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THE OKEQON SCOUT.
JONES JkCHANCKV, IMiblUlinra.
UNION, : : : OREGON.
the cAT.Ksn.ma weighed dowx.
Only Ten Days More In Which Congress Can
J)Upatch the I'ubllc Business.
Washington dispatch: Tliero will bo a
perfect potpouri in thb proceedings of con
gress dun tip (lio rcmnlning ten days. Tlio
cnlcndnrs of both houses nre exceedingly
cumbersome, nnd bo much business ot great
importance demnnds attention that more
or less ol tinduo hnste will necessarily fol
low. Tlio cnlondnr of tlio liouso is com
posed of eighty-eight pages nnd 1,175
measures, us follows: Dills in tlio commit
tee of tho whole liouso on tlio Htato of tlio
union, 281; houso calendar, 172; private
calendar, (571; special orders, 14; bills re
ported from the private calendar, 8; priv
ilege reports and uulinishcd business, 1G;
bills on (ho union calendar considered
undor clause fi, rule 24, 115.
Tlio senate calendar has 30 pages, in
cluding the index, and 27 solid pages, giv
ing tho titled of .141 measures. Most of
these nro for general legislation.
To-morrow is suspcnsions-of-rulcs day in
tlio Mouse, and tlio call rests With thu com
ml i tee on claims. J ho commltteo on up
proprlullnns. However, Intends to antngon
izo this rule with an appropriation bill, nm
It is generally believed that it will ho sue
cessful in obtaining tlio Moor. Tho legisla
tive, executive, ami judicial: tho consular
nnd diplomatic and tho naval approprla
tion bills are on tho calendar, while tho con
oral dollciency and fortification bills arc to
bo reported dining the wee),-, tints giving tho
liouso (into as much work on approprla
tion bills iih it can perform. At 3 o'clock
Tuosday afternoon tho houso will ylold Its
time for eulogies upon the Into Senator Fiko
of New Hampshire; Wednesday tho fisher
ies bill is to bo considered, and Thursday
tho veto of tho president of tho dependent
paroniH pension Dill, wiiicli was reported
Saturday from tho committee on invalid
poiisious witli n unanimous report in favor
of tho passu go of tho bill, tho president's
veto to tlio contrary notwithstanding. Un
dor tho rules of tho houso during tho last
six days ol tho last session of congress, it
is lu order to movo at any time to suspend
tho rules and put a measure upon its pass
ago. Beginning with that day it will ho
qullo ns impossiblo to forecast tho proceed
ings of tho houso a day in advance as It
would bo to tell tho future courso of a rud
derless ship.
In tho setiato tho republicans seem to
hovo outlined prutty clearly tho order of
business lor tho wceic ny tlio programmo
fixed in conleronco, although their calciila
tious may be materially altered. Tlio
order promulgated by tho republican sena
tors is as follows:
First Privileged questions, including
conference reports, always In order.
Second General impropriation bills.
Third Pension bills, general and special.
Fourth liouso bills, etc., in order, in
tlio morning hour, under tho Harris rule.
Fifth After tho Harris rule is exhausted,
the morning hour is to bo devoted to bills
under ruIoH,
Tho following is promulgated by tho re
publican caucus:
First Tlio mattor of tlio naval bills for
defense, otc. Consigned to Messrs. Cam
eron and Hale, to be proceeded with until
2 o'clock, subject to the foregoing.
Second Tho Eads incorporation bill;
tho Nlcaraiigua canal bill; naval bills be
fore mentioned, if not then already finished;
department of iigriculturo bill; pleuro
pneumonia to bo reported from tho com
mltteo on agriculture; tho bill for tho relief
of depositors in tho Freodmaii's bank;
Inbor arbitration bills: bills forfeiting
land grants; a bill to prohibit tho publica
tion of lottery advertisements; a bill to
quiet land titlos; tho Des Moines land
grant mattor; tho settlement witli tho Pa
cific railrauds bill; houso resolutions to In
vostlgnto the Pnciflo railroads; a bill to
authorizo tho Paellic railroads to build
branches in any convenient form.
THE COUXTBl'S CEltEALS.
What Is Said of the Condition of the Winter
Wheat.
