Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1886 — Page 2

iljcfemocraticSenttncl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, ... Publtsheb.

CALENDAR FOR 1887.

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Mr. Henry George answers Archbishop Corrigan’s recent pastoral, warning his people against Mr. George’s laud theories. The latter maintains that the recent encyclical of I’ope Lso XIIL does not bear out the interpretation put upon it by the Archbishop. A railway engine exploded near Jersey Hhoro, Pa., killing Phil H. Knight, James Warne, and J. C. I’ield, whose bodies were gathered up in fragments, and dangerously wounding two others. Congressman Abraliam Dowdney died at his residence in New York City. Thus far tho death list of tho Forty-ninth Congress numbers twelve. William Heed, ex-Treasurer of tho South Boston (Mass.) Railroad Company, has pleaded guilty of embezzling 5109,000. Henry D. Garrett, a New York attorney, tried to commit suicide rather than answer a charge of fraudulently appropriating $12,000. He was under $10,( 00 bond. J. C. Hill, a prominent citizen of Englewood, one of Pittsburgh’s suburbs, shot his daughter through the neck by mistake for a burglar. He is almost crazed. On the waters of Niagara River, Alplionso King walked ono hundred yards in a huge pair of tin shoes of his own invention, on a wager of $3,0 0 made in New York. Ebenezer Holmes, the undertaker at Gen. Grant’s funeral, has brought a damage suit for $25,000 against the New York Times, based upon an article published in the issue of Nov. 22, in which his bill is referred to as unjust and baseless, and charges are made that he was drunk and in an unfit condition to perform professional services for tho time during which he claims he was rendering service.

WESTERN.

Oscar A. Simons, President of the First National Bank of Fort Wayne, Inch, suddenly stopped, while conversing with his brother-in-law, and going to his dressingcase, opened a drawer, took out a revolver, and shot himself dead. He was a prominent politician, the wealthiest man iu the city, and 53 years of age. The Duff Company continue their delightful representations o.' light opera at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago. The present week will be devoted to a production of “Gasparone,” which is said to be Millockcr’s sweetest opera The English book is by Sydney Rosenfeld, and is said to offer great scope for comedy. The cast will bo as follows: Nasoni, Sig. Campobollo; Sindulfo, G. W. Dungan; Count Erminio H. 8. Hilliard; Luigi, John E. Nash; Beuazzo, J. 11. Ryley; Massaccio, F’. Boudinot; Carlotta, Miss Lillian Russell; Sora, Miss Vernona Jarbeau; Zonobia, Zelda Soguin ; Marietta, Miss Bess e Clovelami Denman Thompson (Joshua Whitcomb) will be seen at McVicker’s Christmas week. W. W. Durand, one of the bestknown ci/eus ag ants ii tho United Stat-p, dropped dead in tlie Ui.i m l.epit a Indianapolis. Mgr. Cape! proposes to bring suits for dama;«•> aq.i iss t.n Fr.iac.sco Argonaut and cm tail Easter t papers for the slander c'reu a’td with rog ird (o him. Mrs. McClure and her son and daughter— Robert, aged 19, and Margaret, aged 22—who lived in the suburbs of Chicago, were suffocatod by coal-ga3 escaping from a parlor stove. Mrs. M. B. Smith, who is being prosecuted by the State authorities for doing an illegal insurance business, placed in tho hands of her attorneys tho names of two hundred persons on tho (liicago Board of Trade who. she charged, had b on engaged in a similar business. The woolen mills at Clinton, Mich., valued at $18'9,000, and employing ninety persons, wero destroyed by flames originating in an explosion of gas. Congressman-elect Jehu Baker, who caned a Belleville (liL) reporter, has pleaded guilty of assault and has been fined $5 and costs.

SOUTHERN.

