Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1885 — Page 1

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WHEN INDICATIONS. Tuesday. — Slowly rising temperature, fair weather. The weather is just a little cool, perhaps, for spring weights, but we are showing the spring styles, from the Custom Department of the WHEN CLOTHING STORE, Just the same as though . C 5 it was seventy-five degrees warmer than it is. EVAMiEMST WOODWORTH. She Is Still Paralyzing the Sinners of Blackford County. Hartford City, Ind., Feb. 1G. —The wonderful revival at this place assumed its maximum proportions on Saturday night at the operahall. Over one thousand persons were present, and hundreds turned away that could not gain admission. Several were in a trance, and a general petition to the heavenly throne by hundreds rendered the scene most remarkable. On Sunday John Cantwell and Elisha Pearce, both men of influence and leading attorneys at the bar, were at the anxious seat. Mr. Cantwell expressed conversion. Mr. Cantwell's daughter, a Mrs. Moller, was tranced for several hours. It seems the influence of this great evangelist begun its work first upon the lowest stratum of society. Some of the worst citizens, a few of whom had been incarcerated in jail for misdemeanors, were first to go to the anxious seat and become recipients of pardon; now all phases o£ society are gradually but surely becoming imfressed in a manner never before experienced. tis simply a contagion that pervades all this county. No such religious demonstration has ever been witnessed here. The Methodist Episcopal Church still conducts its meeting at the sanctuary, and the church was crowded last evening, and a grand, good time was had. The very atmosphere seems impregnated with a religious fervor, and Satan’s bulwarks 49c threatened with a filial aud complete overthrow in our midst. Mrs. Woodworth expects to visit Cincinnati when her work here ceases, which will probably be next Sunday.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Louis A. DoGraff, aged twenty-four, “was struck by a west-bound express, on the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee railway, while crossing the track with a double team, near Grand Rapids, thrown twenty feet against a freight car and instantly killed. The managers of the Women’s Silk Culture Association of the United States announce that unless Commissioner of Agriculture Loring comes to their aid they will be compelled to abandon their work in the spring. On Sunday, P. D. S. Johnston, a constable of Marysville, Texas, was shot and instantly killed by a man named Rainey, while levying an attachment on "Rainey’s team and wagon. The murderer fled to Indian Territory, hotly pursued by a posse of citizens. Mrs. August Yahrling, of San Francisco, died yesterday under peculiarly distressing circumstances. Anight or so ago a lamp exploded in her house, enveloping her in flames. She fled to the street, where her clothiug was almost burned off. She suffered terribly. A three story brick elevator, at Huntingdon, Pa., owned by Hon. 11. C. Fisher, in which was stored 30.000 bushels of grain, collapsed, yesterday, with a terrible crash. Three employes, who were in the upper story, escaj>ed by jumping from a window to the milling department. The loss will reach $30,000. Milwaukee Police Chief Resigned. Mii.waukk.e, Feb. 16. —Chief of Police Ellsworth to-day tendered his resignation, which was accepted by Mayor Wallber. The resignation is the result of a recent investigation into certain transactions of Ellsworth and his men regarding acceptance of rewards which were not warranted. Ellswprth will retire as soon as his successor is named, which will be within a short time. Jannscn is mentioned as his possible successor. Later. —Late this afternoon Mayor Wallber submitted to the City Council the name of F. ,T. Rios, as successor to Chief of Police Ellsworth, and the nomination was confirmed. Ries assumes the duties of the office in the morning. Ho resigns the inspectorship of the Milwaukee House of Correction to take his new position.

