Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1888 — Page 2

Sljc jhmocrdit Sentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. MaEWEN, - - Pußuran.

FRESH FROM THE WIRES.

Events of Interest and Importance in Every Quarter of the Habitable Globe. News Relating to Politics, Religion, Commerce, Industry, Labor, and Other Topics. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT. Seven Persons Perish by the Explosion of a Car-load of Dynamite. A car-load of dynamtie and one of giant powder blew up a train of freight-cars at Locust Gap, Pa., causing the loss of seven lives and injuring about twenty-five persons, three of whom will die. Twenty-one houses were demolished and glass was shattered for miles around. The scene presented an appalling sight, the debris of the freight-cars and the houses, together with here and there little heaps of ashes and charred remains of the dead, disclosing a frightful picture. So great was the upward force of the exploding dynamite that the wheels and axles of the cars were thrown a distance of two hundred yards, and one axle fell through the roof of one of the houses on the lower street on the hill above. Traces of the debris may be found a quarter of a milo away. One of the train men was blown several rods, but was not badly inj ured. Loss, $75,000.

TWO-POUND HAILSTONES. Many People Killed and Injured by Their Fall in India. Dispatches from India announce that Delhi and Morada bad had been visited by disastrous hail-storms, about 150 persons having been killed. The hailstones were flat and oval in shape and some of them weighed as much as two pounds. At Racebati, In Bengal, twenty persons were killed, 200 soverfely injured and 2,000 houses were destroyed by hailstones. Base-Dall Record. The national game has been fairly launched for the present season. Popular interest has by no means abated, and every indication points to a most successful season. The following table shows the standing on Monday of the ciubs of the four leagues in which Western readers are interested: League. Won. Lost. American. Won. Lost. Chicago 11 .12 4 Bostonll 2 St. Louis 9 4 New York 8 4 [Brooklyn 11 6 Detroit 7 ti|Athletie.B 7 Pittsburg 5 8 Baltimore..... 7 8 Philadelphia.. 5 8 Cleveland. .... 5 lo Washington... 2 lOiLoute vi11e..... 5 11 Indianapolis.. 2 21|Kansas City... 3 10 Western. Won. Lost. Interstate. Won. Lost. Des Moines.... 5 0 Dubuque 4 0 Omaha... 4 1 Crawfordsville. 4 1 St. Louis 4 1 [Bloomington... 2 1 Chicago. 2 3;Peoria3 3 Kansas City... 2. 3 Danville 2 3 Milwaukee 2 3 Bockford 1 2 St. Paul 1 4'bavenport..... 2 4 Minneapolis... 0 s|Decaturo 4

Flashes from the Cable. Mr. Pendleton, tbe United States Minister to Berlin, has fully recovered. The league branches of Limerick, Ireland, have condemned tbe papal rescript A wax figure of Gea. Boulauger in a shop■window in Berlin attracts constant attention from crowds. Victories Sardou, the dramatist, in an interview said he thought the French Republic would soon be broken up. Rerorts are that Russia has three corps of soldiers upon her western frontier. Opinion in London is that Russia intends showing an aggressive eastern policy. Condensed Dispatches. William McCue, on trial at Wilkesbarre, Pa., for the murder of Thomas Brennan, has been found guilty of murder in the second degree. Norman McDonald, of Cape Breton, the last known survivor of Che battle of Waterloo, in which he fought under Wellington, has just died at the age of 110. He emigrated to Nova Scotia in 1833. An express package containing $41,000 in currency, shipped by the American Exchange Bank of New York to the Treasury in Washington, was found to have been strangely converted into brown paper by the time it reached its destination. John Dean was murdered at Helena, M. T., in 1879. His slayer has remained undiscovered. Mrs. M. A. Eckert, an old resident, died recently, and before her demise confessed to her uorse how the crime was committed.

THEY ALMOST FOUGHT.

