Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1895 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

The Senatorial deadlocks in Idaho and Delaware remain unbroken. Mrs. T. S. Brown is dying at Camden, Pa., from the effect of a cat bite, Isaac Farley, a Kentucky mountaineer, blew off the top of his head with a rifle. Ex-Governof Richard Oglesby, of Illinois, has suffered arel apse and is dangerously ill. John L. Sullivan’s company disbanded in Jacksonville, Fla., and he is drunk there and ‘.’broke??—" G, T. McCoy has been arrested at Pierre, S. D., for complicity ih.the defalcation of ex-State Treasurer Taylor. Mrs. Harry Scott, of Eureka, 111., sought out her husband, who had deserted her, and killed herself in his presence. • An engine and eight cars fell through a trestle into a forty foot ravine near Spring Valley, 111. No one was hurt— Oneman was killed and another fatally Injured by the explosion of a cylinder changed with gas in a Philadelphia laboratory". » : K. A. Denison, a Leadville assayer, drank water out of a cup which contained cyanide of potassium and died within an hour. A thief stole $5,000 worth of diamonds from a store in Trenton, N. J., while an auction was in progress. He was - neb 1 caught. ' | 2 A bill providing for the removal of the , State capital from Lincoln to Hastings has been introduced in the Nebraska legislature. A negro on his deathbed, at Halsey, Ky„ confessed that ho had committed five murders, for one of which an innocent man was hanged. Five grown 'members of a family at Brampton, Ont., have become insane and will be sent to an asylum for assaulting their mother. Juge Pugh, of Columbus, 0., has held , that express companies must pay into the excise fund of the State two per cent, of their gross receipts. John L. Sullivan’s company has dis- I banded and ho has gone to Cuba, where ho will give sparring exhibitions and , thence will go to Spain. - A mail bag weighing 170 pounds, I washed out of the mail - room”'of the J (unken steamer Elbe, has come ashore near Rochester, England. A Senate investigating committee re- , ported that overproduction; dea 1 ing in options and-demonetizationxjf silver cans--ed the low price pf cotton. j Hot Springs, Ark., had a bad lire, Feb; 1 22. One hundred houses were destroyed 1 and five lives lost. The property loss will be hundreds of thousands of dollars. Andrew Ostrich, a saloonkeeper at ■ Kingston, N. Y., shot three of seven in- i toxicated men who were smashing the furnishings of his place. None will die. i The Senatorial contest in Oregon, after » thirty-one days’ struggle, came to a close. Saturday night, by the election of George W. Mcßride to succeed Senator -Dolph, —— . I People are hurrying away from Hot Springs, Arlc., because of the smallpox there, A dispatch from St. Louis says that 300 people from Hot Springs arrived there Wednesday. The destitute farmers of Nebraska are accepting the proposition of tlie Chicago Board of Trade to furnish them Seed grain to be paid for when the crop is sold , j This will involve over a millipn dollars. The board has formed a syndicate to handle the matter. I Mrs. Cleveland is said to have join d the W. C. T. U. during the session of the National council of women at Washing- ; ton. last week. Mrs, Cleveland signed the I constitution and Miss Willard pinned the , white ribbon on her breast, A dispatch'from Norrnanton, Eng., says that all of the five hundred miners who ; were imprisoned in a pit of the Whitwood- j Haighmoor colliery at that place by a ! collision of the cages'in which the men ascend and descend have been rescued. 2 Capt. H. W. Hogate, of the United States Signal Service, who has been on trial at Washington on two indictments 1 charging him with embezzlement, was acquitted by the jury. Sunday. Capt. Howgate was a fugitive from justice for hlrtecn years.

