'AliK IN THE SENATE
CONTEST BETWEEN DUBOIS
AND BLACKBURN.
kin Word* From the Bento* Senntoi
Tram Hebrsskn—The Bobo* Trust Be
lined to Bo Powerful Enough to Be*
pent nnr BUI Tint U Hot Agreeable to
)L—Straggle Over the Beeolutlon to
Igree to Farther Conference on the
r*rlff.
iVabhingtox, July 38.—Tho indica
}ns when the senate met at noon
day were that the struggle over the
olution to agree to the further eon*
jsnee on the tariff bill asked by the
would be ended before adjourn*
The Democratic leaders said
I had the situation well in hand,
|hat they believed that the pro*
i agreed upon in caucus would be
ed out.
|the morning hour some debate
red over a clause in the confer
i report on the army appropriation
transferring the Apache Indians
l as prisoners of war in Alabama
military reservations in the West
Ir. Dubois (Rep. Idaho) protested
|inst sending those Indians to Okla
aa. Some bad blood and temner
>w out of Mr. Blackburn’s charge
it the Republicans were trying to
ay action on the appropriation
Is. Messrs. Dubois and Manderson
re especially incensed at this, each
irging Blackburh with bad faith in
ictling from amendments they had
ered. ‘"You had no right to accede,”
d Mr. Dubois. “I had the right,”
fed the Kentucky senator hotly,
ml I defy you to define my rights on
s floor. It is a piece of impertinence
i;ch I resent.”
‘No more than I resent yours,” re
nted Mr. Dubois.
The conference report was agreed
IS-IS. *
Then at 1:05 Mr. Jones of Arkansas,
led up the conference report on
; tariff bill.
flic pending question was the de
ion of the chair on the points of
ler raised by Messrs. Gray and
lls against Mr. Washburn's motion
instruct the senate conferees to re
le from the one-eighth of one cent
fferential on sugar above 10 Dutch
andard.
Mr. Manderson was immediately
cognized and proceeded to argue
ainst the point of order upon which
_ much seemed hinged. He main
tained with vigor that it was compe
tent for the senate to instruct its con
ferees,
Mr. Manderson described at length
the methods of conferences between
the two houses of parliament and in
iongress. drawing a distinction be
tween a "simple” conference and
1‘full and free” conference.
I In the house, he declared, it had
|ever been disputed that the house
kould instruct its conferees. Cer
tainly it could not be contended that
the senate had no power or control
|ver its confereea How could any
committee of the senate be superior
tod above the senate which created
There was more involved in this
j|ian a single question. In it was in
volved the rights of the sugar trust,
tohich was so eloquently declaimed
Igainst by Mr. Vilas. It was said inside
Had outside this chamber that the trust
as so powerful that it could defeat
ay bill that did not give it what it
anted. He apprehended that this
as true, for no matter how close the
mate came to striking at the differ
itials, a vote was always forthcom
g at the last moment to save it.
he ruling on this point of orde'r
ould determine whether the senate
lould have the right to pass upon
is odious differential, the striking
it of which meant the defeat of the
hole bill.
Mr. Manderson then reviewed the
■ccedents bearing on the point of
dcr, citing numerous cases in the
ause where conferrees had been in
ructed.
Senator Harris in the chair sus
ined the point of order against
I’ashburn’s motion. An appeal was
ken. The vote to lay the appeal on
e table was a tie—33 to 33—and was
>st. The negative vote consisted of
enty-eight Republicans and Messrs,
ill, Democrat, Allen, Kyle and Pef
!er. Populists. Mr. Stewart did not
fote. Those voting in the affirmative
(vere all Democrats.
I The vote recurred on Mr. Wash
burn's appeal from the decision of the
(liair and resulted—yeas 32, nays 33.
: The senate having failed to sustain
the chair, the vote recurred on the
notion of Mr. Washburn to instruct
the conferees to recede from the one
eighth differential on refined sugar.
