Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1884 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. 1 G. i. MARSHALL, Ppbusheb.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. a joint resolution to furnish certain books to the law library of Cincinnati passed the Senate on the ISth Inst. Bills were formally reported to create a commission on the alcoholic liquor traffic, for the relief of the Nez Perce Indians in Idahd, and to provide tor coinage at the branch mint in Denver. A resolution was offered directing the Judiciary Committee to report whether Paul Strobach is now discharging the duties of United States Marshal of Alabama, after his nomination was rejected. The bankruptcy bill was taken up, and it was agreed that any person owing in excess of S3OO may petition for. discharge. Bv a vote of 140 veas to 138 nays the House of Representatives decided to take up the Morrison tariff bill. The vote by which thoconsideration of the bill was secured was made up~of]3s Democrats and five Republicans. The opposing vote consisted of ninety-nine Republicans and thirty-eight Democrats, and one Independent, Finerty, of Chicago. The Democratic opposition vote consisted of one vote etch from Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, four from California, three from New Jersey, five from Ohio, ten from Pennsylvania, and nine from New York. Mr. Morrison opened the debate on the measure. He declared that to fail to reduce taxation and thus relieve the people would lie a flagrant disregard of public duty. A horizontal reduction might not b? the best, but none other was practicable at present. To the list of articles now imported free of duty it was proposed to add salt, coal, wood, and lumber. Salt was already free for fishermen and meat exporters, coal was untaxed for use on coast trading vessels, and the revenue from wood and lumber was in the past ten years not over $lO,000,000, while the domestic wooden products exceeded $500,000,000 per annum in value. In the estimates, as carefully prepared, thebill would leave in cottons but two articles dutiable above 40 per cent, in woolens but one abovp 60 per cent., and In iron and steel but few above 50 per cent. As at present arranged many of these articles were taxed above 100 per cent, throu ch hidden enormities in classification and rates of dfity. The above limits were intended to remedy these enormities. The insufficient character of the late revision forbade its permanency. The only security from agitation and change would be to confine the taxing power to obtaining a revenue limited to the necessities of the Government. The cry of the protectionists that lower rates would ruin manufactures was used when the industries were young, and would continue to be used to the end. He instanced the placing of quinine on the free-list, and declared that as had been the case in that industry so it would be in all other industries. Mr. Kelley made the opening speech for the opposition. He drew pictures of the fearful condition of the laboring classes of Europe, and said that the proposition now was that the United States should enter the race with the world for the cheapness which had led to such ' terrible results. He denied that any of the articles called raw materials by the Democrats were, in reality, raw materials. In the race for cheapness production left the prosperous countries and found its way to the most oppressed. After a spirited passage between Messrs. Kelley and Hewitt regarding the duty on wire rods, Mr. Kelley repeated his assertion that production had outrun consumption, and this evil could not be mitigated by a reduction in the tariff. The only means by wnich the markets could be increased would be to stop the importation of cheap labor, send back all who had signed contracts in foreign lands to work at low wages, see that laborers were paid so much that the public schools might be well sustained and the children educated, and protect American motherhood against becoming drndgestn foundries. He advocated complete Isolation of the country, which could be sustained in freedom and purity only so long as it did not begin the unholy race for the “cheap and nasty underteachings of dismal science * Mr. Mills, of Texas, followed Mr. Kelley in a speech supporting the bill. The bill to authorize tho States of Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee to make laws to secure from waste lands granted for school purposes, was favorably reported to the Senate, Anril 16. The measure to divide into homesteads a portion of the Sioux Reservation in Dakota was passed. Several amendments were made to the bankruptcy bill. In executive session Charles E. Coon was confirmed as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The tariff bill was debated throughout the entire session of the House. Mr. Russell deprecated the reopening of the agitation, but said the Republicans accepted the challenge. Mr. Blount thought legislation should be such that a revenue standard would ultimately be reached, and said the reduction by the bill under discussion would be about $80,000,000. Mr. Chace predicted that a cut of 20 per cent, on wool would stop most of the mills in the country. Mr, Jones, of Arkansas, spoke of the Imperative demand for a reduction of the tariff, and said the passage of the bill would place the Democratic party on the side of reformation. Mr. Wilson, of lowa, offered a resolution in the Senate, April 17, that it is competent for Congress to fix freight rates on interstate commerce, secure free competition, and prohibit discrimination of any kind. Bills were passed to adjust the account for arms between South Carolina and the Federal Government, and to authorize the location of a branch soldiers’ home in some one of the newer Western States, at a cost of $250,000. Considertion of the bankrupt bill having been resumed, Mr. George proposed an amendment giving laborers and servants priority over debts due to the State or the United States. In executive session objection was made to the immediate consideration of the recommendation by the President that the collector at Key West be removed for sympathy with the Cuban insurgents. The House of Representatives pass d a bill authorizing the construction of a railway bridge across the St. Croix River in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The tariff bill was laid over lor a day, and the pension appropriation bill taken up, when Mr. Rosecrans offered an amendment to strike out the provision for the pay of pension agents, leaving their duties to the pay department of the army.

