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t 'laiudcalcr r, ' h'}d VAN SLYKE, EMiriM Publisher. MOHENRY, - - ILLINOIS. «« ' . THE NEWS CONDENSED. gORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. ' CONGRESS reassembled after the holiday ad­ journment, on Tuesday, Jan. 5, and at once opened business in a lively fashion. Numerous bills were introduced in both houses. In the Senate the credentials of John W. Daniel, of Virginia, were presented. A bill was passed to legalize the Ninth Territorial Assembly of Wy­ oming. Bills were introduced to substitute sil­ ver dollars for gold coin and currency in re- Serve funds of the Treasury; to increase pen­ nons for total helplessness ; to facilitate promo­ tions in the army ; to adjust accounts of laborers under the eight-hour law, to provide for the •section of monuments in Washington to Abra­ ham Lincoln and U. 8. Grant, at a cost of Sl.OOO,- MO each; to establish a national university in tike District of Columbia by a grant of $5,000,000, bearing 5per cent interest; to provide for the allotment of landa to Indians in severalty. A res­ olution was adopted accepting from the State of Ohio a marble statue of ex-President Garfield. Mr. Hoar introduced a resolution requesting the < President to take measures for including cases of •mbezzlement in extradition treaties. Mr. Wil- •oc, of Iowa, called up the resolution heretofore Offered by him calling on the Secretary of the Interior for a copy of each report made' by the Government Directors of the Union Pacific Rail­ road from the first appointment of such direct- On t* the present time. In support of his resolu­ tion Mr. Wilson reviewed at considerable length the action of the Government Directors, of Whom had himself been one, with a view to •bowing that,had the Government paid attention to the information conveyed and the recom­ mendations made by the directors, the relations Cf the Government to the roads would to-dav tie batter. The bills introduced in the House Of Representatives numhered 79o. The more notable were: To remove restrictions on the coinage of the standard silver dollar; to abolish internal revenue taxation; to appropriate S2G0,- 000 for a monument to .General Grant in New York; to prevent the adulteration of fcod and drug's; to provide for the construction of the Delaware and Maryland •hip canal; to reform the civil service ; to repeal the duty on sugar; to prevent fraudulent entries on the public domain; to repeal the tobacco^ax ; to create an iner8?a*e commerce commission; to tax the mai.ufacfcire and sale of olemarga- Itae; to give honorably discharged soldiers and sailors preference in public appointments ; to authorize tho Praaident to call out two volun­ teer regiments of cavalry in New Mexico and Arizona for the suppression of Iniian hostil­ ities, and to deprive polygamists of the tight of suffrage. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate; John J. Higgins, to be Collector of Cus­ toms in the District of Natchez, Miss.; James Curran. of Mar viand, to be Supervising Inspec­ tor of Steam Vessels in the Third District; Wiley J. Tinn, to be Surveyor of Customs for San Fran- eisco; William H. McArgle, of Mississippi, to be Consul of the United States at San Juan del Norte; Willis H. Patch, of Maine, to be Consul Of the United States at St. Stephen, New Bruns­ wick ; H. M. Jewett, of Massachusetts, to be Consul at Sivas ; Orlando V. Powers, of Michi­ gan, to bo Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah. MR. HOAR introduced in the Senate, on the 0th inst., a bill for longer sessions of Congress, mak­ ing proceedings commence alternately in Octo­ ber and November. The silver question was raised in the Senate.on a discussion of the Beck resolution. Mr. Cray contended that persistence in compulsory coinage would bring the coun­ try to a silver standard. Mr. Mcl'Jierson de­ clared that in the opinion of the best author­ ities in the world, a point had been reached beyond which it would bo dangerous go," and produced advertisements by Jav Cooke that the bonds would be paid in gold. The Chair laid before the Senate a letter from the Postmaster General, complying with the call of a recent Senate resolution in respect to the appointment of Postmasters in Maine, al­ leged to have been procured through the influ­ ence of S. S. Brown. Chairman of the Demo­ cratic committee of tnat State. Mr. Hale, of Maine, said the Postmaster General had tumet these matters of appointment over to his assist •at, who relied upon Mr. Brown, but the Post - master General bad not male a complet) answer to the resolution of the Senate. Ii reply Senators Voorhees and Vest defendel the civil-service po'icv of President Cleveland. Bills were introduced in the House o* Bepr - aentatives for tbe free coinage of the silver do - lar. to limit it, and suspeni it; to force nation il lesion, W. Va The engineer of ft pas- I to the inventor The Canadian Govern- pen;i<. r train approaching the trestio near* ment has seized and will sell at auction Roivcy Mount. N. C., discovered tlm the $80,000 worth of patent medicines belong- MR. CARLISLE'S COMMITTEES. structure was in flames some fifteen yards abend of him. He pn led the valvo* wide open, and leaped the ire at the rata of a mile a minute, the . jai extinguishing clL the lights. AT a party in Clay County, Ky., Dan and George Gray, Sam Bengf*, nnd link Stivers engaged in a light, in which Dan Gray, Stivers, and Ben were kilted, and i George Gray fatally wounded. Three i years ago Stivers and ais brother waylaid ' and shot Dan Gray it\vr the same* place whero this tragedy oocurrod, which was the cause of the trouble. A TRAIN on 'the Chesapeake and Ohio Road came upon a tunuel in W«st Virginia where a rail was beinj; replaced. Before the laborers could escape, four of them were killed and another was seriously in­ jured. 4 JEFF DAVIS recently revived a circular containing a paragraph which declared that "Benedict Arnold, first traitor to American liberty, learned his patriotism in <Hiram' Masonic Lodge. No. ], New Haven, Conn., and died a Freemason in good and regular standing. Aaron Burr, another traitor to the Government, plotted'^his treason in Royal Arch cipher, md also died a Free and Accepted Mason n good and regular standing. Jefferson Davis, a Free and Ac­ cepted Mason, led th i great rebellion, and the fact did not even taint his Masonic standing, but did have much to do in secur­ ing his pardon." To this Davis replies with a letter, in which he defends his course as a rebel, and declares that he is n©t and never has been a Mas an. irASIIinfiTOX THE total amount of the national debt Jan. 1 wis 81,843.713*715. The debt, less cash in the Treasury, was $1,452,544,766, there being $494,361,954 on hand, as shown by the Treasurer's general account. The debt decreased $9,089,940 during Decem­ ber. Following is a recapitulation of the monthly statement: IXTERESWffiABDW DEBT. Bonds at 4X<> per cent $250,000,000 Bond? at 4 per cent ,• ... 737,743,250 Bonds nt 3 per cent 194,190.500 Refunding certificate^, at 4 per cent. 221,400 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent. 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. * 64,623,512 Principal .' Interest. iof to J. C. Ayer <fc Co. The firm had been fined §147,900 for evasion of customs dues. ..$1,260,778,662 13,258,339 Total $1,274,037,001 DEBT ON" WHICH INTEREST HJLB CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal . $3,447,688 Interest. ,.... .202,213 Total $3,649,688 PEBT WEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. $346,738,806 Certi5cates of deposit 13,790,000 Gold certificates 105,359,601 Silver certificates 93,179,465 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed)..., 6,959,153 Principal 506,027,025 Total'debt-- Principal." ...... .