Representative Ryan, of New York, has. reported to the House from the committee tn railways and canals a modification of Rep.*Cooper’s resolution for the survey of The ship canal from the southern shore of Lake Michigan to the Wabash river. The turvey is to be made by a board of three engineers’ officers, and $10,060 is appropriated to pay the expenses of such work. Another statue will soon lie added to tlie group now in Statuary Hall at tlm Capitol. It is that) of Gen. U; S Grant, and will represent him as he appeared qt tlie tlose of the war in his dress as General of the army. Tlie statue is the work of Franklin Simmons, and was executed tinier tlie directhyi of a committee < < tho National Encampment of tlie G. A, R. ■ Tho excitement at Savannah, Ga.. continued Wednesday and Thursday. Thn'rslay night ex Driest. Slattery lectured at Odd Fellows’ Hall to an audience of 1.060 non. most of whom were armed. Slattery advocated the organization of the A. P; A. Fhe police escorted him back to his hotel. The police force, has been largely intreased. Conservative men on both sides deplore the existing situation. Postmaster-General Bissell, Fob. 27. placed his resignation in tho hands of tlie President, to be? accepted on the appointment of his successor. In an interview Mr. Bissell said his retirement was on icconnt of professional xvotk at homo Ivhich demanded his attention. Tlie President, in an interview at tlie White House, said ho would release Mr. Bissell with the utmost regret. There is a probability that Chairman Wilson will be appointed to fill tho vacapcy in tlie Cabinet. Messrs. Morgan and Belmont announce lhat the total subscription to the new 4 percent, loan in the United States amounts to $200,600,000, Thostqamer Paris brought Ihirty-fivc boxes of gold bars, valued at 1M70.000, to August Belmont & Co., on account of the new bond syndicate. Tho aew bonds are now being bid for at USX. with 119 asked. A dispatch .from London lays the now American loan was quoted »n the Stock Exchange at 5 per cent, premium. A terrible explosion of gas occurred aq the White coal mines near*Cerril)os N. M., Feb. 27. Thirty-seven men were at work in tho mine at tho time. Eleven were rescued in a dying condition. A dozen dead bodies were taken out. It is leared that tho balance also perished.

Latest reports indicate that the first estimate of only thirty-seven men at work a; the time of the explosion was too low. and it is feared that there were at least eightyfive men in the mine. ' William Walsh, an old bachelor, wh< has for years resided alone in an old honsi in St. Joseph, Mo., and who is reported t( be a miser, was called out of bed earlj Friday morning by five masked men wht seized him at the muzzle of pistols at tempted to make him divulge the hidingplace of his money. He they set fire to liis hair and beard, burnint them off, and burned his body. with a rec hot poker. He still refused and they placed his feet over afire and roastec them. On his still refusing they beat bin into insensibility and, after ransacking the house, escaped. .The New York World, Feb. 21, produced on its first page large portraits of J. Pierpont Morgan, President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle, accompanied by a lengthy article charging in efccs that they had “buncoed” the Treasury out of the sum of'sß,-418,757 it the last bond deal. The bonds were disposed of to the syndicate;headed by Morgan at 16414- They were all disposed oi by the syndicate in t went.y-two minutes. Feb. 20, at 112 K. The World, editorially asks: "Is there any term but ‘bunco’ ■with winch to describe the transaction between the Government and the syndicate?” »

FIFTY - THIRD CONGRESS.

The Senate, Feb. 26, continued the consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill. A vote was reached on the proposition for bounty on sugar produced prioi to the passage of the tariff act, and it was agreed to—yeas, 46; nays. 20. The vote was then taken on the second branch ol the sugar bounty amendment for an aggregate bounty of $5,030,060, and it was agreed to—yeas, 36; nays, 25. The session of the House, Feb. 26, was, until 3:30 p. m., occupied in consideration and passage of the bill providing for a board of conciliation and arbitration (it -caso- conciliation failed) to mediate and settle differences between common carriers and their employes. A bill was alsc passed to provide for the. publication oi the bulletins of the Department of Labor, and also one to aid t he Baltimore exposition, to be held in 1837. Tho remaindered the day was devoted to eulogies on thelate Representative Post, of Illinois, The Senate, Feb. 27, resumed consideration of tire sundry* civil bill. The financial uiinendnmnt providing for an issue of SIOO - 000,but) eertillcatoj of indebtedness bearing 3 per cent, precipitated a long impending contest. Nir. Hill offered—a ’ further ~amendnii!ilt t IrauTr oasury notes shalfire' ca ne e 11ed wh e h “pf esr n t ed. Hu~satl thr amendment for certificates of indebtedness and for bonds was clearly general legislation and contrary to the settled, rule that general legislation could not, be added to appropriation bills. If these propositions were not ruled out, then the Senate was launched on a sea of discussion—on certificates, bonds, greenbacks, etc.—for the next week. Nir. Hill was interrupted with frequent suggestions that debate was out of order. Nlr. Mills insisted that the point of order raised against the amendment by Nlr. Berry should •be submitted to a vote. The Chair then directed a roll call. By a singular parliamentary situation the -orderfor the vote made the amendment subject to debate, and Mr. Gorman addressed the Senate; He said it had become evident that there was to bo no financial relief unless it was made a part of an appropriation bill. He regretted that it had not come as an independent measure from a co-ordinate branch of the Government. —But such action had no; been takeir anA-the. plain question.now was: "Is it necessary that the Treasury of tlie United States should have this legislation?” On the point of order Mr. Gorman said tho same question had been raised two years ago, and the Senate had voted. 28 to 18, that a bond amendment could gw on an appropriation bill. He desired to restrict the question to the simple needs of -the treasury and no’, to go into a broad discussion of currency and financial questions. Mr. Gorman submitted elaborate figurbs to demonstrate that there Would be a deficiency and that the proposed certificates would bring relief. Ho contended that tho government would always maintain its gold payments. Mr. George suggested that the Secretary of the Treasury ought to know what ho wanted without hpvipg a guardian. "I am not tho guardian of the secretary”, said Mr, Gorman, "but I am sent here by a state which has never repudiated a debt, and the people would not keep me here if I failed to stand for the honor and integrity of tho credit of onr government.” Mr. Voorhees opposed the amendment. Finally after an almost interminable debate in which Senators Mills, Sherman, Hill and Gorimin took part. Mr. Gorman withdrew the financial amendment. Mr, Mills at once offered an amendment repealing all laws giving authority for tho issue of bands. Mr. Aldrich made a point of order against tho amendment as general legislation. Chair sustained the point of order. Routine business was then considered until adjournment. Nonight session was held.

