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THE arOKSTSTG OBEGOy-IgLy, S'ErDAT, JFEBBCABY 15. 1895. MUST BE KO CHANGE POSTOFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL AMENDMENTS DEFEATED. Proposed. Cbaagcx "Would Have Brought About a Revolution in. the Railway Mall System. WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. The senate today voted to make no changes in the present railway mall system. The sub ject has been the chief point of conten tion of the postoffice bill. Ths bill, as re ported, gave to the postmaster-general complete discretion in expending 3.200,000 Tor postal cars, and cut off the present fast-mail line from North to South. The proposed changes have created a lively discussion, lasting several days, for they embraced a complete revolution In the present system. AH of the amendments -were defeated, however, by decisive votes. After a sharp debate the senate declined to extend the policy for subsidizing fast mall lines. The postofflce appropriation was not passed up to time o adjourn ment. "When discussion was resumed, two im portant amendments were pending; first, to give the postmaster-general discretion over the $3,200,000 for railway postal cars, and, second, for the purchase and main tenance by the government of all postal cars. As yesterday, the amendments were generally discussed, Messrs. "Vilas. Teller, Piatt, Carey and others participating. The votes on the various amendments were taken at 3 P. M. and defeated. The amendment of Blackburn, proposing a 10 per cent reduction in postal-car rates, was laid on the table, 42 to 13. Vilas offered an amendment fixing the pay of railway mall clerks, but it was ruled out of order, and Davis offered one that railway mail clerks hereafter appointed shall reside on their routes. This -was agreed to. The credentials of Augustus O. Bacon as senator from Georgia for the term "be ginning March 4. next were presented by Walsh. Butler gave notice that he would tomor row call up his resolution advancing the pooling bill. Bills were passed for a public building at South Omaha, Neb. The house bill was passed for sale of isolated tracts of land at a minimum of $1 25 per acre. The senate bill was passed granting certain lands in the abandoned military , reservation at Fort McKInney, Johnson county. Wye, to the state of Wyoming for public purposes. Piatt presented a petition and gave dramatic details concerning barbarous ex ecutions in the Choctaw territory. He said the facts, if known, would shock the civilized world, as they presented bar barities unparalleled in this country- The petition urged that a law be passed giv ing an appeal to Indian courts. Piatt s-ald the time had been reached when such a law was Imperative in order to end the shocking condition of affairs. A favorable report was made by a spe cial committee allowing $115,000 to the widows and children of those killed at Ford's theater, in Washington. Lodge offered a resolution, which was agreed to, asking the secretary of the treasury for information as to returns from distilled spirits, and what reduction would occur from the prospective close of the distilleries. Call then brought forward his Irrepres sible resolution for a senate investigation of the Honduras Lottery Company's op erations in controlling the Florida elec tions. Blackburn sought to cut 5t off by moving to refer it to the committee on privileges and elections, and this caus.d a heated debate for a time, during which Morgan sharply critisiced the course of Call, who, Morgan said, was seeking so take Che- advice and assistance of politi cians anxious to thrust a federal lnqulry into the state of affairs of Florida. At C:15 the senate held a brief executive session and adjourned. The Union Xevaila Canal Bill. WASHINGTON'. Feb. 34. The petition which Geary and Camincttl of California have raised in the house asking the com mittee on rules to give two days for de bate on the Union Nevada canal bill was" presented today. It has more than 200 signatures and the names of a majority of the senators. Disposition of Invalid Pensions. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. The houss committee on invalid pensions today agreed to and ordered Strong of Ohio to report favorably to the house a bill to direct the disposition of invalid pensions in all cases. President ilnx Sighted It. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. The president signed the Chicago public building bill to day. Constantly growing for 40 years. The popularity of Dr. Price's Baking Powder. INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE. Admiral Irwin on the Proponed Japan-China Cable. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. Admiral Ir win, who is really the originator of the Japan-China cable pioject, speaking to a correspondent today, said: "In cruising about in Hawaiian and Japanese waters 1 saw what great oppor tunities there were for broadening Amer ican commerce. The Japanese will open tip China and the Russian trans-Siberian railroad will open up a rich tract in Si beria. Even should the United States gov ernment refuse to do very much, the cable will be built. Besides private capital, we could expect help from other nations. 2Cow all cable communication -with the far Eot is absolutely under British con trol. In this war. England has been friendly to China and I have felt that the Japanese have been discriminated against In the cable news. I think the Japanese feel this, too. They are anxious to estab lish quick communication with this country- There is no doubt they will make liberal concessions to secure it. If war should break out between Russia and England tomorrow, then England would have all the cables in the East, and. therefore, an Immense advantage. Rus sia, which stands in fear of such a thing, would make liberal concessions for a cable through neutral territory. France wants to make connection with the United States by laying a cable from the Cale donian islands and would make conees-t-lons. This, in addition to the amount of business which I believe will be developed by the opening up of China and Siberia, would certainly make the plan feasible. "Thorough soundings of the proposed route have been made by our navy. The American terminus will probably in In a small cove near Monterey. Cal. From Honolulu, the cable would be laid di rectly to Japan, with a station on Midway island, a little place owned by the United States, and lying about KXX miles west of KawaH. on a direct road to Japan. There may be some fear about the advisability of allowing Japan to give any concessions and thus have an interest in the pro posed cable, on account of the supposed design of that nation upon Hawaii. How ever, I believe that such fears are ground less. I am thoroughly convinced tnat the Japanese will do nothing to bring them Into collision with the United States. They have a deep love for this country and recognize our right to prevent any for eign Interference in Hawaii." TAKEN UNDER ADVISEMENT. The Income Tax law In the District Court of Appeals. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-The case of John G. Moore, the New York broker, who instituted suit against the commissioner of internal revenue, to test the constitution ality of the Income tax. came up on ap peal before the district court of appeals todaj The points discussed in toe hear ing were mainly reiterations of those rais ed In the equity court several weeks ago. The lower court had erred, it was claimed. In holding that the act imposing the tax was constitutional; that double taxation, as in the case of the complainant, was lawful, and that the Income tax was an indlrecttax, though not apportioned among the several states as provided by taxation. Ex-Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, wno made the argument for Mr. Moore, endeav ored to show the tax was a direct one, and that, even if it were an Indirect tax. It was not levied constitutionally, in that it makes an arbitrary distinction between classes of individuals, and, therefore, lacks uniformity. He also upheld the legal right of the petitioner to bring suit in Its pres ent form. Assistant Attorney-General White held there was no ground for equitable pro ceedings in this case, and reiterated his former contentions as to the constitution ality of the act. Mr. Edmunds made a short closing argu ment and the court took the case under advisement. THE ARMY AND NAW. Promotion Sent to the Senate by the President. WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. The president has sent to the senate the following nom inations: War Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund C. Bainbridge, Third artillery, to be colonel; Major Edward B. WlUJstcn, Third artil lery, to be lieutenant-colonel; Captain John R. Myrick, Third artillery, to be major: First Lieutenants W. E. Evert, Fourth artillery, and Henry C. Dans, Third artillery, to be captains; Second Lieutenants E. T. Wilson, First artillery, and M. G. Zellnskl, Second artillery, to be first lieutenants. Navy To be assistant naval constructors; Washington L. Capps, Virginia; Frank W. Gibbs, Minnesota; R. P. Hobson, Ala bama; Thomas F. Ruhm, Tennessee; H. G. Smith, Ohio: John D. Bueret, Michi gan; Robert Stockcr, Minnesota; Elliott Snow, Utah; George H. Rock. Michigan. Lawrence Spear, Ohio; H. G. Galmcr, Wisconsin; John E. McDonald.. Illinois; Homer L. Ferguson, .North Carolina. At the Mare Island Yard. VALLEJO, Cal., Feb. 14. The draft of 70 additional men for the Olympia will ar rive February 24. This ship's complement was cut down 100 men. embracing seamen, firemen, etc., and the draft soon to ar Tlve will complete the number allowed the vessel at present. Captain F. J. Higginson relieved Cap tain Louis Kempff of the command of the Monterey yesterday. Since the Olympiads crew was transferred from the receiving ship Independence to their own vessel the guardship is some what deserted, only 2S general service men remaining on board. Captain A. S. Barker, the new captain of the yard, had fire quarters for the entire department of the station this afternoon. An alarm of Are was suddenly turned In from a distant station, and within six minutes water was available from both engines. Captain Barker was well satis fied with the activity of the yard people. To Accept the Olyntpin. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. The navy de partment has received the report of the inspection board at Mare island, of which Captain J. J. Reed is president, upon the examination made of the new cruiser Olympia. While in a few minor details the vessel requires some work before she can be declared perfect, the board praises the work of her construction and design ers in the highest terms, and confirms the wisdom of her recent preliminary accept ance by Secretary Herbert. Upon the recommendation of the board, the depart ment has practically decided to finally accept the vessel. Itncer'H Nomination Confirmed. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. The senate In executive session today -confirmed the nomination of Brigadier-General Thomas A. Howard Ruger to be major-generai February. 1S33, vice Schofield, appointed lieutenant-general. THE SCHOONER WAHLBERG. No Evidence That She Has Been on an Otter Cruise. SAN DIEGO. Cal., Feb. 14. There were no developments today in the case of the seizure of the schooner H. C. Wahlberg, charged with landing munitions of war in Hawaii for the use of the royalists in the recent insurrection. Captain Matthew Martin now admits having sailed from San Francisco November 23, and his pa pers of that date show he cleared for an otter-hunting cruise outside of Behring sea and Alaskan waters; that he has been 400 miles down the const, and, on his first arrival here, said he had touched at Santa Barbara. He persists in a flat footed denial that he has been to Hono lulu or near there, or that his vessel had had any arms on board. The little schooner Is at anchor under the guns of the revenue cutter Oliver Woleott, with a detail of blue-Jackets under a petty of ficer on board. Collector John C. Fishsr personally seized the vessel last night. So far as learned, no instructions have been received from Washington. The captain and crew have not been placed under arrest, and are free to come and BO. There are some suspicious circumstan ces about the Wahlberg. The vessel has ro evidence whatever of having been on an otter cruise, as she has not a fishing tool or Implement of any kind. The ship's boats are very large, and the crew re markably small only three men beside the captain. The vessel shows by her water line that she has been heavily loaded, tout is now entirely empty, not even having ballast. THE HAWAIIAN REVOLUTIONISTS. Masonic Lotlsc Asked