Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1890 — Page 2

Sgfce Itepublkan. 6xo. E. M arshall, Publisher. RENSSELAER. - INDIANA

* The United States Government ordinance works at Boston are to be reproved to East Chattanooga, Tenn. Over 500 Bkilted workmen are to be employed. Competition of cheap Southern iron forced the removal. Two receivers of stolen goods were given a good, healthy dose of medicine at Boston the other day. They were each sentenced to twenty-five years in the penitentiary. The receiver of stolen goods is on a level with the thief and should have as severe punishment. ..1; . U'y . ''.:..^=rzr:-hx CL M. Bcrt and his bride, of Fairfield, Neb., arrived at Grand Island Junction, a few days ago, and tool; rooms Jit a hotel. The next morning Mrs. Burt was found dead in bed, ans the husband unconscious. You may believe it or not, in this newspaper age, but they had blown out the gas. Ice dealers at Indianapolis are in a combination and demand $1 per 100 for ice. It is an outrageous price, Jhiilu until relief comes from some source the consumer will be required to pay it. Probably some day there will be a reckoning, when Indianapolis dealers will not have a monopoly of ice—in fact there will be very little if any ice where they will be corraled. Andrew Shuman, editor of the Chicago Journal, and at. one time Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois, was on* of the best known editors in the country. He gave to his conservative publication such vigor and discretion as to place it higher than the average Journal of its kind. There was nothing sensational or shoddy about Mr. Shuman, and the world is better for bis having lived in it. Powdehly sees in the 75,000 idle men in California a force that wilL render abortive the eight hour movement; but there are not 75,000 idle men in California. After all the fuss in San Francisco, only about 1,000 men were found so much in need of work as to labor in the park. Tramp labor can not be relied upon to break the force of organized effort, as its very unreliability is the cause of it being tramp labor.

Stanley seems to be on the slate for the governorship of the Congo country. He is undoubtedly the best man that could be secured to subdue Central Africa and bring it under the dominion of England, but when he does it the 1 people of America will not be so proud' of him as they were when he went ia 1 Bearch of Livingstone, or even when he was seeking te rescue Emin—as was supposed. Even now his fame is tarnishpp under the electric light being cast upon his motives in undertaking his last expedition. ' ' '

The refusal of the Chicago Board of Trade to allow quotations to be furnished tiie bucket shops is proving the death of the latter “industry.” S. 8. Lloyd & Co. is one of the latest firms to go under. One is lead to wonder what constitutes the moral difference between dealing with the bucket shops and the regular board of trade, as the business of each is founded solely on margins, and not a bushel of grain or pound of meat is owned or handled by either. Candidly and honestly margin dealing is gambling, simply and purely, and ought not to be permitted.

The 4s-per-cent bonds now outstanding amount to $112,521,250 and the 4s aggregate $606,551,000, or a little over $719,000,000 in ajl. Practically speaking, this comprises all of the country’s indebtedness. It is all the debt which bears interest except the Pacific Railroad bonds, which are not, in the sense in which the 4Js and 4s are, an obligation of the Government. This debt is being reduced the rate pf more than $100,000,000 a year. If the revenues be not largely reduced in the interval the nation will enter the new century without a dollar of indebtedness. Jonathan Hutchinson attempt* to prove in the Friends’ Quarterly Examiner that a constant fish diet is conducive to leprosy. He arrives at this conclusion because investigation ha* disolosed that leprosy is indigneous to only sea-coasts or river or. lake towns. 'Mr. Hutchinson doesn’t know wbal part of the fish or what kind of fish contains the germ of the taint, but he thinks the fish of equatorial regions, are more likely to possess it th&n any other, and raw fish Is more dangerous than cooked fish. There 4s a large and phosporescent fissure In Mr. Jlutohinson’s theory which makes It •boost valueless.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Pittsburgh is enforcing the Sunday law. Kokomo was flooded by the heavy rain of the 11th. | -At Marion, 0., a horse was scared to 'death at sight of a traction engine. The, Republicans have renominated Governor Burleigh, of Maine, by acclamation. * The Sac and Fox Indians have signed the treaty ceding their lands to the Government. Chief Humphrey’s band of hostile In dians have been having a sun dance 100 miles from Pierre, S. Dak. W. L. Hemingway, late treasurer of Mississippi, was indicted by the grand jury for the alleged embezzlement of $315,612.19.

