Nebraska Newspapers

    TEIBUNE.
jr. M. & E. ai.
McCOOK , NEB
OVER THE STATE.
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NKIJUASKA RAILUOADS. The railroads
doing business in this state , says the Lin
coln Journal , arc the Union Pacific , the
Chicago , Burlington itQuincy , gran tee and
assignee of the Burington and Missquri
River , the Fremont , Elkhorn & Missouri
Valley , the St. Joseph & Western , the Sioux
City & Pacific , the Chicago , St. Paul , Min
neapolis & Omaha and the Missouri Paci
fic. The number of miles of track owned
or leased and operated by these lines re
spectively is as follows :
C. , B. & Q 4,045.12
C , St. P. , M. it 0 1,312.33
U. P 3,180.02
Mo. Pacific , 99G.OO
P. , E. & M. V 311.12
St. Joe & W 2G1.70
S. C. & P . . 107.42
Total milage 10,102.28
These lines operated within this state the
following number of miles respectively :
C. , B. & Q 1,181.83
U. P 809.G7
F. . E. & M. V 311.12
C. , St. P. , M. & 0 222.8' )
St. Joe & W 113.70
Mo. Pacific 101.00
S. C. & P : 20.95
Total milage in state June 30. . 2.7G7.1G
The number of miles of road first opened
for traffic during the year ending June 30 ,
1885 , is as follows :
C. , St. P. , M. & 0 18.88
U. P 17.00
C. , B. & Q G.80
Total opened for business in Neb. . 42.GS
From the returns made to the board by
the several companies the commission esti
mates the cosfc of such portions of these
lines as are within the state ( this estimate
covers the cost of road and equipment ) , to
be as follows :
S. C. &P S 1,379,341 G9
Mo. Pacific 1.957.30G27
St. .Toe & W 4,891.017 29
F. , E. &M.V 5,938.025 97
C. , St. P. , M. & 0 9,170,10-1 87
C. , B. < t Q. ILH.assn.ctc. ,
B. & M. R. 11 35,042,900 G9
U. P. Railway 40,1-43,102 40
Total for Nebraska.$104,527,919 IS
The proportion of the stock and debt of
the respective lines , in this t > tate , is as fol
lows :
S. C. it P S 1.S72.8SO 02
St. Joe it W G.53G.05G 02
Mo. Pacific G.802,982 19
F. E. & M. V 8,385.749 75
C. , St. P. , M. it 0 10,122,222 35
C. . B. it Q. R. IL.assn. etc.
B. & M. R. R 37,553,143 45
U. P. Railway 53.3G9.G9139
Total proportion of
stock anddebtforNeb.$124.G42,725 17
For mile of road (2,767.16 ( miles ) § 45- ,
073.55.
The average capital stock of nil the roads
operating in this state , covering all the
lines per mile , is § 20,800.89.
The average debt of the same roads (10- (
1G2.28 miles ) , per mile , is § 27.905.42.
The proportion for this state , of the to
tal stock of the respective lines , is as fol
lows :
S. C. it P § 537,700 00
St. Joe it W 1,853,085 81
F. E. & M. V. 1.9GG.500 00
Mo. Pacific 3,524,395 00
U. , St. P. , M. & 0 1,112.197 7. ,
U. P 17,478.953 48
C. , B. & Q 19.451,332 SO
Total stock representing
road in this state § 50,923,214.83
The total debt representing the roads in
Nebraska is as follows :
S. C. itP § 1,335 JL80 02
Mo. Pacific 3,278,587 19
C. , St. P. . M. & 0 4,010,024 G2
St. Joe it W 4,083,970 31
F. , E. it M. V G.410,249 75
C. . B. & Q 18.101,7UO 59
U.P 35,890,737 0 < J
Total debt representing
roads in Nebraska § 78,719,510 34
Stock and debt per mile ol road , proper-
t'CQ f9F Nebraska ;
" " " "
"Sloe ! : . . . . . . . . . . . . . § 18,402 Gl
Debt 20,040 85
The stock of the respective lines for the
whole system is as follows per mile of road :
F. E. & M. V § G.320 71
C. B. it Q 16,458 71
S. C. &T. 19,255 20
l' : St , P : M & 0 27,420 55
"Union PaeIflc , . . . . . . .m..m.-- " -5 ,317 00
St , Joe it W : 39,729 80
Missouri Pacific . : 34,895 00
The debt per mile covering the whole of
each respective svstcm , is given below :
F. E. < t M. V : . § 20,032 71
C.B.&Q.assignee , etc. , B.&M.R lo,3105
r. St. P. M. it 0 17,990 57
St. Joe it W 14.G7G 20
Missouri Pacific 3 < ,230 83
S. C. & Pacific 4 ° 'r ?
Union Pacific G9 , < 0 < 10
CillOSS EARNINGS.
