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CONGRESSIONAL. '
KejjuLir Session.
There was no session of the senate on the
S4th Jn the house the post office appropria
tion bill wus considered It carries 187,470,599,
which Is IS,H2,h51 less than the estimates and
t3.406.2s5 more than the appropriation for the
current fiscal year.- An amendment to set aside
IO.OUO for 'he purpose of free delivery experi
ments in rural districts other than towns and
Tillages was adopted.
In the senate on the 20th the death of Sena
tor Colquitt, of Georgia, was announced, the
customary resolution of regret was adopted
and a committee of ten senators was appointed
to accompany the remains to Macon, Ga., after
which the senate adjourned. ...The house ad
journed after a brief nession on account of the
death of Senator Colquitt.
Al.l. business was suspended in the senate on
the v.7ih atd funeral services over the remains
of Senator Colquitt were he'd.... In the house
b:lis were introduced for the reduction of com
pensation of persons in the government service:
to incorporate the "American College of Mu
sicians" for the promotion of music in the
United States, and to amend the interstate
commerce law by repealing all punishments by
imprisocmt nt for violations of the interstate
commerce act and rendering the offending cor
I -oration itself punishable.
On the "blh resolutions were introduced in
the senate asking the secretary of war whether
subordinate employes and laborers engaged
by engineer officers have been employed or dis
charged for political reasons: directing the
finuuee committee to prepare a bill for the re
peal of all laws authorizing the secretary of the
treasury to Issue bonds or other interest-bear
ing obligations without; speciUc authority, and
tine calling for information regarding changes
m:d in the weight or fineness of silver coins
of silver standard countries. A bill to provide
for the free and unlimited coinage of silver was
int-oduced by Mr. Stewart, of Nevada .... In
the house an attempt to discuss the two elec
tion cases ot O'Neill vs. Joy and English vs.
llilbcru ttho A'ed the lack of a quorum.
In the senate the pension appropriation bill
was reported on the 2Uth and the house joint
resolution appropriating 110,000 additional to
carry out the provisions of the Chinese exclu
sion act and the McGarrahan land claim bill
were passed In the house the president's
message vetoing the U:and silver seigniorage
bill was received. No business was transacted.
DOMESTIC.
Henry Vakgeksox was shot by a
traveling river showman atUniontown,
Ky., and fatally wounded.
Enraged at the crying1 of his baby,
Andro llartelli, of Barbertown, I "a.,
threw it into a stove, where it was fa
tally burned.
It was said that President Cleveland
was suffering1 with a combination of
gxiut and rheumatism and was able to
move about with difficulty.
Doubt is expressed by many attor
neys as to the power of any court to
again pass sentence on Assassin Pren
dergast, the murderer of Carter II.
Harrison.
Eight dwellings, a business block, a
saloon and a church were swept away
by fire at Ford, Ky.
Two women were fatally hurt and
four others badly bruised in a runaway
accident at Hollidaysburg. Pa.
W. S. Fekrell, a wealthy West Vir
ginia land owner, was shot and killed
by one of the notorious Riddle brothers.
Max Rasdle, of Dallas, Tex., after
expending $120,000 to avoid punishment
for a murder, was sentenced to twenty
years.
Mrs. Sawter was found frozen to
death on the prairie in South Dakota.
Her starving dog had eaten one of her
arms.
L'illiax Willis, aged 15, of Homer,
Ga., who killed her father to save her
mother's life, was acquitted by the jury.
Dick O'Bp.iex defeated Billy Hen
nessy at Boston in the eleventh round,
thereby becoming champion middle
weight fighter.
The American ships Lewellyn J.
Morse, the Edward O'Brien and the J.
B. Walker, started on a race to the
Golden Gate from three Atlantic ports.
The Milwaukee Young Men's Chris
tian association and the Ministerial
association joined hands for a crusade
against immoral and indecent litho
graphs posted about the city on bill
boards. Rev. Oscar Leiber Mitchell was or
dained in Boston to the priesthood of
the Episcopal church. He is a young
colored man. and is the first of his race
to be ordained in the Episcopal church
in New England.
The First national bank of Great
Palls, Mont., has resumed business.
