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$ REVISING THE TARIFF. &*> > - &THJB ITKISIKV MKABI KK BXPOBTED f.'"V TO THIS HOUSE. «, ' ' ' ' " . S ' Is Tree, with a Bounty of Two Cents r< v " , m I'oauil for Domestic rrmlnct- Hlcleft ̂ -Also IHaceil on the Fr«« List--The Ma- " 4 ' JorttT Report ^ V*»l __ [Washington special] Tk® McKiniey tariff bill is at last be- k; ' fore the House of Representatives. The 5s£-," ^measure, as finally reported by the Ways ,,J; ^ imd Means Committee, suits Western " ^Republicans better than the original draft I "- *>f the bill. Hides are back on the free t, »• 4*Jist and sugar is free, with a bounty of L , ° ^w0 cents per pound for domestic pro- ;* V+ductioo. Another change, which will probably be made in the House, will be Jo wipe out the discrimination against Mexican ores. While there are some iothei provisions that Western members , "will seek to have altered, they will sup- |>ort the modified measure much more Jheartily than they could have supported ^ . #he original bill. The tide in favor of *, J jfree sugar has been steadily rising. The ' .efforts of the sugar trust and the W. iSprcckels-Hawaiian sugar ring to stem " ^Jthe current were futile, and Gov. Gear, /.•;21^&Mr. La Follette, and Mr. Burrows have v of late been powerfully strengthened in «v - jtheir tight for cheap sugar. Some of the | '"Republican members don't like, the notion t ' 7 < of si bounty, but they will acquiesce in it • f,o that the Louisiana planters and the f •"ybeet-root sugar-raisers can have no cause fi'v, ,«f, complaint that their property is de- <;'t?' stroyed by making sugar free. The re- I;; , inoval cf the sugar tax makes it much "easier to calculate the reduction of the revenue than when with ad valorem tax. f*>3 * The committee having yielded to the P1?, , -"Western men on the sugar schedule, the i/T?" ^ Eastern men on the committee insisted L¥ that there should be reciprocity. Aceord- ingly, the motion was again renewed to *4*1' /Put hides upon the free list. The West- '«• v 'em men having carried their chief pur- '1 r pose in connection with this bill, no f"'*« * longer made objections, and hides went to the free list. The Western men ore satisfied; the Eastern men are jubilant. ' There are some Western men who think that the committee ought not to have yielded on this point. But the Western representatives on the committee say that • tariff bill at the best is a compromise measure; that one cannot be agreed upon ' except by many concessions on both sides, and that the probability is that the Mc­ Kiniey bill represents tbohoat compro­ mise that can be effected. ;r>< :• : < ¥:i . THE COMMITTEE'S AKGtTMfcNT. f':,'".;, ClberaJ Synopsis of the Majority or the T * Ways anil Means Committee's Report. '*• ' The majority report begins with a statement f>^ of the financial situation, and estimates that Jhe surplus at the end of the present fiscal year §•'< '-'will be $(J2,000,000, and deducting the sum re- , quired to make payments on the sinking fund :• the net Burplus of receipts over expenditures %• < will be $43,(578,^8i. The estimated surplus of the '} • . ' next flBeal year will be 343,.WJ,522. -which, with S. - the amount of cash now on hand and available ' •" . (reaching fOO.OOO.GOQ) will justify a reduction of jkvX the revenue in the sum contemplated by the bill feW'-;-'" reported fCJ.aiij/JSri, and probably more from " customs and say .$10,'i'27,87H from internal reve- £ - uue. or a total of $71,264,414. •« iif: The report says : "The exact effect upon the revenues of the Government of the proposed ©ill is difficult of ascertainment. That there will be a substantial reduction, as we will show, ad­ mits of no doubt. It is not believed that the increase of duties upon wools and woolsn goods and upon glassware will have tho effect of in­ creasing the revenue. That would, of course, follow if the importations of the last fiscal year were hereafter to be maintained, which, how­ ever, iB altogether improbable. The result will be that importation will be decreased; and therefore the amount of revenue collected from these sources will be diminished. In every case of increased duty, except that imposed upon tin plate (which does not go into effect until July 1,1891) and upon linen fabrics the effect will be to reduce rather than enlarge the revenues, because importations will fall off. It was the aim of the committee to fix the duties upon that class of manufactured goods and farm products , f' which can he supplied at home, so as to dis- v;r : • courage the use of like foreign goods and prod- " , , ucs and Becure to our own people and our own producers tho home market, believinglthat com- petition among ourselves will secure reasonable prices to consumers in the future, as it has in­ variably done in the past. We seek by the in­ creased duties recommended not only to main­ tain but to enlarge our own manufacturing plants, and check those supplies from abroad which can be profitably produced at hotne. Tbe general policy of the bill is to foster and promote American production and diversification of American industry. We have not been so much concerned about the prices of the articles we consume as we have been to encourage a system of home production that, shall give fair remu­ neration to domestic producers and fair wages to American workmen, and by increased produc­ tion and home competition insure fair prices to consumers." The committee admits that free trade or reve­ nue duties would temporarily diminish prices, but argue that it would be at the expense of the domestic products, which would be displaced, and then prices would again advance and the country be left at the mercy of foreign syndi­ cates and manufacturers. The report says: "Cheaper products from abroad to the American consumers means cheaper labor at homo and lower rewards to the domestic producer, with'no permauout benefits to the consumer. Neither condition would prove a blessing to the United States. "That country is the least prosperous where low prices and low wagea prevail. One of the chief complaints now prevalent among our larmers is that they can get no price for their erops at all commensurate to the labor and cap­ ital invested in their production. Those who •differ from us snust believe that even further agricultural depression is not desirable, for no other consequence can result from their eccen­ tric theories. They advooat9 cheap prices as the chief object of tho industrial policy they commend to the country. This means perma­ nently low prices for agricultural products as well as for manufactured goods. This bill is framed in the interest of the people of the United iStat.aa. It is for the tetter defense of American homes and American industries. Ample reve­ nues for the wants of the Government are pro­ vided for by Ihis bill, aad every reasonable en­ couragement is given to productive enterprises and to the labor employed therein. Tho com­ mittee believe that, inasmuch as nearly $4d0,- (100,000 are annually required to meet the ex­ penses of the Government.it is wiser to lax those foreign products which seek a market here in competition with our own, than to tax our domestic products or the non-compating foreign produots. "The committee, responding as it believes to the sentiment of the country and tbe recom­ mendations of the I resident, submit what they consider to