Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1886 — Page 6

The Republican. _J i : " .. i RENSSELAER. INDIANA. fl. fe. • rre>lJ*Ttn:

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. IT is alleged that tlio discovery lifts beejr nude that cracksmen intende<l a descent npon the rhilmlelphia Mint, and were preparing to tunnel into the structure from an adjacent house. The precious metals stored in the vaults of the mint are valued at between UP,OOO,WW to tMMNNMWft .. William 8. Nichols, a boy who twice se* Hie to a book-binding establishment in New York where 100 girls are employed, when arrested stated that he desired to born the building so that be would not hare to work there any longer. There were 141 failures in the United States reported to Bradjitrccf* during the week, against 200 in the preceding week. .. , ,In a foundry at . Miles Grove, Ta„ a shower of sparks fell upon Frank L. Nelson, the foreman, burning out l>oth his eyes ■Tames A. Richmond. President of the Broadway Surface Railway Company, was arrested in New York, on an indictment charging him With being connected with the Broadway franchise bribery matter. The Pemberton cotton mills, a cluster of large buildings on the bank of the river at Lawrence, Mass., were destroyed by lira. The loss was about $90,000; one life was lost. In 186(1 the factory was destroyed bv fire, after one large building, in which nearly 700 operatives were at work, had collapsed. The number killed outright or burned to death was lid, and 165 more were wounded.. „.: A party of South Americans were arrested in New York for living engaged in' preparing counterfeit bank notes with which to flood the Republic of Bolivia. The jiolice unearthed the plates from which the notes were printed, and about 200,0 ml in bogus Bank of Bolivia ?I0 notes The Hon.. John Welsh. who was Minister to England during the Hayes admiuislra- . tion. died at Philadelphia last week. _

THE WEST.

The April crop rej>ort of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture shows that the condition of winter wheat has not been more promising since 1882 than it is this season, and with continued favorable weather there will be nearly an average yield per acre in the State... .In the Mill Creek Valley, nyir Cincinnati, hundreds of acres of growing vegetables have been destroyed by the, overflow of the Ohio liiver. ... 'Robert J.'‘Phillips, acolored wife-mur-derer, was executed at Indianapolis. Ind., on the Bth inst. ' A TURTLE which had been captured in 1842, and again in 1872, in Moultrie County, HI., and both times duly marked, was again caught, a few days ago. nnd, after having "Grover Cleveland” cut in its back, was cast into Uie waters of the Okaw River . . Reports of. discourtesy, shown—thjEL. Chinese Ambassador to the United States upon his arrival at San Francisco are denied by the United States officials of that city ... A fire at Socorro, New Mexico, destroyed ten business places, causing a loss of $52,000. An old citizen, named G. E. Ward, was burned to death. • i The Governor of Ohio, in calling tin attention of the General Assembly to the fact that by the end of the year the Treasury will be Bhort about $1,000,000. demonstrates that the sources of revenue have been steadily diminishing, and urges the taxation of* the liquor traffic and the -assessment of bonds and stocks at their true value iu money... Ira James and other citizens of Mattoon. Illinois, have organized a company. with a capital of $4,1100,000, to build a railway from Bast. tit. Ix>uis to Terre Haute ... .A lire at Quincy, Illinois, burned the Gem City Mills, conducted by Taylor Brothers & Co., the total loss being nearlv $200,000. A LARGE number of strikers at East St. Louie marched to the Ohio and Mississippi, Yandalia; Chicago. Burlington and Quincy, and Cairo Short Line yards, .where they compelled nil the. employes to abandon their work. At the. Alton yards the mob came face to face with a force- of Deputy Marshals, aimed with rifles, but retired when the deputies brought their weapons to ptheirshoulders. Matters were quiet at St. Louis. and some freight trains were sent out on the Iron Mountain and Missouri Pacific Roads. Under the Clark liquor law all the saloons in Waterloo. lowa, permanently closed their doors. The saloon-keepers of McGregor 6ent their liquors into Wisconmb, and pulled down the blinds until the Clark law can be carried to the Supreme Court - ’

WASHINGTON.

Gen. Joseph E. JoHNSTOX,_f ornmissioner of Railroads, testified before the the idea of using official influence to further the interests of the company had never been thought of by his associates. He never heard until now that ffefiatbrs Garland and Harris had written- professional opinions tonching the validity of the patents. He saw now that the opinions of the associates as to the value of the Rogers- patent were highly extravagant. Witness remembered that a suit before Judge Baxter was not regarded as particularly advisable, because he was said to be hostile and antagonistic to Senator Harris. Experiments are being made at the Washington Navy Yard with an aerial. torpedo invented by Lieut. Payne, an exnaval officer. This torpedo is fired from a cannon, and is expected to lodge in the rigging or across the deck of the enemy’s vessel. Before they are discharged they are closed up.into a space of a few feet in length, but the act of firing draws them out like a telescope to a length of from ten to twenty feet. The toipedoes are. filled with gun-cotton or other terrible explosive. They will explode, it is said, as well under water as in the air. Before the House Telephone Investigating Committee, Stilson Hutchins, of the Washington Post, said he had, in a .spasm of generosity, offered to buy Vest’s Pan-Electric stock at what Be paid for it. The latter finally declined to.sell, as he considered the newspaper clamor unjust, and would not yield to it. Witness had been offered some of the stock to, publish Dr. Rogers' poetry, and thought both the poetry and stock bad and refused.

