MILWAUKEE ANARCHISTS GUILTT.
On the"4th , after having been out twenty-
three hours , the jury in the trial of the
anarchist leaders in Milwaukee , Frank
Hirth , Carl Simon and Anton Palm , found
them guilty of conspiring to burn the court
house and destroying the records and ir
citing mobs to riot. For twenty hours thv
ballot stood ten for conviction and two
for acquittnl. One of the jurors , who is
alleged to be a socialist , voted for convic
tion after the first few ballots. The maxi
mum sentence for riot orconspiring to riot
is one year's imprisonment or a fine not
exceeding § 500. Hirth is a cigar.naker
and was of the
malinger co-operative fac
tory started hero after the great strike
eeveral years ago. Simon is a barber and
( a frantic anarchist. Palm is a hard wood
finisher and hns been in this country but a
short time. Neither he noiSimon can
speak English. The prisoners are all mar
ried and have large families.
LEGISLATIVE NEWS AND NOTES.
i Record of Proceedings in Both Eranc7ies
of Hi * U. 8. Congress.
SENATE , July 3. Senator Hale , from the
committee on appropriations , reported
batk the naval appropriation bill with
amendments , and stated that he hoped to
have it taken up Tuesday next. The sen
ate resumed consideration of the river and
harbor appropriation bill. The first
amendment that provoked discussion was
that nppropriatingSl.OOO.OOOfor improv
ing New York harbor so as to secure a
thirty foot channel at the Sandy Hook en
trance of the harbor , upon such plan as
the secretary of war may approve. The
amendment was agreed to. After an ex
ecutive session the senate adjourned till
Tuesday.
HOUSE , July 8. After routine business
the house went into committee of the whole ,
Mr. Hammond in the chair , on the general
deficiency bill. The remainder of the after
noon was consumed in very interesting con
sideration of the bill. After contemplat
ing eighty-six of the 110 pages of the bill ,
the committee rose and the house adjourn
ed until Tuesday
HOUSE , July 5. Mr. Springer of Illinois
offered a resolution in the house to-day
calling on the president for copies of al !
correspondence between this government
and the republics of Nicaragua and Costa
Rico since ISTGin relation to the construc
tion of an inter-oceanic canal by way of
Lake Nicaragua. Referred. The house
then went into committee of the whole , Mr.
Hammond in the chair , on the general
deficiency appropriation bill. A long
and at times acrimonious discussion
arose over an amendment offered by
Mr. Cannon of Illinois , appropriating § 22- ,
000 to refund taxes illegally collected from
railroad companies on account of alien
bond and stockholders. The 'amendment
was adopted. The clause ratifying and
confirming the readjustment of salaries of
postmasters heretofore made by the post
master general pursuant to the act ol
March 3 , 1SS3 , was ruled out on a
point of order and an amendment
offered by Mr. Burns of Missouri strik
ing out the entire appropriation for
readjustments ( § 392,394) ) was adopted.
Mr. Gibson of West Virginia caused some
thing of a sensation by charging that
Messrs. Townshend and Cannon , members
of the appropriation committee , had gone
to the senate after the action of the house
in striking out the names of certain house
employes from the legislative appropria
tion bill and procured the re-insertion ol
names by the senate committee. After con
cluding the consideration of all but ten
pages of the bill the committee rose and
the house , at 5 p. m. , adjourned.
SENATE , July G. The senate to-day took
up the bill to secure to the Cherokee freed-
men and others theirproportion of certain
proceeds of land sales. Ingalls , from the
committee on Indian affairs , reported a
substitute for this bill. It appropriates
§ 75,000 for the purpose and directs how
the amount shall be distributed. The sub
stitute was agreed to and the bill passed.
The 'senate then proceeded to consider
amendments to the river and harbor bill.
The first amendment that was questioned
was an item appropriating § 150,000 for
the purchase of the Sturgeon Bay and Lake
Michigan Ship Canal and Harbor Refuge.
HOUSE , July G. Thehouse went into
committee of the whole , Hammond in the
chair , on the general deficiency bill. The
end of the bill having been reached , the
committee , in accordance with previous ar
rangements , reverted to the paragraph re
lating to the state department. Cannon
criticized the bill for its sins of omission ,
which he declared were extraordinary. It
omitted to appropriate for the salaries of
ministers and charges d'affaires for 1SS5
and 1S8G , the deficiencies being § 3GS5S.
and for deficiencies amounting to § 53,000
for contingent expenses of consulates. This
made an aggregate of § 90,000 and other
minor items would increase the omission to
§ 100,000. Cannon offered an amendment
appropriating § 37,608 to meet the defi
ciencies in the salaries of ministers and
charges d'affaires. Agreed to. On motion
of Belmont the appropriation to supply
deficiencies in the contingent expenses oi
consulates for the year 1SSG was increased
from § 22,000 to § 40,000. The committee
then rose and reported the bill to the house.