i The Senate, Feb. 28. passed tho sundry civil appropriation bill, including the item appropriating over $5,0i)0.0.)0 for sugar bounties, and tlie provision for a commission to-represent the United States at an international monetary conference. Thu latter feature brought out a wide difference of opinion among the silver men of the Senate as to tho advisability of participating in an international Confconec. Nlr. Stewart sou.-lit to have tlie United States delegates instructed not to make, any agreement short of a recognition qf silver at? the ratio of 16 to 1. This was opnosed by Nlr. Wolcott, who has always hcre-tofore co-operated with Mr. Stewart outlie silver question. Mr. Wolcott severely arraigned’the Nevada Senator for his intolerance on financial questions. Nir. Stewart commanded only ten votes on his 16 to 1 ratio amendment. Most of the lending silver men. Demo, crats and against it. At the night session an extraordinary exchange Of personalities occurred. Mr. Chandler personally arraiirncd many Democratic Senators. Mr. Hili responded, characterizing Nir. Chandler as a hyena for having dug up the private record ol Senator Roach. Mr. Martin, who had been arraigned by Nlr. Chandler, replied with intense bitterness, characterizing Mr. Chandler as a “buzzard,” and decihring that if ha.lf was true that was charged against Chandler he should b« in tlie penitentiary instead of tlie United States Senate. At- times there was great confusion and excitement in tho galleries, and the Vice-President threatened to dear them. The mingled confusion, debate and excitement on the floor of tlie Senate and in the galleries lasted until after midnight. Tho rush of the 1 clo'lng hours of Congress showed itself In tire House, Thursday. in the miscellaneous characterof tlie business transacted. An attempt to pa-s a bill to pension Hiram Rlina, an alleged member of the Tenth Regiment of North Carolina Infantry, over tho veto of tlie President failed—M to 153—both the veto and the report of tho Secretary of the Interior showing that Rhea was alleged tn have been at the time he was wounded a member of an armed band of guerrillas. The House, by a vote of 117 to 153, decided to furlhef Insiston its disagreement, to il>« Senate amendment to the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill providing for the Hawaiian cable.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Star City comes to the front with a sensational ghost A detachment”of the Salvation Army is now engaged in saving Crawfordsville. , The ice gorge at Madison broue, Monday, after a blockade lasting eighteen days. No particular damage resulted. •’ Broad Ripple has ten licensed saloons. An enthusiastic mass meeting was held at that place, Monday night, in behalf of the Nicholson bill. ~~ - ' t A fierce factional fight overthe appointment of a Judge of the Superior Court of Madison county is. said to be raging among Anderson Democrats. Lemuel Justice, a wealthy resident of Flora, is mysteriously missing. Some weeks ago Mr. Justice walked out otthe village, leaving everything behind except his postoffice address. At a meeting of well-known horsemen in Wabash, Saturday, steps were taken to organize a circuit, including the tracks at Fairmount, oSwayzee,* Mai ion,-Wabash, North Manchester, Rochester S%d Bourbon, 4 David Jones, the farmer near Elwood, who has been afflicted with wakefulness to an unparalled extent, has at last, after one hnndred~and fifty-two days, been able to Sleep a little. His record as a “wideawake” man has never been equalled. David P. Vinton, ono of the oldest residents of Lafayette, whohas for many years occupied a prominent position, died Saturday afternoon after an illness of considerable duration. Mr. Vinton was among the best known judges of the Hoosier State. “Miss Hazel Haze,” a fair unknown, has been working Seymour business men in a way they despise. She obtained possession of a large quantity of fine goods “on approval,” since which time “Miss Hazel Haze” and the merchandise have vanished into space.