Four duck hunters were caught in a
gale on Black lake near Holland, Mich.,
and drowned.
Lazabcs Silvekmah, the Chicago
"banker who failed for Jl.TSO.OOO, is
ag-ain Id charge of his estate. He will
pay in full.
Henry S. Lough heim fc Co., bankers
and brokers in Philadelphia, assigned
-with liabilities amounting to $300,000.
JA.ME8 Mullen, a farmer living near
Reeseville, Wis., murdered his wife
and committed suicide. Family troubles
'were the cause.
Fears were expressed that the re
cent cold snap had greatly injured the
rop of winter wheat.
Mail robberies at South Bend, Ind.,
continue and the detectives were unable
to find the mysterious thieves.
Sixteen of the Gravesend (N. Y.) elec
tion inspectors associated with John Y.
HcKane pleaded guilty and were sen
tenced to various terms of imprison
ment. The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 26th was: Wheat,
72,104,000 bushels; corn, 19,165.000 bush
els; oats, 2,713,000 bushels; rye, 441,000
bushels; barley, CSC. 000 bushels.
Re posts from maqy places in the
west and south tell of damage to the
fruit trees and early vegetation by the
recent cold wave.
Burglars at Great Bend, W. Va..
burned one hand and one ear of Basil
D. Hall, a wealthy farmer, to a crisp
before he would give them $5,000 from
his safe.
A L'EClsiox was made at the pension
office in Washington admitting insane,
idiotic and helpless children of soldiers
to the pension rolls.
Miss L. A. Perrin. a milliner at
Denver, was drawn to sit with the
grand jury and must berve, despite her
pretests. ,
George Ashworth, a youthful farm
hand, shot and fatally wounded Mrs.
Wilbnr Mason near Summerset, la.
Ed Cory; and John Bailey were ar
rested for prize-fighting at Logans-
port, Ind., and rescued by their friends.
George W. Palmer, of Saville, who
has long been considered the second
wealthiest man in Virginia, has failed.
He was a millionaire.
Retorts from various sections in the
south and east show great damage to
fruits and early vegetables as a result
of the cold wave. Along the Atlantic
coast railway lines in the south the
damacre was about Sl.000,000. In the
grape-growing regions of western New
York the buds were destroyed and vast
losses would result.
An assignment was made in Phila
delphia by the firms of Wood, Brown &
Co. and Haines fc Co., the former with
liabilities of 000.000 and the latter
$400,000.
Two infant childran of John W.
Horton. of Montgomery. Ala., acci
dentally set fire to hay in a stable and
were burned to death.
In a street fight at Fleming, W. Va
Hoke Napier, a lumberman, and Henry
Collins, a former employe, shot and
killed each other.
John M. Donovan, who died in Chi
cago while undergoing a surgical oper
ation, was said to be the thirty-fifth
friend of the Cronin defense who came
to a sudden or unexpected death since
the murder of Dr. Cronin, now nearly
five years ago.
Miss T urnre, an aged woman, and
Miss Edpscv. a 15-vear-old girl, were
found murdered at Ellaville, Fla.
Swaggard's livery stable, with fif
teen horses, and John Bellamy's ware
house, in which 10,000 bushels of wheat
were stored, were burned at Sweet
Springs. Mo.
Manv persons in Texas were re
ported to be starving.
Two brothers, Salvador and Joseph
Fitsolotto, who conducted a fruit stand
in New Orleans, were killed by Michel
Caprano, who ran an opposition stand.
Ihe town of Sutherland. Neb., was
totally destroyed by fire.
It was said that the trustees of the
soldiers' and sailors' home at Mount
Vista, CoL, were $100,000 short in their
accounts.
The People's savings bank of Duluth,
Minn., and the Merchants' bank of
West Duluth went into voluntary liqui
dation.
Mrs. Margaret Catixg, aged 79, of
Muucie, Ind., was arrested for passing
counterfeit money.
A daughter of ex-Mayor Hassen-
aeur, of Wapakoneta, O., burst a blood
vessel in her brain while coughing and
dropped dead.
Charles Hardin, accused of stealing
$35,000 from the Wells-Farjro Express
company, was arrested at Alma, Ark.
He had $19,000 when captured.
