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CONGRESSIONAL.
Kegular Session.
C C:e Ilta in the senate no business of lm
jtoi'tanco was transacted beyond the discussion
of tcuotor IUH's tariff resolution, it being
antagonized by a motion for an executive ses
sion, for which the vice president cast the de
ciding vote In the house the time was oc
cupied in the discussion of a proposition to
give each of the arid land Mates 1,000,000
acres of surveyed arid public lands to be re
claimed by irrigation, and the bill to appropri
ate ?-J50.0(X) to purchase a site for the govern
ment printing office.
Is the senate on the 13th no business of Im
portance was transacted beyond the confirma
tion, in executive Resslon, of the Chinese treaty,
the vote standing 47 to 50. ...At a caucus of
clemecrats of the house members, shortly be
fore convening, a resolution was offered by
Speaker Crisp, which was carried, advising the
recess on from the disagreement to the senate's
amendments to the "Wilson bill, the passing of
tb. uir.cnded bill, and the Introduction of sep
arate bills making coal. Iron, sugar and barbed
wire free of all duties. When the houso con
vened ia regular session tho resolution was
carried by a vote of 130 to 21. At a session held
in the evening it passed separate bills for free
tugur. iron, coal and barbed wire.
A mlssaoe was received in the senate on the
4th from tho house informing the senate that
tie house had passed bills placing coal, iron
ore. fcarled wire and sugar on the f reo list, in
which it asked the concurrence of the senate.
Dills were passed promoting Commodore Louis
C. .ertori. retired, to rear admiral on the re
tired list, and authorizing soldiers' home man
agers to extend outdoor relief to veterans. The
house was not la session.
In tile senate on the 15th the conference re
port ou the civil service bill was presented and
adopted. A letter was road from Secretary
Carlisle in regard to the four pending bills
free iron, coal, sugar and barbed wire declar
ing that if the four bills became laws there
would b3 u deficit at the end of the present
flscr.l year of about 830,000,000. of which over
JJS.OAI O'jO would be caused by the free sugar
bill alone In the house no business of im
portance was transacted beyond the Introduc
tion of a resolution by Gen. Block in regard to
silver coinage, who asked for unanimous con
tent for its Immediate adoption, but It was
referred to the committee.
Is the senate on the ICth a joint congratula
tory resolution from the United States to Ha
waii was adopted. Tariff bills relating to
sugar and otter articles in dispute were re
ferred to a committee, and Senator Hill's
measure providing for the exclusion and de
portation of alien anarchists was passed with
out division In the house there was but a
tare quorum present. The deficiency appro
priation bill was further considered, as also
was the silver coinage resolution.
DOMESTIC.
P. L. Cook, a Stuartsville, O., saloon
keeper, was beaten to death with an
iron rod by masked robbers.
Thomas Garner, 101 years old, died
at Oakdale, Minn. He was born in
Ireland and came to the United States
fifty years ago.
A cyclone passed over North Madi
ton, O., devastating1 forests, orchards,
growing crops, etc.
Four workmen were crushed to
death near Sheridan, Wyo., tinder fif
teen or twenty tons of rock which
rolled upon them after a blast had
been exploded.
L. XV. Bbainard shot and killed His
wife at Vicksburg, Mich., and then
killed himself. Domestic trouble was
said to be the cause.
Mrs. Mart J. Shirk, one of the
wealthiest women in the west, died at
her home in Pern, Ind. She was said
to be worth SO.000,000.
The Wichita (Kan.) national bank,
the oldest banking1 institution in the
6outhwest, has suspended payment by
order of the comptroller of the cur
rency. Feabing starvation Mrs. Adolph Max
drowned herself and two children,
aged 5 and 1 year, at Lyons, la.
Whirligig lowered the race record
for 3-year-old pacers to 2:10 at Terre
Haute, Ind., and paced three heats in
average time of 2:11J.
J. W. Deacon, president of the bank
at Watonga, O. T., committed suicide
because the concern's affairs had been
inextricably involved by his son.
While racing on a country road near
Warka, Kan., Fletcher Morris was
killed and his sister fatally injured by
the overturning of their buggy.
Miss Oabt Raridan, 18 years old,
disappointed in love, committed sui
cide by poison at Wayretown, Ind.
Eighty-eight Coxeyites sent to jail
by the Maryland authorities were put
to work on the public roads.
