Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1888 — Page 2

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THE NEWS RECORD.

A Summary of the Eventful Happen* ings of a Week, as Reported by Telegraph. Political, Commercial, and Industrial News, Fires, Accidents, Crimes, ' Suicides, Etc., Etc. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. DEATH OF A FAMOUS TROTTER. Dexter, Once King of the Turf, Dies of Old Age and Exhaustion. Dexter, the (famous trotter, died at the stable of Mr. Robert Bonner, in New York City, last week. He died of old age and exhaustion. The body was buried at Mr. Bonner’s farm, at Tarrytown, N. Y. For years the glory of the best trotting record fell to tho honor of Flora Temple, arid she hold it until Dobletook it from her with Dexter in 2:17%. That was the best time until Doblo beat it with tho same horse, whoso record ho finally worked down to - 2:17. Subsequently he lowered that record with Goldsmith Maid, who went the mile in 2:14. She remained the quoen of tho turf until tho advent of St Julien, who in turn went down before Maud S., who has the present and best trotting record over made, 2:08%. Dexter was 30 years old when ho died. Except as an advertisement he was never of much use to Mr. Bonnor, who seldom ventured to drive him. The proprietor of the Ledger paid $35,000 for the horse, but very soon afterward his record was beaten. In temper Dexter was always eccentric and vicious. DETAILS OF THE CHINESE EARTHQUAKE. Terrible Loss of Life and Property in tho Province of Yunnan. By the arrival at San Francisco of tho steamer City of New York from China, we get details of the earthquake in Yunnan. Tho Prefect of Lin An, with Chi Miens of Shih Ping and tho Kien Shui under him, has reported to the Governor of Yunnan as follows; From tho second day of the twelfth month of the last Chinese year till the third day of this year there wore over ten shocks of earthquake, accompanied with a noise like thunder. Yarnens, in the City of Shih Ting, and Kien Shui were either knocked down or split right down and tho temples likewise. On Shih Ping eight or uiuo-tonths of the houses in the south fell down and half those in the east; in the northwest about 1,000 were cracked or bent out of the perpendicular. Over 200 people, men and women, old and young, were crushed to death and over 300 wounded and injured. At Tunc Hiang over 800 were crushed to death and about 700 or 800 wounded. At Nan Hiaug over 200 are dead, and over 400 injured. At Si Hiang over 200 were killed and over 500 injured. At Peh Hiaug about 100 were killed and the same number injured. iTho above four places are suburbs.) In the town and suburbs over 4,000 people were either killed or wounded. Eight or nine tenths of the houses have fallen down, and the rest are cracked and leaning over. In the northwest suburb 80? to 400 houses were overturned, killing 249 people, and wounding 150 to 160. The Emperor Hotter. The doctors attending tho German Emperor declare the published descriptions of tho Emperor’s sufferings, with the exception of tho difficulty in breathing, are exaggerated. He suffers from no local pain whatever. Absolute rest is still imperative. It is impossible to predict whether or not the present improvement will continue. The favorable turn in his condition, however, has awakened but slight hopes of recovery. Tate, the Defaulter. The amount of ex-Treasurer Tate’s defalcat on, with all credits made, is now placed at $150,000. It is learned that just before leaving Louisville, Tute sent tho negro porter to the bank for a largo sum, saying he wanted to pay a school claim. As no such school claims were duo this is evidence that ho took with him $75,000 to SIOO,OOO. Minister Pendleton Recovering. United States Minister Pendleton is rapidly recovering. He is attended by his daughter, who hurried to his bedside at Berlin from Italy, where she was on a tour for her health. Mr. Pendleton’s physician advises him to abstain from work for a long time.

Telegrams in Brief. The dry-goods firm of Marks & Hyman, of Tyler, Texas, has failed for #50,000. Augustin Daly’s theatrical troupe has Bailed from New York, on the Scrvia, for England. Hotel men at Springfield, Ohio, wore fined and imprisoned for passing oft oleomargerino as pure butter. Henry E. Abrey has released M. Damala, Sarah Bernhard’s hue bind, from his contract for a tour in America. AT Austin, Texas, the new State House has been opened. Thousands of people were present at the dedicatory exorcises. Robert de Fauconnet and Comte de Kelman fought a duel at Meudon, near Paris. The Comte was wounded. The duel arose from a dispute about Gen. Boulanger.

