Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1890 — Page 2

f£tpuMi«ra, - ©«o. E. Mabahall, Publish®*. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

Rev. T. Dewitt Talreage, the erniaeot Brooklyn divine, iti* announced, will sever his connection with perio--dieal literature, and devote liis energies as editor exclusively to the Christian Herald of New York. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and ■John G. Whittier are optimistic old *B6B. The former in prose an d the latter in poetry have recently given voice to their ideas regarding old age. Their cheerfulness is a rebuke to aged Europeans of nete who seem tp grow crabbed as they approach the end of life. _ It is an interesting fact that the portrait of Queen Victoria in widow’s weeds iff still used on the 3-cent and 6oent postage stamps of Newfoundland.., The 1-cent stamp of the same country shows the prince of Wales’ portrait as a boy. A stamp of the Colony of Victoria bears a representation .of the queen sitting on her throne.

Justice Brewer is the youngest member of the United States Supreme Court, both in years and point of service. He is only 52. The Chief Justice and Justice Harlan are 57. Justice Lamar is 65, and Justice Blatchford is five years his senior. Miller and Fields are the same age, 74, and Bradley is the Nestor of the Court, having lived 77 years. A New Jersey colored man has demonstrated what instinct can do oacked with courage. He visited a ehicken house and grain shed recently and stole thirty chiokeus, eighteen bushels of corn, two bags of corn meal, three bags of rye feed and two bags of rye in the grain. After all, he betrayed moderation by not taking the chicken house and shed.

This thing of getting married is a risky business anyhow, but none of the new-fangled ways of goiug about it hare been conspicuously successful. The old-fashioned courtship has yet to be improved on. This i 3 the experience of the Pittsburg man who saw his future wife in a vision and afterwards met and married her. There was a lack of divinity in the affinity. Divorce and alimony. Eats Field urges a large increase in the salaries of senators and congressmen, and pathetically declares: “Our public men may be rewarded in heaven. They certainly get little but cuffs in this world.” Even with the inducements now offered, the supply of wouldbe statesmen exceeds the demand. It is significant that none of the “ins” display a desire to exchange their cuffs on earth for options on the future life. ,r Dr. JL Golay, a French physician, thinks that the education of* the fair sex is on too narrow a basis, and that the one thing especially wanting in the tuition of the present day is instruction in the art of bringing up children. Who knows but that in the future time of the present world there will be a Professorship of Family-Raising in the female seminaries of the land. And then will come the struggle as to the mode of selection.

From memoranda of the late Henry W. Grady it has been iound that during the year 1889 he made loans to various people in amounts from SSO to S4OO, the whole aggregating more than $13,000. Most of this is collectable, and makes a substantial addition to.the editor’s estate. It is said that | no one ever went away from him * empty-handed. His purse was open ' to any of his friends, and his personal friends were thousands. The Young Liberal club of Toron- j to, Ont, at a recent meeting declared 1 in a resolution that, if instead of pre- ' ■enting addresses of a reactionary character, declaring their attachment the British connection, the legislators would eudeavor to secure for the Canada people a larger degree of selfgovernment and thus prepare the way for the complete independence of Canada, their action would be more acceptable to Canadians generally. Spain adheres to the customs of a primitive age. Grain is cut with a small reaping hook, and threshed as in the time of the Caesars, that is, by tramping about with asses hitched to a stone. The pjow is a crooked stick poiated with iron. Ia the towns are seen heavy wooden carts drawn by oxen. Most of the carrying, traDsfering, etc., is done by donkeys. Sand, brick, lumber, in fact, almost everything that has to be moved, is carried on their backs.