The proportion of the gross earnings of
the lines for this state amounts to the
aggregate sum of § 14,149.318.70. Per
mile of road operated (3,707.10 ( miles ) ,
§ 5,113.29. The highest passengerearnings
per train mile run was earned by the
Omaha , Niobrnra and Black Hills road ,
which was § 3,005. The smallest being the
Chicago. St. Paul. Minneapolis and Omaha
rood , which was § 1,032.
The earnings from freight trains , per mile
run vary from § 3.G9 on the B. tt M. rail
road ; § 3.2302 on the S. C. it P. ; § 2.47 on
the Missouri Pacific railway ; § 2.19 on the
U. P. railway ; 51.970 on the St. J. it W.
road ; § 1.595 on the F. E. it M. V. railroad ;
and $1.007 on the C. St. P. M. & O. rail
road.
tSTATE
STATE MATTERS.
A BEATRICE special snysthat.John Smith ,
a saloon keeper of llolmesvillc , died at
Blue Springs the other morning. H& went
into a saloon at Blue Springs , called for a
glass of beer , but before drinking it poured
poison in the glass. The beer and poison
proved fatal. He leaves a wife and one
zhild. He was 30 years old.
Tun Grand Central hotel at Nebraska
City was last week sold for $10.000 by
Elmer S. Duudy , jr. , special United States
commissioner , under a judgment in the
United States district court , in favor ol
Otoc county , for taxes.
IT is reported that tho Burlington & Mis
souri company has purchased a section of
coalland at Omio , near the Kansas line ,
nno will teat the coal vein thoroucbly.
AUBURN lost two citizens during the re
cent cold storm , Mr. Cessler and Mr. Car
son. They were en route to northwestern
Kansas to takehomesteadswhenthestorm
overtook them and they were fouqd dead
in a sled frozen stiff. A purse of $60 was
raised for the benefit ol the families of the
deceased.
TIIE editor of the Fi.llcrton Journal calls
for an old fashioned spelling match and
offers to donate a year's subscription to
that paper to anyone who will spell the
town down.
A "DRUG" store was started recently at
Voltaire , Sherman county , and last week
the citizens of that place , finding that the
aforesaid drug store was nothing more nor
less than a gin mill , rose up en masse and
destroyed all tho liquor in the establish
ment , emptying it out on the ground.
A SETTLER on Goose creek , Brown cour
ty , lost GOO sheep in a recent cold snap.
TiiEFremont Tribune has come into pos
session of facts showing the further rascal
ity of Parks , the so-called "detective" now
languishing in the Dodge county bnstile. A
year or so ago Parks was a traveling sales
man for Charles Schatte & Co. , a Chicago
house which manufactures window shades.
At the time we refer to he was at Lcaven-
wortlKansas. . Here he forged a telegram ,
with the signature of the firm , authorizing
him to draw on them for § 75. In addition
to this he also forged a draft. He took
the two to a German customer , whom he
got to cash the draft. The firm after wards
paid it rather than to have a customer-suf
fer from the raFcality of an employe ol
theirs. But they never heard from Parks
again and were out their § 75.
DODGE COUNTY cattle feeders say they will
make no money feeding this winter but will
come out about even.
THE Chadron Journal says that last
month twenty-eight full-blood Sioux In
dians were baptized by an Episcopal mis
sionary at Porcupine creek school house.
BURTON FREEMAN , of Ainsworth , has just
received a check for § 1,200 from Uncle
Sam to pay him for wounds got in the
army.
THE city council of Fremont has passed
an ordinance granting the P. E. & M. V.
Railroad company the right of way
through Second street of that city , and
the citizens have made other concessions
in the matter of providing for expenses of
obtaining right of way from private par
ties , so there seems no doubt tho pro
jected change reported previously being
made.
HASTINGS' city council is still pondering
over the question of water works. Close
estimates fix the cost at about § 80,000.
It is quite probable that a bond proposf-
tion will be submitted to the people either
before or at the spring election.
A "POOR fund" has been started in He
bron , and several needy families have re-
cpivpd assistance.
THE temperance revival at Lincoln has
closed and the orators have gone to other
fields of work.
A MR. FILLER , of Norfolk , was relieved
of a , tape worm sixty feet in length.
JOSEPH MIKOLAJCEK , of Ord , Valley
county , a Polish boy about 1G years of
age , has been arrested for horgestealing.
A LONG PINE prospector has discovered a
bed of poetry clay near town.
A NUMBER of coal thieves have been ar
rested at Fairmont by tho B. & M. detec
tives.
