Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1886 — Page 2

gljeHcmocrAticSenttnel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. At Bronson, Mich., Ore destroyed property valued at SIO,OOO. Two women were burned to death, and several other persons badly injured. A Boston paper publishes an article, copied from an anarchist .organ, declaring that Most and his faction are preparing to burn buildings and commit outrages in New York City. The German steamer Europa went ashore in the night off Quoge, L. L, and the Capital City is stranded at live Beach. Storm and fog were responsible for both accidents. An ice gorge turned the course of the river at Lancaster, N. H., a stream of water running down one of the principal streets, carrying with it lingo cakes of ice. Several" houses were flooded, and the occupants of an hotel were rescued from upper windows. R. A. Fullgraffi, a member of the Board of Aldermen of Now York, has been arrested for bribery in connection with the Broadway Bailroad franchise.

WESTERN.

The contract for building the Colorado Capitol building has been let to Wm. D. Iticliardson, of Chicago, for S'.CO, 4 So. George Scoville, of Chicago, was placed in jail because of his inability to pay a Deputy Sheriff sls alimony claimed to be due his divorced wife, a sister of Guiteau. Five thousand persons witnessed the execution at Lexington, Mo., of Jeff Wilson, •whoso feet touched the ground when the drop fell, necessitating a hurried shortening of the rape. He ascended the gallows with a smile on his countenance, and spoke for seventeen minutes. The dry goods firm of Herman & Leopld Herzog, of St. Louis, owing SOO,OOO to Eastern houses, has suspended business. The Georgia revivalists, Sam Jones and Sam Small, closed their labors in Chicago last Sunday evening, when an audience of nearly eight thousand persons endeavored to reach the platform and extend a farewell greeting. When the recent converts were called for 2B. r > persons stoo l up as witnesses to the work. The revivalists will resume their labors in Chicago in September. Five broke out in the Planters’ House, the oldest hotel in St. Louis, at three o’clock iu the morning. There were about. 150 guests and fifty employes in the house at the time. All escaped save lour servant girls, who perished from heat and suffocation. The main portion of the building was not damaged, and the loss was only about $5,000. At Cincinnati the Ohio River reached a height of fifty-three feet one and one-half inches, the highest point since the great deluge of 188:.’.

SOUTHERN.

A vein of petroleum, flowing two hundred barrels per day, haw been developed at Lake Charles, Louisiana, Reports from fruit-shipping points in the South indicate a backward season, hut vegetable prospects are equal to those of former years. Lato spring frosts may materially reduce the Southern peach supply. A fire which broke out iu the San Carlos Theater, at Key West, Florida, was nut extinguished until lato in the 'afternoon, tho principal portion of tho city being destroyed. Fifteen or twenty persons were injured by falling walls. Tlio financial Joss is placed at $1,500,000, on winch there is insurance of but SIOO,OOO. John Baxter, District Judge at Knoxville, Tennessee, died of Congestive lover at Hot Springs, Ark., in his sixty-eighth year. The merchants of Key West, Fla., have issued an appeal to the benevolent citizens of the United States for subscriptions in aid of those left destitute by the recent conflagration there. Before the Grand Jury at New Orleans two women named McMahon and Smythe made a full confession of their part in a scheme of perjury designed to secure the acquittal of the assassins of Captain Murphy. On one of a number of bench warrants Dr. Emanuel E. Dreyfus was sent to the parish prison in default of $29,0-0 bail. Judge Thomas Ford, tlio chief of the band of assassins, is Commissary of tho Louisiana penitentiary, and has never been compelled to wear the uniform. The great railway strike has culminated in bloodshed at Fort Worth, Texas, A posse of deputies from the Sheriff’s office were detailed to protect a train which was pulled out of the Missouri Pacific yards. They were fired upon from ambush by the strikers and one of tho officers was killed, two were mortally wounded, and ouo of tho strikers was hurt. It was rumored that tlio strikers threatened to burn the town. The Governor ordered out the State troops.

