Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1891 — Page 2

■ L || . " r . She Republican, ' Q*o. E. Marshall, Publisher, VXNBBSLAEB. - INDIAHi

The New York Sun suggest* that disbelievers in vaccination for smallpox qboutd consider the . 6tat«menti just mado to the French Acadetnj ol Medicine by Dr. Brouardel. While Germany loses only 110 persons pei annum from small-pox, France actually loses 14.000, to be accounted for bj the rigid way in which vaccination is enforced In Germany, and by the careleasness of the Frenchmen. In 1866, when vaccination was not ooligatory in Prussia, the mortality was 27 per 100,000 inhabitants. After vaccination was enforced the mortality fell in 1874 to 8.60 per 100,000 and in 1886 tc 0.C49. At the present time the mortality from this cause in France is 4S per 100,000. Pierce’s Cabinet is still the only one In our history which . remained un. broken to the close. Gapß have been made, either t>y rceignatvorr or death. in all the others some time a ithin Iht Presidential term. Intellectually, too. it was one of tho strongest Cabinet-? which the country has had. It consisted of William L. Marcy, Secretary of State; James Guthrie, Secretary 6 f the Treasury; Jefferson Davis, Secre tary of War; James C. Dobbin, Sec* retary of the Navy; Robert McClel. land, Secretary of the Interior; Campbell, l’ostmaster-General, and Caleb Cushing. Attorney-General. Marcy, Guthrie, Davis and Cushing conspicuous figures in the national arena long before Fierce s election. ■ ■.-==%= Leaving out of consideration the Koch cunt consumption and the hundred and one kindred “discoveries," which have grown out of tho bacillus cure, the last few months have been notable for some of the most remarkable feats of modern surgery and medical therapeutics. Four human beings have been constructed recently, one with the blood of a goat, another with the bone of a dog’s leg, another with the rib of a cat, and the fourth with pieces of cuticle taken from a hundred or more fellow lodge members. In all of these cases the opperations have proved successful. It is said that it takes nine tailors to make a man; modern science has demonstrated that fewer physicians can accomplish the same feat. Admiiiax Pouter’s famous joke on the confederates at Vicksburg will always be remembered in connection with the story of his service during the war of the rebellion. Ho fitted up a flat boat in imitation of an ironclad. armed it with quaker guns, built a 6moke stack of pork barrels and constructed a furnace of clay under it. Then, building a fire within,he set the craft afloat. The black smoke poured out of the chimney, and when the rebels caught Sight of the quasi monster they supposed their time had come. As the beat approached ioksburg the rebel guns opened upon it in terriblo earnest. It was riddled with shot and nearly torn to pieces, yet it didn t sin'v Meanwhile Two confeFefate'rron-risda were run aground to get them out of danger and the whole loss to tho rebels was estimated at $1,000,000. It was a very costly joke to them. The new navy is steadily coming forward and assuming goodly proportions. The fast cruiser Newark has just been formally accepted by Secretary Tracy. The San Francisco has returned in triumph from tho final lest of her seagoing qualities, which are shown to be admirable as her speed. She behaved splendidly in high seas, and her powerful guns, which severely taxed their own appurtenance- of shields and carriages, did not affect her at all. The Concord has yielded the 3,400 horse power required by her contract, with a few units to spare, giving her builders $453 prem;um. 'This will be heavily overbalanced by penalties fgr delay beyond the stipuleted time; but since the Government has lost nothing by tbe delay, and hahad alUhe more leisure to study alterations, Congress may remit tho time penalties for the Concord as for the Petrel and the Charleston, and on similar broad grounds. The Miantonomoh is to be ready in three weeks, and New York harbor will then have a defender, carrying 10-inch high p' wer guns in Btoatly protected turrets. Tho Bennington will also soon be ready for her trial' trip. . * But while these new and valuable vessels are added to the navy, others go out. The Omaha, the Swartara. and the Despatch, ali of which habeen counted on for longer life, cann ot be repaired within the prescrili twenty per cent- limit. The old wo 3 en craft, in fact, drop away almost as feet as the new steel ones are commissio ted. and Congress must not pad in tbe work of building up the » —N, Y. Sun.