The postoffice appropriation bill was comby r Inst. Provision was made for more expeditious ocean mail and steamboat service. It is'-esti-mated that $1,700,000 more than the revenue of the department will be required. Adverse reports were made on the newspaper copyright bill and on the resolution for the erection of a bronze equestrian statue to Simon Bolivar. Mr. Plumb announced that at no extra cost the time between the oceans had been diminished one dav. After tributes to the memory of Representative Herndon, the Senate adjourned to ths 21st. The House of Representatives passed bills to permit the bridging of the Missouri Rlverat Sibley, and to limit to two years the time within which internal revenue offenders mav be prosecuted. A favorable report was made on the bill to relieve from the charge of desertion such soldiers as would have received an honorabl > discharge had they been present at the mustering out of their commands. A bill for the establishment of a National Bureau of Labor Statistics, and appropriating $25,000 therefor, passed the House April 19. The Speaker presented a message from the President recommending an appropriation of s2fi,ooo to defray the expenses of the special embassy from Siam. The Senate was not in session. THE EAST. - At a meeting at New York for the preservation of the Irish language, Moore's melodies were played upon an ancient Irish harp. The memorial services of the late Wendell Phillips were held in Tremont Temple, Boston, last week, hundreds being unable to gain admission. The Governor and Council, Federal and State Judges, municipal officers, and literary and other distinguished persons were present in great numbers, among them being Julia Ward Howe, William Lloyd Garrison, John G. Whittier, Edward Everett Hale, W. D. Howells, T. B. Aldrich, T. W. Higginson, O.iver Wendell Holmes, the Rev. James Freeman Clarke, and President Eliot, of Harvard. George William Curtis delivered the oration.... Annie Wagner was fatal I v shot by her aunt at Harrisburg, Pa. The aunt was playfully practicing with a pistol that was loaded.... The Excise Commissioners of New York have • refused new licenses to Harry Hill and Billy Madden, notwithstanding strong political influence. t THE WEST. At Tucson, Arizona, Joseph Casey was.hanged for the murder of Jailer Holbrook last spring, tnAttempting to break jaij. He ref used to reveal his right name or history. / , .

The brick wall of Hubbard’s store, Grand Haven, Mich., which burned a short time ago, were blown down the other day, demolising a frame building occupied as a saloon and boarding-house, and killing the proprietor, Daniel Offelat, his daughter Emma, and a boarder named Miphael Murpjiy.... Mrs. A. E. (Jreen, mother at Congressman J. Wharton Green,.of North’ Carolina, died at the home of her niece, Mrs. Senator David Davis, at Bloomington, 111. She was 82 yefirs old. The Secretary of the California Agricultural Society estimates the growing crop of wheat at 60 per cent, more than last year, the only thing to be fedred being the north winds in the valleys. Late advices from the Coetir d’ Alene gold fields report discoveries of gold in the district known as Dream Gulch, so called because of its discovery on account of the alleged dream of a Frenchman. Four men sluiced out five pounds two ounces of coarse gold there in two days. The result of the discovery had 'the efleet of advancing the price of claims all along the creek. The fiQjt fatal shooting occurred at Murrayville the 13th of April, when a tiddler named Richards, -known tn the region -as" Tommy the Masher," was killed by a gambler named McDonald. According to information gathered over the wires by the Chicagfo Times, winter wheat in Illinois, Ohio, lowa, and Indiana is in excellent condition, injury by frost having been confined exclusively to scattered points in the two former States. The plant in Missouri has evidently t een badly damaged by cold'weather. Wisconsin reports a falling off in the acreage of spring wheat, as the farmers are giving greater attention to the dairy:.. .Dakota and Minnesota have a larger acreage than last year, and there is a prospect of the largest yield for years, no damage from insects being reported at any point. A Japanese waiter shot and fatally Wounded Mrs. Gudgell, the landlady of a hotel at Ogden, Utah. The murderer was lynched soon thereafter. Reports from Yankton, Dakota, say the United States Grand Jury has returned two indictments against Gov. Ordway for county organization irregularities... .Frank Dewait, the absconding President of a national bank at Leadville, has been arrested at the residence of his mother, in Canton. Ohio. A reward of $5,000 was offered for his capture. A Truckee (Cal.) dispatch says: Three hundred feet of snow-sheds fell half a mile west of Summit and covered a working-train 'and a number of Chinese. Six dead Chinamen have been taken out. Five others are seriously wounded. THE SOUTH. A cyclone swept over the town of Blackhawk, fifteen miles from Vaiden, Miss., demolishing several stores and residences and seriously injuring many of the inhabitants. A violent wind and rainstorm visited the country in the vicinity of Columbus, Ga. The rainfall in three hours was three and one-tenth inches. Near Brenham, Tex., an escaped negro conVict hired himself to a farmer named Davis. Taking advantage of the absence of the male members of the family, he entered the house and demanded a seat at the supper-table. Being remonstrated with by Mrs. Davis, he seized an ax, brained her, and fled. He was pursued and arrested, after being badly wounded. Despite the piteous pleas of the wretch, he was dragged to an impromptu stake, coal was poured upon him, and he was roasted alive. His charred remains, in a sitting position, his arms hugging the stake, presented a sickening spectacle. A murderer named Casey was legally executed at Tucson, Arizona, for the murder of Jailer Holbrook in April, 1883. Great distress is reported to prevail in Marion County, South Carolina. A local paper says that “in no year since the war have provisions been so scarce. There are perhaps hundreds who cannot get bread enough to eat.” Upon the ground that in the present state of public opinion in South Carolina it would be idle to proceed with the trial of persons for violation of the United States election laws, District Attorney .Melton moved before United States Judge Bond at Charleston. S. C., to dismiss all cases of that character remaining on the docket. George Coates, a colored man, went to the house of Jere Green, near Gadsden, Ala., while Green and his wife were at church. Coates deliberately set fire to the house, and four of Green’s children sleeping there perished in the flames. Henry Kilburn (white) and Ben Strong (colored) were taken from the Jackson (Breathitt County, Kentucky) Jail by a mob and hanged. During Kilburn's career he had killed eight men. Dispatches from Atlanta, Ga., give meager accounts of the destruction wrought by another cyclone which passed over a section of that State last week. It was first heard from in Harris County, and moved from southwest to northeast. Forty-six houses were completely blown away, eight persons killed, and many injured. Striking into Merriwether County’, wholesale destruction of property took place, the damage being fully $300,000. The Powell place, one of the most noted in the State, was utterly swept away, and Mr. Powell, Sr., his grandson, Ben Johnson, and four negroes were killed outright, while five other persons are so mangled that some of them will die. ■ - '..ifltts; WW away and have not sinee been heard from; Farther on, it struck the grouse of Pete Tolson, destroying everything, killing mules' and breaking the thigh of a negro man. A negro girl was killed. On Dr. Beasley’s farm, near Saudtown, terrible wreck was made, -Six colored people arc known to have been killed on one plantation and four on another. Many persons were fatally injured in the country adjacent to Logons ville, several houses destroyed, and barns burnt up. Colorado, mining towns are greatly excited over the alleged discovered of gold near Pike’s Peak. Hundreds are flocking to the scene, and freight and passenger lines have been established.:. .John G. Telford, en route to Ireland, was mb bed on a train near Poplar Bluff, Mo., of $17,000, by C. M, Dennett, said tote an Eastern crook. Secretservice men of the Gould system trapped the robber and recovered the money.