THE Chadron Journal reports that the
bridge gangs started north and west last
week , one to bridge the railroad between
Buffalo Gap and Rapid City , and the other
to do the same kind of work on the main
ine west from Chadron. To begin bridging
ihis early indicates SMI intention on the
part of the company to commence laying
track at an early day as possible , and that
; hey intend to build as many as possible
the coming year.
AT Custer , D. S. Lolir caught a young fel-
ow named Clms. Ryder in the act of carry-
ng off apair of gloves and leather hat-band
'rom ' the show window in the front end of
lis store. Mr. Lohr charged theyoungman
with the theft and procured a warrant for
lis arrest , which was placed in the hands
of Sheriff Penn , who went out and arrested
him. Next morning ho was brought before
Judge Kilgore , plead guilt } * , and was fined
§ 5 and costs , amounting in all to about
§ 20.
20.BERTIE
BERTIE BROWN , a colored girl of Lincoln ,
19 years old , has been sent to the reform
school on complaint of her father , who told
the judge that Bertie was a consummate
liar and thief.
TJIE new German Lutheran church o !
Lincoln was dedicated last Sunday.
A LINCOLN special says : The live stock
sanitary commission visited the state farm
and found thnt five hogs had died with
cholera. Twenty-five hogs were inoculated
by Dr. Gerth some time ago , and five hogs
known to be affected with cholera put with
them in order to ascertain whether inocu
lation was a preventive or not. The result
will dampen the ardor of thevaccincenthu-
siasts , as three of the inoculated anilnals
have died with the disease and others are
in the last stages.
SENATOR VAN WYCK has introduced a bill
providing that any entry heretofore made
under the land laws of the United States in
conformity with the rules of the general
land oflicc at the time when the entry was
made is hereby confirmed , and shall pro
ceed to patent as if said rules had not been
reversed or modified ; "provided that no
charges of fraud are made , and in cass
charges of fraud are made they shall be in
vestigated under the rules existing when
the entry was made. He also introduced
in the senate Representative Weaver's bill
appropriating § 100,000 for a government
building at Beatrice , Neb.
OMAHA had its first coasting fatality last
week , a boy 13 years old being so badly in
jured that ho died soon after the accident.
He was run into by a companion who had
joined him in the sport.
THE electric light company at Hastings
has shut off the lights for the reason that
there ere not enough lights Jn use to pay
running expenses. An effort is being made
to induce the company to start up again.
IN St. Patrick's church , Omaha , last
Sunday , seventy-five youths were adminis
tered the sacrament of confirmation by
Right Rev. Bishop O'Connor.
LINCOLN still has afew sneak thieves who
occasionally get in their work.
LOUP CITY will soon vote bonds in tho
sum of § 2,000 to assist the Union Paci.lc.
MRS. AUGUSTA DOUGLASS , of Omaha , will
be one hundred years old in May.
THE grand jury at Omaha has finished
the case of Lafayette Powell , charged with
the murder of Charles Leslie , at Florence
some months ago and brought'ih an indict
ment against him for murder1 in the first
degree.
Tun citizens owning property near tha
lately-burned district in Hastings , donated
the fire boys § 205 for their successful ef
forts in trying to save adjoining buildings.
C. B. DARROW , a wealthy and prominent
citizen living one and a half miles south of
Geneva , died last week.
WASHINGTON special : ReprcsentativeDor-
sey , of Nebraska , was asked by a corres
pondent how he stood on the proposition
to suspend the Bland coinage law. "I am
in favor , " replied he , "of such legislation as
best tends to enhance the silver interests of
this country. I have no policy > to suggest ,
on the subject , but favor action by the
government that will not discredit silver.
I think that if the different secretaries of
the treasury since 1878 has made the same
efforts to maintain the relative gold value
of the silver dollar ns they have made
towards breaking it down , there would now
be no difficulty. "
THE Omaha Bee says that Dr. J. Gerth
jr. , ht.-itc veterinarian , arrived in that city
the other evening on his way to Lincoln
from a trip through the htate. He has vis
ited Columbus , Grand Island , Scotia , North
Bend and Cedarllill toinvctigate reporteds
rases of glanders. In the places visited ,
however , only one animal was found af
flicted with the disease. The other horses
examined were discharged from quarantine.
THE First National bank of Omaha is
preparing to put up a six-story buihlin
00x132. It will contain ninety-one offices.
EDWARD KI/.LIN , an employe in the
Omaha smelting works , lost his arm last
week by being caught in tho machinery.
JOHN PuitcELL. a prominent citizen of
North Bend , having resided there for thir
teen years , died suddenly last week.
THE city council of Omaha has reduced
the price of gas in that city to § 1.75 per
thousand.
SEWARD has a dramatic dub that has
just rendered "Among thuBreakers" in
fine style.
A WASHINGTON special says R'presenta-
tive Laird will soon introduce a bill to
establish a new land oflice at Akron , Col.
