Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1886 — Page 6

gjfreffemocrflticgentiwel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - . Ppbubhkb,

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Gen. Anson G. McCook, Secretary of the United States Senate, was married at the residence of his brother, Gen. John J. McCook, in New York. The bride was Miss Kitty McCook, of Steubenville, Ohio, a distant relative of the groom. Near Owego, New York, Harry Dunham killed Mrs. Austin Waite and himself -with a shot-gun. Charles A. Buddenseik, the New York builder, convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years in prison because some of his ill-constructed buildings fell on a number of people and killed them, having been refused a new trial by the Now York Supreme Court, has gone to Sing Sing to serve his ten years’ sentence. Natural gas was struck at Buffalo at the depth of 1,000 feet, and the supply is ample for all practical purposes. The ship Cheova, loaded with CO,OOO cases of kerosene, was burned at New York. The loss is estimated at about SIOO,OOO. The four large brick buildings of the Pennsylvania Bolt and Nut Company at Lebanon, Pa.,. wore burned with a large amount of machinery and finished stock. The loss is about $150,000; fully insured. The funeral of John Kelly Avas held at St Patrick’s Cathedral, New York. Mass was celebrated bv Archbishop Corrigan, and the sermon was preached by Monsignor Preston. Among the pall-bearers were Judge Hilton and August Belmont. Tho cortege of fifty carriages was followed by ono hundred members of the Tammany society on foot.

WESTERN.

The twenty-third annual meeting of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company’s stockholders was held at Milwaukee last week. In the election of a new directory members of the old board were again chosen, and those at a meeting later in the day re-elected the same officers for the ensuing year. A jury at St. Louis pronounced Maxwell guilty of tlio murder of Preller. The trial lias beon the most costly that has ever occurred in that city. At least $0,003 lias been expended in bringing tlio fugitive to justice. Thq expenses of his extradition from New Zealand amounted to $3,500, and the remainder w'as spent in paying the expenses of witnesses from other States and In preparing the evidence. A formal and final report in the anarchist cases was submitted by the Grand Jury at Chicago last week. A few more indictments were handed in and the court discharged the jury. The report stated that true bills were found only against such persons as had, by abusing the privilege of free speech, been more or less instrumental in causing the riot and bloodshed at Hat-market Square. The jury declined to find bil s against certain “weak and ignorant” persons who were shown by evidence to be tools of designing men. The jury thought the danger greatly magnified and the number of anarchists overestimated. The anarchist conspiracy had nc real connection with the strikes or labor troubles, according to the report, but they ware simply made its opportunity. Bo exaggerated, continued the report, was the strength of the anarchists, that politicians had cringed before it, and processions were tolerated that were a shame to the city and an affront to every law-abiding citizen. Robert Schilling, editor of the Milwaukee Volksblalt and State Organizer of the Knights of Labor in Wisconsin, is under indictment at Milwaukee for conspiracy. The Federal Grand Jury at Seattle, Washington Territory, found ten indictments against leaders in the recent anti-Chinese riots, and report that evidence lias been laid before it proving the existence of an organized society whose aim is to subvert the government and establish in its place a socialistic commonwealth. The name of the society, according to the report, is the Red American International Workingmen’s Association. The main articles of the creed are arson, robbery, and murder. Its policy is to secure control of all labor organizations. Geronimo is killing many Mexicans and Americans in Guaymas, Mexico. The liquor dealers of Ohio will fight all attempts to tax the traffic in that State.

SOUTHERN.

In the District Court at San Antonio a sentence of one year In the penitentiary at Chester, Illinois, was pronounced by Judge Turner against Nelson Plato, whose accounts as Collector of Customs for the District of Corpus Christi showed a deficit of $l,lOO. Two years ago his bondsmen made good the shortage, with the understanding that the prosecution would be dropped. C. S. Presley, proprietor of the Magnolia House at Pine Bluff, Ark., who killed Frank Brigham, of New York, has boea sentenced to be executed Juno 25. James Baxter was executed at Lebanon, Ten a, for the murder of Mrs. Lane. Wesley Honesty and Tabley Banks were hanged at Winchester, Va., for killing Joseph McFauL

WASHINGTON.