lie a just and equitable revision of the tariff, which, while preserving that measure of protection which is required for our indus­ trial independence, will secure a reduction of the revenue both from customs and internal revenue sources. "We have not looked alone to 41 reduction of the revenue, but have kept bteedily in view the interests of our producing classes, and have l>een ever mindful of that which is due to our political conditions, our labor and the character of our citizenship. "We have realized that a reduction of duties below the difference between the cost of labor and production in competing countries and our own would result either in tne abandonment of our manufacturing here or iu the depression of our labor. Either result would bring disuster, the extt nt of which no man can measure. We have recommended no duty above the point of product ion hero, including labor, and the cost ol like productions in the countries wnicli seek our markets, nor have we neglected to give this measure of duty, even though it involved an increase over present rate9. and showed an ad­ vance of percentages and aavalorem equiva­ lents. We have not sought to make a uniform rate of duty upon all imported articles. This would have been manifestly unjuBt and inequi­ table." DETAILS OF TOE BILL. The committee closes its argument upon the general Bubject of the tariff by a quotation from the last annual message of the President, and then proceeds to discuss the details of tbe bill, taking up first the general provisions intended to prevent frauds, such as t he limitation of ex­ emption from duty ol wearing apparel to the value of 55 )0, tho omission of the present pro­ vision for free entry of goods wherein the price paid included the duty, and the protective clause relating to registered trade marks. The report next treats of tho changes that have been made in the duty imposing schedule of existing law. Of chemicals, it says that many not produced in the United States aro placed on the free list to benefit the consumers--mainly manufactur­ ers. The result is a remission of 8876,304 in -duties. 1 Earthen and china ware remain without material change, but an increase has been .recommended on glassware to compensate for the high labor cost and to prevent destructive foreign competition. In the case of wool the report cites figures as an evidence of the alarming decline in production, and Fays that an Advance of duties has been recommenced which it is believed will afford ample protection to wool-growing farmers. While the Senate bill fixed the duty on third-class wcol at 4 cents, the committee places it at 3v> cents, acting upon the belief that with the restrictions, definitions, and classifications, and the addition of "port charges, recommended by thebiH, the difference will be fully compensated. The committee be­ lieves that the United States should produce all of the wool it consumes, and that with adequate defensive legislation it will do so. The annual consumption is i>00,000,000 pounds, and with tbe proteotion afforded by the bill the farmers of the United States will at an early day be able to ^pi*y demand by the addition 0* 100 per eent.. or 1,005.fXM sheep, to the present number. The bill seeks to stop the frattds which have been so shame iea sly practloed in the past by imparting wools ready for the loom under new name's and forms to avoid legal duties. The report giv.?8 the increase of the doty on wool and the construction given to tho worsted clause of t ha existing law as a reason for increasing the duties on woolen goods to protect manufaeturer3. It closes : "The neces­ sity of this increase is apparent in view of the fact already stated that during the last ftecal year there were imports of manufactures of wool of the foreign value of 0*52,661,482 as shown by the undervalued invoices, and the real value in our market of nearly SSW.OOO.OOO--fully one- fourth of our entire home consumption--equiv­ alent to an import, of at least lGo.tO Ukm pounds of wool in the form of manufactured goods," Existing law gives, it is said, a protection of •35 to 45 per cent.--the bill give* a range of 30 to 50 per cent. The Miil s l>i!l gave a uniform rate of 40 per cent.--more than was required on low grades and less than was net-ded lor fine goods. The advance in these fine grades will, it is be­ lieved, dimmish importations, and thereby re­ duce instead of increase the revenues and trans­ fer to the country the manufacture of from $15,000,(>00 to sao,000,000 of woolen goods now made abroad. The average rate of the woolen goods schedule proposed, including the specific duty on the wool used and the manufacturer's duty, is 91.78 per cent. The average rate at present is 67.15 per cent.., but if the worsted decision had been made at the beginning of the year it would have been increased 10 per cent., and 15 per cent, more would have been added if worsted yarns had paid the dutv of woolen yarns at the same price, so that if these manifest errors in construction of law had been earlier corrected the average rate last year would have been nearly 80 per cent. Of lumbar the report says that any reduction of the slight duties would have discouraged the proper care of our timber lands and have inured to the benefit of Canada without diminishing the mar­ ket price. Of the metal schedules the report says that no reduction can be made in pig.Iron or ore duties without detriment to existing industries, and the committee bus not felt justified in interfering with the further de­ velopment of our iron-ore resources, now so promising iu the Southern States. With regard to pig iron it may be said that it is in no sense raw material. It is a product of the highest skill, requiriug for its manufacture large and expensive plants, the capital invested in which in our country to-day more than equals that which is invested in any other branch of our iron and steel industries. Pig iron is made in twenty-five States in the Union. Its manu­ facture is increasing rapidly in many States, largely as the result of the protective duty » hicli has long given encouragement to its pro­ duction. It has had a marvelously rapid growth in the Southern and Western States in the last ten years, and it is to-day the leading manufacturing industry south of the I'otomac and Ohio liiverB. It has been the most potent of all influences in the industrial rehabilitation of the South. The report atrongly sustains the Increased duty recommended on tm plate. THE SUGAR QUESTION. Of sugar the report says: "The committee rec­ ommend that sugar up to and including No. 16 Dutch standard of color, and molasses, be placed on the free list, with a duty of four- tenths of 1 cent per pound on refined sugar above No. 16, and that a bounty of 2 cents per pound be paid from the treasury for a period of fifteen years for all sugar polarizing at least 85 per cent, made in this country from cane, beet*, or sorghum produced in the United States. In 1888 the consumption of sugar in the United States was 1,469,W7 tons, or 53.1 pounds per in­ habitant. Of this only 189,814 tons was' pro­ duced in the United States, and 1.280,183 tons, or seven-eighths of our consumption, was imported. So large a proportion of our sugar is imported that the home production of sugar does not materially affect the price, and the - duty is therefore a tax which is added to the price