to Intercede for Colonel Servant. NEW YORK. Feb. 14. The wife of Colonel Seward, who has been condemned to death at Honolulu on a charge of trea son In connection with the recent insur rection there against the provisional gov ernment, has requested Peconlc lodge. No. S91, A. F. & A. M.. to take some action toward getting her husband's sentence mitigated. Mrs. Seward and family now reside at Guilford, Conn. Colonel Seward Is well known In Suffolk county. He left here 10 years ago and went to California, and from there drifted to the Sandwich Islands. The friends of Colonel Seward have requested Congressman James W. Covert to Intercede with the government, and, if possible, obtain a suspension of Colonel Seward's sentence. An Inquiry From England. LONDON. Teb. 14. Notice has been given in the house that the government will tomorrow be queried as to informa tion in Its possession in reference to the Imposition of the death sentence upon the British subject, Richard, for alleged participation in the Hawaiian revolt. In every land and clime Dr. Price's Baking Powder leads the list. It keeps every where. OTnBR NATIONAL NEWS. An Extensive Scheme to Defraud. CHICAGO. Feb. 14. Internal rev enue officers have discovered an extensive scheme among the West Side groeerymen and dairy storekeepers to defraud cus tomers by selling oleomargarine for but ter. Two arrests have been made, and 47 more complaints will be presented to the grand Jury. Ample evidence, it Is said, has ben obtaiened by Officer Frank E. Kennedy, sent from Washington to secure the indictment of every storekeeper for selling over the 10-pound limit without a wholesale license, and for selling In un stamped packages. A Brilllunt Function. WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. The president and Mrs. Cleveland gave a rcceptlou to the army and navy and marine corps to night, which was perhaps the most bril liant of the White House functions given during this gay season. LI IN HIGH FEATHER VICEROY CHANG AGAIN IN THE BJI " PEROR'S FAVOR. He Has His Yellow Jacket and Three Eyed Peacock Feather Back, Beside Other Honors. TIEN-TSIN.Feb.14. The emperorhas re stored to LI Hung Chang the yellow jacket, peacock feather and other honors. He will be summoned to Peking, where he will bo given an audience by the emperor, thence he will proceed to Japan to arrange terms of peace. Viceroy Wang Wen Soa will take temporary charge at Pel-Yang. SHANGHAI, Feb. H. It Is reported that Admiral Ting, the Chinese naval com mander and the general commandant of the Chinese forces on the island of Liu Kung, in the harbor of Wel-Hai-Wel, has committed suicide. Peace Envoys in Shanghai. LONDON, Feb. 14. The Central News' correspondent in Shanghai says that the Chinese peace envoys have arrived there from Nagasaki. The Peking correspondent of the Times telegraphs, under today's date: "The foreign ministers had audiences with the emperor today, the occasion be ing New Year's day, and received other ceremonial concessions. The ministers required that they should be admitted through the front gate of the palace." "When Peklnar Shall Be Cs.pt a red. LONDON, Feb. 14. The Standard's cor respondent in Berlin says: "When Peking shall be seriously threat ened, the Chinese emperor will retire to Palgan, In Mongolia. When Peking shall be captured. Prince Kung will be author ised to conclude peace. "Japan has altered her terms, and de clines to inform the powers yet of her views, but suggests that the foreign diplo mats ascertain what China is willing to ray and what territory she will cede." The Corean Ministry Has Resigned. LONDON, Feb. 14. The Times' special from Kobe, Japan, states that the Corean ministry has resigned. Minister Dnn Confirmed the News. WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. Secretary Gresham has received the following cable from United States Minister Dun, at To kto, under date of February 14: "Wei-Hal-Wei fell February 12. Admiral Ito reports that a Chinese gunboat flying a white flag brought Admiral Ting's mes sage proposing the surrender of the ships, forts and arms, provided the lives of the crews, soldiers and foreigners be spared. The formal surrender is being accom plished." IN THE BOHEMIAN DIET. A Violent Scene Followed an Attack on the Government. LONDON, Feb. 14. The Daily News' correspondent in Vienna say6: "There was a violent scene in the Bohe mian diet today when the young Czechs assailed the imperial government for con tinuing the state of siege in Prague. Dr. Greger, the young Czech leader, declared that the people were being driven toward anarchism, and soon would re pudiate the authcrlty of Austria. Governor Count Thun, who replied in German, was greeted with angry shouts of 'Speak Czech. He Is a paid official, and must speak Czech for our money. His speech throughout was drowned in the fury of the opposition. In the fragments he told Greger that, but for the immunity of deputies, his refer ence to Austria, would constitute treason. Plotting and anarchism must be sup pressed, he said, and the exceptional meas ures would be continued and firmly ap plied. Howling and tumult followed, and the young Czechs seemed .to Intend to lynch the governor, but finally the storm subsided." Once a World's Champion. LONDON, Feb. 14. George Wallace, once champion sprinter of the world, died today at Newcastle. TEN INJURED. An Explosion In a Mine at Odin, Illinois. ODIN, 111., Feb. 14. An explosion oc curred in a mine today in "which 10 men were injured. Among those most serious ly injured were: John Luche, burned and suffocated, may not recover; Albert Little, suffocated; Sam Smith, burned; Luther Welngradner, bad ly burned; Ben Boyd, cut and burned. James Tadlock was also injured. All of the others were affected by the- gas and the shock, many of them having their hair and beards burned off. The explosion was caused, probably, by a heavy charge in the room worked by Smith and Welngrad ner. Fears are entertained that there may be other miners further back and not yet found. A spoiled cake Is no better than a spoiled child. Nothing is spoiled with Dr. Price's Baking Powder. DIED FROM EXPOSURE. A Schooner's Crew Adrift in a Small Boat. BALTIMORE, Feb. 14. Two ship wrecked crews were brought into port this afternoon by the British steamer Queens more, from Liverpool. The men had suf fered terribly and two died from exposure before