ste legislature.
edings in’the NEBRAS
KA senate AND HOUSE.
im,ea.bu.«ot Resolution PuMod U,
„f tb. Senate »nd HoU“ Ap_
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lllllP„t of tb. Coiumlttoo to Conduct
rrmecu.io. He fore the Supremo
— 1 LeH«r from th« Actuwd
Karlr Adjournment—The Le*
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,-lihueeus I.egl»h»tlvo Note*.
.Nebraska Legislature.
U [. —In the senate on the 37th,
', h,:hour of -1:15 arrived, th* max
i-abroad bill was considered in
of the whole. The amend
the first six lines of the third
" ,vhirh fixes the maximum rates,
'.ended bv the senate railroad
I ;,,e w ere adopted. The amend
make a slight increase in the
0„ motion of Senator Mullen,
, ai of the senate railroad com
" .,u railroads built in Nebraska
himiarv 1, 1887, and before De
■;i 1890, were exempted from
; ,,visions of the bill. Senator
,tiered an amendment, to which
VCi e substitutes moved by Sena
. , Hen and Clark. Action on these'
.'oeited bv a motion by Senator
that 1 he committee rise and re
bill back to the senate with
. mnmendation that it be passed
,. „rled by tlie senate committee on
;jls and the senate committee of
,,io. Then oame a quitelengthy
- on, participated in by Pope,
hobeefc, Moore, Clark and other
At 7:10 the committee rose
ported the bill to the senate
mo recommendation that it
;|1 „rted and ordered engrossed
, on! reading. The opponents
a final effort to defeat it
: i came to adopting tlie report of
uimitree. Pope offered his suh
• . oLid after considerable discus
;•running, off-hand character
ilecided by the chair that the
•. oie should be read. Senator
moved that tlie substitute be laid
, table, but in the confusion it re
, no second. Afterwards Mattes
i to have seconded the motion to
, ml when Clarke undertook to
, aw the motion, which would
M t i; fatal to the bill itself, Mattes
[...heady refused to withdraw his
i a After the reading had pro
for some moments Campbell
(.that the further reading be dis
i. with. The motion to adopt the
n of committee of tlie whole, to
vt that the bill do pass, was then
II to by a vote ou the adoption of
port of the committee: Yeas—
; ivl.i, Clarke, Dale, Darner, Dysart,
n :t. bray. Hale, Hands, Johnson,
an v, Mullen. I’aokwood, Saunders,
i Stewart, Thomsen, Young—18.
- liabcoek, Correll, Eggleston,
. i . Ilahu, Lobeck, Lowley. Mat
>i Donald, Miller, Moore, North,
-a Scott. Tefft—15.
cMc—In the house on the 27th, a
it: i of measures were advanced to
I reading, among them being: Sen
tilt No. 11, to prohibit the importa
i o? armed men into the state for
dity, and to prevent the appoint
i: rf any but bonafide citizens for
j service. Senate file No. 74, to
tuc section 5025 of chapter I of the
^ .dated Statutes of Nebraska of
I and to repeal said original section,
ate file. No. 13, to amend subdivision
c! action 09 of article I of chapter
t. .oinpiled Statutes of 1889, and to
fa' said original section. Senate file
fm a joint resolution to submit
li ■ electors of the state the follow
prcpositiou, viz: Shall a conven
i be called to amend, revise or change
institution. Senate file No. 14, to
tnc section 3, Criminal Code, known
ae.t.on 5579 Consolidated Statutes,
ate tie No. 55, to assist the
te library and “The Nebraska State
'or.-al Society'’ to augment their <
le t uns The Omaha charter was
' . considered without definite ae
1 ’’mate. fjie foy McCarty,
rffal section 1,832. chapter xviii,
ac.(dated statutes of Nebraska, and
ta t a substitute; recommended for
'a^- House roll No. 527, by Lei
’",u dv the rate charged by tele
" ‘1 "mpanies for the transmission
v.-graph messages in the state of
i(is,-a anil providing a penalty for
thereof; indefinitely post
'' ",l: —In the senate on the 281
c mmittee on engrossed and ei
m 1'iilR reported that house roll N
iii been correctly engrossed ar
i forthe third reading. Poj
'■ ,‘.li **fort to have the rules su
n ir*U,i1 le Wo!'ld's fair appropri
t;,,. f, ..ac,ed on its passage, but tl
. j'bi'd to receive the requisi
;',rds majority. Senators Tef
itfcs presented what
- may
li,, . mjuority report on the c
......y''rstigation. The report cc
. '• exonerates ex-Warden Mall
Mb- frolu any censure :
(ij.nnvict Powell and asse
individual came to his dei
JJ' Seuator Correll states tl
nr vL'?s Presented to himself a
iinm>es bars. °.f. tlle investigati
»it. tpA ,1, t l.at they refused
r*ii u n uicj r
'birr. reading1™1118' Wer® advaDC
•'VcurcH :7“- Senat« No. :
a,ka free Passage of fish in !
