Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 49, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 April 1890 — Page 1

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4 THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of the Daily Now* cokgB^sional W the Senate an the 14th Mr. Flumb Introduced a bill for th1© disposition of ceirtatn funds In the treasury, which he explained in a brief speech and the bill was referred. A message from the House announcing tin death of Mr. Randall was received and, upon motion of Senator Cameron, a committee of five, consisting of Senators Quay, Allison, Dawes, Voorheee and Eustis was appointed on the part ot the Senate to attend the funeral and the Senate then adjourned—When the House met Mr. O'Neill (Pa.) announced the death of don. Samuel J. Bandail, and npon his tA> tion resolution* of sorrow were pas ed and a c mmltteeof nine consisting of Messrs. O’Neill, Carlisle, Harmer, Ho.man, Cannon, Forney, Springer, Reilly and McKinley appointed to attend the funeral and the House adjourned. Pbveral petitions were presented in the Senate on the 15th and several bills reported from con mittresL A resolution effered by Senator Sherman was agreed to ask in a foi the report of Jesso Spaulding, Government director of tho Pacific laflways. as to the general management of such roods. After the disposition of ether minoi business debate on the Blontana case was resumed and occupied th« Senate until adjournment_The House further considered the Naval Appropriation bill and finally passed it A resolution for the immediate consideration of the bill to d fine and regulate t:.o jurisdiction cl the Cv>U'ts in the United States, was adopted after a brief fight and the bill passed, ve e 1*1, nsys 13, the Speaker counting a quorum, and the House ad} urned. Soon after assembling on the 161 h the Senate resumed debate on the Montana contest. A vote was finally reached and the Republican claimants,' Wilbur K. Sanders and '1 homas F. Powers, seated by a strict party vote-yeas 32 nays 26, and they wer* sworn in—During the morning hour In the House a bill was called up amending the Alien Uanjl law so as to petniit foreign capital to be inves'ed In mineral lands, but was not considered. Mr. McKinley, from the Ways and Means Committee, introduced the Tariff bill, and it was ordered printed: Mr. Carlisle, hom the same committee, presented the views of the minority Tho Military Academy bill was then considered until adjournment. When the Senate met on the 17th the new Senators from Montana were assigned to the classes whose terms expire in 1S03 and 1’95. After dispt sing of routine business the House Joint resolution for the appointment of thirty medical examiners for the Pension Bureau without reference to the Civil-Ser-vice law was taken up and a waifm debate followed. An amendment wa=» finally adopted requiring the appointments to be under regulations prescribed by the President, and before taking a - final vote the Senate adjourned... As soon as tho journal was read

In tne House on motion of Mr. Butterwurth the House adjourned as a tribute of respect to the late Samuel J. Randall, it being the day of his funeral. In the Senate on the lS.tli Senator Platt, by request, introduced a bill tor the admission of New Mexico, but said that in doing so he did not commit himself one way. or the other. Senator Plumb moved to lake up the Smut ■ bill to forfeit certain railroad lan ‘s, which was antagonized by Senator Polph with a motioii to go iuto executive session, which was agreed to. When the doors were opened Senator Plumb again attempted to get the bill before the Senate as hnlinished business,’ but the World’s Pair bill was given precedence. After passing several private bills the Senate adjourned. — In the House Mr. Lawler (111.) presented a protest of the Hardware Association of the United States against the proposed tariff rate on cutlery and guns, and Mr. Peters (Kan.) presented a protest of citizens of Kessas against any reduction of the revenue until a service pension has been granted. The House then went into Committee of the Whole oh tho private calendar and got into a wrangle over tlie Court ol Claims bill, no business being completed. Pension bills were considered at the evening session. __ WASHINGTON NOTES. A court martial has been ordered to' try Commander McCalla, of tho Enterprise. This is a result of tho recent inquiry. The President has approved the act to admit free of duty articles imported for the St Louis Exposition from Canada, Mexico and other American republics. The funeral services of Mr. Randall, ox-Speakcr of the House, took place in Washington on tho 17th, after which the body was taken to Philadelphia and buriod in Laurel Hill cemetery, many distinguished persons being prosen t at the ceremonies. The German authorities have notified the Postoffico Department at Washington that many newspapers received in Germany from the United States are found undelivered because of tho illegibility of the labels thereon. The labels have been mutilated by being cut from the slips and the German officers suggest that they be made larger. Petitions from Oho, Indiana, IiHlaois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Colorado, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, North and South Dakota and Washington were recently “presented by Senator Cullcm. asking among other things, for a fifty per cent, reduction in the tarifi on all woolen, cotton and linen fabrics. President Harrison" has refused to pardon HeDry A.-Schmidt of Missouri, convicted of violating tho Alien Contract Labor law. THE EAST. Ernest Leon Dickinson, of the freshman class at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., has just received nows of his accession to a fortune of aboifr $3,000,000 through the death of an undo in France. The culm banks of the big Mine Run colliery near Ashland, Pa., Were recently burning fiercely and the ruin of the colliery and adjoining one was feared. Bishop O’Connor, of Omaha, Nob., who has been lying at death’s doos’ in Pittsburgh, Pa., so long, was reporter convalescent on the ifith and there we now hardly any doubt of his recovery. Wilkinson Bros. & Co. havo attached the postal cards works at Ansonia, Conn., on a claim of $40,000 under instructions from Washington. The Government officials have recently found fcult with the cards made by Contractor A. L. Daggett and ho was.lorced to procure a new supply. After a stirring discussion the New England presbytery voted twenty-nine