Texas Las been quarantined against certain South American porta because of the outbreak of cholera. The Gate City Guard, the crack company of Atlanta, Ga., will make a tour of

Europe in uniform and armed next summer. Governor and Mrs. Gordon, Colonel Emmons Clarke of the New York Seventh Regiment and wife, and Mrs. H. W. Grady have been invited to accompany them. Judge Duffy, of Baltimore, Mch, imprisoned a reporter named Morris for exposing grand jury proceedings. George Parks and Monroe Smith, colored, were lynched at Ringgold. Georgia, charged with incendiarism. Three robbers boarded a southbound passenger train on the Fort Worth and Donver Railroad at Bellevue, Texas, and robbed the passengers of eight watches and $lO4 .in money. A Fort Worth telegram furnishes the following particulars of the bold robbery: As the train drew up at Bellevue Station, Tox., three unmasked roboers took possession of it. One of them with a drawn pistol ordered Engineer Ayers and his fireman, and O. G. Miller, another engineer who was riding in the cab, to alight, which they did. Ho then marched them some thirty feet from the train and went through them, taking all tho valuables they had. While this was going on the other two men went through the train. Ono of the passengers in the rear car was looking out of the window and saw the oporation with the trainmen. Divining the situation he went into the forward cars, notified tho other passengers of what was going ou, and tol l them to secrete their money. Tais they did in various ways, givin ; most of it and their diamonds to several la lies aboard. Miss Kate Haas of Fort Worth took charge of $3,030 and other valuables. Mrs. Chambers of Potsdam, N. Y., received $5,0J0 and sorno diamonds, and Mrs. Wittick of Carthage, Mo., took her husband’s gold watch and several hundred dollars. Mrs. Wittick was graatly incensed at the proceedings, and boldly stood up in tho car and asked if forty men were going to tamoly submit to such an outrago at the hands of two highwaymen. About $12,000 in money and $4,003 worth of diamonds and other valuables were loft by the robbers in their haste to get through the train, and because they did not search the women. They wore evidently novices in the business and went away with the paltry sum of 8105, three gold watches, ten silver watches, five revolvers, un l one gold ring. The robbers left the train at the rear end of the sleeper, mounted horses standing near by, and rode rapidly away.

WASHINGTON.

The Secretary of the Treasury Las sent to Congress the estimate of appropriations required for the ft (cal year ending Juno 30, 1888. Tho total amount estimated as required for all expenses of the Government is $325,185,701, which is 14,403,750 less than the sum called for in the estimates submitted last year, and $3,273,6,01 loss than the aggregate of appropriations for the present fiscal year. The estimates for 1888 .are made up of tho following items: Legislative establishment $3,330,883 Executive establishment 18,125,408 Judicial establishment .. 416,200 Foreign intercourse 1,935,721 Military establishment 25,817,68!) Naval establishment. .. 20,639,7 -6 Indian affairs .’ 5,608,873 Pensions 76,252,500 Public works 27.400,694 Postal service 4,729,553 Miscellaneous 24,138,089 Permanent annual appropriations... 118,699,822 Grand total $325,185,789 The Society of the Army of the Cumberland. will hold its eighteenth reunion in Washington May 18 and 19,1887, at which time the Garfield statue will be unveiled. The report of the Comstock Board of Engineers on the Hennepin Canal is in the main acceptable to tho friends of the project Says a Washington telegram: But there are some parts of it that do not suit them. The report presents in a very strong light tho commercial importance of the canal, and shows that thero are no serious difficulties in the way of its construction. The board makes no estimate of its cost. Its cordial indorsement of tho canal on commercial and military grounds will prove a material help to the friends of the canal. The board, however, leans to the Marias d’Osier route. This is the shortest and cheapest, but much of it lies through such low flooded lands that when Major Benyaurd made his survey of it three yoars ago in the dryest month of the year the surveyors were unaole to pa-s over a good part of the line. Besides, thero are no commercial linos at this end of this route to make use of tlie canal, and the mouth of the canal would be in the middle of a long reach of rapids. Boats might easily go down these rapids to outer the cunal at Rock Island, but they would hardly caro to go to the rapids to enter the canal at Marais d Osier. In his report Maj. Benyaurd, without strongly deciding in favor of any of the routes, plainly gave the Rock Island routs the preference for commercial reasons, Tho Handbury report, made a year ago, preferred the Marais d’Osior route on account of its lesser cost, but the commercial reasons for having the canal end at Rock Island were so otnious that Gen Newton, then chief of engineers, prefixed to the Handbury report a strong argument for the Rock Island route, and Gen. Bonot, who was then Acting Secretary of War, transmitted the reports with a very emphatic indorsement of the Hock Island route There is good reason to expect that Gen. Duane, the present ch-of of engineers, and Secre.ary Enelicott will both cast their influence in favor of the Rock Irinnd route. It lias been decided to call up the Pacific Railroad funding bill in the House us soon as possibl \ The Conference Committee on the interstate commerce bill has finished its labors and will report as soon as the measure can be printed. The special committee to investigate tho Southwestern strikes wdl hold an adjourned meeting in Washington Jan. 3 to listen to any person who may wish to be heard. Minister Tree reports that a contract j has boon made for tho establishment of a regI ular line of Belgian steamers betweon Antwerp j an I tlio Congo, leaving every six weeks. M. H. Day has withdrawn from the race Sor Governor of Dakota, and Judge Cunr di w U probably got the place. The Secretary of the Interior has signed an order for the sale of so much of tho Atlantic and Pacific forfeited lands as lie in New Mcx'co, tho price to bo $2.50 per aero. Treasurer Jordan has asked for an appropriation of $3 *,OBO to pay for recoining $26,003.1 GO in subsidiary silver and nickeL A Washington dispatch says the Hennepin Canal Committee is trying to gjt tho engineers t) change their report iu favor of tho Rock Island routo, a id accept tho canal from Chicago to La Salle, instead of from Chicago to Joliet.