The B. & G. Railway Company have notified its employes that they must not ibecome intoxicated, under penalty of discharge. * A Fall River (Mass.) woman sold her four-year-old boy for $25 to a man who said he wanted to train him for a circus performer. Ex-Alderman James Pierson was fatally njured by an Erie train at Jersey City last might. Pierson was one of the boodle Aldermen of New York. Three Harvard seniors desecrated StPaul’s Roman Catholic Church, at Boston, by daubing words upon it. Harvard students seem to be a bad lot. Rev. Father Quigley, pastor of a Catholic church at Toledo, 0., was Jindicted by the grand jury on the 10th for neglecting to report pupils to the Board of Education. At a railroad crossing in Cleveland on the 13th, a freight train locomotive! crashed through one of the cars of a pas* senger train, injuring several people. No one killed. Word has been received from Lascruces N. M:, stating that not less than 100 deaths from smallpox have occurred there within the past few weeks, and that the disease is still raging.

One of -the—robbers of the Northern Pacific train (at New Salem) was captured on the 11th. Ho gave valuable information of the affair, and offered the Sheriff SI,OOO to release him. The National Typographical Union, in session at Atlanta, on the 11th decided to locate and maintain a home for aged printers, at Colorado Springs, Col. The work on the home will be begun at once. The principal business transacted at the Christian Endeavor Convention in St. Louis on the 18th was the receiving of the reportsfrom the different States, which showed the society flourishing with a large number of societies and big membership in each State and Canadian province.

Two freight trains collided just outside of Warrenton, Mo., Monday morning, and seven men were killed and several wounded. Both engines were completely wrecked and six palace cars demolished, with fifteen very fine-blooded horses. The scenes at the wreck were heartrending as the crushed and scalded and bruised were being rescued. Columbus, 0., is chaving an exciting time over a street car strike. The company endeavored to run their cars on Monday under police protection, but strkers filled the cars to overflowing and threw them into the gutter at the end of the trip, while the drivers and conductors barely escaped with their lives. The Mayor ordered the ccomjrany to run no more cars until the excitement had abated.

Wesley Harris, a farmer residing two miles east of Memphis, has a son James, with whom he can not get along amicably. In fact, the young man, on two different occasions, has attempted to take his aged father’s life. W4l nesday he became enraged, and, seizing a bludgeon, dealt the old man a blow across the face, breaking his nose and injuring one of bis eyes. The elder Harris says he is afraid to prosecute the boy for fear of being beaten. The ninth annual convention of the .Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor met at St. Louis on the 18th, neai ly hve thousand delegates being in attends ance. President F. E. Clark, D. D., in his address, stated that on June 1, 1890, there were recorded 11,013 societies, • with 660,000 members. Every month 17,000 persons had been added to their ranks, every week 4,000 young soldiers enlisted Seventy thousand have joined the churches of America from the Society. A shocking accident occurred at Oswego, N. Y., Tuesday evening. A horse attached to a buggy in which wore Miss Belle Mitchell, daughter of the Mayor, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Edward V. Mitchell became unmauageable and ran away. The ladies were thrown from the buggy and Miss Mitchell struck on the edge of the curbstone, crushing her skull, she survived hut a short time. Mrs. Mitchell was badly hurt. Miss Mitchell was to have been married in two weeks and the other lady •had just returned from her honeymoon. At Mason City, la., Judge John C. Sher win made a sweeping decision in the origi nal package injunction cases which have been pending for the past week, which is by far the severest blow at prohibition the State has yet received. In his decision the Judge finds that the defendants, as agents of importers, could occupy the building for the purposes of selling the beer in original packages to all persons except minors and habitual drunkards, and that such use would not constitute a nuisance, though the beer was drank on the premises by the purchasers and that the sales, although shipped by the cases,, were sales in original packages. He granted a temporary injunction restraining defendants from selling to minors and those in the habit of being intoxicated. A Miles City, Mont., dispatch of the 13th says: The attitude of the Cheyenne Indians continues to be menacing, though no overt act has occurred since the killing of Ferguson. Owing to the foot that the Indians have left their reservation and are ■scattered over the coun try in small parties, | settlers are thoroughly alarmed and are •sending women and children into town in •large numbers. Indian lookouts are on all high points and are constantly signalling fry mirror flashes and the blanket code, that there are to be outbreaks, and that are now “making medicine” which is generally accepted to mean that they are wain tig t* be Joined by allies from the

