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tonal safety and the preservation of his power, but granting the soundness of tlie premises on which he reasons, his conclusions arc inst enough, and the reader must recollect that he sees things through a very different medium to that in which they are presented to the European mind. His Majjestv is the victim of fortuitous circumstances by which he was brought to the throne, and his actions must be judged accordingl 3'. The military condition of Yildiz is rigidly enough described, but we see a parallel to this in the surroundings of the Emperor of Russia, and yet no one has thought of calling the latter mad. Until a short time ago tlie residence of the Sultan, notwithstanding its triple line of guards, etc., was easy enough of access, and even now well-known personages have no difficulty in passing the gates. I cannot xuyself reconcile what 1 hear about the Sultan’s behavior in the privacy of bis palace from persons who pretend to be better informed with what I have seen of his bearing in public on many occasions even within the last few months. It is not so very long ago that the Sultan rode from Beshiktash to Polniabagtche in the Bavarian procession with an absence of precaution in strong contradiction to the generally received accounts of his nervous anxiety about the safet3* of his person. It is true that the road to a certain extent was lined with troops, but there were wide gaps here and there, and though the prbccssion was beaded by mounted pashas, while a body of cavalry brought up the rear, immediately surrounding the Rultan were none but military and naval officers and palace attendants on foot. There was nothing here of the carriage surrounded by tall ‘•cuirassiers,” or “life guardsmen,” in which European royalty makes its appearance in public, even in the case of the most popular monarchs. His Majesty, on a superb charger, towered far above his guards, thus offering every opportunity to lurking treason. The demeanor of the Sultan on that, as on every other occasion that I have seen him moving about outside the palace inclosures. was very calm, as if, though due thought had been given to possible danger, he was fully prepared to meet it in whatever shape it might present itself. Early in November last when Ids horse, growing suddenly restive at the Friday’s selamlik, reared and plunged, threatening him with a dangerous fall, Abdul Hamid showed great self-possession, and had the courage to ride the same animal back from the mosque, although his carriage was in attendance, and it would only have been in accordance with his usual practice to have driven. By the bye. how is it that the European press made so light of this affair? I have never seen a notice of it in any prominent paper, although it was an event that might have been attended with the most serious consequences, and incidentally it served to strengthen His Majesty’s belief in the supposed plot that induced him to break up his Circassian bodyguard. Correspondents are ready enougli to seize upon anything to be said to the disadvantage of the Sultan, but on this occasion, which offered the opportunity for a word of praise, they appear to have shown unusual reserve in accepting news.

BELGIAN DIFFICULTIES. Repressive Measures Threatened Against the Re presen tatives. Brussels, March I.—ln discussing the government’s estimates in the Chamber of Representatives last night, the Minister of Jussice. while opposing a reduction of the salaries of bishop?, refused to submit to the decision of the Chamber. The minister was prepared to use repressive measures against them as energetically as the3 r were employed against the anarchists. GERMAN FESTIVITIES. Historical Costume Ball in Honor of the Royal Silver Wedding. Berlin, March I.—An historical costume ball, in honor of the silver wedding of the Crown Prince and Princess, was held last night in the old palace, and was carried out with great pomp and splendor. Nearly all the German princes and princesses were present, representing _.iferent historical characters. TV . was a great success. FRENCH GHOSTS. l'hfl Presence of the Orleans Princes in the Army Unconsti;utional. Paris, March I.—ln the Senate, the Minister of War said the presence of the princes in the army was unconstitutional. Duke D’Audiffret Pasquier, Orleanist, reproached the minister. General Thibaudin, with having committed an act which nobody else could be found to perform. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. An Immense Organization of Anarchists in Europe. Madrid, March 1. —Impnreial says the Black-hand society numbers 49,1)10 members, and includes 990 minor societies. Geneva is the cenrer for Western Europe. The Chamber ot Deputies rejected. 126 to 45, a motion of the Republicans asking fora parliamentary inquiry with regard to arrests made in Andalusia. Moret. in the name of the followers of Serrano, declared in support of the motion because he believed the existing troubles in Andalusia were due to successive had governments. The Minister of the Interior said tlie socialistic and anarchical tendencies of Andalusia were of ancient •late. A parliamentary inquiry was unnecessary. The names of the entire committee of the Pdackhand Society. its documents and statutes, including a list of members, 7,000, are in the hands of the government. A special tribunal will try the prisoners- All convicted of murder, probably fifteen, will be hanged, and the most culpable of the remainder. probably 300. will be sentenced to life-long penal servitude. The Claim to the Throne of Hanover. London, March I.