PUBLIC 2 > JBBT STATEMENT.
The following is a recapitulation of the
dobt statement issued on tho 1st : Interest
bearing debt , principal and interest , § 1- ,
239,045,459 ; debt on which interest has
ceased since maturity , principal and inter
est , 56,003,049 ; debt bearing no interest ,
§ 540,050,444 ; total debt , principal and
interest , $1,780,305,552 ; total debt , less
available cash items. $1,484.047.847 ; net
cash in treasury , § 77,030,999 ; debt , le-s
cash in treasury , May 1 , 1880 , § 1,407-
020,848 ; debt , less cash in treasury , April
1,1880 , § 1,417,992,235 ; decrease of debt
during the month , § 10,905.387 ; cash in
the treasury available for reduction of the
iX public debt , § 202,370,700 ; total cash in
i"/trcasury ] ? shown by the treasurer's general
vaccount , § 492,402,510 :
LEQISLATITE NEWS AND NOTES.
A. Record of Proceedings in Roth Branches
of the V. S. Congress.
HOUSE , May 1. Mr. Findlay , of Mary
land , from the civil service committee , sub
mitted a report on the resolution offered
by Mr. Taulbee , of Kentucky , directingtho
secretary of the treasury to inform the
house by what authority substitute clerks
were permitted in his department. A run
ning debate respecting the merits and de
merits of tho civil service law ensued be
tween Messrs. Taulbee , Miller of New York ,
Cannon of Illinois , and others , at the con
clusion of which the resolution was tabled.
Mr. Cox , of North Carolina , from the for
eign affairs committee , reported a bill
amendatory of tho Chinese immigration
act. ' House calendar. Also , providing in
demnity t'o certain Chinese subjects for
losses sustained within the jurisdiction of
the United States. The floor was then ac
corded to the committee on territories , and
several bills were passed of local interest
only. The Oklahoma bill was then called
up and its provisions were explained by
Mr. Hill , of Ohio , who stated that the land
which it was proposed to open to settle
ment amounted to nearly 12,000,000
acres. The bill did not propose to violate
any treaty with any tribe of Indians. It
provided for the appointment of a commis
sion of five persons to treat with the In
dians with a view of securing the modifica
tion of treaties so as to permit of the open
ing of the land to settlement. Laid over
under the rule , after which tho house ad
journed.
SENATE , May 4. After unimportant bus
iness the postoflice appropriation bill was
taken up and Vest proceeded to speal :
upon the amendment appropriating § 800- ,
000 for the transportation of foreign mails.
He maintained that provision would prove
destructive to the merchant marine. It
was now proposed to change the existing
statute , which permits competition , and
substitute in its place the declaration that
none but American steamships shall carry
the mails To-day , he said , we have but
two routes upon which there are more
than one line of steamships , one from San
Francisco to the east and one from New
York to Havana. No competition could
come except upon those two lines. Bust's ,
Ingalls and Colquitt also joined actively in
the debate , the latter opposing the amend
ment energetically. After exeeutivobebsion
the senate adjourned.
HOUSE , May 4. Wellburn submitted the
conference report on the Ii.dian appropria
tion bill and it was adopted. Bills , etc. ,
were introduced and referred. By Baker ,
of New York Establishing the territory of
North Dakota. By Weaver , of Nebraska
A preamble and resolution ironically sug
gesting that it requires a high degree of in
telligence to discharge the functions of a
member of the committee appointed to at
tend the remains of a deceased member to
a place of burial , and providing for the ap
pointment of a standing gra > c-3-ard com
mittee , which shall be composed of such
statesmen as the Record discloses have
shown the highest degree of ability in
lodging the dead weight of an objection to
the consideration of unobjectionable legis
lation , said committee to have leave to ait
during the sessions of the house but with
out power to object at the grave to the in
terment of the corpse. On motion of Hen
derson , of Iowa , the rules were suspended
and the bill was passed appropriating
§ 153,000 for tho repair and enlargementol
the public building at Des Moines , la.
SENATE , May 5. After the passage of a
number of private bills the postoflice ap
propriation bill was laid before the senate.
A number of amendments wero offered ,
some of which wero agreed to. The com
mittee's provision for foreign mails as final
ly amended by the senate and agreed to
reads .as follows : For the transportation
of foreign mails by American built and reg
istered steamship , to secure greater fre
quency and regularity in the dispatch and
greater speed in carriage of such mails to
Brazil , republics of Mexico and Central and
Soutli America , Sandwich and West India
and Windward Islands , New Caledonia ,
New Zealand , Australian colonies , China ,
Japan , § 80.000. and the postmaster gen
eral is authorized to make , after due adver
tisement for proposals , such contract or
contracts with owners of American steam
ships for terms of not less than three nor
more than five years , and at a rate of com
pensation not exceeding 50 cents per nauti
cal mile on a trip each way actually trav
eled between terminal points in the most
direct and feasible course between termi
nal points , as shall be found expedient and
desirable to secure the end above set forth.