A Scoundrel's Confeulon. Chicago, Peh. 10.—J. J. Sullivan, who is under arrest for perjury in the Mackin trial. has made a confession. alleging that his testimony on behalf of the defense is untrue, and that it was a part of the conspiracy entered into by himself and others, who were to secure for their services a considerable gum of money. Sullivan states that in a conversation with Mackin the latter told him the substance of the evidence wanted, and promised him a positiou in Washington. Gilmore,' another witness in the case, was arrested to-night on charge of perjury, aud other arrests aro expected. No News oftlie Michigan. Grand Haven. Mich.,‘Feb. 16. —N0 word has been received from the missing propeller Michigan, which has been out an entire week, a crow of twenty four men on hoard. She has provisions for nearly three months, and the crew will not suffer severely if the vessel is merely icelocked; but it is feared she has gone down in the recent gale. The propel.er Wisconsin is in the ice six miles off shore. .?he ice of the lake has been driven to this side by the winds. Two Clitcken-Thleves Killed. Wilmington, Del., Feb. 16.—A Middletown, Dal., letter to Every Evening says: “Two uegroes, whoses names are not given, visited Jacob Kazier’s farm, ou Friday night, to steal chickens. Kazier fired upon them, and wounded one so badly that he died the next day; the other, in bis hurry to escape, fell over a fence and broke his neck Wives for Sale Cheap. In some parts of England men who get tired of their wives sell them as low as sixpence apiece. Sometimes a wife is traded off for a quart of beer. Both husbands and wives in such cases are very disagreeable persons. Possibly they are the victims of dyspepsia and liver complaint, and their health is badly run down. Sucn people may not be worth doctoring, but nice people who are run down by these ailments, should try Brown’s Iron Bitters, which will bring them fight up.

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RIOTOUS ENGLISH WORKMEN Great Excitemen* ; n London Over the Conduct of Unemployed Laborers. A Mob of Three Thousand Parades the Streets and a Committee Calls on Government Officials for Relief for the People. An Attempted Invasion of Gladstone’s .Offices Repulsed by the Police. Military Assignments for the Egyptian War —Unofficial Reports Concerning the Civil War in Colombia —Notes by Cabie. RIOTING IN LONDON. Unemployed Workingmen Parade the Streets and Enter Government Offices. London, Feb. Id —Great excitement was occasioned to-day by the riotous conduct of a large number of unemployed workmen, 3,000 of whom paraded the streets with banners bearing mottoes of their grievances. Several bands of music accompanied the procession, which marched to the building occupied by the local government board. A committee from the ranks entered the office and demanded* relief for the people; they represented that they wanted immediate employment on construction of public works w*hich were needed for the public good. The official board repulsed the committee, and the crowd became a howling mob. The police attempted to interfere, but were ered. The paraders then invaded tfdtvhw. street and stopped in front of the official residence of Mr. Gladstone, where they howled and hissed against the covernment A Cabinet council was being held at the time, and the mob attempted to force their way into the room where the council was sitting. The police at this point received reinforcements, and ejected the intruders. The mob then attempted to storm the Admiralty and Home Office, but were driven off and finally dispersed by the police. Following is another account of to-day’s demonstration: A deputation of workingmen, escorted by a procession of 3,000 unemployed laborers, accompanied by bands and carrying banners, marched to the offices of the local government board. Arrived there, the deputation entered and demanded relief for the unemployed of London through the institution of public works. The officials in charge of the board rooms were somewhat dismayed by the demonstration, but poiitely informed the deputation that no official response to the demand could at this time be given, because Sir Charles Dilke, president of the board, was away, and during his absence nothing could be done. This reply was received in sullen silence, and the crowd, which by this time had become a mob, rushed in a body into Downiug street, despite all efforts of the police to prevent them, and, until dispersed, stood howling around the official residence of the Prime Minister. A large meeting of unemployed workmen was held this afternoon on the Thames Embankment. IteSOtUTUins' were adopted demanding a reduction of the hours of government workmen and the coustruction of useful public works to give employment to the idle. Mr. Hyndtnan, chairman of the Democratic Federation, presided at the meeting. Cheers for social revolution were given and violent speeches made. The speakers insisted that railway aud other public companies should be forbidden to work their men over eight hours a day. One speaker asserted that Jay Gould had recently defeated a similar measure in New York .State, and that he had his prototypes in the Goschens, Rothschilds and Brasseys of this country. Some of the policemen drew their staves when the crowd became noisy and demonstrative, and the mob, when charged by tho police, fled precipitately. Stones were thrown at the police and several of them knocked down during the disturbance. No arrests were made.