to eignteen against the revision or the creed. Miss WinNik Davis, eldest dauglitei of the late President of the Southern Confederacy, was reported as soon to marry Mr. Albert Wilkinson, of Syracuse, N. Y., the grandson of Sarauol J. May, the great Abolitionist The Loyal Legion celebration at Philadelphia closed on the ICth with a reception at the Academy of Fine Arts. The affair took the shape of an ovation to ex-President Hayes and for .threo hours a solid stream of people peered through the doors of the academy and pa d their respects to the guest of the evening. A keception was tendered General W. T. Sherman on the night of the 17 fh by the Union League Club, of New York, in honor of his sevent!eth birthday. N8ivk forest fires were said to be on the mountains north of line Pa, and hundreds of acres of were being destroyed. Uopkix. of the New York Post, has been arrested for tbe in connection with tbe Pest’s of Tsumuoy lesdsra

Ex-Prfsidext Cleveland was stated to be under treatment by Dr. Gibbs, of New York, with a View to reducing his flesh. He had been advised that his increasing bulk might become a source of danger. He was otherwise in good health. Dr. Edwarjj Bedi.ok, the new consul at Amoy, China, was recently dined in true Chinese fashion by the Clover Club at Philadelphia. A Chinese band from New York played Chinese music and a Chinese actcr entertained the guests. The rooms were decorated in Chinese style and each of the guests wore Chinese flowers. Birds’ nests soup and other Chinese delicacies were served. This Massachusetts Senate has adopted a resolution addressed to Congress declar ng in favor of a thorough revision of thei tariff and the reduction of duties upon the raw materials of manufactures and upon the necessaries of life, as far as the same can be made with due j». gard «o laboring and man u fact urmgdmte rests. Among the passengers on the steamer Trinidad, which sailed from New York on the 17th for Bermuda, were ex-President R. B. Hayes and his daughter, Miss Fannie B nays. The ex-President appeared to bo in the best of hea th. It was discovered the other morning at Castle Garden that of 1,403 French and Italian immigrants on board the steamship Ca’chcmore, the majority were bound for Pittsburgh, Pa., under contracts made in Italy. CASTLE Garden, the noted landing place of immigrants at New York, was permanently closed on the 18th. Lkji Sing, the Chinaman who was refused entry to Canada or the United States for forty-eight hours, which he spent on the Niagara Falls suspension bridge was allowed to enter Canada. Aruauam Boc audls, superintendent of mails in the post-ofli»e at Rochester, N. Y., has been arrested for robbing letters. He was caught by decoy letters. THE WEST. At Sioux City, Iowa, the other morning shots were fired into the residence of Rev. J. \V. Southwell, a Methodist preacher. Mr. Southwell was a leader in the Daw and Order League. In tho municipal election at Butte, Mont., the Democrats elected themc$ror and six out of -seven aldermen by decisive majorities. Tho only Republican

elected was the alderman in the Second ward and he had only three majority. David Six ton, of Cincinnati, has increased to $58,000 his gift to the Y. M. C. A. of that c*ty pn condition that it raises $75,000 -for a new building. Henry Yillard declared at a banquet in St Paul, Minn., that tho Northern Pacific would spend £50,000,000 in hew 'linos in the Northwest and?would equipped. Collector Phillips, of San Francisco, has received a dispatch.from Secretary AVindom revoking tho privilege of transferring Chinamen to Panama steamers allowed by instructions of his predecessor. A report reached Milwaukee, Wis., that the propeller City of New York had foundered near Manitowoc on Lake Michigan. The vessel was known to have had at least twenty persons on board. The Detroit (Mich.) Steel & Spring Company has suspended with liabilities of $5100,000. A joint meeting of miners and operators at Columbus, O., have agreed upon the following scalo of prices, to rule from May 1, 1890, to May 1, 1891: For Hocking valley, 70 cents per ton, and for Pennsylvania, 79 cents per ton. This agreement averted an immense strike. Marcus C. Stearns, ex-Mayor Harrison’s father-in-law, of Chicago, who committed suicide, left an estate of $2,000,000 and gave it all to members of his family, bequeathing nothing to any public institution or charity. On the 18th, Lee F. Wilson, ex-Rep-resentative of Shelby Cohnty, was arrested at Indianapolis, Irid., charged with pension frauds. His father, William T. Wilson, was also similarly indicted. Edward Majors, successor of Wilson in tho Pension Bureau, was arrested for perjury, and Charles J. Fastieabon, capfjired for conspiracy. Three men were instantly killed by the premature explosion of a blast at a cement mill near Sellersburg, Ind., the other day. All were horribly mangled. N. P. Clark's sWck barn at Brookway, Minn., burned the other niern'ng and twenty-one imported breeding mares perished. They were valued at $25,000. The barn cost $3,500. There is an insurance of $10,000. A wagon loaded with nitro-glycerine ^shells, used in shooting oil and gas wells, erfrjffodod recently with terrific force at Cygnet, O. Two men who were on the wagon wero blown hundreds of yards, and nothing was left of them but a few strings of their clothing. A boy named Holland, aged fourteen, is said to have killed two regulators in Randolph County, Ark., who were engaged in whipping his father. The boy used -a double-barreled shotgup. The remaining two regulators fled in dism>f. Two negroes cutting levees in Luna County, Miss., have been killed, by the guards. A rumor has circulated in Fort Worth that Jay Could ha3 purchased the Font Worth & Rio Grande railway, now completed to Dublin, and that he will make it a part of the Texas Pacific system. Tike Rio Grande is building into territory that is tributary to the Texas Pactfid* The corner-stone of tho new Federal building in Pledras Ncgras, Tex., was the other night dislodged from its bed then own 8,500 miles of THE SOUTH,

