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Bills were introduced > appropriate $150,000 for buildings and niateri- " r destroyed bv the Federal army in and for"a public building at Beatrice, In the House Mr. Hanbaek, or Kan- eocwod the adoption of a reno­ vation whioh provide* that "the Oom- ,, naittes on Expenditures in the Depart- ;; fymcnt of Justice be empowered to make full in­ quiry into any expenditure on the part of the "Government relative to tile rights of tile Bell iand rail-Electric Telephone Companies, and, •for the purpose of this investigation and to tho end that ttio people may be fully advised, the »Mx>iuMiitteo is granted the right to send for per­ sons and papcr-i, all expenses to be audited and -accounted from approved vouchers, and when •o approved to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwi^o appropriated. Matson, of Indiana, movad to suspend the , Iniles and put upon it,R passage the bill in^reas- ! the pensions of soldiers' widows from $8 to , with an amendment providing that this act j•:-,jBhall apply only to widows who were married ,4 .to tho Uoceoscd soldiers prior to its passape '%• wtd to those who may hereafter marry to or dnrin# the service of the soldier. Mr. jBrown, of Indiana, inquired whether the v3§Bffect of tho passage of the bill under a suspen- •V " ., aion of the rules would be to put to one side tho ,, id -(amendment which was psnding to the bill re- .. • toealing the limitation on the arrears-of-pension \ net, and upon receiving an affirmative reply >* it Itoorod that the House adjourn. The motion was / .u, . Jos*--yeas, 9S; navs, 171. After t. short debate .^'.•'^petween Messrs. ferowne and Matson, the ino- , lion to suspend the rules and pass the bill was C, < Bgreed to--yeas, 198; nays, 66. .» W UR. RU>DKI,BKRGEH, of Virginia, offered a rea- - .W^blution in the Senate, on the Sd Inst., that the psident is not restricted by law in removing Officials, and that the Senate has no right to re­ quire a statement of his reasonsfor suspensions, fr. I'ugh submitted a substitute, declaring the psident responsible to the people for remov- or suspensions from office. The matter went Par. The elect oral-count bill, with all amendments proposed, was recoun­ ted. Mr. Chace introduced "-p. bill prevent Congressmen from reoona- ; Inending appointments to office, and Mr. Harris . measure appropriating $7.),0iXI to establish a |>ureau of public health. The Secretary of tho reasury answered a resolution of inquiry by itinp that no assistant treasurer has been in- acted to refuse to issue certificates on depos- of silver dollars. The House of Representa­ tive devoted the day to eulogies of Vice Prea- f ent Hem1ri<*fcs by leading members. Mr. ynum. of Indiana, was the first speaker to bear stimony to the true Worth of ihe dead. Jtatcsmaii. He traced the life of Mr. Hen- Hiicks through childhood, youth, and fcarihvx>d. showing that in every stage he had ftjkianifested that ability and talent which had ,|j|nade his EFJTO familiar to every household in Ihe lend. Mr. Hewitt said tliat the nomination Mr. Hendricks in lffc4 secured the success of Democratic ticket It prevented an issue ."<-*^§ddresscd to the conscience of the people, tnd ia New York especially was so accepta- ie to a portion of the party otherwise dis- -•- ,Satisfied that personal grievances wore to a : • large extent swallowed up and postponed to the large duty of justice to tha man in s, Jrhcse person the will of tho people had opee ^lieen defeated. But for the existence cf this \ipi..'*:iii|eeling the accession of independen: voters ". * 1|rould not have materially changed the strong •* ' '-ijburTent of feeling among a portion of the Demo- , toattc voters for the candidates of the other '•> . party. Mr. Hendricks, he said, was # partisan, crat this partisanship was never exerted at the expense of his patriotism. There was no reason tor apology or explanation so far as Mr. Hen­ dricks' vii-ws on the matter of appointment to public office were concerned. These views were given in his letter of accept*me of the nom­ ination for Vice President in 187G, and coin­ cided with the views of Washington and Jeffer- aon. Mr. Randall expressed admiration for the dead statesman, whose life had been the embod­ iment of that old Latin saying, "mild in manner and resolute in conviction." His ways were gen­ tle tnd kind, but in a matter of right or wrong he was fixed and immovable. As he was greater than others, ho was also stronger than any po­ litical organization to which he was attached. He believed that our liberties woro sacred only when all tendencies toward contralization were to be resisted and destroyed. He died as be lived, calmly and serenely. Like a shadow thrown softly and sweetly from a passing cloud- death fell ui on him. THE Chair placed before the Senate, on the 3d test., the resolution as submitted by Mr. Riddle- berg tr and the substitute lor it submitted by Mr. Pugh, relating to the relations t>etween tha Presidont and the Senate in regard tj informa­ tion and papers affecting Government officers suspended or appointed. Mr. Edmunds said ' that practically but four months of the session were left for business. The reso­ lution offered embodied no practical quee- * tion--only mooted--questions--and it would 11 be time enough to debate the question •when it should become a practical question. He moved to lay the resolutions on the table. The motion to lay on the table was then agreed to, only one voice being heard in the negative. At a subsequent stage of the Senate proceedings, . Mr. Riddieberger again called up his resolution and criticised the course of the "Senator <Edmunds) whose voice is too repressed to be heard except bv himself, who first maJies a speech and then moves an unde- batable motion. "I don't mind being run over by a railroad train," continued Mr. Riddieber­ ger, "but I don't like being mashed by a wheel­ barrow." [Great laughter.] On motion of Mr. Morrill the resolution was then, without debate, referred to tho Committee on Privileges and Elections. The Dakota bill was if placed before the Hen ate, and Mr. Logan took the floor in favor of the admission of that Territory as a State. Mr. Morgan opposed the admission of Dakota under the present condi­ tions. He thought the Senate was asked to ad­ mit the new State merely for the purpose of ad­ mitting the officeholders that had been sent here. The patriotism that had been so much re­ ferred to had in it a«trong flavor of self-interest. The House of Representatives adopted a reso­ lution . offered by Mr. Bland, requesting In­ formation from the Secretary of the Treasury whether an arrangement wis made with the New York Clearmg-House to prevent the circu­ lation of silver, and asking for a statement of •ilver dollars and