WASHINGTON.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee has agreed upon a substitute measure to take the place of the pending commercial bills. It provides for inviting the several Governments of the republics of Mexico, Central and South America, and the Empire of Brazil to join the United States in a conference at Washington to discuss and recommend to tlicir respective countries for adoption some plan of arbitration. Questions relating to the improvement of business intercouse among American nations are also to bo considered. A general order has been issued by the War Department announcing tho following assignments: Maj. Gen. J. M. Schofield to the Division c? Atlantia Maj. Gen. A H. Terry to the Division

of the Missouri. Mai. Gen. Howard to the Division of the Pacific. Brig. Gen. Crook was relieved of the command of the Department cf Arizona, and assigned to the Department of tho Platte, formerly commanded by Gen. Howard. Brig. Gen. N. A. Miles, now in commend of tlio Department of tho Missouri, has been assigned to the Department of Arizona. The majority of the House Committee on Elections has decide 1 to reject the claims of Frank H. Hurd to the seat from Ohio now held by Bomois. The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist inst: JNTEREST-BEARINO DEUT. Bonds nt t ! » percent 5250.000.0 X) Bonds at 4 per cent 737.J50.i-.OJ Bonds at 3 per cent 1,4,092,100 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 215,050 Navy pension fund at S per cent 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at« per cent. 64,023,512 Principal $1,240,681,102 Interest 11,832,323 Total $1,252,513,785 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY - . Principal $>,367,805 Interest 201,095 Total $5,571,0 50 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREBT. Old demand and legal-tender notes. $346,738.6)1 Certificates of deposit 1 ,925,000 Gold certificates ! 0,122,421 Silver certificates * ! 0,775.613 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed).... 6.954,01 ! Principal 516,517,717 Total debt— Principal $1,79!,567.014 Interest 12.033,419 Total $1.8J4,0C3,4C3 Less cash items available ,or reauetien of tbe debt 210,230,128 Less reserve held for redemption of U. 8. notes 100,000,000 Total $310,‘230,128 Total debt less available cash itemssl,4‘ 4,373,335 Net cash in the Treasury 75,381,099 Debt less cash in Treasury April 1, 1880 $1,417,992,235 Debt less cash in Treasury March 1,1886 1,432,080,119 Decreaseof debt during March $14,087,884 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAIEABEE FOR REDUCTION OP THE DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding ....... $90,775,643 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 90,122,421 U. 8. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 11,925,000 Cash Held for matured debt and interest unpaid 17,404,2-U Fractional currency 2,780 Total available for reduction of the debt 5210,230,128 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. 8. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882 $100,000,000 "Unavailable for reduction of the debt— Fractional silver coin $28,822,637 Minor coin 515,313 Total $23,337,981 Certificates held as cash 8 1,048.302 Net cash balaneo on hand 76,380,199 Total cash in Treasury as shown by tho Treasurer’s general account.. $493,997,711

POLITICAL.

The New York Senate Railroad Committee lias reported favorably the lull to repeal the Broadway Surface Railroad franchise. At a caucus of Republican Senators in Washington, n majority expressed themselves in favor of open executive sessions. At this caucus, says a Washington dispatch, “more than a dozen Senators said frankly they would vote for every nomination <?n its merits, regardless of whether it was made in the place of a suspended ex-soldier or not, or whether the Executive had given his reasons for making tho suspension or not. Among these Senators were Morrill, Platt, Plumb, Van Week, Hale, Dolph, Mitchell (Oregon), and Don Cameron.”