Woman suffragists commemorated
the 75th anniversary of the birth of
Liucy Stone at a meeting in the Wom
an's temple, Chicago.
The works of the United Salt
company were entirely destroyed by
fire at Cleveland, O., the loss being
150,000.
Jackson and Corbett met in New
York, and the colored man still refus
ing to fight in the south the match was
declared off.
The government crop bulletin 6ays
corn has been irretrievably injured by
drought in Nebraska, Iowa, South Da
kota and Kansas.
The corner stone of the Salvation
Army national headquarters building
was laid at New York. The building
and ground cost S325.000.
At Ilazleton, Pa., George Kohlick
accused his wife of infidelity, when
she , secured a butcher knife and
plunged it three times into his body,
killing him instantfy.
Ix a paper read before the Geologi
cal society at its meeting' in Brooklyn,
Prof. J. W. Spencer declared the North
American continent was sinking.
Marshall Uostom (colored), charged
with criminal assault, was lynched at
Frankfort, Ky.
The national convention of harness
makers, in session at Pittsburgh, Pa.,
elected Charles E. Deltz, of Pittsburgh,
president.
While endeavoring to save money
secreted in his house at Vandalia,
Ind., which was on fire, Martin Dow
ell, a wealthy citizen, was burned to
death.
The Methodist jubilee convention,
-o cele"brate the fiiftieth anniversary
of the establishment of the first con
ference in Iowa, convened at Cedar
Rapids with 2,000 delegates in at
tendance. . .
I Mrs.
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Henry. Hempel and children 0maua at 8:oo p. m.
Two negroes were lynched in La
fayette county, Fla., for an assault
upon a young girl.
Striking Pullman employes were
said to be on the verge of starvation,
the relief store having closed for lack
of supplies.
The National League of Colored
Democrats met in Indianapolis, Ind.,
and greetings' were sent to President
Cleveland.
Mines in the Massillon (O.) district
will be consolidated so as to operate
them more cheaply.
Fierce forest fires were raging in
the vicinity of Meadville, Ta., and al
ready a iarge tract had been burned
over.
The tariff bill, signed by the presid
ing officers of both houses, was taken
to the president by Representative
Pearson, of Ohio.
Ax address to colored voters, urging
them to cut loose from the republican
party, was Issued by the Negro Na
tional Democratic league in session at
Indianapolis.
Frank Pratenes, living near Kala
mazoo, Mich., mistook his wife for a
burglar and shot her. She died in his
arms.
The wholesale grocery store of R. C.
Williams & Co. at New York was de
stroyed by fire, entailing a loss of fully
5500,000.
The malthouse of Busch & Epps was
totally destroyed by fire in Chicago,
incurring a loss of S100.000.
Otto Zergter, of California, broke
the mile record at the Denver bicj-cle
tournament by going a mile In 2:09 1-5.
W. L. Stimal and Fred C Tuhrman
have broken the 200-mile bicycle rec
ord by making the run from Buffalo to
Erie in 15 hours and 20 minutes.
The labor commission appointed by
President Cleveland to investigate the
causes which lead to the recent rail
road strike convened in Chicago.
Mrs. Miller and her 18-months-old
babe were murdered at Seattle, Wash.,
by thieves, who afterward fired the
home to conceal their crime.
A quarrel over a dog trade resulted
in the loss of three lives at Le
tochatchie. Ala.
The grand jury of Shelby county,
Tenn., found 53S indictments in two
days against persons charged with sell
ing liquor without licenses.
Govermment officials have decided to
send enough warships to Corea to pro
tect American interests during the
Japanese-Chinese war.
Naval regulations have been
changed reversing the policy of per
mitting right of asylum for political
refugees on American vessels.
Mrs. M. Brown, of Omaha, Neb.,
was fatally burned by a gasoline ex
plosion. She attempted to fill the
tank without turning off the flames.
JA60N Cole, living on a farm near
Hyannis. Neb., was found sitting ou
his mower in the hay field, dead. He
had been shot through the head by
some unknown person.
Members of the whisky trust were
said to have borrowed S5,000,000 to take
their goods out of bond.
Repohts to the director of the mint
show that since Juty 1 the number of
silver dollars coined amounted to 833,
000, of which 410,000 were coined since
August 1.
The constitutional convention of
New York decided by a decisive ma
jority upon removing the S5,000 limit
for damages by the loss of life.
Interesting memorial services were
held at the old homestead of William
Cullen Bryant at Cammington, Mass.