A May in the House.

The Breckinridge copyright bill was reported to the House by Mr. Collins from the Judiciary Committee on April 20. The Dunn free ship bill was also reported to the House by the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. It is identical with the bill reported to the last Congress with the exception of two amendments limiting the business of the foreignbuilt vessels admitted to American registry to the foreign trade and expressly prohibiting them from engaging in the coastwise trade of the United htates. The majority report is also similar to that which accompanied the bill when it was reported during the last Congress. A minority report was also presented.' The House spent the day on the river and harbor bill, and the committee, proved that it had the House under food control, for as each item was read the member from the district in which the work wm located got up and moved the appropriation, after explaining that that particular item was quite exceptional and ought to be increased fcr reasons tlrat did not apply to any other item, and regularly the House voted down the amendment and sustained the committee.

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EABTEM STATES. The new building of the Consolidated Exchange, at New York, has been opened. Elizabeth Arnold, a colored woman, has just died at Pittsburg, at the age of 11& Dr. Agnew, the celebrated New York physician who was the first to be called to attend Roscoe Conkling when the latter entered upon his final illness, is dead. He had been very dangerously ill for some days. An abscess formed in the peritoneal cavity, and the delicate operation of laporotomy was performed. After the operation the patient rallied, and, though suffering considerable pain, seemed relieved, but he later grew worse, and was unconscious for some time before he died. Fire at North Braddock, Pa., caused a loss of $20,000. Fifty persons were rendered homeless. A woman who was wounded in the hand by a rooster on the farm of Ephraim Hershey, at Lancaster, Ta., died from Jockjaw. The funeral services over the remains of the late Roscoe Conkling took place in Trinity Chapel, New York City, Rev. Morgan Dix officiating. The remains were taken by spec al train to Utica, where the burial services and interment were held. At Newark, N. J., the planing mill of Jarvis <fc McClure was destroyed by fire, at a loss of $50,000, partially insured.

THE WESTERN STATES.

Five railroad laborers were fatally injured by the premature explosion of a blast at Labadie, Mo. A Neenah, Wis., special says that on the upper Wolf river, near Embarrass, an entire family named Lathrop, comprising father, mother and three children, were drowned in the flood. They lived in a small shanty near the bank of tho stream, and though they had been warned to leave their dangerous abode, they neglected to do so, and the floods swept tho building and occupants down the stream. Fire destroyed tho Findlay, Ohio, windowglass factory. Loss $35/00; fully insured. The Standard Od Company’s plant at Fort Wayne, Ind., has been destroyed by fire. Loss about $12,003. ,At Cincinnati, Ohio, the Betts Street Furniture Company’s factory was burned, causing a loss of $6J,000; fully insured. The stave works of J. T. Jackson, at Mentor, Ind., were destroyed by fire, with a loss of from $15,003 to $20,030, and uo insurance. The Consolidated Tank Lino Company’s building, near Cincinnati, Ohio, has been destroyed by fire. Tho loss of $30,000 is partially insured. 1 hree bodies have been taken from the ruins of the Bethel Homo at St Louis, which was destroyed by lira Four other persons were badly hurt The loss is SIO,OOO. Eight horse thievei were caught by an armed posse thirty miles from Purcell, I T., after a running fight, and strung up without confession or prayers. Some of the posse were killed.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Major John S. Rudd, member of Longstreet's staff during tho rebellion, committed suicide with chloroform at Coal Valley, West Virginia. A strange story of murder and swift retribution comes from Calhoun County, West Virginia. Jacob Holies returned home late at night, accompanied by George Freeds, a peddler, and on arriving at the house they saw through lhe window that Mrs. Hollos and hor three children lay dead on the floor, and that four mon who killed them wore still in tho house. At Freeds’ suggestion Holies made a noiao at the back door, while the peddlor stood near tho front door, aud as tho murderers camo out of tho house he shot three of [them dead, and severely wounded tho fourth. J. 8. Hamilton, on trial at Brandon, Miss., on a charge of having murdered Roderick 'Dhu Gambrell, at Jackson, Miss., lust fall, has been acquitted. Isaac Kirkpatrick and his wife Puss, both colored, living near Gallatin, Tenn., were taken from thoir house by a mob. Tho woman was first hanged in her night dress, and tho man was then shot to death. Tho woman was suspected of arson.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The national legislative, judicial, and executive appropriation bill, as agreed upon in 'the House committee, appropriates #20,472,£94, which is #937,00(1 less than the estimates hnd #209 240 less than the current appropriaItions for the same service. The President has vetoed tho bills granting pensions to Hannah H. Langdon, Betsy Mansjfield, and Laura A. Wright, on the ground jtliat the deaths did not result from injuries received during the war, or sickness incident •to army service; and until it is established as a policy that all soldiers’ widows shall bo pensioned, it is unfair and unjust to make ,exceptions in favor of only such as procure the passage of special acts. Secretary Bayard is to marry Mrs. Folsom, the mother of Mrs. Cleveland. Commissioners of Arbitration, whoso duties are to investigate the causes of labor troubles between interstate common carriers land their employes, are provided for in a bill which has passed the House at Washington. ’These commissioners are also to act as arbitrators when requested to do so by both parities to the dispute; The Metropolitan Club House in Washington has baen damaged by firo to the extent of #IO,OOO or $15,000. <•/