The amendment was carried , yeas 39. nays
IS. On Plumb's motion , the sum of § 800-
000 was added to the amount alreadv in
the bill for railway postal car serice. . Tho
vote on the final passage of the bill was
yeas 45 , nays 10.
HOUSE. May 5. Hall called up the Camp
bell-Weaver contested election case , and
after some opposition it was proceeded
with. After an hour and a half debate tl e
resolution of tho majority of the commit-
tf'e on elections was adopted confirming the
right of the sitting member , J. B. Weaver ,
to the seat. The house met in the evening
for the consideration of the business re
ported from the committee on military af
fairs. The following bills wero passed : The
senate bill to regulate the promotion of
graduates from the military academy ; to
provide for the enlistment and pay and de
fine the duties of general service clerks and
messengers ; the senate bill to remove the
charge of desertion standing against any
soldier by reason of his having enlisted in
any regiment without first having received
his"discharge from the regiment in which he
previously served ; appropriating § 150,000
for additional barracks at the southern ,
northwestern and western branches of the
National Home for Disabled Veterans.
SENATE. May 5. The inter-state com
merce bill was then laid before the senate.
The pending amendment was that of Cam-
den , being an absolute long and short haul
clause applied to each railroad separately.
Palmer spoke against the Camden amend
ment. He was opposed to it because it was
unfair to the railroads and unfair to the
people. It would discriminate against cer-
tainrailroads in favor of others against
our own railroads in favor of foreign rail
roads , and against our own railroads in
favor of foreign bottoms. Riddlebergerand
Call supported tho amendment. A vote
being taken on Camden's amend ment it was
agreed to yeas 29 , nays 24. The teclini-
cal form of the Camden amendment as
agreed to is to Htrike out from the longand
short haul clause of the committee's bill
the words "from some original point of de
parture. "
L.
HOUSE , May 5. Frederick , of Iowa , from
tho committee on alcoholic liquor traflic ,
reported adversely the senate bill provid
ing for a commission on tho subject of
liquor traflic. The day being set aside for
the consideration of business reported
from the committee on military affairs ,
the first bill called up which was considered
in committee of tho whole was one for the
relief of certain officers of the volunteer
army. It provides that all soldiers of the
late war who re-enlisted as veteran volun
teers and afterwards were discharged to re
ceive promotion and also receive commis
sion as officers in the army , shall be paid
the installments of veteran bounty which
were withheld from them on account of
their being so commissioned and mustered ,
the same as they would have been entitled
to receive had they completed their term of
enlistment without promotion , and re
ceived an honorable discharge. Boutelle
offered an amendment extending the pro
visions of the bill ol enlisted men in the
navy and marine corps. Adopted. 127 to
72. At the evening session the bill to in
crease tho efficiency of the army was called
up and made the special order for tho firs
day which may not bo set apart for th
consideration of other measures.
SENATE. May 0. On motion of Sherman
the senate agreed that the anti-Chinese im
migration bill and the bill to indemnity
Chinese subjects for losses by the Hock
Springs riots shall be the special order for
Monday"May 10th. Thecomrnerce bill was
then considered. Wilson , of Iowa , offered
an amendment providing that the provis
ion of the bill agninst receiving more for a
longer haul should not be construed as
authorizing any railroad company to
charge as much for a shorter as for
longer haul. A great number of amend
ments were then submitted and ordered
printed , among them one by Edmunds
providing that whenever any common car
rier shall violate or refuse to obey any o"
the requirements of the commission , it is
to npply to the United States circuit court
for a hearing on short notice in the matter
complained of , without the formal plead
ing and proceedings necessary in ordinary
equity nuits. Miller , .from the committee
on education and labor , reported favor
ably the bill applying to letter carriers the
provisions of section 1738 of the revised
statutes , making eight hours a day's work.
It was unanimously agreed that a vote bo
taken on the inter-state commerce bil"
before adjournment on Tuesday next.
HOUSE , May 0. The house then went
into committee of the whole on the river
and harbor bill. Everhart , of Pennsylva
nia , and Stone , of Missouri , opposed tho
b'll. The committee then rose and reported
the bill to the house. The only amend
ment reported from the committee upon
which a separate vote was demanded was
that directing the secretary of war to
negotiate lor the purchase of the works of
the Jlonongahela Navigation company.
Agreed to 124 to 42. Hepburn , of Iowa ,
moved an amendment providing that tho
appropriation for the improvement of the
lower Mississippi be expended under the di
rection of the secretary of war without the
intervention of the Mississippi river com
mission. Agreed to yeas 120 , nays 107 ,
He also offered an amendment providing
that the improvement of the Missouri river
from the mouth of Sioux City be conducted
without the intervention of the Missouri
river commission. Agreed to 70 to 71.
