Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1886 — Page 2

®I)C pcmocratltScntinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Samuel Brigham, a bank cashier at Norwich, Conn., has been held in $15,000 bail for larceny. The second and concluding volume of Blaine’s “Twenty Years in Congress” has been published. It embraces the period between Johnson’s installation as President and Garfield’s electioa The earlier chapters aro occupied mainly with the reconstruction problem, the contest between the President and Congress, and the impeachment trial Grant’s eight years’ administration is discussed m a generous and catholic spirit, and tho closing chapters . deal with current questions of political discussion. A passenger train was derailed at Tamaqua, Penn., some of the cars falling over an embankment and being consumed by lire. Two passengers were probably fatally injurod, and a number of others -were badly hurt. In thirteen years the creditors of the Sprague estate liavo received but fifteen per cent, of their claims. During tho same time Trustee Cliafee has drawn over $300,000 for his services. Silas Blakeslee, an aged man living near Wallingford, Conn., gave 10 cents to a stranger who saved him from drowning. James Hammer, a leading citizen of Lowville, Pa., who stood high in church circles, has disappeared, having squandered a fund of SIO,OOO of which he was trustee. Gen. Hazen, of the Signal Service, has sued the New York Times for SIOO,OOO damages for libel. A man named Lillie owns a mill at Shamokin Hill, Pa. His twin daughters, Kate and Susie, aged 0 years, strayed to an up stairs room where a shaft was revolving. The little ones ventured too near the machinery, and their clothes caught in tho shaft. After having been thrown around for an hour they were found by an older sister. Whoa tho machinery was stopped their bodies were found to be terribly lacerated. Katie was dead, and Susie has but little clianpo of recovery. At the auction of Lorillard’s horses in New Jersey, the Dwyer Brothers paid $17,500 for Pontiac, an imported black colt. The total imports of general merchandise, exclusive of dry goods, at New York during the woek were valued at $7,857,400. Reports throughout the Atlantic States indicate that the recent storm was one of the most destructive in years. The Cypress Hills .Street Railway depot and sheds at Brooklyn were destroyed by fire, burning many cars. Lt.su, SIOO,OOO.

WESTERN.

The New Albany Road paid $200,000 for the Medford and Bloomfield narrow-gauge line, forty-two miles in length, and will take possession April L Martin Brockman and Fred Hermann, directors of the City Infirmary of Cincinnati, who fled last week, have been offieially removed for malfeasance. Jolm Glab, Mayor of Dubuque, lowa, announces that he will organize a stock company for the erection of a large distillery in the suburbs of that city. Joseph Alsup, of Black Oak, Missouri, having a wife and several children, killed himself with a shot-gun when ordered to vacate a rented house. Charley Maurice, a cow-boy, amused himself at Logansport, Ind, by riding liis horso into saloons and demanding drinks at the point of a revolver. When lie attempted to ride into the Postoflice policemen barred the way and landed him in the cooler. Martin O. Simons, tried at Baraboo, Wis., for arson, was acquitted on the ground that there is no law prohibiting the burning of one’s own house. The exports of California wine during ‘IBBS reached 4,500,000 gallons—nearly one million gallons in excess of tho shipments of the previous year. In St. Louis, Dr. Edward H. Coates, whose domestic relations have been unpleasant, met A B. Keith on the street and shot him down. Keith died soon afterward Coates claims that his victim was the causo of his hQmo troubles. Quo warranto writs were granted last week by the Minnesota Supreme Court to forfeit the charters of and dissolve the corporations known as the Eastings and Dakota Bailway, Minnesota Central Hoad, Southern Minnesota, Southern Minnesota Railway Extension Company, and the St Paul and Sioux City linos, on tho ground of non-fulfillment of charter promises. The* writs also cull for a reversion of the land grants to the State. On a ranch near Deming, New Mexico, General Crool% and the Apacho Chief Geronimo held a conference, in which the latter asked leave to return to his reservation. Crook demanded an unconditional surrender, but the Indian leader rode away with a white flag flying. Three ranches at Wheatland, Cal., were visited by masked men, who drove out the Chinese, marched them to Wheatland, and then set them at liberty. At ono ranch tho Chinese quarters were fired and destroyed. The Illinois Central Railroad is selling round-trip tickets from Chicago to Now Orleans, good for forty days, at $22.50. Four glandored horses on farms near Rochester, 111.,, woro killed by the Assistant State Veterinarian, and thirteen others were ordered quarantined Two employes of the N. K. Fairbank Company, of Chioago, are missing, and are accused of having robbed tho firm of about #6,000.

