The farmers' alliance. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1889-1892, June 21, 1890, Image 1
is "1fs j2t ma tjri ""asH imi if : "THERE IS NOTHING WHICH IS HUMAN THAT IS ALIEN TO ME." Terence. VOL. IL LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1890. NO. 1. s J- Notice to Subscribers. EXPIRATIONS. As the eMtest and cheapest neias of noti firing subscribers of the date of their expira tions we will mark this notice with u blue or fred pencil, oc the date at which their sub scription erjrtres. We will send the paper two weeks after expiration. If cot renewed ay that time it will be discontinued. There are Sons of Toil. BY VEXIER VOLDO. Th?5"e iffro sons of toil for whose poor sakes the old eun hardly shines, MttiroeQ and wasted and worn away at their cattle work in mines. Bet the Century is shocked and shamed at sight of waste and crime, , And-seorn of men for a monster born lo the 1 measure of our time. -'" And hateful ness of the blind mad beast is less in the wide world's store, But fire of the liviDg-jewel of love is a-sparkle more and more. . And less and lees is the black night's dark - and more is the rose of day, Kindlier, juster and nobler now, the van that leads the way. Stars have risen and set, but the light of the freed mind is our star, Lincoln, Gladstone and Emerson, Hugo and Castelar! Pilots not of purple twilight, heralds of the rising sun! For Truth shall yet be uppermost and Justice shall be done! . t And Forward ! Forward ! cry aloud ! for the People's age has come, The noble discontent of men refusing to be dumb! : -Kingsonce owned the State, and its Soy was a royal jest ani fling: The Kingdom of Iligbt has come to reign, the - People now own t he King I And "myfLord" is equal with hie kind, if "my Lord" be as tried and true: The rank of man emblazons the shield of the Good he dares to do. Kingsof Honor! these are Kings! this the first kingdom of earth's sands: Yea, Verily, earth's proper "Lords" are the "Lords of their own hands." ; ' So, hold not the Onward Present, "fatal daughter of the Past," Evolution I not Reversion ! Man, the victory at last! Ho! Mr. Small Townsman! L. C. HUBBARD IN FARMERS' VOICE. It is to you, Mr Storekeeper, Mr. Harness-maker, Mr. Blacksmith aud others of your class to whom we would speak. You men who live and do business in towns of from 500 to 5,000 inhabitants. Are you as well off as you were one year ago? two years ago? three years ago? e don't believe you are. If, as a class you are with each twelve month gradually waxing richer, then a lot of shrewd men who claim to be well informed as to your situation have been telling us colossal ribs. " Keen-eyed traveling men who have wratched you with care for twenty years because they sold you goods and made a living off from you, do positively de clare that nine out of ten of your class would gladly sell out for 75 cents on a dollar of the actual cost of your plant, stock and fixtures. If this be the case then you are cer tainly in a bad way and had best begin to study the near and remote causes for this slump of your financial prosperity. Rich city people who are making from ten thousand to ten million dollars per year under the present order of things, are prone to accuse the farmers of sloth, bad management and lack of economy, and thus glibly and cheaply t account for their present deplorable condition. - - Will you submissively accept the same reason for your decline in pros perity? We think not, for it is no more true in your case than it is m the case of the farmer. Furthermore we do declare that if you will carefully note the particular time at which the farmers in Your neighbor hood began to go down hill financially, you have then found the exact period when your own decadence began. The fact is, just so long as you do business in a town that is largely dependent on the farmer trade for support, your in terests ana inose oi your tanner cus tomers will be one and identical. As they flourish so will you flourish, and if they slowly slide down hill into scrimping poverty, De very sure, my Inena, that you will soon follow them over precisely the same road. The problem is so simple that no in tricate course of reasoning is required to solve it. For instance: If in the immediate vicinity of your town sixty per cent of the farmers are mortgaged, and by the by this is a very low estimate for the Mississippi Valley at large when these are the figures for the rich agricultural State of Michigan, then what follows? We will say that these farmers raise bountiful crops, and if they were not in debt the proceeds for the same would be largely spent in your stores that is to say the more money the farmer receives in the course of the year the more he will naturally trade with you. That is a plain proposition, we think. for it has always been true in past when when the farmer was enjojnng flush times and certainly will be so in the future when the Independent Party brings those bounteous days back again. To get down to the arithmetic of the situation. Let us say that wheat and