$1,830,453,163 Interest 13,460,552 Votal $1,843,713,715 J Less cash items available for reduc- ' *•- * 229,240.016 100,000,000 $329,840,016 tion of the debt.. Xiess reserve held for redemption of U. & notes « Total Total debt less available cash items$l,514,473,698 Net cash in the Treasury . 71,018,872 Debt less cash in Treasury Jan. 1. 1886 : Debt leas cash in Treasury Dec. L 1885 .51,443,454.826 1,452,544,766 Decrease of debt daring the month. 99,089,940 CASH DT THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUC­ TION OF THE DEBT. Gold held for cold certificates acta- ! s££held^"'ifccertific^^tl ualA outstanding. . 93,179,465 U. S. held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 13,790,000 tire tbe trade do'.lar. and to direct the calling flf $5U/JX.'OJ m per cenr. bonds, payment |o i be made in coin of standard value.---Tt'e | President sent the following nominations to tt a j Senate : James Shields. of M n-jma to be Co - | lector of Internal Revenue for the District cf Montxso. PostTtaster®--Thomas Ryan, at S*ul ; Sfcr. Marie. M<ch. ; Char5e-= Holidav/at St. Louis, Mich.: J. C. Mors an. £.t Kearney, Neb. A EESOLtmoy originally introduced by Mr. Harrison calling for an investigation of the Pen- | Hel< •km Commissioner's office was adopted by the Senate on the 7th inst., after the incorporation of amendments orfered by Messrs. Voorhees and Logan. As it now stands the resolution i>ro- viaes for an iui<7;;rv as to the truth cf Mr. Blocks statement that under his predecessors party tests w< re applied to pension claimants and as to the present incumbent s management of his trust. There -was a long debate on the Utah bill, and Mormons came in for a share of bitter denunciation at the hands of Senators Morgan and Cullom. Mr. Teller opposed severe gressive measures, and acted as tho apologist fiaints. The Honse of Representatives |tiently to the introduction of bills .of Dakota and Washington ^postal telegraph, to re- a commission on the ^^^^^^^^^^^•lunteer regiments in the public buildings, for the HennepinflB^^^R'oject, an unlimited silver dollar, and forfl|^Rjdred or two other things. Speaker Carlisle*announced his committees, With Morrison as Chairman of Ways and Mieans, Ruudall of Appropriations, Bland of Mud Belmont of Foreign ASain. Cash bela for matured debt and in- ""terest /npaid Fractional cunenc y Total available for redaction of the debt RESERVE FUND. for redemption of U. S. notes, JanJvj4, 1875,- and July 12, is82.>^rrl Unavailable for redaction of the debt-- £ Fractional silver coin.. Minor coin . Total. i Certificates held as cash Net each balance on hand. Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer's general account.. 16,906,.028 2,922 $229,240,016 $100,000,003 $27,796,430 526,844 $28,323,275 65,779,790 71,018,872 THE EAST* r';.* \ ; JOHN G. STEVENS, . President of the Cm ted New Jersey II ail road and panal Company, shot himself at Trenton and died a few hours later. It is reported that he attempted suicide several times before, »ntl that the act was caused by financial difficulties... .The wholesale hardware firm of Thomas Birney & Co., of Pittsburgh, was wrecked by supplying skates to rinks on credit, and is saddled with judgments lor $95,000. The jewelry houses of Hiram Weber & Co., of Boston, and Adolph Gold­ smith, of New York, have suspended pay­ ment. .. .It is estimated that the damage by flood in the vicinity of Williamsport, Penn­ sylvania, will amount to $2,000,000. DR. GCXN, chairman of the special in­ vestigation committee of the Constitution Club at New York, states that the Trinity Church organisation owns some of the worst tenements in New York City; that it never makes any repairs; aad that com­ plaining tenants are tol3 *9 quit the prem­ ises if th*rf do not like them. The Doctor also alleges that the Trinity tenements are of the foulest possible character, and that 4>ven the church rents as a saloon a por- fei of ite Laight street property. THE WEST. OKIT six inches of snow has fallen on ^••'Western cattle ranges, and ranchmen do not anticipate any losses, as the wind has 4rifted the snow, exposing plenty of grass to feed the herds. Heavy losses are an­ ticipated, however, on the ranches around Springer, N. M., and cattle are reported to be drifting from the ranges Miss Sarah Althea Hill, plaintiff in the celebrated Sharon divorce case, was married at Stock­ ton, Cal., to David S. Terry, ex-Chief Justice of the Supreme Courtof California, her leading counsel in her proceedings for divorce. Terry was the slayer of Senator David C. Broderick in a duel in 1859. ... .On claims for promissory notes, in- 4orsements, etc., judgments aggregating $85,000 were taken in the United States Circuit Court at St. Paul against Senator E>. M. Sabin. • WITHIN a few weeks wheat has dropped •even cents per bu6hel, and small dealers " in Minnesota and Dakota anticipate that fliey will be "frozen out." Minneapolis millinafirms are said to be carrying large c Stocks, and a certain millionaire, who, with ; two friends, hat^been buying for a rise, |ov has aimtfion bushels on his hands! fend values are still receding. It is feared Chat losses in the Northwest will be heavy. ; ... .Miss Ina Norton, a well-connected > joung woman of Cleveland, Ohio, has cre- • "ated a sensation by marrying a; negro bar- $494,361,954 The register and receiver of public lands at Pueblo, Col., reports to the general land office that he recently had a hearing in twenty-four cases of illegal homestead en­ tries which had been investigated by special agents of the department. None of the claim­ ants appearing the entries were canceled. IT is understood that Secretary Whitney is entirely satisfied of the seaworthiness of the Dolphin as shown in her recent trial trip, and will formally accept the vessel as soon as certain preliminaries can be ar­ ranged. It is not thought necessary to have another sea trial. POLITICAL. AT the municipal election in Toronto, Ont., women voted, and took a deep inter­ est in the contest, supporting the temper­ ance candidate for Mayor, who was elected. WASHINGTON special: "A compromise is to be offered by Democrats in Congress on the Dakota question. They have prepared a bill, which will be introduced this week, proposing a division of the Territory on a north and south line on the 101st meridian, which runs immediately east of Bismarck, placing that city in the west half, which is to be known as Ljncoln, and naming Aber­ deen as the capital of the east half, which will retain the name of Dakota. The line leaves the Missouri River north of the Fort Kice military reservation. It is believed that this compromise will be accepted by all patties, because it throws the agricultural portions and mineral (Sections into separate territories, and while the eastern Territory will be Republican the western Territory will be Democratic, the Black Hills coun- trj being a Democratic stronghold. After the Territory is thus divided an effort is to be made to admit both to statehood." THE Democratic caucus of the Missis­ sippi Legislature nominated Messrs. Wal­ thall and Geary for re-election as United States Senators... .The Republican legis­ lative caucus at Columbus, Ohio, unani­ mously nominated John Sherman for &en- i ator James G. Blaine, at a legislative banquet in Augusta, made an argument against the biennial system of elections and sessions recently adopted in Maine. FOREien, XAkOALAT, the capital of Bormah, is said to be threatened by a force of 10,000 natives, who are not satisfied with the ab­ sorption of their country by the British. AUSTRALIA has 90,000 tons of wheat available for export At the request of the Panama Canal Company, the French Government will jsend M. Rousseau to in­ spect the cut, preliminary to advancing sufficient money to complete the work or dropping the scheme into oblivion. ....Gladstone's bill is to give Ire­ land a National Ministry and an Assembly elected bv the