Chicago dispatch: This wcok's FannorH
Review crop sumninry is as follows: In
jury to winter wheat by reason of rocont
sloot storms and accompanying cold
weather Is reported from various points of
Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas,
but tho general skuuilon as affecting tho
prospects of winter wheat continues to bo
favorable. In Hamilton, Hardin and
Kit no counties of Illinois, tho outlook is
rcgnrdod as precarious, with many of tho
fluids covered with frozen sleet, lu ltoone,
Coles, Kankakee, Knox, Livingston, Ma
rlon, Montgomery, Pratt, Plko, ltock
Island, Sangamon, Shelby, Tuzwell and
Williamson counties of Illinois, tho crop is
variously reported as In fair to lino con
dition. In Tipton and in sovoral other
middle Indiana counties freezing and thaw
ing havo been hard on wheat, and havo
caused some Injury. In Elkhart, lien
driclts, Marion, Hancock, Porter, and
Ohio counties of Indiana, tho crop con
tinues to look very good. In Trumbull
county in northern Ohio, the prospect Is
poor, but in tlio other twcnty-ono counties
reporting this week tho outlook is regarded
as good, In Coluuibliyua and Logan coun
ties in central Ohio, tho roportu are
that tho crop is looking lluely. Fields aro
generally bare lu Missouri, and in Clay and
lloury counties ol'Western Missouri tho
outlook Is poor. Jn ltuchanan, Calloway,
Cooper, Frniiklyn,',Hownril, Jitspur Lewis,
Shelby, Worth, Cittilwull and Monroo coun
ties of Missouri tho prospect Is uniformly
good. Tho fields in Michigan and Wiscon
sin aro nearly all covered and reports aro
uniformly favprnblo. Iteports from a few
winter wheat counties of lowii and Minne
sota, aro generally good. In Johnson
county of Eastern Kansas tho winter wheat
Is reported dead and U poor in Allen,
llurlon, Jetforsou, Miami, Outgo, Potta
wattamie and Wallace counties, but is in n
fair condition in Atchison, Chautauqua,
Cawley, Greenwood and Labatto counties,
Tho com movement is free In Oltio and
Indiana, but is very light in all nthoi
western states. In Minnesota And Mis
souri there is very llttlo corn for shipment,
nnd movement U very light. Matty Iowa
and Illinois counties are barren of cum,
and aro Importing com at from 35 to 40
40 coots a bushel. llonds aro badly
blocked throughout Dakota, nm! very
llttlo grain of any kind in moving to mar
ket. MtXKUS JMfBtSOXED.
. London, Feb., 18. At eiuloslon his oc
curred lu tho Cutch colliery, lu the .Hhomlda
Valley. There are fifty-two men cutonibed lu
tlio mine. Crtea can be heard at the shaft,
ml It la hoped that the men mar be saved.
The mouth of the abaft is surrounded by rela
tives of tho luiprlsoucd men, aud tho iceuo It
licartr6nd";g,
Twenty nine of tho Imprisoned uieti havo
been roeued unhurt and eight others 'tare
beeu token out injured. Bmeeu remain Ir
the jlt aud H la rnjwUd that tlx aro deud.
John D. Lkvle, dlscouut clerk iu the Flrtt
National bank of Baltimore. 1 reported to be
a Oafaul Ur for 80,0j0.
THE SEX ATE AXD HOUSE.
trhat Is Belna Done in Both Branches of
the National Congress.
SKSATn, Feb. 17. The sennti resuk,
consideration of the bill to provido for fc.
Increase of tho naval establishment (Halo'a
bill). Tho amendmout offered yesterday
by Butler (requiring vessels to bo "for sea
services") was withdrawn. The bill was
then passed yeas 40. nays 7. Tho nays
woro Coke, Jones (Ark.), Plumb, Vanco,
Van Wyck, Vest and Voorhces. Tho bill
provides for tho construction ol heavily-
armored vessels for coast defenso nnd also
for sailboats and torpedo boats, and np
propriatcs $1D,400,000 to bo available
during five years from March 4, 1887. Tho
hp unto then res u mod consideration of tho
Ends Telitmntcpcc shit) railway bill. It
recites that tho government of Moxico has
granted to Captain Kads a concession for
construction and operation of a ship rail
way across tho Isthmus of Tehunnlopcc,
and has authorized him and his associates
to obtain a charter cither iu Mexico or
elsewhere. Amendments offered weroagreod
to and tho bill nassed
House, Fob. 17. Tho message of tho
president, returning, without his npprovnl,
tho bill appropriating 10,000 for a special
distribution of seed, to thodroiight-stricken
counties of Texas, was laid before tho
liouso this morning. Lanhum, of Texas,
moved that the bill and accompanying
message bo referred to tho committee on
iigriculturo. The motion was lost. Tho
question was then put: "Would tho liouso
pass tho bill, tho president's ohjections to
tho contrary notwithstanding." nnd was
answered In the negative; yeas 83, nays
100. Hammond (Gn.) called up tlio con
ference report on thoanti-Mormon bill, nnd
Bennett of North Carolina spoko against
tlio adoption of tho report. Tho report
wag adopted by a voto of 202 to 40. Tho
houso then wont into tho comiiiittco of tho
wholo on tho diplomatic and consular ap
propriation bill, llclmont ottered a sub
stitute for so much of tlio bill not already
disposed of. This was adopted, and tho
bill then passed. Randall, from thu com
mltteo on appropriations reported back
tho sundry civil appropriation bill with
tin) senate amendments, recommending
concurrence iu twonty-two of thnsoamond
meats and noti-roncurrenco in 2.'1G amend
ments. Ponding action tho houso ad
journed. Sg.vatk, Feb. 8. Edmunds presented tho
conference report on tho Utah Polygamy
bill in tho shapo of a substitute for both
tho senate and houso bills, and it was
agreed to, !57 to 18. Tho bill now goes to
tho president. Tho scnato then proceeded
to tho consideration of tho river and har
bor bill. Tho bill reported by the commlt
teo on commerce, as a substitute for tho
bill, passed by the liouso, was read and
various amendments were offered by tlio
chairman of tho commit tcu,(McMII!au) and
were adopted, r.diiiitnus moved to strlKo
out section 3 (which provides for tho ac
quiremeni, by comlciiinalton, ol land or
material necessary iu the prosecution of
the work of improvement) mid tho proviso
authorizing the socrotary ol war, when the
price asked by the owuor shall be rcasoua
hie, to purchase property without further
dolay. Adjourned.
Housk, Feb. 18. On motion of Towns
heml (III.) the senato amendments to tho
invalid pension bill were non-concurred in,
and a conference was ordered. Towns
hand, from tho commltteo on t.ppropria'
lions, reported tho bill appropriating S4,.