SENATE , July 7. The senate then resum
ed the consideration of the amendments to
the river and harbor bill , the pending ques
tion being an amendment appropriating
§ 150,000 for.the purchase of the Sturgeon
Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal and
Harbor of Refuge. Spooner offered an
amendment as a substitute. It appropri
ates § 150,000 for tiie purpose of making
free of toll the commerce through the canal.
After a discussion the substitute for the
amendment was agreed to yeas 3G , nays
1C. The river and harbor bill was then
temporarly laid aside and the chair laid
before the senate the message of the presi
dent vetoing the bill authorizing the con
struction of railroads through Indian ter
ritory in nothern Montana. The message
was read and referred.
HOUSE , July 7. The speaker laid before
the house twenty-one veto messages trans
mitted by the president yesterday. The
first message read was referred , without
comment , to the committee on invalid pen
sions , but the disposition of the next mes
sage , vetoing the bill granting a pension to
Erwin L. Harrington , consumed more time.
It was finally referred to the committee on
invalid pensions. In the debate Jackson ,
of Pennsylvania , attacked the veto policy
of the president , who , he declared , was not
actuated by any regard for the worth or
merit of the private pension bills. His rea
sons for vetoing bills was not that they
were unworthy. His reason was apparent
on the face of the messages. He was in
sympathy with a party opposed to pen
sioning union soldiers , and he did not pro
pose that any union soldiers should be pen
sioned if he could avoid it. It was said
that the president meant to do right. He
did mean to do right to please a certain
element in the country , but not right to
please honest , loyal people. McMillan , ol
Tennessee , said the president has signed
more private pension bills than any other
president in the same space of time. Jack-
BOn ' 'And he hns vetoed ten times more
good ones than all other presidents put
tozether. "
SKXATB , July 8. After the presentations
of the usual number of petitions , tliesenato
proceeded to the business on the calendar.
The resolutions for inquiry into the au-
ihority under which the so-called state
legislature had been organized in the terri
tory of Dulcotji were indefinitely postponed.
Tho * cnate then resumed consideration of
the river and harbor appropriation bill ,
the pending amendment being to reduce the
appropriation for the Kentucky river from
§ 2.10.000 to § 100,000. The amendment
WHS lost yens 27 , nays 20. The Henne-
pin canal clause was then taken up. Logan
hoped the time would come when the peo
ple , whenever there was a necessity to give
cheap transportation , would provide for
it by canal or otherwise. He could not see
why the pending proposition was not as
proper on the river and harbor bill as in a
separate measure
HOUSE , July 8. Frank Compton , o !
Maryland , submitted aseries of resolutions
expressing the regret with which the house
has heard of the death of Hon. Win. H.
Cole , late representative from Maryland ,
and providing for the appointment of a
committee of seven representatives and
three HCimtoru to attend the funeral cere
monies. Tho house then , at 11:10 , as a
mark of respect to the memory of .the de
ceased , adjourned.
SENATE , July 9. Hoar offered a resolu
tion calling on the president for informa
tion as to the seizure or detention in any
foreign ports of any American vessel , the
pretexts or alleged causes therefor and
what efforts have been made to provide
redress for such seizure and prevent their
recurrence. The senate then went into ex
ecutive session. Immediately after the
doors were closed an order was made , upon
motion of Senator IngalLs , that the public
should be excluded from the upper corri
dors , lobbies and committee rooms , which
order was carried into effect at once. This
resulted in the closing of the offices of the
associated press and Western Union and
Baltimore and Ohio telegraph companies
and the .ejectment of all reporters from
their quarters in the senate wing of the
rapitol. Tho adverse report upon the
nomination of SoIicitorGeneral John Goode
was then taken up. The nomination of
Goode was rejected , there being four ma
jority against him. The sectetscssion then
ended. The doors of the senate and the
other doors were reopened and the senate
adjourned.
HOUSE , July Immediately after the
reading of the journal , the speaker an
nun need that the regular order was a vote
on the demand for the previous question
on the motion to refer to the committed on
invalid pensions the message of the presi
dent granting a pension to Sally Ann Brad
ley. The bill and message was referred.
When the veto message bill granting a pen
sion to Francis Doming was reached , the
republicans demanded and wore accorded a
half hour for debate. After debate the
message was referred without objection.
The next and last veto message upon
the speaker's table was then laid before the
house. It was the message vetoing the bill
granting a pension to Joseph Rominer , and
as this case is regarded as presenting especi
ally strong features , the republicans deter
mined to make a fight over its reference.
The bill was referred yeas 130 , naj's IIS.
This cleared the speaker's table of vetoed
messages. The house then resumed the
consideration of the general deficiency bill
and by a vote of yeas 12-i and nays 8G ,
confirmed the action of the committee ol
the whole in agreeing to the amendment
making an appropriation to meet the Fox
and Wisconsin river claim. Pending action
the house took a recess until 8 o'clock , the
evening session to be for the consideration
of pension bills.