certificates on hand and «firiatL A LETTER from the Secretary of the Treasury, stating that since 1827 the conscience fund has developed to 1230,747. wao read in the Senate on the -3th inst. A memorial from the Legislature of New Jersey protested against the granting to the Baltimore and Ohio Koad the right to build a bridge from the Jersey shore to Staten Island. Mr. Plumb introduced a bill to appro­ priate $150,000 more for a public build­ ing at Fort Scott, and Mr. Dolph a measure to extend tte limits of Portland, Ore., to include the east bank of the Willamette. Mr. Cameron called tip tho bill providing for an as­ sistant Secretary of the Navv in the Senate, and a debate of the merits of the bill was entered upon which soon took the character of political discussion and ended in, fight over the action taken by Sec­ retary Whitney in the Dolphin matter. Mr. Cockrell defended the actions of Secretary Whitney. In the House the day was devoted to the discussion of the Dakota bill. Mr. Harrison declared that the real animus of the objections to the bill was that another Presidential election should pass before the people of Dakota were to be permitted to participate in such elections. Mr. Morgan said that Mr. Harrison, who was evidently a candidate for the Presidency, might not have a chance at the votes of Dakota, for he fMr. Morgan) did not think that he would ripon in four years. Mr. Harrison replied that if he ever should be a can­ didate. although he would not be sure but that he might justly claim the electoral vote of Ala­ bama, he never would expect to have it oounted for him. Upon the reading of Mr. Har­ rison of papers in contradition of tbose reexl by Democratic Kenut r* to show the feeling preva­ lent in Dakota with regard to the question Of admission, one S- nutor brought down the House and Ser.at; by quoting t'al- staff'e exclamation: "Oh. Lord, how this world is given to lying 1" Wb< n at another time, Mr. Harrison asked amid laughter whethc r Mr. But­ ler would have entitled the constitution of Da kota "The Constitution of the State of Dakota, l»y the grace of God and the Senator from South Carolina," Mr. Butler turned the laugh against his opponent by replying: No: I should have IndSua^'id 1 ^ graCe °f tbe b<luator from as it attempted to do by ordinance. Supreme Court of Michigan has issued a mandnmuR to Recorder Swift, of Detroit, to tir ex-Aldermen Falvey, Manning, and Lemmer for bribery. He once quashed tho indictments against them. THE Rev. Abbott E. Kittredge, of the Third Presbyterian Churoh, Chicago, preached a sermon, in which ho spoke .se­ verely of most of the Jnstioes of tho Peace of that city. In the general condem­ nation he particularly singled out Justice Meech. Dr. Kittredge said: "All fear of the law is rapidly passing from the minds of wicked men; law­ breakers are only arrested to be set free at the solicitation of some Alder­ man in return for a handsome bribe, as was true this past week, when one Justice by Ihe name of Meech discharged a company of gamblers, at the request of the latter changing the offense from gambling to disorderly conduct, and asking only the fine of $1 from each." Justice Meeeli took exception to this, and in the Circuit Court he has commenced suit by praecipe against Abbott £. Kittredge for $27,000.... In October last the Rev. T. L. Smith (col­ ored) and a party of friends were refused refreshments at a restaurant in Keokuk, Iowa, Suit was brought under the civil- rights law for $10,000. and the juty brought in a verdict for $1. The defense was that it was late at night when the party called, and that the defendant was anxious to close his shop. THE SOUTB. A LABGE number of business places at Jackson, Miss., were destroeyd by fire, the estimated loss being $75,000. Several per­ sons saved their lives by leaping from np- per-floor windows, but a man named Gas- kins broke an arm and a leg. A CHATTANOOGA dispatch says: "Great Excitement reigns in Roane County, Ten­ nessee, where the two supposed burglars were killed yesterday by a posse of citizens who were in pursuit of them, over the rumor that the dead men were tourists who were merely camping in the mountains. The two dead men were only 20 years of age. They were fashionably dressed, and wore valuable diamonds and other fine jewelry. Their appearance betokens refined habits and good living. The coun­ try has been scoured for some trace of their identity, and although the bodies have been viewed by hundreds no one knows them. They have not yet been recognized as the men who attempted to burglarize Hamby's store, and the impression is gaining ground that undue haste was exercised by the officers, and that a double murder was per­ petrated in consequence." WASHINGTON. THE following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the 1st inst.: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at percent 1850.000,000 Bonds at 4 per cent.' 137.747,MO Bonds at 3 per cent. 194,190.500 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 217,800 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent..... 14,000,000 Pacific E&Uroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,(>23,512 Principal.. Interest... ..•1,360,77 >,41-2 K23:VJ3J Total •1,2U9.0I>3,342 DEBT OK WHICH INTEREST HAS CKASKD SINCE MATURITY. Principal y-Tfrg-'" Interest.. 31.175 Total «3.525,934 DEBT BEARING NO IMTEBKST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. S346.738.636 Certificates of deposit 1',9.50,000 Gold eertir.e&tes 155, 8>,951 SilTer certificates 69,7,1.609 Fmctuicai currency (less $8,375,334, ertimaseil as ioetor destroyed).... 6,959,153 hiuipsi.. 573,.£H,409 Total d«X Prtoeip*; $1,837,438,577 Interest 8,485,103 Total »1,845,923,636 Leu euh jtema available far redac­ tion of the debt 231.451.551 Less reserre held for redemption of V. & notes 100,000,000 Total. 1831,451,551 Total debt less available cash items$l,514.47-2,135 Net cash in the Treasury X 79,689,862 Debt less cash in Treasury Febv 1883 Debt leas cash In Treasury Jan. 1. vm Decrease at debt during the month. fs,672,553 434.782.393 1,443,454,876 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOB REDUC­ TION OP THE DTEBT. Gold held for eold certificates actu­ ally outstanding tll5.284.951 Silver held for silver certificates act­ ually outstanding 89,761,009 U. 8. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 14.590,000 Cash held for matured debt and In­ terest unpaid 11,809,864 Fractional currency 5,190 Total available for reduction of tha debt •331,451,550 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 1% 1882 flOO.OOO.OOO Ynavailable for reduction of the debt-- Fractional silver ooin f29,01S,f93 Minor coin 531,948 Total Certificates held as cash. Net cash balance on hand. $2.1,545,(Ml 68,299,476 79,683,862 Total cash In Treasury as shown by the Treasurer's general account.. <488,986,832 MESBBS. MOBBIBON AND BBECKEK- BIDGE, the Democratic members of the sub-committee of the House Ways and Means Committee having in charge the sub­ ject of public debt funding, have agreed to report to the full committee a joint resolu­ tion instructing the Secretary of the Treas­ ury to call in and redeem interest-bearing bonds of the United States to the value of $10,000,000 each month nntil the surplus cash in the Treasury shall be reduced to $100,000,000. The resolution does not specify what kind of moneyjthall be used for the redemption of the bonds. POUT1CAL. the: east* lift' raspemEftd pagpuent on liabilities of $500,- 000, half oc which is due to the Merchants' Bank Jacob Schaefer has issued a chal­ lenge to M. Vignaux, or any other man, for a balk-line billiard contest of 3,000 points, for $5,000 a side--the winner to take all the receipts and the loser to pay all expenses. IDBE16IV. t'V REPRESENTATIVES of Turkey and BQl- garia have signed the agreement relative to the Bulgarian union, and hare notified the powers to that effect The Prussian Gov­ ernment has submitted a bill to the Bundes- rath to prolong the anti-socialist law.... The Prince of Wales aud his wife and sons attended the wedding of Miss Mnry Glad­ stone and Rev. Harry Drew, which took place at Hawarden... .The policy proclaim­ ed by Prince Bismarck in regard to the Poles has brought about the sale of tbe Lnbrienski estate in Prussia, containing two hundred thousand acres, of which the tenants were mostly Poles. THE appointment of Mr. John Morley as Chief Secretary for Ireland is received with moderate friendliness by the papers of tho Green Isle. In the event of Morley's defeat for re-eleetion at Newcastle, Mr. Par- nell offers to find him a constituency ia Ireland. ADDITIONAL NEWS. INTENSELY oold weather prevailed all over the country last week. Navigation was closed at Baltimore, and in the Shenandoah (Pa.) section. collieries suspended work and schools were closed owing to the low temperature. In New York City there was much suffering among the poor. The weather along the Atlantic coast was un­ usually severe, and vessels arriving were covered with ice. Iu Pennsylvania mil- roads were blocked by huge drifts, the snow in some instances overtopping the cars. A fierce blizzard prevailed,; on Cape Cod, while throughout New England tne mercury ranged from 10 to 40 below zero. The Mexican Minister at Washington has received from the Governor of Chi­ huahua an official report showing that the American, Captain Crawford, was killed by Mexican troops in the belief that he aud his men were ho stiles. A Mexican Major, Lieutenant, and two privates lost their lives in the engagement... .A reign of ter­ ror is reported as prevailing at Mat- amoras. Mexico. Respectable people are afraid to go upon the streets after dark. It is hoped that after the approach­ ing elections something like order may pre­ vail in the city.... There were 288 failures in the United States reported to Brad- atreel's during the week, against 337 in the preceding week, and 330. 257, 256. and 194 in the corresponding weeks of 1885. 1884, 1883, and 1882, respectively. About 75 per cent, were those of small traders, whose cap­ ital was less than $5,000. In the principal trades they were as follows: General stores, 64; grocers, 30; hardware, 20; dry goods, 19; liquors, 15; drugs, 14; paper, books, etc., 12; jewelry, 10; clothing, 9; furniture, 9; hotels and restaurants, 7; bakers and confectioners, 6; lumber, 0; car­ penters, 5; grain, 5; harness, 5; produce and provisions, 5; cigars and tobacco, 5; notions, 5; carnages and wagons, 4; coal and wood, 4; fancy goods, 4; iron and steel, 4; millinery, 4; meats, 4; boots, 3; plumb­ ers, 3. SHAKSPEARE'S "Comedy of Errors," with Robson and Crane in the characters of the Two Dromios, has met with immense success at McVicker's Theater, Chicago, and will be continued for another week. The play has never before in this country been placed upos the stage with such splen­ dor. THE Senate closed its long ,and wrangling de­ bate over the admission of South Dakota into the Union BB a State on the 5th inst., by passing the bill of the Committee on Territories. A vote was first tikenoutho liutler suliat.t ite, which was an act to enable the people of Dakota to frame a State constitution, etc., and it was rejected by a vote of--yeas 22, nays 33. A vote was then taken' <n the bill itself, which resulted in--yeas 32, nays 22. The negative vote va; wholly Democratic. The affirmative vote was made up of thirty-ono Republican-* aud one Democrat-- Mr. Vo< rhees. The bill as it was passed divides the Territory cf Dakota on the line of the 46th parallel of latitude ; provides for tbe admission of the southern portion us a St .ty mi ler the title of Dakota, and tho or-zunization of the noitV.ern jtortion in'.o a separate Territory under the name of I.iuc.ln. Tr.o Frye bill for the appointment of a commission" to in­ vestigate the alcoholic-liquor traffic was re­ ported favorably to the Senate. It provides for the apiKrintineiit by tfye President of live per- B< m to investigate the alcoholic-liquor traffic, its relations to revenue and taxation, and its general economic, criminal, moral, an 1 scien­ tific aspec.s in connection with pauperism, crime, social evil, the public health, nnd gen- cr.il welfurj of tl)e people ; to inquire and tak : testimony' ns to the practical results of license and prohibitory legislation for t le prevention of ir.tjmjierauce in the eeveral States, and to re­ port the renult of th;ir investigations to tho President, to l e by him tra emitted to Congress. It appropriates $10,000 for the expenses of the investigation. The Sonata passed Mr. Sew- ell's bill providing fir an tnnual ap­ propriation of SOOJ.OOO to buy arms and ordnance stores, quartermasters' stores, and camp equipage for tho militia of the several Stut s and Territories. No State is to receive a share of the appropriation unlets its militia force numbers at least one hundred men for each Senator and Representative to which it is entitl 'd in ConnrcHF. The Senate also passed a bill prodding for tho sale of the old sites of Fort Brady, in Michigan, andforthe purchase of anew ite and the erection of a suitable building thereon. TheHoineof Representatives pasted the Sen­ ate bill to pay to Joseph W. Parish, of Peoria, &>,H41.8.< for ice contracted for army hospitals/ iu 1HC3. Mr. Randall reported to the"House thij pension bill from the Appropriation Committal, and it was referred to the committee of the vKjiOle. The bril as reported appropriates g7.'