THE ENGLISH IN EGYPT. Military Assignments—Arranging for the Expenses of the War. .London, Feb. 17. —General Brackenbury will retain command of the late General Earle’s division, and General Evelyn Wood will join General Wolseley as chief of staff, General Gren field taking his command. Four thousand Egyptian troops will be echeloned between Assouan and Dongola. Hassan Bey’s contingent will join the English forces at Korti. News of the Arab revolt in Gemen has just reached London. Tbe Arabs massacred a Turkish outpost of the garrison. The Governor of Sana massed the remaining 2.500 Turks, and appealed 1o the Porte for 4,000 reinforcements. The insurgents were incited by emissaries of the Mahdi, who is preparing to make an attack. The Cabinet yesterday considered means t meet a credit for the Egyptian campaign, to the amount of £2,500,000. Gladstone and Childers opposed suspension of the sinking fund. It was finally decided to make a further issue of 2£ per cents, to the amount wanted. Childers, in his budget speech, will propose to meet the extraordinary war expenditures during the coming financial year by raising the income tax to eight pence for two years, in this way lealizing £8,000,000. The Black Watch Regiment. The famous “Forty-second Highlanders” (familiarly known in the British army as the Black Watch) liavo added one more to their countless exploits, by the storming of the Arab intrenchments at Birti, where poor General Earle was killed. Among the many deeds of daring performed by them in recsnt wars, three stand out pre emineut. They were one of tho three Highland regiments with which Sir Colin Campbell (afterward Lord Clyde) broke the Russian center at the Alma, on the 20th of September, 1854. They formed part of the immortal “thin red line topped with steel” against which an overwhelming Russian force shattered itself in the memorable attack upon Balaklava, five weeks later. In the advance upon Coomassie, during General Wolselev’s Ashantee campaign, in January, 1884, tho “Black Watch” bore the brunt of the great fight at Amoaful, suffering severe loss in carrying, at the point of the bayonet, a thick wood held by native sharpshooters. Indeed, everyone must admit that they have fully obeyed the injunction with their chief led them up the Alma hillside: “Now, my men, make me proud of the Highland Brigade.” THE CIVIL WAR IN COLOMBIA. The Country In an Uproar, and No Autlientio News Obtainable. Panama, Feb. 16.—The country is in a complete uproar. Communication with the interior is entirely cut off, and regarding the condition of affairs at Bogota the past month nothing is known. No word has been received from there since Jan. 6. Official bulletins claim that

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the government force is triumphant everywhere, and that the popularity of Dr. Numez continues undirainished. These reports, however, are not confirmed. One of the bulletins published most recently read as follows: “The rebels are in force at Gambita. Our forces were to have attacked the rebels on the sth, but received orders from the government not to make an attack until they had been reinforced by 3,000 men, who were to march from Bogota.” The commander in-chief is Campo Serrano. Forty five rebels at Velez were attacked and dispersed. Rogiero Lopez was defeated at Cucuta with heavy loss. ln'Ocana the rebels were triumphant, and seized the town, but were subsequently defeated by Colonel Antonio Carreno. Several skirmishes had taken place with General Hernandez's outposts at Gambita. Later advices state that Hernandez has abandoned his camp and gone to Gargoa. Six thousand men are in pursuit. On the sth the government forces attacked Cucuta, and. after a five hours’ fight, captured the town. Many were killed on both sides. This news is unofficial. Everything is quiet on the isthmus, but the populace are disgusted at being captured and forced into military service. No vessels are allowed to leave Panama for the Pacific, ports of the United States of Colombia, and none are allowed to leave Colon for any Atlantic ports, except Carthagena. This is proof of tho close grip the revolutionists are keeping on all roads to the interior. The Star and Herald fails to see any real cause why vessels of friendly powers should be embargoed. FOREIGN MISCELLANY. English Financial Circles Alarmed by Russian War Preparations. London, Feb. 16. —Some excitement was created here to-day, especeally in commercial and financial circles, by the receipt of dispatches from Berlin announcing that the Russian government had ordered two thousand Krupp guns for the purpose of strengthening its position in central Asia. The guns are to be of the largest pattern, and are evidently intended for service in fortresses of superior build. Simultaneously with the above report came dispatches from St. Petersburg stating that Sebastopol would be made a free port.