The Cabinet session on Tuesday was devote Ito a consideration of the Canadian fisheries question, the action of Congress in regard to the Geneva award, and railroad mattern _ The decrease in the public debt for Kay was #8, 828,566. The interest-bearing debt Is now #1,220,659,312. The following is a re-

capitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist inst: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at percent $260,000,000 Bonds at 4 per cent 737.75 , 00 Bonds at 3 per cent Lh, Kef unding certificates at 4 per cent. 20 ), OJ . Navy pension fund at 3 per cent..... 14,000,000 Pacific Kailroad bonds at 6 per cent. 04,623,512 Principal $1,2.0,651,312 Interest 11,58)1,832 • Total ; $1,211.2 7,'41 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $.',097,5.6 Interest. 2 8,.90 Total $ .316,235 DEBT HEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-iender notes. $346,738. 'B6 Certificates of deposit 13, 05,000 Gold certificates bilver certificates £,91»,1.4 Fractional currency G,95-1,0 >7 Principal 636,951,727 TOTAL DEBT. Principal $1,746,699,544 Interest 1i,805,612 Total $1.776,5.5, 67 Less cash items available .or reuuction of the debt 212,104,274 Less reserve held for redemntion of U. H. notes 100,000,000 Total $3,2.164,-74 Total debt less available cash item 551,474,340,832 Net cash in the Treasury 76,142, 011 Debt less cash in Treasury June 1, 1880 ...51,338,198,231 Debt less cash In Treasury May 1,1886 1,407.026.847 Decrease of debt during April $ , 2 ,5u6 CASU IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF THE DEBT. Gold held for pold certificates actually outstanding $80,120,025 Bilver held for silver certificates actually outstanding £9,181,129 U. b. notes held for certificates of dei>osit actually outstanding 1’."'>5,00(1 Cash field for matured debt and interest unpaid 1 ,£01,127 Fractional currency 1,932 Total available for reduction of the debt $232,161,273 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. 8. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and Juty 12, 1882 $100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt— . Fractional silver coin $28,912,277 Minor coin 455,453 Total $29,307,733 Certificates held as cash 82, 3. 656 Net cash balance on band 76,142,011 Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer’s general account.. $490,406,300 The House Committee on Pacific roads bas agreed to report favorably the Dorsey bill to authorize the Union Pacific Company to construct branch line 3. The State Department is collecting information as to the moans employed by the foreign agents of the Mormon propagapda. Some startling information bas been received, which will doubtless soon be made public. A report from a United States Consul in Switzerland gives the following information: There are twenty-oight leaders, ten priests, nnd thirty-four teachers of the Monnon Church in Switzerland. Their chief function is that of missionaries. The communicants of the Mormon Church number 010. A great many Mormon converts are shipped through these instrumentalities to the United States. This Mormon propaganda is being prosecuted with much vigor iu the northern parts of Switzerland, and all the converts thus far have been members of the Protestant denominations. There are no Catholics among them. Great attention is being paid by these missionaries to women, and even to young girls. The younger girls are educated, and when grown are sent to the United States. The missionaries seem to be well supplied with money, and have organized many benevolent societies, especially for the relief of women.

A Washington dispatch gives what purports to be a partial list of presents received by President Cleveland and his bride: Secretary and Mrs. Whitney gave a brooch in the shape of a branch with leaves and flowers, all formed in diamonds. Postmaster General and Mrs. Vilas' present was a breastpin in the form of a bow-knot of Etruscan gold, with its edges bordered with diamonds. Secretary Lamar gave a cut-glass smelling-bottle studded with diamonds. Secretary and Mrs. Endicott, four massive solid silver candlesticks. Mr. E. K. Bacon, of New York, magnificent diamond star set in Bilver, to bo worn as a pendant or attached to the gold hair-pin which accompanies ft; Collector Hedden, of New York, a platinum salt dish on solid gold legs, with seed pearls studding the feet; Surveyor Beatti-*, of New York, diamond bracelet; Congressman Timothy J. Campbell, solid gold horse-radish dish ; Governor Hill, of New York, elaborate jewel case with a French music-box attachment; Mrs. M. B. Braden, a rare-designed silver epergne with cut-glass dish for tablo; John R. McLean, oxidized silver and gold ice-cream freezer; E. H. Butlor, of Buffalo, a solid silver soup ladle ; Mr. Edward Cooper, a silver ale pitcher and mugs ; Hubert O. Thompson, jeweled Chinese clock, made in Pekin, and valued at $990; Mr. Bissell, large diamond flower, to he worn as a pin or as a pendant. The House is to have a whack at the Edmunds anti-polygamy bill soon. It is said that Secretary Manning will not resume liis place in the Treasury Department.