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Tbe Senate op the 4th considered the majority and minority reports of the com* m.ttee that investigated the management of the Eastern Insane Hospital at Richmond,which resulted in tabling the motion to reconsider by a vote of 27 to 12. The reports upon the appropriation Tof addTtions and improvements at the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home at Knights, town was discussed, resultingin the adop. tion of the minority report by a vote of 30 to 13. which was Apportioned as follows: Chapel $13,00.) Hospital extension 3,000 Six cottages 18,0(50 Workshop and fire escapes 6,000 Two school houses 5,000 Repairs to cottage. 50) To complete dining hall I,oo® For aiuking'weUs 2,000 Electric light 2,000 Library -. SCO Water closets 3,000 Alteration of eohool house.. 1,500 Current repairs 2,000 The following bills wore passed; Prohibiting trustees of academies from mortgaging t)?e property in their charge; fixing the liability of railroad and other corpora, tions for damages for injuries to employes; amending the election law to permit the use of pasters; for the relief of Samuel Williams, ex-trustee of New Gordon township, Wayne county, who lost 1600 by thecoliapse of a bank; appiying the pro. visions of the Barrett law for the con* atruction of streets and sewers to the con atruction of ditches; providing that the State Geologist shall have the oare ami custody of the battle flags of Indiana, and appropriating $457.30 for the construction of cases in which to preserve said flags; giving gity councils tho right to order the survey and construction of drains; legalizing the iucorpSatiqn ofkScottsburg, Scottcounty ; authorizing the appointment of boards of children's guardians in counties of 75,000; raquiring that all allotments for ditch work must be said by the county auditorbeforo the work can be commenced, regulating the incorporation and managemant of live stock insurance companies; appropriating SI,OOO to advertise for bids for the completion of Indiana School.book series. Also, making physiology a twobook series instead of a one-book, and raising the price of histories from 50 to 6 . ceßWrpraviaing for the education ““trf the nrnates of the Deaf and Dumb, Blind and Feeble-minded Institutions by skilled in* structors. and appropriating $13,000 for that purpose; providing for the construci TTon of a sewer from the southern prison to the Ohio river. In the House the Mine Inspector bill was passod over the Governor's veto, The following bills Were passed: Providing for the appointment of admin* istrators de bonis non in cases where as* Bets are discovered after estates have been finally settled. Requiring all dogs to be registered annually, the oharge to be $1 for each male and $3 for each female, and providing that dogs running atlarge unaccompanied by their owners or ..others may be killed. For the protection of blrds> their nests and eggs. Amending the horse thief act by providing that horse thief detective associations may operate in any part of tbe State. Amending an act con* cerning vestrymen and church wardens. Authorizing incorporated towns to issue bonds to buy fire engines and apparatus, Exempting Samuel Williams, ex-trustee of New Garden township, Wayne county, from the payment of some S2OO of township funds lost by the suspension of the Richmond National Bank. Exempting Isaac Y. D. R. Johnson, treasurer of Randolph county, from the payment of $2,000 of county funds lost by the suspension of the banking house of C. L. Lewis & Co., of Winchester. [The two last named bills were passed under suspension of the rules. | Authoring the establishment of pipe*line companies and the laying of pipe in the State for purpose of piping gas and oil. Authorizing the Momence Rock Commissioners to make contain changes in the chan ael of the Kankakee river. Exempting one story buildings from the provision of the statute requiring all doors of public buildings to open out. Authorizing the Board of Trustees of Brightwood, Morion county, to borrow money for improvements upon petition of a majority of the property owners of that tovrin. Providing that life insurance companies shall not discriminate in their charges in favor of individuals whose names they deslrs to use to secure business. To punish school enumerators who make false returns of tho number of bildren in their districts. The Senate devoted most of the day to passing bills of more or less importance Senator Loveland introduced a new fe6 add salary bill. It provides for the appointment of a non-partisan fee and salary commission of three members, with quarters in the State House. It is mado the duty of this commission to inquire ic|othe work required in eaoh of the State and county offices in the State, and prepare a fee and salary bill based on services and population, and that will stand tbe constitutional test. The commission, between the 15th of November and the Ist of December. 