The CitizensV Enterprise Company of Muncie have closed the contract with a part}’ of Toronto capitalists for the location of a silver table ware factory to employ 250 hands. Over $100,603 will be invested in the plant. The firm comes to this country to prevent paying tariff duty. A remarkable case of cutting the third set of teeth is reported by Dr. Reynolds, Of Columbus. Mrs. Ann Featherscon, aged ninety-eight, has been feeling badly for some days, and her physician was called. HeTottnd -thaFshe had- jnst-eut ularge jaw tooth. She is now convalescent. While John Supp, employed as a wiper at the Vandalia round house at Terre Haute, was cleaning an engine, a hose used in conveying steam so as to create an extra draught broke loose and the full force of the steam struck him jn the face, ft.is supposed that Supp is blinded for life. The Governor has appointed J. R. Carnahan, es Indianapolis; D. N. Foster, of Fort Wayne; C. J. Murphy, of Evansville; I. B. McDonald, of Columbia City, and J. B. Wallace, of Lafayette, trustees of the State Soldiers’ Home, Three of the board. are Republicans and two are Democrats. All serve without pay. A four-year-old son of Louis Ahrent, of Peru, discovered the clothing of a smaller child, with whom he had been left aloft®, In flames. He exhibited remarkable presence of mind by drenching the child with water and putting it to bed before calling assistance, The child was terribly burned and may die. Tho Winona Assembly is a summer school, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church, that is to be located at Bass Lake, Starke county. The lake is one and a half by three miles. The trustees at a meeting at Indianapolis,- Feb. 27, arranged for improvements to bo completed by July 1, to cost $25,000, Clinton Moore, of Colfax, became intoxicated and concluded to annihilate Postmaster Harbaugh. Finally he took a stand In the postoffice with a knife and a revolver and defied “the earth.” He was arrested with difficulty and lodged in jail at Frankfort. The attention of the Government will be called to M’oore’s interference with the United States mail. Silas Guise, of Idaville, while in a neighboring town on business, purchased a box of sardines and some crackers, on which he lunched. Shortly after returning home he was seized of intolerable agony and died. Mr. Guise took some kind of medicine while suffering, and physicians were undecided as to the cause of his death. The body became dreadfully bloated and discolored in a short time. Charles Ilinsti, a young school teacher, who was arrested Saturday and placed under bond for his appearance, Monday, for peddling tho teachers’ questions for the Feb. 4 examination, was arraigned before Squire Craycroft, at Shelbyville, and on a plea of guilty, was fined $25 and costs. Prof. William Griffin, who was also arrested on the same charge, has not been arraigned. They are both prominent teachers of the county and have heretofore borne good reputations. 4 A month ago the officers of tho Presbyterian Sunday school of Brazil placed in the hands of forty-two boys and girls of the school a dime each, with Instructions to Invest it and work it so as to realize the most out of it within a period of thirty days, the proceeds to apply to tho Sunday school library fund. Tuesday evening, at a public meeting held at the church, this army of juvenile financiers made report of their stewardship and Improvement of the talent intrusted to them, the aggregate being $88.30 from a loan of $4,20. Tlie best return came from a girl ten years old. who reporteds7.2s. Joseph Bufford, a farmer residing near Burnettsville, claims a bou* fide record of nine immersions. He first united with the German Baptist, or old Dunkard, denomination. and according to their peculiar rites, received three submersions, face downward. Later, ho became a member of the new Dnnkards and, in accordance with their custom, was baptized once, with the head backward. Similar experiences ensued upon his subsequent connections with the Baptist and New Light churches, and finally, one day tho past wook, he returned to his first love and was rebaptized, thrice with the face downward. All his religions vagaries are said to have been actuated by sincere motives. The prosecution of John W. Paris, the Greentown banker, is about to be abandoned and he will probably go free. The abandonment of the Paris prosecution practically ends the whole affair, and tho case against ex-Governor Chase will bo dismissed. Paris, out of a fortune of $75,ouo, besides tho many thousands he re-

