Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1887 — Page 6

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

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Professor Edward L. Youmans, the distinguished writer and lecturer on scientific subjects, died last week in New York, in his 66th year. Andrew D. White has given to Cornell University his historical library of thirty thousand volumes, which cost more than 8100,00 J. The safe of the Belmont Savings Bank, in the Town Hal J, at Belmont, Mass., was blown open, and securities representing a large sum of money were stolen. Of these about $1,500,C00 are negotiable, while the others a»e not A number of unnegotiable notes were also taken and a small sum in cash. The job was done by professional cracksmen, who left no clew. The annual examination at West Point resulted in the dismissal of thirty-three cadets who were found deficient The trouble arising out of the refusal of the cigar firm of V. Martinez, Ybor & Co., of New York, Ybor City, and Havana, to employ Cuban cigarmakers, culminated in a bloody riot at Ybor City, in the course of which the Cubans killed lit F. Martinez and fatally wounded four other Knights of Labor. It is reported that Henry Ward Beecher and Mark Twain contemplate the production, of a joint novel, the preacher to supply the pathos and the joker the humor. Dr. McGlynn, who is confined to his room by sickness, has issued a statement in which he accuses the Archbishop of suppressing certain letters and parts of letters essential to the understanding of the case. • Barnum’s big lion, Kennedy, aged 20 years and worth $5,000, which had been Buffering from spinal-meningitis for a year, was suffocated with chloroform to relieve it of its pain. It took only six minutes’ application of the anaesthetic to cause death.

WESTERN.

Six business buildings at Alliance, Ohio, w-ere destroyed by fire, aud two other structures were badly damaged. The loss is SIIO,OOO, with about $75,000 insurance. A man named Hawes shot and killed J. M. Berry, a saloon-keeper at Flagstaff, Arizona, for interfering in a quarrel between Hawes, his brother, and another man. Half an hour after the murder, twenty citizens captured the two brothers and shot them dead. Berry was known as a peaceable man. The Hawes brothers were disreputable. A frightful tragedy is reported by telegraph from Cleveland, Ohio: James Cabalek io a well-to-do carpenter, living on Independence street, near th 6 city limits. Thursday morning he and his son went to work shortly before 7 o’clock. The mother, Antoinette, had been out of temper at the breakfast table, and had refused to talk to her husband. Directly after breakfast she sent Henry, her 15-year-old son, to a grocery near by, and still another son to a milk depot. When they returned, they could not get into the house. Going into the back yard, they saw James, 13 years old, in a closet, bleeding irom sixteen wounds in his left side. They Hastened away and called their older brother, who had gone off with the father, and, returning, the three boys forced an entrance to the house. They discovered Tony, an 8-year-old girl, bleeding from a dozen cuts in her left side. On the floor near by were Mamie, 5 years old; Antoinette, 3 years old, and Willie, -3 months old, all dead from dreadful stabs near the heart. A bloody pair of shears told the story, A hunt was made for the mother. She was found in the cellar, hanging from a rafter, dead. She had killed her three children, mortally injured two others, and had then suicided. The two children who were still alive w-ere removed to a neighbor's house, but they will die. No cause for the terrible deed is given. The husband does not think that his wife was insane.