(it;.'!, 10 I for tho payment of Mexican and
other pensions. Committee of tho wholo.
Weaver (Neb.) called up tho vetood peu
siou bill of Simmons W. Hart. The houso
refused to puss tho bill ovor tho veto; yeas,
J'lo: nays, um not tho necessary two
thirds lu tho nllirmatlve. Tho houso then
went into commltteo of tho whole for
further consideration of senato iimond
incuts to the sundry civil appropriation
bill. After disposing of 15(1 of thu 200
amendments tho committoo rose and tho
houso took a recess, tlio ovoiiiug session to
bo for tho consideration of pension bills.
3e.vati: Fob. 10. Tho presiding ofllccr
presented several petitions from Ohio posts
of tho Grand Army of tho Itepublic for tho
pussago of tho dependent pension bill over
tho president's veto. Van Wyck moved to
amoiid tho Item of $300,000 for tho Mis
Hourl river by making it read: "Continu
ing tho Improvements at Atchison, nt.
Joseph, Fort Leavenworth reservation,
Arrow Hod; and Kansas City, iu Kansas
aud Missouri, and Oiualin, Platlsmouth,
Kant port and Krowuvillo, iu Nebraska and
Iowa." Mimderson heartily coincided
with tho vlows of his colleague, but did
not beliovo thoy would be accomplished
under tlio amendment offered. llotlioiight
that in addition to tho $300,000 placed
tinder tho control of tho Missouri river
commission for tho river south of St. Jo
seph, $100,000 should bo appropriated for
tho points north of it. Van Wyck modi
fied his amendment so ns to appropriate
$100,000 for the points named in it.
Jones, of rsoviiila, from tlioconfoionco com
mittee on tho bill to retire tlio trade dollar
made a teport and stated tho points of it.
After n lengthy debate tho report was
agreed to yens -10, nays C. Tho bill now
goes to the president.
Housi:, Feb. 10. Mntson, of Indiana,
from the commltteo on invalid pensions, lit
tho house reported back tho dependent
pension bill, with the president's veto mes
sage thereon. Ho naked that the report be
ni n ted in tlio Kecord.nnd gave notice that
io would call mi tho bill for action Thurs
day next, llrecketiridgo (Ark.) objected
to the report belne prii.ted Iu tlio Kccord.
and thereupon Burrows, of Michigan, de
manded that it bo read. Thu sneaker de
cided that tho report must bo read, and
the clerk then proceeded to read it. Tho
report was llstoued to with great attention
though tho rending was sovotn times in
terrupted witli applause, which broku out
afresh when tho concluding sentence ol tho
report showed that tho committee was
unanimous lu Its recommendation. l.ar-
hunt (Texas), presented tho conference re
port upon the trade dollar bill aud it was
agreed to without debate or division. Tlio
house then considered until the hour of ad
journment, senato amend meats to tho sun
dry civil appropriation bill.
8i.-n.vti:, Feb. 21. Potltlonsfroin a "largo
number of Grand Army posts" ol Ohio,
tor tho passage of tho dependents' pension
bill, over the president's veto, were laid on
tho table. Tlio ship canal bill wus tem
porarily laid aside, and tho scnato consid
ered the river and harbor appropriation
bill, tho question being on tho amendment
ottered by Van Wyck on Saturday lM to
tho item of $300,000 for improving the
Missouri river, nnd which was to the ef
fect that $100,000 should be expended at
Atchison, Fort Leavenworth, Arrow ltock,
Omaha, otc. Ho modified It so as to di
rect the expenditure ol half the $300,000
at those points under tho direction of the
st'cietarv of war. Tho amendment, as
modified, was agreed, to. Other amend
incuts wero adopted. Tho bill was then
reported to tho senate trout tho commltteo
of tho whole, ami was paused without di
vision. A committee of conference was
asked on points of difference between the
two houJes, The senato thou took up the
bill to Incorporate the ship cnnul company
ol Nlcnrntuua. Vest ofioml an uutenif
mailt Mint tho act ahull havo no force or
effect until a concession shall havo Ixniii
secured from the government of Nicaragua,
and shall have been submitted to, and np
proved by congress, ltojected without di
vision. Tho bill was then pawed yeas
3S, nuya 6.
House, Fob. 21. Dingiey. of Maine, pre
sented memorials of Grand Army posts of
Hath nnd Portland, Maine, asking for the
passage of tho Dependent pension bill over
tho president's veto. Referred. Itandall
presented the memorial of tho Rhode Island
Radical I'caco society ngaiust expenditures
for vessels and fortifications, and asking
for wiso statesmanship which will submit
grave questions ol dispute between nations
to arbitrament of reason and internation
nl law. Referred. Henderson, of North
unrolina, from the committed on elections,
lubtnltted a report on tho Indiana con
tested elect ion case of Kidd ngainst Steele,
which coiitirms the right ol Hteetotoa seat,
Laid over until Thursday. Cobb, of In
Jiaua, then called up tho conference report
the report of disagreement on tho bill re
pealing tho pre-emption, timbor culture
and desert land laws, Uy a voto ol '.Hi to
B8 tho reports of tho conferees was ac
ropted. Cobb then moved that tho houso
refuse to recedo from its disagreement to
tho senato amendments, nnd agree to tho
request for a further conference. Agreed to
Sknatii, Feb. 22. Tho bill to provide for
the retiremcntot United States legal tender
and national bank notes of small denomi
nation and theiesuo of coin certificates was
reported advcreolyand placed on tho cnlen
dar.
