Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1890 — Page 2

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A TURBULENT WORLD.

I>n’OT!TAN'T HAPPENINGS OF THE I)AY TOED BY TELEGRAPH. Foreign and Domestic Intelligence Transmitted by Wire—A Kaleidoscope of Interesting Occurrences—Political, Criminal, Accidental, and Industrial. WANT TO BUY THE LEAGUE OUT. •1,000,(100 Offered lor the Franchise of the Ten Clubs. A Now York dispatch says: A new phase of the base-ball war was disdlosed, when it became known that a syndicate of capitalists had offered a cool $1,0JU,003 for the franchises of the ten clubs comprising the National League. It is not definitely announced who tho capitalists are, but it is widely believed that the raou who made the offer for tho League franchises are the backers of tho Brotherhood clubs and their friends, and their intention is. if tne purchase be consummated, to merge the rival leagues. BURIED TREASURE EXHUMED. What a Virginia Man Found in the Ruin* of His Burned Dwelling. The other day Are destroyed the dwelling of Luther Limerick, near Falmouth, Stafford County, Va. While digging in the ruin 3 Mr. Limerick found, buried a couple of feet under ground, a large tin bucket nearly filled with gold and silver coins, the amount of which he will not tell. Some years ago an old hermit died in a hut on the place, and, it is supposed, buried the treasure where it was found. FATAL FIKE ON A CANALBOAT. A Boy Biirneil, to Death and Several Persons Injured at New York. By the explosion of a lamp in tho cabin of the cannlboat A. C. Chandler of the New York Central Railroad, lying at the foot of West Sixtieth street. New York City, Dennis Daily, 3 years oil, the son of the captain. Patrick Daily, was burned to death, and Captain Daily, Ills wi’e, and two other children were severely burnod. Doui Pedro Desires to Return to Bra/.11, ■ Charles R. Flint, of New York, says he has just seen a Paris letter from, a close friend’'of the deposed Emperor of Brazil announcing positively that Dom Pedro will, when the constitutional convention meets at liib Janeiro, in November next, notify that body of his desire to renounce all claiiri to his title hnd ask that he be permitted to return to his people as a private citizen and aid them in firmly establishing the fepublic recently formed.

Curdiiial Gibbons on the Negro Problem. A Baltimore (Md.) dispatch says: Cardiff auGffibons has made ah address to his congregation in behalf of the negro and Indian missions. "There are now.” said Eminence, "about seven million negroes in the IJnited States and the negro question has become a serious problem to the American people. The best solution of this problem; in my judgment, will be found in Christianizing the negroes.” All Hope for an Overdue Vessel Abandoned A Halifax (N. 8.) dispatch says: All hope of the safety of the schooner Laburnaim has been given up. She sailed hence on her first voyage forty-nine days ago, and has not since been heard of. She carried a crew of eight men. Fatal Explosion at Omaha. By an explosion at the South Omaha packing-house of Armour & Gudahv three persons were killed outright, seven seriously or fatally injured, and a number were hurt. Embezzler Walton Captured. Fred A. Walton,the Pacific Express clerk who disappeared Feb. 2 from Dallas. Texas, with a $35,000 package, has been captured at St. John, N. 8., as he was about to sail for the West Indies. Convicted of Jury-Ilrlblng. Jeremiah O’Donnell, on trial at Chicago upon a charge of attempt at jury-bribing in the Cronin case, lias bson adjudged guilty and given a sentence of three .years in the penitentiary. Deatli of John Jacob Astor. John Jacob Astor. grandson of the man of that name, and the richest man in .America. died at his home in New York City, aged 70 years, of heart failure. “ La Grippe ” Honored by the Pope. The Pope has granted a special dispensation from fasting and prayer during the Lenten season to the whole world where the grip has presented itself. Honoring Washington’s Natal Day. Washington’s birthday was celebrated in various cities throughout the Union by meetings, parades, banquets, aud other gatherings. Not Guilty of Murder. Seth Tworubly and his fireman, La Cloche, charged with murder in connection with the South Englewood railroad horror. have been declared not guilty by a Chicago jury. , A Bauk Wreckor Out ou Bail. George H. Pell, the alleged New York bauk wrecker, has secured bondsmen and has been releasod from custody. Reported Boss of a Boston Steamer. It is.ropcntod that the steamer Dominion, from Boston to Nova Scotia, has been lost, and that al! on board perished. A Beservplr Bursts with Awful Results. Forty persons were drowned by the giving way of a great resorvoir at Prescott, A. T* • - 1 ■ *« Women Crusaders Fined, The woman crusaders of St. Joseph, Mo., bar* boon flnod |5 each.

