Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1884 — Page 2

®lje gemonyticSewtinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - * Pu 2jLIS H ER.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. After prolonged debate, the Mexican treaty was ratified by the Senate on the 11th Inst The vote stood 41 to 20—one vote more than the necessary two-thirds. The treaty would have tailed but for the action of Senator Van Wyck, who. though opposed to it, abstained from voting, because, as he said, the great majority of the people were in favor of the measure, Mr. Allison presented a memorial from the Legislature of lowa asking the passage of a law to regulate tares and freights by railroad. A favorable report was made on the bill to ratify the agreement with the Shoshones and Bannocks for the sale of a portion of their lands. A bill was passed appropriating to Louisa Boddy, of Oregon, $5,400 for property destroyed by Modocs. Bills were introduced to suspend the coinage of standard silver dollars for two years, for a public building at Sacramento, and to improve low-water navigation on the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Cairo. In the House of Representatives, majority and minority reports were made on the Morrison tariff bill. An act to place the name of George W. Getty on the retired list as Major General was favorably reported, as also a measure for the sale of the Kickapoo reservation in Kansas. An adverse report was handed in on the bill to construct a macadamized road from Memphis to the adjacent national cemetery. Debate in committee of the whole on the postoffice appropriation bill consumed the balance of the day's session. the largest and most attentive audience gathered in the halls of Congress the present session assembled in the Senate chamber on the 12th inst. to listen to the opening debate on the bill for the relief of Gen. Fitz John Porter. Two speeches were made—by Mr. Sewell, of New Jersey, in favor of the measure, and Mr. Wilson, of lowa, in opposition. A joint resolution was introduced for a constitutional amendment fixing the term of the President at six years and making him ineligible to re-election. Bills were introduced to establish forest reservations at the head waters of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, and for the erection of a public building at Boulder, Colo. Favorable reports were made on bills for the extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio road to Fortress Monroe, and to authorize the return of private boxes deposited in the Treasury vaults. Mr. Coke spoke On the pleuropneumonia bill. The House of Representatives, in committee of the whole on the postoffice appropriation bill struck out the clause limiting the salaries of Postmasters to $4,000, and rejected an amendment increasing the items for clerks by $125,000. At the time of adjournment a proposition was made to increase by $400,000 the appropriation for carriers. A bill 'was introduced for the admission of Washington Territory as a State after the 4th of March. 1805. Another large audience assembled in the Senate galleries on the 13th inst. to listen to the debate on the Fitz John Porter bill. Mr. Manderson first addressed the Senate in opposition to the bill. He was followed by Mr. Logan In a lengthy speech on the same side, after which the measure was read a third time and passed by a vote of 36 yeas to 25 nays, five Republicans and Riddleb.-rger voting in the affirmative. Ma hone was absent. Following is the vote in detail: Yeas—Bayard, Brown, Butler, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt, Fair, Farley, Garland. Gibson. Gorman, Groome, Hampton, Harris, Hoar, Jackson, Jones (Fla.), Jones (Nev.), Lamar, McPherson, Maxey, Morgan, Pendleton, Pike, Pugh, Riddleberger, Sabin, Saulsbury, Sewell. Slater, Vance. Voorhees, Walker, and Williams—36. Nays— Nays-Aldrich, Allison, Blair. Bowen, Conger, Cullom, Dawes, Dolph, Edmunds, Frye, Harrison, Hawley, Hill, Ingalls, Logan, McMillan, Manderson, Miller (Cal.), Mitchell. Morrill, Palmer, Platt, Sherman, Van Wyck, Wilson—2s. During the vote the following pairs were announced: Beck yea with Hale nay, Cameron (Wis.) yea with George nay. Miller (N. Y.) nay with Camden yea, Plumb nay with Vest yea. Sawyer nay with Kenna yea. The preamble to the bill as passed recites that the board of officers convened by the President to examine and report upon the case of Gen. Porter stated that justice required the President to annul the findings and sentence of the courtmartial in Gen. Porter’s case, and restore him to the position of which sentence deprived him, such restoiation to takj effect from the date of dismissal from service; that the President had remitted so much of the sentence as disqualified Gen. Porter from holding office, and that in order to do justice to Gen. Porter it was enacted, etc. The bill then authorizes the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint Gen. Porter to the position of Colonel in the army of the same grade and rank held by him at the time of dismissal, and, authorizes the President in his discretion to place Gen. Porter on the retired list as of that grade; Gen. Porter, however, to receive no compensation or allowance prior to his appointment under the act. A joint resolution was submitted appropriating $25,000 for the suppression of the fcot-and-mouth disease among cattle in Kansas. A bill was introduced for a public building at Akron, Ohio. A favorable report was made on the bill for the admission of Dakota. The House of Representatives, in committee of the whole on the postoffice appropriation bill, adopted an amendment increasing the amount for the freedelivery service to $4,000,000. The Committee on Public Lands was directed to report whether the grant to the Lake Superior and Portage Lake Canal Company is liable to forfeiture.