Congressmen Brumm anil Bryce NearlyCome to Blows in the House. Thebe was a scene of excitement in the House on the sth Inst., after Mr. Woodbum, of Nebraska, had closed his remarks on the tariff bill. He had incidentally remarked that Abram S. Hewitt, of New York, bad apologized to the British minister for having advocated a resolution before tue Forty-eiuhth Congress in regard to the judicial murder of an American citizen in England. Mr. Bryce, of New York, shaking his finger at Woodbum, said the statement as to Hewitt was false from beginning to end, and it was cowardly to make the charge in his absence. Woodbarn, gesticulating wildly, shouted that it was true and he could prove it. Almost every man ou the Republican side rose to his feet, and Messrs. Guenther, Darlington and several others excitedly talked at Bryce at the same time. Jr. Bryce was standing in the main aisle near Mr. Brumui of Pennsylvania 'lhe latter, shakin his fist at Bryce, said Hewitt acknowledged the fact on the iloorof tue House and apologized for it and said that it Bryce denied it he said wuat was false. Bryce said it was cowardly to assail a man in nis absence. The two men were standing within arms’ length and shaking their fists at each other so threateningly it was e pected that they would come to blows, “is this the Senate cf the United States ?” queried Mr. Hopkins o' tliinois, in an informa-tion-seeking tons, which set the House in a roar and which poured oil upon the troubled waters, for in a few moments Mr. Bryce and Mr. Brumm were seated together and talking amicably.

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. Samuel Steveks, a Connecticut milkman, mourns the loss of ten cows m one night The flooring of the stable gave way and the cows, which were fastened with halters to upright posts, were hanged by the neck until dead. Close upon the heels of the prosecution of the liquor dealers and a gang of burglars at Union City, Pa., came an attempt to assassinate Prosecuting Attorney Frank McClintock, his wife, and two children. Some unknown person placed two gas-pipe dynamite bombs beside Mr. McClintock’s residence, one under his bedroom and the othir under the front of the building. The one at the front of the house exploded, but owing to defect in construction only the front of the bouse was blown up and the inmates were not hurt. The other bomb had been lighted and placed under McClintock’s sleeping apartments, and but for the fact that the fuse was only half burned McClintock’s family would have been blown into eternity. The New York Commandery of the Loyal Legion elected Gen. Schofield Commander. The Massachusetts Supreme Court has denied a rehearing of the case of Mrs. Sarah J. Robinson, the Somerville poisoner convicted of the murder of Arthur Freeman, her brother-in-law. This means that Mrs. Robinson must hang unless the Governor and his council commute the sentence to imprisonment The experience of the New York elevated railroads as defendants in damage suits emphasizes the importance of securing right of way either by purchase, lease, or condemnation proceedings. Large sums of money are being quietly paid out by the Manhattan people in settlement of claims, as recent decisions of the courts establish the fact that damages can be collected for loss of rental to buildings in the past and in the future, and for all damage to the property itself, besides punitive damages for trespass in the original invasion of the streets. The strike at the Ejgar Thompson Steel Woiks at Braddock, Pa., has been declared off by the Knights of Labor.

THE WESTERN STATES.

Gen. Martin Beem, the Chicago politician and lawyer, who had been on the ranch of his father-ln-1 iw, D. Case, near Stanton, Neb., shot himself through the head. He died within five minutes after he fired the shot. It is believed that he killed himself on account of family’difficulties The day he reached Stanton to join his wife she left for Chicago, and she did not reiurn until the day of the aeed. When she arrived his eyes were swollen and inflamed, as if he had not slept for a long lime, and he was very pale aud weak. He grew despondent when he reached the ranch, ind nothing his father-in-law could say or do could cheer him any. It is believed that his reason was entirely dethroned when he blew out his brains. Billy Carson, a son of Kit Carson, the famous scout, shot aud killed Thomas J. Tobins iu a fight at Fort Garland, Colo. Tobins was a companion of Kit Carson, and almost rquaily famous. His most noted exploit was the capture of the Mbxican bandits, the Eapeuosas brothers, single-handed, for whose capture, either dead or alive, the Territorial and the United States Governments had offered large rewards. Tobins started after he men on horseback, and was gone three days. When he returned he brought with bin! the heads of both brothers in a gunnyjack, and dumped them on the floor of a Government office. He never received the reward.