MISCELLANEOUS. There was a prolonged conference between Jav Gould and T. V. Powderly at New York oil Thursday, March 30. “Tho whole discussion,” a Now York telegram reports, “was on tho subject of arbitration generally, upon which a unanimity of opinion was expressed. Mr. Gould is in favor of arbitration, but, as the matter of adjusting the difficulty on tlio Missouri Pacific Railroad had been referred to Mr. Hoxie, the following telegram was sent to him at the request of Mr. Powderly: To H. M. Hoxie, General Manager, St. I.ouis: Will you meet the General Executive Board ot tho Knights of Labor, ortho eqjnmittae of your employes from tho Knights of Labor, tor tho purpose of making a settlement of present difficulties alike honorable to both parties, either on the basis of arbitration or by mutual agreement, tho same to bo binding on all parties? In answer to this Mr. Hoxie telegrapliod the following from St.-Louis: A. L. Hopkins: Replying to your inquiry of this date, I have to say that yesterday I r ooived from Mr. Gould the following message (here is quoted tbo message beginning “in resuming the movement of trains,”.etc.], to which I sent tho following reply: Jav Gould: I have your message in relation to your interview with Mr. Powderly, and also the lettor of instructions, and will carry out tho same to tho host of my ability. I am, therefore, willing to meet a committee of our employes without discrimination, who are actually at, work in tho service of the company at tho time such committee is appointed, to adjudicate with thorn any grievance that they may have. H. M. Hoxie. Tho Executive Committee W tbe Knigh s of Lab »r thereupon telegraphed to Martin irons, at St Louis, as follows: Have your executive committoe order the men to return to work, and also select ». special comniitteo from the employes of the Missouri Pacific to wait on Mr. Hoxie to adjudicate any grievances. Do this as quickly as possible. “A serious hitch exists between the Executive Committee of the Knights of Labor and the railroad officials regarding the terms on which the knights are to bo taken back, and from present appearances the strike is as far from settlement as ever,” says a St. Louis telegram of the 2d inst. A committee of Knights waited upon Master Mechanic Bartlett at tho Missouri Pacific shops aud tendered him tho service! of tho old shop employes. A list of fifty-two names was handed to Mr. Bartlett, who, after scanning it, checked off seventeen of them as the names of the men whom lie would employ. Tho others, ho said, could not bo taken back. Attempts of a similar nature were made by committees of the strikers at prominent points ail 'over tho Gould system. In every instanco, tho Executive Board claims, tho committees received the same reply to their offers. Reports of the committees, received by telegraph, determined the Executive Board to issue an address to tho public, and to continue *hn strike until the roads consent

to take back all tho strikers. Tho address is as follows: To the Public: as showing the sincerity of tho railroad managers in their treatment of tho Enigma of Labor, *<• ri-Hj ectfully state teat pursuant to the order of our general executive board »e this day sent a committee to the managers of the several railroads, offering to return the men to work, and in no instance would they bo received or treated with, each official in turn e thet refusing them a hearing or evading them with specious. subterfuges for direct answers, or refusing them employment Mr. Hoxiehas agreed to receive u committee of employes to adjust any grievances which may exist. He refuses personally and through his subordinates to recognize any of us as employes and refuses to receive any but such us he calls employee. In short, after himself aud Mr. Gould have conveyed the impression to tho world that they are willing to settle, they refuse to settle. Now we appeal t) a cauoid and suffering public, on whom is falling all the weight of thgreat'conflict. if we have not been deceived enoughV How much is long-suffering labor tv bear This great strike never would have been bad Mr. Hoxie condescended months ago to hear our complaints. Wo do not claim to bo more than human. It should not be expected of us to be more than human. In this country position makes no man king or slave, and imperious refusal on the part of one citizen to confer with other citizens with whom he may have business connections, when such refusal begets great business and social revolution, is not only a mistake but a crime against the public. Mr. Gould is invoking tho law against little criminals who are mode desperate by his policy of duplicity and oppression, and yet a terrorized public does not invoke tho law against the arch-criminal of tho land. If wo cannot be allowed to return to work the strike must go on. Telegrams to Bradstreet's report a less satisfactory condition of geuoral trade, duo in large part to the continuation of strikes at various centers, as well as to tho interruption of railway traffic in the Southwest Floods in the Central, Southern and Western States have helped depress trade through tlio destruction of bridges and overflowing of country roads. At large Eastern cities the volume of merchandise moving is of only moderate proportions. At Western centers the demands are quite as much for near-by wants as they were a week ago. In general, it may be stated that the progress made thus far during 1880 has been disappointing. There was a gradual falling off iu the number of failures. Mrs. Nathan Griffith, of Westminster, Ontario, whose reason was shattered by religious excitement, cut her husband’s throat as he lay sleeping. The Pacific Mail Line has raised the passenger rates for Chinese from $25 to SSO per head for the purpose of stopping the exodus now in progress. Prof. Foster, meteorologist of lowa, makes the following predictions: Great storms will pass over the United States in rapid succes sion during the last ten days of April, and all shipping interests, especially iu the Northern States, should prepare to protect their property from heavy rains, high winds, floods, sleet, snow, and extreme changes of the weather on land, and from dangerous gales on the lakes and Atlantic coast The heaviest of these storms will bo over tho Mississippi basin, about April 25 or 20; west of that earlier, and cast later.

FOREIGN.

