SIOUX COUNTY JOURNAL.
W. K. PA'ITESOM, E4Uor.
HARRISON.
NEB.
ABOUT NEBRASKA.
1M LM StOCK cssisiissies.
Capt W. W. Abbey, of the state lire
took commission, in answer to ques
tions propounded by an Omaha Bee re
porter, amid: "The law now in force was
suggested by an outbreak of Texas fever
about five years ago in a bunch of cattle,
near Brady Island, that was shipped
direct from ths south. Native cattle
passing over the pasturage which had
been occupied by this diseased ship
ment, and stock with which they com
municated, were subjected to great fatal
ity, aggregating a loss of $100,000.
There has been no such prevaleuoe of
disease since the sanitary law was car
ried out
"Two years ago plenro pneumona was
raging in the stock yards at Chicago,
and had it not been for this law, that
fatal affection would doubtless have
spread, not only through Nebraska, but
it would have reached the country west
of ns. To illustrate our danger, Dr. H.
L. Kamoociotti, of this city, acting for
the commission, stopped four shipments
of ten cars of feeders from the Chicago
yards, at the Bluffs transfer, and sent
them back to Chicago, thus preventing
the importation of this dangerous
malady."
On being questioned as to the sanitary
Tigilance of the commissioners in rela
tion to keeping out glanderjd horses
nd exterminating those animals within
the state already stricken with that dis
ease, the doctor asserted that although
eases were numerous at the time of the
organization of the commission, at the
present time fifty counties of the state
were practically rid of the destroyer of
horses, and that he expected two more
years of its aggressive work would re
lieve the state of the malady.
STATE JOTTINGS IN BRIEF.
Ir. J. S. Brice, a prominent physi
cian of Crete, died in Des Moines last
week of heart disease.
In Custer county on the 10th Fred
Fierce shot and killed Samuel Ankney.
Ankney was partly intoxicated, and had
abused several people and made a bru
tal attack upon his brother George. At
the request of George's wife, Pierce
pulled Samuel off his victim. The fu
rious man then struck Pierce, who
pulled a revolver and fired. Samuel
Ankney had a hard name, and was an
ex-convict and violent man.
Young Beers, oonvioted in the dis
trict court of Lincoln of killing his
sweetheart, has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for life.
Word has been received by a Fre
mont man, says the Tribune, as to the
whereabouts of George W. Lehr, the
ex-station agent at West Point, who
eloped a short time ago with Mrs. J. M.
Maybee. He is at Sherman, Texas, and
remitted a sum of money to the Fre
mont man to cancel an obligation. He
is railway agent at Sherman.
Death is announced of two brothers
in the southern part of the state from
glanders contracted from diseased horses
Steps are being taken at Beatrice
for the construction of the paper mill.
It is rumored that a -bill will-be in
troduced during the present session of
the legislature excluding all females
from any employment in the legislature
or on committees.
Brainard was somewhat disturbed
a few days ago by Miss Hoghe filing a
complaint against John Leisure, charg
ing him with seduction, under promise
of marriage. Sheriff Darnell took the
bird in charge before he could fly, as he
was spreading his wings to do, and he
thereupon conoluded to marry the girl
he bad wronged.
Some of our best citizens of Tecum
seh are talking of going to the Okla
homa country to get their fill of Indian
lands and Indian arrows.
The B. k M. will build freight
and passenger depots in Plattsmouth
this year.
The entire highway from Grand
Island to Wood River is to be graded as
soon as the weather will permit.
The city of Tecumseh is somewhat
excited over the fact that the supreme
eourt rendered a decision which closes
np both saloons of that place. The
ground upon which the decision is based
is that a councilman who has signed a
petition for a license is incompetent to
pass upon it as a councilman.
An electric fire alarm is the latest
improvement at Grand Island.
Prof. Thrasher, of Edgar, will soon
issue a 300 page cloth volume contain
ing biographical sketches of the more
prominent teachers of Nebraska.
Scarlet fever has laid hold of the
littlf ones in the Lincoln Home of the
Friendless. Four of the inmates are
down with the disease.
The board of trade of Nebraska
City has propositions from four differ
ent manufactories looking for locations.