corn are re spectively $1.00 and 40 cents a bushel m Chicago anu oc. .uouis, out your 1 railway charges thirty cents per bushel for wheat and twenty for corn to haul them to market. That is to say the traffic is taxed all it will near in oruer to pay interest on stock that has been watered ten fold, and the money goes to Eastern and for eign cities to fill the already overflowing cotters oi millionaire railway plutocrats Now, if the government owned these same railways the freight charges would not be one-tenth wo at they are now. So you see a little figuring as to grain and cattle shipments from your town will shorr you now much cash . is annu ally filched from your section through the means of exorbitant traffic charges, the most of which under juster condi tions would naturally find its way into your tills. . But as matters stand now the railway robbery is a secondary steal in order of magnitude, the first being the immorta interest-devouring Mortgage Vampire This God-defying creature is not only a grasping dui aiso a capricious aemon, his exactions from his debtor farmer slave are not fixed and stable, for some years the farmer in consequence of low E rices must give a double amount of la or in order to pay his stated interest. This is terrible, a most shameful in justice, but the luxurious absorbers of the fruits of iron toil do not think so and give it not a thought. At the same time this is onto an inci dental wrong tacked ontolhe fundamen tal crime which is as follows: Through the workings of the Pluto cratic usury scheme two-thirds of all the produce of our Mississippi Valley armer is carted far awav from home and sold for the benefit of a choice as sortment of foreign and native loan and investment sharks, banking Shylocks and other predatory drones who live in ldlness off from the fat of the land while he producers of all these good things starve. It is Ireland over again where the chartered thief alien landlord gets it all, while peasants who dig the wealth out of the ground are reduced to beggary. If the usury bandits get two-thirds of the farmer's crop why, it follows that there will be only one-third left for him to support his family, and sustain the business of Mr. Townsman whose pros perity is dependent upon that of the agricultural toiler. ' lo boil down -out proposition still more. Will net your town's trade flourish better if the farmer has the spending of all the money received from his crop, than when he is compelled to give two-thirds of his cash to an alien loan shai-k? - Mr. Storekeeper please cipher on this sum awhile and see what you think about it. The farmer's 'interests and your own are one. If his prosperity fades out yours will vanish likewise. Hence, it is that every intelligent townsman, lawyer, doctor, merchant and editor should throw his political fortunes m with the farmer. Join the coming independent party which will demand $50 per capita in circulation, government loans on land at 2 percent and government ownership of railways. Ihe financial salvation of every small townsman and farmer in the land is wrapped up in this issue and now is the time to join your forces as wise and patriotic men -should. Resolutions Adopted -by the Madison Co. Farmers' Alliance at Throckmorton School House June 7th, 1890. - Whereas, W e the producers of Neb., in Co. convention assembled, believing a change in our law makers and laws to be absolutely essential to the liberty and independence of the masses of our citi zens, more especially the producers. Therefore be it Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to support no man for any legislative or congressional office who is not a mem ber of our order, or known by his con stituents to be faithful to the cause of labor. That we charge the free pass system as detrimental to the best interests of our country, used oy designing politi cians to influence voters to support them in their infamous schemes of ag grandizement,' and we do hereby de mand that such laws be enacted as shall prevent the issuing of and receiving the same. We demand -of our legislature a law giving the .mortgagor an equal right with the mortgagee to choose arbitra tors in establishing the value of all pro perty upon which mortgage foreclos ures are made, and that the mortgagee shall pay the full .appraised cash value for all property so sold. Inat we favor a free coinage of sil ver. '.".'...