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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
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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