A PARSON AND A PIQ.
What Waa l.ffrilire a One Caae Waa
Trlrd li tbe Other.
A j-oor woman came T the parson of
the pariah with the request: "Please.
paiM'o: my ou'J sow Im- took crui bad.
I wish now, jou'il Iw ho good ait to
come and nay a prayer over her."
"A prayprl GoodueH pr-M-rve us! I
cannot oonie and pray over a pig-
pig, my dear Sally that la not possi
ble." "Hit 1 rru-I bad, groaning, and
won't eat her meat. If her dies, paas'n
whativi-r shall we do I' the winter
wl'mt l-acon sides ami ham? Oh,
dear! 1 o'j-, now, passu, come aud aay
a prayer over uiy old sow."
"I really, really must not degrade
my Nil-red ollh-e. Sally! Indeed, I must
not."
"oh, pass'til do'y, now!" and the good
creature began to soli.
The jmisciu wa a tender-hearted
111a h, and ti-ars were too tiim-h. He
agreml to go to tlie cottage, aee the pig,
and do what he coiid.
Acordiiigly, he visited the patient,
vvhleh lay groaning In the Htye.
The woman gazed wistfully at the
pastor, and waited for the prayer.
Theti the clergyman ralmM his right
hand, pointed with one finirer at the
bow and said solemnly: "If thou llvet,
pig! then thou II vent. If thou dleat,
O )k'. then tlioll dlcst."
Singularly enough, the how waa bet
ter that same evening, and ate a little
wash. She wan well, aud had recover
ed Iter appetite wholly next day.
Now, It happened. Home nioiitha after
this, that the rei-tor fell very 111, with
a t ul nay that nearly choked him. He
could not swallow, he could hardly
breathe. His life was In imminent
da nger.
Sally was a visitor every day at the
rectory, and wan urgent to ace the Mick,
man. Site wait ref lined adtnlHHlon, hut
pressed ho vehemently that finally she
waa Hilffered-JilKt to nee hint, hut she
waa warned tux to apeak to htm or ex
pect him to apeak, aa he waa tillable to
utter a word.
She waa conducted to the ah-k room,
and the door thrown open. There she
beheld the pastor lying In ltl, groan
ing, almost In extremltli-a.
Raising her hand, ahe polnteVat him
with one finger and wild: "If thou
llvest, () pass'n! then thou livittt! If
thou (Heat, O iinss'n! then thou dii-Ht."
The effect on the wick rnnn wasan
explosion of laughter that burst the
qui nay, aud his recovery. Sunday
Magazine.
What Water On Do.
The effect of the hydraulic motor,
which Is now naed for tlie purHiae of
removing masses of earth, well-nigh
paxses belief.
A stream of water issuing from a pipe
hIx Inches In diameter, with a fall be
hind it of Uiree hundred and seventy
live fept, will carry away a solid wk
weighing a ton or mure to a distance
of tlfty or one hundred feet. The Te
locity of the stream la terrific, and the
column of water projected Is so solid
that If a erowlmr or other heavy object
be thrust against It tlie Impinging ob
ject will be hurled a considerable dis
tance. Hy this stream of water a man would
be luslii iitly killed if he came Into con
tact with It, even at a distance of two
hundred feet.
At two hundred feet from the nozzle
a six-inch stream, with three hundred
and seventy-tlye feet fall, projected
momentarily against the trunk of a
tree, will In a second denude It of the
heaviest bark as cleanly uh If It had
been cut with an ax. Whenever such a
strim I turned against a Imnk It cuts
and burrows It In every direction, hol
lowing out great eaves and causing
tons of earth to melt ami fall and be
washed away lu the sluices.
Indicating Weather Changes.
In many places the crow is looked on
as a weather prophet of tlie highest
distinction. On the approach of rain
a whole community will rise from their
nests or perches, and wheel about for
some time, longer or shorter, according
to the duration of tlie coming storm.
The (uncock screams loudly when rain
la coming. Swallows fly high In fair
weather, and when they fly low, skim
ming the surface of the earth, wot
weather Is at hand, Gulls and other
fur-flying birds do not venture far from
home when heavy weather is approm-h-Ing.
