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CONGRESSIONAL.
Troeeellnc "t the Secontl Session.
In the svr.ate cn the llh Senator Hawiey
(Conn.) introduced a bill tor the reorganisa
tion nnd Increase of the army. Petitions pray
icp for the passace of laRi i'raat forfeiture
bill cr presented and the Nicaragua canal
bill was discussed In the lioue the army
appropriation bill, the Mil to protect forest
reervtlons and fifteen pension bills were
parsed. The Carlisle banking bill wi report
ed and a bill appropriating fV.iXO for a statue
cf Gen. Grant oa the vast front of the capllol
alongside the statue of Wuh!njfton was in
troduced. Tut senate a addressed by Messrs. Hill
and Ttsrpie on the ISih. the former in advocacy
of cloture, the latter In opposition to the Nic-ar.k-ua
canal bilL A resolution looking to
union with Canada s Intrvxluced by Senator
vallier la the house debate on the Car
lisle bankirjr bill was N-;un. Mr. Springer
speakinc !n favor and Mr. Walker in opposi
tion to the measure. Mr. Wand announced a
substitute for the Carlisle currency bill which
provides for the free colnace of silver
The report of Admiral Walker on the sub
ject of Haw ait was laid before the senate on
the Ith. A bill wa passed to open for settle
dent abandoned military reservations In vari
ous states and territories. A bill was also
I?M to establish a national military park at
the battletle'.rl of Shiioh. The Nicaragua canal
bill was further discussed la tie house the
time was occupied in debating the Carlisle
currency bill
DOMESTIC
Two corn leads of fabulous richness
were struck by driller at Iowa tluleh.
southwest of Lillian. Col.
Key. K. M. Dillon, a Fresbyter.au
preacher of lireencastle. Ind., resigned
because his congregation cave a fair
in an opera houe.
Treasury department statistics show
that Lngland suffered heavy losses in
United States trade during the last ten
years.
Casimir Hef.ner. a Polander. aged
, pounded his wife to death at Man
istee, Mich., aud then committed sui
cide. No cause was known.
UxtTEU states oiVicers arrested
laeniWrs of a gang of counterfeiters
in Oklahoma aud captured much spu
rious coin.
The leaders of a Tennessee mob
which lynched six negroes last Au
gust were acquitted of the charge by a
jury at Memphis.
Ktr Lavii.xe. of Saginaw. Mich.,
knocked out Andy llowen in eighteen
rounds before the Auditorium club of
New Orleans. It was thought llowen
would die from the pounding' he re
ceived. Axir ITowex died from the injuries
he received in the fi.ht with tieorgv
Lavigne in New Orleans.
Mr. Wis-low Shearman and her
slaughter. Mrs. Clinton Davis, were
murdered near Jamestown. N. Y., by
unknown persons while Mr. Shearman
was attending the funeral of his son
and daughter-in-law, who were killed
by a train.
TuE Easterly Harvesting company
at Minneapolis made an assignment
with liabilities of $033,742; claimed as
sets SiiSS.OlH.
The house committee decided, bv a
Tote of 9 to , to favorably refort Se
retary Carlisle s plan lor currency re-
fonn.
The failure of the Union Uuilding
and Saving's company of Des Moines
caught Burlington Ia ) people for
about $.200, 000.
Mr. asd Mr. David Simtm. of
Eilinboro, Ia., were beaten by masked
burglars and robbed of 510,000.
(Jexkrai. rains fell throughout Ne
Lraska. the first time since July 3.
Joux Hall and his wife. New York
actors, were asphyxiated. Hall having1
turned the gas on while he was drunk
Tex men were Injured, several fatal
ly, by an explosion of gas in the Vul
can mine at Newcastle, O.
The Woonsocket bank at Woonsock-
et, S. D., went into voluntary liquida
tion.
15 navigating tbe great lakes the
past season sixty sailors were lost, and
thirty-eight vessels with an aggregate
tonnage of tons pasjed out of
existence.
Jons Huntington, suspected of era
bezzling from the Citizens state bank
of Council LlufTs, la., wounded two
inspectors fcent to examine his ac
counts and killed himself.
At Dubuque, la., ex-Pension Agent
Van Leuvea pleaded guilty to con
spiracy to defraud the government
and was sentenced to two years' im
prisonment. i. Mi.s. Lelle Parker, who was 6 feet
high and weighed 4o- pounds, died
suddenly of heart disease in Danville,
HI.
Alta Joh.nw)S, who pleaded guilty
lo complicity in the two train rob
beries near Ilofcoe, Cal.,was sentenced
lo life imprison ment-
Tffo yoi:xo daughters of Lev. Solo
mon Leckcrman, of Cleveland, !.,
were burned to death In their home.