1892, is to mail two copies of the bill prepaid to eaoh member of the General Assembly, and one copy to every newspaper in the State. The pay of ths member 8 of the commission is to be $5 a day for each day employed. The following bills were passed; Prohibiting citie* of from 50,000 to 100,000 inhabitants (EvansviiJe) from extending franchises covering tbe use of streets while such franchises ara stiy in effect; prohibiting the granting of a franchise for a term to exceed twentyfive year* and providing for the payment into tbe city treasury of 2 per cent, of the gross receipt* arising from the exercise of such franchises: appropriating 11,500.93 to pay Leckman & Shearer for cement ■idewalks about Military Park; Authorizing citi«s of over 10,000 to lay out parks. Prohibiting railroad companies trow making overcharges fer freight. Providing fer ltec* against real estate for labor aj.d material used in the construction of ditches, etc. Levying a tax of 6 cent* cn each JIM during the your* 1591 and 1592 for the support cf the. bsnevoleut and re* foncatcr* institutions Of tire State Making it a misdemeanor fer persons cot entitled to do sc to wear G. A. R. or cihoi secret society hedges. Authoring the So

f perintendent of Public Instruction to set aside $15,000 semi-annually for theaupport of the State Normal. Appropriating $2,010 to pay for the construction of a sewe r adjacent to University Park. Providing for the appointment of a commissioner'in counties having a voting population of thirty thousand. Repealing the law exempting fl.ue.acre. tract* within4be corporate limits of oities from city taxes; providing that the appeal sbal l not effect pending litigation. Providing that in cities having homes for the friendless,' women and girls convicted of misdemeanors shall be sent to said homes inrtead of county jails. Legallzingtbeincorporation off Macy, Miami coußty. Appropri&tiog $100 i 0tK) for tbe completion of the soldiers’ and Bailors’ monument. The House on the sth defeated the bill regulating teaming oa turnpikes and fr6e gravel roads by 29 yeas to 52;c ays. Aiso a bill amending the ditch law. The Senate oonvened with the House to participate in the election of State Libraran and trustees of benevolent and penal institutions. Upon motion of Senator Fulk speeches were barred. The chair called for nominations for State Librarian, and Representative Voigt named {Jacob P. | Dunn of Marlon, the present incumbent, while Senator Loveland nominated Miss Emma L. Davidson of Miami. The vote resulted: Dunn 101, Mrs. Davidson 35. Dr. E. H. Houser, of Bartholomew, was elected trustee of the Central Hospital son Insane, over Leonard Wild of Porter, the Republican nominee, the vote being 101 to | 37. The Republicans refrained from voting. I The Democrat* voted solidly for David Holt for trustee of the Northern hospital and Perry H. Blue for trustee of the Southern hospital, and they were deolared elected. Upon motion of Senator Kopelke tbe election of three trustees for the Riche mond hospital was deferred. The remainder of the cauous programme was then carried out without incident, the vote rev suiting as follows; Director of the State Prison North—John Brodie, Porter, 105; Duncan McArthur Williams, Benton, 34. Director of the State Prison South— Floyd Parks, Clark, 104: G. W. Osborn, Greene, 32. Trustee of Institution for tho Blind—i John B. Stoll, St. Joseph, 102; M. S. Robinson, Madison, 29. Trustee of Institution for the Deaf and Dumb- Joseph L. Blaze, Posey, 14H; Thos. A. White, Henry, 127. The following resolution was .adopted: Whereas, From an investigation of the affairs of the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, made by a joint committee from both houses of the General Assembly, it has been made to appear that George W. Koontz, John S. Martin and Milton C. Benham, trustees of the said Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, are incompetent to properly manage said institution : therefore be it Resolved, by the House of Represent*, tives, the Senate concurring, that George W. Koontz, John S. Martin and Milton C. Benham, of the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, are hereby removed from their offices as trustees of said institutiou on aocount of incapacity and negligence, and a vacancy in the offices of the several Trustees -of-The Eastern Indiana Hospital for the insane is deolared to exist. The following bills were passed on the 6th: Empowering cities to condemn railroad rights of way to open streets. Authorize ing judges of oircuit courts in counties having a voting population of thirty thousand and over (Marion) to appoint probate commissioners. Fixing the duties and compensation of Supreme Court Reporter. Exempting David McWilliams, a deputy tax collector of Warrick county, from the payment of $lB2, which was lost through phe burglary of a safe in which the money was deposited. Fixing ths- time of holding court in the Eleventh judicial circuit' ‘For the preservation of the health of female employes in manufacturing and merch&ntile establishment. For the relief of G. M. Ballard and others who Invested (5) in State lands, the