A DIFFICULTY IX ARKANSAS.
An Vjtrlslng of Colored Knights of Labor
Feared.
LITTLE ROCK , ARK. , July 8. It was sup
posed that the trouble at the Tate plantation
liad ended and that the striking negro Knights
of Labor had become pacified and would return
to work , their master workmen having so ad
vised. Just the reverse , however , seems now
the condition of the affairs , and many believe
that this county is on the verge of one of the
bloodiest race conflicts since the war.
Intelligence has arrived from the neighbor
hood of the late trouble that the striking ne
groes , reinforced bv many sympathizers from
the surrounding farms and "plantations num
bering fully 1,030 in all , have made complete
preparations for a general uprising somc'thne
to-day or to-morrow. They are fully armed ,
and will attempt to rcilress their fancied
wrongs and grievances , directing their atten-
sion lirst to Sheriff Wortlien , w ho recently
subdued the strikers. They will next advance
on the farmers , with the intention of burning
their crops , barns and houses. Others who
have incurred the enmity of the negroes will
then be visited and treated in a like manner.
The negroes have been openly buying aims
and ammunition within the past few days and
state that if they are opposed in their cam
paign of revenge the weapons will be freely
used.
Sheriff Worthen called a public meeting last
night and stated these facts , at the same"time
requesting those who were willing to join his
posse to liand him thennames. . About 100
men responded and were sw oru iu as special
deputies.
At the first intimation of an outbreak among
the blacks , the posse will proceed to tun scene
of trouble and attempt to quell the disturb
ance.
The governor has been called upon to order
out the militia but has refused to do so until
some actual trouble shall have occurred.
Some of the fanners in the vicinity of the Tate
plantation have prepared to resist the negroes ,
while others have removed their families and
valuables to places of saf cty.
THE APACHES SURROUNDED.
As Usual , They Are About to be WipedOut
of Existence.
Tombstone ( A. T. ) special : A courier
arrived in Tombstone this evening who
left direct from Lawton's command three
days ago. Lawton was then about thirty
miles south of the Campas Sonara. The
command was in good condition and
spirits and has plenty of provisions. It
has followed the trail of the Indians
steadily. The Indians are now broken up
into small parties. Two or three are re
ported to have reunited about fifty miles
south of Lawton's present position. Near
the Las Delicious mine , the command
found two Americans killed by Apaches.
The Indians endured great hardships from
lack of food and water. All the moun
tains of that section have been burned oil
and there is no grass. The rainy season
has now set in and promises an easier time.
Lawton is pressing the Indians before
him , thoroughly scouting the country. The
Mexican troops have agreed to head them
off in the south. The hostiles are thus in
side of the triangle , two sides of which ara
composed of Mexican troops and the base
of Lawton's command. The Indians will
have to be killed or surrender shortly un
less they succeed in eluding the troops and
slipping * around and back to the United
States. Lawton's men are all anxious to
distinguish themselves and get the Indians.
Regarding the fight between the Apaches
and Mexicans , when the Peck girl was re
captured , the scout vho talked with the
captive says thirty-two Mexicans were en
gaged in the fight , and only five Apaches ,
three bucks and two squaws. The Mexi
cans ran away and left their dead on the
field , who were buried by Lawton when he
came up next day.
PROTECTING THE INDIANS.
The Senate Bill Granting Right of Way
Through Their Reservations Vetoed.
Washington special : Tho president to
day sent to the senate without his ap
proval the bill granting to railroads right
of way through the Indian reservation in
Northern Montana. "The reservation re
ferred to , " the president says , "stretches
across the extreme northern part of Mon
tana , with British America for its northern
boundary. It contains an area of over
30,000 square miles. It is dedicated toln-
dian occupancy by the treaty of October
17 , 1855 , and the act of congress of April
15 , 1874. No railroads aro within imme
diate approach to its boundaries , and only
one , as shown by recent maps , is under
construction in the neighborhood leading
in its direction. The surrounding country
is sparsely settled , and I have been unable
to ascertain that the necessities of com
merce or any public exigencies demand this
legislation , which would affect BO seriously
the rights and interests of the Indians oc
cupying the reservation. The bill is in the
nature of a general right of way for rail
roads through this reservation. The In
dian occupants have not given their con
sent , neither have they been consulted re
garding it , nor is there any provision in it
for securing their consent or agreement to
the location or construction of railroads.
