Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA, ft. *. MARSHALL. - Ptmusna.

THE NEWS CONDENSED. FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.

Mr. Riddklbergkr, of Virginia, offered a resolution in the Senate, on the 2d inst., that the President is not restricted by law in removing officials, and that the Senate has no right to require a statement of his reasons for suspensions. Mr. Pugh submitted a substitute, declaring the President responsible to the people for removals or suspensions from office. The matter went over. The electoral-count bill, with all the amendments proposed, was recommitted. Mr. Chace introduced a bill to prevent Congressmen from recommending appointments to office, and Mr. Harris a measure appropriating $75,000 to establish a bureau of public health. The Secretary of the Treasury answered a resolution of inquiry by stating that no assistant treasurer has been instructed to refuse to issue certificates on deposits of silver dollars. The House of Representative devoted the day to eulogies of Vice President Hendricks by leading members. Mr. Bynum, of Indiana, was the first speaker to bear testimony to the true worth of the dead statesman. He traced the life of Mr. Hendricks through childhood, youth, and manhood, showing that in every stage he had manifested that ability and talent which had made his nsme familiar to every household in the land. Mr. Hewitt said that the nomination of Mr. Hendricks in 1881 secured the success of the Democratic ticket. It prevented an issue addressed to the conscience of the people, and in New York especially was so acceptable to a portion of the party otherwise dissatisfied that personal grievances wore to a large extent swallowed up and postponed to the large duty of justice to the man in whose person the will of the .people had once been defeated. But for the existenoe of this feeling the accession of independent voters would not have materially changed the strong current of feeling among a portion of the democratic voters for the candidates of the other party. Mr. Hendricks, he said, was a partisan, out this partisanship was never exerted at tho expense of his patriotism. There was no reason for apology or explanation so far as Mr. Hendricks' views on the matter of appointment to public office were concerned. These views were given in his letter of acceptance of the nomination for Vice President in 1676, and coincided with the views of Washington and Jefferson. Mr. Randall expressed admiration for tho dead statesman, whose life had been the embodiment of that old Latin saying, “mild in manner and resolute in conviction." His ways were gentle and kind, but in a matter of right or wrong he was fixed and immovable. As ho was greater than others, he was also stronger than any political organization to which he was attached. He believed that our liberties were sacred only when all tendencies toward contraliz&tion were to be resisted and destroyed. He died as he lived, calmly and serenely. Like a shadow thrown softly and sweetly frpm a passing clouddeath feU upon him The Chair placed before the Senate, on the 3d last., the resolution as submitted by Mr. Riddleberger and tho substitute tor it submitted by Mr. Pugh, relating to the relations between the President and the Senate in regard to information and papers affecting Government officers suspended or appointed. Mr. Edmunds said that practically but four mouths of the session were left for business. 'I ho resolution offered l embodied no praetioal ques tion—only mooted—questions—and it would bo time enough to debate the question when it should become a practical question. Ho moved to lay the resolutions on the table. The motion to lay on the table was then agreed to, only one voice being heard in the negative. At a subsequent stage of the Senate proceedings, Mr. Riddleberger again oallod up his resolution and criticised the course of the “Senator (Edmunds) whose'“ voice is too repressed to be heard except bv himself, who first makes a speech and then moves an undebatable motion. “I don’t mind being run over by a railroad train," continued Mr. Riddleberger, “but I don’t like being mashed by a wheelbarrow.* [Great laughter.l On motion of Mr. HarriU the resolution was then, without debate, referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. The Dakota bill was Saced before the Senate, and Mr. Logan ok the floor in favor of the admission of that Territory as a State. Mr. Morgan opposed the admission of Dakota under the present conditions. He thought the Senate was asked to admit the new State merely for the purpose of admitting the officeholders that had been sent here. The patriotism that had been so much referred to had in it a strong flavor of self-interest The Honse of Representatives adopted a resolution, offered by Mr. Bland, requesting information from the Secretary of the Treasury whether an arrangement was made with the New York Clearing-House to prevent the circulation of silver, and asking for a statement of ■liver dollars and certificates on baud and afloat A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, stating that since 1827 the conscience fund has developed to $220,747, was read in the Senate on the 4th inst A memorial from the Legislature of New Jersey protested against the granting to the Baltimore and Ohio Road the right to bnild a bridge from the Jersev shore to Staten Island. Mr. Plumb introduced a bill to appropriate 8150.Q00 more for a public building at Fort Scott, and Mr. Doiph a measure to extend the limits of Portland, Ore., to include tho east bank of the Willamette. Mr. Cameron called up the bill providing for an assistant Secretary of the Navy in the Senate, and a debate of the merits of the bill was entered upon which soon took the character of a political discussion and ended in a fight over the action taken by Secretary Whitney in the Dolphin "matter. Mr. Cockreß defended the actions of Secretary Whitney. In the Houso the day was devoted to the discussion of the Dakota bill. Mr. Harrison declared that the real animus of the objections to the bill was that another Presidential election should pass before the people of Dakota were to be permitted to participate in such elections. Mr. Morgan said that Mr. Harrison, who was evidently a candidate for the Presidency, might not have a chance at the votes of Dakota, for he iMr. Morgan) did.... not think that he would ripen in four years. Mr. Harrison replied that if he ever shouid be a candidate. although he would not be sure but that he might justly claim the electoral vote of Alabama. he never would expect to have it counted for him. Upon the reading of Mr. Harrison of papers in contradition of those read by Democratic Senators to show the feeling prevalent in Dakota with regard to the question of admission, one Senator brought down the House and Senate by quoting FalstafTs exclamation: “Oh. Lord, how this world is given to lying 1* When, at another time, Mr. Harrison asked amid laughter whether Mr. Butler wonld have entitled the constitution of Dakota “The Constitution of the State of Dakota, by the grace of God and the Senator from South Carolina," Mr. Butler turned the laugh against . his opponent by replying: No: I should have simply said: “By the grace of the Senator from Indiana.

