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P VtAa Chronic UJsH' Connipa. fcnlBi M Complaints l-JCOovM and Rlduey g Affectioua. mi K ai-l Tama w I all t J CONGRESSIONAL NEWS ROUTINE WORK OF THE FIFTY FOURTH SESSION. substance of the Utile and Resolutions Introduced In tho Henate and Hone -Condensed lteeord of the Doluge of tho National Lawmakers donate. Wanriinfftin. Jun 10. Senator Wol- oott, who has been absent in Europe for some months, was present in the senate a . ! A.f today ana tooK tne presort Den oaiu. Hul frnm the anmmittee on naval affairs, reported baok favorably the bill to authorise tne secretary oi tne navy to increase the number of enlisted men in the navy. He directed attention to r.hn imnnrtnnofl nf the bill, and save notioe that he would call it up at an early day. T-tnflnr nffnriul tarn amnnrlmenta to the free-coinage substitute for the house bond buL The first prohibits tha aula nf InterftHf-hflarintr hnnda with out the express consent of oongress, and the second ma ices it mandatory on me secretary of the treasury to redeem greenbacks and treasury notes in silver ui Inns m the market nrioe of 412 grains of silver is not lower than that of 39)6 grains of gold. Ar. tho nnnnlnsion of the morninir honr Sherman J moved that the senate adjourn, it being understood mat tne Republicans desired to hold a oauous. Washington. Jan. 11. -The debate on the senate free ooinage substitute for the honse bond bill was opened to day by Jones of Arkansas in a two hours speech, which was followed witn olose attention. Jones took strong eronnds for the free and independent ooinage of silver, contending that was the only method by whloh the distress in the oountry could be alleviated and the treasury department relieved from its dependence on the speculative hold ers of gold. There was no reply to nis argument today, but the debate will tH resumed when the senate meets again. During the morning honr Pritchard made a speech in favor of r.h rn-enaotment of the McKinley law, and White made some remarks in favor of amending the rules of the senate, so as to give the majority the power to hrinc a measure to a vote whenever it sit w fit. Morgan, the former chairman of the oommittee on foreign relations, introduced a resolution oonvevinK the congratulations of oongress to Presi- decr uger. Wushincton. Jan. 16. Morgan's BDeech on the silver bond bill was the event in the senate today, although a sharp personal colloquy between mil, Pritohard and Butler enlivened the early hours. Morgan finally addressed himself personally to Sherman, who sat across the aisle, and for two hours arraigned the Ohio senator for the nnrins of fluancial acts with which he is identified. At times Morgan was bitterly personal, in tne main, now ever, the speeoh was a soholarly pre sentation of the silver question. Mitchell introduced and had passed by the senate a resolution calling on the secretary of state for information as to the report of the special agent of the United States sent to the Fiji islands to investigate claims of B. W. Henry, of Oregon, and other Amerioan citizens to certain lands owned by them in the islands, and appropriated by the Brit iHh government Henry and the other nitiznns are now Dressing for their money. Kyle introduced a resolution asking the president to recognize repre sentatives of the unban insurgents whenever they appear to have a seat of government in the island, and a fol lowing of a majority of natives of that nlnna. He is directed in that oase to grant them belligerent rights. Gear of Iowa introduced a bin in tne sen ate for the admission of New Mezioo into the Union. Hooae. Washington, Jan. 10. The subject of the annexation of the Hawaiian islands was broaohed in the honse to day by Spalding, in a resolution wbioh provided that the Sandwich islands be erected into a new state to be oalled Hawaii, with a Republican form of government, to be adopted by the peo ple, through deputies in convention, with the consent of the existing gov ernment The conditions were imposed that all questions of boundary or com plications with other governments be transmitted to the president to be laid before congress for final aotion before January 1, 1898; that all property per taining to the publio defense be oeded to the United States, but that the state retain all other property and the United States to be liable for none of its debts. The resolution proposes as an alterna tive that Hawaii may be admitted as a state by treaties between the two gov ernments, with one representative in congress, and proposed the appropria tion of $100,000 for making