the rescuers arrived. Monday night, at 10 o'clock. Captain Hawkett, of the Queensmore, when about 190 miles east-northeast of Capo Charles, saw cigns of distress, and running alongside, found the schooner Alma Cummings, from Port Royal, S. C, for Boston, with lumber. In command of Captain Cummings, with a crew of seven men. The vessel was leaking badly and has been kept afloat for two days only through the unceasing efTorts of the crew at the pump3. They had gone without food and most of them had their hands and feet badly frosted. They were completely exhausted when taken from the sinking vessel. The following morning the Queensmore found 100 miles cast-northeast of Cape Charles a small boat, in which were six men and two corpses, the crew-of the schooner Marlon of the Sprigg. The Sprigg was bound from Lambert's point for Bos ton with a cargo of coal, In charge of Captain Ira W. Hatch. The heavy ice cut her through, and she sank at the mouth of Chesapeake bay. almost before the small boat could be launched. There was no time In which to provision her, nor to save the crew's effects. The boat was blown out to sea, and for IS hours the men battled with the waves, biting winds and the pangs of hunger and thirst. E. W. Patterson, of Chelsea. Mass., and Charles Urban, of Philadelphia, died of exposure. The Alma Cummings was 15S feet In length, and carried WO tons. The Marlon of the Sprigg was 171 feet long, and her gross tonnage was 757. Aconite Instond of a Tonic. SCHENECTADY. N. Y.. Feb. 14.-Dr. Charles Wesley Ensign, a physician, yes terday took a teaspconful of tincture of aconite root In mistake for a tonic, the preparation being in a similar bottle in appearance to the one holding the poison. After unsuccessfully using all the anti dotes at hand. Dr. Ensign drove in mad haste to this city, where he was suc cessfully treated by Dr. George E. Mc Donald, who dosed the sufferer with opium, whisky, nltro-glyccrine and strych nine. The usual quantity in which the tincture is given Is three minims; a teaspoonful contains over SO minims, or sufficient to kill a dozen men. Dr. Ensign developed all the symptoms of aconite poisoning lassitude, tingling of the lips, the com pressed feeling of the chest, feeble pulse, paralysis of the heart, ani total bl'nd- ness. He wasfrlaboring under great ex citement when'he reached the office of Dr. McDonald, "and he said today that noth ing but the litter's calmness and prompt ness sa ed his.-lifc. Hep Less Broken by Her Welsxbt. NORWICH; Conn., Feb. 14. Au unusual case is that of Mrs. Eliza Latham, aged 2. both of whose leg3 were broken while she was being lifted In her bed Tuesday, to which she had been confined for eight years, on account of injuries received by a falL Her bones were so brittle that they could not support the weight of her body, and both femurs gave way six or eight inches above the knee, the left being an oblique comminuted fracture and the right a simple transverse break. Dr. Congdon was called and reduced the frac tures. Mrs. -Latham bore the operation witnout anesthetics. Owing to the ex treme age of. the patient and the brlttle ness of the bones, it is feared they will not unite. Came Together In, a Tunnel. PITTSBURG, Feb. 14. Two engines on the Castle Shannon road collided last evening In a tunnel near Monongahela. Five men were hurt and the engine and 23 cars were demolished. The injured are: Conductor John Walker, Engineers Henry Hitters and Frederick Rlsgar, Fireman Emmett Hamilton, and an unknown man. The three first named are seriously in jured, but it'is thought all will recover. Blew the Roof Oft. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11. Two mem bers of the Spring valley lodge of Good Templars went early to the room to pre pare it for a meeting. They struck a match in thd anteroom, which was full of gas from a leaking chandelier. A ter rific explosion followed, blowing out the sides and roof of the hall. The men were not killed, although they were scrlously Injured. Rate-Gattinp: Still Golupr On. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14. The insur ance managers, who have been holding a conference at Monterey, have returned with the objections to the features of the new compact constitution still unsettled. Four prominent managers still stand aloof from the compact, and rate-cutting still goes on among all of the agencies. A Victim of the Late Flood. SAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb. 14.-Judge Fos ter wired to Coroner Johnson this morning from Delmar that he had Just found the body of a man on the beach at that placu and that it was supposed to be that of Jose Santos, the employe of A. B. Smith, of San DieguJto, who was drowned during the late flood. SEVERE TEXAS WEATHER Loss to Stockmen "Will Be Hnutlreds of Thousands of Dollnrs. GALVESTON, Tex., Feb. li. The heavi est snow storm ever known in the history of this section of the state has fallen here and now lies on the ground In huge drifts. The fall, as shown by actual measure, has been 17 inches, but in many places, es pecially along the range of sandhills which line the beach on the Gulf shore the drifts' are 10 feet deep, and in some places deep er. Reports from the coast region say the snowfall has been unprecedented for a distance of 60 miles in the interior. All along the Gulf front railroad communica tion has been very much interfered with, and the trains In all directions are de layed. All night trains to and from this city have been abandoned. It Is expected that the loss to stockmen will be very heavy, as range cattle were Ill-prepared for such unusual weather, and the spell which culminated in the snow storm has prevailed now nearly three weeks, being the longest period of low temperature ever known in the history of the state. The loss to the cattle interests will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. "i- t 2-sevc ! i 3 iRKlorida. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 14.-Snow began falling here tonight about 7 o'clock, but soon turned to rain. Specials from Tallahassee and other points in Northern Florida report that snow fell in some places to the depth of two inches. Heaviest in Mobile's History. MOBILE, Feb. H. This section experi enced the heaviest fall of snow in its his tory today. Five inches is the record. Traffic on the electric-car lines is com pletely suspended. The First In Eighteen Years. BRUNSWICK, Ga., Feb. 14. There Is a heavy fall of snow here, the first in IS years. Snow in Sew Orleans. NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 14.