and its contents consisting of coins, plans and relics of many kinds were stolen. It was the work of Africans. Finn in Nashville, Tenn., the other day destroyed tho factory of tho Grubb Cracker Company, causing $90,000 loss. GENERAL. Tire United States steamship Alliance at Gibraltar has been ordered to, convey United States Consul Matthews to Tangier, Morocco. The cause was not known. Tire Inter-State Railway Association is said to be dead, efforts at reorganization proving unavailing. Tub Vageblatt of llerlin says that Chancellor Von Ca^irivi has forbidden, officials to furnish any communications to the newspapers. Alt intelligence which U is deemed desirous should be published will appear in the Roichs Anceiger, the official paper. Rev. Alexander McKat, the famous missionary in the Uganda country, Airies, has died from fever, Francis Stubbs has been arrested at Bradford, England, for robbing the Lister SU CpftDixny of many thousand pounds.

The Bank of Bengal has fixed its rata of discount at 13 per cent. MR. FRston in the Ottawa (Ont) Senate recently said there would be no relaxation of the regulations respecting the importation of American cattle into Canada lor export to England. Richabp H. Matiieb, professor of Greek in Amherst College, died on the night of the 16th of cancer of the bowels. The Mexican man-of-war Democrats has left Mazatlan, Mex., with 300 soldiers on a secret mission. A ms catch from Berlin stated that the Krupps hare concluded arrangements for the purchase of the entire Tillage of Alsendorf, which they purposed converting into a vast workshop. The Chicago steamer City of New York, which was reported to have foundered off Manitowoc, was stated to be safe, a dispatch having been received from her captain. Emperor Wluaam, of Germany, has conferred the first class decoration of the Royal Order-of the Crown upon Mr. Charles Gibson, an attorney of St Louis. A fatai, accident occurred the other day at Bergamo, Italy. The roof of a weaving mill, in which 300 girls were at work, fell in and seventeen of the girls were Jpil led. • In the Ostrian and Karwin districts in Austria there was recently reported to be 39,000 minors out on strike. The poople living in the Northwest Territory bavo petitioned the Canadian Parliament to change the name' of that region to the Western territories of Canada. The steamer' Erin of the National line, which sailed from New York December 28 with 700 head of cattle aboard has not since been heard from, and tho managers of the line feared that tho vessel had been wrecked. President CakNot was given a, grand ovation in Marseilles on the 17th by the people. Thebe was a rumor that on Stanley's return to England he would again become a British subject, resuming his nat onality, which he relinquished twenty-five years ago in America. Pkince Bismarck is preparing his memoirs. He will be assisted in the work by Dr. Schweninger and Herr Young, a prominent writer of Hamburg, whom the cx-Chancollor has known intimately for many years.

A LATH letter from Brazil said that j the discontent among the military was growing. The Government did not dare j to enforce the <arder that was issued to three battalions of infantry to embark ' for the southern provinces. The mutt* | nous battalions resisted the order and j during the nights of March 23 and 23 the barracks were guarded. Finally the j authorises yielded. On the 26th plae- : ards bearing the words “Down with tlia Dictatorship” wero posted throughout the city. By an explosion on the Harmonia cstato in Cuba the other day three persons were killed and fourteen injured. Business failures in the Uni ted States for the week ending April 17, numbered 166, against 157 the previous weejf, and j 191 the corresponding week of last year, j The German Government has agreed ! to pay Emin Pasha $50,000 a year. The Government seized 35,000 dice in i New York the other day for the non* j payment of custom duos. The National Federation of Labor ; Unions of Great Britian, in a manifesto, urges workingmen throughout the king- : dom to abstain ‘from worKifln-May l. The schooner Annjo Stay was wrecked 1 lately off Newfoundland and the captain ■; and three men drowned. j Herb Hetjsneb, Secretary of the German navy, has resigned because of heart j disease. The King of Dahomoy, Africa, with a large army, is now at Lagos, West Africa, rfady to attack the French. Eight villages have been burned. Arc American syndicate is reported to j have purchased a controlling interest in all but one binding twine factory in 1 Canada. . A sensation Was created at St Petersburg by the announcement that the i young woman arrested recently for at- ' tempting to bribe a Government official to surrender a copy of the Government's mobilization schemes and the plans of the Russian frontier fortifications acted i upon the orders of Baron Von Plesson, 1 naval attache of the German Embassy. THE LATEST. In the Senate, on the 19th, a bill for the payment oil back pay and emoluments as Major in the army from 1864 to 1875 to the widow of Lieutenant-Col-onel Nathaniel H. McLean" was passed. The calendar was then taken up in the | regular order and a large number of bills were passed. The Senate bill an- j propria ting $100,000 for an equestrian statue in Washington to General Grant was passed, and the Senate adjourned. .In the House Senate amendments to House hill to divide the judicial district of North Dakota were concurred in. A bill providing vaults and safeguards for the funds in the treasury j and appropriating $333,000 therefore | was reported from the committee on ' appropriations. The stamper Puritan of the Fall. River line, with 450 passeners on hoard, struck a rock while passing through. Hell Gate, on the 19th, and stove in her bow. She at once returned to her dock in New York harbor. But for her double hull and water-tight compartments she would have sank. The greater portion of the business section of St Elmo, Col., was destroyed by fire on the 19th. Loss, $515,000; par- 1 tially insured. Ex-Govebnob James Pollock, of Pennsylvania, died at Lock Haven, on 1 the 19th, aged eighty years. He was Governor in 1854; was three times elected to Congress and held other im- 1