people, incorporating O'Connors plan for a Vice­ roy, who would most likely be the Duke of Connaught, a favorite in the Green Isle A telegram has been received by the French War Office from Gen. de Courcy, com­ mander of the forces in Tonquin, which say8 that during the latter part of Decem­ ber the inhabitants of Ughoan, a town in Annam, destroyed the Catholic mission- house at that place and killed 500 native Christians. Prompt punishment was in­ flicted by a column of French troops. ADDITIONAL NEWS. THE firm of Sampliner, Adler <fc Co., wholesale jewelers of Cleveland, Ohio, sus­ pended; liabilities estimated at $50,000, assets somewhat less. The firm of William U. Doren & Co., shoe manufacturers, also suspended... .Dr. Martin White, bis wife and two children were found dead in their horn.1 at Battle Creek. Mich., their throats having been cut. It is supposed White be- cime insane, and murdered his family. ... Ex-Senator Thnrman, as arbitrator be­ tween the operators and miners in Ohio, rendered a decision, fixing the rate at 60 cents cents per ton--the price asked by the miuers .. . . D. F. Wa lsworth, fln ex- banker of Ishpeniing, Mich., who failed for S175.000 in 1883, was convicted of em­ bezzlement at Escanaba and sentenced to pav" a fine of $500, or serve one year in State Prison... .Owing to the light demand for coal, work in the Lexington (Mo.) Coal Mining Company's mines has been' sus­ pended, throwing 360 men out of employ­ ment. DR. E. M. NELSON, President of the West Rutland (Vt.) Marble Company, was arrested for complicity in the embezzle­ ment of funds,, from the Lancaster National Bank of Clinton, Mass. A detective re- tiirhed to Boston with about $115,000 in money and securities which he found con­ cealed near Tinmouth, Vt... .In a diffi­ culty with a landlord at Carbondale, Penn­ sylvania, George C. Miln. the tragedian, was struck in the face and thrown off an express-wagon, and retaliated by thrash­ ing his assailant... .The St. James Hotel, at Batavia, New York, valued at $50,000, was burned. Two men received severe in­ juries by leaping from a fourth-floor win­ dow. A NEGRO named Charles Williams was hanged at Cambridge, Md., for an assault on Mrs. Keene, a white lady. On the morn­ ing of the execution Rev. J. Biyan, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, called to see him for the last time. "Charles," said Mr. Bryan, "yon have but a short time longer to live. Are you going to ask God for pardon?" "No, sir," replied Williams, abruptly. "It's too late now. I have too much else to think about." "But this is the most important thing you can think of now," urged the minister. "It is too late now," repeated the condemned man. "I will die and &o to hell, where I will meet those whose testimony sent me there. This is Friday, and the words of a man who dies on Fri3Hy always come true.", .. .A menagerie was sold out at auc­ tion in Monroe, Ga. P. K. Campbell, a Chicagoan. bought a $5,000 elephant for $1,000, and Adam Forepaugh got two lions for £100 Sixteen convicts employed in the mines at Coal Hill, Ark., escaped by tunneling their way to the surface. SENATOR EDMUNDS'Utah bill passed the Sen- • ate on the 8th inst. It is feu'istontialiy tho same as first reported, with tho addition of a section providing that marriage between pers.o is of the fourth degree of consanguinity, but not includ­ ing that, shall bo coir, r try to law. Mr. Eusiis offered a concurrini resolution with a preamble as follov. H: "Where <.s, The act of Congress of 1H78 deel in d " tlie silver dollar a legal tender for nil debts, pub­ lic and private : that by the act of the faith of the United States was solemnly Hedged to tho payment in coin or its equivalent of all public obligations not bear in,' interest, etc.; that by the refunding act of .lulv. 1*70, the prin­ cipal and interest of the debt were made re­ deemable in coin of the tlun standard value; that since tho enactment of those laws it has been the practice of the Kecrt t.ir. of the Treas­ ury to pay the bond.-* and interest in gold coin, and that the Secretary of the Treasury has issued a call for SUO.OW.KK) of bonds, payable on tho 1st of February, issti; therefore, be it res.ilved, etc., that in .the opinion of Con­ gress said b >nds of S10,<MK),0<X), paynble en Feb. 1, 18fl(j, should be paid in -silver dollars, such payment being in compliance with existing law ami in aid of tho fn*tncial policy es­ tablished by the legisl-ati< n of Congress." Mr. Kustis desired the resolution referred to the Committee rn Finance, and express'd the hope that the committee would report on it at an early day, in order that it may be determined whether or not the practice of paying the Unit­ ed States bonds and thei inU-rebt < n them exclu­ sively in gold coin was approved bv Congress. Bills were introduced to appropriate Jl,:wi),000 for imjirovements at th'.' mouth of the Columbia River, to create a public park near Santa Fe, to pay the Delaware Indians t.'if>,8t)0 for certain lands in Kansas, to increase to Si) per month the pensions of soldiers or sailors who lost one eye, and to prohibit the letting of Government con­ tracts to persons employing convict labor. The House was not in session. The Speaker of the House of Representatives Annonnces Them to That Body. A Ufit of ft© Members to Whom v" parlous Measures Will Be Duly Referred. We print below a full list of the stand- tag committees of th<?"%National House of Representatives, as announced by Speaker Carlisle. The Chairmen of the commit­ tees ore named first in every case : Ways and Means--Morrison. Illinois; MillB, Texas ; Hewitt, Mew York ; McMillln. .Tennes­ see; Harris, Georgia; Breckinridge, Arkansas; Maybury, Michigan; Breckinridge. Kentucky; Kelley, Pennsylvania; Hiscock, New York; Browne, Indiana; Beed, Maine; McKinley. Ohio. Apj ropriatioas --liandall, ^ Forney, Holman, TowriHhend, Burnes, Cabell," Le Fevre, Adams of New York, Wilson, Cannon, Ryan, Butter, worth, Lou". McCoinas, Henderson. Coinage, Weights, and Measures--Bland, Lan- hiun, Seymour, Hemphill, Norwood, Scott, Mc- Creary, Bynum, James, Hockwell, Little, Felton, Fuller, Toole. Rivers and Harbors -- Willis, Kentucky; Blanchard, Louisiana; Jones, Alabama; Mur- |ihy, Iowa; Gibson, West Virginia; Stewart, Texas; Carlton, Michigan; ('etchings, Missis­ sippi ; Glover, Missouri; Henderson, Illinois; Bayne, Pennsylvania; Stone, Massachusetts; Burleigh, New York; Grosveuor, Ohio; Mark- ham, California. ForeignAflairs--Belmont, New York; Clem­ ents, Georgia; Cox, North Carolina; Singleton, Mississippi; Worthington, Illinois; Daniel, Vir­ ginia ; McCreary, Kentucky; Crain, Texas; Kice, Massachusetts; Waite, Connecticut; Ketehain, New York; Phelps, New Jersey; Hitt, Illinois. Naval Affairs--Herbert, Alabama; Hewitt, New York; Wise, Virginia; Ballentine, Con­ necticut ; McAdoo, New Jersey; Norwood, Georgia; Lore, Delaware; Sayers, Texas ; Har- mer, Pennsylvania; Thomas, Illinois; Goflf, West Virginia; Boutelle, Maine; Buck, Con­ necticut. Public Lands--Cobb, Missouri; Henley, Cali­ fornia; Van Eaton, Mississippi; Doran, Ohio; Laffoon, Kentucky; Stevons, Missouri ; Landes, Illinois; McRea, Arkansas ; Strait, Minnesota; Anderson, Kansas; Payson, Illinois; Stephen­ son, Wisconsin; Jackson, Pennsylvania; Voor­ hees, Washington Territory. Territories--Hill, Ohio; Springer, Illinois; Spriggs, New York; Barnes, Georgia; Sadler, Alabama, Boyle, Pennsylvania; Dibble, South Carolina; Dawson, Missouri; Struble, Iowa; Baker, New York ; Cooper, Ohio; Herman, Ore­ gon ; Symes, Colorado; Joseph, New Mexico. Mines and Mining--Clardy, Missouri; O'Fer- rall, Virginia; Hill, Ohio; Skinner, North Caro­ ling ; Jones, Texas ; Neal. Tennessee ; Gay, Lou­ isiana; Barry, Mississippi; White, Minnesota; Woodburn, Nevada; LindBley, New York; Symes, Colorado; McKenna, California; Bean, Arizona.. Pacific Railways -- Throckmorton, Texas ; Crisp, Georgia; Cabell, Virginia; Dunn, Arkan­ sas : Bliss, New York; Tillman, South Carolina; Outliwaite, Ohio; Richardson, Tennessee ; Han- back, Kansas; Holmes, Iowa; Everhart, Penn­ sylvania; Hayden, Massachusetts; Weber, New York. Flections--Turner, Georgia; Lowry, Indiana; Robertson, Kentucky; Martin, Alabama; Petti- bone, Tennessee; Halm, Louisiana; Hopkins, Illinois; Dorsey, Nebraska; Boyle, Pennsyl­ vania ; Henderson, North Carolina; Green, New Jersey ; Croxton, Virginia; Hall, Iowa; Payne, New York ; Ely, Massachusetts. Commerce--Reagan, Texas ; Clardy, Missouri ; Crisp, Georgia; Caldwell, Tennessee ; O'Ferrall, Virginia; Tarsney, Michigan; Pulitzer, New York; Bynum, Indiana; Irion, Louisiana; O'Neill, Pennsylvania; Davis, Massachusetts; Dunham, Illinois ; Weaver, Nebraska; Johnson, New York; Morrow, California. Judiciary -- Tucker, Virginia; Hammond, Georgia; Culberson, Texas; Collins, Massa­ chusetts ; Seney, Ohio ; Oates, Alabama; Eden, Illinois ; Rogers, Arkansas ; Bennett, North Car­ olina; E. B. Taylor. Ohio: Parker, New York; Raniley, Massachusetts; Hepburn, Iowa; Stew­ art, Virginia; Caswell, Wisconsin. Banking and Currency--Curtin, Pennsylvania; Miller, Texas ; Gandler, Georgia y Wilkins, Ohio; Arnot, Now York; Snyder, Virginia; Howard, Indiana; Hutton, Missouri; Dingley, Maine; Brumm, Pennsylvania; Adams, Illinois ; Brady, Virginia; Woodbutv. Nevada. Agriculture--Hatch, Missouri; Aiken, South Carolina; Green, North Carolina; Winans, Michigan; Frederick, Iowa: Davidson, Ala­ bama; Stahlnecker, New York; Morgan Missis­ sippi; Glass, Tennessee; White, Minnesota; Funston, Kansas; Price, Wisconsin; Hires, New Jersey; Pierce, Rhode Island; Swinburne, New York; Gi fiord, Dakota. Military Affars--Bragg, Wisconsin; Wheeler, Alubimia; Walford, Kentucky; Ermentrout, Pennsylvania; Dargan, South Carolina; Find- lay, Marylan#f£tVicle, New York; Anderson, Ohio; Steele, Indiana; Laird, Nebraska; Cutcheon, Michigan ; Houk, Tennessee; Negley, Pennsylvania; Carey, Wyoming. PostofRees and i'ost-Koads--Blount, Georgia; Ward, Indiana; ltiggs, Illinois; Taylor, Tennes­ see; Jones, Texas; Dockery, Missouri; Warner, Ohio; Merriman, New York; Barry, Missis­ sippi ; Bingham, Pennsylvania; Wakefield, Min­ nesota; Burrows, Michigan; Guenther, Wiscon­ sin ; Millard, New York ; Peters, Kansas ; Caiae, Utah.' Indian Affairs--Wellborn, Texas; Peel, Ar­ kansas ; Skinner. North Carolina; Storms, Penn­ sylvania ; Felix Campbell, New York; Hale, Missouri; Allen, Mississippi; Ward, Illinoisx Perkins, Kansas: Nelson, Minnesota; La Fol- lette, Wisconsin: Sessions, New York;, Allen, Massachusetts ; Hailey, Idaho. Railways and Canals--Davidson, Florida; Murphy, Iowa; Irion, Louisiana; Ells berry; Ohio; Henderson, North Carolina; Stone, Ken­ tucky ; Cole, Maryland; Pidcock, New Jersey; Atkinson, Pennsylvania; Plumb, Illinois; Web­ er, New York ; Van Schaick, Wisconsin; Pierce, Rhode Island. . Manufactures--Wise, Virginia; Swope, Penn­ sylvania; La Fevre, Ohio; Wilson, West Vir­ ginia ; Catchings, Mississippi; Lawler, Illinois; Pindar, New York; Campbell, Pennsylvania; West, New York; Van Schaick, Wisconsin; lor, Tennesson; Sowdsn, Pennsylvania; David­ son, Florida; Tim J. Campbell, N«w York; Rowell, Illinois; Brown. Pennsylvania; Thomas, Wisconsin. Expenditures in the Postoffiee Deeertment-- Beese, Georgia; Warde, Indiana; Wamer, Mis­ souri ; Davidson, Alabama; Zachartah Taylor, Tennessee; Herman, Oregon; Bound, Pennsyl­ vania. Expenditures in the Department of Justice-- THE MARKETS. 6EHESAL. THE SOUTH. B* knocking down two guards, five AMperaie «tn eeoaped from jail at Cbar- DCRINQ its latest trial trip the Dolphin encountered a gale which made the officers and crew seasick. The ship averaged twelve knots an hour during the storm.... The Canadian Minister of Customs has de­ cided that the patent-medicine linn of Ayer & Co., of Lowell, Massachusetts, must pay duties of $150,000 on products entered within three years at several ports far below their real value.. I?.A steamer sailed from San Francisco for the Arctic- regions in search of the crew of the missing whaler Amethyst. THE visible supply of wheat, as com­ puted by the New York Produce Exchange, is 58,645,325 bushels, an increase of 213,- 512 bushels; corn, 10,255,357 bushels. A SUB-COMMITTEE of the Master Car- Builders' Association of the United States held a conference at Harrisburg, Pa.,, with representatives of the brake companies^, and arrangements were perfected for teste of the various brakes at Burlington, Iowa, on July 13, 1886, and April 13. 1887. The brake proving of greatest value will be in­ dorsed as the standard for use by all rail- way companies, and will be worth million* NEW YORK. BKBTBS Hoos WHEAT--No. 1 White No. 2 Red CORN--No. 2 GATS--White. 1'OUK--Mess CHICAGO BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers. Good Shipping Common HOGS FI.OCH--Extra Spring Choice Winter WIIKAT--No. 2 Spring COKN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2.... KYI:--No. 2 BABJLKY--NO. 2 HijTTE.it--Choice Creamery Fine Dairy CHEESE--Full Cream, new Skimmed Flats E<;os--Fresh POTATOES--Choice, per bu POUK--Mesa MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 COBN--No. 3........ .Y OATS--No. 2 RYE--No. 1 PORK--New Mess... TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 CORN^-NO. 2 OATS--No. 2 ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red Co IVN--Mixed OATS--Mixed PoHK--New Mess OINCINNATL WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--No. 2, f........ OATS--No. 2 PORK--Mess LIVE Hoos DETROIT. BEEF CATTLE Hoos SHKEP..: WHEAT--No. 1 White CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 .- INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--New. OATS--No. 2 EAST LIBERTY. CATTL«--Best. , Fair Common Hoos SHEEP BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. 1 Hard. COBN--Yellow. 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A Levees and Improvements of tho Mississippi River--King, Louisiana; Rankin, Wisconsin; Van Eaton, Mississippi; Kleiner, Indiana; Dowdney, New York ; Mclten, Arkansas ; Glass, Tennessee; Dawson, Missouri; Brown, Ohio; Whiting, Massachusetts; Morrill, Kansas; Bun­ nell, Pennsylvania; Grout, Vermont. Education--Aiken, South Carolina; Candler, Georgia; Willis, Kentucky; Curtin, Pennsyl­ vania; Miller, Texas; Maybury, Michigan; Burnes, Missouri; Mahonev, New York ; Strait, Minnesota; Whiting, Massachusetts ;Campbell, Pennsylvania; I. H. Taylor, Ohio; O'Donnell, Michigan. Labor--O'Neill, Missouri; Foran, Ohio'; Lover- ing, Massachusetts; Weaver, Iowa; Lawler, Illinois; Daniel, Virginia; Tarsney, Michigan ; Crain, Texas; Funston, Kansas; James, New York ; Haynes, New Hampshire ; Bound, Penn- sylvnnia; Buchanan. New Jersey. Militia--Muller, New York; Forney, Alabama; McAdoo, New Jersey; Peel, Arkansas; Collins, Massachusetts ; Ballentine, Tennessee; Breck­ inridge, Kentucky; Compton, Maryland; Hop­ kins, Illinois; Hayden, Massachusetts ; Moffatt, Michigan; Owen, Indiana; Wade, Missouri. Patents--Mitchell, Halsell, Townshend, Mar- tin, Barnes, Morgon, Fislicr, Cowles, Atkinson, West. Lehlbaek, Gilfillan and Plumb. Invalid Pensions--Matson, Indiana; Winans, Michigan ; Lovering, Massachusetts ; Neece, Illi­ nois ; Swope, Pennsylvania; Taulbee, Kentucky I'idcoi k. New Jersey ; Ellsberry, Ohio; Pindar New York ; Morrill, Kansas ; Haynes, New Hump shire; O'Hara, North Carolina; Sawyer, New York ; Conger, Iowa; Louttit, California. nois ; Swope, Pennsylvania; Taulbee, Kentucky; Pidcoek. New Jersey ; Ellsberry, Ohio; Pindar, imp- New - . „ r, Iowa; Louttit, California. Pensions -- Eldridge, Michigan; Wool ford. Kentucky; Jones, 'Alabama: Scott, Pennsyl­ vania; Cowles, North Carolina. Lnndes, Illinois; Malionev, New York: Hutton. Missouri; Struble, Iowa; Taylor, Tennessee; Brady, Virginia, White, Pennsylvania; Thompson, Ohio. Claims- Sprinter. Illinois : Muller, Now York ; I.milium, Tixas ; Shaw, Maryland; Howard, In­ diana; Dougherty, Florida; Trigg, Virginia; Neal, Tennessee; gowden, Pennsylvania; Mc- Kennu, California; Warner, Missouri;' Floeger, Pennsylxani'i; Buchanan. Now Jersey; Gallin- g< r, New Hampshire. War Claims--Geddes, Ohio; Kleiner, Indiana; Stone, Kentucky ; Tim J. Campbell. New York ; Richardson, Tennessee; Perry, South Carolina; Coinstiick. Michigan ; Reid, North Carolina; fab- bey. Virginia; Smalls, South Carolina; Hios- tand, Pennsylvania; Johnston, Indiana; Lyman. Iowa. Private Land Claims -- Halsell, Kentucky; Barksdule. Mississippi ; St. Martin, Louisiana; Eldredge, Michigan ; Sadler. Alabama ;.Croxton, Virginia ; Hall, Iowa; Reid, New Jersey ; Osborn, Pennsylvania; Ely, Massachusetts ; Thomas, Wisconsin ; Dorsey, Nebraska; Thompson, Ohio. District of Columbia -- Barbour, Virginia; Hemphill, South Carolina; Campbell, Ohio; Dowdney, New York ; Compton. Ma-ylnnd ; Gay,' Ijouisiaua; Ford, Indiana; Heard, Missouri: Rowell, Illinois : Wiidsworth, Kentucky : Scran- ton , Pennsylvania: Davenport. New York • Grout, Vermont. Revision of the Laws--Oates, Alabama: Tur­ ner. Georgia- Adams, New York: Outliwaite, Ohio: Ford. Indiana: Laffoon, Kentucky : Dougherty, Florida: Hale, Missouri: Payne, New York : Thomas, Illinois : Fuller, Iowa : Gil- fllla'i, Minnesota: White. Pennsylvania. Expenditures iii tl.o State Department-Ben­ nett, North Carolina; Tillman, South Ciiroiinn ; I'Ore, Deloware ; Arnot, Now York : ScrunU h. Pennsylvania; Lyman, Iowa; Lout lit, Califor­ nia. Expenditures in the Treasury Department-- Lowry, Indiana; Bland, Missouri; Breckin­ ridge, Arkansas; Shaw, Maryland • Hahn, Louisiana; Bunuell, Pennsylvania; Johnston Indiana. Expenditures la the War Department-- Robertson, Kentucky; Wheeler, Alabama; Viele, New York; Anderson, Ohio; Johnson, New York; Warner, Missouri; Fleeger, Penn­ sylvania. AayraditiirM in th« Department--Tay- ' Expenditures in Interior Department--Weav­ er (G.-D.). Iowa; Dargan, South Carolina; Har­ ris, Georgia; Culberson, Texas; Brumm (G.-R.), Pennsylvania; Libbey, Virginia; Davenport, New York. Expenditures on Public Buildings and Grounds --Beach. New York; O'Neill. Missouri; Seney, Ohio; Riggs. Illinois; Pettibone, Tanneesce; O'Hara, North Carolina; Gallinger. New Hamp­ shire. Accounts--Spriggs, New York; Dockery, Mis­ souri ; St. Martin, Louisiana; Gibson. Maryland; Trigg, Virginia; Adams, Illinois; Evans, Penn­ sylvania ; Spooner, Rhode Island; I. H. Tavlor, Ohio. Joint Committee on Library--Singleton. Mis­ sissippi ; Stahlnecker, New York; O'Neill, Penn­ sylvania. Select Committee on Reform in Civil Service --Cox, North Carolina; Clements, Georgia; Storm, Pennsylvania; Blunchard, Louisiana; Findlay, Maryland; Mitchell, Connecticut; Stone. Missouri; Pulitzer, New York; Bayne, Pennsylvania; Spooner, Rhode Island; Little, Ohio; Lehlbaek, New Jersey; Farquhar, New York. American Shipbuilding and Ship-owning In­ terest--Dunn, Arkansas; Holman, Indiana; Mills, Texas ; King, Louisiana ; Bliss, New York; Rankin, Wisconsin; MeMillin, Tennessee; Comstoek, Michigan; Dingley, Maine; Wads- worth, Kentucky; Osborn, Pennsylvania: Fel­ ton, California; Romeis, Ohio. Committee on Election of President and Vice President--Caldwell, Tennessee ; Eden, Illinois; Eruientrout, Pennsylvania; Beach, New York; Dibble, South Carolina;."Gibson, Maryland; Heard, Missouri; Johnston, North Carolina; Laird, Nebraska; Baker, New York; Hiestand, Pennsylvania; Cooper, Ohio; Moffitt, Michigan, ' Ventilation aud Acoustics--Green, North Caro­ lina ; Stewart. Texas; Tim J. Campbell, New York ;'Allen, Mississippi; Evans, Pennsylvania; Swinburne, Now York ; O'Donnell, Michigan. Select Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic --Campbell, Ohio; Carleton, Michigan ; Fred­ erick, Iowa; Taulbee, Kentucky; Glover, Mis­ souri ; Merriman, New York ; Price, Wisconsin; Everhart, Pennsylvania; Lindsley, New York; Romeis,'Ohio. THE SILVER QUESTION. An Insight Into the Antipathy Foreign Nations to the White Metal. •f President Cleveland, in answer to a resolution adopted by the Senate Dec. 9, last week trans­ mitted copies of documents showing the action taken by him to ascertain the sentiments of foreign Governments in regard to the establish­ ment of an international ratio between gold and silver. The correspondence is accompanied by a letter from Secretary Bayard to the President, in which he Bays in part: "It has been the object of this department and its agents, while avowing our readiness to co­ -operate, not so much to impress our own opin­ ions and wishes upon others as to obtain well- considered and independent views from tho most influential, responsible, and competent sources, in order to lay befora Congress : First, the actual status of the metallic currencies in the re­ spective European countries ; and, secondly, the intentions and policies of the so Governments in relation to the subject, with details of their action up to tho present timo. It is believed that the accompanying letters from the Minis­ ters of the United States to Great Britain, France, and Germany, respectively, summarize and convey the true condition of opinion and in­ tentions of the Govepiments and people to whom they have been severally accredited." The latter then mentions the designation of Mr. Marble as a confidential agent to obtain in­ formation upon the subject, and says 110 sep­ arate report by Mr. Marble has been made be­ cause the results of his investigations appear fully in tho replies of Messrs. Phelps, McLane, and Pendleton. The cgrrespondence opens with a letter from Secretary Bayard to Manton Mar­ ble notifying him of his designation to visit Eufbpo upon the mission above indicated. Let­ ters were also addressed to our Ministers at London, Paris, and Berlin notifying them of Mr. Marble's visit and asking their co-operation. A reply was received from Minister Phelps, un­ der date of London, Oct. 20, 1885, in which he gives the result of conferences by himself and Mr. Marble with the leading members of her Majesty's Government, and says : "From these, as well as other sources, I am satisfied that the British Government will in­ flexibly adhere to their past and present policy in respect to coinage ; that they will not depart from the gold standard now and BO long estab­ lished : th.'it they will not become a party to any international arrangement or union for the cre­ ation of a bimetallic standard at a common ratio between gold aud silver for the purpose of making both an iinlimited legal tender; nor adopt Buch double standard in Great Britain. On this point both political parties quite concur, and I believe if either were to attempt to intro­ duce such a departure from the existing money standard it would be driven out of power by the force of public opinion." A reply from Minister McLane, at Paris, dated Oct. 1, 188.5, expresses his opinion that: "While France would gladly receive the intel­ ligence that the United States would adopt the French ratio of fifteen and one-half of silver to one of pold, 110 consideration of future conse­ quences could induce her to adopt the American jfatio of sixteen to oho; still less would she \iJopt anv higher ratio to assimilate the present cominlpri i:il or market value of silver with the value of gold, nor would she consent at any rate now to permit an unri stricted or even a limited coinaco of silver at her mints. The present purpose of her Government and people is to maintain, if possible, the two metals at their present ratio of fifteen and one-half to one, in domestic circulation and international ex­ change. " Mr. McLane says the facts obtained naturally suggest the United States, the greatest gold and silver country in the world, should suspend its silver coinage in order to utilize it, not only for circulation but as part of its Treasury reserve. ^I ' 1 ^TI-I 1,1 O I'MtntHter Pendleton in his reply, dated Berlin, 1 ublic Buildings and Grounds--Dibble, South/ October^), 1885, gives his conclusions briefly as ; Snyder, West Vir/ folIowfl.