St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 51, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 10 July 1897 — Page 6

C!)c 3ni>cpcnbcnL ENDLiEY, I’xilillslier. WALKERTON, - . . INDIANA. RICHES OF ALABAMA? NEW IRON ORE STRIKE IN BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT. .Lead Extends Over One Hundred Miles—Honor to the Memory of Thomas Jefferson—Northwest Has in Storage 150,000 Tons of Coal. Fine Vein of Iron Ore. A discovery of incalculable benefit to the Birmingham, Ala., district, has been made on lands of the Sloss Iren and Steel Company, near Leeds, twenty miles from Birmingham. The discovery is of a regular lead or vein of rich brown ore ten feet thick and thirty or forty feet deep. There has also been discovered a small stratum <>f ore resembling Lake Superior I®-? per cent- of irou * - tk ।has been tapped in r ~ -irecTTonS"Ttr«.-^ound to run uniformjy on the Sloss Iron and Steel Company’s land and those of the Tennessee company. It is believed the vein will run 100 miles in length to Home, Ga. The quantity is deemed sufficient to run the district furnaces a thousand years. Standing of the Clubs. Following is the standing of the clubs m the National Baseball. League: W. L. W. L. Boston 45 14 Brooklyn ....28 32 Cincinnati ..38 18 Philadelphia .29 34 Baltimore ..38 20 Louisville ...24 34 New Y0rk..35 23 Washington .23 35 Cleveland ...31 29 Chicago 24 37 Pittsburg ...29 30 St. L0ui5....11 49 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Columbus .. .42 21 Detroit 30 3(5 St. Pau1....4(5 23 Gr'd Rapids.. 24 42 Indianapolis .41 22 Minneapolis .21 47 Milwaukee .41 2(5 Kansas City.2o 48 Marshal May Sow Interfere. An important step was takeu at. Cincinnati, Ohio, Tuesday in connection with the coal miners' strike, which puts the power of the United States against all violence or unlawful acts in at least a portion of the territory in Ohio. An order of the United States Circuit Court was made by Judge Taft, upon a showing made by Myron T. Herrick and Robert Blickensderfer, receivers of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company and of the Wheeling. Lake Erie and Pittsburg Coal Company, whereby the United States marshal is directed to protect their miners at work and to prevent unlawful interference with the operations of their railway. Coal to Last Four Months. A. Brenholz. who manages the Columbus, Ohio office for the General Hocking Coal Company, says there is at least 150,000 tons of coal in storage in the Northwest. He estimates that this will supply all demands for at least four months, no matter how general the miners' strike becomes. There is considerable coal on the Ohio docks ready for shipment by lake, but this will be held for supplying transient trade. With respect to a supply for the railroads, it is estimated that the different companies have enough coal on hand to last them about six weeks. In Honor of Jefferson. A bronze bust of Thomas Jefferson, heroic in size, the work of August Mundhenk. of Cincinnati, was unveiled on the premisses of T. J. McGrath, in Avondale, in the midst of a furious thunderstom Monday afternoon. A brief speech was made by Mayor Tafel of Cincinnati. He was followed in an oration by Col. Geo. Washington, of Newport. Ky. The reading of the Declaration of Independence by Joel Baker concluded the ceremonies. The base of the figure bears the inscription, “All Men Were Born Free and Equal." Rebellion in India Possible. London dispatch: Affairs in British India are critical. The belief in official cirdes, both here and in Calcutta, is that a mutinous conspiracy is being hatched. It is conceded by the newspapers that discontent with British rule in Hindustan is rapidly growing, caused principally by the terrible conditions resulting from the famine and the plague. There are some who openly say that a rebellion may be expected.