The Detroit Driving Club, having withdrawn from the National Trotting Association, has issued a call for a meeting in February, to form a new association. Representatives of several packinghouses in Kansas City have made arrangements to ship their goods to Europe by way of Memphis and New Orleans. Warehouses for this trade are to bo constructed in the latter city by a steamship company. It is stated that Miss Nina VanZandt will go with her mother to Paris, and reside there until the fate of Anarchist Spies is finally settled. The Chicago Times of Monday contained the following: “What's this?" skill Turnkey Frank Blair when he swung open the main door of the County J ail Sunday morning in response to a knock for admittance, and beheld a very small colored woman holding a very large basket in her arms. “Well, sah, I’ll tell you,” she replied confidentially. “It's a breakfast dat Miss Ninny Van Zandt sent ovah fo’ Mistah Spees, and dat ahe done cook wid her own hans, and she said dat she doan wan’ none of -you all sassy jail people to fool wid de roas’ chicken or omlett souflay, but to sen’ it right up to Mis±ah Spees quick, so's it woan’ git cold. She wuz orful pertickler dat everyting should be cooked jus’ right, and -I reckon it wuz, for she wudn’t let nobody else do de cookin’. Good Lawd, but how she do love dat man.” The basket and its contents were duly handed inside, and Miss Van Zandt’s Ethiopian hand-maiden took her departure. "Examine the contents of the basket carefully, and if there is no dynainite or one of the young woman’s lap-dogs concealed somewhere send the stuff up to Spies' cell,” said the jailer, A minute search revealed a card card bearing the written words, “From Baby to her Tootsy-wootsy, ”• hidden away betw-een two Alices of bread. Nothing of a contraband nature was found, however, and the basket and contents were sent to Spies by one of the guards. From the above circumstance it can be seen that Miss Van Zandt’s love for the anarchist is not dead but sleeping, notwithstanding Sheriff Matson’s edict and the notoriety which she has recently received. A Kansas City special says: “A. K. Cutting, the Texas editor, is in the city, and Intends to deliver a lecture on his peculiar experience. He believes that Manning and Sedgwick were knocked out by an insidious Mex :can drink known as telequa, which has such effect upon a pilgrim that he would rob a . church. Cutting has a divorced wife living in this city. He says that his filibustering expedition is growing in importance. ” On the ground that the contract was on a gambling operation, the County I Court of Milwaukee dismissed the suit of

Daniel Wells against Peter McGeoch for 8200,000 alleged to be due on the famous lard deal of 1880.

SOUTHERN.

The Legislative Council of Memphis has agreed upon a legislative bill to authorize the issue of bonds for $1,500,000 for the construction of water works. Evans Fabes, a negro who was pardoned from the Mississippi Penitentiary because of inhuman treatment by the lessee, sued Captain John P. Withers for damages, and was awarded SI,OOO by a jury comprising eleven white men. From a tree standing on the spot where Jeff Davis was captured, some Georgians recently cut a cane, and sent it to the Confederate chieftain. His letter of acknowledgment refers to many scanalous falsehoods connected with his sad adventure. Preston Valentine, colored, who brutally killed an aged man, was hanged at Augusta, Ga. A negro named Abe Chambers was executed at Newport, Ark., for the murder of Jonas Williams, colored. A special from Louisville, Ky., gives an account of a desperate combat between a stallion and an Alderney bull, in which both were killed: A singular and fatal combat took place in a cattle car on the Air Line Railroad between an Alderney bull and a stallion. The two animals were boxed in a car at Depauw, Ind , by Gustavus Edenburg, a local dealer, for shipment to this city. A strong partition was built between the two animals. The train was running near New Albany -when a brakeman passing over the car heard a furious bellowing beneath, and climbing down the side o( the car found that the partition between the two animals had been broken down, and the infuriated animals were engaged in deadly, conflict. The train was stopped, and the crew gathered around the car, but no means could be devised for stopping the encounter. 'lhe iron heels of the game horse were planted with telling effect upon the bull’s head, and the horse was gored in a terrible manner. Finally the stallion got in a blow between the eyes of the bull, and the latter animal fell dead. The horse is so badly injured that he will also die. A passenger train on the Texas and Pacific Road was boarded by a band of robbers near Gordon, Tex., and the express and mail cars were rifled of their valuable contents. The robbers are said to have realized about $15,000. The passengers were not molested. The assassins of the Harris brothers, who were thought to have been released from jail at Warren, Ark., by masked men, were promptly lynched and their bodies thrown into the river.

By the burning of a cotton shed on the corner of Shelby and South streets, Memphis, property valued at $310,000 was reduced to ashos. *

WASHINGTON.