>,754,200, an increase of about $15,ooy.uoo over laBt year. It is made np as follows; ;'For army and navy pen­ sions, $75,000,000; for fees and expenses "of ex­ amining surgeons, 8500,000; for salaries of eigh­ teen pension agents, $72,000; for miscellaneous expenses, Including clerk hire, rents, etc., 81B2,- 200. THE SILVER QUESTION. m A STT1T for divorce and alimony has been brought in New York by the wife of Gen­ eral U. G. Dunn, who was a staff officer under General Dix, and is a prominent man in society. He is charged with maintaining a married woman as a mistress in his own house. GBANT will pay to the Vanderbilt $60,000 from sales of the General's book. The bulk of the debt is to be dis­ charged by the pioceeds of real estate in which she surrendered her dower right.. Eight car-loads of imported laborers were sent into the coke region of Pennsylvania, bat the striking Hungarians persuaded them Actio commence work. THE Knights of Labor in New York or­ dered a strike by 1,750 men employed on Ite Broadway and Fourth* Sixth, and Sev3Ath s,vehue horse-car linee, demanding BOTH houses of the Iowa Legislature have passed resolutions asking Congress to impose high licenses on the sellers of but- terine and oleomargarine President Cleveland has nominated Samuel T. Corn, of Carlinville, HI., to be associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming. QUIET reigns at Columbus, the tempest in the State Senate having been filled. A sub-committee of the Committee on Privi­ leges and Elections, consisting of three Re­ publicans and three Democrats, is to in­ vestigate the Cincinnati Senatorial cases, and when the members of the committee fail to agree on any point, the Hon. A. G. Thurman (Dem.) and the Hon. R. A. Hanison (Rep.) are to act as arbitrators. The final report is to be ncted upon by the Senate. The sub-committee has power to send for persons and papers, etc., and will proceed to Cincinnati at once to begin ite tabors. 6ENEBAL. THEMABKETS. XKW YORK. BEXVM $8.i0 HOOB WHKAT--No. 1 White 94 No. 2B«d. .90 CORN--No. 2 OATS-- White I'OKK--Mess 10.25 CHICAGO. BKEVKS--Choice to Prime Steers. SM Good-Shipping 4.25 Common 8.50 HOCM »..4; 4.45 FLOUB--Extra Sprir.; 4.75 Choice Wittier.....'....,.. 4.5) WHEAT--No. 2 SYRIA# 81 Cons--No. 2 .36 OATS--No. 2 29 RYK-^NO. 2 .57 BAULKY--NO. 2 04 BUTTKB--Choice Ore BINARY -JH Fine Dairy i;.. .18 CHEESE--Full Cream, new...... .10 Skimmed Flats Oil Eaos--Fresh If POTATOKS--Choice, per bu....... ,5S 1'OBK--Mess 11,00 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 H CORN--No. 2 ,Wt OATS--No. 2 2f JtYK--No. 1 ,5i S'OKK--New Mess XI.OC TOLEDO. WHEAT--NO. 2 COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 8T. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBN--Mixed OATS--Mixed PORK--New Mess CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 2 Red COBN--No, 2 ...» 1... OATS--No. 2 POBK--Meu William G. Thompson, a Prominent Michl- iput Politician, Is Brutally Assaulted by as Saloonkeeper. I Detroit special.] • William G. Thompson, ex-Mayor of this city and distinguished throughout the coun­ try during the last Presidential campaign as the Michigan mugwump, was struck several times on the head by Edward G. Bagard, a saloonkeeper at No. 26 Lafayette avenue, and very badly, if not seriously, injured. It happened in Tom Swan's saloon on Wood­ ward avenue, and created a great sensation. Thompson and a party of friends, among the number County Auditor Mahoney, were in Swan's when Bagard came in. An in­ stant later Bagard was seen to raise his heavy cane and strike Thompson several ter­ rible blows on the head. Thompson wore a tight sealskin cap, and the first blow gave a resounding crack. Those who heard it thought for a moment that Bagard had crushed Thompson's skull. Blood flowed in a stream from the latter's head, and he sank into the arms of a friend. The injured man was put in a carriage, taken to his resi­ dence on Jefferson avenue, and Dr. J. B, jjook called.^Eye-witnesses of the ren­ contre differ in their versions of it, as is usually the case. All are agreed, however, that it was a brutal affair. The affray, it is 6aid, was the outgrowth of an old feud. Bagard is a powerful man, and has figured in other episodes of this nkturfe. He is a man of fine education, and wf»9 one of the prominent Girondist leaders in Paris, and was forced to flee from France. Grave fears are entertained for Thompson's recovery. f FROZEN FISH. .49!$® 40 & .92 <0>- .S3 .88 <!!> M & .32 .94 .2756® <311.60 i 11.00 IilVE Hoos. 'V ..... 4.00 THOKAB A. EDISON, the electrician, and Miss Mina Miller, second daughter of Mr. Lewis Miller of Akron, Ohio, will be mar­ ried Feb. 24. Miss Miller is 20 years o! age. Her father is the inventor of the liuckeye mower and reaper and is President of the Chautauqua Assembly. He is esti­ mated to be worth $2,000,000. THE next National Encampment of the G. A. B. will be held at Spn Francisco, be- ginning Aug. 3 The silk manufacturing firms of the United Stales have decided to advance the price of silk thread and twfct 1# jwr MU*.... 4.00 3.75 2.90 DETROIT. BEEF CATTUE.... Hooe.. WHEAT--No." i White CORN--No. 2 W OATS--No. 2 .83 INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed Ml CORN--New .M OATS--No. 2 EAST LIBERTY. C A T T L E -- B e s t . . . 5 . 6 0 Fair 4.50 Common.... sU>0 Hoos. 4.25 8HKKF. UM BUFFALO. WHEAT--NA 1 Hard ,M CORN--Yellow 41 .94 J,}?? .94'-i .36 <& .37 •3l!$(« .32 11.00 mi.50 iai 4.50 29 <$ <& 0.25 @ 4.25 @ 4.00 t.90 .38 & .35 & .02 .35 .31 Cattlm. .. m G.00 (.« 5.00 m 4.25 <3» 4.75 # 4.26 .99 .42 The House RflquMtl Secitikiy Manning to Bi|ilain His financial Policy'. - [Washington special.] Mr. Bland, oif Missouri, reported to the House, from the Coinage Committee, the resolution offered by him on the 1st inst., and referred to that committee. Its pre­ amble recites the fact that, at the conven­ tion of the American Bankers' Association, held at Chicago, 111., in September. 