treaties. This resolution waa referred to the committee on foreign affairs. Washington, Jan. 11. The bouse gave its time today to a discussion of the proposed amendments to the rules of the fifty-first congress, which were provisionally adopted early in the ses sion to govern the honse. Two inter esting discussions relieved J- the mo ontony of the technical debate. One was precipitated by Walker, chairman of the banking and currency oommit tee, who made a fight against the pro position to drop the oommittee on banking and currency from the list of committees privileged to report bills to tne nouse ai any lime, a paniaaa debate resulted, in which Walker was supported by the Democrats and a Re. publican contingent, which included many of the free silver men. Walker failed to carry his point Hepburn in spired the second discussion by an amendment to direct the speaker to recognise any member who addressed him when no other member waa on the floor, and spoke against the growing power given by the rules to the speak er. He withdrew his position, how ever, after a speech by Bell, who claimed that it would secure for the Populist members the recognition of which be claimed tbey were deprived. The discussion of the rules waa not finished. Washington, Jan. IS. The house, after devoting an honr to the oonsdera tion of business, reported from the District of Columbia committee today, took up the pension appropriation bill. General debate on the bill consumed the day. W. A. Stone, in charge of the bill, explained its provisions. Graff offered the amondent abandoned by the committee, inhibiting the sus pension of pensions for fraud nntil the fraud had been proved in a United States court, and Bartlott opposed the proposed extension of the dependent act of 1890, by the revival of the inhi bition of widows' pensions until, thoy had proved their dependency on thoir daily labor for support He estimated that the proposed extension would add 60,000 names to the pension rolls. In the house today, Dalzoll of Pennsylva nia introduced a bill constituting Andrew Carnegie. George Kelly, Charles Bachelor, Charles MoGee and twenty-six other persons, a corporation under the name of the Lake Erie & Ohio Ship Canal Company, with power to oonstiuot and manintain a canal connecting Lake Erie and the Ohio riiver. The house oommitte on banking and currency considered the project for an international American bank, which was one of the recom mendations of the pan-American con gress, and was largely the idea of the late James G. Blaine. The bill puts the capital stook at $6,000,000, and authorizes the bank to act as the flmin oal agent of any government, state or municipality or corporation; to handle bonds, etc., but bars it from issuing notes to circulate as money in the United States. THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER. Mr. Cleveland Writes to Senator Caffery Anent the Bond Ieeae. Washington, Jan. 11. -The debate on the Elkins resolution in the senate last Friday, when the administration was accused by several senators of having entered into an agreement with the syndioate to float the expected issue of bonds, is the subjeot of a letter writ ten Sunday, January 6, by President Cleveland to Senator Caffery. The knowledge that suoh a letter had been addressed to Mr. Caffery was obtained tonight, and the letter was made publio by the latter. It is in the handwriting of the president, and covers six pages of closely written paper. It is as fol lows: "I have read today in the Congres sional Reoord the debate in the senate Friday, concerning the financial situa tion and the bond issues. I am amazed at the intolerance that leads even ex cited partisanship to adopt aa a basis of attack the unfounded accusations and assertions of a malioiously mendacious and sensational newspaper. "No banker or flnanoier, nor any other human being, has been invited to visit Washington for the purpose of ar ranging in any way or manner for the disposition of bonds to meet the present or future needs of the gold reserve. No arrangement of any kind has been made for the disposition of suoh bonds to any syndioate, or through the agenoy of any syndicate. No assurance of such a disposal of bonds has been directly or indireotly given to any person. In point of faot, a decided leaning toward a popular loan and advertising for bids has been plainly exhibited on the part of the administration at all times when the subjeot was under discussion. "Those oharged with the responsi bility of maintaining our gold reserve, so far as legislation renders it possible, have anxiously conferred with each