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CONGRESS.

To Investigate or Not to Investigate,

This it the Question That Agitated the Bouse Yesterday.

A Very Interesting Time Over the Cipher Telegrams.

The Bill to Facilitate the Be Funding of the Public Debt Passed the Senate.

SENATE.

YBSTELRDAY AFTERNOON. Washington, January 2i. The Senate discussed the Indian fund bill, the patent law bill, and the naval appropriation bill, in turn, laying each aside without much progress on either. The naval appropriation bill was laid aside till to-morrow, to enable Blaine to prepare art address on some amendments which he wished to offer, and of which he jave notice.

After executive session, the Senate ad journed. TO-DAY.

Washington, Jan. 22.—Garland from the committee on public lands submitted a minority report on the claim of McGarrahan"together with a bill placing all claimants to ranch Ipanuche granoe, in California in the court of claims with the right of appeal to the supreme court.

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on the table, the bill and report to be printed. The House bill reported from the com mittee on finance yesterday to facilitate the refunding of the national debt was passed unanimously. The bill now goes to the President.

Davis, of Illinois, introduced a bill to prevent and punish counterfeiting within the United States of notes, bonds and other securities of foreign governments Referred.

While the Senate was considering the bill* on the calendar, Edmunds moved to postpone their further consideration and tatoi Up his „*esQl*$*». 4ucUrfef valid the'13th, 14th and the 15th amend* ments. Several Senators objected, as Blaine had given notice he would, speak to-day on the naval appropriation bill.

HOUSE.

YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. Washington, January 21. Immediately after the reading of the journal, which occupied an hour, Potter called up the resolution presented by him, yesterday, directing the committee of investigation of election frauds to inquire into the cipher dispatches, and appropriating $ 10,000 to defray the expenses of such inquiry. Potter yielded, however, for some preliminary matters.

Stevens, from the committee on coinage, introduced a bill to authorize the coinage of goloid metric dollars, five dol lars and tractions of dollars, referred.

The House then proceeded to the consideration of the cipher dispatch resolution.

Potter moved the previous question which was seconded ana the main question was ordered, thus leaving on* hour for discussion, which was thereupon opened bv Potter, who said:

MR. SPEAKER I offered this resolution because I was instructed to offer it I do not propose to discuss it, except to say a few words in reply to an attack made on me by the gentleman from Michigan [Conger]. I was not in the House at the time, and when thtf gentle man's attention was called to that tact he 6tated that I had leit the House to avoid hearing him. If the gentleman thought so, he was mistaken. I think I listen to the sprightly and amiable utterances of the gentleman from Michigan with as much satisfaction as any gentleman in this House, but it is not possible for a man to be always in his seat, and the gentleman ought not to infer from my absence that I had any disinclination to hear him. Had he informed me that he proposed to refer to the cipher dispatches I should certainly, at whatever inconvenience, have remained, because I could have better said in regard to this resolution what I am about to say now. But as he had risen many times that day, it was impossible for me to divine that when he rose he intended to discuss the subject. The gentleman accused me because I had jiot pei mltted an investigation of thone dispatches. Mr. Speaker it is open to the gentleman from Michigan, and has been ever sii^ce thi6 session of Congress assembled, and to every member of the House, as it is" to myself, to propose such an investigation. He did not propose it. No one on that side of the House proposed it, and.(or reasons,'which perhaps it is not difficult to divine but, at any rate, for reasons satisfactory to themselves. No gentleman on this side of the House 'had proposed it, and the gentleman from Michigan said that I had not permitted them to do so. Potter then went on to make a statement of the reasons which he had, for not proposing the cipher investigation, and a denial of the numerous statements made individually and by the press, with referencfc to his connection with the electoral investigation. He said that he had not proposed the cipher investigation, because he was opposed to Congress inquiring into the alleged in­