The Quebec legislature a few days 9gQ paused a bill offering 100 acres of land to every man who is the futher of twelve children. The person entitled to this novel bonus up pear to be numerous- At Trois Pistoles there are two families, named Roulette and Belzil, who each have fifteen living children. Another named Gingras, in Bellnchaase, has had no fewer than thirty-four children born to him. Still another named Cretlen, in L'lslet, has ■twenty-seven, and ooe Villaueourt, in Kumouraska, has just had his thirtySeventh infant baptizoa.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

DOMESTIC. A very odd snap prevails in parts of South Dakota. Five murderers wilLbe hanged at Harrisburg, Pa., April 9. Lotteries are open ly-conducted in Montana in violation of State law. The North Dakota Senate, on the 19th, passed the Australian election system. The Mardi-Gras street pageant at New Orleans on the 18th was a gorgeous affair The Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Company has advanced the wages of -employes 15 per cent. The saloons! Peter Donezan, at Dupont, 0., was blown up by White Caps Saturday night Sash and door factories are now the industries sought to be purchased with British gold. An insane man in Massachusetts murdered a'child because he liked to go to funerals. An independent oil company with ,a cap ital of $50,000,000 has been formed at Findlay, O. The Kansas City Packing and Chase Refrigerator Company suffered a loss cf $200,000 by fire. The sheep industry of Connecticut is suffering a rapid decandence on account of the ravages of dogs. Rev. H. S. Black, of the First Baptist church of Pans, 111., on the 16th baptized srxty--.even converts.

An English syndicate is considering a proposition to purchase and control the florist business in America. An Alabamian, who was converted to Mormonism and went to Utah, was robbed of his wife and ®ll his possessions, —A printer named Cheney was strung up by a mob at Alvarado, Tex., to enforce a confession of robbery he did not commit. The Sons of the American Revolution organized a society at Wilmington, Delaware, with ex-Secretary Bayard as Presi •dent. Miss Rebecca Mary Taylor, the venerable mother of Bayard Taylor, died at Kennet Square, Pa., on the 19th, aged 90 years. Diptheria is raging at Wellington, Ohio, three deaths having occurred from the disease. The public schools will be closed. The Negro exodus from North Carolina (to Louisiana) continues. The white farmers of the former State are highly inoensed. All the "spirits” in a Chicago seance Monday night were arrested and carted off to jail for obtaining money under false pretenses. The insane asylum at Little Rock, Ark., was damaged to the extent of $85,000 on the 17th. The 500 patients were removed without injury. New York and Chicago are connected by telephone, and a message conveyed in this way requires bus four minutes for the entire distance.

The first pasteur institute in the United States was opened on the 18th at 178 west Tenth St., New York, under the presidency of Dr. Paul Gibier. The present session of the Montana Legislature closed on the 21st. Owing to the absence of the Democratic Senators nothing was accomplished. The Carnegie Free Library of Allegheney was formerly opened on the 20th, the President being among the guests. He made a brief speech If amnesty were granted to all deserters from the United States army the military prison at Fort Leavenworth. Kan., would lose 95 per cent, of its inmates. Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, said at the Catholic Club dinner at Baltimore Monday night,cthat he believed in the complete separation of Church and State. A movement is on foot by the Northern Pacific to secure the control of the Central Baltimore & Ohio, making, with the Wisconsin Central, a line from ocean to ocean.

Rev. Mike Whisman \yps murdered near Campton, Ky., on the 18th, by a young man named Booth. The minister had oncejpunished Booth while a school boy, and Booth never forgot the fancied wrong. Joseph Meaill, of the Chicago Tribune, in an interview on the 17th, expresses the opinion that Cleveland will be the Demo cratic nominee in 1892, even though Ril secures the New York delegation. . A man supposed to be “Smith,” who drove Dr. Cronin to his death, was arrested at St. Louis by a Chicago detective. It was at first rumored that he was “Cooney, the Fox.” He was taken to Chicago. Jake Kilrain, the one-time champion, was knocked out at New Orleans on the 17th by J. J. Corbett, of California. It was a glove contest for a purse of $3,500, in which Kilrain was clearly overmatched. The South Dakota Legislature has passed a joint resolution admitting that destitution exists in mary parts of the State, and that the farmers must be furnished with seed wheat by public and private subscription. A miscreant called a respectable young lady to the door of her home at Erie, Pa., on the night of the 18th, and threw oil of vitriol in her face. She owas badly disfigured. The wretch who did the deed is unknown. Investigation will be made as to the practicability,, and , expense of tunneling the Detroit "River, near the city of Detroit with a view to the use of the tunnel for railroad trains between the Unfted States and Canada.