The presiding officer presented tho follow
iug letter:
Senators: My olflco ns president pro
tempore of tho sennto will necessarily cease
on the 4lli of .March next with my present
term us senator. It will promote tho con
venience of the sennto and public service to
select a senator as president pro tempore
whoso term extends beyond that date, so
that he may administer the oath of office
to senators-elect and hi organization. I
tlereforo respectfully loslgn that position,
to take effect at 1 p. in.., Saturday next,
I-ebruur.v 20. Permit mo indoingso to ex
press my heartfelt thanks for tho uniform
courtesy and forbearance shown me while
iu thu discharge of my duties as presiding
officer, by every member of the senate.
Yours truly, John Siii:hma.v.
Tho communication wns ordered entered
iu thu journal nnd placed on file. Thu bill
making appropriations for tho military
academy was then passed.
Houitn, Feb. 22. Mr. Bland, of Missouri,
ns a privileged question, called up tho vo
toed bill Increasing tho pension of John W.
Ferris. Ho bore testimony from a per-'
soual Knowledge ol tho claimant to tlio
merit of the claim nnd asked that tho
houso pass tho bill over tho voto. The
liouso refuse to pass tho bill over the voto
yeas, 1.12; nays, 5)3 not the constitu
tional two-thirds voto iu tlio affirmative:
The house then resumed iu commltteo of
tho wholo consideration of tho senato
amendments to tho sundry civil appropri
ation bill. The recommendations of tho
committoo on appropriations wero con
curred in nnd tho committee having risen
a conference was ordered tin the disagree
ing votes of thy two houses. Tho houso
then proceeded to the consideration of tho
resolution expressivo of regret at tlio death
of Senator Austin A. Pike, of Now Hamp
shire. As a murk of respect to tho mem
ory of tlio deceased, the liouso adjourned.
Skn.iti:, Feb. 23. Petitions in very largo
numbers fiom Grand Army posts asking
for tho passago of tho dependent pension
bill ovor tho president's voto wero pre
sented from Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indi
ana. Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Minneso
ta, Now York, Iowa, nnd Maine. Tho bill
to create n department of agriculture and
labor was passed. Tho bill creates an ex
ecutive department to bo known as tho
department of iigriculturo and labor, with
a secretary and assistant secretary to bo
appointed by thu president, by and with
the udvico and consent of tho senate. Tho
secretary is to receivo tho same salary as
tho heads of other excculivo departments,
and tho assistant tho sanio salary as tho
assistant secretary of the interior depart
ment. Tlio bureau of labor and tho
weather service of the signal sorvico bureau
aro to bo transferred to tho department of
tho interior. Fryo made an affecting ap
peal to the senate to take, up aud consider
tho message from the president vetoing tho
bill that would allow arrearages of pension
to Thomas S. Hopking, a Maine volunteer.
Tho bill was passed over tho president's
veto by a voto of f!5 to 0. The nays wero
Heck, Horry, llluckburn, Coko, Harris und
Vance.
llorsi:, Feb. 23. Belmont, from tho coin
mllteo on foreign atfairs, reported tho houso
substitute bill for tho senato retaliation
bill, and, under special orders asked for its
Immediate consideration. It was deter
mined that the debate should bo limited to
three hours. Dingiey (Maine) moved to
amend tho substitute by thu addition of a
section rendering liable to seizure or for
feiture any vessel of foreign nationality
found engaged iu taking fish of any kind
within three marine miles of any of the
marine coasts, bays, creeks, or harbors of
the United States, or within sea, lake, or
riyer waters of tlio United States. Agreed
to. Tho substitute was thou agreed to.
yens 138, nays 123, and the senato bill
as thus amended was passed: yeas 252,
nays 1, (Dougherty.) Hreckenridge, of
Arkansas, submitted tho conleronco report
on the bill making a close season for mack
erel and it was agreed to. Dingiey, of
Maine, presented memorials of the Maine
legislature iu favor of legislation to protect
the American llslieries nnd tor tho passage
of tho plouro-ptiounioula bill.
MOB MOSS ELATED.
Ttte Edmunds-Tucker llitl lleyarileit as Con-,
tercatlrc.
Salt Lake dispatch: Tho gonoral feeling
among tho Mormons hero ovor tho passage
of tho Kdmuiids-Tiickor bill is ono of ela
tion. Tho bill is so much more conserva
tive than as originally introduced that
many consider it as a virtual victory for
Mormonism. The Herald saysj "It tboblll
becomes a law it will work few it any
changes lu Utah." Tho Desorot News, tho
organ of the Mormon church, says after a
long resume ol tho bill: "And tho jubilation
of tho motley liberal crowd, which includes
all tho really criminal elements ol the terri
tory and all tho hungry and impecunious
olllco-seokers mid bar room loafers, is terri
bly toned down by tho doubts that possess
their disappointed souls. It tho Mormons
should conclude to take tho test oath and
voto after all, whero would bo tho fond an
ticipations of the expectant bummers? Tho
bill is not anything liko what was wanted
by tho leaguers ami their masters, who
have been rustling half dollars for accom
plishment of their nefarious purpose. It the
Mormons voto, tho leaguers' money has
been worse than wasted, and gloom will
cover tho conspirators liko a funeral pall."