POLITICAL.

The New Jersey House defeated a bill providing for local option throughout the State. Senator Fair said, at Washington, to a gentleman who was offering congratulations on the passage of his (Fair’s) Chinese restriction bill, that Senator John Sherman should not be forgotten by the people of the Pacific coast, as his services in favor of the bill were inestimable. Daniel Manning, some days ago, resigned his position as Secretary of the Treasury', but President Cleveland requested him to take a leave of absence until October l. Secretary Manning has accepted the President’s suggestion, and will allow his resignation to lie over until his leave of absence shall have expired. Assistant Secretary Faircliill has been requested to act as Secretary until that time, and lias consented to do so. Secretary and Mrs. Manning, accompanied by Mr. Joseph Miller, Commissioner of Internal Revenuo, loft Washington last week for Hot Springs, Va. Dorman B. Eaton has written an open letter to Samuel J. ltandall, attacking him as the foe of civil-service reform.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

The boycott instituted at Milwaukee against two cigar factories lias resulted in the indictment and arrest of seven members of the Executive Committee of the Knights of. Labor, on charge of conspiracy. The National Stove Makers’ Association, at its meeting at Cleveland, organized the “Stove Founders’ National-Defense Association,” and advanced the prici of stoves 1% per cent. < , The tenth and last day’s session of the General Assembly of the Knights of

Labor, at Cleveland, Ohio, was a veritable lovefeast, and every member who had said anything against any other member extended the hand of fellowship. Before adjournment an address was offered and adopted inviting all labor organizations to unite with the Knights of Labor in the struggle against the tyranny of wealth. The address, in closing, says:

We have received a communication from a committee of the national officers of some of the national and international trades unions, requesting certain specific legislation at our hands, but as we believe that ths object sought and stated in the preamble to the communication above referred to can best be accomplished by a conference between a committee of this association and a committee of any other organization, and os the propositions contained therein are inconsistent with our duty to our members, we therefore defer action upon said propositions until a conference of committees can be held. The basis upon which we believe an agreement can be reached would necessarily include the adoption of some plan by which all labor organizations could be protected from unfair men—men expelled, suspended, under fine, or guilty of taking the places of union men or Knights of Labor while on strike or while locked out from work—and that, as far as possible, a uniform standard of hours of labor and wages should be adopted, 60 that men of any trade enrolled In our order and men of trades unions may not come in conflict because of the differences in wages or hours of labor. We also believe that a system of exchanging working cards should be adopted, so that members of any craft belonging to different organizations could work in harmony together—the card of any member of this order admitting to work m any union shop, and the card of any union man admitting him to work in any Ivnigats of Labor shop. Wo lurther believe that, ui>on an increase of wages or shortor hours of labor made by either organization, a conference should be held with the organized laborers employed in the establishment. When the demand for increase of wages or reduction of hours is contemplated, action u)>on a proposed reduction of wages or other difficulty to bo agreed upon in a like manner, and that in the settlement of any difficulties between employers and employes the organizations repres. nted in toe establishment shall he parties ro the terms of settlement.