BREVITIES, Turkish troops, after a sharp fight with the inhabitants. occupied the village of Kalabaka, in Northern Thessaly. The British warship Wallaroo has hoisted the union jack on Russell. Bellona and Stuart Islands, belonging to the Solofnoh group. (’apt. Gen. Weylcr lias issued another proclamation offering amnesty to all Gu- , ban insurgents who will “surrender, with or without arms.'’ ■ President McKinley’s mother fell at Canton, Ohio, Monday, ami. striking her head on a stone step, received a painful wound on her forehead. A cyclone obliterated the town of Lowry, Minn.. Tuesday and ten people were killed and several injured. Lowry is situated on the Soo line, seven miles from Glenwood, on the Northern Pacific Railtoad. The Republican Senatorial caucus Tuesday decided not to present a beet sugar bounty amendment to the tariff bill again, and Senator Allison was authorized to move to have the amendment offered by Senator Allen tabled. There was also a general agreement to take up the Thurston beet sugar bounty bill us an independent measure the first thing after Congress meets next December. .John Henry Barker, colored, was electrocuted Tuesday at Sing Sing for wife murder. The crime was committed Aug. 30. 1895, just outside of White Plains. Barber was jealous of his wife, and after being separated from her for some time returned on the date mentioned ami shot her to death, afterward hacking her body with a spade. A freight train on the White Mountain division of the Boston and Maine Railroad was wrecked Tuesday by a washout near Woodsville. N. 11. Three men were killed and the engine and three cars were .badly wrecked.

EASTERN. The jury in the case of the tobacco trust officers, indicted at Now York for conspiracy is restraint of trade, has disagreed. The severed body recently found in New Yo’’k has been identified as that of William Guidensuppe, a rubber in a Turkish bath establishment. The crime is attributed to the machinations of a jealous woman. The Now York Evening Post's Loudon correspondent, cables as follows: “I understand that large orders for steel rails have been placed in the United States by two of the Indian railways at prices said to be £1 per ton below the figures at which the contract could be tilled in this country." At the students’ conference at Northfield, Mass., Mr. Mott, secretary of the intercollegiate department, said that less than twenty years ago there were less than thirty college Christian associations; now there are 550. There are thirty-five college association buildings and thirty more are carrying on a canvass. There are 1,100 men attending the summer schools. Corneil reigns supreme on American waters for the year 1897. She gained this supremacy by defeating Yale and Harvard some time ago, and Friday afternoon at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. she rn<>re than proved her ability to hold it b.v defeating Columbia in a procession-like race by over eleven lengths. I’oor Pennsylvania, of whom so much was expected, met with misfortunes before rowing three miles and had to stop rowing. WESTERN. The Piesident has pardoned Charles R. Fleischman, sentenced in Illinois to five years’ imprisonment in the Milwaukee house of correction Dec. 8 last, for eiu bezzling the funds of the National Bank jf Illinois. The steamship St. Louis has lowered the eastward Atlantic record by mon: than an hour and a half. The fastest previous time. (5 days 10 hours and 55 minutes, was made by the Fuerst Bismarck in September, 1893.

