Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1886 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. O. E MARSHALL ~ - Pubmukkr.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Th® Massachusetts Legislature has passed a bill appropriating $20,000 for entertaining President Cleveland, should he visit that State during the summer..... Frank H. Brown, a prominent grain merchant of Boston, has been held in $30,000 bail for forging bills of lading. A. P. Thomton, once a respectable attorney in New York, was arrested for swindling various firms by means of bogus checks... .The graduating classes of Yale and Harvard Universities numbered respectively 336 and 223. WHEN the convicted boycotters of Theiss, the proprietor of a concert garden, were arraigned in court at New York for sentence, says a dispatch from that city, Judge Barrett made some strong remarks to them on the lawlessness of the crime of which they were convicted. He said that this was a violation of peace in a country that welcomed foreignborn citizens. They had violated public, rights and opinions, and their offense was not short of blackmail. The distribution of circulars before places of business was conspiracy, and punishable as such. Their conduct, if unpunished, would lead to savagery. They may have been misled by bad advice, bnt their counsel should have rebuked them. They did not use the money for their own advantage, and this palliated their offense. He would not impose the full penalty of the law, as they were workingmen. The Judge then sentenced Paul VViltzig and Henry Holdorf to two years and ten months at hard labor; Michael Stroh and Julius Rosenberg to one year and six months imprisonment. Daniel Danenhauser, the most violent of any of the boycotters, got three years and eight months in State Prison.. . Ten men were killed and as many more injured by the explosion of giant-powder works near Drakesville, N. J.

THE WEST.

It is announced that the warehousemen of Toledo have decided upon making an important reduction in the rates for the stor- , age of grain. The new tariff will be one- ‘ half cent per bushel for the first ten days or part thereof, and a quarter of a cent per bushel for each succeeding ten days that the grain mar remain in store.... J. H. Dixon has arrived in St. Louis from India to collect evidence of the death of his former employe, C. Arthur Preller, in order to secure some $5,000 life insurance in England... .The funeral of the late Judge David Davis took place at Bloomington. DI., on the 20th ult. The attendance was very large, and numbered many distinguished people. John H. Cast, Sheriff of Buchanan County, Mo., has been sued for $120,000 by fifteen leading business of St. Joseph, for levying upon’ the stock of I. Wei <t Co. in the interest of foreign creditors. C. P. Hvntinoton has recommenced work on the International Railway, which crosses the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass, and intends within a year to connect with the Mexican Central at Villa Lerdo.

THE SOUTH.

In the famous Kate Townsend will case, Judge Houston, of New Orleans, has rendered a decision decreeing the will of Kate Townsend in favor of Troisville Sykes null and void, because Svkes was guilty of ingratitude, he having killed Kate Townsend, and thereby forfeited all benefits under the will, and giving judgment in favor of the State of Louisiana, decreeing the State to be the heir-at-law of the deceased... .Unknown thieves entered the grocery store of Paul Justice, situated two miles from Memphis, Tenn., beat out the brains of Justice and his wife, robbed the store, and escaped. An> is asked by the Governor of Louisiana for sufferers from the ravages of storms in the parishes of Rapides, Grant, and Catahoula. Until the collection of taxes in Louisi-. ana next fall, the State Treasurer has arranged withjaine banks in New Orleans to advance all the funds needed to pay interest on the consolidated four per cent, bonds. The $3,000,000 estate of the late Thos. H. Blythe, of San Francisco, is. claimed by Mrs. L. C, Hitchcock, of Waco, Texas, a daughter by the first wife... .Moonshiners in Elliott County, Kentucky, to spite a citizen who opposed unlicensed whisky, burned his house, the church which he attended, and the dwellings of some of his neighbors. A party went gunning for the incendiaries, killed two of them, and buried them where they fell.

POLITICAL

The Democrats of the Second New Hampshire District have nominated John H. George, of Concord, for Congress. The Prohibitionists of the Fourteenth New Y'ork District have named Jesse H. Griffin, of Yorktown, for Congress. The Nebraska State Republican Convention has been called for Sept 29. at Lincoln. The New Hampshire Democrats, at their State Convention in Concord, indorsed the administration of President Cleveland, and nominated Thomas Cogswell for Governor. ..,.Jackson (Miss.) special: “Reports received from the local-option elections in Simpson and Copiah Counties. Mississippi, snow that both counties have declared for prohibition by good majorities.” In the State Convention of the lowa Democrats, held at Des Moines, resolutions were adopted favoring local option, and for the enforcement of prohibition where it was so ordered. Should the sentiment of a community be the other way, a license system was favored, the minimum amount of the fee to be SSOO. The nominations were: Cato Sells for Secretary of State; Paul Guelick for Auditor; Treasurer, Daniel Campbell; Supreme Court Clerk, William Theophilus; Attorney General, C. H. Mackey; Supreme Court Reporter, Frank Bradley. The Hon. Knnte Nelson has been renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Fifth Minnesota District... .The Rev. H. L. McKinney has been named for Congress by the Democrats of the First New Hampshire District.... .John W. Stewart was renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the First Vermont District.