The Senate closed its long and wrangling debate over the admission of South Dakota Into the Union as a State oh the sth inst., by passing the bill of the Committeo ph Vote was first taken on the Uutler substitute, which was an act to enable the people of Dakota to frame a State constitution, etc., and It was rejected by a vote of—yeas' 22, nays 33. A vote was then taken’ <n the bill itself, which resulted in—yeas 82, nays 22. The negative vote was wholly Democratic. The affirmative vote was made up of thirty-one Republic an-i and one Democrat— Mr. Vocrheea The bill as it was passed divides the Territory of Dakota on the line of the -Kith parallel of latitude ; piovides for the admission of the southern portion as a State under the title of Dakota, and the organization of the northern portion into a separate Territory under the name of Lincoln. The, Frye bill for the appointment of a commission" to investigate the alcoholic-liquor traffic was rejxirted favorably to the Senate. It provides for the appointment by the President of fivo persons to investigate the alcoholic-liquor traffic, its relations to revenue and taxation, and its general economic, criminal, moral, and scientific aspects in connection with pauperism, crime, social evil, the public health, and genfeiUfS .. and prohibitory legislation for the prevention of intemperance in the several States, and to report the result of tbeir investigations to the President, to be by him transmitted to Congress. It appropriates 810,000 for the expenses of the investigation. The Senate passed Mr. Sewell’s Dill providing for air annual appropriation of 8800,000 to bny arms and ordnance stores, quartermasters’ stores,, and •amp equipage for the militia of the several Btati s and Territories. Mo State is to rsceiTe a share of the appropriation unless its militia force numbers at least one hundred men for each Senator and Representative to which it is entitlsd in Congress. The Senate also passed a bill providing for the sale of the old site of Fort Brady, in Michigan, and for the purchase of a new ito and the ereotioa of a suitable building thereon. TW Mouse of Representatives pasted the SenO^VimJSSS!S&&,'i£SSSI

In IMS. Mr. Randall reported to the House the pension bill from the Appropriation Committee, and it was referred to the committee of the whole. The bill as reported appropriates $75,754,200, an increase of about $15,000,000 over last year. It is made up as follows: For army and navy pensions, $75,000,000; for fees and expenses of examining surgeons, $500,000: for salaries of eighteen pension agents. $72,000; for miscellaneous expenses, including clerk hire, rents, etc., $182,ao °- m l

THE EAST.

Mbs. Grant will pay to the Vanderbilt heirs $50,000 from sales of the General’s book. The bulk of the debt is to be discharged by/the proceeds of real estate in which she surrendered her dower right... . Eight car-loads of imported laborers were sent into the coke region of Pennsylvania, but the striking Hungarians persuaded them not to commence work. The Knights of Labor in New York ordered a strike by 1,750 men employed on the Broadway and Fourth, Sixth, and Seventh avenue horse-car lines, demanding and obtaining the present rate of $2.25 per day for a reduced number of hours. Sheriff Stewart, of Greenslmrg, Pa., refuses to evict Hungarian miners in the coke regions during the extreme cold weather now prevailing there.... Diphtheria of a malignant type is causing many deaths at South Malone and Duane, Franklin County, N. Y. The fanners of Berks County, Pa., are alarmed at the spread of pleuro-pneumonia, and at a meeting at Reading adopted resolutions in favor of stamping out the disease, and calling upon Congress to appropriate $500,000 to reimburse the losers from the malady in the several States.... The model of a monument to commemorate the wars of the United States, to be erected in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. N. Y., has been completed by J. Q. A. Ward, the sculptor. The monument will cost from $300,000 to $500,(RIO. . .. .Marie Branchau jumped from the High” Bridge at New York. She fell 120 feet to the ice below, and every bone in her body was broken.