-.. That we demand that the legal rate of interest be 6 per cent per annum with a penalty forfeiting both principal and interest tor violation of law. That we favor a redemption lawgiv ing five years to redeem all lands sold under foreclosure of farm -mortgage. That we favor a law compelling each incorporated ity which sells liquor un der the license law to pay for the prose cution of all persons charged with crime who are in the least intoxieated at the time of eommittinsr the crime. W Forsaith, Pres., S. E. Hale, "Co. bee. Meeting of the Nuckolls County Alliance. Editor Alliances The Nuckolls Co. Alliance held its June meeting at the Opera Hall Saturday, June 7. There were 22 Alliances represented by 73 delegates. The total membership as reported is 859. There was a large audience and much enthusiasm. The meeting endorsed the eall for an Inde pendent Mate convention, and were unanimous in demanding that only pure and honest farmers represent the peo ple, and if such are placed in nomina tion Nuckolls county will be found in the frout rank with a good round ma jority in their favor, J. M. Bird, Sec. Co. Alliance. From The Nationalist. Nationalism and Personal Liberty. That nationalism will give the death blow to personal liberty seems to be a wide-spread delusion and furnishes the chief argument of its opponents. This class 01 thinkers evidently believe that the advocates of nationalism are advo cates of universal slaverv, whereas the champions 01 that system believe that personal liberty wrould, by its means, be augmented rather than curtailed; and to see and understand its ultimate re sults, this is an evident fact. Personal liberty, as understood and advocated by Jefferson, was true de mocracj and in its day suitable to the requirements of society; but with the ereat changes that have taken Dlace during the last century in our social 1 - .1 A. ll J 1 1 auu muusu wi sysiem, mis meory, wnen applied to our present conditions, ap pears ridiculous. Whoever tries to re concile the two is liable to find himself the laughing-stock of the clear-headed advocates 01 liberty. The difference between . the state of society at that time and the present is so great that the idea of supposing that a principle which was applicable to the then state of society would be adequate to our modern conditions annears ab surd. The economist who claims that our discontent is due to the fact that the ideas of Jefferson have been deviated from, makes a great mistake It is obvious that conditions have pro Fill iviih signatures and mail to TIte Farmers Alliance, Lincoln, Nebraska. And Popular Call for a Peoples' Independent State (invention. We the undersigned, citizens of the State of Nebraska; hereby declare our adhesion to the following fundamen tal principles, and demand that they be enacted into law, viz: Our financial system should be reformed by the restoration of silver to its old time place in our currency and its free and unlimited coinage on an equality with gold, and by the increase of our money circulation until it reaches the sum of $50 per capita; and all paper issues necessary to secure that amount should be made by the government alone, and be full legal tender for all debts public and private. ; ; r; f . , , 1 . , That land monopoly should be abolished either by limitation of ownership or graduated taxation of excessive holdings' so that all the competent should have an opportunity to labor, secure homes and become good citizens; and alien ownership should be prohibited . -,; -V r;'Jr : . - That the railroad system, as at present managed, is a system of spoliation and robbery, and that its enormous bonded debt at fictitious valuations is absorbing the substance of . the people in the interest of , millionaires; that the general government should own and operate the railroads and telegraph, and furnish transportation at cost, the same as mail facilities are now furnished; and that our legislature shall enact a freight rate law which shall fix rates no higher than those now in force in Iowa. ' ' " Wre demand that our state and national systems of taxation shall be so adjusted that our laboring interests will be fostered, and wealth bear its just burdens, instead of our fanners, laborers, merchants and mechanics being com pelled to pay, as at present, by far the largest portion of public expense. ; ' We further declare that the political machinery in thistate has been controlled by the corporate power for the plunder of the people and. the enrichment of itself, and we have entirely lost confidence in the efficacy of that ma 'chinery for the enactment of just and the repeal of unjust laws.. ; ' i We therefore hereby give our voice for the call of a People's Independent State Convention, to nominate pure and honorable men for the different state offices on the principles named above; and we hereby pledge ourselves, if pure and honorable men are so selected, to vote and work for their election. And we hereby invite all men, without regard to past or present political affiliations, to join us in this our effort ior pure government, for relief from the shackles of party politics and the domination of corporate power in our public affairs. '."'.