It was announced that the defalca
tion of Cashier McKean, of the Indian
Head national bank of Nashua, N. II.,
tvonld reach SltX',000.
Two mapkkd men held up Smyth
Taylor at Greenville. Tenn.. and
robbed him of $2,000 which he had just
drawn from a back.
Tm:".K men who pretended to be
ellin washing compound rights se
cured $25,000 from residents of l'ron
fcon, Kan.
Davii Obwio and Miss Ollie Wil
hehn. of Findlay, O., resolved to quit
this world Ugether, and did bo by
taking1 morphine.
Ax automatic telegraphic transmit
ter has been invented which, it is kaid,
will feend 2C0 words a minute over the
wire.
Ax unsuccessful attempt was made
near Upper Sandusky. O., to wreck the
Pennsylvania' New York and Chicago
limited.
I: a Iloston tenement house James
Murphy fatally fehot his wife and then
"Jed himself. -
Matty's Soxe, an old Philadel
nd rn establishment.
Ambrosk Dai'GHKRTT and George
Huffman fought for precedence in
crossing1 a bridge near Kldon. Ia,, and
both were fatally wounded.
Joh.v Citoxix was hanged on an au
tomatic gallows at Hartford, Conn.,
for the murder of Albert Skinner on
October 0, The apparatus worked
successfully.
SAMt'Ki. C Seei.y pleaded jtiilty to
robbing the New York Shoe and leath
er bank of $334,000 and was remanded
for sentence.
Tin: Citizens stock bank of Slater,
Mo., made un assignment with liabili
ties of SoOO.OOO and assets of $250,000.
The fuilure caused the Slater savings
bank also to close its doors.
Stain was notified by Secretary
Greshnm that Cuban discrimination
ngainst American goods must be dis
continued, on pain of retaliation.
John and Gene Kennedy were
hanged at Jasper, Tenn., for murder
ing James Lowrie, a railway agent at
Shellmound, in October. lSiW.
For u vessels were wrecked during a
gale on the Pacific coast and over fifty
sailors were drowned.
William STr.ArsBAron. a maker of
spurious coin, and two confederates
were captured by federal officers at
Tiftlu. O.
At Gardiner, Me., a house occupied
by Mrs. McKeady and two children
was burned, all thre of the inmates
perishing in the lkunes.
"Smiley" Joi;i.x, a colored farm-
haud, w as caught in the art of robbing
a newly made grave at Mount Hope,
K v.. and shot dead.
John McUuim: of the United Mine
Workers was elected president of the
Federation of Labor at its annual
meeting in Denver. Indianapolis was
selected for headquarters.
While talking with a friend at South
IJend, Ind., IMwiu Hardman, aed V),
leaned on the muzzle of his gun, which
exploded and killed him.
F.YAXGELisr Moony was meeting
with great surcess at Lowell, Mass.
Ads." in all the papers called on
church members to stav awav and
give the sinners u chance.
The Lcxow" idea has reached San
Francisco, where the clergymen are
organizing a movement to purify mu
nicipal morals.
IIkitish army otlicers. uuvler the
gttise of artists and tourists, were said
to have made sketches of the territory
and defenses in the vicinity of Toledo.
O., and other lake ports.
Ix the United States circuit court at
Iloston the Kerllner telephone patent
was declared void.
A hill to prevent strikes on rail
ways has been prepared by Carroll I).
Wright and his d-s-soeiates on the labor
commission.
Prominent New York business men
decided to test the constitutionality
of the income tax in the courts.
Chicago capitalists were said to have
purchased all the private mines at
Hock spring. Wyo., the consideration
being f-O.OOO.OOO.
Thovias A. F.niox has vetoed the
plan to have Corbett and Fitzslmmons
light lefore the kinetoscoj e in Mexico.
Sami el Corn V Heo., New York shoe,
dealers, failed for $400.lvJ.
Ki'gf.xe V." Dr.Rj and his associate
officers of the American Kail way
union, concluded make no further
attempt to avert their punishment.
The business portion of Stone Moun
tain, Ga.. was almost entirely de
stroyed by fire.
Twenty indictments of men charged
with repeating in the recent election
were handed down by the grand jury
at St. Louis.
Fight eloping Kentucky couples
crossed the Ohio river to JcfTerson
ville. Ind., and were married.
A fire at Huron, O., destroyed the
Reporter printing establishment.
Font boys and one man were killed
and three others injured by the ex
plosion of a boiler in a planing mill at
West Fav City, Mich.