The bill was then passed yeas 143 , nays
102.
HOUSE , May 7. After the routine busi
ness was disposed of the house went into
committee of the whole on the private cal
endar. The bill which gave rise to the most
interesting discussion was one paying § 200
to W. F. Haldmnn. The report states that
during the war Haldman , then a boy of 12
years old , desired to join an Ohio regiment ,
but was refused muster on account of his
age and size. He. however , purchased a
uniform and served in the regiment a year ,
acting as buglar and performingscoutduty.
Ho is said to have performed gallant ser
vice. After a lengthy cross fire between
Bragg and Johnson , a vote was taken on
the amendment to the bill , but a numberof
its opponents refrained from voting , and
the committee being left without a quorum ,
rose. The house , at its evening session ,
passed fifty-five pension billa , and , at 9:30 :
o'clock , adjourned.
THE CHURCH AND THE ORDER.
Cardinal Gibbon Says Catholics Do Not
Oppose the K. of L.
The condemnation of the Knights of
Labor by Archbishop Tascherau , of Quebec ,
has aroused widespread interest in regard
to the attitude of the church towards tho
labor organization. In order to secure an
authoritive statement on the subject , tho
Omaha Bee correspondent called on Cardi
nal Gibbons at Washington , who is in that
city looking after legal matters connected
with the cathedral university projected by
the plenary council. The cardinal gave his
views freely , as lie desired to remove some
of the false impressions which have lately
gained circulation. He said , in brief :
As to the Knights f Labor organization
in the United States , I havenot thoroughly
examined the constitution or studied their
purposes. From reading newspapers and
Mr. Powderly's public statements , I infer
that the object of the Knights of Labor
are praiseworthy , and in no way opposed
to the views of the church. Catholic pre-
latc.s'will to a man declare in favor of tho
Knights of Labor. There can be no wrong
in such a course. Organization is the basis
of all progress political , social and relig
ious. Only when it is abused does the
church raise her voice and call out
her children. The church has been
greatly Misrepresented on this point ,
and I would like you to state clearly its
position. We hold that if a man joins a
society , swearing never to reveal its work
ing , no matter how criminal , and to obey
the dictates of its officers blindly , he surely
surrenders his personal liberty , becomes
the slave to his fellow men , and cannot par
take of the sacrament of the church. Such
an oath is taken by prevalent secret socie
ties , hence their condemnation by the
clergy. On the other hand , if a man joins
an organization swearing to secret its work-
in zs with the proviso that nothing therein
shall be contrary to the laws of the land ,
to his conscience and religious creed , we
hold that his act is perfectly justifiable. If
the orders , oaths and purposes are in ac
cordance with Mr. Powderly's statements.
then the church says to the knights : "God
Kpeed you. " If , however , an absolutely
blind plerign is taken , no matter how laud
able the objects , our church can never
countenance it , and will call on her children
to withdraw under pain of excommunica
tion. Don't understand me ns criticising
Archbishop Tascherau. Heis the principal
of the church in Canada , and would not
have taken such decisive action without a
conviction that the local knights had some
thing in their laws , or pursued some me
thod , that were against church doctrines.
A roLUNTART REDUCTION.
The directors of the street railroad com
panies in Washington have voluntarily re
duced the hours of labor of their drivers
and conductors from fourteen to twelve
with no change in the wages paid. The new
rate went into effect on the 3d , and theem-
ployi'S celebrated the event by decorating
all of the cars with evergreens and bunting.
They have already expressed their grati
tude in a series of resolutions.
FIERCE FIGHTING IN THE STREETS.
C/iicagotlie Scene of a Second Bloody Rio
Instituted by tlie Offscourings of Europe
A Number of Policemen Killed by Bombs
Thrown by die Socialists *
CHICAGO , May 4. The southwestern por
tion of the city this afternoon was th
scene of another riot. Toward noon !
crowd of anarchists and friends assembled
at the corner of Eighteenth and Morgan
streets for the purpose of holding a'mcet
ing. It is also said that they intended to
renew the attack on the McCormick reape
works. The police , who had been notified
of the affair , kept a close watch upon th
proceedings. Hostilities commenced at 2:30 :
p. m. Just in what manner cannot b
learned. A number of detectives in citi
zens' clothes mixed with the crowd , num
bering at this hour nearly a thousand per
sons. Detective Mike Granger , of th
Central station , attempted to arrest on
of the disorderly men. The detective was
immediately set upon by a howling mob
Before he could escape he was struck in tin
forehead with a brick , knocked senseless
and badly injured. Revolvers were drawn
and indiscriminate shooting began , durini
which Officer John Strong was shot in tin
hand. A number of rioters were also in
jured. Tho police charged the crowd and
made several arrests , capturing the man
who threw the brick at Granger. At ?
o'clock the entire southwestern district o
the city was wild with alarm.