WASHINGTON. The House Committee on Coinage has voted to report favorably the Lacey bill to prohibit the issue of treasury notes for less than $5, and to provide for the issue of silver certificates in dencminations of sl, $2, and $5 A banking-house at Washington has filed with the Secretary of War charges of fraud and conduct unbecoming an officer against Gen. Swaim. There is considerable gossip amoag Democrats, says a Washington dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, as to the prospects of the tariff bill. If the desires of members are gratified, at least 100 more long speeches will be placed on the overburdened pages of the Record, to deliver which will require at least six weeks, and then only will the real business of considering the bill begin. The programmeof the Republicansand of those Democrats who are opposed to tariff agitation is to try to carry a motion to strike out the enacting clause as soon as the bill is open for amendment. Mr. Morrison may, however, be able to counteract this before the crisis arrives through promises to accept and support various amendments which will make the bill less objectionable to the Representatives from certain States. Congressman Lacey, a member of the Coinage Committee of the House, thinks that nothing will be done this session to restrict silver coinage. He thinks, however, 'that the tendency is in that direction.,.., I The House Postofflce Committee Bai) adopted

a resolution declaring ft expedient to make contracts with existing lines for a postal telegraph system. ——t —; It is estimated by Mr. Morrison that* if his tariff bill should pass it will have the affe'et of diminishing the customs revenue $35,o00,00() annually. , , < f POTJTTrfAT. The South Carolina Republican Convention elected Arthur delegates to the national convention. A resolution of sympa- ■ thy with Gen. Grant on account of his recent accident was adopted. The district delegates will be for Arthur, on the early ballots at least... .Pennsylvania, through its Republican State Convention, pronounced emphatically tor Blaine and Lincoln. A resolution indorsing them, and instructing the dele-gates-at-large to vote for them at the Chicago Convention, was adopted by a vote of 200 to 37.... The twenty delegates to Chicago selected by the Alabama Republicans are for Arthur foi’Arst choice and Logan second. The Arthur men controlled the Alabama Republican State’ Convention at Montgomery. All the district delegates but the two from the Fifth and the de!egates-at-large ■vyill vote for Arthur in the Chicago Convention, ftt least in the early ballots... .The Republicans of Idaho have elected D. P. B. Pride and W. N. Shilling as delegatesto the Chicago Convention. They are unprejudiced. The Illinois Republican State Convention met at Peoria and nominated the following State ticket: For Governor, Richard J. Oglesby, of Macon: for Lieutenant Governor, John C. Smith, of Cook; for Secretary of State, Henry D. Dement, of Leo; for Treasurer, Jacob Gross, of Cook; for Auditor, Charles P. Swigert, of Kankakee; for Attorney General, George Hunt, of Edgar. Resolutions were adopted strongly favoring the nomination of Geti. Logan for the Presidency by the national convention. Senator Cullom, Gov. Hamilton. Col. Clark E. Carr, of Galesburg, and the H°n. Burton C. Cook, of Chicago, were appointed delegates-at-large