Standing Rock, Sioux and Pine Ridge Cheyennes, to whom messengers have been sent. The Northern Cheyennes of themselves only number about 200 bucks* At the Agency of the Rosebud, Major Carroll, of the First Cavalry, has chree troops of cavalry—about a hundred and forty men. Detachments of a troop of cavalry and three companies of infantry, 150 all told, left for Fort Keogh, Friday, to proceed up the Rosebud and co-operate with Carroll. Three companies more at Fort Keogh could be sent out, but there is ■ no transportation. In compliance with the request of the Sheriff of this county a hundred rifles and ten thousand rounds of ammunition arrived here Saturday in charge of Colonel Curtis, aide to Governor Toole.

FOREIGN. The municipal authorities Wednesday presented the freedom of the city of Edinburgh to Henry M. Stanley. . The most appalling accounts are received of the sufferings of the people in Upper Egypt and along the route of the expedition for the relief of Gordon. It is said that the inhabitants, driven desperate by starvation, feed on each other, while all kinds of animals, however loathsome, are eagerly sought for food. The wretched people fight with each other for morsels, and hundreds are perishing daily. Failure of crops is said to cause this awful misery. The Dublin Irish Catholic states that the Pope, in replying to the congratulations o* visitors at the Vatican, expressed himself as strongly of the belief that great punish, ment was impending on society for its disregard of and indifference to the church. “The Lord,” he said, “will come no longer with a sweet and peaceful face but with an angry one to strike and purify His church. lam neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I feel in my heart the presentiment. A sea of evil is about to beat against the rock on which the church is founded, and nothing will be seen on the horizon but the threat of the anger of God, -Prayer will not suffice to appease the Almighty.”c

DEATH IN THE STORM.

Two clouds met and burst at Bull Run Creek, near Maysville, Ky., the night of the 12th. The creek overflowed and carried away several dwellings and their occupants. It washed away a stone culvert on the C. & O. railroad and a freight train; ran into the washout, causing a fearful wreck. The engine and nineteen cars arepiled upon the top of one another, nine; oarloads of boots and shoes being in the) wreck. The bodies of engineer Roadcap,.' fireman Honalrer, and brakeman Eatoni have not been recovered, and about a! dozen persons living on the bank of thei creek are reported drowned. James Irwin' had a portable saw-mill located several] hundred yards up Bull creek abovo the, railroad. The clouds suddenly bursting] caused a rapid rise in the creek already] badly swollen by the storm. Farmers say! the creek rose two feet per minute, and 1 the water looked like a wall twenty-five feet high when it got to the railroad fill.; The' saw-mill was lifted from its fasten-] ings and, with over a hundred big logs,! hurled violently against the railroad stone] culvert. This is probably what caused it: to give way. Huge stones weighing several tons were carried by the creek long distances. The creek rose two feet higher; than it has been in forty years. The fury of the storm caused many people on Bull' creek to abandon their homes and take to! the hills, else the loss of life would have, been greater. The storm did much damage] to buildings, fences and crops in that portion of the county.

WOOL-GROWERS AND THE TARIFF.

The national wool-growers’ convention met at Galveston, Tex., A. E. Shepard presiding. The following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That amendments to the McKinley bill should be made by the Senate which shall provide substantially that all foreign wools having any cross or admixture of merino or English blood shall be classified so as to pay duties imposed upon Class 1 or Class 2 wools, according to the nature of the cross or admixture, and that the Secretary of the Treasury be required to remove all samples now in cnstom houses of the United States for the purpose of classifying foreign wools for duty, substituting new samples in accordance with the principles above stated. Resolved, That Paragraph 383 of the McKinley bill be amended by striking out! the proviso contained therein, and that Paragraph 6088 be changed by striking out the words “Russian camel.” ' Resolved, That we earnestly recommend that any further changes that may be made in the McKinley bill shall be only such as will givetotho wool-growers of the United States protection on wool as grown by American flock-masters. Resolved, That we protest emphatically against any law that will in terms or by implication permit wool to be imported in in any other than its natural condition as shormfrom the sheep, except as washed or scoured [n unbroken fleeces.