- ,(-.,, of Duties on Wheat and Rye. Berlin, Feb. 16.—The Reichstag to-day agreed to raise the duties on rye and wheat to three marks. The votes were as follows: To raise the duty on rye—for, 191; against, 151. To raise the duty on wheat—for, 229; against, 113. The increase was opposed by the New German Liberals and Socialists, and supported by the Conservatives, Imperialists. National Liberals and members of the Center. During the debate Bismarck declared that it was a perversion of historical truth to say that duties on corn were condemned by history. The workmen and poor classes ought not to be excited by such worthless assertions. The suggestion that the bill was intended to benefit the great land-owners was wholly unfounded. The small farmer, he said, recognizes more and more that his interests and those of the large land-owners are identical. Seventeen Men Killed by a Powder Explosion. London, Feb. 16.—A terrific explosion occurred in a powder magazine at Gibraltar to-day, killing seventeen men and doing considerable damage otherwise. A later dispatch from Gibraltar says that of the seventeen men killed eight were soldiefs and nine civilians. The explosion occurred in one of the small powder magazines belonging to the fortifications. Later. —Dispatches to-night from Gibraltar show that the damage by the explosion reported this morning was in no respects as serious as first stated. Nobody was killed, but three engineers were seriously injured. The explosion occurred during some blasting operations. Free Fight at a Funeral. Paris, Feb. 16. —During the funeral procession of Jules Valles, the well-known Socialistic journalist, a large number of Frenchmen attacked the German Socialists in the procession, and destroyed the wreath of the latter. The attack was brought on by the fact that the Germans carried a German flag, conspicuously hoisted immediately in the wake of the coffin. This provoked the French in the streets, who shouted: “Down with the German flag,” and the opposition soon extended to the Frenchmen in the procession. When the flag was not lowered, in answer to Ihese shouts, it was stoned. Then a free fight occurred between the supporters of the German banner and the Frenchmen. Steamers in Collision—Four Dives Dost. London, Feb. 16.—The Belgian steamer Westernlnnd, Captain Randle, from Antwerp for New York, put in to Plymouth. She had been in collision with the steamer Hohnhurst, which was sunk. Four of the Holmhurst’s crew were drowned. The Westernlnnd was seriously damaged. The steamer Alphonso, bound from Cadiz for Havana, foundered at the Grand Canary isles. The passengers, crew and treasure were saved, but the cargo and mails were lost.

Cable Notes. W. W. Astor, the American minister to Italy, will resign his position at tho end of February, and Edwards Pierrepont will act as charge d'affaires until the new minister arrives. A dispatch from Osborne pronounces Queen Victoria still unable to travel, and, as a consequence. her return to Windsor is again postponed for a few days. Perfect rest is required. The wife of Mr. Lowell, United States minister to England, is seriously ill. She was taken sick at Madrid, some time since, with typhoid fever, and has never really recovered from its effects. During a debate in the Reichstag, on the subject of increasing the duty on cereals. Bismarck said he had reliable data wlrich would warrant his stating that a majority of the members of the Reichstag approve a duty of three marks on wheat. Miss Hill’s Alimony and Counsel Fees. San Francisco, Feb. 16.—Judge Sullivan this morning rendered a decision on the questions of alimony and counsel fees in the Sharon divorce case. He granted the plaintiff, nee Miss Hill, $2,500 a month from tho date of her application, Jan. 9, and $55,000 counsel fees. Judge Sullivan made an order directing the payment, on March 9, of counsel fees, three months’ alimony, and*s2,soo alimony on the Bth of each month thereafter. Mr. Sharon, when interviewed on the subject, said: “I shall neither pay promptly, nor shall I pay at all. There can ho no compromise. My honor and the honor of my children is at stake. I would not purchase peace at any price. I will win peace from a decision of tho courts. Proceedings for an appeal will be taken immediately.” Eight Men Abandoned in a Sinking Ship. New York, Feb. 16.— The bark Lillian M. Vigus, from London, arrived here to-day, and reports that on Jan. 25 she fell in with an open boat containing Captain Larsen, the second mate and two seamen of the bark Alfred, from Pensacola, on Jan. 1, for Liverpool, with a cargo of lumber. The men were in an exhausted condition. They were taken on hoard and brought to this port Captain Larsen reports that he was in an open boat, preparing to take the remainder of the crew from their sinking ship, when the gale and the sea carried them off. He was thus compelled to abandon the remaining eight men of his crew. Dishonest Postal Clerk Arrested. Pittsburg, Feb. 16. —John Moore, a railway fostal clerk, running between Now York and 'ittsburg, was arrested this morning on information of Inspector Speese, charged with robbing mails. Marked bills which the inspector had placed in a letter were found on his person when arrested. Moore is a resident of New York city.