WASHINGTON

The payments for pensions last year were several million dollars greater than for the preceding year, says a Washington telegram. This is due mainly to the increased amount of work done in the Pension Office. During the fiscal year' just closed the Pension Office issued 81,432 pension certificates,

a larger number by 6,731 than were ever issued in any previous year. In th* month of June the uuml>er of tension certificates issued was 10,375. According to a decision of the First Comptroller of the Treasury all laborers, workmen and mechanics employed in any of the executive defrartments are entitled to extra, pay for all the time they are employed over eight hours a day unless there is.a contract with the head or the department to the contrary. The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement tewned on the Ist inst.: iwraaicsT-asaanso pkbt. Bondi at tu parc«nt...-.TV-f25n.000.(XX) Bonds at 4 per eent......?... r <37.75',t0U Bondi at 3 per cent.!♦<. <*6,<O4 Refunding certificates at 4 pMF cent. 20 ,“U > Navy pension fund at 3 per cent...... 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,512 Principal.. 7777L^....,..n..... i1.2.u,G1.,'. 2 Intyrest H.’s 0,514 T0ta161.2 3. V .’2'l DMT ON WHICH INTKHIHT HAS CEASED SINCE MATVHITT. Principal • ••'Ol.l 5 Interest 811,0 0 T0ta1.....,65 DEBT BKAIUNO NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. >346,738. ’6l Certificates of deposit. 18,25 ,000 Gold certificates. 7. ,o'4, 75 Silver certificates BW,'L8 W ,'L ,225 Fractional currency . 6.954.0)7 Principal... 63', 10', 148 --ver al i»hht> —— —— Principal, -f1,756. i '5.2 >5 Interest 1 *,081,5CT T0ta151.769,5.’9,74 J Less cash items available .or reduction of the debt. 895,292,247 Less reserve held for redemption of U.S. notes.loo,ooo,ooo Totall $3)5,2.2,247 Total debt less available cash : items*l,4i'>4,3.'7,4 3 Netcaab in the Treasury 7 ~191,16) Debt less cash in Treasury July 1, 1886 .»!.:«), 135,381 Debt less eash in Treasury Jinw 1,1886 1,*»',19'.2«1 Decrease of debt during April.si.'6>,H«7 CASH IN THE TBEASUBY AVAILABLE FOB REDUCTION OF THE DEBT. Gold held for void certificates actual outstanding >70.044,375 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 88.116,225 U. 8. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 18,256,060 Cash neld for matured debt and interest unpaid 18,999,817 Fr..etHHa. v. rreney, United states bond’s, etui in’erest 3,789,163 Fractional currency 2,667 Total available for reduction of the debt. 1235.202,247 - RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acta Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882... .... ...? H0G,600,000 Unavailable for reduction of the de lit- ■ Fractional silver c0in..,... 128.904,681 Minor coin 377,814 Total 829,2 2,495 Certificates held as cash 8 ,241.320 het cash balance on hand 75,191,109 Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer's general account.. >492,917,171 Net increase in cash,,.. 2.510.871

GENERAL.

C. H. Bich, oiie of, the railway postal clerks recently discharged for connection with the secret league, was reinstated after establishing his innocence of the charge. The Missouri Congressional delegation has invited the Chief Magistrate to attend the State Fair at St. Louis in October. The President has expressed a de- ' site to inspect the Michigan State Fair in September... .President Bates pronounces the story that the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company is to be consolidated with the Western Union “an infernal lie.” The total number of failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet’s for six months of 1886 is 5,461, against 6,106 in 1885,5,444 in 1884, and 5,296 in 1883. The total liabilities are $53,241,000, against $68,570,000 in six months of 1885, $124,104;000 in 1884, and 000 in 1883. The assets aggregated $25,509,000, against $32,955,000 in six months of 1885, $70,730,000 in 1884, and $39,887,1X10 in 1883,. The percentage of assets to liabilities this year and last is 48, against 56 in six months of 1884 and 54 in 1883... .Bradstreet’s reports business throughout the country quiet, with a ven* hopeful feeling among merchants as to the fall outlook. The tone of the Ary goods market is encouraging, all advances in cotton goods haring been well maintained and stocks being light. The pig-iron market is unchanged as to price. Mill irons are dull. Steel rails are strong at the low prices quoted, and the mills lire full of orders. The low price of English rails exercises a depressing influ--ence Wheat. prospe£ts,._aside f rom Vis - consin and Minnesota, are for a fair harvest. Estimates vary from 435,(XHIJXH) to 465,(XX),(XX1. bushels. The foreign wheat prospects are less favorable, particularly in India. Bradstreet's reports of stocks of wheat east of the Rocky Mountains July 1 aggregate 35,000,1X10 bushels* against 63.000,000 three months ago, and on the Pacific coast 6*,(KM),000 bushels, against 10,000,000 April 1. Petroleum tends lower, but is very variable under conflicting new-well news. Lard has been materially advanced by speculators. The Canadian cruiser Terror has seized the fishing-schooner sCity Point, of Portland, which put into Shelburne to obtain water and effect some repairs. The niackerel-steamer Novelty, of Portland, ■was warned by the customs collector at Picton not to purchase supplies in that port, and she put to shore short of coal.