THE WEST.

The Rev. Abbott E. Kittredge, of the Third Presbyterian Church, Chicago, preached a sermon, in which he spoke severely of most, of the Justices of the Peace of that city. In the general condemnation he particularly singled out Justice Meech. Dr. Kittredge said; “All fear of the law is rapidly passing from the minds of wicked men; lawbreakers are only arrested to be set free at the solicitation of some Aiderman in return for a handsome bribe, as was true this past week, when one Justice by the name of Meech discharged a company of gamblers, at the request of the latter changing the offense from gambling to disorderly conduct, and asking only the tine of s'l from each.” Justice Meech took exception to this, and in the Circuit Court he has commenced suit by praecipe against Abbott E. Kittredge for $27,000.... In October last the Rev. T. L. Smith (colored) aii'd a party of friends were refused refreshments at a restaurant in Keokuk, lowa, Suit was brought under the civilrights law for slo.ooo,and the jury brought in a verdict for sl. The defense was that it was late at night when the party oalled, and that the defendant was anxious to close his shop. Dennis W. Hilda was hanged Friday at Prescott, Arizona, in presence of one thousand persons, for the'murder of Deputy Sheriff J. M. Murphy. At Leadville, Col., Cyrus Minich suffered the extreme penalty of the law for having been implicated in the murder of Samuel Baldwin on Oct. 13, 1884. Albert Cooley, his wife, and three children, living near McGregor, lowa, were burned to death by their dwelling taking fire. Mayor Smith, of Cincinnati, suspended Edward Hudson, Superintendent of Police, for insubordination, and appointed Arthur G. Moore Superintendent. This brings to a crisis the conflict between the Mayor and the Police Commissioners, as the lattter refuse to recognize the validity of Gov. Foraker’s action in removing them from office. The matter will be submitted to the Supreme Court for decision In Lake* View Cemetery, at Cleveland, last .week, the casket of James A. Garfield was placed in an ornamented bronze sarcophagus costing $2,000. The military guard about the vault will be continued until the end of June A party of Federal Marshals at Salt Lake went to the residence of George Q. Cannon and obtained service on his latest wife. For the arrest of Cannon the offers a reward of $500,.. .Th'e people of Seattle, Washington Territory, escorted 100 Chinamen to the dock and paid the fares of most of them to San Francisco... .The earnings of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad for January were $326,000, a falling off of $5,000 from a year ago. The earnings of the Louisville and Nashville Road for the same period were $1,056,910—a falling off of $113,839.

THE SOUTH.

Chattanooga (Tenn.) special: “The killing of George and Frank Taylor,at Oakdale Junction, Tenn., on suspicion that they were burglars creates the most intense excitement. It develops that the deceased were nephews of Col. Blackburn, one of the leading criminal lawyers of Cincinnati, and steps are now being taken to prosecute their murderers to the full extent of the law. The evidence is now clear that the young men were merely traveling through the country, and \ were innocent of any crime.” An insane young man at Peru, Fla., cut off the top of his mother’s head with an ax, and was acquitted by the Coroner’s jury. He became rational the instant the crime was perpetrated... .During a heavy fog at New Orleans the steamer Castle Craig refused to obey her rudder, and swung about until she had done damage to five other vessels amounting to $70,000.,... Mr. Edward E. Brown was discovered in prison at Jacksonville, Fla., uuder the name of C. J. Hoyne. He is wanted in Boston to make good shortage in estates to the amount of $40,000. He was once a prominent lawyer in Boston, and gained considerable reputation as associate counsel with Benjamin F. .Butler in the famous Tewks- ' bury almshouse investigation. His whereabouts have been conceh^T for some years.

WASHINGTON.