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

A New Orleans dispatch says that “further returns from the interior of the State show unexpectedly heavy Democratic gains. Nicholls’ majority will probably reach 75,000 or 80,000. Parishes that never failed to go Republican heretofore are Democratic for the first time. In New Orleans the regular Democratic ticket bai been beaten clean out of sight by that of the Young Men’s Democratic Association, the majorities ranging from 8,000 to 12,000. The Ohio Republican State Convention, at Dayton, was presided over temporarily by ex-Speaker Keifer, who yielded to the Hon.

E. L Lampson aa permanent Chairman. The following State ticket was nominated: For Secretary of State, Daniel J. Ryan; for Supreme Court Judge, J. P. Bradbury; for member of Board of Public Worke, W. & Jones. Gov. Foraker, ex-Gov. Foster, and Congressmen McKinley and Butterworth were nominated delegatee- at-large to the National Republican Convention. The resolutions were road by ex-Gov. Foster, Chairman of the Committee on Reeoluhons. The platform denounces the Democrats for “suppressing votes in the South and nullifying the war amendments of the Constitution”; declares it the duty of Congress to pass a comprehensive pension bill; condemns the Democrats in Congress for not passing the direct-tax bill; and declares in f avor of such economic legis4 lation as will protect all American industries that can be profitably pursued by American citizens. John Sherman was indorsed for President in the following resolution: Th. Republicans of Ohio recognize the merits, services, and abilities of the statesmen who have been mentioned lor the Republican nomluation for the Presidency, and. loyal to any one whq may be selected, present John Sherman to th 4 country as eminently qualified and fitted for the duties of that exalted office. and the deles gates to the Republican National Convention this day selected are directed to use all honors able moans to secure his nomination as President of tho United States. An Indianapolis dispatch says that “conventions were bold in each Congressional distret in lad ana on Thursday for the selection of delegates to the National Republican Convention. The result was a sweeping victory for Gen. Harrison. The Tenth district delegates were given no instructions, but they are Harrison men. The conventions were almost unanimously in favor of the nomination of the Hon. A. G. Portor for Governor.”

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

Mr. Matthew Abnold, the noted English poet, scholar, and critic, whose recent article on “Civilization in tho United States” attracted much attention, died suddenly in Liverpool, from heart disease. Mr. Arnold went to Liverpool to meet his daughter, who was on her way to England from New York. He was to all appearances in excellent health. Ho attended church and after luncheon went out for a walk with Mrs. Arnold. He was still in high spirits. Soon after leaving the house ho suddenly fell forward and never afterward spoke. The daughter arrived at Linorpool an hour after his death. Mr. Arnold was 07 years of age. The Bundesrath has voted to expel from Germany Herr Bernstein, tho editor of tho Social Democrat, together with the publisher and two sub-editors. Mr. Pendleton, tho American Minister, was stricken with apoplexy on tho train while traveling from Wiesbaden to Frankfort, Germany. Ho was immediately taken to the hospital at Wiesbaden, whore tho paralysis was found to be slight and to bo con fined to one side. Ho is reported much better, and his complete recovery is expected.

