Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1888 — Page 2

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THE NEWS.

Intelligence Gathered In by Wire from Every Quarter of the Nation. Also a Few News Sandwiches from Lands Beyond the Broad Ocean. ~r THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH, at BAOEAU AND THE GRANTS. CoL Fred Publishes a Lone Reply to the General’s Address. Col. F. D. Grant makes public a long statement in reply to Gen. Adam Badeau's address to the American people upon the controversy which has arisen between Gen. Badeau and the family of the late Gen. U. 8. Grant as to the services rendered by Gen. Badeau in connection with the writing of the “Personal Memoirs of U. 8. Grant” Colonel Grant says that it is his last word in the matter prior to the hearing of the case in court, and that for that reason he presents the history of the case in extenso. Under the circumstances, therefore, he goes over much ground which has already been covered by publication in the daily papers, and gives much space to correspondence participated in by himself and the lawyers in the case, chiefly in the negotiations with a view to the settlement of the case without resort to the courts; to personal denunciation of General Badeau, and to arguments going to show that Gen. Badeau’s services were of a much less important character than Badeau claims that they were. Col. Grant adds that the demand of Gen. Badeau was a source of grief and annoyance to his lather for the remainder of his life, a.nd adds that the letter of reply “was written eleven days before my father s death, at a period of keen personal Buffering, and when the memory, of Gen. Badeau's letter of May 2 made his mental anguish greater than that of the body,”

THE ROCK ISLAND’S ANSWER. It CliargeH the “Q” with Trying to Force All Western Roads Into a Trust. The answer of the Hock Island to the bill filed by the Burlington company in Judge Gresham’s court to compel the former to haul Burlington freight and cars is highly sensational in character, says a Chicago special. The charge made by the Rock Island is, In substance, that prior to the trouble with the Brotherhood engineers and tiremen, the Burlington had entered upon a systematic lowering of freight rates with the purpose of forcing all the competing roads, great and small, to form a gigantic railway trust, to be managed by three men vested with absolute power to make and alter rates and control the business of all the roads entering into the combination. It is also charged that the Burlington fomented and made use of the disaffection among its own employes for the purpose of coercing the other roads into joining the trust, and that it has, in pursuance of that purpose, attempted to involve the Rock Island in trouble with its own engineers and llremen. The Burlington officials deny these allegations and characterize them as baseless and absuid.l

The Peace of Europe. The situation between the Central allies and Russia remains, the same. Ihp visit of the King of Roumania to Vienna resulted in a definite treaty under which Austria pledges to resist any violation of Roumanian territory. Leading Roumanian army officers will be replaced by German and Austrian officers. The Emperor’s decree of March 21, authorizing Cjown Prince William td represent him in the transaction of state business, is now recognized as tantamount to the creation of a co-regency. Besides this decree another exists giving to the Prince fuller powers in he event of the Emperor growing worse.

The German Emperor Improving. A Berlin dispatch says that “a wooden walk is being constructed in the park at Charlottenburg to enable Emperor Frederick to take outdoor exercise. Dr. Bergmann ■visits the Emperor every Sunday in order to reassure Germans who are opposed to Dr. Mackenzie. Dr. Mackenzie hopes to be able to pay a short visit to his London patients in a •week or two. The Emperor has countermanded the order for the spring review of the guards. ”