For the recent assault on Mr. Dickson, United States Attorney at Salt Lake, Angus and Frank J. Cannon have been held in SI,OOO each. Edison, the electrician, in an interview regarding the telephone decision by the Indiana Supreme Court, expressed the belief that tho law would be pronounced unconstitutional, and declared the decision fatal to patents and progresa At a Lutheran church in Detroit the twelfth male child of a German family named Detlofl was named after President Cleveland, who was represented by Congressman Maybury. The infant was presented with a $lO gold-piece. A schedule of the liabilities and assets of tho defunot Bitzinger Bank of Indianapolis shows assets, $267,827; liabilities, $455,868. The bank had 1,400 depositors. It is claimed that 45 cents on the dollar can be paid them. Wiebren Wartena, who murdered John Dreger on the bank of the Kankakee River, was executed at Rensselaer, Ind. Nearly one thousand persons were allowed to witness the hanging. The Rev. Sam Jones, the evangelist, preached three times in Chicago, last Sunday. Fifteen thousand people heard him during the day, and he seemed to hold the audience spellbound. Edward O. Oliver, an employe of the electric-light works at Evansvillo, Ind., was killed by an accidental connection. Kansas has twenty-seven paper railroads, but every one is operated by the Atchison, the Union Pacific, or the Missouri Pacific. Judge Tuttle, of East Tawas, Mich., refused to pay taxes, and the Town Treasurer seized a span of horses valued at sll7. Considerable excitement has been caused by the arrest at Windsor, 111., of William 8. Price, on a charge of committing the outrago on Miss Georgia Aldridge, which so shocked tho community weeks ago. Price was held in $2,000 bail

SOUTHERN.

The conduct of Lieutenant Greene, of the signal corps, and other members of tho recent court-martial at Fort Myer, Virginia, was such as to draw from tho Secretary of War an expression of the stem condemnation of the abuso of counsel for the accused and of enlisted men serving as witnesses. While passing through Georgia, Thomas A Edison, tho electrician, conceived tho plan of a machine for picking cotton, and showed sketches of his new invention to persons in a hotel at Atlanta. The Houston (Tex.) Savings Bank has failed, with liabilities approximating $500,000. The suspension caused great excitement in the city, and was wholly unexpected in business circles. As the news spread through the town several hundred anxious depositors gathered about tho bank, excitedly discussing the causes leading to the suspension. A receiver has been appointed. Sam Ennis, a brother of the Sheriff of Baldwin County, Ga., shot and killed Deputy Sheriff C. N. Haywood. The trouble grew out of Haywood, who is a Prohibitionist, criticising an anti-prohibition speech made by a brother of Ennis. The Louisiana Board of Pardons has refused to interfere in the cases of Pat Ford and John Murphy, the murderers of T. J. Murphy, and they must hang. A petition of commutation of sentence was signed by 24,000 porsons.

WASHINGTON.

The House Committee on PostolKces and Post Roads unanimously agroed to report adversely all bills before it for the purchase or construction of telegraph lines by tho Government. • The House Committee on the Judiciary lias favorably reported a bill providing that no parson shall be held to answer for any crime whereof tho punishment may ba loss of life or liberty except on presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in tho land or naval forces or in tho militia when in actual service in time of war or public danger. Secretary Manning says that the net reduction in annual revenue incident to tho adoption of the Morrison tariff bill would be $12,000,C00. The House Committee on Rostoffices and Postroads has completed tho postoflice appropriation bill. It appropriates for the next fiscal year $54,326,588, an increase of $625,508 over tho appropriation for the present fiscal year and a decrease of $659,570 as compared w'ith tho department’s estimates. The estimated revenue for the next fiscal year is $47,142,252, and tho estimated deficiency is $7,443,014. The House Ways aud Means Committee have recommended tho passage of a resolution requesting the Secretary of the Treasury to investigate the undervaluation frauds in Now York City, and more particularly tho charges that a conspiracy has existed in tho custom-house by which invoices were illegally raised. The Senate Committee on Commerce lias agroed to report favorably tho Dingley shipping bill, with amendment. Bills are pending in both branches of Congress »to increase tho rate of postage on fourth-class matter from 1 to 2 cents per ounce. The reason is that the deficit in the Postoffico Department for 1885 was $10,500,000 and the deficit for tho current year is estimated at $9,ouo,ooo.