POLITICAL.

The annual State election in Rhode Island resulted in the success of the Republican ticket, which is mainly made np of the present officers. An amendment to the ~ V ~

Constitution providing (for prohibition waa j also successful. This latter feature of tlievotI ipg made the election extraordinarily exciting I. ...At the mnnic.i|ial election in Dallas, 1 Texas, on the heaviest vote evep polled, the Kliights of I.nlxu made a clean sweep, i every candidate siipjvorted by them being .’/elected by majorities ranging from 600 to {'l,ooo. The result was a great surprise. ; Dallas is the point at which the big publiCi meetings about a month ago started'iu j Texas to denounce the strike and- up- | hold and indorse the attitude of the rail* : road companies, which was done by tire Merchants' Exchange, and many other meetings in the State -followed the exi ample., At Fort Worth the candidates of ] the Knights of Labor were also elected to j a man. Henry f’. jvynnqip- Republican, | was elected Mayor of Kansas Uitv, while, i the Democrats obtained control of all the j-rcmainingofticesr- — —- - The majority report of the Committee on AVays and Means asserts that the average rate of duty lust year was $47 cm SIOO worth of imported goods, which is higher than during the war , . Congressman Pulitzer, of New York, has resigned his (tea* in,order to give his time to his private business. .

GENERAL.

The area weeded to winter wheat in the United States this year-, is 3 per cent, lefts than that seeded in the. fall of 1884, but 14 per cent, greater than that harvested last summer. The w eather of last month was generally favorable, the worst outlook so tar reported being ill Kansas. Rather large areas in that State have been abandoned to other crops. The jirospects in Ohio and Indiana are believed to be somewhat better than the average for several past years at this date. ■Five thieves entered the magazine at Colon, Culm, for- the purpose of stealing powder. During t heir operations oue lighted a match, causing an explosion, which killed seven persons outright, wounded thirtyeight others. and wrecked twelve houses. . The April report of the National De-. partment of Agriculture shows a reduction of live per cent, from last year in the area seeded in winter wheat. Illinois leading the decrease. California exhibits the best condition. The damage by the Hessian fly haft been very slight. Everythin*} was quiet at East St. Louis on the 12th inst. Seventeen companies of Illinois_State —troops, under command of Gen. Reece, covered all strategic points in the city. -The funeral of the victims of the recent tragedy occuiTed on Sunday, and was attended by 1.500 Knights of. Labor, Knights of Honor, and other organizations. At Parsons, ' Kan., : and Fort Worth, Texas, several strikers were arrested, and them - was —more-—er lees ex* citement. The troubles on the Union Pacific at Omaha were-adjusted, and the men Will hereafter be paid by the trip system. The freight brakemen on the Mo-, bile and Ohio Road struck for $55 for twen-ty-six trips of one hundred miles each. The members of the paid fire department of Philadelphia have decided to join the' Knights of Labor, in the hope of securing an increase of compensation. At Sedaiiir, Mo., a woman shot /at a Deputy Sheriff who was doing guard duty at the Missouri Pacific shops. Many telegrams from Knights of Labor have been received in Washington], asking for speedy action on the Curtin resolution for a Congressional investigation into the Southwestern strikes. T. V. Powderly has written to Congressman O'Neill that the labor arbitration, bill is the best that could have been passed, although it will not be the means of settling all disputes between capital and labor. A New Y'ork dispatch says the Ynmlerbilts, Astors. and Gould are closely guarded by private detectives against cranks. The Executive Board of the Knights of Labor at St. Louis sent the following telegram to Jay GouUl: “To Jay Qould, New York : “The following advertisement appeared in many of the leading, papers of the ?th inst.,'' dated from the office of the agent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company : “Ten good men from here are wonted as Depute Marshals at East st. Louis to protect Louisville and Nashville employes. Five dollars a day and board will be j aid. Also a number of platform men can be given employment. Only men who have plenty of grit and mean business need apply. Apply at once to T. S. Gen ung, agent. “How well this advertisement has been answered is seen by their work iu East St, Louis. Six men slid one woman were murdered by those whn ‘had plenty—of grit aml meant business.' Bv your actions in refusing the peaceful negotiations solicited by the Board of Arbitration you and you alone ’must be held responsible by the world for the lives of theseinnocent people. "

FOREIGN.