—Private advices from Hamburg state that Hanover and Prussia have renewed negotiations with the Duke of Cumberland in regard to his renunciation of bis claim to tlie throne of the kingdom of Hanover on the basis of the guarantee of the Duchy of Brunswick, which would be raised to a Grand Ditch}', and the payment of an indemnity. Protest Against Fivc-Cent Fares. Albany, N. Y.. March I. A petition, signed by some 300 citizens of New York, representing oversl,ooo,ooo,ooo of capital, has been presented to Governor Cleveland. The petitioners say they beg leave to represent that the bill now before the Governor. known ns the five-rent fare bill, is regarded with great apprehension, as a breach of faith on The part of the State and an attack upon the rights of property, and injurious to holders of stocks and bonds issued and held based upon the chartered rigldsof the corporations i this State. The}' therefore earnestly beg 'he Governor to withhold his signature. Js'ot one of the petitioners is a stockholder. Pittsburg Glass Trade Languishing. Pittsburg, March I.—The depression prevailing at present in nearly all branches of mr industries has especially affected the glass Trade. Manufacturers say they have never Lnown business to be so dull, especially in *ho lamp-chimney business, and unless there is an improvement soon it is thought ♦ here will he a general suspension. One sacYory, tne Excelsior Glass* Company, have notice that it will shut down for an indefinite period Saturday, and it is thought others will soon follow. Prices have fallen off 25 per cent, since the beginning of the

STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP. Mrs. Cougar Still Engag-eil in Establishing: an Alibi. Work Suspended in Ail the Clay County Coal Mines—Efforts to Compromise the Differences. A Pair of Peculiar Incidents Reported from Shelbyvillc. The Facts in the Taylorsville Abduction Case —Fatal Boiler Explosion—Minor Notes and Gleanings. INDIANA. Favorable Testimony for Mrs. Gougar The Lawyers* Grievances. Special to the Indiananolls Journal. Lafayette, March 1. —To-day, in the Gougar-Mandler slander suit, was occupied b}’ examining witnesses to prove an alibi for Mrs. Gougar, and demonstrate that she was at the residence of her mother, Mrs. Jackson, near her own residence, on the night of Nov. 19, when, the defense charge she was at Captain Wallace’s office. Doctor Alice Peirce Tyfield, famil}' physician for Mrs. Jackson, was at the residence on that night, and testified that Mrs. Gougar was there until 10 o’clock. Miss Edna Jackson, Mrs. Gougar’s sister, testified that she was at home, and that Mr9. Gougar was there on * that night until that hour, aud the aged mother of Mr. Gougar corroborated those statements. The whole day was taken up with the testimony of these witnesses. They also swore that Mrs. Ada Sherry, sister of Mrs. Gougar, was at plaintiff's house during the night, last spring, concerning which the servant girl, Mary Sims, swore that Captain Wallace remained in the house during the night. This forenoon all the attorneys, save John F. McHugh, managed, in discussing a question, to air their grievances against the newspaper reporters, Colonel DeHart being especially severe. Judge Gould found it impossible to choke them off until they had worried through with their grievances. Counsel for both sides claimed unfairness, and for full half an hour the lawers spoke their complaints. Mr. McHugh, the youngest of counsel, leaned back in his’chair and smiled at the other counsel. Tbo plaintiff will continue the introduction of testimony to-morrow. That Abducted Girl—Real Facts in tlie Case. Special to tlie Indianapolis Journal. Columbus, March I.—For several days the papers of Louisville and other places have contained sensational and contradictory reports of the alleged abduction of a young girl, Miss Mary C’ritty, from Taylorsville, in this county. The real facts have been slow in developing, but are substantially as follow’s: Miss Critty is an orphan, sixteen years old, bright and pretty. When quite }'Oung she was left to the care of Miss Mar}’ McCormack and her brother-in-law, Frank Wright, then living at North Madison, but now of Taylorsville. They are ardent Catholics, and when Miss Critty became enamored of young Hunt, a Protestant, they determined to prevent the match at all hazards. Miss McCormack took out letters of legal guardianship, and the girl was induced by false pretenses to go to Louisville, where they intended to immure her in a convent or Catholic school. She rebelled, called on the police for protection, and a “scene” was the result. A legal inquiry developed part of these facts, but did not reach the religious phase of the case, which is the key to the whole matter. The girl was sent to the Home ot the Friendless, temporarily. The matter causes considerable feeling here, and it is doubtful how it will terminate.