Imbursl pT^' Mouse ro11 Na 55
blame county for expei
tXo"fl]4-n *ryilltr a murHerer. _
™ amend the code of c
Occduif.
W“for itf D1te ttle Ko- S39> P
line
l,p0r aatio°al banks. House *
Providing for the sale of 1
tl!estate- Senate:
. PlnS' the fees to be receit
fourty
judges
tlle '>ouse on the 28th the
~ ",vv“ v**v
1, by i). I'* Passe‘l; House roll No.
to ame- i —
* -- “wiwc ttm
ai., , u>, a™end sections 1,985,
'upilf-,; f chapter xxxi, of the
ln Ai t k,° u S Nebraska, entitled
natii- (liuK^'ll“te the Sale of Illn
11 'ta'/.i' i anJ to rePeal said orig
^.Et„0tT toll No. 332, hv
ll'"!>'-aw u'"e“d section 485 of the
fr inM1-.at,,tes of Nebraska, re
!i -V 5^3 companies; house
‘ l'|ir.i.alTmf.„, ‘h>nin‘ck, to regulate
»Knn; jr ., •’♦'efraetbry prisoners
Jr*; toll .No. 4n,‘, w'u: poitentMwy;
. •' mcKetts, to pro
'* salaries <)f appointment, duties
.. . plumbing inspectors in
‘trouolitm, ..a... 1_
i f t; tr, •■■/■“g inspectors in
, 4'.' ),„*(.">,, > ltau class; house
** for tte'nsroir*#0* f *oll8’ias» to pro
'■ t*™'-' tbelf of. Pt'soners, to place
1 nerefor m the gorernorol
the state, and defining the duties of the
governor and of officers in connection
therewith; house roll Is'o. 443, by Hig
gins, amending section 3,452, chapter
xliii; of statutes of Nebraska of 1891,
and Jo regulate the duties of the chap
lain of the state penitentiary. Consid
erable discussion wasgiveu to the bank
ing bill. The bill applies entirely to
state and savings banks, ’ ad provides
that bank examiners must have had
five years practical experience in actual
banking. It further provides that no
examiner' shall be an officer or own
stock in any bank and reduces the ex
amination fee to 910. It requires all
banks doing a commercial and savings
uuMuess 10 Keep two sets oi dooks ana
allows twelve months lor the change to
he made. The discussion was nearly
completed when the committee rose at
noon and asked leave to sit again.
Senate.—In the senate on the 29th
house roll No. -207, the current expenses
appropriation bill, was read third time
and put upon its final passage with the
emergency clause. The vote on the
passage brought about the usual call of
the house. The absentees came in im
mediately, and the further proceedings
under the call were dispensed with.
The vote stood 19 for to 14" against, not
sufficient, two-thirds being necessary
to pass with the emergency clause. The
democrats and the republicans voted
together for the bill. The bill was then
passed without the emergency clause.
Senator Pope moved that tlie world's
fair appropriation bill, house roll No.
268, be placed upon its third readiug.