H. 0. Hits, m Omaha law ...
wrested on the street for being drunk. !
He resisted vigorously and was booked
I? UiJ5b?n " e- when taken to
toe station ha l.An u.- i i L .
and raised Cain generally until it was
foand necessary to handcuff him tot
post
The county surveyor of Caster oonn
ty, with a force of eleven men, is busy
making the survey for the proposed
Oflll W KOnnMK Ul. Ill.vn.l . .41.
the Muddy and thus furnish a magnift-
V It u told that a prominent citizen of
liia county, says the Culbertson Ban,
"Tho does not live mors than a dozen
lies from the river went home the
W night and fonnd his wife in the
ms of another man. The gentlemen
ineetion left so suddenly that he for
i bis bat and coot, which to bis great
i wen brought to him by his ever
Jul bone a few hours later.
In Independent clamor to have
'41 gang at Grand Isfeal pat to
- the streets, ins to beep satin,
vling something feetr kiie
4 .
WIft. RMn UUWBC HIT nrnKm HAW
The Catholic church at Homer was
dedicated on Sunday last.
There are six backers in the e
braska lower house.
The Custer county court house bonds
will be sold to the highest bidder on the
2d of March. The bonds are expected
to bring a good price, as it is under
stood there will be a number of bidders.
Real estate in Valparaiso has been
active since opening of the year.
The citizens of Louisville are mov
ing in the matter of securing a wagon
bridge across the river at mat place.
Fremont, in the matter improve
ments, expects to beat the record this
year.
Over $2,000 has beeu subscribed at
Cedar Rapids to build a "lodge hall."
An effort is being made to organize
a Christian church at Table Rock.
The street car robber lias turned up
in Beatrice. He made a rapture of
twelve dollars while the driver was
changing teams.
The auction craze has struck O'Neill
to an alarming extent, so much so as to
have a rather depressing effect on the
old tried and true merchants.
Ths 7-year-old son of Post Surgeon
Haskins at Fort Omaha died last week
from the effects of having a leg ampu
tated at the thigh. The lad was badly
injured while trying to catch a ride on
a wagon near the fort, and in some man
ner his leg was caught in the wheel,
crushing it in a horrible manner. The
amputation took place in the evening,
and in spite of the best medical aid the
child died.
A step in the interest of rigid econ
omy of the Union Pacific was taken by
Mr. Cushing last week. He has given
instructions to the effect that all time
worked in the Union Pacific machinery
department outside of the regular hours
must be reported fully with a detained
statement of the necessity of such extra
work before any allowance can be made
for such.
The Union Pacific railway company
has incorporated the Carbon Cut-Ofl
railway company in Wyoming. W. A.
Holcomb, T. L. Kimball, C. M. Cum
mings, V. C. Boyne and J. S. Cameron
are the incorporators. The capital stock
is placed at $1,000,000, and the company
intends building a road from Sulphur to
its coal fields, fifteen miles northwest of
that point, and has agreed in its chartei
to build branches to any coal or mineral
deposits in Carbon, Sweetwater or Fre
mont counties.
Representative Wilcox of Red Wil
low comity, has introduced a bill to en
courage the manufacture of sugar from
cane, beets and other sugar producing
plantR. By the provisions of this bill
the enm of $35,000 is appropriated to
be expended in paying a royaltr of 2
cents per pound on all sugar produced
in this state from cane or other plants.
G. W. Barnbart, one of the state
live stock commissioners, thinks it
would be a most unwise thing to make
any change in the present law, and gave
figures to show what had been saved for
the state since the commission was cre
ated. .
The Schuyler Sun hears of a very
sad case in the vicinity of Clarkson. A
family by the name of Hejtmanek lost
four children with that dreaded disease
diptheria.
A pecaliw accident happened last
week at Morrissey's elevator in Mil
ford. The floor in a shipping bin broke
through, letting about 800 bushels of
corn drop to the floor below aud break
ing through that floor.
A SKY SCRAPER'S COLLAPSE.
Iho Tallt Office Building in Chicago a To
tal Wreck.
