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if t 'A i ! In J-. 1 ; .ii vi Highest of all in Leavening Power. Lat:st U. S. Gov't Report. ABSOLUTELY PURE MUST IAYEA VOTE. iNsxt Move in the Fight for Free Silver Coinage. ORDER FOB "CLOTURE" DEMANDED. The Representative to he lirouglit to the Line on the Straight lne Without a Chance to Filibuster A lit Is to go Before the Kulea Committee and Auk for a Milder Measnre Motion They "Would f.lke to Make rierre, Bartine and Harter Talk Freely. Washington, March 36. What will be Sone next'! was the question asked scores Df times yesterday on the floor of the house and in the corridors and cloak rooms. It had reference to the situation of the free coinage bill, in. which the interest had not lackened sine? Thursday, although there was not, of course, the same state of ex citement prevailing. The free coinage men were frank in their admission that the bill had received an unexpected check, but they were unanimous in declaring that if the bill came to a direct vote it would pass. This view is shared by a Cumber of opponents of the measure, but several of them believe that earnest work among the doubtful memliers will secure tor their faction a majority of votes. Bland Will Force a Vote. Bland has indicated pretty definitely what will be done next," as he has called upon the rules committee to report an order setting apart Monday of next week for the further consideration of the silver bill and naming an hour when "the ques tion shall be put on the final passage of the bill and no intervening motions shall be entertained until such vote is taken." bach an order as this, reported by the committee on rules and adopted by the house, of course effect ually suppresses t lie filibusters. The anti-silver Democrats are getting in line to fight this order and will, they hope, have the support of the Kepuhlicans and succeed in defeating it. What the Antis Will lX'iunud. But they will first attempt to make a fight in the rules committee. They will demand that tbe minority lie g-veu a slum by adding to Bland's onler the provisions that the following motions shall be in order: To recommit the bill and a substi tute with instructions to report a bill pro Tiding for an international monetary con gress; if this is negatived to recommit Dimply, without instructions; if that fails, to postpone to a given day in December, and If that fails the previous question may be moved, but that votes -shall first taken on each of the above propositions and also on pending amendments to the bill. Mot riiijln for Uclav. The opponents of the hill take the posi tion that in insisting upou a vote upon these separate propositions not in any vay designed for or contributing to lielay, they are merely insisting uiion the rights of the minority as guaranteed under the rules. If the majority oppose a vote upon these detailed motions, it is contended that they will thereby put themselves in the position of desiring to oppress and gai; the mi nority. While the members of t lie commit tee on rules decline to give any indication of their future action, t lie opponents of the bill feel confident that their request will be granted. SOME VIEWS ON THE SITUATION. rierce Say an Order for a Direct Vote i Will be Introduced. Tierce of Tennessee, a Democrat and the foremost lieutenant of Bland in working for the bill, was very outspoken as to his views of the present situation. "I admit with all candor," he said, "that matters look very serious, 4 but I believe we will pass the bill if it comes to a direct vote. Yon may say for me that the indirect in terference of Grover Cleveland and David B. Hill has caused the present situation. The free coinage men are working against a combination of Cleveland, Hill and President Harrison, each of whom wants to go to the country and say that he is the sparrow who killed cock robbin. Speaker Crisp told me yesterday that the commit tee on rules would bring in a rule pro viding for a direct vote on the bill. This Will secure its passage." Bartine Believes It will Tans. Bartine of Nevada, leader of the Repub licans in favor of the bill, was quite as can did as Pierce regarding the situation. "I think," he said, "that the silver bill has been checked, but not defeated. Its op ponents can hold us at bay, I think, so long as they resort to filibustering tactics, for the reason that many men who will vote for the free coinage bill on the direct question will vote against motions pre liminary to securing action on that direct question. My opinion is that tbe com mittee on rules will bring in a rule that will cause the bill to be put to a direct vote, and I think the measure will pass by a few more votes than we had on the mo tions yesterday." Harter Keceive Congratulations. No member of the house has been more active in working for the defeat of the Bland bill than Harter of Ohio, a Dcmo . crat. lie was the chief whip for the antis Thursday. Yesterday morning his desk was covered with telegrams from all parts of the country congratulating him on the check given to the bill. Barter expressed himself on the situation as follows: "The results obtained yesterday were due to a combination of Influences which