SIX OFFICERS MURDEREDBYTHE COMMUNISTS ,
10:37 p. m. A report has jiidt been ic
ceived that MX policemen have been killed
in the Hay Market , where the anarchists
are holding a meeting. A man wlr > was
standing in the crowd received a pistol ball
in his thigh and has been brough t to th
Central police station. He says that dur
ing the progress of a speech by one of tho
socialists a squad of officers marched by
close to the speaker's stand. Some one
shouted , "Kill the ! " Almost as
soon as the words had been uttered thre
bombs were thrown from near the stand
into the midst of the squad of officers
They exploded instantly and five police
men fell. The others were wounded and
several of the socialists did not escape. Ai
officer who has just arrived from the scene
says there is hardly any doubt that a'
least five officers were killed. Persons liv
ing on the wost side , many squares from the
scene of the disturbance , repo'rt that the
explosion of the bombs , which was terrific
was instantly followed by a fusilade of re
volver shots. More coherent accounts are
coming in and they point to a much more
disastrous affray than was at first reported.
About two hundred officers had been de
tailed to attend the meeting and had been
in the vicinity since the socialists began to
assemble. At the time of throwiiig the
bombs the crowd had dwindled to less than
a thousand. The utterances of the speak
ers were still of a most inflammatory char
acter , however , and the hearers who stil
remained grew riotous in their demeanor
The police concluded to put an end to the
disturbance , and. advancing ,
ORDERED THE : CROWD TO DISPERSE.
At first the socialists fell back slowly , the
speakers still urging them to stand firm.
Suddenly bombs were thrown. The police
retorted instantly with a volley from their
revolvers. The rioters answered with
theirs , which the sequel shows they were
well provided with. The mob appeared
crazy with a fanatic desire for blood , and ,
holding its ground , poured volley after vol
ley into the midst of the officers. The lat
ter fought gallantly and at last dispersed
the mob and cleared the market place.
They are now guarding every approach to
the place and no one is allowed there. Im
mediately after the first explosion the offi
cers who were left standing drew their re
volvers and
FIRED ROUND AFTER ROUND INTO THE MOB.
Large numbers of these fell , and as they
dropped were immediately carried to tho
rear and into the many dark alleyways by
their friends. No estimate of the casualties
can bo given , but the police at the Des-
plaines street station state that fully fifty
of them were wounded. The drug stores in
the vicinity are crowded with people who
were hurt , and doctors have been tele
phoned to in all directions. Before the
firing had ceased the neighboringpolice sta
tions were turned into temporary hospitals.
At 11 o'clock twenty policemen lay on the
floor of the Desplaines station , all disabled
and probably half of that number serious-
jy. Others were reported to be still lying
in the open square , either dead or badly
wounded. A telephone message from one
of the hospitals says that a wounded offi
cer brought there has since died. Officer
Joseph Degan died on the way to the sta
tion. Later reports to the Desplaines
street station indicate thateven more than
were at first estimated were wounded among
the socialists. The scenes at the station
are heartrending. In one large room lie
some fifteen officers with doctors dressing
their wounds. The wife of one of the men
has just come in , and upon learning that
her husband was amonA the wounded fell
down in a faint andhai/tobe / carried home.
STILL , RIOTING.
11:30 p. m. More firing has just been
heard near the scene of the former trouble
and a large force of police has just left the
station for the place. Some fifteen shots
were heard. It is reported tha t August
Spies is in a saloon on Lake street and a
detail of police has been sent to arrest him.
Relatives of Officers Timothy Flavin , Geo.
Miller and Reddin came to the station a
short time ago , accompanied by a priest ,
who administered the last sacraments to
the three men , who are dying. In the base
ment of the station there are some ten
socialists who are having their wounds at
tended to. The following is a list of the
killed and wounded among the police :
Joseph Stnnton , John A. Dyer , John Mc-
Mahon , Miles Murphy , F. "Steele , John
Reed , Arthur Connelly , P. Sullivan , Charles
Whitney , Thomas Reddin , Geo. Miller , H.
Kruger , J. H. Wilson , Joseph Norman , H.
Holverson , F. Hilda , Ed. Barrett , John
Henson , J. Mitchell , A. Flavin , Chas. Fink ,
N. J. Shannon.
HOW THE RIOT STARTED.