-. '"' . ; :. -'V-fc ..v- . , And we hereby request the Secretary of the State Farmers' Alliance, and the Secretary of the State Assembly of the Knights of Labor to select two men who shall fix a just ratio of representation and a properdate, issue a call, obtain a hall, and make all needed arrangements for holding said convention.' ATTIC. .OrCopies of the above call for circulation, can be had by Addressing Peoples' . Lincoln, Nebraska. gressed while the laws of Jefferson have remained the same. It is of no use to try to "put new wine into old bottles," to oppose progress because it necessitates a departure from the max- -a -v t ims laid down oy an eminent econo mist of a century ago. The ideas which met the requirements of those times are utterly unsuitable to our times, af ter a century's remarkable revolution in social and industrial conditions. As well might it be claimed that the best way to make the journey from Monti- cello to Philadelphia is to "horse back," or the most convenient way of baking brown bread is by - the use of the old brick oven, as that the best laws for us are those of our great-grandf athers. Indeed to us it does seem a settled fact that not until we make a change of sys tem to suit the requirements 01 our al tered conditions will it be possible to enjoy that liberty which was so dear to the author of the Declaration of .Inde pendence. There were no great manuiacturing cities in those days no large towns ex cept a few' ; centres of foreign trade; there were but a few small villages where the coarse products of a rude manufactory were exchanged. The people were mostly farmers and de pended upon that pursuit for subsist ence. There were no telegraphs or telephones; no railroad connections be tween the different sections of the coun try. : There was no steam engine with its marvellous achievements. There were no great capitalists fattening on the productions of thousands of labor ers whose very existence depended upon the will of their masters; no ,great chartered corporations which, by the conditions of the men they employed, held a rod over them as unrelenting as the lash of the .southern planter over his slave. In short, the little farms of those days were worlds of themselves, raising nearly all the necessaries of the owner; .combining the hemp-field, the woollen -faetory and the mill; and re quarincT'Or even admitting, in the rude development of industry, but little -eon1 nection with the outside world. It is obvious that, in such a state of society, "that would be the; best gov ernment which governed least;" that the people's liberties would be best guaranteed under individualism; and tnax "eeniraiizaxion" mignc wen oe feared, beeause it would place the seat of power far out of the reach of the knowledge of the governed. A law or constitution robbing the farmers of their most cherished liberties might be put in force before the scattering sub jects ever heard of it. But look at our condition to-day. There is no more time or space between the Atlantic and the Pacific, Dakota and Texas, than in those days between neighbor and neighbor. Personal lib erty has produced capitalists who hold the destinies of thousands of their fel low-men in the hollow of their hands. We have been reduced to a system of man depending upon man for his sub- sistence; and not one of the masses can assert his rights to liberty without jeop ardizing his means of subsistence. Every one is dependent upon some one else. The merchant upon his patrons. the editor upon his readers, but more directly and slavishly the laborer upon his employer. And unless these sacri fice their liberty to the flattery of the masters, they know they are liable to be driven from their homes, their friends, and the environments of their earlier years. And this wretched state of society Is lost sight of in our eager ness to protect the "personal liberty" of some fortunate or unscrupulous little king, who has succeeded in establish ing his kingdom upon the misfortunes of nis fellow-men Our government seems to have fallen a victtm to these false teachers. When a man or company of men applies for a charter by which it virtually becomes the owner of those whom it employs, we hear nothing about centralization; but when these slaves ask the govern ment for protection against the money kings or corporations it has chartered, a wail of indignation is Tieard -liberty is in danger.. We have reached that amusing but ridiculous state of politics where slavery is upheld in the sacred name of free dom. This liberty of ours must be pro tected, though is fastens the shackles on ten thousand others, and these, if they complain, are to be pacified with the shallow : reply: "You have the same right. You have the same privilege of amassing your millions. Every man Foot has been guaranteed his liberty in this country, even to the extent of rising to a position of tutelege over the lives of his fellow-men. Then why this com motion? WThy groan under this blessed system ? Be still ; practice econ omy and prosper." ' Are we saying too much when we af firm that personal liberty can never be enjoyed under our present social or ganization? Is it not evident that this liberty, so much prized by all," , can never be secured to all until our condi tions are changed; until the means, of subsistence are placed in the hands of all; until our social system is sundered from the selfishness of private gain and the possibility of manipulation by capi talists; until co-operation becomes re cognized as the supreme law; of the so cial state? HENitr S. Griffith: , The "Wheat Crop. WABHXKOTWff, June 15. The weekly weather crop bulletin say e: The weather has been favorable for growing crops In the northwest the past week. The condi tion of wheat is reported as excellent in South Dakota and northern Nebraska and has been much improved by recent raine in Nrth Dakota while In southern Ne braska the wheat crop is in poor condition. Iowa reports all crops improved, the wheat acreage incieasec, and prospects better than ourlng the past three years. Harvest ing of wheat is in progress in southern Kansas, with a fair crop. : - ' In northern Illinois wheat Is reported in good condition. In the central portion the crop is poor. Minnesota reports the wheat crop in very good condiaon, with a large Increase in the acreage. The crap was slightly injured in some sections by heavy rains and rust has appeared in some localities. .. - Ijet the Government Recom pen sate. Ft. Dodoe, la., June 15. The Des Moines river laad case was decided by Judge Shlras yesterday. The opinion filed dis misses the case of the government against the Elver Land company and confirms the company's title to every old section of land for five mlleB'on either side of the Des Moines river in the state of Iowa. Much of the land has been sold to settlers by the company on warranty deeds and they will not be disturbed. Seven hun dred settlers who through mistake got their patents from the land office and who occupy 200,000 acres must move off. Trouble is expected. leaned the Call. Chicago, June 18. The Daily News' special says Governor Flfer today issued a call for a special session of the state legis lature, to be convened July 23, to submit to the electors of the state a proposition to amend the state constitution so as to per mit tne city of Chicago to issue 15,000,000 in bonds in aid of the Columbian exposi tion in 1898 and to pass necessary legisla tion to permit the use of public grounds as the location for the exposition and to vest the power of eminent domain In the city during the pendency of the fair. Sold Like Hot Cakes. Ohxcaoc, June 16. The allottment of the stock and bonds of the Chicago brewing company took place Saturday, and out of the 9,600,000 worth of securities plaeed on the stock market of London and Chicago 16,000,000 have been captured by Chlca goans and the control of the corporation will remain in this country. Subscriptions to the securities closed last Monday at noon, but so great was the demand for them, both in London and Chicago, that twelve times the amount to be allotted was subscribed for and a week was spent in determining the ratio of dis tribution. In round numbers the securi ties to be disposed of consisted of 16,000 -000 capital stock divided In 13.000,000 of J referred stock bearing 8 per cent interest, 3.000,000 of common stock estimated at 15 per cent interest and 3,000,000 of 6 per cent first mortgage bonds. As Indicating the eagerness with which the securities were taken, the figures show that five limes the amount of the preferred stock was subscribed for eleven times the amount of the common stock and twelve times the amount of the bonds. Denver Carpenters Quit Work. . Dknveb, June 12. Twelve hundred car penters quit work this morning and all building operations are for the time para lyzed. Four weeks ago six hundred ma chine wood workers and bench mill men demanded nine hours' work with ten hours, pay. Arbitration being- refused by the mill owners the matter was today taken np by the carpenters' union with the above result. The probabilities are that hod carriers and tinners will join the strikers unless the trouble is speedily set. tied. - ICC. Committee, Care of The Alliance, NEBRASKA NEWS. The Fury of a Cyclone. The first cyclone to visit 1 Lincoln came Monday morning. The people of this city having been passed bo con tinuously by these death-dealing winds, began to think Lincoln the exempted city. But their confidence was shat tered and their fears folly aroused at four o'clock Monday morning, when a small cyclone moving from the south west, touched east O street and laid waste one valuable building, tore away portions of others, wrecked the new structures in process of erection on 1 4. wen ty -first street and scattered tim bers far and wide. Tne loss is estima ted at about $100,000. The Interstate Garnishment. Omaha special: J. H. Coffman, an employe of the Union Pacific Railroad company, has filed a suit against an aggregation of defendants for damages in the sum of $1,000 by reason of the interstate garnishment racket worked to defeat the Nebraska exemption law for heads of families. Coffman owed Nisson, Alford & Co., of this city $18. The claim was assigned, contrary to law,, to D. C." Tucker of Council Bluffs and the Union Pacific com pany was subjected to a suit in gar nishment on the Iowa side. D. M. West, an attorney, Constable John Fox and Justice of the peace N. Shurz, all of Council Bluffs, are made par ties . defendant. Tn spite of the fact that Coffman had assigned his wages on this side of the river, which fact appeared in the Iowa