ceived from the Howard county, farmers, has onlj a few shares of stock in thaJffexican gold mine left, He is now concerned in a patent telephone, which he is introducing in the smaller cities of the country, and is said to be in a fair way to retrieve his lost riches. There was a riot in Judge Kirkpatrick’t court at Kokomo, Tuesday, that stopped proceedings for \o day. An injunction case was being heard, in which Elia; Lowery was plaintiff and D. E. Downey defendant. When Frank Wyatt arose from the witness stand Downey’stwosons called kicked him down stairs. Knives, stones and clubs were used, and Wyatt and one of the Downeys were badly hurt, the former escaping by dodging into a drug store. Lowery, believing his witness was killed, fell t 6 the floor insensible and was taken home unconscious. He issubject to heart trouble. The rioters were arrested, .A- petition, has been signed by many land-owners for _the construction of a uditch running through tpe w-estern part of Gibson county and the northern partot Posey county. The proposed ditch will begin five miles west of Princeton, at tho Air Line railway, and will run in a southwesterly direction, emptying into tho Wabash river. It will be forty feet wide, with an average depth of twelve feet, and the length will be something over ten miles. It will be constructed under tha five mile law of .1892, which provides for bonds covering a period of twenty years. As soon as the preliminary plans are completed the work of survey will be undertaken. The proposed ditch will be one o| the largest in tho State, and it will reclaim a large tract of fertile land. The estimated cost is SIOO,OOO.

BEAR ADMIRAL BROWN, OF INDIANA.

Rear Admiral George Brown, of Indiana, has succeeded to the position oi senior officer of the United States Navy, because of the retirement of Admiral ..Greer. Rear Admiral Brown was born is Rushville. Ind., June 19, 1835. He wat appointed a midshipman by the late Senator Jbseph E. McDonald, from the Crawfordsville district, February 5, 1849., H( has served forty-six years consecutively in the navy. During the Rebellion ht served with distinction. In appearancr he is what is technically known as th< “nautical type,” being of stocky build with ruddy complexion, a round face with hair ahd mustache freely tinged wltli gray. He is said to bear a very close resemblance to Rear Admiral Gh’erardi,- retired. At present he is at his station in Norfolk. Admiral Brown will be the senior officer of tho navy until June 19, 1897, when, under the operations of the law, he will go on the retired list by reason of his then becoming sixty-two years of age. "

AWFUL DISASTER.

Five Coaches tumble Down Into a Canon —Forty Killed. A City of Mexico special, Feb. 28. says; An excursion train coming into the city or the Interoceanic railroad met with an accident this morning. While rounding a curve on the side of a mountain five coaches jumped the track and went dowr. the canon. Forty-two people were killed and thirty or more seriously injured. Th* accident occurred about forty kilometers from the city. Wires have been down and it has been impossible, so far, to obtain any details of the awful disaster. Kentucky Prohibitionists have nomi nated a State ticket.

THE MARKETS.

Mar. 2,1395. ]n<!lanay><>lU. GTtAIN ANTI HAY. Wheat—s3>fe: corn. 41c; oats, 33c; rye, 45c; hay, choice timothy, $9.09. T.IVK STOCK. , Cattle Shippers, $2.75®5.25: Stockers. $2.25(<i>3.00; heifers. $1.75763.50; cows, $1(0)3.25; bulls, [email protected]: milkers, $16.0.) ®40.00. 1i0n5—53.01X164.35. SllEKl'—s2.(X K<i.4.25. rOULTItr AND OTHER T’BOOUCK. (Prices Paid by Shippers.) PouLTicr-llens. 7c per lb; spring chickens, 7c; cocks, 3c; tinkers. toms, 4c; hens, 7c per 1b; docks 6c per 1b; geese, $4.80®55.40 per do?., for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 20c. Better - Choice. 16® 12c. lloxicr—lSe HtoLTiriCHS—Prime geese, 30®32c per »; mixed duck. 20c per tt>. Beeswax —20c for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool—Medinin unwashed, 12c; Coltswold and coarse combing. 10.7612 c; tubwashed. 16®18c; burry and unmerchantable. 5c loss. Hides— No. 1 G. S. hides, sc; No. 2 G. S. hides, 4%c. Chicago. Wheat—so% c; corn, 43%c; oats, 28%c: pork, $10.30; lard, $6.55. New t'or». Wheat— 57c; corn, 49c; oats, 34-. lit* It [inure. Wheat— corn, 47%t;oats, 36c. St. Louii. Wheat—sl%c; corn, 41%c; oats, 29% c. I’lillailelphl*. Wheat— 58c; corn, 47%c; oats, 36%c. MlnubapollA Wheat—No. 1 hard, 58a Detroit. Wheat—ss%c; corn, 42%c; oats, 33%t East I.lberty. H0g5—?3.00®4.40; cattie, [email protected]