Mrs. John Bradbury, wife of a wellknown Los Angeles, Cal., millionaire, and H. Bussell Ward, a ,»oung Englishman, have -doped. It is said their destination is Australia. Ward abandoned his wife and two children, who are now touring Europe. The law prohibiting gambling in Montana. which went into effect Thursday, was universally observed. The law even prohibits shaking dice for drinks, ami according to the Attorney General’s construction makes playing cards for prizes in social gatherings unlawful. John C. Capron, a wealthy San Francisco citizen, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head while temporarily nsane from physical suffering. He leaves seven stepdaughters, five of whom are married, and an estate valued at $150,000 He was 7(5 years old and a native of Virginia. William McAlvey is dead, H. S. McFadden dangerously wounded and William Pauley badly injured as the result >f a drunken quarrel at Carbondale, Colo. After shooting McFadden and beating Pauley, McAlvey defied arrest. Citizens pursued him, anti George Patterson finally shot and killed the desperado. The lust section of the Chicago Christian Endeavor train ran into a freight train six miles west of Akron, Colo., about 3 o'clock Thursday morning. Fireman G. M. Cole of McCook, Neb., was slightly hurt, and Dave Maguer, engineer, if the same place, was seriously injured One passenger, Fred E. Glassburn ot Tampico, 111., was cut over the left eye. Mrs. F. G. Turner had a thrilling experience upon tlie streets of East St. Louis Thursday afternoon, when she and Miss Sophy Hebenhor were attacked by a mad dog. The animal ran down the street, foaming at the mouth, and first assailed Miss Sebenhor, who turned him aside with her parasol. Then it sprang at the throat of Mrs. Turner and fastened its fangs in her clothing. She seized the dog by the back of his neck ami ears, forced it from her. placed it upon the sidewalk and fell with her knees upon the brute. She held the struggling animal in this position until her husband was telephoned for and came to the rescue on a bicycle, armed with a revolver. The dog was killed. Mrs. Turner’s arms were almost parti lyzed by the strain. One man was electrocuted Wednesday morning, another was horribly shocked and several were severely burned. The accident occurred at Nine-Mile Creek, an pastern suburb of Cleveland. The men were building a stone abutment, with the aid of a huge derrick, over the creek. A guy rope went over the feed wire of the Big Consolidated trolley system. Somehow or other the insulation had worn off. A current of several thousand volts was pulsating through the wire. The first man to take hold of the rope was Jacob Miller. He was 65 years old and was paralyzed when his hands touched the wire and he fell dead. Ed McGregor, another workman, took hold of the wire. With a superhuman effort he released his grasp, but was hurled twenty feet away. He was removed to the hospital. Three other workmen received dangerous shocks. The steamship Manitou, which left Chicago at 9 o’clock Tuesday morning with over a hundred passengers for Harbor Springs and Mackinac Island, went ashore three miles from Harbor Springs in Little Traverse Bay at 3:30 o’clock Wednesday morning. The steamer was under good beadv?^ nt t’ lae s ^ e struck the sandy beaeu, and dispatches say that she ran out nearly three feet forward. The steamer Hazel was at once dispatched to the stranded boat, and her passengers were taken off. This was the third trip this season of the Manitou. In nearly thirty years' service in the Lake Superior Line Captain Allan Mclntyre, the veteran commander of the Manitou, has met with his first stranding. The fog on the l.wer end of Lake Michigan and on Lake Huron and Lake Superior Tuesday night was so dense that navigation was pi i‘,<t i<-s iry suspended. In trying bo make Harbor Springs, which lies at the head of Little Traverse Bay, in such a fog, the Manitou missed the lighthouse and foghorn on Harbor Point by some three miles.

A general strike of miner- of the Cnitei Mine Workers of America has been ot derod by the national executive board whose headquarters is in Columbus. (> and also by the district presidents, as th result of a recent meeting. The officer say 375.000 men will be involved in th proposed strike. President Ratcbfor says this is the best time to settle th question of wages, as during the stnnim the men can make use of their little ga

I den plots in obtaining a subsistence. I’j ’ I needs for clothing are not so great winter. The proposed scale is iutei.d^d by the miners to make work for miners profitable to them in the Pittsburg district and elsewhere. Pittsburg, as claimed, is paying 54 cents per ton and Ohio 51. To make the differential what the Ohio operators claim it ought to be they threaten to reduce Ohio miners to 45 cents per ton, or 9 cents below Pittsburg. The miners propose, if possible, to raise Pittsburg prices, so as to prevent a reaction in Ohio to 45 and the possibility of even a further reduction there in case Pittsburg should keep on lowering, as Ohio lowered to maintain the differential of 9 cents,. WASHINGTON. The President gave a dinner Thursday night to the members of his official family and a few invited guests. It was an entirely informal affair. The monthly statement of the public debt shows at the close of business June 30 the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $986,656,086, a decrease for the month of $10,027,966, which if accounted for by a corresponding increase in the amount of cash on hand. Th< debt independent of the cash was reduct*' 152. J General Land Commissioner Ilewnann has formulated regulations for thA government of forest reserves in the jrmted States. The estimated area of th^-xist ing forest reserves is 18,993,280 acres and of suspended forest i eserves 19,951.360 acres, making an aggregate area of 38,944,640 acres. This is 3.800,000 acres more than the combined area of the States of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhede Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland and Is greater than the area of any State east of the Mississippi river and of several west of it. For more than a month all pension certificates issued by the Government nave been held up in the pension bureau. The suspens'on ended Thutsday, when an immense batch of certificates was mailed to the various agencies. This terminates the operations of an order which, taking effect Muy 31, was designed to avoid increasing the existing deficiency in the pension appropriation by crediting the pay m-nts which would follow the issuance of tin sc certificates to the new fiscal year, instead if to the fisci.l year ended Wednesday. The deficiency is said to l>e over Between 12.000 and 15,000 of these certificates have accumulated since the order took effect, and all those dated up to June 24 were mailed. The suspension in< luded every class of pension cer tificates, but from now on the regular issuance and mailing of them will be re sumed. FOREIGN.

