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whatever with the real estate business of the District. A great deal of satisfaction exists among the colored people here over the rejection, because they look upon Matthews as an apostate ami a renegade. He would find it difficult to secnre any sympathy from men of his race here, and, in fact, the leading colored men of both political parties express satisfaction rather than regret over the action of the Senate. Work of Conference Committee*. Washington, Aug. 3. —The conferees on the Morrison surplus resolution have reached an agreement The House conferees insisted upon the abandonment of the paragraph providing for the redemption of the trade dollar, and on that point the Senate conferees receded. The House conferees theft conceded the remaining amendments made by the Senate, but insisted upon a change in the phraseology, so as to confer upon the Secretary of the Treasury, and not upon the President, the power to postpone, instead of suspend, the call*. The sundry civil bill, which has been regarded as the main obstacle in the wav of a speedy adjournment*of Congress, was agreed upon by the conferees to-day. The coast surrey item, inserted by the Senate, remains substantially as it passed the Senate, while thq provision for the protection and improvement of the Yellowstone Park is the same as that made in the original Hcnse bill. The conferees upon the Northern Pacific forfeiture bill and the bill to repeal the pre-emption and timber-culture laws met this noon, and after a short conference adjourned, having failed to agree with regard to the points at issue in either bUi. It now expected that another conference vral be held. Action on the Interstate Commerce BUI Postponed. Washington, Aug. 3.— Senators Cullom, Platt and Harris and Representatives Reagan, Crisp, and Weaver of Nebraska, the conference committee on the interstate commerce bill, met this evening. The principal points of difference between the Senate and House bills were fully and freely discussed, and all the conferees manifested a disposition to make concessions, and a determination to reach an agreement It was not deemed advisable, however, in view of the important interests to be affected by the proposed legislation, to attempt to frame a modification of either measure to-night, and it was unanimously agreed that the committee should meet in Washington a wek before the next session begins, and make such modifications on the pending bills as may be agreed upon. The whole subject is before the conference committee, and both Senator Cnllom and Judge Reagan are confident that an agreement fill be reached and a satisfactory measure passed early next session.

Patents to Indiana Inventors* Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. 3.—Patents wore to day issfted for the following Indianians: Darr, Emery Q., Shelbyville, harness traoe; Davis, Wm. H., and W. Hatfield, Fort Wayne, said Hatfield assignor to said Davis, paper-file-holder; Henley, Micajah C., Richmond, fence machine; Hobbs, Marmaduke W., Richmond, inhaler; Hoover, Henry H., Macy, farm gate; Jones, Alonzo 8., Jeffersonville, folding table; Miller, Harry, Morristown, railway frog; Niehols, John P., Marion, exercising machine and register therefor; Obi wine, David F., and J. H. Alexander, Kendallville, oil-can holder; Pisano, Martin, assignor of one-half to S. R. Alden, Fort Wayne, jack for holding boots or shoes; Pyle, George C., Dayton, 0., assignor to American Electric Head-light Company, Indianapolis, electric arc lamp for locomotive head lights; Rouse, Roswell R., Indianapolis, pipe wrench; Sidney, Wm. E. Frankfort, flue cleaner; Starr, Wm. C. and H. G, Richmond, ornamenting chains; Sweeny. Robert G.. Terre Haute, electrical switch; Taylor, Joseph A. D., assignor of one-half to J. H. Hoover, Ossian, gate. The Telephone Salt Not Likely To Be Tried. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Ang. 3. --An impression prevails here that if a conclusion is ever reached in the government’s suit at Columbus, 0., to test the validity of the Bell telephone patents, it will be after the expiration of the present term of President Cleveland. All work in that case has been postponed till October, and then it will require months to determine the procedure, matter of jurisdiction, etc. Ex Senator McDonald, of Indiana, who is the principal attorney for the government in this salt, and who has been here several days, was asked this afternoon when, in his opinion, a verdict would be reached in this case, and he answered that it might not he until some time after the life of the patent bad expired. He remarked, sarcastically, that a conclusion could be arrived at, with due diligence, Within a couple of years after the life of the Bell patent is out. Mr. Holman Condemns the Pension Vetoes. Interview in Washington. “I am inclined to think that the President has made a serious error in his numerous vetoes of private pension bills. I look upon it as being in bad taste. Although it is true that a great deal of favoritism is often shown in the passage of pension bills through the influence and position of those holding places on the invalid pension committee, if Dension bills are to be vetoed, it is unfortunate that the vetoes have been confined to that class of people who actually need the assistance of the government, Personal and General* Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. 