A third member of the party of wolfbitten Russians who visited Paris to be treated by M. Pasteur has died. Like the. other two, he showed symptoms of hydros phobia. ==— ■ Mr. Gladstone last week submitted to the British Cabinet his scheme for home rule in Ireland. Four piembers still threaten to resign. The Queen sent her Private Secretary to confer with Lord Hartington. the leader of the. Whigs in the House of-Com-mons.... The* coiumiipder of the German gunboat Cyclops, on the west coast of Africa, telegraphs to the German Government that he has bombarded the town of Meneybimbia. The natives were driven away by the bombardment, and the marines landed and completed the work of destroying the town. Nobody belonging to the gunboat was injured. Mr. Gladstone’s scheme of home rule for Ireland was explained, according to his promise, in a speech delivered in the House of Commons on the Bth inst. The solution of the Irish problem he declared to be the "establishment of a Parliament in Dublin, forthe conduct of business both legislative and administrative. ” Safeguards, for the minority and "the class-connected with the land” mre to be provided. The Dublin 1 Parliament will have no authority to establish or endow any particular religious sect, but will be empowered to deal with laws affecting trade and navigation, coinage, weights and measures and postal administration. It is to be "a dual body: composed of two orders, each of which shall have power to veto the acts of the other. The first order "will include 103 members; the second order 206.” Twentyeight of the present Irish peers will continue to sit in the House of Lords, and'will also’be granted the option to have life seats ’in the first Irish order. Tfie Vieeroyalty wilLhe a non-political office, not dependent upon the changes in tire Ministry .at London;. The Irish Constabulary will remain under the same authority as at present- "Customs and excise duties collected in Ireland will be held for the sole benefit of that country. The general jmwer of imposing taxes will be vested in the Irish Legislature, but it will have no power to interfere with the army, the navy, or the Crown prerogatives, or with foreign or colonial affairs. The bill is made for Ireland, and grants much that the' Home Rulers have asked without yielding much that Englishmen have clung to tenaciously.

TnKtrial of Burps. Jlyndmah, Champion, auil Williams, the Socialist leaders, on the the charge of having incited the Trafalgar Square and Hyde Park note, at London, re--suited in a, verdict of not guilty, ami the defendants were nil discharged.... Josef, Victor von ‘ficheffel, the ' poet, died i n t'nrlsnihe, fijermany. of dropsy. He waa mie <># the most illustrious graduates of Heidal’oerg. and was, the author of the hymn tel be sung at the ooming celebration of tlie 400th anniveißary.of the founding of that iU«iluUbH . Wbut is believed ,to be the original inaunscryit of the “Wacht am Rhein" has l»een discovered in Germany.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Jay Gouf,D states that ,H. M. Hoxie has full powers touching the trouble on the Southwest system, and that tie will enter into no further negoti itions for the settlement of ft strike; which, he says, is now a thing of the past. The Central Labor Union at New York adopted a preanble calling Jay Gould “an arch-enemy of the republic," and saying that “it is the intention and purpose of the great enemy of the American people to destroy all lalior organizations.” They adopted, also, resolutions denouncing Jav Gould and his minions for their refusal to treat with the representatives of the workingmen of the Missouri Pacific, and holding him and his representatives responsible for every act or violence. A committee was appointed for executing a general boycott upon Jar Gould. At the regular weekly meeting of the Methodist clergymen of Chicago, where the eight-hour law was dis- | cussed with much spirit, Bishop /Bowman said he should like to see Jay Gould kicked through the streets of 1 New York. At the inquest on the victims of the East i St. Louis emeute. evidence was given to the effect that no attack had; been made ph the deputies when they Wgau firing. Tne deputies who did the shooting-were released at St. Louis under writs of habeas ‘corpus, but were rearrested and held to await requisitions from the Governor of Illinois. JJjmibers of coal miners in St. Clair and Madison Counties, Illinois, have abandoned their work, and say they will not resume operations until the railway strike is settled. The nearest friends of Secretary Manning say that it is settled that he “will not attempt to resume his duties at the Treasury -Department if, as happily now seems probable, he shall partially recover his health. One of his near friends is of the opinion that wbeii he shull be so far restored that his physicians will permit him to travel he will take a sen voyage and that he will „ then be appointed Minister.,to Austria... The House Committee on Territories has agreed by a vote of oto 5 to report favorably a bill to provide for the organization of the TndiTm"fenteoiyanci'ttiiT'put'lie-“larin'-'strip' into the Territory of Oklahoma. The bill provides that Slothing iu it shall be so construed rts to disturb tlie existing property or treaty rights of the Indians: that the pub-lic-land strip shall be opened to settlement under the provisions of the homestead laws only, and that as soon .as the Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee tribes shall'give their assent the unoccupied lands ceded by these Indians to the United Stub's shall be opened to settlement'“untTeF tEtr, five years"” settlement laws. :' ; John C. Bell, of Pine Bluff, Ark., who failed to pass g medical examination at a New Orleans college, committed suicide by taking prussic acid, morphine, chloral, nud bromide in separate doses. The Indian .appropriation bill, including an item of $20,003 for schools in Alrska, passed the Senate oil the 12t1i ilist. Mr: Shsrinau offered afi arbitration bill in tlie sliapa of an amendment to the House bill pending in the Senate. Mr. Uhace rejKirted adversely from the Committee on Poatoffices a bill to increase the rate.®! ]>ostage on fourth-class matter to two 'cents an ounce. A resolution offt Ml by Air. Beck was agreed to appoint Mr. Gibson, of Louisiana, to tlio membership of the Senate Coinmitt -e on . Commerce in place of Mr. Jones of Florida, during the absence of tlie latter from tlie 8»«- . ate... The President sentthe following in urinations to the Senate: Howell K. Jackson of Tennessee, to be Circuit Judge' of the United States for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, vice John Baxter, deceased :* Frank H. Dyer, to' be Marshal, of the United States for the Territory of Utah. The liresidenfe -withdrew the nomination of Orlando \V. Powers of Michigan as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah. Republican Senators and Representatives at a joint caucus in the' evening adopted resolutions authorizing each State delegation to select a repres -ntativo on the Con--gressiooal - Campaigu Committee. In the Houseof Representatives Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, from the Committee on Rules, reported a resolution for the appointment jiy the Speaker of a select committee of seven members to investigate the causes and extent of the disturbed conditions now existing in the relations between railroad corporations und their employes. The committee shall have power to send for persons and papers, to sit during the sessions of the House, and to visit such plac is as may be necessary in order to facilitate the investigation. It shall report during the present session, wdth such recommendations as it .may deein proper tomake. The resolution was adopted without division The Morrison-Hewitt tariff hill was reportod to the House with majority and minority reports.