General David Hunter, U. S. A. (retired), died suddenly in Washington last week- He was a veteran, of the Mexican war, served with distinction in the war of the rebellion, and was president of the military court that tried Mrs. Surratt. The venerable John D. Philbrick, LL. D., the most widely known educator in Massachusetts, died at Danvers, in his 68th year. He was a member of the educational jury at the Vienna Exposition. A dispatch from Rochester announces the death of Thomas Leighton, well known as a bridge-builder, aged 68 yean. The Hon. David T. Linegar,

I of Cairo, 111., died at his home in that city : after an illness of some months. He was a prominent member of the last Illinois Legislature. j Solicitor General Goode, who Ms j been specially designated to conduct’ the ; suit against the Bell Telephone Company to test the validity of their patent, has secured the services of the following-named gentlemen as special counsel to assist in the prosecution of the suit: The Hon. A. G. Thurman of Ohio, Grosvenor Lowery of New York, who is - a specialist in electrical matters; Messrs. Eppa Hunton and Jeff Chandler of Washington, and Mr. C. S Whitman, a patent attorney of. Washington. The suit j will be filed ns soon as the Solicitor Genj eral shall have had an opportunity to consult with his assistants in regard to the bill which is now-in course of preparation at the Department of Justice. The place where the suit shall be instituted will not be decided upon until all the papers in the case are ready. The Attorney 1 General has positively declined to have anything whatever to do with the case. Judge Goode says the -’ case will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted, and with fnimesß to all parties concerned... .To dispose of the matter of private claims before Congress, a bill was agreed to giving the United States Circuit and District Courts jurisdiction in claims under SIO,OOO, and to the Court of Claims -’jurisdiction in claims over that amount... .The counsel for the Government insists that the Union and ’Central Pacific Roads' should pay the Government r 25 per cent, of the anrount paid the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, which would amount to about $828,000....

POLITICAL.

Both houses of the lowa Legislature have passed resolutions.asking Congress to impose high licenses on the sellers of ML ferine- and oleomargarine. President Cleveland has nominated Samuel T. Corn, of Carlinville, 111., to be associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming. Messrs. Morrison and Breokenridge, the Democratic members of the sub-committee of the House Ways and Means Committee having in charge the subject of public debt funding, have agreed to report to the full committee a joint resolution instructing the Secretary of the Treasury to call in and redeem interest-bearing bonds of the United States to the value of $10,000,000 each month until the surplus cash in the Treasury shall be reduced to $100,000,000. The resolution does not specify what kind of money shall be used “for the redemption of the bonds. Quiet reigns at Columbus, the tempest in the State Senate having been filled. A sub-committee of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, consisting of three Republicans and three Democrats, is to investigate the Cincinnati Senatorial cases,, and when tire members of the committee fail to agree on any point, the Hon. A. G. Thurman (Deni.) and the" Hon. R. A. Harrison (Rep.) are to act as arbitrators. The final report is to be acted upon by the Senate. The sub-committee has potter to send for persons and papers, etc., and will proceed to Cincinnati at once to begin its labors. The resignation of William Dorsheimer. United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is in the hands, of the President... .It is charged that Senator Sherman wrote to Pension Agent Leman, now awaiting confirmation, that unless he would give the assurance that he would not remove a number of clerks, not protected by the civil-service rules, his appointment would not be confirmed by the Senate.

GENERAL.

The next National Encampment of the G. A. R. will be held at San Francisco, beginning Aug. 3.... The silk manufacturing firms of the United States have decided to advance the price of silk thread and twist 10 per cent.... The Sugar Refining Company of Halifax has suspended payment on liabilities of $500,000, half of which is due to the Merchants’ Bank.... Jacob Schaefer has issued a challenge to M. Vignaux, or any other man, for a balk-line billiard contest of 3,000 points, for $5,000 a side—the winner to take all the receipts and the loser to pay all expenses. Shakspeare’s “Comedy of Errors,” with Robson and Crane m the characters of the Two Dromios, has met with. jmpiense success at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, qpd will be continued for another week. The play has never before in this country been placed upon the stage with such splendor. „ ’ J Exposure to the unusually co|d weather caused the death of several poor people in the City of Mexico... .The Adams Tobacco Company, of Montreal, with liabilities of $175,00(), has gone into liquidation.

GOREIGN.