FOREIGN

Thirty tritsaxd people went the other night to witness the performances in the immense bull circus at NijppSt in the de, partment of Gard, says a Paris dispatch. The entertainment had been extensively advertised to be given under electric lights. The lights went out soon after the performance began, and. owing to the defective apparatus, could not be relighted. The people became enraged and began rioting. They tore down the fittings of the circus and made a bonfire in the arena of them. Troops had to be called to restore order, which they only succeeded in doing after a desperate conflict with the people, many of whom were wounded and arrested. Liverpool has elected three Conservatives to the new Parliament, neither seat being contested. The students at Oxford hissed the name of Gladstone at the commencement exercises, and cheered that of Lord Salisbuiy. The Bishop of Ripon urges clergymen to take partin the political conflict, Gen. Savssier has resigned the Military Governorship of Paris because of a reprimand by the Minister of War sot def fending his staff in a newspaper card. FOVR deaths from cholera have taken place at Flume, Hungary, and two at DunaFoldvar. . . .The peasants of Servia refuse to pay the taxes levied since the war in Bulgaria, and treat the collectors with violence. ~ .It is said that all French Colonels absent on special service have been ordered to rejoin their regiments forthwith. It is also reported that General de Salles, the military attache of the French Embassy at Vienna, and who was appointed to thin post for the express purpose of studving

Austrian cavalry tactics, has been recalled to resfime Command of the troops in the Vosges on the German frontier ~ A London dispatch of the sth inst. bays: “Gladstone has been elected to Parliament from the Midlothian and Leith districts. His name was sprung at the last moment’in Leith in order to defeat W. Jacks, a Libend, but opposed to horn-rule. ai>»l whom the Tories h(ul d<.t< !!)i.ined not to oppose. Parnell is escorted everywhere in his campaign by a body-guard of friends—aH stalwart young Irishmen- He receives letters daily threatening assassination. So far 44 home-rulers and 116 anti-home-rulers have been returned to Parliament.”

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

From various towns in Dakota come reports of u temperature of from 105 to 115 degrees. Crops in the Northwest are reported seriously damaged by drouthA jury at Milwaukee, after thirty-one hours’ , deliberation, convicted the anarchists, Frank Hirth, Carl Simon, and Anton Palm of conspiring to burn the court house and destroy the records. The maximum penalty is one year’s imprisonment or SSOO fine. Hirth is a cigarmaker, Simon a barber, and Palm a hardware finisher. The two latter cannot speak EngritKh; —Ait of the nrh aw large families.. ~ A “Little Rock dispatch details a huge, scheme for the leasing to cattlemen at a/ nominal figure of nearly all the valuable grazing land belonging to the Osage, Ronca, Pawnee, and Otoe tribes in Indian Territory,.. . Charges are made nt St. Louis that members ’of the Municipal House of Delegates accepted bribes for the passage of certain ordinances. It is stated that one member received SI,OOO in cash and SS,(MMJ in stock to vote against the Electric Railway bill. .. Harry Primrose, the leader of the Salvation Army at New Philadelphia, Ohio, whose arrest for bigamy has been chronicled, was about to marry a girl of 18 years, who would have been his third living and undivorced wife, His matrimonial operations ended the labors of the army in that section. ""Secretary Mannino and family, in passing through Washington for New York, last week, received in their car the congratulations of President Cleveland and several members of the Cabinet. The Secretary has apparently recovered entirely from his recent stroke,. . .The headquarters of the national legislative’Committee of the Knights of Labor in * Washington are being flooded with petitions from local assemblies, to be presented to Congress, urging action upon the measures named in the recent list submittted by the national committee. These petitions are alike in form, having been printed and distributed to the local assemblies for their signatures, but many of them are accompanied by letters of the most vigorous sort. Ralph Beaumont, chairman of the legislative committee, declares it to be the purpose of the Knights to test the sense of Congress on the measures named, and to find out whether the politicians mean to pass measures for relief Of the people, and whether the right of petition is to be respected.