"A great many settlers are going into the
region around Akron from Nebraska , " said
Mr. Laird , "and an office at Akron would
benefit these Nebraska settlers very much. "
Akron is about half way between Denver
the Nebraska line.
CONSIDERABLE interest has T > een awaic-
ened in the Thirteenth Conference of Giari-
ties and Corrections. An effort is already
being made to have the meeting next j-ear
occur in Omaha , and the plan seems to
meet with general approval.
OWING to the snow and ice blockade in tho
race , Superior's mill had to suspend opera
tions , and at lost accounts the supply of
flour in the town was growing small by de
grees and beautifully less.
IN the district courb at Omaha Elizabetn
Johnson has brought suit against the Un
ion Pacific railroad company for damages
in tho sum of § 5,000. The plaintiff alleges
that she owns a farm on the Elkhorn river ,
and that the Union Pacific company have
built an embankment which is instru
mental in turning the overflow from the
Elkhorn river upon her farm , so that she
is unable to raise any crops.
TEN thousand people attended Omaha's
sleighing carnival , and it is.voted to have
been the biggest thing on snow ever occur
ring in that city.
NELIGH'S opera house is among the things
that were , having been destroyed by fire.
THE firm of Cowing it Co. , Omaha , have I
failed. Assets and liabilities about § 2,000
each.
HASTINGS had a § 10,000 fire hist week.
SECRETARY OP STATE RocoExhas sent out
circulars informing persons who may have
business with his oflice , that hereafter they
must deposit or pay fees for workdes. red
done with the state treasurer , and take rg-
ceipt , as he will receive no money for labor
performed in his department ,
OP the 130 insurance ( fire ) companies
doing business in this state at last
accounts , but fifty-two of them have
so far returned to the state auditor re
ports of hist year's business , leaving
eighty-four yet to come in. All so far re
ported have made money , and it is not
believed that any of those yet to hear
from have 'y.llcn behind.
AN Omaha man predicts that that city ,
which now contains 70,000 people , will in
1900 have a population of 225,000.
ANOTHER suit for § 3,000 has been insti
tuted against the city authorities of Water
loo for injuries received by reason of a .
defective sidewalk. This brings the total
x
amount up to $58,000 that different part
ties want the city to pay in like cases , and 1
for the recovery Of which suits are now
pending. c
Mu. HOYT , of Beatrice , a nephew o'f Presi §
dent Cleveland , has gOife to Washington ,
a'rid while there hopes 'to ' lie able 'to do
som'e'fliiiig in the interest Of a'pub'lic build
ing in Beatrice.
S31OTIIEKED TO DEATH.
A special from Chohoes , N. Y. , saysGeorge
U'atcrhouse , a boy 14 years of age , residing on n
Watervliet avenue , some six years ago was [
bitten by a dog in Lansiubnrgh. For the past
weekthe boy has shown signs of hydrophodia.
His condition became alarming , and Dr. Mc s
Lean , of Troy , was called , and administered
all the medicines usually used In
such cases , but at last it was
Jeemed advisable to smother him.
The boy's convulsions were more dreadful and
ungovernable than anything the physicians
had seen In their practice from any cause. A
consultation was held. It was conceded by all a
that relief was impossible and that it was a e
mockery on the healing art to allow the poorii
wretch to writhe in such terrible tortures.
Death was the only relief and all present ad a
vised that the boy be smothered to end his ag
c
onies. The physicians feel justified over this
extreme treatment in a case where the suffer g ;
t
ings were so intense and beyond all medical t
control.
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KETOI.UTIOX ZV fi
T he secretary of the navy has received fiii fir
information from the Pacific Mail Steam- ii
ship company to the effect that another JJ
revolution is threatened on the Isthmus of
c
Panama. Rear Admiral Jouett , com
manding the North Atlantic station , re
cently was directed by wire to remain at
AspSnwall with the Tennessee for the pres
ent. It is possible the Tennessee sailed
frcm Aspinwall to Key West before the re
ceipt of these instructions , in which case
she will be ordered back in case the situa
tion demands it , and. other vessels also be
ordered to his assistance. There is not
much importance attached to the present
reports of damage.
PIUEROGATirE OF THE
Potccr of the Executive in the Matter of
Appointments Set Forth In u Series of
Resolutions.
In the United States senate on the 2d
Mr. Riddlcbergcr offered the following reso
lution :
Resolved , That the executive of the
United States is not restricted by constitu
tional laws in the removing or suspension
of appointees , and that the senate lias no
right to require that reasons shall bo given
for such removals or suspension ; that it is
the right of the senate to call fornny paper
relating to conduct- removed or sus
pended appointees , or to the qualification
and fitness of nil persons whose names are
presented to the senate forconfirmation or
rejection , and it is his duty to comply with
all the demands for the same.