^. follows : "Tho arlh&sion of Germany to an international bimetallic union such as was proposed by the United States and France in 1881 can scarcely be expected, it seems to me, within any limit of time now to be predicted. The co-operation of Germany in such u union may be sought with fair hopes of success whenever it becomes pos­ sible to include in such a union England and Russia, the former of which seems to cleave ti nsiciously to her gold monometallism, while tho latter staggers under the evils of a depre­ ciated and largely fluctuating paper money. The adhesion of England at least, is certainly now and would probably for an indefinite period be regarded by Germany as a sine qua non." Consul General Walker, in a letter to the Sec­ retary of State, under date of Paris, Aug. 20, 1885, reviews in detail the changes of sentiment of foreign countries in relation to monetary matters as shown in the proceedings of the con­ ference, and expresses the opinion that nothing will so much hasten tho adoption in Europe of the monetary polity which we desire to nave adopted as the suspension of silver coinage in the United Statee. The correspondence also in­ cludes a copy of an agreement entered into at the Paris Mon< tary Convention, the essential parts of which have been published. Thomas Jefferson's Granddaughter. [Cleveland special.] Louis Schaefer, of Canton, Ohio, who has interested himself in behalf of Sep- tima Randolph Meikleham, granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, who is living in straitened circumstances with two invalid children at Georgetown, D. C.. has pre­ pared a memorial to Congress which will oe presented soon by Congressman McKin- ley, of Ohio. A similar appeal for a pen­ sion was made to the last Congress, but not acted upon. Mr. Schaefer states that in 1H84 he sent a letter containing a blank check, payable to Mrs. Meikleham, to mem­ bers of Congress, the President and mem­ bers of his Cabinet, members of the Su­ preme Court, the Governor of New York, and other prominent people. In response checks were sent to him aggregating in value only $70. Mr. Schaefer is well known in Ohio as a man of benevolence. He has offered to Mrs. Meikleham a home during the remainder of her lifetime in his house­ hold. » A Negrro Exodus. (Chattanco'a (Tenn.) special.) Another large party of negroes, number­ ing several hundred, passed through the city to-day CH route from the Carolinas to Arkan­ sas. The exodus of negroes from the Caro­ linas, Georgia, and Alabama to the West is increasing each week. Fully one thousand have passed through this city in the past fortnight, and hundreds of others are mak­ ing arrangements to leave as soon as pos­ sible. The movement is more general than ever before, and is produced chiefly by high rents, bad crops, aud the defective tenant system in tbis section of the South. Good wages are offered in Arkansas, Colorado, and California. The movement is begin­ ning to be felt in all the States of the South, find is attracting wide-spread atten­ tion. Miss JOSEPHINE JENKINS, who is ris­ ing into notice as a writer for the press of Boston, is a niece of the late Nathaniel Parker Willis. CONGRESS AT 43ome Important Bills Introduced in S|p,ate and House , Wntatives, Senator Ingalls Proposes to Establish University at Wash­ ington. GTVU SERVICE. S- fcnatori Hale, Vest, and Voarheea ̂Iadnlga in a Triangular the T "Hp: Case of 8. 8. Brown, of Malne ̂ Furnishes the Bone of Con- *• tention. Wathiagton special. Among the bills introduced in the Horn am two tariff bills by Mr. Maybury, of Michigan. One provides that on and after July 1, 1666, no customs dutv shall be|>'evied upon lumber-^ boards, beams, planks, joists, scantling, laths, pickets, shingles, timber, round or sawed, staves, heading, or any other description of timber, whether rough or dressed. The other provides that on and after July 1, 188G, ores of iron, lead, copper, and zinc, bitumin&ja coal, salt, and lumber of all kinds, whether rough or dressed, shall be admitted free of duty. Mr. Maybury shows his faith in free trade by plac­ ing on the free list the articles in the produc­ tion of which his State 1b most largely inter­ ested. PENSIONS. Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, haB intro­ duced a bill to give applicants for pensions, whose applications have been rejected by the Secretary of the Interior, on appeal from the Commissioner of Pensions, a hearing before a jury. TWO-MILILION-DOLI/AB MONUMENTS. Senator Blair has looked with great admira- i tion urx>n the Washington monument, and he ! is profoundly impressed with the belief that we need more gigantic obeliBks. He has intro­ duced two bills for the erection of monu­ ments to Lincoln and Grant. The formei is to be erected in Lincoln Park, east 'of the Capitol, where the emancipation statue stands, and the latter at some noint north of the Capitol. The Washington monument stands west of the Capitol, so that symmetry will demand the erection of a liko monument to Mr. Blair himself south of the Capitol. Mr. Blair proposes to appropriate 3100,000 a year for each of these two monuments for ten years, so that each one will cost 51,000,000. No labor and no materials so far as possible are to be ^pro­ cured by contract. Chinese labor is excluded by the provision that only American citizens shall be employed in the work. The monu­ ments ore to be similar in style to the Wash­ ington monument. THE SILVER IDEA. The silver men are not content to remain on the defensive and await the attack of the anti- silver men. Senator Morgan hits put in a bill to compel the Secretary of the Treasury to re­ place with silver one'-half of the gold in the fund reserved for the r ademption of greenbacks, ard one-half of the gold or greenbacks in the notional bank redemption fund, and in other t>p. cial funds. JUl>IClATj RETIREMENT. In th'j Sena'e 1 h) following bills, among others, have be< n nt'oduced • By Mr. Dflph, w> t-m^nd Sec. 717 of the Re­ vised Statutes. It provides that judges of United States courts who have held their offices thirty years, or who have held office ten years and have attained the age cf 70, may retire upon full salary. By Senator Call, to retire Judges of Circuit o* District Courts. It provides that when any Judge of a Circuit or District Court shall have become disabled through the excessive or habit­ ual use of intoxicants, or any other cause, he shall be retired with an annual salary of $14,000 a year, unless he shall thereafter be tried and im­ peached. This disability is to be determined hi the Judge of the circuit adjacent toxhat in which the Judge to be tried has jurisdiction. The At­ torney General is authorized to Institute pro. ceedings against such Judges on complaint of Senators or Representatives. COMPULSORY EDUCATION OF INDIANS. By Senator Teller, to provide for the compul­ sory education of Indian children. It author­ izes the Secretary of the Interior to take any Indian children between the ages of 8 and 18, who belong to tribes receiving annuities from the United States, and place them in Govern­ ment schools for the education of tho Indians, to be kept there for five years. This is not to apply, however, to tho five civilized tribes, nor to the Osage Indians of Indian Territory. The Secretary is authorized to withhold rations and annuities from parents who refuse to comply with these provisions. All such schools are to be manual labor schools, and to include teach­ ing of agriculture and stock-raising to boys and housework to girl3. A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY. By Senator Ingalls, to establish a national uni­ versity in the District of Columbia. The sum of 85,000,000 is granted to the board of regents in a perpetual registered certificate of the United States, to be unassignable, and bearing 5 per cent, interest, the interest to be paid quarterly J so much of the interest as is needed for sites, buildings, etc., may be used. The treasurer of the United States shall be treasurer of the uni­ versity. No chair for instruction in sectarian religion or partisan politics shall be maintained, and no sectarian or partisan test shall be al­ lowed in selecting officers or professors. Chairs or faculties may bo endowed by gift, bequest, etc., but no amount less than 5?100,000 shall be considered an endowment. Instruction shall be as nearly free as iB consist­ ent with tho income. No person shall be adi initted for r.