TO TEST Hits kvli.iuS. The Courts to Pass Upon Speaker Heed’s Rales. It is understood that the Democratic leaders in the House have held several conferences lately to consider the question of contesting'the constitutionality of Speaker Reed's ruling that “members present but not voting shall be counted to make a quorum.” Mr. Carlisle virtually foreshadowed such action in his remarks to the House on the 18th inst, when he said: “This question must to to some other forum when a proper ease arises.” When asked vyhat he meant by a proper ease arising. Mr. Carlisle said: “I mean whenever a bill is passed which affects the rights of an individual or of property. Then the person or corporation whose rights are abridged or whoso property is affected may seek redress in the courts by testing the constitutionality of the biit passed under Speaker Reed’s ruling as to what constitutes a quorum. Of course we cannot take the matter before tho courts; wo can only refrain from voting on some measure which will involve tho rights of some person or property, and so Create tho occasion for testing the constitutionality of the Speaker’s decision. We are all convinced it will not stand." HE IS NOT THE MAN. That Cronin Suspect Arrested in St. Louis Proves to Be the Wrong Party. A Chicago dispatch says that J. B. Kelly, the man arrested in St. Louis on suspicion of being the one who drove Dr. Cronin to the place of his butchery on the evening of May 4 last, was brought to Chicago, and shortly after his arrival Mrs, Conklin and Frank Scanlan, the last two friends of Dr. Cronin to see him alive, and who witnessed his departure from his office on the evening of his death, were called in to see him. They spent half an hour in the private office of Chief Marsh with him. had an opportunity of conversing with him and subjecting him to the closest scrutiny. They not only failed to identify him ns the person wanted, but were positive in the opinion that he is not the person who drove the white horse on the occasion referred to. Both were of the opinion that he bears a very striking resemblance to the man wanted, but both agree that there are vital points of difference, and that the prisoner is an older, taller, and stouter man than the one wanted.

THE CRONIN CASE AGAIN. Tlio Man Who Drove Dr. Cronin to the Cottage Under Arrest. A St. Louis (Mo.) dispatch says: "Smith,” the man who drove the buggy in which Dr. Cronin rode to his death at the Carlson cottage. Chicago, is under arrest here. Lieut. Clark and Officer Collins, of the Chicago police force, who are here, have positively identified him. The arrest of Smith—or Kelly, as the man calls himself—was made by Detective Thomas, of Chicago, assisted by two local detectives. When told by a reporter that he was arrested as a suspect I in the Cronin case he said he knew that, but added that he knew nothing aboutithe Cronin case, and did not know any of the persons interested in it except Thomas Desmond of San Francisco. He did not know Bourko, O’Sullivan the iceman, Alexander Sullivan, Kunze, nor any of those tried for the murder. He had never belonged to the Clan-na-Gaet camp, and was not an active Irish sympathizer, although of Irish parentage. He had not been in Chicago for several months. He had been in St. Louis about two weeks, and had been stopping at Fourth street and Christie avenue. The Chicago police authorities believe they have the man who drove the Doctor to his death. BOOK IT!’;E PROTECTION. Unsafe Condition of the White House. A W’ashinaton dispatch"of the 21st says: The recent Are at the home of Secretary Tracy has caused the Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds to give his attention to the White Hpuse a 3 a possible fire trap, and ho linds that the old mansion will stand a Door show against a goodsized fire. The house is said to be provided now with almost everything that has 1 een invented in the way of Are - escapes. It has been discovered, however, that the nearest Are-alarm box is some dstance away, over at the Treasury, and that much valuable time would be consumed in ringing tne alarm should the mansion he on Are. Col. Ernst has, therefore, arranged to establish in tho White House, free of cost, a system of alarms to be connected with the city Are-alarm service, and when this is done all the precaution possible against Are will have been taken.