Peculiar Incidents at Shcflbyville. Special to tlie Indianapolis JournaL Shklbyville, March I.—Two very peculiar incidents, entailing loss of property, are chronicled from this point to-day. This morning a pigeon flew against a very fine French plate-glass in the business house of P. Sindlinger, the concussion shivering the glass and killing tlie bird. The pigeon was put on a pair of scales and found to weigh only twelve ounces, while the glass was four by ten feet and cost S7O. John Michelsen, the tonsorial artist, commenced the building of a chicken-house today, and while at work found it necessary to brace himself against a board to hold it in place. While in this position he reached to the opposite side, driving the nail toward himself. Before he was aware of the fact, the nail passed through the board and punctured a very handsome solid gold huntingcase watch, going entirely through and ruining it. Michelsen, unlike the pigeon, survived the shock. Coal-Mine Troubles in Clay County. 6pecial to the Indianapolis JournaL Brazil, March 1. —To-day was the time set for the reduction of fifteen cents a ton on the price of mining to go into operation, and as a result the miners are all out to consider the situation. All the mines are suspended, and over 2,000 men have quit work. The situation has not yet assumed the character of a strike, and there seems a general sentiment among the miners to submit to a reduction of ten cents per ton and resume work at ninety cents, but whether the relations of the operators with the railroads are of such a character as to permit them to agree to those terms and still get the reduction of fifteen | cents a ton on freight, promised them on | condition that they would procure an equal reduction on tlie price of mining, is not yet 1 known. Fatal Accident Near Washington, .special to the Indianapolis JournaL Washington, March I.—Phil. Harbin, a laborer in the employ of Mr. Elisha Hyatt, of this city, was caught under an elevator load of corn at Tom’s Hill, three miles west l of here, last night, and fatally wounded. A : box, weighing 1,000 pounds, fell upon him. Tlie accident was caused by the breaking of the hoisting rope. Passenger Train Wrecked. Special to tha Indianapolis JournaL Lafayette, March I.—Wabash passenger train No. 6, eastward bound, was wrecked at noon at Colburn, eight miles cast of here,

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by a broken rail, just in front of the depot. The whole train was smashed, and the platform and part of the depot building damaged. A chair-car had its whole side crushed in. The passengers were sent to Logansport in box-cars. Strangely enough, uo person was hurt Death From Gobi ami Exposure Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Knightstown, March I.—Mr. Farlow. recently from North Carolina, who has been on a visit to his son Harper, living southwest of Elizabeth City, went out to feed some hogs a little distance from the house Tuesday evening, and in some manner Vanderecl oft'and was out all night. When found he was so badly frozen lie died to-day. Fatal Boiler Explosion. Special to the ludiaaaoolis Journal. Laporte, March I.— The boiler in A O. Patten’s box factory, at Westville, ten miles south of here, exploded this morning, killing A. 0. Patten, the proprietor, and Henry Patten, and demolishing the building. Minor Notes. Samuel Reeve?, an old and wealthy citizen of Kuiglituiowu, died yesterday. The famous George Hazzard i? at present making his home with his sister residing at La* fountain*', Wabash county. On Wednesday night Are destroyed the farmhouse of I). <\ liairer, near Columbus, causing a loss of eouie $2,000; partially insured. A flro at Ilartsville, Bartholomew county, Wednesday afteruooD, destroyed a boardnu:lmuse of Mr. D. Bear, valued at about $2,500. Fully insured. Mr. Win. Hawkins, of Rtaoals, the person whoso right arm was torn off on the 6th day of last January, by beiug caught in the machinery iu Johnson A Chenoweth’s stave factory, has filed bis complaint mrainst said parties, setting his damages at $-0,000. The libel suit of George Sage, of Columbus, for SIO,OOO, against Aaron Davis, a wealthy tanner of Letts Corner, Jennings county, for certain allegcd slanderous publications in the Daily Deniocr.tr, over Davis’s signature, some months ago, will l.tv ried iu the Circuit Court on Monday. The Laporro County Times, published at Westville, has ceased to exist, anti the office material has been sold to R. 11. Chandler, of Rochester, who proposes starting a paper at that place. Ho also purchases the type and presses that were usediu printing the late defuuct Laporte Daily Tunes. It is reported that an ice gorge in the Bt. Joseph river at Hen Island, two miles above Mishawaka, is of immense proportions, completely damtntng up the main channel of the river tor the distance of of over a mile, and changing the current of the stream around over the adjacent lowlands. It will not bo known for several days how many of the furnaces at the De Pauw glassworks, New Albany, will have to be rebuilt. But one, so fur, has been pulled down. Hlow fires have been placed under all of them to dry them out, and the ainouut of lujury cau only bo known when they are dried. The members of the Methodist church at Columbus have adopted a model mode of raising to pay off nn incumbrance on the parsonage. The members carry around a largt-sized eartheu egg with a slit in it just large enough fornickles, dimes and quarters. When a person is met the egg is held out, and the mite is dropped into the egg. An industrial association has been organized at Columbus, with B. B. Jnues, president J. F. Gent, vice-president: William Wioklei, secretary; Riolmrd Thomas, corresponding secretary, and George Pence, cashier. All the leading citizens and busiuess men are members. The object is looking to the future prosperity of the city, and iuduciug manufactures to locate at that point.