Palmer and Vilas held with the
Democratic colleagues and Mr. Stew
irt did not even make his appearauce
n the chamber, consequently the vote
ivas again a tie, 32 to 32, and under
parliamentary practice the motion to
mstruct the conferees against the
>ne-eighth was defeated. The bill
was thereupon sent to the conferees
without instructions.
The Gold Keierre Decreasing.
Washington, July 28.—The gold re
lerve has received another severe
alow by the engagement at New
fork of 82,000,000 for export to-mor
row. This leaves the true amount of
the reserve $58,345,725, or $3,054,570
Lower than the lowest point reached
previous to the February bond
issue. Against this reserVe there
ivere outstanding on July 1,
1340,081,016 in United States
notes and $152,581,481 in treasury
notes of 1890, making an aggregate of
nearly $500,000,000 in paper currency,
redeemable in gold. The exporta
tions of gold since the February bond
issue aggregate about $78,350,000,
while the importations amount to
ibout $11,850,000, making the net loss
of gold during the last six months
ibout $07,000,000.
A Kansan Imprisoned for Dobs.
Topeka, Kan., July 28.—S. J. Bryan
of Harvey county claims to be re
strained of his liberty by a decree
of the district court of that county for
failure to pay a debt, and he has ap
plied to the supreme court for a writ
of habeas corpus. The allegations
against Bryan in the lower court
were that he threshed wheat belong
ing to himself and partner, selling his
own half and spiriting away the re
mainder. It is a novel question, as
imprisonment for debt is something
unusual in Kansas litigation.
KANSAS CAMPAIGN OPEN. "
Otnotmli ud PapalUta DImdu Imsm
of the Dap.
Lbavktworth, Kan., July, 28.—
Democrats of Kansas opened their
state campaign here last night. The
in itial meeting was called to order by
J. R. Garrett, chairman of the county
central committee, introducing ns
the chairman of the evening Martin <
Smith. The latter introduced Hon.
David Overmver.
Mr. Overmyer in opening, said he
thought the time in which we live aro
too serious in order to be entertaining,
or amusing, lie was here as a citizen
of Kansas to meet his fellow citizens,
who are moved by fear, hope and
expectation, that move him. He was
here as a representative of the great
political party of the country, that
come into being with the constitu
tion, which has stood ever since and
will never fall until the constitution
falls. Its longevity, he said, is due to
the fact that it stands by the constitu-,
tion. He then briefly referred to!
present condition of affairs in the
nation, placing the responsibility
upon the Republican party.
' He touched upon the money ques-:
tion, and the state control of enter
prises. He wanted to know how
many members are sent to the legis
lature who know anvthing.about laws
□ nil orUMAfv. r Q ,1-n li 1,, (» hn ..Id kn
lieved in people buying? the railroads,
but didn't say how they should get
them. Mr. Overmyer thought if ho
and his state officers would return
their passes and pay as he (Overmyer)
does there would be more equity, and
the railroads would . have a better
chance to live.
Coming down to the issue in the
state, he said that the Democratic
party of Kansas demands a repeal of
the prohibitory amendment and all
the infamous laws on the statute
books passed in pursuance thereof.
Mr. Overmyer said Kansas first suf
fered from ar invasion of missionary
talent, and '.he people were induced
to vote for the amendment which was
adopted by a curious provision in the
constitution. No sooner had this been
inserted in' the constitution than
a series of laws followed and
more tyrannical than the other. These
laws deprived the people of self-gov
ernment. He referred to the Jury
'commissioner law, the right of county
attorneys to summon the citizen to
his office and examine him; upon fail
ure to answer to be held in contempt
of the police commissioner law. His
reference to this law brought down
the house. He said if the law was such
that it could not be undone, the sights
already seen would be nothing to
what they would see. Experience was
proven that the executive consults his
own desires and constructs the boards
so that they would be a supple instru
ment in his hands.. Better sink con
stitutional prohibition ten thousand
times than yield the sacred right of
local self-government. The speaker
thought Kansas was the best adver
tised state in the union before prohi
bition came; the evil fame of Kansas in
that respect spread throughout the
world.