Inspector Bonfield says concerning to
night's trouble in the old Hay Market :
After parsons had concluded his speech
Sam Fielding , another notorious socialist ,
mounted a wagon and began to address the
crowd. His sneech was of the most inflam
matory description. He called on the men
to arm themselves and to assert their
rights. He finally became so violent that
word was sent to the station , which was
only a block distant , and Inspector Bon-
field , at the head of twenty-five men ,
marched to the place of the meeting. Bon-
field called upon the crowd to disperse and
Fielding shouted out to them from the
wagon , "To Arms ! " The officer once more
called on them to disperse , when suddenly ,
from behind the wagon , which was not
seven feet from the front rank of the police ,
two bombs were thrown in between the
second and third rank of men with the ef
fect as already stated. Tho second firing ,
which was heard about an hour ago , proved
to be nothing of consequence. No one was
hurt. On a table at the station house ,
where the wounded policemen are. a poor
fellow lies stretched out with a terrible
bullet wound in his breast. A few feet dis
tant is a man with tattered clothes and a
mortal wound in his
side lying insensible on
a cot. Around the room on chairs , with
their legs bandaged up and restine on sup '
ports of different kinds , are some fifteen or
twenty officers who were wounded by
bombs. Not a groan or complaintisheard
torn any of them. Another officer , who
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was found lying in the doorway , where he
had been carried or where ho had dragged
himself , has just been brought in frightfully
wounded. There aro Borne twenty of tho
socialists in cells in tho basement. All of
them are wounded , and one ol them , a
young fellow of about twenty , is dead. Tho
following named socialists , all of whom aro
wounded , have been placed under arrest :
.loo Nuchpr , Emil Lotz , John Ulemund ,
Peter Lay , John Fraser , August Buka ,
Robert Schultz , Franz Wroch , B. Loplant ,
Charles Schumacher.
FOR THE WOMEN TO READ.
Tlie Minority Report on the Proposed Con
stitutional Amendment *
The majority of the house judiciary com
mittee in reporting adversely upon the
proposed woman suffrage amendment to
the constitution submits a formal report
recommending that the proposition lie
upon the table.
Tho minority report , which is signed by
Messrs. E. B. Taylor , Hepburn , Casswell
and Rannejcomments upon this fact , but
says :
The importance of the question of woman
suffrage is forcing full discussion every
where , and the silence of the committee will
have no tendency to withdraw it from pub
lic attention. In a government by the peo
ple the ballot ; s at once the badge of sover
eignty and means of exercising power.
Women are people , and we submit that they
are neither morally nor intellectually in
capable , and that no necessity for their
disfranchisement can be suggested. On tho
contrary , we believe that they are entitled to
immediate and absolute enfranchisement.
First , because their own good demands it.
Give woman theballpt and she will havcad-
ditional means and inducements for broad
er and bettereducation , includingknowledge
of affairs which she will not fail to avail
herself of to the uttermost , and by which
she will add to her means of protection for
her person and estate. The history of
woman is for the most part a history of
wrong and outrage. Created the equal
companion of man , she early became his
slave , and still is in many parts of the
world. Man has not been consciously un
just to woman in the past , nor is he now ,
but he believes she is in her true sphere ,
not realizing that he has fixed her sphere ,
and not God , as he imagines. Yet as man
advances , woman is elevated , and her
elevation in turn advances him. No liberty
ever given her has been lost or abused , or
regretted. Where most has been given her
she has become best. Liberty never de
grades , slavery always does. Second ,
womai.'s vote is necessary for the good of
others. She is the enemy of foreign war , of
domestic turmoil. She is the friend of
peace and home. Her influence for good
in many directions would bo multiplied if
she possessed the ballot. She desires
the home of the land to be pure
and sober. With her they may be
come so. We do not invite
woman to tlie dirty pool of politics , nor
docs she intend to enter that pool. Poli
tics is not necessarily unclean. If it is un
clean , she is not chargeable with the great
crime , for crime it is. Politics must be pur
ified or we are lost. But it is sometimes
said women do not desire theballot. Some
do not ; nay , many do not , perhaps the ma
jority , but such indifference cannot effect
the right of those who are not indifferent.
The conservative woman who feels her
present duties are more burdensome than
she can bear , wjien she realizes what she
can accomplish for her country and for
mankind by the ballot , will reverently
thank God for the opportunity and will
assiduously discharge her new obligations
as well as her more radical sister , who has
long and wearily labored and fervently
prayed for the coming of the day of equali
ty of rights , duties , and hopes.
PERSONAL AND OTHER NOTES.
Rev. James M.Taylor has finally decided
to accept the presidency of Vassar college.
Timothy Sexton , of Dublin , has left § 40 , '
000 for the benefit of the aged and infirm
clergymen.
Henry George , the political economist , is
forty-seven years old and about five feet
two inches in height.
Richard A. Proctor , the astronomer , an
swers the question , "Is whist signaling
honest ? " in the negative.
Chang Yen Woon , the Chine * " ? minister , is
a short , thick-set man , about fifty years
old , with a thin , red moustache.