Rain may be expected when
ducks Imtlie. Geese chatter loudly
when a storm approaches. Sea-birds
fly early and far to eastward when
fine weather may be expected to hold,
but they fly Inland In search of food on
the approach of storms. Had weather
Is heralded by wild fowl leaving the
marshes for higher localities. The
guinea hen flutters Its wings and given
fearful scri-nma on a change In the at
mosphere. Taking Advantage ot Kclciu.-c.
An ingenious mini has Invented a de
vice for feeding his horse, and he does
It with one of the ordinary alarm
clocks. For Instance, If the horse Is to
hare Its morning feed of grain at ft
o'clock the alarm Is set. and when the
morning comes the horse gets lis break
fast befori lt owner's eyes are open.
t In so arranged that the alarm pulls
the slide, letting the grain run through
a sluice to the manger.
Iiocomotlvc Are Heavier.
Ten years ago the heaviest locomotive
used on the Pennsylvania express trains
weighed forty to forty-eight tons. Now
tbe through express trains are each
hauled hy an engine that weighs from
sixty-five lo seventy tons.
Conductors.
The best conductors of electricity 1,
annealed silver; 2, annealed copper; li,
bard copper nnd hard silver; 4, anneal
ed gold; 5, hard gold; 0, annealed alum
inium; 7, compressed sine; 8, annealed
platinum; 0, auuwik-d Iron.
THE VENEZUELA IMMSS10N'
Still Bard at Work Though Making
Elow Propreii.
BOUNDARY LINE NEARLY FIXED.
DurHmrut Frein Sfmtiiali and JtuUrh
Arcuivr Tall tha HUiry.
Warhingt, June 13. The Vene
zuelan houttdary com mission held its
regular meeting yesterday, the complete
membership being present. A number
of important communication! were
pre -en ted ami considered, among them
being preiurnar.' report irom Pro
fessor Burr, now engaged in making
au -xamination of th Dutch archives
inn a communication from the depart
ment of state informing the commie
aion that the liritish government had
ig fled its intention of shortly for
warding a supplementary blue tuok
which i-hould contain a large num er
of documents taken both from the
Dirctt ami Spanish archives.
I iirther information was laid beijre
the commhsion as to valuable and im
portant documents in the archives of
the propaganda at Koine. A num r
of additional durum, its were piesen ed
on lehalf of tlie Yen zuelan gov ra
incut, but translations have not yet
leei completed of three volumes of '.he
manuscript which are in tho hand of
the legation in ltd city.
It is not likely that th headqenr
tir ot the commission will be changed
t im month, if at all, to some cooler
place. The commission will meet again
some day next week.
'I b- Hafngl! fet,
PiTTSHCho, June 13. The r'o.-ing
feature of the national aaengerfeat was
tlie business meeting held yesterday
morning and afterm on, when a peima
netit saengerfest was formed. Presi
dent Iiimling presided. A constitution
was adopted. It leaves the name un
charged and gives the object of the
or anizatton to be the promulgation ot
Herman a.mg, epeeeh and tot-utl. All
singing societies in order to be eligible
must have a member-hip of at least
forty, must pay an initiation fee of $10
and each mem tier is, taxed 25 cents per
year.
Cincinnati, having a fietition signed
by over 3,000 citizens, was unanimously
selected an the city fcr the next test.
It is almost certain that the musical
director w ill be Iouis Khrgott. Mem-l-rs
to the central hoard of the paen
gerbund were elected, and Treasurer
Adolph Stediug announced that there
would be a handsome balance in the
treasury after paying all hills.
The central hoard elected the follow
ing ollicers : President, J. Hanno Dei
ler, New- Orleans; first vice-president,
Charles Schmidt, Cincinnati; second
vie.e- eesiiletit, Charles Saam, Pitta
burg; secretaries, .John Warflingcr, Cin
cinnati, and Jacob Witiig, Kvansville,
Ind. ; treasurer, J. F. Freiizel, Indiana
polis; financial secretary, Herman
Schmidt Cleveland; honoraiy presi
dent, John Diiu.iiie, Pittsburg.
Information was yederday
charging President l'iniling and
man Succop, chairman of the
committee, with allowing beer
s Id illegally at the saengerfest
made
to he
picnic
in Heaver county yesterday.
Practically all lhe singers left the c ty
yesterday.
llrrlnre IIIim Not Guilty.