to the national convention, with instructions to vote for Logan as long as he should remain in the field. The New Jersey Republican Convention was held at Trenton. The resolutions indorse President Arthur's administration, call for protection of the nation’s industries, ask for the suspension of the coinage of the silver dollar, and approve the reform of the civil service act. The delegates to the national convention received no instructions. Ex-Congressman Robeson was defeated for delegate at-large... .The Delaware Republican Convention passed resolutions indorsing Blaine as the choice of the State for President, but the delegates were not instructed. Of the four delegates-at-large three aie for Blaine and one for Arthur... .The Republican State Convention of Indiana to choose delegatee-at-large to Chicago, met at Indianapolis and selected exSecretary R. W. Thompson, Senator Harrison, the Hon. John H. Baker, and Morris McDonald. The delegation go uninstructed. . . The First New 1 York Congressional District Republican Convention elected George William Curtis and John M. Crane delegates to the national convention... .Itisbelieved they favor Edmunds. The Indiana Democratic Association of Washington has placed Joseph E. McDonald in the He'd for the Presidency by the passage of laudatory resolutions. The Republicans of Tennessee met in convention at Nashville and nominated Judge Frank T. Reid, who served in the Confederate army, for Governor. The delegates to tire national convention at Chicago are hearly solid for Arthur. Seventy-one of the eighty counties of Minnesota, says a St. Paul telegram, have been carefully canvassed, pains having been taken to reach men of high standing whose views can be accepted as a good index of the general sentiment of the Republican returns. There are 673 strongly supporting Blaine, 199 for Edmunds, 182 for Arthur, 80 for Lincoln, 47 for Logan, 51 scattering. For second choice there is almost a unanimous preference for Edmunds. With the Democrats,' Tilden has so much of a lead that there can hardly be picked any other, although Bayard, Payne, and Hancock are mentioned.... Col. Morrison unearthed a letter in the tariff discussion at Washington, written by Mr. Tilden in 1855, In which he expressed himself as opposed to protective or prohibitory duties. The object of introducing it was to add to the writer’s record.. . .Chicago dispatch: A statement of the delegates to the National' Republican Convention elected upto date shows a total of 417, of whom 233 arc for, Arthur, 07 for Blaine, to for Logan, 15 for Edmunds, 6 for Gresham, 5 for Senator Sherman, and 2 for Gen. Sherman. The preferences of eleven delegates are unknown, GENERAL. A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Irish National League of America, at which thirteen members, barely a quorum, and Mr. Patrick Egan, ex-Treas-urer of the Irish Land League, attended, was heldm Chicago last week. It was decided to call the next Convention of the League to meet at Boston, Mass., the second Wednesday in August, or such other date as Mr. Parnell, Who is expected to attend, should name. A resoituion indorsing Mr. Parnell’s advice to the Irish farmers to refuse to pay the police tax imposed under the crimes act was passed. Yellow fever is raging at Vera Cruz, Mexico. Thirteen deaths occurred there one day last week. One victim was an American named C. E. Powers, formerly connected with the Mexican Central Railroad. The Peruvian city of Junin was recently attacked by one thousand rebels, who wercrf'puteefl. The Prefect seized two citizens and sfiot them for intrigues with the as■The uprising at Battleford, Northwest Territory, was without foundation, the aborigines simply gathering there to talk about their grievances, with the intention of sending delegates to Ottawa and Regina.

There are reports of extensive gold discoveries on Cottonwood Creek, near Canon City, Colo. Mining men at Denver and elsewhere are much excited over the intelligenceThe first discovery, it is said, was made on the ranch of Mr. John O’Brien by a man named Teller. The gold is in chloride form, held by magnetic iron, and its presence is so disguised that none but experienced experts would have detected it. Miners are already Hocking to the scene of the discoveries. All the indications favor the belief that a rich lead has been struck. The Amalgamated Association’s committee and the manufacturers held a meeting at Pittsburg to regulate the scale for the ensuing year, but failed to agree, the proprietors demanding a 18 per cent, reduction, while the workmen advocated the present rate, with certain amendments. Unless a settlement is made, a strike on June 1 will be the result.... Four hundred and fifty Mormon emigrants arrived in New York in one day- last week. Three hundred were from Great Britain and the others from Norway and Sweden. FOREIGN. Stanley, the African explorer, proposes to attempt to travel frem the Congo through the Soudan and Nubias to Egypt. This was a task contemplated by Gen. Gordon before he undertook the expedition to Khartoum.... Patrick Joyce, Secretary of the Fenian Brotherhood, has issued a circular addressed to all Irishmen calling upon them, to continue the dynamite policy. 1 Gen. Gordon recently jsent a dispatch from Khartoum stating that he had provisions for five months, but was hemmed in by 2,500 Arabs. He suggests an appeal for $1,000,000 to the millionaires of America and Europe, with Which to de.'eat El Mehdi. Egyptian refugees, to the number of 450. recently sailed from Shendy for Berber. The steamer ran aground,and the rebels massacred everyone onboard.. The victims included many w omen and children, ’■ Earl Granville, the Epglish Foreign Secretary, no doubt acting on the advice

of Mr. Gladstone, has addressed a note to the European powers advising a general reduction of ’the rate of interest on the Egyptian debt, the reduction of the civil and military expenseß in that country, and the taxation of foreign residents there. Bismarck has replied to the note refusing t* assent pr dissent to Lord Granville’s proposition. He says England is responsible for the state of affairs in Egypt und mu st assume the full responsibility. ... .In the opinion of the German Cholera Commission, which has just arrived at Alexnndria from India, there will be no outbreak of cholera in Egypt this year The police authorities in I rance are disposed to recommend the expulsion of all dynamiters. One individual engaged in the traffic has already disappeared. ——

