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innkshipMexicnno came in badly dam­ aged. Capt. Tait stood on the bridge of the ship without sleep for seventy-two hours. he British tramp isteatnship Marian, Capt. Grahl, from Bilboa, Spain, Nov. 29, arrived with cabins flooded, ev­ erything movable washed from the decks, two of the lifeboats stove in, sails carried away and otherwise damaged. Capt. Davis,';of. the British tank steamship Le Coq, in port from Barry, reports expe­ riencing heavy east-northeast gales. The tank steamship Megunticoak, from Phil1 adelphia for Tampa, Fla., with coal, re­ turned to port in tow of the tug Meher, leaking badly. The Pacific Mail steam­ ship Newport, which arrived in New York quarantine, brought word that on the morning of Dec. 13 she fell in with the disabled steamer Claribel, of the Atlas Line.. The Newport passed a line to her, but later the Claribel cast it off and sig­ naled to the Newport to proceed and re­ port to the owners of the. Atlas Line on her arrival in New York. The great strike of Philadelphia motor- men and conductors of the Urii^n Inac­ tion Company bega?i early Tuesday morn­ ing, and all lines of the . company were practically tied up. president Welsh nays hundreds of men are applying for Work. Several cars were derailed. The sentiment- of the public is; clearly with the strikers. The company employs about 0.000 men, two-thirds of them members Of the Employes' .Association.- The , de­ mand of the nien is tfbr a working, day of ten hours; with $2 pay, reasonable. time for meals, -protection, from -the weather kind recognition of their organizationVr Before the strike^'in Philadelphia-was twenty-four hours old; the cityfwas all but ii) the'hands of a mob. The' strikers took but Httiy part 'in the violence, the rowdy element doing all the damage. The police Were, utterly unable to Cope with the mob. From early morning un­ til dusk, as each branch line made desper­ ate efforts to start, howling mobs sur­ rounded each car. stoned and hooted the mbtorman and conductor, smashed the windows, cut the trolley ropes and wreak­ ed all possible destruction. Then the at­ tempt was abandoned. Many persons were injured by flying missiles, and complete reports, will include^ fatalities and thousands of dollars' worth of val­ uable property destroyed. Ambassador Bayard and the British Gov­ ernment, and the Marquis of Salisbury'^ reply declining to .arbitrate the question. Parts ot the President's message ring like a call to arms. His promptness in trans- nutting the Venezuelan correspondence to^ Congress and his evideilt desire to' have quick attention thereon was prompt­ ed in a large measure by the belief that England and Venezuela were secretly negotiating for a direct settlement of their differences. The long-looked-for report of Secretary Carlisle was sent to Congress Monday afternoon. The report as a whole is one of tlxe most elaborate and thorough expo­ sitions of the business, of the financial branch of the Government that have been made to the public in many years, and it is especially valuable for the extended ob­ servations under the heading "The Condi­ tion of the Treasury and the Currency." As forecasted in press dispatches, Secre­ tary Carlisle holds that the situationdoes not require legislation for raising addition­ al revenue by- taxation at present. He estimates a deficit of $17,000,000 the cur­ rent fiscal year, ending July 1, 1895, and a surplus of $7,000,000 at the end of the year next following "upon the assump­ tion that the progress now being made toward tlie restoration of our usual state of prosperity will continue without inter­ ruption," :• ' • x"*- BASSETT PASSES AWAY, Venerable Assistant Doorkeeper of-tha National Senate Is Dead. r Capt. Isaai Bassett, the venerable as­ sistant doorkeeper of the, Senate, died in Washington Wednesday afternoon. Capt. Isaac Bassett/the "father of the-Senate,1 ' spent his entire career as a Senate em- „ ploye. JDIe enjoyed the distinction of be­ ing the second page appointed in the chamber and the last officer of that body elected by ballot, all subsequent offices 2being filled by appointment. Capt. Bassett was born in Washington seventy-six years ago. His father was Simeon Bassett, who came from Mil ford. Conn., and his mother was of Irish birth. He was a protege of Daniel Webster, who secured the appointment of the boy, J. VAN SLYKEl Editor and Pub. THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. Jr.' ILLINOIS McHENRY; Eagle's Screams Arouse Ameri can Patriots. n STORM WAS A DELUGE A Comprehensive Digest of the Pro­ ceedings in the Legislative Cham­ bers at Washington --Matters that Concern-t-he-People-.---"" CHICAGO AND SUBURBS GET A DRENCHING: LION MUST KEEP OUT, Lawmakers at Labor. Proceedings of the Senate Thursday covered the entire range of legislation, from the introduction of petitions, bills and resolutions to the passage of bills, and included two formal addresses. A bill extending the Chicago port of entry so as to cover the State of Ulipois re­ ceived the final indorsement of th* Senate. Almost an hour was devoted to a speech by Senator Peffer in advocacy of his bill curtailing the expenses incurred in Con­ gressional funerals and providing that a sergeant-at.