Base-Ball in Australia. Abeangements are in progress for taking a company of at least twenty of the leading ballplayers of America to Australia. Mr. a. G. Spalding, the President of the Chicago BaseBall Club, is at the head of the undertaking, and will accompany the party. Under his direction the great cities of the antipodes will be afforded a fine exhibition of the beauties of American base-ball, compared with which cricket is dull and lifeless sport The Burlington Road's Trouble. A Chicago dispatch of Monday says: “Not a wheel of a freight car turned in the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy yards yesterday. For the second time within a month the freight business of this road is temporarily paralyzed, this time by the action of the switchmen.” Telegrams in Brief. John T. Hoffman, ex-Governor of New York, died last week in Germany, where he was staying for his health. Cold and sleet are thought to have done serious injury to fruit and other crops in Central and Northern Illinois. The Central Theater and the Theater Comique, an unused structure adjoining, in Philadelphia, were destroyed by fire. A justice at Clinton, lowa, ordered twelve barrels of beer destroyed, which was found in a wholesale house, in violation of the prohibition law. A new scheme tb pipe oil to Toledo, Ohio, and there refine it, has been floated by a syndicate that is determined to compete with the Standard Oil Company. Employees of unskilled labor in California having reached the conclusion that the wages demanded by the Chinese are extortionate, have sent agents to the South to engage negroes to take the place of the Mongolians. The first consignment of negro laborers passed through St Louis en route to the coast Jast week.

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. TBX purchase of the Jiail and Expreu, the leading Republican afternoon paper of New York City, by Elliott F. Shepard, a son-in-law of the late William H. Vanderbilt, ia construed as favorable to the interests of Chauncey M. Depew as a candidate for the Presidential nomination. The paper was owned by Cyrus W. Field, and the price paid is understood to have been 1500,000.

THE WESTERN STATES.

The Insurance Commission of Missouri has brought suit against the Ancient Order of United Workmen, which has refused to comply with the law, on the ground that it is not an insurance company. Ex-Senator Tabor, of Denver, owner of the Vulture Mine, near Phoenix, Arizona, has received information that two of his messengers from the mine were murdered near Nigger Wells and robbed of <7,000 in bullion. He offers a reward of SI,OOO for the arrest of the murderers and SI,OOO for the recovery of the bullion. A Chicago special says: “ There has not been such a flurry for several years as is now agitating trades people and bankers over the wholesale shoving of counterfeit $5 silver certificates during the last three days. The banks have been literally flooded with these certificates.” The Commercial National Bank of Dubuque, lowa, has suspended payment In the tally-sheet forgery case at Columbus the jury disagreed, after having been out four days, and was discharged. The ballot had stood at ten to two for conviction.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

At Frankfort, Ky., on Tuesday, Governor Bucknei; suspended Treasurer of State James W. Tate. Tate is charged with defalcation in his office, and has fled the State. The defaulting official has been Treasurer for twenty-one years. He was considered the soul of honor, and the news will produce a tremendous sensation throughout the State. It is thought Tate’s shortage will amount to between $200,000 and $300,000. The irregularities seem to run back eleven years. A reward of $5,000 has been offered for the arrest of Tate, the defaulting Kentucky treasurer. His shortage is between $190,000 and $200,000. A terrible wind-storm visited Georgia and East Tennessee Wednesday night, causing immense destruction to property and much loss of life. A Nashville dispatch says: The storm seems to have formed in the vicinity of Calhoun, Ga„ and pursued a northeasterly direction through North Georgia and into and beyond East Tennessee, bounding across to the Chilhowee mountains, and waa next heard from near Loudon, Tenn., on the East Ten-