not. only of the imported but of the domestic produce, which is not true of duties imposed on articles produced or made here substantially to the extent of our wants. In 1889 the duties collected on imported sugar and molasses amounted to £55,975,610. Add to this the increase of price of domestic sugar arising from the duty, and it is clear that the duty on sugar and molasses made the cost of tbe sugar and molasses consumed by the people of this oountry at least $<54,000,000, or about $1 for each man, woman and child in the United States more than it would have been if no such duties had been levied, and the domestic product had remained the tame. Even ou the assumption that with proper encouragement we shall eventually be able to produce all, or nearly all, the sugar- required for the consumption of our people--an assumption which your com­ mittee believe to be sustained by many facts, notwithstanding the Blow progress thus far made in sugar culture in this country--this en­ couragement can be given much more econom­ ically and effectually by a bounty of two cents THE NATION'S CAPITAL. GC'SSITT LKTTKR FBOX OUR WASH­ INGTON C'OKRESPOHDKirr. ternoou. The oeble-cars peeved as maoh ! A T I» Q I W T T T IW ftTQ of a cu^.oiity «b a circus ia » Nebraska A"I AllVu Ia" lliJilJvflo. village. w: M iter pound, involving tne expenditure of but ittle more than $7,000,000 per annum with the present production of sugar in this country, than by the imposition of a duty involving the collection of $55,975,tilt) in duties in the last fis­ cal year, not to mention the amount indirectly involved. When it*is considered that this in­ crease in cost, due to the duty, falls on an article of prime necessity as food, your committee are persuaded that justice, as well as good policy, requires that such an unnecessary burden in the way ol a direct tax thou Id be removed from sugar, and that the encouragement required to induce the production of sugar in the United States should be given through a bounty rather than by an import duty. "in providing that not only raw Bugar, but also sugar up to and including No. 10 shall be admitted free of duty, an opportunity is given for the fiea introduction of yellow sugars suited for family use--an arrangement which will se­ cure to our people sugar at the lowest price existing in the markets of the world, while even imported white refined sugar will be sub­ ject to a duty of only 4-10ths of a cent per pound." AGBICtTLTTRAIi rHODTTCTS. Coming to agricultural products the report says the committee has given most ot its in­ vestigation to existing conditions of agricul­ tural and kindred matters. It says: "That there is widespread depression in this industry to-day can not be doubted. Every remedy within the scope of practical legislation known to your committee has been recommended in the proposed measure to meet the ur­ gent requirements of the situation. The enemies of tha protective system hive no word of criticism for the real cause of agricultural depression, no suggestion of relief from the real burdens which are weighing it down to-day ; but, seizing the present as a favorable time they solemnly charge that the decline in our market is solely due to the tariff. They are pleased to ignore the fact that one of the purposes of a protective tariff is to hinder a still larger im­ portation of foreign produce and thus save the market frohl still greater depression. But your committee, sensible to tho importance of this industry, prompted by the single motive to lift it to the highest level of profitable employment, believe that they offer in the bill all the relief which tariff legislation can give to it. "A critical examination of the Bubject will show that agriculture is suffering chiefly from a most damaging foreign competition in our home market. The increase in importations of agricultural products since 185;) has been enor­ mous, amouuting from §40,000,010 to more thau $350,000,000 in 1889. The 'world's market,' to which the advocates of tariff for revenue only invite the farmers of this country, is to-day crowded with the products of the cheapest human labor the earth affords. All over the old world thero is a rush of their surplus to that market, and it is to such a contest as this that free trade would allure American agriculture. With the foreign-grain market under the sway of such oppressive comjjetition, with the foreign cattle and pork market depressed and obstruct­ ed by various ruinous measures of restriction, with foreign agricultural products crowding our home market, your committee have recom­ mended an increase upon agric ultural products." is& " ^3 f v/f Afi. h SILK CULTURE. With a view to increasing the number of gain­ ful occupations open to the farmer, the commit­ tee has recommended a bounty to the growers of silk. Iteference is made in the repjrt to the successful experiments in silk culture of the Department of Agriculture, which, it is said, fully warrant the belief that the industry is en­ tirely practicable in many of the States. As a duty of jU a pound would be required to protect the American silk reeler, the committee has de­ cided that so high a duty would embarrass the silk weaviug interests without sufficient reason, and to secure tho industry as speedily as pos­ sible, offers the necessary differential of a bounty of jsl per pound, or about 20 per cent, protection on reeled sillt. The report says : "To produce our annual importation^ of reeled silk will require 14,01)0 basinf", and give work to over 20,000 persons iu the diffeient branches of the industry. To produce the cocoons neces airy to supply this silk will give temporary but remunerative employmtnt to the families of half a million farmers every season. To en­ courage tho production of cocoons and give direct encoui a ,'ement tf> the producers, the com­ mittee has al^o provided a bounty of 7 cents a pound on fresh cocoons, and these bounties are to continue for ten years. This bounty, based on last year's production, would have amounted to but $3,000 on cocoons and lees than one- twelfth of that sum on silk." THE INTERNAI.-nEVKNUE SECTIONS. Of the internal revenue sections the commit­ tee, after reciting them, says it has recom­ mended the repeal of all statutes imposing re­ strictions upon farmers and growers of tobacco, so ttiat they will sell y ith freedom. In conclusion the report suys that the ad­ vance of duties on agricultural products would increase the revenue if the Imports continue to be as large as during the last year. But as they are for the most part articles which this coun­ try can produce to the extent of our wants the increased duty will reduce importations so that the revenues will not be increased and our farmers will hold their own markets. The same result will follow in other cases of increase, and where the revenue is in special cases increased the increase will be far less than is indicated by a computation based on the theory that the importation will continue as large under lower duties. . NEW YORK ranks first in value of manufacturers, soap, printing and pub­ lishing, hops, hay, potatoes, buck­ wheat, and milch cows. Massachusetts ranks first in cotton, woolen, and worsted goods, and in cod and mack­ erel fisheries. Vermont ranks fourth in copper, first in slate and marble and sheep. DID you ever hear a cough drop ? Proposed Ril) Limiting the TJmo