The bills granting pensions to Mrs. Logan and Mrs. Blair, widow of General Frank Blair, were defeated in the House Committee on Invalid Pensions, says a Washington dispatch. The members were arrayed on party lines—seven Democrats voting against and five Republicans in favor of the bills. It is understood that the basis of the opposition to the bills is a reluctance on the part of the majority of the committee to the continuance of the policy of granting high pensions to widows of officers who did not die from injuries incurred in the service. The only precedents for passing such bills arc found in the cases of the widows and families of Admiral Farragut, Generals Hancock, Thomas, and Grant, and the majority of the committee believe it would be bad policy to follow those precedents, in view of the fact that there are about one hundred surviving widows of officers who would then ba entitled to pensions who are now excluded by the general law-.

Congressman Floyd King, of Louisiana, publishes a card in the Washington papers regarding the insult offered to him by Cuthbert Jones iu the barber’s shop of Willard’s Hotel: King says: While I was being shaved Cuthbert B, Jones, accompanied by a man whom I took to be his brotlier, came into Stewart s shop and soon began conversation with each other iu a loud tone of voice about my defeat for a renomination to Congress. To this I made no response. When I had been shaved and arose from my position cuthbert Jones got up from a cmiir eight or ten feet distant, on the arm of which he was sitting, and, looking at me, uttered for some moments the most offensive and brutal language, such as a would-be assassin would employ ween seeking an opportunity to commit murder under the disguise of the law, he and his friend meanwhile occupying advantageous positions some twelve or lilteen feet apart. Discovering tnat 1 could not be caught in the villainous trap they hud laid for me they retired. 1 kept my eye all the time on both. In the height of his irenzy Jones held his stick in his left hand and threw his right on his hip, or possibly into his hip-pocket. under these circumstances, being menaced by such deadly purpose, had I. been armed I should have felt justified in destroying him. He - was ut no time nearer than eight or ten feet' from me. lam a law-abiding man, but the law imposes no restraint in protecting myself. Jones’ hostility to me is utie solely to my opposition to uis appointment to a consular position. That opposition was because I was inlormed by most reputable and distinguished men acquainted with the facts that he wks a fugitive from justice on account of the assassination of Gen. Liddell ot my district by Jones’ lather, his elder brother, and himself, the two iormer being lynched for iheir crime, and the latter flying lor his life. He has never yet ventured to return. Not long ago he had his life ihsured, and by the payment of an extra premium had the exemption about suicide aud death by violence stricken out, telling the agent with great frankness that he expected to die with his boots on. He always goes armed, and. has repeatedly tried to provoke King into assaulting him. He has challenged him to a duel several times, but the Congressman will take no notice of him. It is believed by the iriends of Jones that King's card will result in a culmination of the long feud by the death of one or the other of them. The wife of Senator Voorhees died last week in Washington, of acute peritonitis. The remains were taken to Terre Haute for interment Senator Spooner of Wisconsin has been placed on the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections to succSed Gen. Logan. The Secretary of the Treasury has Called $13,887,000 in 3 per cent, bonds, leaving exactly $40,000,010 outstanding. Abandoned military reservations, comprising 700,000 acre,, are about to be surveyed and platted, preparatory to their appraisement and sale.

POLITICAL.

A. S. Paddock was nominated for United States Senator from 1 Nebraska to succeed Charles H. Van Wyck in the Republican legislative caucus, after fifteen ballots had