H. C. Huff and wife, married but
three hours, were killed at Pensacola,
Fla., by Thomas Trainor, the woman's
former husband.
A RitviVAL reacned such a stage in
Bloomington, I1L, that business houses
and saloons closed during the day ap
pointed for general prayer.
The New York legislature passed
bills makiug violation of the election
laws a penal offense and disqualifying
anyone committing bribery from hold
ing office for five years, and prohibit
ing the flying of foreign flags upon
public buildings.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
railway and the Cincinnati, New Or
leans fc Texas Pacific railway have
been consolidated.
Kentucky women were signing a pe
tition asking congress to impeach CoL
Breckinridge.
Three families, comprising fourteen
persons, were buried in a snowslide at
Canyon Creek, Wash.
Miss Sarah Billings and her sister
Linda, aged 85 and 40 years respective
ly, took their own lives with poison at
Winchester, O., because they were
about to be separated by marriage.
Jim Godset, sentenced to five years
at Terre Haute, Ind., for forgery, said
his father bad trained him in crime
from childhood.
Howard S. Long, an installment
goods agent at Springfield, 0., met Miss
Lydia Brown, of Urban a, for the first
time, and in half an hour they were
married.
At Antigo, Wis., William Nonne-
macher pleaded guilty to murdering his
wife and three children and was given
a life sentence.
at inaianapons seven memDers or a
family were poisoned by eating sausage
containing tnchinaa
Col. Breckinridge took the stand in
his own defense in Washington and
told of his intrigue with Madeline Pol
lard.
Thomas Hollow ay, a populist farmer.
while watching Coxey's army in Co
lumbiana, O., dropped dead from apo
plexy.
Receiver Faurot, of the Lima (O. )
National bank, which closed two years
ago, claims a shortage of 590,000 for
which he can get no explanation.
LHtKUKEE, ia., nas wen selected as
.
the location for a new insane asylum
to accommodate 1,000 patients and cost
more than f 1.000,000.
A cold norther did millions of dollars
of damage in Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas, killing' almost everything green.
Gov. Tillman called on the militia to
assist in enforcing the dispensary law
in aoutn Carolina.
John Witt's residence at McKendree,
W. Va., was burned and his eight little
children and Miss Mollie Hettrick per
ished in the flames.
A general strike of the 10,000 coke
workers and miners of the Connells
ville (Pa.) region was ordered.
Thk California supreme court holds
that the act of the last legislature in
removing the capital from Sacramento
to San Jose was illegal.
B. McManus. of Livingston, Mont.,
shot and killed his wife and then cut
his own throat. Domestic trouble was
the cause.
Prof. John M. Ellis, of Oberlin col
lege at Oberlin, O.. died on a Santa Fe
train as it entered Chicago from Cali
fornia. Theaters, cards and dancing have
been tabooed as vices by the Epworth I
league of Michigan.
Oliver Jackson (colored), one of the
Grant murderers, while en route to
Montgomery, Ala., was taken by
masked men from two deputies and shot
to death.
Senator Vooruf.es declined to allow
the factory girls of New England to
appear before the senate finance com
mittee in opposition to the tariff bill.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Alfred II. Colquitt, United States
senator from Georgia, died in Washing
ton of paralysis, aged 70 years. In 1859
he was a representative in congress, in
1876 was governor of his state, and in
1880 was chosen senator and was serv
ing his second term. He leaves a
widow, one son and four daughters.
Major W. D. Bickham, for thirty-one
years editor of the Dayton (O.) Jour
nal, and a veteran of the late war,
dropped dead of apoplexy. He was 07
years old.
The Missouri populists in state con
vention at Kansas City nominated O.
D. Jones, of Knox county, for justice of
the supreme court.
The republicans of the Fourth dis
trict of Kansas nominated Charles Cur
tis for congress.
The annual meeting of the Minne
sota Leajjue of Republican clubs was
held in Minneapolis, Gov. McKinley, of
Ohio, being the principal speaker. In
his address he defended the policy of
the republican party and said the coun
try can never be prosperous without it.
Charles C. Baek, grand commander
of the Knights Templars of Pennsyl
vania, died of spinal meningitis at
Pittsburgh, aged 53 years.