title to which was defective. (The bill provides for the payment to Mr. Ballard es this amount with interest beingslU.) Exempting exTrustee Samuel Williams.of New Garden township, Wayne county, from paying township funds to the amount of S2OO, lost turough the failure of the Richmond National Bank. Mr. Gent introduced a fee and salary bill providing that all county officers shall receive two-thirds of the fee of their offices, the other third to be turned into the treasuries of the several counties. After referring the bill to the temperance committee the House adjourned until Friday. The following bills wsre passed in 4#je Senate: Appropriating $25,000 for the maintenance of the State militia. Fixing the compensation of township assessor* at $2 per day. Authorizing associations of the Protestant Episcopal Church, organized for the maintenance of superanuated ministers and their families, to hold and convey real estate . Making it a felony for any banking institution to receive deposits when said institution is known to be insolvent. Authorizing companies organized under the laws of tbe State to borrow money, to purchase real estate and to carry on their business, authorizing the incorporation of companies for the transportation of oil by piping; amending the Barrett law to provide that benefits and damages arising from ths construction of sewers shall be assessed by a committee of three oitizens instead of by the city engineer; authorizing the prompt application of sinking funds to the re demptionof bonds of incorporated oities I defining incest and fixing the penalty at from two to five years; legalizing the incorporation of Baltilioville, Washington countv; making itunlawfulforanyonenot authorized to change sny gas pipe, mixsr or stop cock of any natural or artificial gas company; authorizing the vacation cf oemeteries that have fallen lute disusGjintended to apply to Gresnlawn Cercstery, Indianapolit; providlag that an corporation stall purchase stock iu another corporation without the consent of all the stockholders of both corporations: Defining an “Accessory before the fact,” and providing lor the infliction upon an vccessiry the same penalty os that visited . upon a principal. Providing that, ,ths Eleventh Judicial eirouft shall consist of the oeuaties es Gibson, Duhaio Pik;e.

and fixing the time and length of terms la each. Apprupri»t ng *17,50u for improvementsat the Deaf an 1 Dumb lotTYute. Prohibiting insurance' compa-ios paying no taxes into the Stale treasury from doing business in the Stale. Authorising a lev of 5 cents on theslU) in cities of 100 0( 0 inhabitants for the erection of industrial schools. Prohibiting the removal of mortgage personal property Irom one county to another under penalty not toexceel -S3OO, to which may be adeed six months’ im: prisonment. Transferring to the State the the Hendricks monument. The House on the 6th reconsidered it vote, wherein it Don-concurred With tht Senate’s action on the fee and salary hill, and adopted it a* it came from tbe Senate With the Governor a signature it will become a law, not affecting present incum bents. The following bills were passed Requiring railroad companies to place flagmen at all crossings where there are otort than two tracks or where switching is done; making the published decisions*! the Supreme Court of Indiana evideneei in certain cases; amending an act providing for the election of clerks of the Circuit Ceurt; legalizing records and acknowledgments of deeds net properly certified; providing for the appointment of world's fan commissioners and making an appropriation. [The House amendments to this bil fix the appropriation at $45,000, reduce the number of commissioners from twenty-sl to thirteen, and vest their appointment in the Governor, Secretary and Auditor ol State.] Amending the civil code by providing that when an attorney releases * judgment it shall be a complete satlsfac tion to all parties to the suit, whether oi not he receives the money; legalizing the acts of all minors noting as deputy county officers. Both houses continued in session throughout Saturday and Saturday evening, not adjourning until near midnight. In the Senate, as committee of the whole the appropriation bill was considered during the day, and in the evening the House amendment to tho loan bill providing for one of $700,000, instead of two, was concurred in. . It was provided, however, that, if neccessary money notexceeding $700,050 may he borrowed to pay interest. Both the House and Senate adopted a resolution ordering the $700,000 or more to be ob-' tained from the federal government as n return of the direct war tax to be credited to the general fund of tbe State. The world’s fair appropriation was, after a long struggle, passed by botb. bouses $75,000 being the amount named. The tax commissioners were ordered to report to the next Legislature a tax bill.