Senator Stewart moved to amend by
adding house roll No. 33. Both the
amendment and original motion were
lost and the regular order was proceed
ed with by reading the third time sen
ate file No. 62, a bill relating to fees of
clerks of the district court and the
amendments of the committee of the
whole relating to pay of clerks and as
sistants was read and passed. A num
ber of bills were placed on the general
file, among them being: A bill for an
act to require railroad corporations to
transfer freight and cars from one rail
road to another, to regulate the charges
thereof, and to prevent discrimination
in respect thereto. A bill for an act to
compel corporations, companies or per
sons intending to construct or operate
railroads in the state of Nebraska to
complete and operate fifty miles of their
said railroad every two years, after the
expiration of three years from the date
of their purchase of the right of way,
and to provide a penalty for their fail
ure to so complete and operate their
said railroad.
House.—In the senate on the 29th
the followin^bills were passed: House
roll 545, appropriating money for the
payment of miscellaneous indebtedness
owing by the state of Nebraska; house
roll No. 447, to amend section 477, page
915, compiled statutes of 1889, entitled
“Executions;” house roll No. 381, to
amend chapter lxiv of the general laws
of the state of Nebraska of 1887, enti
tled “An Act to Provide Security to tlie
Public Against Errors, Omissions and
Defects in Abstracts of Titles to Real
Estate and for the Use of Abstracts on
Evidence,” and providing a penalty for
the violation thereof; senate file No. 60.
to amend section 3,518, consolidated
statutes of Nebraska of 1891, relating
to notaries public; senate file No. 48, to
amend section 3,157, chapter xxxix, of
the consolidated statutes of Nebraska
of 1891, relating to the duties of regis
ters of deeds, and to repeal said origi
nal section and to provide a penalty for
the violation of this act. House roll
No. 40. This bill makes several impor
tant amendments to the state deposito
ry act passed by the legislature two
years ago. Under a strict construction
of the provisions of the present law,
banks cannot be compelled to pay in
terest on any state funds which may
happen to be in the hands of county
treasurers and deposited under the act.
Senate.—In the senate on the 30th,
Senator Sanders, from the senate com
mittee appointed early in the session to
superintend the recount of the ballots
on the constitutional amendments, in
his report explained that at the last
general election there had been cast for
the head of the several tickets 209,593
votes. The vote for members of the
legislature aggregated 197,510, making
a difference of 12,083 between the two
ends of the tickets. The committee had
found 80,565 votes for the railroad
amendment, while the secretary of state
had officially reported 80,032, making a
difference of 533. The recount of the
ballots for the school fund amendment
showed 89,050, while the official returns
showed but 86,426, making a difference
of 4,624. The school fund amendment
lacked 9^707 votes of carrying and the
railroad amendment 18,199. The report
was adopted. Senate file No. 182, by
Stewart, asking congress to call a con
vention of the several states of the
purpose of proposing an amendment to
the national constitution providing for
the election of United States senators
by direct vote of the people was passed.
Tlie chief clerk of the house appeared
with a message announcing that that
branch of the legislature had enter
tained resolutions impeaching Secretary
of State Allen. Commissioner of Public
Lands Humphrey. Attorney General
Hastings and ex-State Treasurer Hill,
and asking the concurrence of the sen
ate in the same, On motion of Senator
Tefft the house was notified that the
.senate would meet with that body at 4
o'clock for the purpose of considering
the impeachment resolutions.
house.—Tne House on the mu at j
o'clock considered the committee's res
olution to prepare articles of impeach
ment. At 3 o'clock the resole, .ion of
fered by the impeachment committee
was adopted. At 4 o'clock the senate
and house met in joint convention to
consider the matter of impeachment of
state officials. The joint convention
was called to order by the lieutenant
governor. The secretary of the senate
called the roll of that body and the
elerk of the house called the roll for the
representatives. The lieutenant gov
ernor then said: ‘■Gentlemen of the
joint convention: Pursuant to a reso
lution adopted by the house you are as
i sembled for the purpose of cobsidering
a resolution of impeachment adopted by
the house. The vote will recur on that
resolution.” Mr. llorst of Polk asked
if it would require a majority of each
house or a majority of the members of
the joint convention. The lieutenant
governor replied that sixty-seven would
be required to adopt the resolution.
