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Mr. Davis said there had been no effort to put the Filipinos on the same footing with the Cubans in formulating the treaty. He said the two countries were very differently situated, and instanced the demonstration In Manila harbor as an example of what might occur in a land so distant. Mr. Davis urged the importance of favorable action upon the treaty at the present session of Congress. A failure to ratify meant, he argued, continued uncertainty, renewed encouragement to the insurgent Filipinos, possible conflict with them and a prolongation of the state of war, with much of its expense, if not with its horrors. Senator Davis has offered an amendment to the sundry civil bill appropriating $20,000.000 to pay Spain, according to the terms of the treaty. The amendment, has the indorsement of the committee on foreign relations. forte* to Meet Feb. 10. MADRID. Jan. 23.—The premier. Senor Sagasta, announced to-day that the government has decided to convoke the Cortes on Feb. 16, whether the United States Senate ratifies the treaty of peace or not. WASHIXGTOX MISCELLANY. Applicants for Two Office*— Petition* from Intlianian*—.New Measure*. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—The fight for the post of librarian of Congress was actively bigun at the White House to-day, and two candidat wore pressed on the President's attention. Senator-elect McComas, of Maryland, presented George Flfred Towns r:d and asked for his appointment. About the same time Senator Platt, of New York, had an interview with the President, in which he spoke in behalf of Thomas G. Alvord, another newspaper man and Librarian Young's chief assistant. Others, who. however did not personally see the President, wer< at the White House to indorse Mr. H. B. K. MacFarland, of this city, a newspaper man who has received some hearty indorsements. Secretary Long is strongly urging Representative Barrows, of Massachusetts. for the place. A superintendent of the next census is also to be chosen shortly, and the President has a numebr of names called to his attention in connection with the appointment. The census bill is now pending in Congress and no appointment eah be made until it becomes a law. but in view of the urgent need for an early organization of the force for the taking of the next census it is believed a superintendent will be appointed very , shortly after the bill is signed by the President. Mr. John Hyde, statistician of the Department of Agriculture, by reason of his fine record in special work In previous censuses, and his equipment for the office as a result of years of work in statistical fields. Is a strong candidate for this office, and Mr. O. P. Austin, a former newspaper writer, and now chief of the Bureau of Statistics, is also being urged for the place. * * * Senator Fairbanks to-da# presented to the Senate a memorial from the Indianapolis local union. No. 25, Coopers’ International Union, attested by T. J. Stockwell, president; James Ake, secretary; A. E. Querry, corresponding sec retary, in favor of an eight-hour law for all laborers, workmen and mechanics employed upon government building or public works. Representative Ri.Wlnson presented a petition from Angola, Representative Steele presented petitions from Lafountaine. Leach, South Wabash, Kokomo and Marion, and Representative •Overstreet from Johnson county and Indianapolis favoring the Ellis bill. I** • X Senator Burrows has introduced a bill to provide for employment of female nurses in the army. The bill authorizes the employment of women as nurses in numbers not less than one-half of 1 per cent, of men in the army. It authorizes the establishment of a nursing comniision to be composed of the secretary of war, the general commanding, the adjutant general, the surgeon general, and three trained nurses to be selected by the President, which board is to have general supervision of this service. All nurses employed are to be graduates of hospital training schools. A superintendent is provided for at $.'5,000 salary and an assistant at $2,003. The nurses are to be given per month. * * * Senator Proctor, of Vermont, left here this afternoon on a trip to Cuba. He expects to make a tour of the island. He is accompanied by his family. * * Fourth-class Indiana postmasters have been appointed as follows: Victor, Monroe county, Francis M. Fodrill, vice Mrs. Rachel Helms, resigned: Volga, Jefferson county, Frank H. Judkins, vice James C. Hill, resigned. *♦ * * Edward O’Flahertv, lately a iioneommissfoned officer of the Sixteenth United States Infantry, who was severely wounded while leading a platoon of his regiment* in the COLDER HERE TO-NIGHT.