When a member of the British House of Commons accepts any office under the Crown, he vacates his seat by that act. All the members of Parliament who join the Gladstone Ministry will therefore have to seek re-election immediately. In most instances they will not be opposed. Their majorities in December were so large as to discourage the Tories. Mr. Trevelyan and Mr. Campbell-Banner-man were returned unopposed. Mr. Chamberlain had a majority of 2,764 in Birmingham, Mr. Mundella 1,334 in Sheffield, Mr. Childers 2,500 in Edinburgh, and Sir William Harcourt 2,687 in Derby. Mr. Gladstone’s victory in Midlothian was overwhelming. Mr. John Morley had a majority of only 629 on a total poll of 20,000 in Newcastle-on-Tyne. The vote stood: Morley, 10,129; Hammond (Tory). 9,500. The Tories will oppose Mr. Morley’s reelection in the hope that his declaration in favor of Irish home rule wiil weaken him in that constituency. Representatives of Turkey and Bulgaria have signed the agreement relative to the Bulgarian union, and have notified the powers to that effect... . The Prussian Government has submitted a bill to the Bundes«rath to prolong the anti-socialist, law; . The Prince of Wales and his wife and fjons attended the wedding of Miss Mary Gladstone and Rev-. Harry took place at Hawardeu.. ..The policy proclaimed by Prinoe Bismarck in regard to the Poles has brought about the sale of the Lubrienski estate in Prussia, containing two hundred thousand acres, of which the tenants were mostly Poles. The appointment of ikr. John Morley as Chief Secretary for Ireland is received with moderate friendliness by the papers of the Green Isle. ‘ln the event of MorleyV defeat for re-election at Newcastle, Mr. Parnell offers to find him a constituency in Ireland. Lord Salisbury and other members of the retiring Ministry were hooted at Portsmouth while returning from Osborne,

whither they had gone to deliver the seals of office to (he Queen Mr. William O’Keefe will contest the seat in Parliament of Mr. T. P. O’Connor, returned from Galway City. Mr. O’Keefe, as the Home-rule candidate, is to be supported by Mr. Parnell.... The apparently impossible feat' of telephoning Jthrough a distance of 2,465 miles was recently performed in Europe. The terminal points of the line were St. Petersburg and Boulogne. The conversation was continuous in spite of the fact of a rather high induction. It is thought possible to beat even this extraordinary achievement in the near future.

AĎITIONAL NEWS.

A meeting of “starving mechanics” was held at the Nelson Monument, in Trafalgar Square, London, on the afternoon of the Bth inst., Bums, the defeated socialist candidate for Parliament, being the chief speaker. He attempted to address the crowd from the pedestdl of the column, and when the police attempted to displace him, a conflict with the mob, which had at this time swelled to many thousands, was the result. The police were badly used, and Bums finished his speech and was about to present a series of resolutions, when the police again made an attack, this time routing the gathering, which divided in its flight and took different directions. The mob began wrecking stores and residences, 200 shops and club-houses being damaged and pillaged, and hundreds of people maltreated. Ladies in carriages were compelled to alight, and in some cases the vehicles were reduced to splinters. The Devonshire Club, Twig Club, Hatchet’s Hotel, and Arnold Morley’s residence were among the structures wrecked arid gutted. A fierce faction fight among the socialists also occurred, in which several men were injured. It is said that 50,000 persons engaged in the rioting, and the wonder is that so little blood was shed. Chicago elevators contain 14,491,490 bushels of wheat, 2,678,726 bushels of corn, 303,413 bushels of oats, 304,063 bushels of rye, and 154,358 bushels of barley; total, 17,932,050 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 17,136,107 bushels a year ago. .... The extensive furniture manufacturing firm of N. W. Jansen & Sons, Quincy, 111., with a branch house in Chicago, have made an assignment. Liabilities, $137,000. A nice silver debate was running along peacefully in the Senate on the Bth inst.,with Senator John Sherman on the floor pointing out the mistakes that had been made in the Treasury Department in failing to follow his example, when some accidental remark was made about the inquiries the was making of the Secretary of the Treasury in regard to silver, and the Senator from Ohio at once branched off into a discussion of the great question of the hour —the relations of the Executive and the Senate.’ Mr. Edmunds was absent, and Mr. Sherman had a chance to come to the front as the Republican spokesman. For half an hour the debate between Mr. Sherman On one Bide and Messrs. Satilsoury and Pugh on the other was decidedly interesting. Mr. Sherman’s position was that the Senate had no right to question the President as to his reasons, but it lid a right to any information that exists in the departments. The doctrine; he declared, had always been recognized till the present administration cume in. In the adjaiuistrations of-Fierce and Buchanan committees of Congress had a cabinet minister before them, and overhauled papers in the departments, and it was never even suggested that the two houses of Congress were not entitled to see everything on tile in the departments. When he was Secretary of the Treasury he was summoned before committes of both houses, and questioned about exeqntive acts both in regard to appointments and removals and in regard to financial policy, and he answered all questions blit one, and that was as to what he was going to do. The Senate agreed to a resolution offered by Mr. Ingalls, which directs the Finance Committee to inquire into the propriety of making such an amendment to the Revised Statutes as may be necessary to require the issue of United States notes at the denominations of SI and S'2. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Blanchard introduced a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Troasury for a statement of all moneys seized or collected in the Department of the Gulf by Generals Butler and Banks. Mr. Springer introduced a bifl to enable the people of Dakota east of the Missouri River to form a Constitution and State Government, and there is strong reason to believe that it will be the measure which the House will oppose against the Harrison bill which passed the Senate. The bill provides for admitting the east half of Dakota, which contains about 420,000 inhabitants, with two members of Congress and two United States Courts. This will leave only about 30,000 inhabitants west of the river to be organized into the Terri tory of Lincoln. Bismarck iB left out of the new State, and will become the capital of the new Territory. The bill provides that Congress may hereafter, when the Indian reservation titles are extinguished, annex the Territory of Lincoln, and Dakota is required to,consent to this in her constitution. Mr. Weaver addressed the House upon the coinage question. In the course of his remarks Mr. Weaver attacked the national banking system. There were four things, he said, relating to finance which this Congress must enact. First, it must provide for unrestricted coinage of American silver. Second, a law must be passed for the issue of, Treasury notes to take the place of bank noteß. Third, the largest portion of the surplus in the Treasury must be paid out in liquidation of the interest-bearing public debt Fourth, it must forbid by law any further discrimination ugulnst silver coin.

