Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 January 1887 — Page 10

A STATUE FOR LOGAN.

WHERE CAN A SUITABLE SITE BE HAD IN WASHINGTON?

Tlie Available Places Almost All Takett Up—KqueRtrian Statues of MePherson and Greene—"Tlio Horse Pasture"—I5ad

Views Obtained from the Galleries.

[Special Correspondence.]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—It will not be long before something is done toward erecting statue to Gren. Logan. Whilo tho Grand Army of tbe Republic or the Army of tho Tennessee may choose to place a statue or monument of the general at his grave in Chicago, congress •will undoubtedly appropriate the necessary means to erect on equestrian statue of the great volunteer general at the capital, where as soldier and legislator his fumy centers. Here, too, is to bo Mrs. Logan's home, and hero for nearly half of the general's life ho lived and worked. There will be difficulty in finding a suitable spot for such a statu?, as those of Washington, Jackson, Scott, MePherson, Farragut, Dnpout and Thomas now occupy tho most prominent sites. There remains, however, Iowa circle, where it was once designed to place a statue of Gen. Grant, and for a time it was called Grant circle. Gen. Logan lived last year, before ho bought tho Stone mansion, on Iowa circle. Mrs. Logan prefers this spot, if any is to be honored with a statue to the general.

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M'PHEBSON'S STATUE.

One of the best equestrian statues in Washington is that of Gen. Logan's comrade, MePherson, whom he succeeded temporarily in July, 1864, when MePherson was killed at Atlanta. It is a lifelike counterpart of Gen. MePherson, and in pose, action and expression is above criticism. This statne stands in .MePherson square where Vermont avenue intersects I and streets. Looking out on this square are some notable houses, among them the Hamilton Fish mansion, Chamberlain club house, and Senator Palmer's new house, with its massive brown stone front and kitchen on the top floor. The statue is of bronze and was designed by Louis T. Robisso, of Cincinnati, in 1875. Robert Wood & Co., of Philadelphia, cast it, as they have most of the bronze figures in Washington, among them those of Gen. Scott, Gen. Rawlins and Gen.

Greene. When the MePherson statuo was unveiled in 1876 Gen. Logan was tha orator of the day, and his feeling tribute to his old comrade is one of the best speeches of his life. The MePherson statue cost 523,000, "while the pedestal, which is of New England -granite, cost $25,000. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee erected both statuo and pedestal. It was at first proposed to place the remains of Gen. MePherson beneath the statue but his family objected, and he was permitted to lie in the soil of his native state. It is a serious drawback to the enjoyment of this work of art that it •stands in a small park containing about an acre of land and is densely surrounded by large trees. It has not the prominence which the Farragut or Dupont statues have in their parks, nor that which the Scott and Thomas have in small circles of grass plot at the intersection of prominent streets and avenues.

A sparrow has a nest in the stirrup of McPherson's right foot, and for two years past lias hatched her young there.

One of the most interesting equestrian •statues in Washington is that of Gen. Greene, which few people ever saw. It stands in Greene square, a bare piece of ground embracing three and a half acres of land just north and oast of tho

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THE GREENE STATUE.

Capitol. It is of bronze, weighs three tons, and cost the government $50,000, the statue alone costing $40,000. The sculptor was H. K. Brown, who died the other day. He also made the statue of (Jen. Scott in Scott circle, the ill-fated locality whero several statesmen built fine houses only to be sent back to private life by their constituencies. It is here Mr. I'.laine lived in Secretary Windom'a houfo. Here Mr. Robeson had a fine house, and Don Cameron's old house siands neighbor to it. Minister

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dleton's house, now occupied by Secretary Endicott, is near Scott circle. Tho statue of Gen. Greeno is Brown's best work. It is said to bo the best revolutionary likeness yet made. It was provided for by a resolution in tho Continental congress, but nothing was over done about it until Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, revived interest in tho greatest soldier of his little state, in 1S76, ahd Brown was commissioned to design the statue. It is supposed that the Continental congress had no money to pay for Greene's statue, and with tho usual neglect of republics, Greene went unlionoroi in sculpture until a century after tho struggle in which ho achieved fame began. The idea of action is pre-eminent in this work. The left hind foot of the horse rests on a cannon ball and the general has his rieht arm

outiilted before him in the act of leading a body of troops forward to attack. The uniform is Continental aiid sits gracefully on the finh, athletic figure. It is a wonderfully handsome, alert face and form, and to patriotic Americans the statue should ever be an object of delight, especially so from thq fact that the last resting place of the Rhode Island general is unknown.