-Snow is fall ing here this morning. The ground is cov ered. It is very cold. STOLE THE HOSE CART. A Drunken Plpcmun's Escapades in Jeffersonviile, Ind. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind.. Feb. 14. Harry Crane, a pipeman at No. 1 engine house in this city, stole the fire depart ment's apparatus and created great ex citement yesterday. He made his appear ance yesterday morning drunk and was discharged. Jn the afternoon he returned with a hatchet and attacked Assistant Chief Johnson, who disarmed him, after being compelled to beat him Into insensi bility. Johnson then left to find an offi cer. Before he returned. Crane recovered, hitched the horses to the hose cart, ran some citizens, out of the building with his hatchet, climbed into the seat and started out, lashing the horses in a dead run. In his mad drive he nearly killed several pedestrians, drove over the pavements and cornerstones, but was Anally caught about two miles from the engine-house. MARRIAGE AND DEATH. The Latter Followed Close After the Former's Solemnization. ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 14. Last Sunday Mr. Milo Freeman and Mrs. Marie Schu man were married, and yesterday morn ing the bride died. Mrs. Freeman had been ill for a long time with consumption. Mr. Freeman was determined that the marriage should be solemnized before death came. A few friends witnessed the ceremony. At its conclusion Mr. Free man took his position at the couch of his dying wife to watch through her few re maining days on earth. He was at one time a member of the board of railroad commissioners of Georgia, and is well known. "When the frost is on the punkin" eat griddle cakes cooked with Dr. Price's Baking Powder. A TOUR OF SALOONS. Women of Sioux City. Iowa Laid Down the Law. SIOUX CITY, la., Feb. 14. One hun dred women of the West Side Woman's Christian Temperance Union made a tour of the saloons yesterday afternoon, to ceo if the provisions of the mulct law were "being observed. On entering each barroom, the leader read the law and warned the pnprietor that only strict observance would save him from being closed today. Then, after singing a hymn, they departed Tor the next place, followed by a curious crowd. They Swindled Hotels. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11. Two wom en, giving their names variously as Mrs. Westover, Allison and Atkinson, mother and daughter, are wanted for swindling swell hotels here. They obtained credit each time by claiming ownership of a large ranch near Fresno. m Authorizing Importation of Wheat. LISBON, Feb. 14. A decree has been Is sued authorizing the Importation of 00,000 -000 kilos of foreign wheat before August. L NOTHING THIS SESSION (Continued from First Page.) tlon. Coombs also favored the resolution. He did not know whether the secretary of the treasury had made the best pos sible bargain, but he did know the ne cessity which drove him to obtain gold was imperative. Had gold not been ar ranged for, the treasury would have been stripped of its last gold dollar before next Saturday. Under such extraordinary con ditions an extraordinary contract had been made. Bryan was then recognized to control an hour's time in opposition to the reso lution. He yielded 15-minutes to McMil lin, who gave his reasons why he pre ferred at this time to forego the oppor tunity to save the people 1500,000 a year in interest charges. He said: "To do so would be to discriminate against those of our own people who. In the dark hour of their country's distress, took the government's bonds and kept the government's obligations as good as gold. Those people, or others like them, will continue to keep their country's credit good, and all the powers of the earth or hell cannot prevent it." Livingston created an amusing diver sion by sending to the clerk's desk and having read, amid roars of laughter, some extracts from Hood's poem, "The Golden Ass, or Golden Bull": "Was English Joh. with his pockets full, Then at war by land and water. While beef and mutton and other meat Were almost as dear as money to eat. And farmers reaped golden harvests of wheat. At the Lord knows what per quarter." And concluding with the well-known lines of the moral, beginning: "Gold, gold, gold, Bright and yellow, hard and cold; Heavy to get and light to hold, Hoarded and bartered, bought and sold." Simpson opposed the resolution in a short speech. Then, after same further remarks by Hulick. Wheeler and North way, against the bill. Bland, the silver advocate, took the floor, and in ringing sentencesappealedto the house not to sur render to the gold kings. If this reso lution passed. Bland declared, the gov ernment would forfeit its right to coin silver. Springer insisted that the only question at Issue was whether congress would save to the taxpayers $1600,000. Turner, a member of the ways and means committee, yielded time by Reed, made a strong speech in favor of the resolution, the burden of which was the duty of the government under Its plighted faith, at whatever cost, to maintain the parity of all Its currency. Hatch, in a five-minute speech, aroused the opponents of the resolution to great enthusiasm. He had but little time to ex plain why he was to be a pallbearer at this financial funeral. In a word, it was because the passage of the resolution would make every debtor In the United States pay his debt in gold. He read, amid much demonstration, a letter ad dressed by ex-Governor Proctor Knott, of Kentucky, to Senator Blackburn, in which Mr. Knott characterized the pend ing proposition as "the last Insolent de mand of the goldltes." Hatch added: "They do not seem to want to leave us a hereafter. Whenever the government agrees to pay in gold, silver is doomed for all eternity. As Judge Forbes said to Johnny Moore, 'Good-bye, world; how dy, hell. " The speaker then called on the affirma tive side to occupy some of their time. No one arose, and for an instant it looked as if the advocates of the resolution were exhausted, but Cooper took the floor and in fervid tones denounced those who were "trying to scuttle the ship of state." W. A. Stone said he could not see why republicans should not vote for the reso lution, although they