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

It is reported from Leadville that the’ recent alleged gold discoveries near Pike's Peak, Colo., are- part of a gigantic swindling scheme originated by a drug clerk who formoffa joint-stock company, scattered chloride of gold in some places in the gravel of the mountain side, and then had reports of immense discoveries circulated wo as to ' boom the shares of his joint-stock comp my. The fraud was exposed too soon to deceive moneyed men, but thousandsob prospectors had given up work elsewhere to try their luck in. the region of the alleged discoveries. Four Paris Irishmen were interviewed by the London Times correspondent on the dynamite policy. James Stephens and John O'Leary, two noted Fenians, condemned the policy aS foolish, wicked, and inexpedient. Dr. Hogan, of the Irish Ecclesiastical Coilege in the French capital, said the policy of the dynamiters was. “morally a crime, politically a blunder,si nd■; socially a disaster. ’' One obscure Irishman, named t.asey, favored dynamite, and ’said that it ml rht be used in blowing up English ocean vessels ... Rumors are afloat in Paris that the Pope will presently seek an asylum in France. The Davenport Democrat publishes a canvass of lowa, on the Presidential question, to the extent of several ■ columns. Letters were sent to the Chairman of every Democratic CountyCo.mmiLtee__.Jn_ the State and to other leading Democrats in a -position to be informed on public sentiment. Answers were received from more than three-fourths of the ninetynine counties, many of them being the result of numerous interviews. The object of the canvass was to obtain a true reflex of Democratic sentiment in regard to the popular choice for Presidential candidates _rftther l thau personal views of the correspondents. The result shows that the sentiment drifts nearly one way—for Tilderi aud Hendricks.... If is reported that at a conference held at New York last week arrangements were made to nominate Gen. Butler and Congress man Reagan (of Texas) for President and Vice President on the Anti Monopoly ticket, aud the understanding was reached that the Greenbackers were to indorse the nominations at their national convention.... .Five national bank directors have been nominated for Presidential Electors by the Pennsylvania Republicans. It is feared that they are not eligible, as they may be accounted officers of trust under the National Government.

The fire losses of the week have been as follows: ■ Losses. Leon, lowa., business houses SIO,OOO Chicago, private residence 20,000 Sullivan, 111-, hotel and dwelling. 10,000 New Albany,lnd., lairk-packing honse.. 15,000 Belleville, 111., pump w0rk5....,... 10,000 Alton, 111., clothing store 30,000 East Saginaw, Mich., churchlo,ooo Hinckley,Minn.,warehouse and contents. 10,000 Ada. Minn., grain elevator 20,000 Baldwin, Wls., business houses 10,000 Whitesboro, Tex., brick block... 20.000 St. Paul, Minn., clothing store 10,000 Alpine, Mich., saw mill 15,060 Marshall, Mo., nine frame buildings 15,000 Salem, N. J., glass works and oil cloth factory 120,000 Winchester, Ohio, planing mill 15,000 Carlisle, Ind., ice houses 40,000 Pittsburgh, Pa., box factory 75,000 Newark, N. J., celluloid brush factory... 200,000 Ludlow, Ky., business property 30,000 Carlisle, Ky., business blisik.. 70,(MX) Evansville, Wis., pump works.; 25,000 Wadsworth, Nev., storesßs,ooo Princeton, 111., flouring mill 30,000 Litchfield, 111., flouring mill 15,000 Montrc al. iron foundry 40,000 Peoria, 111., Peoria plow works.. .... 100,060 Philadelphia, business block 30,000 Y’akma City, W. T., stores 55,000 Mo irsome v. Ala,., ootton-gin factory.. . 15,000 Hot Springs, Ark., two hotels and other property 35,000 Monroe, La., stores 40,000 The bankruptcy bill passed the Senate by a large majority on April 21. The Senate also passed a bill authorizing the cancellation of any indebtedness against the Soutnern Illinois Normal University by reason of the burning ot United States arms. A bill was introduced to prohibit Collectors of Internal Revenue from issuing liquor licenses in States where the local laws forbid the traffic. Mr. Jonas introduced a bill to appropriate $1,000,000 in aid of the World's Cotton Exposition at New Orleans. In the House, bills were introduced for the creation of a silk-culture bureau, to promote education in the States and Territories, to reduce to 10 cents per gallon the revenue tax on fruit brandy, to grant a pension to the widow of Lieut.’ De Long, and to tax the manufacture and regulate the exportation of oleomargarine. U nd'T suspension of the rules, bills were passed to create a bureau of navigation in the Treasury Department, and to provid; that in pension applications the enlistment and muster shall be evidence t:.at the soldier was then in gobd hea'th. By a vote of 99 to 146, the House refused to suspend the rules and pass tne bill repealing tl»e act restricting the terms of Presidential appoiutees to four years.

THE MARKET.

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THE MORRISON BILL.