trial, a decision was rendered in favor of Tucker. The case was carried to a higher court and reversed, but the company was again subjected to gar nishment proceedings, and owing to the annoyance caused, discharged Coff man from its service. In spite of the law passed at the last session of the Nebraska legislature against the as signment of such claims to parties out side of the state, the Iowa collection agencies are still actively worked, as they have been for years, and tliif too in spite of the fact that parties whose wages have thus been assailed have f frequently of late recovered from the original creditors the amount of the claim so collected. This law for the protection of the laboring man's family is one which received some severe criti cism during the recent convention of the Nebraska business men's associa tion. - : In General. Farmers of the south Piatt are con tending with potato bugs aned offic seekers. '-y-.f A lodge of Modern Woodmen with twenty-one charter members has been organized at Ord. Chadren special: The settlers on Beaver Creek, fifteen miles northeast of this city, have started their annual Indian scare. The reports of 2,000 warriors being on the war path are en tirely unreliable. Overton special : William Hough, from near Fremont, died here Friday morning from poison adminis tered by himsalf . He was bronght into town last night about 7 o'clock in a covered wagon and taken to Dr. Boardman for medical aid, but noth ing could be done to save him, and af ter a night of intense suffering he died at 4 o clock. Niobara special : From the super visors now in session it is learned that in all localities in Knox county crops aggregate better than any season tor six years. Bains have been plentiful throughout this entire region. The new territory inst opened to settlement is quite extensively planted with seed corn and potatoes, which are reported to be doing well for that kind of a crop. CONGRESSIONAL. The Senate. Washxxqtoh, June 12 Mr. Davis present ed the confexence report on the depend ent pension bill, and at the request of Mr, Cullom proceeded to explain it. After con. siderable discussion the report was laid over and was ordered printed with the bill as agreed to by the conference. The s-nate silver bin was then taken up and Mr. Evarta addreBsod the senate on it He characterized the act of 1873 as a "mur derous thrust" at silverr After a review of the International conference on tha ques tion of silver (out of which . nothio g had come, he said that now for the first time in the progress of the matter of redress, the question confronted the republican party, which had a majority in each ho us a and the control of the executive power. It was for that party to determine that the interval of lassitude and. delay should be no longer exended. The people of the United States, through their representa tives in the two houaes.of congress and in their election of the exeoutive head. In his opinion had determined that they would not allow disgrace and disorder to contin ue, either In regard to their domestic mon ey or tneir money in relation to commerce. Congress was now prepared for the adop tion. In one form or Another, of a measure which, as compared with anything that bud been done in the interval between 1873 and 1890, was like the step of a giant as compared with that of a sick man. 8peaklng of the proposed opening of the American mints to the silver of the world, Mr. Evarts said that with the difference in ratio (15) in Europe and 16 in 'Mb coun try that the measure would be utterly lm pitoticable, especially if it was desired also to cause th opening of the mints abroad to silver. The proposition to receive sil ver bullion over the counter of the treasu ry and pay for it In certificates, leaving the transaction at the will of the owner of the bullion, never approved itself to his judg ment ' Money can never be safety treated as a commodity. It was not to be treated as anything but the force and propulsion of circulation. Mr. Morgan began a free coinage speech but without concluding yielded to a motion to adjourn. . ..v - Washdjotow, June 13. In the senate this morning the resolution offered yesterday by Mr. Edmunds appointing Edward E. Valentine sergeant-at-arms of the senate was taken np and agreed to, an amend ment offered by Mr. Harris substituting the name of Henry W. Wall of Tennessee hav ing first been voted down. Mr. Paddock said he had received several telegrams from Montana in regard to the outrages by the Cheyenne Indians in that state ana ssxea tne cnairman ox tne com mittee on Indian affairs whether any action was being taxen oy it in regard to the matter. . As there was only a few hours left for the discussion of the silver bill the matter was allowed to go ver till tomorrow. Tne senate silver diu was then taxen up and Mr. Morgan took the floor. Mr. Morgan's speech was mainly an argu ment for free coin aire. The close of the general debate on the stiver dui nas Deen postponea until Mon day at 3 o'clock. The house bill, as amended by the finance