were not to lame for the bad management that had brought about this difficulty. To refuse to make the bonds payable in gold would be to spite the country. The president had twice appealed to the patriotism of the republican party and that appeal had never been made in vain. They should respond again. Hepburn said the gentle man from Pennsylvania proposed to go back on the whole policy of his party that had always pledged itself to main tain gold and silver at a parity. The sec retary of the treasury, he added, was re ported to have said to the committee on ways and means that if the gold provision was put Into thl3 Issue of bonds it must go into every future issue. "Do you propose to do that?" he asked, and there were cries of "No! no!" After reading the plank of the last na tional democratic platform for blmet alism, he said: "Mr. Speaker, I can imagine that your heart has been warmed many times by that ringing sentence." Whereat there was great applause and laughter. After reading the plank of the republican plat form for biraetallsm he declared there was no difference between moral and legal obligations; that there was not a debt of the government that could not honestly be paid in silver. Bryan made a half-hour speecn against the resolution, the passage of which, he began by saying, would withdraw $65,000, 000 from circulation. "The president of the United States," he said, "is a human being." "Oh, no!" shouted Walker. "The president is therefore liable to err," added Bryan, not heeding the interruption. "He has erred. The democratic party owes him nothing. It owes him only the gratitude it would owe the guardian who iias squandered a rich estate. He seeks to inoculate his party with republican virus, that his party may die of blood poisoning, but he has not yet one attri bute of sovereignty. He chasteneth whom he loveth." Turning to the question at issue. Bryan asserted it was a question in which was bound up the welfare of mankind. He continued: "Pass this resolution, and J16.OCO.000 will be saved to the people in SO years. Pass it, and they will be robbed of $16,000,000,000 in a third of that time by the men in whose Interests It was passed. The issue has come. You have got to meet this proposition. On these questions we find the democrats of the East and the re publicans of the East locked, and they proceed to carry out their policy without reference to the rest of the country. But, if they do that, they must expect that on the principle of self-preservation, the rest of the country will drop party lines and unite to preserve their homes and wel fare. The demand of our Eastern breth ren, both republicans and democrats, is for a steadily appreciating standard of value. They are the creditors; they hold our bonds and our mortgages, and as the dollars come up here and the debts in crease, they gather an unearned increase. And the time will come when the unjust exactions and the oppressive demands of our Eastern friends shall heal the divis ions in the West and South, and in the end restore the doctrine of Jefferson, that every man is the equal of other men, and has an equal right to the consideration of the government." Reed arose. Instantly the hum of voices ceased and a hush fell on the house. He began: "Mr. Speaker, that doctrine of the union of the South and West has been preached before and by prophets whose Inspiration lasted longer than that of the gentleman from Nebraska (Bryan). But It has been a failure. It always will be a failure. We not only send our prdperty West, but we send our children there, and no man who crosses from East to West can fall to be struck by the fact that there Is, after all, a unity of sentiment between the two sec tions of the country that no language will ever blot out or destroy. The Southern and Northern democrats may not be able tolive together. lam glad they are not able to live together. But I say to you the re publicans of the East and the West and of the North and Sooth have found some method of living together, and they will continue It. Now, let me address myself to the com paratively small matter at hand. I have witnessed periods of great emotion, and I have noticed that it often happens In the history of this house and this country that even those who seem to be very stirring and striving to portend a tremendous future are not thought much of after a fortnight. I ad mit, however, the importance in many ways, of the proceedings of this house at this time. I wish the results were not a foregone conclusion. I wish there was something more than language left to us today. But that being all there is at stake, the matter will turn out as the gen tlemen know. It seems important that whatever we say here will have a tenden cy to strengthen the credit of the govern ment. We are not through our difficulty. We have long months In front of us before the period of recuperation sets in. We ought not to say anything or do anything which will make that period of reviYal longer in coming than it ought to be. I therefore feel called upon, for my part, to reinforce the remarks so ably made by my friend. the gentleman from Illinois (Can non), as to .what the government has done in the past with Its bonds. The bonds to day ought to stand In the front rank of national bonds, if honesty of effort in pay ment of the same could count for any thing In the history of the country." "The gentlemen say we are at liberty to pay these bonds in something besides the equivalent of gold. Whether we are or not, the fact remains that, urged on by an inexorable law, we have thus far paid in gold, or its equivalent, and every man in this house believes we shall do so in the future. This does not in any way militate against anybody's belief as to bimetalism, whether international or na tional. For men who are In favor of the free coinage of silver are so because they believe free coinage of silver would bring silver to a parity with gold. Therefore, all sides of this house the parties who are recognised in the government plan are agreed as to the result. And It is a pity we should be in a condition so any body could make any other charge. But disease lurks ready to attack a system which has been wasted by other diseases or by cold or exposure. Now, the trouble of our situation is that our body politic our government, has been so reduced by two years of party rule of such a char acter