been taken. In the joint session the vote was as follows: Paddock, 94; McShane, Democrat, 32; Van Wyck, 4. The Senatorial dead-lock in Indiana is unchanged, says an Indianapolis dispatch: Two ballots were taken Friday on the election of a Senator without any change in the vote, Turpie receiving 75, Harrison 71, and Allen 4. It was the intention of the Democrats to continue tuc balloting all day. but when a Republican Senator made a motion for adjournment Speaker Sayre declared it carried on a viva voce vote, regardless of the demands of the Democrats for a call of the roll. The Sentinel appeals to the Democratic legislators to remain steadfast in their support of Turpie until March 8, and if there is no election before that time he will tben be appointed United States Senator. Whatever the result of the balloting may be, there will certainly be a contest. “Will the Republicans recognize the election of Turpie or any other Democrat as valid?” was asked of Senator Huston, Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, Friday'. "By no means. No Senator chosen by the Democrats as now comprising the roll will be recognized.” “Will Speaker Sayre sign the certificate if Turpie or some other Democrat receives seventy-six votes, including Branneman’s?” “Ho will not.” The Republican Club, of New York, will give their first annual dinner on the approaching anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. Among the invited guests are to be James G. Blaine,'General Sherman, Robert T. Lincoln, and the Republican Governors of the several States. The Texas House passed a bill forbidding the acceptance of railway passes or orders for transportation by judicial, executive, administrative, or legislative officers, except sheriffs or constables, under penalty of a maximum fine of SI,OOO.

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

There is little doubt that control of the Dubuque and Sioux City Road has been secured by the Illinois Central, and that notice of the termination of the lease will be given on April 1. The officials of the Atchison Road let contracts for 4,800 freight cars for the Chicago division, to be delivered during the latter half of this year. . Locomotives to the number of 148 have been ordered, as also eighty passenger cars. The Chicago Railroad Association positively refused to issue half-fare permits to members of the Salvation Armv. It is rumored in St. Louis that Jay Gould is backing the projected Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota Railroad, designed to connect the coal fields of Dakota with New Orleans.

MISCELLANEOUS. The next meeting of the League of American Wheelmen will be held in St. Louis, May 20 and 21 next The Western Iron Association held a meeting at Pittsburgh and decided to not advance the card rate. B. F. Jones was reelected President, and Joseph D. Weeks, Secretary. The eighth national convention of the American Agricultural and Dairy Association will be held in the Grand Central Hotel, New York City, on February 8, and will be in session for two days. Mr. Joseph H. Reall will preside. The British steamship Cranbrook, which sailed from England for Philadelphia Nov. 30, is given up as lost, together with her crew.

FOREIGN.

The chief clerk of the Paris postoffice fled with $40,000 in money-orders. A frightful accident is reported by cable from London. The Hebrew Dramatic Club gave an entertainment at a theater in Princess street, Spitalfields, which was attended by about 500 persons, mostly Jews. Some one in the gallery, doubtless for a joke, shouted, “Fire!” The gas was immediately turned off at the meter, and a terrible panic ensued. The people rushed in a solid mass for the doors, and numbers were trodden under foot. When the panic had subsided, it was found that twelve women and five youths had been trampled to death in the rush to escape, and many others injured.

The marriage of Prince Roland Bonaparte and Princess Letitia will take place in April at Turin, The upper house of the Prussian Diet has unanimously adapted an address to Emperor William expressing the willingness of the Prussian people to vote the means necessary for defending the German Empire. Alexander, the deposed Bulgarian Prince, is making a tour of Egypt incognito. Europe is filled with reports of French preparations for war on Germany. The new French Cabinet, which was formed Dec. 11, 1886, is already in deep waters, and its Resignation may be expected. The Budget Committee of the Climber of Deputies has, by a vote of 18 to 6, rejected the amended budget presented by M. Dauphin, Minister of Finance, providing for an issue of bonds to the amount of $375;000,0C0 francs, redeemable in sixty-six years, to meet the temporary needs of the Government