covered a period of work extending back for thirteen months. Much is due to GeneralTTrncey's good management and to the class of men In the Democratic party ut Washington and elsewhere' who have pat their shoulders to it. Bays Some Kind Words of Reed. "The battle, so far as it has been won, cannot and ought not in any way to be credited to any one man or any set of men, when bo many elements joined to unself ishly sustain the food faith and honor nf aiong the Cnitet states. .Probably tew men have so quickly made personal friends among opp meuts, bitterly, almost person ally opposed to him, as ex-Speaker Heed, who, casti.ig aside political advantages which he may have seen, rallied all the friends of sound money iu his party and rtilisting fought side by side with us against repudiation and dishonor. It is generally ct needed that it would be very unwise for t lie committee on rules to bring in a new ru e, and that therefore the island bill is dead." Co tijilimr-nt the I'resa. Barter snid also that the great news papers rendered efficient service in the fight; that the Germans, represented by some of thiir great dailies aud followed by nearly al, of the minor press, stood by the antis fr m first to last, and thafPuck" and "Judge" with their cartoons were also valuable i:ies. The Grand Army, he said, couibuted to the result. And the entire busii ess community was with the opponents of the Bland bill. If it had not been for "ui fortunate and ill-considered pledges" given by the ablest men from the south and wi-st, many of them would have been on the fide of the antis. STANDFORD'S MONETARY MEASURE. It Makes Go d the Standard In a New and Novel Way. Washixgtox, March 26. The "bill which Stanford of California has given notice that he will call up in the senate on Tues day next reads as follows: "That the value of 35. 8 grains of gold shall be the standard by which shall be measured and determined the value of a dollar, and all dollars shall be received and paid out in discharge of debts, both pnblic and pri vate, at par, measured by the aforesaid standard of value, whet her the stamp of the government making the dollar le on gold, silver, raper or any other material. That the lega. tender value of each dollar Issued by the United States shall depend alone on the stamp of the government and there shall b no obligation on the part of the government to exchange one dollar for another. In Satiate and House. Washington, March 21V The whole ses sion of the senate yesterday was occupied Vy considerati in of the Retiring sea treaty tn executive session and eulogies upon tiie j late Senator George Hearst, of California. But in a brief interlude between these ex ercises Senator Stanford gave not ice that on Tuesday next he should call up his bill to determine tbe alue of the legal tender dollar, for the purpose of making some re marks upon it. Adjourned to Monday: The house, wearied from its labors on the silver bill since Tuesday last, devoted three hours to the consideration of bills on the private aleudar, and not securing a quorum, adjourned at H-.'.m. Kxtraditit n Treaty with France, Washington, March SV The extradi tion treaty bcPveen the United States and .France, which i Paris despatch savs was signed est en ay by M. Itilwit, French foreign minister, and Wlutcbuv Keid, the American minister, is. it is understoml, similar to the ne recently negotiated with Great Britain and ratified. The Fc4ci ei of the Negro. AVashixotox. March 2ti. Hatch of Iowa introduced a jill yesterday, by request, creating a conn iisriou to inquire into and report upon tbe material, industrial anil mental progress made by the colored peo ple of the Vi.ited States since lStl'i, mid making an uppiopri.it ion sufficient fur the purpose. , Silver Is still Falling. Washington-, March 26. -The treasury department yesterday purchased 170,0) ounces of silver at from $0.8830 to tO.sxu per ounce. The treasury department has purchased the amount of silver required by law for the month, and no further pur chases will be made until April L That Illinois House Journal. SrnixtiFiKMi, 111., March 2(3. The work of comparing the house journal with the origiual copy on iile in the office of the secretary of stnt e is completed, and noth ing affecting the integrity of the printed copies was found. The examination was on the roll calls on the final passage of bills and joint resolutions. The work was deemed necessa -y by the discovery that the journal had leen doctored in the office of the state printer in the interest of Kep sentative Noteworthy. Making the right-Hour Issue Supreme. Loxpox, March 2C. The National Min ers' federation Is urging its members throughout the country to make every effort In the coming election for the return to parliament of those candidates only who are favorable to an eight-hour law for miners, and to support such candidates re gardless of thei- attitude on political questions. As the federation can, it is be lieved, influence hundreds of thousands of votes, the question raised is an important one. Venezuela at it Again. NEW Yoi:k, March 20. Mail advices from Caracas, datt.nl March IS, say: Hos tilities have comn enced. The government organ. La Opinion -Nacional, issued and distributed an " xtraordiuary bulletin." This was the first information the people of Venezuela had that actual fighting had commenced. The official rejiort confirms In every particular the former message of March 18. Ad Ontario Lei ialatorss Taking Oft. ToROXTO, Out, March SC. H. E. Clark, senior men her of the Ontario leg islature for the city of Toronto, while ad dressing the house yesterday suddenly sank into his chai:-, stricken with heart disease and died siiortly after the attack, lie was Ca years oM. Shoe Fa'-torjr Burned. SntiXCFiELP, Mass., March 20. The factory of the Springfield Shoe company, situated near AVini beater Park and owned by J. H. Baker & ( 'o.. was burned yester day. Loss ft."),(Kio, partially insured. NINE OF 'EM NOW. Chicago's Grand Jury Rakes in Two More. THE BALDEST EASOALITT ALLEGED. Howler a ni. Michnelson Accused of Solic iting Brl lies From Men Who Wanted Favors From the Municipality A Mut ter of SIO.OOO Asked in One Cae and tMOO In Another What the Wy iie,c Tentilie.l to A Man Missing Who Is Supposed to be Full of Information. Chic ago, March 26. Two more city aldermen came "under the rod" yesterday, true bills having been found by the grand jury against Michael F. Bowler and Har old Mitchaelson, both of the Fifteenth ward. The testimony was such that the prosecution deems it ample to convict the pair, who are alleged to have la-en exceptionally bold in soliciting bribes. The indictments would have been pre sented jn court yesterday but for the fact that the jury adjourned while Judge Clif ford was at luncheon and the investigators were anxious to get away from the crimi nal court building. Mr. Jampolis, one of the assistant state's attorneys, will have the bills prepared by the time the grand jury begins today's session, which promises to be a short one. Shameles Solicitation of Bribe. The evidence on which Milkman Bowler was indicted was mostly furnished by C. P. Dose, senior member of ihe real estate firm of C. P. Dose & Co., of 170 AVash ington street, and by E. "J. Sanders, a clerk n the general postoffice. Hans Tonder, of the coal firm of Tonder Bros., 1)51 North Western avenue, was the main wit ness against Michaelson. Shameless solicitation of bribes to insure the passage through the council of measures which would prove of benefit to the promoters the witnesses declared had been directly made by the aldermen. Aliened "Sandbagging" Proposition. Mr. Dose was deeply interested in hav ing the Milwaukee avenue car line ex tended. So was Mr. Sanders and the people of the northwest portion of the city. These two men declared under oath that Bowler had attempted to sandbag the property owners out of $10,000. " In that he was unsuccessful, and not until the story of the alleged attempt on Bowler's part to enrich himself by criminal methods had been told in a morning paper did the alderman call up and secure the passage of the ordinance. The Tonder Brothers wanted a switch track run into their coal yard, and the charge against Michaelson is that he demanded $4tX from them before he" would permit the council to pass the ordinance .necessary. A Mlaaing Man Heard From. One of the men frequently mentioned in the papers as a witness who knows "a whole lot" about the boodlery is Secretary Soule, of the Vrban Transit company. It lias been asserted that he was told that about (75, 000 would be required before he could get some fran chises through the council. He was not willing to supply so much '-lubrication," and consequently did not get his fran chises. He disapiwared, but has leen dug Ui at Omaha. Says He Knows Very Little. A telegram from Omaha says tLat Soule was interviewed yesterday and stated that he would return to Chicago at the proper time and tell all he knew, which was not much. He denied offering any money to Chicago aldermen and said he believed that the talk of indicting them was all wind. He has disappeared again, and the telegram says he is supposed to have left t hose regions, lie has been very nervous, and only talked when forced to it by jierli nent questions on the part of the reporters. EXTRAORDINARY AND STARTLING. A Verdict That Imperils One of Our Cherihed Institutions. Atlanta, Ga., March 20 For the firt time in the history of Georgia the leader of a lynching party has Wii convicted of murder. Barney White was tried at Ca milla charged with lynching , nn old man named Larkin Mix last fall, and yesterday the jury, after forty-five minutes' deliber ation, brought in a verdict of guilty of murder. A Warning to Witnesses. The other members of the lynching party have beeh apprehended and will be tried. Yesterday William Davis, one of the witnesses in the case for the state, was fatatly shot near his home by unknown partis. The Phenomenal Faster Is Dead. CrawfordsviLLE, Ind., March 20. Basil Tracey, the phenomenal faster, who for over eight weeks past hod tasted neither food nor medicine and had barely managed to keep alive by reason of his wonderful vitality, died Friday at the advanced age of 94 years. He amassed a large fortune and the complaint of some heirs that others obtained large gifts by fraud will give rise to a law suit. The Masonic fra ternity, of which he was an old and honored member, will conduct the funeral. A Meteor's Loud Kxploston. Peori a, III., March 26. About 4 o'clock yesterday morning a loud explosion was heard by nearly every one in the city. It sounded as though a steam boiler had ex ploded, but to the early risers it was easily accounted for. A meteor was seen to pa s partially over the city and just before it passed out of sight it exploded with a deafening report. No Ke KiiliinisKiou for Iowa. Des Moines, March 20. The senate yes terday refused to take up the resolution to-H n .