portant omces. un wte same day jsx* Governor W. W. Hopper, of Rhode Island, who was also Governor, in 1854, died in Providence, aged eighty-two. A packing-case purporting to contain toys and consigned to an unknown address in Berlin, f Scploded in the railway station at Mr theim, on the 19tb, killing one man i*id injuring several others. , 1, The steamer Vang laid arrived at Harbor Grace, N. P.^on the 80th, with 10,500 seals. She' spoke the Iceland, March 21, which had then panned 12,000 . seals. Afteh adopting resolutions of thanks to the United States-for. its magnificent entertainment of its members, the PanAmerican Conference adjourned sine die on the 19th. President Blaine made the closing speech, and dissolved the body, whoso members called en masse upon the President, and at 11 p.m., started on a tour of the Southern 8tates as the guests of the Nation. The Risden Iron Works of San Francisco have indicated to Secretary Tracy their intention of bidding for the construction of armored cruiser* p

STATE INTELLIGENCE, At Richmond, Alpha Toroy, the ihr year-old child of Jame s Toiny, pullet a tuia of hot water over onto itself, sea dfejt it from its chin to its toes. It l jifered in great agony for several he u rs, when it died. Covington got a very emphatic tor eh of the severe hail-starr i which prevail od throughout eastern Illinois the otl or night A ni'LT.i'T from an unknown sc aviso crashed through a window in E. .1, Langdon's residence, at Muncie, a;id buried itself in the wall where Ilea Eangdon had been sitting just a menu lit before. ' A smart, son of John Fahrner, of Muncies was bitten by a shepherd dOg a f w days ago. Fahrner, who was near at 1 lie time, seized the dog by the napo of 1 tip nesle and best its h rains out with a g ig)>cTun Variifftlia depot at Darlingt n'i Montgomery County, was struck by lightning the other night and burned to I the ground,'togetl or with all the contents. The main oss will ho on the telegraph instrumi: nts and hooks. A sap and horrifying accident occt rred, a few days ago, at the funeral of Mrs. Mary Jensen, war Laporte. ,.n undertaker allowed the coffin to fall into the open grave during the interment, breaking the glass front of t le casket and letting the corpse fall out into the bottom of the grave. Several of the mournors fainted, hut the undertaker jumped into the- excavation and pushed the body hapk into its receptacle, when the grave-digger filled in the dirt. C. S. Gordon, a farmer near Metamora, has a Jersey co w less than 13 months old giving milk. Weight of cow, 400 pounds; of calf, 35 pounds. The Indianapolis firemen's relief fund was increased on the loth by the receipt of $720.86 from the Chicago Fire Ilepa rtment and $243 from the Cleveland Department. The fund now aggregat es 547,508.48.' j Will Sciiprr, of Columbus, killed a ! very rare bird, the other day, near ly j three feet high, four feet across the wings, body white except hack glossy green, the wings a lilac shade, the heiul Mack, with long white plume feathers, Mil long and very sharp.

Sen wkinfurtii lias a rival claimant ill C'lj’de Lang, a young man of Harrison Township, Cass County, who says he is Christ and wants to hecruciflcd. Ibis iil a request Mr. Bchwcinfurth bas not you made. David Mock, a farmer, living time miles north of Jeffersonville, has a Jersey sow that a few days ago gave birth to eighteen pigs. One was accidentally killed, but the other seventeen are ali ve> and doing well. = Charles Wise was seriously shot through the thigh while trying to quell a disturbance at Delaware, the other night. - » Lightning struck Wm. Thirk’s he ise at Huntington, and badly injured Mrs. Thirk. The Methodist Church steeple was also struck and damaged. Misses Viol.a McGrail, and Ida Monroe, aged seventeen and eighteen years, were arrested at Marion, as they * ore about to board a Pan-handle trains for Chicago, Doth ran away from good homes near Upland, their intention being to she tjie world. They were returned to their parents. Crazed with drink, Grant Cress, of Terre Haute, cut and sl ightly worn-tied County Physician Stunkard because tho doctor refused to let Cress’ father o: t of the hospital. Cross was arrested. Mrs. John K. King, of'Marion, lied at Sweetser, tie other night' from injuries sustained in a collision botwe in a Pan-handle freight-car and a street car. Heavy damage suits will result. The German Lutherans of Indian: aro opposed to compulsory education. The new Australian election law has been declared unconstitutional bj an Indiana Circuit Court. i Fi.oyi> County elected five Doiuoc atic J trustees, a gain of one. Warren County elected eight Republican and four Democratic^ trv s cos, a Republican gain of one. \ Charles Drake was crushed tfo d iath at Argos, by a tree be felled. Oaklandon has a second gas well, with an output of 2,000,000 feet a ila y. The following fourth-class poet masters were commissioned on the 1 jth: New Iirunswiek, Doone County, J. W. Chitwood; Ranh. Denton County, I K. Sbonkurler; Weishurgh, Dear torn County, W. Hark man. The l*resident has nominal ed Eo ort I. Cain postmaster at Drookville. W. C. Wise, of DoPauw University, will represent Indiana in the: nter H ate iratorieal contest. A family of eight persons v as p:»isonsd by diseased meat in Dento l Com ;y. Dut four out of fourteen pi irsons onitituting a “Suicide Club,” font!e l. at Indianapolis eight years ago, are living, ;he rest having met violent d taths, Denjamin Martin attacked his uncle it Muncie, and hear, him unmercifully ibout the head. It Is. thong ht ho can lot rocover. A terrific wind and snow-storm lassed over Hartford City' from the lorthwest about niton tho other nay. riufVvind did but little dam a; e, bit tho mow settled like a fog over the Cc wn. reams and pedestrians collided, it being mpossiblo to see hut a few fuet ahead. • General Ekw 'Wallace gives his tension as a veteran of the Mexican war 6 tho Crawfordsvillo Orphans’ bo ate. It amounts to per month a id SIR't ack >ay. J. G. Swain sunk a driven-well in his rard in Martinsville a few days ago. At i depth of fifty feet tho water began