Chicago dispatch: One of the tallest
office buildings in America collapsed
to-day. A number of workmen rushed
out just in time to escape being crushed
under the mountain of wreckage. The
ruined building was the Owings block,
a beautiful gothic structure, fourteen
stories high, situated at the corner of
Dearborn and Adams streets, just oppo
site the postoffice, in the center of the
business district The b n lower Cltnrioa
fell in, one after another, leaving the i
wans, me lour upper floors and the roof
standing in a decidedly shaky condi
tion. In the tenth story the tile floor
ing was defective, or was damaged by
the natural settling of the building.
About 8:30 this morning a dozen or
m.'oi mo workmen wlio were in the
basement henrd an .-j
vuumrm u;ii nuu
crash. Fortunately for them lhr ,i;a
not Ston to inrnnro'tlit. o,,on -....1.1
frantically into the street. A succos-1
sion of thunderous rejxjris followed the
first crash, then one mighty din, and the
atmosphere was filled with a great up-
rising cloud of dust. When the air was
cleared, wiiere once story above story
rose with every appearance of collossal
strenth and durability, now mounted a
fantastic heap of debris, while a space
for 130 feet above was empty, save for
the bent and distorted iron beams that
uere ami mere projected from the walls.
Ihe superintendent and contractors
were summoned, but .did not seem to
have any idea of the cause of the wreck,
or if they did they kept it carefully to
themselves. The bnilding, which was
rapidly approaching completion,' was
considered one of the finest in the city
trom a standpoint of convenience,
strength and architecture. The three
lower stories were of stone and others
above of pressed brick. The interior
was entirely of tile, supported by mas
sive iron girders.
The tiles of which the flooring were
made were fitted together like keystones,
and any extension of space confining
them wonld tend to allow the entire mam
to drop out. It is presumed that the
ofhe "Winsr cnsed the first
-, .. tnui, me weight oi the mass
precipitated from the tenth floor carried
down the remainder of the inner struc
ture. The matter creates great csm-
ment imnnrr Kn.inn.. . mi. .
. ,iT . :; " men. j.ue very
fact that the accident seemed to be tin
lorseen is generally considered the most
umntia nl. ... t I l , . , .
. ui tk wnen taken in con
nection with the idea that it might have
"Ja when the building was com
pleted and filled with occunts. Not-
building, the land on which it stands is
not more than fifty feet square. The
fwS?1 J1? e,xterior owe no signs of
the wrmlr nf tk. i I J. w iTt
- maw, g lnionmv
tios as to tke probable loss or what is to
kitt! )! bom mi, on.
. ..r O.ll . UflML
Helen (Moot) special: The demi
monde of Helena turned ont in force
last night, and made a night of it in s
way that made the ou-lookers open
their eyes in wonder and astonishment
Helena has never had such n exhibi
tion .luring iU history. The police did
not interfere, and the m memhen ol
the substratum of Helena society held
hi-h revel. The performance took
place in a large basement in an out-of-the-wav
place, and the noise and rib
aldry diil not reach the ears nf the peo
ple on the street. The occasion was a
grand maierade and fancy dress ball
tendered th-m by one of the most
prominent landladies residing in the
prescribed section of Wood street.
About seventy-five couples were pres
ent, some en masque, others in abbre
viated skirts, many in fancy dress, not
a small sprinkling of whom speared in
a suggestive stvle of undress. 1 ; rail co
quettes in silken tights which brought
out the contour of the nuked form were
conspicuous. The fun crew fast and
furious and between heated turns in the
waltz and more heated turns at the bar
the crowds with wild and reckless aban
don committed acts that were very far
outside the limits of propriety. As
they filled with wine their orgies were
of the most outrageous character, and
not until the dawn of day did the rev
ellers adjourn exhausted by the night s
experience.
THE NEBRASKA SENATE AND HOUSE.
rroceedlnat of the Vpper and Ijttrcr Branch
of the Sebratka Ateembly.