To the above Mr. Pugh submitted a sub
stitute as follows :
First That the executive power is ex
pressly vested by tin ; constitution in the
president of the United Stales , so that he
shall take care that the laws be faithfully
executed.
Second That thepowerof appointments
to federal oflice is an executive power to bo
exercised by the president under limitation
in the constitution that he shall nominate
and by and with the advice and consent of
the senate shall appoint.
Third That the power of removal or
suspension from the powers and duties of
federal oflice is also an executive power
vested exclusively in the president without
any such .limitation in the constitution as
is imposed thereby on the power of ap
pointment and for its exercise he is respon
sible alone to the people and not to the
senate.
Fourth That the right of the president
to make nominations to the senate and of
the senate to advise and consent thereto
are each separate and independent rights
to be exercised by the president and senate
respectively and separately and Independ
ently within their absolute discretion ; but
in relation to the person or persons so
nominated the senate may request infor
mation of the president affecting the char
acter or qualifications of those as to whose
appointment he asked the consent of the
ecu ate.
Fifth That when the president makes
nominations to the senate of persons to be
appointed by him to exercise the power and
duties of federal officers who have been re
moved or suspended by him.no law , pub
lic duty or public policy requires that he
shall bead or communicate to the senate
any reason for making such removals or
suspensions , and no law , public duty or
public policy requires or authorizes tho
senate to call for such information existing
in any such form from the president or any
member of his cabinet to enable the senate .
to review or question the action of the pres
ident in exercising his executive , discretion
ary and exclusive power of removing or
biispending federal officers from the powers
and duties of their offices , or to put the
piesident on trial by the senate or to en
force accountabilfty to .the senate for any
thing he mny have done in the exercise of
Biich jurisdiction.
Sixth That to obtain information con-
bidered by either house of congress useful
in passing necessary and proper laws , either
house ol congress may request the presi
dent , if not deemed by him incompatible
with the public interest , to give any infor
mation within his knowledge relating to the
administration of any public office , or offi
cial conducts or acts affecting the official
conducts or duties of any public officer ,
but for the senate to make such request of
the president , or direct any member of his
cabinet to transmit to the senate any in
formation in open or executive session to
enable the senate in open or executive ses
sion to review the propriety or reason , or
information upon which he acted , or may
have acted in making removals or suspen
sions , would be an attempt to obtain such
information by false pretences , and for
uses and purposes not authorized or justi
fied by any law or public policy of the
United States , and should the president
grant such request or require any member
of his cabinet to obey such direction from
the senate when deemed by him to be made
for such unjustifiable aud unlawful use and
purpose it would be to recognize and en
courage an improper practice and an inju
rious innovation upon his exclusive and
independent rights , powers and duties as
president of the United Spates.
FRO3T THE POZPJT.
A Chicago Justice Wants Damages for Pttl-
Vit Utterances.
Pplice Justice Meech , says a Chicago dis
patch , brought suit in the circuit court to
recover $27,000 from Rev. Dr. A. E. Kit-
tredge , who , he claims , libelled him in his
sermon of Sunday last. Dr. Kittredge is
pastor of the Third Presbyterian church.
After alluding to the alleged maladminis
tration of justice in the courts of this city , ;
lie referred directly , it is said , to Justice ;
Mecch's action in disposing of the cases of :
225 gamblers who were arrested in Hank-
in's gambling house a week ago.
He said : "All fear of the law is rapidly
passing from the minds of wicked men.
Law-breakers are only arrested to be set
tree at the solicitation of some alderman
or in return for a handsome bribe , as was
true this past week when one justice by tha )
name of Meech discharged a company of
gamblers at the request of the latter ,
changing the offense from gambling to dis
orderly conduct and asking only a fine of
1 from each. Now it is impossible to esti
mate the evil and destructive results of
this bold venality of our polics justccs.
The law loses its sacrcdness , justice is tam
pered upon , your city is becoming the .
Mecca of the criminal classes of the world ,
and to-day gambling hells , sources of lust
and shame , and the vilest and lowest con .
cert halls are fearlessly open day and night ,
deadly cancer to our body politic and a
lisgrace to our boasted civilization. "
Dr. Kittredge said that his sermon was
correctly reported ; that he will meet the
'
suit fair'ly. but that he will see that careful
scrutiny Is made into police court methods.
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7F2IZ THE PRESIDENT OBEY ?