Consideration of the Tariff Measure Secured in the / House. Arguments Pre; and Con by Messrs. Morrison and Kelley. On the motion Of Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, and by a vote of 140 yeas to 138 nays, the House of Representatives, on the 15th of April, agreed to go ipto committee of the whole for the consideration of the tariff bill. Mr. Morrison immediately opened the debate in support of the measure. Mr. Morrison’s Speech. He described the financial condition of the country, stated the estimated surplus of revenue over expenditures, and dwelt upon the necessity of reducing taxation. To fail to reduce taxation and relieve the people would be a flagrant disregard of public duty. The pending bill might not be all that was required, but it was an advance toward the promise of more complete tariff reform. Such reform and adjustment of the tariff were not believed to be attainable at the present sessions It would create no surprise that in the opinion of the minority of the Ways and Means Committee'the measure was not sufficiently harmonious to secure their approval. They found in it no merit, because it proposed to reduce all duties al'Jfe. A horizontal reduction might not be the best, but none other was now practicable. The protectionists opposed it,_ not because it was horizontal reduction, but because it was reduction at all. The year 1860 was a time of plenty. The laborer for wages was at least as well and the grower of grain better paid than they are in this year, 1884, and in that year, 1860, of bounteous plenty our importations of foreign goods were less to the person, or in proportion to the population, than in the years 1880-’B2. To the list of articles now imported free of ditty, amounting to nearly one-third of uh our importations, it is proposed to adu salt, coal, wood, and lumber. Salt is already freed from tax for the fishermen, also for the exporter of meats, to lessen the cost of food to the people of other countries, not for our own. Coal is untaxed for use on vessels having by law the exclusive right to the coasting trade or engaged in the foreign carrying trade —a privilege denied to persons engaged in other pursuits. The revenue from wood and lumber imported and hereafter to be admitted free of duty has in ten years last past not much exceeded $10,000,000. The census' returns show that domestic wooden products exceed $500,000,000 per annum. If the average duty of 20 per cent, on Imported wood adds but 10 per cent, to the price of that produced here,its increased cost to the people has been $500,000,06(1 in ten years. In these ten years, nnder pretense of taxing this article to secure $10,000,000 revenue, we have compelled the people to pay $500,000,000 in bounty to encourage the destruction of forests and felling of trees, and in the same time we have given more than 18,000.060 acres of land under the timber culture act as a bounty to encourage the planting of other trees and other forests. In the estimates made by a clerk of experience in the Bureau of Statistics, which the actual payments on importations show to bebutestimates, though based on official data, the bill would leave, it appears, in cottons but two articles, cotton yarns, not the finest-, dutia ole above 40 per cent.; in wcolens, but one, coarse carpet wool, which we do not produce, above 60 per cent., and in iron and steel but a few above 50 per cent. These rates have been fixed as the limit, above which on these articles no duty shall be collected. The present rate on the finest cotton is 40 per cent.., and yet it is an unquestioned fact, as shown by the Invoices and payments made, that duties exceeding lOOper cent, (exceeding first cost) are exacted and paid on cotton goods, thednty upon which is, in tho estimates referred to, stated to be less than 23 per cent. The same is true of iron and steel in a different degree. In the woolen schedule .these abuses i)re most .glaring. In all they result from enormities hidden and concealed both in the classification of articles and the rates of duty. The limit of 40, 50, and 60 per cent, en tne cotton, metal, and woolen schedules is intended to expose and remedy these hidden enormities. Those really desirous of affording some relief from existing abuses will not fail to find their opportunity in remov ing taxes yielding $8,060,000 on. sugar, as much on cotton and woolen goods, and $14,000,000 on other articles used in every home. The insufficient, not to say deceptive, character of the late revision, the manner of making it, and the circumstances attending its adoption alike forbid it should be permanent. * The only security from agitation and change is to confine the taxing power to its rightful purpose of obtaining a revenue limited to the necessities of Government. When no more revenue is needed by the Government of a people it has attained the limit of its power to tax the people. ' ‘, Estimates based on census statistics show that as many as 18,000,000 of our people do some work or ate occupied in some business, and that the average annual earnings of at least K. 000.000 of these du nut much exceed S3OO, and are wholly consumed in the means of daily substance. These, too, are millions who, in shop and field, strike the blows of all production. All the accumulations of and boasted additions to our national and individual wealth go to one-tenth of those who earnit; and of these a few appropriate the great mass of the savings of tue people, and are enriched by the profits of the labor of other men. Like estimates will show that the. few who profit most from the labor of all contribute little under this system of unequal taxation—not more than 2 per cent, of their savings—while the great mass of workers, including the dependent poor, pay the bulk of the taxes, all of which is subtracted from their too scanty means of comfortable living. Ours is a very free country of very free men, both very freely taxed. In the same sense that we are free men in a free country, freely taxed, we may be correctly named free traders when we insist that the trade and the commerce of the country and the necessities of comfortable living shall be freed from all taxes not essential to a Government for public uses. .