The Senegambians have rebelled against French authority and are up in arms. In a recent attack on the invaders they killed nine soldiers and wounded thirty-two. Probably owing to the vigorous measures of the Government, the riotous demonstrations in Belgium are subsiding. The entire regular military force of the kingdom is under arias. A bill to permit cremation has been adopted by the French Chamber of Deputies by a large majority. Work has been resumed in all the factories and collieries in the Charleroi district of Belgium. President Grevv of the French Republic has received a letter threatening him with violence. His house is guarded by police. Greece still continues her war preparations, and the London Tuva', declares that a conflict, with Turkey may ho precipitated within a week. Thursday, April 1, being the seventyfirst anniversary of the birth of Prince Bismarck the. Chancellor was congratulated by Crown Prince Frederick William,, and lio received numerous telegrams and letters. The roof of the theater at Heromal, Japan, caved in from the weight of snow, 150 persons being killed or wounded. Alarming news from Bulgaria and Greece caused the British Cabinet to hold a special meeting. Orders have been sent to Devonport to have all the torpedo vessels ready for sea on short notice. Hundreds of officers of the German army have tendered their services to Prince Alexander in the event of an invasion of Bulgaria by the liussians. The Lord Mayor of London presided over an immense mass meeting held to protest against the granting of a Parliament to Ireland. With,only two hundred votes in the negative, a resolution was adopted condemning Mr. Gladstone for his intention to hand Ireland over to Mr. Parnell. Panama-Canal shares showed a further drop last week on the Paris Bourse. M. Cernuschi telegraphs from Paris that, in his opinion, “should tlio policy of the silver men in the American Congress he against limited coinage, silver will be saved and become the equal of gold throughout the world.” Another of the wolf-bitten Russians under treatment by Pasteur at Paris has died from hydrophobia,. Mail advices confirm the report of the sudden fa ling out of the bottom of the great volcano Kilauea, on one of the Sandwich Islands. The Cambridge crew defeated the Oxford, in the annual race on the Thames, by half a length. The race was against head winds, and it very ex-citing one. The distance was four miles, and the time 32:29>£. A Paris dispatch says that M. M. lloclio and Duquercy have been arrested at Decay. ;viilo and taken in letters to prison. Socialist leaders have also been arrested in Brussels. Eleven Captains of a German regiment located at Brandenburg resigned on account of a public reprimand given by their Colonel. The Ernperor was informed of tho occurrence and ordered their arrest and trial for conspiracy.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Solicitor General John Goode appeared before the Telephone Investigating Committee at Washington to tell what he knew of the circumstances leading up to the institution of the Memphis suit that was subsequently dropped. He had considered, lie said, only what he regarded the points in the matter —first, whether the department had power to order suit; and, second, whether the papers presented made out a prima-facie case. He had not given the application special precedence, nor had ho been requested to do so. The reason for finally bringing the suit at Columbus was that there had been no decision in the court at that place bearing upon telephone suits, while in some form the question had figured in every Eastern court It was thought that in Columbus they could get a perfectly fair and impartial tribunal, and a forum where there was no preconceived opinion in regard to the matter. Attorney General (iarlaud had never mentioned the Bell or Pan-Electric Company to witness until after his return from his vacation in October, when witness introduced the subject to him, having seen it mentioned in tho publie press. Witness did not know that Mr. Garland had any interest in the Pan-Eleetrie or any other telephone company until he saw the newspaper publications. The Right Hon. William E. Forster, who was Chief Secretary for Ireland under the previous Gladstone Ministry, is dead. He had been ill for some time. Mr. Forster was 68 years of age. When Mr. Gladstone retired from the leadership of the opposition in 1875, Mr. Forster declined to become the-leader of the Liberal party, and the Marquis of Hartington was chosen. Nov. 13, 1875, Mr. Forster was elected Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen. He married in 1850 the eldest daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Arnold, D. D., head master of Rugby School. Two Western railroads