dividual wrong of a citizen, which it could neither punish nor prevent He also had personal reasons for not taking the initiative in this matter, which were the misconstruction and misrepresentation of which he had been the victim ever since the investigation commenced. He quoted numerous charges against him by the press and others, and denied them all positively and unreservedly. He said: Althaugh I had endeavored to conduct the investigation with absolute inpartiality and fairness, so much so that I do not believe that any body familiar with the record will rise to claim that such has not been the fact, and though during all the time I have observed the most absolute reticence in respect of the objects and purposes of the committee, yet there has been no unworthy and partisan speech that has not been falsely put into my mouth, and no mean or outrageous suggestion in the conduct of the committee that has not been attributed to mt. Under such circumstances, for me to volunteer an Investigation into these cipher dispatches was to have it said that I was doing so in the interest and for the purpose of protecting and whitewashiug those whom it might affect and, in brief, that, sir, there are in my state some persons who believe that I,|or my friends, have a cause of grievance against Mr. Tilden, and who, if I volunteered' any movement of the kind, would ascibe my action to personal dislike and spite. If the gentleman will look at The New York Tribune of Saturday week they will see it declared that the probable cause of this resolution is the object of personally injuring Mr. Tilden. For these reasons sir, I did not feel called upon to volunteer any action on this subject. I have not volunteered it, and I introduce the resolution which I do, because, without any wish or request of mine, 1 have been instructed to do so, and I do it for no other reason.

Butler opposed the resolution on the ground that Congress had no jurisdiction over the private correspondence of any bodv, and Tilden was a private man, who held no public position. Besides Congress should not take part in the slander of any public man to satisfy the curiosity of anybody, in the House or out of it. The result of appropriating money for investigation would be to stir up something which had better not be seen or felt or smelt.Itrould be far better to give $10,000 to some working man's family. He had spoken against the resolution, in order that it might be said hereafter that at least one man, acting a9 judge, as a member of congress, unbiased by party prejudice [laughterJ, had been averse to stirring up the private affairs of private persons.

Haleiollowed in support of the resoliition. He said now that the machine had been started and set in motion let it roll, and make investigation into both sides oftho qurtstten* SPWHS SYMPATHY for that simple hearted old gentleman New York, who had ,been taken from his privacy and thrust upon the country as a presidential candidate, who became the apostle, of reform, and who had remained in his closet awaiting the verdict of the American people, taking no hand or part in the notable campaign. He had been surrounded by confederates, copar ceners and nephewsflaughter], who had attempted to purchase electoral colleges, and the simple hearted old man should have an opportunity to come before Con gress and protect his character from the men close around him who had attempted to besmirch it.

Conger followed with a short speech, making sarcastic allusions to the cipher dispatches as "scriptural telegrams," signed by Moses anil Aaron and the rest.

Hewitt, of New York, supported the resolution. He called the attention of Butler to the fact that there were occasions in life when there was something higher than judge or member of Con gress it was when the sense of manhood struck into the human heart. He stood here in that spirit of manhood to invite the fullest in ventilation of the telegrams, those which had been published and those which had not. Justice to Samuel J. Tilden de manded that investigation should be made justice to the great Democratic party demanded it justice to the American people, who had elected him to the highest office in their gift, demanded it Let Tilden have an opportunity to confront his accusers and traducers and show the world that at least one of the candidates at the late presidential election was not a miserable trickster, willing to bargain for the highest office in the gift of the people. Wnether the cipher dispatches published in the Tribune are genuine or not I have no means of knowing. I never received one of them. I was never cognizant of their existence, until they were published by the Tribune. Neither do knosv whether the alleged translations are true or false, but this I do know, that not one of them containing reference to the use of money to influence returning boards or electoral votes was ever addressed to or received by any officer of the national Democratic committee. I am aware that the newspapers have credited one of those persons to whom telegrams were addressed with having been an officer of the Democratic committees, but I say to this House and to the country that this is an error he never held any official connection with the committee. These dis patches came from and were addressed to persons who had no official position in the organization. That they were zealous Democrats and anxious to secure the fruits of the victory which we had unquestionably won in a contest of unparallelled effort on both sides, is very evident but what they did was an action of purely voluntary and individual nature, without consultation either with me, who was charged with the conduct of the campaign, or, as I am authorized here to say, with the candidate of-the Democratic party in that memorable struggle. Sarca&tical laughter on the Republican 6ide of the house.] Most flagrant efforts have been made to show that he had personal knowledge of the operations of lis over zealous' friends. Now, I stand

here to declare that there is not a particle of evidence to connect him with this knowledge on the contrary the evidence, so far at produced, and the production of it has been most skillfully managed to give an opposite impression, proves conclusively that he had no such knowledge, for in no case was any such purcnase cf votes effected, and in every case it broke down for want of money. Is it to be supposed for a moment that if Samuel T. 'Tilden had decided to buy those votes the purchase would have fail ed for want of money? [Laughter on the Republican side.] Is it not absolutely clear that when it reached the point where money—

Townsend", of New York, interrupting •Did not money go to Ortgon? Hewitt, without notcing Townsend— Where money was required, it failed. And is not the conclusion irresistible that when, in the last resort, it was necessary to go to him for money, he indignantly Vamped the suggestion as one to which he could give neither approval or assistance?