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Bills on second reading were the order in the Senate, pkib. ?6. Stuart’s election offenses bill was passed. Bill to empower grand lodges to hold and transfer shares of stock was passed ur.der suspension of rules, A number of other bills were passed, the most important being: By Senator Barnes—Providing a fine of from SIOO to S2OO for the sale of pernicious literature; By Senator Seller—Providing that county commissioners shall take control of gravel roads bnit by private enterBy Senator McLean—Regulating the assess meets for sewer i mprovemen ts in cities having a population of from 30,iXJO to 35,030. The Nicholson bill was received from th-e House at 5 o’clock and was refeiredito committee on temperance. The House was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Buchtel, Feb. 26, Speaker Adams being absent on account of sickness, Mr. Moore, of Putnam, occupied the ehair. Mr. Nicholson moved that his temperance bill be considered as engrossed and placed before the House for discussion. Nlr. Robinson moved the bi 1 be put upon its passage under suspension of the rules. Mr. Vanardel seconded the motion. Chair declared the motion out of order. After a parliamentary discussion Mr. Robinson renewed his motion and demanded the previous question. The House seconded the demand —SI to 9. Mr. Bobilya sought to amend tlie bill, which was on second reading. He was at first ruled out of order, and Nlr. Leedy dem and - question again upon Mr. Robinson’s amendment,Mr. Bobilya claimed theflodr. Undeclared that he had been properly recogn izod. but the Speaker refused to continue the recognition and put the previous question to a vote. The House seconded the call and in tlie tumult Mr. Holloway’s voice was heard protesting. The Speaker then ordered the bill read a second time. Nlr. Leedy called attention to an error in ruling of the Chair and the ruling was retracted. Chair recognized Mr. Howe, who wanted information about the status of affairs. Mr. Bobilya continued his obstructive tactics, and Mr. Harrison demanded that the ayes and noes be called on the demand for the previous question. Chair insisted that the bill ought now be read a third time by sections as a way out of the trouble, and Mr. Leedy appealed from the iecisjon of the Chair, but did not press the appeal or oppose the clerk beginning to read the bill for the third time. Again ;he previous question was demanded, the House seconded the appeal, and the vote by division was 54 to 30. Mr. Bobilya ' Asked unanimous consent to offer an unendment, but was refused. Mr. Merritt rose to a point of order and read from ;he Reed rules to show that it was proper » amend tho bill and that Mr. Bobilya’s tmendment was in order. Chair sustained" ihe point and the motion was read. It provided tliatall after the enacting clause ihould be stricken out and that Bill 46, Moore’s, should be substituted for It. Nlr. Leedy did some reading from rules himself it this point, not Reed rules, but the rules M the House itself, showing that the tmendment was not in order, and he. too, was sustained by tho Chair. Mr. Bobilya contended that his amendment was pendng in time to forestall the effect of this tmendment, hut the tangle tyas smoothed away by tlie order to the clerk to proceed I k> read tlie bill for the third ana last time. Following the last reading of the bill Mr. Nicholson and other members spoke in explanation of their votes, The bill was passed—7s to 20—as follows: Yeas—Adams of Parke, Allen, Allison, Barber, Beeker, Billingsley, Binkley, Blakely, Blue. Bohannon, Booher, Card-will,-Coates, Crozier, Dalman, Dinwiddle, Duncan. Floyd, Fowler, Gaither, Garriot, Gregg,Griffin, Grimes, Hamrick, Hanna. HarrisDarrison of Shelby, Harrison of Elkhart and Kosciusko, Hesler, Higbee, Howe, Hundley, Hunter. Jackson. Kell, Kelly, Leedy. Longwell. Loring, Mcßeth, McCaskey, McGeath, Mclntosh, McCrea, Melendy. Merritt, Miller. Moore, Newlouse. Nicholson, Pettit, Poindexter, Por,er, Remy, Reynolds, Robinson, Ross, Simmons. Smith of Huntington, Smith of Tipton, Spitler, Stakebake, Stewart, Steter. Stutesman. Swope, Terhune. Thomas, Van Arsdel. Welch, White, YYilliams, Willis, Woodruff; Nays—Bobilya, Colbert. Davis, Farrbll, Foist, Finkbinder, Gibson, Holloway. Hunt, Kamp, Laidlow, Lambert. MeIregor, O’Brien, Remington, Spaulding, Stotsenburg, Vonnegut, Willoughby, Willon. In the Senate, Fob. 27, the special order vas Senator Eliison’s drainage bill. It was ami nded and ordered engrossed. A u mber of bills on third reading were called. 11. B. 587 to abolish Soldiers’ Monument Commission and appoint a board of regents was passed. The Wish-ird-Newhouso bill to repeal present legislative apportoinment was called. Lieut.Gov. Nye ruled the bill out pf order. Mr Wishard appealed from Chair’s decision. Appeal was sustained by a party vote—2o to 19. A vote was reached on the bill repealing present apportionment and it passed—3o to 20. The legislative reapportionment bill was taken up. The Cnair ruled the bill unconstitutional and out of irder Senator Wishard again appealed and the appeal was sustained. Many lengthy speeches for and against the measure were made. The bill was placed in its passage. The vote was strictly partisan—yeas, 30; nays, 19. The House, Feb. 27, heard the report of ipecial committee which investigated alteration in the fee and salary law of 1391. The committee could not determine who ■vas guilty of changing the law, but sav there is no doubt that the law as it appears in the statutes is entirely different from the form in which it was passed. Tlie committee recommended that a bill pc passed correcting tho enrollment. The committee submitted with tli<? report two bills in accordance with the suggestions of •he report, and recommended their immel.iate passage. On motion of Rep. Robinson the rules wore suspended for passage )f the corrective bill—yeas 74. nays 4. The bill was then passed—yeas. 90; nays. ). Tlie second bill, fixing a penalty for changing bills, was referred to tlie comiiittee on judiciary. Affairs ofltidianap>l is were a special order. Several bills were passed, tho most important being >nc to compel the street railway rone panics to pay to tho city 5 per cent, of theirgrossearnings for park purposes. The Senate, Feb. 28, was opened with •prayer by Rev. Mary Dennis. The draintgo bill was passed without amendment. The military bill was passed after a warm iebate, Shiveley’s bill amending school laws so that A Horney General can not collect 12 ver cent, on unexpended balances )f school funds was passed. Tlie committee on the affairs of Indianapolis recomnended tho passage of the bill providing 'of the Australian ballot system in the flection of school commissioners. The House bill fixing the salary of Judge Mc'ray of the Criminal Court at $3,250 was ilso recommended for passage. House bill '3O was reported favorably by a majority 3f Hie committee on education, and a minority asked that It lie postponed. It wns srst made a special order and afterward taken up again and tho majority report adopted. By resolution it was agreed that the journal clerks be retained after the close of the session at their present salary and tho President was authorized to drawpvarrants for their payment. Another resolution adopted increased the pay of tho three colored men employed in the Senate from $3 to $4 per jav during the remainder of tlie session. Tn the House, Feb. 28, the fee and salary bill as agreed upon by the Republican caucus was Introduced. On tho motion to uispend tho rules, Messrs. Mcßeth, Dinviddie. McCrea. Woodriiff, • Hunt and Booher voted with the Democrats In the iegative. The vote was 71 to 20. Mr. Dinwlddie arose and startled the House )y saying that he opposed the bill because t had raised tho salary of the officers in tis county $3,400. No one knew whf thia