On the subject of woman suffrage,
Mr. Overmyer said both Republican
and Populist parties have declared for
woman suffrage, but the Domocrats
say no, this is wrong, unnatural and
abomination. Right-minded women
don’t want it. The adventuress, bold
and brazen women who want it to dis
play themselves. There are no neces
sary relations between the ballot box
and the right of power to be taxed.
If women demand the ballot it implies
we have been unjust to women, and
ask if the citizen was prepared to
vote himself a monumental scoundrel,
because that is what he would be if he
has been unjust to woman. He de
clared that the present electorate
would be unequal suffrage.
Hon. Joseph G. Lowe followed Mr.
Overmyer’s speech with a closing ad
dress
COXEY CRUSADE ENDS.
Those at Washington Begging for As
sistance to Get Back Home.
Washington; July 28.—Large and
indignant delegations from the in
dustrial armies encamped about Wash
ington applied at the room of the
bouse committee on labor yesterday,
not to urge their bills, but to plead
for assistance. The expected has
happened; their leaders had deserted
them and they sought congressional
aid to return to the localities whence
they had come. Coxey's men said
their leader had left them
in . the lurch yesterday. Kel
ley’s men averred their leader
had drifted away several days ago
and that they did not expect to see
him again, while Frye’s men said their
leader had probably abandoned them.
The men who were brought from the
Pacific coast by Kelley were particu
larly indignant and expressed a fervid
desire to tar and feather their gen
eral. Mr. McGann told them thal
there was not the slightest chance of
a government appropriation for their
return and sent them to the local
suDerintendent of charities.
Bcport of Amirleu Shipbuilding.
Washington, July 28.—The records
of the bureau of navigation, treasury
department, show that during the
last fiscal year there were built in the
United States and officially numbered,
338 wooden sailers of 37,730 tons and
308 wooden steam vessels of 44,138
tons. During the same period three
iron or steel sailiug vessels were built
of 4,750 toss and forty-five iron or
steel steam vessels of 47,776 tons. The
sailing vessels aggregated 541 in num
ber and 43,460 tons in measure. The
steam vessels aggregated 353 in num
ber and measured 91,934 tons. The
entire number of vessels built and
numbered was 894, the tonnage being
134,394. Unrigged vessels were not
included in the above statement.
The HcKaae Decision Confirmed.
Brooklyn, N. Y., July 38.—In the
general term of the supreme court to
day Justices Brown, Cullen and Dyke
man denied the motion for a new trial
for John Y. McKane, the ex-boss of
Gravesend, thereby confirming the
decision of the lower court.
A Fatal Threshing Machine {Accident.
Hays City, Kan., July 36*—Conrad
Hoffman had both of his lets ground
off in * cylinder threshing machine
at Walker, mis county, yesterday.
They were aaspatstad dle<a
leaving s wifaaadUtreeeyldrea. _
REPLIED TO GORMAN.
THE MARYLANDER'S CHARQES
ARB ANSWERED.
! A Review of tha Prealdant'a Poaltlon—
Tha Declaration that Cleveland Bad
Alwajra Inflated Upon Principles—‘The
Japancaa Mlnlater'a Bacall Mot Doe to
tha Corean Difficulty—Hla Succaaaor
Already Appointed.
Vilas Answer* Gorman.
WASHnroTosr, July 87.—Mr. Jones
nailed up the conference report on
the tariff bill in the senate this after
noon.
, Mr. Vilas was immediately recog
nized but yielded to Mr. Quay, who
withdrew the sugar amendments he
offered just before the adjournment
yesterday.
The Wisconsin senator began his
speech by saying that an extraordi
nary scene had occurred in the senate
last Monday. A Democratic senator,
said he, saw fit to attack the presi
dent, without precedent, or if there
was a precedent, it was one that
ought to be shunned instead of
followed. It was a personal
assault upon the president
and his character. He had hoped, he
said, that the remarks of Mr. Gorman
and those, who .joined with him on
that occasion would hare appeared in
the Record before ho (Mr. Vilas) re
plied. But, he went on sarcastically,
he presumed the engagements of the
Maryland senator were so pressing
that he had had no time to revise
them. Mr. Vilas considered it his duty
to reply to that assault.