The hour allowed for the discussion having closed, Garfield moved to reconsider the vote ordering the main question.

Atkins moved to lay that motion on the table, and it was so ordered—yeas, 123 nays, 120.

The house then proceeded to vote on the resolution, and it was adopted without division.

Waddell, from the postoffire commit tee, reported the post route bill, and was passed, and after the transaction of some unimportant business, the House adjourned.

vision of the Indian bureau, and be distributed in the Indian country as are the other tribes. This news was not confirmed. It is reported that some 5,000 lodges, or nearly 15,060 people are with Sitting Bull.

THE ARREARS PENSION BILL Another subject of discussion was the bill for the payment of arrears of pensions, which has recently passed Congress. The discussion was not as to whether the bill should be approved or signed, but as to the results of its being carried out. Secretary Sherman placed the amount necessary to carry it out at about $150,000,000. Secretary Schurz' estimate, which was from the commissioner of pensions, Bentley, placed the amount at $50,000,000.

THE HABEAS CORPUS qjJESTION. The department of justice had not, up to this evening, received any information from Alabama respecting the release from jail of United States Marshal Turner. Should application to the city court at Selma for his release on habeas corpus not be successful, it is very well understood that a similar application will be made to the United States circuit court. This would in all probability be granted without delay, and in that event, a prominent officer of the government remarked this evening, there would be no doubt whatever as to the power of the government to command obdience to the mandate of the court.

A CALL FOR MORE BONDS. The Secretary of the Treasury hao called the following bonds, principal and interest to be paid on and after April 1st next:

Coupon bonds, dated July 1, 1S67, namely $50, No. 46,001 to No. 55,000, both inclusive $100, No. 60,00i to No. 70,000, both inclusive $500, No. 4,600 to No. 55,000, both inclusive: $i,ooo, No. 60,001 to No. 76,000, both inclusive total, $10,000,000.

Registered bonds redeemable at the pleasure of the United States, after the 1st of July, 1872. as follows $50, No. 1926 to No. 2270, both inclusive $100, No. 13,850 to No. 16,400, both inclusive $500, No. 7,251 to- No. 9,300, both inclusive $1,000, No. 27,751 to No. 31,900. both inclusive $5,000, No. 8,151 to No. S.300, both inclusive $10,000, No. 13,251 to No. 15,400, both inclusive. Total registered, $10,000,000 aggregate, $20, 000,000. oHio.

Columbus, January 22.—In the Senate a message was received from the Governor, nominating F. M. Atkinson, of Noble county to,be state inspector of leaf to-, bacco. GENERAL SHERMAN WILL GO

The House committee on appropriations, has finished the post office and legislative. jud'eial and executive appropriaon

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Washington, Jan. 22.

Quite a stormy debate arose in regard to the southern claim bill, in the course of which Bragg stated that if the south was solid for the Democratic party simply for the purpose of getting money out of the treasury, it would be well for the northern Democracy if the southern Democrats went over to the Republican party, and he hoped they would dp so.

Washington, January 22.—A bill passed appropriating $70,000 tor the transportation of coin and bullion and $40,000 for miscellaneous expenser.

WASHINGTON^

SITTING BULL'S RETURN.

Washington, Jan. 21.—At the cabinet session, Secretary Schurz stated that he had received a report from the Indian Agent at the Cheyenne agency, to the effect that information had reached there of the recrossing of the Canadian -line into the United States of the noted chief Sitting Bull, with his people, and that they are exceedu^ly an^iou* to return

TERRE HAUTE, INJ):..—THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1879.. $1.50 PER YEAR.

VOORHEES.

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it tiycamore Ahead in Both Houses.

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He Utteivei Twenty-Six Votes i»tfee Senate and Fifty-

seven in the House.