that our expenses are not paid by our Income, that the government of the United States Is for the time running be hind. "Whatever severity of criticism is be stowed upon the present situation, a greater severity of criticism is to be be stowed upon the past, and the agreement presented for the inspection of the house is in accord, it seems to me, with the government of this country for the last two years. It may be that I Judge harshly; it may be that this government is the re sult of the unfortunate condition In which n. ..... . r s.. , I me ou.cuimniL una iuuiiu; it may ue no guilt attaches to this except so far as it is the result of causes which never ought to have been set in motion. Howeer that is, the contract is presented to us for ap proval or disapproval. "It is not proposed to reduce the rate of interest provided in this contract, pro vided we make the bonds sold 'payable in, gold. That word is practically there now, as everyone agrees. This resolu tion does not involve the establishment of a policy; it Is simply action on a single transaction of the government. Some tell us It would govern all future transactions, but I do not believe the secretary of the treasury would attempt another such con tract after his experience with this. The policy of redeeming our outstanding ob ligations in gold was established by a democratic administration. The bonds is sued under the contract rrade by Carlisle were to procure gold. Does any one imagine that gold will be refused when they are redeemed? When Secretary Sherman issued bonds for gold he an nounced that, being issued for gold. th-y would be redeemed in gold. The trouble seems to be many do not understand this. They do not treat the matter fairly when' they speak of it as affecting monometal-. ism or bimetalism. An administration can not be sued. But, like a gentleman, it has its honor to preserve. It cannot act dishonorably." Reed called attention to the fact that June 25, 1S90, Wilson, Bynum, Turner, Montgomery and Tarsney, all of whom would be found voting for the bill, had voted for the free coinage of silver. A great laugh convulsed the house as Reed produced this record. The gentleman from Maine frowned, however, and dis claimed any intention of raising a laugh, saying: "I simply mention this to show the con straining influence of those in power." "And every one who is now voting 'the other way has been retired to private life," shouted Wheeler. "A nation's credit is its stronghold." concluded Reed. "Disasters may happen, a change of administration may occur, anything, in short, may happen, but the most important thing always is to pre serve the nation's credit; and, therefore, we should not let our indignation at the terms of this contract swerve us from our duty." Bynum combatted the statement of Bryan that the resolution would retire 5,000,000 greenbacks, and said the demo cratic administration would be sustained however fiercely the waves beat against it. The debate was closed by Wilson, who admitted the contract made by the secre tary of the treasury contained very haid terms for the government, but he be lieved these teims the best that could oe obtained. But congress could, he sail, by giving the secretary authority to write in the bonds what the contracting parties thought should be there, although all agreed the bonds would be redeemed in gold, save to the taxpayer $300,000 a year. In conclusion, Wilson said no mat ter how the members might differ as to the financial opinions and acts of the secre tary, no one In the house who had known him would dare question his integrity. This statement was heartily applauded. The speaker's gavel dropped. The hour of 5 had arrived, and under the special or der the clerk proceeded to call the roll on ordering the resolution to its third leading The third reading was refused 120 to 167, as follows: AYES-120. Adams, of Pa., rep. Lapham, dem. Aldrich, rep. Lcfever, rep. Apsley, rep. Lockwood. dem. Babcock, rep. Lynch, dem. Baldwin, dem. Martin, Ind.. dem. Barnes, dem. Marvin, N. Y., dem. Bartholdt. rep. McCrearj, Ky.. dem. Barwlg. dem. McGann. dem. Belckner. dem. McKaig, dpm. Beltzhoover, dem. Meyer, dem. Berry, dem. Montgomery, dem. Breckinridge, dem. Morse, rep. Brickner. dem. Mutchler. dem. Broslus, rep. O'Neil. Mass., dem. Bynum. dem. O'Neill, Mo., ccm. Cadmus, dem. rage. dem. Campbell, dem. Paschal, dem. Caruth, dem. Patterson, dem. Catchings. dem. Payne, rep. Causcv, dem. Pearson, dem. Chlckering. rep. Pendleton. W. Va., Clancy, dem. dem. Clarke, of Ala., dem.Pigott. dem. Cobb, of Mo.. de:n. Powers, rep. Coombs, dem. Price, dem. Cooper, of Fla., dem.Qulgg. rep. Cooper, of In 3., dem.Ray. rep. Cornish, dem. Reed. rep. Covert, dem Itellly, dem. Craln, dem. Reyburn, rep. Cuttls. N. Y., rep. Richards, of O., dem. Daniels, rep. Robinson, Pa., rep. Davev, dem. Ftussell. Conn., rep. De Forest, dem. Ryan, dem. DIngley. rep. Schermerhorn, dem. Draper, rep. Sickles, dem. Dunn, clem. Sorg. dem. Durborow, dem. Sperry, dem. English. Cal., dem. Springer, dem. Erdman, dem. Stevens, dem. Everett, dem. Stone, C. W rep. Fielder, dem. Stone, W. A., rep. Forman. dem. Stone, of Ky., dem. Gearj, dem. Storer, rep. Gelssenhainer, dem. Straus, dem. Gilet. N. Y., rep. Tarsney, dem. Gillett, Mass.. rep. Tracy, drm. Goldzier. dem. Turner, of Ga., dem. Gorman, dem. TurpJn. dem. Graham, dem. Updegraff. rep. Gresham. dem. Wadsworth, rep. Griffin, Mich, dem. Wagner, rep. Grout, rep. Warner, dem. Haines, dem. Washington, dem. Hall. Minn., rep. Well?, dem Hammond, lent Wilson, W Va., tm. Harrison, dem. Wise, dem. Wolverton, dem. Woomer, rep. Wright, rep. Krlbbs, dem. NOES-167. Adams, of Ky., rep. Johnson, of N. D.,refl i A 111..,. .. r -r- j ' n I --UUVC4J, ici. ivem., ma. Alderson, dem. Keifer, rep. Alexander, dem. Kyle, dem. Allen, dem. Lacey, rep. Arnold, dem. Lane, dem. Avery, rep. Latimer, dem. Bailey, dem. Lawson, dem. Baker, Kan., iop. Layton, dem. Baker, of N. H.. repXester, dem. Bell, of Col., pop. Linton, rep. Bell, of Tex., dam. Little, dem. Bankhead. dem. Livingston, dem. Black of Ga., dem. Loud. rep. ' Blair, rep. Loudenslager, rep. Bland, dem. Lucas, rep. Boatner, dem. Maddox, dem. Boen. pop. Magulre. dem. Bowers, of CaL, rep.Mahon. rep. Bretx, dem. Mallory, dem. Broderlck, rep. Marsh, rep. Bromwell. rep. McCleary, Minn, rep