Tn the senate on the 9th but two bills
were introduced, as follows: A bill for
an act to amend section z oi cuapier & vi
the compiled statutes of 18S7 of the
state of Nebraska, entitled "Agricul
ture," and to repeal said section. A
bill for an act entitled "An act to
appoint registrars of election and to pro
vide for the registry of voters in cities
having a population of 5,000 or more
:..l...l.U..nt., 'I U rnrriiirv lull fnl-eitie
lllUUlfllltll 11. 1 llv t...Tfcj ..... ...
of over 5,000 inhabitants provides that
one inspector or registrar
shall be
appointed for each ward or precinct by
the mayor of the city, and the continu
ation of such appointments lies with the
city council. It provides that a list ol
v,.t,rc in nil tlin iirj'pinpta filin.ll be tire-
pared by the inspectors or registrars
acting as a uoara, wuicu buhu meei ua
weeks before the eleetion. Into the list
shall be incorporated the polling lists ol
the lust previous general eleetion, and
every voter shall bo exactly located
The list is to be posted in some conspic
uous place in the city clerk's office. On
the Tuesday -preceding election the
board of registrars shall meet to revise
the lists.but additions shall not be placed
on the original list The usual Kafe
guards are thrown around the registry
lists, and it is provided that the right of
challenge shall not be impaired. Senate
files Nos. 113, 120, m and others,
reported from the joint committee on
county and township organization, were
recommitted after some lively passages
between Howe and Ransom over the
bill granting the right to condemn real
estate to water companies supplying
towns and cities. In the honse but few
members were present The motion by
which CortTn's bill for an amendment
to the constitution providing for the
investment of a permanent educational
fund of the state was refused a position
at the head of the general file, was re
considered and "iven tl eaired posi
tion. The house then went into com
mittee of the whole to consider the
measure. Hall of Lancaster moved that
the bill be recommenrlAd in niuu
Chr'sty of Clay vigorously opposed.
Loruiu, me author oi tne lull, defended
the measuie, claimin r that there was a
vast sum of mouev lvinp idle in the
treasury which might be loaned to
school districtson their registered bonds.
Hamilton favored the measure on the
eround that it on "lit, tn bn snl.mii.,! n
the people as any other measure. Burn-
nam oi Aeya J'aha also favored on like
grounds, adding that the selling of
School lands is constantly nl)inr 11, o
state school fund. The bill was recom
mended to pass.
The senate on the 11th held a short
session, beginning at 4 o'clock. It
passed a bill authorizing Omaha's chief
of police and police judge to sell un
claimed property coming into their nos-
session in the course of duty. Another
bill provides that the proceeds shall go
to the police relief tund. The senate
also passed a bill allowing a yearly ex
penditure of $1,000 for" the city en
gineer's salary iu cities of second class.
The committee of the whole approved
the bill establishing a'police relief fund
in Omaha. In the house barely a
quorum of members responded to the
roll call. Mcliride offered a resolution
directing the committee on insurance
to report back senate file 8, the Ransom
bill to compel insurance companies to
F?y f?Hi face ol VHr.y, and honse roll
H, a bill of the same tenor. Satisfac
tory explanations were made, and the
resolution was withdrawn. A bill was
introduced by Hanthorne to compel
purchasers of tax titles to notify all par
ties who held mortgages on tho poperty
of the sale, also one by the committee
on public lands and public buildings to
appropriate tho sum of $30,000 to repair
the damages that resulted from the re
cent explosion at the insane asvlum.
In the senate on the 12th, Senator
Connor introduced a bill, senata ! Jin
194, amending section 25 of the compiled
statues, regarding school lands and
funds. The nnrnort of th Mil i.
compel the state treasurer to keep the
,. .,.,icU, Bcnooi innas oi the state in
vested in bonds of some kind named in
oenate file No. 19s ... s
troduced by Jewett Senate file No. 91
was passed. This bill provides that in
cuuuuea under towns ilD orirn.V.H
1 the assessor with I,,'. . ,
.and the schedules and statements of
property by him assessed, together with
the town board, or in cities of the second
class of OVr fin 1
. ... - rauiraiim (i(,uw() g.
habitants, the assessors with their said
doom, schedules and statements.
together With the inmniiAn .-.I.
city, or in cities of the second clam of
i man live tnonsand (5,000) inhabi
tants and viIWm th ;u
, their said books.
ments. tomtthar with ik.