William Garland, of Lafayette, Ind., one of the oldest hardware merchants iu that State, has made an assignment His assets are $7,000; liabilities unknown. • A storm of wind struck tbe little village of Lacona, in Warren County, lowa, demolishing a two-slory building used as a store ahd burying in the ruins a farmer —Leonard Wilson. He was dead when taken from the ruins. Two other men were slightly injured. Several buildings were unroofed. A charter hus been filed at Topeka, Kan., for “The Farmers’ Federation of the Mississippi Valley,” the farmers’ trust. The capital stock is $20,000,000, with shares at $lO each. The charter is signed by citizens of fourteen States and five Territories. Hoover & Allison, merchants of Xenia, Ohio, have failed, with liabilities of $200,000 and assets of $300,000. The Second National Bank of the same place, which held considerable of the paper, was forced to suspend. Allan O. Myers has been convicted at Columbus, Ohio, of contempt of court in publishing objectionable articles during the tallysheet forger)’ cases. He was fined S2OO and sentenced to three mouths’ imprisonment. An appeal was taken. On the farm of the Widow Freeze, near Arlington, Neb., occurred a horrible catastrophe. Fire broke out in the barn, and when cit zens reached the spot two hours later they found in the rums the charred remains of seven human beings, distributed among tbe burned carcasses of the live stock. The entire family, consisting of four adults and three children, had b.ieu burned to death, probably in the attempt to rescue tho cattle from tire burning stable. Fire destroyed the Los Augeles Cab) Cracker Company’s block and one dwelling, causing a loss of $65,000, with but SIO,OOO insurance. John Schuler, a watchman, is supposed to have perished in the flames. At Laporte, Ind., in tho trial of Henry Augustine for the murder of Samuel Brown, one of the jury became insano, fancying that his fellow-jurymen were going to murder him, and uot improving, tho Judge dismissed the jury., Fire afrSau Diego, Cal., destroyed the stores of S. G. Ingles, hardware; Charles Hamilton, groceries, agricultural implements, eta, and Frederick Hamilton, hardware, and slightly damaged other stores. Tho total loss was $150,001); total insurance, $85,000.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The Senate has passed the following pub-Jic-building bills: Sterling, 111. (Senate bill, $50,000), Fort Dodge, lowa (Senate bill, SIOJ,000), Duluth, Minn. (House bill, $150,000),

Atchison, Kan. (Senate Dill, $100,000). The House bill for * postoffice building at Indianapolis was also passed, with an amendment increasing the appropriation from $125,000 to $150,000. Following is the public debt statement issued by the United States Treasurer on the Ist inst: interest-bearing debt. Bonds at 4Uj per cent {228,054,600 Bonds at 4 per cent 731,380,350 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent 141,300 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent... 14,000,000 Pacific railroad bonds at 6 per cent 64,623,512 Principa151,038,199,762 Interest 7,065,343 T0ta1.51,045,765,105 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $2,675,155 Interest.. 170,874 Total $',846,029 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes $346,737,956 Certificates of deposit 10,555,000 Gold certificates 99,561,293 Silver certificates 194,426,932 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed)... 6,941,061 Principal $658,222,242 TOTAL DEBT. Principa151,699,097,159 Interest 7,736,217 T0ta151,706,833,376 Less cash items available for reduction of debts 314,955,552 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,000 S 414,955.552 Total debt loss available cash item 551,291,877,334 Net cash in the Treasury 110,244,969 Debt less cash in Treasury May 1, 189851,181,632,855 Debt less cash in Treasury April 1, 1888 1,190,868,155 Decrease during the month....s 9,235,300 Decrease since June 3, 1887 97,795,881 CASH IN TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $99,561,293 Silver held for silver certificates.. 194,426,932 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit 10,555,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 10,411,373 Fractional currency 954 Total available for reduction of debt $314,955,552 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. 8. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882 100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of debt— Fractional silver coin 25.750,228 Minor coin 148,160 Total 25,898,388 Certificates held as cash 39,269,609 Net cash balance on hand 110,244,969 Total cash in treasury as shown by Treasurer’s general account...’. $599,368,518 President Cleveland sent to the Senate on Monday, the 33th ult., the name of Melville W. Fuller, of Illinois, to be Chief Justice of the United Slates Supreme' Court. A Washington special to the Chicago Inter Ocean says; When the nomination reached the Senate, by a singular coincidence. Minister Phelps and Senator Gray were sitting together on one of the sofas. The nomination was immediately made the subject of generM whispered conversation, and as far as could be ascertained., the comment was entirely favorable to the selection from every standpoint, Mr. Fuller’s qualifications and fitness being recognized on the Republican side of the chamber, while the political wisdom erf the appointment is conceded by the Democrats who opposed the selection of Minister Phelps. Mr. Puller did not seek the office of Chief Justice or any other office from Mr. Cleveland, but he has been tendered at different times the positions of Solicitor General of the United States, member of the Civil Service Commission, and a member of the Commission of Pacific Railways, all of which he declined. It is understood that he will accept the position of Chief Justice if eon-, firmed. Mr. Fuller is a native of Maine, and ia 55 years old.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