The Committee on Pensions presented a report to tlie Senate on the 3d inst., recommending the passage over the President’s veto of the bilFgranting a pension to Mary A. Nottage. The rejiort condemns the President for his vetoes of private pension bills, asserting that he acts upon lack of information ; that some of his messages are expiessed in unjust and unexampled style; aud that derision of the committee’s labors "can originate only in a wise and noble nature which is misled, or in one that, if informed, sadly needs reconstruction or recreation.’’ The President sent to the Senate his veto of the bill for the relief of Martin L. Bundy. In the veto message the ■ President says: The claimant, who was a Quartermaster, after the settlement of his accounts was found to be indebted to the Government. Thereupon he put in a claim for forage more than sufficient to offset hie indebtedness. There is no suggestion that he had or used any horses, and if he did and failed to make a claim for forage at the time he settled his accounts, then he presents a case of inccedible ignorance of his rights or a wonderful lock of that disposition to gain every possible advantage which is usually found among those who deal with the Government." The claim is not allowed on the ground that it would set a precedent which could hardly be ignored, and which, if followed, would furnish another means of attack upon the Treasury quite as effective as many which are now in operation. Tne SenaXe, in considering the river aud harbor appropriatiDn bill, approved of an item, of $1,000,000 toward a thirty-foot channel at the Sandy Hook entrance to New York. The House of Representatives passed a bill appropriating $76,030 to pay damages on account of the overflow of the Fox-and Wisconsin Rivers. When the general deficiency bill was under consideration' by tho House of Representatives on the sth hist., Mr. Springer stated that tlie decrease in Federal expenditures during the fiscal year just closed was $22,500.000, according to statements by Treasury officials. An amendment to, the general deficiency bill, offered by Mr.. Cannon (III.), appropriating $22,000 to refund taxes illegally collected from railroad companies on account of alien bond and stockholders, was adopted. A resolution was introduced in the House by Mr. Springer calling on the President for copies of all corresixmd- ■ euce between the Government and the Republic of Nicaragua, since 1876, in relation to the construction of an interyjceanic canal by way of Lake Nicaragua. The 'Senate was not in session.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YOKE. Beeves. $*.25 @ 6.00 H0g5...........;...... 400 @5.50 Wheat—No. 1 White..... .88 @ .88)4 No. 2 Red .8* @ .84)2 Corn—No. 2 *5 @ .47 Oats—White .38 @ .*5 Pork—New Mess. 11.25 @11.75 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.25 @5.75 Good Shipping .... 4.75 @ 5.25 Common 3.50 @ 4.25 Hogs—Shipping Grade5......v..“ *.25 @5.00 Flour—Extra Spring;.,. 4.25 @4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 74 @ .74'4 Corn—No. 2 34U@ .35)4 Oats—No. 2 27 *@ .28 Butter—Choice Creamery...... .14 @ .15 Fine Dairy .10 @ .11 Cheese—Full Cream, Cheddar.. .06%@ .07)4 Full Cream, new...... .08 @ .OS's Eggs—Fresh 11 @ .12 Potatoes—New, per brl 1.50 @ 2.00 Pork—Mess 9.25 @10.25 __ MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Ca5h............ .7* @ .75. Corn—No. 2...... .34 @ .35 Oats—No. 2 ;.... .27 @ .28 Rte—No. 1. ........... .60 @ .62 Pork—Mess . 9.75 @10.25 ■ ” TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 .80 @ .82 Corn—No. 2 .36 @ .37 Oats—No. 2..... 28 @ .30 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 75 @ .75)4 Corn—Mixed.... ...... .30 @ .31 Oats—Mixed.. 27 @ .28 Pork—New Mess 10.25 @10.75 __ CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red .79 @ .80 Corn—No. 2 36 @ .36 >4 Oats—No. 2 29 @ .30 Pork—Mess 9.75 @10.25 Live Hogs 4.50 @ 5.00 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.00 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.75 @4.75 Sheep 3.25 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 1 White .81 @ .82 Corn—No. 2. 37 @ .38 Oats—No. 2 .31 @ .35 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Catt1e....... 3.50 @5.50 Hogs ... 4.25 @ 475 Sheep ........,2.25 • @ *.25 Corn—No. 2 , 33 @ .3* Oats-No. 2... J .27 @ .27)4 east liberty. ■ ■ Cattle—Best 5.00 @ Fair 450 @ £OO Common 3.25 @ 425 Hogs.... *.75 @5.25 Sheep 4.00 @5.00 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 2Red........... 83 @ .64)4 Corn-No. 2....^.. .*0 @ .*2 Cattle 450 @550

CUSTER’S LAST FIGHT,

Chief Gall, Who Commanded the Ros* tiles, Describes thj Terrific Slaughter. Soldiers Killed While Fighting in Line Against a Vastly Superior Force.