George Ticknor Curtis, the lawver
and writer on political economy and
constitutional history, died in New
York, aged 53 j-ears. i
Leading women of Atlanta, Ga., met
and organized a Woman's Suffrage as
sociation, i
Charles F. Crisp, speaker of the
house, was appointed United States
senator by Gov. Northen, of Georgia,
to fill the vacancy caused by Senator
Colquitt s death.
FOREIGN.
Forty- men were driven to
sea on
and it
floating ice at St. John's, N. F.
was feared they had perished.
It was said Mexico was endeavoring to
secure an international monetary con
ference to settle the fate of silver.
By the explosion of a parafine lamp
in a London dwelling house live per
sons were burned to death.
It was said the several foreign powers
had been communicating with a view
to united efforts against anarchists.
Canada's minister of finance says
the government will stand by the na
tional policy of protection.
Vkkney Lovett Cameron, the dis
tinguished African traveler, was
thrown from his horse and killed while
hunting near Bedfordshire, England.
violent earthquakes occurred in va
rious parts of Greece and the loss of
life was considerable.
President Peixoto has not revived
the imperial decree as reported, but
will try Brazilian rebels according to
martial law.
Funeral services over the remains of
Louis Kossuth were held at Turin in
the Evangelical church.
Four lives were lost by the collision
of steamers at London.
The shaft of a coa mine at Kosze-
lew, Russia, collapsed, causing the loss
of eleven lives.
A hymn to Apollo, recently discov
ered at Delphi, was sung at Athens for
the first time in 2,000 years. The royal
family and cabinet were present.
The remains of Hans von Bulow, the
distinguished pianist, were cremated at
Hamburg'.
LATER.
The United States senate was not in
session on the 30th ult. In the house
Mr. Bland gave notice that on April 3
he would move to pass the seigniorage
bill over the veto. No business was
transacted.
Speaker Crisp has declined the seat
in the senate made vacant by Senator
Colquitt's death.
Ihe Maryland legislature passed a
bill niakinps'it obligatory on the courts
of Maryland, under certain conditions.
to send inebriates to gold cure insti
tutes for treatment.
Excitement was aroused by the find
of a pronounced vein of silver near Vir
ginia City. Wis.
One person was killed, fifteen in
jured, four of them probably fatally.
and property worth $40,000 destroyed
by the collapse of a water tower at
Peoria. I1L
Nuggets of pure gold were washed
from sand dugoutof awell at La Vet a.
CoL
There were 238 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on tha 30th ulL, against 244 the
week previous and 16 in the corre
sponding time in 1893.
Mrs. Jane G. Austin, the novelist.
died in Boston, aged 55, after a linger
ing illness.
Four persons were killed and three
badly wounded in a fight near Darling
ton, S. C, over the enforcement of the
dispensary law. Gov. Tillman ordered
troops to quell the disturbance.
Judge Dallas filed an opinion in the
United States court at Philadelphia
holding that Chinamen cannot be nat
uralized. William It. Laidlaw was awarded
damages in New York of $25,000 in his
suit against Russell Sage, who used
him as protection against a dynamiter.
Five blocks in the central portion of
Barry, I1L, were destroyed by fire, the
loss being $200,000.
Fritz Kloetzlkr, a shoemaker and a
socialist, murdered his wife and four
children and then committed suicide at
Dolgeville, N. Y.
Three workmen were killed and five
seriously injured by the falling of an
old bridge at Radford, Va.
Exkcutions took place as follows:
Israel Johnson (colored) at Union
Springs, Ala., for the murder of Wash
Roberts (colored) January 15 last; at
Paris, Tex., E. R. Gonsales, for the
murder of John Daniels, May 16. 1893;
Manning Davis for the murder of John
Roden December 26, 1891, and Jim Up-
kins for the murder September 6, 1893,
of his 6-year-old step-daughter.
RUINED THE CROPS.
Great
Damacre Results
Cold Snap.
from the
Early Vegetables and Fruit Bad Are
Frozen Wheat and Oats Suffer Great,
ly Losses In the East and
South Over Sl.OOO.OOO.
PROSPECTS ARE GLOOMY".
New York, March 29. Reports from
various sections in the south and east
show great damage to fruits and early
vegetables as a result of the cold wave.