Senator Habcock asked that all ab
sentees iu the senate be ca lied. There
were no absentees. Mr. Kyner asked
that the house absentees be called. It
was done. The resolution adopted by
the house was read. Senator Tefft
asked that it be read again. The res©
lution was again read. Senator Moore i
nailed for the reading of the opinions
of the three lawyers, as the senate had
not yet heard it. The secretary of the
senate read the opinions of Attorneys i
Doanc, Greene and Pound. . At the con
clusion of the reading Barry of Greeley
moved to adopt the house resolution.
The doors were closed and the joint
convention settled down under the call
of the house. In fifteen minutes Sen
ator Mattes moved to suspend proceed
ings under the call of the house. He
said ho did this with the understanding
that the joint convention would take a
recess until 11 o’clock tomorrow. Cas
per of Butler jumped up and shouted,
“Well, we won’t make any agreement
of that kind.’’ Captain Barry said:
“On behalf of the committee I will say
that if you will make it 4 o’clock tomor
row afternoon we will accept it.” Sen
ator Mattes said this was agreeable.
Senator Mattes' motion to suspend pro
ceedings was adopted and the joint
convention took a recess until 4 o’clock
tomorrow afternoon.
cusaAiu.-MB we am tne senate ap
plied itself very industriously to listen
ing1 to reports from standing commit
tees. These reports were very volumin
ous and consumed almost the entire
time, to the exclusion of all other busi
ness. The special committee appointed
to investigate the condition and man
agement of the State industrial school
at Kearney submitted its report. The
resolution adopted early in the week by
the house to*tlie effect that the state
should annul its contract with W. If,'
B. Stout, subsequently assigned to C.
W. Mosher and now purported to be in
the hands of W. 11. Dorgan, and asking
the concurrence of the senate, came up,
but after discussion went over one day.
Then the senate adjourned to the
house of representatives to consider the
impeachment resolutions. After the
joint convention Mattes moved to ad
journ, but Dale promptly amended by
moving that the senate take a recess
until tomorrow at 10 o'clock. The ob
ject was to force the order of bills on
third reading as soon as the senate
convened tomorrow morning. The
amendment was lost, however, as Hale
and Thomsen voted with their former
Assouiutes. The report on the Kearney
industrial school was adopted. The fol
lowing communication was read from
Hon. Eugene Moore, auditor of public
accounts, in answer to a resolution
adopted by the senate last week:
Replying to your resolution of the
25 th inst., I have t'he honor to report
that the books of this office have been
carefully checked with the warrant
book of the commandant of the Sol
diers and Sailors Home at (■rand Island
and that they check together, except
the books of this office show one war
rant for putting in steam heat, amount
ing to $2,150, and one warrant for re
pairing pump, amounting to $110.02,
that does not appear upon the book of
the commandant. The warrant book
of the commandant lms one warrant for
$539.20 charged to the maintenance and
clothing account that should be charged
to the aocounts for fuel and lights. It
is quite aprarent that the discrepancies
in the balance as shown by the books
of the commandant and this office are
due (except as above cited) to inaccu
racies in the footing in the command
ant's books. Very respectfully,
Eugene Moore,
Auditor Public Accounts.
House.—In the house on the 31st
at 4 o’clock the senate appeared in the
hall of representatives to meet in joint
convention to take action on the im- j
peachment resolution. Senator Pope j
offered a communication from the fonr I
accused officials asking the adoption of j
the impeachment resolution in order i
that they be allowed a chance to be
heard in their own defense. The com
munication reads:
To the Members op the Twenty- ’
third Legislative Assembly:—The
board of public-lands and buildings has
been charged before your honorable
body with certain official neglect and
malfeasance in office, and steps have
been taken looking to the impeachment
of the officers comprising that board.
We are anxious to have a full, fair and
impartial investigation of all charges
which will be, or may be brought
against us, where the star chamber
method of investigation will not pre
vail, but where we will be permitted to
know the accusation and face our accu
sers, knowing as we do such a trial can
only result in our vindication.