DEFEAT OF THE GRANT BILL. The Honse Refuses to Tass the Bill Placing Him on the Retired List. Col. Bayne Makes a Concise and Telling Statement of the Causes Leading to the Defeat of the Measure. Rosccrans Votes Against the Bill and Charges Graut with Falsehood. Mr. Randall Intimates that He Will Make an Effort to Have Mr. Edmunds’s Second Bill Passed by the House. DEFEAT OF THE GRANT BILE. Colonel Bayne’s Concise Statement of the Causes of Its Rejection. Bpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Feb. 16.—The bill to retire General Grant was called up in the House to day, and General Slocum, from the military committee, asked the House to suspend the rules and pass the bill. The request was refused, on a vote of 158 to 103. Under the rules, thirty minutes were allowed for debate, which time was occupied by Messrs. Slocum, Randall, Cox and Bayne in support of the bill, and Messrs. Horr, Thomas and Rosecrans against. The two former opposed the bill because it was so framed as to invite a veto from the President. The latter stated that he opposed the movement to tetire General Grant because his services had been overestimated, and because he was well provided for as it is, and because the passage of the bill would act as a ligature around the investigation into the affairs of Grant & Ward. Colonel Bayne’s speech in support of the bill oc c'upied oiT.j two minutes. It was,, notwithstanding its brevity, the on either side. He said: . “Against this bill are arrayed, first, vhC prejudices of some of the men whom General Grant conquered; lam sorry for it. Second, against this bill are arrayed the personal injuries felt by one or two men; I am sorry for it. Third, against this bill are arrayed the political resentments of Republicans because the name of General Grant is coutained in the bodj r of the bill; I am sorry for it. No such motives should influence any man occupying the honorable position of a member of the House of Representatives, and in yielding to such motives he cannot justify himself before the people of the couutry. I believe implicitly in the power of the American Congress to pass the bill, and to name the man to be benefited. It simply authorizes the President, with the approval of the Senate, to appoint General Graut to an office, if the President, in the exercise of his discretion, sees fit to do so. It is not mandatory; it does not sav to the President, ‘thou shalt,’ but only says to him, ‘you may, if, in your judgment, you believe it right so to do.’ The bill is in accordance with the practice under the Constitution from the foundation of the government, and the very President who now occupies the executive chair has signed three bills containing provisions precisely the same as Jgj in this bill. I can see no justification unheaven for denying to General Grant, who was the great benefactor of his country, and almost its savior, this little boon. When any man interposes his prejudices or personal feelings against this great, righteous act. he does that which will not commend itself either to his own conscience or to the approval of the people of the United States.” The defeat of this bill to-day is more than a defeat of General Grant. It is a demonstration of the fact that “the South is in the saddle” again; it is a further indication that during the next four years the South is to rule the Democratic party, and that no measure which the South antagonizes can have any chance in Congress so long as the Democratic party controls the government A glance at the vote by which the House refused to suspend the rules shows threo things: First, that Colonel Bayne’s first statement of the location of the opposition to the bill was a correct diagnosis. The name of every man who held a commission in the confederate army during the war is found on the “nay” side of the tally-sheet, with one exception, Colonel Nichols, of Georgia, who voted “aye.” The men whom Grant had conquered voted solidly against him. Second, the list shows that Grant’s old-time enemy, General Rosecrans, allowed his personal feelings to influence his public acts. Third, the bill shows that nearly every man on the Republican side voted for the bill. There is no doubt that the bill would have become a law if it had passed the House to-day. Even if the President had interposed a veto, it would have been over-ridden. But he has already signed three bills of similar import before the Fitz John Porter bill was discovered to be unconstitutional, and he would undoubtedly have found a way to sign this measure. The three bills previously signed were as follows: Restoring William 11. Gill, resigned, to his rank and grade as a military store keeper; promoting Captain William D. Whitney, U. S. N., to the rank aud pay of commander, on the retired list, and appointing Captain D. T. Kirby, U. S. A., resigned, the President to assign him to the first vacancy occurring in his grade.