THEY WANT TO BE CURED.

Ten Thousand People Visit a Pittsburg Priest to Be Treated for Their Ills. At least 10,000 afflicted people from alj parts of the country gathered at Father MoUinger’s church, in Allegheny City, Friday, to be healed and take part in the celebration of St Anthony’s day. It was a curious assemblage of the lame, deaf and blind, drawn together by the reports o! Father Mollinger’s marvelous cures. The afflicted began to arrive Thursday, and five thousand were camped about the church, sleeping on floors, door steps porches and the ground. The services began at daybseak, and was continued all day and until late in the evening. Thousands were unable to gain admission to the church, and all day they stood In ths hot sun awaiting their turn to be cured. Father Mollinger is a physician, as well as priest, and does not claim any miraculous powers, but ho is a firm believer in faitli ooupled with works. He charged nothing for prescription, bnt few loft without giving to the church from 25 oenta to $5.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Elkhart has a bicycle club. Robbery rages rampant in Terre Haute. Npw watermelons have reached South Bend. The new infirmary in Grant county cost $34,000. Crawlordsville has but $9,000 bonded indebtedness. ~' :7 ■ ' . y' Seventeen tramps are prisoners in the Goshen Jail. Wm. Snyder fell against a saw in a mill at Stony Hill and was latally mangled. The State Encampment, Son’s of Veterans, will be held at Evansville, July 15. Spencer’s big hotel and sanitarium was opened amid much enthusiasm on the 12th.

Ed. Holcroffc, near Hartford City, captured a squirrel as white a 9 snow; with pink eyes. Mail carriers have been appointed, and Anderson will have free delivery, beginning July 1. , A six-foot vein of coal has been struck at Scottsburg, at a depth of 300 feet, while boring for gas. The boat “Asher G. launched at New Albany, is the first boat built there for many years. The high license of $350 will probably be the cause of a red uction of a number of the saloons in Brazil.

Walter Row, near Corydon, was flogged by “White Caps ” under suspicion that he had been stealing chickens. ——- Miss Minnie E. Hall, of Danville, has been appointed Secretary of the State Normal School at Terre Haute. A playful stallion kicked D, P. Closser, of Kingsbury, breaking his arm near the elbow, and his leg near the knee. Hutchens Brothers, wholesale notion dealers, of Lafayette, are preparing to remove their entire business to Chicago. Caleb Perkins, of Clinton Township, Putnam county, where he lived over half a century, died on Saturday, aged eighty. In all the prosecutions against the White Caps in Orange, Harrison and Crawford counties, there has never been a conviction. The Democracy of Northern Indiana are urging Hugh Dougherty, of Bluffto*, for Chairman of the Democratic State Centra Committee.