3.—H. R. Allen and son, of Indianapolis, are in the city. John Jackson, of Columbus, Ind., has been admitted to practice before the Interior Department. Miss Mary O’Hara, a niece of Lawrence Morrissey, of the War Department, and Miss Minnie Howlett, daughter of Wm. Howlett, of this city, have left here for South Bend to enter the noviatiate of the Sisters of the Holy Cross. Col. D. S. Laraont returned to Washington this morning from a visit to his home in Courtland county, New York. He is somewhat improved in health, hut is not yet entirely well.. Walter W. Albright, of Delaware county, Ohio; Johu Akerman, of Herring, 0., and Simon B. Ellis, of Stephens, 0., have been admitted to practice before the Interior Department. The President to-day made the following nominations: Thomas Cooper, to be collector of internal revenue for the Eighth district of Illinois. Receivers of public moneys—William J. McClure, at Coeur d’Alene, I. TANARUS.; A. Wood, Susanville, Cal.; Frank J. Mott, to be register of the land office at Denver, Col.; Joseph Heilman, to be agent for the Indians at the Omaha aud Winnebago reservations in Nebraska. The Cabinet was in session about three hours to-day, arranging the affairs of the departments in anticipation of the speedy adjournment of Congress. The Cutting and Arrasures cases were also considered. There are no prospects that any of the appropriation bills will be sent to the President tonight Among the items stricken from the deficiency bill, as agreed npon in conference, is the Senate provision for payment of.government transportation on Pacific railroads. The statement telegraphed yesterday that the nomination of Marshal Freeman, of Tennessee, had been confirmed by the Senate is incorrect Qis nomination has been rejected. S. M. Whitten, a messenger in the Senate, having been granted a leave of absence, left here for his home at Union City to night, to await the December session of Congress. William Waggoner has been commissioned postmaster at Becic’s Grove, Ind. The Senate calendar of nominations was cleared of unobjected cases to-night The following nominations have been rejected: Adelard Guernoa, to be collector of customs for Minnesota; George P. Sanford, to be postmaster at Lansing. Mich., and H. H. Porter, to be postmaster at Dowagiac, Mich. Mr. Blaine Makes a Speech. Portland, Me., Aug. 3.—James G. Blaine was among the visitors at the Chautauquans* camp to-day, at Frvoburg, and in the afternoon spoke briefly regarding some tendencies in modern colleges. He expressed his admiration of the singularly efficient work the Chautauquans to modestly and inexpensively performed, e

THE FOBTY-NINTH CONGRESS Senator Hoar Accused of Once More Flaunting: the Bloody Shirt. The River and Harbor, Sundry Civil Service and Deficiency Bills Finally Disposed Of — Miscellaneous Business Transacted. THE SENATE. Mr, Hoar Disturbs the Equanimity of the Southern Senators. Washington, Aug. 3.— The Senate met at 10 o’clock. Mr. Hale, from tho conference commitmittee on the deficiency bill, submitted a report, and proceeded to explain it In regard to certain claims (for Income tax paid by non resident aliens) which had been regularly estimated for, and which the House had partially and the Senate entirely put in the bill, it had turned out in conference that there were objections to some of these put in by the Senate, and the oonferees recommended that these items be referred back to the Secretary of the Treasury, with instructions to report the facts to Congress next session Mr. Manderson inquired what had been done about the item for paving the street in front of the government building at St Louis. Mr. Hale replied that that item would be retained. The conference committee had agreed to the propriety of the government paving the sidewalks in front of government buildings, but wished the matter of street paving to be fixed afterwards by general law. Mr. Manderson inquired further as to the item for fifteen days of leave of absence to the employes in the Government Printing Office. Mr. Hale said that the item was retained. A a to the item for the Brazil Steamship Company, the appropriation is struck out and a clause substituted directing the Postmaster-gen-eral to report, at the