PROCEEDINGS IN DETAIL. A Refusal to Suspend the Rules—Rosecrans Charges Grant with Falsehood, To tlio Western Associated Press. Washington, Feb. 16. —1n the House, to day, Mr. Slocutn, under instructions from the military committee, moved to suspend the rules and pass the Senate bill for the retirement of General Grant. [This is the first bill passed by the Senate, and specifically names the officer to bo retired. 1 Mr. Hon* and Mr. Warner, of Ohio, demanded a 3econd. The thirty minutes' debate allowed under the rules was opened by Mr. Slocum in behalf of the bill. This bill, he said, proposed to place General Grant in the same position ho would have occupied had he not, in accordance with the will ot the people of the country, accepted the office of chief magistrate. In form and language this bill was precisely like all bills passed for purposes of this kind. It had often been said that much had been done for General Grant, but nothing had been done for him by the United States government beyond paying him the salaries to which he was entitled by law. It was true that patriotic citizens had contributed to his support It had been the custom of the English government, from time immemorial, to honor with high offices her military heroes, and while he did not commend to our country the example set by England, he did not think, when a man had performed such services for hie

country as General Grant had performed, that it was right and proper, in his old age, that he should be left to grapple with poverty. General Grant had not been free from mistakes in his career, either as soldier or civilian; but in a few years his late campaign in Wall street would be forgotten. Every error of his would be forgotten, as it ought to be, and the campaign which would be remembered was the campaign from that day when he sent the tidings which revived tne hopes of the North, and to that other day when he sent the news, which carried joy to every northern heart. All the good would be remembered and all the mistakes be, and ought to be. forgotten. The campaigns of Grant would live in history and compare favorably with the brightest and grandest achievements of Eng land’s noblest heroes. The successful close of the war under Grant had made him the idol of the people of the North; his generous and noble treatment of Lee and the men who fought under him, and his subsequent lenient treatment of tho Southern people, had won for him the heart of the South. He (Mr. Slocum) believed that to-day it was the wish of tho people of the South, as well as of the North, that the government take care of Gen. Grant and provide for him liberally. The honor of the government was at stake, and he trusted the bill would pass the House with the same unanimity as it had the Senate. Mr. Ilorr said he had demanded a second because he was opposed to tho present bill, and not because he was opposed to putting Gen. Grant on the retired list. Ho would walk on his knees ali over this city in the snow in order to accomplish that object; but ho opposed the bill on the ground that it was drawn for the very purpose of preventing Gen. Grant from being put on the retired list. Mr. Slocum suggested that the bill had been drawn by Senator Edmunds. Mr. Horr replied that when Senator Edmunds learned that the bill was subject to objections, which the President conscientiously made, ho had drawn another bill, which obviates those difficulties. That bill had passed the Senate, and now the committee on military affairs had refused to substitute it for the pending bill. He had passed twenty years of his life standing by General Grant, who had been vilified iu this Nation as no other man was who breathed the breath of life. Now an attempt was made to force members into a false position—to force them to vote for a bill, purposely, designedly brought in here to put the executive of the Nation in a tight place. If the second Edmunds bill were substituted, it would be passed unanimously. . Let not the House try to cast stones before the people when they were demanding bread. Mr. Thomas opposed the bill in its present shape, and expected to vote against it. He believed it was a trap to catch Republican votes, and to put the President in a tight place. The President could not sign this bill, ana the Democrats knew this . act. No man would go further than he to aid General Grant in the day of his distress, but he would not allow himself to bo pj,.C£d > n a false position. Mr. Sv 'Rßg£crans regarded the bill as a plain propnairinntn VgtfrSJrd General Grant for his distinguished military services|'"?rfttLjt' was his duty to sav that he could not vote for iC^hL^ wa3 not his intention to resort to any historical reo^* 18 why lie thought General Grant’s reputation had been exaggerated and misrepresented, and when history came to be written, it would be pared down to very different dimensions. He did not propose to go into that. It had boon to the interest of a great political party to make General Grant’s services appear as large as possible, for he was their servant. General Grant himself had prepared the first two volumes pf Badeuu’s life of Grant, upon which students of history had placed the stamp of untrustworthiness. The public had been told that General Rosecrans would not vote for tho Grant bill, because of personal ill will. He did not think any of his colleagues would believe that he was capable of descending to the depth being governed in a public duty by personal dislikes. Ho did not oppose tho passage of this bill on account of any of these things to which he had alluded, or other things to which he had not alluded, namely: Statements made officially by General Grant which were false, which General Grant know to be false, and which be (Rosecrans) had stated in his official reports to be false. It had been said that General Grant was poor; that there was nothing between him and the poorhouse, except the income from $250,000; and it had been circulated around by his family that the $250,000 was substantially lost. That was not true. There was another circumstance to which he called attention: Congress, bv solemn act, was called to arrest—what? Why, the progress of public opinion for an investigation in that confidence mill called Grant & Ward. If gentlemen could afford to put a ligature around that investigation and deceive tho public mind, he could not.