THE MARKETS.

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MORE BLOOD FLOWS.

Three ' Hundred Strikers Assemble in East St. Louis j and a Riot Ensues. I f ~ ' ■ ~ St ones Are* Thrown at Deputy Marshals, When They Shoot Into the Crowd. Six Persons Killed ami Four Wounded Before tlie Teriiiinated. I |St. Louis (Mo.) dispatch.j .—L " The first blood to be spilled as, a result of the railroad troubles in East St, Louis was shed there at 3 o’clock this afternoon, when a group of Sheriff Ropiequet’s deputies, sworn in and armed this morning to take the places of his regular men, who had been sent back to Belleville last night, filed into the crowd of strikers and spectators who had gathered near the Cahokia Creek bridge, and killed five persons, while two are mortally wounded jind others badly hurt. The kill* dare: Pat Driscol, employe of the water-works; Oscar 'Washington, a painter; John Bohman, a water-works laborer, not a Mriker; C. E. Thompson; unknown man, «hot at the bridge approach; Mrs. John Pfeiffer; Maj. Rychmann. The day opened with but little prospect of serious trouble, although some of the strikers intimated that the ronds would find it less easy to run trains than'they anticipated, and early in the morning the yards presented an animated scene. Switch engines were running backward and forwaid making up trains; the platform men were busy loading and unloading freight, and trains were arriving and departing without any interference. This condition of affairs continued until noon, and it was thought that the day would pass without any demonstration by the strikers. At that hour, however, the trouble which afterward grew to such alarming proportions begun. A number of strikers, without apparently .having formed any. preconcerted plan, congregated at the relay depot and began a discussion of the general situation. As time passed their number was augmented until the original knot of men increased to fully two hundred. . The discussion became animated and the crowd more demonstrative until some oue proposed that they go to the Louisville and" Nashville yards and drive out the men employed there. The cry of “On to the Nashville yards” was caught up, and the crowd advanced. As they proceeded their numbers again increased, some joining the mob simply as spectators, while others were in full sympathy with (he movement, until from three to four hundred were advancing toward the yards. v Arriving there they swarmed into the yards and persuaded the men at work to de-* s rt their posts. The crowd remained in the yards for some time, and, although considerable excitement prevailed, no violence was resorted to. Just at this time, however, a Louisville Nashville freight tnunTWHS"Slowly passing, guarded by eight Deputy Sheriffs, armed with "Winchester rifles. In the meantime crowds of men, women, and ehildren had congregated on Broadway, where the Louisville and Nashville tracks cross the street, and also upofi the Broadway bridge, which spans Cahokia Creek, and in the open, space to-the—east. Just as- the train readied the Broadway crossing"the trouble began. The"erowd on~tEe~bridge began to- yell and jeer at the officers, and it is asserted that stones were thrown, which struck two or three of them, while it is aivi said that a pistol was discharged. At once the deputies opened fire upon the crowd with their Winchesters, and a scene of the wildest terror aud excitement followed. Mrs. JohD Pfeiffer, a middleaged woman, who was returning home from a shopping expedition with her husband, stepped on the bridge just as the first shot was fired and almost immediately fell mortally wounded, a rifle ball passing clean through her body. She. died within an hour. In the crowd were quite a number of women and small boys who began to scream, and a stampede in ail directions followed. The deputies emptied their Winchesters-and continued to fire their revolvers. Pat Driscoll, a Wabash section hand, and John Bonner, a coal miner, neither of them a striker, were the next to fall, and died on the bridge. Maj. Rychmann, a rolling mill employe, in no way cohnected with the strike, Was shot in the head and shoulder, and has since died, and a young girl named Klemmann was wounded. The greatest excitement immediately prevailed, and pandemonium reigned. Tlie crowd tied in every direction, and the deputies, realizing how fearful was the result of their fire, sought means of escape by rush-' ing for the bridge, with a view of fleeing to this city. At the approach, and just at the bridge tower on the east side, they, were met by Mayor Joyce, City Clerk Canty, and a third man, who seized the deputies’ guns and endeavored to turn them back. . Oue of the deputies, in his terror, fired upon the trio, killing a man named C. E. Thompson, who Stood between Joyce and Canty. Some shots were fired by the remaining deputies at the approaching strikers, and all started for the bridge. The scene on the bridge was one of the wildest confusion. Coal teams and other teams with wagons were galloping westward. and their drivers shouting to all pedestrians aud teamsters to run back. Women aud men on foot were running toward the city, and waving back all they met, while immediately behind came the deputies, pursued by the vanguard of the crowd fr<jm East St. Louis. One of the frightened guards threw his gun into the river, while another hid his weapon in a wagon that was in full retreat. A few of the more violent strikers, after arming themselves, announced their intend' lion of attacking the deputies on guard at the Ohio <fc Mississippi yards, and advanced in that direction. When near the yards they were met by several deputies and-fired upon. One of their number is said to have been killed. The Sheriff made haste to wire Gov. .Oglesby the state of affairs, announcing that he was unable to preserve the .peace, and invoking tlie aid of the State troops. The Governor immediately returned answer that he had ordered eight companies of militia to the scene of the disturbance.