He would speak as to the personal
as well as to the political friend of the
president. He rejoiced in the honor
of Mr. Cleveland's friendship. It was
a pride to him. Of the rewards, few
and stinted, that come to public men,
one of the greatest that had come to
him was the intimate association with
that lofty and distinguished man. It
was his honest testimony to his own
character that never at any moment
in any temptation, personal or po
litical, had he failed to see in
Mr. Cleveland the pure white light
of an upright purpose. For such
a man he saw fit to say some words—
not in defense—he needed none—but
some correction of a discoloration of
facts by.which Mr. Cleveland had been
placed in a false light before the
country. He would make this state
ment in behalf of tho truth of history,
and he regretted that Mr. Gorman
was absent and could not hear it.
“What were the points of accusation?”
inquired Mr. Vilas, “in the remarkable
assault to which I have alluded?”
The first accusation, he proceeded,
was that the president was open to
the charge of duplicity. That was
based upon a letter in which Mr.
Cleveland expressed a hope that iron
and coal should goon the freelist in
the tariff bill. The second was that
the executive had by that en
croached on the prerogatives of
congress, and third that the pres
ident had traduced the senate.
Those charges were true or false, not
as a matter of argument, but as a
matter of fact. “With regard to coal
and iron ore let us examine the facts,”
said Mr. Vilas, “and I desire to say
here that I am under deep obligation
to the senator from New York who
nev. r in his public career made such
an able exposition of any subject as
he did on Tuesday last.”
□ Mr. Vilas then reviewed at length
the president's position in favor of
free raw materials, his letter of 1837
and other matters up to his letter to
congress of the present session. In
this respect only, Mr. Vilas declared,
Mr. Cleveland had insisted upon
principle. This was everywhere de
clared by his supporters to be the
first step in the enfranchisement
of labor from the thrall dom of
unjust taxation. Is it any wonder,
he asked, that any one supposed
he had abandoned the principle
that lay at the base of his scheme for
tariff reform. Where was the trutli
adduced in support of this alleged
change of heart? Mr. Gorman him
self has no personal testimony to of
fer. He had called on Mr. Vest, who
offered conversation — hearsay evi
dence—only, that would have been
excluded in any court of justice. He
had no personal testimony.
The distinguished senator from
Arkansas, whose labor in behalf of
this bill had earned so much respect
from his colleagues, testified that he
had personally talked with the presi
dent about the senate bill. Did Mr.
Jones claim that all the details of the
bill had been laid before Mr. Cleve
land? Necessarily not. Only the
great principles on which the amend
ments were made.
With regard to the two amend
ments upon which the specifications
of Mr. Gorman's charges had teen
founded the testimony of Mr. Jones
was clear that the president, when
ever coal and iron ore were men
tioned, expressed the hope that they
would go on the free list. Was there
any desirous of doing open and free
justice to the president who, after
reading Mr. Jones' own statement,
would not say that Mr. Cleveland
had never faltered in his urgent de
mand for free coal and iron ore? The
president knew too, each house would
have a voice and therefore not with
duplicity but with openness and bold
ness that always characterized him,
Mr. Cleveland had expressed to the
chairman of the ways and means com
mittee the hope that the result he de
sired should be accomplished in con
ference.
An Anti-Anarchist BHL
Paris, July 27.—In the chamber of
deputies to-day the anti-Anarchist bill
was adopted by a vote of 268 to 163.
A Colorado Outrage.
Meeker, CoL, July 27. — Masked
men tied and blindfolded General S.
Alesbrook and a deputy sheriff, whom
Mr. Alsebrook had placed in charge of
his sheep, and stabbed and clubbed to
death about 250 head of sheep, after
which they rode over to Smith &
Trimmer’s' camp and shot 101 fine
blooded rams. The mob gave Alse
brook five days in which to leave the
country, informing kiss that they had
a secret organisation of MO members
a Garfield, Routt and Rio Blancho
counties, who were sworn to rid the
eusialty «f such people.
r.