The Cabinet crisis in France has probably been averted by the withdrawal of the supplemental budget of $75,000,000 introduced by the Minister of Finance. Evictions continue in Ireland with unusual severity. Messrs. Dillon, Harrington, and others, who are at Glenbeigh, have plainly told Sir Michael Hicks-Beach that the responsibility for the condition of affairs there lies largely at his door. An enthusiastic meeting of 10,001 Nationalists was held at Killarglin, near Killarney, Saturday, to protest against the evictions. Joseph Chamberlain, in the course of a speech at Harwick, Scotland, said that from what had passed at the conference of Liberals and Radicals a complete agreement withthe Liberal leaders might be attained. The Scottish Protestant Alliance sent a memorial to Queen Victoria, setting forth that the aggressions of the Papacy in Great Britain and the supremacy of the Pope were subversive of the Queen’s authority, and that the aim of the Papacy was the Vatican’s conquest and subjection of the country. A British steamer collided at Shanghai with a Chinese transport, causing the loss of several mandarins and a hundred soldiers.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The protection Democratic Congressmen have completed consideration of the bill to reduce the surplus revenue upon which they had been at work for some time, says a Washington telegram. The principal and general features of the bill are the same that have been published from time to time: It wipes out the tax on tobacco and weiss beer, and also the license tax on dealers in whisky. Tne question whether the tax on alcohol used in the arts should be removed or the tax on whisky should be reduced is left an open one to be decided by the House. The provisions of the Randall bill which increased the duties iu certain cases are stricken out. The free list of the Randall bill has also been augmented. Lumber, ergots, fur used in making hats, jute, and jute butts are among the articles placed on the free list The duty on steel rails is reduced to sl3. The principal features of the Hewitt customs administrative bill are incorporated in the new bill, together with some additions adjusted by the Treasury Department. What is known as the “warehouse" section of the Hewitt bill, however, is eliminated. It is expected that the customs sections of the bill will effect a reduction of about $10,000,0.10, and that the total reduction of revenue made by the bill will be from $55,030,000 to $60,000,000. The intention in framing the customs portion of the bill was to avoid as far as possible all questions likely to lead to controversy. The committee appointed at the last meeting will confer with Speaker Carlisle as to the best mode of procedure. The United Labor party of Philadelphia have put up a ticket for city officers, a shoemaker, a cigarmaker, a car-driver, and an attorney being nominated for the principal positions. Four steel boilers exploded in the works of a steel and iron establishment near Allegheny City, Pa., destroying the works and killing two men. Gen. Charles P. Stone, better known as Stone Pasha, died in New York last week. Gen. Stone was born in Massachusetts, entered the West Point Military Academy in 1841, served with distinction in the Mexican war, and eubsequently settled in California. At the breaking out of the late civil war he was in Washington, and was the first volunteer officer sworn into the service. He was arrested in 1862 aud confined in Fort Lafayette seven months for alleged misconduct in the field. No charges were preferred against him and no explanations w-ere ever made to him for the outrage. He entered the Egyptian army in 1870, where he held the rank of Brigadier General and Ferik Pasha and general aid-de-camp to the Khedive. He was an engineer, and his last work was the construction of the Liberty pedestal in New York harbor.

A cyclone swept over Queensland, accompanied by an extraordinary rainfall. Many persons were drowned. A Paris cablegram states that General Boulanger has ordered the commanders of all French fortresses to be at their posts before Feb. 20. Herr Bennigsen, in an address to several thousand National Liberals at Hanover, urged that the passage of the Septenate bill was the only means of avoiding war. The bill to authorize the President of the United States to protect and defend the rights of American fishing vessels, American fishermen, American trading and other vessels in certain cases, passed the Senate January 24. Riddleberger of Virginia was the only Senator voting in the negative. The bill concerning postoffices of the third class, providing that they shall not be changed into postoffices of the fourth class, where the gross receipts amount to $1,900 a year, or where the box receipts and commissions constituting the postmaster's compensation amount to $1,030, passed the Senate. Senator Allison introduced the primary bankreserve bill in the Senate. A resolution was introduced in the House by Congressman Lawler directing the Committee on Naval Affairs to inquire into the expediency of a bill appropriating $50,000,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for the construction, equipment, and armament of such new vessels of war as may be deemed necessary. Mr. Springer, of Illinois, introduced a constitutional amendment changing the time for the assembling of Congress to the first Wednesday in January of each year. Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, introduced a bill to increase the naval establishment. It authorizes the construction of two steel cruisers, of about four thousand tons displacement, of the type of “cruiser No. 1,” at a cost, exclusive of armament, of not more than $1,303,000 each; five steel gunboats, of the type of “gunboat No. 1,” at a cost, exclusive of armament, of not more than $520,0J0 each; and six steel torpedo boats, having a maximum speed of not less than twen-ty-four knots per hour, to cost, exclusive of armament, SIOO,OOO each.