. SILCOTT HEABD FROM. Tlie Late Defaulter Said to Be Anxious to Return. A Washington dispatch says: There is great excitement in Washington. A gentleman well known here and throughout the count y came to the city and told a few friends the story of his having met Thermiuie M. Thibalt, alias Louise Barrett, in a house in New York City three da>-3 ago. Thibault, or Barrett, is the woman who accompanied Silcott, ex-cashier of the Sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives, when he disappeared from Washington at the beginning of December, leaving a deficit of $70,009 or SBO,OOO behind. Barrett then sa ! d she was on her way to Washington,' and that Silcott would soon follow because he was tired of playing scupegoat for the real criminal. SIX YEARS FOR CARELESSNESS. Fixing the Responsibility of That Terrible Explosion in Antwerp. A Brussels cable says: The Appeal Court, to which was oarried the case of M. Corvellain. the proprietor of the cartridge factory at Antwerp in which the disastrous explosion occurred last September, and who was sentenced to four years and six months’ imprisonment, and to pay a fine of 2,500 francs for committing homicide by imprudence, has confirmed the sentenoe

originally imposed and added eighteen months to the time to be qprved by the prisoner. CONFIRMATIONS. President Harrison’s Appointees Approved by the Senate. The following appointments have been confirmed by the Senate; R. E. Sloan, Associate .Justice Supreme Court of Arizona ; E. D. Weed, United States Attorney for Montana; Hiram Knowles of Montana, United States District Judge for Montana ; Levi E. Pond. Pension Agent at Milwaukee. Consuls —F. A Husher of Minnesota, at Port Stanley and Port Thomas ; Frank B. Hill of Minnesota, at Montevideo; C. I. Croft of Indiana, at Cartliagena, United Statss of Colombia ; Edward Bedloe of Pennsylvania, at Amoy ; H. R. Myers of South Dakota, at San Salvador, Samuel Merrill of Indiana (Consul Generali, at Calcutta. Census Supervisors : Illinois —Oscar F. Avery, Fourth District; John H. Fisher, Fifth; Jacob Wheeler, Sixth. lowa—l)a\id W. Reed, Second District. .Michigan—John C. Sharp. First District. Mississippi— E. Aldrich, First District; J. E. Oustey, Third District. Wisconsin—J. L. Lindermau, Fifth District. NEW FEDERAL OFFICIALS. President Harrison’s Selections for Government Places. President Harrison has sent to the Senate the following nominations; United States Marshal?—Hutson B. Saunders, District of Maine; William Long, Northern District of California. Supervisor of CensusWilliam H. Soale, Fourth District of Indiana. Nominations Withdrawn: Receivers of Public Moneys—Malcolm D. Mix. at Del Norte, Colo.; John A. Percival, Devil's Lake. N. D. Michigan—John F. Nested, Manchester; John Graham, Buchanan. Kansas William C. Charles, Kiowa ; Thomas E. Harley, Minneapolis. Minnesota—Johanuh E. West, St. Clcnd; Joaiah A. Peck, Wabashu. Wisconsin—Frank B. Hand, Hurley. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. A Storm in Japan Carries Over Nine Hundred Fishing-Boats to Sea. A San Francisco (Cal.) dispatch of Fob. 21 says: Japanese advicos received here say that the storm which swept along Boshu coast on Jan. 24 was very disastrous. About one thousand fishing-boats, with between 2,500 and 3,000 fishermen, 1 drifted out to sea. Nine hundred of these boats with all the men on board were lost. Most of the bodies drifted upon the beach, and were taken care of by their sorrowing relatives. PORN ON A STREET-CAR, A Baby Given Birth Under Peculiar Circumstances. Mrs. Rosa Barozynski, a Polish woman who arrived at Toledo. Ohio, from Cleveland. gave bii th to a bouncing girl baby in a street-ear en route from the depot uptown. f-he and her babe were taken from the car to tho nearest hotel, and are doing finely. Her husband, who was with her, left the hotel soon after, and as he has not shown up since t.he wife thinks the occurrence was too much for him and that lie has deserted he . FIRE IN A YOUNG LADIES’ SEMINARY. Tin •ee Girls Seriously Burned and Many Hurt Jumping from Windows. An Austin (Tex.) dispatch says; News lias been received here of the burning of a seminary for girls at San Marcos, thirty miles south. Three of the girls were seriously burned, and thirty others only escaped death by jumping from the thirdstory windows to a gallery, from which they escaped on ladders. Many were hurt in making the jump.