Other Labor Troubles.

At Argenta, Ark., a Deputy Sheriff, who had arrested one of the Knights, was shot and dangerously wounded. • Eight strikers were sentenced at El Paso.' Texas, by Judge Turner hi the United States Conrt, seven of the nun getting ninety days in jail and one thirty dnvs; About one hundred employes of the Brunswick billiard factory, .ip Chicago, made a successful Strike for au increase of.. wages and a change from piece to day work. Sixty employes of the .Centrhl Branch Railway shops at Atchison, Kansas, quit work in respons? to formal appeals from the Knights of Labor. ;

IRELAND FOR THE IRISH.

Mr. Gladstone, in an Earnest Speech, Lays Before Parliament His HomeRule Scheme. It Contemplates a Dual Parliament at Dublin, with General Power of Imposing Taxes. It Is Opposed by Mr. Trevelyan and Partially Indorsed by Mr. Parnell, The Parnelltte members of the British House of -Common* commenced to secure desirable seats soon after daybreak on the moraine of tne Bth inst., and held them for eleven hours, until Mr. Gladstone made his appearance. ‘ The thoroughfares tn the vicinity were se crowded as to cause a suspension of traffic. Tbe Premier was in excellent health; and was greeted by deafening applause, which lasted some minutes. As soon as the cheering ceased Mr. Gladstone rose and moved for permission to introduce a bill to amend previous legislation and to make provision for the future Government of Ireland. On making this motion Mr. Gladstone said: “The time has arrived when both honor and duty require Parliament to come to a decisive resolution. It should be the endeavor to liberate Parliament from the restraints under which, during late years, it has ineffectually struggled, and to restore legislation to its unimpaired course. It is our duty to establish harmonious relations between Great Britain and Ireland on a footing of free institutions, in which Englishmen, Scotchmen and Irishmen have a like interest." This sentiment was greeted with prolonged cheers. As scon as quiet was restored, Air. Gladstone entered upen a brief review of the general features of past legislation for Ireland. He dwelt upon . the coercive and repressive measures wnich had baen put in force from time to time, and deprecated any further resort to the rude remedies of intimidation. “Sine® the year 1833,* he said, ' only two years have passed without coercive legislation for Ireland ; and, iu spite of all this, the law continues to be disregarded, because it is invested, in the eyes of the Irish, with a foreign aspect- Were further coercjou to be successful, it would require two conditions —autocracy of: the Government, and the secrecy of public transactions. IParncllite cheers, i The mainspring of the law in England is felt to be English; in Scotland to be Scotch: hut jri Ireland" it is not felt to he Irish. The first condition of civilized life in Ireland demands that tire people have confidence iu the law and sympathy therewith. The problem, therefore, before Parliament at the present time is to reconcile imperial unity with the diversity of legislatures." He believed that the Government had found tho solution of this problem in the establishment of a Parliament at Dublin for the conductsof business, both legislative and administrative. (Loud cheers by the Paraellites. i “The political equality of the three countries." said Mr. Gladstone, “must be recognized, 'therefore, there must be an equitable distribution of the imperial funds. The peculiar circumstances evicting in Inland also make it necessary to establish safeguards for the minority in that country. The Government willba obliged to consider tli • closrcßS-' nicted with the land , end the relations, which' they will sustain with the Piotestant minority. As Ireland is to have.a domestic Legislature, it will, therefore, be impractical).e for Irish representatives to come here.” “The intention of tlie Government bill," Mr. Gladstone said, “is that the Parliament at Dublin shall be a dual body. It is to be composed of two orders, each of which shall have the power to veto tbe nets of the other. The first order will include 103 members ; the second order'2oC. Twenty-eight of the present Irish Peers will continue to sit ifi the House of Lords, ufid niey wiirbe gfftfitrtrtlie Option to have life seats in the first Irish order. The office of Viceroy of Ireland will not be discontinued. The bill intends that the Viceroy shall remain, and that the office shall hereufter