Along the Atlantic coast railway lines
in the south the damage is estimated
at above $1,000,000. In Virginia the
loss is not yet ascertained, but will
be heavy. In South Carolina the freeze
was general throughout the trucking1
i district. In Delaware it is believed the
peach crop is ruined and other fine
. fruit prospects destroyed. In the grape
' growing regions of western New York
I the buds have been destroyed, and vast
losses are feared in consequence.
Chattanooga, Tenn., March 29.
j The extreme cold weather of the last
I two days will cost truck farmers and
' fruit raisers in Hamilton county alone
$100,000.
i Grand Rapids. Mich., March !i9.
The loss to fruit-growers from the re
cent cold wave seems to have been
greatly exaggerated so far as this part
of the state is concerned. Fruit-growers
from Allegan, Ottawa and Kent
counties, constituting the Grand River
Valley Horticultural society, met here
! Tuesday with samples from their trees,
and expert examination showed very
few buds injured by the cold weather.
Most of the farmers present estimated
their loss at not over 10 per cent.
Beston Harbor, Mich., March 29.
Fclad Morrill, one of the principal fruit
growers of this section, says that upon
examination but few fruit buds are
found to be injured by the cold wave.
He says there will be full crops of
peaches, apples, cherries and pears.
Small fruits and grapes are not ad
vanced enough to be hurt. Apricots
were killed.
Cairo, I1L, March 23. The disastrous
effects of the cold snap of the last four
days are now fully apparent. The fruit
crop of southern Illinois will be a total
failure. Apples, cherries, peaches.straw
berries and growing vegetables are all
ruined, and even the grapes, which
were just commencing to show signs
of spring life, have been given
up by growers as lost. Reports
from Villa Ridge, the ereat-
est fruit-growing section of southern
Illinois and which annually ships scores
ot ear loads ol strawberries and green
vegetables to Chicago, fully confirms
the fears that were at first entertained.
Everything is lost. Wheat is badly
damaged, and the corn and early po
tato crops are all that growers have to
depend upon.
Nashville, I1L, March 29. Small
fruits are all killed in this section be
yond a doubt, and the young trees have
suffered the same fate. The wheat.
which had been more promising than
in j-ears before, is blighted, and excel- j
lent judges doubt if half a crop will be j
harvested. Oats are seriously injured, j
but time remains for resowing. j
Columbus, O., March 29. Secretary j
L. N. Bonham, of the state board of
agriculture, said that the cold wave
had no doubt ruined the peach, pear '
and cherry crop in Ohio. He doubted
if the apples were far enough along to .
be affected by the cold. j
Oskaloosa, la., March 29. Farmers
say that three-quarters of the oat acre- I
age is 6own and that the freezing of I
Sundav and Monday will necessitate a i
resowing. Nearly one-halt ot the po-
lato crop i.t piiiuteu, auu it i imjugut
that the planting will have to be gone
over. The early fruit crop is entirely
ruined. Fall wheat also suffered
greatly.
Sedali, Ma, March 29. The pres
ent cold snap has resulted in killing
all of the sprouted oats, of which
there is a large acreage in Pettis
county. Wheat is frozen until it
looks black and all shallow-covered
potatoes are also frozen. Early cher
ries and plums are killed, while some
of the late varieties are damaged. Early
vegetation of all kinds has been de
stroyed and the total damage in this
section by the cold wave will aggregate
many thousands of dollars.
DROPPED DEAD.
Sudden Dentine or SlaJ. Bickham, a Well
Known Editor.
Dayton. O., March 29. Maj. W. D.
Bickham, the veteran editor of the
Dayton Journal, dropped dead at home
in this city at 8:30 o'clock Tuesday aft
ernoon after a brief relapse from a se
vere sickness. He was stricken with
apoplexy while walking upstairs.
Mai- Ulckham was born in Cincinnati March
30, lS-T, and began his work in a newspaper of
fice in that city, and served on the stall of Gen.
Kosecrans with the rank of captain during a
part of the war. Later he waa a correspondent
with the Army of the Potomac, and was pro
moted to major for services at the battle of
Stone River. In 1863 he assumed charge of trie
Dayton Journal, a republican paper, and has
led an active journalistic life, achieving a na
tional reputation aa an editorial writer.