POLITICAL.

Colonel Thomas Moonlight, of Leavenworth, Kan., has been appointed by the President Governor of Wyoming Territory; and Arthur L Thomas, of Pennsylvania, to be a member of tho Utah Commission. J. H. Skelly, of Lemont. Ilk, who is seeking a consulate for his health, made a remark in Washington that Congressman Lawler was “not much of a man,” and when the Congressman heard of it he set about defeating his appointment

The National Convention of Trades Unions, in session at Columbus, Ohio, adopted a resolution in favor of the organization of a national political labor party. The official canvass of the vote caat in lowa at the recent election gives the Republican candidates majorities hanging from 14,342 for Pray, Clerk of the Supreme Court, to 16,001 for Ebersole, Supreme Court Reporter.

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

Robert Garrett has been re-elected President of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The Texas railroads, with two thousand car-loads of beeves awaiting transportation, complain that their cars are detained or used by the roads about Chicago and St Lou s. Announcement is made that Mr. C. P. Huntington will have secured control of tho Illinois and St Louis Road before New Year’s; that he will then extend it to Cincinnati, with a branch to Louisville, and will be able to make it connect with the Chesapeake and Ohio L : ne. The Missouri Pacific directors have declired the regular quarterly dividend of 1% per cent, payable Jam 3. A dispatch from Alton claims that tho Chicago and Pekin Road was purchased by the Vanderbilts for the Bee Line extension to Kansas City, in connection with the Missouri Central bridge at Alton. It is asserted that C. P. Huntington is negotiating for control of tho Illinois and St. Louis Hoad, with thirty-four miles of main track and the most desirable terminal grounds in East St Louis.

MISCELLANEOUS. The National Department of Agriculture, in its December crop report, says: The returns of average farm prices by counties show material reduction, as compared in values of the crops of 1885, iu wheat, rye, and barley. Com has made an advance nearly equivalent to the percentage of reduction in quantity, and oats, iu sympathy with corn rather than with the small grains used for human food, average a slightly higher value than last year. The farm value of corn was 33 cents per bushel in December last year; it is now 37 cents, 1 cent higher than the crop of 1884. Tho average for tho previous five yoars was 44.7, and for the ten years prior to 1883 it was 42.6 cents. '1 ho prices in.tho surplus StateH are : Ohio, 35 ; Indiana, 32; Illinois, 31; lowa, 30; Missouri, 31; Kansas, 27; Nebraska, 20. This is an increase over last year of 1 cent in Nebraska, 3 in Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, and 6 in lowa and Missouri. The average is 56 in New York, 47 in Pennsylvania, and 45 in Virginia, 2 cents lower in each than last year. Prices in the cotton States South and West of North Carolina are higher than last year; South Carolina, 60; Georgia, 60; Alabama, 58 ; Mississipjn, 59; Louisiana, 55; Arkansas, 49; Texas, 60—an increase of 11 cents, due to the disastrous drought. The average December price of wheat is 69 cents—a reduction of 8 cents from the average value of the last crop, and 416 cents above the price in 188-1. Tho average value of oats is 29.9 cents, against 28.5 cents last December. Rye averages 53.1 cents, against 57.9 cents last year. Barley, 53 cents ; last year, 56.3. Buckwheat, 54.4; a reduction of 1.5) cents per bushel. Potatoes, 46 cents ; 1 cent higher than in December of last year. Jay Gould gives a positive denial to all rumors respecting the consolidation of the Western Union and Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Companies, or negotiations for an increase of tolls. John L. signalized his contempt for the English by filling up with wino at a banquet at Victoria, B. C., calling the Mayor who presided “a blanked old stiff,” and throwing all the Canadian money he possessed—some s6o—into tho sound before reembarking for San Francisco.