be lion-political that is. the incumbent of tbe office will not be expected to retire with the downfall, of the British Ministry.” Mr. Gladstone continued: “If I read Irish history aright, misfortune and calamity have wedded her sons to tlieir soil with an embrace yet closer than is known elsewhere, and the Irishman is still more profoundly Irish; but it does not follow that because his local patriotism is strong he should be incapable ol an imperial patriotism. There are two modes of pres enting the subject which I have argued; oue of them is to present what we now recommend ns good, and the other is to present it as a choice of evils, and as the least among the varied evils with which as possibilities jre ace. confronted. Well, I have argued the matter as if it had been a choice of evils. * * * Ido not know- whether it may appear toojbold, but in my own heart I cherish the hope that this, is not merely a choice of the lesser evil, but that it may be proved to he ere long a good in itself. |Loud cheers. | “There is, I know, ail answer to this, and what is the answer? The answer is only found in the X’iew which rests upon a basis of despair, of absolute condemnation of Ireland and Irishmen as exceptions to those beneficial provisions which have made in general, Europeans in particular, Englishmen and Americans capable of selfgovernment; that an Irishman is a lusus nature ; that justice, common sense, moderation, natural prosperity, have no meaning for him; that all that be eau understand and all that he can appreciate is Btrife—perpetual dissension. Now, sir, I am not going to argue in this House whether this view, this monstrous view |lrish cheers 5 , is a correct one. I say an Irishman is as capable of loyalty as another man [renewed cheers]; but if "his loyalty has heen checked, why it is because the laws by whrch he is governed do not present themselves to him as they do to us in England or Scotland with a native and congenial element. ” In conelusiouj Mr. Gladstone said: “lasktha* we shall practice as we have very often preached, and that in our own case we should be firm and fearless m applying the doctrines we have often inculcated on others, that the concession of local self-government is not the way T to sap and impair, but to strengthen and consolidate unity. lask that we should learn to rely less on mere written stipulations, and more on those better stipulations written on the heart and mind of man. I ask that we should apply to Ireland the happy experience we have gained in England aud Scotland, where a course of gen--erations has now taught us, not as a dream or a theory, but as a matter of practice and of life, that tlie best and - surest foundation we can find to build on is the foundation afforded by the affections and convictions'andx will of man, and that it is thus by the decree of the Almighty, far more than by any other method, we may be enabled to secure at once the social happiness, the power, and the permanence of the empire.” Mr. Gladstone spoke three hours and twentyfive minutea explaining his measure. He resumed his seat amid bursts of enthusiastic cheers, which were sustained for several minutes. When the applause had subsided Mr. Trevelyan, who,.with Mr. Chamberlain,-.recently resigned from the Cabinet, addressed the House of Commons in opposition to Mr. (Gladstone’s bill. “For my part,” said he, “I have no hesitation in saying that I think complete separation of Ireland fro n Great Britain would he preferable to tho plan of government that had just been -proposed. We should then know the worst at once.” At the conclusion of Trevelyan s speech, Mr. Parnell arose, and was received with cheers by the Irish members. As to the hill before the House, while reserving his full expression of opinion until hs had sesn it, Mr. Parnell congratulated the House on the-fact that there was still living an English statesman who cpuld devote his attention to this important matter, and begged to thank Mr. Gladstone for v\ hut would not only prove a benefiefal measure, from the Irish point of view, but which he believed would be found to be of equal benefit to England. The bill, nevertheless, contained blots which the Irish renresentatives would do their bast to remove. On the whole, however, apart from thee'Pile fect3,he believed the measure would be cheerfully accepted by the Irish petopl? and their representatives as a satisfactory lo'.ution of the long-standing dispute between the two countries.