?C3 VXSSIUX VETO.
New York special: Inquiries by the
World show that thero U practically a
unanimous call front the Grand Army men
ot New York aud other states for congress
to ovorrlde tho president's veto on tho do
pendent parents peiiblon bill. Only ono ot
the general officers and ono or two ot the
council of udiuluUtratlou board from sur
port tho veto, but in this city and Hrook
lyn tho vote of post commanders and lead
ing G. A, It., men interviewed stands 33 iu
favor of tho veto to 21 against, IJdltorl-
uuy i no world supports the voto.
E. Camphotuen, Unltod State consul at
Naples, has asked all tho consul at that polut
to aecouipauy him to the receptiou to be teu
dcred tin-wounded ltulluu ou their arrival
from tho Soudau.
THE CAUSE OF LA BUT!.
Ihe Various Beforms Deslrett, Changes
Asked and Measures Proposed,
In the iNRtionul Labor convention at
Cincinnati on the i!2d, Crocker, of Kansas,
was crmittcd to explain the Oklahoma
movement. He presented" n resolution do
daring that this land was now iu tho pos
session of a vnst cattle syndicate by uuduo
influence ot the United States courts, the
army, and other ofliccrB. The resolution
censured tho present administration nnd
demanded tho passngo ot the now pending
Oklahoma bill, and it this congress did not
puss tlio bill then requesting the president
to convene the next congress iu extra ses
sion to pass tho bill. After some discus
sion the resolulion wns leferred to tho
proper committee. Jesse Harper, of Illi
nois, made aspeech declaring that it should
bo tho announced policy of the convention
that no freight or passenger rates should
bo based on watered stock. Thecommittee
on resolutions reported the following pro-
amble:
Delegates of tho various industrial and
reform political organizations nave assein
bled from thirty-one states and territories
on this anniversary of the birth of "tho
lather of his Country," to view thesitua
tion of public affairs and advise proper ac
tion. General discontent prevails on the
part of tho wealth producers; farmers are
siiucrmg Irom a. poverty whuii has forreil
most ot them to mortgage their estates
and prices ol products aro so low ns to
offer no relief except through bankruptcy:
laborers aro sinking into greater and
greater dependence' strikes are reported
without bringing relief, because ol the ina
bility of tlio employers in many eases to
pay living wages, while more and mure are
driven into the streets, business men hud
collections almost impossible, and menu
time hundreds (if millions of idle public
money, which is needed for lelief, are
locked up iu the United Stiili-s treasury
in grim mocuery of tho distress; land
monopoly flourishes as never befoni and
more and more owners of tho soil are
daily becoming tenants; treat' trans
portatiou corporations still succeed iu
extorting their profits upon watered stock
through unjust charges; tho United States
senato has become an open scandal, its
seats being purchased by the rich in open
dellancc of the popular will; a trilling fish
eries dispute is seized upon as an excuse
for squandering the public money upon tho
unnecessary military preparations which
nre designed to breed a spirit of war to it tic
European despotism and to empty the
treasury without payinc public debt. Un
der these and other nhirmiiig conditions
we appeal to tho people of this whole
country to come out of tho old party or
ganizations, whoso indifference to the pub
lic welfare is responsible for this distress.
and help us to organize a new political
party, not sectional but national, and
whoso members shall bo called commoners;
whoso object shall bo to repeal all class
laws in favor of the rich and to relieve tho
distross of our industries by establishing
the following principles:
First Every human being possesses tho
natural inalienable right to sufficient laud
for self-support, and wo desire to secure to
every industrious citizen u homo, ns thu
highest result of free institutions. To this
end wo demand a graduated land tax on
all large estates, especially those held for
speculative or tenant purposes; the recla
mation of all unearned laud grants; tlio im
mediate opening of Oklahoma to home
stead settlement; tho purchase of all unoc
cupied Indian minis and the settlement ol
tlio various tribes upon lauds in severalty:
also laws preventing corporations from ac
quiring real estato beyond theiequirements
of their business, and alien owners of land;
tlie system of irrigation instates and terri
tories, where necessnry shall be under such
public control ns shall st-curo the free and
equitable use of waters nnd the franchise to
tho people.
Second Transportation, ilio means ol
communication and transportation should
bo ow ned or controlled by the people, ns is
tho United States postal system, and equi
table rates everywhere bo established.
Third .Money. U lie establishment ot a
national monetary system iu tlio interest
of the producer Instead of tho speculator
and usurer by which tho circulating me
dium in the necessary quantity and full
legal tender shall be issued directly to tlio
people without tho intervention of banks,
or loaned to citizens upon ample security
at a low rate of interest t.i relievo them
from extortions of usury nnd enable them
to control tho money supply. Postal sav
ings banks should be established. Wliilo
we have free coinage of gold we should have
free coinage of silver. Wo demand the
prompt payment of the national debt, nnd
condemn thefutiiro issue of interest bearing
bonds either by tho national government
or by tho states, tciritorics, counties or
municipalities.