other, and, as occasion permitted, with those having knowledge of finanoial and of the monetary conditions as to the best and most favorable means of selling bonds for gold. "The usual importance of a success ful result if the attempt is again made ought to be apparent to every Amerioan oitizen who bestows upon the subjeot a moment's patriotic thought "The secretary of the treasury from the first moment that another sale of bonds seemed to be approaohing desired to offer them if issued to the people by a publio advertisement if they oonld thus be successfully disposed of. After full consideration he came to the con clusion to which I fully agree that the amount of gold in the reserve being now $20,000,000 more than it was in February last, when a sale of bonds was made to a syndicate, and other conditions differing from those then existing, justify us in offering the bonds now about to be for sale by popu lar subscription. "This is the entire matter, and all those particulars oould have been easily obtained by any member of the senate by simple inquiry. "If Mr. Morgan, or any one else, reasoning from his own standpoint, brought himself to the belief that the government would be constrained to sell bonds again to a syndioate, I sup pose he would have a perfect right, if he chose, to take suoh steps as seemed to him prudent to put himself in oon dition to negotiate. "I expect an issue of bonds will be advertised for sale tomorrow, and bids to be invited, not only for those allowed by law, but for such other and differ ent bonds as congress may authorize during the pendency of the advertise' ment "Not having had an opportunity to confer with you in person since the present session of congress, and notic ing your participation in the debate of last Friday. I have though it not amiss to put yon in possession of the facta and of the information herein con A GOLDEN OUTLOOK RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THE DAIRY INDUSTRY. Tho Heat Winter Food for Cows Some Foreign Dairies Tho Washington Dairy Bchool-Somo Valuable Infor mation for Dairymen. None of the resource! of the great Northwest give more hope for future development than does the dairy in dustry. A careful and conservative estimate, printed in the Yakima Repnblio, fixes the amount of butter used daily in the state of Washington at 60,000 pounds, and for the week, 860,000 pounds. This, at 36 cents a pound amounts to $87,000 weekly. Now of this amount, as near as can be ascertained, the state of Washington only furnishes 60,000 pounds, whioh, at 86 oents per pound, amounts to $13,600, leaving 800,000 pounds to be furnished from the East and outside the state, which, at 86 oents per pound, amounts to $76,000 whioh goes out of the state weekly for that one article alone. About Winter Food. Sinoe dairying has became a leading feature of Eastern Washington agri culture, writes Professor 8pellman, of the Pullman Agricultural college: "The question of winter feed for dairy cattle is an important one. In ivew of the faot that the various root orops do unusually well in this section, and are eminently adapted for stook feed, a few faots in regard to these orops will doubtless be appreciated by our farmers. "The particular root crop that has proven the best adapted to feeding dairy cows is the mangel wnrzel, while carrots are the best for horses. In selecting a variety of mangel wur zel, three points should be taken into consideration; first, aeleot one that la free from fine, fibrous roots, so that when pulled it will be free from dirt; too much dirt fed to a oow may result in death. Second, one that does not grow too deep, so that it may be pulled without too mnoh effort; and third, one that yields welL "Tho Golden Tankard fills these conditions pretty welL "In delecting a carrot, 1 would ad vise planting one of the half-long or stump-rooted varieties; they are easily pulled and yield welL Carrots are also fine feed for cows, and have the reputation of giving butter a yellow oolor. Carrot tops, however, should not be fed cows in milk, as they taint the milk badly. Mangel and beet tops are excellent oow feed. "In regard to turnips, it may be said that this section is best adapted to the culture of the Swedish turnip, or ruta baga, as it is oalled. These do well here, and are exoellent for sheep and cattle, but for cows giving milk they must be fed just after milking, and at least ten hours before milking again, or they will taint the milk and the butter made from it The Dairy School. The dairy school of Washington, at Pullman, will begin February 17, and continue eight weeks. The work in