Provisions of the Bill.

Mr. Gladstone s measure empowers the Queen to delegate to the Viceroy Each of her prerogatives as she may choose. The Irish constabulary - will remain under the same authority as at present. ' . The bill will preserve the fiscal unity of the empire, but the entire proceels arising from the customs and eici6e duties in Ireland will be held for the benefit of that country. These funds are tu be used for the discharge of Irish obligations. Any balance which may remain after this is to remain in the Irish exchequer. The provisions of the bill vest in the Irish Legislature the general power of imposing taxes. It is proposed that the maximum duration of the Irish •Parliament shall be five years. It shall have no power to interfere with the prerogative of the crown, such as the army, the navy, or othey armed forces. It shall have nothing to do with foreign cr colonial affairs.

CONGRESS.

What Is. Being Done by the National Legislature. . ; - ( ■■ /- I Guneiial Lqoan'k army bill was again the subject of debate on the fjtb inst. General .Logan and Mun<b>rsou 7 jtpolte in favor of and Messrs. Hale ahd Teller in opposition to the measure. Mr. Blhir presented a.memorial from ' the Aformon women of Utah, complaining that , tlie Edmunds law has bpeu so construed ’US, to bring its penalties to hear on tne uincc >nt, and lias inflicted iqion the women unprecedented indignities and immeasurable sorrow. Ate. B d{r reported favorably, without amendment, from the Coin-'" mlttee of Education and Labor the arbitration bill recently passed by tho House of Representativea. The postoffice appropriation bill passed the Honso after amendments to increase tho appropriations for postal clerks and thq transportation of foreign mails had been rejectee!. During the debate of the measure Mr. Phelps attacked Postmaster General Vilas, calling him the Pooh - Bah of the administration, who usurpod the functions of tbe President and of Congress to defeat the laws. ' Messrs. Holman and Randall defended Mr. Vilas. Mr. Lawler, of Illinois, from the Committee on Labor, reported hack to the House a resolution for a Congressional investigation of the causes underlying the differences existing between employers and employes on railroads, and It was referred to tho committee of the whole.l Gen. Logan’s bill for an increase of the army was defeated in the Senate on tho 7th inst. by a vote of 31 to 19. A bill appropriating ?'200,00j for a public building at San Antonio, Ter , was passed. Mr. Blair introduced a bill to provide that eight hour* shall constitute a day’s work for all lofter-carrters, and that their salaries shall not be reduced by reason of the decrease in the hours of labor. 'Tho President sent to the Senate the following nominations: John A>. McClernand, of Illinois, member of the Board of Keqistiat on aiul Klection in tho Territory of Utah; ObKdiah W. Cutter, Collector of Cußtoms for the District of Niagara, N. Y.; Edwin Wuifluid, Surveyor of Customs at Baltimore ;Tlii mils G. Hayes, Unit'd States Attorney, District of Maryland ; Gcorgo H. Caimes, United States Marshal, District of Alarylaiul; Cyrus P. Shepard, Register of the Land Offico at Worthington, Minn.; Edmund Janies, receiver' of public moneys at Carson City, NeV. ; Samuel I. I.oraii, receiver of public moneys at Central City, Col. ; C. S. Lake, pension agent at Des Moines • Charles W. Johnston, register of the land office at Roselmrg, Oregon; William T. Barney, regist?r of the land office at Oregon City, Oregon ; Charles It. Hauser, of Ohio, agent at Yakima Indian Agency, Washington Territory; James I. David, of Michigan, agent at Osage Agency. Indian Territory. The House did nothing worth 10-iording, the business transacted being purely routine, ami relating to matters of no interest. The Washington Territory bill was placed before the Senate on the Bth inst,, and Mr. Yoorhees spoke in advoeauv of his amendment, which consists of an enabling act for the admission of Aiontana Territory, but the amendment was voted down by a party vote—yeas 19, nays 23—the Democrats voting in the athrmative, the Republicans in the negative. The Senate passed a hill granting to the Kansas aud Arkansas Railway Com jinny right of way through Indian Territory, and tho Ifmse measure to erect a building in Washington for the Congressional Library at a cost of nearly $3,000.0)0. By a vote of yens 84 1 1 nays 201 the House Of Representatives defeat«l tlie amendment offered by Mr. Dibble of, South Carolina, suspending.... the further coinage of silverumler tlie Bland act ___ after July 1,1889. The House also defeats 1 the free coinage bill by a vote of yeas 120 to nays 103. The Judiciary Committee authorized Mr. Culbertson