An address was issued denying that the “Homo Club” was engaged in plotting against the welfare of the order, and saying that the very best of feeling prevailed among all the delegates. An address was also issued to the Grangers complimenting them, and asking their aid. Seventeen pork-packing houses are now in operation in Chicago, tho largest number since midwinter. The boycott against the Phoenix Mill at St. Louis, instituted by the amalgamated council of building trades, has been declared off, and the lockout threatened by tho master builders will not be carried into effect At a meeting of the Trade and Labor Assembly of Chicago, George A. Schilling reported that tho sewing girls were being intimidated by preachers in the Swedish churches, who threatened to expel them if they persisted in joining unions.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Sir John A. Macdonald, the Canadian Premier, lias announced that a commission will be appointed to investigate the whole Northwest Indian question, and that he will issue a manifesto to the country explaining the charges against the Indian Department “The President and his bride are the happiest of mortals; there are only thirty newspaper correspondents on hand to mar the love-making,” telegraphed a correspondent on Monday last from Deer Park, Md.: The President enjoys a smoke after every meal, and generally paces up and down in front of the porch while he puffs his fragrant Havanas. Alter dinner yesterday he came out to the cottage door with his wiie beside him. He 'hew his cigar-case from his pocket and *f;er glancing in it said something to bis wife, aid she hastened inside, returning a moment iator with a cigar. She plavfully placed the weed between his lips, and then, selecting a match fiom his match-case, lit his cigar for him, and they both laughed merrily over some remark he made. There are many of the lovers’ secrets that the newspaper men fail to find out, An old mountaineer tells a charming little story of the lioneymcon. He was loitering in the woods near the trout stream over which the rustic bridge mentioned above crosses. “I did not mean to watch them,” said he, blushingiy, in relating the incident, "but suspecting that the big man was the President, who I had heard was hero on his bridal journey, I had a sort of curiosity to see his wife. They were standing bn the little bridge. She accidentally dropped her liandktrchef in the stream. The President quickly crossed to the other side of the bridge, as the little bit of lace swept under it, and, reaching down with the hooked handle of his bamboo cane, brought up the handkerchief. His wife took the dripping handkerchief, and as she pressed the wator out of it she looked up with a smile in the President’s face and he bent down and kissed her tenderly. “That’s all there was of it,” said the gruff old countryman, “and I likes the President for it. Hiß wife is the purtiest little lady in the land.”

FOREIGN.

Terrible cloudbursts and hailstorms are reported from Thuringia, in Germany. It is rumored that an interview between Emperor William and the Czar will take place in August. This is accepted as proof of tho restoration of friendship between Germany and Russia. Lord Salisbury, in the English House of Lords, severely criticised Mr. Blaine for his Portland speech, because of his attack on certain utterances attributed to him (Salisbury), which Mr. Blaine denounced. Lord Salisbury said 110 must denounce the language used by Mr. Blame, “who is canvassing for the exalted position of the Presidency of the United States,” He complained that Mr. Blaine misquoted him in reference to his utterances respecting Irish emigration, and added; “It used to be an admitted truth that assisting people to emigrate from a country where employment is scarce and wages! are low to another country where they can improve their condition was doing a beneficent act. There was nothing in my suggestion approaching an insult to the Irish people. Ido not mind Mr. Blaine abusing me if that will improve his prospects, but I do hope that in the future lie w 11 quote me correctly.” A Berlin dispatch says the committee on the spirit-tax bill rejected on the second reading the first paragraph of the bill, thus rendering the measure abortive. The British House of Commons has agreed to amend the liquor bill by providing for the closing 0:1 Sunday of every publichouse in England, except in London and its suburbs.

An Orange Catholic riot took place at Belfast,-Ireland, during the funeral of Curran. The Orangemen peltad stones at the procession, aud - the Catholics in retaliation made an assault ou the Orangemen and drove them awy. One man was stabbed and several wore cut in the head

LATER NEWS IETMS.