??Ci,ii.thA roPi-ors from Mid
mtyew Jjpnrd of trustees shall oonsUtato
mi wniu iur rnrwiTina asaa-...i. rr.
time f u. r.v-T-TrrTi'"""
, . M -vi.mva iu u aiiernoon was
Jiil,l!lJnH',"rti una"
i " .. . . - "",u" ran tiiai amena
ing tu, pharmacy few u, t
amiimuon few aod annual due. The
1.0-. " aa "nanai dnea. Thai
. . - anmm fAR UIJ
lium
iliers of this uoay coiiurwj .r
"... 1 . rrTnv nnRli
eralion lor men
CCIVeU B UiVMVj v- , ,
sction upon measures IT'."""-.,"-this
house, and declared his ability to
furnish the nam.-s of members so re
ceivin" such consideration and the
amounts received; therefore, 1.
That Scoville, Hopper, Major, bito
and Corbin, be. and they are hereby ap
pointed a committee to investigate said
charges and all other charges of corrup
maAa against members of tins
bodv, with full lower to send for per
sons and papers and administer oaths
J .fl;oslmni tft VltlH-BHH
And be it further resolved, 1 bat said
committee le and they are hereby in
structed to proceed with such investiga
tion with all convenient dispatch and
report all evidence tken to the house
ith their recommendation in the prem
ises. After discussion tho resolution
as adopted.
In the somite on the 13th, Senator
IjanW bill for a (.olico relief fund in
cities of the metropolitan class was
passed. The senate passed N'esbitt's bill
giving the Tenth district two judges,
Manning's bill, permitting persons to
associate to insure their own property,
and Tope's bill, making counties liable
to nn individual who may sufTc r damage
by reason of ft defective bridge or high
way. Cornell's resolution for a con-ti-tutional
amendment relative to tho in
vestment of the permanent school fund
wiis defeated. Senator Cornell intro
duced a resolution directing the judicia
ry committee to frame a bill for tho in
vestment of the surplus in the sbito
treasury. Laid over under the rules.
Sutherland's resolution requesting the
board of transxirtatiou to make a sched
ule of freight rub s that will prevent dis
crimination came up as a special order.
After lengthy discussion the resolution
was indefinitely postponed. In the house
The following were rejiorted for pas
sage. A bill to insure a more speedy
trial by limiting the postponement on
tho motion of one party alone, anil pre
scribing the conditions on which iriam
may be adjourned. A kill incorixirating
homestead associations to loan each
munilier money to purchase land and
make improvements. A bill to punish
anybody with a tM or 8100 fine for
selling intoxicating liquors to habitual
drunkard. . The bill authorizing the
mayor aud council of cities of second
clnss, haviug over 5,000 inhabitants, to
borrow money not to exceed 5 per cent
on the valuation to aid in buildiug or
repairing the court house, was recom
mended for passage. The South Omaha
charter bill was recommended for pas-
e. A bill was introduced by Hill, of
Butler, appropriating $1,100 to iy the
j i i t-ii;. i
unmages caused ny jiuiugs in ins pi-iK-riincuU
to prevent hog cholera. Tho
money is to be distributed as follows
H. II. Hnss, 81,!PJ0; Edward Hinklcy,
480. and Louis Lindosi. PW. All these
parties are residents of Butler county,
and have lost swine through lunocu
lation" by Hillings, aggregating the
amount named. House roll 45. Hall
maximum tariff bill was taken np, but
went over. Hubert s usury bill was
then tiiken up. Wistoner's motion to
strike ont the enacting clause was lost
uy a vote ot 41 to 30. llie matter was
not disposed of at the hour of adjourn
ment.
In the senate on the 14th Senator
Funck presented a resolution directing
tho committee on publio lands and
buildings to prepare a bill for the re
moral of the home for the friendless to
the experimented farm. The resolution
recited thnt the home needs milnro-inn.
and the adjoining land is very eipons
ive. The resolution called for the sale
of the present home and the use of ten
acres ol the farm. There wag nuila
enguiy ciscnssion over the resolution,
prhich was finally adopted. The com
mittee of the whole took up Senator
1 axton's bill, giving Nebraska's consent
to tho purchase or condemnation of a
ostothce site in Omaha and .linrr
jurisdiction thereover to the United
oiuies. i he bill was passed over for a
ume. air. Jiowe's glass ballot box bill
was approved m committee. When r
lHrted to the senate the nVht tr. in,1.fl.
niieiy postjKine was begun, and to save
V'e house consented to have it reeom-
muie.i with a vmw to making it apply
?nlv to the larger cities. Senator Linn's
lull for taxing sleeping cars was recom
mended for lmsaage. In the house rolls
, tr. 104. and senate fi e H .11 l.lll.
nimiiur cuaracter, regulatinsr insurance
ci ipnuies wererei-orted from the com
mmee without any recommendation.