Changes. )
The New York Sun prints tho following
louble-leaded editorial : "It is difficult for
my careful thinker , accustomed to consid-
sr the influences which rule tho minds of
ntelligent men , to understand how the
present great telephone scandal can pass '
iway without compelling a reconstruction
if the cabinet. Mr. Garland , the attorney B
eneral , and Mr. Lamar , the secretary ol
the interior , are very deeply implicated in
this scandal , and it is incomparably tho
jreatest scandal by which any member of
my president's ca'binet has ever been af- ;
'ected. President Cleveland is a , deliberate
nan , and in such a case as this especially :
t is not to be expected that he will act
rom any hasty impulse. But in tha end
10 will act , and then we suppose that some ;
jther man than Mr. Garland will be attor-
iey general , and some other man than Mr.
Lamar will bo secretary of the interior , :
rhe necessity will be painful to the presi- .
ient as it will be painful to every hopeful
nember of the democratic party , but then
necessity is something that has to bo
obeyed. " ;
THE Omaha National bank has made ap ;
plication to congress to increase its capital )
to $2.000,000.
TOE FOITHCOMI\G
A Forecast of Gladstone's 1'rabaMe Selections
for the Liberal Cabinet.
London dispatch : Gladstone has drafted
a cabinet , but several of the gentlemen ho
has named are not pleased with the posi
tions assigned to them , and it is therefore
probable that modifications will be made ,
delaying the publication of the official list.
The Press association gives tho following
ns the latest forecast of the new cabinet :
Gladstone , first lord of the treasury and
chancellor of the exchequer.
Sir Farrar-Herschel , lord high chancellor. .
Sir William Vernon Harcourt , homo
secretary.
EarlGranville , lord president of thecoun-
cil.
cil.H.
H. C. H. Childers , secretary for war.
Tho remainder are liable to alteration ,
but they will probably be ns follows :
G. 0. Treveylan , president ol the board
of trade.
A. J. Mundellpresident of the local gov
ernment board.
Earl Spencer , secretary for foreign affairs.
Enrl Rosebury , secretary for colonies.
Earl Kimberly , secretary for India.
J. Chamberlain , first lord of tho ad
miralty.
J. Morley , chief secretary for Ireland.
It is understood the queen objects to
Morley , because ho is pledged to home rule.
IfEWS AXD SOXES.
A Record of Proceeding * < Both Hranchtt
of tJie U. R.
SENATE , Feb. 1. Tho senate went to
the calendar and took up and passed
the bill providing for a division of part of
the Sioux reservation in Dakota , and the
relinquishment of the Indian title to the
remainder. Bland offered , for reference to
the coinage , weights and measures commit
tee , a resolution calling on the secretary of
the treasury for information as to whether
any arrangement was effected by the treas
ury department with the clearing house
committee of New York to pi event the
coinage _ of silver , and if so , by what
authority of law that department assumes
to virtually suspend the coinage ol silver
by hoarding money in tho treasury. It
also calls for information ns to the amount
of silver dollars in the treasury unrepre
sented by outstanding certificates on the
4th of March last , and what is the amount
to-day ; also , what amount of the interest
bearing debt is now subject to call and
what policy is to be pursued in the pay
ment of silver thereon and on other dn > > fl.
HOUSE , Feb. 1. Under the call pf the
states , the following bills were introduced
and referred : By King , of Louisiana Ap
propriating three million dolhirsfor closing
the gaps in the levees of the Mississippi
river and strengthening and giving perma
nency to the same. When the call of the
states was completed several motions to
adjourn were made on the republican side ,
but they were all voted down , and Matson.
having secured the floor , moved to suspend
the rules aud put upon its passage the bill
increasing pensions of soldiers' widows
from § 8 to § 12 , with an amendment pro
viding that this act shall apply only to
widows who were married to deceased sol
diers prior to its passage and to those who
may hereafter marry prior to orduring the
service of the soldier. The motion to sus
pend the rules and pass the bill was agreed
to yeas 198. nays G6.
SENATE , Feb. 2. Among the measures
favorably reported from the committees
was a joint resolution by Blair , from the
committee on woman's suffrage , providing
for a constitutional amendment extending
the rights of suffrage to woman. The elec
toral count bill then came up and Evarts
took the floir. He favored recommitment
of the bill to the committee. After debate
the motion to recommit was brought to a
vote and resulted yeas 30 , nays 22 , the
affirmative vote being about equally
divided between the republicai-i and demo
crats. All the proposer ! amendments went
with the bill. Among bills introduced were .
the following : By Senator Chace Supple
mentary to tho civil service act. By Sena
tor Harris To prevent the introduction
of contagious and infective diseases into
the United States , and to establish a bu
reau of public health. Van Wyck called up
his bill , reported favorably from the
finance committee , permitting the receiver
of a bank to use such funds of the bank as .
may have already covered into the treas-
iry when such use may be necessary in
order to protect the interests of creditors
of the bank. The bill authorizes the re
ceiver to see that the bank property about
to be sold by order of the court shall not
be sold for less than > ls value.