committee, was substituted lor toe secate dui. - - Wasbikoton, June 11 In the senate to day, after some unimportant business was disposed of, the senate proceeded to the consideration of bills on the calendar. The following bills were passed: The house bill to authorize the entry of public bonds by incorporated cities and towns for cemetery and park purposes, within two miles, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute the senate bill to amend the laws relating to customs revenue bond?. making the signature 01 one member of a firm binding on all the members; the sea ate bill to provide for the regulation of the Bund valley Indian reservation in Callfor nla; the senate bill for the relief of the Mission mcuans in uaiixornia; the house bill to grant right ox-way through Indian territory to the ritteburg. Columbus a ft. Smith rail wsy ; the eenate bill to provide for the examination of certain officers of the army and the regular promotions therein. It nrovides tfeat nromotlons to every grade below that of brigadier-general throughout the army except a corps or department, snail De maae according to seniority in the next lower grade, and also presort Den a system xor tne examination of ail officers Deiow the ranx ox maior. consideration ox the bins on the calendar was resumed and several were passed, among them the following: The senate bill authorizing the construction of abridge across the Missouri river between Pierre and Fort Pierre. 8. D. : the houe bill grant ing right-of-way to the Dulutta A Manitobia Ballroad tempany acroes the Fort Pembina reservation. North Dakota: the senate bill to credit Paymaster Wham with. , $28,345 of government funds of which he was robbed In Arizona. After the passage of thirty-five private pension Dills tne senate aujournea Wasbxxotoii, June 16. In the senate this morning a message from the bouse asking a further conference on the anti-trust bill was assented to, after remarks by Ed munds and Test The deficiency - appropriation hill for pensions and the census was presented and passed. Dawes introduced a bill to retire General Banks as a major of the United States army, Referred to the committee on military af fairs. The silver bill was then taken np. and Senator Allison addressed the senate, con- ciuaing witn ne cotua not vote xor the free coinage of silver at this time or at any time in tne near xuture. ue coma notao so until every effort to secure , the use of silver by the commercial nations of the woria haa been exhausted. Test declared that on the silver question tnere was no miaaie grouna silver must ne put on the same basis as gold. Adjourned. The House. Washototow, June 12. In the house to day a vote was taken on agreeing to the conference report on the an ti-trust bil and resulted in ordering another confer ence, the house to recede from its amend ment. ' ' . .. Mr. Henderson of Iowa, from the com mittee on appropriations, reported the urgent deficiency bill appropriating 3,708, 000 for - the payment of - pensions and 3,076,C03 for the expenses of the eleventh census. Passed. Mr. Morrow of California presented the conference report on the pension appro priation bllL The report, wkioh is a disa greeing one, was adopted, and a further oonrerenoe ordereo. The senate bill was passed granting the unioago, Kansas AJMeorasK raureaa com mm nnwav ti rvmTMT tn tha CMnmtrn Book Island A Pacific railroad company its rights, property ana xranonue in the tern tory ox uxianoma ana inaian territory. The boose then went into committee 0: tte whole on the aericulftural appropria tion bill. The committee soon arose and the bill passed. Tne , honee then took a recess. At the evening session a hum cei of bills from the committee on commerce wure presented. Mr. nniey ox Kentucky was the oujector tonight and allowed but a few bills to come to the point of passage. Wabkisotoji, June IS. The houno went nto oommlttee of the whole on tho sundry civil appropriation bill soon after meeting today.' Mr. Cannon said the appropriation car ried by the measure was 1 2800 ,CCC 110,- 000,003 1ss than the regular estimates and 18,100,' 00 ess than tho regulLr and special estimates. The sundry clvU bill for the current year 1 rovlded for the expenditure of 25,0CO,(O0. The apparent Vxcees in this bill was more than accounted f or b cer tain extraordinary .ltema. The fourteen regular appropriation bills reported to the house exceed by 35,000,000 the appropria tion for tho current year. Thin excels was nearly all accounted for in three bills rension bUl, 18.000,000; poftoffioe bill. I3,cou,oru; naval bin, J,iO'),uoa xneomer 3.' 