IF the United States must exercise its right
of eminent domaid over the Indian terri
tories for the general welfare of the whole
tountry , it should be done cautiously , with
n duo regard for the interests of the Indian
ind to no gieaterextcntthantheexigoucies
M the public service require. "
The president then states that bills tend
ing somewhat in the direction of this gen
eral character of legislation affecting rights
of Indians reserved to them by treaty stip
ulations , have been presented to him dur
ing the present session of congress , which
received his reluctant approval , though he
is by no means certain that a mistake has
not been made in passing such laws with
out providing for consent to such grants by
Indian occupants , and otherwise more
closely guarding their rights and interests.
"I hoped , " the president says , "that each
of the bills as it received my approval
would be the last of the kind presented. "
lie says in conclusion : "Jhe bill now
before me is much more general in its terms
than those which have preceded it. It ig
nores the right of Indians to bo consulted
as to the disposition of their lands. It in
vites a general invasion of the Indian coun
try. I am impressed with the belief that
the bill does not sufficiently guard against
an invasion of their rights and a disturb
ance of the peace and quiet of the Indians
on the reservation mentioned , nor am I
satisfied that the legislation proposed is
demanded by any exigency of public wel
fare. "
THE SPRING AND WINTER WHEAT.
Official Estimates as to the Yield Not Likely
to lie Realized.
The following crop summary appears in
this week's issue of the Chicago Farmers'
Review : Detailed reports from the spring
wheat growing states , together with actua !
results from winter wheat harvesting , indi
cates that the official estimates as to the
probable total crop yield will not be real
ized. The actual injury to the crop in Min
nesota is already serious , while the aver
age of reports from Dakota , Nebraska ,
Wisconsin and Iowa indicate that many
sections have felt the blight , and that the
average yield has already been considera
bly lessened. Though an analysis of the
probable crop yield hasnotbeenattempted
by the Review , yet a study of the detailed
reports , which have covered every county
in the northwest , during the past three
weeks , does not give promise to exceed six
ty million bushels in excess of the final
figuiesmado by the government last year.
Both oats and llax crops have suffered
severely from the prolonged drouth in
the northwestern states , and the prospec
tive yield of oats will be short an average
yield per acre. Rains in Iowa , Indiana
and portions of Illinois have delayed har-
vestingand caused some injury. In twenty-
seven counties in Illinois , which return re
ports as to the actual results of the wheat
harvest , the yield varied widelyfrom five
to eighteen bushels. Reports from eleven
counties in Minnesota indicate that the
present wheat outlook does not promise to
exceed one-half to three-fourths of an
average where the full effects of the drouth
have been felt. In Faribault , Shot-bourn
and Chippewa counties the outlook is de
clared to be unusually poor. Reports from
Indiana show that the wheat harvest is ol
excellent quality , though the yield will fall
short of an average crop. The need of rain
for all growing crops is indicated through
out Wisconsin. In Dakota the need ol
rain is again beginning to be felt through
out the entire territory. In Hughes and
Clay counties the drouth is severe.
SIR. MANNING'S SUCCESSOR.
Washington dispatch : There appears to
be strong foundation for the belief that ex-
Senator Joseph McDonald , of Indiana , will
succeed Mr. Manning as secretary of the
treasury. Mr. McDonald has been men
tioned in connection with so many posi
tions that were given to other gentlemen
that the politicians at this point have
grown skeptical of his receiving recognition
from the administration.
The talk among the Indianians to-day ,
however , is that Mr. McDonald's reward
has come at last. Several of these gentle
men boldly claim that within a fortnight
after the adjournment of congress Mr. Mc
Donald will be installed as Secretary Man
ning's successor. They say it is well under
stood at the white house that Mr. Manning
will never again resume his duties at the
treasury department , and that for this
reason Mr. McDonald will take hold about
the 1st of August. Mr. McDonald's ap
pointment , the Indiana people say , will
greatly strengthen the party in that state
and insure Mr. Cleveland a solid delegation
in his favor to the next presidential con
vention.
A FREAK OF LIGHTNING.
it Plays Havoc With Its Tiellm al a High
Altitude. >
Denver special : George D. Edwards was
struck by lightning Sunday while crossing
Iron Hill. Though severely injured he re-
novered consciousness in fifteen minutes ,
and will probably get well. The lightning
struck him on the left cheek , knocking him
senseless , and passed across his breast to
his right foot , then across , coming out of
the left foot. A hole like a bullet hole was
made in the foot. Edwards' clothing was
torn to shredsand both boots knocked off.
The ground where he stood was torn up.
The course of the lightning over his body is
marked by a red streak an inch wide. The
worst injury is to his lung , the shock caus
ing hemorrhage and serious loss of blood.
His body was covered with blisters and
burns. This is said to be the first known
person being struck by lightning at this
altitude (10,500 ( feet above the sea ) .
Edwards' pecu iar injuries are the subject
of much interest among medical men.
THE CONDITION NOT IMPROVED.
Tho Crop OutlooTs In Western and North
western States.