I had beeh <ioip:j>.li4 In; did ;iol know now It had been done. He knew that ther® I had been a raise of $1,700 in the salariea of the officers of Lake county and tho night before the caucus had voluntarily raised these salaries another $1,700. H® could not face his constituents with this and would vote against the MH. Mr. Mcßeth at first refused to vote, bntaftervoted for th« bill. The bill passed the House by M a vote of 74 to 15. The general appropriation, bill was considered |n committee of the whole. Th® appropriation allowed the Central Hospital for tlie Insane was first considered. Mr. Duncan proposed to increase "the (HX). Speaker Adams favored this and thought the committee had made a mistake in reducing the appropriation to the State benevolent institutions 10 per cent No change was made, however. A large number of other items were considered. About $14,000 wasadded to the bill. LEGISLATIVE NOTES. 2 Rep. Hamrick has introduced a bill to place the statues of William Henry Har-ri-on and Oliver P. Morton in statuary hall at the National capitol as representatives of Indiana in that famous assemblagci of effigies. The Senate has adopted the committee’s report Recommending the passage of the bill to give tlie Indiana department G. A. R. rooms for headquarters in the State House. — ; : — — ——-- The House, Monday, passed a resolution—driving—lobbyists from tho floor. From the beginning of tho session they have been running riot among members and Interfering with legislation. .Mr. Wi 11 oughby introduced the resolution. The bill for the appointment of commissioners to investigate tho practicability of constructing a strip canal from Lake Michigan to the head of navigation of the Wabash river was engrossed, Monday,.amended so as to give the commissioners $6 Instead of $4 per diem. Senator Stuart’s < 1 iction offenses bill which passed the Senate Feb, 26. provides severe penalties for offenses against the election laws.graded according tothegravity of the crime, penalties ranging from a fine to imprisonment for five years. Tlie bill Is a copy of the New York law with a few.changes. The expected opposition to the bill developed, and a bare constitu-. tional majority was mustered in its favor. Senator Duncan showed that if he were a candidate and acceded to the demand of a tramp for a nickel to buy a glass of beer or a sandwich that lie could be prosecuted and sent to tlie penitentiary. The vote was yeas, 26; n a vs, 19. The Democrats who voted for the Nicholson bill were: Messss. Billingsly, Blue, Dalman, Dunqan. Harrison of Shelby, Higbee, Kell. Kelley, McGeath, Swope, White and Williams—l 2. Mr. Cooley was absent and did not vote. Tlie bill Increasing the salary of Judge McCray, of the Marion county criminal court, is in a tamgle. The bill has passed both Houses, but the original Senate bill was thought to have been stolen. It was intimated th at a prominent Marion county member knew more about the matter than he was willing to tell. In the meantime the bill turned up in Tffe~printer’s hands about the time the amended bill had passed the Senate. The House, not willing to rest under the imputation that the bill had- been stolen by a member, voted to reconsider former action. Judge McCray at this writing does not exactly know “where he is at.” The bill making it unlawful to clip horses in winter has been killed in tho Hojise. Speaker Adams took the floor and showed that clipping horses was a benefit to the animal at any time, as It prevented dampness from settling in tho hair. A delegation of Fort Wayne citizens was before the Senate temperance committee, Thursday, asking tho passage of the Nicholson bill. Governor Matthews has signed the bill creating a Superior Court in Madison county, and also the concurrent resolution relative to the authenticity of the Stato seal, and appointing Reading Clerk Hatcher to investigate tlie subject.