-gulur study aud graduation who has not previously received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, or a degree of equal vulue, from some recognized institution. Stat .'s and Territories - shall bo entitled to scholarships in tha ratio of : one for carh Representative or Delegate, and ! two for each Senator. These scholarships shall ] spcure free instruction for five years. The Gov- j ernor of each State shall nominate candidates for life scholarships, and each State and Terri­ tory shall be entitled to one life scholarship. Two classes of fellowships aro established, one open to competition of graduates best qualifying themselves, and the other open to learned men of all nations who have merited distinction. TRANSPORTATION CIIAROEB. Tho resolution offered by Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, and adopted, relating to transportation charges, recites in itji preamble that tho Colum­ bia and its tributaries drain a grazing and agri­ cultural region of unsurpassed fertility as large as Germany and France ; that freight charges on wheat fiom the Dalles to Portland, eighty miles, are 12 cents a bushel, and for another distance of 214 miles are 8 cents a bushel. It declares such charges exorbitant and ruinous to the pro­ ducer, and instructs the Committee on Trans­ portation Routes to inquire into them and the proper measures of relief, and also as to the im­ portance of the speedy completion of the canal and locks of the Cascades and of the proper means to be adopted to overcome the obstruc­ tions at the Dalles. BUPPREBSINa THE INDIANS. Among the notable measures introduced in the House are the following: By Mr. Laird, of Nebraska, a joint resolution authorizing tho President to call out two volun­ teer regiments of cavalry in the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, to be enlisted and officered from citizens of such Territories, for the suppression of Indian hostilities therein. LAND PATENTS, Also, a joint resolution instructing the Com- n^ssioner of the General Land Office to pass to patent all pending homestead and pre-emption claims against which a specific charge of fraud is not pending or proved, and also calling on such officer for a statement in detail of tho re asm for issuing the order of April 3 suspend­ ing tho issuance of patents ; also, a bill to es­ tablish a soldiers' home in Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, or Minnesota. REGULATION OP LABOR. The constitutional amendment introduced by Mr. Davis, of Massachusetts, provides that Con­ gress shall have power to limit the hours of labor. SUGAR DUTIES. A bill touching the duty on sugar, introduced by Mr. O'Donnell, of Michigan, provides that the dutv on sugar shall ctase after July 1 next, prohibits importations of sugar from any coun­ try imposing an export duty thereon, provides for the payment of a bounty of oae cent a pound on sugar produced in the United States, and ap­ propriates 88,000,000 for that purpose. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. A constitutional amendment proposed by Mr. McAdoo, of New Jersey, provides that Presiden­ tial electors shall be elected in every State on the third Tuesday in October, and that no ohter officers than Representatives in Congress shall be elected on the same day: POLYGAMY, Mr. McAdoo has also introduced a bill depriv­ ing of tho right of suffrage all polygamists or persons who are members of organizations that encourage other persons to commit bigamy. REFORMING THE CIVIL SERVICE. Mr. Cutcheon, of Michigan, offers a bill to "refoim tho civil service and preserve tbe con­ stitutional distinctions between legislative and executive duties by the organization of a bureau of civil appointments." Tho bill makes it un­ lawful for any head of a department or chief of a bureau to request or solicit recommendations from any Senator or Representative in regard to the removal or sppointineiit of any official in any of the executive depurim -nts. or for Sena­ tors or Representatives to nominate or recom­ mend or to solicit or request the appointment of any person to any position in either the ex­ ecutive or'judiciary departments. It makes the violation of any of its previsions a misde­ meanor and punishable by a fine of SI,000 and removal of the appointed officor. It provides for the establishment of ii bureau of civil appoint­ ments to consist of the Civil-Service Commis­ sion and the officers, examiners, and other em­ ployes thereof, and of civil appointment boards in each judiciary district of tho United States, to consist of three members each, who shall reside within the circuits, which board shall bo subordinate to the Civil-Service Commission, and whose duties shall bo to examine and re­ port in regard to any matter referred to them by the President or the heads of the departments, as to tho resignation, removal, or appointment Of any executive or judicial officer. The rec­ ommendations of those boards are, however, to be advisory also. The bill provides that it shall \>e the duty of the Civil-Service Commission to • xtend the competitive examinations to all ap­ pointments below the grade of the classified civil-iervioe wbere ttM compensation exceed* 9000 a year. * tAMociated Pre«s repodM The Chair laid before the Senate a letter from the. Postmaster General, complying with the eaU of a recent SeAte resolution in respect to the appointment of postmasters in Maine, al­ leged to have been procured through the influ­ ence of S. S. Brown, Chairman of the Democratic Committee of that State. The communication having been read, Mr. Hale Baid that before it- ° went to the country he desired to say a few words with regard to it. It was every day be­ coming the belief of the people, he said, that the civil service of the Government should not fie the reward of party service. Above all, the country desired that we should have a pure civil service. Ihere should be no taint of bar­ gain and sale about it. All parties had recog­ nized this, and the party rallying-eries had been based on this thought. The rallying cr/of the Democrats was "Turn the rascals out." which could only mean that if rascals were in office they should be turned out. A singular state of affairs, Mr. Hale continued, has arisen in Maine within the last six months. There were few large offices in that-State. There were but twenty-seven presidential postoffices, but several hundred fourth-class ones. No depart­ ment of tho government came so .near the people as the postoffiee. The Repub­ licans had expected to go out. Tho clamor of the Democrats for offices had been so great that they expected to go. Tho administration had taken a conservative course, and the President, though pressed to make a general sweep of the postmasters in Maine, had declined. But the people of meiny places had waked up one morn- ' ing in Maine and found that persons had been appointed whom nobody wanted and nobody recommended. In one case it was found that the Chairman of the Democratic committee, Mr. S. S. Brown, had given up his law practice, closed his office, and had come to Washington