No More Horn! Purchases for the Present. No more 4 per cent, bonds will be purchased by the Treasury Department until further notice, the time within which Secretary Windom offered to accept them at 124 in liquidation of public deposits with national banks having expiiod. The total amount purchased on this account is about $12,000,000, of which $7,0 K 1.0015 was surrendered under tho first call for a reduction of the fund. Of the eighty banks included in the second call favorable responses have already been received from sixty-five, which surrendered over $5,010,000 in Government bonds, thirty-two of the banks going out of tne system altogether. Don’t Like tho Newspapers. A Washington dispatch says: Senator Blair has again paid his respects to the press in his speech on his educational bill. The private press, said ho. that runs only for its own emolument and has to make money, and that leaves out tho most truth —especially if it is unpalatable—is a poor press to rely upon. This great American press of ours is tho source of mors mischief in this country than there would be if we had no press at all. There may come a time when a dog-fight will not be more important in the opinion of this press than a great school bill, but that time has not been reached.

Said to Be Short $250,000. A Jackson (Miss.) dispatch says: “A sensation was created by the rumor that tho outgoing State Treasurer, Col. W. L. Hemingway, had not settled in full with the new State Treasurer. Attention wa3 called to the matter on the fioor of the Senate and the statement made that tho amount not yet paid over was $250,000. A committee was appointed to investigate the matter and report as soon as practicable. Hemingway had been Treasurer for fourteen years, andno man in the State had enjoyed to a greater extent the confidence of the whole people.” The Timber Act to Be Repealed. A Washington dispatch says: The House Committee on Public Lands has unanimously agreed to report favorably a bill to repeal the timber culture law. The committee took up the bill introduced by Representative Pickier (S. D.) to allow timberculture claimants to commute their claims alter four years’ cultivation at $1.25 an aero, and instructed Mr. Pickier to report it favorably, but with the addition of a now section repealing the timber-culture law entirely. Threo Boys Drowned. A Detroit (Mich,) dispatch says: Three boys, George Bailey, Norman Schofield, and Frank Fairchild, were skating on Dover Lake, near Port Dover, Out, when one of them broke through the ice, and the other two, in trying to help him out, also fell into the water. All were drowned before hplp could reach them. Another I lad, crossing the same lake on foot, also

broke through and narrowly escaped death. Left Much Property to Charity. The will of the 1 ite John S. Minor, the retired lumber-merchant of Detroit, Mich., leaves property valued at $100,003. Mr. Minor bequeaths to his widow SIO,OOO, an annual allowance of $3,000, and the homestead and household effects. Bishop Worthington receives SIO,OOO to carry on church work in Nebraska. The rest of the estate is divided among several charitable institutions. Four CJiildren Burned to Death. Fire destroye l the residence of John Liston, of Kingston, Canada, and before rescuers could get into the building four children—Theresa, Cecilia, Willie and John, aged from 4 to 12 years were burned to death. Mr. and Mrs. Liston„ terribly burned, escaped by jumping from a window, the mother first throwing out a baby and a 5-year-old boy. The scenes at the conflagration were heartrending. George Francis, the Circumnavigator. A Boston dispatch says: George Fiancis Train is busy perfecting his plans for his proposed trip around the world, which he expects to accotnpiish in sixty days, starting from Tacoma, Wash. He- has received a telegram from that place guaranteeing a special steamer and escort of citizens from Tacoma to the steamer Abyssinia, which leaves Vancouver March 17. Mr. Train will leave Boston March 9. An Alleged Jury-Briber Not Guilty. A Chicago dispatch says that in the trial of the jury-bribers Judge Waterman has agreed to instruct the jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty as to Thomas Kavunaugh, leaving Jerry O’Donnell as the only prisoner on trial. Wants Kansas AYoinen to Vote. Mrs. Laura M. Johns, President of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association, has Issued an appeal urging the women of the State to exercise their right of suffrage at the approaching elections. A Hungarian Statesman Expires.

A Pesth dispatch says: Count Julius Andrassy, the well-known Hungarian statesman, who has been ill for spins time at Voiosca. near ITume, is dead. He was 67 years old. Union ol Woipan Suffrage Associations. At Washington the three national woman suffrage organizations have been united in one. Elizabetli Cady Stanton has been elected President and Susan B. Anthony Vice President. Explosion In a French Colliery. An Explosion oecu red in a colliery near Decize, Depaitmeut of Nievre, says a Paris cable. It is not known how many lives were lost, but already thirty-four bodies have been recovered. Cattle Men Ordered to Vacate. A Washington dispatch says: The President has issued a proclamation ordering the removal of cattle from the Cherokee strip by Oct. 1, and forbidding the use of the lands for grazing purposes. The Visible Supply of Grain. The visible supply of wheat and corn is reported, respectively, as 30,573.303 and 12,583,360 bushels. Since last report wheat diminished 682,455 bushels, and corn decreased 453,077 bushels. A Heavy Failure at Gotham. Gilmartin & Doyle, extensive New York woolen merchants, have made a general assignment, without preferences. The nominal assets are £235,000, and the liabilities about $90,00J. Youths Fatally Quarrel Over Cards. Warren Bloom and Warren Adkins, boyso€ 12, quarreled over a game of cards at Hope, Ind., when Bloom drew a revolver and fatally shot his young companion. Sir Louis Mallet Dead. A London cabl3 reports the death of the lit. Hon. Sir Louis Mallet, C. 8., the wellknown authority on commercial treaties, lrom influenza. Adopted the Australian Ballot System. By a vots of 21 to 8 the North Dakota Senate adopted the Australian election system.