Letters were read from a large num
ber of literary people.
The northwestern interstate fair
which includes the states of Washing
ton, Oregon, Idaho. Montana, British
Columbia and Alaska was dedicated
with appropriate cremonies at Tacoma.
President Cleveland left Washing
ton for Gray Gables to avoid a severe
case of malaria which he was threat
ened with.
During a quarrel at Riverside, Ky.,
between Edwin Lemasters and wife, a
son, W. L. Lemasters, shot and instant
ly killed his father..
J. M. Loggan, a notorious incendi
ary, who has destroyed property worth
thousands of dollars, was arrested at
Kansas City.
Four Detroit (Mich.) school inspec
tors, charged by Mayor Pingree with
having received bribes, were put under
bonds of S5.000 each.
Aldace F. Walker was appointed
receiver of the Santa Fe road in the
place of President J. W. Reinhart, who
recently resigned.
Residents of Buffalo, N. Y., saw the
City of Toronto, 5(1 miles distant, pic
tured in a remarkable mirage of the
third order.
Charles Gkorget, an engineer of
Iloboken, has discovered old deeds en
titling him to valuable real estate in
St. Louis.
II kirs of Richard Bishop in Pitts
burgh will lay claim to ten acres in
the heart of Indianapolis, Ind., worth
S'J.000,000.
Christopher Bernhardt, of Buffalo,
N. Y., aged 87, despondent over the
loss of his wife, committed suicide at
her grave.
Titus broke two world's competitive
bicycie records at Denver, riding a mile
in 2:10 3-5 and five miles in 12:10.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Indiana democrats in state conven
tion at Indianapolis nominated a ticket
headed by George F. Reinhard and J. F.
Dailey for justices of the supreme
court. The platform denounces tariff
protection of every kind; declares Mc
Kinleyism to be the cuuse of the finan
cial depression; favors arbitration be
tween employes and employers, reaf
firm the belief that both gold and sil
ver should be used as a money standard;
indorses the administration of Presi
dent Cleveland, especially his course
in maintaining law and order, and in
dorses the administration of Gov. Mat
thews. The Missouri republicans state con
vention in session at Excelsior Springs
nominated a ticket headed by W. M.
Robinson for supreme judge.
The Ohio democratic state commit
tee have decided to hold the state con
vention in Columbus on September 18
and 19.
o'clock a.m. aim fo..-T-i
Gov. Fishback, of Arkansas, received
a telegram from Clifton R. Breckin
ridge resigning his seat in congress. A
special election to fill the vacancy has
been called for September 3.
Congressional nominations were
made on the 15th as follows: Wiscon
sin, Ninth district, Alexander Stewart
(rep.); Fourth. Theobold Otjen (dem.).
Arkansas, Second district, John S. Lit
tle (dem). Virginia, Ninth district,
James A. Walker (rep.); First, W. A.
Jones (dem.); Sixth, Peter J. Otey
(dem.). North Carolina, Fifth district,
Thomas Settle (rep.); Fourth, Charles
M. Cooke (dem.). Indiana, Sixth dis
trict, Thompson Harris (pop.) West
Virginia, Third distriot, J. II. Huling
(rep.). Nebraska. Fourth district, J.
E. Hainer (rep.).
Congressional nominations were
made as follows on the 10th: Virginia,
Sixth district, Hampton Hoge (rep.);
Seventh district, R. J. Walker (rep.);
Eighth district, E. E. Meredith (dem.);
Tenth district, 1). II. Tucker (dem.).
Michigan, Second district, George
Spaulding (rep.); Seventh district, N.
B. Farnsworth (pop.). Missouri. Tenth
district, M. C. Ellison (dem.); Eighth
district, W. C. Aldridge (pop.). Flori
da, First district, S. It. Sparktnan
(dem.). Mississippi, Sixth district, C
II. Hawthorn (pop.). Kentucky, Sec
ond district, J. 1). Clardey (dem.). Ne
braska, First district, J. IJ. Strode
(rep.). Pennsylvania, Twenty-eighth
district, W. C. Arnold (rep.).
The reform convention, in session at
Columbia, S. C, nominated J. G. Evans
for governor.
David B. Culberson was nominated
for governor by Texas democrats in
state coneention at Dallas.
The First district republican con
gressional convention, after being in
session two nights and two days at
Nebraska City, Neb., nominated Jesse
B. Strode on the 1,230th ballot.
FOREIGN.