John II IiiELRY, cashier of the Cen
tral national bank of Home. N. Y.,
confessed to being a defaulter to the
amount of S2T.000.
The Kentucky superior courLohas
gone out of existence by limitation of
the constitution.
D. K. Caltwell, a Frankfort (Ind.)
lumber dealer, was convicted of con
spiracy to manufacture and circulate
counterfeit eoin.
LrcY M. Grcrer sues Roswell K.
Messinger, of Toledo, )., for 573.000
damages in breach of promise to marry.
William Meyers and Alexander Carr,
murderers, were sentenced to be hanged
at Atlanta. Ga., on February a
Ix a fit of despondency Mrs. William
Jones, of Dry Hollow, near Cassville,
Mo., cut the throats of her J r and 7-year-old
children with a razor and then
committed suicide in the same man
ner. A M I'Ki'H T temperance movement
has been inaugurated in Salem, O.,
over 1,00) having already signed the
pledge.
Utica.N. Y..road supervisors decided
to tax wheelmen three dollars a year,
the money to be used in improving the
highways.
Owing to alleged unjust treatment
by the bishop- of the diocese, the Hu
man Catlwdic population of Weideri
thal, in Hungary, in a body declared
themselves protestants.
Maskri men entered the home of
John Collins near Sioux City, la., and
robbed him of 84,400 in gold.
C. J. Chk and his wife were fatally
burned at Llyria, O., in a fire that de
stroyed their home.
Ix a dispute about a right of way at
Cripple Creek, Col., H. It. Newell, chief
engineer of the Midland Terminal
road, was killed by Van Houghton.
Four Hi'NDREnmen were thrown out
of work and a loss of $100,000 was sus
tained by a fire in the Spring Hill col
lieries at Halifax. N. S.
TwEXTY-riVE HuiTalo (N. Y.) lodge
of Knights of Pythias seceded and
formed a new order because of the
abolishing of rituals in foreign lan
guages. Fivi: men were injured, two prob
ably fatally, by the falling of a scaf
folding nt Janesyille, Wis.
It was said that Congressman-eleot
Johu J. Jenkins, of Wisconsin, was in
elegible, never having been naturalized.
Miss Eva Doolet, of Tloston, Ind.,
had both her limbs emputated at the
knee because of their poisoned condi
tion, resulting from wearing red stock
ings. George H. llARiiorit, mourned as
dead, was reunited to his father in
Chicago over the corpse which had
been positively identified as his own.
Director General Davis' report
upon the Columbian exposition will
be submitted to the president within
the next month.
Frei W. Jon has been commissioned
as consul general of Hawaii for Illi
nois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and
M Ichigau.
Not a passenger was killed on a
Michigan railroad during- the past
year aud but eleven were injured.
The clothing manufactory of H. S.
Mark Co.. at Milwaukee, was closed
by holders of mortgages aggregating1
about S tt'.0. 000.
Steve Aiams was hanged at Green
ville, Miss., for murdering James Iver
son last May. and Judge Gilbert was
hanged at Friar's Point, Miss., for
killing his wife.
The twetity-nlnth annual encamp
ment of the Grand Army of the Repub
lic will be held in Louisville, Ky., be
ginning September 11, 1M.".
DivKLi.o Pike, of Hurdett, N.Y.. was
found dead In his buggy, his body be
ing frozen stitT.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Djl John Lri, historian and lec
turer, died at his home in Stamford,
Conn.
James . Gilfillan, chief justice of
the supreme court of Minnesota 'meo
160. died at St. Paul, aged tk 3-ears.
Josetii L. Shu-lev. for twenty years
editor and principal owner of the
Springfield (Mass.) Union, died sud
denly of heart disease.
Millie Jefferson- (colored) died at
the home of her great-grandson in
New York, aged Q'J years s months
and 10 days.
FitAsrrs F. I!eaiLE. the publisherof
dime novels, tiled at his country home
in Coopers town. N. Y., aged 74 years.
TllEonoiiE HraroN, if Macomb. 111..
United States consul at Pasodol Norte.
Mexico, died from consumption, aged
2 years.
S.mh 11. M. Itr.liMirMAN, a veteran of
two wars and the oldest employee of
Pinkertoa's detective agency, died at
Kwnston, 111., aged 76 years.
FOREIGN.
The remains of Count Ferdinand de
Iesseps were interred in the Church
of SL Pierre de Chaillot, just outside
of Parts.
HouERT Lor i Srr.VFNsox. the nove'
ist. died in Samoa, where he had lued
for several years, aged 4 y ears.