I'ourth Labor. Arbitration should tako
the place of strikes aud other injurious
methods of settling labor disputes: letting
convict labor to contractois should bo
prohibited; tho contract system should bo
abolished in public works; tho hours ot
labor in industrial establishments should
be reduced, commensurate with the in
crease of tho reduction in Inbor saving
machinery; tlio employes should bo
protected from bodily injury; equal
pay should bo given for equal work
for both sexes, and labor, agricultural
and co-iporutivo associations bo fostered
and incorporated by law; foundation of
the republic is tho Intelligence of its citizens
and the children who are driven into work
shops, mines and factories aro deprived of
education, which should be secured to all
by proper legislation; wo desiro to seo labor
organizations extended throughout all the
iivilued countries until it shall be impossi
ble for despots to araay tho workingmeii
ot one country iu war against their broth
ers of another country.
I-illh .Soldiers ami sailors. In the ap
preciation ot tho services of the United
States soldiers and sailors, wo demand for
them justice before charity, and tho pur
posely depreciated money paid them dur
tho war should bo made equal in value to
the gold pit itl the landholder. The soldier
wns promised a claim, or its enuivalent.
nnd paid in depreciated paper. The bond
holder loaned the government depreciated
paper and contracted to tako it back, but
was paid in told. .
sixth -income tax. . graduated incomo
tux is the must dilutable svstem nf taxa
tion, placing the burden of the government
on those who can best afford to nnv. In.
stead of iaying it on tho farmers and pro
ducers, and exempting tho millionaire
bondholders ami corporations.
Eleventh I he United Stnles Senate. Tho
capture of tho United States sennto by
millionaires and tools of corporations, who
have no sympathy with tree institutions,
threatens the very existence ot the repub
lic. Wo detnnnd a constitutional amend
ment making United States senators elec
tive by the direct vote ol tho people.
l-.ighth. t hinoso State and notional
laws should be passed as shall effectually
exclude from America the Mongolian slave
and Asiatic competition.
.Ninth. Armed men The emnlovment of
bodies of armed men by private corpora
tions shall be prohibited.
Tenth The eouality and rlcht to vote Is
inherent in citizenship irrespective of sex.
Eleventh. Teninernnra That excessive
wealth, resulting in luxury and idleness on
one hand and excessive toil and poverty
on tho other lead to intemperance and vice.
Measures ot reform here demanded will
prove to bo tho scientific solution ot tho
temperance question.
i lie reading wits vociferously applauded.
Upon the close ot the readtiti! a delegate
from Illinois moved the adoption of the
majority report. Tho minority report is
simply on the temperance plank aud is an
out and out prohibition declaration as to
tho open saloon, leaving the question ot
manufacture for submission to the people.
MOBE PESSIO.Y VETOES.
Ttie President Itrfasrs to Sign Tiro Depend
ent Pension Bills of the Senate.
Washington dispatch: The president to
day vetoed two senate pension bills. Ot
one of them, granting a pension to Jottn
Reed, sr., the aged nnd dependent father of
n deceased soldier, the president Kays: The
records show that the mother of the sol
dier was allowed a pension, commencing in
1882, and terminating in 1884, when sho
died. "The claim of the father," says tho
president, "was rejected iu 18S3, for the
reason that the mother who had a prior
right, was still living, and when his claim
wns again presented in 1SSG ho wns in
formed that his abandonment ot his fain
ily in 1850 precluded tbo idoa that be was
entitled to a pension as being dependent
tiiion n soldier for support. Ot courso
thcs9 decisions were correct in law, and
n morals." "This case," ho adds, "dem
onstrates the means employed iu attempts
to cheat tho government iu applications
lor pensions too often successful. The al
legation iu 1877 of the man who now
poses as the aged and dependent father of
a (hyur soldier that the mother died in
1872, when at that time her claim was
pending for pension largely based upon
his abandonment; thu affidavit ot
tho man who testified that
ho saw her die in 1872, tho effrontery of
this unworthy father icnewing Ids claim
after the detection of his fraud and the ac
tual death of tho mother and tho allegation
of thu mother that she was a widow, when
in fact sho was an abandoned wife, show
the processes which enter into these claims
lor pensions and the boldness witti winch
plans are sometimes concocted to rob the
government, by actually trafficking in
death and imposing upon tho sacred sentr
incuts of patriotism and national grati
tudc."
Of the other bill cranting a pension to
Charlotte O'Neal, widow of Kiciuird
O'Neal, Into colonel of thu Twenty-sixth
regiment, Indiana volunteers, tho president
in disapprovinir it says: "If this is tho
officer whose widow is named iu tho bill
tho proposition is to pension tho widow of
a soldier who after ten mouths' service
resigned, and who seven mouths after his
resignation died of disease which was in no
manner related to his military service."
AX OFFICIAL IX TBOVBLE.
Now York special: The World's Wash
ington special says: Goverbi r Suinuford
of Alaska is again in trouble, growing out
ot new charges having been tiled against
him in the interior department. It seems
that at a public meeting not long since, at
Sitkn, the governor mude a speech de
nouncing the Chinese and inciting opposi
tion against those living in the territory.
On thu night of his alleged incendiary
speech a riot broke out, resulting in tho
killing of four Chinese and a genetal scar
ing of the Celestial population. Tlio
charges, which are signed by n largo per
centage of Americans at Sitka, demand
that ho bo removed at once. Another
charge is also filed against tho governor,
alleging that he wns given a valuable cane
by some citizens which they desired him to
forward for them to tlio president. Tho
charges specify that instead of sending tho
cane to Cleveland, he made a present of it
to his personal and political friend. Dou
M. Dickinson, of Detroit.
C II A xa En UEIl FAITIT.