Maksow.ui, June 13 The court mar
tial trying ( rerieral Haratieri yeMerday
found him guilty of the charges pre
ferred against him, (ieneral P.aratierl
was commander of tlie Italian forces
employed in the campaign against the
Abyssinians. Ho was in personal com
mand of the army when in March last
the 'Abyssiana inflicted a crushing lie
feat on the Italians. He was tried be
fore a court martial for crimes coming
under the provisions of articles 74 and
8H ot the military penal code of having
on March 1, last attacked the Abyssin
ians Irom inexcusable motives under
circumstances rendering defeat inevita
ble and ot having abandoned the i hod
command of the troops from ball past
twelve on March 1, until 9 o'clock on
.March 3, thereby tailing to give the
orders required for lessening of the con
sequences of the defeat.
llouil Salt,
Washington, Juno 13. The special
committee ot which Mr, Harris of Ten
nessee is chairman, appointed to inves
tigate the recent sales of government
bonds, began its inquiry yesterday.
The session was devoted to reading the
reply of Secretary Carlisle in answer to
a senate resolution giving a review ol
the sale bonds to the Morgan-Helmont
syndicate. The matter war generally
discussed, after which it was decided to
request Secretary Carlisle to appear Is
fore tbe committee, on Monday next to
answer inquiries regarding his written
statement. In case the examination
ot the secretary is completed on Mon
day the committee will go to New York
that night to examine persons in thai
city connected with the bond sales.
The committee desires to close the
investigation as soon as possible and
will do so as soon as all parties inter
ested can be heard.
Triad til Unlil It (Ji.
Mo.Nioi.WEi-v, W. Va., June J3.-The
westbound express on Hie Chesapeake
A Ohio railroad wss held up between
Cotton Hill and Kanawha (alls at 12:43
o'clock yesterday morning by three
men, who, after a short fight with the
train crew, made their escape without
aecurlng any booty
.Jack Maynard of Scary, W. Va and
L, M. Martin and George Stringer o
Richmond, Va., were subsequently ar
retted near the scene ot the attack.
It Adjoama
WaaMiNuioM, June 12 If tha 'ast
easiou of the Fiity-fourth coBgrrat
has been a do-noibing seesion, as .as
been predicted, tbe dosing day of the
senate furnished a fitting culmination.
It was a day of inactive drifting, a
laborious effort to kill time by doing
nothing until 4 o'clock, when, accord
ing to the concurrent resolution agreed
to yesterday, the two houses were to
adjourn.
'lhe senate was called to or ier at 11
o'clock, when the District of Columbia
appropriation biil was received and
immediately signed by tbe vice-president,
thus dit-p siiig of the last of the
general appropr.ation bills, so far as
the legislative branch of the govera
ment was concerned. A bill was passed
granting a pennon to the widow of
(Jen. W. H. Gil son of Ohio. The sen
ate then drawled along until 1 :20, the
only business transacted being the ap
pointment of a c m.uiittee to wait on
the pres dem and inform him that con
gress was ready to adjourn, and the
appointment ol a committee provided
for in District of Columbia appropria
tion bill, to investigate the charitable
and reformatory institutions in Wash
ington. At 1 :20 a recess was taken until 3
o'clock, when the usual resolution of
thanks to th vice-president and presi
dent pro tempore were offered by en
ators Allison of Iowa and Ham of
Tennessee respectively, and ui tni
moasly agreed to. The galleries ere
almost deserted during the early hours
of the session, but visitors continued
to c me in slowly until the hour o ad-
urument, so that when that hour ar
rived and the vice-president delivered
bis valedictory, he had a good sized
au iii nee in the galleries, a large num
ber of whom were ladies, even thougU
there were but twenty-five senators
present at that interesting moment.
As toe vice-piesident uttered the last
words and the gavel fell for the last
time there was a faint outburst of ap
plause, after which senators gathered
in knots in the aisles and before the
vice-president's dek bidding each
other good bye. Then the senators on
the floor and the visitors in the gal
leries melted away and the chamber,
w hich has been the scene of so many
stirring incidents was left to pages and
attendant! until the first Monday in
Dece.ii Iter next.
Houne Ailjnarnril.
Washington-, June 12 The first
session of the fifty-fourth congress
gently and quietly, almost without in
cident, glided into history yesterday at
4 o'clock, the shortest '"long" session ot
congre-8, with two exception in the
history of the government. There was
a marked difference between the close
yesterday and that of the Fifty-first
congress, the last previous republican
congre"s. Then there waa a bitter con
flict raging between Speaker Reed and
the minority and not one of the latter
was willing to otter tlie usual resolu
tion of thanks to the presiding officer.