ILLINOIS. A Lake Erie & Western Brakeman Cat to Pieces. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL lloopesto.v, March I.—Clinton Parker, of Lafayette, Ind., a brakeman on the Lake Erie & Western railway, was run over to-day, cut in twain, and instantly killed by a freight car while making a flying switch. Brief Mention. Rev. F. D. Rlckerson. of Springfield, has re- ’ reived a call from the High-street Baptist Church, of Des Moines, la. Abram Gund, the county treasurer of Stephensoti county, died on Wednesday at his home iu Silver Creek township. On Tuesday afternoon, John Jones, a farm hand, criminally assaulted a ten-year-old daughter or a farmer named Saunders, living at Silver Creek, near Alton. Jones fled. A pursuing party was organized, and on Wednesday night he was captured at Kdwardsville, aud confessed his guilt. There is strong talk of lynching. Mrs. Drake owned a stock of goods valued at $2,500, at Warreusburg, Macon county. She sold the goods in a lump to one A. Wait forsl,500 cash, and defied the creditors, who are wholesale merchants of Peoria. Mrs. Drake’s arrest followed, and she is nowin jail at Decatur. Her husband is postmaster at Warrenaburg. On Wednesday evening, at. Metropolis, Richard Willis, son of ex-Reveuue Collector Jonathan C. Willis, while under the influence of liquor, was flourishing a revolver, when in was accidentally discharged, the hall striking a twelve-year-old boy named Charles Whitman, taking effect just behind the left eye, probably wounding him fatally. Willis was arrested, and will be held to await the result of the wouud. The Elgin asylum for insane is crowded to its cspacity, and it isn’t easy to make room for pa-, tieuts. Recourse is sometimes had to a shifting process. As an illustration, awhile ago admittance was wuuted for two insane people. There was no room in tlie hospital. To make it, two men that were in the county house were transferred to the county Jail, and two lunatics whose condition warranted it were removed from the hospital to the county house. In this way a place w’as opened. THE NAVAL ACADEMY. Disposition of the Cases of the Mutinous Ca<iet—Three Dismissed. Annapolis, March I.—The following order was readat dinner for the information of the Naval Academy: Naval Cadets Agee, Bowman, Dalryraple, H. A. Field, Little, Halles, Phil!bin, Von Schraeder, Weeks, Woods and Webster, of the first class, are authorized to occupy their rooms in the upper Quarters. The above named cadet 9. and Cadets Tharklv, Colvin, Barnard, George, Gignilliatt, O’Leary, Sweeting, Toney, Wilson and Witherspoon, of the first class; Hazeltine and W. P. Williams, of the second class, and all cadets of the third and fourth classes. except those quartered on the Santee, are restored to the privileges of their grade. These cadets only took part in cheering when not in ranks. It leaves tlie following cadets on the Santee, all of whom took part in groaning and hissing at orders when in ranks: Aldrich, Alexander, Brady, Darrah, Frazier, Glascock, Gray, Greene, Halstead. Herbert,.!. A. Jackson, Ledbetter, Ellinger, Legare, Lerch. Mitchell, Pettit, Quinby, Ryan. Stout, Zinnell and Balthes. The orders dropping Cadets Woodruff, Gross and McGrath was a surprise to them and their friends. There is much sympathy among the cadets, but they generally condemn tlie hissing and groaning at orders. The three dropped cadets after dinner obtained their papers and went down to Washington, presumably to try to better their cases. General Diaz at New Orleans. New Orleans, March I.—The steamer hearing ex-President Diaz and party arrived this morning. After breakfast the party took a drive through the city. A formal reception, later, took place at the City Hall. At 2:30 General Diazand party were formally received by Acting Mayor Logan and a reception committee. The remarks of welcome were eloquent and were replied to in fitting manner by General Diaz and his escort. Mr. J. A. Pauoh, Logansport, was cured of aggravated dyspepsia by Brown’s Iron Bitters.

FOETY-SEYENTH CONGRESS. The senate's Conferees—Discussing: the Sundry Civil Bill. The House Wrestles with the River aud Harbor Bilk—The Mississippi Improvement Clause Adopted. Mr, Van Voorhis, of New York, Renders Himself Liable to Expulsion. He Says an Appropriation Is So Outrageous that Nobody but a Gambler or Cutthroat Would Tack It on to the Bill. HIE SENATE. Trouble to Get Democratic Conferees on the Tariff’ Bill. Washington, March I.—Mr. Bayard, rising to a personal explanation, said he wished to make a statement as to the reasons which had impelled his colleague (Mr. Beck) and himself to withdraw from the conference committee on the tax bill. After reading the resolution adopted by the Benate yesterday, directing its conferees to withdraw if they found that a full aud free conference could not be bad, he said his colleague and he haa been unable, under the Information brought before the committee by the House conferees, to come to any other conclusion than that, it was not a full and free conference- The House conferees were bound by the action of the body which had selected them, and could not confer fully and fairly with the Senate. It was from a profound sense of what was due to the Senate; it was from au equal sense of what was due to a co-ordinate branch of this government that he ana his colleague had obeyed what they believed was the clear interest and clear and positive instructions of the Senate. The privilege and constitutional power of the Senate to possess aud exercise a co-ordinate share of the legislative powers of the government should never be and could never be subjected to the iudividnal judgment of five members of the House, or of the House itself. When the House had declared the Senate had not power to engraft tariff' legislation ou an Internal revenue bill, the conferees could uot change at their will the formal, emphatic, clear expression of the House, ihe conferees could not act on such a tentative and capricious Proceeding as this, aud it was their duty to have submitted the matter to the Senate. Mr. Sherman interrupted, and protested against Bayard arraigning the conference committee in violation of the rules of the Senate. Mr. Bayard replied that he was not talking of wliat was the duty of the committee. He