The oil field as developed in Blackford county is six miles loDg and four miles wide, and the wells average twenty-five barrels daily. The oat. crop in Southern Indiana Will prove a complete failure. The stems and blades are turning red and dying from some unknown cause. Two stallions on the farm of Captain B. F. Treater, near Aurora, broke down an intervening fence and fought until one was killed, and the other almost hopelessly crippled. The oldest citizen in the State was taken to the Little Sisters of the Poor at Evansville on the 12th. His name is Jacob Dishart, and he wasa born in Virginia April 13, 1783. Floyd county small fruit cultivators gave a strawberry exhibition at Edwardsville on Saturday, at which strawberries were exhibited some measuring inches in circumference. Shelby county voted in favor of free gravel roads, but the commissioners claim that the board has no right to purchase two roads which run through a township which opposed the proposition. Mrs. Nancy Light cap, of Crawfordsville, is charged □with setting fire to Elmer Marsh’s house because Marsh had whipped Nancy’s beau in a fight. The trial is creating considerable excitement. The watch club lottery cases pending at Crawfordsville, in which the publishers of the several papers’were involved in so far as giving space to the advertisements is concerned, have been dismissed. During the heavy rain and wind storm Wednesday thereof of A. Nixon’s house, south of Muncie, was blown off. The mishap was not noticed by the family until the rain came pouring through the ceiling. The Fort Wayne Democracy is alleged to be howling over the alleged duplicity of Chairman Jewett, of the Democratic State Central Committee, by whose interference that city was prevented from capturing the State Convention. The women of Washington are about to organize the Wimodaughsis, an institution similar to the Propylaeum of Indianopolis. If the ladies are capable of hanging these two words properly their right to vote will be almost undisputed. Patrick Morris, soloonkeeper, and Patrick Morgan of Brazil, have been arrested charged with aiding in the escape of ex' Councilman Kerins from jail. Kerins was awaiting trial for embezzling funds belonging to the Catholic Knights of America. Charles Curtis, of Lafayette, while handling bananas, was stung by q tarant ula taking effect on the little finger of his left hand, near the second joint. The poison rapidly spread though his system, and b.e narrowly escape™ serious consequences. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors Tuesday, as follows: Lewis' F. Case, Jr. Goshen, king bolt for vehicles; Hugo Cook, Indianapolis, adding machine; Samuel H, Gregg, Crawfordsville, post hole digger; George Philian, Mishawaka wood rim pulley; Herman W. Timmons] Groveland, buggy top. Mrs. Charles Collins, of Jofferso nville is lying dangerously ill from a combination of untoward circumstanoes. First her son shot himself In the abdomen with a rifle by accident, and narrowly escaped death after long weeks of anxiety. Then the daughter fell seriously ill of consumption, and lastly the reoent Cyclone demolished their home. Farmers near Scatterville are trying to secure the enforcement of the law against stock running at large, but James Cox, the Road Supervisor, was intimidated by threats of alleged White Caps. Recently •Ethan Stanley was elected Supervisor, and !he began enforcing the law, and in reprisa 'unknown parties have mutilated his stock and broken up his farming implements. I Jobta Garrett, of Muncie, has been sen* itonced to Imprisonment in the Montgomery county court for robbery. Garrett and [one Hudson were arrested for the offense, •and Garrett claims that Hudson gave him S2B to admit the crime,so that he [Hudson] might be released, and then he would

superintend Garrett’s defence and see that' disappeared tt6< *. A * ter his releMe Hnd«m| Democrats of the Fifth Congressional. District met at Franklin on the 10th and renominated Hon. G. W. Cooper. The platform reaffirmed the last national plat-, form, Senator Voorhees was present and. delivered an address. Tile Third District Democratic Convention on the same date enominated Hon. Jason B. Browns Mr. Brown was present and responded in the' speech of his life.” Other speeches were made and the convention is described as being very earnest.

Arthur Demina, of Terre Haute, carried $12,000 life insurance in the Company, and after his death the company resisted payment, alleging that alcoholism contributed to bis demise. Suit was brought and transferred to Putnam conns ty, and the case finally went to the Supreme Court, the company being held responsible. Tqpsday the claim was paid. John Coraty, ah inmate of the Hendricks county asylum, has been granted a pension of $13,500. At the battle of Franklin the 1 rebels had drawn wires tied among the trees. During a cavalry charge Mr. Coraty’s horse tripped against a wire and threw him. His head ostruck on a stone, and after the battle he reported to his command. He had been known as one of the most jovial,men in the company, but he gradually grew morose and sullen, until now he is a hopeless idiot. John Tomlinson, of Plainfield, will qualify as guar dian in the sum of $28,000. The Hendricks’ Monument Commission Wednesday morning received a telegram announcing that the missing parts of the statue have arrived in New York, and will reach Indianapolis early next week. The news was a great relief to the members of the commission, who were beginning to get nervous lest the stones should not arrive in time for the workmen to get the monument in position by July 1. Work had already been suspended on account of the failure of the blocks to arrive. The committees in charge of the arrangements for the unveiling are pleased with the prospect for a large attendance from all Indiana and from other States. It is probable that uniformed clubs will be here from Cincin-i nati and Chicago, and Governor Hill, of New York, expects to be here, if he can possibly get away from official duties.