FOREIGN.

Yellow fever is spreading in Brazil. The St. James Gazette advooates retaliation against the United States copyright bill. “If the Americans will not give copyright to books printed here,” it says “let us retaliate by refusing to give copyright to books printed in America. The bill is not# reparation, but Is passed in the interest of Amerioaa printing trades in order to deprive the British of a flourishing industry.” Fireman Sadler, who was arrested February 13 last, the day the woman named Frances Coleman, otherwise known as “Carroty Nell,” was found murdered in Whitechapel, and who was charged with having murdered her, has been discharged. The police could not collect sufficient evidence to connect him with the crime, which is now definitely placed to the acs count of the mysterious and undefinable murderer whom the police and public know only under the designation of “Jack the Ripper.” Madrid Heraldo, in article protesting against a supposed scheme of the United States government to annex the island of Cuba, says Mr. Blaine ought to recollect that the Congress of American nations plainly proved that Spanish-Amer-icans are not disposed to allow themselves to be absorbed by the great Northern Re publio. The people of Cuba, it says, are strongly Spanish and aro equally opposed to becomings part of the United States. Probably, with the exoeption of a few tradesmen, there is no one in the island who Ts “at Rll desiroui of annexaTon: Spain, the Heraldo continues, would shed her last drop of blood in resisting any attempt to deprive her of her colony, fearing neither a Cuban revolution nor a war with the United States. Marion oouniy, Ohio, commissioners have just allowed the largest sheep claims in the history of the county, the two heaviest being Enoch Hoch, $125.80. and Jacob Linn, $109.80, and the grand total of all $425.50. The culprit who found that lovely woman leaned to mercy in her judgments, was—a man!

THE MARKETS.

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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Leonard Jerome, ut .<ew York, died at London on the 4th. Burlington, Yt, has the first Democratic Mayor in twenty years. Hereafter tbe Pittsburg authorities will permit na-aecret cremations. 1 The Australian ballot law was recommended in both houses of the Arizona Leg* islature. The widow of General Barrundl has sued the United States Government for $1,000,s ®OO damages. The Minnesota Legislature has received the committee recommendation to pass a bill prohibiting the use of tights on the stage. *■ | The Legislature of Texas adopted resolu' tions of respect to the memory of Jefferson i Davis. , I Ex-Governor Murry, of California, a 1 former resident of Kentucky, is spoken of as the possible successor of Senator Hearat. Jonathan Scoville, ex-Congressman and ex-M*yor of Bnffalo, died at the Windsor Hotel, New Nork, on the sth, of live r trouble. The Nebraska House passed the Moran bill prohibiting free passes to public and all other officials except railroad by a vote f 58 to 53. « At Reading, Pa., Samuel Sellers, aged eight, was drowned in the canal in attempting to save the life of his six-year* old brother. j The testem-ntary request of Prof. Wm ! Steffen, of Louisville, to be cremated and his ashes thrown into the Ohio river, was executed on the 7th. The testimonial of the New York mtr. chants expressing their appreciation of the reciprocity policy of Secretary Blaine was presented to that official Saturday. Railroad managers are somewhat exercised over a decision by an lowa court that it is not forgery for any one to sign another’s name to a mileage tioket. A misplaced switch caused a wreck .on he Cincinnati Southern near Flat Rock. Ky. Mrs. Noah Kearns, of Zanesville. 0., and Mrs. J. H. Townsend, of Cleveland, 0., were injured. i A burglar drilled into the vault of the bank of Freeport, Pa., and stele over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in money, negotiable bonds and valuables Tram-private boxes! • ■■■■—'■'——~—• A passenger train of six coaches was wrecked near Havana, 111., on the Bth, one man being killed and ten persons injured. The wreck caught fire and the en' tire train was consumed. A small riot occurred on the sth, at Broadway and Grand streets, Now York, between union and non-union cloakmakers. The police soon stopped the fight and made a number of arrests. The United States and Brush Electric Light Companies of New York, have sued the city for $375,000 damages for injuries I Sustained by Mayor Grant’s raid on over head wires and poles last December. Two weeks ago Charles Timmons and another young man rescued Ida Worthington from drowning in the Ohio at Cairo, 111. Her life was saved, but both rescuers have died from the effects of the exposure. The