The widow of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart , of the
Virginia cavalry , is now keeping a prosper
ous girls' school at Staunton , Va.
Gen. Schenck , who wrote the only work
on | > oker which the British aristocracy
could comprehend , is practicing law in
Washington.
Prince Bismarck was left § 1,800 lately
by the will of a Warsaw merchant , who
wished the chancellor to buy a keepsake
with the money.
Enoch Pratt , who gave Baltimore its free
library , is thought to be worth six or seven
million dollars. He is past seventy , though
still hale and active.
Ex-Gov. Curtin , of Pennsylvania , is put
ting his correspondence .and other mem
oranda in shape for a volume of hibtory re
lating to the civil war.
Miss Folsom is described as tall and
Juno-like in outline with a complexion of
ivory whiteness , all the red in her face
glowing in her full and beautiful lips.
Mrs. Gladstone is losing her memory ,
and frequently comes down to dinner with
a , grotesque combination of shawls and
other frippery for the body of her dress ,
which she could not find.
Captain and Mrs. Alfred Taylor , of West-
port , Conn. , are respectively ninety five
and ninety-two years old , and have just
celebrated their diamond wedding , having
been married seventy-five years.
SOWS WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
SPECIAL , : The veto by Cleveland to-day
of the "Omaha dutiable transportation ol
goods bill , " may chance to provoke a com
parison of the views of so able a lawyer as
the late ex-secretary of the treasury and
Cleveland. Mr. Folger was one of the chief
justices of the highest court in New York ,
and stood far above Cleveland as a law
yer , and there is something to criticise
ivhen Cleveland vetoes a bill that had the
approval in the last congress of so able a
iurist as the late Charles J. Folger.
THERE are rumors of the resignation of
Mr. Sparks , based on the alleged state-
nent of a high official in the interior de-
lartment. It appears that Mr. Sparks
nolds to the theory that he has the edge on
Secretary Lamar in the matter of signing
patents or not. and a friction equal to that
ireated by striking a loco-foco match on a
3ne match has been provoked.
Tun house committee on labor heard
Representative Spport of thelaborarbitra-
; ion bill introduced by him last Monday.
Che members of the committee seemed
ayorable to a permanent arbitration com-
nission , but the matter did not go far
inough to indicate what action will be
akcn. The opinion was expressed by the
'ommittee that the principal feature of
Springer's bill could be incorporated in tho
) ill now on the calendar to provide for the
istablisbment of the department of pgri-
ulture and labor. , '
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LOOKING INTO THE DIFFICULTIES.
The Labor Congressional Committee on Their
Rounds of Investigation.
St. Louis dispatch : Tho congressional
in vestigat ing committee heard business men
of this city to-day as to tho effect of tho
strike upon business of tho city and the
country to it. Tho most important testi
mony ol tho day was by Mayor Francis ,
who , after agreeing with the half dozen gen
tlemen who preceded him , that the business
of this city had suffered losses , both direct
and consequential , which would amount to
millions of dollars , went on to state that
tho striko occurred on tho 6th of March
without a word of warning , and to the sur
prise of himself with many others. Pros
pects for an increased spring trade wero ex
cellent prior to the strike , but an almost
complete paralyzation of the commerce of
this city resulted from tho strike. This
state of affairs existed for about twenty
days subsequent to the date of the strike.
The railway people were afforded amplo
police protection whon they asked for it.
Upon the 23d day of March the rail way peo
ple informed him that they would resume
business and asked for a guard of police ,
which was furnished. However , after con
siderable trouble , tho attempt to gut out a
train wasjibandoned. The next day , how
ever , 100 policemen were sent to the yards
and a freight train was run out. No great
amount of disturbance had occurred , and
at no time was there any demonstration of
lawlessness which the police force were un
able to control. The peaco of the city had
never been endangered. After the breaking
of the blockade the railroad people had
gradually resumed business. When asked
if the railway people were protected in their
property and rights between the Gth and
2-1 tli of March he replied that he was not
asked for police protection until the 23d ,
and when naked if he furnished it promptly
replied that he had , and that the company
could have had the same protection any
day after the strike had they seen fit to
ask it. Mayor Francis took occasion to
vigorously denounce the publication to tho
effect that he had furnished Winchesters to
deputy marshals of the Louisville & Nash
ville road in East Louis , with which they
had done the fatal shooting of April 9 , as
unqualifiedly false. When asked why it
was that for eighteen days no trains were
run , he again answered that all protection
asked for was furnished , and that no
reason existed why that same protection
could not have been furnished at any time.
J. M. McMillan of the Missouri Car and
Foundry company was the next witness.
He stated that for eighteen days afti-r tho
strike ho was obliged to close his works ,
throwing 1,000 men out of employment.