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

The City Brewery of Peoria, 111., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. R. G. Dun & Go., in their last weekly trade review, say: There aro hlgWor brloes in speculation, but tho business outlook is distinctly loss favorable. Stocks uro stronger, and breadstuff* aro rising with oil and provision*; but purchases for consumption are so restricted that almost every important branch of manufacture feels the check, und tho volume of business recorded iu bank cloarargs outside ot New York is smaller by 0 per cent, than at tho sumo tirno Inst your, with a decline of over 12 <4 per cent., at Now York. Prices of manufactured products and the chief materials tend downward, so that, in spite of a material advance iu speculative prices since Jan. 1, and in vegetables, tho average of all prices is a shade lower than at tho opening of tho year. Wheat has risen 2‘6 cents, corn 2 cents, pork 50 cents per barrel, bird nearly cent, hogs 32cents per 100 pounds, and oil 7 cents. The base-ball season of tho National League has opened. Iu tho opening games tho Chicagos defeated the Indianapolis team 5 to 4; Pittsburg vanquished Detroit in twelve innings, 5 to 3; Boston overcame the Philadelphia*, 4 to 3, and Now York calcimined Washington, 0 toO. An event of tho Chicagoludiaiupolis game was a fist fight between Esterbrook and Sullivan, in which Mr. Anson and certain police officers became verbally involved. A fine of $25 was imposed by tho umpire upon the combatant >, who were arrested after the game.

THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Choice to Prime Steers $5.00 @ 5.50 Good 4.25 @ 4.75 Cows and Heifers 2.09 @ 8.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 6.25 <4 5.75 Bhkicp 6.50 7.00 Wheat—No. 2 Hod 82)4 <i .83W Corn—No. 2...... 05 ,4 .50 Oath—No. 2 31'4 u .32)6 Barley- No. 2 78 @ .80 Butter-Choice Creamery 23 <fU .20 Fine Hairy 22 «« .24 Cheese—Full ( roam, flatll'4 .12 Eggs—Frosh )2 <" .1:1 Potatoes Choluo, per bu 95 (4 l.o> Fob*- Mohs, 14.00 @14.3 J MILWAUKEE. Wheat--Cash 78 @ 78)4 Corn—No. 853 «« .54 Oath—No. 2 White.... 34ty® .85’4 Rye -No. I 01 lU| .33 Barley—No. 2 74 vu .70 Pork—Mens 13.75 14 25 TOLEDO. Wheat—Cash 87 @ .874 Corn—Cash sou<> .67)4 Oats-No. 2 White 31'4) .35)4 Clover Seed 4.15 @ 4.25 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 lied 84 <4 .84)4 Corm—Mixed 51 @ .52 OAlri-Cash... 33 ,3314 Rye v mi .33 Barley ho .88 Pork—Mens 14.25 <<914.75 NEW YORn. Cattle. 5,01 @6.03 Hogs r>,so 6.50 Sheep 5.50 @ 7.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 03 @ .90 Corn—No. 2 69 .09)4 Oats—White 42 @ .47 Pork—New Mess 15.00 15A0 DETROIT. Cattle 4.00 @5.25 Hogs 5.00 @ 5.50 Sheep.... 4.00 @6.03 Wheat—No. 1 White Corn—No. 2 58 U 9 ,5854 Oats—No. 2 White37i6@ 38 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle 4.50 @ 5.25 H»gs 4.50 @6.00 Sheep...; 4.50 6.00 Lambs 5.00 @6.25 „ BUFFALO. Cattle 4.50 @ 5.25 Hogs 5.25 @ 6.00 Sheep.... 550 @7OO Wheat—No. 1 Hard 94 @ .95 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 61}6(» G2W EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Prime 5.00 @ 5.25 Fair 4.25 @ 4.75 Common 3.75 @ 4.25 Hogs 500 @ 6.00 Sheep..... „ 6.00 @7.25 Lambs... 5.00 & 7.00

ROSCOE CONKLING DEAD.