to attend to the distribution of patronage under the civil-service system. When it was found that this one-man power was the source of removals he (Hale) received letters from Democrats and Republicans alike com­ plaining of the new state of affairs. Mr. Hale then read several letters--one saying that the people had sent the Postmaster General a peti­ tion, signed by eighty-four persons, praying for the appointment of a person, who, however, was not appointed. When Mr. Halo came to Wash­ ington one of Mr. Brown's letters was handed to him (Mr. Hale). This letter became the basis of the present inquiry. He had made the inquiry for the purpose of putting before the Sen­ ate fult->Hiformation on the subject. Out of one hundred of the larger postoffices in Maine it now seemed tha# Mr. Brown had recommended eighty-seven of the new appoint­ ments. Mr. Hale acquitted the Postmaster General of any indorsement of Mr. Brown. Brown had come to Washington indorsed by the Democratic party or its committees. Tho Postmaster General had turned these matters of appointment over to his assistant, who relied upon Mr. Brown, but the Postmaster General had not made a complete answer to the reso­ lution of the Senate. He had not stated whether the wishes of the people had been respected in the new appointments. No explanation liid been made of the infamous system on which the proceedings complained of had been based. Mr. Hale read what he termed the most extraor­ dinary exculpatory letter ever heard • of-- a letter of Mr. Brown to the Portland Argus, i stating, among other things, that the Dem- v> ocratic Committee of Maine and Mr. Brown had arranged that persons who- received appointments should pay something for the expenses incurred in their behalf, ana also stating that he (Mr. Brown) had secured a large number of appointments to postoffices. Mr. Hale referred to the severe denunciation which, on a former occasion, had been expressed by Mr. Beck in the Senate at a circular issued by a Republican committee chairman, calling merely for voluntary contributions. What was the issuance of such a circular compared to this condition of affairs shown by the facts in the case ? The one may have muddied the water, the other poisoned tho fountain. The Repub­ lican party had not always been perfect, hut in twenty-four years Mr. Hale had never heard that public offices had become matters of public sale. Mr. Hale had heard from an employe of the House of Representatives that there had never been in the summer Beason more Demo­ crats in Washington than during tbe past sum­ mer, and that the Indiana Democrats had not- gone home at all. Mr. Voorhees remarked that when Mr. Hale was s3 told, he (Mr. Hah;) was keeping company with a man who did not toll the truth. Mr. Voorhees warmly denied the truth of the state­ ment, saying that of his personal knowledge it was untrue. Mr. Hale did not care whether it was true or not, though if the Senator from Indiana (Mr. VcorLo. si had remained here at the suggestion • of his constituents, to look after their interests, , it would not have been a case at all like that under consideration. Mr. Hale believed he spoke for the honest, conservative Democrats of Maine in denouncing the course x>ursued by the Democratic Committeo of Maine and by Mr. Brown. Mr. Vest said it was impossible that the ad­ ministration should know every man who solicited office. If Mr. Vest had' his way he would make it a misdemeanor for any man to Bolicit office. But what was the Postmaster General to do? It had become a part of the common law in both parties for men to recom­ mend people for office. Was the Postmaster General to go to Re]mblicans for recommenda­ tions ? Mr. Vest characterized Mr. Hale's posi­ tion as mere cant. He (Mr. Vest) had before now seen in the departments at Washington such indorsements as this: "This man is in­ dorsed by Vest and Cockrell," and, therefore, the appointments had been refused. Yet the Senator from Maine had discovered what he pre­ tended to be a new evil. But for the Democratic success of 1882, there never would have been a civil-service law passed by the Republican party. The civil-service bill had been in the Senate for years without attention until the' prospects of Democratic ascendency became- clear to the Republicans. Mr. Hale said that had nothing to do with the' question under debate. Mr. Vest said his colleague, Mr. Cockrell, and himself, in the course of their investigations heretofore under Republican administrations, had found unmistakable evidences of the use of money in the attainment of public offices, and though they could not put their fingers on a letter showing any use of money they could con­ vince the moral sense of any man that money had been used. Mr. Voorhees said the facts seethed to be that three Presidential Postmasters and some other minor Postmasters had been ohanged by the presmt administration. It seemed to Mr. Voor­ hees that that simply showed that not as many changes had been made in the postoffices of Maine as the people hod, by their votes last fall, intended should be made by the administra­ tion. Mr. Voorhees sympathized with the Re­ publican Postmasters who had been turned out. They would get used to it after a while, as the Democrats had got ure 1 to it. Mr. Voorhees was 'not here to defend Brown. He thought Sir. Hale .had done a service to the Democratic party by exposing such a man; but did Mr. Hale suppose he could make an impression on the country tlmt the Democracy of the United States favored tire course pursued by Mr. Brown? Mr. Voorhees differed from Mr. Vest in one thiftg. He (Mr. Voorhees) was willing to put in power and office the men who had helped elect the Democrats. He believed it to have been the in­ tention of the framers of the Constitution that the Government should be administered by tbe friends of the administration which the people should place in power. Mr. Vest said he had merelv meant to say that if he were to consult his own personal ease he would do what he had stated. He did not mean that he was not willing to help his party friends. Mr. Voorhees willingly conceded that fact. Mr. Logan, referring to the allusion made to the civil-service law and the Republican admin­ istration. said that Congress--meaning the House and Senate, both--had not been for several ad­ ministrations in the hands of the Republican party. Mr. Vest said the Senate had been, and for a part of the time every committee was in the hands of the Republicans. Mr. Hoar remarked that that was only when Senator Davis, of Illinois, was President of the Senate. He (Mr. Hoar) did not wish to cthim that up to the time stated either party was spe­ cially in favor of the civil-service bill. The civil- service cause was a growth. The Democratic platform on which Mr. Cleveland had been elected declared for that cause. Mr. Vest said that President Cleveland had hoheetly and conscientiously endeavored to car­ ry out every particle of the pledge made by him to the people of the United States before his election. He (Mr. Vest) was astonished that any -- complaint of him in that regard should come from a Republican. It was certain that much complaint had come from Democrats because he had not made removals enough. The debate then closed, and, on motion of&:* Mr. Hale, the communication of the Postmaster General was referred to the Committee on Civil- Service Reform. . OVER $G,000 worth of feathers have been sold from the twenty-one grown ostriches at the Anaheim ostrich farm, Los Angeles, Cal., during the past seven months. ONE of Miss Cleveland's Christinas presents was a handsomely bound copy of the President's message, sent anony­ mously. Miss SUE COZAD. of Wheeling. W. Va., is said to be the handsomest postal clerk in the service.' MRS. SCOTT SIDDONS writes to a Chica­ go friend that she has no desire to return to this country.