In the Mississippi Legislature Thursday, Representative West called up the memor-. ial to Congress relative to the appeal of fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, aud moved its adop tion. Tho motion was lost by a vote of 21 3 33. ■— *— Negro incendaries at Rocky Mount, N. C., have sent a notice to prominent citizens there informing them that if the Rocky Mount Light Infantry is ordered out the negroes will kill them all if they have to shoot them from ambush. Other threats of a like character have boen. made. After a consultation of six physicians it has been decided that the terrible opera tion of breaking the nones of one leg to prevent Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., from being a criple for life, as a result from Uammatory rheumatism, may not be necessary, and there is thus a hope that she may regain health and strength; but it will not

be for a long-time And not Without .great further su flaring. Jgke Kiixain, the noted pugilist is about to retire temporarily from the fistic are pa He haabeea-en the -down- grade for some time and has recognized that it will jbe wise to accept the friendly advice of Muldoon and others. Rheumatism or something else has been gradually getting the best of him. Mgr. Doarte, who was lately given the title of Prothonotary Apostolic by the Pope, notified the parishioners of St. Pat rick’s Cathedral, at Newark, N. J., that they must take their children from the public schools and send them to the parochial schools on penalty of excommunication and denial of absolution. The performance at the Broadway Theater, New. York, for the benefit of Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., netted nearly $4,000. There was the largest audience that was ever present at the theater. Among the many prominent persons present were: Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, George Gould Mrs. William Astorand R' Fulton Cpiting’Sweet faced Amy Q. Fowler, or, as she is better known, Sister Rose Gerts rude, of the order of St. Dominick,arrived in Chicago Thursday night, on her way from England to the Sandwieh. Islands, where she is to devote her life to the service of the lepers at Katawao. Miss Fowler goes direct to San Francisco, thereto sail next week for Honolulu.

A sensation was created at McKeesport, Pa., Wednesday, by the arrest of Mrs. Giles Collins and daughter for shoplifting. Mrs. Collins is the wife of a leading politician of McKeesport, and is well known. The two women were detected in the act of stealing several articles in a dry goods store and were at once put under arrest. A search of their home disclosed at least $5,000 worth of goods taken from various McKeesport stores. It is asfcated that M. Belleville, the inventor of the Belleville Tubulous Boiler, has succeeded in adapting his steam genera, tor to the furnishing of a propellent for heavy ordumpgeygpis in lieu of powder or found that his boiler Will supply steam in sufficient quantities, and at the required instant of l ime, to a degree that will give a 500 pound projectile over four times the yelocity obtainable in the present pneumatic gun.

The Louisiana Lottery Company is making a desperate effort to retain its corporate life. It ha 3 failed to secure a charter from North Dakota, and its next move, it is said, will be an enormous bribe to the Louisiana Legislature for a renewal of its present charter, which will expire two years hence. Its proposition will be to pay the entire State debt, amounting to from $10,000,000 to $12,000,000. The lottery is earning $250,000 a month, or $8,700,000 per annum net. Now that the British extradition treaty has been ratified and detectives have been put upon the track to follow Louise The bault, the mistress of defaulter Silcott cashier of the House of Representatives, who had just started back to Canada to rejoin her paramour, it is believed he will be arrested. Miss Thebault drew some money from the National Savings Bank there Wednesday, but the officers of the institution refuse to say anything about it. There is a belief in Washington that Silcott has been bled by detectives, is running close for funds, and when he is out of resources will surrender. He is thought to be in Victoria, B. C. At the National Educational Conference in New York on the 20th, a resolution was adopted declaring that the association regarded the public school system as the chief source of civilization, and the bulwark of civil and-reUgious liberty, and that they approved of placing the American flag over school houses and recommended the study of the Declaration of Independence and other historical Amer - ican papers. In order to meet hostile criticism and make the public schools the allies of home and the sources of the highest moral instruction, without any sectarian bias,the members pledged themselves to do all in their power to establish the system in all sectibhs bf the Repubile, and and make intelligence ana loyalty a bless-

FO REIGN. '■ ■ Influenza is reported unusally fatal in the city of Mexico. The German elections on the 20th resulted in a Socialistic victory. Queensland has been visited by very heavy floods and many persons perished. Seventy thousand miners at Aberdare, Wales, have struck for an advance in wages. An explosion occurred in a eollery near Decise, department of Nievrc, France, on the 20th. It is not known how manv lives or were lost, but already thirty-four bodies have been recovered.