An incendiary fire destroyed the frame buildings Nos. 731 and 733 South Canal street, Chicago. The corpses of nine persons were taken from the ruins—among them being Michael Murphy, his wife, anu four children Milwaukee, according to the school census, has a population of 171,000. By tlie collapse of the reporters’ stand at the St Louis races, 21 or more persons were injured, half a dozen seriously. Frosts in North Dakota, it is reported, have injured the wheat crop 25 per cent The freeze was so severe that the foliage of trees turned black. Drought in the Cold water (Mich.) section is seriously affecting crops. Citizens of Lexington, North Carolina, lynched Alfred Long, who confessed having murdered A J. Mcßride and wife and burned their bodie i in their residence. Upon being informed that ten hours would constitute a day’s work in future, the 400 employes of the Phcenix Furniture Factory at Grand Rapids, Mich., dropped their tools and marched out of the buildings. A boiler explosion in the Rensselaer nail-m il at Troy, N. Y., killed two men and fatally injured two others. Quinine sells at a lower price than was ever known in the United States, the German product having fallen to 53 cents per ounce. Mr. Fred H. Winston, of Illinois, United States Minister to Persia, has resigned. Hib letter of resignation is very brief, and merely states that his business affairs at Chicago are becoming sadly embarrassed by reason of his absence, and that he could not in justice to himself remain longsr absent.

A decision has been rendered by tho Arkansas Supreme Court that the running of a bucket-shop in that State is a misdemeanor. Fire in the Grand Theater at Louisville, destroyed that structure and the business block in which it was located, resulting in heavy losses; ful y covered by insurance. A passenger, train crashed through a trestle near Charleston, S. C., killing five persons and injuring many more. At Prince Frederick, Md., a mob took from the jail Charles 'Whittle (colored), accused of assaulting the child of a clergyman, and hanged him to a tree. The second reading of Mr. Gladstone’s home rule bill was defeated in the British Commons on the 7th inst, by a vote of 341 to 311. This is a larger majority against tho measure than was anticipated either by the Tories or the Liberal and Whig dissentients. The fate of home rule, for the present at least, will be decided by the British and the Irish people at tho polls. New elections will be ordered W'tliin the next six weeks. In the meantime a political campaign exceeding in intensity and passion any that has ever occurred in the British Islands Bince the reform campaign of 1832 will be entered on. On one side will be arrayed all the power of caste and privilege, all the influence begotten of religious hate and race prejudice; on the other the liberalized democracy of Great Britain and Ireland, led by the most eloquent of living men. It will be a tremendous struggle.

The consular and diplomatic appropriation hill passed the Senate on the 7th inst. The oleomargarine hill was referred to the Committ'e on Agriculture. The Committee on Public Lands made a favorable report on Mr. Stanford's bill t > erant the Seal Rocks in trust to the city of San Francisco. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed the nomination of A. P. Swineford to be Governor of Alaska. In the House of Representatives bills were introduced to establish a military fort near Denver ; to grant a pension of SIOO a month to the widow of General Durbin Ward ; to prohibit the employment of convict or alien labor on public works ; to erect a monument in Brooklyn to the victims of pvison-.-hips, and to prohibit the obstruction of interstate railroad business. Judge Payson’s bill repealing the pre-emption, desert land, and timber laws, and amending the commutation provision of the home stead law, was passed by a vote of 183 to 40. A resolution was presented for an inquiry into the Pension Department, and to report upon the propriety of continuing the excessive expenditures under the present system. Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, apologized for a “warmth of expression” in the House in regard to Mr. Holman, of Indiana. The apology was accepted.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $4 75 @6.25 Hogs 4.25 @5.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 91 @ .91 No. 2 Red 83),',@ .87)6 Corn—No. 2 42 *@ .43 " Oats—Western s 4 @ .35 Pork—Mess 9.03 @ 9.50 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.25 @ 5.75 Good Shipping 4.50 @ 5.25 Common 4.00 @ 4.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.75 @ 4.25 Flour—Extra Spring 4.50 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 77 @ ,77J£ Corn—No. 2 34 @ .35 Oats—No. 2 20 @ .28 Butter—Choice Creamery 1436@ .1516 Fine Dairy U!£@ .1236 Cheese—Full Cream, new 08i£@ .0936 Skimmed Flats 05 @ .06 ~ Eggs—Fresh 0836® .0936 Potatoes—Choice, per bu....... .38 @ .45 Pork—Mess 8.50 @ 9.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash .’ .70 @ .78 Corn—No. 2 34 @ .35 Oats—No. 2 26 @ !27 Rye—No. 1.. 57 @ .'53 Pork—Mess 8.25 @ 8.75 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 80 @ .83 Corn—No. 2 36 .37 Oats—No. 2 29 @ .31 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 7736@ ,78k Corn—Mixed 30 @ .32 * Oats—Mixed 26 @ .28 Pork—New Mess 8.50 @ 9.00 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 79 @ .81 Corn—No. 2 34 @ 3^ Oats—No. 2 ' .29 @ !si Pork—Mess > 9.50 @IO.OO Live Hogs 3.75 @ 4.25 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 5.00 @5.50 Hogs. 3.50 @ 4.25 Sheep 3.25 @ 4.25 Wheat— No. 1 Whito 81 @ .83 Corn—No. 2 34 @ .36 Oats—No. 2 30 @ .34 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 3.53 @ 5.50 Hogs 3.25 @ 4.25 Sheep 3.25 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 77 @ .73 Corn—No. 2 32 @ .34 Oats—No. 2.: 28 @ .29 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 4.50 @5.50 Fair 4.00 @ 4.50 Common 8.25 @ 4.00 Hogs .♦ 4.00 @4.59 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.00 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 84 @ .86 Corn—Yellow 4D6@ .42'6 Cattle 5.25 @ 5.75 “