The joint resolution appropriating' §25,000 for the eradication of the foot-and-mouth disease, in co-operation with the authorities ol Kansas, was called up in the Senate on the 14th inst. by Mr. Plumb. Mr. Sherman stated that the people of Illinois and other States were becoming alarmed, and argued that the appropriation should not be confined to Kansas. Mr. Cullom thought $50,000 should be set aside, and at once. Mr. Sherman said the question was a national one, and he favored action by tlie General Government. Mr. Garland defended the measure as constitutional, and Mr. Maxey argued that citizens of States could not bo deprived of their property without due process of' law. Mr. Ingalls explained that a large proportion of the cattle in Kansas were not owned by its people. Mr. Conger said contagion was spreading over the country wuile Senators discussed constitutional principles. Mr. Bayard thought the Government could not enter the States and kill and pay for diseased cattle. Mr. Ingalls created a good deal of laughter, in whieh the Democratic side of the chamber joined as heartily as the Republicans, by the remark that they would soon have to consider the suppression of the foot and mouth disease iu the Democratic party, as it never opened its iqouth without putting its foot in it. The House, in committee of the whole, discussed for hours the bill granting a pension of $2,500 per year to the sole surviving grandchild of Thomas Jefferson, the objection being that the precedent would establish a civil pension list, and finally struck out the enacting clause, by a vote of 129 to 60. The Speaker presented a communication from the Secretary of War, askin the appropriation of $220,000 for the erection in San Francisco of additional buildings for the military headquarters. The session of the House of Representatives on March 15 was principally devoted to consideration of the postoffioe a appropriation Wll. It was agreed to include within the 50 per cent, limitation clause the Northern Pacific and Union Pacific Roads. The Committee on Public Lands reported a bill to forfeit a cert in grant made for the construction of a railroad from the Central Pacific to Portland, Ore. There was no session of the Senate.

EASTERN.

Lieut. John W. Danenhower, of the Jeanette expedition, was married at Oswego, N. Y., to Miss Helen Laflin Sloan, daughter of ex-Speaker Sloan, of the New York General Assembly. Mrs. Frank Leslie, of New York, and tbe Marquis de Leuvllle are engaged to be married.

WESTERN.

The excitement growing out of the gold discoveries in the Coeur d’Alene region in Montana continues. Thousands are flocking toward the district, and marvelous stories of the riches hidden there are being circulated. Matt Lewis, a colored wife-murderer, was hanged at St. Louis. The crime was committed in October, 1870. The murderer had the benefit of four trials.

A patient at the insane hospital in Indianapolis, which has over one thousand inmates, was found to be suffering from small-pox, and was transferred to the pest house. A snow-slide on Aspen Mountain, in Colorado, caused the death of three employee of the VaUejo Mine. Sitting Bull is on a tour of the Northwestern cities, under the direction of Agent McLaughlin. Frederick J. Deitrich, teller of the Laclede Bank, at St. Louis, is a defaulter for *30,C00. In commemoration of the one-hun-dredth birthday of Sir Moses Monteflore, of London, the Supreme Lodge of Kesher Shel Barzel has endowed with *75,000 the home for aged and infirm Israelites at Cleveland. Kit Joy, Mich Lee, Frank Taggart, Carlos Chavez, Charles Spencer, and a negro, George Cummings, six of the most desperate criminals in tbe Southwest fell upon their guards in the jail-yard at Silver City, New Mexico, secured the prison keys and made their escape. Proceeding to a livery stable, they mounted and rode away. A posse of citizens were soon in hot pursuit. Five miles out they came upon the body of Cleveland riddled with bullets. Further on the band was overtaken, and a pitched battle ensued. Lee and Jaggart were captured, but the others escaped. During the fight Joseph Laffers was killed. Lee and Taggart were dragged to a tree on the roadside and strung up. The party then returned to City, carrying the three bodies. Henry Richardson, a leading member of the Vigilance Committee of Brown County, Nebraska, was hung by unknown persons near his home. z Ho had participated in the lynching of fourteen horse-thieves. Prentiss Tiller, the clerk who stole *BO,OOO from the Pacific Express office at St. Louis, was arrested in Milwaukee last week, with the entire amount in his possession. It is stated that two Scotchmen, recently arrived in Kansas, carried the germs of the foot and mouth disease in their clothing, as they had been herding infected cattle in Scotland. The Cattle Quarantine Committee in the Neosho Falls district of Kansas have determined on the destruction of the herds in which the 'foot-and-mouth disease has appeared, the burning of the infected carcasses, and a thorough system of quarantine and disinfection. The disease among cattle in Effingham County, Illinois, is said by experienced breeders to bo only foot-rot. There is not an animal in that section with a sore mouth. Physicians pronounce the disorder at. Wapello, lowa, the foot and-mouth disease. The Lieutenant Governor of Kansas telegraphs that only five herds of stock cattle in that State are afflicted, and that the closest quarantine is maintained.