organization known as the" Knights of Raciprocity,” which sprouted from the soil of Kansas soon after the election last fall as a counter irritant to the Farmers’ Alliance,is about to blossom forth ali over the country. A poll of the Missouri House on preferences for presidential candidates resulted: Cleveland, 35; Palmer, 10; Boles, 7; Gray, 1. Eleven were aoc-commlttalAnd eleven against Cleveland. The Republicans were unanimous for Blaine. [ There is great excitement and alarm in Chautauqua county, Kansas, over the r ipid spread of the small pox among the farmers A strict quarantine is being enforced against the country people. The number I of deaths during the past sow dsys is said ' to be alarming. The schooner Elsie Smith, of Portland, is reported lost with all on board, on the beaoh off Cape Cod, between Newnnmh’s Hollow and Nansett. On board were eighteen man, and the latest report is that twelve bodies have been washed ashore oa the beach. The abandonment of tbe military post in southern Arizona has created great alarm in the Territory, and an uprising of the Indians is feared. A bill has been intro* ' duced in the House declaring the Indians • who left the San Carlos agency with arms n their possession outlaws, and offering a reward of s2oofor eaoh Indian killed upon whom at the Coroner’s inquest arms shall be found. The long strike of the coal miners of the Monongahela valley has ended in a corns plate victory for the men. The operator met at Pittsburg on the 6th and decided to concede the demands of the strikers for an advance in the mining rate of one-half cent per bushel and resume work on the 9th. The strike was one of the longest and most determined ever knowu in that section. It lasted ten weeks, and the six thousand men lost in waget. alone ove r $1,000,000.

CONGRESS ADJOURNS.

The 51st Congress is no more. Its life ended at noon, March 4. During its last hours many important appropriation bills were passed. The Senate was in session all of the night previous. The morning’* transactions were witnessed by a iarg e crowd of spectators. The Vice President was thanked for the dignified and able manner in which he had presided over the Senate. At 11:30 Mr- McPheraon, the clerk o* the House, presented to the Senate the deficiency bill enrolled and signed by the Speaker, and it was immediately signed by the Vice President and carried to tha President, who, In company with members of the Cabinet, was occupying his room adjoining the Senate. Messrs. Blair, Ev* arts, Hampton, Ingalls, Payne and Spooner of the Senate, whose terms expired at noon, wers in the chamber to the last, and no outward manifestation of conoern or regret at leaving the old familiar hall, although now and again one of their assncis aves approached to say farewell Ur. Edmunds reported that the commit* tee appelated to wait upon the President

In eon junction Wth a similar committee of 'he House had waited upon him and had informed him that tho two Houses had concluded their business and were ready to adjourn, and that the President bad replied that he had no further coiumnnication to make, and he wished to the President ,of the Senate an&o&ll its members a 'happy return to their homes 'and every felictt. The bands on the dial of the Sen. at* elock pointed to five minutes befqre noon, and it appeared as if for the firs' time in the memory of this generation, the amusing little scene of old Captain Basset’s march to the locality of the elook, with long white wand in hand in order to put back the minute hand to suit the emergency of the occasion, was to be omittedThose who imagined so, however, were I amusingly disappointed, for the venerable j gentleman, wand in hand and with his characteristic gait, strode solemnly up the center aisle amid the hardly suppressed laughter of a thousand spectators—and turned back by about three minute# the hands upon the dial. Once again and a third time, still the time-killing operation was performed, and finally when the thing was overdone, be stalked back for the fourth time, and advanced the hands a few minutes. Meanwhile the clerk of 4he House had brought over a joint resolution just passed to correct an error in the enrollment of the agricultural appropriation bill. The joint resolution was passed, the last piece of the Senate legislation of the fifty-first Congress, but Lt was of no force or effect for before lt could be sent back to the House that body (not having recourse to the Bassett method of postponing the noon hour) adjourned. When no other scrap of business remained to be transacted and when the clock had taken a three minutes’ step forward at a touch of tho old wizard’s wand the Vice-President arose and made hi s farewell speech; There was a great deal of applause on the floor and tbe galleries at the