FOREIGN.

Archbishop Walsh warns the English Government that the difficulties in Ireland, already appalling, will he immensely increased if they persist in their attempts to convict prisoners by picked or packed juries, as was done at Sligo. A dispatch from Odessa says that the postilion and guard on the mail train from Ekaterinodar to Kaokaskai were murdered, and that 70,000 roubles of crown money was sto’en. By a collision between two steamers off Queensland forty-two persons wero drowned. The famous stallion‘Botherhill, fourteen years old, was recently purchased in England, on private terms, by D. Swigert, of Lexington, Ky. Mr. Gladstone does not approve of the Irish National League’s anti-rent campaign. At Southport, Eng., a lifeboat was wrecked while endeavoring to relievo a distressed vessel Thirteen persons were drowned. The United States Government has been officially invited to participate in an international exhibition which is to be held in Manchester, Eng., next year, to celebrato the jubilee year of her Britannic Majesty’s reign. The rents being paid by Irish farmers to the trustees of the National League have come in so rapidly that £53,000 will soon be 0:1 hand. Ralmond recently had a fainting fit, anl Dillon and O’Brien show traces of exhausting labor among the tenants. M. Goblet has succeeded in establishing a Ministry iii France. He will so low M. de Freycinei’s foreign policy, and will submit early next session bills for such internal reforms as the Chamber desire. General Boulanger has secured the acceptance of his own terms for supporting the Cabinet—a bill to reorganize tho army and to appropriate $60,000,000 for arms of the new model. It is not thought likely that the now Ministry will last long. The arming of the German army with repeating rifl is is being hastened, five corps having been already equipped. The Americans, Burton and Anderson, wero released from Metz, where they had beon confined for swindling, aud at once taken to Hamburg to answer tho charge of robbing the Imperial Bank of 200,000 marks eighteen months ago. Lord Salisbury says that it is nonsense to talk about the tenants in the west of Ireland being oppressed or badly used. Nobody seeks to compel them to pay rents beyond their ability. If they can’t pay they can go