-arms shall take the place of the committee now sent out by the two- houses as escorts to their homes of the remains of deceased members. ; Mr. Call addressed' the Senate Upon his resolutions upon the cruelties alleged to be perpetrate fed upon the Armenians by Turkish au­ thorities. He thought the United States should at least express encouragement to the civilized powers in the effort they are. making to suppress these outbursts of bigotry, superstition, cruelty and crime. The House listened to a speech by Mr- Grow, ex-Sjjgakerj relative to President Cleveland's utterance concerning tariff and currency. Both houses adjourned to Monday. v The Senate was ,in session about two- hours Monday, half o.f that time being, given to Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, in a vig­ orous assault on the gold "combine." An. echo of Comptroller Bowler's suspension of the sugar bounty payments was heard: in the resolution of Mr. Caffery, of Lou­ isiana, calling on the Treasury Depart­ ment for the reasons for the suspension. Postmaster General Wilson's recent or­ der forbidding postal employes from urg­ ing postal legislation also came in for attention, Mr. Peffer offering a compre­ hensive resolution of inquiry as to the order. The proceedings in the House were enlivened by Mr. Flinn, the dele­ gate from Oklahoma, who offered a reso­ lution that the Secretary of the Interior be directed, if not incompatible with" the public interest, to report to the House: 1. The reasons and causes operating, if any, to delay the appointment of allotting agents and the allotment of Indian lands in Oklahoma. 2. Whether any of his con­ nections or relatives by blood or. marriagte are acting as attorneys for said Indians or any party or parties interested are delaying the opening of the reservation to settlement. The resolution was adopt­ ed. Representative Hopkins' bill- for the extension of the Chicago custom's district passed the House finally Tuesday with the Senate amendment, exempting East St. Louis. The bill goes to the President; and as it has the approval of the Treas­ ury Department Collector Russell will soon be receiving customs dues from the whole State of Illinois except the city across from St. Louis. The Senate did no business of importance. Wednesday's session of the House did not last an hour, but it sufficed for the passage of a bill authorizing the Presi­ dent to appoint a commission to investi­ gate the Venezuelan boundary, and ap- priating $100,000 for the expense of the commission. The bill was prepared by Mr. Ilitt and met the approval of Speaker Reed, In the Senate a bill was introduced and referred providing for the increase of the armament of the nation and appro­ priating $100,000,000 for the purchase of the weapons needed. December Rain Record Broken and Streets Flow Like Rivers--Stolen Wealth Found in a Mexican Cave- Fearful Mine Disaster. Congress Votes to Sustain the , i President. Bill PaBsed Giving Him Money and the Commission--American People, Regardless of Parts*, Uphold Grover in the ^Enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine---Nothing Since the War Has So Deeply Stirred This Nation-- The British Press Is Insolent, and Furious. FOREIGN, CAPTATX BASSETT; Washington eonesponclence: Congress is with the President in the support of the Monroe doctrine, and the American people are with Congress. The House of Representatives without dis­ senting voice .has passed a bill appro­ priating ,$100,000 for an American judi­ cial commission to ascertain the true boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela. This is the beginning of the WESTERN. will revise them again in regard to the Monroe doctrine before this controversy is ended, and will admit Jjvat the Monroe doctrine does form a most important part of international law as far its matters re­ garding the American Hemisphere are concerned. Across the channel the sentiment is scarcely less serious. France and .Ger­ many, both having interests on this con­ tinent, view the message with undisguised alarm, as encroaching on their rights. They eveii go so far as to suggest that Epgland alone is in poor shape to handle the husky young republic, but that if first step in carrying out the assertion of the Monroe doctrine as a principle of the international code. Leaders of all shades of domestic difference in Congress agreed as one man in supporting the President. It has been the taunt of the British press and the belief of the anti-American public abroad that in the assertion of the Monroe doctrine at this time the President was "playing politics." It will shortly be apparent abroad that in support of the right of Americans to rule America there are ho parties in the United States. This is a nation. The action of the House, fresh from the STATUE OF ROBERT BURNS, ed being taken into custody. He usually introduced those who bore messages from the President or the House of Represen­ tatives, and participated in other like for­ malities. It was also his custom to sign all calls for the party in power. TOSSES EGGS AT AHLWARDT. Jew Baiter's First Lecture in America Punctuated with Odorous Missiles. An educated bigot landed on our shores last week and will make frantic efforts to turn the people of the United States against the Hebrew race. His name is Herman Ahlwardt. He is a member of the German Reichstag and is known "the world over as the Jew-baiter. He is the leader of the anti-Semitic party in Ger­ many and has served three terms in pris­ on for talking too freely. He is 50 years old--old enough to know better than to come to this country to set in motion an organized movement of persecution. .He says he comes here on the invitational prominent men in Milwaukee and New V.