PrRLIO executions have been atl
ished in Spain by royal decree. In tho
future condemned criminals will suf
fer the death tenalty inside the prison
walls.
HoioxRr S. MrxN. one of the leading
business men of New foundiand, die 1
from heart failure, brought on by
financial troubles.
The numWrof persons kiile l in the
recent earthquake in southern Italy is
ot'icially stated to be eighty-six. In
addition -00 were injured.
The expulsion tf Jews from territory
nearer the frontier than fifty versts
has Wen topj-d by order of the Rus
sian minister of the interior.
The Corean government announced
that Chinese would be allowed to re
side only in the treaty ports of Corea-
Distatciies say that twenty-three
Armenian villages were laid in ft-shes,
eleven others pillaged and forty priest
massacred by Turkish soldier.
LATER.
nited .Mat- senate on
were reported to revive
lieutenant xreneral in
IX the I
20th bills
grade of
the
the
the
army, to forfeit lands granted to aid in
the construction of railroads, and to
provide a suitable residence for the
president. In the house bills were in
troduced to amend the national bank
ing act. authorizing the deposit of le
gal tenders instead of bond t: secure
circulation, the circulating bank notes
to be exempt from taxation; to provide
a residence for the president; and an
urgency deficiency bill of fS7.".000 to
complete the census. A bill was passed
to pension the widow of Mnj. Gen.
Nathaniel P. Hanks at the rate of UH)
a month. The currency bill was further
discussed.
James Allen (colored) was shot to
death by a mob at Hrownesvllle, Tex.
He was charged with burning barns.
The grand jury voted to indict twenty-six
of the men charged with lawless
ness at the polls on election day in
Chicago. Three of the number are jo
1 icemen.
' FiRK.at Napoleonville. La., destroyed
seven blocks, including most of tho
business portion of the town. Loss,
812VOOO.
Violent earthquake shocks in south
Hungary threw down houses and drove
the residents to the streets.
James L. Amorn, ex-United States
Fenator and former governor at Mis
sissippi, died at his homo at Fagle
Nest, Miss., aged 7S years.
The btly of Mrs. A. D. Matson, mur
dered ten da3s ago, was found at To
peka, Kan. She had been criminally
assaulted and robWd.
The Habbitt block, a four-story struc
ture at Morristowu, N. J., in which
were the First national bank nnd
Kelse's clothing store, was burned, the
loss being $100,000.
A 8HORTAOE of S'J.000 was discovered
in the accounts of J. II. Henderson,
late treasurer of Rureau county. III.
The president has respited for tho
fourth time Thomas St Clair, Ren
te need to be hanged in California for
murder committed on the high seas.
Wisconsin courts have decided that
the Illinois Order of Forrester is
without legal right to do business in
that state. ,
Charlkh Pkterhon shot his wife in
New York, killing her, and then killed
himself. Five young children were
left orphans by the tragedy.
While fooling with a gun Simeon
llowen shot and killed the two little
daughters of Zcke Rryant near Troy,
Ala.
nuvn iLMwvrc!
Pro eon tod to tho Houso on tho
Oarllslo Curroncy BUL
The Majority Tree lta l.arly CmiaUlera
tlou ml Adoption The Minority
Deplore lltr nnl Want
It IlrtrrreO.
Washington. Dec. 13. Mr. Springer,
of Illinois chairman of the banking
aud currency committee, submitted
on Monday his report accom
panying the Carlisle bill. The
committee, the report states, ia of
the opinion that a security to the
full amount of the" circulating notes
htsued is no longer necessary for the
safety of the notes. The bill, the pas
sage of which is recommended by the
committee, does not require the de
posit of bonds of the United States or
of any other interest-bearing obliga
tion, but in lieu of such security pro
vides as follows;
L A guarantee fund eonUtlnir of treasury
uotes. Including th mite Usue.l uaJer the set
of conurri. arprovf 1 JuJy 14. !A. njual lo 30
per centum of tbo circulating bote spplleU
for.
t A afrty fund, which will omoant. when It
reaehes it malm am. to 5 per cent, upon tho
total amount of natloual bank note ouuUdJ
leg. 1 A first lien uj-on all tho aets of the ao
clatlon Issuing the utue.