HOUSE , Feb. 2. After reading of the
ournal , Holman offered the following reso-
utions : That the house has received with
jrofound sorrow the intelligence of the
lenth of Thomas A. Hendrieks , late vice
resident of the United States. That the
Business of the house be .suspended in order
hat the eminent services and private vir-
ucs of the deceased may be appropriately
ommemorated. That the clerk of the
louse be directed to communiicate these
csolutions to the senate. A number of c :
itilogies were delivered , Messrs. Kleinerand
rlolman. as representatives of the com-
nonwcalth which know and loved Hen-
Iricks best , closing with brief addresses de-
icriptive of the public aud private virtues
f the dead statesman , and then the reso-
!
utions were unanimously adopted and the
iouse adjourned. '
SENATE , FCD. 3. Tho chair placed before >
the senate the resolution as submitted by t
Siddlebcrger and the substitute foritsub- !
!
nitted by Pugh relating to the relations
ictween the president and senate in regard '
.o information and papers afFeetinggovcrn-
nent officers suspended or appointed.
Laid on the table. A bill was passed for ,
.he benefit of the states of Texas , Colorado , .
Jregon , Nebraska , California , Kansas and
S'evnda and the territories of Washington
ind Idaho. It provides that in case of the
OhS of the original vouchers required by '
aw for the settlement of claims by the
itatcs and territories named , Hie secretary
if war may accept copies thereof , properly
ertified by the state or territory officials.
Hie chair laid before the senate a letter [
rom the attorney general asking for an [
idditional appropriation of § 50.000 for
urors of the United States court and § 135-
)00 for witnesses It was referred to the
lommittee on appropriation * . The Da
cota bill was discussed without action ,
thereupon the senate adjourned. , .
JIOUSE , i-eo. a. Clomirom cne com 0
mittee on coinage , v eights and measures , 0L
lesired to report back the resolution of- L
'ered by him Monday last calling on the
secretary of the treasury for certain infor- F '
nation relative to silver circulation. The F
notion to recommit was lost yeas 8S , \ \
lays 168 and the resolution was adopted. OO
Morrison , from the committee on ways and OL OP
tieans , reported the resolution calfing on P '
he secretary of the treasury to report to L
he house the total amount applied IIC.
o the sinking fund between June C.
JO , 18S-1. and July 1 , 1SK5 , and
mder what date and in what sev-
ral amounts tho same was applied. ,
Adopted. The following committee reports G
vere adopted : By Cobb , of Indiana , from O
he committee on public lands , to forfeit II
.he Atlantic and Pacific > land grant. IIC
Placed on the house calendar. By Spring- Si
ir , from the committee on territories , to
irinex a portion of Idaho to Washington '
erritory. Placed on the house calendar.
3y James , from the committee on labor , CcO.
o prohibit any officer of the government O.C .
rom hiring or contracting the labor C ;
f prisoners. Placed on the house ccJen- H
lar. Gi
SENATE , Feb. 4. Among bills introduced
were the following : By Senator Mander-
son To facilitate promotions mid to retire
from active service upon their own applica
tion officers of tlio army who served during
the war of tho rebellion as general officers
of volunteers. Senator Van Wyck , from
the committee on public lands , reported
favorably his bill for the relief of settlers ,
purchasers of lauds within the grant ol the
Northern Kansas railroad. The chair laid
before the senate a letter from the secre
tary of the treasury in reply to a recent
resolution of the seriate relating to the
conscience .fund. "The conscience fund , "
the secretary says , ' 'hitd-its origin in the .
popular belief.that donations of money re
ceived from persons unknown were because
of money wrongfully withheld from the
government. The first item to the credit
of the fund was made in 1827 and the fund
now amounts to § 222,740. " The Dakota
bill wan again considered but without defi
nite action.
HOUSE , Feb. 4. Tho house went into
committee of the whole for consideration
of the shipping bill , the pending amend
ment being that offered by Holman limit
ing the compensation of collectors , inspec-
tois and shipping commissioners. The
amendment was withdrawn. Buchanan
offered an amendment providing that any
vessel arriving fromaforeign port in a port
of the United States in distress or not en
gaged in trade shall bo exempt from ton
nage tax. Adopted. Hewitt asked and '
obtained unanimous consent to strive out
the amendment providing that only one-
consular certificateshall be required on any
one tow of canal boats or barges trading ;
between the United States and Canada.
The committee then rose and the bill was-
passed.