Eighteen residents of a town in
Prussian Poland have died from eat
ing poisoned herring. A large part of
the population was made ill.
A cyclone which passed over Cuidad
Roal, Spain, injured 200 persons and
killed several thousand domestic an
imals. Fire broke out in the general work
house atTiume. Austria, and destroyed
property valued at $1,500,000.
Caserio Santo, the assassin of Pres
ident Carnot, of France, was executed
at Lyons.
Seven Chinese war vessels are re
ported to have been sunk in an en
gagement with the Japanese fleet.
Prince Ferdinand celebrated his ac
cession to the throne of Bulgaria by
pardoning all political and 240 common
law offenders.
In an explosion in a fireworks fac
tory at Konigsberg, Germany, three
persons were killed and several were
injured.
Arrangements were made in Berlin
to loan China 50,000,000. German and
English bankers would furnish the
money.
Continued wet weather has done
great damage to crops in England.
The potato blight in its most virulent
form prevailed in many districts of
Ireland.
A steamer which arrived at Victoria,
B. C, brought news of the death of
the king of Siam. He was aged 55
years, and had occupied the throne
since 1S0S. He was the father of
eighty-seven children.
Explorer Wellman reports having
discovered much new country on his
polar expedition, and will again go
north next year.
LATER.
- In the United States senate on the
17th a motion was made to appoint
Senator White to the vacancy on the
finance committee caused by the death
of Senator Vance. Senator Murphy
was also put in nomination, but under
the rules the nominations went over.
The conference report on the deficiency
bill was submitted. There was hardly
a quorum in the house, as members
were anxious to get away and were
leaving on every train. No business
of importance was transacted.
The body of Col. Lang C. Winston,
of Passadena, CaL. who was lost in a
snowstorm last November while with
a hunting party up the San Gabriel
canyon, has been found.
Charles Robinson, first elected gov
ernor of Kansas, died at his home in
Leavenworth.
XV. G. Taylor was hanged at New
burn, Va., for the murder of his wife.
The Cunard line steamer Campania,
which arrived at New York from Liv
erpool, made the passage in 5 days 9
hours and 20 minutes, the fastest time
on record.
The first bale of cotton of this jear's
crop, from Eagle Point, Miss., was sold
at auctiou in Memphis for ten cents a
pound.
Many tin plate works in south Wales
which have been closed for some time
were preparing to resume work in view
of the passage of the tariff bill in
Washington.
New Jekseyb legislature is to be
petitioned to permit the consolidation
of Jersey City, Newark, Iloboken,
Orange, Paterson and Passaic.
Appropriations made by the present
congress are 19,303,160 less than those
of its predecessor.
The rebellion in Venezuela lias come
to an end. Amnesty will be granted
to all insurgents.
In a speech before the bimetallic
conference at Washington Congress
man Bryan recommended the dropping
of all other issues but that of free
coinage.
United States Judge Caldwell has
ordered the Santa Fe receivers to pay
employes promptly, borrowing money
if necessary.
A double wedding was celebrated at
Paua, 111., in which Edward Munday
and Thomas Ellison were married to
each other's divorced wife.
The death of Burton C. Cook, ex
congressman and one of the makers
of history in Illinois, occurred in
Evanston. He twice placed Abraham
Lincoln in nomination for the presi
dency. TERMS uaiin r .
Sip-psta-NT Ar. ROOT.
A HELP TO TRADE.
Dun and Bradstreet on the Pas
sage of a Tariff Bill.
They Think the Kmllng of Uncertainty
Will Cause n Improvement in Busi
ness The Situation In Many
Cities.
brapstkeet s opinion.
New York. Aug. 18. Bradstreet's
says of the trade situation:
"Special telegraphic and mail advices sum
marizing Interviews with more than 6iX
leading wholesale dealers and manufact
urers at forty-seven cities throughout the
country as to tho present effect. If any,
of the tariff settlement and the outlook
as to the effect of tho senate tariff bill
bhould it become a law, indicate relatively less
enthusiasm at large eastern center, except at
New York and Halt Imorc. almost uniform satis
faction throughout the southern states, and
similar advices from the central and north
western states, except where serious crop dam
age has taken place. In tho far west little in
terest is manifested In tariff legislation, nota
bly at Denver and Helena, where silver at
tracts more attention. 1'ortland fears the re
sult of tho reduction of tho tariff on lumber,
but at San Francisco an Improvement in de
mand Is expected and considerable freight Is
offering for shipment to China.