POSTMASTER-GENERAL WILSON.

President Cleveland, Thursday, sent to the Senate the name of William L. Wilson, of West Virginia, to be PostmasterGeneral, tosncceed W. S. Bissell, resigned. Nlr. Wilson is better known as “Chairman” Wilson, of the way# and means committee, and isTamous as the author of the Wilson bill. He is very popular In Congress. Mr. Wilson is regarded as an apostle of tariff reform, and was defeated last November for re-election to Congress because of tlie figlit made against him on this account-

MINISTER GRAY’S SUCCESSOR.

senator Itnnaom, of North Carolina, Capture* the Covered Prize. President Cleveland, Saturday afternoon, sent to the Senate the nomination of Senator M. W. Ransom, of North Carolina. to be Minister to Mexico, to succeed the late Isaac P. Gray. Immediately after tho nomination was received Senator Blackburn moved an executive session, and the nomination was forthwith taken up and confirmed by tho unanimous vote of tho Senate. Senator Ransom has been a factor in every Democratic National campaign of recent years, being band in glove with Senator Gorman, and was one of the shrewdest old-line Southern Democratic politicians. Few nominations have been sent to the Senate which have been deceived with greater favor. Being an eld time member of the Senate and personally popular with all Its members, they, with two or three exceptions, and those exceptions because of relations with the executive, had joined in the recomendation of the appointment. Mr. Ransom has been a member of tho Senate continuously for the past twenty'three years, being first chosen in 1872. 'Che Japanese Minister of War, Count, Oyama Iwawo, has recalled to Japan all the Japanese officers who have been serving in the German army.