Weather May Be Fair, hat Rain Is Predicted for Northern Indiana. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 8 p. m.—Forecast for twenty-four hours: For Ohio—Ruin; fair and much colder Thursday night; southwesterly to brisk winds. For Indiana—Fair, with rains in northern portion; colder Thursday afternoon or night; southerly winds, becoming northwesterly. For Illinois—Threatening; colder; northwest winds. Weather Conditions and General Forecast —The storm central Tuesday night to the north of Montana has moved to Wisconsin, Increasing markedly in intensity, St. Paul reporting 29:28 inches and has been succeeded by a marked high pressure area and a fall In temperature in Assinaboine. Swift Current reporting a pressure of 30.54 inches and Qu'Appelle a fall of 38 degrees in tw-en-ty-four hours, to 12 degrees. Light rain or snow has fallen in the Middle and North Atlantic States. Missouri valley and upper lake region, and light rain on the extreme North Pacific coast. The temperature has fallen in the northern Rocky mountain region and in the Atlantic States, has risen in the Middle Mississippi valley and the upper lake region, and has remained nearly stationary elsewhere, including the Pacific coast. Snow may be expected in the lake regions, clearing in the northwest portion and generally fair weather elsewhere. There will be a decided fall in temperature in the Middle and lx>wer Missouri and Middle and l pper Mississippi valleys and the upper lake regions, and the temperature will remain nearly stationary elsewhere. Light to fresh westerly winds will prevail on the North Atlantic coast and light variable winds becoming southerly, will prevail on the Middle and South Atlantic coast. Local Observation* Wednesday. Bar. Titer. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a. m.. 30.04 24 74 South. Cloudy. 0.00 7 p.m..23.70 37 73 South. Clear. 0.00 Maximum temperature, 42; minimum temperature. 21. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation Jan. 25: , Temp. Pre. Normal 29 0.10 Mean 32 0.00 Departure from normal *3 —O.IO Departure since Jan. 1 115 *I.OB •Plus. C. F. It WAPPENHANS, Local Forecast Official. Yc*terday’* TVm pern t n res. Stations. Min. Max. 7p. m. Atlanta, Ga 30 50 46 Bismarck. N. I> 26 36 26 Buffalo. N. Y 24 26 26 Calgary. Alberta an 30 20 Cairo, 111 28 46 44 Cheyenne, Wyo 20 36 34 Chicago, 111 20 38 33 Cincinnati. 0 22 4< 38 Concordia. Kan 30 52 4S Davenport, la 24 44 40 Des Moines, la 26 40 38 Galveston, Tex 44 58 54 Helena, Mont 24 44 24 Jacksonville, Fla 42 58 4s Kansas City, Mo 28 48 4t; Little Rock, Ark 28 54 50 Marquette, Mich 10 20 20 Memphis, Tenn 32 54 48 Nashville, Tenn 26 51 4t New Orleans, I>a 38 54 48 New York 32 38 34 North Platte. Neb 24 48 ;:s Oklahoma, O. T 28 54 46 Omaha. Neb 30 44 40 Pittsburg. Pa 22 30 28 Qu’Appelle, N. W. T *l2 38 Rapid City, S. D 32 42 28 Salt Lake 'it v. Utah .28 ag St. Louis. Mo 30 52 4,; Bt. Paul. Minn lo 36 32 Springfield. ill 26 41 40 Springfield, Mo *>B 52 46 Vicksburg. Miss 30 f,4 53 Washington. D. C 2s 42 32 •Below zero. TO 4 I HE A COLD IX 0.M4 DAY Take Laxative Broino-Qulnine Tablets. All drucflats refund the money If it fail* to cure. 25c The genuine has L. B. q. on each tablet.