Yesterday Mr. Turner, the second mem
ber of the committee on ways and
means, acting for the minority in the
abtence of ex-Speaker Crisp, offered a
resolution thanking Speaker Reed lor
the ability, faithfulness, and strict im
partiality with which he had dis
charged the duties of his difficult posi
tion, and at tbe suggestion of Mr.
D.ickery and other democrats there
was a rising vote that the expression
of heartiness back of the resolution
might thereby bi emphasized. In his
closing remarks, Sjieaker Reed offered
bis grateful recognition for the honor,
saying -.
"The thanks of the house of repre
sentatives is always a high honor, hut
is esjiecially so at tbe end of a session
In which the speaker has been forced
to say 'no' more times, perhaps, than
in the history of any other congress,"
In the course ot the session a num
ber of private pension and relief bills
were passed and Representatives Pit
ney (rep.), Blue (rep., Kas.) and Dock
ery (dem., Mo.) were appointed meu.
bere on the part of the house com
mittee to sit during the summer and
invealiga'e the charities of the District
of Columbia.
Irlilnt HiiHy, -
Washington, Juno 12. President
Cleveland was a busy man yesterdav
considering and Bigning hills rushed to
the White house from both houses ol
congress. His cabinet officers were
with him to give advice on measures
connected with their several depart
ments and Private Secretary Thurlier
was also railed in to the hasty con
sultations necessary in each case. A
number ot bills were not signed and
therefore tailed to In-come laws. Those
approved will be announced from the
White boune today,
How Boon the president will leave
Washington for Gray Gables cannot be
ascertained. It was stated yesterday at
the White house that ho had made no
plans and that public business would
keep him here tor some time at least.
Noma CmokHCl,
Dbnvrk, Colo., June 12. The sensa
tion ot tbe day at tbe park was the kick
by the belters about crooked work on
the first and second heats in tbe third
Tunning race, and the subsequent action
of the judges who disqualified Flying
Cird and Daisy B. and lined the joikcyd
$25 each. Bets were declared oft and the
horses finishing 'bird, fourth and fifth
were given first, second an third places.
Wild Wlit.
Ciiicoo, June 12. Sudden and
sharp fluctuations in the wheat mar
ket on the board ot trade yesterday
created wild excitement in the pit and
t radars had a crazy streak lor the
moment There was a range ol 3'
cent in tha una and downs. July ad.
vanoed to 68 cents, broke to 56
oanUand closed at 67X oenta. Th
govatniaa&t raport wai retnoniibla for
tha early broak.
lilSlNbb b UMLIDED.
Tronbla Confidently Expected te
Cease.
UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO ADJOURN
I K- ti m fl of lhe l'ro4-eedlns:a lluay Hay
For All.
Washington, June 11. Business of
I e first BiBgion of the Fifty-iourth con
gress was practically concluded yester
d y by the agreement between the two
j b dies upon the eundry civil and Dis
trict of Columbia appropriation bills,
i the oniy remaining matters of ddferenoe
between the two houi-es when t1 ey met
this morning. To accomplish this the
boue voted to concur with the eenate
in its amendments to the sundry cwil
ippropriations, direct and contingent,
'.00,OijO tor certain public buildings.
This vote 100 veas to 88 nays demon
strated w hat had been feared would not
be found, a quorum uf membeis still in
the city. The senate agreed with the
iiouse provision in the district bill cut
ting off appropriations to religious,
benevolent aud charitable institutions,
i mended so as to make tbe new policy
effective after June 30, 1897. Previous
to reaching this conclusion, the house
ia?ped many measures under suspension
tit the rules.
The concurrent resolution for the
Bnal adjournment of congress at 4 p.
to. tomorrow was received from the
I nate and agreed to,
THE PKOCCKDINOa.
Although there were less
members present, several
Mere disposed ot without
imong them the following:
than fifty
measures
objection,
A reaolu-
lion offered by Mr. C. W. Stone (rep.,
Pa.) that the secretary of the . treasury
be requested to communicate to the
bouse at the commencement of the
next session such information as he
hiay have or may be able to obtain
meantime as to the comparative mer
its and advantages of pure nickel,
nickel alloy, aluminum combined or
klloyed with other metals, and of copper
bronze as material for our minor coins
tnd for the purpose of making such
information as full and clear as possi
ble the secretary of the treasury is au
thorized to have struck such experi
mental coins of the metals mentioned,
pure and in combination with other
metals, as he may deem necessary and
proper, and is rtqueeted to communi
cate to the house the results and con
tusions derived from such experimen
tal coinage.
