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* • [nratlcntct $. WWWLTW, timer and Publisher. ILLINOIS. >&• *, JUDGE WAITE, tin Chief Justice of the Su- pr«m« Court Dies Sudden- ; ly at Washington. i Death a Surprisa to Those Who Did Not Balieve His Illness '"/Serious. . i'* * MORRISON REMIOK WAITE, Chief Jus- tioe of the Supreme Court of the United State*, died Friday morning, Match 23, at Washington, of typhoid pneumonia, after an illness of a few days. Both houses of Congress adjourned oat of respect to the memory of tho deceased, and commit­ tees were appointed to attend the funeral. The Supreme Court Also adjourned, and President Cleveland issued a proclamation ordering thpt the Government buildings be draped for three days, and tLat dags be placed at half-mast on the day of the fan- era}. The folio vine account of the sad •vent is gleaned from the Washington dis­ patches to the daily press: Ha was not considered dangerously ill, and no one was in tbe i\H>m with him but a hired nurfe when he breathed bis last. Mrs. Waite left Washington about ten days ago to spend the spring months in California. A telegram haa been sent announcing the death pi her husband. Last Saturday nignt Judgo Waite attended the reception given to the authors by Mrs. Senator Hearst. It was a damp, disagreeable atmosphere and a searching wind. Muring the reception his coachman was stricken with apoplexy, and fell off tho box. Tht-re was considerable excitement, and Judge Wnit? ex­ posed himself by leaving the heated parlors ! and goiug bareheaded and in his evening suit into the open air to five ordeis about the treatment of hit servant and the disposition of his horses, and after the reception was over he walked home, Several of his friends of­ fered their carriages, but he was an unusually robust man for one of his years, and preferred to walk. His shoes were thin, and, together with the exposure in the earlier part of the evening, gave him a severe cold. Monday morning his cold was so much worse that he was induced to remain at home, but it was not until Wednesday that he had a physician, and then only incidentally. He consulted Dr. Ruth, a surgeon in the* navy and a friend of the family, who happened to call at the house. Dr. iiuth gave him some simple remedy Wednesday morning, but : when he called again the same day told Misa Waite that her father was threatened with pneumonia, and recommended that the family physician, nr. i . A. Gardner, be sent lor. Thursday morning l)r. Gardner would not permit Judge Waite to leave his bed, and sent a professional nurse to take care of him. Thursday afternoon young Mr. Waite arrived from Cincinnati. The son and daughter sat up with him until after midnight, and then retired without feeling the slightest apprehension.' About 3 o'clock Friday morning young Mr. Waite was awakened by hearing groans from his father's chamber, and found that he was breathing heavily and seemed to be suffering in his sleep. He assisted the nurse to turn him over when he seemed to rest more comtortablv and the groaning ceased. Shortly before G o'clock a. ui., when the nurse went to give to him liis medicine, Judge Waite was found to be almost pulseless. Tbe son and daughter were awakened, and the doctcr sent for, but before he eame the venerable man had ceased to breathe. The following official notice of the death of Chief Justice Waite was issued by the Depart­ ment of State: I'l'o the i'eople of the United Stites: The painful duty devolves upon the PieMilent to announce too death at an early hear this morn­ ing, at his residence ia this city, 01 Morrison K. Waita, Chief Justice of the United States, which exalted position he had filled since March 4, 1874, with honor to himself and high usefulness to Lis country. "In testimony of respect to the memory of the honored dead it is ordered that the execu­ tive oSices in Washington be closed on the day of the funeral and be draped in mourning for thirty days, and that the national flag he dis- .played at halt-mast on the buildings and on all , cba national vessels on the day of the funeral. "By the President. T. F, BAVAUO, "Secretary of State." Both houses of Congress, upon assembling, pawed resolutions eulogistic of the deceased. •mi fasfiiiedlatsly adjourned. The amiounoe- pasntof Justice Waite'a death produced a pro- ; foand impression upon the President, with whom he was on terms of warm personal friend­ ship. BIOGRAPHICAL. Morrison itemick Waite received his ap­ pointment as Chief Justice of the United States January 21, 1874, andwa* ths sncr-essor of Chief Justice Chase. He was the seventh in the line of diet n ;uished jurists who have held the Chief Justiceship of the United States. In thj rural town of Lyme, Conn , tbe old house in which he was boru November '*>, 18lli, still stands. At the age of 17 he entered Yale College, from which he was graduated in 1837 in the class which included William M. Evarts, Edwards Pierrepont, Prof. Benjamin Hilliman, and other distinguished men. He began the study of law with his father in Lyme, and con­ cluded his preparation for the bar in the office of Samuel W. Young, then a prom­ inent lawyer in Maurnee City, Ohio. He • formed a partnership with Mr. Young shortly after being admitted in ltf-W, and the year after he took as his life partner a young Jady of his native town. He was elected to the Ohio legislature