: '"us introduced was one
V 'i)re. of ihm.-lnu ,i i:,,;t 11. -
. ry" 't ..in, buu
nntii her of insurance agents in a town or
city to one for each company. The Gil
bert usury bill w as called up and ordered
te a third reading by h v,. ,j ft t ia
1 he house went into coimni.ten nf
whole to consider bills on general file
House roll 124, a bill by nalL provides
that at each election in cities or villages,
the question of license or no license
shall lie submitted to the voters. If a
majority vote for license, the city coun
ci or village board shall issue licenses to
ii who comnlv villi tk
the statute, and if the majority vote no
license, then
me aaie ol 1 n toxica t no-
a J"
lae. 1 he bill was amended to make it
necessary forth annbo.nt r ... .1..
written consent of each property holder
ljo.uing the proposed location of the
looi., lief ore -a license shall issue. The
1?r 2,000 mlMbiUnta, and 11.000 for all
."i".0',' Uretr Effrt re
ana irom 11,000 to 2,800,
tmt they were not successful. The bill
b it. " U" l do, rM- followinir
J "iT.7e "tr,M': Tc provide tor
ihe let ing by contract fr all printing
J.tt,onery ad by 'e .utP of Ne
ika, ami all soeietU nd institntiont
1 1 1 wlleT9 th bi,u ' printing
mUUhonery are to be pabl foV by tb-
t?hrl. T'i?" '"'.M16 "B"rmity of
-f UJk,.!or tb imlAi0 ' common
I w me oreauos of Thar-
Err rted houas, roll
fvvt ';lUieinrecoren,hot
tB, resentati Hisjors' joint resolution
ms'uo ' sUte warrant- .Uto socun.ie.
Xn horsed by the sum , treasurer
5l t,s.y." Let offer.1 a
resolution to adjourn over ebrtiarr ...
iu order U give the '"'
l,Ril.tnre an opportunity to . tend the
O A K. reunion. Carried -44 to 1J.
Ca.lT. of Howard, offered the followin?
resolution: Whereas, Hon. Frank U
Mornssev bas publicly charged in he
Omaha Herald of the 10th int. that
of a palfb Q,t ,u l"lra imDfl1 ,nem
wjth the Omaha and innehago reser
J.'iimx la male territory euongh for
the proposed county of Thurston. The
bills were niaue im-i-ji tirm-r nr me
JKth. The seuatiued Linn bill for
taxing sleeping cars, burton a bill in-
cress 112 the sgjrepaie limn scuooi
Uxes in cities of 1.OO0 to 5,00 from 20
to ir mills, and Hoover's resolution call
ing on the secretary ! "e, lor a bill
of ths telephones in state institutions
and their cost. The committee on pub
lic lands and buildings reported favora
bly on l'o ks bill requiring executive
officers to report annually to the gov
ernor the personal property iu their of
fices and a statement oi any sucn prop
erty as may have lsen disposed of.
Senator Connor's abstractor bill was
discussed at length and killed. It made
abstractors liablo under their f 10,000
bonds for errors in their abstracts, and
fixed ena!ties for violating the act
Ths secretary of state rei-orted fifteen
telephones in state institutions at a
yearly cost of tWA. lhree of them
cost S100 each. The others range from
48 to $-"el, the six in the state Iioiiho be
ing at the latter figure. In tho house
Hampton introduced a resolution recit-
ng that whereas the lions i.jy pm-
ployes, a larger mini tier than ever lie
fore, therefore a committee consisting
of Johnson, Llliott, berry, Ilanna and
Farley be apixdhted to examine the
matter and rcort to the house the
names of those, if any, whose services
could be dispensed with. Adopted.