St. Paul dispatch : The Pioneer Press
will print to-morrow reports on the con
dition of the crop from every important
wheat growing county in Minnesota ant
Dakota , and about one hundred counties
in Iowa , Wisconsin and Nebraska. These
reports show the crop to be in much worse
condition than in June , 1885. Tho dry
weather in May , which became quite a
severe drouth in June , had a more serious
effect on small grain than was at first sup
posed and the injury caused then is jusl
now becoming painfully apparent. Thero
had been very little rain in the first week
of June and no general rain since seed
ing time. The sections not affected by
the drouth are the Red River valley from
Wahpeton to Grand Forks , and the Nor
thern Pacific country from Brainerd to
Bismarck. In Minnesota andDakotasouth
of the forty-sixth parallel the weather hns
been very dry , the drouth being severest in
the extreme southern counties of Minne
sota and Dakota , extending well down into
northern Iowa. In southern Minnesota
and Dakota wheat was sown in most coun
ties in dust , and rains since then have been
light and not frequent enough to give tho
ground a good soaking. During the stool-
ing period in May , tho weather was very
dry. The intensely hot weather the past
ten days has added materially to the in
jury , as the ground was in no condition to
Htand any serioiiR drouth. The result is
that along the Winona & St. Peter road
through Minnesota and along the southern
division of the Milwaukee & St. Paul , tho
crops are literally drying up , and unless
rains come very soon light crops of all
kinds of grains aro themostthat can be ex
pected in those sections. It ia doubtful
oven whether the crops can bo benefitted
now to any extent if rain should come.
Tho stooling period is long since past and
the crops may now bo * taken to bo at tho
best stage to be obtained. More rain will
simply prevent them from getting back
ward , but will hardly improve their condi
tion. Tho rains of Saturday night ex
tended over those sections only where it
was least needed. FromCummings , on the
Manitoba road , south and along the North
ern Pacific line north of Grand Forks ,
there was no rain , and Great Devil's Lake
county is still suffering from drouth. Not
a drop of rain fell south of the Minnesota
river , and all that sunburned region is still
parched and dry.
SETTLERS ON PUJiUV LANDS.
A Measure Having in View the Granting o ]
Additional Rigltts.
Washington Special : A few weeks ago
Mr. McRae , of Arkansas , introduced a bill
in the house entitled , "A bill to grant ad
ditional rights to certain homestead set
tlers on public lands. " The bill was taken
up in the public lands committee in the
house to-davand a favorable report agreed
upon. The object of the measure is to per
mit homestead settlers who have entered
less than 1GO acres of land to take up
enough more to make the aggregate of the
entry up to that amount with tho under
standing that the second entry must be
contiguous to tho first if possible. If not ,
he may enter so much of any other public
land that may be subject to homestead
entry in the same land district , or , if 1 4
chooses , instead of doing this , he may
relinquish the first land entered to
the United States for cancellation and
thereupon be entitled to enter lands under
the homestead laws the same as if the sur
rendered entry had not been made , resi
dence and cultivation of the first entry to
be considered as residence and cultivation
for the same length of time upon the land
entered by additional or new e.try and
shall be deducted from the time of resi
dence and cultivation required by law. It
is also provided that if final proof of set
tlement and cultivation has been made for
the first entry , when the additional or new
entry is made no further proof shall be re
quired and patent shall issue. A proviso
is added that the benefits of the act shall
not be extended to any person who , at the
time of his other application under it , is
owner of 160 acres of land. The bill will
be reported to the house on the first op
portunity and an effort will be made to
pass it at the present session.
A HIG FIRE IN DENVER.
DENVER , COL. , July G.At 1:15 o'clock this
morning fire was discovered in the Academy
of Music , and before thefire department could
get to work the flames were leaping through
the building in half a dozen places and in a
few minutes the building was in one mass of
flames. The heat was so intolerable that the
firemen were soon driven from the front of
the building.
It then became evident that the Academy
was doomed and the firemen devoted tlienf-
Belyes to saving the Jtoclcy Mountain JVewi
building and Goode & McClintock's blocks ,
which were adjoining and were then on fire.
The flames spread so rapidly and the heat be
came so intense that in less than iifteen min
utes after the discovery of the tires the wires
of the Western union telegraph company ,
whose office is in the block" directly across
the alley from the Academy , were melted and
all the service destroyed. The operators
managed to save the Wheatstone and other
valuable instruments , but service relays were
destroyed.
The fire was the quickest ever witnessed in
Denver , the ground floor of the academy was
occupied by business houses ia which several
men were sleeping at the time of the fire , all
of whom were rescued by the firemen.
Enright , an old roustabout who worked in a
saloon , retired at 12 last night in an intoxi
cated condition , and was forgotten until too
late , and perished in the flames.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
As near as can be learned the losses are as
follows : P. F. Hughes on the Academy of
Music , § 125,000 ; the Rocky Monntaln JVcwv ,
§ 23,000 ; John Kineary's saloon , § 3,000 : Solo
mon , clothing , $2,000 ; Lazarus , tailor , § 3.000 ;
the Goode block , § 10,000 , Joseph Mcskew ,
52,500 ; McClintock , § 12,500 ; small losses esti
mated at § 5.000 , The total insurance is § 65-
000.