nessee road, eighty miles northeast of Chattanooga. traveling from Calhoun, Ga., to Loudon, Tenn., a distance of 100 miles, in about thirty minutes. The path of the tornado from Calhoun to Loudon was through a section remote from railroads and telegraph lines and the damage will not be known for several days, but must have been fearful. The tornado in places cleared the ground completely of grass, and a forest of timber was mown as with a great scythe. The cyclone had a rotary motion, leaving a scene of desolation and destruction in its path. Large trees were twisted from their trunks and others torn up by the roots.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The great event at the national capital on Monday was the decision by the Supreme Court of the telephone cases, which has been so long in coming and has been the source of much anxiety, controversy, and speculation. The number of people directly interested in this decision, including the stockholders in the various corporations involved, says a Washington special, was probably greater than in any case that has been decided for many years, as the value of the entire telephone interest, reaching almost every town of size in the world, was affected. The Bell patents were sustained, however, as was expected by almost everybody but the attorneys and stockholders in the rival companies, in fact, it was a fight of all the other companies combined against the Bell. The crowd in the court-room was unusually large, and the opinion, written and read by Justice Blatchford, although the longest that has been presented to the court for years, and occupying nearly an hour and three-quarters in the reading, was listened to with the greatest attention. This decision settles the entire controversy. While it does not prove, as Justice Blatchford said, that Bell was the original discoverer of the fact that articulate sounds may be transmitted over a wire, it establishes the fact that he was the first to adapt the discovery to the wants of his fellow-men, and is entitled to the full value of the invention. One hundred and twenty-one of the Lest lawyers in the United States have been engaged in this litigation, including Senator Edmunds. ex-Senator Conkling, Postmaster General Dickinson, Robert G. Ingersoll, and many .others almost as famous, aud it is estimated that several million dollars have been expended in counsel fees and other court expenses. The Bell monopoly will now have its own way, and the stock of that company, which has fluctuated widely on account of the constant litigation, will have a fixed value until the expiration of the patent. Justice Gray did not sit in the case for the reason that different members of his family hold a large interest in the Bell Company, and Justice Lamar because he did not hear the argument. The decision was prepared byChiet Justice Waite, but was read by Justice Blatchford, owing to the former’s indisposition.

During a storm at Washington lightning struck the Capitol, the flash being especially vivid In the Senate Chamber. All the occupants of the Supreme Court-room—Justices, lawyers, and auditors —jumped to their feet, but quickly subsided. In the House wing balls of blue fire were noticed playing about the corridor, and some members thought the roof was about to tumble. A horse outside was knocked down, and an engineer in the basement was prostrated. A bill is to-be reported by the House Committee on Revision of the Laws, at Washington, providing for an amendment to the Constitution whereby Senators will be elected by a direct popular vote instead of by the Legislatures. A member of the committee is quoted as saying: We have agreed upon this report only after a careful and painstaking investigation of the whole question. We believe the change is demanded by tne people. If adopted it will add much to the representative character of t-ena-tors, and will do much to relieve the odium under which tne senate has long rested on account of the disreputable methods alleged to have been used in many instances to influence Legislatures. A proposition is also pending in the committee for a Second Vice President, but th s does not seem to be in response to any popular demand.

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

The lowa Republican Convention met at Des Moines March 21. J. P. Dolliver was ehosen temporary Chairman, and, owing to

the illness of Gov. Larrabee, was continued permanent Chairman. Congress man David B. Henderson was, by acclamation, selected a* Dfelegate-at-laxge to the National Convention, the balloting for the other three delegates resulting in the election of J. 8. Clarkson, George D. Perkins, and J. P. Dolliven The resolutions set forth the qualifications and attainments of Senator William B. Allison, and recommend him as a fit candidate for the Presidency. These were adopted with cheers; Allison songs were sung, the convention joining in the chorus, and an Allison brigade was formed to go to Chicago in June.

Within a week or ten days a letter from Chauncey M. Depew is to be published stating he is not an aspirant for the Republican nomination for President, says an Albany (N. Y.) special The letter will be sufficiently explicit to check all talk of Mr. Depew as a candidate. Mr. Depew has never encouraged the mention of his name in association with the nomination, and has never had an idea of running for thtf office. The mention of his name has been gratifying to him as a man who is a little proud of the versatility of his taianta. His ideas on the subject have never been a secret to his personal friends and acquaintances.