charge at San Juan hill. July 1. 1898. and who for ten days after the battle was reported as dead and-buried, was to-day rewarded with an appointment as a clerk in the adjutant general’s office. • * • Secretary Long has prepared the draft of a bill which he will urge Congress to pass providing for extra pay to officers and enlisted men of the volunteer force of the navy, two months' extra pay where they served creditably beyond the limits of the United States and one month’s extra pay where they served within the limits of the United States. • • * Os the $14,000,000 of Pacific Railway bonds due Jan. 1 all but $393,000 have been- paid. The latter remain unpaid by reason of nonpresentation up to to-day. * C * The House committee on banking and currency to-day decided, by a vote of 7 to 4, to report the bill of Representative Brosius. authorizing the issue of bank circulation up to the par value of bonds deposited; for the establishment of national banks of small capital in towns of 3,000 and upwards; exchanging the tax on circulation to a tax of one-eighth of 1 per cent, on capital The measure is on the lines of recommendations made in the President's message. • * * A circular issued on the first of the year by the Postoffice Department stated that hereafter s4<jo a year would be allowed a mail carrier in the free rural delivery district. Carriers who use horses have misunderstood the circular and think it applies to them, when it only pertains to a very few’ free rural delivery carriers. Letters have been rareived at the department from carriers in tne regular thanking them for the increase of salary. * * '* The President to-day nominated Nelson E. Nelson, of North Dakota, to be collector of customs for the district of North and Sorth Dakota. * * * The State Department has forwarded to Ambassador White, at Berlin, full instructions as to the presentation he is to make the German minister for foreign affairs relative to the indignity reported to have been offered to the chief justice of Samoa by the German officials at Apia. The department also has had some exchanges with the German ambassador here on the subject. The nature of these communications cannot be revealed, but it is believed that they show an abiding confidence In the disposition of the German government to right any wrong that may have been perpetrated at Apia through overzealous agents. * * * The Mexican extradition treaty expired last midnight, according to the notice given by the Mexican government. Its lapse finds a remarkably small number of fugitives from justice in either country to profit from the fact. So far as known at the State Department Santiago Morphy is the only Mexican fugitive at large in the United States. He made a sensational escape from the Mexican chief of police in New Orleans just one day before the treaty expired. In Mexico there is one American. James Temple, who is the fugitive from justice and against whom extradition proceedings are now in progress, the charge being unlawful homicide and in his case there is reason to hejieve Mexico may grant extradition. The hiatus followdng the lapse of this extradition treaty is deplored by both parties, and on each side an earnest disposition is being show’n to replace the old treaty with a new’ one. It will be no easy task, however, to reconcile the radical differerco of opinion between the Mexican govrnment and our own in the definition of political or revolutionary crimes, which may not be subject to extradition. * * * President and Mrs. McKinley gave a reception at the White House to-night to the officers of the army and navy and the Marine Corps. Invited to meet them were the Dabinet circle, the diplomatic corps and a contingent of congressional and resident society. The affair was one of the most brilliant thus far this season, the officers appearing in the full uniform of their rank. This, with the handsome toilets of the ladies, the prevalence everywhere in the decorations of the national colors and stirring music by the Marine and Fourth Artillery hands, made the occasion a notable and inspiring one. * * * The inquiry as to the right of members of Congress to hold outside offices was resumed before the House committee on judiciary to-day. Chairman Henderson stated tha.t General Wheeler did not care to be heard orally. The general’s written statement was read and discussed: also statements submitted by Representative Gardner, of New Jersey, a member of the industrial commission and Representative Colson, of Kentucky, a colonel of volunteers. Mr. Gardner urged that the places on the industrial commission were not offices in the meaning of the Constitution. Colonel Colson stated that he bad not drawn any army pay, and since Congress had assembled had drawn neither congressional nor army pay. This closed the hearings and the committee went into executive session to determine upon its report. No decision was reached on the status of General Wheeler and other members, and the subject was made a special order for next Wednesday. * * * A board of officers has been appointed to met in New York city for the purpose of examining, testing and reporting upon the various emergency rations to their adaptability for use in the army and to compare the present emergency rations with those that may be submitted to the hoard. The board is authorized, on application, to make special practical tests of the various rations with United States troops, to be designated when the board is ready to make the tests. The detail for the board is as follows: Colonel Charles A. Woodruff. Lieut Col. Charles Smart and Major Louis A. Craig. * * * General Sexton’s condition remains practically unchanged. Ex-Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, has been ill with the grip at the Cairo in this city, hut is improving*.