this sohool is entirely different in char acter from that done in the farmers' sohool. The dairy sohool is intended for the butter and cheese maker, and thorough instruction, accompanied by regular work in the laboratory, cream ery and oheese factory, will be offered in milk testing and in butter ana oheese making. In order to make the instruction offered in the dairy sohool of the most praotioal value, the agricultural oollege hue annnred for instructor in dairying Adolph Sohoenmann, of Plain, Wis. Mr. Sohoenmann has been instructor rlnrinff the Dast three years in the Wis consin dairy sohool, whioh is, perhaps, the leading sonooi oi ita aina in we oountry. He is also secretary of the Wannnain and the Minnesota State Dairymen's Associations, and be holds a diploma and a gold medal ior oneese Axhihitarl at the world's fair in 1898. He is the anthor of two well-known books on dairying, namely, "Milk Testing" and "The Butter Fat and Dividend Calculator." Foreign Dalriea. In some of the dairies in the neigh borhood of Edinburgh, and in all those near Glasgow, says the Amerioan Agri oulturist. the butter is madebyohurn ins the oream and milk together. This is done in order to obtain the butter milk, the demand for which is always great in large cities. When the milk and cream are to be churned togetner, the milk is kept in the coolers for from twelve to twenty -four hours, and then poured into a milk-tub. It remains here until required for churning; and will, during this time, have coagulat ed. If a oertain quantity of milk is out into the milk-tub, and has coagu luted before any more has creamed, the coagulated milk must in no way be disturbed, or, if the two quantities are mixed together, too mnoh fermentation mav be the consequence. The milk is not churned till it has become aoid; and when onoe coagulation has taken place, it should be ohurned as early as convenient If the milk has not fer mented before churning, the buttermilk will keep for a much longer time, will have an agreeable taste, and will bear to be mixed with a little water. When the milk has fermented before being churned, the buttermilk will never be so good nor will it keep for such a length of time as the former. Italian Victory la Abyeelala. Rome, Jan. 1 1. News is reoeived that the Italians in Abyssinia have de feated Emperor Menelik's foroes at Makelth, the engagement taking place January 7. The Shoana lost heavily, while the Italians had only three of the native troops killed and a few wounded. A FIGHTING OYSTER. la a Battle With Rtornab tho Watchral Ulralre Killed Ite Foe. "To look at an oyster you would neve Imnglno that there was any fight In It, wimlil Ton?" askud an olmervant fishormast aahe prlod open tho shell of one of the bivalves he was talking about 'noonm wn id think an ovster eould and would fight unless be bad boon a witness soma time orotic of the oyster's fighting quali ties. "Onaof tha most exoltlna contests I ever saw was between an oyster and oner of tbeinnat deadly enomlos of tbe oyster family, and I am glad to any that the oys ter won tho llKnt. Hie enemy waa a ewar flh .mi if nil nf lie kind were as freak. and intllacront as this one was tbey wouldn't be a source ox so mucu aroau the oyster farmer. itk.m ivmnvhn haul anvthlna tode with raising oysters has seen many a baa- lirflsh. These da- 1W lVVTTVva wwau struotlve enemies of the oyster grow fast. but seldom attempt to attaea tne uivaira before tbey are 0 months old, and the their inexperience and ovoroonfldonoe aa apt to get them In a heap of trouble. A atjrfl.h that line rut 1U avetocth. SO spook, will get the best of an oyster every time, for It will mount ine snuii, unu bole through It Inject Itesinpeiy ing uqo" Inrji 4 Ka Avohi Arwl Anvnlmvft the whols IUW iw ot-vm ar- thing with Its capacious and elastlo month stomach ttrfore the poor shellfish know what nns nnppenou w n. , a anhnni nf .tjirflnh oan bo thronah aa oyster farm almost as quickly as a tornado ean wipe out a wheat farm in Dakota. Starfish are virtually walking stomach and I have found them stretched orar elomc, shell and all, that were a groat deal bigger than the natural dimensions of tba starfish. Whon one oi tnose rapaoioeai Maaieniirlnwai atlVnlArtal n Aifim ni tin orator. It SltniMUUlHD wuivin - imply turns itself wrong side out and pulls itaoK over it vioum, aa you vyuuj pull on a pair of new socks. "Tills llgnt 1 was speaKing bibui w mimhmI in hltfi wntar. anil 1 had a ffood .iht nf it i uw tha atArflah work warilr along over the oyster, and then settle npoaw It. The bivalve was on m wuuw though, and when the starfish waa nea