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

The earthquake shocks in Yunnan China, continued three weeks, destroying several towns and causing much damage to shipping. At Kien-Shiu 4,000 persons were killed. A gas explosion set tire to a crowded theater in Oporto, Portugal, while a play was in progress, and the building was consumed. Oporto dispatches furnish the following particulars of the awful calamity: While a performauc* was in progress at the Banquet Theater, Wednesday night, an explosion of gas occurred ana the theater took fire and was destroyed. The house was full of spectators at the time. Eighty bodies have been taken from the ruins. Most of those burned were in the third row of boxes and galleries, where whole families were suffocated. There was a terrible struggle at the door when the spectators tried to escape. Large numbers were suffocated and trampled upon. Many on reaching the street were so seriously injured that they vomited blood. Nearly all the victims were spectators. The actors escaped in theatrical costume. Many in the theater, finding themselves unable to reacn the doors, jumped from the windows. Some corpses were found in the stage boxes. A cable dispatch from Oporto, Portugal, says it is known that at leaet 126 people were burned to death in the theater lira The fire began by the blowing of an unprotected gas jet against the scenery. The sceneshifter saw the accident, and rushed to lower the curtain, but before he could do so the blazing scenes fell, on the stage, and the panic began. In the cheaper parts of the house the attendance was principally of the rougher class, including many sailors and dock porters, who crushed down the weaker people in their rush for the doors, using their fists, shoes and knives, and mercilessly slashing their way to the front. Girls, children and women were literally butchered by these panic-stricken brutes in their mad endeavor to get out. Many victims who escaped otherwise all right were desperately cut in the fight at the doorways. Some of those who were within jumped from high windows. Among these was the principal actress in the plav. A much shorter and safer way out existed, but many of the people on the stage either did not know of it or forgot it. A Berlin dispatch says the Emperor’s laryngeal disease is decidedly much less alarming thau it haj been for many months, and this gives rise to hopes that possibly he may be cured.

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

General Bbagg opened his diplomatic career by a speech at a banquet given in his honor by Americans resident in the City of Mexico, in which he said the sympathy of President Cleveland’s administration was with the liberal government in Mexico, and that the reactionary party, which has tendencies toward a monarchical regime, would in no event be permitted to carry its design into execution. In his testimony before the House Committee engaged in the investigating of the sugar trust Claus Spreckels, the California saccharine magnate, told how he had been urged to join the Eastern combinations, but concluded to stay out because he could make more money. When asked if the effect of tbo trust had not been to lessen the price of sugar Mr. Spreckels replied that trusts were not built that way—not formed to put money into the pockets of the people and keep it out of the pockets of the trust.

THE MARKETS.

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JUDGE WAITE.