The tenth anniversary of Custer’s last fight, which will be a gloomy page in Amert tcan history, was appropriately celebrated by a few of the survivors of that dreadful Juhe day. A special correspondent telegraphs as follows from the scene of that dark and dreadful tragedy: | Early in the day the great Sioux Chief i Gall went over the entire field and described in an intelligent and straightforward manner the exact place in which Custer’s command was destroyed.;? Curley, the ‘Crow scont, who was in reality the only survivor of all who marched into the valley of the Little Big Horn with Custer, was also present, but Gall turned his back on Curley, and said: “He ran away too soon in the fight.” Gall is a powerfull, fine-looking specimen of the red race, 4G years old, and weighs over two hundred pounds. He I first appeared reticent, and was inclined to i ai-t sullen, but when he stood on the spot , ■ which formed the last sight of Custer on : earth his dark eyes lightened with fire, he became earnestly communicative, and he | told all he knew without restraint. His i -dignified countenance spoke truthfulness, and t|iere is little doubt that the true history of that dreadful day is at last made kn«wn. Gall’s narrative was - as follow: “We saw the soldiers early in the morning crossing the divide. When Reno and Custer separated we watched them until they came down into the valley. A cry was raised that the white men soldiers were coining, and orders weie given for the village to move immediately. Reno swept down so rapidly on the upper end that the Indians were forced to tight. Sitting Bull and I were at the point where Reno attacked. Sitting Bull was big medicine. The women and children were hastily moved down stream where the Cheyennes were camped. The Sioux attacked Reno, and the Cheyennes Custer, and then all became mixed up. The women and children caught the horses for the bucks to mount them; the bucks mounted and charged back Reno, and checked him, and drove him into the timber. The soldiers tied tbe’ir horses to trees, and came out and fought on foot. As soon as Reno was beaten and driven back across the river, the whole force turned upon Custer and fought him until they destroyed him. Custer did not reach the river, but was met about half a mile up a ravine, now called Reno Creek. They fought the soldiers and beat them back step step until all were killed.” [ One of Reno’s officers confinns this by saying: “After we were driven back to the hill where the stand was made, there was an interval of over an hour that we had no fighting. This gave ns an opportunity to shelter our, horses in a ravine and partially intrench ourselves.” It Was probably during this interval' of quiet on Reno’s part that the Indians massed on Custer and annihilated him.] “The Indians ran out of ammunition and their arrows they fired from behind their horses. The soldiers ■ got shells stuck in their guns and had to | throw them away. They then fought with ■ little guns—[pistols]. The Indians were in couples behind and in front of Custer as he ! moved up the ridge to take position, and were just as many as the grass. The first | two companies, Keogh and Calhoun, dis- I mounted, and fought on foot. They never I broke, but retired step by step until forced back to the ridge upon which all finally perished. They were shot down id line where they stood. Keogh’s company rallied by company and were all killed in a bunch.” [This statement seems borne out by the facts, as thirtyeight bodies of Keogh’s troopers were ; i found piled in a heap.] “The warriors di- J . rected a special fire against the trooper who held the horses, while the others fought. As soon as a holder was killed, by moving Blankets and great shouting the horses were the soldiers to escape. Afterward the ■ soldiers fought desperately and hard, and | never surrendered. They fought strong— ; they fought in line along the ridge. As fast : as the men fell the horses were herded and : driven toward the squaws and old men, who : gathered them up. When Reno attempted : to find Custer by throwing out a skirmish i line, Custer and all with him were dead. 1 When the skirmishers reached a high point ; overlooking Caster’s field, the Indians were galloping around and over the wounded, dying, and dead, popping bullets and arrows into them. When Reno made his attack at the upper end he kitted my two squaws and three children, which made my heart bad. I then fought with the hatchet” —which means, of course, mutilating. “The soldiers-ran out of ammunition early in the day. Their supply of cartridges was in the saddle-pockets of their stampeded horses. The Indians then ranup to the soldiers and butchered them with hatchets. , A lot of horses ran away and jumped into the river, but were caught by the squaws. Eleven Indians were killed in Reno Creek, and several Indians fell over and died. Only forty-three Indians were killed altogether, but a great many wounded ones came across the river and died in the rashes. Some soldiers got away and ran down a ravine, crossed the river, came back again, and were killed. We had Ogallalas, Minneconjous, Brales, Tetons, Uncpapas, Sioux, Cheyennes, Aranahoes, and Gros Ventres. When the big dust came in the air down the river [meaningTerry and Gibbon],' we struck our lodges and went up a creek toward the White Rain Mountains. Big Horn ranges covered with snow. > We waited there four days and then went over to Woj Mountains.” This ended Gall’s narrative. It brings out many new facts and corrects some others. It has been popularly supposed that Custer entered the river, but such was not the case, as the bodies found on the Little Hom were those of a few stampeded soldiers. There were no ceremonies or exercises gone through with, simply an attempt, which was successful, to correct history. Philadelphia grave-diggers, it is reported, have organized a branch of the Knights of Labor. The belled-buzzard has ogain made its appearance in the South. This time at Gainesville, Ga. A strawberry weighing two ounces was recently picked near Bristol, Tenn. A Brooklyn lad was recently arrested for stealing a pail of water worth 1 cefit Philadelphia is suppressing the cigar~, girl in art. . j'-- - ; ..