Mr. Horr called attention to the fact that, on Feb. 3, the President had sent a message to the House, in which he asked that body to act upon a measure which would place General Grant on the retired list, and urged the passage of the second Senate bill. Mr. Slocum said there had been a time when he was about as near General Grant as the gentleman from Michigan, and he intimated that the gentleman’s opposition was due to the fact that General Grant had tried to do justice to General Porter. Even were the ponding bill vetoed, it would be passed over tho veto. In the message to which tho gentleman from Michigan referred, the President had given the number of the bill he would sign. Suppose the President vetoed this bill—what would happen? Why, within threo weeks’ time the house at the other end of the avenue would be occupied by a gentleman who would not stickle so for his prerogative.

Mr. Cox, of New York, eulogized the services of General Grant, and supported the bill. Mr. Randall favored the measure, because ho believed it to be a right proceedure. Whether it was the most expeditious, he was not going to inquire; but if this proceeding failed, then he was ready to resort to some other that would be more expeditious. [Applause.] If the friends of General Grant on this floor were divided they would be sure to be overcome, and they would not be free from blame. Mr. Bayne regretted that there were arrayed against this bill the prejudices of some men. General Grant had conquered the personal injuries felt by certain person, and the political resentment of some Republicans. This bill was not saying to the President, “You shall,” but “you may.” It was in a form which had been used since the foundation of the government, and the present President had signed three bills similar in their character. The motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill was lost—yeas, 158; nays, 103—not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative. The negative vote was cast by Democrats who were opposed to General Grant’s retirement, reinforced by a number of Republicans, who, though in favor of tho purport of the bill, were opposed to its form, believing it would place the President under the necessity ot vetoing a measure which ho strongly approved. Mr. Ediminds’s Other Bill. Washington. Feb. 16. —Mr. Randall has signified his intention of trying to pass, under suspension of the rules, during the last six days of tho session, the second Edmunds bill passed by the Senate for retirement of General Grant, which gives the President authority to place a general of the arm^on the retired list, without specifying names. This is the bill the President desires to have passed. An Almost Unanimous Indorsement. Albany, N. Y., Feb. 16.—The Senate to dav, by an almost unanimous vote (Seuator Robb only voting in the negative), adopted the following: “Whereas, George F. Edmunds, on .Tan. 13, 1885, introduced in the Senate of the United States a bill to authorize an additional appointment on the retired list of the array, which bill has passed the Senate and is now awaiting action in the House of Representatives: and “Whereas, Said bill is intended to create a position upon the retired list of the army for that illustrious soldier, Ulysses 8. Grant, therefore, Resolved. That our representatives In Congress are requested to vote for the bill and urge a measure wlucu will place Genera. Giant upon the retired list.” Obituary. Philadelphia, Feb. 16. —James E. Gowcn, a well-known lawyer, and one of tho general counsel of the Philadelphia & Reading company, died at Mount Airy, this afternoon.

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ANOTHER SNOW BLOCKADE. The Chicago Railways Subjected to a Repetition of Last Week’s Trouble, While the City Is the Seene of Much Inconvenience and Suffering Because of a Great Scarcity of Soft Coal. The Big Four and Other Railway Linei Badly Blockaded Near Kankakee. Heavy Rains and Snow in the East, Aceom* panied by Loss of Life—An Unusually High Tide in New York Bay. CHICAGO AND VICINITY. Tlie Railways to the South aud East Again Blockaded l>y Snow Drifts. Chicago, Feb. 16. —The weather in this city and throughout the Northwest has been intensely cold all day. At 8 o’clock this morning the mercury indicated fifteen degrees below zero. The day was clear, but the storm signals of the government were flying all day, and, notwithstanding the influence of the bright sunshine, the mercury oniv struggled up a few degrees. It reached its highest point—four degrees below —at 4 o’clock this afternoon. At 6 o’clock it had fallen to six below*, and at 9 it was ten degrees below, while reports from the West and Northwest, from which it comes, indicate still lower temperature before morning. Street-car travel has been slow and tedious, and the working people have suffered much delay and inconvenience in going to and returning from work. The cable car lines hav® experienced more trouble within the pest two or threo days than at any time during the winter. The snow of yesterday was heavy and hard to handle, and the low temperature has made the machinery brittle, so that the traction cable has snapped once or twice, and the pulley has done the same, compelling the company to use horse* to draw its ears for a considerable time since Saturday. The result was several blockades and much suffering from cold weather by the waiting

