. was fiist sent to congress in 1845. During his terra the Mexican war began. He enrolled himself as a volunteer, and wag elected colonel of a regiment that distin guished itself in the battle of Bnena Vista and other engagements. In l**_ 7 Col. Davis was sent home badly wounded, after refusing a commission as brigadier general, tendered by President Polk. In the same year he was appointed United States senator to fill AH VNRXPIRED TEBM. end at the «i*xt legi>lative session was u_a_i- '. mously elected and subsequently re-elected. He was made chairman of the military com mittee of the senile, and was distinguished ' by his zealous advocacy of the doctrine of states' rights. in *l*sl he was the - Democratia candidate for governor of Mississippi, and was defeated by the ' Union party, though reducing the large adverse majority. On his defeat he retired - from public life until he wa* made secretary of war by President Pierce in 1853, which - post he held until the Buchanan administra tion in 1857. Ills administration of this portfolio was marked by conspicuous ability and he was -universally popular with ' navy. In 1857 he was again elected United States senator and was the recognized lender of the Democrats in . congress. lie was very generally spocen of as a possible -' candidate for president, and in the national convention of ISO \ he received a number of voles for the nomination. Upon the reas sembling of congress in that year, though from his position he acted in concert with those who favored ji a separation of the states, he was himself "■'- ' .-- ;. ■•-.- OMOSSD to __CC__Slo3f .•.--.."- .-i^ He was named in the si>ecial committee to consider and report bh the disturbed siafe of the Union, but was excused at ! his" o>vn' request. . 'He remained in eon grt-ss , : , t unlil 'notified' of his election to the presidency- of \ i the . Confederacy. On Feb. 4. 1801. the Confederate congress met at Montgomery.' Ala., organized -$ pro visional government for the seceded/slates, and on the _ th, by a unanimous vote, elected Jefferson Davis president of the Confederate States of America. He arrived at Mont gomery on the lOih, and was inaugurated on •hp 17ih, A. H. Stevens, of Georgia, having been inaugurated vice president about 'a week earlier. He selected for his cabinet Robert Tombs, of Georgia, as secretary of state: Leroy P. Walker, of Alabama, as sec retary of war; Charles G. Menuiniger, of south Carolina, as secretary of the treasury; Stephen K. Mailory, of Floriday. as secretary of the navy; Judah P. Benjamin, of Louisi ana, as attorney general; and John If. Rea gan, of Texas, as postmaster general. In his inaugural address Mr. Davis said: "We have entered upon a career of independence, and it mast be inflexibly pursued; As • a necessity, no a choice, we have - resorted to the remedy of separa tion, and henceforth our energies must be directed to the conduct of our own affairs and the perpetuity of the confederacy which we have formed. Iv the sume spirit in his first message to the congress on April 29, he said: "All we ask is ;.-*'.•"' TO BE LET AXOXE —that those who never held power over ns shall uot attempt our subjection by arms. This we will, we must resist to the direst extremity. On May 2 'the confederate government was transferred from Montgom ery to Richmond, and a few days later Mr. Da vis followed it. An army of 30,000 men, commanded by Beauregard and Johnson, had been gathered iv Northern Virginia. In July the Union troops were routed in the batiie of Bull Run. Mr D ivis arrived at the field of battle after the victory had been won, and there : has " bee much controversy as to ■ whether he ordered his troops not to follow McDowell. : This was followed by a long period of inactivity. All the speeches and messages of Mr. Davis thus far indicate that he was sincerely desir ous of peace. .In his inaugural, he said: "I enter upon the duties of the office to which I have been chosen with the hope that the be ginning of our career as a confederacy may uot be obstructed by hostile opposition to our enjoyment of the separate existence and independence which we have asserted." In November 1-61. a presidential election was held throughout the confederacy, ana Mr. Davis was chosen president for the full term of six years. On Feb. __ Mr. Davis was inaugurated president. From ibis date the civil war was waged in earnest until that April day in l*-"65. when Gen. Robert *_. Lee surrendered at Appomat tox. After the surrender Mr. Davis and bis party went to Greensboro. N. C. From Hrp^ naboro he went to Charlotte, where he r m "hied about a week, and where he heard of <.ne assassination of President Lincoln. He contemplated resisiauce to arrest. Be fore putting this design inio execution he went to secure the SAFETY OP BIS WIFE, who had preceded hira with a small escort, aud having overtaken her, he was encamped near Irwinville, Ga., May 10. when a body of Union cavalry, com ujanded by Col. Pritchard, captured hit camp and arrested hitn. At the moment of his arrest he had on his ordinary dress, with a regular overcoat and a shawl on his should ers, and was going out of his tent, having been aroused by the firing of two parties of the Federal pursuers, who in the dark had attacKed each other, lie was conveyed to Fortress Monroe, where he arrived May iy,and where he was confined fur two years. In May. IS<"7, he was brought before t*he United states circuit court »t Richmond on a charge of treason, and was admitted to bail, the charge complicity in the assassination of Lincoln being dropped, as there was no evi dence to substantiate it. . He made a brief stay in Richmond, where he was well re ceived ny the people, and went thence to New York and thence to Canada, lv the summer of 180* he went to England a mercantile house in Liverpool having of fered to take him as a partner without any capital. lie did not accept the ofi'er. how ever, but continued his Journey to France, and soon returned to America, At the terra of the United States circuit court held at Richmond in December, 1908, a nolle prosequi was entered in his case, and he was accordingly discharged. He was included iv the general amnesty of Dec. _.*>. 18 8. In June, 18.1, he had & public reception at Atlanta, Ga.. and made a speech, in which, he said that he still adhered to the principle •of state sovereignty, and, confident in the final triumph of truth, des paired not. though for a time the power of its enemies is too great to be resisted, Mr. Dnvii lived quietly at his home at Beau voir, Miss., during the last eighteen years. .Influenza Prostrates Notables. . . . St. Petkk**bukg, Dec. s.— Many nota "persons, including Sir R. D. Morier, the British minister, and the grand duke Alexis, an- suffering from influ enza, which is now,- so prevalent in this city and throughout Russia, »