Three thousand aborigines and many convicts in New Calendopia have been attacked with leprosy. The disease is spreading at an alarming rate. Louise Michel talks of going to their succor. An order has been issued prohibiting the circulation in Germany of the Volksanwalf, a paper published in Cincinnati, O. The order is regarded iu Cincinnati as a joke, as the paper is almost unknown there. Russian authorities at Washington deny the atrocities recently reported from Siberia. They claim the facts are exaggerated and spread by nihilists, to influence action ou the extradition treaty now pending in the United States Senate. A dispatch from Victoria of the 17th, says that Justice Drake, of the British Columbian Supreme Court, has rendered a decision which declares that the Govern ment of the United States has no juriadio tion over Behring Sea,outside of the marine jgague limit, —— ——— — A Paris correspondent says Dom Pedro’s nervous disease increases and partly unhinges his mind. He lives in daily expectation of being recalled to rule Brazil and does not realise the precarious state of his own”finances. He refuses to reduce his imperial suite aud maintains his expenses on a grand scale. A duel took place on the 18th between two officers of the Czar’s Hussar Guard at Tsarskoe, in which both were wounded, one fatally. The Czar is greatly angered at the affair, and will make an example of the survivor. He declares that Russia will not permit the lives of her soldiers to be waated in quarrels over worthless women.

PROHIBITION.

They Nominate »Stst« Ticket.—The Plat. form and Proceedings. .- -- / - ' » —■ . - - The Prohibition State convention convened at Indianapolis on the 20th inst. The attendance was between 500 and 600, and harmony presided throughout the proceedings. John Ratcliff, chairman of the retiring State Central Committee, called the convention to order. A song was sung by a quartette and then Rev. J. M. Kersey j>ffered prayer, followed by another quar tette. Chairman Ratcliff then spoke briefly of what the party had been doing for the last four years. He said all the acts of the State Committee during that time had been straightforward, plain, untrammeled, without compromise or sale. It was bad policy, he said, to make a few votes this season and lose them the next. The com mittee had ma .e no such arrangements. The Prohibition party in Indiana, he said, was stronger now than ever before. Men, who two years ago looked at us cross-eyed, now look at us square in the face. "This body of men,” said he, “represents the only political party that says a word against the American saloon.” The permanent organization of the convention was effected by the election of the following officers: President, T. E. Ballard, Evansville; Vice Presidents: First District, Miss J. L. Hazen; Second, Miss M. E. Allen; Third, S. J. Kistier; Fourth, Mrs. Henry Thompson; Fifth, R. E. Smith; Sixth, Mrs. Beson; Seventh, Mrs. R. T, Brown; Eighth, Miss Mary Hakley ;Nintb, Mrs. A. L. Sharp; Tenth, Mrs. E. O. Fenton; Eleventh, Jesse L. Hutchins ;Twelfth, J. W. Seaman; Thirteenth, Miss P. J. Perkins. Secretary, J. G. L. Myers.

Chairman Ballard in taking charge of the convention enthused the delegates with a spirited speech. He frankly acknowledged that he would rather be chairman of the convention than be President of the United States and be wrong. His advioe was to fill Indiana so full of Prohi bition literature that no one could fail to knew the truth. The Committee on Resolutions, through its Secretary, Professor McQuerker, presented the following report: Whereas, The question as to what legislation is demanded in regard to the manufacture, importation and sale of intoxicating liquors is au issue now pending before the people of this country, and Whereas, The two dominant political parties have, by their declarations, and by their acts, plaoed themselves on the side of perpetuating the traffic under license, thus entailing on the country a legacy of vice, pauperism and crime. Therefore,we the Prohibitionists of Indiana in State Convention assembled, declare that L The legal prohibition of the manufacture, importation and sale of intoxicating beverage by National and State authority is a fundamental position, on which we are a unit, and about which we tolerate no compromise and make no concessions. 2. Whereas, the National Protective Association of liquor dealers has declared in favor of local option and high license; therefore, the advocacy of these measures by the Republican and Democratic parties proves their complete domination by this association.