SOUTHERN.

In a business dispute at Nashville, Tenn., ex-United States Marshal William Spence shot and killed his son-in-law, Ed SWheat Frank Slagel,,who murdered two men named Adair, for the purpose of robbery, was hanged at Somerset, Ky., in presence of the mother of his victims. Ben Thompson, the notorious Texas desperado, who, with his companion, King Fisher, was killed in the Vaudeville Theater, at San Antonio, had a big funeral at Austin, his home, where he leaves a family and property valued at $16,000. The Coroner’s investigation revealed the fact that the two men were slain by the police and theater employes. Thompson, a year before, had in the same building murdered Jack Harris, the proprietor of the place, and on the present occasion went to the theater for the purpose of raising a row. From the moment of his entrance to the death scene he was a doomed man. His personal bravery was herculean, arid his caution equaled his courage. He and his game companion were crowded down by the police and theater employes and butchered like stuck pigs. It is the only way m which he could have been killed. He had thirteen authenticated deaths to his score. Fisher was the younger man, but the greater desperadb. His murders were innumerable, and in every town on the Rio Grande his name was a synonym of fear. Fisher's remains were taken to Uvalde and interred. A dispatch from there informs us that “the funeral was the largest ever seen In Uvalde,” and that the desperado “would undoubtedly have been elected the next Sheriff.” An explosion in the Flat-Top mine at Pocahontas, Va., killed 150 men and destroyed all the structures on the surface, houses 200 feet from the mines being overturned, and the fan-house and fan entirely wrecked. Miss Eliza, eldest daughter of Gov. Thompson, of South Carolina, died from burns received ten days ago, while reading at an open grate.

WASHINGTON.

Robert Small, the colored who ran away from Charleston with a tug-boat, during the war, has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Seventh District of South Carolina. Attorney-General Brewster has addressed a circular to the various United States District Attorneys and Marshals throughout the country, calling their attention to the section of the Revised Statutes providing for the punishment of persons who ship explosives without complying with the legal regulation concerning them. He adverts to the reports that dynamite and nitroglycerine are sent from the United States to foreign countries, having reference, no doubt, to the rumors concerning the Fenian dynamite party. He says he does not believe that these reports are true, but at the same time urges diligence and zeal in the matter on the part of the attorneys and Marshals, and that every guilty person shall be vigorously prosecuted. The House Committee on Coinage will make a favorable report on Mr. Bland’s bill to stop the manufacture of $1 and S 3 gold pieces, the 3-cent nickel, and the trade dollar. Adverse reports on all bills for the establishment of postal savings banks have been ordered by the House Committee on Postoffices. Henry Watterson appeared at Washington before the joint committee on the library and argued in support of the bill to give dally newspapers a copyright for eight hours.

The secret service division of the Treasury Department has discovered a coun-

terfeit silver certificate of the denomination of *2O. The paper is much shorter than the genuine, and is thick and stiff.

POLITICAL.

The Republican State Central Committee of Wisconsin met in Milwaukee, and called a. State Convention at Madison, April 80, to select delegates to Chicago and nominate an electoral ticket. The convention to nominate State officers will be held in September. William A. Cook, one of the Government counsel in the star-route prosecutions, testified before Mr. Springer’s committee that he regarded the compensation paid Bliss as extravagant, unjustifiable and unearned in every respect; that the cases were improperly handled, and that the Attorney General received threatening anonymous letters before Garfield was shot. The California Democratic State Convention has been called to meet at Stockton on the 10th of June, and the Vermont Republican Convention will convene at Montpelier, April 80, and the Wisconsin Democracy will hold their State Convention at Madison. May 28. The rival State Republican committees of Missouri, failing to come to an understanding at a protracted meeting, the Filley faction decided to call a meeting at the same time and place chosen by' the re formers—Sedalia, April 9—when lively scenes are expected to occur. The Massachusetts House, by a vote of 144 to 50, defeated the bill to extend municipal suffrage to women. A bill providing for the punishment of wife-beaters by flogging has passed the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Gov. Glick, of Kansas, on the 13th inSt. issued a proclamation calling an extra ordinary session of the Legislature, for the purpose of adopting such measures as may be deemed most effectual in checking the foot-and-mouth disease. By a vote of 26 to 24 the lowa Senate passed the bill tor the submission of a constitutional amendment in favor woman suffrage to a vote of the people. The Democratic State Committee of lowa met at Des Moines and fixed the date of the State Convention to select delegates to the National Democratic Convention for Thursday, April 24, at Burlington.