JOHNSON TALKS. (Concluded from First Page.) course as a "policy of evasion.” and charged that his supporters were conjuring up specters to drive in the opposition. Tt was declared that our failure to take the Philippines would precipitate a general European war; that all the nations of Europe w’ould scramble for what we left if we withdrew. He said he had seen no such disposition, except on the part of Germany, and she was actuated by the example of* our greed. If we set the example and withdrew, recognizing the independence of the Filipinos, others w’ould do likewise. But if other countries did pounce down upon the islands, let them do it. We were not expressly or impliedly responsible. If they did they would be but pursuing their traditions. Let us see that we do no wrong. The evil was theirs. If there was, he said, to be a European war, let us, in God's name, keep out of it. The cry went up "ratify the treaty and stop the war." The President arrogated to himself the right to speak for 70,(8X1.000 people. "1 thank God,” shouted Mr. Johnson, "for the spirit of independence in the Senate of the United States, irrespective of party. Bryan never made a greater blunder than when he said the treaty should be ratified and our policy determined afterwards. Andrew’ Carnegie w’as nearer right, but he said the treaty should be fought in the dark, not in the open. I say we should fight it to the finish. We should meet this whole question at the threshold and strangle it to death. Public sentiment should be aroused It is being aroused, as evidenced bv the great public meetings in New York and Philadelphia. and. my word for it. it will not be many months before the tide of public sentiment which the President vainly imagines is nowcarrying him to a second term will recede and leave him high and dry. The voice of the people will rebuke the spirit of commerce which has supplanted the spirit of liberty.” WOULD ROT IN HIS SEAT. ‘"lf the treaty is ratified without being coupled with a resolution declaring for the ultimate Independence of the islands it will be the death knell of all our efforts to stop the torrent,” exclaimed Mr. Johnson. He would vote for a hill to reorganize the army, but, before God, he would never vote for a standing army of 100,000 whose ultimate object was to establish a colonial system. “If I were in the Senate," he said. “1 would rot in my seat first: 1 would scorn the demands of a state legislature and the clamor of the press. I would let them malign my character and misinterpret my motives, but would never swerve from what I believed to lie right.” Mr. Johnson next referred to the part Great Britain had taken in inducing the United States to enter into controversies of the far East and of the manner in which British assistance was being given to the "iniquitous policy of William McKinley." Let there be a mw treuty, he pleaded, vehemently. I>*t it not give twenty millions for a cession of the Philippines to the United States, but let it provide unequivocally that Spain withdraw from the Philippines and givtf to their people the inestimable blessings of liberty. This world policy meant the embarking on a course like that of England which had embroihd It in war uninterruptedly for one hundred years. The Indiana member now turned to the "cost of expansion.” lie detailed the cost of

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the war and the estimates of $145,000,000 for the military establishment and $47,000,000 for the naval establishment for the next fiscal year. It showed, he said, that our war budget exceeded that of the great military powers of the world. It was within three millions of the cost of Great Britain's vast establishment, by which she ruled her colonial empire: it W’as more than the war budget of Germany, than of France or of any other nation on the face of the globe. And this was to realize “the wild dream of expansion.” Mr. Johnson’s time was twice extended, Democratic members of the military committee yielding their time to him. The Monroe doctrine, he declared, would vanish with the annexation of the Philippines. If we reached out into the other hemisphere we could not, with propriety, resist aggression on this. Mr. Johnson said that the cup of our national humiliation was filled to overflowing, and, in closing, said: “We have witnessed the splendid achievements of our soldiers and sailors and have inspired in the old world a feeling of respect. This country. the beacon light of liberty, this locked and intrenched continent, this proud and erect nation, which never in its history was obliged to ask a favor of any other country on earth, now depends on the intervention of England to keep other powers off its back. We have become a miserable mendicant, dependent on the mother country. We are compelled to abandon the cardinal principle of protection and submit to the 'opendoor' policy—” At this point the gavel fell and Mr. Johnston said he would not trespass further on the time of the other side, though he was urged to go on. ”1 thank the other side,” he said, “for the opportunity to be