POLITICAL.

The President has nominated John H. Shaffer to bo Postmnstor at Kankakee, IIL T. R. Hudd, Democrat, has been olocted in the Fifth Wisconsin District to succeed the late Joseph Rankin in Congress A liquor bill —practically the same as the old Scott law—has been passed by tho Ohio House. Washington special: “There is deadly war between ex-Speaker Randall and Representative Bingham.' The story is afloat that

the former grossly insulted the latter about ten days ago at a banquet in Philadelphia, at which they were among the invited guests. Mr. Bingham, in speaking of the late Gen. Hancock, made some remarks to which Mr. Randall took exception, and the story goes that tho ex-Speaker went so far as to make a personal attack upon Mr. Bingham, saying at the same time: ‘I owe you a thrashing and Pll give it to you now.’ It was only by the intercession of them friends that a row was averted. The matter has been the subject of considerable comment for several days, but all those who were witnesses to the affair refuse to talk on the subject, although they admit that tho statement above given is substantially correct” A local option law has passed the Virginia Legislature. The Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate will make an adverse report on the nomination of Zachariah Montgomery, of California, as Assistant Attorney General, on account of his hostility to the pub-lic-school system. The Ohio Supreme Court rendered judgment of ouster in the quo-warranto cases against the Cincinnati Pol.ce Commission, but refused to oußt Police Superintendent Hudson, who was elected for one year. The action of Gov. Foraker in removing the Commissioners is thus sustained.

MISCELLANEOUS. It is not true that the Chinese Consul General has advised Chinamen to quit America and return home. The report originated from arrangements being mado with steamship companies to carry back poor, sick, and unemployed Chinese at half rates. The Circuit Court at Columbus, Ohio, affirmed tho judgment in the Dalton contempt case, and the matter was at once referred to the Supreme Court of tho State for final settlement According to tho New York Produce Exchange tho visible supply of wheat and corn is, respectively, 52,841,939 and 8,867,578 bushels. The deposits in the Government savings banks of Canada during Januai'y were $595,393. The amount standing to the credit of patrons is $19,056,028. The National Editorial Association, in session at Cincinnati, elected C. H. Jones, of Florida, President for the ensuing yoar, and decided to hold tho next convention at Denver in June next. A woman was blown from a train between Erie and Dunkirk while passing from the dining-car to the sleeper. She received a severe gash in the left temple. A skating rink and three other structures at Troy, N. Y., were burned, falling walls injuring several persons, the skull of one man being crushed. The financial loss is $45,000. A business block at Baltimore, occupied by clothing firms, was partially gutted, tho losses reaching $95,000. John Swinton believes that the most deadly blow yet given to King Alcohol is the rule of the Knights of Labor excluding liquordealers and saloonkeopera from their organization. “It is doing more,” hq says, “to put an end to drunkenness and to bring the rum traffic under the ban than all tho laws of Maino and all the speeches of Gough ever did.” •

FOREIGN.

Apropos of the London riots, the statistics of pauperism in the British metropolis show that during the last week of January there were 100,507 persons receiving relief there, of whom 57,834 w r ero inmates of poorhouses and 42,763 received out-door relief. The total was an increase of 2,652 as compared with the corresponding week of last year, and of 5,843 as compared with the last week in January, 1884. At a meeting in London of the delegates from various chambers of commerce, Mr. Norwood, a prominent merchant of Liverpool, attributed the present depression in trade mainly to the appreciation of gold Serious commercial depression exists in Sweden. The commercial bank of Soutli Australia has suspended payment Failures in Sweden have increased until the situation is as serious as in 1857. A man named Peronnier, believed to ho insane, caused a sensation in the French Chamber of Deputies by drawing a revolver and firing twice with a downward aim, at the same time throwing a letter toward M. Clemenceau. Peronnier was quickly, seized, and hurried to prison. The average prices of the leading cereals in the English markets for the last year are footed up as 32s lOd per quarter for wheat, 30s Id for barley, and 20s 7d for oats. All these aro for tho quarter of eight measured bushels, which for English wheat averages about oight times sixty-two pounds. It is understood that the wheat figures apply only to the grain grown at home, the product of Indian soil having averaged even less. The lowest price was 80s 2d, touched the last Saturday in the year, hut oven that minimum of less than 88 cents per sixty pounds has been surpassed since then. The average had ■ not boon so low in any former year since 1761, and only four times in the whole of the eighteenth century. The Paris municipal authorities have ordered the natne of the Deity expunged from children’s school hooks. . Servia refuses to accept the treaty of peace drafted by Bulgaria. Prince Bismark has recovered from his recent illness. The Archduchess Maria of Tuscany was married at Vienna to the Archduke Carl Stephan, brother of tho Queen Regent of Spain. Mr. Henry Stevens, the American hibliologist, died at London, Eng., after a long and painful iliness. A Paris journal asserts that Lord Salisbury drew up a convention with Turkey for the cession of Crete to England on the payment of £3,000,000 and a guarantee that Greece would be prevented from taking aggressive measures, but that Gladstone hesitates to oonfirm the mom