next session, the amount of services rendered and the sum justly and equitably due. The item to pay the Central Pacific Railroad Company for services rendered on its non-subsidized lines is also struck out. The item as to the Washington aqueduct and tunnel is retained, with a provision that the Board of engineers for fortifications and river and harbor improvements shall report whether any cnanges are necessary in the method of lining the tunnel and the method of lining and perfecting the reservoir. Mr. Hoar asked how the appropriation bills of this session, compared with those of preceding sessions, with regard to the omission by the House of Representatives of items of appropriation absolutely necessary for the operations of the government, depending upon a Republican Senate to put them on. Mr. Hale replied that in his opinion this practice of the House was becoming worse from year to year. The Senate found the bills sent over from the House fractional and incomplete. It would find, for example, a page of regular estimates, one-third of the items on which had been left out, while there was no difference in point of merit between those omitted and those included. This did give rise to statements more or lees do clamatorv in another branch of the government as to the'extravagance of the Senate, while the fact was that the Senate was very careful to put in nothing that was not necessary to the running of the government. There were imprtient utterances at being charged with these increased appropriations, and ho was bound to say for the committee on appropriations, that in dealing with this subject it had rot been treated as a party matter, the Democra tic members having manifested the same impatience as the Republicans. Mr. Edmunds read from the book of estimates the items of deficiency estimated for by the heads of departments, aggregating more than $3,000,000, and said it was just as well known, when the regular appropriation bills were passed last year, that the gums appropriated were inadequate to the necessities of the government as it is to day, but they were not increased, because an opportunity was wanted to tell the dear people—the workingmen.—how economical Congress had been. The report was agreed to. Mr. Allison, from the committee on appropriations, reported back the joint resolution appropriating $35,000 additional for the purchase of lands for a site for the Congressional Library.

Mr. Plumb objected to its present consideration, and it was placed on the calendar. Mr. Allison also reported back the House joint resolution to continue the appropriations temporarily. Mr. Plumb and Mr. Edmunds objected to its present consideration. Mr. Allison asked that the objection he withdrawn, and stated that if the resolutions were not passed, those employes whose compensation is provided for in the sundry civil bill could not be paid for the time intervening between the last day of July and the day when that bill would receive the President’s signature. Mr. Plumb declined to withdraw the objection, being willing, be said, to leave with the House the responsibility for its tardiness in sending appropriation bills to the Seuate. The change of rule in the House, by which seven or eight of the general appropriation bills were taken from the appropriation committee had not gone deep enough. He might particularize to show where the blame rested. But as the House tolerated an autocracy which controlled its business, it became itself responsible for all the delay. The joint resolution was placed on the calendar. Mr. Allison, from the same committee, reported back the House adjournment resolution, with an amendment changing the time from the 28th of July to 4 P. M. on the 4th of August. Mr. Hoar expressed his dissent to the passage of this or any other adjournment resolution until the Senate had considered the bill reported by him from the judiciary committee on April 19, for “inquests under national authority.” He referred to the massacres during the last few years iu Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and other Southern States; and stated that, in every one of these cases, so far as was shown to the people of the North by theVress. a negro and a Republican was the victim, and a Democrat and a white man the aggressor. If any of these outrages had been perpetrated on an American citizen in Mexico or Canada, Congress would not adjourn until it bad made provision to put tne national defenses in a condition for war. Mr. Kenna protested against the speech made by the Senator from Massachusetts in the closing hours of the session. That speech would go into the Record, and would go into the campaign as a blondy-shirt campaign document (with a fraud on it), carried free through the mails for the purpose of agitating sectional sentiments and feelings which, so fAr as he was