1885, Mr. George S. Coe, President of theu American Exchange National Bank of Nf# York City, said that the present admimstra- tion had taken steps, in concert with the New York Clearing-house committee, to avert financial disaster by refraining from making monthly payments on the funded debt in order that the surplus revenue might sup­ ply means requisite to withdraw a sufficient amount of silver certificates issued on pre­ vious purchases to overcome the excessive accumulations which so perplexed prior ad­ ministrations; also the fact, that on Feb. 2t>, 1885. the House of Representatives re­ fused by a decided vote to consider a then pending proposition looking to suspension of coinage of silver dollars. The resolu­ tion is as follows: \ Re$olved, By this House, that the Secretary of the Treasury be and is hereby requested.to in­ form this House whether or not anv such agreement or arrangement was offectid by the management of the Treasury Department'with the Clearing-House Committee in New York, or with any other association or person, as alleged in the address of Mr. Coe; and, if so, by what authority of law such arrangement was made and carried out; and, further, to inform this House what amount of silver dollars were in the Treasury on the 4th day of March last un­ represented by outstanding certificates, and what amount of silver certificates were in circu­ lation, what amount of such dollars are now in the Treasury unrepresented by outstsnding cer­ tificates, and what amount of such certificates is now in circulation ; also what amount of silver dollars were in the Treasury on the 4th day of March last that could have been applied in the payment of the interest-bearing debt and other dues cf tha government, and what amount of such dollars now held in the Treasury could be applied; also, what amount of silver certificates are held in the Treasury that could be reissued ; also, what amount of "interest-bearing debt is now subject to call, and will the same policy be. pursued in the payment of silver coin and on other public dues in 'the future as in the past. A motion made by Mr. Hewitt (N. Y.) to recommit the resolution with instructions to the committee to strike out that portion which asks the Secretary of the Treasury to define the policy of the administration "was lost by a vote of 88 to 168, and the • resolu­ tion was adopted. During the discussion of the bill relating to the taxation of fractional parts of a gallon of distilled spirits in the committee of the whole house to-day, Mr. Mills (Texas) offered an amendment, providing thai all taxes imposed by the act shall be paid in standard silver coin, and, using this amendment as a text, ad­ dressed the committee upon the entire sil­ ver question. If silver was stricken down, he said, then the value of all the products of labor would decrease just one-half. When­ ever prices were falling, money would go out of. circulation. There was no such curse in existence as the contraction of the volume of currency. When this contraction was brought about, then would come sor­ row in the bosoms of the people, tears to their cheeks, aud hunger, want, and starva­ tion. That was what the advocates of scarce money were asking Congress to do, and to do in the interest of the laboring man. In conclusion Mr. Mills said: This scourge which is sought to be visited on the people of the United States comes from the cold marble and phlegmatic avarice which seeks to impale the whole country on the bed of suffer­ ing in order to gratify its lust for gold. In this hour, fraught with peril to the whole country, I appeal to tho unpurchased representatives of the American people. Let us stand up and call the battle on, and never leave the field until the people's money shall be restored to its full value. (Loud applause.] STRUCK WITH A. CAKE. SENATE AND EXECUTIVE. 5.00 #&50 Myriads of Fl»h la the Golf of Mexico Killed by the ltecent Cold Weatfter. [New Orleans special.'] Mr. A. O. Wilson, a well-known civil engineer, has recently arrived here from Florida, where he has been engaged in land- snrveying. He states that during the recent cold snap, while he was making a voyage from Tampa to Cedar Keys, the schooner in which he had embarked was wrecked off Cedar Keys the 8th of January. All hands escaped with their lives, but suffered great­ ly from the cold. The salt water froze <•-» the reef in the Gulf of Mexico upon wlKch the vessel struck, and great numbers of fish, chiefly trout, Kheephead, and redfish, were killed by the cold and floated on the water, covering its surface for miles. Inquiries among fishermen and others elicited the fact that during the same cold spell iish were killed on the Louisiana coast and were then- floating by the thousands from tbe lligolets to points far to the eastward. [Austin (Texas) special.] .The carp-breeding ponds leased by the State were frozen to the ground during tho recent cold spell, and 30,000 youug cam were frozen to death. The Slate will probably abandon l^ie breeding of fish. A Big Investigation Probable. (Washington special.] A well-known Senator said to-day that it was very probable that the Senate would conclude to snmmon before certain of its committees the nominees for prominent Federal positions against whose characters serious charges have been filed. This will necessitate the summoning of a large num­ ber of witnesses from almost eyery part of the country, and will lead to one of tho most extensive investigations ever made by Congress. Committees, by calling upon nominees to answer charges and upon ac­ cusers for additional information, simply complicate affairs, and it is thought tbe l>est plan will be to call here the accused and accusers, see all parties, and take testimony " from their own lips, thereby consulting ap- pearanc*s as well as wort*. EUddleberger and Pngh*i BcMlittaui yi, . Relating to tttc Prerogatives of the President. V'V •Uxwrfs*** '4,1 : x - I n t h e S e n a t e . ^ ' . e . Y . ' / * * Mr. tv!<1(lleberger of Virginia offered the following resolution: Resolved, That it Is the sense of the Benate that tbe Executive of the United States is not restricted bv ccntsitutional law in removing or suspending appointees ; that the Senate has no right to require that reasons shnll be given for tach removal or suspension; that it is Use right of the & nate to uall for any paper relating to the conduct of removed or suspended appoin­ tees, or to the qualification and fitness of all persons whose names are presented to the Sen­ ate for confirmation cr rejection, and it is the . duty of the Executive to comply with all de­ mands for the same. In offering the resolution Mr. Kiddleber- ger said his purpose was simply to bring the subject up in open debate. It did not involve any so-called high prerogative of the Senate when it should go into secret or executive session, but only that abstract question as to whether the Executive could be called on or required to give reasons for removals. Mr. Riddieberger asked for the immediate consideration of the resolution, but Mr. Cockrell (Mo.) objected. Mr. Pugh, of Alabama, offered later in the day the following substitute for the resolution, and asked that it be allowed to lie over until to-morrow: 1. That the executive power is expressly vest­ ed by the Constitution In tha President of the United States, so that he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. '2. That the power of appointment to Federal office is an executive power to be exercised by the President nnder tne limitation in the Con­ stitution that he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and' consent of the'Senate shall appoint. 