THE MARKETS.

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THE SENATE AND HOUSE.

NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING. Proceedings of the Senate and House oi Representatives Discussed and Acted On—Gist of the Business. Is the Senate, on the 17th inst., Mr. Dawes presented over 240 petitions from Massachusetts praying that the export of intoxicating liquors to Africa be stopped. Mr. Blair presented petitions signed by 30,000 members of the Grand Army of the Republic in favor of pensions tc army nurses, and petitions signed by over 4.000,000 persons in favor of the educational bill. Mr. Frye reported from the Committee on Pacific Railroads the bill providing for the adjustment of the indebtedness of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads. This hill was reported in lieu of two bills which had been referred to the committee. After several unimportant bills were disposed of Senator Blair took the floor and continued his remarks on the educational bill for the space of three hours, when the Senate adjourned. In the House, after the reading and approval of the journal, Mr. Struble reported a resolution making the bill to provide a temporary form of government for the Territory of Oklahoma a special order for consideration on the following day, not to interfere with the World's Fair bills, which passed without objection. Mr. Candler, Chairman of the committee on the world’s fair, moved to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution offered by him fixing Feb. 20 and 21, after the reading of journal, for consideration of the world’s fair bills, the vote to be taken on Monday, Feb. 21, unless the House Bhall determine during the debate that there shall be no world’s fair. A vote was taken which resulted in 114 yeas to 8 nays, when the Democrats made the point that there was no quorum voting. The Speaker announced that there were 172 members in the hall and that a quorum was therefore present. The decision caused a long discussion between the Speaker and the Democratic side of the House, at the conclusion of which the world’s fair resolution was adopted. The House bill for the relief of the Sioux Indians at Devils Lake, N. Dak., was passed, also a bill providing for an appointment of thirty additional medical pension inspectors, but owing to the absence of a quorum no result was reached. The House then adjourned. Among the bill reported to the Senate on the 18th from committees and placed on the calendar were the following; Appropriating SIOO,000 for a public building at Grand Forks, N. D. To provide for the admission of the State of Idaho into the Union. Senator Blair continued his speech in favor of his educational bill. On motion of Senator Cullom, the Senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business, and after a session of five minutes adjourned.' The Senate, in .executive session, confirmed the extradition treaty with Great Britain. In the House there was no objection from the minority side to the approval of the journal of the previous day’s proceedings. Upon motion of Mr. O’Neill of Pennsylvania, Saturday afternoon, March 15, was set apart for the delivery of eulogies upon the late Representative Kelley, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Morrow, of California. from the Appropriations Committee, reported the pension appropriation bill. Referred to the committee of the whole. A conference committee was ordered upon the bill to direct the superintending of the census to collect the statistics of farm mortgages and indebtedness. The House spent the eutire afternoon on the bill to organize the territory of Oklahoma and establish courts in Indian Territory.