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

In the Supreme Court of the United 1 Stoles the case of the State of Tennessee i against the Pullman Car Company was decided | favorably for the latter. The question involved ! the right of the State to tax the property of the ; company, whose cars pass through the Stat 3. 1 The dcc.sion sustained that of the lower j courts, which had been in favor of the Pullman | Company. The Senate Committee on Public | Lands has voted to report adversely tho nomination of Surveyor General Dement, of Utah. At a meeting of the Central Labor Union in New York the tin and slate roofers submitted a resolution that workingmen should take stops to prevent the coming East of the Chinamen who have been boycotted in the West The meeting unanimously adopted the resolution and appointed a committee to take the matter into consideration. Citizens of the northern counties of Idaho which it is proposed to annex to Washington Territory are flooding Washington with telegrams and letters asking a suspension of action by Congress. In the suburbs of Portland, Oregon, eighty armed and masked men drove twice that number of Chinese farm laborers to tho ferry landing, whence they made their way to Portland before daybreak. The Coroner’s jury at Springfield, Mo., in the case of George Graham, returned a verdict that he murdered his wife, Sarah Graham, and that Mrs. Emma Malloy, the temperance evangelist, and Cora Lee wore accessories to the crime. Three workmen in the powder factory near Xenia, Ohio, lost their lives by an explosion which tore the building to splinters. The Canadian Pacific Railway depot at Winnipeg was destroyed by fire. Tho loss approximates $175,000. President Cleveland sent to the Senate, on March 1, a special message declining to furnish unofficial documents relating to suspensions from office, and claiming the right to destroy them. When tho message had been read Mr. Edmunds said it reminded him of the communication of King Charles I. to the Parliament. Ho also said th it the President, unintentionally, no doubt, had entirely misstated tho question involved between himself and the Senate, It was ordered printed. Tho Senate, in executive hofs'ou, rejected the nominations of Messrs. Pillsbnryand Chase to bo Collectors of Internal Revenue at Boston, Mass., and Portland,' Me., respectively. The nomination of John H. Shaffer to be Postmaster at Kankakee was confirmed. The nomination of Surveyor General Dement, of Utah, was reported adversely. In the House of Representatives a member from South Carolina introduced a bill for the distribution of the surplus moneys in the Treasury, during the next four years, among the respective Slates in proportion to th dr representation in the Senate and House. Mr. Brnxnm asked unanimous c mst n of the House to liaye prints 1 in the lice >rd a memorial signed by J. P. Brigham and oth< re, asking for the impeachment of Daniel Manning, Secretary of tho Treasury, for high crime i and misdemeanors in tho execution of the silver law. Mr. Beach objected.