report the following earnings for the month of March: Chicago A Northwestern, $1,988,900, an increase over the same month last year of $2,400; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis A Omaha, $517,000, an increase of $57,800. The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the tax on tobacco intended for export is constitutional. Senator Logan's army bill was again discussed in the Senate on the sth inst. Mr. Cockrell spoke in opposition to the hill. There was, he said, ample power to protect our institutions without a single regular soldier. Our foreign wavs had been fought by volunteers ; our civil war—tho greatest war iu history—had been fought by volunteers. Tlio people of this re public could successfully resist tbe combined nations of the earth. Mr. Logan spoke at considerable le>ngth in further explanation of the details of the hill, and in reply to criticisms made against it. He believed fully in relying on tbe citizens iu time of trouble, and whenever a large army was wanted, but said citizens to bo effective had to be organized. Mr. George reported in the Senate, unfavorably, a bill from the Committee on Territories to enable the Northwest Trading Company to purchase certain lands in Alaska, Indefinite postponement was recommended. The President sent to the Senate • the following nominations : Caleb \Y. West, of Kentucky, to be Governor of Utah; Edward R. Fogg, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Beatrice, Neb. Coil uls—Louis D. Brilaud, of Pennsj lvania, at Kingston, Jamaica; L. J. Dupre, of Alabama, at San Salvador; J. Cecil Legare, of Louisiana, 1 1 Tampico; H. Sawyer, of Connecticut, at Trinidad. Postmaster's—M. Weismantel, at Naperville, Ill.; Herndon C. Travers, Rockdale. Tex. ; J. H. Woodman. Northville, Mich ; Clayton F. Collins, Homer, Mich.; John H. Saxton, De Witt, Iowa; Shannon Clements, Bucvrus, O.; John W. Davis, New Richmond, Ohio; Eugene C. Wilson, Clay Center, Kan.; George W. Clark, Lyons, Kan.; W. H. L. Peperill, Concordia, Kan.; Henry C. Hunt, Delavan, Wis.; Samuel Chamberlain, Waupun, Wis.; Wesley E. Hughes, Fresno City, Cal.; James Tyson, Placerville, Cal.; John McCann, Martinez, Cal.; G. J. Evans, Hastings, Neb.; Frank Abt, Lead City, Dakota. Tbe Senate confirmed William T. Trenholm us Comptroller of the Currency. Tho House of Representatives passed the Mexican Pension Bill by 158 to 68, as also bills for public buildings at Duluth and San Antonio, Tex. Mr. O’Hara, the colored member from North Carolina, intoduced. a resolution for an investigation of the massacre of negroes at Carrollton, Miss. Among the new bills introduced in the House was one providing for the reduction of letter postage to one and a half cents per ounce. Representative Herbert introduced a resolution to appropriate $309,1)00, to be immediately available, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in the purchase and distribution of subsistence stores and other necessary articles to aid in the relief or destitute persons in the overflowed districts of Alabama.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK, Beeves $4.50 @ 6.25 Hons 4.5) yf 5.00 Wheat—-No. 1 White...., 95 @ .97 No. 2 Red 1)4 @ .95 CORN —No 2. 46 <cij .47 Oats-—White 49 @ .46 Pork—Mess 10.50 @ll.OO CHICAGO. Beeves—-Choice to Primo Steers 6.00 @ 6.50 Good Shipping.., 4.50 @ 5.25 Common 4.00 @ 4.50 Hogs— Shipping Grades 4.25 @ 4.75 Flour—Extra Spring 4.75 @ 5.25 Wheat— No. 2 Spring ,78U@ .79 1 .; Corn—No. 2 36 *@ .37 * Oats—No. 2.. .30 @ .35 Butter —Choice Creamery 29 @ .31 Fine Duirv 20 («! .24 Cheese—Full Cream, new llbj@ .12'jj Skimmed Flats 05 *@ .07 Eggs —Fresh 10>*@ .11 hj Potatoes—Choice, per bu 50 @ .53 PoltK—Mess 9.00 @ 9.50 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 79 @ .80 Corn—No. 2 ..36 @ .37 Oath—No. 2 31 @ .32 Rye—No. 1 04 @ .143 Pork —New Mi 3s 9.00 @ 9.50 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 89 @ .90 Corn—No. 2 38 @, .40 Oats—No. 2 30 @ .32 sr. louis. Wheat—No. 2 Red 88 @ .89 Corn-Mixed .33 1 m .34 Oats —Mixed 34 @ .31 Pork— New Mess 9.75 @10.25 CINCINNATI. Wheat -No. 2 Red 90 @ .91 Corn —No. 2 36’£@ .37V, Oath—No. 2 32 @ .33 * Pork—Mess.. 9. 0 yiIO.OO Live Hogs ; 4.2 » @ 4.75 DETROIT. Beep Cattle 4.50 @ 6.00 Hogs 3.50 @ 4.50 Sheep-,- 3. 00 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 88 @ .83)2 Corn—No. 2 33 @ .10* Oats—No. 2 33',>@ .35M INDIANAPOLIS. Beep Cattle 3.50 @5.50 Hbos 43)0 @ 4.50 Sheep 3.00 @ 3.5) ■Wheat—No. 2 Red. .83 @ ,81 Corn—No. 2 34 @ .36 Oats— No. 2 30 @ .31 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle— Best 5.95 @ 5.75 Fair 4.75 @ 5.25 Common 3.75 @ 4.50 Hogr 4.50 @ 5.10 SHEHP 4.50 @ 5.50 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard £3 @ .94Corn—Yellow - 41 @ .42 Cattle 5.01 @ 5.75