Mr. Shafroth (rep., Colo.) meved to
tuspend the rules and pass a bill pro
viding for the punishment of persons
who willfully set fire to timber on the
public domain. It met tho serious ob
jection of Mr. Little (dem., Ark.), but
the objection was withdrawn and the
till passed.
On motion of Mr. Mondell (rep , Wyo.)
lenate concurrent resolution was
igteed to directing the secretary of the
Interior to resume the work of issuing
patents to the Union Pacific Railroad
:ompany for lands sold by it to bona
fide purchasers according to the lists
kupplied by the company. This work
was suspended a year ago, and about
two and a half million acres of land and
25,000 purchasers are affected.
Senate bill making bant Barbara,
Cal., a sub-port of entry was also passed
tinder suspension of the rules.
Upon the consideration of a resolu
lion reported from the committee on
hrinting by Mr. Richardson (dem,.
fenn.) providing tor the printing of
6,f.00 copies of the bankruptcy hill Mr.
Allen (dem., Miss) made his us-ual
humorous speech a the closing of aum
Kress. Mr. Allen having finished, the
resolution proposed by Mr. Richardson
Iras agreed to.
Mr. Grout (rep., Vt.) called up the
conference report on the District of
Columbia appropriation bill made Tues
day afternoon, and the house voted
to furtner insist upon its disagreement
lo the senate amendments still in
dispute.
Want Allison to Withdraw.
Dks MoiNie, la., June 11 It has
been known for some time in inner po
litical circles Uiat a number of leading
republican managers of Iowa were at
tempting to induce Allison to permit the
withdrawal of tiia name from the list
of presidential candidates. At one time
it was about decided at Allison head
quarters here that it would be done, but
when the suggestion was made to Alli
son at Washington in a delicate sort of
way he failed to enthuse over the propo
sition. This was ten days ago and the
subject was temporarily dropped. It
has revived again and the Iuwaris here
are in communication wiih the leadeia
in St. Louis on the subject.
Allison's following in Iowa consists
of old political leaders, and they tear
now that with Mckinley's nomination
they will be relegated to obscurity and
the active managers of the McKinley
movement in Iowa will become tbe men
of consequence in. the state. They think
they can retain prestige to a certain ei
tent by inducing Allison to withdraw
and getting concessions from McKinley
ahead of the nomination. As the price
of Allison's wiliidiawal, it is said, they
will ask the nomination ot Senator Gear
for vice-president. Gear will consent il
he receives enough encouragement from
friends outside the state.
Uncr la Swift.
Denver, Colo., June 11. Cricket
Hill made tho fastest two-year-old heat
of the year yesterday and also the fast
est fourth heat ever paced by a two-year-old
in the world,
i Tha other sensation of the day was the
manner in which W. W. Hamilton rode a
mile on a bicycle in 1 :50. tho faatMt
ever made on any track In tbe state,
lend considering the condition at It was
remarkable performance. The tree!
waa like a piece of corrugated iron at
Itbe flnlab.
M -. ..a erufc ' .
Wahi.utom, June 10. Very satis
factory pi ogress in e'earing up the odds
ami ends of the legislative work of the
session was made by the senate yeMer
day. Final conference reptrts on )L
naval appropriation and on the Indian
appropriation bills were Dresented and
I agreed to. in tbe naval bill a compro
1 mise was made reducing the number of
new battleships to three and directing
that no contract shall he made for
arm r plate until after the secretary of
the navy shall have inquired into the
cost of manufacture and shall have
made a repot t to congress. The ques
tion of contract schools in the Indian
bill was compromised on the basis of
allowing mem (where there are no
other echoo's to take their place) during
the fiscal yea- 1897.
A resolution which had been offered
yesterday by Mr. Wolcott of Colorado
respecting the erection of an equestiian
statue to ten. William T. Kidman in
the city of Washington was taken up
and discussed for nearly two hours.