of Sen­ ators in Debate-Growing Sentiment In Ftror of Government Control of the Telegraph .Service--Threatened ladlaii Outbreak la Montana. [SPECIAL COBKESpbxDKXOK.1 WASHINGTON, April 21, 1890. Perhaps tbe death of no statesman has •o stirred the heart of the ^ ashington gubtic as the demise of Hon. Samnel J. andall. after a continued eerrioe iu the House of Representatives for thirty years. He was the most conspicuous fig­ ure on the floors of Congress for more than twenty years, and was the acknowl­ edged leader of his party upon the floor. It is said of him that he was a man of most wonderful self-control and iron will. This was displayed to a large de­ gree during the last Congress, when al­ most his solid party was arrayed against him on the tariff question, and notwith­ standing the gigantic efforts of the whole administration to briug him over. Only future history will tell the almost super­ human struggles Mr. Randall endured during this period, and of the disappoint­ ments brought upon him by his own purty administration,unwilling as it was to heap them upon him. His judgment upon ell questions was only formed after mature deliberation, and a position once taken no power on earth could change. Rep­ resentative Roger Q. Mills, one of the strongest opponents in the last Con­ gress of Kendall's tariff ideas, thus feelingly and earnestly speaks of the deceased statesman: "Of unimpeachable integrity and a natural born leader. He had more of the elements of leadership than any man I ever came in contact with. Nothing but his views on the tariff could have prevented him from being th> leader of the Democratic party. If it had not been for that he would have been nomi­ nated for President in 1STG, and,'.' said Mr. Mills, with emphasis, "he would have been elected and seoted, for he would have asserted his rights. But when he believed his opinions were right he would never change them, no matter what might happeu. \Vben our tariff bill was up I pleached with him, urged and begsed him to make some concessions and com­ promise, but he believed he wns right snd could not be moved. When his whole party, except Sowden and one or two others, came over he still held out and would not move. That was the only thigg in which we differed." % I'nless tbe House of Representatives concludes to disagree with the action of the Senate, the great National Maseum building will be doubled in size, a bill appropriating $500,01K) for that purpose having passed the latter body. This addition gives fifteen more exhibition halls and an available floor space of 200,- 000 square feet. The lack of room at the present time is a serious drawback lo one of the grandest institutions of tbe kind in the world. No visitor leaves Wash­ ington without seeing tbe magnificent collection here. It contains object les­ sons in natural history dating backward for a thousand years/and once seen is never forgotten. • * There is a disposition rapidly growing in the Senate to change the rules govern­ ing debates. There are two reasons why such a proposition will find favor in the eyes of the Senators themselves and the country at large. The proposed change is to limit the time allowed for debate on each question. As it now is discussions, sometimes on trivial questions, rnn on for days. Beyond this, these discussions are oonfined to half a dozen Senators on each side of the chamber. There seems to be a recognition or assent to the saying that a Senator is to "say nothing, but saw wood," until he has served two or more terms. But few men have had the daring to break this rule. Indee 1, Turpie, of Indiana, nnd Spooner, of Wisconsin, are the only ones I can call to mind who have hod the audacity to trample on this pre cedent with impunity and afterward main­ tain their position. So tbat a rule limit­ ing the time of debate on all questions will be Jiailed with delight by the younger branch of Senators, Cad they are l ylar in the majority. v * * A prominent man in public life who is making remarkably little noise this ses­ sion is Allison, of Iowa. Many of his friends and a good many who are not particularly friendly to him are wonder­ ing what is keeping him so quiet. But this reminds jnfe that there is a saying in Washington that you c£u't tell very much what Allison is doing by what be says about it. He is one of the closest but most effective workers iu Congress. Some years ago an important piece of legisla­ tion came up before the Senate which Ingalls had determined to oppose. The measure passed and then it c»me to light that Allison had engineered the whole thing through. Frank 6. Carpenter, an old newspaper correspondent, int n inter­ view witn Ingalls asked him wbat he thought of Allison. "He's the slickest man in the Senate," replied Ingalls; "you could put his two hundred pounds into hob-nailed clogs and drive at a ten-mile pace over a cordu oy road and he wouldn't make as much noise as a tom­ cat slipping across a luikish carpet after a canary bird." * » The proposition of Mr. Wanamaker to have tbe Government t ake charge of the telegraph service of the couniry is secur­ ing the unquttlilied indorsement of hun­ dreds of lalor organizations throughout the country as well as an immense num­ ber of country newspapers. The Post­ master Gener d's personal mail is a Bight to look at, being 1 rger than any of the other Cabinet offices. He keeps a clerk for no other purpose than lo open and dispose of letters and newspapers con­ taining matter relating to the Govern­ ment telegraph system. V ithout at­ tempting to discuss the feasibility of Mr. Wanamaker's plan, it is at all events seemingly a most popular one. The salary and allownnce division of the Postoffice Department is now en­ gaged in the readjustment ot the salariM of Postmasters thronvhout the country for the coming year. These salaries are enlarged or reduced according to the in­ crease or diminution of the receipts of tbe office for the fiscal year. Examina­ tions th,us far made indicate an increase in an astonishingly large per cent, of the offlees, especially in the Western States. * * The celebrated ]£eagle habeas corpus case from California has been finally dis­ posed of by the United States Supreme Court. The judgment of the Circuit Court holding that the killing of Judge Terry by Marshal Neagle was performed while in the line of duty, and that there­ fore he could not be he'd punishable for the act, was affirmed. The cise was vig­ orously contested by the ablest counsel on both sides. A lengthy opinion was tendered by Justice Miller. The District of "Columbia enjoys the undisputed po-session of about seventy, five thousand colored people. On Wednesday last at least half of this num­ ber dressed up in their best suit of clothes end joined in a grand parade and cele­ bration in honor of Emancipation Day. The gaudy uniforms of colored militia and numberless br.iss bands had entire possession of the city. Indeed, white faces on Pennsylvania avenue from sun­ rise to sunset on the great negro holiday were few and far between. * The War Department has been notified that war is likely to break out at nny time between the Cheyenne Indians in Montana and the settlers. The agent has tele­ graphed the Secretary that there is great danger of a bloody outbreak, and calls for troops to aid in suppressing it. Sec­ retary Proctor announces that the policy of his department shall be so rigid toward outbreaking tribes of Indians that he hopes to put an end to Indian wars for­ ever, but, at the same time, ho will ac­ cord full protection in all their rights. The House Committee on Printing ha<» authorised a favorable report on a resolu­ tion to publish 10,000 copies of a com­ pilation of the inaugnral addresses of the Presidents of ihe United States from George Washington to Benjamiu Harri­ son, inclusive, for the first century of Presidential inaugurations, with authen- ti ated incidents connected therewith, biographical sketches of the Presidents from official sources, together with steel plate portraits of the Presidents, steel- plate illustrations of the Capitol and White House. This book will be a hand­ some addition to any library. * * Tha Senate Republican caucus com­ mittee, after a long and heated discus­ sion. reached the following conclusions on the silver question; 1. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall buy 4,500,000 ounces of silver bul­ lion monthly nnd issue notes in payment for the same, the notes to be redeemable ilk bullion or lawful money. 2 That national banks shall be allowed to issue notes to the full par value of the bonds deposited to secure their redemp­ tion, which would add 10 per cent, to the national bank currency. 3. That the hundred millions retained in the Treasury for the redemption of treasury notes be put into circulation. A similar House committee also met and agreed upon a policy not very differ­ ent from tbe above. A long and exciting debate is expected to occur as soon as this subject is brought np for action in Congress. JA.S. C. MOODY. IHtE*K8XlNO ITEMS OATHMKBD TKOK VARIOUS SOURCES. IMS Representative Mudd, the successful contestant in the case of Mudd vs. Comp- ton for a seat in Congress from a Mary­ land district, is already becoming ini­ tiated into the trials and tribulations of his new position. A coppersmith from Mudd's d.strict, recently discharged from the Navy i:epa!tment, appealed" to him for reinstatement. Receiving a discour­ aging reply he began to abuse the mem­ ber most unmercifully. Mudd "hauled off," as it wore, and struck at him, but the blow fell short, when they both clinched; and for a few minutes had a razzle-dazzle, rough and tumble sort of a time. I he amusement was interrupted by the Capitol police. * # Several prominent Congressmen who have been sending out printed copies of speeches are much troubled over various aud simdiy squibs, appearing in opposi­ tion pnj er-t. intimating that the speeches weie never delivered, but simply ordered printed. A few years ago it was the cus- . torn of a member to me in his Feat and state that lie bad a few remarks which he desired printed in the record, and it was so ordered. This practice was so absurd that during the Forty-nin'.h Congress the rule was abrogated, aud now nothing can go into the record that is not publicly proclaimed in open i-ession. Therefore the statement that speeches are printed I and sent out without being delivered is calculated to deceive the dear constitu­ ent. I I Notwithstanding that Washington City is over one "hundred years old and has almost two hundred thousand inhabitants, her first experience in the way of cable street-cars dateB from last week. During the first day oner 15,00t> people were car- lied up and down Seventh street, and tha pavements on both sides were orowded i with as many thousands more all the af« • • Si: ? Britain's Great Gun Foundry. Years ago, before Woolwich was known, the great royal armory usod to be in Moorlields. and here were manu­ factured the great guns with which Britain terrorized her foes. One day a modest-looking young ma>n was visiting the place, He saw a large red-hot mold being prepared for some process or other, and he asked what it was for. Upon being told that a cannon was about to be cast therein, he said: "That is an impossibility; if you attempt it an explosion will follow." Ho was laughed at, and tbe workmen proceed­ ed with their labor. But 110 sooner was the work of casting begun than the mold exploded with terrific violence and several men were killed. The catastrophe created a prodigious stir, of course. Recalling the wordB of warning uttered by the stranger, the identity of the young man was sought and discovered; he had made a study of gun manufacturing, and to those in­ terrogating him he evinced a thorough knowledge of the art. The result of the matter was that this young man was employed by the Government and subsequently rose to the superintend- ency of the works, which were eventu­ ally moved to Woolwich. One day, a hundred years ago, a be­ nevolent-looking man, clad like a farm­ er, meandered into the manufactory. The men were tikiog their noon. "My lads*" asked the stranger, "what are you doing?" "We're doing nothing now," answered the men, "but present­ ly we shall be eating our dinner of baoon and beans." "Good!" exclaimed the stranger. "And if you have no ob­ jection I will cat bacon and beans with you." The farmer-like stranger was his Majesty George III., and ever since that day, in commemoration of that event, the second Saturday in July is celebrated at the arsenal. There is given what is called the "bean-feast," and folk gather from all over the king­ dom to participate therein.--London letter. • A Change of Venue. The Duluth (Minn. ) Herald reports a laughable incident as occurring in a justice's court in the backwoods of that section. Court was held in a lumber­ man's shack, in the bunks of which a number of woodsmen were reposing, interested spectators of the proceed­ ings. The Judge was a young man of mild aspect, with red hair and mus­ tache, who nervously arranged matters for the trial. There were no attorneys, both plaintiff and defendant acting for themselves. After a painful silence the defendant arose. Ho was minus coat and vest, being attired in a gavly fringed and ornamented buckskin shirt and striped flannel pants. Said he: "Yer Honor, I want a change of veenyou in this hyar case." "Why?" blandly inquired the Judge. "Well," was the blunt reply, "the Jedge in the other place is, I c'sider, a leetle better posted on law than ye be." This was hitting the Judge in a tender spot. His breath came hard for a few minutes, but maintaining his dignity with great effort he gave the defendant to under­ stand that his reason was not sufficient. "Well, then. I b'lieve you're prejudiced agin me," said he of th§ buckskin gar­ ment, "and I demand my rights as an American citizen. I want a show in this case and I know I can't get it in this here court." This settled the matter. The Court granted the change of venue, and the defendant signalized this success by inviting the whole courthouse out to take a "snifter." THOSE fellows who dote on their girls sometimes find matrimony a powerful antidote. Wlmt Our Kelglibor* Are Doing--Matters of General and Local Iuterent -- Mar­ riages and Deaths--Accidents and Crimes --Personal Pointers. ' * 7 * --The following patent! have Bten issued to citizens of IllinOi*: C. H. Arnold, Chicago, folding sofa; & F. Bain, Chicago, leather machine; B. Beck. Chi­ cago, rotary engine; K. (?. Beerj and P. l>ren- dal, Chicago, ornament for fences ; W. T. Best, Chicago, flying target; L. A. Brener, Sandwich, mechanical movement for converting motion; 3. B. Burtis, El Paso, coffee or tm steeper ; A. G. Burton, Chicago (1!). burglar proof safe; T. R. Butman, Chicago, flue cleaner; W. E. Canetiy, Downers Grove, screw cutting die; A. W. Cash, Decatur, type-writing machine; J. Clapp, Ev- anston (;!), automatic valve, automatic sprink­ ler ; B. C. Cook, Sterling, vehicle spring: E. \V. Cooke, Chicago, carwh<*el; C. A. Davis. Peoria, two-wheeled vehUls; W. Du«chting, Chicago, refrigerator car; 1. T. Dyer. Chicago, composi­ tion for coating iron ; Gi H. Edwards, Chicago (five), tractor; P. A. Gates, Chicago, metal can; A. A. Gehrt, Quincv, baling press ; J. J. and F. .1. Geraghty, Streafor, hydraulic refrigerator: H. C. Goodrich, Chicago, velocipede; \V. W. Green, Chicago, dumping car; C. Hafnt r, Chi­ cago, apparatus for treating beer ; W. Hargrove, Chicago, treadle power; I\ W.. Hosfer, Free- port. sash-cord guide ; M. Jacker, Chicago, ma­ chine for making candy chains; O. H. and W. M. .Tewtll, Chicago, filter; J, Kely and L. F. Horrell, ltedbud (two), plow double-tree, wagon double-tree; F. L. Kollberg, Chi­ cago, machine for flanging boiler heads; T. J. Leavy, Chicago, machine for threading ehoet-metal pipes ; J. K. Magie, Chi­ cago, permutation lock ; A. B. McCanna and B. B. Brady. Chicago, coffee grinder ; C. and E. H. Morgan. Freeport. coffee mill; N. Newman, Springfield, automatic gas extinguisher; E. H. Parker, Kvan'ton, electric ten perature con­ troller; H.J.Phelps, Havana, wneel for seed­ ing machines; G. C. Koberts, Chicago (2), re­ versal gear, belt shifter ; E. Seite, Peoria, tuc.k- marking attachment; D. W. Sholes, Hampshire, letter opener, envelope opener: A. Taaiquary, Bcllimont, traoe buckle; E. P. Warner. Chi­ cago, electric switch; B. M. White. Fisher, ohurn; E. B. andO. K. Winger, Freeport, wind mill. --The celebration of the twenty-flfth anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln was marked by many special features at Springfield, says a letter from that city. All the stores and many private houses were decorated witn cape and the national colors. The following organizations participated in the street parade: Lyon Post. No. '2. G. A. R., St. lANiis ; Hecker Post, Belleville; the local posts, Mendell and Stephenson ; the Turners of Spriug- flcld and St. Eouis, numbering about eight, hun­ dred; the Sons of Veterans of this and neigh- lK>ring cities, tho fire department, the police, and the Capi'al City Cycling Club. A flower vva^on bore two tents of black canvas, bearing an urn < f flowers from I.inci In Park. Chicago, floral tributes from the Governors of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Massachusetts ami Michigan, and similar offering# from the Woman 8 Belief Corps of this city, IJncoln and elsewhere. The streets were packed with interested observers the special trains bringing iu mauy from St. Louis and neighboring cities. The monument was c1 borately decorated and Che sarcophagus was t ared with flowers. Speeches were made bv Ma}. James A, Con­ nolly, Judge J. H. Matheny, Key. T. W. Hen dersoii, aud the Hon. Hugo Muench of St,. Louis. After the exercises the Turners passed into the tomb aud laid thiir floral wreaths on the sar­ cophagus. IjtstierB wtre received from prominent men. President Harrison wrote: "Please express to tho patriotic citizen* who to-dav assemble about the tomb of Lincolp my appreciation of their friendly greeting aud the assurance of my sympathy with their demon­ stration in honor ot one who should be held in grateful and reverent memory by all our peo­ ple." Letters were a'so leceived from Ruthorf< rl B. Hayes, Gov. James E. Campbell Ohio, and Benator Culloxu. --A stranger appeared among the oiti- zens of Kenney a few days ago, attract ing some attention in his serions belief in th doom of tie city of Chicago, which he claimed by some dire prophecy was to perish from the face of the earth. Little was thought of the vagarieB of the man until his body was found horribly man gled near Tunbridge. "When the citizens found the body many of them remembered that he had said that he was goingto offer his Ufa as a sacrifice to save tbe doomed ciiy. - His name appears from letters to be Hamilton, and he baited from Kentucky. --The ontcome of the sensational kill- .fyg of Daniel Lindley, a traveling man at Kenney, by James Waldren, is a sen­ tence of sixteen years in Joliet prison for Waldren for manslaughter, and he is now serving his term. ^ --Dr. Edward B. Marshall, aged 7Y, President of the Exchange Bank at Cen­ tralis, and for over fifty years a member of the Odd Fellows, died in that eity last week. * --Tom Hopper, the son of * Jackson­ ville widow, was holding a team of horses in front of a business house in that city, when the horses became frightened and tan away. Tom was thrown under th«ir feet and trampled to death. --The State Board of Charities met r Jacksonville last week, together Wit. 0udge Messick and the Hon. J. A. Brown, Commissioners, and Mr. Bose, Warden of the Southern Penitentiary. The mat­ ter of the appropriation for a building at Chester for insane convicts was brought up. J. W. Lawler, an architect of Chi­ cago, laid several plans of buildings be­ fore the board, but as he had prepared no estimates as to the probable expense, action was deferre3. The estimates for the appropriations for the various char­ itable institutions for the coming two years were prepared, but the board re­ fused to mske them public, though it was said the amounts asked of the Legis­ lature would be less than for tbe preced­ ing two years. --Chicago Daily News: Tha new coun­ terfeit $10 bill has at last arrived in Chicago. Tha engraving is fair, but not excellent, yet ou the front the bill is a good-looker. Close inspection will deteet imperfections in the lines on the back. It counterfeits the notes issued by the Gerihanis National Bunk of New Or­ leans. This bogus bill was first seen and given to the secret service officials in St Louis. Later it was seen in Cincinnati and Indianapolis. Now there is every reason to believe that the "green-goods" men are working Northern Illinois. --The Illinois State Board of health has refused to grant permits to practice medicine in the State to persons holding diplomas of the Indiana College of Med­ icine and Midwifery without the regular examination, upon the ground that the institution haft no authority for issuing tbe same. --Thirty-one young preachers were graduated last week at the twenty-third annual commencement of the Baptist Union Theological Seminary at Morgan Park, near Chicago. --Calls have been issued for a Demo­ cratic convention, June 4, in Springfield to nominate a candidate for Congress in the Thirteenth District and for Clerk of the Supreme Court, Central Grand Di­ vision, and Clerk of the Appellate Court} Third District. Thus far there is no an­ nounced party opposition to Congress­ man Springer for the first-named place, to E. A. Snively for the second named, or to George W. Jones for the last named. 