heard which 1 could not obtain from this side." There was a whirlwind of applause when Mr. Johnson took his seat and many Democrats crowded up the aisle to congratulate him. MR. DOLLIVKR'S REPLY. The 161 oi| lien t lowan Goad* <lie Inti ia nin 11 anti Defend* the President. When Mr. Dolliver, of lowa, rose to reply to Mr. Johnson, there was an outburst of applause from the Republican side. Almost every seat on the floor by this time was occupied and the galleries were packed to the doors. He began by saying that he had had no intention of making an elaborate speech on this bill, and he resented Mr. Johnson’s statement that he had been maneouvering for an opportunity to reply. He had never heard the epithet “Spaniard” applied to the gentleman from Indiana or any other member of the floor, and if the gentleman deserved the title he must get it from some other tongue than his. “I am not here to speak for the administration,” he continued. “I belong to the humble ranks of my party and have not been in the White House since the war with Spain began. But I might resent the statement that our President, so accessible, is 'intrenched in the White House.’ He is intrenched in the White House in a higher and better sense, and as securely as the gentleman from Indiana is intrenched in private life [laughter], brought there, as 1 believe, by his attacks and criticisms of tne Republican party.” Mr. Dolliver said he would not make an extended reply, but he did desire to say something of the large responsibilities which bud come to us as a result of the war. He had hoped that Congress would approach this question in the larger, broader spirit in which the war had been entered upon. The war had brought ail sections and

parties together in a common cause. Now that it v.-as over and the treaty signed and ready for ratification, it wbuld seem that the same spirit should be preserved. But on the contrary the Congressional Record and the magazines were being filled with views more numerous and more varied than the islands we had captured from the enemy. It had been so in the war of 1812. A faction had sought to embarrass the government. In the Mexican war our armies never got beyond the reach of those who criticised the conduct of the war. and during the civil war a. restless and insistent minority in both Houses never ceased its hostility. In the Spanish war, for the first time in our history, what was done was done in the spirit of a common people in the spirit of lofty and national life. In his humble judgment the grandest day in our history was when every member of Congress, without regard to party, voted confidence in the President and authorized him to use tlie public treasury for the national defense. MR. BA I LEY PRICKED. Mr. Dolliver raised a laugh by an incidental reference to Mr. Bailey as “the leader of that portion of his party which would follow his leadership.” It was sorrowful and discouraging, he continued, that no sooner was the protocol signed, when the Nation needed and the public safety demanded the support of all, that there arose this bewildering confusion of tongues. Whatever responsibilities existed to-day, he declared, dated from the final ultimatum we had given to the Ministry at Madrid. All the treasure that had been expended, all the victories that had been won. all the possessions we had gained were the part of the context of the resolution of April 29. 1898. If we w'ere wrong then, as his friend from Indiana was sure we were; if the President was loyal, as he said he was; if our action in Congress was a blunder and a crime, it was a year too late to go back and begin over again. [Applause.] If he (Mr. Jonnson) supported the President, then he should have the grace now. in the troubles that had arisen out of these troubles, to have met the situation with generous solicitude, instead of anger and indignant protests. Almost alone in this capital, the President had begged and pleaded for time for a peaceable solution against those wno were using their influence to inflame the passions of the hour against the resources of diplomacy. "Those who were then taking this side by the scruff of the neck and dragging-us into war,” said he, "have much to learn of the ethics, if not the etiquette. of statesmanship.” IGreat applause.] Mr. Dolliver said tie had heard the President of the United States insulted twice on' the floor of the House—once last session by a member from the President’s own State (Mr. Lentz.) He had hoped that that insult would stand alone. To-day he had heard another. when the gentleman frorr Indiana asserted that the President slavishly followed public opinion, that he slavishly found out what tiie people wanted before he acted. Unintentionally, sakl Mr. Doliiver, the gentleman from Indiana had paid to William McKinley the tribute which a grateful country had lovingly placed on the grave of Abraham Lincoln that he stood by the millions of his countrymen. The President was absolutely without responsibility for the Spanish war. The initial responsibility rested with Congress and the people. The congressional action .had been a national action, and the American people, counting no cost too heavy, had stood by, approving witnesses of all that was done and gentle sympathizers with all that had been suffered. "THE CHAFF OK POLITICS.” Speaking of the passage of the war revenue bill, he again criticised Mr. Bailey, who, he said, voted with his following against the