We therefore respectfully ask that the
resolution looking to our impeachment
may be adopted, and such measures
may be tuken as will result in a speedy
trial of the charges, and that we may
be given an opportunity to refute the
same, and be heard in our own defense,
an opportunity which has been wholly
denied us up to this time. We ask those
members of the legislature who have
conscientiously opposed the methods
that have obtained in the partial inves
tigations thus far carried out to with
draw such opposition and let the resolu
tion pass, and we only ask that judg
ment upou the case be withheld until
we can produce bur proof and be heard
in our own defense.
A. R. Humphrey,
President of the Board of Public Lands
and Buildings.
John C. Allen, .
Secretary of the Board of Public Lands
and Buildings.
George H. Hastings,
Attorney General
■T. K. Hill,
Ex-State Treasurer.
It was received and made a part of
the records by an unanimous vote. The
clerk was called upon to read the reso
lution of impeachment. After explana
tions by a number of representatives
the vote was announced as follows:
Yeas, 127; nays. 4. Those voting no
were Kyner, Cooley, North and Rhea.
The resolution of impeachment was de
clared to be agreed to. The following
were appointed to conduct impeach
ment before the supreme court: Sena
tors Lowley and North and Representa
tives Coulter, Vauliousen and Barry.
Win Marry * Rich Chinese Girl.
San Fbancisco, Cal., March 30.—A
Honolulu letter Buys thy engagement
of C'oiiMuauder Whiting- of the United
States Man-of-War Alliance to Miss
Etta Ah l ong, daughter of Ah Fong, a
wealthy Chinese merchant of Hono
lulu, has been formally announced.
The father of the prospective bride is
very wealthy and entertains in princely
j and oriental style. The bride-to-be is
one of a family of thirteen children,
• and is a beautiful and accomplished
girl of 17, while the prospective groom,
< 'apt. Whiting, is said to be 50 years ef
age.
. v ~V' * Kb' I* V ''
PROTRACTED DERATE
IT 13 LIKELY TO TAKE PLACE IN
THE SENATE.
The Matter Coder Dlaeaaaloa Balog tba
Raport of the Comuilttea on Privilege*
aad Election* la Favor of Seating Sana*
tor* Appolatad by Governor*—1‘artla*
Iatereited la Tint bar Claim* to bo
Hoard—Office Baokara Contlana ta
Swarm In tha Natloaal Capital—8. H. B.
Clark to Remain with tha Colon FaelSa
aad Giro Hla Wholo Tima aad Attoa*
tloa Thereto.
Promise of ■ Protracted Debate.
Washington, March 30.—The senate
has entered on what promises to be a
protracted debate. The report of the
committee on privileges and elections
in favor of seating the three senators
appointed by the governors of the states
of Montana, Wyoming and Washington
was called tip and Mr. Pugh delivered a
constitutional argument in support of
the position taken by the committee.
_ The discussion that followed was par
ticipated in by senators on both sides
of the chamber, most of them indicat
ing concurrence with the views of the
minority of the committee, adverse to
the admission of the three senators.
The question will come up again to
morrow. .
Mr. Pugh, speaking on the question,
said: “The importance of the question
presented would be conceded as well as
tlie necessity of a solution of it by the
senate that would be accepted hereaf
ter as final. Unfortunately the decis
ion of the same question heretofore
has beeu influenced more or less
by the fact that the governor’s appointee
was a democrat or republican—us was
shown by the division of the votes of
senators on party lines.” He argued
from the debates in the constitutional
convention that the “existence of a
vacancy from any cause” was the cru
cial test of the power of the governor
to fill the vacancy. The vacancy “hap
pened,” he argued, if it existed. In
illustrating the possible evils that
might result from prohibiting state
governors to fill vacancies in the sen
ate, Mr. Pugh said that “the force bill
would now be a law if one senator op
posed to it had been kept out of his
seat by the operation of such a rule.
Were senators, he asked, prepared to
establish that rule? Three or more
political parties, he said, existed by reg
ular organization in several, states.
These parties favored specific principles
and policies that were funda
mental aud irreconcilable. Was it right
in such a case for the senate to estab
lish the tyrannical, arbitrary and in
flexible rules that these parties should
surrender their opinions and convic
tions, disregard their pledges and their
fidelity to their constituents, and come
to souie'agreement for the election of
a senator?”