IMPORTATIONS OF CANADIAN GIRLS.
Montreal dispatch : In relation to a
memorial introduced the otherday into tho
United States senate , from the National
Christian Temperance union of Indiana ,
asking an investigation into tho importa
tion of young Canadian girls into Chicago
for immoral purposes , Chief of Police Par-
adys says that six years ago the importa
tion of Canadian girls was attempted , but
that the police stopped it. City detectives
say that Montreal is not used as a base of
supply. It is asserted , however , that such
a traffic is carried on and that last week
two gangs , one of eleven and one of twenty-
five , were dispatcd to Chicago. The vic
tims were principally from the country ,
who had hired as domestics. This nefari
ous trade is carried on in the most open
manner in a den in the rear of ono of the
principal markets , no effort being made to
conceal the business at all.
AN EX TIRE HAMLET DESTROYED.
A Spencer ( Wis. ) special says : The en-
tiro hamlet of Romeo was burned at 1
o'clock this afternoon , including a sawmill ,
fivo million feet of lumber , stores , board
ing house and the dwellings of Wm. Van
Hoosiar. Loss § 150,000 , insurance § 50- ,
)00. Further particulars cannot be ob
tained.
MORE PENSION HILLS VETOED.
Hie President Returns Another Hatch With-
out His Signature.
Washington dispatch : The president to
day transmitted to the house messages , nn
nouncing his disapproval of twenty private
pension bills , and a bill providing for the
erection of a public building at Duluth ,
Minn. The last named bill is vetoed , the
president says , because he is entirely satis
fied that the building provided for is nol
immediately necessary , and ho adds that
not a littlo legislation has lately been per
fected , and more will be necessary , to in
crease miscalculations in many of tho pub
lic buildings now in progress of erection.
Lewi * W. Scanlan filed his declaration
for a pension in 188G , alleging that ho con
tracted chronic diarrhoea in the Black
Hawk war. Tho records show that he
served from April IS , 1832 , to May 28 ,
1832. In vetoing the bill lor his relief the
president saj's : "I am inclined to think it
would have been a fortunate thing if , in
this case , it could bo demonstrated that a
man could thrive so well with chronic
diarrhoea for fifty-two years , as its exis
tence in the case of this good old gentle
man would prove. We should then , per
haps , have less of it in claims for pensions.
The fact is. in this case there is no disa
bility which can be traced to tho forty
days' military service fifty-four years ago ,
and I think little , if any , more infirmity
than is usually found in men of the ago ol
the claimant. "
In vetoing the bill granting a pension to
Franc s Doming , who claims that he con
tracted blindness , the result of rheumatism
incurred in the service , the president naya
that there seems to be no testimony show
ing the soldier's condition from the time o !
his discharge to 1880 , a period of fifteen
years. The president continues : "After
nineteen years had elapsed since his dis
charge from the army a pension is claimed
for him upon the very shadowy allegation
of the inctirrencc of rheumatism while in
tho service , coupled with the startling prop
osition that this rheumatism resulted just
previous to his application in blindness.
Upon medical examination it appeared that
his blindness was causeil by numurosia
which is generally accepted as an affection
of the optic nerve. I am satisfied that a
fair examination of tho facts in this case
justifies the statement that the bill under
consideration can rest only upon the
ground that aid should be furnished to this
ex-soldier because he served in the army ,
and because a long time thereafter he be
came blind , disabled and dependent. None
of us arc entitled to credit for the extreme
tenderness and consideration toward those
who fought their country's battles. These
are sentiments common to all good citizens.
They lead to most benevolent care on the
part of the government and deeds of chari
ty and mercy in private life. The blatant
and noisy self-assertion of those who. from
motives that may well be suspected , declare
themselves , above all others , friends of sol
diers cannot discredit norbelitlle the calm ,
steady , and affectionate regard of a grate
ful nation. Legislation has been at tho
present session of congress perfected con
siderably , increasing tho rate of pension in
certain cases. Appropriations have also
been made of large sums for th j support ol
the national homes , where sick , disabled ,
or needy soldiers are cared for , and within
a few days a liberal sum has been appro
priated for enlargement and increased ac
commodation aii-1 convenience of these in
stitutions.