THE MARKETS.

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THE LAW LAID DOWN.

Messrs. Riddleberger and Pugh Define tbe Relations of the Pftsi* dent and Senate. ■. t i '.Associated Frets report.] In (he Senate. Mr. Riddleberger of Virginia offered tbt following resolution; liesolved. That it is tho sense of the - Senate that the Executive of the United States is not restricted by contsitutional law in removing oi suspending appointees ; that the Senate has no right to require that reasons shall be given sot such removal or suspension ; that it is the right of the Senate to call for any paper relating to the conduct of removed or suspended appointees, or to the qualification and fitness of all persons whose names are presented to the Senate for confirmation or rejection, and it is tbe duty of the Executive to comply with all demands for the same. , In offering tbe resolution Mr. Riddleberger said his purpose - was simply to bringthe subject up in open debate. It did not involve any so-called high prerogative of the Senate when it should go into secret oi executive session, but only that abstract f[ue6tion ns to whether the Executive could >'e called on or required to give reasons far removals. Mr. Riddleberger asked for the immediate consideration of the resolution, but Mr. Cockrell (Mo.) objected. Mr. Pugh, of Alabama, offered later In [he day the following substitute for the jesolution, and asked that it be allowed to lie over uhtil to-morrow: 1. That the executive power is expressly vested by the Constitution in tbe President of the United States, so that he shall take care that tfie laws be faithfully executed. 2. That the power of appointment to Federal office is an executive power to be exercised by the President under the limitation in the Constitution that ho shall nominate, and by and with tbe advice and consent of the Senate shall appoint. 3. That the power of removal and suspension from the powers and duties of Federal office is also an executive power vested exclusively in the President, without any such limitation in the Constitution as is imposed thereby on the power of appointment, and for Its exercise he is responsible alone to the people and not to tho Senate. 4. That the right of the President to make nominations to the Senate and of the Senate to advise and consent thereto are each separate and independent rights, to be exercised by the President and Senata respectively, and separately and indepently within their absolute discretion ; but in relation to the person or persons so nominated the Senate may request Information of the President affecting the character or qualifications of those as to whoso appointment he asks the advice and consent of the Senate. 5. That when the President makes nominations to the Senate of persons to be appointed by him to exercise the powers and duties of Federal officers who have been removed or suspended by him. no law, public duty, or public policy requires that he shall send or communicate to the Senate any cause, reason, .or information within his own knowledge or contained in any letters, petitions, papers, or documents addressed to him or any member of his Cabinet, or in the possession of either, and relating to the subject of removals or suspensions or containing charges, causes, or reasons, and the proof thereof, for making such removals or suspensions; and no law, public duty, or public pokey requires or authorizes the Senate to call for such information existing In uuy such form from the President or any member of his Cabinet, to enable the Senate to review or question tbe action of the President in exercising his executive, discretionary, and exclusive power of removing or suspending Federal officers from the powers and duties of their offices, or to put the President on trial by the Senate or to enforce accountability to the Senate for anything he may have done in the exercise of such jurisdiction. G That to obtain information considered by either house of Congress useful in passing necessary and proper laws either house of Congress may request the President, if not deemed by him incompatible witli the public interest, to give any information within his knowledge or contained in any public document or records on file or in the lawful custody of any of the departments, and relating to the administration of any public office or the official conduct or acts affecting tho official conduct or duties of any public officer; but for the Senate to make such request of the President, or to direct any member of bis Cubinet to transmit to the Senate any information or airy public documents or papers in open or executive session to enable tbe Senate in open or executive session to review the propriety or the reason of the information upon which ho acted or may have acted in making removals or suspensions, would be an attempt to obtain such information by false pretenses,'ami for usds and purposes or justified by any law or public policy of the United States ; and for the President to grant such request or require any members of his Cabinet to obey such direction from the Senate, when deemed by him to bo mode for such unjustifiable and unlawful uses and purposes, would lie to recognize and encourage an improper practice and an injurious innovation upon his exclusive and independent rights, powers, and duties as President of the United States. 4 The plan of tbe Republicans is to refer tbe matter to tbe Committee on Privileges and Elections, whence Mr; Hoar (Mass.) will report a substitute expressing tbe Stalwart Republicans’ views of tbe question. This resolution will be debated in open session, and it is expected that the Stalwart Republican Senators will say their say concerning tbe President. They hope by acting upon tbe resolution in open sessioq to force Mr. Van Wyck (Neb.) and other Republicans of whose support in executive session they do not feel certain. ' * Meanwhile the Judiciary Committee, to which tbe Senate in executive session referred the Attorney General’s letter in the Dustin case, will continue the pursuit of the President through Mr. Garlaud. There is talk of backing down on the part of some Republican Senators, but Mr. Edmunds, who leads the opposition to the President, is as determined as ever.