BACK TO CONFERENCE. * ~
Th* Ituu Arcade* to the Boom
Reqml.
Washington, July 187.—The aennte
will occetle to the request of the house
for Another conference oh the tariff
hill, and Its eonferrees will return to
the meeting with those of the house
untrameled by nny apeclfio instruc
tions whatever. This was the conclu
sion of the Democratic senatorial
caucus, which adjourned sine die a
few minutes after S o'clock yester
day, after a two days' sitting.
Whllo the cauous did not coin nut
Itself to any definite line of policy
in 'so many words, the confer
reos feel with their Domocratlo
colleagues that they understand
what a majority of them desire
and they believe this to be that they
shall stand substantially for the sen
ate bill. This is not the individual
preference of many of the Democratic
senators, but it represents the opinion
of most of them, as expressed in the
caucus, as to the only practical course
open to the Democrats who think that
the present congress must pass a
tariff bill of some kind, whether it be
what they prefer or not
In other words the result of tho
caucus is the renscertainlmr of what
was known when the three days’ cau
cus closed last March, that it is im
practicable to pass any tariff bill
through the senate which does not
meet the demands of the so-oalled
conservative senators and the Louisia
na senators.
During the proceedings the attitude
of the Populist senators, Allen and
Kyle, who have generally voted with
the Democrats on the tariff bill, was
alluded to, and one of the senators
present stated that he had been au
thorized by Senator Allen to say that
he thought the bounty on sugar
should be continued for the presont.
The suggestion was not received with
favor.
Senators Hill, Murphy and Irby
were again absent from the caucus.
There have been few secret confer
ences from which so many conflicting
reports emanated, and it was appar
ent that each senator took away an
understanding to suit himself as to
what implied instructions the eonfer
rees were under. Some felt that the
senate bill had been adhered to, and
others that the main point of differ
ence, the one-eighth of a cent per
pound on refined sugar, was to be
eliminated and perhaps a new sugar
schedule presented
JAPANESE MINISTER RECALLED.
Said to Have no Significance In a Politi
cal Way—ills Successor.
Washington, July 27.—M. Tateno,
the Japanese minister to the United
States, has been recalled. Tho recall,
it Is stated, is due not to anything
connected with the present Japanese
Corean-Chinese difficulty nor owing to
matters prowing out of recent treaty
negotiations as reported.
While there have been negotiations
between the governments of Japan
and the United States since 1883 look
ing to a revision of the treaties, it
happens that little has been done in
this respect recently and that the
notes that have passed contained no
matter that was objectionable to our
government or that in the slightest
degree could subject M. Tateno to
censure by his own government.
Furthermore, it can be positively
stated on the highest authority that
the change in the legation here is in
no way connected with the communi
cations addressed to the Japanese
government by the department of
state representing the Corean im
broglio.
Proof positive to this effect is af
forded by the two facts; first, that's
successor to M. Tateno has been ap
pointed, which would not have been
the case had the Japanese government
been disposed to resent Secretary
Gresham’s representations, and sec
ond, while M. Tateno received his for
mal recall within forty-eight hours,
he was notified about three months
ago, and before the Corean difficulty
arose, that his term had expired and
that lie would soon receive notice of
his recall.
DM. Tateno’s history is interesting.
He comes from one of the best fami
lies in Japan—one of the “two sword
ed” class. He was originally and for
many years an officer of the imperial
household, and when General Grant
visited Japan he was specially desig
nated by the emperor to escort the
general in his tour through the
empire. A strong attachment
sprung up between the two men,
many valuable presents were ex
changed and a friendly corre
spondence ".vas kept up between
them until the death of General Grant.
M. Tateno afterwards became the
governor of the province of Osaka,
lie held the position ten years and
then became a member of the Jap
anese senate, which place he relin
quished to accept the appointment in
January, 1S91, of Japanese minister to
Washington.