conclusion of Mr. Morton’s little speech at exaotly thirty mihutee past 12. Tbe next half hour, or so, they were on the floor and in the balls many hearty, and probably sincere, leavetakings of Senators with eaoh other ana with Senate officials. THE HOCSE. The House, like the Senate, kept strictly to business until all the important meas* ures' bad been d lSr™ Burrows, of Michigan, taking the chairs Mr. McKinley, of Ohio, offered the following: That the thanks of this House are pro sented to Hon. Thomas B. Reed for the able, impartial and dignified manner in which he has presided over its deliberations and performed the arduous and important duties of the chair. Mr. Mills demanded the yeas and nays The resolution was agreed to—yeas 152 nays 116—a strict party vote. The Repubs loans immediately burst into a volley of cheers, which were only redoubled when Mr. Mills inquired whether this was a part of the funeral services. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, submitted the conferenoe report on the general defleien* oy bill and while he was explaining tb« report the Speaker resumed the chair. Hi* appearance was the signal for a wild outburst on the Republican side. Papers and records were thrown in the air handkerchiefs were waved and for a few moments the ehamber rang with cheers. But throughout the tumult the Speaker was calm, and with a few vigorous strokes of the gavel restored order. Then Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, rising, paid a warm tribute of respect to the chairman of the committee on appropriations, Mr Cannon. On the floor, in committee and in personal oontact, he said, Mr. Cannon had always earned the gratitude of the gentlemen on the Democratic side. [Loud applause on both sides of the chamber.] The Speaker stated that in the enrolling of the agricultural bill the appropriation of $250,000 for the relief of destitute persons in the West had been Inadvertently retained. He therefore asked unanimous consent for tbe passage of a joint resoluion rectifying the mistake. Mr. Pickier* of South Dakota, objected, where Mr. Funston of Kausas, vigorously exclaimed: “Sbameonyou; shame on you! You vil*. lain!” But Mr. Pickier subsequently withdrew his objection and the joint resolution was passed. SFK4.KEK HEED’S SPEECH. Speaker Reed then arose and said: After two long and stormy sessions, in some respects unparalleled in a hundred years, the House of Representatives of the Fifty-first Cougress will soon pass with completed record into tue history of the country, and its works will soon follow it. : What we have done is in a large measure political. Whatever is political arouses the sternest, tbe most turbulent, the most unforgiving passions of the human race, i Political action can never be justly view ed from a near standpoint. Time and distance are needed for a ripe judgment, and the verdict of history is tbe ouly verdict worth recording. To state in language which would seem to me to be adequate the achievements of the House would not he suitable to this , time or to this place. Nor is it in the least needful that it should here and now rekindle old disputes or fan the dying embers of struggles passed and gone. Whether we have disposed of questions of finance with the wisdom of broad statesmanship, time will surely show. Whether in tbe things we have done and the things we have attempt ’d for the furtherance of human liberty we were actuated by high and honorable motives will be visible to ail the world at no distant day. If our deeds do not praise us our words can not. Confident as lam of the verdict of time on what we have done, I am still more ootifident that tbe highest commendation will be given us in the future, not for what measures we have passed, valuable as they are, but because we have taken so long a stride in the direction of responsible government. Having demonstrated to the people that those who have been elected to do tbeir will can doit, henceforth excases will not be taken for non-perform-ance, and government by tbe people will be stronger in the land. Toward those who have opposed what the majority of the House have desired we can have no unkindly or personal fbelings. Whoever offers battle to old convictions and faith must expset battle, and the vigor of tho resistanoe must always bear some proportion to the vigor of the onset. To members on my left with whom I am politically associated I beg to tender my most sincere and heartfelt acknowledgements. No man ever received more ungrudging and unflinching suppert or from a band of men more patrlotio. I aw proud to acknowledge in all that has been dose I have baeu but one in the multitude, nod that the honor* of ths Flfty-lrst Congress bslong to you alone. 1 now doclar* this House ts be adjourned without delay.