Milwattkeo dispatch: Rosa, Gruenberb, a
divorced wife, and well to do Jewish lady,
living at 700 Twellth street, next Sunday
will swear off allegiance to tho Jewish faith
and cmbraco that ot tho Methodist, in
in company witli her five children. Every
possible inlliienco to tho contrary has been
brought to bear upon her, but she remains
firm. Sho claims to havo had several
di vino visions, during which sho was urged
to take tho step. When a child and ouco
niono in the fields a heavenly light over
flooded her at ono time. According to her
statement sho retained consciousness and
recognized living beings around her, from
whom she learned that tho Morale teach
ings wero not tho right ones. Mrs. Gruon
burg is an intelligent lady. Two years ago
her husband, Phillip Gruenbery, who has
Ileum! prominently in different scandals,
eloped with Susan Hannon, and is said to
live iu Hansas uty at present
WILL SOT HE A CAXniDATE.
Now York special: Tho Tribune quotes
a democrat of national prominence, who
has had a confidential talk with tho presi
dent, as saying that Cleveland is firm In his
determination not to bo a candidate for
rouoininntion and le-election. Tho reason
ho pvis for this decision show him to be a
much greater man than many of us havo
given him credit. Smith M. Weed also
sayu this statement is somewhat in thu
line of his own information, and adds that
the drift of sentiment over the country
seems to be iu n favor of nominating Gov
ernor Hill as Cleveland's successor. Ex
Mayor William H. Wickham says, if re
ports got out that Cleveland snys ho will
not bo a candidate for reu'oinlmition, it
will go Tar to ninko him the nominee of tho
party. "It looks liko a piece of shrewd
uolitirs tor him to take this tiosltiou."
lUTIIElt AXD TlllTHElt.
The Vermont railroad commissioners lmvo
found that no one was really to blame for tho
White Hiver Jutict.oti horror.
Arrests In connection with tho recent mili
tary plots lit Russia continue to be of dally oc
cuininco. Henry M. Stanley has arrived nt Zanzibar
on his way to tho iuterlor of Africa to rescue
Kmln Hey.
A 1'ortucuesc man of war has seized the
steamer Kelva belonging to the sulluti of
Zanzibar mid taken it'to Mozambique,
Slenor Nicatera, leader of the opposition iu
the Italian chamber of deputies, proposes to
attack tho new ministry at the first blttlup;.
John M. Hnll, who died in tho prison hospit
al at Joliet, was solving a life sentence for tho
murder of John Me.Mahnn and two hired men
at Mount I'uhifkl, Illinois. Confessions of
perjury lately made by witnesses ugiiinst hint,
tHken In connection with Ins dying; statement,
lead to the belief that he had uo connection
with the triple trugedy.
The business men of Minneapolis have tend
ered to the state of Minnesota a capital site
and building, the latter to cost SJ.Ooo.uOO.
The editor of a Ilerlln newspaper was sent
toprhon for a month for printing the false
statement that tho czar shot the military at
tache of tho German legation at St. Peters
hut g.
Presldctit Cleveland Is said to havo had a
three-hour conference on Sunday with S;eaker
Carlisle as to tho latter' acceptance of the
treasury portfodo.
f anitiel Treat district judge at St Louis,
has resigned his position, to devote bis time
to private business. He is 71 ears of age,
and was appointed by President Pierce. Amos
M. Thayer, judge of tho state circuit court,
ha been uppoiuted to the vacancy.
TK.Ii.V WltECKEHS MUST UAXO.
Santa Fe,N. M., Feb. 2 V The legislature
nas made train wrecking and attempted train
wrecking punishable bv death, and has patscd
trio out laws aga tut quurnfng and ush.g
deadl. weapons, aud ganst cruelty to ani
mal and enacted au autl-polltlcal jurt law.
TIIE BAT.TIMOBE TBUXIC MTSTEBT.
Vnger, the Munlerer of Bohte, aires JIU
Story In Court.
New York dispatch: In the trial of Cnpt.
Edward Unger to-day tor tho murder ol
Louis Bohlo, whose body tho defendant
:onfesscd to Inspector Byrnes he had cut
ap and shipped it to Bnltlmoro iu a trunk,
Unger related in an intensely teahiBtic
manner the circumstances ot tho murder,
closing with a repetition of his confession.
His manner impressed the spectators to
some degreo with tho justness of the theory
of self-defense, the violence of Bohle being
dramatically illustrated. Unger relnted
his story ot tho night of horror which
passed wbllo tho body of Bohlo wns behind
the cot. Ho bad a litfnl sleep broken by
horrible dreams, and in each of them Bohle
appeared standing nt his bed. Unger
would start up and spring out ot bed.
Again and again this was repeated. Unger'
said iu closing: "I don't know, but it
don't seem thut I did it. I don't seem to
be awake. lama miserable man. 1 seem
to be dreaming over since. I certninly did
it in self-def jnse. I can't blatno myself; I
am a miserable mnn."
After recess Unger was cross-examined.