Money for Veterans.
Washington, March 29. The secre
tary of the interior has issued a requi
sition on the secretary of the treasury
for $10,221,000 to be used in the quar
terly payment of pensions April 2. The
amount will be distributed among
agencies as follows: Chicago, $3,650,
000; Des Moines, la., $1,900,000; Mil
waukee, $1,700,000; Buffalo, $1,500,000;
Pittsburgh, $1,450,000; Concord. N. II.,
000,000; Boston, $225,000; and Detroit,
$200,000.
rhlUdelphla lirmi Assign.
Philadelphia, March 29. An assign
ment for the benefit of creditors has
been made by the firms of Wood, Brown
& Co. and Haines & Co., in the process
of liquidating the business of both con
cerns. Aside from a large loan sup
plied by Drexel &. Co.. amount not
stated. Wood, Brown & Co-'s liabilities
will reach SCOo.000, while those of
Haines & Co. are said to be $400,000.
Crushed by a Falling Chimney.
Cincinnati. March 29. Albert Youel
was crushed to death at Shadeland, O.,
by the chimney of his burned house
falling on him.
IN AN UPROAR.
An Exciting Session of the House Crisp
and Reed In a Wrangle.
Washington, March St An inter
pretation of the rules which brought
forth the remarks from Mr. Reed and
Mr. Crisp led to an exciting scene
Thursday in the house. After the re
ception of the president's message a
vote on the pending motion, the Joy
O'Neill contested election case was had,
and resulted 154 to J 1, fourteen short
of a quorum. Of the eleven who voted
against the motion (in effect against
giving O'Neill the seat) ten were dem
ocrats. Then came more filibustering, and
Mr. Patterson offered a resolution to
revoke the leave of absence and in
struct the sergeant-at-arms to take the
absentees into custody.
Mr. Reed took the floor and in a brief
speech scored the democratic side,
dwelling particularly upon the absurd
ity of a proceeding which aimed at
procuring a quorum by duress and after
one was secured left the house power
less to record its presence.
Something in what Mr. Reed said
evidently stung Speaker Crisp, who
was on the floor at the time, and when
the ex-speaker sat down Speaker Crisp
arose. The speaker said he only wanted
to call attention to the persistence
with which the leader of the minori
ty (Mr. Reed) had called attention
to the absolute iniquity of the
practice of members in refusing to
vote when their names were called.
Mr. Reed, Speaker Crisp went on,
had placed his party in a position
when he made his quorum counting
ruling where it either had to sustain
that ruling or renounce him. But, con
tinued Mr. Crisp, when Mr. Reed had
once made the ruling his party was
forced to sustain him. The speaker
proceeded to picture the absolute
power of the ex-speaker over his side
of the house.
Mr. Reed expressed a desire to reply
to the speaker but his time had expired
and he was not permitted to do so. He
then asked for a division of the resolu
tion, but Mr. Stone (Ky.) in the
chair ruled that the proposition was
not divisible. Party feeling had been
aroused by the remarks of Mr. Reed and
Speaker Crisp and the republicans be
gan filibustering with redoubled vigor,
in the course of which Mr. Lacey ap
pealed from a decision of the chair. The
speaker refused to entain the appeaL
Mr. Reed, standing in the center
aisle, insisted on knowing the grounds
upon which the speaker declined to sus
tain the appeal, but the speaker only
rapped with his gavel and declined em-
phatically to state the grounds.
Mr.
Payne moved to adjourn, and the speak-
, er declined to entertain this motion,
j By this time the members on both
: sides were wildly excited. Partisan
blood was at fever heat, and for several
; minutes pandemonium reigned. From
! all parts of the floor members were
shouting their defiance, and several per
sonal collisions were narrowly averted.
"I rise to a question of order," shout
ed Mr. Payne.
"And the chair refuses to recognize
the gentleman for that purpose," re
turned the speaker. "The question is
on the adoption of the resolution in
structing the sergeant-at-arms to arrest
absentees; as many as favor it will say
aye, contrary, no."