enough the oyster's shell closed like a steel trap on one of the starfish's five rays and ut it off as slick as if t bad been dona with a knife, A starfish doesn't mind tba loss of f ray or two In fact It can stand the loss of four of Its rays and thon make its way off, In a short time spreading an -growing the lost members again. But It the starfish loses all five of ite rays las doom is sealed. It will die almost lramfe dlotely. "The oyster had no sooner clipped en nf Um f,w'. torn than It ant lta trast VUV w , awv " O . again and waited for a renewal of the a- tack. This was not long m comma;. starfish droppod lteelf slowly, with se much oonfltlenoe that I oould almost sea Is, and was soon astrldo the oyster agala. Again the trap flew shut and the star flak rose with but three of Its five rays left. But lt waa plucky, ana witn oonuueno. nnimnninid mtnmfld for the third round' with the prompt and watchful oyster. Tba .... . . i . . i . round waa a repetition oi tne omer im, and the starfish wna bereft of another lea;. The persistent enemy of the oyster bad ap parently sot lta mind on having that par ticular one, and without a inoinont'a hesi tation turned Ita crippled body to taa lourtti afwault. "The oyster Waa now mad all the way through and shifted Its position, turnlha; Its open shell upward as the starfish droy ped toward lt. This was the last round eC the fight tor the oyster caught both ia inalnlng rays of the starfish In the ras and snippet! tbnm off at one bite. Tha ray less starfish turned over and sank . the bottom dead." Now York Sun. Weather Frophe. An old man who acta as sexton in tha one church of a little New Hampshire vil lage has what be calls a "sure tollln sign" to assist him In making those prognoatkna tlons about the weather for which he baa acquired a pleasant renown In the Delgn borhood. "It's my old bellrope that tells rnesartta euro whon there's a dry spell com In, aa when we may oount on a good smart rata. Slie's Jest as reliable as lust week's papar or jest about. "When I take her In hnnd to ring for aa evenln mootln, an her strands Is all kinder moistened up an stringy, I says to myself, 'We'll fotoh a storm by tomorror night, r- my name ain't Koilah Hicks,' says L Aa we alius lotahos that storm tomorror nlgmV- or thereabouts. "But when I ketch a holt of her on a real bllstorln July mornln, whon the folks are all oomln along up the road with pa'sa leaf fans an sun umbrellas, an sho's alt squnobed up together jest as dry as an old bone, on nut a mite o' give to her, why, I ' know what to expect An when the folk stop an say, 'Don't you reckon we'll spa some rain to cool us off before long, Mr. Hicks)" I'm obleeged to my to 'em that I ean't give 'em any enkerrodgement "Almanacs is fearful unanrtln, an evaa weather report Is kinder liable to prooa now on then, but you take an old bellrope that's got the bang o' the climate, aa yea might say, an she won't never mislead yoa. When she's dry, you can loave your um brella to home, an when she's m'lst, why, if you don't see It smooohln up In the eaat. before long It'll be It'll be moo' llketjr because the storm baa rta up In the middle o' tba night an ketebed you nappln 1" St Louis ltepublio. eimoeag la China. The greatest ean is taken by the Chlneeer of the pieces of ginseng of the finest qual ity. M. Huo says that throughout Chin. no chemist's shop is unprovided with mora or leas of lt. According to the account given by Lockbart, medical missionary la China, of a visit to a ginseng merchant l Is stored In small boxes lined with sheet load, which are kept In larger boxes con taining quicklime for absorbing moisture. The pieces of the precious drug are further lDclosed in silk wrappers and kept in little silk lined boxes. The merchant wtwa .hnwinif a nlray. tamd of lta wrarjulnirs ea Mr. Lockhart for bis Inspection, requested;, blm not to breathe on or handle it, wblki he dilated on Its merits and rotated tbe marvelous cures be had known lt toeneo. Tha rr la nvnrMl. accordlne? to Quality. with the flnost embroidered silk, plain cot ton cloth or paper. unamoere joanw. Hampton's Sonthera Croee. Ciunl WiuIa ITnmntnn la still, mote) than any other living man, the Idol of tao people of South Carolina. Hardly less la- tereatlng than tne agea warrior oiuuwu at fliiulnt tinma npAF Columbia. II iar butltfrom the debris of his fine reitldene that was burned during tba war ana waav erected by his former slaves under his di rection. As new rooms were added to tha Lku tt.lllnir It aaaumed tha form of ernes, and to the general's friende st a known aa "The Boutnern vrumm. - rranclaoo Argonaut