It is a curious fact in art that Brown, in modeling the equestrian statue of Gen. Scott, took for hi3 ideal of a horse a fino Kentucky mare owned by one of his friends, ahd nil the Washington horsemen declare it is the best horse in all the equestrian statuary in Washington, and thore aro GO many bronre horses here that Massachusetts ayenue, above Fourteenth streot, is frequently called the "horno posture."

It ia a pity that the galleries of the house and senate do not give visitors a chance to see senators and members to advantage. Aside from the press gal!erics and those reserved for friends of members and senators mid for the diplomats, there is no place whero a good front view can be had of the actors in tho daily scenes of debato and legislation.

Here, for instance, is the usual view

UEKD, 0? MAINE.

tho gentlemen who visit the house get of one of the leaders on the Republican side—Tom Reed, of Maine. Reed is a big Newfoundland dog in general appearance and manner, save that ho is not so shaggy and hairy as he should be to make the metaphor preciso. Ho rolls in his gait and flounders about up and down the aislos during a debate very much as a big, good natured dog might. When things look a little suspicious he opens his mouth and then the likeness ceases. Instead of tho deep voiced, round toned utterance you might expect from his girth and height, there comes forth from the top of his throat a thin, drawling Yankee speech that excites laughter, until you listen closely and notice that what Reed says is cutting into his opponents right and left like a Damascus blade. His logic, wit, repartee and timeliness are dreaded by everybody who is not of his political household. As he site in his seat, back undor tho gallery, he sinks his head down into his fat shoulders and rests like a dog asleep in tho sun until some queer state of things again rouses him up and he goes wagging and rolling down the aisle to terrify the enemy once more.

The most notable figure on the Democratic side of tho house sits with his back always toward tho ladies' gaHery^ No matter how much time he may have for it, Mr. Randall never once faces that serried mass of beajity and grace. Tho back of his head, just beginning to get bald, with his back Lair still raven black, is all that can bo seen from that quarter. There is of course RANDALL. much craning of necks to see tho handsome, finely delineated countenance of the great protectionist Democrat, but it is only when he goes over to the Republican side and returns to his seat from the front part of the chamber that those lustrous black eyes and that firmly shut mouth can be seen fairly and fully. Mr. Randall keeps his seat when ho is in the houBe. Few errands thero cause him to move about. Butmost of his time is spent in tho appropriations committee room, where he holds all the threads of legislation in that close grip which malrps him a power—parhaps the greatest power in congress. J. H. TRUESDELL.

CANVAS BACK AND TERRAPIN.

Delicacies That Flourish Nowhere So Well as in Baltimore. [Special CoBrespondence.]

BALTIMORE, Jan. 17.—It was the genial autocrat, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who called Baltimore the gastronomic capital of tho universe. It was he who suggested that the lady be taken from the Battle monument and diamond back terrapin put in her place, and that a canvas back duck bo stationed on the Washington column. The other day Editor Charles A. Dana, who is as great an epicure as ho is a journalist, camo over here from New York with a party of friends. "What has brought you here?" was asked him. "A canvas back duck. Wo came to carve the wings and tho breast of a canvas back. We adoro your beautiful ladies, bow to your artists, admire your history, your public men, roverenco your editors, but your canvas back duck is beyond praise and comparison. Next to your canvas back comes your Madeira. I havo tastod it before, and it goes well with the duck."