00,000 resulted from tho txpantion in cident to the growth of the oountry. The only bill not reported to t be house was the general deficiency bl'l, and this would bo reported before the close of the fiscal year. There was pending the sundry civil and Indian bills. In the senate oommlttee on appropriations are the agricultural, dlplo matio and and postoffJce bil s. and in tbe senate oommlttee on commerce, the river and harbor bill. Fending in tne senate is the legislative bill. The fortification kill has passed both heuaes. The District of Columbia naval and pension bills are in conference. The army and military acade my bills are in the hands of the president. This was a favorable sbowlsg compared with the condition of tbe bills two years ago. The following amendments were adopted : Appropriating three hundred tbouand dol lars for a publio building at Ctdar Rapids la; ten thousand dollars for an elevater in the publio building at Feorla, 111. A motion by Mr. uooanight to strike out the appropriation for tbe irrigation s ur? ey was defeated. Tee committee rose and tho house took a recess. Washihqtok, June 11 In tbe house this morning the speaker announced the ap pointment of E. B. Taylor of Ohio, StswArt of Vermont and Bland of Missouri as con ferees on the anti-trust bill. Bland aked to be excused and Culbertaon of Texas wns appointed to fill the vacancy. The house then proceeded td pay tribute to the memory of the late Bamnel J. Ran dall. Mr. Taux raid, in part, that Randall's high rank and (treat fame were Que to hit nones ty, ms wui power, cu con rape ana his determination. His personal and polit ical integrity were beyond the reach of suspicion. Schemes, jobs, covert efforts to secure public monoy were neither coun tenanced nor encouraged by him. Ilia honesty was the glory of his life. Thvse of the party who could not agree with hi in on some questions bowed before his ad mittedly stainless honor. Adjourned. Washdiotoii, June 10. In the houe today Williams of Ohio presented a petition from the ex-soldiers of Dayton, O. , for the enact ment of a law prohibiting the sale, use, manufacture or importation ct banners or flags representing the confederate flag or the red flg of the anarchists. "Referred. The house then went into committee of the whole on the sundry civil cppreprla tlonbUl. On motion ef Williams of Ohio the amend ment was agreon to appoint E. M. Morrill of Kanvas and Alfred L. Pearton of Penn sylvania members of tbe board of manag ers of the soldiers' home. Bayers of Texas offered an a-nendmnt malting a specific appropriation. Instead of an indefinite appropriation, tor tV.e pay xnnt of back pay and bounty. L-wt. Fending action on the bill the committee arose and the house adjourned. ' Thlrtj.four Miner Killed. Duxbas, Pa., June 16. This morning at 12:30 a sullen roar shook the lowly miner dwellings on hill form, in Fayette 'county, near this place, and hundred of affrighted persons who knew the scund too well, an- who feared another mine disaster, soon found their apprehensions well groundod. In a moment the fearful news had spread that the Hill Farm mines bad exploded. The low-browed hill from which the slope Is entered was shook from mouth to pit and a score of miners' houses lining tbe fatal hill were shook for a moment and then poured out their frenzied Inmates by hundreds. A rush was made to the mouth of the pit, but ingress was Impos sible, as smoke in dense volumes as issuing forth. Fifty-two miners had gone to work this morning and were in the slope when the explosion ooonrred. Of these fifty-two. eighteen were In the loft heading and thirty-four were in the right heading. The men employed in the left heading were notified of the danger in time to save their lives although their es cape was thrilling and was accompanied by the wildest confusion, At a point near where the explosion recurred the bodies of Daniel Sberan, fire boss, and Davtd Hayes were found. They had evidently attempted to escape through tbe flames. A Race Fight, BiBXXNenAM, Ala, June 17. A pitched battle between negioes and whites took place yesterday at Brookside, a mining town sixteen miles from here and over 1C0 shots were fired on both sides. Tom Red mond, leader of the negroes, was killed and Jimmle Dowell wounded. Only one white man was injured. Several negroes were caught by the whites who threatened to lynch them. Last night the sheriff sent a force of twenty men to the scene but at last accounts they had not succeeded In restoring order and more bloodshed is ex pected as both sides are well armed. The fight gresr out of hitting a negro with a stone. , In a Row. ' Bakgob, Ma., Jane 17. Dbeatlsf action among the democrats owing to the refusal of the democratic state convention to adopt the license plank in the platform has culminated in a movement to call a state convention snd nominate a candi date for governor, the call being circu lated inviting all who believe that the present prohibitory law Is a failure and should be superceded by local opt ion to meet In convention in this city July 15. Wilt Nominate a Full Ticket. Topcka, Kaa., June 12. A joint confer ence ef delegates from the farmers' alll anoe, the Industrial union, the farmers' mutual benefit association, the Industrial grange, union labor and Knights of Labor 1 holding a session in this city. The meet ing so far has been strictly secret, but it is learned that it has been decided to put a full state, congressional and county tickets In the field. A state convention will be called.