The latest thing to form the basis of a trust is that interesting Vegetable the peanut Norfolk, Virginia, is the headquarters of the combination, which embraces peanutteries in New York, ’St. Louis, Cincinnati, and various points in Virginia Reports from all parts of Texas tell of an extraordinary rainfall throughout the State, doing much damage to railroads and farm property. All the small streams near Red River are overflowing their banks, submerging thousands of acres of grain aud cotton. A duel to the death occurred ou the streets of Jackson, Miss., between Gen. Wirt Adams and John H. Martin, editor of the New Mississippian. The immediate cause of the affray was an attack upon Gen. Adams in Martin’s paper, lhe telegraph re: ort says: General Adams met Martin on the street, and said : “You d—d rascal, I have had enough from you.” Martin hotly resuonded: “If you don’t like it ’’ and without waiting to finish the sentence drew his revolver and jumped Dehind a tree. General Adams instantly drew his own weapon, aud a rapid exchange of shots followed. Both men fell to the ground. As he went down Martin gasped, “lam deed," and almost immediately expired. Gen. ’Adams never spoke, a bullet having passed directly through his heart. This was the only wound he received, while Martin’s body had received three bullets. The tragedy -was the direct result of the kilhng of R. D. Gambrill, editor of tho temperance organ, the Sward. and Hfitld, by Col. Jones S. Hamilton, last spring, and for which Hamilton was recently tried and acquitted. Martin’s l>aper charged the General with using his position us Postmaster to prevent the circulation of a copy of tho paper containing comments upon the trial. Ar Summary lie, Ga., Henry Pope, colored, who was to have boon legally executed, but bod been reprieved by tho Governor, was taken from the jail au 1 hung by a mob, regardless of the respite. Geobge Morton, a miner, shot and killed a deputy marshal at Warrior, Alabama. Officers fearing mob violence, secreted Mortou in thecaboose of a freigh train, with the intention of taking him to Birmingham, but the caboose was detached and the prisoner taken out and hanged aud riddled with bullets. A cyclone passed over the eastern portion : of Ouachita County, Arkansas. It struck Josiah Hersou’s p ace, wrecked his houses, and destroyed his fencing, but no 1 vas were lost The storm traveled from the southeast to the northwest, and its track was about 15J yards wi ie. Trees were twisted and torn from their roots and hurled about like straws. Damage is also reported at 8. Blake’s and other places j in tbe neighborhood. John L. Black an.l Samuel Black, brothers, who went from Alabama nearly thirty years ago to Nevada, aud had acquired a large amount, of real estate in Virginia City, had a quarrel which resulted in the death of the former. Two shots were heard in a building which the brothers owned, and then Samuel Black emerged from the house with an iron wrench in his hand, went to the Sheriff’s office and surrendered. His brother’s body was found in the house with the front part of II •

the skull broken and with a bullet wound. Samuel claims that he killed his brother in self-defense. At New Orleans, C. W. Moore, President of the spurions “Honduras -Mining Company”; H. Y Mullen, Vice President; and J. W. Quayle, its Secretary and Treasurer, were indicted by the United States Grand Jury for devising a scheme to defraud.