Tho fame of the canvas back is cosmopolitan, but nowhere can it be found cooked as well as in Baltimore. This city, however, is more the market of tho canvas back than anything else. The great feeding ground of tho duck is on the flats in and around the mouth of the Susquehanna river, and the central town of tho duck shooters is Havre do Grace, a lively little place, which the Jesuits settled and which Lafayette named. The ducks como from Hudson's bay and the far northern lakes. They follow the edge of winter along the Atlantic coast, leaving a few stragglers in the Hudson and Delaware rivers, and arriving in great flocks at the head of the Chesapeake. What especially attracts them is the luxurious growth of valisneria, a juicy water cress, which grows iu submerged fields in all the muddy flats, shallow bays and estuaries in the neighborhood of the Susquehanna This the ducks tear up, and feed ravenously upon the tender roots. Nowhere else does the grass grow so plentifully. On other food the ducks have a wild, fishy taste on this they have that succulence which defies competition or description. They arrive on the grounds poor, but in a short time they become fat. There aro several dozen kinds of ducks found in the bay, but the canvas back is easily king of them all. Its full grown weight is threo pounds. It is solidly put together and a sjracoful flyer. The greatest flights take place in the morning before sunrise, and that is the time tho gunner does his most effective work. Duck shooting is regulated by stringent laws, to enforce which there are special police maintained by the state. Over $1,000 are paid annually by gunners for licenses, and thero aro several hundred men regularly engaged in the business of shooting. President Cleveland gets his ducks direct from Havre de Grace, and shipments are made every week to Europe, whero there is a growing fondness for the princely bird. Amateur duck shooting is expensive. It costs all the way from $10 to $50 per canvas back for an amateur to enjoy himself in this way, and then he does not always get the ducks. This year the ducks have been very scarce, and prices have ranged from $4 to $10 a pair

During Christmas woeK tlio latter price could not bring the supply up to the demand. Most of the ducks are brought to Baltimore and the game dealers here, after supplying the active home market, ship them all over tho country and to England. It is a very common sight to see professional hunters in tbe business port of the city toying to dispose of their stock, and they always succeed without much trouble. Cooking a canvas back prop-

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erly is the very acme of gastronomic science. Ik should be cooked about twenty minutes, never under sixteen and never over thirty, It must be served very hot, and the blood should flow freely when a knife is placed at tbe breast A canvas back overdone, or cold or half cold, is ruined. The red bead is very like the canvas beck and very often is passed off for it, but it is inferior in every way. The best way to distinguish the two is by their bills. The bill of the canvas back bluish black the red head's bill is of a scarlet hue. Many thousands of dollars aro spent annually by the rich sportsmen of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York in maintaining ducking shores. President Cleveland's first out of town visit after his entrance to the White House was to one of these shore^

The diamond back terrapin is not a handsome creature but what it lacks in beauty it makes up in worth. It is packed full of gastronomic goodness. Terrapin thi3 yew aro as plentiful as the canvas back ducks aro 6cnrce. They feed on the same grass aa the canvas backs, and that accounts for tho unapproachable excellenco of their flesh. A million and a half dollars worth of ihem are taken out of th9 Chesapeake every year, and they are sent all over this country and to Europe. "Maryland terrapin" is a dish that figures on the menu card of every groat dinner or banquet. And yet the terrapin's popularity is very recent. Old records show that the slaves of this state used to rebel because they were given terrapin instead of pork. Forty years ago John M. Clayton, of Delaware, who was secretary of state in President Taylor's cabinet, bought them in quantities, paying $1 for an ox cart load, which he would have dumped into his cellar like a ton of coal, and which he used as the exigencies ef the table required. A half century ago the best terrapin sold in the Annapolis market for 12}£ cents each. Thirty years ago they sold in Baltimore for $8 a dozen. Now they are worth from $80 to $75 a d«een, and they go all over the world. President Cleveland gets terrapin from Baltimore. So does Mr. McLane, United States minister to Franco. So do the rich English entertainers.