was speaking of wliat was the right and duty of the minority. His associate and he had felt it their obvious duty, under the resolution adopted by the Sv.liate yesterday, to refer the matter back to the Senate. Under the action of the. House mere was au unfair and fettered conference It was fair and unfettered on the part of the senate, aud it was for the Senate to determine whether it was equally fair on the part of the House. He had been earnest iu his endeavors to obtain some reduction of taxation; bur, acting under direction of the Senate, it would have been a breach of duty ou his parr, had he remained to consider with the House committee the question whether the Senate had or had not the power to engraft tariff legislation ou the internal revenue bill. Mr. Morrill expressed profound regret that Messrs. Beck and Bayard should have felt it. to he their duty to raise this technical objection, because, whether so intended or uot, it tended to defeat any reduction of taxational the present session. The Seuate whs bound to consider only what the House had sent to it, and that was merely a resolution noncurring in the Senate amendments to the internal revenue bill and asking for a conference, the committee ou the part of tbo House to consist of five members. What did it matter In tuts case what the opinions of the House might lie on constitutional questions or theological questions'? It appeared the House had adopted a resolution incumbered with a great many hypothetical ifa. But whatever opinion it might have held or expressed at that time, its later action was to nonconcur and ask for a conference on the disagreeing votes of both houses. Under these circumstances the Senate could have no knowledge of any limitation placed by the House on its conferees, and so far as the committee of conference was concerned, no obstruction had been encountered, bur, on the contrary, it was as free as any committee of conference of which he had ever been a member. Mr. Bayard said he had brought the matter up because he wished to take his full share of responsibility, and In order that the Senate, if it disapproved his action, might have opportunity to appointzotnebody else to carry on the confer euce. He could not, consent to stultify himself by acting as a conferee uuder such conditions. Mr. Beck declared he would not have left the committee of conference on any morely technical objection, but he thought the reasons set forth by Mr. Bayard were substantial, and not technical. The Senator from Vermont was wrong in saying the only thing the House had sent to the Senate was a notice of disagreement and a request, for a conference. The House had sent also, by adopting the resolution instructing its conferees, its protest, against the constitutional right of tlie Senate to take the action it had taken on the bill. The House had presented no hills of its own, but had disagreed to the Senate bill, presumably ou the ground that the Senator’s action was without constitutional authority. The House conferees had no bill, no amendments, nothing tuat the Senate conferees coula agree To if they were willing. There was notame left for the Senate to do but to abandon the Seuate bill and agree to such a tariff bill as four or live gentlemen might demand. In that cane the constitutional objection might be waived. He did not regard it us a conference at all. He could no longer be a party to it. Messrs. Bayard and Beck asked to be excused from further service ou the conference committee. Mr. Garland offered a resolution instructing all the Senate conferees to withdraw from the conference. Mr. Allison objected to present consideration of the resolution, and it weut over until to-mor-row. Messrs. Bayard and Beck were excused by 49 yeas to 6 nays. Mr. Morriil asked consent thpt the chair should have authority to All vacancies on the, commirtee. Agreed to. The President then appointed Messrs. Voorhees and McPherson. Mr. McPherson asked to be excused, because he was not in accord with most of his Democratic colleagues on the tariff question, and also because of the instructions giveu by the Senate yesterday to its conferees. He was excused, ami the President appointed Mr. Harris, but Mr. Harris declared he was in full accord with Messrs. Bayard and Beck or. this suiijecr. and asked to be excused. His request wuß granted. Mr. Voorhees then roe and declined to serve, giving !:'■ reason. He was excused. The President, said he had no means of ascertaining who would consent to serve unless by going around and interviewing every senator, but ho might And someone during the day. | Laughter. J After a number of Democratic senators had been appointed and declined to serve, Messrs. Muhnue and McDill consented. The Senate then proceeded to consider the sundry civil appropriation bill. A number of motions to nonconcur in the action of tue committee ou appropriations were lost. Mr. Cookrill presented a joint resolution from the General Assembly of Missouri setting forth tlie great importance of the improvement ol the Missiasinpi and its navigable tributaries a- a means of cheap transportation, and requesting the senators and representatives of that State to use their best endeavors to secure an appropriation for the next fiscal rear as recommended by the Mississippi river commission. Mr. Dawes preaented the conference report on the fortifications appropriation bill. Agreed to. The President appointed as the committee to inquire into tile improvement of tlie navigation of the Mississippi, Messrs. Loiran, Jones of Nevada, McMillan, Jonas and Walker. The President laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, announcing the completion of the list of peuslou©rs, with their address, rates of pension, etc. Mr. Anthony said it would cost over $60,000 to print tlie document. The Senate resumed consideration of the appropriation bill. The provision for the payment of the “old settler,” or Western Uherokee Indians claims, reported from the committee, was struck out. Mr. Vest offered nn amendment, to the paragraph appropriating $40,000 for tlie protection and improvement, of the Yellowstone National Park, providing for a superintendent at $2,000, an.l ton assistants at S9OO each, to be appointed by the Seorotary of the Interior, to reside con-