Hilis wero introduced: lo establish a
board of printing, and to apixmit a
state printer and regulate bis prices
therefor, and lo establish a system for
contracting for the material for the pub
lie printing used bv the stute. lo pro
vide that all per.onn ahall be entitled to
the same civil ri.-hU and to punish all
persons for violai ion of its provisions.
To repeal the law creating a bureau of
labor. A bill appropriating ?.'0,000 for
the purpose of sending a delegation to
the centennial celebration of the inau
guration of 1'iesidcnt Washington, at
New iork. on April M, was taken up
and debated at length without reaching
a vote.
A SECRET SESSION OF THE SENATE.
WlirrrUt i i'attrd a Hill lo Protect Our
leretl$ ill i'anamiu
Washington dispateh: The senate, iu
secret session, has passed tho following
bill to enable the president of tho United
States to protect our interests in Pan
ama: lie it enacted, etc., that there bo
and is hereby appropriated out of any
money in the treasury, not otherwise
appropriated, the sura of SiVl.OOO to en
able the president to protect the inter
ests id tlie'United States, and to provide
for tho security of tho persons and
property of citizens of the United States
at the isthmus of Fanama, in such man
ner as he may deem expedient
it is lenrned that the committee on
reign relations had received no news
of any outbreak at Panama, but deem
ing it best to le prepared for any that
niigui occur, u umi ncciueu 10 aaic lor
twe passage, of this bill at onoe, as an in
dependent measure, rather than risk tho
delays and uncertainties attending an
amendment to the appropriation bills.
Ihe troubles are such as are incident
to the discharge of a body of labor
ers whose means of gaining a livelihood
are thereby cut off, and who, in their
desperation and distress, may resort to
violence and bloodshed. It is under
stood that it has boen deemed wise by
tho authorities of the United States,
(treat liritain and other nations having
large numbers of their citizens employed
on the Panama canal, to arrange for
bringing them home in case of wholesale
discharge, and not to suffer them to re
main on the isthmus in destitution and
want. To provide for this tho sum of
'-iO.OOO was appropriated. After a
number of apjiointments favorably re
ported by committees hod been con
firmed, the question of removing the in
junction of secrecy from the proceed
ings in connection with the considera
tion of the British extradition treaty was
taken np. To this there was considera
ble opixtsition. The motion finally pre
vailed, and to-morrow the record of pro
ceedings, covering a period of two or
three years, will bo furnished to the
press.
A CONFERENCE OF COLORED MEN.
An. Add rem
to Prtdcnl. Blecl
Hmrrin
Formulated.
Indianapolis dispatch: An important
conference of colored men was held hero
to day. It gathered at the instance ol Omaha ""A
Prof. J. M. Lancston. Seven statci
wero represented by the delegates pres
ent, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, and Mis
souri, and letters were read from other
southern states. The conference was
held with closed doors, and au address
to General Harrison was formulated.
In suljsUnce, tho address says that they
aro loyal to the republican party ami
residents of states in which a fair elec
tion would givo the electoral vote to
the republican party by a large major
ity, but such undue influences and
frauds are brought to l"ar against tho
voters that scores of tho republican
masses are constantly defeated. "We
cannot doubt that you agree with ns that
the. fifteenth amendment should be main
tained with fniniess and vi'.'or, aud that
you desire such object shall bo accom
plished iu the interest of seven millions
of American citizens who to-day in the
south are practically disfranchised, and
whose cause we represent and plead. In
view of our present and prosperous con
dition under your administration of the
government, we are profoundly inter
ested in the construction of your cabi
net, especially aa oonoerns the attorney
tfcueralship. The importance of the ab
solute necessity for the appointment
which we name of a man wlio, In addi
tion to great learning in law, is free from
limine feeling and bias, becomes appar
ent in a single moment's reflection.
Such lisping our opinion, we have ven
tured to bring it formally and earnestly
u rwr Doiisiuerailon.
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Amona them warm Dan MVl. u .
H. V. Onaman. Niraraxuan minister at fA
WaalnnirU.n. and Milton It. BuUer, who Sf-H 'O
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