His Last Hours Pal al ess, and Weeping Friends Watched His Slow but Sure Decline. Pathetic Scenes in the Sick-Room—Bio-graphical Sketch of the Famous Ex-Senator. (Special (New York) telegram.) Roecoe Conkling, the famous ex-Senator. died in his room in the Hoffman House annex at 1:15 o'clock Wednesday morn in ". He began declining rapidly early in the day, and was but slightly cousoioua during toe forenoon, sinking swiftly into tae coma that precedes death. When bia breath left him. and he was still, there were beaide hi a bed his wile, hie daughter, Mrs. Oakman; Jud;e Coxe. his nephew; Dr Anderton, and the colored nurse. Mr. Conkling passed away without moving a limb. He looked as though peacefully sleeping. There were a number of persons outside

< n the street waiting to catch tho last report, ilhin doors there were between forty and fifty persons, also waiting to hear the worst. They wore composed chiefly of representatives of tho press and friends of tho dead Senator. It was a dreadful struggle that the patient fought against grim death, but at last his end was peaceful and unaccompanied by pain. His sorrowing wife and daughter were weeping at his side, but the once keen eyes wore glazed end set in the unequal struggle. Mrs. Conkling and her daughter both bore up bravely, but the elder lady was tho most prostrated. Mrs. Oakman supported her mother. The ashen pallor deepened upon tho emaciated face of the sufferer. Mr. Conkling gasped three or four times and passed away. In death the lines about his mouth and on his taco were slightly drawn, but still his face seemed natural. It was a sorrowful group that surrounded the sick man's bedside, and tearfully watched the passing away of tho great Senator. Tho strong frame that in his delirium required tho stoutest watchers to hod, even while wasted by disease, now lay low and lifeless in the bunds of the Great Destroyer. Tho breathing of those powerful lungs, whose musical but sonorous sound reverberated through tho halls of Ci ngress, was weak and difficult, and gradually became slower and more labored, until their action caused forever. A premature announcement of Mr. Conkling's death was made in the New York Assembly, whereupon tho House passed resolutions expressive of its admiral on and estoum for him, suggesting a joint memorial committee of the House ana Senate, and adjourned out of respect to his memory.

Biographical Sketch. Roscoe Conkling was born in Albany, N. Y.. Oct. 30, 1829. Illa father, Albert Conkling, was a Representative in tlio : events, nth Congress, and in forward .tilled tho positions of United States Judge for the Northern District of New York and Minister to Mexico. Roscoe received a common school and academic education. Removing to Auburn and Geneva with his father he studied law three years under bis tuition. In IH-lii he entorel the law ofllce of Spencer A Kernan in I'tl'u, and in 1849 was appointed by Hamilton Disk listrict Attorney of Oneida County, several months before ho attsinud his majority. On the day ho was 21 he was admitted to the bar. During the next deca ie ho disclosed rare qualities of management, and bocamo a louder in local politics. In law ho ranked with the first of the profession as an advocate. The triumphs he achieved at the bar, mid which wore his passports to public preference, were gained before he reached tho age of 29. After that ha accepted but sow cases, but in those bis success was marked. Ho married Julia (Seymour, sister of ex-Gov. Horatio beymour. hi 18118 he was elected Mayor of Utica, mid in November of the same year he was elected a Representative in the Thirty-sixth Congress and took his seat in that body at tho beginning of its first session, in December, 18 >9, a session noted for its long and bitter contest over the Speakership. He was re-elected in 1800, his brother, Frederick A. Conkling being elected ut the same time for a New York City district. The two brothers entered the Thirty-seventh Congress at tho opening of tho special session convened by President Lincoln, July 4, IHiil. In this Congress Roscoe Conkling was Chairman of tho Caminittoe on tho District of Columbia, and also of a special committee appointed to frame n bankrupt law. A candidate for re-election to the Thirtyeighth Congress, he was defeated by his old law partner, Francis Kernan. In 18<H Conkling defeated him. serving on the Committees on Wavs and Means and on Reconstruction. Ho startled the nation by an attack on the tactics of General McClellan, and gave tho keynote for earnestness iu ail future war legislation at a time when hesitancy and vacillation prevailed. In February, 1802, he oiqaised Mr. Spaulding's legal-tender act by speech and vote, sustaining, contrary to the prevailing party policy, Mr. Horton’s amendment providing for the issue of an interestbearing note, and against the final passajo of the bill as amended by Thuddeus Stevens. In the same session he voted for the payment of interest on the debt in coin. Mr. Conkling was a firm upholder of all legislation tending to uphold the hands of the administration iu prosecuting the war for the suppression of the rebellion. In the fall of 18:>U he was elected to the Fortieth Congress, but before that Congress met he was elected to succeed Judge Ira Harris tie United States Senator from tho State of New. York. He took his seat in tho Senate March 4, 18(17, and was re elected twice, his seceud term beginn ng March 1,1818, and his third term March I, 18/9. Ho was a zealous supporter of General Grant's administration. The general policy of that administration to.vnrd tho South was largely directed by Senati r Conkling, who advocated it with all the powers of his eloquence and all the potency of his personal and political influence. He was also largely instrumental in tue inception and passage of the civil rights bill. In 187(> he took a prominent part in framing the act for tho Electoral Commission, and in carrying it through. In 1880 Senator Conkling led the Grant forces at the Republican nominating convention iu thio ago, aud made the speech p ttiug him in nomination. Soon alter the election of President Garfield he differed from him on questions of public policy, and in 1831 he resigned his seat iu tho Senate. and applied to tho Legislature of New York for indorsement and re election. He failed in this, and retired from politics, resuming the active practice of law to redeem his fortunes, which were sadlv shattered. He speedily assumed the foremost position at the New York bar, and was engaged in a number of prominent and re nuueratlvo cases. Of lute years be had been repeatedly solicited to re-enter politics, end his recent replies had indicated that he might reconsider the resolution he made iu 1881 Mr. Conkling had u nar row escape from death in the late New York blizzard, being almost overcome one night in the drifts and the blinding snow, and only his magnificent physique carried him through. Although his hair and beard had whitened of late years, Mr. Conkling still retained his fine physical proportions, which would have made him a marked man in any assemblage.

CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The galleries of the House were crowded and. ' every member was in his sent on the floor to witness the opening of the tariff discussion cm the 17th lust. Mr. Mills, of Texas, arose and moved that the House resolve itself into acoxm mittee of the whole for tho purpose of considering the tariff bill, w hose title ho read. There being no objection, the Speaker announced that the House was in committee of ths | whole, and called to the chair William. { M, Sprin er. Mr. Mills thereupou took , the floor and proceeded to ad- ! dress the House. He opened bis speech by re- ! ferring to the heavy burdens of taxation made necessary by the war. These taxes, however, ' were, in tho language of the gentlemau who in- | trod need the original measure, intended as * i temporary war measure. More than twenty ! years has elapsed since the war ended, but these war taxes still remained, and they were heavier to-day than they were on tho average during the five yours of tho existence of hostilitios. Mr. Mills then referred to the internaireven no and income taxes, which, he said, hud been abolished because they weretaxes on won.th. But the war tax oxi c.othing, food, und labor still remained. Every eliort that hud been made tobring the exact.ons of the Government down to a peace establishment had been defeated. There had been a tux on railroads, express and insurance companies, but they were a tux on. wealth and hud been abolished. Three hundred millions that hud been paid by tho wealth ot the country hud been swept awuv, and the burden of taxation had boon mode heavier, but it had bean loaded upon the shoulders of thUse who had to support themselves and the G >veminent. All the taxes on wealth hud gone, but tho burdens on tho poor still remained, and the Republicans boasted that they had reduced tuxes tdiii ,000,000, while Democrats had done practically ■ nothing. Tile tax on consumption was paid by hard daily toil. Suppose a laboicsr with H a dsv could buy a wo.leu suit us clothes for HO. It. required ten days' labor to purchase it, but when the tariff put a duty of loj per cent, tho suit would cost «2J. Then it required twenty days' labor for tho man to secure what bo. could otherwise huvo secured for ten days' labor hud not ten days ot labor been annihilated. But the greatest evil inflicted upon the people by the excessive taxation on the consumers was in tho destruction of tho value* of exports. From 75 to 8j per cent, of the exports were agricultural products. War duties limited importation, and that limited exportation, 'lhe surplus productions were therefore thrown upon the homo market. It became oversupplied and the prices went down. The speaker denied that if dm les were lower and foreign goods were imported our people would bo turned out of employment and the rates of wages would be reduced. It wo had no tariff, if all tho custom houses were torn down, and tho Government supported by direct taxes, there would not bs exceeding 10 per cent, of imported manufactured product* consumed by the people of this .country. It was assorted that Congress had intended to benefit the laborer by the tariff'. It had failed, and not a dollar of tne protection got beyond the manufacturer. He, however, hired hie labor at tho lowest rate In the open market. The committee baa left in the bill more than enough protection to pay for all th* labor und a bonus besides Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, followed Mr. Mills. He declared that the passage of this bill would paralyze the enterprise and energy of tho people. Tho gentlemen who framed tills bill and could, brook neither modification nor discussion of its provisions bv their associates in the committee, were with but two exceptions representatives of what was slave territory. By putting wool ou tho free list it would abolish, sheep husbandry and impoverish the more than a million men who own flocks or are employed in their care, aud by working this ruin it would diminish the supply oi cheap uud healthiul animal food now furnished by wool-growers to the mining and manufacturing laborers of the country. It would also render the production of American tin plates und cotton ties impossible by pluoing those articles ou tho free list with wool. By tho transfer of these and other products of coal und iron ore to the free liatiind by reducing the duties on steel rails, struct, ural iron, and many other forms of iron and steel sufficiently to withdraw protection from, them, uud penult foreign producers to flood our markets, it would, though it maintained existing duties ou coal mid iron ore, close a majority of tho bituminous coal fields aud ore banks. President Cleveland s freo-traffe massage, by its assumption that the duty was always added to tho cost, not only of imported commodities but to tho price of like commodities produced ■in this country, showed how profoundly ignorant ho was of economic science. To illustrate tho puerile absurdity of this assumption he (Kelley) invited tho President's attention to the fact thut though the duties imposod ou sugar when reduced to ad valorem, standards were never so high as they now are, tho price of sugar was never so low in this country as it is now. The progress of sugar making iu Louisiana since 1867 might be cited us a vitalizing influence of protection duties. In spite of tho steady decline in tho price of foreign, sugar, the poverty of lx.>r people, and tho demoralization of hor plantations atthe close of tho wsr, Louisiana, encouraged by protective duties, had added materially to the world's supply ot oitue sugar.