The amount required from the customs is dependent upon what may be received from internal revenues. The abolition of internal revenue means free and cheap liquors, but with heavier taxed and higher-priced sugar and other articles essential in every household. I am not called upon to defend asvstem which hasmany abuses, wo , Wwver ."it W Chea per in the'' administration, immensely. cheaper in itssuits. The repeal of the internal revenue means more than the additional cost of living and privation to the poor. It means a permanent public debt, which the few owe and the many pay, and wnlch corrupts the administration. While we cannot doubt the existence of great wrongs in the execution of the internal revenue laws, especially in the South Atlantic States, many of these may be cured. Neither is it because of these abuses of administration that the abolition of liquor and tobacco taxes is demanded in those States, for the North is substantially free from these flagrant abuses. Mr. Morrison said that during more than half of the last ten years wages had been as low or lower than before the adoption of the taxing policy as a pretended means of making wages higher. And, he continued, there is but one horizontal reduction for which our opponents are willing to legislate, the reduction of wages, and this their favorites, with or without regard to legislation, are now executing day oy day with cruel regularity. In the opinion of the minority members of the committee, representing as they do the friends of the prevailing policy, the cure for whatever national ills exist, so far as they result from taxation, is to be found in higherpriced clothing and other articles useful In the fields, mines, and homes; for that is what is meat* by higher-taxed wool, fence-rods, cottonbands, and tin-plates. Some of our friends here would cure the ills of overtaxation with the declaration Of a purpose the execution of which they would carefully avoid. And here is the declaration. It is called the Ohio platform: “We favor a tariff for revenue limited to the necessities of the Government economically administered and so adjusted in application as to preventunequal burden, encourage productive industries at home, and afford just compensation to labor, but not to create or fester monopoly." A tariff for revenue limited to the necessities of the Government la demanded by this plan of relief. Is the tariff so limited? If not. then why refuse to limit ft? Who among the representatives of the goodly, people of that Sate who made thls declnration betieves it is so limited? Who among them believes the pending bill will reduce the revenue below the neceß ities of the Government? These are , questions to which Uie plain people of the country want an answer. They will demand to know why the tariff taxes were not removed in the past, if they are beyond the revenue limit. Do gentlemen expect to escape respondb.lity because the rates are not rightly adjusted? The adjustment will be the same wh m the deduction is made, but ever monopoly to it will be fostered by 2o.per cent. Isss than it now is. f this platform has an honest meaning it is that the tariff shall be lowered to a revenue basi-'. And gentlemen 1 nt deceive themselves who expect the people will be deceived by a refusal to le-islate in accordance with this declared purpose. If the protection policy 1b to be the continuing policy of the Government it will be.

and ought to be, intrusted to tts friends—the Republican party. Every argument in support of a protective policy is based on the assumption that any considerable tariff modification, especial ly a modification to a revenue basis, will destroy the manufacturing industries, compel the abandonment of the shops and mills, and force those now engaged to them into other employments. This is the old, old story. It was told of the manufacturing industries in their infancy. It will be toid when protection brings them to decay. . - It is insisted that wages are so much higher here than in the countries seeking our markets that the revenne duties will not equalize the difference in the cost of production. Conceding the troth of what is not true—that the foreign rival must pay for the privilege of selling in our markets a sum equal to the difference in wages to enable the home producer to sell with a reasonable profit—let us see if the revenne rates will compensate for that difference. The census value of the manufactures for 188 S was $5,369,579,191. The wages paid in making them were $947,953,795. The difference in the cost of the goods is said to be the difference in the cost of wages. But suppose the difference between the cost here and the cost abroad amounts to all the wages paid here, then these manufactures would cost abroad $4,421,625,396. Suppose the average rate of duty which the bill before the House leaves at 33 per cent, was reduced to 22 per cent., and at that rate this $1,421,625,396in value of goods was imported. It would cost the importer at that rate of 22 per cent. $972,757,587, which not only makes up for the difference in wages, but exceeds all the wages paid tor making all of the goods. If those who claim special friendship for the manufacturing industries will insist on their going into decay and then dying, some other apology must be found for their taking off than the removal of unnecessary taxes. ' •

Mr. Kelley’s Reply. Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, made the opening speech in opposition to the bill. He did not believe any cheapening goods could relieve any American industries. The evil was not that goods were not cheap enough or that America could not produce them. The.tinth, to be considered of all men, was that the power of production the world over had outrun.the power of consumption, and that the markets were overstocked, and in every land skilled and industrious people had been idle for a large portion of all recent years. Nihilism in Russia, Socialism in Germany, Socialism and Nihilism in the border regions of Austria, Communism in France, told the story in those great countries, of idleness, want, and misery in every industrial center. He then proceeded to give chapters from the terrible lives of the industrial classes of England as learned by him durfng a three months’ visit to “Merry England," prosperous, free-trade England, in order to show the fearful condition of the laboring people of that country, and saia the proposition now made was that the United States should enter the race with the world for cheapness, which had led to such terrible results in England. There was nothing of so little value in England as a working man or woman with a reasonably good appetite. In one town he had seen women making trace-chains and yet the gentleman from Kentucky, Mr. Turner, was returned to Congress every year because he advocated placing trace-chains on the free-list. Mr. Turner said that that was a good proposition, which he hoped would be adopted. Mr. 7 Kelley replied that women could realize 55 or 60 cents a week for making trace-chains. God forbid that any Kentucky woman must ever work at such masculine employment for such starvation wages. He recalled the reply of Emery Storrs to an Englishman who, at a dinner given by Minister Lowell, was badgering him about free trade: “I will admit free trade is the best for you—at least for those of you who can afford to consur.ie anything that is produced; but I claim that protection is best for us. You think more a great deal of cheap shoes than you do of a prosperous shoemaker, while in America we think more of the artisan than his work.