In case the guarantee and safety
funds and the assets of a failed bank
are not sufficient to redeem the notes
of such bank, a pro-rata assessment
upon all other banking assignations,
according to the amount of their out
standing circulation, is to be made
by the treasury department, and the
banks so assessed tdtall have a first Hen
upon the assets of rach failed bank
for the amount properly chargeable to
such bank on account of the redemp
tion of its circulation. It is believed by
the committee that the funds
thtw provided will be amply
sufficient to secure the notes of
failed bauks. The bill limits the
amount of circulating notes which
any bank may issue to 7i per cent, of
it capital stock. During the great
financial crisis of lS national
bauks sus(euded payment, having a
capital stock of ;0,S50.000. The re
port savs-
Tb fct aet forth emontrt eesciu
Itelj that If tho i'ru;ss-4 t!21 tad teen In
foreo tlurlcj the crt!s of if all tto
laak had It ret, fro taken out circulation
to the caller. urn amount allowed by law.
sad If the fil.ed bask had alto takta out
t&elr nittlmuai circulation, tho guarantee a&d
aafety fund would hvo I a aicpl for tho
rsymentof tho entire c!rcuIilo of the out-ai-axidlr.f
Dote, asd would hat left a aurplua
cf oer 111 0.000 atlll In tt surety
fasd without tho necelty. eren la s great
crltit of that klnl. of tr.a'klL any a
ifitmfisi on tho resource of the other na
tional ta&ka. la low of these facta j our c ora
te 1 . tee are i f tho o; itloa that ahruld the pro
posed bill become a law the notes which
would to Ittued ucoer It would be absolutely
afo under any and all j.vlM buaincaa coa
litions. In conclusion the eommktee say:
Tho eitraorumary condition which eon
front tho treury dcrartn--.ent hat con
a trained tho c.emter of tho majority of tho
eon-.sltteo. while not agreeing to ail tho
proria'.ona of tho bill nor to all tho
raoalctf employed la thl report, lo
concur la reporting the nieauro to tb houo
for lta conlderalion. each reierttctf to httr.e:f
the r.fht to c -ex uch amendtaenta a he day
Aeom proper, and Vo vuto on iho bill Hastily aa
be Ciy Ce:ertu'.ne.
Tho report cf the minority wa presented by
Mr. Walker (rep. Ma.). It refer lo tho
baio with which the party majority not tho
voting majority sf the comnjltteo presented
the meaur. and aay lhl hato 1 all
tho more inexplicable In tew cf the fact that
Secretary Carlisle testified that thla till,
which he had drafted himself for tho relief cf
tho treasury, would not la any event reilere it
t&alertaily for Cto years and t&U&l tot for
twenty years.
The report ata'.ca that tho whole action of
the party majority of the committee waa most
extraordinary and not approved ty lta voting
majority. The bill waa only read Ineommltteo
la part, on on occasion and aa opportunity
to conidr or amend tt wa refuted
both to tbo democratic and repub
lican morabora. Tho report continue
that It la tho opinion of s r.u-jber of
tho most clear-healed and eminent financiers
of tho country that If the Carlisle bill la en
acted Into a law that It will within twenty
Cay a precipitate a panic far more aevero than
that of lfrJ. a li would compel the forced aalo
upon tho market of nearly AW OOJ.CVO worth of
United State bond within six months.
Tho report saya that whatever legislation Is
bad with reference to the finance of tbe coun
try or banking In its effects upon national
banks ahould bo permlslre and not manda
tory aa to national banka while their present
charters continue.
In tho opinion of the minority, the provisions
cf exemption a to stale banks would drive
every exUtlng national bank that deslrea to
to take out circulating note Into tho state
bank ayatem If tho bill were enacted. The
taxation of national banks would amount to
ts.000.000 annually under the present bill,
which there Is no reason to bellove would be
Imposed upon them under the stalo system.
The report direct attention to the fact that
all of the witnee who appeared before the
committee objected seriously to the bill, and
those who did not. Repudiated many of It sec
tion upon cross examination.
Tbe report contlnuea:
The passage of the Carlisle bill may meet
some political exigency of which we do not
know, but we do know thai Its passage will ag
gravate, rather than relieve, the perplexities
of tbe financial situation, snd especially that
of the United State treasury. The United
State legal tender note withdrawn from cir
culation, did ail existing national bank take
out sll the circulation permitted under the
bill, would only be llM.000.00a. still leovlng
I3M.000.000 to vex the treasury. This would
not aTord any substantial relief to the con
stant drain or gold from the treasury. It
would make still more conspicuous and thu
more urgent, the demand for gold upon the
treasury and tbe note lnsued under the bill
would make confusion worne confounded in
the currency by adding from one to forty-five
mors kind of money to those already existing.
"Finally, we are of the opinion that It I not
ssfe for the houso to enter upon the line of
legislation proposed until some bill Is brought
before it that has received far more attention
than the Carlisle bill, and we recommend that
It be indefinitely postponed."