CONGESSIONAL

Th* Work at the Senate and Ffo—a at Representative*. , ... 1- • . ‘ 1 The Senate passed the De« Moines land bill over the President's veto, on the 29th nit, by a vote of 84 to 15. The Senate agreed to conference reports on the army appropriation bill and the bill to amend the Pacific Railroad acta. Mr. Camden (W. Va.) denied a newspaper state mentthat he had telegraphed from Washington that only six votes were necessary to carry the Senate for Payne, and the Standard Oil Company would pay $50,000 each for them. The Bentaor. said that at the time named he was not in Washington, anil that the story was without foundation and absurd. A resolution was adopted appointing Gen. William J. Sewell, Gen. M. T. McMahon, and Capt. John L. Mitchell as managers of the National Homes for Disabled Soldiers. The Senate took up the legislative, executive, and judicial bill, and some amendments reported by the Committee on Appropriations increasing the clerical force of the State Department gave rise to a sharp debate ia which Senators Edmunds of Vermont, Ingalls, of Kansas, and Hale of Maine criticised the administration. Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, brought the discussion to a close with the remark that the administration needed ho defender in the Senate. The people of the United States would live to bow their knees in everlasting thankfulness to Almighty God that Grover Cleveland had become President of the United States. He was-an honest man, a brave man, a true man. He was doing all that any mortal being could do to give the people of tlie United States an honest, fearless, economical, and constitutional administration. The discussion having closed, the amendments on which it was based were agreed to. The House, in committee of the whole, rejected the motion of Mr. Laird (Neb.) to strike out the clause In the sundry civil bill appropriating $30,000 for protecting the public lands from fraudulent entry. The general deficiency bill was reported to the House. * It appropriates $6,062,845. The House agreed to conference reports on the pension and agricultural appropriation bills. Senator Edmunds introduced in the Senate, on the 30th ult., a bill vesting in tfie President the sole power of appointing a large number of officers who are now appointed “by and with the advice and consent of the Senate." Among these are postmasters of all classes, collectors of internal revenue, certain collectors of customs, all territorial officers except judges of the Supreme Courts, all district attorneys, and United States marshals, Indian agents, and district land officers. Resolutions of the Portland (Oregon) board of trade were laid before the Senate to the effect that the previous resolutions of that body protesting against the forfeiture of the Northern Pacific land grant for tho uncompleted portion of tha Cascade branch were inconsiderate and illegal and should be expunged from the record of the board. The House In committee of the whole adopted an amendment presented by Mr. Randall (Pa.) appropriating $14,620 for the service of tho army and navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark. Chairman Boyle of the Pan-Electric Telephone Committee presented a report signed by himself and Messrs. Oates, Eden, and Hall. The report ■was accompanied by the following resolution, which was concurred in by Mr. Hale, who also presented a report of his own: “Resolved, That a full, fair, and exhaustive investigation has failed to adduce any evidence which tends to show that Attorney-General Garland, Solicitor-General Goode, Secretary Larmar, Indian Commissioner Atkins, Railroad Commissioner Johnstone,or Senator Harris, they being the officers named in the Pan-Electric publications of the newspaper press which gave rise to this investigation, did any act, official or otherwise, connected with the matter investigated which was dishonest, dishonorable, or censurable. ”