SENATE , Feb. 5. The morning's business-
was laid aside and the Dakota bill taken ,
up , on which Butlertook the floor and said
the senator from Indiana had either evaded
or forgotten many facts bearing on the
Dakota question. Butler charged that the-
opposition to Dakota had first come , not
from the democratic side of the senate , but
from the republican side , and he quoted
some remarks of Hale in a former congress
to sustain his position. Lou : ; discussion
ensued , participated in by Butlor. Logan ,
Call , Edmunds and others. When the de
bate closed Butler's substitute xvas put to
a vote and lost yeas 22 , nays 33. The-
bill reported from the committee was then ,
parsed yens 32 , nays 22. The only demo
crat voting in the affirmative was Voor-
hces. The negative votes were all demo
crat io. The hill divides the territory of
Dakola the line of the
on forty-sixth paral
lel of latitude ; provides for the admission
of the southern portion as a state under
the title of Dakota and the organization of
the northern portion into a separate terri
tory under the name of "Lincoln.Ad
journed until Monday.
HOUSE , Feb. 5. The speaker laid before-
the house a message from the president/
transmitting theresponse of the secretary
3f the interior to the house resolution call-
ng for copies of any contract or lease be-
iween the Southern Pacific railway com-
lauy and any hind grant road , of tho
rhnrtcr of the Southern Pacific or siny con
tact between the Pacific Steamship com-
> auy and any land grant road. Referred.
Jn motion of Laird , a resolution wa.s
idopted making the Fitz John Porter bill
he continuing special order from Thurs-
lay , the llth inst. , until Thursday , the
8th insr. . including th night session on
ruesday evening. The house then ad-
ourned until Monday.
rzrc jcrcrryc OF c.irr. CRAWFORD-
rhc Mexicans' Efjilanatioit of Unit Unfortu
nate Affair.
Following is the Mexican official report of.
he engagement in which Capt. Crawford-
ost his He : "To the .Tefe Pulitica of Degal-
inlo countv On the llth inst. we reached-
.he camp called Leopar , on the Sierra del Ba-
isat , where wesr * combalted by n. great-
lumber of tamo and wild Indians , probably
iver 200 , led by foreign ( United States )
illicers and over twenty soldiers of the
anie kind , who exhibited themselves. The
ire lasted an hour and a half , killing four
if our m ° n. Maj. Jtirrico Co wed ere , Lieut.
tian de la Cni7. , and piivat-'s Martinairo-
ladrid and Kuzestrade , and wounding
our others. Our opponents lost a cap-
ain , four dead and three wounded. The-
nonient was a serious one. and cur
rent y with them under the war flag of the-
"nited States , to which they pretended to-
iclong. After their captain died I acceded
o their terms for the reason given , al-
hough they displayed not a sign of loyalty ,
swas evidenced as much by their strategy
s by the different animals which they had ,
nd which I have to prove they wt > re stolen ,
t this place. To-day at the earliest hour-
os.sible I will start for your city , all of
Inch I have the honor tocommunieatefor-
our information.
" ? ANT.V ANNA PEREZ. "
The report is dated from Delarj mining-
amp.
THE MARKETS.
OMAHA.
I'lIEAT No. 2 . 6SJ { @
ARLEY No. 2 . 4S @
tYE No. 2 . 44
'OISN No. 2 mixed .
ATS No. 2 .
UTTER Fancy creamery. .
UTTER Choice roll .
G < ; S Fresh .
IHCKENS Dressed per Ib. . .
'UISKEVS Dressed perlb. . . .
IUCKS Dressed per Ib .
IEESE Dressed per tb .
KMON Choice . 4
.ppLEtJ Choice . 2
RANK ES Mesina . 2
JEANS Navys . 1
INIONS Per bushel .
'OTATOHS Per bushel .
IREEN APPLES Per bbl. . . . 2
too i. Fine , per Ib . !
EIDS Timothy . 2
BEDS Blue Grass . 1
AY Baled , per ton . 5
AY In bulk . G
foos Mixed packing . 3
JEEVES Butchers . 3
. NEW YORK.
T No. 2 red . 92
fii EAT Ungraded red . 85
ORN No. 2 . 49
ATS Mixed western . 37
OKJC . 10 50
.Aim . G 47
CHICAGO.
'LOUR Choice winter . 4 40
'LOUR Spring extra . 370
I'IIEAT Per bushel . S0 ; < i
ORN Per bushel .
ATS Per bushel . 29'4
'OKK . 10 7714
Iocs Packing itshipping. 4
ATTLE Stockers . 2
UEEP Western . 2
ST. LOUIS.
'HEAT No. 2 red .
ORN Per bushel .
ATS Per bushel .
toes Mixed packing . 3
ATTLE Stockersit feeders 3
UEEP Common to choice 2
* KANSAS CITY.
'HEAT Per bushel .
DRN Per bushel .
ATS Per bushel .
ITTLE Exports . 4 80
Iocs Good to choice. . 3 90
JEEP Common to gocd. . 2 50