The Senate passed the following bills on the 19th : Appropriating SIOO,OOO for a public building at Fort Dodge, lowa, and $105,005 for one at Lansing, Mich. Favorable reports have been authorized on bills introduce! in the House making appropriations for ths erection of public buildings as follows : Baton Rouge, $100,000; Fremont, Neb., $00,000; New London, Conn., $75,000; Allegheny City, Fa., $25 i,OOJ; Hudson, N. Y., $75,000; Lafayette, lnd., $30,0 )0; Burlington, la., and Mankato, Minn . $50,010 ta;lr. The bill increasing the appropriation for the building at Milwaukee by szoo,uoo and that for the building at Scranton by sl/5,050 wero also favorablyreported. The Secretary of tne Treasury sent to the Senate a detailed report ox the negotiations for a site for a public building at Buffalo, N. Y., saying tha appropriation of $250,0,0 is not adequate, and suggesting that the site be purchased by condemnation to avoid difficulty over the question of value. The bill appropriating $95,050 Tor a building at Fargo, N. D., will %e reported favorably to the Senate. Bills were passed by the House as follows: Dividing the judicial district of North Dakota into tour divisions, the sessions of the courts to be held at Bismarck, Grand Forks, Fargo, and Devil’s Lake, with amendments providing for the division of South Dakota into three divisions, sessions of the courts to be held at Sioux Falls, Pierre, and Deadwood; authorizing the President to confer brevet rank upon army officers for gallant services in Indian campaigns since 1837. After some routine business had been disposed of on the 20th inst., tho Senate took up Mr. Chandler's resolution calling on the Attorney General for information as j the assassination at Quincy, Fla., of United States Deputy Marshal Saunders. Mr. Pasco concluded his remarks and Mr. Hale replied to him, after which the resolution was adopted. Mr. Blair then took the floor and closed his remarks ou the educational bill. In concluding his argument he said the measure had been part of the National Republican pla.form since 1884. It had been incorporated in the platforms of several States. It had been approved by the action of Slate Legislatures in quite a number of tho Northern States, and in some of the Southern States. It had been approved by President Harrison, who had voted twice for it (almost exactly as it now stood) in 1884 and 1880. In fact, the President's hand had been conspicuous in fashioning many of its details when the bill first passed. In spite of all opposition he believed that the sense of self-preservation would cause the bill to be enacted into law. Th 9 House on the 20th inst. devoted the day to the discussion of the Woald’s Fair bills. Chicago’s claims were presented by Messrs. Hitt, Adams, Taylor, and Lawler, of Illinois; Messrs. Cutcheou and Chapman, of Michigan; Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, and Mr. McCreary, of Kentucky. Messrs. Frank. Niedringhaus, and Dockery of Missouri ; Mr. Breckenridge, of Arkansas, and Mr. Caruth, of Kentucky, spoke for St. Louis. MeComas of Indiana, Lee of Virginia, Coleman of Louisiana, Compton of Maryland, and Stockbridge of New Jersey represented Washington’s interests. Messrs. Flower, Covert, Cummings, Tracv, and Quinn, of New York, and Mr. Moore, of New Hampshire, advocated New York’s claims, after which the House adjourned.

The House, on the 21st, again discussed the World’s Fair bill. Each city having had an hour since the beginning of the debate for the presentment of its claims, the Speaker allowed the anti-World’s Fair men an hour for giving their reasons why a government subsidy should not be given for a fair in any city. Mr. Mills of Texas was the principal exponent of this view. Mr. Mills yielded ten minutes to Elijah J. Morse, the “rising sun" statesman of Boston, Who was opposed to a fair anywhere on constitutional grounds. Mr. Peters, of Kansas, said we were a patriotic people, but that a World’s Fair was a luxury, and before wo bought it we should examine into our finances and see whether we could afford it. The estimates of revenue for the coming fiscal year were $450,000,000. He presented an itemized statement of the need s of the Government, amounting to $407,000,000, which, with the miscellaneous appropriations of $10,000,000 and the deficiency bill of $25,090,000, made in all a grand aggregate of $442,000,000. In the Senate Mr. Cullom introduced the Cowdon bill to make the Lake Borgne outlet and improve the low water channel of the lower Mississippi River. This bill has been pending in Congress for many years. It provides that when Cowdon shall have"opened the Lake Borgne outlet and established a low water channel of eight feet between Cairo and New Orleans he shall be paid $4,000,00.0, and that he shall receive $2,500,000 for each additional, foot which the river is deepened within five years from the time of the completion of the outlet. The following bills were passed: Increasing limits for cost of public building at San Fancisco (site) to. $800,000; Sacramento to $330,000; EJ Paso, Texas, to $200,000; Omaha, Neb., $2,000,000. For public buildings at Annapolis, Md., $75,000; Kansas City, t 2,500,000; Los Angeles, Cal. (additional), $350,000; Allegheny, Pa., $250,000; Beaver Falls, Pa., $50,000; Atchison, Kan., $100,000; Martinsburg, W. Va., $125,000; Selma, Kan., $150,000; Zanesville, 0., Emporia, Kan., Danbury, Conn., and Waterbary, Conn., $100,000each; New London, Conn., SIOO,000; Youngstown. 0., SIOO,OOO.