The House bill for the relief of the survivors of the Jeannette and the widows and children of those who perished in the retreat from the wreck of that vessel in the arctic seas was reported favorably to the Senate on the Ist inst. fromthe Committee on Naval Affairs. Senator Riddleberger introduced a bill providing for a 25 per cent, reduction in the salaries of Cabinet officers, Senators and Representatives. Senator Miller, from the Committee on Agriculture, reported back, without amendments; the House bjll taxing oleomargarine, four members of the committee dissenting. The President nominated John C. Shields ot ' Michigan to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, and G. Chase Godwin to be United States Attorney for the Western District of Michigan. The House passed the sundry civil appropriation bill, and refused to pass the Des Moines River land bill over the President’s [ veto. The legislative appropriation bill passed the ; Senate on the 2d inst. Senator Vance, in opposing an amendment to the bill providing for an additional clerk for the Civil-Service Commission, said that if the commission was unable to do any more business it would be so much the better. Senator Saulsbury thought the CivilService Commission, from beginning to end, a useless piece of machinery. If he nad his way he would repeal the law. Mr. Voorhees said that he had never been for the law, Bleeping or walking, but while it was a law he would treat it fairly and give it a fair chance. Senator Ingalls did not wonder that Senator Voorhees was in favor of the civil-service law as administered by the Democratic party, and he quoted from the statement of the Commissioner of Pensions, that out of seventy-seven men appointed by him under civil-service rule seventytwo,were Democrats and the ether five were of .unknown politics. The amendment was adopted,. Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, in discussingtne , paragraph of tha deficiency appropriation bill relating to the NaYy Department.said that in 1856 there were 320 serviceable vessels in the navy ; to-day there were but eighty seven vessels, and of these the Secretary of the Navy certified that only thirty-seven were serviceable. During these twenty years (419,000,000 had been expended lorthenavalestablishment.of whichs9J,I 000,060 hai been expended for construction and repairs. Ths House passed the Senate bill pro- ‘ viding for an uddit'onal Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana. The Senate amendments to the bill repealing the pre- ■ emption, timber culture, and desert land laws were nonconcurred in by the House, and a com- : mittee of conference was Appointed. An amendment to the general deficiency bill providing for the payment of the claims of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company for the transportation of troops to Panama in June, 1885, was agreed to by the House. The President vetoed the act granting a pension to William Boone. It appears that Boone enlisted in August, 1862, was in action in November of the same year, and was taken prisoner and at once paroled. During his parole he took part in the Fourth of July celebration at Aurora, 111., in 1863, and was terribly injured by the discharge of a cannon, which he was assisting to manage. In reviewing the case the President says ho is unable to discover any relation between the accident and the military service. He says further • ”A disabled man and wife and family in need are objects which appeal to the sympathy and charitable feelings of any decent man ; but it seems to me tfiat it by no means follows that those intrusted With the people’s businessuand the expenditure of the people’s money are justified in so executing the pension laws as that they shall furnish a means of relief in every case of distress or hardship." -

Light Diet.

Mose Schaumburg and Ike Levison are rivals in Trade, but personally they are very friendly. Being in a good humor, Mose said to Levison: “Come home mit me and have dinners.” “I vas much opliged put I has choost had some dinners, Mose.” “Ish dot so?” “Ya, I has choost dined.” “I don’t believe dot?” “I have choost dined—upon my word of honor,” “Yell, den, come along and eat some more. Ven you has choost dined upon your vord of honor, you must be hungry, ash dot vash very light diet.” — Texas Siftings. To obtain money to carry on a war against the Indians, Gov. West, of South Carolina, in 1680, offered afirice for every Indian captive, and then sold all who were brought in to West Indian slave dealers, who again disposed of them profitably to West Indian planters. In her wars with Turkey between 1767 and 1774 Russia did not employ privateers. In the e'ghteenth century privateering had become an organized piracy, and almost every treaty attempted, but in vain, to restrain it.

PAN-ELECTRIC.

Three Separate Reports to the House from the Investi- . gating Committee. 4 ... Mr. Garland Defended by tho Democratic and Censured by* the Republican Members

[Washington telegram.] The Fan-Electric Telephone Committee presents three reports to the Hous*, neither of which is signed by a majority of the committee. Chairman Boyle's report is signed by himself and Messrs. Oates, Eden, and Hall—all Democrats Mr. Ranney’s report has the signatures of him! self and Messrs. Millard, Raubach, and Moffatt —aH Republicans. Mr. Hale submits a report signed by himself alone. THE DEMOCRATIC REPORT. The Democratic members of the committee, in their report, say: “What Dr. Rogers offered to Messrs. Carlisle and others was stock in an incorporated and organized company. What he transferred to Garland, Harris, and others was an interest In inventions, in their then condition of no value whatever, and only to be mad* valuable by the “joint effort of the Rogerses and those who joined them in tne l undertaking. The property might turn out to be worth much or nothing. It had no commercial value. The evidence cioes not show that these gentlemen were admitted by the Messrs. Rogers with any expectation of profiting by their official positions or official action. Gen. Atkins, the party to whom they made the proposition, was not in office. They certainly expected no official aid from him. It was Gen. Atkins who spoke to Senator Harris, so that the Rogerses did not Select him because he was a Senator. The right to select the other three wds given absolutely to Senator Harris, and no condition was imposed that he should select persons in office. At that time Mr. Garland was not thought of for Attorney General. In view of his previous life and character it was not thought he would use his official power to forward a private enterprise in which he was interested. Casey Young was named by Rogers. He was not to appear jn Congress until nearly a year after. Gen. Johnston was not in office, and did no* expect to be.”