3. That the power of removal and suspension from the powers and duties of Federal office is also an executive now far vested exclusively in the President, without any svich limitation in the Constitution as is imposed thereby on the power of appointment, and for its exercise he is responsible alone to the people and not to the Senate. 4. That the right of the President to make nominations to the Senate and of the Senate to advise and consent thereto are each separate and independent rights, to be exercised by tho President and Senate respectively, and sepa­ rately and indepently within their absolute dis­ cretion ; but in relation to the person or persons so nominated the Senato may request informa­ tion of tho President affecting the chsuacter or qualifications of those as to whose apixiintment he asks the advice and consent of the Senate. 5. That when the President makes nomina­ tions to the Senate of persons to be appointed by him to exercise the powers and duties of Federal officers who have been removed or sus­ pended by him. no law, public duty, or public policy requires that he shall send or communi­ cate to the Senate any cause, reason, or Infpr- mation within his own knowledge or contained in any letters, petitions, papers, or documents addressed to him or any member of his Cabinet, or in the possessicn of either, and relating to tbe subject of removals or suspensions or containing charges, causes, or reasons, and the proof thereof, for making Such removals or suspensions; and no law, public duty, or public policy requires or authorizes the Senate to call for such informa­ tion existing in any such form from the Presi­ dent or any member of his Cabinet, to enable the Senate to review or question the action of the President in exercising his executive, dis­ cretionary, and exclusive power of removing or suspending Federal officers from the powers and duties of their offices, or to put the President on trial by the Senate or to enforce accountability to the Senate for anything he may have done in the exercise of such jurisdiction. 6 That to obtain inforuint'on considered by either house of Congress useful in passing neces­ sary and proper laws either house of Congress may request the President, if not deemed by him incompp.t.ible with the public interest, to give any information within his knowledge or contained in any public document or records on file or in the lawful custody of any of the de­ partments, and relating to the administration of any public office or the official conduct or acts affecting tho official conduct or duties of any public officer: but for the Senate to make such request of tho President, or to direct any mem­ ber of his Cabinet to trunsmit to tho Senate any information or any public documents or papers in open or executive session to enable the benate in open or executive session to re­ view the propriety or the reason of tho informa­ tion upon which he acted or may have nctod in making removals tr suspensions, would be an attempt to obtain such information by false pre­ tenses, and for uses and purposes not authorized or justified by any law or public policy of the United States ; arid for th.) President to grant such request or require anv members of his Cab­ inet to obey such direction from the Senate, when deemed by him to be made for such un­ justifiable and unlawful uses and purposes, would be t > recognize and tncourage an im­ proper practice and an injurious innovation upon his exclusive and independent rights, powers, and duties as President of the United States. The plan of the Republicans is to refer the matter to the Committee on Privileges and Elections, whence Mr. Hoar (Mass.) will report a substitute expressing the Stal­ wart Republicans' views of the question. This resolution will be debated in open ses­ sion, and it is expected that the Stalwart Republican Senators will say their say con­ cerning the President. They hope by act* ing upon the resolution in open session to force Mr. Van Wyck (Neb.) and other Re­ publicans of whose support in executive session they do not feel certain. Meanwhile the Judiciary Committee, to which the Senate in executive session re­ ferred the Attorney General's letter in the Dustin case, will continue the pursuit of the President through Mr. Garland. There is talk of backing down on the'part of some Republican Senators, but Mr. Edmonds, who leads the opposition to the President, is as determined as ever. GENTLEMEN BURULARM KILLED. Tennessee Merchant and an Arme*) Crowd Pursue Three Cracksmen. i 4 [Chattanooga telegram.) A rerrible tragedy occurred at Knoxville Junction, eighty miles from this city, in which two during flafe robbers were killed by a pursuing posse. Last Friday night three burglars broke into the store of J. M. Hamby, a merchant at Glenmary, and at­ tempted to crack his safe, in which there were several thousand dollars. They were detected by the merchant, who at once opened fire on them. They returned th« fire and a regular fusilade ensued, in which twenty-five shots were exchanged, but no one was wounded. The burglars fled ,and no h-ace of them was found until this morning, when Hamby learned that the robbers were encamped on the Emory River. He enlisted a posse and >. ent in pursuit of the desperadoes. They were found concealed among some cross- ties, and were ordered to surrender. Two of the burglars threw up their hands, but the third shouted defiance at the posse and swore he would never give up. The posse shot him dead, bis body being perforated with bullets. The remaining two fled, but one was shot, nnd in his agony leaped over a bluff 400 feet high into the- Emory River and was drowned. The third burglar es­ caped. The two burglars killed were hand­ somely dressed and wore fine diamonds and watches. No clew to their identity could be obtained. DEMENT DENIES. The Alleged Land Frauds In Utah fMw ritory. J (Washington special.l Surveyor General Dement, of Utah, made a sweeping denial of the alleged discovery of frauds in Utah before the Senate Public Land* Committee to-day. He denied that he had ever said that he took four detective* to Utah, and said that he did not in fact take them. He did not say that 50 per cent, of tho land entries were fraudulent. He made no statement about mineral lands be- ii^g entered as homesteads. He did not say that t'^-e was a ring including all the Fed­ eral olucials in Utah, from the Governor down. He had made uo discovery to warrant any such statement. He has discovered nothing which would implicate Gov. Murray or any other official in Utah in frauds. He had never said that any Western Republican Senator bad re­ ceived $25,000 for opposing the Edmunds bill. nor that several Democratic members of the House had received several thousand dollars for services of the same sort. The newspai>er men who sent out the in­ terviews which Surveyor General Dement repudiates will ask the committee to grant them a hearing