concerned, were dead and would remain so forever. Mr. Saulsbury expressed his surprise that a Senator, with the experience of the Senator from Massachusetts, should have so far departed from all legislative propriety as to inject into the discussion of an adjournment resolution the virulence of such a speech. From the exhibition made by the Republican Senators while the speech was being made [many Senators having left their seats] he knew that it had not the apfiroval of those with whom the Senator was poitically affiliated. He exonerated tbe Senator’s party from all complicity with the grave impropriety manifested by tbe Senator from Massachusetts. But he emphasized his condemnation and reprobation of the Senator’s attempt to make political capital for his party when there was no opportunity to reply to it. Mr. Eustis denied that a single outrage had taken place in the State of Louisiana for many years past which had not been the subject of investigation, discussion and decision. He would not stop now to discuss such a stale subject. At the proper time he would be found prepared to defend the white people of the State of Louisiana against any such accusation as had been made by tbe Senator. He could not recall a single occurrence since 1876, in that State, that required the enactment of such a bill. On the contrary, peace, and quiet, and contentment had prevailed among all the people of the State of Louisiana, irrespective of race, classes or conditions. Mr. Hoar—Why, then, object to having the matter judicially ascertained by a United States court? Mr. Enstis—That involves an entirely different question. Ido not consider the bill constitutional Ido not consider that a judge has any such duty to perform—* duty that is strictly political and not judicial. Mr. Hoar—Does the Senator claim that the question whether a homicide was committed, or

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a serious attack on life and property made, is * political and not a judicial question? Mr. Eustis—While a court has jurisdiction to. try and convict, that is an entirely different proposition from a mere proposition of inquiry. Mr. Berry also protested against Mr. Hoar’s speech, aud stated that, so far as the State of Arkansas was concerned. order and quiet had prevailed there since the Democratic party came into power in 1874. Mr. George, a member of the judiciary committee. recognized the bill as presenting questions of the very gravest importance, which deserved carefnl, calm and dispassionate consideration, and he declared bimself ready to go into the discussion of the bill, bnt on the condition that no day shall be fixed for adjournment until the discussion is over. He asked that the Senate would determine now whether it would consider the bill at this session or not. Mr. Dawes approved Mr. Hoar’s position in the matter.. Mr. Gibson expressed his surprise and regret that the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Hoar] should have brought into the Senate at tnts hour of the session a subject calculated to create sectional debate. The speech was like an iceberg coming from an arctic region into an atmosphere of general warmth, shed by a sunny and generous patriotism. It was an indictment against the entire population from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. It was an apple of discord thrown into the Senate in the closing hours of the session. As to his own State, he bore testimony to the peace and quiet that prevailed there; while, on the contrary, the couutry had seen the peace of society stirred to its lowest depths in the city of Chicago and the territory adjacent to it. There they had heard the murmurinzs of deep discontent, threatening the entire framework of society itself. And yet in the presence of suoh disorders, threatening all the elements of society, tM Senator from Massachusetts turned aside and directed his attention to the Southern section, where peace and quiet prevailed; where there was not a ripple on the surface, where God was blessing the people with abundant crops, where the relations between capital and labor were undisturbed, where there was not a strike, not a tumult, not a disorder, and where life and property were protected under the laws. Mr. Hoar, in answer to criticisms on him by Senators KVuna and Saulsbury for precipitating this subject on the Senate without DOtice or warning, traced the several steps by which the bill had been reported from the judiciary committee, bad been indicated by the Republican caucus as one of the important, measnres to be pressed at the present session, and had been mentioned by himself on various recent occasions as a matter which he would ask to have considered before adjournment. Mr. George asked him whether it was his purpose to ask the Senate to take up the bill now in an orderly