THE MARKETS.

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CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Mb. Edmunds, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported a bill to the Senate, Jan. 19, to authorize the President of the United States to protect and defend the rights of American vessels. The bill provides that when the President shall be satisfied that any American fishing vessels are denied any of the rights secured to them by treaty or law, or are subjected to unreasonable restrictions in respect to such rights, while visiting the waters or ports of British America, it shall be the duty of the President by proclamation todeny vessels, their masters and crews, of the British dominions ot North America, any entrance into waters of the United States, whether they come directly from the Dominion or not. He may also, in his discretion, deny entry into the United States of fresh or salt fish, or any other product or goods of the Dominion. The report of the committee accompanying the bill denies the pretension of Great Britain that American fishing vessels or other® have no rights in Canadian waters exceptat the pleasure of the British Government. The Semite passed a bill appropriating $300,000 to expedite the completion of the Charleston jetties. Senator Hampton introduced a bill to l>roinote the efficiency of the civil service byestablishing a retired list. The Presidentnominated the following Postmasters: Samuel E. Fleming, Huntingdon, Pa.; William H. Black, Rochester, Pa. ; Robert L. Foard, Columbus, Texas; John W. Lingo, Lebanon, Ohio; P. S. Latsch, Appleton City, Mo, An effort to fix a day for the consideration ot the Blair educational bill was defeated in th® House. Both the Senate and House passed bills authorizing the construction of a bridge over • the Mississippi River at St. Louis. The bill passed by the Senate was so amended as to' prohibit the location of the new bridge within two miles of the present structure. The President sent to the Senate, on the 20th,, a message vetoing a bill granting a pension to William Dickens. The ground of the veto isthat a pension bad been already, in December.. 1886, given to the berieticiary through the pension office. Mr. Jones (Ark.), from the Committee ou Indian Affairs, reported two Senate bills grunting right of way to the Spokane and Pelouse and the Washington grid Idaho Railroad Companies through the Cceur d'Alene Indian reservation. In the House Mr. Outhwaite, from the Committee on Pacific Railroads, reported back the following resolution, which was adopted: .Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be and is hereby requested to inform the House of Representatives us soon as practicable the sumsof money which were owing to the United States on the Ist day of January, 1887, from the Pacific; Railroads which have received aid from the Government in bonds, giving the sums which aredue, principal and interest, under existing law, severally and collectively, from said companies, and what will be the result to the treasury and effect upon these debts if the House bill 8318 should become a law and itsprovisions be complied with.” The object of the committee in reporting the resolution is to get the opinion of theTreasury Department as to the effect of the passage of the House funding ■ bill. The following committee reports were submitted and referred: By Mr. Hill (Ohio), the Senate bill for the admission of the State of Washington; by Mr. Cox (N. C.l, for the suppression of the opium traffic; by Mr. O’Neil (Pa.), for the completion of the monument toMary, the mother of Washington, at Fredericksburg ; by Mr. Winans (Mich.), authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to make a special distribution of seed in the drought-stricken sections of Texas. Senator Brown offered a resolution in the Senate, calling on the President for the correspondence with Mexico in regard to the seizure and sale of the American schooner Rebecca inthe port of Tampico ; and also that relating to Minister Jackson’s resignation. Senator Sherman offered an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill, appropriating j3,00i) to put new fences around the cemeteries in which Confederate dead are buried near Coftnnbus, Ohio, and on Johnson’s Island. Mr. Colquitt presented a petition from the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of