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Hon. Charle3 M. Crosvrell, twice Governor of Michigan, died at his home in Adrian, after ten days' illness. He leaves a widow, son, and two daughters. He was born at Newburg, N. Y., Oct 31, 1825. He was present at Jackson, Mic'x, in 1854, when the Republican party was organize! For several years he was a law partner of Judge T. M. Coo ey. After filling various municipal he was elected to the State Senate, where ho served several terms. In 1876 he was eleete l Governor, and in 1878 reelected. A New York special to a Western newspaper says: “The statement may be made upon the authority of representative members of both organizations that the union between Tammany and the County Democracy, cemented by the election of Mr. Hewitt as has been made to involve their joint support for President Cleveland’s renomination and re-election. By the terms of the compact Tammany is to send de’.e----g ites to the State and National Convention on an understanding that it will be bound by tlie unit rule. Its orators are to bow in submission, and to work zealously for tho ticket when it is placed in nominat on. There will be no bolting, trad ng, or underhand work of any kind. In short, it is well settled that Mr. Cleveland is to receive the full support of the city and State of New Y’ork in the next Democratic National Convention in so far as Tammany and tho County Democi'acy can have influence to that end. Whether Tammany is to get anything for quietly submitting to the inevitable does not appear. When, where, aud how the bargain is to bo bound has not been made known.” Louis K. Cliurcli, of tho Dakota Supremo Court, has been appointed Governor of that Territory, vice Col. G. A. Pierce, resigned. The Detroit Brickmakers’ Exchange will boycott contractors who deal with outside manufacturers. Mr. Eustis introduced a bill in tho Senate on tho 13th inst. directing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the respective owners of lauds, bouses, and tenements in the States lately in insurrection the sums of nionev received from leases or occup .tion of such property by a ency of the United States and paid into the Treasury under the prov.sions of tho a tof July 2, 1884. Air. Wilson introduced a bill almost ideuti. at with tho one vetoed by the Pres dent, to se tie titles t j the Des Mo nea River lands, and another to permit tho Santa Fe Road to bridge the Mississippi botween Keokuk and Fort Madis n. Mr. Brown presented a measure pro riding a new basis for national bank circulation. Mr. Dawes, speaking to Mr. Morrill's resolution declaring the promise of making a proper revision of the tariff at the present session obviously hopeless and impracticable, said the advancod position of the Secretary of tho Treasury on the subject of tho tariff caused apprehension and alarm in all the great industries of the land. The industries of tho country looked to the Senate Finance Committee to formal lat o a method of bringing the receipts of the Government down to tho lines of its expenditures without impairing tho development or prosperity o? those industries or diminishing tho compensat on of that labor. It was for that purpose that lie (Dawes) had introduced his resolution to that effect. Mr. McPherson, replying to Mr. Dawes, said that there were but two ways of disposing of the surplus revenue. One was extravagant appropriations and tho other was by a reduction of taxation. For himself bo was in -favor of the second alternative. He was in favor of a revision of the tariff which would not permit the accumulation of an annual surplus of $109,000,099. Ho would apply to every industry the same 1 rinciplo that has been applied to the Paterson (N. J.) silk-manufacturing industry whose raw material was admitted free of duty, and who competed with the Lyons (France) manufacturers in their own city. Why was not the same principle applied to the hatters of New York? If those 19,0)0 operatives had their raw material freo thov would flood the world with cheap hats. That was the Democratic policy, the American pdicy—tho policy which he wanted to see ingrafted in the next tariff bill. Ho was opposed to the starving of these 10,900 hat operatives in New York in order to support fifty muskrat trappers on the slioros of the Hackensack River. In the House of Representatives bills were introduced for the free coinage of silver, for the leasing of unoccupied Indian lands, to enable tho people to name their own postmasters,to admit to tho Union the Territories of Dakota. Montana, Washington, and Now Mexico, to prohibit tho appointment of Congressional committees for funerals, to pension railway postal clerks incapacitated in the service, and to grant the franking privilege to inmates of soldiers' homos. Mr. Lawler presented a resolution for the expenditure of a largo proportion of tho Treasury surplus in building war vessels and sea-coa3t defenses.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK! Beeves ; §1.50 @ 5.25 Hogs 4.09 j# 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Spring su @ .9114 No. 2 Red ’ 90 @ .91 ' Corn—No. 2 48 5 49 Oats—White 145 @ !42i4 Fork—New Mess. n. 50 @12.0j " * CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.90 (to 5.75 Good Shipping 3.75 ® 4.59 Common 3.09 @ 3.2.5 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.09 @ 4.59 Flour—Extra Spring 4.20 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 78 tgi .78V, Corn—No. 2 38 & .37 ' Oats—No. 2 26jijJ .27VBuiter—Choice Creamery 23 .26 * Fine Dairy 18 (to .22 Cheese—Fuji Cream, Cheddar. .12 tm ,lg(^ Full Cream, new 124R«§ .13*4 Eggs—Fresh 20 @ .22 Potatoes—Choice, per bu.!...! .’46 ito .5) Pork—Mess 10.75 @11.25 , MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 77 <# .78 Corn—No. 2 37 @ .3714 Oats—No. 2 26 «a .27 ' Rye—No. 1 50 @ .5g Pork—Mess 10.75 TOLEDO. Wheat-No. 2 82 <m Corn—-wash 39 @ .39 „ Oats—No. 2 .23 .39* DETROIT. Beep Cattle 4.00 @ 5.25 Hogs 3.00 @ 4.59 Sheep... 4 . c0 @5.09 Wheat—Michigan Red 81 @ 82 Corn—No. 2 39 .40 Oats-No. 2 White 32 @ 33 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2. ri an .8914 Corn—Mixed :...„ ;o @ .3314 Oats—Mixed .2,3 @ .29 ' Pork—New Mess 11.00 @1159 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Rod 89 (« 80>,. Corn—No. 3 3,8 @ .39 * Oats—No. 2 39 ;ifi .31 Pork—Mess 11.00 @11.50 Live Hogs 4.00 @4.50 BUFFALO. I Wheat—No. 1 Hard 91 @ ojv. Corn—No. 2 Yellow 44 (to .45" Cattle 4.00 @ 4.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 300 @4.50 Hogs 3.75 @ 4.5) Sheet 2.50 @ 4.25 WHr?AT- xSo. 2 Red 78 @ .79 Corn—No. 2 3,5 @ .30 Oats. : 29 «jt .39 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 4.50 @4.75 Fair 4.00 (to 4.25 Common 3.25 @ 3.75 Hogs 4.00 (to 4..50 ' Sheep > 3.59 @4.25