It directed an inquiry by the committee
on library into the facts and circum
stances of the contract and reqaested
the secretary of war to suspend its exe
oution till next session. Tbe resolution
was d feated. ,
The b.ll in relation to contempts of
court, reported from the judiciary com
mittee by M r. Hill (dem., N. Y.) waa
taken up, discussed for some time and
then allowed to be set aside informally
to other I ueinei-B miht be taken up.
The bill increasing from $10 to $r0
month the pension of Francis E Hoo
ver, w hich was vetoed by the president
and afterwards passed by tlie house
over the president's veto, was taken
op and discussed, but when the sen
ate came to vote on its pise it
turned out that there was no voting
quorum in the chamber and then at
5:40 the senate adjourned until today.
Walling Trlnl.
Cincinnati, O., June 10. When the
Walling trial was resumed yesterday
morning Alonzo Wailing was recalled,
court refused, Baying that the state was
through with tb witness, having been
allowed ample time to conclude his ex
amination Monday afternoon. The
state excepted to this ruling.
The defense then introduced David
Lock, ex-chief of police of Ne apart,
a witness who was among the first to
the scene ot the murder. Locke said
what he had first thought was blood
upon the hushes he afterwards found
t) be rust stains, natural to the plant.
He described the tracks at the place.
Walling's shoes could not have made
the tracks.
A number of depositions from Green
field, Intl., and several from officials
of the Indiana dental college at Ind
ianapolis, were read to show that Wal
ling bore a good character. Dr. Wev
of the Cincinnati dental college said
Walling was at the college Thursday
and Saturday evenings, but not on
Friday, the night of the murder. He
was not required to be present on
Friday. Dr. Davis testified that the
slight retraction of the muscles of the
neck indicated that decapitation had
been done after death.
William Abbott, who embalmed the
body, was called. He swore that he
took a quart of blood from the body
and that he also found a puncture ol
a hypoiiermic needle under the left
breast.
Dr. Edwin F. Landy of Cincinnati
testified as to the retraction of the
muscles about the neck. He hud taken
interest in the subject on account of
the diseusj'on in Jackson's trial and
made several experiments on bodies
soon after death. These; went to con
vince him that tho decapitation ol
Pearl Bryan was made w hen the mus
cles were beginning to lose their
rigidity after deatl.. The witness said
that it would be a difficult and tedious
task to cut ofT a human head in the
darkness, unless the head -vere haced
off. The witness said he had killed a
live eheep to determine how far blood
would spurt when the bead -as cut
off with a sharp knife. When he be
headed the animal the doctoi stood on a
sheet of paper, perhaps six feet square,
to show how far the blood would spurt.
The w itness unrolled the sheet of paptr.
It was covered with blood. He believed
blood from a person beheaded alive
wou'd Bpurt ten feet
A number of depositions used in the
Jackson trial were read aqd court ad
journed at 6 :30 p. m.
Troops May he Nnceitary.
PoiiTLANn, Ore.. June 10. The many
rumors of the movement of the Oregon
national guard, w hich is ready at an
hour's notice to go down the Columbia
river among the rioting fishermen, are
causing great excitement. General
Beebe refuses t 8!iy whether the call
ing out of the First regiment rests with
him or Governor Lord. The burning ol
the North Shore Packing company's
plant on the Washington side of the
river, ner Astoria, last night, presum
ably by strikers, is a fresh cause for de
manding the pretence of the militia and
it has leaked out from a lieutenant that
the First regiment will receive march
ing orders to go down the river on a
special boat last night. There it - much
opposition here to interfeeence In the
strike troubles by militia.
Mntaa Marry,
Oakland, Cal., June 10 A deal
mute wedding occurred in this city
yesterday, tbe bride being Miss Bessie
Cole, the only daughter ot State Har
bor Oommleaioner Cole, and the groom
Douglat Tilden, one of the most gifted
fculptorton tbe Pacific coatt. Type
written ooplei of the marriage service
were held before the bridal pair and
the words were pointed out at the
were pronounced by tbe minitter.
am WEUElt TO TASK
Senator Morgan Goes After the Cap
tain General.
WEYLER A BLOOD LOVING BRUTE
Ruluouitl'ntoarable anil Opprrala Taia
tl' a tauHM lhe C ulliu Trouble.
Washington, June 9. The senate
passed the new general deficiency bill
in less than three-quarters of an hour.