way. Mr. Hoar replied that of course it was, and suggested that, under the explanations which he had jost made, the Senators from West Vireinia and Delaware would withdraw their criticisms. Mr. Kenna said that, so far as the Senator's declaration of a purpose to have the bill considered was concerned, he had no issue with him; but he could not see any cause or pretext for the Senator’s speech when he knew that his bill could not be and would not be considered. Mr. Hoar went on to defend the bill. What was there in it that was going to stir up sectional strife or that was an indictment against a whole people? It simply provided that if throe citizens of the United States (inhabitants of any district), should, under oath, declaro to a court that there had been a homicide, or other serious offense against life or property (by reason of race or politics), the judge should, thereupon, do what is done in the case of every coroner’s inauest throughout the land—inquire into the facts and report them to the Attorney-general and to Congress. Why should such a bill be described as an indictment against a whole people? It inclnded the North as well as the South. It defended the Chinaman as well as the nego. It defended the Democrat in Vermont as well as the Republican in Louisiana. Was an American citizen to be safer in Mexico than in Mississippi? Was the Mexican flag to give more safety to American citizens than the stars and stripes? Mr. Riddleberger denounced the bill. Mr. Blair objected to the further consideration of the adjournment resolution, and it was placed on the calendar. Mr. Blair then called ud the report of the committee on pensions in the case of the vetoed bill giving a pension to Mary J. Ncfttage, and he proceeded to state the merits of the case.

Mr. Platt said the President, who conceived that he should veto every bill which, as a member of the Senate or House, he would feel called upon to vote against, had mistaken eitftirely the purpose of the veto and the circumstances under which it was intended to be exercised, it was in no sense a legislative function. The very first sentence of the Constitution was, “Legislative power is conferred upon Congress.” If the President could veto any bill then this declaration of the Constitution was a delusion and a snare. With a minority one third faction the President could prevent legislation, and then the days of the rule of £he majority were over. The President should recollect that all legislative power was conferred upon Congress and none on him. Mr. Whitthorne, a member of the pensions committee, addressed the Senate in support of the veto. President Cleveland realized the great danger of special legislation and had the nerve, wisdom and courage to grapple with it, although it came in the insidious, appealing form of pension bills. Mr. Teller argued against the idea of any legislative power being vested in the President. The framers of the Constitution had not intended to vest any legislative power in the President; otherwise they would not have confined it exclusively to Congress. The veto power was a shield, and not a sword. It was a negative power. He likened the position of the President engaged in examining and vetoing pension bills to that of an “eagle catching flies,” and Baid that the people of the United States did not expect their eagle to be so employed. The debate was interrupted to allow the conferees on the river and harbor bill to report an agreement Mr. Cullom expressed his disapproval of the conference report, particularly in regard to the way m which the Hennepin canal matter was treated. The Secretary of War was instructed to have the canal surveyed. That was mere trifling with the subject The government had been surveying that canal as long as he could recollect. In his candid oninion the Hennepin canal improvement was of more importance to the commerce of the country than all other items in the bill—except that for New York harbor. For some unexplained reason several of the items for bayous in the South were increased, but this important improvementhad disappeared from the bill He could not. consistently with his sense of duty, submit to the passage of the bill as reported. Mr. Gibson called attention to the fact that while appropriations were made for the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, there was not a dollar appropriated for tbe compensation and expenses of the Mississippi river commission. Mr. Cockrell —Then the bill ought not to pass. Mr. Gibson—No such bill as this ought to pass. The conference report was agreed to without division. The Senate resumed consideration of the vetoed bill granting a pension to Mary J. Nottage, the question being on its passage, notwithstanding the objection of the President. The vote was taken, and resulted—yeas 26. nays 19, a party vote, except that Mr. Wilson, of Maryland, voted in the affirmative. So, two-thirds not voting in the affirmative, the bill was not passed. The vote in detail was as follows: TEAS. Allison, Harrison, Riddleberger, Blair, Hawley, Sawyer, Cameron, Hoar. Sherman, Conger, Ingalls, Spooner, Cullom, McMillan. Stanford, Dolph, Mahone, Teller, Edmunds, Maiiderson, Wilson (la.) Evarts, Miller, Wilson (Aid.)