In the midst of the chorus of voices
that followed Messrs. Payne, Boutelle
and P.eed were on their feet clamoring
for recognition. The speaker refused
to recognize them. "Tellers!" shouted
Mr. Paj'ne. Pending that motion he
moved to adjourn. The speaker de
clined to entertain the motion. Mr.
Reed loudly insisted on his ric-ht to
know why, but the speaker replied by
i ordering him to take his seat.
Mr. Patterson called for the ayes and
noes, and Mr. Payne demanded tellers
on the motion. The speaker appointed
Mr. Patterson and Mr. Payne. The
latter was still clamoring to be recog
nized on his point of order. The
speaker ordered Mr. Payne to take his
place as teller. Mr. Payne declined to
serve.
"The chair then appoints the gentle
man from Maine," said the speaker.
Mr. Reed was wild with rage. "I de
cline to serve," said he.
"The gentleman from Tennessee (Mr.
Patterson) will act alone." The dem
ocrats raised a cheer as the speaker
said this, and moved rapidly past him
in single file to be counted.
When a sufficient number had been
counted by Mr. Patterson to order the
ayes and noes the announcement was
made. In a chorus the republicans
were protesting against this irregular
ity and Mr. Reed in a loud voice de
clared that the chair knew the rules re
quired two tellers..
"The house understands the circum
stances," replied Speaker Crisp, firmly.
"The chair takes all the consequences."
The scene reminded the old members
of the Fifty-first congress. Mr. Payne
was still talking loudly in the aisle as
the clerk began calling the rolL He
was ordered to take his seat and re
plied that he would do so when he got
ready. The speaker met this retort by
declaring that he was ready to enter
tain a motion to bring the gentleman
to the bar of the house for contumely.
Mr. Outhwaite and Mr. Boutelle, in
the general confusion that followed,
were engaged in a wordy duel, and
Mr. Outhwaite threatened to move that
Mr. Boutelle be called to the bar for
contempt The speaker decided that
such proceedings could not interrupt a
roll call, but upon its completion they
were not renewed. The resolution was
adopted 164 to 3. The house ad
journed. Crisp for Senator.
Atlanta, Ga., March 31. Gov.
Northen has appointed Speaker Charles
F. Crisp to succeed the late Senator
Alfred U. Colquitt. Not a word has
passed between the governor and the
speaker, and the latter's name had not
even been presented formally to the
governor.
Many Killed In Coal Mine.
Warsaw, March 31. The shaft of a
coal mine at Koszelew collapsed Thurs
day, causing serious loss of life. Thus
far eleven bodies have been recovered,
and a number of bodies have been re
moved from the mine seriously injured.
RECRUITS FOR COXEY.
The Commonweal Army Gaining Strength)
Every liay.
Salem, O., March 30. Cold weather,
rain, winds and roads ankle deep with
white clay mud began to have their ef
fect on Coxey's army before the dreary
march of 13 miles between Alliance and
this city was half completed Wednes
day. One of the commissary wagons
had been transformed into an ambu
lance, and Surgeon General "Cyclone"
Kirkland was busy prescribing for sev
eral poor fellows who were taken sud
denly ilL In spite of these adverse
conditions the common wealers have
kept their spirits up and the army is
steadily growing. .
At 3 o'clock p. m. the commonweal
era marched into Salem in the face of a
blinding snowstorm. The windows
were alive with people and the streets
crowded. For a week or more Charles'
Bonsall, chairman of a committee
appointed by the populists, had
been preparing to receive the army
in fine style. A considerable amount
of provisions, ten yards of sau
sages, eight gallons of milk, a half
cord of bread and other things in like
proportions had been collected in the
office of Mayor Northrup, and the cit
izens generally cordially welcow.ed the
army. The headquarters tent waa
pitched on the old circus grounds near
Locust street, and the clay coil was
soon packed into 6ticky mud by the
gathering of curious crowds.
The big tent was not put up for the
reason that Kaufmann's armory and
the hall of the federation of labor
were thrown open to the commonweal
ers for sleeping purposes. They are
both warm and comfortable and the
men slept well for the nigbt. Lunch,
was served on a new plan. Browne
has had a large number of green tickets
printed and no man can get anything1
to eat without one of them. This is to
prevent the commonwealers from eat
ing six or eight meals a day.