"A feature is found in declarations from mnn
Ufacturrrs of wio!en goods, glassware, pottery
and Iron and steel at various centers of produc
tion that wages will promptly bo reduced. Im
porters of woolens are said t have the market
this fall, and clothing manufacturers, it Is de
clared, should do a fair business, but not try to
carry over light weights on January 1. Cotton
merchants declare settlement of tho tariff
comes too late to help them this fall, and lum
ber dealers speak n-gretf ully of the reduction
I of duties on their line.
"Aside from probal.lo Improvement due
ending uncertainly In business, neither
lloston, Providence, liuffalo, Philadelphia.
Pittsburgh, Newark or Kochester mer
chants Interviewed express noteworthy
enthusiasm as to the trado prospect.
While no gain is reported In trade circles ut
southern cities several thousand coal strikers
have gone back to work In the Birming
ham district, several southern railways are
callim; for more coal, and southern Iron works
are shipping more Iron than a year ago. It is
reported ut Atlanta hardware jobbers based
recent prices on the Wilson bill, and the pros
pective passage of the senate bill will make a
difference In profits in consequence. Little
ltock expects eastern cotton manufacturers to
buy more freely now, and three leading Texas
cities, in view of excellent crop prospects in
that state and prospectively the largest cotton
crop on record, regard the business outlook
very favorably. The proposed change in the
sugar schedule exerts material depression in
Louisiana.
"The region west of Pennsylvania and east
of the Mississippi river reports almost uni
formly favorable trade conditions, with gains
In demand and in industrial activity except
the Indiana and Illinois pottery industries and
among Indiana clothing manufacturers, who
report they expect to reduce waes. Country
merchants in the two states named have been
buying heavily from Chicago jobbers, but that
city's trade from regions west of the Missis
sippi river has fallen off. St. Louis continues
the exceptionally favorable report of previous
weeks, with tne additional feature that tho
demand for iron is increasing.
"The more important cities in "Wisconsin
and Minnesota report an improved outlook for
trade und an increase in the volume of busi
ness, due to more favorable crop returns. In
creased demand is noticed for groceries, hard
ware, cutlery and shoes. The serious damage
to corn in Kansas has had an unfavorable ef
fect at Kansas City, crop damage in that state,
as well as in Nebraska and Iowa, overshadow
ing other conditions and characterizing trade
reports from Lincoln, Omaha and Burlington."
R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of
trade says:
"The new tariff, if signed by the president as
expected, provides a definite basis for busi
ness. No supplemental legislation Is
thought possible until next year at least.
Large improvement has been expected from
any settlement, the more because of a vast
amount of business deferred from week to
week in the hope of more definite conditions.
The rush of such business, or even a part of it.
might easily double transactions for a time. It
Is not to be overlooked that the effect of new
duties upon many branches of industry and
trade is problematical, and may be deter
mined only after some months of experience,
and meanwhile the serious injury to corn and
some of the conditions exercise a restraining
Influence. It is too early to look for effects of
the new situation in the great industries, but
the gradual recovery which has appeared for
some time is seen in a better demand for
products.
"Resumption by iron and steel works which
were stopped by the strikes continues to de
press prices of some finished products, but
with more furnaces operating prices of pig
Iron are not lower. Comparisons given to-day
show a fall in prices ranging from -"O to 44 per
cent. In iron and its products since lsyO, which
sufficiently account for the idleness of more
than a third of the works.
"Speculution In corn has been active, the
price falling 4 cents, rising 3! cents, and fall
ing V! cents, with varying reports of injury,
which in some of the states Is undoubtedly se
vere. Pork has advanced 50 cents and lard 35
cents per WO pounds, with justification in the
injury to corn. Wheat is about 1 cent lower.
"Liabilities of firms failing In the week end
ed August 9 are a little larger than of late,
$3,294,689. of which Jl .041.491 were of manu
facturing and $1,603,198 of trading concerns.
Full returns for July show an aggregate of
(11,291.305 The failures this week have been
S3) in the United States, against 455 last year,
and 45 in Canada, against 27 last year."
THE SUPREME ISSUE.
The Ulnietalllc league Declares It to It
Silver.