O. IV Davis Voted for VoorCreating Great Eicitement and Enthusiasm.

Indianapolis, an. 21. "T

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ig began in both houses at two

thir irt^ iThe vote^in tl?e. Senate for ^the

short' term stood: Voorhees

Orth, 22

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Voorhees, 26 Harrison, 2:

Buchanan, 1. In. tlj,e Hoy^? the .vote

for the short tcrrti, stood: Voorhees,

57 Ordi 37 Buchanan 2 Shackelford 1.

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For tl|e long term Voorhees 57 Harri

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Buchanan 2. O. P. Dayis voted

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siaim la both Houses. from Wednesday'!'Daily. NOMINATION OF VOORHBHS, FOR THI

SHORT TERM.

Mr. Van Valzah, from Vigo, said that in behalf of the Democracy of the State of Indiana, he desired to place in nomination for Uif United States Senate a man .he people, a mat*, who has

loved by his neighbors and friends—by eger.y resident, indeed, of the county of Vlfeo, where he has resided for the past twenty years, and who is the choice of the entire party throughout the state of Indiana, from Lake Michigan on the north to the Ohio river on the south, and from its eastern to its western borders— a man who has become known not only in his own state but throughout the United States by his long and ardent attachment to Democratic principles and a6 having stood manfully with his party through all the dark years of adversity—a man through whose efforts anil influence the Democratic party achieved a grand triumph at the polls last October. As I believe in the old Jacksohian theory that to the victors belong the spoils, I believe the man who Was our leader in the struggle should now reap the benefits of that great victory, and "I therefore place in nomination as Senator for the short term, ending* the 4th of March next, the Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees, of Vigo county—a gentleman, a scholar, and a statesman. [Applause.] NOMINATION OF VOORHEES FOR THE

LONG TERM.

Mr. Willard, from Floyd County said I rise to nominate the next Senator from this State. As the representatives of the peopleof Indiana, it is our duty to faithfully reflect their desires and demands in the election of a citizen to this high official position. The peoole demand that their next Senator shall be a parliamentarian, the peer and superior of his adversaries on the Boor of the Senate. They ask for a champion of the rights Of the West, who is amply able to meet and defeat the representatives of the gigantic money-power of Wr.ll street. They want a financier whose heart is as cojd as the eternal glaciers cn the summit of Mount Blanc' to the seductive flatteries of capital. They desire a leader "sans peur et sans reproche," fearless in defense, resistless in attack, and whose name will carry terror into the ranks of our opponents—the party of wrong. They wish a statesman whose character is the apotheosis of political honesty, and whose integrity is as immaculate as the plumage of the dove that descended from the bosom of the Father at the baptism of theJordon.

She people of Indiana demand that we shall elect as'our next Senator a man who shall recall our great leaders of the past, one who is a supporter of the grandest'political principle ever enunciated by mortal lips "equal and exact justice toward all men, exclusive privileges to none." This principle has formed the basis of our institutions, the impelling force of our progress, the crowning glory of

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INSPECTING TOUR.

Washington, Jan. 22.—Gen. Sherman will soon start on a two weeks' tour of thfc south Atlantic states. His special object is to examine abandoned military posts and neglected property of the United States in Florida and at Atlanta, with a view to ascertaining the measures necessary to secure the interests of the Unite States.

nation, and its supporters in the past are associated with all that is noble in our history.

Beneath the shades of the encircling elms of Monticello rests in peace the

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author of that principl.1, Thomas Jefferson where "roll in endless summer the

bright blue

waves of the Chesapeake"

ia their own loved Virginia, lie bu ed' its great defenders, Madison and Nonroe. The plumed palmetto nods in tropical beauty above the tomb of Caro­

lina's gifted

orator, John C. Calhoun.