-.rL- >i-<- ii*- «-;i! , xoi h, uui lit- wiu dol g i v0 ineir nfuiiotf because he thinks it would hurt their business. He insists that he is not a vil­ lain. His first tirade against the Jews was delivered in Cooper Union, New York City. There were 150 auditors. It be­ came evident before he had spoken 100 words that there were more Jews than Christians present. It also became evi­ dent that the Jews were greatly excited. While in the middle of a sentence in which he hurled invectives against the Jews a little man sprang to his feet and squeaked some thing in Hebrew at the rate of 1,000 words a minute. Before the) police knew what the little fellow was about lie had thrown two eggs at the for­ eigner, who dodged them neatly. The lit­ tle disturber of the peace was terrified by his own audacity, and crushed a third egg in his hand just as five gigantic policemen fell over each other in their anxiety to grapple with him. "I come to this country," he said, in an interview, "for the purpose of uniting the working classes of this country against the Jews. The Jews do not produce any­ thing by their own labor; it is their sole desire to acquire the results of the labor of others by trick and by fraud. I hold that the Jewish spirit is corrupting the Highly Artistic Work Completed by Sculptor Cairns for a Boston Socicty. Hugh Cairns, the sculptor, who won a high position in Glasgow as *n instructor in the academy, and while there pro­ duced many worthy bits in plaster, mar­ ble and other material, has been in Bos­ ton for some time past, quietly gaining a reputation for superior efforts in all branches of practical as well as ideal w>rk. Of the latter phase his most im­ portant work, aside from the model of STATUETTE OF ROBERT BURNS. the new Statehouse pediment, for which he received the highest medal awarded in the art department at the Mechanics' Fair, and sculptural ornaments used on the Trinity Church additions, is the stat­ uette of Robert Burns, which represents the poet standing in the fields bareheaded. He holds a wild flower in his hand, over which he contemplates in poetic mood. The accessories, plow, cloak, thistle, etc., are in keeping with the subject, and the whole is most dignified, well balanced and modeled and thoroughly artistic. Mr. Cairns has given the model to Chief An­ derson, of the Caledonian Club, Boston, and it will be exposed to view in January in Music Hall at the anniversary of Burns' birthday. MARKET REPORTS there were concert of action by the inter­ ested powers in denying the Monroe doc­ trine there would be no difficulty in ex. ploding the bubble, which, however, has caused many a continental statesman considerable loss of sleep since it wan so vigorously promulgated. The situation is briefly that the atti­ tude of the President is approved-by the people of the United States, that the mem­ bers of both houses of Congress realize this and that there is a manifest inten­ tion on all bands to pronounce to the world that this country is dominant on this continent and that her word "goes." A Little Skeptical. At one time a wealthy and not over- reverent retired seafaring man deter­ mined that his reputation for respec­ tability demanded his joining the Bap­ tist church. Forthwith he appeared be­ fore the deacons for examination. All progressed favorably until one of the examiners asked if lie believed that Daniel was cast in a den of lions and came out uuluptmed, and that the wick­ ed keepers were devoured. The old man hesitated a moment, but upon receiv­ ing, an encouraging poke from the brother who bad him in charge, he ad­ mitted that it must be true, inasmuch as it appeared in the Bible, lie was then asked if he believed that Jonah really existed three days and three nights in the belly of a whale and was then oast forth unharmed. To this our hero acquiesced, but with a gasp and a mental reservation. The next query \\<as as to whether he be­ lieved that Shadracli ami his two breth­ ren were actually put into a, furnace heated to'seven times its natural tem­ perature aiul that they escaped uu- scorched. This was too much, for the old man. "No," lie burst forth, "I'm darned if I do." Then, with increasing ire, lie added, "And, by thunder, I dou't believe that last fish stof^, eith- I1ERMAN AIII.WA HUT. Gentiles. Labor is oppressed by the Jews, and its fruits are being absorbed by them. I will explain n 1L this more fully in my lecture'. I hope that 1 will be able to arouse the anti-Semitic feeling in this country, which I am told is vigorous, but only in its infancy. I shall deliver twen­ ty-one lectures and remain in America three-months. My desire is-to put a stop to the rise of Jews in politic!? and litera­ ture. • We must enact laws stopping, the progress of the Jews. In Berlin ^to-day the Jews own'47 per cent, of the. real estate and on the other 53 per cent, they hold mortgages,'"