nowing out ot tne top ol tne pipo u.reo feet above ground of its own accord and lias continued to do so since. This is the fourth artesian well for Martins’: lie, though this water has no medicinal qualities. Thos. Duckworth, residing five miles west of Martinsville, was kicked in ,ho Bide by one of his young horses. : A rib was broken and he was badly injured internally. Thomas Karins, an ex-councilman and a saloon-keeper, was arrested at Brazil, cn the charge of embezzlement. Mr. and Mrs. Addison F. Armstrong, of Kokomo, bave endowed with $3(1,000 a chair of Germanic Languages in '[Sutler University, conditioned that it ho called the “Armstrong Chair of Uer man Languages,” and that it be lilledi by Thomas C. llowe, for the past’two years a tutor in the college, Dn, Samuki, A. Thoy, of Milner Corner, eight miles east of Kortville, lost a fine stallion, valued *at $1,000, by poison. During a storm light ning struck J ohn Eberley, of Pine 'Village, Warren C:>unty, tearing both sockets. Ho is f.« his eyes living. from their

THE IAKIFF BILL Tho Now Tariff BUI Reported in the House. The Salient Points of tho Majority and Minority Report*—Practically Free Sugar with a Bounty on the Home Produet. Washington, April 17.«-.Mr. McKinley, from the committee on ways and means introduced the new Tariff bill with the majority report on it, in tho House yesterday. The majority report discussos tho effect that the bill will hare upon tho revenues of the Government. It states that the exact effect is difficult of ascertainment, and says: That there will be a substantial reduction, as we shall show, admits of no donbt. It Is not believed that the increase of dnties upnn wool* and woolen goods and upon glassware will have tho effect of increasing the revenues. That would, of course, follow if the Importations of the last tUc.il year were hereafter to bo maintained, which, however, is altogether improbable. The result will be that importations will bo decreased, and. therefore, the amount of revenuo collected from these sources will he diminished In every case of increased duty except that Imposed upon tin plate (which dees not go into effect till June i. J8M.) and upon linen fabrics, the effect will be to reduce rather than enlarge the revenues, because importations will f ill off. It was the aim of the committee to fig the dnties upon that class of manufacture 1 goods and farm products which canTse supplied at home so as to discourage the use of like foreign goods and products and secure to our own people and our -own producers the home market, believing that competition among ourselves will secure reasonable prices to consumers in til : future as it has invariably done in the past. We seek by tile increased duties recommended not only to maintain but to enlarge cur own manufacturing plants and check those supplies from abroad which can be profitably produced at home. The general policy of the hill is to fester and promote American production and diversification of American industry. The report quotes the recommendations concerning the tariff in the President’s annual message and terms them "sensible and patriotic.” After a discussion of the administrative features of the bill, the report goes over each schedule, noting the proposed changes and discussing the reasons for making them, and estimating the amount of duty in each case that will be affected.