CONGRESSIONAL

The Work of the Senate end Houseof Representatives. Mr. Harris, of Tennessee, introduced a bill in the Senate, on the Ist inst., providing for the payment to Mrs. Eliza H. Browillow of S9OO for Government advertising in the Knoxville Whig, published by her husband, the famous “Parson” Brownlow. Mr. Beck introduced a bill making it unlawful for any member of either house to act as railroad attorney, and fixing the minimum punishment for violating its provisions at a fine of $5,000, or imprisonment for one year. Bills were passed toprevent aliens from acquiring land in the Territories, and extending the eight-hour law to letter-carriers. The President vetoed another pension bill upon the ground that it was nut based upon substantial merits. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: David L. Hawkins of Missouri tobe Assistant Secretary of the Interior, vice George A. Jenks, resigned; Joseph E. Johnston of Virginia to be commissioner in the district of Alaska, vice Chester Seeber, resigned; John B. Biley of Plattsburg, N. Y., Indian School; Superintendent, vice John H. Oberly, appointed a Civil-service Commissioner. The House again wrestled with the oleomargarine bill, and the opponents of the measure gained a point by securing the adoption of an amendment reducing the tax from ten cents to eight cents a pound. Mr. Weaver, of lowa, arose to a question of privilege and with some heat denied the charges of an lowa newspaper that he was unduly influenced to oppose the bill. He had been, and still was, in favor of the oleomargarine bill, and it was false that he had been influenced improperly in his course in regard to that measure.

Mr. CuuLom, of Illinois, introduced in the Senate, on the 2d inst., a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment in regard to polygamy. Mr. Morrill submitted a proposed amendment to Senator Platt's open executive session resolution which mat 63 tliiß resolution apply to reciprocity treaties instead of to nominations. The House of Representatives, in committee of’ the whole, finished the oleomargarine bill. Mr, O’Neill, from the Committee on Labor, reported a bill to legalize the incorporation of trades unions. A bill for the payment of the awards for Alabama claims was signed by the President, after consultation with the members of the Cabinet as to its constitutionality. Mr. Dawes presented a petition in the Senate on the 3d inst., from the City Council of Gloucester, Mass., that retaliation be ordered against the Canadian Government for the seizure of American fishing-vessels. Mr. Edmunds expressed the hope that a ship of the United. States Government would soon appear in the northern seas to encourage the fishermen. - The Senate passd Mr. Van Wyck’s bill for thetaxation of railroad-grant lands, the object being that the corporations shall bear equally with the settlers the burden of paying the taxes. The House of Representatives passed the oleomargarine bill uftar amending it to make the tax five cents per pound. The vote on. the passage of the bill was 177 to 99. Of. the 177 votes the Democrats contributed 81 and the Repblicans 96. Tho negative votes were cast by 84 Democrats and 15 Republicans. New England cast 17 votes for the bill and 4 against; New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware 48for and 13 against; tho Southern States, .including West Virginia and Kentucky, 21 for and CC against; the Western States, including Missouri, 84 for the Lilli and 15 against; and the Pacific Coast States 7 for and 1 against the bill. lowa, Kansas, and Minnesota voted solidly for the bill. Wisconsin gave 1 nay—Van Schaick; Michigan 7 yeas and 3 nays—Maybury, Tarsney, and Fisher. Illinois stood 15 to 4—Dunham, Lawler, Morrison, and Ward voting against the bill, and all the rest of them in favor of it except Eden, who was absent. Indiana voted 8 to 3 —Cobb, Browne, and: Ford voting against the bill. The following are the main features of the bill, as it passed: Butter is defined to be a food product made exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with or without common salt, and with or without coloring matter. Oleomargarine is definedas all substances made of oleomargarine, oleo, laraine, tallow extracts, etc., in imitation of butter, or when so made calculated to be sold as butter or for butter. Special taxes are imposed as follows : On manufacturers, $600; on wholesale dealers, $480; on retail dealers, S4B. The existing internal-revenue laws, so far as applicable, arc made to apply to these special taxes. Penalties are imposed on any person who shall deal in oleomargarine without paying the special tax. Provision is made for the proper stamping and labeliug of every package of oleomargarine. A tax of five cents a pound is imposed on all oleomargarine manufactured and sold, and a penalty is prescribed for the purchase or reception for sale of oleomargarine not branded or stamped according to law. A numb -r of sections of the bill are devoted to providing machinery to carry the law into effect.