Epworth League to Meet at Chattanooga.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 18. The
general committee has located the in
ternational conference of the Kpworth
league for 1S95 in this city. The dates
fixed are June 27, 23, 29, 30. It was de
cided to hold the meeting in tho south
and Chattanooga forcibly presented
the advantages of tho historic sur
roundings of tho city, as well as good
hotel and railroad facilities, and has
secured the conference. An attend
ance of 10.000 to 15,000 is anticipated.
One open-air meeting will be held on
Lookout mountain. There are new
1,000,000 members of the Kpworth
league in the UQiled States.
.IN ANNUAL SESSION.
Fourteenth Annntt Convention of the
American Federation of Ijibor.
Dknvkic Col., Dec. 17. The main
work of Friday was the consideration
of the platform adopted last year by
the Chicago convention to be approved,
this year. The preamble was cut
away and the planks, amended slight
ly in some cases, adopted as follows:
I. compulsory education: 2. direct le gislation
by the use of the referendum; S. a I'-iral work
day of not more than eltrlit hours: 4. sanitary
Inspection of workshop, mine and home: . ll
bliny of employers for Injury to health. loly.
or lite: ..the abolition of contract system la
all public work; 7. the abolition of the sweat
ing system; H. the municipal owner-nip of
street car and iran and el-clrte j)lants for pub
lic distribution of luht. heat and power; 9.
tne nationalization ol telegraph, telephone
railroads and mines.
The tenth plank declares for the
collective ownership by the people of
all means of production and distribu
tion. It aroused the most intense in
terest and was the cause of a very ex
citing debate.
DEN VF.it. Col., Dec. 18. The discus
sion of idank 10 in the political plat
form (the socialistic plank) was re
sumed Delegate Lloyed moved to
rerefor the plank to the subordinate
unions.
Treasurer lennon supported Mr.
Lloyd's motion on the ground that the
vote in many unions on tlie platform
was not a representative one. Dele
gate Urettell read an alleged newspa
Ier interview with Attorney (leneral
Oluey, In which he was reported lo
have KJiid that he would break up
every union in America by means of
the anti-trust law. Mr. Urettell
thought independent political action
was necessary lo protect laboring men.
The previous iuestion was called
nju the motion to refer the plank re
lating to the collective cwnership of
all means of pr iluction and distribu
tion by the people to the atliliated or
ganizations to be again voted upon was
lost.
The proposition of the government
of establishing a saving bank in con
nection witli the post otlice depart
ment was defeated by a large major
it3', and the question then recurred
upon the substitute for dank 10. pro
viding for the alndition of the land
monopoly ownership and substituting
occupancy and improvement as the
only guarantee of title, which was
adopted.
A resolution that the headquarters
of the American Federation of Labor
l-e removed from New York was
adopted.
Dr.xvEH. Col.. Dec. 19 -The first
business on Monday was to determine
the future location of the headquarter
of the federation. The vote resulted:
Indianapolis 1,'-C0; Washington, trjrv.
The election of officer was then taken
Mr. (omers and John McIIride,
president of the Cnited M ine-Workers,
were the only candidates for presi
dent. The vote resulted: MclSride.
1.1C2; (lorapert. 937. President tlom
per moved that it be made unanimous,
jut a delegate objecting that vote
failed.
Vice presidents were elected as fol
lows: First, 1. J- McCtuSre. Philadel
phia: second. James Duncan. Balti
more; third. Uoady Kenehan. Denver;
fourth. T. J. Kiderkin. Chicago: for
aecretary, A. McCraith, of Iloston.
New York was selected as the place
for holding of the next conveution.
The committee on . resolutions re
ported favorably upon a number of
resolutions as follows:
Conlensnlnr attempts to secure for trans-pxrtar.-
lines the Involuntary seiv.tude law
cf the maritime trale: to restrict transient
provlaclal Immigration bv national leflslation;
cpposlr.g the HalfJnore plan cf financial legis
lation, to secure state legislation to
abolish the aweatlr.g system: declar
Ir: for a work day cf cot more
than euht bo r. advocating the libera
tion of lleatty and lempey. Homestead
strikers, now Incarcerated in the Al'.egheney
penltentUry: urg;rj the adoption of the refer
endum in national and state legislation; c an
demnlrg the padrone sj tra of labor employ
ment; against blacklisting of railway em
ploye: against ffirtber bond Issues, unless
aperinrally authorized by the lower house of
congress.
A MISSOURI BANK FAILS.
Slater Institution tio-o Cnder. with Hear
Liabilities Satlnc Hank Closed.