After describing the wretched condition of the laborers in Birmingham and surrounding towns, he said: "God forbid that American labor should ever be embodied in any production that should be cheap enough to be sold to the industrial towns that surround Birmingham. Much was heard about free raw material. He denied that the free-trade Democracy of the country, as represented on this floor, was in favor of free raw material. Under the present tariff every element of raw material which could be discovered was already on the free list. The pending bill put twenty or thir.y articles on the free list, but not one of i hem was raw material. The raw material for salt was the brine which was pumped out. Coal in earth, selling at certain rates per ton "unsight unseen,” was raw material; but when thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars had been expended in making it accessible _to man’s use, It was not. Alcohol was raw material, and only two Democrat —Messrs. Hewitt and Randall—were in favor of putting it on the free list. “• ■What was charged tor the use of Nature’s solvent, for which the wit of man had yet discovered no substitute? Before the American farmer could advance his-raw material—corn — one stage in the manufacture, he had to pay 90 cents a peck. The same was true of tobacco—it was a tax on the,, producing and trading classes. In the race for cheapness production left prosperous countries and found its way to the most oppressed, and those wliose people would work for the smallest modicum of food and clothing. The United States had entered on the work of banishing manufactures, and he asked that the tariff rates be reinstated, as he had hoped they would have been by the majority of the last Congress, By abolishing the duty on quinine and salts of quinine the largest manufacturer in the country had been obliged to send all his stock abroad, and to employ cheap German labor and cheap raw material in its manufacture. By putting a dutv of 2 1-10 cents per pound on tin plates the United States had succeeded in establishing manufactories; but, by the misplacement of c. comma, it has been held that only a duty of 1 1 1-10 cents had been imposed. Tbe effect of this had been to strike- down the industry. The sapient Secretary of the Treasury had' held that the word "highest” tn the last ■ tariff law meant "lowest," and on account of . that ruling the wire-rod makers were importing wire-rods pretty, well made from the other side of the water. , ~ Mr. Hewitt, of New York, suggested that tbe Republican and not the Democratic tariff had done that. . . . Mr. Kellev replied that if 20 yer cent, of the Democrats in the last Congress had united with the Republicans the tariff on wire-rods would have been . placed at such a rate as to enable Americans to manufacture them. Mr. Hewitt —Would you have allowed us to fix the thing in conference committee? Mr. Kellev—Yes, sir. No Democrat would serve on that commit ee save Mr. Carlisle, who served quietly in order to observe what was done. Nary one dared. ”Mt.Howitt—T-lN:T l thewh'slc>p«pfßumaas®’’3 , se'-’' Mr. Kelley—TK&BbhfeTgflce had to deal with - the materials you sent us. Are they Republicans in this House who propose to reduce the duty on wire rods 20 per cent. ? Who voted for it today, Republicans or Democrats? Don’t let us talk about what occurred a year ago. Let us go back onlv two hours. Mr. Kelley then repeated the assertion he had made that the production had outrun consumption. Every reduction of wages diminished the power of the masses to consume and magnified the evil from which the people of the whole industrial world were now suffering. Thia evil could not be mitigated by a2oper cent, reduction in the tariff, now too light on a good < many articles which should be produced in the United States, nor by a blow at the agricultural interests. The south of Russia was now engaging Americans to erect elevators, to build factories for American agricultural machinery, and to aid in the construction of railroads to the seaports; and if the farmers of America did not care for their interests and did not strive by the proper legislation to diversify their agricultural products their markets would be gone; and in comparison with the price they now received for wheat they would receive a price little more than nominal. He could see but twe means bv which the markets could be increased, with a third means glimmering in the future. Stop all importation of cheap labor. Send back to whatever country they came from the men or women who had signed the contracts in foreign lands or on shipboard to work at lower wages than the wages of American labor. See that the wages were kept so high that the public schools might be well sustained and the children reasonably well educated. Let not the American women become degraded. Protect the American motherhood against the degradation of becoming the-, drudges of i*en in gla s-works, iron-forges, and rolling-mills, if necessary, by declaring eight hours the longest period in the twenty-four that men or machinery may run. He advocated the production of sorghum in the West, and especially in the Southwest, as a means of diversifying the labor of the American farmer and enhancing the sale of his production. Let , the coun ry be isolated. It was unlike any other. It was not a monarchy or an empire; it was a free republic, every human being belonging to which was a citizen with the rights of freemen, and with the duty before him of helping maintain the Government, which pould only live as long as virtue, intelligence, and indei endence characterized its citizens. And this it could not do if it was to begin in an unholy race for the “cheap and nasty” underteachings of. dismal science. . . A fancy bloodhouqd attacked Mrs. Eckert, at Rockaway Beach, tore off one cf her ears, and stripped off the flesh from her Shoulder to her wrist. i r — s rsf — 1 ' i Chabcxston, S, C., has a 600-pound turtle