Of Solicitor General Goode’s treatment of the application to bring the Memphis suit the report says: “Mr. Goode’s statement is not cnly uncontradicted, but is fully supported by all the witnesses who testified about tho same matters. He was not connected with any telephone company, had no interest of any kind to be afffected by tho suit, and had no knowledge of any previous application. Ho had not been informed of Mr. Garland's connection with a telephone company, and had he been that should have made no difference in his conduct. In the view of the committee, while it would have been better to have let the application take the usual course by referring it to the Interior Department, still his failure to do so was at most only a mistake. ” In conclusion, the committee finds that there was sufficient reason and authority for bringing the suits, ,but it expressly refrains from attempting to find whether the Bell patents were obtained fraudulently, or whether Bell was the inventor of the speaking telephone. THE REPUBLICAN REPORT. The report of the Republican members cites testimony to show how the Pan-Electric' Company was organized and three and a half million of its stock given to gentlemen for the use of their names and reputation. The opinion of Senator Garland, declaring that the Rogers patents do not .infringe on the Bell patent, is quoted with the statement that it had been got because the Pan-Electric could not sell rights without it and it was, as it intended to be, the inducement which led large numbers of persons to pay in money, a part of which was divided among Mr. Garland and hie associates. At the same time the Pan-Electric knew that their instruments did infringe on the Bell patent. The report then refers to the postal telegraph bill as explaining the motives of the Pah-Electric organizers, and states that $2,000,000 of the stock was held by members of Congress, because it was expected that the bill would be a subject of legislation. It is charged that the Pan-Electrio, people, Including Mr. Garland, tried to get Congressional indorsements for their scheme, and the evidence is cited where it touches upon the effort to secure the appointment of young Rogers as House Electrician. It is alleged that Senators Garland and Harris and General Johnston busied themselves personally to accomplish this. Mr? Young put up a telephone in his committee-room, and this, says the report, jwas “pretty near to a Congressional indorsement,”

Touching the Attorney General the report holds that it was his duty, considering how much he was interested, to make sure by calling Mr. Goode's attention to the application that whenever it did come it should receive the fullest and most impartial investigation, according to all the usages and practice of the office. The report says that he should have been solicitous enough of the honor of the department to have made certain that this was done, but he did not. The report continues: “Taking all these things together, it does not admit of doubt that the Solicitor General, acting ns Attorney General, was by some means led to grant this Application without the usual reference or inquiry, without any pretense of competent examination, with unexampled speed, and in violation of the practice of the de- «, partment, “In an ordinary case such action would be held to be positive proof of fraud; at least proof of gross negligence, which in a person of his position is equivalent to fraud. There is no reason why the rule should not be, applied here. It ;can._ riotbeforgotr ten that this request, granted in so extraordinary and so unbecoming a manner, was a request in which the head of the Department of Justice and a Senator of the United States, who came in person to the Solicitor General to inquire about it, and seemingly urged speed, and other Government officials, for two years had—and had notoriously had—a vast pecuniary interest. “Upon these facts, no one of which can be disputed, no jury would hesitate. It is enough, however, to say that it cannot be tolerated that the business of the Government can be so conducted. It cannot escape observation that Senator Harris and Mr. Casey Young acted just as men would act if already assured of what was being asked,‘and that the conduct of the Solicitor General is most easily accounted for on the assumption that he understood the matter in advance, and had predetermined upon his course of action. - “The best that can be said of him (Attorney General Garland) is that he lent himself to this scheme because he got his stock for nothing. If he was not active in it himself, ho suffered his name and influence to be used by others. He was then only a Senator of the United States. He was next placed at the head of the Department of Justice. The man from whom he had received the half-million of stock wanted now to borrow the name of that department and get its indorsements; then an ally asked for it; then the official representative of his company asked for it. Some men would easily have found a course for themselves. He took one also, but his associates, who knew him and speculated on his character, were certain they would get what they wanted -and they did. His intelligence told him there were two things he should not permit, and then his vacillating will let him argue that he might stand aside and see his office do them for his benefit. He hod not the strength to deny what his associates asked, nor to return the stock and eeaSe to be an associate; he had. not the boldness to do personally what they thought was a fair serviee for the stock he kept. But it was done by his department as such a thing never was done before. The evidence is more aggressive, however, and the facts according to ordinary rules of law are direct and positive, and unless controlled are conclusive proof that all ex-parte Government action at least was affected by the influence of those interests or the knowledge of them." MB. HALE'S REPORT. Mr. Hale (Mo.) in his individual report denies that the gentlemen interested in the Bogers company ever intended to use their official positions in its behalf. He holds that the opinion delivered by Mr. Garland was that of an attorney simply. The general report estimates the cost of trial at $300,000. Mr. Hale thinks that public curiosity should not be pandered to at such cost, and, in short, that "there’s nothing in it." Montgomery Blair, boh of Montgomery, and G. B. McClellan, son of the 2 Little Mac” of fame, are Princeton graduates this year. 7 The Misses Austin, of Louisiana, who have a $450,000 claim against the United States, both hold departmental positions at the capital. Ben Butler is said to bank annually from $75,000 to $125,000 as the net proceeds of his law practice. Vesuvius is no pimple, and yet it is very frequently in a state of eruption.