—26. Hale, Mitchell (Ore.), NAYS. Beck. Coke. .Tones (Ark.), BeiTw Eustis, Maxey, Blackburn, Gibson, Payne, Broan, Gray, Pugh, Butler, Harris. Vast, Call, Hearst, Walthall—l9. Cockrell, The vetoed House bill granting a pension to Jacob Romiser was then taken np, and Mr. Wil son, of Maryland, explained that the President had acted under a misapprehension, he having been informed that an application had been made to the Pension Office, while, in fact, no application bad been made. The bill was passed over the veto by a unanimous vote—yeas 50, nays 0. On motion of Mr. Edmnnds, the House bill to detach certaiifcounties from the United States judicial district of California and to create the

Southern judicial district of California was taken from the calendar, amended, and passed. The Senate took a recess until 8 o’clock^ At the evening session Mr Allison, from the committee on appropriations, reported a biil appropriating $50,000 for the compensation and oxpenses of the Mississippi river commission and $20,000 for the Missouri river commission. Passed. The committee on education and labor was directed to continue acd complete the investigation of the relations between labor and capital. Mr. Cullom moved to proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to acoept certain lands near Chicago, 111. Rejected. The Senate then took up the conference report on the sundry civil appropriation bill. Some opposition to the report was made by Messrs. Conger. Teller and Hawley for the reason that the Senate conferees had yielded in part to the House on question of appropriation for schools in Alaska; but Mr. Beck defended the conference action, declaring that the Senate conferees had had difficult work in retaining any portion of the appropriation. Mr. Edmunds also opposed the reduction of the appropriation. He was rather anxious to sea the greeu hills of Vermont, but he would rather stay here until December than yield on this Question—not for the purpose of forcing the House of Representatives to do what it did not desire to do, but in order to persuade it that honor, justice, humanity and public policy required that liberal provision should be made for school purposes in Alaska. He was opposed to letting ths matter drop because it was late in the session, and to postpone it until the House of Representatives should be educated to appreciate tbe value of education. Mr. Vest regretted that the conferees had yielded to tho House in the matter of providing for the salary of the superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park. He took occasion to deny statements made in the House yesterday by Mr. Henderson, of lowa, intimating that he [Mr. Vest] was interested in the Yellowstone Park because the present superintendent was a constituent of his. This was utterly false, and for the motives which instigated the attack upon him he had the most unmitigated contempt. It could only arise from a small politician, whose ideas were bounded by a small desire for office. He also referred to the remark ‘ made by Representative Glover, of Missouri, stating that the superintendent of the park had become interested in a coal mine on the margin of the park, and that immediately thereafter a Senator [Mr. Vest] had introduced a bill which cut off that portion of the park. That, thought Mr. Glover, indicated jobbery. He |Mr. Vest] denounced as absurdly false the intimation that there was any jobbery in the matter. The bill (and in this statement he was corroborated by Mr. Teller) had been recommended by the Interior Department, and he had introduced a similar biil in 1884, long before the appointment of the present superintendent There were undoubtedly members of the Senate and the House who honestly believed that the National Park should be abolished, but there were other men who wished its abolition for case motives. For those men, and their motives, he had only the same feeling that he had for any other loathsome object, and he would waste no words upon them; but with all his breath aiid streneth he would devote himself to reversing the conference report which struck down the Yellowstone Park. After further debate, the report was adopted —yeas 27, nays 14. On motion of Mr. Allison, a bill was passed making an additional appropriation of $35,000 for the purchase of a site for the Congressional Library. The Senate then, at 10:20, went into secret session. At 11 p. m. the doors were reopened, and the Senate adjourned.