Si.atf.k, Ma, Iee. IS The Citizens
stock bank, capitalized at $100,000.
closed Monday and is In the hand of
C r. Storts as assignee. Joseph Field,
cashier of the Institution, also made
an assignment for the beneBt of his
creditors. The failure is a bad one,
and will catch many creditors heavily.
Among them are said to be various
St. Louis and Chicago institutions.
The bank's liabilities amount to about
fsVVj.OOO, and assets, excluding consid
erable wrthless paper, will not ex
ceed S-50.000.
The failure was precipitated by a
call of the state officials for a state
ment, which showed that of the cap
ital stock and S'.'SO.OOO of deposits there
is in the vaults of the bank less than
?J.(K)0. The failure caused great ex
citement and precluitated a run on tho
Slater savings hank, capitalized at
S.0,000. and resulted in the bank be
ing closed also.
COLLEGES IN LUCK.
A lleelslon Kenlerel In Their Ior Ile
K art! Ins tho l'ayerweather llstate.
New Youk, lhjc. is. Judge Truax
Monday decided the Daniel H. Kayer
tveather will contest in favor of tho
live colleges which sued the estate.
The decision practically upsets the
whole disposition of tlie estate, which
is worth about SO.000.000.
Tho action was brought by Dart
mouth. Amherst, Williams and Hamil
ton college h, and the University of
Rochester, and these w ill get big slices
of tho estate.
Siehemn to I'urlfy Mleetlon.
MoNTOOMKitY. Ala., Dec. 18. Repre
sentative J. C. Manning, of Clay
county, tho populist leader of the Al
abama legislature, has gone to con
sult leading populists and republicans
in Tennessee and other states on the
subject of a plan proposed by him to
organize into a league all of those in
the south who favor ballot reform and
protection.
Iose on tho I.a kes.
Chicago, Dec. 18. Sixty sailors and
thirtj'-elght vessels were lost on the
lakes during the year. The property
lots was buaaller than for a decade,
THE CURRENCY BILL-
fsecretary Carlisle' Measure Discussed In
the Ixrr House or Conirres.
On December 18 Mr. Springer (dom.. I1L) la
committee of the whole opened the debate ca
the currency bill. The great Importance of
the pending measure, he bean, could not b
more effectively emphasized than by referring
to the reiortof the comptroller of the cur
rency, which showed that last year there were
fU0.C0 depositors In national batiks b-virn? a
capital stock uu'ifTvaiU.g tl.' )( )0. Their
deposit amount d to!l -."0.tJO .). Mr. Sprsr-t r
declared that the committee had -lvrn the sub
ject the most careful consideration. It had
carefully examined tho recommendations: c;f
the president and the ecr tary cf the ir'. as
nry, had called before It some of th; -blest
financier in the conr.try. und the result bad
been the presentation of the tending measure
aa a measure of financial reform.
Mr. Mahonc (rep . la) thought thit If half
tr-e bunks should fall and the other half be
assessed to redeem the failed biis.Us' r.-'te. the
solvent bank would be bankrupted to aid
the lnnolrent banks, to which Mr. Sprinter re
pile!: "'If all the banks should tall ur.der thl
system the note holders would Ixj secure '
Mr. Walker (reu. Mass) ss'.d th; bill pre
sented by the secretary of the treasury ha! not
one feature that could be enctl. exc ; t aJter
remodeling, without endangering the Ui.ar.c ll
Interests of the country. Ho then suoke of
bl own bill and it su perlority over the Car
lisle bill, and exr r's.ed his fco;e that his bill
would be lased In p'.aee of the Carlisle bill.
Mr. Hall (dcxn..Mo. said it mus-t !? distinct
ly understood by men hers that l.t Var r bill
wa not under discussion nd that when they
came to vote they must vote either for tho
Carllslo bill or a continuation of the prc-i.t
system. Mr. Hall contended that the Carlisle
bill was opposed by the national bank because
they preferred the Ualtlmore plan. V.'hy Be
cause In the Ualtlmore j'lan the covernment
stood behind the notes sud. and m the Car
lisle bill the banks tbemselte were responsi
ble for their notes. Mr. Hall Insisted that
every bank ojr.tlal summoned I -e fore the com
mittee had been forced to aim It. when cor
nered, that currency issued un '.er the Carlisle
Mil would be entirely safe. They had or.roved
the bill on aee-our.t of the IlfCl section, w V-ch
roale the banks solely responsible t jt -.htlr -sue.
On the lih Mr Johnson (rep.. Ir.d ) . rr.lt
tel the defect of our currency syst-:c. but he
said their correction could not l obtained
alor.gthellr.es stgested by the comrnittte.