Brookshire, dem. McCulloch. dem. Brown, dem. McDearmon, dem. Bryan, dem. McKelghan. ind. Bundy, rep. McLaurin. dem. Bunn. dem. McMlllln. dem. Camlnetti. dem. McNagny, dem. Cannon, of Cal., dem.McRae. dem. Cannon, of III., rep. Melkeljohn. rep. Capehart, dem. Mercer, rep. Clark, of Mo., dem. Meredith, dem. Cobb, of Ala., dem. Money, dem. uocKreu, dem. -Moore, dem. Coffeen, dem. Morgan, dem. Coffin, rep. Moses, dem. Cooper, of Wis., rep-Nelll. dem. Cox, dem. Northway. rep. Crawford, dem. Ogden, dem. Curtis, of Kan., rep. Pence, pop. Davis, pop. Pendleton. Tex., der JUe Armond, dem. Perkins, rep. Denson. dem. Pickler. rep. Dinsmore. dem. Randall, rep. Dockery, dem. Richardson, Mich., Dolliver. rep. dem. Donovan, dem. Richardson, Tenn, Doollttle. rep. dem. Edmunds, dem. Hitchle, dem. Ellis, of K- dem. Robbins. dem. Ellis, of Or., rep. Robertson. La., den Enloe, dem. Russell. Ga, dem. Epes. dem. Sayers. dem. Fletcher, rep. Settle, rep. Funk, rep. Shell, dem. - Fyan, dem. Sibley, dem. Goodnight, dem. Simpson, pop. Grady, dem. Smith, rep. Griffin, of Wis., dem.Snodgr3. dem. Grosvenor, rep. btaiungs, aem. Grow. rep. Stephenson, rep. Hager. rep. Stockdale. dem. Hainer. rep. Strait, dem. Hall, of Mo., dem. Strong, rep. Hare. dem. Swanson. dem. Harris, pop-dem. Taibcrt, S. C, dem. Hartman, rep. Tate, dem. H.itoh. riim. Tawnev. reD. Haugen. rep. Taylor, of Ind., dem. Heard, dem. Terry, dem. Henderson, of Ill.rp.Thomas, rep. Henderson, la., rep. Tyler, dem. Hepburn, rep. Van Voorhis, N. Y. Hermann, ren. reo. Hltt. rep. Van Voorhls, O., rep. Hooker, of Miss.. dmWalker. rep. Hopkins, of 111. rep. Waugh, rep. Wnnkins. of Pa.. ren.Weadock. rep. Hudson, dem. Wheeler. Ala., dem. Hulick, rep. Wheeler, of 111., rep. Hull, rep. Whiting, uem- WtTnter ifm. Williams. 111. dem. Hutcheson. dem. Williams. Miss., demj Ikirt, dem. Wilson, of O.. rep. Izelar, dem. Wilson, of Wash., rp. flood interviewed. He Talked of National Finances an it Municipal Reform. NEW YOKK. Feb. 14. James L. Flood, of San Francisco, is at the Imperial ho tel. He says he is here merely for recrea tion and to consult with Mr. Mackey. He was asked: "How is the feeling out West regarding the bond issue?" "Well, you can Imagine how we feel. I think the treatment the v est has received is shameful. It is the worst blow ever ad ministered by the hand of any president' of the United States. It is a scheme the benefits of which and they amount to billions of dollars will go into the pock ets of a few favored individuals. I think ; the whole scheme a direct slap at all our industries." "Why is it that sa many of the youn" men vrno go "West come back dissrUts"- "They are' not madebffttie right. "stuff. The possibilities of -Calif ornia alone are unlimited. Its resources are unbounded. I might answer your question by asking you one: How is it that you have a Phil adelphia so near New York? The West is all right; the trouble lies with the peo ple. We have not enough people to develop our resourcas. We arc by no means as slow out there as your disgruntled young men would lead you to suppose. Why. they are Lexowing San Francisco now, and a political upheaval such as you had last November will be the natural result." "Then you do not think this is the worst city in the world?" "Not at all: I think that the same condi tions exist all over our large cities. They are the results of political preferment as it is now constituted. The power of Tam many hall was national; its doctrines and practices had even invaded the White House, and it was fttst becoming a politi cal factor, the strength of which was felc even on the Pacific slope. It had to go. After all of this is over, the country will be better, for then the people will be better, and naturally, enough the com merce and finance of the nation will again be placed on a plane with other nations or above them. I might say, for ours is the best of them all." Lindsay for the Supreme Bench. FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 14. Political gossip has it that two United States sen ators will be elected from this state in stead of one. Friends of Senator Lindsay claim that President Cleveland will put him on the supreme bench. Bidding for the Convention. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14. The Call today advocates the holding of the next republican national convention m this city, and offers to contribute $5000 toward the expenses. 0 Aren't those cream puffs delicious? They are prepared with Dr. Price's Cream Bak ing Powder. ELECTED OFFICERS. The Board of Directors of the Asso ciated Press. CHICAGO, Feb. 14. The board of direc tors of the Associated Press met today and unanimously elected the following officers: President, Victor F. Lawson, of the Chicago Record and Dally News; first vice-president, Horace White, New York Evening Post; second vice-president, John R. McLean, Cincinnati Enquirer; general manager and secretary. Melville E. Stone; assistant general manager and assistant secretary. C. S. Diehl; treasurer, George Schneider, of Chicago. Colonel Bclo, of Galveston, declined re election, to the second vice-presidency on account of ill health. The board", after disposing of a number of routine matters, adjourned subject to call. Nearly all of the Eastern members left for their homes this evening. A large number of Western and Southern members of the association have also cone East. To FlKlit a New Foe. CHICAGO. Feb. 14 For the first time in Chicago, wearers of the blue and gray during the civil war sat together at the banquet board tonight, in the Auditorium hotel, and pledged their loyalty to the star and stripes, which hung in profu sion on the walls. The reunion of veter ans and others was held under the aus pices of Columbia post 705, Grand Army of the Republic. Over 30) guests were pres ent. The guests of honor were General John B. Gordon, United States senator from Georgia; General John C. Black, of Illinois, and General Stephen D. Lee, president of the Missouri Agricultural & Mechanical college, who was the youngest brigadier in either army during the war. Delegates from Iowa. Wisconsin. Ne braska and North and South Dakota held a conference in this city today. Ex-Congressman James Wilson, of Iowa, stated that the object wus to Invoke the aid of congress against the alarming growth of the Russian thistle. Resolutions were adopted urging the aid of congress and the state legislatures to fight this enemy cf the farmer Hayes, dem. Hendrix. dem. Henry, dem.