the District of Columbia, charging the Commissioners with protecting saloons, gam-bling-houses and brothels. President Cleveland transmitted a letter offering to the nation the sword of Captain Reed, the commander of the privateer General Armstrong at the battle of Fayal. A debate of over three hours’ duration took place on the British extradition treaty,, which came over from last session, but no action was taken. The interstate commerce bill, was passed by the House of Representatives. The vote—2l9 to 41—surprised the friends of the measure, who had estimated the strength of the opposition at about sixty. But when members found there was no middle ground, and that they must vote either for or against the whole conference report, some of those who had been declaiming against the bill wavered. They did not want to go on record as against, interstate railroad legislation. After the Speaker had ruled out all attempts to get a vote on different sections of the bill or on recommittal, it did not take long for the roll to be called. When the result was made known there wassome applause, and members who have been for ten years urging national regulation of railroads wore congratulated on the success that had at last crowned their efforts. The fortyone votes against the measure were cast by the following members: Allen (Mass.), Anderson. (Ohio), Bliss, Boutelle, Boyle, Bragg, Brumm, Campbell (Ohio), Caswell, Dibble, Ely, Evans F Felton, Findlay, Frederick, Gay, Gilfilian, Grosvenor, Hayden, Hill, Johnson (N. Y.). Kelly, Ketcham, Libbey, Long, Markham, Martin. McKenna, Miller, Morrow, Oates, O’Neill (Pa,), O’Neill (Mo.), Ranney, Reed, Rice, Seymour, Wadsworth, Wait, Weaver, and White (Pa.). A large number of pairs were announced, but. only in the following cases was it stated how the members in the pairs would have voted: Messis. Merriman, Glass, Snyder, Clardy, Wise,, and Stone, of Massachusetts, who would have voted in the affirmative, were paired with Messrs. Bacon, O’Hara, Hanback. Bingham, Negley, and Davis, who would have voted in the negative. The bill provides against discrimination or favoritism in the transportation of passengers or freight; forbids a charge for a short haul in excess of that made for tbo full length of the route ; makes unlawful the pooling o( freighter division of earnings ; prescribes the publication of rates, and imposes a maximum fine of $5,001 for the violation of any of these provisions. There are to bo five commissioners, appointed, by the President, at salaries ot $7,500 each. The extension of the Hawaiian treaty for seven years was ratified by the Senate in a secret session, Jan. 22, by a vote of 43 to 11. The discussion in the Senate over the proposed treaty with Great Britain was characterized bythe most bitter personalities. Evarts is said-to be mortally offended with Riddleberger for describing him as a “parrot who would cry one way or the other just as ills interests dictated.” Rid* dleberger also charged that Edmunds was everyday becorffing more in love with monarchical institutions and dissatisfied with American ideas A resolution by Mr. Wallace on the Hawaiian, reciprocity treaty, which recites that the President and Senate have ratified a convention extending the terms of the treaty seven years longer, and that the treaty contains provisions for the admission of certain articles free of duty, and instructing the Committee on Judiciary to inquire into these facts and report whether a treaty which involves the rate of duty to be imposed on any article can be valid and binding without the concurrence of the House of Representatives, was adopted by the House. This resolution is in the interest of the Louisiana sugar planters, who are opposed to the extension of the Hawaiian treaty. Senator Riddleberger introduced a bill to abolish the Mississippi River Commission, which was promptly referred. The Secretary of the Treasury sent a communication to the House iu answer to a resolution, stating that the amount due from the Pacific hailroad companies to the United States, on account of interest and bonds, was $157,332,615. The House considered the river and harbor bill. A close student of human nature says that “when you see a young man and woman walking down the street leaning against each other like a pair of badly mated oxen, it is a pretty good sign that they arh bent on consolidation.”