The birds that carol in the groves of the

Hermitage

sing

their

songs above the

mortal remains of the lion-hearted Tennesseean—Andrew Jackson. "By the

flow of the inlfcnd river" Missouri's greatest statesman, Thomas Hart Benton, (sleeps the sleep that knows no wiling." The river of poetry and romance, the Susquehanna, as it laps the banks ot Lancaster, lulls with its murmur the ashes of Pennsylvania's great diplomatist, James Buchanan. By the shores of the mighty lakes a magnificent mausoleum and a marble cenotaph pointing heavenward record the virtues of that greatest political leader of them all—"the Little Giant,-" Stephen A. Douglas. Though these great supporters of this principle have passed into the illumination of history, though political coutests have shaken this country, though wars and revolution have convulsed this government, this great principle, "equal and exact justice toward all men, exclusive privileges to none," fresh as on its natal morn, still remains an eternal bulwark of a nation's liberties, grounded in the hearts of the people, and to-day finds its grandest champion and defender in the idol of Indiana—the next Senator from this

State. There is onl? one citizen of Indiana who, in his high character and lofty talents and abilities, will fulfill to-day the desires, wishes and demands of the pie of this State in their choice for ator. That great leader, who is inspired with all the fiery energy of the young Democracy, and imbued with the sage counsel of the old that champion of the rights of the people, who, on the floor of the Senate, first dared to strike one powerful blow to wrest \he rights of labor from the iron grasp of financial despotism that statesman who has not only the ability to appreciate the wants of the people, but the manhood and fearless courage to right their wrongs that clearest-headed financier that the west has ever produced, for he has never been deceived by he financial sophistries of Wall street that noblest son of Indiana, who belongs not only to this state, not only to our loved west, not to the Democratic party alone, but is the representative of all the oppressed toiling millions of America that guide to whom an impoverished people are looking as their political Moses to lead them out of the Egypt of financial bondage oyer to the glorious promised land of better tunes. Mr. Speaker, in behalf, not of the Democracy on this floor, but in the name of the people of Indiana by fifty thousand majority, I place in nomination as the next Senator from this State, the grandest parliamentarian of the latter half of the nineteenth century, the truest friend of the people in this whole broad land, the brilliant orator who has thrilled a continent with his eloquence—Daniel W. Voorhees.

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Around of applause at the close of the wonderful oral production amply^repaid the son of his father for the time

THK JOIYLTFT AR TH® BATES VBYLL From the Indianapolis Sentinel. As soon as the result was ascertained the Hon. John E Lamb, of Terre Haute, rushed to the telegraph office and forwarded the following dispatch:

Indianapolis, Jan. 21, 1879.

Hon. D. W. Voorhees, Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C.: You have just been elected United States Senator for both terms, by the concurrent vote of both houses.

You received 26 votes in the Senate and 57 in the House. Governor Hendricks joins me in sending a hearty congratulation.

JOHN E. LAMB.

Last evening Mr. Lamb and various other members of the Terre Haute delegation enterteincd the Democracy at rooms 11 and 12 Bates House, where a general good time was had until near midnight. The following answer to Mr. Lamb's dispatch was received during the evening and was read to the assembled friends of Senator Voorhees:

Washington, D. C., Jan. 21, 1879. Hon. John E. Lf mb, Bales House, Indianapolis, Ind.

Your# received. The result exceeds my most sanguine expectations, and fills my heart with feelings of the profoundest gratitude to the people of Indiana, and to the faithful representatives of the people. I will labor to justify their great and genercus confidence by increasing^ devotion to their interests and to the vindication of the true piinciplesof the Democracy. D. W. VOORHEES. The reading bf the dispatch was receiveS with cheers. Brief, happy, pointed and jubilant speeches were made by Hon. Franklin Landers, Judge Turpie, Hon. Cyrus McNutt, Representative Faulkner ot Ripley county, Hon. Charles Jewett of Scott county, Hon. John E. Lamb of Terre Haute, Secretary of State Shanklin and others. At the conclusion of the speaking three cheers were given for Senator Voorhees, and repeated again and again. The rooms were thronged by members of the Legislature and prominent Democrats throughout the evening, and the utmost good feeling prevailed over the glorious triumph of the popular will.

At noon to-day Captain Fred. Fant will fire a salute 0183 guns at the State House yard, in honor of the votes given Mr. Voorhees, which will be a fitting conclusion to the general glorification.

I. O. O. B.

Dayton, Jan. 22.—The Grand Lodge I. O. O. B., completed its business and adjourned to-day, after electing Simon Wolfstein, of Cincinnati, president, and A. Abrahams, of Cincinnati, secretary for the ensuing year. The next meeting of tbe lodge will be held at St. Louis, Jan'y, 1880.