O diuarily a bill of 130 printed pagea
would have taxed the powers of the
read'ng clerk for at least two hours,
out the reading ol this bill was com
pleted in half an hour. An attempt
was made by Mr. Harris of Tennessee
to have the claims under the Bowman
act, aggregating about half a million
doll rs. p'ac-d in tle bill, but they
were ruled out on points of i rder and
tbe bill was promptly passed.
A final conference report was made
on the poHtoflice appropriation bill and
was agreed to. Partial Conference re
ports on the Indian appropriation bill
and on the District of Columbia ap
propriation bill were made and agreed
to and further conferences ordered.
The immigration bill as taken up
and Mr. Morgan of Alabama made
another long speech upon the question
of the war in Cuba, in the course of
which he disclaimed heretofore having
said anything offensive to the queen
regent of Spain. He eulogized her as a
woman of very high character and of
almost unexampled virtue, and said
she was entitled by virtue of the re
genco of womanhood to the utmost
respect, and that every senator so
tretted her and so spoke of her. He
spoke of General Weyler, however, at
a brutal soldier who plunged his blood
stained sword in the bosoms of women
and children.
Mr. Morgan went into the Cuban
question at great length, giving state
ments of occurrences in the present
war and in the preceding ten years'
war and asserting that the CubanB had
been selected by the Spanish govern
ment for ruinous, irppressive and un
bearable taxation. He confessed that
he was not averse to a war with Spain
if she continued in her course of abom
inable despotism. It was a misfortune
that the pejple, of the United States
should be drawn into the matter by
reason of their ancestry and traditions.
He did not deny his sympathies with
Cuba, but as an American citizen and
an American Eenator he had confined
his action in the matter entirely to the
constitutional duties of the government
of the United States to its own pei.ple.
Alluding to a newspaper statem tit
that he had on the floor of the senate
made hard and unpleasant remarks as
to the queen regent of Spain, Mr. Mor
gan s.tid that he had on that occasion
refeired to the queen regent merely in
connection with her Bpeech from the
throne in which she claimed that the
president of the United States
was in
controversy with congress and in con
troversy with the people as to their sen
timent abo.'tt Cuba. If the queen of
Great Britain, the queen regent of
Spain, tlie queen of Greece and the
empress of Germany were to meet in
tlie island of Cuba and were to witness
some of the things done there in the
name of Spain upon innocent women
and children, who were shot to death
by a brutal soldiery, these great and
noble women would rise in their maj
esty and would strike to .death t.l;e
power which enables a bru'e like Wey
ler to indict such torture.
"Would to God," Mr. Morgan ex
claimed, "that the queen of Spain were
there to see these things. The delicacy
of her nature would not permit the
infliction of such brutalities epon
women and children. Butwetrj cn
pelled to stand by, according to the
president's theory, idle and mute, and
to witness the continued repetition ol
these biutal acts in that island. I wish
those noble women were there to see
tljem. They would lay their hands on
the arm of the biutal soldier who now
wields the brutal Bword of Spain there
and would tell him in the name of God
and humanity and Christianity to for
bear his inhuman deeds."
On motion of Mr. Perkins (rep , Cal.)
senate bill appropriating $350,000 for
a public building at Oakland, Cal., was
taken from the calendar and passed and
'he eenate adjourned.
Outlaw Hanged.
Burnt, Mont., June 9. Bill Gay, a
noted outlaw was hanged at Helena,
at 11 o'clock yesterday morning for the
murder of James Mack, a deputy sheriff,
on the Musselshell in May, 1893, while
being trailed by a Blieriff's posse. Dep
uty Sheriff Rader was killed at the
same time by Gay's brother-in-law, a
man named Goes, who escaped. Gay
was captured in southern California,
about a year ago.
When hope was abandoned in that
direction attention was turned to Gov
ernor Rickards and he was flooded with
petitions and affidavits for a commute"
tion of sentence, but he refused to inter
fere and Gay was hanged. He brukt
down at the last moment and had to bt
uarried to the scaffold. He had pro
fessed religion and died protesting his
Innocence.
IliTomB l iwi by Derauit.
Washington, June 9. The follow
ing bills have become laws without
the president'! approval: Providing
back pay foi the presiding judge advo
cate general of the navy and granting
pensions to Major-General Joseph
West, Gen. W. H. Morris and Wilboi
F. Cogs fell. The president hot signed
a large number ol tension b lis, in
eluding jthose in favor of Ada J
Schwatka, widow of Lkut. Fred.
Schwatka.