in order that they may vin­ dicate themselves and give the sources of their information. It is whispered here that the publications regarding Col. Dement's a'leged charges, whether true or untrue, may result in the failure of his confirmation as Surveyo'- General of Utah. REMINISCENCES OF PUBLIC MEN. BT BJBN: PERI.K7 POOBE. Horace White was adopted by Secre­ tary Stanton as his journalistic niouth- {riece. He was a slender, thin, student-ike young man, with a broad forehe&d and large liazel eyes. Reared in Wis­ consin, lie had acquired a position as newspaper correspondent early in life, and had been selected as the distribut­ ing agent of the Kansas Aid Society when he could not have been much over one and twenty. He testified before the John Brown investigating com­ mittee in 1860. The happiest period of Gen. brant's eventful life, during which he enjoyed great domestic felicity, was after the war, while he was on duty at Washing­ ton as general of the army. Before the close of the war Mrs. Grant and her children had occupied the house which had been presented to her husband in Philadelphia, but as his new duties re­ quired his presence in Washington, the family removed to a large and pleasant brick house on Georgetown Heights, which had been occupied by Gen. H^l- lick. It stood on an elevated situation, next to the distributing reservoir of the Potomac water works, and it was sur­ rounded by a fine lawn. From this Georgetown house Gen. Grant removed into a large house in Washington, in what was known as Minnesota Row, which had been built for and occupied by Stephen A. Doug­ las, and he resided there nntil he was elected President,, when he sold it to Gen. Sherman. At these successive homes Gen, Grarifrenjoyed the affection of his devoted wife, whose love ^or him had not been of the kind which\ flies out of the window when poverty enters by the door. It has been said that "amid the storms and the sorrows of live that affections of man may veer, but unchanged and unchanging is the true heart of woman; she loves and loves forever." Mrs. Grant had never complained when, at "Hard-Scrabble," she was obliged to forego many of the comforts of life, but she had endeavored to sustain her husband in his efforts to secure a livelihood as a farmer. While he was fighting the battles of the Re­ public, he knew that his children were safe in her charge, and when he was as­ sailed by misrepresentations, he knew she did not credit them. When asked whether she thought that he would suc­ ceed, she sententiously remarked: "Mr. Grant's a mighty obstinate man," a&d her faith in his triumphant success never wavered. A devoted wife, Mrs. Grant was also an affectionate mother, and the happy pair enjoyed the society oif their chil­ dren as they grew up. Fred, the oldest son, who had shared some of his father's later campaigns, was being prepared for admission to West Point. The Gen­ eral's pet was his only daughter, Nellie, who was bright and beautiful, and whose juvenile prattle was' far more at­ tractive to him than the compliments of Congressmen or the praises of politi­ cians. Gen. Grant used generally to walk to and from his "headquarters," which were in a two-story house on Seven­ teenth street, opposite the War Depart­ ment, and he was often seen trudging along on a stormy day, his only protec­ tion from the rain being an army cloak and a slouch hat. There was nothing to indicate that he was the commander- in-chief of the army, and he was alone m the morning when he went to the Department. His route was through I street to Massachusetts and New York avenues, to Fiftienth street, and thence by the broad-flagged pavement on Pennsylvania avenue to the War De­ partment. Even the children along this route knew Gep. Grant, and would frequently salute him as he passed, silently smoking his cigar. Gen. Grant was very fond of walking about Wash­ ington, and even after he l>ecame Presi­ dent nothing wfcs more agreeable to him than a stroll down Pennsylvania avenue. Frequently in these walks he would meet going in an opposite direction Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister here. Sir Edward was a good pedestian and took long strolls every day, and would go springing along like a boy out for a holiday. On the other hand, Gen. Grant walked slowly and deliberately, and would invariable re­ turn every salutation, no matter how humble tne person might be. Gen. Grant's evening receptions at his house 011 Minnesota Row, while he was general ixf the army, were the social feature of Washington. At the second one in the Winter of 1866-67, which was a frir specimen of them all, the house was crowded at an early hour. Cabi­ net officers, diplomatists, judges, con­ gressmen, officers of the army and navy, residents andi the strangers within their gates made up the throng that good-humoredly jostled and crowded each other in futile attempts to move through the parlors and hall. When Gen. Grant had issued cards of in vita- lion to his first reception, hundreds who hurl received none went all the same, so he afterwards announced through the newspapers that he would be "happy to see his friends." Gen. Grant received all those who could get near him in his usual stoical manner, his eyes lighting up when he took an old friend or comrade by the hand He wore his undress uniform, with the four golden stars glistening on his shoulder-straps, while Mrs. Grant who stood at his side, wore a plain, high-necked, long-sleeved pink silk gown, with a Honiton black lace shawl thrown over her shoulders. The wives of Senators Chandler and Morgan vied with each other in the richness of their toilets and the splendor of their dia­ monds, but the observed of all observ­ ers was Mrs. Charles Sumner, on the Senator's arm. wearing a becoming dress of black velvet, with a white lace shawl, and a flexible golden serpent woven among her dark tresses. Secretary Seward hovered around the host nearly all the evening, anxious to conciliate him and to secure his sup- l>ort of "our administration." Mr. Speaker Colfax was in excellent spirits, and so were the scores of Congress­ men and placemen present, each one anxious to say a word to the next Presi­ dent. Lieut. (Jen. Sherman was grim and epigrammatic, while Gens. Sheri­ dan and Ord appeared delighted at their deliverance from the troublesome duties of reconstruction, and their was much soldier talk among the many brave men present who hail stood shoulder to shoulder on hard-fought fields. Receptions were given by Presi­ dent Johnson, Speaker, Colfax, Cliief- Justice Chase. Gov. Morton, Admiral Dahlgren and other dignitaries, but those at the house of Gen. Grant eclipsed them all. ^ / The Indian Oculist. The itinerant eye-doctor of India per­ forms Ms operations with a confident celerity which the more civilized oculist would call recklessness. As he enters a town he bawls, "Do you want back your eight?