His testimony mainly related to the strike
afterward , which his own men entered upon
because of his refusal to break his contract
with the Missouri Pacific and cease supply
ing them with small repairs. He com
plained bitterly of the interferences in his
business by an outside committee , who
had made these demands upon him , and
upon his refusal to treat with them
ordered his men out. Ho declared ho
would not now take his men back in a
body , but would receive individual ap
plications only. He would not discriminate
against the Knights of Labor , but would
not hire any agitator or any leaders of tl-.b
present strike , all of whom are unlawfully
engaged in persuading and intimidating his
present employes , and who make incen
diary speeches to the men He stated that
one Mr. Barry of the Knights of Labor had
addressed the men in a very incendiary
manner.
AUSTRIA IS NO1 MAD.
The Vienna Fremdenblatt commenting
on the absence from Washington of Baron
Von Schaefer , Austrian minister to the
United States , and the inference deduced
that therefore Austria meant to retaliate
for the Kelley affair , and remain unrepre
sented until it should be adjusted , says the
reason for the baron's absence is simply to
enjoy a desired furlough on account of ill
health. He will spend his vacation in
Europe , and if his health permits will re
turn to Washington after the expiration ol
his furlough ; otherwise a successor will be
appointed to continue the representation
of Austria at the American capital. The
Fremdenblatt says in conclusion that the
relations between Austria and the United
States are of the must cordial character.
PAT FOR INDIANS' HORSES.
Mr. Bland , of Missouri , has introduced a
bill to pay Red Cloud and other Sioux In
dians § 28,000 for the payment of 100
horses that were illegally taken by the
army in 1870. The secretary is further
directed that on the Indians expressing
willingness to accept the sum in full satis
faction of all claims , to pay the same to
the persons whom they , through their
proper counsel , shall select to act as their
agent. The money is to be disbursed un
der the direction of the counsel to the In
dians or their families from whom the
horses were stolen.
MARKETS.
OMAHA.
WHEAT No. 2
BARLEY No. 2
RYE No. 2 47
CORN No. 2 mixed 21 @
OATS No. 2 22 @
BUTTER Choice table 17 @
BUTTER Fair to good 8 @
EGHS Fresh SK@
CHICKENS Live per doz 3 50
TURKEYS Dressed perlb. . . . 12
LMMONS Choice 5 00
ORANOUS Mesina 3 75
BEANS Navvs 1 50
ONIONS Per bbl 3 25
POTATOES Per bushel 40
WOOL Fine , per lb 14
SEEDS Timothy 2 20
SEEDS Blue Grass 1 30
HAY Baled , per ton 5 50
HAY In bulk 0 00
HOGS Mixed packing 3 50
BEEVES Choice to extra. . . 4 SO
SHEEP Heavv grades 4 25
NEW YORK.
WHEAT No. 2 red 91
WHEAT Ungraded red 77
CORN No. 2 40
OATS Mixed western 40
PORK 9 25
LARD 0 17 !
CHICAGO.
FLOUR Winter 440 @ 475
"
FLOUR" Patents 4 05 @ 500
WHEAT Perbushel 79 @ S04 !
CORN Per bushel 35 @
OATS Per bushel 29 @
PORK 902 @
LARD 5 85 @
HOGS Packing &shipping. 3 90 @
CATTLE Stockers 3 00 @
SHEEP Natives 2 50 @
ST. LOUIS.
WHEAT No. 2 red 87 (
CORN Perbushel : 32&j {
OATS Per bushel 29J
HOGS Mixed packing 3 80
CATTLE Stockers & feeders 300
SHEEP Common to choice 3 00
KANSAS CITY.
WHEAT Perbushel 04
CORN Per bushel
OATS Per bushel
CATTLE Stockers 3 40 n
HOGS Good to choice. 3 05
SUEEP Common to good. . 3 00
THE NEWS Iff A NUTSHELL.
Mr. Boyer , director of tho Panama Canal
company , is dead.
"Dutch Henry , " tho king of tho newsboys
at St. Louis , is dead.
Panama canal affairs are approaching a
fearful financial crisis.
Fred Douglass has written a letter highly
complimentary of Cleveland.
Tho reports from tho cattle interests in
tho Pecas ( Tex. ) valley are bad.
Tho Union Pacific proposes to buy Den
ver , South Park' & Pacific railway coupons.
The newsboys of San Antonio , Tex. , or
ganized and called themselves tho "Kids of
Labor. ' "
The soap factory of J. D. Kirk & Co. , ol
Chicago , closed on account of inability to
ship goods.
Jolmnn Most and two of his associates
hax-e been arrested for revolutionary talk
and threats.
John A. Lyon , a prominent stove dealer
of Indianapolis , was instantly killed by
Samuel Marley.
Tho doctors at Philadelphia hail a split ,
and two seta of delegates will go to tho na
tional convention.