-huiiiil nie ronioiiion amenumenc to the constitution to the people. The vote was yeas, 20; nays, 23 Smith of But t le and Kngle, Demoerets, voting with the ltepublicans. Will Probably not Keturn. Bethleham, Pa., March 26. Isaiah Mar tin, slate operator of Pen Argyle, this county, has disappeared leaving behind him unpaid bills and notes estimated at fl2,000. He was heard from at Knoxville, Tenn., and intimated that he would not return. Eulogized Our Supreme Court. Loxdox, March 20. Sir John Lubbock, presiding at the annual meeting of the Corporation of Foreign bondholders, took occasion to eulogize the justice and im partiality of the United Scatcs supreme court in ' the case of the A'irginia bond holders. - The Kaiser has Gone to Berlin. Berlix, March 26. The kaiser conclud ed yesterday to return to Berlin today. Ue is said to have come to this conclusion in order to silence the reports concerning his health, both mental and phvs'jai. ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. The Boule, the Greek legislative cham ber, has been dissolved. Henry Smith was hanged at Louisville for the murder of his former employer, IiOtlis Specht A fire in the court house at St. Charles, Mo., destroyed all the county records, as well as the building. There is a marked stagnation in the irou market, generally considered to lie the re sult of over-product ioiK ' Enthusiastic demonstrations are being made throughout Mexico in favor of the re-election of President Diaz. Arthur Quartermnin, of Douglass, Ga., was taken from his store Sunday night by a mob and has not been seen since. Ken Gano, who was convicted at Mount rieasant, O., of killing his wife, cheated the gallows by poisoning himself. The strike of the Memphis and Charles ton switchmen is spreading. No freight cars of that road will be handled by other roads. Kx-Senator Bowen, of Colorado, who re cently lost his vest containing 13,000 in money and bonds at Chicago, has eiven the porter who found it $100. Max Phillips, of St. Louis, tried to take his life with a knife lx-cause of fear of assassination on account of some oath he had taken in a secret society. N A negro who killed Mrs. S. C. Leonard, of Milledgeville, Ga., when she caught him stealing her valuables, has been caught "and will probably be lynched." The railroads have yielded to the de mands of Birmingham iron masiers, and a reduction of about 50 cents per ton on pig iron to points north of the Ohio-river will go into effect March 2S. Germany is said to be using a highly perfected balloon steering apparatus in spying upon Russian fortifications. AVar between these two countries at present seems to be among the possibilities. Governor Pattison has approved the recommendation that Kditors Mellon and Porter, of the Beaver Star, be pardoned. They had been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for libeling Senator Quay. Ferd AVard, the man who nearly ruined General Grant financially, has nearly served his time at Sing Sing, but as there is an untried indictment against him he may have to spend a few more years in that institution. In an endeavor to prevent the occur rences in executive sessions from "leak ing" the United States senate has exclud ed every senate employe from the cham ber during those sessions, except the sec retary, McCook, and the sergeant-at-arms. Even old Captain Bassett had to go, and still the old thing leaks. Has the I.ook of a Murder. iNPlANAPoi.is, March 26. Thursday night James B. Swain was arrested for drunkenness, but it soon devel. ;d that something more. serious ailed him. He grew rapidly worse and at 8 o'clock Fri day morning died. An examination showed that he had been struck on the head with a blunt instrument, and the de tectives have learned that he had domestic troubles and that a male companion of his wife had had some trouble with him. There is evidence that the men met Thurs day night aud had a conflict. Swain was a prosperous farmer of Westfalls, about forty miles from here. The Quern Sent Her Condolence. IIveres. March 20. It is said that Queen A'lctoria, on hearing of the death at Costebelle of Lady Frankland, formerly Charlotte Berry Di Zerega, of New York, and late Wife of Sir Frpderirt VrnntloTr of Thirkleby, Yorkshire, sent a gracious message of commiseration. The deceased lady was respected in the highest circles of English society, while the family of her husband stands among tbe best in Great Britain in reputation and lineage. Keath of an Old Printer. Baltimore, March 20. Mr. Nicholas B. Talbott, one of the oldest printers in Baltimore, died yesterday of paralysis. 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