Washington, Aug. 18. The policy
to be pursued in advancing the princi
ples of bimetallism was outlined at
Friday's session of the American Bi
metallic league conference. Speeches
were made by several congressmen and
by delegates from various states. A
declaration of principles, of which the
following is a synopsis, was adopted:
It recounts the repeal of the silver purchase
law and establishment of the single gold
standard has been followed by steadily in
creasing depression: that gold has steadily In
creased in value: industries everywhere are
paralyzed: labor is unsteady and precarious;
business enterprise is imperiled and debt
ors made bankrupt. It Is asserted
that there is no hope of relief until
the double standard of 16 to 1 is re
stored, and that the money question Is the
supreme issue before the country. Voters are
urged to make this issue paramount to ail
other considerations in the election of state
legislatures, congressmen and president. It is
recommended that a convention be held at
some central point in both the mining and ag
ricultural states to perfect an organization to
work for this end and that a committee of live
be appointed to carry out the plan.
NOTABLE MEN.
The Bookman makes the astonishing
announcement that no book of Mr. Bus
kin's has ever been translated and pub
lished in a foreign language.
Mme. Blanc 6ays that Bret Hart is,
of all the American authors of .the
time, the most popular in France, and
that Howells Is not generally liked by
the French.
A Paris journal says that the Ameri
can artist, Mr. Thomas Shields-Clarke,
at present resident in Paris, pursues five
different branches of art in five differ
ent studios.
THE FREE BILLS.
Vacancy on the Senate Committee Cause
Delay In Taking: Action.
Washington, Aug. 18 The senate
finance committee met Friday to
further consider the free sugar and
other separate tariff bills referred
to it Thursday. The republican mem
bers of the committee 6aid they could
not take the responsibility of reporting
these bills and if the democrats desired
to have them reported they must do it
with their majority; that the republic
ans had four members of the finance
committee here, and as the democrats
had but the same number, the former
did not propose to have the democrats
counted as five. The committee imme
diately adjourned.
The democratic steering committee
met in Senator Cockrell's committee
room immediately after the adjourn
ment of the finance committee. The
committee was not long in deciding
upon Senator White (Cal.), and Sena
tor Harris was instructed to present
his name to the senate.
As soon as it became known on the
republican side that Senator White
had been selected by the democratic
steering committee for the vacancy
i on the committee they at once deter-
mined to make a strong fight against
I White's election. The plan they de
' cided upon was to propose the name
! of Senator Murphy (N. Y.), in place of
i White, the republicans to vote solidly
I for him with the belief that they
could secure enough democratic votes
! to defeat White. They counted upon
! being able to poll the votes of Sen-
ators Blanchard, Cafferj' and others
for Murphy.
i The battle came up in the senate
i shortly after that body met. The ball
! was started rolling by Senator Harris,
who secured the floor and moved that
Senator White be appointed to fill the
I vacancy upon the committee. Sen
: ator Chandler objected, demand
: ing that the motion go over until
i Saturday. Then Senator Harris made
; a hot speech in favor of his proposi
i tion. He denounced the republican
I senators for endeavoring to secure de
i laj-. There was a long wrangle over
j the parliamentary status of the mo
I tion. Senator Manderson asserted
that the resolution should go over.
I Senator Chandler returned Senator
I Harris' fire in a brief but sarcastic
speech.
Then Senator Hill came to the front.
He began abrupt' by stating that he
favored the bill providing for free
sugar, iron ore, coal and barbed wire.
He reiterated his well-known asser
tions of the past that he had favored
these articles on the free list.
When the tariff bill was under
discussion he voted for them
all. Other senators, he said, had
not voted their individual opin
ions on these lines because they were
dominated by caucus action. He was
not bound by anj caucus action and
had voted as he thought right. If the
present attempt was carried through
to break this caucus action he would
be compelled to insist upon amend
ments he had offered to these bills.
The principal one was his amendment
to repeal the income tax.
All Senator Hill's arguments were
directed against the plan to fi'l the
present vacancy on the finance com
mittee. He discussed the parliament
ary phase and asserted that the mo
tion was not a privileged one. He re
cited recent incidents in the senate to
back up his assertion. He went
on to declare that it was not a privi
leged question, and he believed it was
not, it could not be acted upon by the
senate at once, as desired by Senator
Harris and others. He pleaded that it
would be better that the resolution
should go over.
Then Senator Hill switched off and
criticised the action of the democrats
in the senate and house and the ad
ministration officials ever since the
great tariff battle had begun nearly a
year ago. In closing he suggested a
democratic caucus to dispose of the
matter.