in regard to wool, the report states that by the proposed bill the duties on first and second-class wools are made at 11 and 13 cents a pound, as against 10 and 12 under existing1 law. On thirdclass wool, costing 13 cents or less, the duty is raised from 234 cents a pound to 3% cents, and upon wools of the third class costing above 13 cents the duty recommended isnn advance from 5 to 8 cents per pound." The report says: There seems to be no doubt vvit'i the protection afforded by the Increased duties recommended in the bill, the farmers of the United States will bo able at an early day to supply substantially all of the home demand, ami the great benefit siicU production will be to the agricultural iuterefts of the country can not be estimated. The production of 610,000,00a ponnds of wool would require about 100,003,030 sheep, or an addition of more than iff) per cent, to the present number. Id revising tbe woblcu goods schedule so as to afford adequate protection to our woolen manufacturers and woolgrowers, wo have continued the system of compound duties which have proved to be so essential In any tariff which protects Wool, providing first for a specific Comport’ satory bound or square yard duty, eqnivi’ lent to the duty which would be paid on the wool if imported, for the benefit of the wool-growers, and an nd valorem duty of from SO to 50 pgr cent., according to tbe proportion of labor required in the manufacture of the several classes of goods, as a protection to the manufacturer against foreign competition, and 10 per cent, additional upon ready-made clothing for the protection of the clothing manufacturers. From the best information we Cart obtain it Is probable that increased rates of duty given to manufacturers of woolens Will reduce, eertainly not increase, the revenue from this source and transfer to this country the manufacture of from J15,oo ’,000 to 120,000000 of woolen goods now made abroad. In computing the equivalent ad valorem duty on manufactures of woolens, tile combination of both specific duty, which is simply compensatory for the duty on the wool used, of which the wool-grower receives the benefit, and the doty which protects the manufacturers, and makes tlje average resultant rate of tbe woolen-goods schedule proposed 91.18 per cent, is considered. After defending its action in increasing the duty on certain kinds of iron and on tin plate, the committee goes on to discuss tbe sugar and molasses schedule. The sugar schedule ,vas only decided on Tuesday nigh t. The committee recommend that sugar up to and including No. 16 Dutch standard of color and molasses he placed on the free list, with a duty of four-tenths of one cent per pound on roflnod sugar above No. 15, and that a bounty of two cents per g pound bo paid from the Treasury for a’period of fifteen years for all sugar polarizing at least 85 per cent made in this country from cane, beets or sorghum produced in the United States. Discussing the sugar question the committee says: So large a proportion of our sugar is imported that the home production of sugar does not materially affect the price, and the duty Is therefore a tax, which is added to the price not only of the imported, bnt of tbe domestic product, which is not true of duties imposed on articles produced or mude here substantially to the extent of our wants. The committee admits that free trade or revenue duties would temporarily diminish prices, hut argue that it would he at the expense of the domestic products, which would be displaced, and then prices would again advance and the country be left at the mercy of foreign syndicates and manufacturers. The report says: Cheaper products from abroad to tlie A i.erican consumers mean cheaper labor at home and lower rates to the domestic prqducer with no benefits to the consumer. Neither condition would prove a blessing to the United States. That country Is tbe less prosperous where low prices and low wag* s prevail. One of the chief complaints

non prevalent tiuiun^ our innuura ia iua» they can get no prices for the crops at al) commensurate to the labor and capital Invested In the productTTii. Those who differ from us must believe that even further agricultural depression is desirable, for no other consequence can result from their economic theories. They advocate cheap prices as the chief object of the industrial policy they commend to the country. This means permanently low prices for agricnlnrai prodnets as well as for manufactured goods. This bill is framed in the interest of the people of the United States. It is for the better defense of American homes and American industries. An>pto revenue for the wants of the Govern-' ment are provided by this bill, and every reasonable encouragement is given to pioductivo enterprises and to the labor employed therein. The committee believe that inasmuch as nearly $400,0)0,000 are annually required to meet the expenses of the Government It is wisest to tax these foreign prodnets which seek a market here iu cc repetition with our own, than to tax our dcmestlo products or the non-competing foreign products. The committee responding, as It believes, to the sentiment of tbo country and the recommendations of the President, submit what they consider to be a just and equitable revision of the tariff, which, while preserving that measure of protection whioh is required for our iudastrial Independence, will secure a reduction of the revenue botlj. from customs and in-, ternal-reveune sources. 'I’Ue majority wpqrt U by

the Re publico a members, exoopUag 5lf. McKenna, of Cslilomia, who dissented only from the sugar fflftedule and part of the silk schedule. Mrt Carlisle submitted the Tie tvs of the minority on the hilt The minority discuss the Tariff question at length) pointing out the differences between the two political policies in the matter and defending the doctrine of the Democrats. Scmmiug up the question the minority say: We believe, therefore, that the only way in which our industries can ho helped by legislation at tbe prudent time Is to exempt from taxation the materials they are competed to use, and to reduce proportionately the taxes on Hu ished products, so thut all nor farmers, merchants and manufacturers may be aide to compete on equal terms with those of other countries. That Is the policy wo advocate and which we desire to see inaugurated and completed Just as early and as rapidly as circumstances will permit. Tile capitalist who has Invested bis money in those Industries J the laborers he em ploys, and the domestic consumer to whom he sells, will ail be benetlted, ahd nobody would b e in jured. Wit h so taxed materials it is evident that they could afford to pay their laborers better wages than they Could afford to pay them now, ami still sell their products to consumers at lower prices than are now cnarsied. Concerning the internal revenue features of'the bill the minority say: While wo would be w illlifg to repeal the internal revenue taxc3 on tobacco in connection with reductions upon other artie'es which the people are obliged to use, as was propose in the biM which passed the last House, we can not agree to n in-asurc which provides for the abolition of any part of suyli taxes and at the same time increases the rates of duty on cotton, woolen and linen clothing, and on earthenware, glassware, table cutlery and many forms of iron and steel which can not be dispensed with, besides, about the only substantial reason that can be urged for the repeal of the tax on tobacco is the fact that the governmental supervision and control necessary to enforce its collection is a constant source of vexation and annoyance to those engaged in manufacturing that article, A mere reduction of the tax from eight cents to four cents per pound doe3 not dispense with this supervision and control to any extent whatever, nor does It diminish to any extent the expense of collection The same supervision, the same books and forms, the same bonds, paths and penalties, and the same number of officials will bo required to collect four cents per pound that are required to collect eight Cents por pound. The policy-of placing farm products on the dutiable list, as provided for la the Tariff bill, in order to give the farmer protection, is referred to as fallacious. The minority hold that it is