Peter B. Tberkelsen, the Highlands cobbler, founder of the "Free Christian Spiritual Redeemed Liberty Church of God,” is dying of self imposed starvation at Denver. In tracts announcing himself as "1. I 1. a spirit," Therkelsen proclaimed the tenets of his peculiar creed. For the lasi week no nouro hment of | y Kind has passed bis lips. ■ Gen. Oscar, commander of the Brazilian Government troops, has couiu><*n4Hl a decisive fight against the fanati-.g’ ih> attack is general, in accordance wW h carefully laid plans. Wherever possible ar tiilery has been turned upon the fanatics, entrenchments have been destroyed and great loss of life is reported in official dispatches. The relMls, it is reported, yielded before the Federal troops nt sev oral points. Several disastrous fires have brought desolation and ruin in Tantah, Egypt, and some suburban districts of late. The number of people rendered homeless by the last fires at Aboo Tor and Mit Hobeish is 3,500 and.9l3 respectively, while the identified bodies <>f the unfortunate victims amount to seventy-three and ninete?n respectively. The loss is esti mated so far at £90,00(1. not n penny of which was covered by insurance. For the first time in history a general census has been taken of the population of the Russian Empire, which s shown to number 129.211.H3, of which total 64.616.25> are males and 64,594.833 females. United States Consul General Karel at St. Petersburg says the figures show that in forty five years the population of Russia has doubled, and during the fast twelve years it has inileased 20 per cent. To take this census the Russian Government employed an army of 150,000 persons and its completion in three mouths is regarded as a great achievement, in view of the vast expanse of territory covered ami the illiteracy of the population. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2,24 cto 26c; oats, No. 2,17 c to 18c; rye, No. 2,33 cto 35c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 15c; eggs, fresh. 7c to 9c; new potatoes, 75c t<< 45c per bushel. Indianapolise—Cattle, shipping,’fs3.oo to $5 00; hogs, choice light. $3.00 to $3 55; sheep, common to choice. $3.00 jo $3.75; wheat, No. 2,74 c to 76c; corn. No. x white, 25c to 27c; eats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c. St. Louis Cattle. $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4 00; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 75c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 22e to 24c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2. 31c to 33c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 80c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2,33 cto 35c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,76 cto 78c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 26c to 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye. 34c to 35c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red. 76c to 78c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white. 18c to 20c; rye. No. 2, 34e to 36e; clover seed, $4.15 to $4.25. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 70c to 72c; corn. No. 3,24 cto 25c; oats. No. 2 while. 20e to 22c; barley, No. 2,30 cto 36c; rye, No. 1,35 cto to 36c; pork, mess, $7.25 to $7.75. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 rid. 79c to 80c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white., 24e to 26c. New York- Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs. $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 rod. 74c to 75c; corn, No, 2, 28e to 30c; oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; butter, creamery, 12c to 16c; eggs, West- ! ern, 10c to 11c.

long in the service. five old ATTACHES of the WHITE HOUSE. Employes Who Served Under Many Admininistrationn-Preaiilrnts Come and Go, but These Good and Faithful Servants Remain White House Fixtures. Washington correspondence:

11 AT this world is not all a fleeting show is evidenced b.v several people at the White House in Wash mgton, D. C. You meet one of them at the big door as you enter, and he is made known to you ns Captain । Thomas Pendel, chief doorkeeper. Y’ou meet the second in the person of Col. William Dubo is, chief usher. If you succeed in getting past

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their vigilant eyes you will meet a third in the person of a military looking gentleman who stands guard over the cabinet room and the door leading to the private part of the President's home. He is Major Loeffler. Up in that region you will also find Col. Pruden, the White House sphinx, and Col. Crook, the all-around generalissimo. There ate others, but these are the ones who, like Tennyson's brook, go on forever. Presidents come and go. children who played at egg rolling on the White House lawns grow t > men and won en and visit the White House with their children, and there are greeted by the same kindly faces that were about them in the long ago happy days. Whole generations of White I Inuse children have come ami gone, yet the faithful servitors of their presidential progenitors are still

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there under the historic roof, caring for I the guest of the nation even as some cared for the fathers and grandfathers of those who come now. Captain Fernie! Is Senior. The very oldest in point of service, and of years as well, is Capt. Thomas Pemlel. who marks with a star in his memory the 3d day of November, 1864, when he wa> transferred from the Metropolitan police force, or rather was detailed, for special duty at the White House. Those were troublous days in Washington, and the tired, worried, harassed man who ha 1 taken upon his broad shoulders the awful ; burden ot carrying a government through a civil war was facing a future that look- i ed black, and bis heart was heavy within • him. Captain Pendel was a bricklayer by > trade, and served bis apprenticeship until I he was 21. He was born on what was Analostan island, in 1824. and is now i.i years old. He does not look it, for his abundant hair is coal black, and only a little gray shows at the temples. His grandfather was in the revolutionary war. his father in the war of 1812. and he was himself in the marine sen ice of the Mexican war. He does not know of a creature living to-day. outside of his immediate family, who bears his name. He is married and has several charming daughters, who played in youth with the Wh>e House children. Couldn’t Fpare Crook. Next longest in point of service at the White House is Col. Crook. He says that title was not won in military service, and carries no straps with it, but that it came upon him gradually and he wears it because be can't seem to get rid of it, but then nobody wants to have him give it up. for it fits admirably. Col. Crook came to act as bodyguard for Mr. Lincoln late in Novi mber, 1864. He was a soldier in a Maryland regiment when detailed to ; the White House, and he found favor at i once in the eyes of Mr. Lincoln, who ; seemed to have singled him out on many i occasions. Col. Crook was drafted late ' in the war, and just a little over a month before <he death of Mr. Lincoln, he wrote the following: “My man (’rook has been drafted. 1 cannot spare him. I*. M. G. please fix. “A. LINCOLN. “March 2, 1865.” Col. Crook did not have to be spared, but the man he had sei veil with such tender devotion was taken. The man so valuable to Mr. Lincoln had been just as much worth to all the other administrations, and so “Col. William Crook" is borne upon the pay rolls of the White ) House now, exactly us he was thirty-three years ago, only his duties have increased and his responsibilities, lie has tilled: nearly every desk in the office, and was i for a time private secretary for President I Grant. He is now the disbursing clerk. ' and has served under nine Presidents. 1 two of them having been there two terms. Grant and Cleveland. The slight military looking gentleman |