--one rupee only." When a customer appears he takes out hls penknife and performs the operation^ while standing in the open square. Then he binds np the wound, tells hir patient to keep in the dark for a fort­ night, and pockets his rupee. A writer in Chambertt' Journal, who describes, this proceeding, says that it is almost always successful; one of his own ser­ vants, a woman of 80, was in this way M&ooecmfully operated upon for cataraetL Sleep and Death. V The relationship between sleep, "the- cousin of death," and death itself, is- probably real as well as apparent. The distance which separates them is great,, but there are intermediate conditions,, grades of dissolutions as of develop­ ment. Among these the similar states of trance and hibernation are worthy of special notice. For sleep and for trance, one cause, the exhaustion chiefly of the nervous matter, but more or less- of every organ and tissue, is assignable. The hysterical stupor is the sleep of nerve centers worn out with the assault, and conflict of stormy reflex action. Healthy sleep is the rest of physical ele­ ments wearied with the same strain ap­ plied more gradually. Cases have been recorded in which, somnolence, continuing for days with­ out cessation, has resembled trance im its duration, while preserving all the ordinary features of natural sleep. Va­ rious facts support us in associating hi­ bernation with the train of organic or* functional changes as the other uncon­ scious states which we have been con­ sidering. It comes like a habit; it has,, one may say, annual return; its appa­ rent cause is the oppression of external! cold, and the animals it affects are mostly those which, from their bodily (structure or habits, are subject to great periodic variations of temperature. Vi­ tal tissue is exhausted and function is in part suspended, probably because the numbness of cold has taken hold upon the radicles of the outward circulation, and of that of the brain surface which is connected with it by numerous anas­ tomoses. In such a case anaenia would seem to be the cause of the winter sleep, as there is evidence to show that it is also the cause of that temporary starvation of brain which lulls without arresting its action in the natural repose of each night. We may even regard the lethargy ended by death, into which a man falls when exposed to great cold, as short and mortal hibernation. The same in­ fluence acts upon him as upon the bear or fish, but the power of its shock fe greater on his finer and lees accus­ tomed organization. So, likewise, in other than the comparatively coarse forms of life, in the weariness, paralysis, atrophy, and gangrene of limbs, in* the leafless hibernation of trees, and iirtheii decay beginning at the terminal twigs, the same teaching is evident--that vas­ cular nutrition, in its periodic variations, is the parent of activity and of life, as its absence is of death. It is not, there­ fore, altogether surprising to meet with occasional instances in which death is simulated by qome deep degree of stu­ por. The case of George Childet, a la­ borer living at Bridgewater, which was lately recorded in the daily papers, ap­ pears to have been one of this kind. The trance-like state developed quite suddenly, and was mistaken by the rel­ atives for death. Some slight degree of warmth in the apparent corpse in­ duced the clergyman in attendance tc refuse burial, in spite of the decided wish of the relatives that it should take place. After eight days the signs of animation were re-established and the subject, of this singular experience slowly recovered. In all such cases there is an element of mystery, and ont cannot always decide how much of this is due to the physiological or patholog­ ical conditions or to some ̂ external agency. We are not informed of the antece­ dents in the present instance, and cap^ not say how much hard work, under­ feeding, anxiety, or other causes may j have to do with the result. The state 1 described, if really one of trance, afford* a striking example of the difficulty which sometimes, though very rarely, I arises in proving the final point in diag-| nosis, anil a warning that the most triv­ ial signs of vitality should not lie over-1 looked in determining the fact of death. --British Medical Journal. Flower Superstitions. A reverence for flowers is found all countries. Even ° yon would not! have the temerity to doubt the good] fortune that comes to the finder of tht four-leaved clover. Among the Hin-j doos all bright-colored flowers are con-| sidered suitable offerings to the gods,, either from historical associations because they have some fancied reseni-j blance to some revered objects. Thus] the trimurti, that corresponds to our trin-j ity, has two plants dedicated especially to it; one is the cratajva, and the otliei bael. tree. Both have trifoliate leaves J like the shamrock, that is also conj sidered to represent the trinity. Onf of the first legends that you hear iij India is that of Krishna; a variety basil is sacred to him and to Vishmj also. Equally interesting is the esvthrind indica, that all truly religious Hindoo| believe bloomed in the garden of Indra in Heaven. Krishna is supposed t< have stolen it from there; hence it il under a curse, and is avoided and coia sidered the meanest of all flowers. If Hindoo mythology the five flowers love stand out prominently. Kamadevl is their Cupid, and he is supposed tl have tipped each one of his arrows witi these flowers, most of which can l>f seen in the private collections in anl about New York. They are tlif cliampa, the mango, the bulla, tlJ clearing-nut flower, and the white naj| kesur.--rMow York Post. Typhoon?". These are most common during Ail gust and September, but they ard like! to occur at any other time during til year. The first signs, according to til "government .astronomers of Hong-konf are feathery clouds in the sky of tl| cirrus type, looking like fine tufts white wool, and which travel from e.i| to north. These appearances are companied by a slight rise of the lii^ ometer, clear weather, heat, and li*j winds. The barometer then begins fall; the heat becomes oppressivi there is a swell 011 the ss>a, and the s| assumes a threatening appearance, the storm approaches these effects ij come more and more marked, while 11 wind gradually increases in force. Nil the center of the storm the wind blo| with such violence that no canvas hold out against it, and the rain poij down in torrents. Still nearer the ca tor, the sea is lashed into such fii that ,this is the most dangerous posit for ships. LEARN to bear prosperity with humble spirit, so that if adversity l>e^ thee tbon wi)*: have -o need to hang 1 htt&dL