3. That local option being unconstitutional in Indiana, any attempt by these parties to mate this an issue is to assail precedent and to give the rum power further lease of life, delaying State and National Prohibition - 4. That license, high or low, or taxation, is wrong in principle, therefore wrong in results; and that revenue should be raised from property values, but not from vice and crime. 5. The national revenue derived from the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquor for use as a beverage should be abolished by prohibiting its manufacture. 6. Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, therefore citizenship carries with, it logically the right of suffrage, nor should this right be abridged on account of race, sex or nationality. 7. If the national revenue is to be raised by import duties, such revenue snould be reduced so as not to exceed the necessary expenses of the Government economically administered, but food, clothing and other necessaries of life should be exempt from taxation.

8. We join in grateful acknowledgment of the Nation’s gratitude to the ' Juion soldiers and sailors of the late war, and favor the passage of a general service pension bill, in lieu of the present complicated and expensive service, granting pensions to all honorably discharged Union soldiers, their widows, and army nurses. 9. Public office snould oe conferred only on aeeeuutxif honesty and capacity, and never as a reward for partisan services.10. That we favor the settlement of international disputes by arbitration. 11. All trusts or combinations of capital for the purpose of controlling the price of articles of necessity or consumption are unjust and oppressive and should be prohibited by law. 12. We favor the apportionment of the public school revenue upon tne basis of the number of pupils of scuool age enrolled in attendance at the term last preceding the apportionment for the following year, instead of upon the basis of the whole number of children of school age. 13. We favor a reduction of the salaries of county officers adjusted in time of high prices to conform to the present financial condition of the country. 14. That the public printing -should bo let to the lowest, responsible bidder in both county and State. 15. Tnat the corruption of the dominant political parties in elections degrades our citizenship and public service and endangers the purity of the ballot: We condemn such methods and invite all who desire good government, pure eleotions and a free ballot that should be honestly counted, to vote with the Prohibition party. Some of the delegates were disappointed because oa resolution was not reported touching upon the condition of laboring men and farmers, and the committee was instructed to report a resolution before the convention. The platform was adopted as reported. The labor resolution, afterward brought imand adopted, is as follows:

Resolved, That tho Prohibitionists of Indiana, in State convention-asaemblod,do most earnestly invite too co-operation oi workingmen, farmers, aud all classes of laboring people, to help them in their efforts to save to all the people of these United States more than a taousand millions of dollars -atmtwrfy; OT TnOTQ TCa*> *3OO annually to every fourth family in tue country; money that is more tuaii wasted in the support of the liquor trafflo. Tue Prohibitionists also asa them to aid in efforts to save the American people enormous profits now going into the pocket of British capitalists through tueir investments Of Vast sums of money in the breweries and distilleries of America. The committee ou nominations agreed upon the following State ticket: Secretary of State, B M Bloat, Marion county; Auditor, Abraham Huntsinger, St Joseph; Treasurer of State, Jonathan E. Branson, Hendricks; Superintendent Of Public Instruction, L. Crist, Boone; Attorney General, S. L. Haines, Jay; Judge of Supreme Court, S. J. North. Kosciusko; Clerk of

* Supreme Ctourt, Charles L, Jessup, Hendricks. ® en - W. Boyne of Kentucky, delivered A® nddreaa of an hoar’s length. An “eye” was selected as a device to gg the head of the State ticket. Taanew State central committee is com ■poaed as follows: First District—Judge Land, Gibson ; — Second—A F Fox, Greene; Third— Kistner, Floyd; Fourth—S V Wright, Decatur; C p Tuley, Monroe; Sixth—J D Bailey, Henry; Seventh—G W Hagans. Shelby; Bight— T E Ballard, Montgomery; Ninth—Dr Baser, Hamilton; Tenth Smith, Cass; Eleventh—J T Hutchins, Wabash; ‘ Twelfth—J W Baxter, DeKalb; Thirteenth—S J North, Kosciusko.

NOT SO MUCH OF A JOKE.