impossible to protect trie farmer against foreign competition in bis home market because, it is claimed, bo has no such competition. Regarding the cut in sugar and the sugar bounty the minorifcy sayr Last year the grades of sancJvhioh aro now riiad« free, yielded to tRe Government $54,894,1$!, all of fbteh $9 ww to He surrendered and the sugar industry bio become nn annual charge upon all the people who are engaged in other occupations, some of which are far more important and all of which are tally' as meritorious ais this one. In 1388 which is the lust year for which wo have complete returns, the sugar product in this country was 375,835,877 pounds, so that even If there should be no ind&eased production under the bounty system, the sum which the people are to be competed to donate each year for the support of this faVofed hiuastry will be $7,520,009, or $liV 009,000 during Alio fifteen years. |5ut the very object of the bounty la to entourage the production of this article, arid the advocates claim that in u few years it will result hi a domestic supply equal to the whole deI maud for home consumption. In addition to the home product we imported and consumed during the last fiscal year, 2,70 M21*302 pound® of sugar not above N> IS hi color*, making a total annual con* 8timptioH, including domestic arid imported, of 3*976,277,0?J potinds, arid therefore, if the system results as its advocates predict, the annual payment but of the Treasury Will, be $61,'.23,423,evenwifchout any increase In the amount now consumed. We protest against the gross favoritism and injustice of such a policy, and We deny the moral or constitutional r ight of the Government to tax the people who grow corn, wheat, rye, and other Hgrleuturai products for the purpose of raising money to he given to those, who produce sugar or any other article. The bounty provisions contained in this bill are confessions that the whole system Which It seeks to strengthen and extend is a system of discriminations between'the various pro* ductive industries of the country—a system Which impose*- Charges upon some for the support of others, and disregards every principle of justice and equality in .distributing, burdens of taxation. ' y. The minority *tfcte that in their opinion the increaso in\hb tobacco schedule resulting mainly‘fr^m the imposition of a duty of j|3 per poiifitFbn unstemmeU * leaf for cigar wrappers, wiA be-SMkSOSv-OSS, instead of $9,754,069 ak shown by the tables, are conr^lent that an analysis of the importation^ of that article for a series* of year^past will sustain their position. Of the effect of the proposed measure on the revenue of the country, the We do not mean to j&a$Mhafc the bill actually increases the customs revenue $>3,000,0)0 over wl»ut It is under existing lawybufc that It proposea to Impose upon the articles It leaves u]s*>n the dutiable list* except sugar and molasses, that sum in excess of the amount collected on the same schedules last year. It places upon the free list articles which yielded a revenue of $6,039,960 during the lust fiscal year, and It makes a reduction of $54,9.i2,Hp*f& on sugar and molasses, and these two sums, amounting to $0>,962,07**, being deducted from the $68,999,000 leave a net Increase of more than $4,009,009 in tariff taxation under this bill. The report concludes as follows: In our opinion, the exercisa of a just discrimination in the selection of the subject* of taxation and in fixing the rates of duty to be imposed upon each would enable the Government to realize from this source of revenue ample means for iis own support, and at the same time greatly Improve the present condition an 1 prospects oL all ouf citizens who have invested their means or embarked their labor in manufacturing, mining, agriculture and commerce. While would gladly ?coroperate with the majority in the passage of any measure which would relieve the people from unnecessary taxation, promote the prosperity of our various industries und securo ample wages and steady employment to the laborers engaged in them, wo fee! constrained to make an earnest protest against this b ill, because, in our opinion, it will not accomplish a ny of those desirable results. Messrs. Carlisle, Mills, McMillan, Breckinridge and Flower signed the minority report _ ASSAULTING THE:~PRISpN,

New Jersey Penitentiary Official* ano Contractors Charged with Violation of the taw ilogiilating Convict Labor. Thkxton,’ N. J., April 18.—The F|£©rated Labor Union and representatives of the Labor party of New Jersey yesterday caused the arrest of Henry L. Butler, supervisor of the State prison at Trenton; John Tobin, a brush contractor in the prison, and the latteV’s manager, John Cools Warrants were also issued for the arrest of Samuel Smith, of the Keystone Shoo Company; John Birdell,« slum contractor, and a Mr. Linn, of Linn & Pettit. These men aro all contractors for prison, labor at Trenton State prison. It is expected that similar proceedings will next be instituted against Principal Keeper John 11. Patterson. The citargei against all these men is a violation of the existing law in this State which regulates convict labor. The New Jersey statutes make such a violation a misdemeanor, punishable with a fine of not over 88,(100 or imprisonment for not over six months. The warrants were sworn out by Henry Bee tree, editor of»SahCr pane? in Treatoo. Justice lichee h?-i£ the three mas trmjsd ijf teifelr. / ■ rt ■