GENTLEMEN BURGLARS KILLED.

A Tennessee Merchant and an Armed Crowd Pursue Tliree Cracksmen. [Chattanooga telegram.] A terrible tragedy occurred at Knoxville Junction, eighty miles from this city, in which two daring safe robbers were killed by a pursuing posse. Last Friday night three burglars broke into the store of J. M. Hamby, a merchant at Glenmary, and attempted to crack bis safe, in which there were several thousand dollars. They were detected by the merchant, who jit once opened fire on them. They returned the fire and a regular fusilade ensued, in which twenty-five shots were exchanged, but no one was wounded. The burglars fled ,and no trace of them was found until tbis morning, when Hamby learned that the robbers were encamped on the Emoiy River. He enlisted a posse and went in pursuit of the desperadoes. They were found concealed among some crossties, and were ordered to surrender. Two of the burglars threw up their hands, but the third shouted defiance at the posse and swore he would never give up. The posse 6hot him dead, his body being perforated with bullets. The remaining two fled, but one was shot, and in his agony leaped oyer n bluff 400 feet high into the Emory River and was drowned. The third burglar escaped. The two burglars killed were handsomely dressed and wore fine diamonds and watches. No clew to their identity conld be obtained. _j A Washington correspondent says that the President’s choice Democratic ticket for 18S8 is Cleveland and Yoorhees. A man in New York has the distinction of a tooth in bis nose. He is new ready for museum orders. ~ Sam Jones says that progressive euchre is progressive toward hell at the rate of a mile a minute. Ex- Senator Davis, of West Virginia, has given SIO,OOO toward a high school at Piedmont.

THE WHITE METAL.