All this is more than should bo done , but
with all this , and with tho blunders of
special acts which have been pushed , grant
ing pensions in cases where , for my part , ]
am willing to confess that sympathy rather
than judgment has often led to the dis
covery of relation between injury or death
and military service , I am constrained by
a sense of public duty to interpose against
establishing the principle and setting a
precedent which must result in unregulated ,
partial and unjust sifts of public money
under pretext of indemnifying those who
suffered in their means of support as an in
cident of military service. "
The house committee on invalid pen
sions considered the presidential veto
messages at its meeting to-day. Rep
resentative Conger called up the bill for the
relief of John Luce , whoso claim is based
on injuries received from being thrown for
ward on the pommel of his saddle , but
after discussion it was decided that the bill
did not embody a case strong enough to
pass over the veto , and it was dropped.
Probably all vetoed pension bills which
originated in the senate , with one excep
tion , will be reported from the committee
on pensions with recommendations that
they do pass , tho president's veto notwith
standing. One exception will be covered
by a new bill , the one vetoed being defective
in consequence of clerical errors.
THE GRAND OLD MAN'S SCHEME.
Evidently a Majority of tJic People of Eng
land are Not Favorable To It.
London Dispatch : Up to 10 o'clock to
night the totals of members elected were
156 conservatives. 30 unionists , 59 Glad-
stonians , and 29 Parnellites. The conser
vatives have gained seventeen seats , the
unionists one seat , and the Gladstonians
nine seats. The tories unexpectedly vron
in Leith , Lincolnshire , where the GlaJston-
ian candidate , owing to sudden illness ,
'ailed to qualify.
During a fracas at t'.ip polling station in
St. Stephen's Green division of Dublin ,
Messrs. Dudgeon , James and Sullivan , so-
icitors and agents of the conservative can-
lidate , were ejected by the sheriff's orders.
Dudgeon will sue tho sheriff for assault.
Gladstone has written a letter , in which
: ie says it is impossible for British legisla
tion to proceed until the Irish question is
settled.
The issue is becoming definite. The posi
tion to night presages a crushing defeat for
Slndstone unless ho obtaias a larger coun
try vote than in November. The burghs
ire declaring against home rule. The most
ominous is the revolt of Glasgow radicals.
Df scTcn contests in Glasgow the unionists
carried four. Of twenty-one London polls
declared to-night the unionists secured
Ifteen niid Gladstone six. Thepolling was
close. The conservative candidate won in
iJentral Finsbury by only five majority.
Saunderrf , GIndstonian , is defeated in East
Hull by thirty-seven majority. Among the
eminent Gladstonians defeated are Solici
tor General Da vy , Advocate General Mellor
Elibbert , secretary of admiralty and Prof.
Thorold Rogers. The London labor can-
lidates. Creamer and Howell. retain their
peats by a fair majority. Sir John Lub-
jocke's re-election is assured by a poll of
400 ahead of Harrison. Sir Thomas
3rassy has been nominated Gladstonian
candidate for St. Andrew's district.
A CRANK AFTER CLEVELAND.
BUFFALO , N. T. July 4. A special to the
Times from Washington says : "Between G
and 7 o'clock this evening a German crank
called at the White house and asked to see
, he president and gave the doorkeeper his res-
dence as No. 1200 New York avenue.this city ,
le was told that the president did not receive
sailers to-day , but would do so to-morrow.
Receiving this answer the man
> roceeded down the pathway , and about half
way from the street fell on fiis knees and com
menced crying that the evil one was trving to
shoot him. After a tussle with him the police
officers succeeded in taking him to the lock
up. Upon being searched a large bowie knffe
was found upon his person. If he had suc
ceeded in seeing the president it Is likely that
there would have been trouble. " '
THEY CLAIM UNJUST TRE.ITMENT.
Postal Clerks wot Pleased trW the Action of
Mr. Vilas.
Washington special : Tho Chief Clerk C.
P. Meadc , and the secretary Rocho Robb , of
tho Grand lodge of tho brotherhood of rail
way postal clerks , have prepared a state
ment for the public in answer to tho post
master general's statement , in which they
in substance say that tho postal clerks ex
pected very generally on tho incoming of
the present administration to bo removed ;
that in such anticipation somo resigned
and others got their houses ready to go.