CONGRESS.

What Is Being Done by the Na*tional Legislature. Mb. Vooriiees introduced in the Senate, on the 30th ult., an enabling act for tbe people of Montana, preliminary to the admission of the Territory to the Union. Gen. Logan's bill to increase tbe efficiency of tbe arinv was debated. Mr. Cullom introduced a bill appropriating $500,000 for tho erection iu Washington city of a monument, with appropriate statuary, to commemorate the illustrious pnblie services of the late Abraham Lincoln. Tbe nomination of O. O. Howard to be Major General in place of John Pope was confirmed by tbe Senate. In the House of Representatives Mr. Randall, Of Pennsylvania, asked unanimous consent to offer tbe following resolution: Resolved, That a committee of five members be appointed, whose duty it shall be to investigate the circumstances and causes attending the kill- - ingon the 18th of March.lßß6, in Carrollton,Miss., of a number rs colored citizens of said State. Mr. Reagan, of Texas, objected, on the ground that Congress had no jurisdiction over the matter. Mr. Randall then asked to have the resolution referred, but Mr. Reagan objected, notwithstanding the request made by Mr. Barksdale, of Mississippi, in behalf of the Mississippi delegation, that there might- be no objection. The House indulged in a long debate on the postoffice appropriation bill, during which time there waß a lively interchange of personalities between Messrs. McMillin and Houk, both of Tennessee. Mr. Dolph, of Oregon, addressed the Senate on the 31st ult., in support of the bitl for the admission of Washington Territory. Mr. Vance spoke in support of his bill to repeal the civil service law. When tho army hill came up, Gen. Logan took occasion to deny the reports that there was a coolness between himself and Senator Hale, of Maine, because of the latter's opposition to tho army bill, which, it had been further reported, was inspired by Mr. Blaine. Tho Illinois Senator denied that he was standing in tbe way of any mnn's Presidential candidacy. In executive session the Senate confirmed’ a large number of nominations, and rejected three—those of John C. Wise, to be postmaster at Mankato, Minn.; H. N. Jewett, of Massachusetts, to be consul at Sivas. and the postmaster at Webster City, lowa. In tbe House of Representatives of Mr. O'Neill, of Missouri, reported from the Committee on Labor a bill for the voluntary arbitration of differences between common carriers engaged in interstate and territorial transportation of property or passengers and their employes. The bill was referred to tbe committee of tbe whole and the House went into committee, with Mr. Springer (Ill.) in the chair, for its consideration. Mr. O’Neill spoke iu support of the measure, which was the best one tho Labor Committee could formulate. It provided simply for a voluntary arbitration. He knew that this was disappointing to many members pf the House, but if they would but reflect they would realize that the first thing to consider was how far they could regulate the disputes by an appeal to public opinion. If this method failed, then be could see but one other, and that was the strong arm of the Government to take the giant corporations by the throat and tell them that they must yield to arbitration ; that tho Government could not have tho condition of affairs that to-day prevailed throughout five States of tlio Union—a practical revolution—all business suspended, aud the people of great cities suffering from tbe increased cost of foed and fuel. Messrs. Hammond (Gn.), Weaver (Iowa), Brunirn (Bn.), and Daniel (Va.) opposed the bill. Mr. Weaver thought that tbe cure of all labor troubles lay in the increase of the currency. Mr. Reagan (Texas) opposed the bill because it would take from the local tribunals where it belonged tbe adjustment and settlement of a local question. The bill appropriating $500,009 for the erection of a monument to Abraham Lincoln at Washington, passed the Senate on tbe Ist inst. Messrs. Dolph aud Morgan addressed the Senate in support of the bill to admit Washington Territory into the Union, after which the amendments proposed by tho committee and another affecting the school lands were adopted. President Cleveland nominated to the Senate for tho vacant brigadier generalships Colonel Thomas H. Ruger, of tbe Eighteenth