NATIONAL CONGRESS.

In th° Senate on the 11 tb adverse reports were made from the finance committee on; Mr. St anford’s bill for government loans! on lie. is of real estate and on the bill to abolish metal money, and the bills were; indefinitely postponed. A bill extending' the criminal jurisdiction of the circuit and* district courts to the great lakes and their, connecting waters, was taken from the calendar and passed. The silver bill was debated. ‘The bill to prohibit mouoply in the transportation of cattle to foreign countries was passed. The bill to .‘provide for the inspection of live cattle and bee* products intended for export was passed. It requires the Secretary of Agriculture to cause to be made a careful inspection all live cattle and beef products intended for export to foreign countries from the] United States, with a view to ascertain whether such cattle and beef products are free from disease; and for this purpose he may appoint inspectors, who shall be au thorized to give an official eertificate clearly stating the condition in which such' animals and beef products are found, and iio clearance shall be given to any vesse * having on board cattle or beef product ! for exportation to a foreign country unless, the owner or shipper of such cattle has a 1 certificate from the inspectors stating that! said cattle and beef products are sound and free from disease. Seventy-hve private pension bills were passed." I The House took up and considered the dependent pension bill. Mr. Morrill, in} explanation of the report, stated that the conference committee had struck out the; dependent feature of the Senate bill and) theservice feature of the House bill. The, measure, as determined upon, was not ex-j actly what he would desire, but it was the' best that he could obtain. It would distri -j bute $35,000,000 among the poor soldiers of the Nation. Mr. Poder, of Ohio, protested' against the conference report, holding that it ignored the demands of the soldier, left his prayers unanswered, and buried in the* basement of the Capitol his petition for a per diem rate of pensions. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, favored the bill on the ground that it would place on the pension ro 11s 250,000 names, ana would increase the pension of 50,000 men now on the rolls, other menbers made statements and the report was adopted by ayes 145, nays 56. Iu the Senate on the 12th Mr. Davis presented the conference report on the dependent pension bill, after explaining which, the discussion of the silver bill was continued.

Iu the House the anti-trust bill was passed with the following amendment: “Every contract or agreement entered into for the purpose of preventing competition in the transportation of persons or property from one State or Territory into another, so that the rates of such transportation may be raised aDove what is just and rea* sonable, shall be declared unlawful within the meaning of this act. And nothing in this act shall be deemed or held to impair the powers of the several States in respect of any of the matters in this act mentioned.” The agricultural appropriation was passed; also a few unimportant bills. The President returned to the House without his approval the bill for the erection of a public building at Tuscaloosa, Alb- la his veto message the President said: “In the present uncertain state of the public revenues and expenditures resulting from pending and probable legislation, there is, to my mind, an absolute necessity that expenditures for public buildings should be limited to cases where the public needs are very evident and very imperative. It is clear that this is not suoh a case.” In the Senate on the 18th the Senate sliver bill was taken up, and after a short discussion it was agreed, by unanimous consent, that the Senate bill should be laid on the table and the House bill, as amandi ed by the finance committee, substituted for it. The House went into Committee of the Wbolo on the 13th and discussed the civil appropriation bill. Among the amendment# adopted was one appropriating SIO,OOO for an elevator in the public build? lng at Peoria, IIL

WASHINGTON.

The federal election law has been on the! Republican list of bills to be passed by the; present Congress and Speaker Reed, whoj so far, has carried out his program fromj the beginning of the session until the pre aj. ent time wants to complete it by the pasal ing of this bill. Of the two laws, the! Lodge bill and thg Rowell bill, the latter* has the preference both in House and} Senate. The Lodge bill proposes to place! all the federal elections—all the elections,' of members of Congress and Presidental: electors under control of federal officials! and at federal expense. It takes the fed-! eral elections entirely out of the hands of! the States, and it would cost $5,000,000 to ! hold a national election under such a law ! The Rowell proposition is sim?ly for the! extension of the supervisory system thatl is now in use in the large cities over the] entire country. Under existing laws! supervisors may be appointed in rural districts, but they do not hav e the same] power as those who serve in cities, which! the Rowell' bill gives them.