THE BELGIAN LION. Stanley the l.lon of the Horn- la Kl !. LropvM't Dominions—An Kxtr.t-OMok Burgomaster Creates* Trouble — 1 r OimmI at the King— Dinners an J Preset » Act Libitum. - ■ London, April 20.—The reception ! Stanley at Brussel*, yo3terday. w i# most, enthusiastic, and only one incide if occurred to mar the otherwise perfc fs order and’good feeling which prevail* The mayor of St Uiile*, a suburb Brussels, is responsible for the unfo • unate occurrence, and has succeeded i covering himself with ridicule and p *, sibly something worse. Contrary tot i expressed wishes of King Leopold, t > suburban functionary attempted to h< an independent reception in honor f Stanley, and his persistence in oppo tioa to the remonstrance of the Kin; »’ representatives caused a riot, or rati t a series of riots, resulting in ma broken jioads and a large number of rests, '' ---'•J Biil ssKi.s, April 90.—Aftor dining i the palace last evening Stanley past I several hours la conversation with Ki j Leopold. To-day ho' took a dri » through tho city, accompanied by t" > officers of the King’s staff. .This eve ing he was tendered a banquet * Burgomaster Buis at the Town 11a Sixty covers were laid, the guests j . being men of distinction. The hall w s decorated with the flags of Belgiu Great Britain and the Congo Free Sta The burgomaster, in proposing Stanle i health, said ho prophesied that Af - ca would some day be what America % ■ to-day. .* Responding, Stanley said he fores t the day when Belgians would start fr* * Antwerp by steamer and visit th r brethren on tho Congo as they n » visited Now York and London. " To-morrow Stanley dines with Lambert, Baron Rothschild’s son- - law. Whenever Stanley is seen in p' - lie ho receives an ovation. Lotte , cablegrams and presents pour in u{ i him by the hundreds. STRUCK ON A ' ROCK. , The Steamer Puritan, of the Fall River I,trie, with 450 Passenger* on lloa r, Makes a Narrow Escape while Passls ' Through Hell Gate—She Struck a R> : ( at Woolsey Paint, anti was Competed ! » Return to Port.

New Yoke, April 20.—The stoan r Pantan, of the Fall Elver line, wh: c i left her dock at 5:30 p. m., yesterda.\ for Fall River, struck on a rock Wbi e passing through Hell Gate and stove : n her bow. She at once returned to r dock...—, . The steapier ha<J- dot) passengers c n board. They were somewhat alarm: d by the accident, but no panic occurro t. The steamer was sheering slightly o port in order to avoid a schooner whif h was tacking through the narrow eh:. inel. Tho place is the most danger ■ a in the Gato. Though the deviation v. ,s but a few feet, the strong tide caui :t the steamer, and before she eonld • >- spond to the wheel she was cart i d against the reef known as Wool..: y Point. She struck amidships on t! e port side and then slid off into jde< p water. The schooner meanwhile completed her tack and was away befo.-e fher name could be learned, > The Puritan steered north until ele tr of the shoals and then turned and pit back to her dock in the North ri- r. She also listed to port, and it was net irary to transfer part of her freight o starboard, in order to preserve her ke< I. It is probable that if it had not been f >r her double hull and her water-ti • it compartments she would have sunk. Pilot Grayley, who was at tho wh 11, declares that the buoys which mark 1 e . reefs are often out of position. Tiisstatement is corroborated by oth )t pilots. * When the steamer reached her pi )r the passengers were given *iheir cih;i ie of going East by a special train pi > vided by the company, o? receivr g their money hack. Most of them to >k the train. ARMY DESERTIONS. Reports to the War Department In<li i« a Decided Falling Off in the Percen. {e nr desertion* from the Army During I M Fast Nine Months. « Washington, April 2d.—The rep •: ts received at the War Department for t ie nine months beginning with tho fi i si Vear July 1, 1889, and. ending Marol I, 1890, show that'there have been l.f» desertions from the regular army ring that period. For the correspond! ig months of the previous year there wt re 5,893 desertions, a reduction this yer c of over sixteen per cent. The desert : us for March were but 161 as comp;» jd with 285 during March, 1889. The 2 tcentage of desertions to the enli ad strength of the Army has been, for 4 iia period 6 1-10 per cent, and for the aa no period last year is 17 i> 10 per cent. >.• *cretary Proctor has taken an active 5 irsonal interest in this subject and as labored diligently to remedy this il; with some success as the figures ahi w. In his annual, report he showed it v as only partly a question of admini: 1 -ation hut that there was also legislr 1 ort needed. The House has already p* < ed bills in the line of tho Secretary’s • iggestions and it is believed that if he same pass tho Senate and the Execi t ve it will enable him to accomplish n ch more in this direction. Not only is- he prevalence of desertion in the reg ; lar army demoralizing to the armf its iff, but tho expense to the Governme in recruiting and for the transportati of new men, is Considerable. Secretary Proctor has not yet fi -on up the proposed general amnesty p ociamation by the President to dost; ors from the army.

All About it tv Oman. Brooklyn, April 30.—A. R. \V) :erman, the manager o£ Jacob’s Lyo tm Theater, at Montrose avenue and lit onard street, this city, shot and inst , ttly killed Peter Doran, aged twenty ine years, last night, in front of the ! leater. Doran, who had suspected hi: rife of being on intimate terms with W: teruian, followed her to the theatei and subsequently met the couple 01 the street Doran immediately attv ked Waterman and the latter drawim , revolver, shot and killed him, th hall penetrating the heart Watennai was arrested. v. Sherman, South Dtkota, Disappear View. Chamberlain, S. D., April ai.—-f man, the town frojn which the bo were ordered to movo by troops or two ago, is no more. Some town-si ters were in favor of remi on the land until forcibly evict the soldiers, but better oonnse vailed, and Saturday the work of t ing the buildings began, succeeded in purchasing n relinquishment from a white the vicinity, audit is to the iw. that the town i« ®ovqd. This ion tested i» *rt rom