Mr. Kentaro Kaneko, who will suc
ceed Mr. Tateno, is a man of erudi
tion and of distinction in his own
country. He was educated in the
United States and is a graduate of
Harvard and of Cambridge law
school, ne is about 43 years of age
and has acquired fame as a parliamen
tarian
Iowa Republicans Select Candidates.
Das Moines, Iowa, July 37.—Tbe
Republicans state convention nomi
nated this ticket: Secretary bf state,
William M. McFarland of Estherville;
auditor of state, C. G. McCarthy of
Ames; judges supreme court, C. T.
Granger of Waukeen and H. E.
Deemer of Red Oak; state treasurer,
John S. Ilerriott of Stu-.rt; attorney
general, T. Milton Remley of Iowa
City; railroad commissioner, C. L.
Davidson; clerk supreme court, Chris
Jones; reporter supreme court, U. L
Sallinger.
Opposition to Thavsr.
Washington, July 37.—Judge Thay
er of St Louis, who was looked upon,
as the probable successful candidate
for the new judgeship in the Eighth
judicial circuit, under the pro
visions of the Cobb bill, according
to current gossip, may be defeated
by Judge Woodworth of Omaha.
Judge Woodworth’s geographical lo
cation is being .strongly urged in his
behalf, it is contended that both of
the circuit judges are on the Missis
sippi river and that the Western
country is entitled to the new judge
skip. ,
STATE CONVENTIONS.
>f...
held in iowa, Illinois and
WISCONSIN.
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Republican! Oitlwr to Place Ticket! In
tho Field—low* Speaker! Load Herrl*
•on, MeKInlej, Reed nod Alllion—Rent
Work Rot Yet Began—Specolatlon at
to Candidate!—Knight! of Labor of
Kebraika to AflUlato With the (opt*
111 to.
“■—— ;• „K=: ■: *!
Iowa Rtpobllcintt
Dxa Moines, Iowa, July 20_The
largest and most enthustastio Repub
lican convention for several years met
to-day at Calvary tabornaole. A cau
cus had been held earlier, at which
members of the credentials, perma
nent organization and resolutions
committees wore seleeted and mem
bers of the state central committee
chosen foi the ensuing year.
The great hall was handsomely dec
orated with American flags, bunting,
etc. John N. Baldwin of Counoil
Bluffs, temporary chairman, assumed
the gavel.
The platform denounces the Demo
crats, eulogizes the Republicans and
says nothing on the liquor question.
In his speech Temporary Chairman
Baldwin spoke as follows:
"As the Republican party believes
that 'the w!ho men are the state,’ you
will always And him in its ranks as it
Journeys on. There you will find
Thomas II. Reed full of the forces of
nature. Be is the ox, tho oak, the
Leviathan of American politics. He
never wavered until ho had choked
the breath out of obstructions, and
until its supporters, with more skin
off than on, were writhing and roar
ing at his feet
"There you will find William Mc
Kinley, jr., with his Napoleonic mind,
physically and intollootually every
inch a king; he entered the arena of
debate and procured tho enactment of
that great law which now bears his
honored name.
“There you will find Benjamin Har
rison. Not a chip off the old block,
because he is bigger than the old
block itself. It can be said without
any fear of successful contradiction
that in the dialectics and diction
Benjamin Harrison has no superior on
the face of the earth to-day.
There you will And William B. Al
lison, the greatest American of them
all. Bis legislative experience is
equal to that of all throe whose names
I have mentioned. He has been a
beacon light and a bell buoy for the
Republican party for thirty-four
years. For many years millions nnd
millions of dollars belonging to the
people passed between the thumb and
forefinger of Ills right band and yet it
was never even whispered in the cor
ridor that a cent adhered.”
GREAT CONFLAGRATION.
Two Hundred and Fifty Horses Burned
to Death.
Washington, July 28. — Knox's
stables on B street, the Adams Ex
press company's stables, eight two
story houses on the alley north of the
Knox building, and two small houses
back of the Adams stable were de
stroyed by fire early this morning and
six or eight residences were more or
less damaged. Tho total loss will
exceed $250,000. The cause of the
fire is not known.