THE HOUSE. Conference Report on River and Harbor, Deficiency and Sundry Civil Bills Agreed To. Washington, Aug. 3.—The Speaker laid before the House tbe President’s message announcing his approval of the oleomargarine bill, and it was read and referred to the committee on WAys aud means. Also, a message from the President transmitting the papers in the Cutting case, and it was referred to the committee on foreign affairs. Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, presented the conference report on the river and harbor appropriation bill, and it was read at lengtn. Mr. Springer criticised, the bill as reported from tbe conference because it refused to accept the Illinois and Michigan canal and to make an appropriation for the Hennepin caual. He dwelt upon tho importance of the proposed im provement, denying that it was a work of local interest and declaring that it was as national a work as the wgrk of improving the Mississippi river. The conference committee had seen fit to neglect this important measure of improvement while it retained in the bill appropriations for creeks and bays and small lakes; but as tbe bill provided for some important improvements, he would withdraw bis opposition to its passage and let the men who had stricken out the Hennepin appropriation take the responsibility for their action. Mr. Miller closed the discussion in a threeminute speech in favor of the report, and it was agreed to—yeas. 121; nays. 98. Mr. Burnes, of Missouri, submitted the conference report upon the deficiency appropriatiou bill, and it was agreed to. Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, submitted the conference report on the sundry civil bill. The readine of the report consumed nearly an hour, and as 5 o’clock was near at hand, Mr. Holman, of Indiana, wished its consideration to go over until to-morrow, saying that the increased appropriations for the salaries of officers were unexampled. Mr.-4®pdall replied that most of the officers whose salaries were increased were in the Land Office. The report was then agreed to—yeas, 126; nays 26—and tbe House adjourned. Losses by Fire. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Wabash, Ind., Aug. 3.—The City Hall, a large three-story frame building, was partly destroyed by fire to-night. The flames originated in a bed room on the upper floor, and considerable damage was done by fire and water. The contents of the structure were dumped into the street. The building belongs to Logansport parties, and was fully insured, To the Western Associated Press. Detroit, Aug. 3.—An Evening Journal special from Scottvilie says: On Sunday morning a watchman employed in Parkee Cook & Co.’s saw-mill at Gun Lake, discovered the mill on fire. He gave the alarm and the foreman and twenty men responded, but the flames spread rapidly, and the mill, Tramway’s store aud contents, with 350.000 feet of dumber and seven cars owned"by the Flint & Pere Marquette railway, were burned. The mill was at $40,000 and the total loss is estimated at Tver SBO,OOO, on which there is not more than $20,000 insurance. A Baldwin special to the Evening Journal says fire yesterday, originating in the Exchange Hotel, destroyed the building, together with two saloons, Cobb’s hardware store, Hefferman’s drue store, the Townsend House, barber shop, court-house and jail. Loss, $30,000; insurance, $16,000. Pittsburg, Aug. 3.—A Tyrone, Pa., special says: “The lumber in the yards of John Irwin & Brother, at Curwinsville, Ciearfied county, was discovered on fire to-day. and it was entirely consumed. Over 1,500,000 feet of lumber was destroyed. The fire is supposed to have been the work of a tramp.” New York’s Hop Crop. Canajoharis, N. — Y., Aug. a—The utterly ruined condition o“the hop crop throughout New York State has created a sudden advance. Growers in this vieinity have repeatedly refused 35 cents for those picked in 1885, and yesterday a grower of Minden sold last year’s crop at 40 cents, which is the highest price paid in three years. __________ Medical Testimony. 100 West Forty-ninth Street, ) New York, June 6, 1883. j Having, in the course of a large practice, extensively used AUcock’a Porous Plasters in the various diseases and conditions of the lnngs and pleura, aud always with success, I recommend their use in that most aggravating disease, summer catarrh, or hay fever. Strips of plaster applied over the throat aud chest will afford ereat relief from the choking, tickling in the throat, wheezing, shortness of breath and pains in the chest. R. McCormick, M. D.

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