MISCELLANEOUS. The Mexican Government, learning that an 8 per cent, dividend had been declared op the common stock of the Vera Cruz Road, made a demand for a reduction of freight and passenger rates, in accordance with the terms of tho’concession. The Nicaraguan Canal scheme has been abandoned. The United States Government is not prepared to assist a private enterprise in this project. During last week the number of business failures in the United States was 174, against 230 the previous week. The number of failures in Canada showed no decrease. Fast mail trains are now running from New York to Chicago, from Chicago to Omaha over the Burlington road, and from Chicago to St. Paul over the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road.

FIRE RECORD.

A defective flue was the origin of a fire at Allegan, Mich., which completely gutted that thriving little city. Between thirty and forty places of business were burned, Including three of the best blocks in the city—the Sherman House block, the Empire block, and the Union block. Forty stores and a number of dwellings fell victims to the flames. All the newspaper offices, the Journal and Tribune, the Gazette and Democrat, are destroyed, a few fonts of type being all that was saved. The loss will aggregate nearly, if not quite, $40,000, while the Insurance, it is believed, will amount to $150,000. The business men of Allegan take the fire very phllosphlcally, and the burned out places will toe speedily rebuilt. Fire broke out at Grand Rapids, Mich., during the prevalence of a high wind, and, before the flames could be cheeked, destroyed property of the estimated value of $200,000. The sufferers were the Bissell Carpet-Sweeper Company; Frank Maybee, brooms; E. G* Studley & Co., leather belting; Grand Rapids Felt Boot Company; R. E. Butterworth’s buildings; Clark & Ocher, sash, doors, and blinds; Stadon’s woolen mill; Novelty Manufacturing Company; Comstock’s saw-mill, and Richmond’s box factory. Two employes of Bissell’s CarpetiSweeper Company perished m the" flames. East St. Louis, 111., was visited by a $350,000 blaze, nearly all of which was caused by the destruction of an elevator in which was stored 300,000 bushels of grain. Several saloons and boarding-houses were reduced to ashes. The town of Port Spain, in the Island of Trinidad, West Indies, was almost wiped out by fire, the loss being placed at $500,000. Other fire losses for tho week were as follows: Losses Reed City, Mich., saw-mills 15,009 Memphis, Mo., stores 40,000 Cassville, W. Va,, business property 15,000 McComb, Ohio, Odd Fellows’ Block 20,000 Cadillac, Midi., schoolhouse 10,000 Cleburne, Tex., eight business houses... 60,000 Cincinnati, stone-cutting machinery..... 20,000 , Oskaloosa, lowa, coal mine building 50,000 Vandalia, Mo., nine stores and offices.... 20,000 Pittsburgh, Kan., eight stores 30,000 Thornport, Ohio, flouring-mill 15,000 Pembina, Manitoba, livery stable 15,000 Brockton Mass., shoe factory 20,000 Utica, N. Y., Clinton Block 80,000 O’Neill, Neb., business houses 10,000 Worcester, Mass., wool store 40,000 Secor, 111., six business bouses 15,000 Pittsburgh, Pa., cooper shop 10,000 Philadelphia, fertilizing works 30,000 Middletown, Ohio, railroad depot 20,000

FOREIGN.

Bradlaugh, while endeavoring to speak at Bridgewater in opposition to perpetual pensions, was suppressed by a shower of rotten eggs, fruit, and fireworks. Mr. Sargent, the American Minister at Berlin, accepted an invitation to dine with Prince Bismarck. In the German Reichstag/ Bismarck' spoke on the Lasker resolution, saying he could not be the postman of his enemies, as Lasker had represented himself in America as the opponent of a despotic governmentBismarck had always entertained friendly feelings for America, he claimed, and during the war of the rebellion had prevented a recognition of the South, ern States. When assailed by cries of “Shame,” from the Left, the Chancellor called them anonymous libelers, and said they should cry shame on men who intrigued over Lasker's open grave. Bismarck also