with^he snow-white hair and the keen eyes wh > stands guard over the door to the cabinet room, and also over that which leads from the public to the private part of the executive mansion, is Maj. Charles D. A. Loeffler, who wiff born in Stuttgart, but wh । came to America and entered the regular army as a member of the Second Cavalry in 1858. He campaigned all over the M estern frontier before the war, and what he does not know of hardship, hunger and thirst is scarcely worth printing. T he famous Custer was a cadet at West Point when Major Loeffler was doing outpost duty in Texas, and he eil'uied Col. Robert E. Lee ns commanding officer. Attached though he was to his commander, he lemained in the Union when Lee went out, and was ordered to Washington, where he became dispatch bearer and was trusted with many secrets between Lincoln and ills generals. He acted as messenger for Secretary Stanton, and finally became a messenger in the M hite House, where for nearly a quarter of a century he has watched cabinets come and go, he himsc. if a fixture, lie is low-voiced and gentle as a woman, and it is rarely you can get him to open the storehouse of anecdotes that he is so rich in. For many years all the callers upon the President passed through the doors which he guards. He knew all the statesmen ami office holders in the country, all the mihtaiy men, and all the dead beats He got so that he could turn down a man so nicely he never knew it till he was bowed outside of the corridor into the air. He never made a mistake in letting a man in to see the President, it is said, and in that way made himself almost invaluable. Another White House Fixture. Genii! Major O. L. Pruden is another of the At hite House appurtenances which President McKinley has found checked over to him for nearly twenty-five years. His offi-i, that of chief executive clerk, comes next to that of the secretary to the Presided in importance. Major Pruden has been called “the administration sphinx” ever since he assumed his duties at the desk. He knows a great many things and knows them very well, but he is one of the birds who can sing, ami won’t. But. oh, what stories he could tell if he only would. He came to Washington. “a Imy in blue, ’ from New Jersey, early in the war, and his splendid

penmanship won him immediate recognition in ti.t War Department. His regiment was ordered away, but he was held to be too valuable a penman to spoil his fingers Imndling a bi.- gun. In 1872 he was detailed to the White House, and was pulled on the official staff by President Hrant, and fie has been there ever since. ( <4. Pruden's duties are manifold. vexmg and perplexing, but he is jolly through it all. He puts into writing the history <.f every official transaction in the M hitt House. Every nomination made by the President, from a cabinet minister to the appointment of a cross roads postmaster— whose salary is ,i cents a year and furnish your own postoffice building" —with the action of the Senate, is recorded by him in handwriting that rivals copper-plate. All the communications between the executive mansion and the departments are entered in his books. He makes the copies of all the President's messages, and personally delivers them to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House. The history of the documents which he has thus carried would make interesting reading, if he would give the inside fads away. But he won't. FATAL TO MAN AND BEAST. The Little Buffalo Gnat Already Has a String of Victims. From many places come reports of a plague of buffalo gnats. Near Jeffersonville, Ind., a farmer named Price, while

tit work on his farm, was stung to death by a swarm that lit upon his face and hands. In western Oklahoma and parts of Texas adjoining several hundred heao of horses, mules and 1 cattle have been kilitsl. The gnats re-

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soluble small Hits. 'I hey appeal in the spring along the river regions ami are carried into the country by north winds, Wkerevi r they bite they co bmni-.g itching. S'sm a painful, hatu suel.mg mak<s its appearance. It may remain for a week or longer. Many such bites cb sc together produce severe inflammatory fever. and in more susceptdne victims cramps. Animals, when attacked by large numbers. grow frantic and seek to evade th/ ir tormentors by roiling in the dust, rushing about and whirling roum ami round. At tiims they are literally covered with the animated p/sts. The ears ami nostrils are the chief points of attack. Ihe forI >m-r .are tile d clear to the tympanum u ith | layer upon layer. An inflammatory fever, with a igh pm-e. soon set- tn. Ihe at--1 dieted cattle > -m die of ctamps and convulsions. In the dead animals the skin of -he (rare i-aiy will be found covered with nun.-, runs minute Ulcers.