Infantry, and Colonel Joseph H. Potter, of the Twentyfourth Infantry. The House devoted tho day to the discussion of the labor arbitration bill. The Labor Committee’s arbitration bill occupied the exclusive attention of tbe House on the 2d inst. Various amendments wore offered, nearly all of which were voted down as fast as they came up. Mr. O’Neill, of Missouri, said that people were suffering for foed in the West on account of the strike, while constitutional cranks stood quibbling on the floor of the House. Ha begged the House to crush out tho obstructionists. Mr. Lawler of Illinois spoke in support of tlio bill. Ho said that its opponents had had throe long months to prepare something upon tho question and had nor. done so. But now they insulted tho intelligence of tho well-meaning men on the Committee on Labor who had given it their attention. Passing on to tho consideration of tho strike on the Missouri Pacific, ho declared that without wishing to become communistic in bis utterances he was free to say that if Jay Gould was hung to a lamp-post in Now York it would be a blessing to the consmunity known as tbe United States. | Laughter. 1 The action of Jay Gould might cost hundreds and thousands of lives throughout tlio" Western States. The death of a man like this was nothing compared with what might occur if the difficulties werj not settled in those States. Mr. Farquhar, of New York, supported the bill. Mr. Glover, of Missouri, declared that it was a constitutional abortion. Ho denounced it in tho name of capital. He denounced it in the name of labor, because it offered a stone, and not bread. The first four sections of tho bill were adopted, with slight amendments, and pending consideration o’ tho fifth section the House adjourned. Tbe Senate was not in session. Only tho House of Representatives was in session on tho 3d inst. When tho labor arbitration bill came up, in committee of tho whole, Mr. Warner, of Missouri, offered an amendment providing that the members of tho tribunal of arbitration shall receive a compensation of $lO a day for tbo time actually employed. It also prescribes the fees and compensation to bo allowed tho clerk, stenographer, marshals, and witnesses, provides that the tribunal shall have the power to limit tho number of witnesses in each case whose fees shall be paid by tho United States, and appro nriates a sufficient s urn to carry the provisions of the bill into effect. Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, offered an amendment to the amendment providing that not exceeding SI,OOO shall be paid out of the Treasury to defray tbe expenses of any single arbitration. The amendment was agreed to, and Mr. Warner’s amendment, as amended, was adopted. Tho committee then rose and reported tbe bill to the House. It was immediately passed—yeas 195, nays 29. The following is the negative vote: Allen (Miss.), Barnes, Belmont, Bennett, Breckinridge (Ky.i, Crisp, Croxton, Davidson (Ala.), Daniel, Foran, Forney, Glover, Hale, Hammond, Harris, Hemphill, Hill, Hutton, Irion, Jones (Ala.), Norwood, O’Ferrell, Berry, Reagan, Rogers, Sadler, Skinner, Tillman, and Tucker. On motion of Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, tbo title of the bill was amended so as to read “To provide a method of settling controversies and differences between railroad corporations engaged in interstate and territorial transportation of property and passengers and their employes.” Aftrfr the labor arbitration bill bad passed the House took up tbe silver debate. Mr. Fuller, of lowa, argued iu favor of a double staifdard, and charged that tbe officials of the Treasury Department were violating tbe laws and thwarting the will of tbo people iu refusing to pay out silver on the obligations of tlio Government. Mr. Barksdale, of Missisuippi, opposed the suspension of silver coinage, as did Mr. Caldwell, of. Tennessee. Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, argued in favor of the suspension of silver coinage. President Cleveland’s "innocuous dosuetude” was exactly what the silver dollar needed. Mr. Woodburn, of Nevada, defended the silver dollar from the charge of dishonesty, and argued in favor of nil unlimited coinage. Messrs. Price, of Wisconsin, and Neece, of Illinois, spoke in opposition to the suspension of silver coinage.