claimed that it was not the American Congress but the House of Representatives which passed tbe resolutions, and the American Minister at Berlin should have warned them touching political affairs in Germany. Gen. Graham has issued a proclamation offering a reward of £I,OOO for the capture of Osman Digna. Earl Granville, the British Minister for Foreign Affairs, has been appealed to, if is said, by Marquis Tseng to bring about peace between China and France. The' French, it is believed, will not be averse to, negotiation.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Among the commercial failures of the week are the following: A. J. McCain & Co., Muscoda, Wis., liabilities, *25,000; Merchant & Co., flour shippers, Baltimore, liabilities, *30,000; Van Grafuland & Co., soap manufacturers, St Louis; Nickerson & Co., boot and shoe manufacturers, Lynn, Mass.; John Pitroff, coal merchant, Madison, Ind.; C. J. Hauck, dry goods, Peru, 111., liabilities, ’ *20,000; D. K. Mason, tobacco, Louisville, Ky., liabilities *30,000; Jules Famechou. merchant and miller, Prairie du Chien, Wis., liabilities *50,000; Shropshire & Co., wholesale liquors, New Orleans, liabilities *50,000; Wolff & Siligsbury, coffee, New York, liabilities *200,000; L. 8. Risley, coffee, New York, liabilities *100,000; Charles W. Hasler, broken New York, liabilities *100,000: Slmonine & Co., tobaceo, Louisville, Ky., liabilities *75,000; Ringler & Co., general store, Pine Bluff, Ark., liabilities *25,000; J. E. Cook, & Co., Morris, N. Y., liabilities *75,000; George W. Gifford, stoves, Chicago, liabilities *20,000. The number of men killed in the Pocahontas (Va.) mine is officially reported to be 112. Recent deaths: Helen King Spangler, of Coshocton, Ohio, an authoress of some celebrity; Wendell Bollman, a famous bridge builder, of Baltimore, Md.; Dr. L. P. Yandell, of Louisville, Ky., who had a national reputation as a physician and medical writer; Otis P. Lord, ex-Judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court: George Ball, a public-spirited banker, of Galveston, Tex.; Henry A. Tilden, brother of Hon. Samuel J. Tilden; Baroness Lionel .de Rothschild, at London, England; ex-Congressman John Taffe, North Platte, Neb.; Richard H. Home, English poet and essayist; Dr. J. M. Mills, of Shelbyville, Hl., a prominent Mason; Henry Brown, of Niagara Fails, formerly a slave of Virginia, aged 121; Emil Boling, of Hustisford, Wis.,. a lieutenant in the German revolutionary army in 1848; Mrs. Annie Key Turner, of California, daughter of the author of the “Star Spangled Banner.” The act giving the Mayor of New York the power of appointment, without subsequent confirmation by the Aidermen, has been signed by the Governor. A son of the'late John C. Breckinridge has just been elected a member of the California Legislature, to fill a vacancy. Mercedes, the famous Holstein cow, which had the greatest milk-and-butter record in the world, and her calf died at lowa City, lowa, Monday of milk fever. The pair were valued at *IO,OOO. From the annual report of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, it ap pears that the earnings for the last year show an increase of *1,300,000, and that the road is in an exceedingly prosperous condition. A large number of street-car drivers in Cincinnati struck because of an order to remove the canvas weather screens from the platforms. A joint resolution appropriating *50,006 for the suppression of the foot-and-mouth disease passed the Senate March 17. Petition! from several commercial bodies were presented asking the repeal of the law for the coinage of the silver dollar, as also from mercantile organizations in St. Louis for the extension of the bonded period for whisky. Mr. Hoar offered a resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to report what pension applications have been pending for more than two years, and the reason for the delay. A resolution was agreed to that the Committee or Public Lands inquire in what manqpr large tracts have been transferred to foreign corporations, and what legislation is advisable to prevent such possession. In the House, Mr. Henlej offered a resolution for an investigation of the circumstances of the Alaska Commerciri Company’s lease. Bills were introduced to require al subsidized railroads to furnish a quarterly statement of their earnings and indebtedness; permitting the five civilized tribes of Indian Territory to have organized governments and National Bank?;; to suspend for two years the coinage oi the silver dollar, and to authorize the payment of $50,000 to the grandchildren of Thomas Jefferson. The rules were suspended to pass th< special deficiency appropriation of $1,619,000. J resolution was adopted to appropriate SSO,(XX from the contingent fund to prosecute the investigation into the loss of the Jeannette.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK Beevess.so @ 7.25 Hogs c.oo @ 7.00 Floub—Western 6.2 a @ 7.00 Wheat—White9s @ 1.02 No. 2 Red. 1.07 @ 1.11 Corn—No. 262 @ .65 Oats—Mixed44 @ .46 Pork—Mess 17.75 @1825 Lard.... 09% @ .10 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.75 @7.25 Fair to Good 5.75 @6.25 Common to Medium.... 5.25 @ 5.75 Hogs 6.25 @ 7.75 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex 5.25 @ 5.75 Good to Choice Suring... 4.75 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 92 @ .93 No. 2 Red Winter. 1.00 @1.02 Corn—No. 2r>3 @ .54)6 Oats—No. 2. .82 @ .33)6 Rye—No. 258 @ .60 Barley—No. 2 OB @ .64 Butter—Choice Creamery;32 @ .35 Eggs—Fresh2l @ .23 Pobk—Mess 17.50 @IB.OO Lard O9’6@ .09% MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Na 2;... .92 @ .93 Corn—No. 254 @ .55 Oats—No. 231 @ .32 Rye—No. 2 .58 & .60 Barley—No. 2..;62 & .64 Pork—Mess 17.75 @IB.OO Lard 9.50 @ 9.75 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.09 @1.10)6 Corn—Mixed49 @ .51 OAts—Na 233 @ .34 Ryes 7 @ .59 Pork—Mess....- 17.25 @17.75 Lardo9 @ .09)6 CINCINNATL Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.05 @1.07 Cobn .51 @ .53 Oats 36 @ .37 Rye 64 @ .66 Pork—Mess 17.75 @18.25 Lard oo%@ .09% TOLEDO. Wheat—Na 2Red. 1.01 @1.02 Corn—Na 254 @ .55 Oats—Na 236 @ .37 DETROIT. Floub s 5.50 @6.50 Wheat—No 1 White 1.03)6@ 1.04 Corn—No. 252 @ .54 Oats—Mixed 36 @ .37 Pork—Mess 19.50 @20.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—Na 2 Red. 1.01 @1.02 Cork—Na 2 .48 @ .40 Oats—Mixed34 @ .35 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle— 5.50 @ 6.50 Fair 4.75 @5.50 Common 4.00 @ 5.00 Hogs 7.50 @ 8.00 SHEEP . .. 8.50 @6.00