Browne did not expect any recruit
owing to the inclement weather, but,
to the surprise of everybody, mors
than a score of men appeared as soon
as the tent was pitched and asked per
mission to enlist. "Cyclone" at once
took their names and they were en
rolled in the Coxiana commune.
Most of the men have the ap
pearance of respectable laboring"
men. Two of them are from Cleve
land, one from New Philadelphia, O.;'
one from Johnstown, Pa.; one from
j Canton; one from St. Louis, Ma; one
I from Connecticut, and a number from
Salem. Most of them have cards in
their possession showing that they are
members of labor unions.
Chicago, March 30. Gen. Coxey, of
the commonweal army, alighted,
from a Fort Wayne train at the Forty
first street station in a blinding snow
storm shortly after 8 o'clock a. m.
Coxey talked freely about the pros
pects of the " army. "I will join the
army at Salem, O.," he 6aid, "and re
main with it until Washington ii
reached. I do not expect the greater
portion of those who are in sympathy
with the movement to join us until we
near the capital." Asked if he regard
ed the outcome of the movement likely
to be successful, he said:
"Most assuredly. We have the moral backing
of the great majority ot the people in the coun
try, and the politicians at V ashington must
pay heed. During the next six weeks, and
before we reach the capital, this feeling will
receive expression all over the country.
It is a campaign of education. We are
not cranks. We desire to accomplish our
purpose and deem this the most effective way
cf doing it. We might have gone to Washing
ton on trains, but that would not have at
tracted the attention necessary to a thorough
discussion of the matters at issue. Tbe men
In the army are not tramps. If they had work
they would do it, but they cannot secure em
ployment. "What do we hope to accomplish by such a
movement? Three things. To afford employ
ment to all our unemployed, relieve tbe coun
try or the burden of interest-bearing bonda
and establish good roads and permanent Im
provements in every inhabited section of this
country. A bill has already been in
troduced in congress by Senator Peffer
providing for an issue of Jo00.000.00j in treasury
notes, legal tender for all debts, to form a fund
for the improvement of all country roads.
This work stall be carried on under the super
vision of the war department at the rate
of KO,000,OjO a year, thus affording employ
ment for all unemployed in rural districts.
As to those in towns and cities a non-interest-bearing
bond bill is also before congress pro
Tiding means whereby towns, counties ana all
municipalities may issue bonds to tbe general
government to the extent of one-half the as
sessed valuation, or about one-third the actual
value theroof. to procure a fund for permanent
improvements. Such bonds f hall be non-interest-bearing
and payable at the rate of 4 per
cent, per annum."
By way of elucidation, Mr. Coxey
rited th scheme of the issue of na
tional bank notes to incorporated,
banks in every town of considerable
size, to an extent of over 90 per cent,
of a property investment in United
"States bonds. "Such an incorporation
is no more reliable and such property
no more valuable than that of any
sound municipality in our land, and
certainly entitled to no greater favor."
He continued:
'Our army will march on to Washington,
gradually increasing, and on May 1 I confident
ly expect to see 500.000 people assembled, who
will await action on the bills already intro
duced On May 15 congress will have passed
both bills, and by June 15 it will be imiiossiblo
to And a laborer, of necessity, unemployed ia
our country."
Pittsburgh, Pa.. March SO. Th,
steamer Hudson which arrived from,
Cincinnati Wednesday had on board w
small detachment of Coxey's army. 1
consisted of ten men, seventeen horse,
and eight wagons. The Coxey ites with,
their horses and wagons were taken on,
to Bellaire, O. They expected to join
tbe commonweal army at East Paies
tine or Beaver Falls.
KILLED THEM BOTH.
Old Woman and Girl Murdered by an Un
known Fiend in Florida.
Jasper, Fla.. March 80. There is
great excitement at Ellaville. a few
miles south of this place, over tbe
murder of Mrs. Turner, an aged worn-,
an. and Miss Epsey, a 15-year-old
girL At 7 a. m. the girl was found
in the road in front of the house with
her brains beaten out Old Mrs. Tur
ner was found dead in the house, her
head having also been beaten to a
jelly. The girl had been criminally as
saulted. There is no clew to the murderer