The House and Senate committees have .agreed upon a federal election bill. It* features will be an enlargement of the supervisory system, so that the supervisors shall participate in registration, voting and canvassing. k To carry out fully the national idea, the supervisor’s returns are to be prima facia evidence of the right of a mem , ber to his seat, and to prevail in making up the roll of the House. In cases of confllctin S returns the certificates of the State canvassers may be used to allow the House to form its judgment of Abe qualifications of the contestants. I Bids for over $5,000,000 worth of new' naval vessels were opened at the Naval Department Tuesday at noon. The ves sels bid for were of three distinct types, and there was considerable excitement about the contest between the rival ship builders engaged in the war of competition. The largest of the three vesse Is—;n fact the largest vessel ever designed lor i the United States navy, is known as the! armored-cruiser No. 2. ( Senator Edmunds introduced a bill oo the 10th, providing that all funds nr niW property lately belonging to or in the pos 1 session or claimed by the corporation of) the church of Jesus Christ or Latter Day) Saints, to which It shall appear there is) no lawful private rights shall be devoted/ to the benefit of common schools In Utah, the money to be disposed of by the Secretary of the Interior in such a manner asi shall seem to him most expedient. The f Supreme Court of Utah is invested with! authority to make all necessary and proper* orders and decrees for this purpose.

The dependent pension bill, as agreed upon by the conference and adopted by the House on the 11th, after providing for thej pensioning of dependent parents, says that! all persons who Served three months or] more in the military or naval service of the. United States during the war of the rebel-! lion, and who have been honorably dis-] charged therefrom, and who are now ori who may hereafter be suffering from ai mental or physical disability of a perma-j nent character, not the result of their own' vicions habits, which incapacitates them! from the performance of manual labor in] such a degree as to render them unable to earn a support, shall be placed upon the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, and be entitled to receive a pension! not to exceed sl2 per month, and not less', than $6 per month, proportioned to their! Inability to earn a support, such pension toi continue during the existence of such ability. Rankin the service shall not be] considered in applications filed under this] act. Provision is made for pensioning at| the rate of [s3 per month widows of men! who served ninety days without proving] death the result of army service, and like-, wise granting $2 a month to each child' under sixteen years of age. Ten dollars is fixed as a limit of the fee to be charged by agents in preparing cases under this act. There is no possible way to estimate the cost of the bill. The estimates range from 130,000,000 to $100,000,000. Mr. Morrill, in the House, placed the estimates at about $36,000,000, but it is thought it will run up to at least $60,000,000 the first year. 1

The Senate committee on finance Weds} nesday considered and amended the House silver bill. The provision making the certificates Issued in payment of bullioni legal tender for public and private debts) was struck out, leaving them receivable) for customs, taxes and public dues. The) bullion-redemption clause was stricken! out; also, the section providing for free* coinage of silver whenever the market price is $1 for 371# grains of pure silver.! This act is made to take effect in thirty) days after passage, and shall terminate at! the expiration of ten years therefrom. Col. Henderson, of lowa, from the Committee on Appropriations, in reporting a bill to make good the second pension defl-, ciency which has arisen since last Decern-: her, stated that the deficiency was due to the very large number of original pension* recently allowed and the increases which] were not anticipated, averaging $12,000 toi $16,000 each, the average first payment] being S4BO. The appropriations during thej present session of Congress for soldiers) for all causes, aggregated $167,419,731, over one-third of the estimated gross receipts the government for th 9 fiscal year 1891

An immigration restrictionlbill will not be reported at this session of Congress, i Representative Butterworth, of Ohio Friday, introduced a bill to provide for fixing a uniform standard classification! and grading of wheat, corn and other; cereals. ( The bill authorizes and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to fix, accords ing to suteh standards as he may prescribe,j the classification of cereals, as in hlj judgment the usages of trade warrant! and permit, having reference to tha standard and grades now recognized bjn the chambers of commerce and boards o<| trade. When such standard is fixed l] shall be made a matter of record in th«j Agricultural Department and notice given) that such grades stall be known as 1m United State* standard. ‘ I