torejiort I is bill ielat'ngto captured and abandoned property,(involving over $10,000,000, with the recommendation that it be passed. The bill to admit Washington Territory was before the Senate on the -9th inst., the pending question being on the proposed amendment o* Senator Eustis limiting the right ot suffrage in the proposed new State to qualified male electors only. After a aome.wUat .protracted debate the amendment was rejected—yt.au 12, nays '2>. The yeas were: Messrs. Beck, 'Berry, Coke, Eustis, Gorman, Gray, Ingalls, Jackson, Alaxey, l’ugh, Satllshury, and Walthall. Aiming the Senators voting against, Air. Eustis’ amendment was Air. Edmunds. Mr. Ingalls intro luced a bill for the appointment Of a beard of arbitration to settle differences between railroad companies and their employes. George Hearst was sworn in as Senator from California. The following nominations were sent tcrttarSenatu'BjrtEe President: Law-. ~rence-Harrigfl.ii to be appraiser of merchandise for the port of St. Louis," AIo.; William H. Watty, of Michigan, to be a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners. In the House of Representatives Mr. Forney; of Alabama, asked unanimous consent for the jiresent c< nsideration of tho joint resolution making an apiiropriation for the relief of suf-f-rers from the floods in Alubnma. Mr. Beach, of New York; objected. The House then went into connuittea of the whQlo on the private calendar. Several hills were agreed to, when the committee ran-against a snag in the shape of a lull directing the Quartermaster General to settle with the McMinnvills and Alanchester Railroad Company of Tennessee. The amount Involved in the hill is $240,000, nud a long discussion ensued upon the measure, but no action w as taken. Tin? hill authorizing the formation of a new State to be conijjosed of parts Washington and Idaho Territories, to ho known as the State of Washington, passed the Senate on tho 10th inst. by a vote of 30 to 13. Senators Butler, S. C.; George, Miss.; Jones, Ark.; and Morgan, Ala., voted with thli Republicans in the affirmative. Senator ; Hearst, Cal., cast his first vote with his jiarty in the negative. The President sent fifty apjiointinents to the Senate. They include the successors of “suspended" officials.whose terms have expired since their names wcre originally presented. They are now sent in to fill “vacancies." The House passed a hill authorizing the establishment of sixteen new life-savng stations. Bills were passed authorizing the C(nstructiou of bridges as follows; Across the Afississipjoi River near Alton, Ill,; across the west channel of the Detroit River, to connect Belle Isle Park with the main land; across! he Tennessee, Ftiver.'hy the Nashville, Jackson and Memphis Railroad ConTpnay; across the Mississippi near Keithsburg, Ill.; across the Illinois and Dos Moines, by the New York uwP Council Bluffs Railroal Company; over Bayou Barnard, Mississippi; acrosß Red River near Brown's Ferry, Te*as ; across the St. Croix at some accessible point between Prescott, Wht., and-Tayler's Falls, Minn. ; across the Mississippi at Winona, A 1 inn. ; across the Missouri at St. Joseph, AIo.; across the Missouri at Council Bluffs; across the- Missouri at Saline City, Mo.; across the Kansas by the Interstate Rajiid Transit Company; across the Missouri in Clay or Jackson Counties, Missouri; across the Missouri above St. Charles, Mo. ; across the Yellowstone in Afontana; across the Mississippi at lteifWing, Aliim.; across the Missouri near Atchison, Kan.; across the Tombigee, Warrior, Tennessee, and other navigable rivers iu Alabama, by the Gulf and Chicago Air-Line Railroad Company; across Young's Bay. Oregon; across tiie Missouri near Chamberlain. Dakota; across the Missouri at Pierre, Dakota.

Would Wait.

Editor of country paper (to publisher) —“I wish the mail would hurry up and cQjne. If I don’t get some exchanges pretty soon I’ll have to hold back the paper, or fill-up with original matter.” s' - Publisher (who well knows the editor’s original matter) —“Hold back the paper.” “How long?” “How long is the mail likelyto_ be delayed?” “Two days, perhaps.” “Welh-wait for it,” . < “I can fill up with original matter.” “Yes, and that’s the reason I want you to wait. ”—A rkantsaw Tra velei . „ Sunday-school Scholar (to teacher) —“Did you say that the hairs of my head were all numbered?? Teacher—- “ Yes, my dear.” Sunday-school Scholar— 3 Well, then,”—pulling out a hair and presenting it—“what's the number of this one£L->— @ Every man, however wise, requires the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. The most brilliant qualities l>ecome useless when they are not sustained by force of character. -v,. , : V ■