Mock Marriage by Telephone Proves Binding and Creates a Sensation In Two Indiana Cities. Minnie Worley is the pretty night operator at the South Ber.d telephone exchange. She is twenty-two years old, and was bora and raised in the wagon city. Frank Middleton occupies a similar posi tion in Michigan City. He is twenty-five and good looking. To keep awake o’ nights the young people worked up an acquaintance over the wire and finally became sowewhat attached to each other. One night last week Middleton in a spirit of fun, proposed to Minnie that they get married, by telephone. She consented, and he thereupon called in a Michigan City justice of the peace, named Dib’ ble, who, in order to carry out the supposed joke, placed himself in connec

Hon with the pair and repeated the legal ceremony. Afterward nothing was thought of the affair for several days, hut finally some one suggested that they had better investigate and see if they were not really married. Accordiugly the unintentional bride consulted legal counsel, who informed her that her name was Mrs. Middleton, and that she was firmly fastened in the bonds of matrimony. The groom was likewise surprised, and at once hastened to South Bend to see his bride, whom he had never before seon. Tne lawyers assert that, although the couple took out no license, they are, nevertheless, married, and that the justice is oriminally liable for performing the ceremony without securing the license. It is now reportee that the couple have since secured a lioense, and will make the best of it and live together. The only way out of the scrape is to begin divorce proceedings. Both parties are from respectable families, and the escapade has created a great socitl sensation in their respective cities. It has just soaked out that Middleton was to have been married in two months to a young lady in Elkhart.

IN CANADA.

Seriousness of the Baca Question,—The Premier’s Impassioned Speech. In the Canadian House of Commons on the 20th debate on the anti-French bill, proposed by Mr. McCarthy, was continued by Hon. Peter Mitchell and the Premier, Sir John Macdonald. The Premier the most vehement and passionate speech he had ever made in the House. Frantically waving his hands over his head he appealed to his followers and to the members oi the opposition to unite and bury forever this ve .atious question, which, if allowed to go on, would only ruin Canada’s credit and prosperity, finally ending in a bitter war of bloodshed, in which race should be arrayed against raoe, blood against blood, creed against creed, religion against religion and language against language. Said he: “Wereit to be broached upon the London Stock Exchange, that most fickle of all m >ney markets of the world, that the people of Canada are waging a war of extermination of language one against an" other, there would be a panic in waich the financial credit of Canada would bo so seriously injured that we would lose tne proud position we now hold among the fairest of the colonies.” His conclusion was greeted with loud and continued applau&o. —— l-=

SOUNDS LIKE INDIANA.

Exciting Tlmos In the Ohio Le-litlntnre, Which Savors Hooslerdom. There were exciting and disgraceful scenes in the Ohio House of Representatives Wednesday evening when the Demo crats attempted to pass some of the “ripper” bills, as they are called. The Republicans attempted dilatory tactics and Speaker Hysell at length refused to recognize the Republican members. They became furious, and both Democrats and Republicans were Boon on their feet and many about the Speaker’s desk shaking their fists at him. When the Speaker ordered them to their seats and threatened to call the Sergeant-at-arms to compel them to do so, several Republicans dared him to do it. Representative Troyer shouted out that he could “lick any two Republicans,” and for a time it seemed as if the session would break up in disorder.

FEMALE SANDSAGGERS.

A few nights ago Miss Lida Coons wa assaulted on Eighth street, Kansas City, by two women aud sandbagged until she was unconscious. Her assailants were cutting off her hair, when her soreams brought neighbors to the rescue. The young lady was carried to a house not far distant, and a doctor summoned. Her injuries worn not fatal, though severe. Miss Coons failed to recognize her assailants, who disappeared hurriedly, but she has her suspicions. It is said that jealousy caused the assault on Miss Coons, two society companions having been jilted by a young man who subsequently paid assiduous attention to Miss Coons.

Why He Went Hungry.

Texas Siftings. Mr. Hardfist (to beggar)—There is no excuse for beirig hungry in New York. There are p! snty of cheap restaurants where you oan get a good dinner at a mere nominal best. Beggar—But I haven't the mere nominal to meet the cost.

NATIONAL CONGRESS.