The season proper extends from about the middle of November to the 1st of April. About 500 men are engaged in raising and catching them, and 600,000 terrapin annually aro mado sacrifices to man's appetite. Terrapin farming has become a considerable industry that will grow to much larger proportions in time. The first farm was started in Somerset county by the late United States Senator Dennis, who began the enterprise for his personal accommodation. Thero aro several farms in Calvert county. The largest one consists of a salt water lake, many acres in extent and largo enough to accommodate thousands of terrapin. The hatcheries consist of boxes partly filled with sand, and are so arranged that when the females enter they cannot get out until taken out. The young terrapin are kept in the nursery for ten months or a year, because the old masculine terrapin are 6aid to have the bad habit of eating the tender young members of thentribe. One of the terrapin's great traits is his curiosity, and this enables the terrapin to be trained so that they respond when called at feeding time. Mr. Edward H. Strong, of Kent county, recently made a very interesting experiment with these reptiles. Last spring he caught a great many, and about tie 1st of June ho placed seven hi an iron box and hermetically sealed it he put nine in a^wooden box that was not air tight, and then took twenty-six and buried them in the earth about eighteen inches deep. Last month he investigated the condition of the prisoners with the following results: All of those he had placed in the iron and wooden boaes were dead, while all of those he had buried were alive, fatter and in better condition to eat than when they were buried in JIUM. JOHN WILLIAMS.

THE GAZETTE: TERRE HAUTE INDIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27,1887

HON. WILLIAM M. STEWART

Chosen United (States Senator hjr the Legislature of Nevada. Twelve years ago Hon. William M. Stewart completed his second term as United States senator. He has just been again elected to tho snnie office by tho legislature of Nevada. Mr. Stewart's career has been an exceedingly eventful one. Born in Wayne county. N. Y.. Aug. 9, 1827, his family removed to Turnhull county, O., when he was 8 years of age.

Here the days of his early boyhood were passed. Ho received a fair education at the Fannin gton academy, and returned to his native state, where he' began teaching school at tho same time that

WILLIAM M. STEWART. he prepared himself for admission to Yale college, which institution he entered in 1848. In 1850 he left Yale and went to California, attracted tbither by the gold fever.

He worked in the mines for about a year, when he made his debut upon the political field, being defeated for sheriff of Nevada county. On the same day, in the following year, 1852, that he was admitted to ibe bar he was appointed district attorney. H« was married iu 1855 to a daughter of Governor Foote.

Mr. Stewart afterward removed to Utah territory (where he enjoyed a large law practioe), and subsequently be located in Nevada. When the territory became a state he was elected as its flint Upited States senator.

Dictated byMaliee.

Successful suitor (joyfully)—Well, I have won Miss King she sent me beautiful plaster cast of her hand, labeled: "Twas mine 'tis yours—' Disconsolate rival (sneeringly)—Well, why didn't she finish tho quotation: 'and has been slave to thousands'?—Chicago Rambler.

A Gratified Wish.

"Ah! Miss Roseleaf, how I envy that fn* arrangement you wear around your neck. What do you call it?" "It is a boa, Mr. Snidkins." "Oh, would I were a boa!" "Your wish is gratified, you are ono."— Harvard Lampoon.

Some Hope for Shakespeare. She—Did you see Henry Irving in "Faust" while abroad, Mr. Breezy?

Mr. Breezy (of Chicago)—No I find most of Shakespeare's plays rather dull and uninteresting, although *'Adonis'* is not so bad. —Life.

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A Statement to tbe Michigan LegMature by Mr. Breen,

Young Girls Inveigled From the Larger Cities Into the Lumber Regions

NEW YORK, Jan. 21—A Lansing, Mich., Bpeoial says: "A startling story of depravity and vice was laid before tbe House Judiciary Committee yesterday by Representative Bartlett Breen of Menominee. Mr. Breen has been investigating for some time the stories of the manner iu which young girls were inveigled from Chicapo, Milwaukee, St. Louis and Canadian cities into the lumber regions of the upper Peninsula. A revolting state of things has been unearthed. "There is perhaps no other place in the country," said Mr. Breen "where such a state of depravity exists. In new settlements the trade in young girls has come to be an established business. Advertisements and cunning devices are used in Coaxing working girJB from their homes. The girls are kept in rough board shanties and tents. There area dozen or more in each place. A system of fines is in vogue by which the poor wretches are kept constantly in debt to the overseer. If a girl does not get a man to drink she is fined. If she doee not get him to dance she is fined. Dogs are kept to guard against the girls running away. In one case, which had been fully investigated, a girl escaped after being shot in the leg and took refuge in a swamp. The dogs were let loose on her trail and the gang of overseers started after her. She slept in the swamp one night, but was finally hunted dpwn and tak6u back to the den. I personally investigated the way in which a Chicago girl of undoubted respectability w&s kidnapped. She was decoyed from an honorable life by an advertisement offering large wages in a boarding house. When she had nearly reached her destination she for the first time learned the horrible life she was going to, and sought to go back, but was compelled by force to go on.