THE MORRISON BILL.

Reasons of the Majority of the Way* and Means Committee for Favoring Its Passage, The Arguments of the Minority on the Opposite Side of the Question. The majority and minority reports of the Ways and Means Committee on the Morrison tariff bill were submitted to the House on the 11th of March. The division was upon strict party lines. The majority report was prepared by Mr. Morrison, while Mr. McKinley, of Ohio, formulated the views of the minority. We present herewith a brief abstract of the two reports:

The Majority Report. ’ The majority say that the committee has sought to present a rcheme of tariff duties in which substantial reductions should be the distinguishing feature. The average reduction in rates, including that from the enlargement of the free list and the abolition of duties on charges and commissions, is not lees than 20 per cent, and may reach 25 per cent The majority report says: The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, in explanation of the bill before the Senate last year, which, after various amendments, became a saw, estimated at $45,000,000 the reduction in revenue which would follow the changes ih the tariff. These calculations have not been verified. So the question still presses, What legislation is necessary to relie people of unnecessary taxes? Your committee find that in the six months ending Dec. 3, 1883, merchandise was imported into the United States valued at $238,898,109, on which duties were paid amounting to $96,514,130, being 40.91 per cent, on the value thereof. In the corresponding six months of 1882, under the old Jaw, the value of dutiable imports amounted to $360,856,273, and the duty paid was $111,266,507, or 42.65 per eent on the value. It thus apnears that the average cost of importing was only 1.74 per cent less under the new than under the old law. The nominal reduction made by the proposed bill is 20 per cent., or one-fifth the present rate. With the Morrill tariff limitations >n the bill, and the liquor and silk schedules omitted, the actual reduction will not exceed 15.74 per cent The average reduction made in the tariff-commission bill and that to be made by the proposed bill, together, do not equal the reduction at which the commission aimed. “The decrease in revenue, as shown by the receipts under the new law, other than that resulting from the nominal reduction of 1.74 per cent, results from the falling off of nearly $25,060,000 of the imports in the first halt year under the new law, as compared with the first half of the previous year under the old law. The reduction of revenue under the bill reported is estimated at $31,000,000, on the basis of last year’s imports. To the extent of that $31,000,000 the bill will relieve the people of unnecessary taxes. To that extent taxes will be reduced directly as a measure of justice to consumers, and indirectly in largely increased proportions. From the Statement made by tjie Bureau of Statistics, it appears that the duties or tariff taxes were decreased on some and increased on other articles under the new law but, while this is true, there has been no increase in wages in any, but a reduction of wages in most industries, as well as in those whose competing.products received more, as tn those that obtained less protection under the act of March last.” Referring to the condition of the iron and steel trade, as one of the leading manufactures, the report attributes the depression and the enforced idleness of the workingmen to the enormities of the protective system, and declares that as such calamities always fall upon the laborers, the committee had decided to report a bill for the partial relief of the people from unnecessary taxes.