It yi much easier, he declared, to att .ck the
present system thn oiler a safe sut stitute for
It. While remedial legislation ilht 1'- ad
visable. thU was no tltj.e for eiptris.-r.!i
legislation. Mr. Johnson then contrast l the
advantages of the rational l.cilw system
w ith resj-t t to r Tempt and sat f-cu ry set
tlement t.-j:ist fa:ied b.isks aud of security to
note bolilers. with those of the state baij, sys
tem revived by the bl'i.
Mr. Warner iCvu.. S. V nives ated the t-i-sat-e
of the till because of te proposed rehab
ilitation of state b-nk. ar.d b-vuse cf the
fact that it took the goverr.rx. r.tout of the busi
ness of issuing curr-ey.
Mr. Kilis' (vlem . Kv.) ot j-silica was largely
basu upon the fact that ir.- b:ll jtov :- l for
a reoryaalzatlon und eite-sioa of the national
tanking system, when every t to and national
rontention of the derr.cvrat.c party for yc-jr
had declared tfa.r.H it. and this at j lie
weu the necessity fo their services : Cscal
Sgenls. If ltevereiisled. had absolute:y j:i'-e.
Mr. Hiand ein.. Mv.) gave rotice that he
would move to aa.end by substituting for the
till his free co1ca'c cl tiHer anJ coin i.oto
scheme.
A NOVELIST DEAD.
Kobert txuls stvenson I'usseo Away In
Ilia Siriojii Hum.
Accki.a.nh. Dec. Advices from
Apia, ama, 01 tne naie i rciciuurr
i. are that the novelist, llobert Louis
Stevenson, had died suddenly of apo
plexy. II is remains were interred on
the summit of Pala mountain. l.r.oO
feet high. At the time of his death
Mr. Stevenson had half completed the
vr-riling of a new novel.
Some timerago Mr. Stevenson, who
was auffering from lun trouble,
j came to the South Pacific for his
health. lie became enraptured with
the Samoan islands and decided to
take up his residence and sj?end the
rest of his days there. He took a close
interest in Samoan afTairs and has
written many letters to the news
papers in favor of the natives as
against the treaty power under whose
direction the government of the islands
is conducted.
WAS A DEATH DLOW.
A I'uclttat Never Keeover onwluatcru
After LeJnc the Illoc-
NkwOhmiaxs, Dec. 17. Andy llow
en, of New Orleans, was defeated by
"Kid" Lavigne. of Saginaw, Mich.. In
the Auditorium club arena Friday
evening. The purse was ?;?.0OO. of
which WX wenit to the loser. The
Michigan lad had the fight all his own
way from the start and gave llowen
an awful beating, and finally knock
ing him out so effectively that llowen
had to le carried out of the ring in a
senseless condition.
New Orleans, Dec. IS. Andy How
en died Saturday morning at 7:15
o'clock while Father Delaney was pray
ing over him. He remained uncon
scious from the time the fatal blow
was landed and was conveyed from
his dressing-room at the club to his
home on Thalia street near Magazine.
DEATH OF A JUR 1ST.
Jame Ctllfallln. Chief Justice of Mlnne
eota, iliplre at St. l'snU
St. lAtf- Minn., Dec. 17. Judge
James Uillfallinfchief justice of Min
nesota, died at his resilience in this
city Sundaj" morning from a complica
tion of kidney and liver troubles, lie
was C5 years old. He enlisted
as a private when the war
broke out, but was soon chosen
captain and later made colonel of tho
F.levcuth Minnesota, serving until the
close of the war. He was appointed
chief justice of the state in l'J and
three times thereafter elected. If ho
had lived his term would have ex
pired January t. A wife and tdx chil
dren survive him.
Will Contest Tarsney'a Seat.
Washington. Dec IS. Col. IL T.
Van Horn, editor of the Kansas City
Journal, republican candidate for con
gress in the Fifth district of Missouri
during the last election, has filed no
tice of contest with the clerk of the
house against Representative Tarsney.
fseejy l'leatl Uutlty.
Nr.w York, Dec. 18. Samuel C Seely,
the former bookkeeper of the Shoe and
Leather national bank, charged with
aiding tho late Frederick Daker in
robbing the bank of SUM. 000, was ar
raigned in the United States circuit
court Monday, pleaded 'jnilty and was
remanded until Friday for sentence.
itta Her DUorvo Llasll)-.
Denver, Col., Dee. 1. A divorce
has been granted to Mrs. tlertruda
Hutcftins Clarke from Clarence W.
Clarke, the New Yortt adventurer now
in Jail here, to whom she was-married
after two days' acquaintance.
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