Iu order to stop this inhuman traffic, Representative Breen and Representative Thompson, of Delta, are urging two measures. In these efforts they are seconded by Circuit Judge Grant of Houghton, aud by the public opinion of be Upper Peninsula.

CAPTAIN J.~H. ALLEN.

A Sketch of Terre Haute's Citizen, Juet Now Sn Prominent.

Indianapolis Journ alCapt. Jason H. Allen, who is the so-called labor candidate for the United States Senate from Indiana, is a citizen of Terre Haute and about fifty years old. He is of about medium height, of slight physique, full auburn beard and of quiet demeanor. He was either born in Ireland or came to America from that country when a child. He belongs to the Irish National League, and was an enthusiastic and prominent member of the national convention at Philadelphia, at which the league was organized. He was a soldier. He lived in the South at the time of the war, but came North in order to enlist in the Union army. He was captured by the rebels and held as a hostage in the City of Yicksburg at the time of the siege. He was associated with Major O. J. Smith on the Terre Haute Express wheu the paper was prominent as the national organ of the Greenback party, in the heydev of that party, in 1874 and 1875, and was a vigorous and forcible writer. He was afterwards chosen superintendent of schools of Yigo county. Afterwards he went into the retail drug busines with exMayor. Benjamin Havens. This partnership was dissolved, and Captain Allen continues the busin&ss. In 1884 as the leader of tbe Greenbackers in the Eighth congressional district, he tried to have a Greenbacker nominated for Congress. JohuE. Lamb, the Democratic candidate, captured the convention and prevented the nomination, but Captain Allen and several other Green backers put up a man named Compton, a sort of Prohibition Greenbaoker. There were at that time about 1,700 Greenback votes in the district. Lamb got about 1,500 of them and was elected to Congress. In 1886 Lamb was again a candidate. Captain Allen succeeded in having the Greenbackers indorse Hon. James T. Johnston, the Republican candidate, which, with the dissatisfaction am«ng the Democracy, elected Mr. Johnston. Captain Allen's influence is quietly exerted. He is not a wardworker about town, but an office manager, and a man of considerable ability and tact. He may be said to be an educated man, though it is not the education of the schools. What he has learned is by reading. Those who know him best call him a man of intellectual activity and force. He is not an agitator in the common acceptation of the term, but a man of strength of character and a good citizen."

One of the Commissioners.

NEW YOBK, Jan., 22.—A Washington special says: "One of the commissioners appointed under the Inter-State Commerce act (is not unlikely to be Allan W. Thurman, of Ohio, a son of the veteran Allan G. Thurman. It is understood that the elder Thurman would be greatly gratified at this appointment, and has made known his wishes to the President. The younger Thurman is a cripple, Baviug lost an arm by accident several years ago. He |lives with his father in Columbus, O."

IS IT TRUE?

Was Grant a Drunkard While in tbe Army?

Gen. Smith days He Was and Relates His Experiences.