'X'he Presbytery of Springfield, which has just closed its annual session, declared against the revision of the confession of aith by a vote of 23 to 22. HORRIBLE C0NFESSI0 --Following is the last weath< bulletin sent out from Springfield: The temperature of the week was above the normal throughout the State. The rainfall, ex­ cept in tbe extreme northern counties, was be­ low a seasonable average. Bond County--Wheat, reported in bad condi­ tion. Grass doing well. Farmers plowing and sowing oats. Peach, pear, and cherry trees in bloom. Champaign--Oats coming up. Wheat looking wall. Past week favorable to growing crops. Coles--Weather favorable to crops. Douglas--Oats put in in good condition. Wheat in bad condition. Not mofe than half the fields will mal^s anything. Grass looking well. Prospect of a fair peach crop. Apples ard cherry trees in oloom. Edwards --But little oati sown yet. Farmers busy plowing. Pulton--Farmers backward with oats sowing, Hamilton--Wheat and meadows coming out a little. Oats sowing begun. Roads in bad con­ dition. Henry--Weather Unfavorable tor oats and grass. Iroquois--Wheat good, e*cept on clay ground. Not much oats seeding done in this county. Too much rain. LaSalle-All seasonable crops reported in a favorable condition, though not as Iorwar last year. , Logan--Weather warm and pleasant. Early sown oats coming up. Farmers busy with spring work. McHenry-- Fields badly flooded. Farmers plowing on sandy soilR. Marshall--Weather nnfavorabla tor farm work. Ground too wet. Pope--Wheat shows sight improvement, but --^niises only half a crop. Peaches killed. t,rs injured. Other fruit safe. Oats, sowing --arly done. Pike--Peaches in blSom. Bye doing well. Gardt cing commenced. Perry--As to field work this is the most back­ ward spring remembered. Wheat has greatly improved, aud much of it shows but very little injury from the frost. Plums, pears and cher­ ries are in bloom. Randolph--Where wheat is not badly injured it looks fatr, but both the very late and early sowings are badly injured by the March freez­ ing. ()at8 sowing is only well commenced; ground too wet. There will be a few peaches on elevated ground. Sangamon--Conditions favorable. Oats being sown. Schuyler--Grass 9ml meadows making rapid growth. Wheat improving. Scott--Wheat needs rain badly. Stephenson--Gr.*,ss growing rapidly. Wheat aad rye getting rank on side hills; will yield seven-eighths of a crop, from present outlook. But little spring wheat will be sown. St. Clair--The farmers are plowing for oats. Peach and plum trees in bloom. --Gov. Fifer passed upon and refused pardon in the following cases: Henry Boyle alias John Cox, serving a life sentence for murder committed in Warren Coun­ ty; .John Thomas, convicted in .luue, 1884, of burglary and sentenced from Cook County to twenty years ; Harry Gitlin, sentenced in 1883 from Macon Couuty for thirty-five veavs, for murder; George Wilaou and .Tames Hlues. sen­ tenced from Cook County in l«8t> for twenty years for burglary; Dennis Callahan, sen­ tenced in 1S8T from Cook Coantv for fourteen year* for murder; Eddie Knickerbocker, aei- teiiced in 1M8H from Iroquois County for th) oe years for horse-stealing; .lames McAUie'-er, sentenced from Livingston County in 1W for twenty-live yearn for murder; William Hender­ son, sentenced from Champaign County in 1*87 for six years for abduction ; Pavid McQuaid, s en­ tenced 'from Cook County in 1888 for two years for robbery; Kate Williamson, sentenced from Alexander County in 1884 for life for murder; Addison Thorborn, sentenced from Massac in lH8t» for nine years for robbery ; William Han­ cock, sentenced from Lawrenee iu lor tev years for assault with intent to rob. --The State Board of Agriculture an­ nounces that, from information gathered from reliable sources throughout the win ter wheatbelt, it is now known beyond a doubt that the damage to wheat is fully as serious as Was teported by the Depart­ ment of Agriculture some weeks ago: The rains and warm weather of the past three weeks have clearl v fhown the injury done to the growing crop by the unfavorable weather during ISAAC KAWTELLK TALKS Of KILLING OF HIS BfiOTKUL the flrsc two weeks in March. Wheat-growers all agree tbat the fancv varieties of wheat will not stand the uncertainties of Illinois winters as well as tho hardy rod winter. Whole fields of wheat are being plowed up aud will be sown to oats or corn. Most of tlie wheat suf­ fered fully as much, if not more, from the ex­ cessive precipitation during the last of Feb­ ruary as from the frosts of March. Where there was imperfect drainage and water was permitted to stand tor anv length of time there is not t he least sigu of life in the plant. Kven wheat on the high lands did not escane in- ury. The entire crop of growing wheat has been seriously afft-ctea, and the best of it will not exceed three-fourths of au average yield per acre under the most favorable conditions from now till harvest. This report includes ail that portion of the State lving south of the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway, or what is gener­ ally termed tho winter-wheat belt, iiud has no Inference whatever to the northern division of the State, where a full crop falls far short of the quantitv necessary for home consumption. It is safe to say that the prospect is not good for more than SO or «0 per cent, of an average yield per acre, on the ar.^a to bo harvested, and that the area seeded lasc fall will'ba cut down fully per ceut. --H. B. Stone, Second Vice President of the Chicago, Bnrlingtcn and Quincy Railroad, has resigned. --Citizens of ihe town of Blue Island, a suburb of Chicago, turned out in a body the other day nnd compelled the immedi­ ate slaughter of a herd of lump-jaw cat­ tle taken there by Dr. McCheBney of the State Board of Live Stock Commission­ ers. The State authorities wanted delay in the killing after having put the cattle in pens agaiust the protest of the pcople( but the latter gathered in force and told Dr. McCbesney that the cattle must be taken back. The State authorities were accompanied by a large forco of deputies, and while the police kept the people back the cattle were driven into the pens. A "vigilance committee" then made a de­ mand that the cattle be slaughtered at once. Dr. McChesney objected to this for a time, but the people finally carried tbeir point --The monthly mortality report of the Chicago Health Department shows the total number of deaths in that citf dar­ ing March to have been 2,063, that of the corresponding month last year being 1,072. The diseases which cansed the largest number of deaths were typhoid fever, 103; consumption, 191; infantile convulsions, 108; bronchitis, 108; pneu­ monia, 283. There were only seven deaths from influenza during the month. The annual rate per 1,000 was 22.52. --There have been filed with the Secre­ tary of State articles of incorporation of the Springfield and Hitlsboro Bailroad Company, which proposes to construct and operate a railroad from Springfield through the counties of Sangamon, Christian and Montgomery to a point on the Toledo, St. Lo iis ind Kansas City Bailroad in Montgomery County, south of Hillsboro. The principal office is to be maintained at Springfield. The capital stock is $500,(M)0. --Gov. Fifer has appointed Janes A. Bose, of Golconda, Pope County, to suc­ ceed the Hon. Isaac Clements as a mem­ ber of the Board of Commissioners of the Southern Penitentiary at Chester. --Gaskine Wraskoy, the head of the prison administration of Bussia, has by letter invited Secretary Wines of the State Board of Charities to be present at the international prison conference to be held in St. Petersburg in June next, and to speak on juvenile reformatories and juvenile reform in the United States. --Alexander H. Irvin, a prominent citi­ zen of Cairo, is dead, aged 48 years. In 