people. grains on most of the railroads have been greatt> d’lrjlY til* ! ' nd ' seemed to grow worse rather ter. The roads to the . j south southeast suffered most. The & Alton, the Illinois Central, tht Louisville, New Albany & Chicago, and some other reads are completely blocked by dnrtifig snow, and most of the roads are obliged to side-track freight trains. Some of the east-bound roads refused to take freight for transmission; western roads are being rapidly blocked up with freight for transmission east, and many trainloads are side-tracked beyond the city limits, waiting to be switched across to the connecting roads, which are not now in condition to receive them. The mails are greatly behind time, and irregular from every direction, and business is being seriously affected on that account. Reports from Western and Northwestern point* show tli* following temperatures, all below zero: Omaha, 13; St. Paul. 10; Des Moines, 1(1; Dubuque, 18; Fargo, D. T. t 28, Jamestown. D. TANARUS., 35; Winnipeg, 34. Denver reports 33 above. A Chicago, Burlington & Quincy passenger train, due here at 7 o’clock this morning, reached the suburb of Downer’s Grove eight hours late, and was going at full speed when a misplaced switch sent it oa a side-track, where it struck a switch engine. The two engines of the passenger train and the switch-engine were nearly demolished, but no one was injured, except a fireman, who had a leg broken.

A Kaukakee, 111., telegram says: “A passenger train, west-bound on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago road, is now bound in ten feet of snow, east of St. Anne, and an east-bound passenger train is held at Kankakee. A relief crew is stuck in the snow near St Anno. The east bound passenger train from Seneca, duo at Kankakee at 7 o'clock this morning, is snow-bound. The Illinois Central trains are four hours late.” The south bound mail train which left Chicago at 8 a. m. is snowed in at Montero in five feet of snow, which has drifted since 11 a. m. today. The north bound accommodation is snowed in at Tucker, five miles below Montero. The snow blockade on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis. St Louis <fc Chicago road is unbroken near St Anne, and it is believed will so remain until to morrow noon. No trains are moving on the Indiana, Illinois & lowa road. Asa result of the railroad blockade, six theaters here failed to give performances to-night The Olympic, tho People’s, the Staudard, th© Academy, the Lyceum and the Criterion were th© houses which announced that their respective companies were detained on out-of-the-way sid ings and in country snow banks. The other theaters, notwithstanding the frigid temperature, did a rushing business, on account of the unusually small number of places ready to supply the demand for entertainment A Coal Famine In Chicago. Chicago, Feb. 16. —There is a coal famine in Chicago, owing to the heavy snows of the past two weeks, which-have blockaded the railroads in all directions. The supply of soft coal here has reached a very low ebb. The supply of hard coal is ample, but only a small portion of th© quantity of coal consumed in Chicago is of that description. The worst suffering is among th© poor. The county agent has been utterly unable to meet the demands made upon him yesterday and to-day. Tho seriousness of the position is best presented in the following statement, tnado by a leading dealer in soft eoal: “There has not been for ten years such a scarcity of soft coal as at present. During th© last ten days there has been virtually no eoal received in the city, and the accumulations that were on hand at the commencement of this blockade are upw completely exhausted. Th© great bulk of the Roft coal that comes here customarily is used immediately after arrival, it being impracticable, in view of the manner in which soft coal is handled, to carry any considerable stock at one time. Railway consumption aloae takes an immense tonnage of soft coal, and our manufacturing interests all require enormous quantities. Outside the manufacturing demand, all our large building blocks are heated by steam, to produce which soft coal is exclusively used. The railways and manufacturing establishments and public buildings seldom keep more than one or two days' stock on hand. This storm visitation has caused a general paralysis in the movement of trains, and while there are several hundred car-loads in the city, on side-tracks, and arrived during the storm, they are now snowed in and cannot probably be moved for several days. These cars are not approachable by teams, and consequently, so far as delivery is concerned, might as weli be in Pennsylvania." THK STORM IN THIS BAST. A Very High Title At New York—Loss of Life and Damage to Property. New Yokk, Feb. 10.—The storm made holier tides in the North and East rivers to day than have been known in over twelve years- Along West and South streets nearly ©very cellar was flooded, and all available