tinuously in tlio park, and to have the duty of protecting game and a number of other objects of interest, the balance to be expended iu the construction of suitable roads and bridges, uuder direction of an engineer officer to be detailed by the Secretary of War. Adopted, The committee having reported a provision authorizing the Secretary of tile Interior to lease for not more than ten years small tracts not to exceed eighty acres for tho erection of hotels, etc., Mr. Vest moved to reduce the quantity of land to he leased iu one tract to ten acres. Agreed to. Mr. Vest offered another amendment providing that not more than ten acres shall be leased to any one person or corporation, and that no tract shall he leased within one-quarter of a mile of any of the geysers or Yellowstone fails. Agreed to. The bill as it came from the committee contained a paragraph directing the Public Printer to employ the highest character of skilled workmen t prices now fixed by law. and authorizing him, In case he is unable to obtain a sufficient supply on these terms, to expend a portion of the appropriation for the temporary execution of work outside. Mr. Voorhees made the point that the latter provision would change the existing law, which requires that the whole of the work shall bo done in the government office. * The chair sustained tlie point of order, and the provision wa? struck out. On motion of Mr. Allison, the preceding provision directing the employment of “the highest character of skilled workmen,” eic.. was struck out upon the same ground. Mr, Cockrell made the same point of order on the committee amendment, making the salary of the chief clerk of the Court of Claims $3,500, aud it was struck our. Mr. Sale askea Mr. Cockrell to withdraw his point of order. Mr. Cockrell Insisted on his point of order, and the amendment was ruled out. In the item for fees of court clerks, tho proviso that where the same person holds the office of clerk in both Circuit, ami District courts in any district ids pay for both shad not exceed $3,500 a tear, was struck out, ami the limitation ol $.j.000 for the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States was extended to $6,000.

THE HOUSE. The River and Harbor Bill—Mississippi River Clause Agreed To. Washington, March I.—The conference report on the fortification appropriation hill was agreed to. It appropriates $295,000 more than when It passed the House. Mr. Page moved to suspend the rules and adopt the order limiting debate ou the river and harbor bill (except, in regard to items for the improvement of the Mississippi river) to one minute. Lost—yeas 133, nays 83. Not the necessary two-tliirdsin the affirmative. The House then went into committee of the whole on the state of the Union, but Mr. Hiscock objected to tho river aud harbor bill, aud the committee rose and reported the objection to the House. The nouse—yeas 124, nays 107—ordered that consideration of the river and harbor bill be resumed, and Immediately went into committee on that bill. Mr. Turner, of Kentucky, offered an amendment providing that $25,000 of the sum appropriated for the improvement of the Ohio river shall be used in improving the Grand Chain of rapids. Adopted. On motion of Mr. Willis, an amendment was adopted providing that $25,000 be expended in improving the Indiana chute. On motion or Mr. Dawes an amendment was adopted providing that $10,500 be expended at the mouth of the Muskingum river. Mr. Randall moved to amend the proviso which prohibits the expenditure of any appro priation until a committee of five, three of whom shail be civilians, shall report whether the interests of commerce warrant the completion of the project, by reducing the membership to three, all of whom shall bo engineers or the army. Adopted. At this point a message was received from the Senate announcing the appointment of Senators Malione and McDill as conferees on the internal ievemie bill to till the vacancies occasioned by tlie declination of Senators Bayard and Beck, an announcement wfetofe was received with laughter by the Democratic side. In view of the adoption of the amendment offered by Mr. Dwiglit reducing the appropriation for improving HtrAnthony’s falls, Minn., from $15,000 to S3OO, Mr. Washburn moved to strike out the whole clause. Agreed to. The item relative to the Mississippi river having been reached, Mr. Robinson, of Miss acini setts, offered an amendment prohibiting the further construction or repairs of levees except in the performance of existing contracts. In opposing the amendment, Mr. Hatch referred to the benefits which the East had received from tlie Federal treasury, and said the young West had grown strong and now knew her rights, aud iu the future dared maintain Them, and that notwithstanding the clamor of a subsidized press and subsidized representatives, if it would be necessary to blind a granite wall from St. Paul to New Orieaus. in the name of the people of the West, he told the House it would he done. Mr. Burrows energetically opposed the levee system, believing the building of levees was not essential to the improvement of the river. He was constantly interrupted with much warmth by Messrs. King. Gibson and Ellis, who denied the correctness of his statements. Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, antagonized the amendments as tying the hands of the Mississippi River Commission. Common fairness and commercial importance demaud that the commission, struggling with one of the grandest questions which ever engaged the mind of the scientific world, would be allowed to go ou with its hands loose. Mr. Butter worth opposed the levee scheme until further experiment should show their utility. Mr. Gibsou called attention to the fact that there was nothing in the bill authorizing the construction of levees. Mr. Randall said ho was in favor of making appropriations for the purpose of experimenting to improve the navigation of the Mississippi until at last a solution of the great water problem should be found. It was with that intent he favored the creatiou of the commission, if this commission did not answer the purpose, after a fair trial, iet if he abolished, Then let someone else take the business in hand. He believed in Congress taxing absolute ami exclusive control iu this matter; ho