The bodies of the following named
fireman, crushed to death undur fall
ing walls, have been recovered: Sam
uel E. Mastin, Michael Fenton, Den
nis Donohue.
A number of firemen were injured
and one of tho Knox stable employes
was burned and may die. Fully a
dozen firemen and policemen were
overcome by heat and had to be car
ried to places of safety.
About 350 heavy draught horses,
nearly all of the companies' express
wagons and the contents of the large
storage building were burned.. The
Adnms Express company’s stable, ad
joining the Knox building to the
north, was almost entirely consumed.
About 150 horses were in the Adams
Express company's stables, but all
were taken out by the hardest kind
of work on the part of citizens and
policemen.
In the building adjoining the heat
was so intense that firemen were
obliged to throw water on each other
repeatedly in order that they might
continue at their posts. The mem
bers of hose company No. 1 and sev
eral men of other companies wero
caught inside of this building. A por
tion of the wall of the Knox fell,
blocking the exit. Chief Paris and
twenty firemen went to the rescue.
The walls of the Knox building were
tottering, and just before they fell
the rescuers appeared carrying the
bodies of three firemen.
the k. of l. in politics.
They Will Bally With the PopulUta la
Nebraska This Fall.
Omaha, Neb., July 26.—The general
executive board of the Knights of
Labor to-day completed arrangements
for canvassing Nebraska in the in
terests of the Populist party, and
State Workman D'AlIemand was sent
out to confer with the Populist cen
tral committee and fix dates for twen
ty-four rallies during the fall cam
paign.
The general secretary was instruct
ed to carefully prepare a list of all
congressmen who have opposed the
demands of the Knights of Labor, and
extra efforts will be made to defeat
them. Copies of this list were or
dered sent to all local assemblies in
the United States._
BAD FIRE AT ST. JOSEPH.
Bennett’s Limber Tard, a School Boose
nndn Number of Loaded Cara Bor nod.
St. Joseph, Mix, July 2s.-— Fire
started it. Bennett's lumber yard at
noon to-day, and before it was
checked did damage to the extent of
$100,000.
. The lumber yard was totally de
stroyed, together with twenty loaded
freight ears, the property of the Chi
cago Great Western road. Lincoln
school was also burned and about a
I dozen small houses. The Insurance
eovering the entire loss will amount
to about $50,000. -
CAPPERY LETS OUT, SECRETS.
The Uitahim S.n.tor TnkM * llud la
th* Tariff War.
Washington, July 86.—In the sen*
ate yesterday afternoon Mr. Csffery
followed Mr. lliU,%rst moving that!
the conference be instructed to nhkff
the following amendment:
"That the bounty provided in said
net shall stand unrepealed to the ex
tent that there shall be paid to the
producer of sugar from beets, sor
ghum or sugar eane grown in the
United States during the year 1801, or
from maple sap produced in the
United States during the year 18M ;
under license for 1894 and subject to
the limitations Imposed by law, on all ;
sugars testing not less than 00 de
grees by the polarlscope, 0-10 of 1
cent per pound, and upon all suoh
sugars testing less than 00 per cent
by the polarlscope, and not less than
SO degrees, 8-10 of 1 cent per pound."
Mr. Caffery then commended Sena- Y
tor Hill for his defense of the presi
dent, declared there was nothing In
the letter which need arouse the ire
of the senators who felt themselves
aggrieved and the Louisianian de
clared it did not call for the denun
ciations of the senator from Mary
land. He then read an extract from
that letter and commented upon it in
favorable terms lie deelared the
president was exonerated from the
charges made against him by Mr. -
0 orman. The very evidenoe adduced
by Mr. Qorman, he said, justified the
president in writing the letter ho had.
Aiicro was uunuiuteiy UO TTUMl la IUO
allegation that Mr. Cleveland had vlo*
lnted tne functions of his office in
Riving1 his views to the chairman of
the ways and means committee. If
the members of the finance commit*
tee had denounced the bill as they
did in saying certain features of the
bill involved party surrender, how
was it wrong for the president to >
charge '“perfidy and dishonor?”