1878 he was a member of the Illinois Gen­ eral Assembly, and l«ter, though a Demo­ crat, he was appointod Warden., of the Chester Penitentiary by Gov. Cullom. He was at different times City Clerk of Cairo, Circuit Clerk and Sheriff of Alex­ ander County Wo terms each, and was appointed Postmaster of Cairo by Presi­ dent Cleveland, which office he held over a yoar under the present administration. --Ex-Senator D. B. Gillham, of Alton, who was recently shot by a bugler, ia slowly bnt steadily improving. Ha Claims Ihst Others Are B««pnn>itle for the Bloody Deed, Although He Was - a Member of a Wicked Conspiracy--A Tale of fllooA. Boston (Mass.) dispatch: A morning paper prints what it claims Is a confes­ sion made to his counsel by Isaac B. Sawtelie of Boston, now In Jail at Do- •er, X. II., awaitfng trial for tne mur- ier of his brother Hiram, whose muti­ lated body was fouhd bnried in tho woods in Lebanon, Me., last February. In this aliened confession Isaac says that he and Hiram's wife were parties to % conspiracy to lure Hiram to an aban­ doned camp in Lebanon, Me., "where he was to be held captive by the notorious Dr. Blood and the ex-convict "Jack" (who have been suspected of having polity knowledge, at least, of the mur­ der) until he should relinquish in writ- • ing all claim to the estate left by his father. Isaac decoyed Hiram to Rochester, N. H., and drove him to a point near tho camp, where ho was turned over to "Jack." Isaac claims that his connec­ tion with the case ended at this point, and that he did not know to&f Hiram's death until he received a-letter while in Portland telling him that it had been necessary to put Hiram oot of the way, and that each of the trio must look en$ for himself. Ihis so-called confession makes most of the evidence in possession of the gOT- ernment accord with thl3 theory of Hiram's taking off, and claims that tho murder was committed In Maine by Dr. Blood and the convict "Jack." He said he had had Dr. Blood's own handwriting for tho proof that Him was killed in a struggle, during which more than intended violence was usctf oy either him or "Jack" to prevent Hiram from gaining his liberty. The conspiracy," he said, "wns planned by ItJood. assented to by mo, directly furthered by his companion, and indirectly by a friend in Lowell." According to Isaac, Blood was to got $500 for his part of the conspiracy, and he (Isaac) gave him SI00 cash and a note for 1M00, payable in weekly installments of 825. He claims that Mr. Richardson of. Lowell, at whose house lie stopped on his way to Rochester, N. H., with his niece, gave him the pills which he after­ ward gave the girl, bull the pills were harmless, only causing a sickness which served as an excuse to decoy Hiram to Rochester and that he (Isaac) told Richardson of the intended operations against Hiram. Isaac says that Blood wrote him a let­ ter at Rochester giving him Instructions to drive from Rochester to an old house near Springvale, Maine, where he would find a person to whom he was to pav tlw installment of the note then due. The letter also requested him to bring % spade, He drove to the house on the Tuesday before the murder, where he found "Jack," who requested him to bring an ax with which to cut wood for fires, as he said Blood and he were going to be prepared to remain all winter, if neces­ sary, to get Hiram to sisrn the paper giving up all claims to the property. "Jack" also wanted & spade and pick­ ax, which he said would have a part in the persecution of Hiram, but as Isaac says he supposed, for ocular effect only, f On Wednesday Isaac savs he drove Hi­ ram to the same spot,where "Jack" met- him and told Isaac to go for a doctor while he drove Hiram to the house whore he expected to find his stele daughter. Isaac left the carriage and "Jack" re­ turned it to him about an hour and a half later. Isaac then drove "Jack" about three miles up the Springvale road, where "Jack" left the carriage; with a bag which he had in behind an4l which Isaac thinks contained Hiram's clothes and head. He claims he did not see Dr. Blood at Springvale, nor has he seen him or "Jack" since the disap- ' pear an co of Hiram. It Is oclicved that the confession l» not geUii!tie,~Su£ Sawtelie made it up to account for the evident^ tofiifih ho knows the State has against him. The story of the crime having been coSP* mitted in Maine is apparently an at­ tempt to escape the gallows, as the death penalty is not enforced in that State." . EM1N VS^STANLEY. > Europe Taking I'p the Quarrel BshrtM the Two. London cable: The Times* spec­ ial from Cannes gives an interview with Stanley, who declares that the state­ ments made by Father Schinze In regard to Stanley's maneuvering to betray his employers, steal ivory, found an inde­ pendent kidgdom. etc., could emanate only from a depraved mind. Stanley says Einin was friendly;^ enough until the Germans managed to * get control of him. Emin's action. Stan- ley remarks, is similar to that of De Brazza, who obtained the money for his ; expedition from King Leopold, and then turned oyer to France the results of his \ labors, made possible by Leopold's gen-1 erosity. Stanley is surprised that Eng­ land should allow the Wissman enter- prise to be carried on without making % ; protest. The North German Gazette devotes considerable space to the Stanley-Emin • • dispute. The article condemns Stanley and highly praises Emin. The French Geographical society opposes the idea of a public reception to? Stanley. The grounds of the objection .5 are that Stanley's recent enterprises « have been of a purely commercial char­ acter and that he treated with disdain the more scientific aims of De Brazza. Emin Pasha starts for tbe interior of Africa next week. He has openly de­ clared that tho principal reasons for his entering the Gorman service are his dis­ appointment at his treatment by his former supporters and his resentment of the manner in which ho has been mis­ represented in Stanley's speeches. It is asserted that the Germans haTO compelled the sultan of Zanzibar to can- eel the concession to the British-African i company of Manda and Patta, on tho. ; Zanzibar coast. It is believed, however, that the matter is still tJie subject of negotations. Advices from Mozambique are to the effect that the Portugese have dispatched a large force up to the Shire river^o attack Mapauda. It is stated that Belgium has guaranteed a loan of §3').000,fW0 for the Con^o Free State. It is rumored in this connection that King Leopold declined an offer of $20,000,000 from Germany to­ ward this loan. The Kepabltcaa MsJwrftjr. Washington dispatch: By t#»© tf»»*> fer of a seat in the House from Mr. W i s e t o M r . W a d d e l i o f V f r g i m a^t»e Republicans now have a!l tho majority thev need. They started in the session 4 with l«9 votes to 161 democrats--a ma­ jority of 8--but by the unseating of ^ Jackson and Pendleton of West Vir- "j ginia. Cate of Arkansas, Compton of * Maryland, and W ise of Virginia they have increased their majority from 8 ti | IS, and it will be 19 when the successor aI to the late Congressman Wilber of New York Is c.ected. The Republican lead­ ers are well satisfied with their majority ; as it stands, as the experience of both v parties nas been that discipline is morn ' perfect when the «w)orttY Is small tfcNK when it is large < •*#. 61,» • M - f i '*• v v . •., -7 £.