believed Congress had power to appropriate money to recover alluvial lands, bur. it had the absolute power, and should exercise it by proper nnpronriatious, to secure the best navagation of the iiver, aud if the building of levees comes as a necessary incident. Congress could not Uelp that. Mr. Morrison said he was opposed to building levees for the reclamation of alluvial lauds, and if that is what tue amendment means 1 will vote lor it. (*‘3g will f,” came in chorus from the Louisiana members.) But if it were necessary in order to improve I lie navigation of the MUmssipi, to bail t levees to that extent, and tuat only, he would favor their being built The commission was a good judge or what was proper—better than six or eight members who had been sent, dowu the river on a pleasure trip by the House. It was not a commission selected in order to pool issues or to protect certaiH interests, as some commissioners had been, ami he was iu favor of acting upon its recommendations. He said this, although he was not very partial to commissions, because be believed that next to conference commissions t hey were more prolific of personal jobs ami schemes for public plunder than any oilier legislative instrument that could be devised. [ Applauseand laughter ou tlie Democratic side). Mr. Dunn moved to amend Robinson’s amendment by addiuga proviso permitting the building of levees necessary for the improvement of the navigation of tlie river. Agreed to, 97 to 91. Mr. Robinson's amendment, as amended, was lost. 39 to 74. Mr. Updegraff moved to strike out the entire Item. Lost. Mr. Burrows offered an amendment prohibiting the building of levees from Cairo to tile head of the passes. Lost, 71 to 101. Tlie clause as finally agreed to Is ns follows: Improving the Mississippi river, that the sum of $1,500,000 be and is hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any m ney in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,* for the improvement of the Mississippi river from the head of tue passes to Cairo, including the harbors of New Orleans, Natchez. Vicksburg, Memphis, and the reaches at Plum Point and Lake Providenoe, aud the deflection of the waters of the Red aud Mississippi rivers from Atohafalaya river; $500,000 from Cairo to tne Illinois river, including Alton harbor, and $150,000 from the Illinois river to Des Moines rapids, including the improvement of Quincy bay, which said sum shall he expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, iu accordance with the plans and specifications, estimates and recommend a .ions of the Mississippi river commission, provided 1 hat no portion of the money hereby approprlasea shall he expended at any other points than those herein specified. The committee then rose, and the Speaker announced the appointment of Messrs. Steule, Townsend and Sparks as members of the board of visitors to West Point, aud of Messrs. Hariner, Updegraf and Mills as members of a similar board to Annapolis. Mr. Moore offered a resolution celling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to tho amount of Indiaa trust funds invested in

Tennessee bonds, and whether Tennessee has made any proposition looking to their settlement. Referred, Recess. Evening: Session. Mr. Hiscock, of New York, moved to suspend the rules and pass the deficiency appropriation bill, Tho motion was agreed to, aud the bill passed with amendments. The only amendment of any Importanoe is one authorizing the appraisal of all naval vessels stricken from the navy register, under the provisions of the last naval appropriation bill, and nlso authorizing | the Secretary of the Navy, if lie shall deem it for the best interests of the United States, to sell such vessels, and to advertise for proposals for the purchase of the same. The House then resumed, in oommlttee of the whole, consideration of the river aud harbor bill. Mr. Anderson moved to Increase the appropriation for removing snags, etc., from the Missouri river from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO, but all motions were voted dowu by overwhelming majorities. j For proceedings incident to Mr. Van Voorhis’s insult to Mr. Page, seo first page,] The House then again went into committee ot the whole, and Mr. Van Voorhis withdrew his amendment, stating he had said all he desired to say before tiie committee rose. The following amendments were made: On motion of Mr. Huge apnroprlating $25,000 for the improvement of the Moaongahela river. On morion of Mr. Bayne, directing the Secretary of War to make such regulations as were necessary to protect the channels of rivers aud harbors from injury by deposits of refuse or other matter. On motion of Mr. Lynch, providing that no convict labor shall bo employed noon the improvement authorized. A large number of amendments were lost. Tho committee then rose aud reported the bill to the House. Mr. Anderson moved to recommit the bill, with instructions, to she committee on commerce, to report back the bill appropriating $3,000,000 to be expended uuder direction of the Secretary of \\ ar. Lost. The bill then passed—veas 112, nays 90. The affirmative vote was as follows: Yeas —Messrs. Aiken, Aldrich, Atkins, Bayne, Bisbee, Blackburn, Blanchard, Brewer, Buchanan, Burrows of Michigan, Calkins, Candler, Cannot), Carpenter, Chapman, Clardr, Clark jr, Clements, Cook, Covington, Crapo, Cravens, Culbertson, Darvall, Davis, or Missouri; -Dawes, Dezendorf, Dibroil, Donnell, Dunn, Ellis, Errett, Evins, Farwell, of Illinois; Far well, of Iowa; Ford, Forney, Frost, Fulkerson, George, Gibson, Guenther. Harris, of Massachusetts; Hazeltine, Hatch, Hazelton, Herbert, Hewitt, of Alabama; Hoblitzell, Hogp, Hookor, Horr, Houk, House, Hubbell, Hubbe, Humphrey, Jones, of Texas; Jones, of Arkansas; Jorgensen, Kenua, King, Lewis, Lord, Lvnch, Manning, Martin. Mason, McLean of Missouri, McMillan, Mills, Money, Moore, Mnldrow, Oates, O’Neill, Page, Paul, Pierce, Pettibonc, Pound, Reece, Rice of Ohio, Rich, RUhardson of South Carolina, Ritohie Robertson, Robeson, Rosecrans, Ross, Simnnton, Singleton of Mississippi. Small. Spooner, Stone, Strait, Talbott, Thomas, Thompson of Kentucky, Townsend of Ohio, Upson, Urner, Vance, Vanhorn, Ward, Washburn, Webber, Wellborn, Wheeler, Willis, Wise of Virginia, Wise of Pennsylvania--112.