Giief Arthur , of tho Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers , refuses to attend tho
Trades unions convention.
John Gibbons , the striker who wnskilled
at St. Louis , was buried by the Knights of
Labor. They had a largo procession.
Tho stonemasons and bricklayers of
Akron , Ohio , threatened to strike , but tho
contractors granted their demands for
shorter hours.
The president approved the bill extend
ing the time of completing the records of
the court of comiiiissionerrf of the Alabama
claims for n period of two months.
Chinch bugs have appeared in tho wheat
fields near Centralia , III. , in enormous num
bers , and growers are fearful that tho
promising crops of this year will be entire
ly destroyed.
RECOGNITION IF NOT WEALTH.
Tlie Instigator of tha Strike on the Southtcest
System Satisfled With the Outcome.
Martin Irons , by whom tho Gould south
western strike was ordered , when asked
what effect he anticipated this method of
cndiiu the trouble would have upon tho
Knights of Labor , said : "Wu were fight
ing for recognition and we got it from con
gress. Is not that a complete enough
recognition ? Our order will grow after
this even more rapidly than during the
pant few weeks , when the applications
have been so numerous for chatera that
vie could hardly find time to consider
them. " An order was sent to the master
workman of each local assembly informing
tli = m that the strike has been declared off
and orderins them to notify their men to
make application for work to-day. The
order applies to all knights employed in
East St. Louis. At 7 o'clock , the time for
the day force of switchmen and freight
handlers , etc. , to go the work , largo num
bers applied for positions at the various
companies and many were immediately
placed on the pay rolls. A few were
recognized as those who committed de
predations upon the companies' property
and were denied employment. The striking
employes of the Missouri and Car Foundry
company wore ordered to return to work.
Th ise who had been on a strike applied
for their old positions and were taken back
without exception. It is expected that the
militia will be withdrawn at once
A STRUCK ON THE UNION PACIFIC.
Cheyenne special to the Omaha Bee :
Upon the arrival of the first section of tho
west bound passenger train last evening
at Laramie it was met by a delegation
of the Brotherhood of Brakemen , who
stated to the train men that upon order of
the division at that place a strike had been
inaugurated and all the brakemen wero
prohibited from going out. This section of
the train was composed of em'igrant cars.
Part of them are occupied by Mormon im
migrants. Some 01 the passengers hold
transportation to San Fiancisco , and
there was a hundred who were destined for
New ZealUnd and desired to reach San
Francisco Wednesday , as the steamer
upon which they were to take passage
will leave Thursday. The second section
of tho train arrived two hour's late , but
was permitted to proceed without any
movement tending toward interference.
This train carried the mails , baggage , ex
and first-class . freight
press - pni-si-ngers. All
trains coming into Laramie were utopped.
but in a very quiet way. no incendiary
fi-i'iii2 ! being exhibited. 1'y 11 o'clock five
freight trains and two i-nrgrant trains
A-ore being held in the yard. This morning ,
< ipon the arrival of the passsfngt'r train
from the west , nothing m-w developed , and
the train was permitted to proceed. The
first information of the strike was con
voyed to ( lieyemie by a telegram to United
States Marshal CVirr la-t evening , lie im
mediately departed for Laramie by spet-ial
train , and has sworn in ten deputies.
Freight8 arriving from the east are stopped
here. The passenger from the east went
through with only the conductor. Assist
ant General Dickunson is here. All freights
arriving at Rawlins are sidetracked. There
are no fears of trouble yet. There are 150
men out.
Greece Becomes More Pacific.
ATHENS , GA. , April 30. The povcrnnient
has ordered the disarming of four steamers
which were being fitted as cruisers. The or
der for the dispatch of the gar
rison at Athens to the front has
been canceled. The government's
reply to the powers will have a hail effect oa
the coUntrv. The opposition journals regard it
as a virtual compliance with dfinamls of the
ultimatum. A convention has been signed
with the national bank for thtadvance to tlie
covernment of § 3,000.000 i > A\mr currency.
The rioting and incendiarism wh'ch Is rife
in Galicia continues to increase in extent and
virulence. The authorities have now reached
tbe conclusion that the disturbances are
attrbnted to the work of Russian nihilists aid
ed by anarchists from other countries and
have asked th - governments of Russia , France
and Belgium for admission into the antf-anar-
cu.'st league which these countries have organ
ized.
The powers have instructed the ministers
to remain at their posts. It is believed the
powers will accept the guarantee from Franca
that she will secure the disarmament of Greece.
They will not fir the actual perfod for its ac
complishment.
Guiseppe Scoma , who was at Hudson , N.
Y. , convicted and sentenced to hang for the
murder of Antonio Ricco , suicided in his cell
using a small cord he had worn about his
tvaist to hang himself with.