Senator Harris motion was then
withdrawn, and Senator Harris later
put his motion in the form of a resolu
tion, and it will go over until Satur
day.
Senator Murphy offered a resolution
designed to quiet the tariff uncer
tainty. It sets forth that as the secre
tary of the treasury estimates that the
surplus revenue will not exceed 15,
000,000, therefore, in the judgment of
the senate, it would be unwise to en
act further legislation at this session
affecting the tariff. Senator Cockrell
objected to the resolution and it went
over.
THOUSANDS SLAIN.
Fearful Conflict Hetween Japanese and
Chinese at Selkan.
Victoria, B. C, Aug. IS. According
to the last oriental news by the steam
er Empress, of Japan, the third battle
in the war between Japan and China
was fought on July 2J at Selkan. The
battle commenced at 3 o'clock in
the morning and lasted, with
fearful slaughter, for five hours.
Nearly 1,000 Chinese and 1,000
Japanese are said to have been
6la-in in the conflict. The Japanese
eventually drove oif the Chinese and
captured the town of Selkan. There
were 5,000 Japanese and 0.000 Chinese
engaged. The Chinese fled and took
shelter on a number of ships at Koshu,
15 miles distant. A number of cannon
was captured by the Japanese. The
Japanese followed them, and another
battle was fought at Asan, 7 miles
from Selkiuu
JUDGMENTS.
The unexpected never happens twice.
The next century will take up wom
en's wrongs.
Comparisons are odious, except those
in your favor.
IIe who lives in the fear of death is
already half dead.
Women lie about their ages, men
about their weight.
It is impossible to count on what a
jury or a girl will do.
It aggravates us more to hear our
enemies praised than to hear our friends
maligned. Madeline Orvis, in Judge.
i iTmiro'H'S'cu R E g
LABOR DISPUTES.
More Plans for Their Settlement Effect
of the blacklist.
Chicago, Aug. 17. The first witness before
the labor -commission at the opening of its
third day's session was Ray Goodwin, one of
the directors of the A. R. U. Mr. Goodwia
was somewhat inclined to be uncommunica
tive, and occupied the stand but a short time.
He thought the way to prevent strikes ws to
have a cooperative commonwealth.
Vice President Howard, of the A. R. U.. aeaio
became a witness, and created something
of a sensation when he informed the com
mission that the United States govtrn
nien is boycotting 3.WJJ of the A. K. U. men
and the strikers in the courtroom became
interested. The Union Pacific road receivers
are United States officers, and they have re
fused to reemploy the 3.000 men who struck on
that road. This, according to Mr. Howard, is
a boycott of tho men by the United States.
The commission did not consider the stiue
ment of Mr. Howard relevant, but heard him
on. He proceeded to say that half a dozen roads
are engaged In a boycott on the Missouri. Kan
sas & Texas road on account of a passenger
rate made by the latter road. Yet the gov
ernment had not interfered as it had in the
boycott on Iullman cars. It should let the
railways and their employes fight out their
differences just as it docs not interfere in dis
putes between one road and another.
There was a volley of hand clapping as Mr.
Howard finished. The commission decided,
however, that the mutters he referred to were
not germane to the Investigation.
E. W. Hcmis, associate professor of political
economy in the University of Chicago, ap
peared as a witness. Commissioner Wright
told him that the subject of arbitration had
been touched on to some extent and asked his
opinion.
Prof. Hemis said in regard to this question
that it must be separated into the private, such
as manufacturing, and the quasi-public, such
as railroads. Arbitration steins to have
marked well in the settlement of disputes in
private industries in Massachusetts, where
there is a state board of conciliation and arbi
tration. In cuses where either side re
fuses these conciliatory measures and
it was the witness' Judgment that em
ployers had the more often held
aloof the board may make an investi
gation. "Where the purties consent to arbi
trate the commission has the right to compel
emtilovers tn show their bonks as to wll'CS.
but they cannot be compelled to testify as to
profits.
Prof. Hemis sugsested a commission, which
should have power to inquire into profits. The
j commission should not be empowered, how
ever, to enforce its decrees unless both parties
had agreed in advance to abide by them. Kull
presentation of facts would set public opinion
aright and la a large measure help to tlTect
settlements.