COLLIERY RESUMED OPERATIONS. Pottsville, Jan. 22.—The Beech wood Colliery has resumed. President McGovian promised the men their November and December wages in two weeks and steady work the winter.

remainder of the

ARRIVED.

New York, Jan. 22.—The stei vonia from Glasgow.

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OVER THE OCEAN

The Radicals of France Recommend Complete Amnesty to the Con^-„ mnnists.

The Definitive treaty Aeout to be but not yet Signed.

Bismarck Has Given Over Hi* Reichstag Discipline Bill.

RELIEF ASKED FOR.

Geneva, January 21.—-The council of state has asked for 90,000 frances to relieve destitute workmen.

FRANCE.

Paris, Jan. 21.—Modifications of the staff in all branches of the administration are announced. The Patrie asserts that President McMahon has agreed to changes in the staff of certain arrry corps proposed by General Gresley, the new minister of war.

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The Radical deputies prepared a reso-r lution in favor of complete amnesty top. Communists. Sixty deputies have already* signed the resolution and'M. Louis Blanc will shortly give notice of it in the assembly. Victor Hugo will submit the same resolution for signatures of senators belonging to the Republican# union.

ITALY.

Rome, Jan. 21.—In the Senate, to day, Signor Depielis, in replying to an interpolation, declared that the government's foreign policy sought to ameliorate the condition of Christians in Turkey, and to loyally complete the execution of the treaty of Berlin, .and asserted that the confidence of the powers in Italy was undiminished. PRBCAUTIONS AGAINST THE PLAGUE,

Vienna, January 21.—The Austrian and Hungarian governments hare arrived at an understanding in regard to taking precautions against the plague.

London, January 21.—A Berlin diaf natch says that the appointment of a joint European commission to take precautions against the plague, is mooted* Germany apd Austria have resolved to send physicians to watch the epidemic.

THB DEFINITIVE TREATY.

Hoase announces in very positive- form, that, according to intelligence received by the Turkish ambassador to Russia, the definitive treaty #ras to be signed at Constantinople to-day. SEVEN PERSONS DIE FROM DRINKING)

FKOM A POISONOUS SPRING. London, Jan. 21.—The colonial office communicates the following Captain Patterson, two Europeans, and five natives, whilst returning from a mission to the native, princes, all died from drinking from a poisonous spring, near Victoria falls, Zambesi river.

A WARNING TO THE CABINET. Paris, January 22.—The Republique Francaise warns the cabinet that a majority still exists which will keep a strict watch over the use it makes of the respite given. The lite or death of the cabinet depends upon its prompt fulfillment of its premises. It is said the plan for replacing Dufaure in the ministry by the cabinet which would pave the way for Gambetta to the presidency in '80 was formed immediately after his speech at Ravens. r'

Louis Jules De Narmandie, life sen* ator, has been appointed governor of the Bank of France.

COMPROMISED.

London, January 22.—The ship builders, masters and men have compromised, their differences as to wages.

TRYING TO STIR UP A STRIKE. I Blackburn is placarded with incitements to a general strike of weavers.

BISMARCK'S BILL

Berlin, Jan. 22.—It is again reported that Bismarck is willing to withdraw his bill to discipline the Reichstag. This time it is in consequence of the vehement opposition it meets from the diets of various German States.

AN INTERVIEW.

Constantinople, January 22.—The Russian ambassador to Constantinople and the Turkish minister of foreign affairs had an interview to-day. The definitive treaty is not yet signed. RECEPTION OF THE CHINESE EMBASSY.

St. Petersburg, Jan. 22.—The Chinese embassy was received by the Czar with great ceremonv.

LEGISLATURES.

NEW YORK.

Albany, January 22.—In joint session of the Senate and assembly to-day, Roscoe Conkling was declared elected United States Senator.

WISCONSIN.

Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 22.—The joint convention of the Senate and Assembly at Madison, to-day, elected Matthew H. Carpenter, United States Senator to succeed J. O. Howe, the vote standing Carpenter 84, Ryan 28, Bouck 13.

PENNSYLVANIA.

Harrfsburg, Jan. 22.—The election of J. Donald Cameron was proclaimed to-f day in joint convention of both houses.

S O CONNECTICUT* Hartford, Conn., January 22.—Th$ declaration of the election of Orville H^ Piatt United States Senator, was made to-day in a joint session of the Legisla* ture. ,1