1 ill because the ways and means committee would not vote sloo,ooo,<M> more. So, he said, he decided to vote against the bill and “feed the army on the chaff of politics, which the wind driveth away." f Laughter.] Our demand upon Spain was that it should get its army and navy out of Cuba. If Spain had acquiesced, both that country and this would have been spared the unfortunate experience which followed. She refused, and we prepared for action. Her .army in eastern Cuba was forced to capitulate, while her boasted ships were wrecked and sunk along the coast of Santiago. If nothing else had happened that would have ended the war. But men and governments, once they have invoked the arbitrament of the sword, cannot always regulate the scope of war. Referring to the anti-expansion element, Mr. Dolliver characterized it as a "quaint combination of bewildered politicians and statesmen without constituencies who were now proposing to direct the affairs of the Nation.” Their arguments and ammunition were drawn, he said, from General Blanco himself. When Mr. Dolliver paid a glowing tribute to Admiral Dewey there was a hearty round of applause. A heated passage between Mr. Dolliver and Mr. Johnson occurred when the latter asked if the administration believed in the forcible annexation of the Philippines. Mr. Dolliver sharply answered that he did not speak for the President or the administration. When he added a glowing eulogy of the President, who, amidst the perplexities of the hour, was pressing steadily forward with the inexorable course of human events, there was long-continued applause, mingled with loud shouts of approval. When Mr. Johnson persisted in asking an answer to his questions, Mr. Dolliver waved him aside, and, amid another outburst of applause, declared that the crisis of the hour was due “to the almost treasonable utterances in this chamber and in the Senate chamber.” There was -ome excuse for the rioters at Madrid, but none for those who at home joined in reviling their country and denouncing our peace commissioners for what they had done. Mr Dolliver caused much amusement by describing the “mingling of tears” between Mr. Carnegie, Mr. Bryan and Mr. Cleveland, and their lamentations over the decadence of their country. It was a part of that sentiment, voiced by the member from Indiana, that distrusted its own country. Until the civil war came no statesman had been found who believed the Nation could last over ten years. But it remained for that war to show' that the great republic belongs to the centuries. JOHNSON INSISTENT. When Mr. Johnson again demanded to know if Mr. Dolliver advocated the forcible annexation of the Philippines he replied: “If 1 had my way I would take possession of the entire Philippine group and establish in Luzon a base of operations, from there scattering the beneficence of our institutions and holding that territory in trust for the civilization and advancement of the world.” “You have not answered the question.” exclaimed Mr. Johnson. “Answ r er on your honor. I call upon you, to the American people.” “We have not yet come to that question, and when we do we will take care of it.” responded Mr. Dolliver. amid derisive laughter from the DemoeraUc side and applause from the Republicans. Mr. Johnson made a five-minute reply, criticising the “glittering generalities” of what had been said. He had retired voluntarily from Congress, and passed with contempt, he said, the statement that he had insulted the President of the United States. The time had gone by w'hen. in the American Congress, it was impossible to criticise the policy of % President believed to be

wrong. The gentleman had contented himself with glittering generalities, with “three cheers for the flag and William McKinley.” There had been an avoidance of the vital question on the forcible annexation of the Philippines. ”1 deny that there is any such question,” interjected Mr. Dolliver. Mr. Johnson said it was impossible to learn the policy of the administration, for. he declared, the gentleman at the White House enshrouded himself in mystery and the State Department maintained the silence of the grave. Mr. Dolliver secured time for a final word, declaring that he had rfot intended to answer the questions of Mr. Johnson, but only “to show that my friend’s intellectual faculties were growing obsolete.” “At least they permit me to answer a plain question, as the gentleman cannot,” retorted Mr. Johnson. The excitement subsided somewhat after Mi*. Dolliver closed. He was followed by Mr. Lentz (Dem., O.). who opposed the bill. During his remarks he denied Mr. Dolliver's statement that he had insulted the President. He undertook to read statements made in the Senate similar to those he had