Timber Cases.
Washington, March 30.—Secretary
Hoke Smith has announced that next
Friday he will hear all persons inter
ested in the permits recently granted
by Secretary Noble and since suspended
to the Big Black Foot Milling company
and the Bitter Root Developing com
pany to cut 50 per cent of the timber on
about 20,000 acres of land in Montana.
Secretary Smith holds strongly to the
opinion that the grauting of permits to
cut large bodies of timber in the west is
against the public interest.
A bqprd has been appointed to visit
the Mare Island navy yard,California,
and make a general examination into
its condition and workings with the
view of ascertaining what, if any im
provements are necessary.
Droves of OlHce Hookers.
Washington, March 30.—Yesterday
was the most fatiguing day the presi
dent has had since his inauguration,
and he was completely tired out after
three hours and a half talk with sena
tors, representatives and office seekers.
Among the visitors was J. J. O’Donnell
of Chicago, who is a prominent candi
date for the office of public printer. He
informed the president that he desired
the office because he believed that his
long experience as a practical printer
and binder fitted him for' it. lie was
supported he said, more largely among
business men than politicians. After
he had explained his mission to the pres
dent, the latter remarked to him:
“Why. you're just the kind of man I
am looking for.”
Tlie departments were thronged with
visitors today, mostly political, who
made up for the time they were com
pelled to lose yesterday. The secreta
ries were practically unable to attend
to their regular departmental business.
The question lias arisen as to the ex
pediency of amending the president's
order prohibiting the reception of visi
tors at the departments on cabinet
days, so as to include one or more days
of the week. If today’s experiences
are repeated throughout the week the
heads of the departments will have to
transact all their official business on
Tuesdays and Fridays and surrender
the remaining four secular days of th<
week to office seekers and friends.
Clark Will Remain With the Union
Pacino.
New York, March 30.—At a called
meeting of the board of directors of the
Union Pacific yesterday S. H. H. Clark,
the president of the road, withdrew his
resignation, which was sent in several
weeks ago, at the unanimous request of
the board. He will continue the presi
dency until his term of office expires on
April SO, the understanding being that
he will at once resign from the presi
dency of the Missouri Pacific, to which
he was elected as soon as his resigna
tion from the Union Pacific was made
known.
After the meeting was over George
Gould was seen in regard to the matter
and refused to discuss it. He said it
was too earlj- to speak of Mr. Clarke's
successor in the Union Pacific.
pirector Sam Sloan thus explained
the action of the dtrectors: “Mr. Clark
has been a valpable man to the Union
Pacific and the • board of directors did
not want to let him go. He was, there
fore, prevailed upon to withdraw his
resignation as president of the road.
There is no discord between the Mis
souri Pacific over the matter. The Mis
snri Pacific directors have not yet met.
When they do they will elect another
president for their road. The two boards
are acting in harmony with each other.”
Religious Vltwi No Ground for Discrim
ination In tills Country*
Washington, April a.—Cable mes
sages from Vienna stating that the
inti-Semetie organisations and other
bodies in that city- are vigorously pro
testing against the reception of Mr. Max
Judd of Missouri, a Hebrew citizen of
the United States and a native of Aus
tria, nominated and confirmed as con
sul general to Vienna, have necessarily
recalled the Keily incident previous to
the present administration, in connec
tion with that same country.
The anti-Semetie feeling, it will be
recollected, played an important part
in the refusal of Austria to receive Min
ister Keily, and resulted in the prac
tical suspension of diplomatic relations,
between the two countries for over a
year.
Mr. Anthony M. Kelly, a citizen of
Bichmond, Vo., was first selected by
President Cleveland and his secretary
of state, Mr. Bayard, as minister to
Italy, but was declared persona non
grata by the king of Italy on account
of very strong opinions he had publicly
expressed as to the overthrow of the
temporal power of the pope by the
Italian government. Resigning as
minister to Italy on this objection be
ing made known, Mr. Keiiy was almost
immediately nomiuatod us minister to
Austria,.