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Dies Suddenly Washington. * His Death a Surprise to Those Who Did Not Believe His Illness Serious. Chief Justice Waite, of the United States Supreme Court, died at his home in Washington, on the morning of Friday, the 23d of March, of pneumonia, after a brief illness. His death was wholly unexpected, as nothing like a fatal result was apprehended of the severe cold he contracted last Saturday evening. His last appearance officially was on Monday, the 19th, when he was present in the court-room to present the decision in the telephone case, which he had prepared, but was not feeling well enough to read the opinion, J ustice Blatchford performing that office for him. Following are the particulars of the distinguished jurist’s sudden demise, as telegraphed from Washington: He was not considered dangerously ill, and no one was in the room with him but a hired nurse when he breathed his last. Mrs. Waite left Washington about ten days ago to spend the spring months in California. A telegram has been sent announcing the death of her husband. Last Saturday night Judge Waite attended the reception given to the authors by Mrs. Senator Hearst. It was a damp, disagreeable atmosphere and a searching wind. During the reception his coachman was stricken with apoplexy, and fell off the box. There was considerable excitement, and Judge Waite exposed himself by leaving the heated parlors and going bareheaded and in his evening suit into the open air to give orders about the treatment of his servant and the disposition of his horses, and after the reception was over he walked home. Several of his friends offered their carriages, bnt he was an unusually robust man for one of his years, and preferred to walk. His shoes were thin, and, together with the exposure in the earlier part of the evening, gave him a severe cold. Monday morning his cold was so much worse that he was induced to remain at home, but it was not until Wednesday that he had a physician, and then only incidentally. He consulted Dr. Ruth, a surgeon in the navy and a friend of the family, who happened to call at the house. Dr. Ruth gave him some simple remedy Wednesday morning, but when he called again the same day told Miss Waite that her father was threatened with pneumonia, and recommended that the family physician, Dr. F. A. Gardner.be sent for. 'Thursday morning Dr. Gardner woulfl notpermit Judge Waite to leave his bed, and sent a professional nurse to take care of him. Thur day afternoon young Mr. Waite arrived from Cincinnati. The son and daughter sat up with him until after midnight, and then retired without feeling the slightest apprehension. About 3 o’clock Friday morning young Mr. Waite was awakened by hearing groans from his father’s chamber, and found that he was breathing heavily and seemed to be suffering in his sleep. He assisted the nurse to turn him over when he seemed to rest more comfortably and the groaning ceased. Shortly before 6 o'clock a. m., when the nurse went to give to him his medicine, Judge Waite was found to be almost pulseless. The son and daughter were awakened, and the doctor sent for, but before he came the venerable man had ceased to breathe. The following official notice of the death of Chief Justice Waite was issued by the Department of State: "Tothe People of the United Stites: The painful duty devolves upon tbe President to announce the death at an early hour this morning, at his residence in this city, of Morrison R. Waite, Chief Justice of the United States, which exalted position he had filled since March 4, 1874, with honor to himself and high usefulness to bis country. “In testimony of respect to the memory of the honored dead it is ordered that the executive offices in Washington be closed on the day of the funeral and be draped in mourning for thirty days, and that the national flag be displayed at half-mast on the buildings and on all the national vessels on the day of the funeral. “By the President. T. F, Bayabd, “Secretary of State.” Both houses of Congress, upon assembling, passed resolutions eulogistic of the deceased, and immediately adjourned. The announcement of Justice Waite’s death produced a profound impression upon the President, with whom he was on terms of warm personal friendship.

biographical Morrison Remick Waite received his appointment as Chief Justice of the United States January 21, 1874, and was the successor of Chief Justice Cnase. He was the fcventh in the line of distinguished jurists who have held the Chief Justiceship of the United States. In the rural town of Lyme, Conn , the old house in which he was born November 29, 1816, still stands. At the age of 17 he entered Yale College, from which he was graduated in 1837 in the class which included William M. Evarts, Edwards Pierrepont, Prof. Benjamin Silliman, and other distinguished men. He began the study of law with his father in Lyme, and concluded his preparation for the bar in the office of Samuel W. Young, then a prominent lawyer in Maumee City, Ohio. He formed a partnership with Mr. Young shortly after being admitted in 1839, and the year after he took as his life partner a young lady of his native town. He was elected to the Ohio Legislature in 1849, and the following year the firm of Young & Waite removed to Toledo, where they built up a very large and remunerative practice. The first position in which his ability attracted the attention of the whole country was that of counsel for the United States in the tribunal of arbitration which met at Geneva in 1871-2. He was associated in this delicate negotiation with Caleb Cushing and William M. Evarts. Their tact and good judgment largely served to terminate the difficulty arising out of our civil war between the United States and the United Kingdom. The year after his retur.n home in 1873 he presided over the constitutional convention of Ohio. Chief Justice Waite had a charming home in Washington, at 1415 I street. Here Mrs. Waite, a lady of refinement that well fitted her for the social tasks imposed upon her by her husband’s exalted official station, has presided as hostess, and so far as her delicate health would permit has been a leader of society Mrs. Waite was the second cousin of the Chief Justice, and her name before marriage was Amelia Warne». She is the great-grandda ighter of Col. Samuel Selden, a distinguished officer of the Revolution, and Maria Selden, a granddaughter of this same Col. Selden, was Chief Justice Waite’s mother. The Waite family is one of the oldest families in the country. Thomas Waite, who was a member of Parliament, signed the death warrant of Charles 11, and the family moved to this country soon after the restoration. It was about thirty years after the landing of the Pifgrims that Thomas Waite settled at Lyme, Conn., and this man’s son was one of the first Presidential electors after t, > war of the Revolution and cast his vote for George Washington. Judge Waite’s father was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, and he studied law under Matthew Griswold, one of the inost noted statesmen of early days. Like Judge Waite he was a graduate of Yale and eminent as a jurist. He left the Supreme bench, however, at the age of 70, and died at 80. Though the distinguished Chief Justice was in his 72d year, one who met him in the street even recently would have ventured the prediction that he would live many years yet to grace the bench. He was of medium height, with broad shoulders and sturdy figure. Everything about his appearance indicated a splendid physique. He stood straight and was dignified in carriage. His large head was crowned with a thick growth of iron-gray hair. His forehead was broad and full, the eyebrows dark and heavy. The mouth and nose were large and full of character. He wore a beard about his face, but his upper lip was clean-shaven. His figure was a familiar one *on the streets, as he almost invariably walked to and from his house and the Supreme Court chamber in the CanitoL ,

CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and tbe Hotua of Representatives. The Judiciary Committee of the Senate, on the 19th Inst., reported adversely Senator Frye's. bill to apply the laws of the veveral States re-, lating to the sale of liquors to imported aa well 1 as domestic liquors. The majority of the committee nold that the State control over police regulations is, under the Constitution, as secure against intrusion from federal authority as the regulation of foreign com--merce by the General Government is from. encroachment upon that province by State authority. It therefore recommtnds that the question be let tas it is—a judicial one. A minority report signed by Senators Wilson (Iowa), Inga Is. and Edmunds says it would seem that. the legislative aud judicial departments cf the Government concur in the answer that the character tl legislation presented by the bill is within the constitutional power of Congress; that it does not violate the injunction of the Constitution that “all duties, •imports, and excises .shall be uniform tin ought uc the Upited States ” An importer of ardent spirits or olr any other article of foreign production is entitled to no greater protection und r the Constitution than is the deales in like articles of domestic manufacture. . The one pays an internal tax, the other pays a tax leveled by the: custom house, and what Congress may constitutionally say about one it may repeat as to the other. The Senate passed fifty-nve bills, the: most of them being pension and private relief bills. The House by a vote of yeas 178, nays 67, passed the bill authorizing the issue of. fractional silver certificates. A resolution was.. introduced by Mr. Taulbee for the appointment of a special committee to examine intothe condition of the civil service in all the departments and branches of the government. Senator Aldrich, from the Committee on,. Finance, favorably reported to the Senate, on March 20, his funding bill, which: provides that the Secretary of the Treasury ■hall issue in exchange for 4-per-cent. bonds an. equal amount of bonds payable , in 1907, and that in consideration of the reduction of interest the Treasurer shall pay to the holders of the 4-per-cent. bouds a sum equal . to the present worth of the difference in interest, and that in ascertaining the present . worth interest should be computed at not less than per cent, per annum, compounded quarterly. The bill also provides that national banks holding these bonds shall' be allowed to issue notes upon them to their - full par value. Mr. Blair called up his bill,, giving preference to civil-service appointments . among men who had been disloyal during the war to those who had served in the Confederate . army, and who were suffering from wounds or disabilities. Several Southern Senators spoke on the resolution, saying they would not. consent to any such discrimination in favor of. Confederate soldiers. The Senate Finance Committee made a favorable report on the bill towipe out the charges against the States for the loan of 1836. It amounted to between $20,000,UX) and $.0,000,000. There was a livelytime in the House over the resolution assigning four days for the consideration of measures from the Committee on Labor, the opponents of the resolution resorting to obstructive tactics to prevent action. Mr. O’Neill (Mo.) finally said he. was willing to amend the resolution by striking out the clause limiting the time of debate on each measure called up. After a long debate the time-limitation clause was stricken out and the resolution was adopted. In pursuance of. the terms of the resolution the floor was accorded to the Committee on Labor and bills were-, passed for the protection in their wages of mechanics, laborers, and servants in the District. of Columbia and the Territories, and extending the provisions of the eight-hour law to lettercarriers. Bills were reported to the House forthe erection of public buildings at Sterling, Hl„ Richmond, Ind,, and Burlington, lowa. The following bills were passed by the Senate on March 21: To allow soldiers and sailors who--have lost both hands, or tbe use of both hands, a pension of SIOO a month; House bill to facili--tato the prosecution of works projected for improvement of rivers and harbors ; House bill to divide the great Sioux Indian reservation into. separate smaller reservations. Senator Manderson introduced a bill to appropriate $150,000 • for quarters and barracks at the Hampton, Milwaukee, and Leavenworth branches of the National Soldiers’ Home. A minority report. was presented from the Senate Committee on Territories opposing the annexation of the Idaho Pan-handle to Washington Territory and favoring the admission of the latter Territory with its present boundaries. The House passed bills to prevent the product of convict labor from being furnished to or for the use of any department of the Government, and from being used In public buildings orothes public works, and to prevent the employment of alien labor on public buildings and. other public works and in the various departments of the Government. The bill to establish a Department of Labor and the bill referring to the Court of Claims for adjustment. the accounts of laborers, workmen and mechanics arising under the eight-hour law, were • discussed by the House, in committee of the whole.