NATIONAL SOLONS. REVIEW OF THEIR WORK AT WASHINGTON. Detailed Proceedings of Senate and House —Bille Passed or Introduced in Either Branch— Questions of Moment to the Country at Large. The Legislative Grind. As a result of the rapid work on the tariff oill Wednesday the close of the long debate in the Senate and the final vote on the hill is felt to be very near at hand. Two of the most important provisions —those relating to the Hawaiian treaty of reciprocity and the duty on coal—were perfected, while another source of much conflict, the reciprocity section, was matured by the Finance Committee and pre sented to the Senate. Aside from these larger items a great many minor ones which have caused more or less conflict were di-posed of. The Hawaiian provision of the House bill was restored after brief debate and without the formality of a t<te. I'his has the effect of leaving the Hawaiian treaty of reciprocity in full force and effect, (luring the day Mr. 1 urpie of Indiana spoke in support of the amendment for a 2 per cent, tax on inheritances. His speech was notable for the picturesque metaphors ami the virulence of his denunciation of the pending bill, The Finance Committee suffered several unexpected reverses during the progress of the tariff bill T hursday, being defeated on three important votes. Cotton bagging was placed on the free list, 30 to 25. and cotton ties also, by a vote of 29 to 23. The duty on white pine lumoer was reduced from $2 to $1 per thousand. 32 to 31. The bill is now completed, with the exception of the reciprocity section and some comparatively minor paragraphs. Much prog.ess was made in clearing up detached paragraphs heretofore passed over. Ony three of these—coal tar. potash and tea —remain. Ihe House held a brief session, at which noth ing was accomplished Reciprocity and retaliation wore the two phases of the tariff hili to occupy the attention of the Senate Friday to the exclusion of all other subjects. Both provisions were agreed to. although the debate on the reciprocity clause was protracted to 6p. m. The retaliatory clause provides that whenever any country bestows an export bounty on any article there shall be levied, in addition to the duties piovided by the act, an additional duty equal to the amount of the bounty. The reciprocity clause empowers the President. with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make reciprocity treaties giving 20 per cent, reduction in duties on designated articles or placing articles on the free list.

The Senate disposed of two tariff amendments Monday, »hat placing a stamp tax being agreed to with little or no opposition and without the formality of a vote, while the Spooner amendment, proposing a tariff investigation, was withdrawn after a protracted struggle. The stump amendment, as agreed to, fixes the following rates on bonds, etc.: “Bonds, debentures or certificates of indebtedness issued after Sept. 15. 1897, by any association. company or corporation, on each SIOO of face value, or fraction thereof, 5 cents: and on each original issue, whether an organization or reorganization of certificates of stock by any such association. company or corporation, on each SIOO of face value or fraction thereof, 5 cents; and on all transfers of shares or certificates of stock in any association, company or corporation, on each SIOO of face value or fraction thereof. 2 cents.” Exemptions from the stamp taxes .ire made in the case of State, county and municipal bonds, and the stocks and bonds of co-operative building associations. Tuesday the Senate agreed to devote one more day to discussion of the tariff under the five-minute rule, and then proceed to vote. The beet sugar bounty clause was withdrawn. Mr. Bacon made a personal explanation ot his vote for Mr. Mills' amendment to impose a tax of 5 per cent, on all manufactured products. He had. he said, given the amendment his vote without due deliberation. If the imposition of such a tax could lie confined to the sugar trust and other gigantic com e-ns existing in open violation of the law it would, upon meditation, commend itself to his judgment, but as it would touch every village and hamlet in the land and lay its hand upon the most humble he frankly avowed his regret for the vote. The Jubilee. The last sixty years have been great ones in the history of England, but ihey ; have been even greater ones in the history of this land of ours. —Baltimore American. John Bull has time to turn from the serious business of the month and indulge in a characteristic bit of English humor. He calls us land-grabbers.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The American contingent in London seems to have done all it could to make the jubilee affair a big success. Let us hope her majesty is duly grateful.—Cleveland Plain Healer. It is to be hoped that the Prince of Wales made the most of this diamond jubilee, as the chances are very much against his ever having one of his own. — Washington Star. Annexation. With both Hawaii and Cuba on the bases. President McKinley will have a great opportunity to make a double annexation play.—Washington Post. Hawaii is at least affording a little diversion. When some of the Senators tire of annexing Cuba they can turn in and annex the other island for a while.—Chicago Record. Speaking of Hawaiian annexation, it is pertinent to remark that it I'ncle Sam would attend to his own business he wouid have more business to attend to. — Louisville Courier-Journal. With Hawaii as a part of the Union, we should have to look forward to the dey wheii it would be a State. Think of a pi e-:d- ial election hanging on the mong i vote of those islands!—Baltimore