To Discuss Tariff Revision.
New York, April 8.—Mr. K. Kllery
Anderson returned yesterday from a
trip to Charleston, 8. C., and incident
ally to Washington, where he had an
Interview with President Cleveland and
the members of the cabinet.
“I simply called on the president and
his cabinet officers,” said Mr. Anderson,
“to pay my respects. I conferred with
Representative John D. Warner on the
tariff. My visit there had nothing to
do with securing patronage or getting
appointments. That is not in my line.
“Yon know that the Chicago conven
tion declared that protection was wrong.
Wo believe this and my conference with
Mr. Warner was for the purpose of de
vising some means whereby this great
and important subject may be properly
discussed before congress meets. The
tariff should be subjected to a public
discussion before congress is ready to
go to work. Mr. Warner and I simply
talked over the steps to be taken in such
a discussion. My trip to Washington
had no other significance.”
Nebraska Appointment!.
Washington, April 3.—It was given
out yesterday that no more important
appointments for Nebraska would be
made under some months; that there
will be some minor pluses filled, like
special agencies, clerkships and.possibly
a land office or two, but that district
attorney, a collector of internal revenue
and a collector of customs will not be
named under some months. It is the
intention to permit all of these officers
to serve out the four years of their com
mission where there is a tenure to their
offices, and where there is no tenure to
give them four years of service,with the
possible exception of District Attorney
Baker.
It is conceded herg that a democrat
will be in Mr. Baker's position before
the middle of May. No one knows this
better than the district .attorney him
self, and knowing it, he recently said
that he intended to resign about the 1st
of May. If this is understood and not
controverted by Mr. Baker he will be
permitted to keep his office, but if he
persist* in serving out his four years,
which does not expire till about next
January, he will probably be removed.
Uttle Business for the Senate to Transact
at Present.
Washington, April 3.—The coming
week in the senate will witness the con
tinuance of the debate on the cases of
the senators appointed from western
states, with the probability that before
Saturday the vote will be taken. There
now appears to be little, if any, reason
why the senate cannot adjourn as soon
as it is notified by the president that he
has no further communications to send
in. It is possible, but not likely, that
the Roach investigation may be called
up by the republicans this week.
Bulag Sea Arbitrators Assured of the Gov
ernment's Position.
Washington, April 3.—In view of the
statements which have appeared during
the last two or three days concerning
allowances made to different persons
employed in various ways in the prepa
ration and presentation of the United
States case before the Bering sea arbi
tration tribunal, the secretary of the
state Has sent to the consul of the
United States in Paris a dispatch from
which the following is quoted:
“Neither the state nor the treasury
department is responsible for mischiev
ous publication. The administration
will do everything in its power to main
tain the case of the United States and
to support our agent and consul before
the tribunal of arbitration.”
Fell Nina Stories.
Louisville, Ky., April 3.—J. A. Ma
son, head of the publishing house' of
J. A. Mason A Co., of St. Louis, was
killed in the elevator of the Commer
cial club building here last evening,
and fell nine stories to the basement
Mr. Mason was on a tour of his pub
lishing houses in Memphis and Louis
ville. He had entered the elevator to
go up to his office on the ninth floor.
As he started to step out of the elevator
the boy pulled the lever too soon and
the unfortunate man was jerked against
the top of the door, his skull being
crushed. The elevator continued on its
upward course and the mangled body
was dropped down the elevator shaft
to the basement. Every bone in his
body was broken.
NEWS NOTES.
! Cleveland is evidencing every day his
| utter disregard of the indorsements of
| members of congress for office seekers,
j Carlyle Harris, the Ngw York wife
j murderer, has been removed from She
i Tombs to Sing Sing,
i Secretary Carlisle has refused to re
! consider the dismissal of A. M. Hughes
I from the treasury department, despite
| the protests of Tennessee democrats
\ against his action,
It is reported that a contract for the
j sale of the Times, at New York city,
was' dfawn up. The consideration is
! SU50.000
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UkM to Lin la Darkest Africa.