The Committee on Labor secured the floor of the House on the 10th inst., and the bill creating a Department of Labor was taken up end passed. Tho House then went into committee of the whole on the bill to create boards of arbitration to settle differences between interstate common carriers and their emnloyers.' After a somewhat protracted debate the measure was passed. Mr. Sherman addressed the Senate in favor of the Dakota division bill. In the evening the Democratic Representatives, to the number of 110. met in caucus to consider the question of limiting the debate on the tariff bill. The proceedings were cohfined to expressions of opinion, which were generally against the adoption of a cast-iron rule. It was generally admitted that the Republican minority should be afforded tho fullest and freest opportunity to discuss aud amend the ponding bill, and the caucus closed by adopting the following resolution: That the Democratic members of the Ways aud Moans Committee be requested to confer with their associates on the committee and endeavor to reach an agreement us to the time during which debate on the tariff bill shall continue.**

The bill for tho admission of South Dakota passed tho Senate by a strict party vote, after a long debate, on the 19th Inst. The bill to retire Gen. John C. Fremont as major-general was reported to the Senate and placed on the calendar. The House spent the day, in committee of the whole, on the Indian appropriation bill. The House J udiciary Committee has reported a bill for tho construction of twoUnited States penitentiaries, to cost pot to exceed $500,01X1 each, one to be located north and the other south of tho noth degree north latitude. A caucus of Democratic Senators decided agaiust considering the fisheries treaty in open session. The sontimont of tbe caucus was favorable to tho ratification of the treaty. The p-.nslon appropriation .bill passed the House on the 20th of April. The amount to be distributed under the bill is #80,280,000. Tho Indian appropriation bill also passed the House. Mr. Anderson of Kansas, one of the committee that investigated the Heading strike, introduced inthe House a bill for securing to tho public a regular service by railroad companies. It provides that the jurisdiction ot a State ceases with its teriitory. No State railroad cun become a carrier of interstate commerce except by the permission and authority or the United States. Every railroad subject to the; bill for which private property has been taken by eminent domain is made a public highway of tho United States. The Interstate Commerce Commission is required to execute the provisions of tho bill, and is given a corps of inspectors. In tho event ofi a failure by a company to run its regular trains the commission is required to promptly investigate the faota and to issue such orders to the company as will secure the regular service? If after seven days tho service is not performed, the Attorney General is required to the appointment of a receiver, who is to operate the road as for the United States, and may employ the oljl forsjj.,