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

A banquet was given at the Kaiser Hotel, Berlin, in honor of Carl Schurz. Count Herbert Bismarck, several members of the Reichstag, and other distinguished persons were present It is reported that Queen Victoria is about to confer a decoration upon Prince Bismarck in recognition of the gallantry and good-will shown by the Iron Chancellor during her recent visit m Btr.in The Chinese are not wanted in Australia, The Governor at Melbourne refused to allow the landing of 268 immigrants brought from Hong Kong. At Leughrea, Ireland, William O’Brien, member of and editor of United Ireland of Dublin, was convicted and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment Mr. O’Brien was charged with violating the crimes act by advising the people in a proclaimed district to join the League. Mr. Gilhooly, member of Parliament, who was sentenced to two weeks’ imprisonment fer offenses under the crimes act; has been released. A large crowd greeted him as he left the prison. In a speech Mr. Gilhooly referred to the Pope’s rescript He said the plan of campaign protected rack-rented tenants, and he did not believe the Bishops and priests would deprive the people of that most potent weapon. A Dublin dispatch says United Ireland has a violent article on the Pope’s decree. It says: The rescript stamps Balfour’s abject failure. It is the coercionists’ last card. The Tories have imitated the weakest and most despicable of English monarchs, King John. They have paid tribute to Rome tor help in the hour of ignominious defeat, thereby buying their own deathwarrant. They also hoped that the rescript would demoralize the Catholic faith in Ireland, which they hate as bitterly as they do the league. They hoped indignation and wounded affection.would be more powerful than terror; but they will utterly fail in both nefarious projects. Irishmen will take the rescript for what it is worth and nothing more. The article concludes with a denunciation of Mgr. Persico’s “one-sided inqu’ry.” Anew journal, the Irish Catholic, has a mild leader to the same effect Emperor Frederick was free from fever the morning of the 4th and able to rise from his bed. He is now considered out of immediate danger, and no more bulletins will be issued unless a relapse should occur.

TEE WORLD AT LARGE.

It is rumored that another Cardinal’s hat is soon to come from Rome to America, and that the exalted honor will be conferred upon either Archbishop Feehan, of Chicago, or Bishop Ireland, tho great temperance orator of St Paul, who has lately been created an Archbishon. The visible supply of wheat and corn is, respectively, 33,473,243 and 8,539,311 bushels. Since last report wheat has decreased 1,60,175 bushels, while corn has increased 342,088 bushels. The opposition to the re-election of Presi dent Diaz in Mexico has brought out Jose Maria Iglesias as a candidate. The gentleman seems unwilling to make tho race, believing that no one can be elected against Diaz. The Canadian Government will improve the quarantine service at Grosse Isle, in the St Lawrence Rivor, to prevent the introduction of cholera this season. A new fumigating apparatus, coating $120,000, will be adopted. The Comptroller of the Currency has declared a sixth dividend of 5 per cent to tho creditors of the Richmond National Bank, Richmond, Ind. The address of tho Methodist bishops, read at the general conference, shows that in the past fajir years 450,000 souls have been brought into the church and the membership increased from 1,769,534 to 2,093,935. The bishops are opposed to high license and in favor of total prohibition of the liquor traffic.

THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Choice to Prime Steers $5.00 @ 5.50 Good 4.00 <!<> 4.50 Cows and Heifers 2.50 @ 350 Hogs—Shipping Grades 5.00 sJ 5.75 Sheep 5.00 Hi 6.59 Wheat—No. 2 Red 84% t? Corn—No. 2.55 @ .56 Oats—No. 232 .34 Barley—No. 277 @ .78 Butteb— Choice Creamery 23 @ .25 Fine Dairy 22 .24 Cheese—Full Cream, fiat 09)£ 4 .10*4 Eggs—Freshl2 @ .13 Potatoes—Sweet, per bri 4.00 & 5.09 Pork—Mess 13.50 ±14.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—June 83 .61 Corn —No. 354’£ 'C Oats—No. 2 White .35 Rye—No. 164 @ .66 Barley—No. 2 69 (9 .70 Pork—Mess 13.50 i 14.00 TOLEDO. Wheat—Cash 88 if? .68’4 Corn—Cash 56 Oats—No. 2 White3s & Clover Seed 4.00 4.10 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 84>4<fli .85 Corn—Mixed 51 & Oats—Cush32 <<» .33 Rye 62 $ .62 Barley 80 .88 Pork—Mess 14.00 14.50 NEW YORK. Cattle 4.50 @ 5.59 Hogs 5.50 st 6.09 Sheeps.so ® 7.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 94 <(« .95 Corn—No. 2 67>£ Oats —White 4o i<« .45 Pork—New Mess 14.75 4J15.5J DETROIT. Cattle 4.00 5.25 Hogs 5.00 @ 5.75 Sheep 4.00 uJ 6.00 Wheat—No. 1 White .89 .«> .90 Corn—No. 2 Yellow .. Oats—No. 2 White .374 a 41 38 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle 4.50 i<s 5.25 Hogs 5.25 @ 6.00 Sheep 5.50 6.25 Lambs ’ 6.00 $ 7.00 BUFFALO. Cattle 4.00 @ 5.00 Hogs 5.0 J «i 600 Sheep 5.00 @ 7.25 Wheat—No. 1 White 96 d .97 Cobn— No. 3 Yellow64%s .65% EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Prime 4.75 " 525 Fair 4.25 @4 75 Common 4.00 m 4.25 Hogs 5.50 1/6 00 Sheep 6.25 @ 6.75 Lambs., 6,0 j (g 10.00

CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and the Honsa of Representatives. The feature of the Senate proceedings on tha. Ist inst. was the ipeecn of Mr. Ingalls in reply to Mr. Voorhees, which led to a spirited exchange of personalities between the two Senators. The Kansas Senator declared that whatever might have been his own (Ingalls') relations to the war of the rebellion, tue Senator from Indiana had been from the outset the determined, outspoken, positive, and malignant enemy of the Union cause. “I proiwunce that," said Mr. Voorhees, rising, with anger in his eyes, “to be a deliberate false accusation. ’’ Mr. Vocrnees asserted that not one word or syllable said by the Senator was true, or believed to oe true in Indiana. The Senator's insinuation that he (Voorhees) had ever been a member of a political secret society—the Knights of the. Golden Circle—was so base and infamously false that he did not know how to choose language to denounce it as such. Mr. Ingalls retorted to the effect that the charge that Voorhees had called Union soldiers “hirelings and Lincoln dogs, ” etc., could be substantiated by as creditable a witness as there was in the city Mr. Voorhees—“And even if the Senator said it, it would be absolutely false and a palpable lie." Mr. Ingalls—“The Senator is. disorderly. ” Continuing. Mr. Ingalls read from, a paper signed by citizens of Sullivan County, who said that they were present at a meeting on April 6, 1862. when Mr. Voorhees said that Union soldiers should go to the nearest blacksmith shop ana have an iron collar put around their necks with tbe inscription, “My dog. Abraham Lincoln.” The Senator in his address to his constituents in 1861 had declared that he would never vote a single dollar nor a single man for the prosecution of the war, and he had never done so so long as he was in Congress. Mr. Voorhees said that if tbe gentleman from Kansas would find one single vote that he had cast against the paym nc of soldiers, for their supplies, for their bounties, for their, pensions, he would resign his seat in the Senate. Every word the Senator had stated on that subject was absolutely false—by the record, absolutely salsa. Mr. Ingalls—“Did not the soldiers of Indiana threaten to hang the Senator with a bell-rope on a train after he had made that Lincoln dog speech!’’ Mr. Voorhees—“The Senator is a great liar when he intimates such a thing—a. great liar and a dirty dog. It never occurred, never in the world. That is all the answer I have, and I pass it back to the scoundrel behind the Senator wbo is instigating these'lies.*' (This remark was made in reference to Representative Johnston (Indiana), who was seated at a desk directly in the rear of Mr. Ingalls.) Mr. Ingalls—“There is a very reputable gentleman in tbe chamber, a citizen of Indiana, who informs me that the signers of the certificate are ent«ely reputable inhabitants of Indiana, and that he knows fifty people that heard the Senator." Mr. Voorhees—“Tell him I say he is an infamous scoundrel and a liar. Tell him I say so." The Senate passed a bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for a public building at Emporia, Kan. In the House, Messrs. McCreary, of Kentucky, Foran, of Ohio, and Dorsey, of Nebraska, aired their views on the tariff question. Exhaustive arguments were made before the House Committee on Manufactures on the2d, by tbe counsel for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, in defense of tha refusal of two of its officers to produce statements of the rebates allowed on the road. Without deciding upon the merits of the points raised, the committee determined to proceed with the examination of the officers, but nothing of importance was developed, the agents of the road declining to answer questions regarding rebates and discriminations. Dr. Norvin Green. of the Western Union Telegraph Company, appeared before the House Committee on Postoffices. He opposed the Hopkins postal telegraph bill, the enactment of which, he said, would be a monstrous wrong, because it ignored the rights of property. He said theantagonism to the Western Union was founded on the supposed monopoly of that company. That company had no exclusive privileges. The elementary patents in telegraphy had expired, and anybody co„ld go into the telegraph business. They hod done so and were still doing so. In the Senate Mr. Dawes offered an amendment to the railroad land-grant forfeiture bill providing that the act shall not be considered to impairany rights, legal or