As to railroads, it was likely that some time
in the future they would pass into govern
ment control and that civil regulations would
prevail. Hut that time is rcmr.te. and as a
present remedy Prof. Hemis suggested
the creation of state courts for the settlement
of disputes between company and employes
on interstate roads, and of a federal court of
inquiry, conciliation, ind arbitration for
the adjustment of labor difficulties on in
terstate railways. These courts should
have power to make exhaustive inquiry and
compliance with their decisions should be
obligatory. He thought it would be a vood
plan to license all railway employes, just
as lkke and river engineers and pilots are
licensed.
H. P. Griswold testified in regard to black
listing. He is a switchman. 28 years old.
and had been a railroad man about ten
years. He was one of the American Railway
union organizers for the Northwestern road.
"I applied for work less than a week ago
at Altoona. O.," said he. "I wrote out my
name and then the trainmaster turned to a
book. and. finding my name there, said I was
blacklisted and could not have work on that
road. The same experience was met with at
Columbus. O."
A. li. Connors, the next witness, also had
some experience with the black list. He
learned of It for the first time when he applied
to the Union Stock Yards & Transit com
pany for work. His name was vpoa
a list, he said, which the company
had in the office, and he was turned
away because of his participation in
the strike. He stated that he had not heard of
any Instance where a member of the railway
union wascconcerned In any acts of violence
during the railway trouble. He went as far as
to say the railway union men had even guard
ed the property of the Grand Trunk road to
stop destruction of property by irresponsible
persons.
Rev. William H. Carwardine. of the Pullman
Methodist Episcopal church, testified at the
afternoon session. After stating briefly the
origin of the strike. Mr. Carwardine said:
"After the strike was declared I felt in jus
tice I must state my views on the question, and
I discussed the matter in the pulpit. The
wages were cut sevctely and unequally. There
was dissatisfaction with the local administra
tion and with the abuses of the foreman. The
men did not have a reduction of the rent when
the wages were cut, and the men felt that jus
tice could not be received. Mr. Pullman and
Mr. Wickes are not so much to blame for
the present state of affairs. The difficulty
is with the local administration. If Mr.
Pullman had been In closer relationship
with his men and if rent had been reduced
when the wages were the strike would have
been averted. I don't know how muoh the
rent should have been reduced. The Pullman
company starts out with the idea of a S3stem
of paternalism and the system was founded
to improve the workingmen. I contend that
the company should not cut the wages of their
old employes, but act from the standpoint of
the paternalistic- system.
"I endeavored to bring about a settlement of
hetroubles. 1 met the central committee of
the Pullman strlcrs and asked them to de
clare the boycott i3. I went to see Mr. Debs
with a committee to bring about a settlement
of the boycott."
Mr. Wright Mr. Carwardine, are you an ad
vocate of strikes?
"No, sir. I deplore them. I am much in
clined to boards ol arbitration. I am also sym
pathetic to the ide of putting the railroads in
the hands of the government. There never
will come a settlement of these things until
employers are more just toward employes than
has been illustrated by this affair. There
must be more cooperation and recognition."'
Mr. Wright Are you inclined towards state
socialism?
"Weil. I have been charged with being a
socialist and an anarchist. I know enough,
however, to know a man cannot be both. I
might be what you would call a Christian so
cialist, but as to anarchy I repudiate it en
tirely." He thought the conduct of the employes dur
ing the strike was remarkably good. There
was an element that had to be subdued
and he was free to 6y it was a good thing to
have the militia on the scene three or four
days, but there would have been no outbreak if
left entirely to the police force. There have
been attempts to Interfere with the political
rights, and ald he knew of intimidation of
voters. He said ho knew sixty-four families
were soon to be evicted at Pullman, and after
he left tho stand said he was in the city to
raise money some way to stop the ejecta,cnt
proceedings.
EuKtne V. Debs has telegraphed the com
mission that he is recovering from his recent
illness, but on account of the sickness of his
lfe. he will not be able to appear for examin
ation before the middle of next week.
MURDERED FOR SS.50.
Ben Kerd Confesses That He Killed iiad
Kobbetl Hendemon Near Terre Haute.
TvnnE Hai-te. Ind.. Aug. IS. The
cornfield murder mystery here has
been cleared up by t:ie couiession
made by Uen Reed after his ar
rest. He says he ana trie mur
dered man. Henderson, walked from
Marshall, 111. They slept in the corn
field. Ileed, waking first, shot and
killed Henderson, robbed the body and
returned to Marshall. The proceeds
of the murder, ?G.50, he used to buy
clothiug and food for his wife at Mar
shall.