CONGRESSIONAL

Work of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Among the new bills presented in the Senate on the 7th inst. was one by Mr. Van Wyck to exempt from duty imported sugar and molasses, and also imported boards, lumber, and timber, henatqr Beck introduced a bill to provide for the retirement of United States legal-tender and national-bank notes of. small denominations, and for the issue of coin certificates. Senator; Ingalls introduced two bills amendatory of the pension laws: (1.) To increase the pension 'for loss of an eye to S3O per month, and for partial loss of sight to a proportionate amount. (2.) To increase the pension for loss of one hand or foot, or for total disability of the same, to $35 per month; for loss of an arm within five inches of or above the elbow joint, or loss of a leg within six inches of or above the knee joint, or total disability of the same, to $lO per month, and for loss of an, arm within-slx inches of tne shoulder joint to $45 per month. Senators Morrill and Dawes each introduced resolutions looking toward a revision of . tho tariff, The House of Representatives passed a bill appropriating s2oo,oijo for a cavalry and artillery school at Fort Reilly, and $175,000 for quarters at Forts D. A. Russell and Robinson. Mr. Cox, of New York, laid before the House a bill repealing the statute which authorizestwo salaries, one to a Congressman and the other to an officer such as a Minister. The President transmitted to the Senate, on the Bth inst., a communication from the Secretary of State and correspondence relating to the rights of American fishermen in the British North American wa'o:\ In his letter accompanying the documents the i’res dent commends to the favorable consideration of Congress “the suggestion that a commission lie authorized by law to take perpetuating proofs of the losses sustained during the last year by American fishermen, owing to their unfriendly and unwavrented treatment by the local authorities of the maritime provinces of the Dominion of Canada. ” Memorials were presented in the Senate for a constitutional amendment empowoiitig Congress to pass a marriage and divoice law. against permitting aliens to possess largo tracts of lands, and for legislation in behalf of the Chino e laborers. Bills were introduced for a monument to negrosoldiers and sailors who died for the Union and to place on the retired list the name of General Alexander 8. Webb. Resolutions were offered for information in regard to the oleomargarine traffic, for an inquiry into the poworof Congress to legislate for tho protection of foo l fish in navigable waters, and to limit the price of gas in the District of Columbia. In tho House of Representatives, Mr. Boutelle, of Maine, asked for unanimous consent to put upon its passage a bill admitting free of duty material to he used in rebuilding tho town of Eastport, Me., which was destroyed by fire Oct. 14, 1886. Mr. Breck- ' inridee, of Arkansas, objected to the immediate consideration of the bill, expressing tho opinion that tho pcoplo of the country were as much in need of relief from taxation as the people of Eastport. Ho was glad to find the gentleman from Maine confessing that the tariff was a tax, and he would insist that the bill should take the regular course and be sent to the committee which had charge of the subject of taxation. The bill was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. Dockery (Mo.), on behalf of tho Committee of Postoflices and Post Roads, called up the bill extending the free-delivery system to towns having 19,000 population, and where the revenne of the postoffice amounts to “10,030 a year. Senator Sewell, introduced a bill in tho Senate, on the 9th inst., for the redemption of trade dollars and the recoinage of the same into standard silver dollars. Senator McMillan introduced a bill to authorize the construction of a bridge over the Red River of the North. The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of Mr. Morrill’s resolution, which declares thatthe promise of making any revision of the tariff in a spirit of fairness to all interests appears so obviously hopeless and impracticable that any further attempts at revision by the present Congress are to be regarded as inexpedient, and detrimental to tho revival of the trade and industry of the country. Mr. Morrill said the Democratic candidate for President in 1884 would have been defeated but for the tariff plank in the platform. He ridiculed Mr. Morrison’s schemes for a horizontal reduction of the