Whan tha great German explorer, On
Nachtigal, left Kouka, the capital of
Bornu, just twenty years ago. his Ital
ian servant told him that he liked the
country and had decided to spend tha
remainder of his life there. So Nmihti
gsl left him on the shores of bake
Tchad. From that time nothing was
heard of the only white resident of tha
Soudan until I'aptaln Montoll returned
to Paris the other day. The captain
■aid that during his four months stay
in Kouk he had in his employ the Ital
ian servant whom Nachtlgal left in tha
country twenty years ego. T^a man ia
known as Mohummed Kl Mouselmani.
Owing to the long disuse of Ills native
language he speaks it with difficulty.
He Is a devout follower of Islam, and
has no desire to return to Europe.—
New York Sun.
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Matter-of-fact Dog.
"There are prosaic men and women, t
and and there are matter-of-fact dogs,” *4
says a writer in the London Spectator. : V
“For purely business purposes they are
often the best,” he adds, and tells a lit
tie story to prove the fact:
We once owned an excellent retries
ing spaniel of the simple order of mind, 4:'t?
without a grain of humor. This dog .
accompanied us unasked when we
wanted to shoot a bullfinch in the gar- ,v;
den to stuff. The gun went off and the „ .ff
poor bullfinch dropped. ; 4
Now this dog had been used, when
the gun was fired, to go and look for a * ' 'v
deader wounded rabbit. So, instead S
of looking under the apple tree, he dls* -
appeared into the hedge, and in n few
minutes he returned with a rabbit in :
his mouth! So much for the value of a r‘A
matter-of-fact dog.
Russian Sentinel. ■ ,1
The sternest ideal of military duty is
fulfilled by the Russian soldier. An
illustration is given by the author of v '
“A Journey to Mount Ararat.” Ott i
leaving an Armenian village, the writer , ;
passed a beautiful green valley watered
by a river thdt flowed between strong ■ C
embankments. • 1 ,■
Ilis Armenian servant told him that
in April, 188)1, after a great storm, the
river rose in such a flood that the per
sons living near the bank fled for their
lives.
There was a powder magazine near
the river. The sentinel who was guard-;
ing it prepared to retreat, buttheofiU ^
cers who were watching the scene from
a mountain forbade him to leave his
post. For an hour the poor fellow if
struggled against the rising waters 5:
clinging desperately to the lock of the
magazine door.' . . vi:
The water rose to his chin, and when ...
he was literally within an inch of death / i|
the flood ceased. He was decorated by ' ,
the government with the ribbon of .vfsj
some honorary order in recognition of '
his heroic obedience, j, <
Charlotte M. Tonga.
Oscar Fay Adams sends to the Boston
Evening Transcript a description of a
visit to Miss Charlotte M. Yonge, now
07 years old, who lives at Otter bourne,
a few miles from Winchester. “In early
life,’’ says Mr. Adams, she must have
been plain-looking, but now with her
bright, dark eyes and crown of snowy
white hair,she is undeniably hundsome.
She is somewhat stout,but not too much
so for her height, which is considerable
above the medium, and her appearance
indicates abundant life and vigor.’’ Nhe
does her work in a combined drawing
room and library on the second floor.
At the south end of the room is the fire
place and near a window looking out
upon a stretch of turf surrounded by
hedges with flower beds cut in it,stands
her writing desk. The room has a low
ceiling, and is well filled with books .
and comfortable but unpretending fur
niture.
• Special Excursions South.—To Cltro
uolle, Ala.
Will leave Council Bluffs on April 10th and
May 8th. Biz hundred thousand acres of
fine farming and fruit growing land along
the line of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad for
sale at from $1.90 to $5.00 per acre. Htop
over privileges at all points south of the
Ohio river. For rates and descriptive land
pamphlet with full information for Home
seekers, call on or write
J. R. Rick,
Agent Alabama Land and
Improvement Co.,Room 801 Merriam Block,
Council Bluffs, Iowa, or 1503 Farnam street,
Omaha, Neb.
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“Then why do you give so few dlnnei
parties?”
“For this reason, madam: Whenever
I entertain my friends I am obliged to
remain at home, and that prevents me
from enjoying society."
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