The chaperon system is getting a foothold in the large American cities. In Paris this plan is used to the exclusion of all others; but in America it was almost unknown down to a quite recent date. A lady writer contends that the chaperon is becoming a necessity in the larger cities on account of the exclusion of so many young (nen from society through inability tq meet the necessary expenditure of a society man. The larger the city the greater becomes the necessary expense. This state of affairs puts the society ladies in an uncomfortable majority over the society men, aud recruits the ranks of “wall-flowers” to an alarming extent. So the chaperon becomes a beneficent institution, and young ladies will enjoy a greater independence of movement than ever before.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $4.50 @ S.OO Hogs...: 4.25 @4.75 Wheat—No. 1 White. 96 @ .98 No. 2 Red 93 @ .93 Corn—No. 2 .52 @ .53 Oats—White 40 @ .46 Pork—Mess 10.25 @10.75 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 5.75 @6.25 Good Shipping 4.50 @ 5.00 Common 3.50 @ 4.00 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.00 @4.50 Flour—Extra Spring 4.75 @5.25 Choice Winter 4.50 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 81 @ .82 Corn—No. 2 36 @ .38 Oats—No. 2 30 @ .31 Rye—No. 2 58 @ .60 Barley—No. 2 04 @ .66 Butter —Choice Creamery .28 @ .30 Fine Dairy 18 @j .22 Cheese—Full Cream, new...... .11J6@ .12!a Skimmed Flats 06 ~@ .07 Eggs—Fresh 17 @ .18 Potatoes—Choice, per bu 55 <S .58 Pork—Mess 10.50 @ll.OO MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 60 @ .82 Corn—No. 2 36 @ .38 Oats—No. 2 28 & .30 Rye—No. 1 68 @ .60 Pork—Now Mess 10.25 @10.75 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 92 @ .93 Corn—No. 38 @0.40 Oats—No. 2 32 @j 1.33 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 91 @ .92 Corn—Mixed 35 @ .30 Oats—Mixed 29 @ .30 Pork—New Mess 10.75 @11.25 CINCINNATI Wheat—No. 2 Red 94 @ .95 Corn—No. 3 !38 @ .39 Oats—No. 2 32 @ .33 Pork—Mess j.... 11.00 @11.25 Live Hogs 4.25 @ 4. , J5 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.50 @ 5.50 Hogs 3.50 @ 4.50 Sheep 3.00 @ 4.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 90 @ .91 Corn—No. 2 38 @ .39 Oats—No. 2 .33 @ .30 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 91 @ .92 Corn—New 36 @ .38 Oats—No. 2 29 @ .31 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 6.00 @ 5.50 Fair 4.50 @ 5.00 Common 8.50 @ 4.25 Hogs : 4.50 @ 5.00 Sheep. .; 3.00 @ 3.75 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 98 @ .99 Corn—Yellow 42JA@ .43t4 Cattle $.60 @5.25

CONGRESS.

What Is Being Done by the National Legislature. A bill appropriating $250,000 for the relief of settlers in Nebraska and Kansas who have been deprived of their lands by a prior grant to the Northern Kansas Railroad, and a bill allowing one or inorj officers of the army to accept temporary service unj d.r the Corean Govemni'nt, with compensation | therefor, passed the Senate Feb. 24. The ‘ Senate also passed the bill permitting national banks to change by a vote of two-thirds of their 1 shareholders, and with the consent of the Comptroller of the Currency, their names, capital stock, and location, provided the location shall not be changed to another State nor to a place more than thirty miles distant from the Rriginal location. The bill gave rise to considerable debate, during which Senator Beck (Ky.) insisted that the control of the matter should be given to the Secretary of the Treasure, instead of the Comptroller of the Currency. He charged past Comptrollers with having s jught to drive out of business every hank that was not a national bank. They had always done tho work of the nationul banks, and when they resigned they went into those banks. f One of them had no sooner left the Government service than ho became President of a national bank, and another became Vice President of a national bank. The House passed the half-gallon tax bill without a division. Mr. Buttorworth (Ohio) offered a substitute in the shape of a bill amending tho Carlisle bill by requiring the minimum capacity of the packages Into which spirits may be drawn to be thirty gallons instead of ten, but the substitute was rejected. The House passed also the hill t > quiet the title of settlers on the Des Moines River lands in lowa, and the bill annexing a portion of Idaho to the Territory of Washington. The Committee on Public Lands reported favor ibly the bill forfeiting certain grants to the Southern. Pacific Railroad Company. Mr. Murphy, of lowa, called up the Hennepin Canal bill and made a speech in its support. By means of the propos'd canal, hesaid, the wheat of six Wost;m States coaid be transported to tho seaboard at a saving of six cents a bushel. If the canal were built the people of the Northwest would save enough in one year to build the canal two or three timos over. The United States had formidable competitorsin the Liverpool market, and if the rates of transportation were not reduced it would soon find itself without that market. The bill granting lands in severalty to certain Indians passed the Senate Feb. 25. Mr. Edmunds introduced the bill reported last year from the Foreign Affairs Committee providing for the inspection of meats for exportation, prohibiting the importation of adulterated articles of food and drink, and authorizing the President to prohibit by proclamation in his discretion products of countries unjustly discriminating against American products. Mr. Frye, from the Committee on Commerce, reported favorably the bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Staten Island Sound, known as ArthurKill, and to establish the samo as a post-road. This is the measure in which the Baltimore & Ohio is interested in obtaining entrance into New r'ork City. The Bland educational bill was debated. The House indulged in a warm partisan debate over the pension appropriation bill. Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, said that the hill appropriated $75,754,200, or about $815,000,000 more than was appropriated last year—a fact due to the accelerated work being done in the Pension Office. Mr. Henderson of lowa took issue with Mr. Townshend, declaring that the average appropriation for pensions in the last six years was $77,440,000. He then began a long partisan speech, in which he criticised the letter of Commissioner Black on the subject of arrearages of pensions, which, he said, had been telegraphed all over tho country twentyfour hours before it was sent to the Appropriations Committee, “with a $90,000,000 lie in its stomach.’’ Mr. Henderson defended ex-Com-missioner Dudley’s administration of the pension office, and in speaking of the charges of partisanship Messrs. Warner, of Ohio, and Randall, of Pennsylvania, replied briefly to Mr. Henderson. The former renewed tho charges of j>artisanship , and neglect of duty to conduct political camp tigns made against ex-Commissioner Dudley.. Mr. Randall thought that the Southern members had shown a wonderful, full-hearted disposition, to pension veteran a and widows of vet Tans. Mr. Browne, of Indiana, defended Mr. Dudley. Tho postoffice and military academy appropriation bills were reported to the House. The latter appropriates $297,805, or $114,270 less than the estimates. The Hennepin Canal bill wasup in the House ugain. Messrs. Murphy, of lowa, and Rowell, of Illinois, made speeches in its support.

Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, spoke in the Senate, on the 2Ctli inst., in support of his antiChinese bill. The Blair educational bill was debated, after which the Senate adjourned. Tho House had a lively session. Mr. Morrison, from the Committee on Rules, reported a resolution that a select committee of nino members be appointed to inquire into the Pan-Electric telephone matter and report whether any officer of the Government has been improperly influenced. Mr. Gibson, of West Virginia, bitterly criticised Mr. Pulitzer, whom he accused of shrinking behind the columns of his newspaper to attack men instead of attacking them on the floor of tho House. Mr. Morrison said: “As a friend of the officer supposed, to ,be most affected (if anybody is to be affected by this investigation), having unlimited confidence in his honor and in his personal and official integrity, I want this resolution to pass and I want this investigation to go on." Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas, welcomed tho resolution and hoped the investigation would be made thorough and searching. Mr. Rreqkenridgo. of Arkansas, said he was proud to call the Attorney General his personal friend. He defended his courso, declaring that his skirts were perfectly clear of any wrong-doing, and hoped tho whole ease would be investigated. The resolution was adopted without division. Mr. Burnes, of Missouri, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the immediate deficiency bill, and it was referred to the committee of the whole. The House, at its evening session, passed twenty-eight pension bills. Representative Wolford, of Kentucky, who was a Colonel in the Union army, made a speech in the House on the 27th ult., giving credit to the Southern members for voting for all the pensions asked. He then gave notice that he would introduce a bill to give to every Confederate soldier in need of it an artifi - al leg or arm. Mr. Weaver, of Nebraska, discussed the silver question, and predicted that the effort of the money oligarchy, assisted by the Executive of- ' fleers of the nation, to double the people’s burdens and cripple the business of the country by the suspension of the silver coinage, would prove I unsuccessful, now the attention of the people was attracted to the subject. He favored unlimited coinage, and asserted that if tho whole yield of the mines was coined annually it would be twenty years before the per capita circulation of the United States would be equal to that of France, and this calculation, he said, had been made without taking into account any increase in tho population of the country. Mr. Candler, | of. Georgia, submitted an argument against the | suspension of silver coinago, and contended ! that there was no sound basis for the prediction ! made by the “goldbugs” that the continued ! coinage of silver would have the effect of driving gold out of the country, Mr. Clements, of : Georgia, thought that the true test of the | value of silver was not the gold standard as established in countries where the value of gold had been enhanced by the demonetization of silver, but the purchasing capacity of Bilver. Tested by its purchasing capacity, silver was now worth as much as it ever had been, and there was no ground for the assertion that the standard dollar was a dishonest dollar. Mr, Jones, of Texas, advocated the free coinage of silver, and earnestly opposed the proposition to suspend the operation of the Bland < act, Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, opposed the suspension of silver coinage, and denounced the demonetization of silver in 1873 as the dishonoring of Amerioan silver, and as bringing in its train business disasters, whioh haaoontiqued until the passage of the Bland aot in 1878. There Wits go session of the Senate.