The report of the Committee on Indian Affairs on its investigation of the condition of the Indians in the Indian Territory and other reservations was submitted in the Senate on the 4th. inst. Touching the claims of the Creeks and Seminoles in Oklahoma, and the pretenses of a right of entry upon these lands by bands of colonists, the committee unite in the conclusion that the United States has no right to dispose of the ownership of the soil in that ceded tract without further agreement with except for the purpose of settling other friendly Indians upon tho3e lands. The Senate passed the Chinese indemnity bill, appropriating $150,009 to cover damages inflicted by rioters at Rock Springs, Wyoming. Senator Culiom submitted the Hennepin canal bill as an amendment tothe river and harbor appropriation biU. In the House of Representatives Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, made a bitter attack upon Mr. Stanton for his action when Secretary of War, which oxcited some comment. The Secretary of War sent a communication to the House recommending that $50,000 of the amount appropriated by the act of March 3, 1883, for the armament of fortifications, be reappropriated, and made available for the construction of guns. The Ingalls resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for the authority for the issuance by the Land Commissioner of an order suspending the receipt of applications for public lands under certain acts, passed the Senate on the sth inst. The private pension bills rushed through numbered 220. The oleomargarine bill being brought to the Senate from the House the question of its reference was postponed and the bill was allowed to lie on the table to await the return of Mr. Miller, Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. Mr. Beck gave notice that he would insist on its reference to the Committee on Finance. Mr. Blair reported favorably from the Committee on. Labor an amendment to the sundry civil bill, proposing an appropriation of 100,000 Bland dollars to aid in the establishment of a school in Utah under the direction of the Industrial Homo Association of Utah. The object of theamendment is stated to be to aid in the suppression of polygamy. The House of Representatives passed bills appropriating SIOO,OOO each for public buildings at Sioux City and Zanesville. During a debate over the Union Pacific bondextension bill an exciting controversy took place between Mr. Holman (Indiana) and Mr. Crisj) (Georgia). Mr. Holman insinuated that the Pacific Railroad Committee was unduly influenced in saver of the corporation, and Mr. Crisp's indignant denial and recriminations, caused considerable of a sensation. On motion of Mr. Holman an amendment was adopted increasing from forty to fifty per cent, the amount of the net earnings to be paid into the sinking fund in case the companies refused to accept the provisions of the act.

Egyptian sculptures and wall paintings often represent the interior of well-to-do private houses and palaces; they show the plans of dwellings and adjoining vegetable gardens so well that the very products of the latter can be distinguished, but, though these plans designate the separate rooms and their entrances, it is still impossible to comprehend the general arrangement of an ancient Egyptian, or its interior arrangement.