The President sent a brief message to the-> Senate on the 22d of March, in reply to the resolution requesting him to transmit to the Senate copies of the minutes and daily protocols of the meetings of the Fisheries Commissioners. He inclosed a copy of the letter received from the Secretary of State on the subject, and said he hoped the information contained therein would prove a satisfactory answer to the resolution. Secretary Bayard’s le-tter is in bflect that the discussion was carried on under the pledge of secrecy on both sides, that no stenographic report was made ( and that it was impossible to comply with the Senate’s request. In the Senate thirty-one measures were passed, the most important bill being the House bill authorizing the President to arrange a conference between the United: States and the republics of Mexico, Central and South America, Hayti, San Domingo, and the empire of Brazil, with amendments upon which a conference was ordered. The Senate also passed a bill reported from the ■Postoffice Committee reducing the rate of postage on seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, etc., to one cent for every four ounces. The House passed the following bills: Providing that on the trial of all civil and criminal cases in Circuit and District Courts the Judge shall charge the jury In writing, if so required by either party; providing that judgments and decrees of United States Courts rendered within any States shall be liens on property in the same manner and to the same extent as judgments and decrees of the courts of that State. The urgent deficiency bill was favorably reported to both houses by the conferrees, and was passed by both branches. The bill appropriates $6,876,500.

Keep the Stables Light.

Dark stables are an aoomination, andshould not be tolerated. There is no» necessity to sacrifice comfort, either in winter or summer, to secure enough light. A horse’s eyes are enlarged—the pupil of the eye is—by being kept in a dark stable; he has a harness put on to him and suddenly brought out into the bright, glaring sunlight, which contracts the pupil so suddenly as to cause extreme pain. By persevering in this very foolish and injudicious as well as cruel practice, the nerves of the eye become impaired, and if continued long enough, loss of sight will ensue. To see how very painful it is to face a bright. light alter having been in the dark, take a walk some dark night for a short time, till the eye becomes accustomed to the darkness, then drop suddenly into some welllighted room and you will be scarcely able to see for a few moments in the sudden light. You know how painful it is to yourself, then why have your horse repeatedly to bear such unnecessary pain? A dark stable is invariably a damp one, and such stables we are not yet willing to put either a valuable working or driving horse in. Give good ventilation, let the sunshine and the air have a chance to effect an entrance, and your stables will be purer and more healthy than if you take such pains to exclude them and the good influence they invariably bring.