equitable, now vested in any person or corporation to any of the lands declared forfeited. He admitted that his object was to protect the title of the Portage Lake Canal Company, in whose title there was a technical defect, and also to protect innocent-bona-fide purchasers under that title. Mr. Berry objected to allowing the canal company to acquire $25,C0),000 or $40,C00,C00 worth of land tor a canal that was never built; tnat was a fraud which the State of Michigan was trying to dump upon the General Government. The amendment and bill west over. In the tariff debate in the House. Mr. Lanham (Tex ', while favor, ng the Mills bill, criticised it as being too protective. Mr. Palmer of Michigan made an argument in the Senate, on the 3d inst., in favor of tbe< bill to establish a bureau of animal industry. He paid particular attention to the opposition, to the measure, the general idea conveyed being that the opposition came solely from the existing Bureau es Animal Industry. He was followed by Mr. Vest, of Missouri, wbo defended Commissioner Colman and denounced what he called the “cattle syndicate.” “Talk,” said Mr. Vest, “about trusts! Talk about pools I The cattle pool of Chicago is the most infamous tyranny that ever existed in the United States And I know bo remedy for it. The statesman who would invent the remedy would deserve a monument more enduring than the Capitol.” Mr. Plumb of Kansas followed Mr. Vest, and was equally vehement in hie denunciation of the Chicago cattie pool. He said it was unquestionably tae worst combine in the whole country. There was no trust or combination that had had so powerful or sobaleful an influence a» that combination. For years the prices of cattle to the producers had baen going down. No cattle commission man dared to set up fer himself in Chicago. It was safe to say that on every steer of three years old and upward raised west of the Mississippi River during the last five years the market value had been, by this combination, reduced not less than $lO a Lead. The damage to the State of Kansas alone during that time had been more than. $40,4)00,000, and the wealth of the syndicate had. grown proportionately Mr. Stewart introduced a bill in the S.nato to execute the stimulations of the new Cninose treaty. The Rouse agreed to the Senate amendment to the Indianapolis postoffice bill increasing the appropriation from $125,eu0 to $150,900. and then, resumed consideration of the Mills tariff bill. Mr Wilson of West Virginia and Mr. Bingley of Maine, respectively, spoke for and against the m« asure. A resolution was adopted by the House on. the 4th, calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement as to whether there is an order or regulation of the Treasury Department the enforcement of which would prevent, the overloading of vessels wish freight on the great la».es. The report in the California contested election case of Lyneh verius Vandever v>as placed on the calendar. Tee report ia. unanimously in f»vor of Vandaver, the sitting member. Mr. Cox. of New Yerk, presented in the House the bill for appropriate reference of a memorial from. Gens, nchofieid aijd Slocum and other members of the Army of the Potomac, asking lor an a.prvpiiaiion of »25,txD to aid in meeting the-e-xpeubea oi tbe fraternal reunion of tbe survivors of tbe Army of the Potou ac anu the armies of Northern Virginia, to be n«ld o, too bat lefie.d at Getly.b.rg in uuly next, to commemorate the tweuty-ririii aanirersary of etiat conflict ini', t asweil i Wis.) criticised tu? Mills tariff bib in the House, declaring it d;d not proriue any substantial decrease on articles of general consumption. He advocated the entire removal of the duty on sugar, which, he said, w uld ta»e a tax from tae food of every person in the country, and advocated a reas -nabie bounty to sugar producers. Mr. McDonald (Minn.) thought the bill did not go far enough. Ho Would place coal, iron ore, und sunar on tbe free list. Ho warned the 'Republican party that it had better meet tue Democratic party half-way in its efforts lor tariff reform. Mr. Guenther (Wis.) said the Republicans generally favored abolishing entire.y the tax on tonacco and spirits used iu tbe arts add manufactures. Should further reductions be necessary they propose.! to abolish the duty an sugar and pay a bounty to the producers amount ng to a sum equal to the present tax This policy would mate a reduction of about sßp,tt)o,ooJ certain and absolute. At the evening session twenty-seven pension bills werepassed.