KILLING OF JIM ELLIOTT. The Pugilist Shot Dead in a Chicago Eating-House by Jerry Dunn. A Fusillade of Revolver Shots in a Crowd of Twenty Five People—Dunn Slightly Wounded. Chicago. March I.—Between 8 and 9 o’clock to-night James Elliott, pugilist, and Jere Dunn, a well-known sporting man and man about town, met in the saloon and restaurant of William Langdon, alias Appleton, alias Appetite Bill, ex-bunco and confidence man, and began shooting, with the result that Elliott was killed and Dunn wounded in two places. The trouble dates back to the time when Harry Hill and others came here from New York to meet Jem Mace and Slade with a view of arranging a match with John L. Sullivan, whose backer was Jere Dunn. At the same time Elliott, backed by Parson Davis, was seeking to make a match with the Maori. Harry Hill, when somewhat mellow, was interviewed, and in the course of the talk reflected severely on Elliott’s courage. Elliott began hunting for Hill, who immediately took a train for New York. Elliott, in an interview, says Dunn had incited Hill to make these remarks in order to cause a quarrel between himself and Hill, in order that Dunn might have an excuse to shoot him (Elliott). Dunn, in a subsequent interview, let it be known that be would shoot Elliott on sight, and as he is a man of unquestionable nerve and determination, no doubt was felt that a shooting match would occur whenever the two men met. To-night Elliott and Plaisted, the oarsman, entered “Appetite Bill's” plao£ to get something to eat, and shortly after Dunn entered. Accounts differ as to the subsequent proceedings. One account says Dunn made a threatening demostration, whereupon Elliott rose from the table, took up a chair and went at Dunn with it, Dunn, in the meantime emptying one revolver and drawing another. Dunn’s own statement and that of the eyewitnesses is to the effect that he was not aware of Elliott’s presence till the latter fired, one shot passing under tlie scalp and across the top of the head, and another passing through the left forearm. Dunn then drew a revolver and joined in the fusilade, the crowd of twenty-five persons in tlie place making a hasty exit. Dunn fired five shot?, and Elliott four. The police arrived and arrested Dunn, and put Elliott, in a dying condition, in the patrol wagon and started for the county hospital. Elliott died on the way there, and the body was taken to the morgue. The fatal shot was in the stomach. Dunn is a partner of McKee Rankin in a breeding farm on an island in the Detroit river, where they own a number of promising thoroughbred horses. The Hocking: Valley Coal Company. Columbus, ()., March I.—The interests representing the Hocking Valley Coal and Iron Company consolidation have been in session two days, closing up tho business and getting ready for operations. The capital stock of the company is $5,000,000, with an estimated cash basis of over half that amount. Tue consolidation elected a board of directors which organized ns follows: Samuel Thomas, of New York, president; T. Longstreth and Walter Crafts, of Columbus; J. R. Buck tel, of Akron, vice-presidents; S. Churchill treasurer; H. I). Turner, secretary. J. S. Farlow, of Boston, is a member of the board of directors. The company represents over half the working force of the entire Hocking valley. Riot at South St. Louis. St. Louis, March I.—Meager information was received here late to-night that a serious row occurred near the Vulcan Steel Works, in south St. Louis, to-night, in which Police Officer Price was badly, ’ perhaps fatally, beaten, and one of the new men employed in the Vulcan Mill seriously hurt. The affair seems to have originated in a fight between Mike Kelley and another man. name unknown. Charges of Bribery Not Sustained. Dayton, March I.—A Democrat of this city having made charges of bribery against members of the city council, an investigating committee was appointed to-day. The Democrat failed to put in an appearance, and ku not substantiated the charges.