He ngnin described the frnens minutely and
without the slightest variation from his
former relation, and ns ho described nnd
enacted his part iu the fight, Unger's face
was a study. At the moment ho was re
lating with uplifted hand how be held the
nrm of llohle, who had a butcher knife in
his hand, there was an expression ot
hard exertion and n trial of strength in
Unger's face, and when ho in his memory
ran from the furious Hohle. who was after
him witli a knife, nnd totd how ho stooped
and with one hand on the bedroom door
rt ached half behind him with tho other
hand for tho hammer iu the tool chest,
keeping his eyo on Ills nssaihuit tho mean
while, there was that frightened, hurried,
terrible look which one might expect to seo
on the face of ono iu that actual scene, and
he said: "I didn't know I would grab tho
hammer. There wero irons there, and I
might throw a piece of iron at him." As
ho struggled to hold Bohlo's right nrm nloft
nndtostriko with tho hammer, ho said:
"I knew I wns gone if ho got his nrm loose
with that knife, nnd I struck him on the
forehend Binl then as he pulled tno across
the room, trying to eot ills hand loose, I
hit him in tho head. He staggered and tell
back upon the sofa. Tliero were a few
twitches or jerks ot his arms and legs aud
that wns all."
"Terrible, terrible." It wns Juror Ryan
in tho box who broko tho deathly Btillncss
by his exclamation, uttered in a hoarse
whisper, unconsciously and involuntarily.
Heexpicssed the thought of every hearer
of Unger's tale. At the request of his law
yer, Unger looked the jury squarely in the
in co and said: "I have told you all I know
about it." Tho defenso rested.
A VEICDICT FOB BOILEB.
Tlie Lester Suit Decided in Favor of Benja
min. New York dispatch: Judge Coxe, nt the
close of the arguments iu the enso of Lester
against Benjamin F. Butler, which has been
on trial for several dnys, said:
Before I direct the jury to And a verdict
in favor ot the defendant, it will bo neces
sary to review tho facts in tho ense and
consider tlie time when theso nets took
place. No one who has listened to tho tes
timony can doubt for a moment that Les
ter was helping the confederacy. It will bo
Been that the plaintiff was a slave owner;
that he was engaged in tho mnnufneturo of
arms for the confederacy: that when ho was
arrested, he had in his possession a, con
tract to purchuBO a fast vessel to run a
blockade: that, when Mrs. Lester was
searched, drafts were found in her posses
sion ou tho people in Canada w ho were con
nected with the confederacy; that Lester
had tnken several oaths of nllegi
unco before ho crossed tho line, nnd
that lie was connected with blockndo run
ne s. All theso facts wero considered by
tho military commission which was a le
gally constituted body. The defendant
was a minor general m command ol tho de
partment of Virginia, nnd according to the
military codo was bound to obey tho com
mands of his superiors. He received or
ders from the secretary of war to examine
nnd arrest tho plaintiff and if ho had dis
obeyed these orders ho would have been
punished. The act of May 3 0, 1804, ex
empts tho defendants from prosecution for
damages. As the commission was legally
constitutd its judgments aro not to bo
questioned. I can seo no defect in the or
ganization of our court, nnd it is entirely
clear that this defendant cannot bo held
responsible for these acts, and 1 direct you
to find a verdict in favor ot the defendant.
Tho jury brought iu a verdict ns tho
court directed, and Lester's counsel made
h motion for a stay of proceedings for
thirty days, which was granted.
THE JiAILUOAD commission:
Washington special: Thero is a new re
port about tho railroad commission. A
prominent democrat says that it is be
lieved that Garland will beat tho head ot
tho inter-stiito commorco commission.
Clark, ot Massachusetts, formerly presi
dent of the Now England road, is thought
to bo suro of a place. Kernaii is ltkuly to
bo tho Now York member. It is hoped by
some democrats that tho president will re-
servo theso appointments until after tho
adjournment of congress, so that ho can
appoint Colonel Morrison. Tlio friends of
that gentleman say tltnt bo wdl not accept
the place, and that ho fl es at higher gamo.
Tlio real trouble in tho delay of tho presi
dent to appoint tho 11 vo inter state com
missioners is his inability lo hud fivo men
or a majority ot the commission who can
ngreo on the interpretation of tho law. Ho
tuts arranged Hoverui boards, but on con
sultation he has found Hint nearly every
ono held a different view. Tho president
has 380 applications before hint for tho
fivo places. These are tho ones selected
from the thousands that havo been re
ceived front all ovor tho country. Tho
qqestiou of commissioners is one of great
importance to tlio railroads, tor thoy ara
waiting to see who tho men aro Iwforo act
iug in tho matter.
THE TBEASUBT POIlTrOLW.
Washington special: Mr. Pendleton,
minister to Borlin, has arrived bore, hav
ing been recalled from Ohio, it is said, by a
telegram front tlio president. His friends
think that ho has como to confer with tho
president its to thu vacant treasury port
folio and they make much ot the fact that
he will pat affirm or deny that ho is to tako
a place In tho cabinet. The report camo
from Ohio that "uenueiiinn lieorge" tout
two members of the legisluttiro. Messrs.
Colo and Hull, who wero his special friends
during the senatorial tight lu tho winter
1883 4, that President Cleveland bad tele
graphed him to come nt once to Washing
ton. Mr. Pendleton was aske-d it it was
true that he was to go, into tlio cabinet,
taking Secretary Manning's place, or if ho
was to b- the new secretary of htato and
Bayard wns to succeed Manning. Mr.
Bayard did not deny or afllruinny of these
rumors, but Mr. Colo, the inemlwr of the
I glslnture,' snys thnt Mr. p. ndUton
much as told him that ho was not going
Imi-1; t.i lforlin lint tlinf liu tLi..ful to b0
a member f Cleveland's rabinet by A pril.
It is cettuin that Mr. Pendleton is u
better humor than ho wus u week ago.
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