The House Makes Inquiry of tbe Government Concerning ltd Silver Policy. ,«r* [Washington special.] Mr. Bland, of Missouri, reported to the House, from the Coinage Committee, the resolution offered by him on tho Ist inst., and referred to that Its preamble recites the fae* that, at the convention of the American Bankers’ Association, held at Chicago, 111., in September, 1885, Mr. George S. Coe, President of the American Exchange National Bank of New York City, said that the present administration had taken steps, in concert with the New York Clearing-house committee", to avert financial disaster by refraining from making monthly payments on the funded debt in order that the surplus revenue might supply means requisite to withdraw a sufficient amount of silver certificates issued on previous purchases to overcome the excessive accumulations which so perplexed prior administrations; also the fact that on Feb. 26, 1885, the House of Representatives refused by a decided vote to consider a then pending proposition looking to suspension of coinage of silver dollars. The resolution is as follows; Resolved, By this House, that the Secretary of the Treasury be and is hereby requested to inform this House whether or not anv such agreement or arrangement was effect:d by the management of the Treasury DepaVtment with the Clearing-House Committee in New York, or with any other association or person, as alleged in tho address of Mr. Coe; and, if so, by what authority of law such arrangement was made and carried out; and, further, to inform this House what amount of silver dollars were in the Treasury on the 4th day of March last unrepresented by outstanding certificates, and what amount of silver certificates were in circulation, what amount of such dollars are now in the Treasury unrepresented by outstanding certificates, and what amount of snoh certificates is now in circulation ; also what amount of silver dollars were in the Treasury on the 4th day of March last that could have been applied in the payment of the interest-boaring debt and other dues of the government, and what amount of such dollars now held in the Treasury could be applied ; also, what amount of silver certificates are held in the Treasury that could be reissued; also, what amount of interest-bearing debt is now Bubjoct to call, and will the same policy be pursued in the payment of silver coin and on other public dues in the future as in the past. A motion made by Mr. Hewitt (N. Y.) to recommit the resolution with instructions to the committee to strike out that portion which asks the Secretary of the Treasury to define the policy of the administration was lost by a vote of 88 to 168, and the resolution was adopted. During the discussion of the bill relating to the taxation of fractional parts of a gallon of distilled spirits in the committee of the whole house to-day, Mr. Mills (Texas) offered an amendment, providing that all taxes “imposed by the act shall be paid in standard silver coin, and, using this amendment as a text, addressed the committee upon the entire silver question. If silver was stricken down, he said, then the value of all the products of labor would decrease just one-half. Whenever prices were falling, money would go out of circulation. There was no such curse in existence as the contraction of tfie volume of currency. When this contraction was brought about, then would come sorrow in the bosoms of the people, tears to their cheeks, and hunger, want, and starvation. That was what the advocates of scarce money were asking Congress to do, and to do in the interest of the laboring man. In conclusion Mr. Mills said; This scourge which is sought to be visited on the people of the United States oomes from the cold mar bio and phlegmatic avarice which seeks to impale the whole country on the bod of suffering in-order to gratify its lust for gold. In this hour, fraught with peril to the whole country, I appeal to tho vmpurchased representatives of the American people. Let us stand up and call the battle on, and never leave the field nntil the people’s money shall be restored to its full value. [Loud applause.]

STRUCK WITH A CANE.

William G. Thompson, a Prominent Michigan Politician, Is Brutally Assaulted by a Saloonkeeper. [Detroit special.] William 6. Thompson, ex-Mayor of this city and distinguished throughout the conn- * try during the last Presidential campaign as the Michigan mugwump, Was struck several times on the head by Edward G. Bagard, a saloonkeeper at No. 26 Lafayette avenue, and very badly, if not seriously, injured. It happened in Tom Swan’s saloon on Woodward avenue, and created a great sensation. Thompson and a party of friends, among the number County Auditor Mahoney, were in Swan’s when Bagard came in. An inBtant later Bagard was seen to raise his heavy cane and strike Thompson several terrible blows on the head. Thompson wore a tight sealskin cap, and the first blow gave a resounding crack. Those who heard it thought for a moment that Bagard had crushed Thompson’s skull. Blood flowed in a stream from the latter’s head, and he sank into the arms of a friend. The injured man was put in a carriage, taken to his residence on Jefferson avenue, and Dr. J. B, Book called. Eye-witnesses of the rencontre differ in their versions of it, as is usually the case. All are agreed, however, that it was a brutal affair. The affray, it is said, was the outgrowth of an old feud. Bagard is a powerful man, and has figured in other episodes of this nature. He is a man of fine education, and was one of tho prominent Girondist leaders in Paris, and was forced to flee from France. Grave fears are entertained for Mr. Thompson’s recovery.

FROZEN FISH.

Myriads of Fish in the Gulf of Mexico Killed by the Recent Cold Weather. [New Orleans special.) Mr. A. O. Wilson, a well-known civil engineer, has recently arrived here from Florida, where he has been engaged in landsurveying. He states that during the recent cold snap, while he was making a voyage from Tampa to Cedar Keys, the schooner in which he had embarked was wrecked off Cedar Keys the Bth of January. All hands escaped with their lives, but suffered greatly from the Cold. The salt water froze on the reef in the Gulf of Mexico upon which the vessel struck, and great numbers of fish, chiefly trout, sheephead, and redfish, were killed.by the cold and floated on the wafer, covering its surface for miles. Inquiries among fishermen and others elicited the fact that during the same cold spell fish were killed on the Louisiana <mast and were then floating by the thousands-from the Rigolets to points far to the eastward. 0 . Cincinnati had the first paid fire department in the world, and its first paid engineer, Finley Latto, has just passed away. Nat Goodwin, the comedian, contemplates building or buying a fine yach for the coming season. - . Mrs. Curtis had her watch stolen from her rooms in New York by a messenger boy, but recovered it the next day.^ Of the 672 Yale graduates who died in the ten years between 1676 and 1885, there were 271 who were past 70 yean of age.