Since the secrets of the past were
to be divulged, he would not longer
keep in the dark the sccrots of nls
own prison house. The Louisiana
senators had been made the target for
the slings and arrows of the tariff re*
formers. The time had come for him
to tell his story. lie was at a little
conference at which were present,
among others, Messrs Brice ant} Gor
man. It was decided at that confer
ence that 40 per cent on raw and 50
per cent on refined sugar was proper.
"I took that schedule to the finance '
committee and gave it to Senator
Jones," he continued. “Mr. Jones,
after calculating, pointed out that in
the differential allowed the refiner
was concedod a differential greater
than the McKinley law. I thereupon
withdrew it After further consulta
tion I presented another schedule, '
placing 1 cent on raw and on re
fined. So it remained for some time,
when I was admonished by Mr. Gor
man . and Mr. Brice that this
second meant free sugar. Mr.
Jones told me the sugar
refining interests would favor
free sugar if that schedule was in
sisted upon. He wanted me to accept
40 per cent on raw and refined and
one-eighth differential on refined.
That schedule was not acceptable to >'
me or the sugar growers aud I want
tho country to know it was dictated by
the refining interests. At last we ac
cepted it with tho understanding the
bounty provision for 1804 should
stand. I call on Senators Vest and
Jones to say whether I have said the i
truth,” but neither of the senators
replied.
He then continued to describe
subtile methods employed to eini—i; *
late the sugar schedule and doftot
the bill. The ways of the senator
from New York (Hill) were past
ingout. Upon the motion to
the schedule go into effect on
passage of the bill some of the
crats jumped the track and vii
their agreement That was the
time faith was broken with
Louisiana senators. What saMUn '>1
force was it, he asked, that sought to
strike down the sugar agriculturist
and to throw its protecting wilf
about tho gigantic sugar refining*’!;
interest? '
Mr. Caffery's speech was stijl I* |
progress when at 3:05 o’clock Mfe,.,
Cockrell secured recognition toniWlir.il
an adjournment, which motion
adopted.
ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN fit
Assembling of the State Conventta*
Springfield. ^
Springfield, 111., July 50. —Tlw ;
publican stajo convention asseatMnfi £
this morning in tho house of
sentativss. It was called to order rt 1 ;
22:15 by J. H. Clark of Mattoon and A. ''M
R. Mann was chosen temporary ehntr* ■'$«
man. Mr. Mann mado a speech whtoh
was enthusiastically received. A III*
egram was received front Shelby Wiv "
Culiom, from Washington, regiwttiwg
his absence.
After adopting a resolution fiMtar*!, ’
tion would do their utmost to i
the acceptance by the state of
monument of Abraham Lincoln with
a view to its presentation and care,
and directing that a plank to that
effect be put in the platform, tho
convention took a recess till 3 p. m.
During the discussion on the question
a delegate said that the monument
was fast becoming a rain, having
been subjected to outrageous van
dalism.
Decline* to Wsrva as Arbitrator.
Cine jlOo, July 2ft.—Judge Lyman
Trumbull has wired to Washington
declining to act as government arbi
trator in the Pullman strike. Judge
Trumbull gives as bis reason for de
clining that the act under which the
arbitrators are appointed will confine
their Investigations to the recent
strike and that inasmuch as the trou
ble is over, he sees no need of investi
gating it
WAR BREAKS OUT AGAIN.
Barloas Disturbances Unvs A(*h Oe
earred at Birmingham, Ala.
BnuuxGKAM, Ala., July 2ft.—Wsrhaa.
broken out again among the striking
miners. Since 3 o'clock yesterday
afternoop two deputy sheriffs have
been killed, a third fatally wounded
and a fourth badly hurt
Two desperate strikers did it all, ,
and they are surrounded on the moun
tain near Coalburg, refusing to sur- ,
render. The officers are determined,
to take them, dead or alive, and will
close in on them as soon as more mili
tary reaches Uft scene,
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