NBW YOBK, Jan. 20.—A special from Burlington, Vt., says: In a communication to the Century magazine, for last May, Gen. Wna. A. Smith, commented on an allusion to himself made by Gen. U. S. Grant, in one of his war artiolee in that magazine, and as a result of the controversy, which arose from that over Gen. Smith's removal from the command of the Eighteenth Army Corps, he has given to the Free Press for publication a letter which he wrote to Senator Foote, of Vermont. In this letter Gen. Smith says: I am extremely anxious that my .friends in my native state should not think that the reason of Gen. Grant's relieving me from duty was brought about by any misconduct of mine, and therefore, write to put you iu possession of the facts. About the very last day of June, or the first of July, Gens. Grant and Butler came to me at headquarters, and shortly after their arrival, Gen Grant turned to Gen. Butler and said: ''That drink of whiskey I took has done me good," and then directly afterwards asked me for a drink. My servant opened a bottle and he drank of it. I was aware at the time tbat Gren. Grant had within six months pledged himself to drink nothing intoxicating. After the lapse of an hour or les?, he asked for another drink which he took. Shortly after his voice showed plainly that the liquor had affected him, and after a little time he left. I went to see him upon his horse and as soon as I returned to my tent I said to a staff officer.: "Gen. Grant has gone away drunk. Geii. Butler has seen it and will never fail to use the weapon which has been put into his hand. Two or three days after tbat I applied for leave of absence for the benefit of my health and Gen. Grant seut word to me not to go if it were possible to stay. The next day, Assistant Secretary of War, Mr, Dana, came to tell me that he had been sent by Gen. Grant to say that he (Gen. G) had written a letter the day before to ask that Gen. Butler might be relieved from that department and I placed in command of it, giving as a reason that he could not trust Gen. Butler with the command of troops in movements about to be made.

The letter then proceeds to state that Gen. Smith was given command and Butler sent to Fortress Monroe that in a private interview Gen. Grant had admitted to the writer "that there had been a butchery at Cold Harbor, but that he had said nothing about it because it could do no good but defended Gen. Meade, whom Gen. Smith had criticiced. Tbe letter continues: "On my return from a short leave of absence on the 19th of July, Gen. Grant sent for me to report to him and then told me that he could not relieve Gen. Butler, and that as I had so severely criticised Gen. Meade he had determined to relieve me from the command of the Eighteenth corps and order me to New York Cifcy ot await orders. Gen. Smith then proceeds to show that Gen. Grant knew all this before tbe former's promotion was recommended, and says: Since I have been in New York, I have heard from two different sources—one being from Gen. Grant's headquarters and one a staff officer of a General on intimate official relations with Gen. Butler that Gen. Butler went to Gen. Grant and threatened to expose his intoxication if th* order relieving him from command wa:' not revoked. I also learned that Gen. B. bad threatened to make public something that would prevent the president's re-election. Gen. Grant told me that he had heard that General B. had made some threats with reference to the Chicago convention which he (B.) said he had in his breeches pocket. In a postscript the writer says: I have not referred to the state of things existing at headquarters when I left, and to tbe facts that General Grant was then in the habit of getting liquor iu a surreptitious manner, because it was not relevant to my case. But if you think at any time, the matter may be of importance to the country I will give it to you.

MARSHALL.

Matters Military—Personal Notes, Etc. MAKSHALII. Jan. 22—[GAZETTE special]—Judge Scholfield attended court in Ottawa the past week.

Mrs. W. A., Wright, of Kuttawa, Ky., is visiting her many friends and relatives here.

A Sons of Veterans Camp is to be organised at Dennison tonight. J. W. Kilborn, commanding Ogden Greenongh Camp, of this place will act as mustering officer. A number of members from the camp here will go over. Efforts are being made to organize camps in Martinsville and Casey.

Drs, R. C. Prewett and H. Bradley visited Paris Monday. W. A. Porter started Monday for a trip through Montana and Oregon, with the intention of selecting a location.

Mrs. Nancy Miller, wife of Emanuel Miller, died at their residence last Saturday morning. The funeral took place Monday, the remains being token to the Dolson cemetery for interment.

S. a. Whitehead attended court in Fairfield, Wayne county, this week. Wm. H. Lockard will, the coming spring ^rect a large business building on the vacant lot at northwest corner of the square. The building will consist of two stories, the lower to be fitted up as a store room and the upper to be used as an opera hall.

Rev. Hamill, of Pana, is visiting the family of hie son, R. E. Hamill. of this city.

Congressman Crain of Texas, Tom Ochiltree's successor is the only nativeborn Texan in the delegation from the Lone Star State.

PASSED THE HOUSE.

The Inter-State Commerce Bill Passes the House Today. ilT' #&'

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The InterState Commerce bill. has passed the House—219 to 41.

After the reading of tho journal of the House this morn in?, tbe Speaker stated that the regular order was tbe vote upon the adoption of the conference re port on the Inter-State Commerce bill.

Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio, asked unanimous consent to have a seperate vote upon the fourth section, and Mr. Weaver, of Iowa, asked to have a seperate vote on the commission feature, but Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, objected to both requests.

Mr. Dunham, of Illinois, moved to recommit the bill to the conference cojnruittee, and Mr. Crisp raised the point of order against that motion.

The Speaker knew of no rule which authorized the recommittal of a conference report, and sustained the point of order.

Mr. O'Neil], of Pennsylvania, inquired whetner theri was any parliamentary proceeding by which those gentlemen who were embarrassed by having to vote for or againet an important bill without haying an opportunity to divest it of its objectionable features, could be relieved of that embarrassment but no suggestion to that end was made and the vote was taken on adopting the conference report. It was agreed to—yeas 219 nays 41.

Those voting in the negative were: Allen, of Massachusetts Anderson, of Ohio Bliss, Boutelle, Boyle, Bragg, Brumm, Campbell, of Ohio Caswell, Dibble, Ely, Evans, Felton, Findlay, Frederick, Gay, Gilfillan, Grosvenor, Hayden, Hill, Johnson, of New York Kelly, Libbey, Long, Markham, Martin, McKenna, Miller, Morrow, Oates. O'Neill, of Pennsylvania O'Neill, of Missouri Ranney, Reed, of Maine Rice, Seymour, Wadsworth, Waite, Weaver, of Iowa, and Smith, of Pennsylvania.

The bill, after being enrolled and signed by the presiding officers of the two houses, will be sent to the President for his action.

Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, from the Committee on Commerce, reported back the resolution requesting tbe Secretary of the Treasury to make inquiry of contractors of passenger cars and steamboats, and any other persons he may think capable of giving information on the subject as to tbe best methods of constructing and heatin&r the same. Adopted.

INDIGNANT WOMAN.

What They Desire the Senate to Investigate. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—In the Senate yesterday Mr. Colquitt, in presenting a petition from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the Distriot of Columbia, said that ho assumed no responsibility for the startling facts revealed in the petition, but he did answer for the pure motives and high characters of those who laid it before the Sen ate. The petition was bold and aggressive, and challenged investigation of the facts. It was a plea with mothers and wives made to "this body of grave and revert- nd signors," for protection against such an excess of vice and lawlessness as should not only alarm, but humiliate the Senate. They could never disregard the voice of woman raised in behalf of social purity and public virtue. He asked that the petition be read at length and referred to the District Committee.

The petition was read. It charges the Commissioners of the District of Columbia with disregarding the purity, safety and moral interests and rights of the people, and asserts that, in direct violation of law, they have been for months past permitting and protecting gambling halls, pool-rooms and drinking establishments, as well as dens of prostitution and vice, and giving numerous particulars. It charges that a house owned by one of the Commissioners is used as an office by the agent of the Louisiana State Lottery, and that Frank Hume, the President of the Liquor Dealers Association is a bondsman of one of the commissioners. It therefor* prays for a thorough investigation of the facts, and for the proper enforcement of law and protection of homes within the District.

Mr. Hawley remarked that the petition just read was a tremendous indictment and shocking revelation, and he suggested that Mr. Colquitt should accompany it with a resolution calling for an immediate and severe investigation.

Mr. Colquit said he did not feel it incumbent on him to make any suggestion to the committee. He did not doubt that the committee would b9 in jull sympathy with any movement to redress these offenses, and would suggest proper measures of redress.

Henrv Clews on the Inter-state Commerce (Bill. NEW YOBK, Jan. 22—On the subject of the passage of the Inter-State Commerce bill, Henry Clews dictated this: "The bill must now be accepted as law, for it is certain of the executive signature, being undoubtedly a popular measure with the multitude, although it is not so with the inter-state railroads. It cannot fail to be injurious and to dieorganize the methods of business. Under the law which it provides for they will be compelled to advance their through rates in proportion to their local charges. This will materially dwarf that class of business. Stocks of the railroads affected by this new law must become less valuable, as they will suffer by the injury to the business of those roads. There has been for several days past, considerable liquidation of stocks owing to fear of the passage of the bill, and this liquidation is likely to continue for some days, especially from London holders."

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