The House took up the world’s fair Mil, : and after a long dlgonnsion in* consideration and final decision in tb® matter.. Several bills were introduced. The bills for the relief of the Tm»«M a®: Devil’s Lake agency and providing for the sale of Fort Bliss, Texas, were passed. A; warm discussion was had on the rules, which partook of the same nature- as the discussions before the rules were adopted. In the Honse the pension appropriation bill was adopted. It calls for $98,427,4M, being $59,791 less than the estimates, $16,668,761 more than the bill for the current fiscal year, though there is an estimated deficiency of $21,598,884 in the pension expenditures for this year, so that the bill is really $4,930,073 less than the expenditure; will be this year. The bill providing for an assistant Secretary of War was considered. The bill to provide a temporary government for Oklahoma was debated at some length. The Senate, in secret sessioq, on the 18th considered the British extradition treaty. Blair continued his remarks on the educa* tional bill. The House amendment to the bill requiring the ascertainment of the number of people who own their farms and homes was agreed to. The House bill for the relief of the Sioux Indians at Devil’s Lake agency was passed. The Senate has ratified the British extradition treaty. The text of the treaty was recently published. Extradition is not to be had for political oflense, nor shal any person surrendered by either party be tried for any other offense than the one for which he was The treaty does not apply to any crimes committed befoiw its ratification. The House on the 19th, passed two unimportant bills and considered at great length :the Oklahoma territorial bill. The Senate .on the 19th, received the President’s message! transmitting the agreement recently made with the Sioux Indians for the cession of their lands. A .bill providing for the sale of the H. Bliss military reservation was passed. Tlfo resolution calling for information as to the assassination as W. B. Saunders, United States Deputy Marshall in Florida, and the educational bill were debated. The Senate on the 20th devoted the entire day to political discussion, the debate arising from the resolution calling on the Attorney General for information as to the assassination of Saunders. The resolution was agreed to by a party vote. The House heard arguments in favor at the different cities aspiring to the location of the World’s Fair. The House devoted Friday to discussing the various World Fair sites. Both Houses adjourned until the 24th. The Senate on the 21st disposed of alarg® amount of calendar business, and considered the House bilf providing a temporary government for Oklahoma.

WASHINGTON.

The Attorney-general submits an opinion to the effect that the eight hour law is valid. The President has issued a proclamation directing the removal of all cattle from grazing upon the Cherokee Outlet, Indian Territory,by October 1, unless negotiations now pending for the cession of that territory to the United States shall hkve been completed sooner. At the meeting of the Senate Finance ■Committee, Tuesday,the various silver and currency bills that have been referred to it were under consideration. The discussion covered the whole range of the financial situation, but the silver question was the principal topic. All the Republican members of the committee were present, and Messrs. Harris and Vance of the minority. The disoussion is said to have demonstrated that there was little, if any, varianco of views upon the manner in which the silver question should be treated. There was practical agreement that a bill should be passed authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to increase the purchase of silver, store it as .bullion, and. issue certificates upon it. It is expected that the details of a bill covering these propo* sitions will bo drafted at the next meeting of the committee. .

Postmaster General Wanamaker reports to the Senate that it would cost $1,317,040 to extend the free delivery system to the 664 towns in the country having over 3,000 inhabitants, and $670,225 to extend it to the 594 towns having over 5,000. The recent murder of Deputy Marshal Saunders in Florida was the subject of an extended conference at the Cabinet meet ing on the 18th. The Attorney-general presented the reports of United States Marshal Mizell and District Attorney Stripling, of Florida, detailing the circumstances of the affair and the causes which led to it. Both gentlemen had previously seen the President and tho Attorney-gen. eral, and had given them oral reports. Quincj, the town near which the murder occurred, is scat of Gadsden couuty, one of tho northorn tier of counties,ami adjoins the Georgia line. Tbenext county east is Madison, and tho history of these two counties since 1880 shows a condition of lawlessness and terroism which the President considers worthy of national attention.

Senator Ingalls is preparing a speech which will cause a sensation when it is delivered ip the Senate. Lvcr since bis speech on the race question he has been bombarded with letters from the South. A number of them have been published! fitlrßßTSaS ffepf a ootlScQon" wliToh “EeTs arranging to place before the country in fi speech. The majority of these epistles are of the most outrageous character, and the threats cand intimidations contained in them would be enough to frighten the average man. He baa also received a number of articles which would make a small museum in themselves. These will also be exhibited. Among the exhibits will be a cartridge and a letter from an indignant Southerner who exclaims: “The next bullet you receive from me will be from a rifle.” , At Louisville all idlers are imprison<L