made, hut Mr. Payne (Rep., N. Y.), who was in the chair, refused to allow him to do so, and Mr. Lentz was finally compelled to take his seat for declining to heed the chair’s warning. He was, however, soon allowed to proceed. At the conclusion of Mr. L>;ntz’s remarks the committee rose, and, at 5:10 p. m., the House recessed until 8 p. m. At the night session Mr. Crumpacker (Rep., Ind.) supported the bill and advocated annexation, but argued that the natives of the Philippines, in virtue of annexation, would become citizens of the United Slates. He bitterly opposed a colonial system for outlying possessions. Mr. Rixey (Dem., Va.) opposed the bill, while Mr. Linney (Rep.. N. C.) supported it. The other speakers were Mr. Knolles (fusion, S. D.) and Mr. Stokes (Dem., S. D.). both in opposition. At 11:15 the House adjourned. Hills Passed by the Senate. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—0n1y a brief time was occupied by the Senate to-day in open session. A few hills on the calendar were ]>assed, but no other business of importance was transacted. Mr. Chandler introduced a bill temporarily creating the office of admiral of the navy. It was referred io the naval affairs committee. Senate bill providing for the erection of a building in thi§ city for the Department of Justice at a cost of $1,000,000 was passed. Other bills were passed as follows: Amending Section 5 of the act approved June 10, 1880, governing the immediate transportation of dutiable goods without appraisement; directing the secretary of the treasury to donate one set of life saving apparatus to the imperial Japanese societv for saving life from shipwreck and extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Missouri river at Boonville. Mo., by the Boonville and Howard County Bridge Company. NEW BISHOPOFNORTH DAKOTA Rev. SHiiuif l Cook Edsnll Consecrated by Kpincopaliann at Chicago. CHICAGO, Jan. 25.—Rev. Samuel Cook Kdsall, who lias long been at the head of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in this city, w'as consecrated bishop of Noi*th Dakota yesterday by the Right Rev. William B. McLaren, bishop of Chicago. Bishop McLaren was assisted by Right Rev. Gilbert,

bishop coadjutor of Minnesota: Right Rev. Isaac Lea Nicholson, bishop of Milwaukee; Right Rev. John Hazen White, bishop of Indiana; Right Rev. William D. Walker, bishop of western New York, and other prominent divines. The ceremony was performed at Dr. Edsall’s church in the presence of bishops and clergy and the congregation which he will leave to take up his higher duties. The exercises attending the consecration were the most impressive which have been witnessed in Chicago for many years. To have accommodated all who wished to attend, the church should have been ten times as large. W. H. Morinnd Consecrated. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25.—William Hall Morland was to-day consecrated bishop of the diocese of Sacramento in St. Luke’s Church in the presence of 800 invited guests It was the first ceremony of the kind in CalSimes mistaken used to inflict lives all manner id horrible torscourgcd themwhips and hot bbed vinegar into the wounds and wore haircloth next to n day and night, lays such cruel is diseounteNevertheless, i women go on f themselves, a different ana erious manner old. They negtheir health, fl neglected Ith means phystorture of the worst description. It means slow starvation. Because a man forces food into a weak and impaired stomach, it does not follow that he feeds his body. The lifegiving elements of the food taken into an impaired stomach are not assimilated into the blood. Instead, the impurities of the sluggish liver and bowels are taken up and carried to all parts of the body. The consequence is that the body is not only starved but poisoned. The immediate result is physical suffering from which the old time zealot would have drawn back in horror. The final result is disease and death/ Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is a scientific remedy that acts according to natural laws. It is not a violent spur to nature or a mere artificial appetiser. It gently, but surely and permanently, promotes the natural processes of secretion and excretion. It creates appetite, makes the assimilation of the food perfect, invigorates the liver and purifies and enriches the blood. It builds up firm, muscular flesh. It cures nervous exhaustion, debility, sleeplessness and all the evils that follow in their train. Found at all medicine stores. Accept no substitute that may be represented as ’‘just as good.” “ 1 can heartily recommend Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and ‘ Pleasant Pellets * to anyone troubled with indigestion and torpid liver,” writes M. G. Crider, Kaq.. of Leonard, Harlan Cos., Ky. “My disease was chronic. Our family physician could do nothing for me, I coifld not walk nor help myself. I could not eat anything but it caused a horrible distress and gnawing in my stomach. I have taken four bottles of your ‘ Golden Medical Discovery ’ and one vial of your ‘ Pellets ’ and can work all day.’*