Views of the Minority. The minority of the committee, comprising all the Republican members, object to the passage of the bill on the ground that Congress made a general revision of the tariff at its last session, warranted by the fact that there had been no general revision since 1864-65. The new tariff has been in operation since July, 1883—too short a time to have given it a practical test. The bill reported by the majority proposes a reduction of 20 per cent, and not a single interest in the United States has asked for it. On the contrary, every Interest represented before the committee—manufacturing, laboring, and agricultural—has protested against it. The free trade clubs of New York and Brooklyn, represented by a number of so-called political economists, have urged not this reduction alone, but the entire abolition of import duties which In any way discriminate in favor of American producers. While aU unite in opposing reduction, some interests assert the necessity of an increase of duties for the maintenance of the industry and the labor employed therein. The wool growers of the country, representing every State in the Union, demand the restoration of the wool duty of 1867. While the minority have sought to respond favorably to this demand of more than a million of their fellow-citizens, the majority, not content with a refusal of the request of this large class of producers, deliberately propose to reduce the duties stiU lower. While opposing a general revision, the minority think that there are inequalities which ought to be corrected. Among these, they say, wire rods, cotton ties, and tinplates bear greatly disproportionate duties to kindred articles and should be made consistent and harmonious. The bill, the minority say, Is apt proper at this time, because, first, it will disturb business; second, it will of necessity force down the price of labor in the United States; third, this proposed reduction will inevitably increase foreign importation, and as a consequence increase our revenues, to which every interest of the country is opposed; fourth, it is wholly unnecessary, unjustifiable, and in every respect and to every American interest only hurtfid; fifth, it has none of the elements of a carefully matured tariff bill; sixth, the feature of the bill which applies ad valorem rates to most of the schedules affected by it is especially objectionable, because,it will greatly increase the existing evil of undervaluation, and consequent frauds upon the revenue, as well as to so complicate the rule of assessment of duties,as to greatly embarrass the administration of the law. The minority conclude as follows: “In the belief that the late tariff legislation would remain without material change for a period of years, business has adjusted itself to it, and producers have entered into contracts and generally arranged their business, in character and volume, in conformity with it. All classes of our people have relied upon its reasonable permanence and freedom from immediate and radical changes, so that every consideration appeals to Congress to let the present law alone, and permit the business of the country to proceed without legislative disturbance. What the country wants most is relief from Congressional agitation. All of the industries of the country are extremely sensitive, and just at this time, when business is more or less depressed in every branch, the threat or fear of a change introduces an element of uncertainty and disturbance throughout the country, the evil effects of which no one can foresee. Twenty per cent, reduction, or any reduction, however slight, following so close upon the reductions made last winter, cannot be defended as to a single schedule of the tariff, and as to many it can be shown to be wholly disastrous. We believe that, after a sufficient trial of the effect of the last revision, if it shall appear that the industrial interest s of the country can be maintained with, and the condition of the treasury •will justify, a further revision, such action will be more wisely undertaken by the friends of tho protective system and with less disturbance to the public prosperity than if done now by the avowed advocates of the destruction of the American system of protection.”

SMALL TALK.

George W. Cable, the novelist, weighs only 100 pounds. Thirty thousand patents were issued hist year in Great Britain, against 20,000 hi this country. Fashionable young ladies must have photographs of their pet cats to be up to the times nowadays. Nearly SBO,OOO was sunk at Portland, Oregon, by a St. Louis journalist in endeavoring to establish the Northwest, which has ceased to exist. Probably the oldest log cabin in the country is now standing near Montgomery, Ala. It was built in 1798, and for fifty years previous to the rebellion was occupied as a house for farm slaves. Andrew J. Weaver, of Greenville, Pennsylvania, drove his daughter from the house, broke seme furniture, and then killed himself with a revolver. On several occasions he had shown signs of insanity. He was a brother of Gen. Weaver, of lowa. The late cold spell in Southern Oregon killed thousands of robina and bluejava.