Tho post master general by his circular of
April 30,1SS5 , gave them to understand
expressly that there should bo no removals
without cause , and none for merely politi
cal reasons ; that efficient and valuable men
would not bo disturbed so long as they ren
dered faithful services ; that they accepted
this assurance in good faith and so con
tinued in the service , rendering faithful and
zealous services ; that soon , however , their
faith was shaken by repeated and frequent
removals of good men without cause ; that
by reason of such removals increased work
was imposed upon themthat ; thoy were re
quired , in addition to their regular and
onerous duties , to teach the new men ; that
these new men were often promoted over
them ; that in some instances these new
men were given leave of absence and devot
ed their time to political work without
complaint or rebuke , while old clerks were
being removed for alleged political work
done years before : that they felt they wore
IH-IHJ ; imposed upon by having additional
duties and work put upon them and by fa-
ontinin shown in many ways to tho now
appointees ; that they had a pride in the
bllicicncy of the service , and found that
those things tended to destroy that effici
ency ; that they objected to removals being
mailu upon secret charges unknown to
them , to which they had no opportunity
of replying , or of being heard thereon ; that
their organization was founded upon theso
things , looking to thegood and efficiency
of tho public service , and to prevent , it
possible , its destruction by constant and
frequent removals without cause ; that un
der the professions and promises of the
postmaster general , the public would infer
that tho removals were made upon good
and sufficient caiiHO. thus leaving a stigma
upon tho person removed , and unjustly so ;
that the essence of their protest was tho
injustice of those removed , and they only
asked that the cause of removal should be
inside known ; that while as public servants
they recognized their duties to tho public
iind faithfully and zealously performed
them , for proof of which they point with
pride to the service itself , they felt that as
men and citizens they weroentitled at least
to fair and just consideration by tho post
master general ; that what they did was not
in any spirit of insubordination orobstruc-
tion , but on tho contrary , it was in tho
Highi-st interests of the postal service , on
bfliu'f of the public and in their own in-
tcrests as men and citizens , wishing the
uood opinion of tho public and the main
tenance of the efficiency of the postal ser
vice ; that th'-y intended to wait upon tho
piistma.sterguncral and submit these things
to his consideration , when he hurriedly re
moved a. largo number of tho clerks with-
out a hearing , which they say ho did to
prevent his beingconfronted with his record
on the subject.
THE SIT CATION IN UTAH.
A Very Invariant JSill Affecting Affairs in
That Territory.
Washington special : Senator Cullom has
reported from thecommittee on territories
a very important bill affecting tho situa
tion in Utah. Lastyear Governor Murray
vetoed all tho appropriation bills passed
by the Mormon legislature on the ground
that they refused to recognize the legal offi
cers of the territory , but authorized tho
disbursement of the appropriations by
Mormon officials elected by the legislature ,
who under tho law had no right to disburse
money. The legislature adjourned without
providing funds to support the territorial
government , and tho president sent a mes
sage to congress recommending that soma
measure be adopted to relieve the embar
rassment. Since that letter was sent in tho
supreme court of Utah has unanimously
sustained Governor Murray's vetoes , in a
test case , and has refused to recognize the
Mormon officials.
The Cullom bill approptiates the sums
provided in the bills vetoed by Governor
Murray , but directs their disbursement by
the legally constituted officials. It contains
several important qualifications , however ,
which are intended to strike Mormonism
in certain places where it is very strong ;
for example , the public school system ol
the territory is taken from the control of
the church and placed in the hands of trus
tees , to be appointed by the governor , and
the university of Dezra , which is a Mormon
institution and supported by public tax
ation , is treated in the same manner. Tho
bill also provides for the payment by tho
territory into tho treasury of the United
States of money which has been advanced
by the United States to pay the cost of
trials under the anti-polygamy act. Tho
Mormon legislature has refused for sex'eral
yeats to appropriate money for this use
and the territory is now indebted to tho
general government to the amount of
§ 280,000 in round numbers on this ac
count.
An attempt will be made to secure the
passage of the bill before adjournment , as
there are no funds in the Utah territory
since the 1st of July for the support of the
courts and other oilical machinery of tho
territory and none can otherwise bo pro
vided except upon htich terms as the Mor
mon legislature may dictate.
THE VANDERJJILTS GREAT WEAL1H.
Now York Special : Albertine Gregory
completed a tedious week's job last night ,
tie has cut July coupons from thc80,000-
000 of United States bonds owned by the
Vanderbilts. It was an irksome task be
cause of the monotony , and also by reason
of the heat , for it had to be done in the
confined space of the Vanderbilt vault on
Forty-second street , opposite the Grand
Central depot. Gregory is a book-keeper
n the office of Chauncey M. Depew , and he
was detailed by Depew for the labor. A
new hand is put at it every time , and the
issijiimeut is not made until the work is
: o begin. Last January a man from the
'reight department of the Central railroad
was sec at it. Gregory had no preferred
choice , but was simply told to go to the
safe deposit olfice and report to President
Thomas L. James for duty. He did so ,
and there found Cornelius Yanderbilt , who
unlocked his personal safe , took out the
millions of bonds , and told him to sever
; he coupons. The clerk was locked in a
ittle apartment while at work , and before
lis departure at noon or night the bonds
and coupons that he had handled were
counted up. In that way he went through
; he mass of bonds belonging to the different
members of the family. He says he never
spent a more lonesome week in his life.
PLEASURE SEEKERS DROWNED.
LOUISVILLE , KT. , July 6. Dr. J. A. Wheelfs
and a little girl named Ada Rudolph were row-
ng on a lake across the river from Paducah ,
vy. , to-day , when the girl fell out of the
wat AVheelis attempted to rescue her and
x > th were drowned.