tariff, and said that their effect could only bo to let a flood of foreign productions pour in and overrun the American market Mr. Beck said that when the leader in the Senate on financial questions—the Chairman of the Committee on Finance—gave out in advance, in a resolution and speech, that nothing could her done to improve existing conditions, it was like rallying his friends in advance in opposition to every movement. At the present rate of taxation the surplus revenue- after all tho public debt that was payable was paid—wou d bo $125,600,000 a year. Therefore the Democratic President and Secretary of the Treasury demanded and insisted that the taxation on thopeople should he reduced. There was no other way to get clear of the surplus revenue honestly. It might be locked up in the treas ury, but that meant bankruptcy. Extravagant" appropriations might be indulged in, but that meant corruption; or a premium of 20, 30, 40, or 59 per cent, might be paid on bonds, but that meant extravagance and swindling of the taxpayers for the benefit of the few men who hold tho Government obligations, so that if the legislators were honest men and intended to deal honestly with the people thev were compelled to reduce taxation to the point that would suffice for an economical administration of the Government. That did not involve any question of free trade. He (Becks believed that with duties reduced to the necessities of the government tho manufacturers of the United States could reach the markets of the world, aud that the laboring men of the country could be employed twelve months of the year instead of five or six months as now. Mr. Sherman believed that the revenues collected were (oo large and that the public safety and the public interest demanded a careful re-duction-of taxation There was no dispute between parties on that subject. But the Democratic party had been intrusted with the power of legislating in the House. Thoy had promised in their national platform to reduce taxation, and-to do it iu such a manner as not to injure the industries of tho country. But the trouble was that tho Democrats could not agree among themselves. The propositions that had been made in the House hod been so diverse and various, and some of them had been so absolutely contrary to the interests < f the county, that the party itsolf had revolted at them. In conclusion, he said that until the Democratic party could agree among themselves aud could present to the Senate a plan by which the Democrats wero willing to stand, they had noright to chide or complain of Republicans. When they would send the Senate a bill, tho Senate would show them that it had tho power to reduce taxes, and the Senate would propose a measure by which taxes might be reduced without crippling industrial or decreasing wages. The Senate adjourned to' Monday, the 13th. No business was transacted by the House of Representatives 0:1 tho 10th inst. After the reading of the journal, Mr. Campbell, of New York, announced with sorrow and regret the death of his colleague, Mr. Dowdney. and offered resolutions expressive of tho regret with which the announcement of the death had been received by the House, and providing for a joint committee of the Senate and House to attend the funeral. Tho resolutions were ununimously adopted, and the House, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, adjourned for the day. The Speaker appointed the following committee to attend the funeral: Messrs. Campbell, Viele, Merrirnan, and Muller, of New York, O’Noill of Missouri, Scranton of Pennsylvania, and Brady of Virginia. A I.and forfeiture bill, restoring to the Government 381,000 acros in Michigan, granted in. 1856 to the Ontonagon and State Line Railroad, pissed the House without division on the 11th inst. The lands have valuable pine, aud are now claimed by the Ontonag n and Brule River Railroad Company. The t n years within which the roan that had got the land grant expire l in 1860, and not a stio .e of work had b en dono. In 1380 the present corporation was formed, and an attempt made to confer upon it the forfeited grant. Tne Public Lunds Committee, however, based its recommendation chiefly on tho gionn 1 that any grant inode by the tate us e - the expi rat. on of tne ten years would necossarily have been subject to the right of tho l nltod Sta os at any time to declare afo-feituro. The Ho me also passed a bill extending the laws of (he United States over the public land strip south of Kansas, and throwing the rt‘gion open to homestead entries. * ,