SWOT FROM THE EARTH

Seventeen People Overwhelmed by Avalanche in the Colorado Moontaina. A Village Completely Obliterated—Many Towns in That Region SnowBound. (Denver Dispatch.] A snow-slide descended on the little snowbound station of Woodstock, on a branch of the South Park Railroad, seventy-five miles southwest of Leadville, at 6 o’clock last evening, carrying away every building in the town, including the railway station. The news was brought to Pitkin, nine miles distant, by a section hand on snowshoes, arriving at 2 this afternoon. Eighteen persons are known to have been caught in the avalanche, including Mrs. Doyle, a widow, who kept the station, her six children, another woman, name unknown, and ten section men. The two women were rescued last night They were alive, but seriously injured. The body of one section hand was recovered this morning. None of the others can escape alive. As soon as the news reached Petkin firebells sounded an alarm, and a large number of citizens started on snow-shoes to the scene of the disaster. Among the missing areJacob Caswell, of Tomichi, J. S. Brown, telegraph operator at the station, George Alexander, Horace Alexander, and Mike Shea. A large number of snow-shovelers leave in the morning. The snow-fall in the mountain districts of Colorado the present winter is without parallel in the history of the State. Many of the mining camps west and south have been snowbound since November. The San Juan country has been the greatest sufferer. Durango, Silverton, Rico, containing from one to five thousand inhabitants, are still blockaded, no trains having reached either town for several weeks. Breckenridge, fifty miles north of Leadville, is nearly destitute. Montezuma, ten. miles distant, la in a pitable condition. Gunnison, situated a few miles from the largest coal mines In the State, is suffering from a coal famine. Snow is eight feet on a level over the whole country; in the ravines and gulches from fifty to a hundred feet. Theonly means of communication is on snowshoes, and few men are heroic enough to brave the bitter storms. When spring thawsmove these mountains of snow fearful results must follow. Five Men Killed by an Avalanche in Oregon. [Portland (Oregon) Telegram.] Five men engaged in grading on the Baker City Branch Railroad through Pyle Canon, Union County, Oregon, were caught under a> vast land-slide and crushed to a jelly. A very heavy blast had just been fired, whichloosened a huge mass of earth and rooks oa the side of the mountain, which came down, so suddenly that the men had no time to run. The names of the victims were not obtainable.

“YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE.”

Petticoated Highwaymen Women; Garroters Frequent in Chicago. [Philadelphia Telegram.] A young stranger in the city, while walking along a prominent thoroughfare at 2: o’clock in the morning, was confronted by a young and handsome-featured woman, who suddenly sprang in front of him out of a dark alleyway. Thrusting a eocked revolver under hls nose, she gave utterance .to the stereotyped highwayman’s phrase, “Your money or your life!” Preferring hislife to his money, he yielded upthe latter, which was eagerly snatched by the boid woman highwayman, who, after ordering the now thoroughly terrified man. to keep silent, under pain of death, quietly walked away and disappeared in the darkness. [Chicago Dispatch.} Ed Bordlng, a waiter in the TremontHouee r had a queer experience at an early hour in the morning, near the corner cf State and Polk streets. He was walking north en State street, and was rather intoxicated. Hesobered up somewhat when a woman rushed up to him, with a drawn revolver, which she presented at his head, and ordered him to give up his property. She then relieved him of an open-faoed silver watch. Women garroters have been very frequent in Chicago, this winter.

KANSAS CATTLE PLAGUE.

The Epidemic Spreading—The Governor Urged to Convene the Legislature. The foot-and-mouth disease now raging among the cattle in Kansas, seems to haveattracted thp attention of the people to flu, alarming extent all over Kansas, and even adjoining States. A recent dispatch from Emporia says: “ The special train from Topeka bearing Gov. Gliok and fifty citizens from various parts of the State went down to Neosho Falls to attend the meeting of cattle-men. The interest in the mouth-and-foot disease is intense, and called together representatives from some twelve counties. The reports showed that the disease was spreading. Veterinary Surgeons Holcomb and Chambord, who have 'been all over the infected districts, reported confirming all the statements previously made, am* stated that the only cure known is death and fire. They urged the killing of the animals and the destruction by fire of the carcasses and all forage and everything connected with it. Quarantine has been established, but it is not observed as it should be. Gov. Glick and A. Campbell, of Kansas, and Senator Kelley addressed the meeting, urging united action and persistent effort in the suppression of this disease. A committee consisting of one from each of the counties represented was appointed, which reported a resolution calling upon Gov. Glick to convene the Legislature in extra session. The resolution was unanimously adopted.”

The New Eldorado.

An experienced miner who recently arrived at Miles City, Mont., from the Coeur d’ Alene district reports the presence of several thousand adventurous prospectors in that region waiting for the snow to disappear to commence - operations. The snow is over three feet in depth on the level ground at present, and it is not likely that all will have disappeared sooner than the middle of May,* by which time it is thought 40,C00 persons will have arrived in the neighborhood. It is the general impression, that a majority of the prospectors will be disappointed. At the same time it is thought that there aro some rich veins which will pan in tbe district.

Our Foreign Commerce.

The Treasury Department at Washington has issued a statement giving in detail the exports and imports during the year 1883. It shows the exports to have been S<IJ,OOO,000, against.s7so,ooo,ooo in 1883, and the imports $837,000,000 in 1883, against $752,000,000 in 1882. This is a decrease of $65,000,000 In money paid out for imports and an increase ot $27,000,000 in money received for exports, a net gain of nearly $1(0,000,000 as compared with our foreign commerce of 1882. Thb Princess Victoria of Hesse is to be married in an Irish poplin dress. There aro now forty-two murderers in th* Cincinnati Jail. ,