in 1*49, and the following year the firm of Young & Waite removed to Toledo, where they built up a very large and remuner­ ative practice. The first position in which his ability attracted the attention of the whole country was that of coun­ sel for the United States in the tribunal of arbitration which met at Geneva in 1871-2. He was associated in this delicate negotiation with Caleb Cu-hing and William M. F.varts. Their tact and good judgment largely served to terminate the difficulty arising out of our civil war between the United States and the United Kingdom. The year after his return home in 18/3 he presided over the constitution­ al convention of Ohio. m. W": P*; Counterfeit Silver Certificates. IN the search for the source of supply of the dangerous counterfeits of the $5 silver certificate which have of late been so plen­ tiful in Chicago and other points in the West the Government officers have been successful in tracing the crime to John Bain and James Stapp, two business men of good standing who live in Newton Coun­ ty, Ind., and they have been held is bail of $10,000 each. Tlie men re use to disclose where they got the bogus bills. ir' Judicial Nomination. *. UPON the 270th ballet in the Democratic Judicial Convention at Mount Vernon, Chauncey S. Conger, of Carmi, received the nomination for the place on the Illi­ nois supreme bench to be vacated by Justice Mulkey at the expiration of his term. The Tally Sheet Forgers. THE jury in the trial of the, State of '• Ohio against Hobert B. Montgomery and others, for the Columbus tally sheet for­ geries, being unable to agree, was dis­ charged. It stood ten for conviction and two for acquittal. .(he bringing of liquors into the State by the railway until a certificate has been re­ ceived that the consignee is authorised to handle liquors, has created quite a flurry in Iowa, says a Dee Moines special". Among the radical Prohibitionists of the Assembly it is said that the decision will seriously interfere with the Pharmacy law, recently' engrossed by the House. The ex­ treme Prohibitionists do not hesitate to express their chagrin and say that they think they will have difficulty in mak­ ing prohibition as iron-clad as they had expected. The railroad meu are happy, and say this relieves them from great an­ noyance and bother, putting liquor on the same basis as any other article of inter­ state traffic. Anti-Prohibitionists say that this decision will be followed by one de­ claring invalid the decision of the Iowa Supreme Court forbidding the manufacture of liquors for export. STOBM, ice, and high water damage are reported from various points in the West. In portions of Dakota and Minnesota the heaviest snowfall of the winter occurred on Tuesday and Wednesday, and in western Kansas and Nebraska heavy storms of sleet and snow have damaged trait and live stock. As far sonth as Sherman, Texas, four to twelve inches of snow fell, and buried the spring Sowers and fruit blos- ccsu. A L'trSTTQUE special says the Com­ mercial National Bank of that city has closed its doors and asked for the appoint­ ment of a receiver, who will be designated by the Comptroller of the Currency. The liabilities are estimated between $200,000 and $300,000. ANDBEW DICKSON, a retailer of dry- goods in Indianapolis, haa made an assign­ ment. Liabilities, $40,000; assets, $70,- 000. Creditors will lose nothing. COU THOMAS MCKISSOCK, the venera­ ble railroad official and President of the Council Bluffs and St. Louis Railroad, died at St. Louis, Mo., aged 65 years. SOUTH. , A TBBRIBLE accident, causing the death twenty-five persons and the serious in­ jury of about forty more, happened on the Savannah, Florida and Gieat Western Kailroad at Blackshear, Ga,. savs a Savannah dispatch: The vestibule fast mail, called the "Cuban" train, which runs throua i from New York to Tampa, fla., went through the trestle at Hur- licane Kiver, and plunged foity feet to the tjiound beneath. The wreck \va* a fearful one, every car ex< ept the private eoach of E. H. VVil- bi.r. I'ri s'rteu. of the l^ehigh \ alley Read, b?- inp crushed to splinters. George (io:;lil and his Wife were on tbe train. !)• t were not b idly hurt. A s< n of Presid-nt Wilbur was killed. The trestle of Hurricane liiver is NUO feet in length, and the break includes 4(H) feet at the west end, the tender and tho engine lodging against the abutment. The baggage tar left the track cn the trestle, which accounts for the accident. Ihe ties show vihtre the wheels ci t deep int.) them. It was this car that, by its t-traiu. dragged the t suder down, the engine having fateiy crossed c.vtr. Had it nit bet n fo th« presence of mind of Kngineer liichad Welch a v uch more horrible fati I wouid have i e n in tt rc for tbe wounded I Hurrn dlv disj atel in ; ihe engin- with a tire- | mi n to Biacksheiir he ran down to the wreck. I and. v.ith the ansii-tan.e of tbe poiter of the 3'nllmao car Yi e\a. extinguished 1h3 fire which bad biokau oui in the I a^gage car. REV. GEOKGE McDrfFIE, colored, has been sentenced to be hanged at Greenboro, Ga., for the killing of William Cheney last faU. THE defalcation of James W.*Tate, the Kentucky State Treasurer, is announced to be $250,000. Measures looking to the impeachment of the fugitive official have been taken. A TERRIBLE wind-storm visited Georgia and East Tennessee Wednesday night, causing immense destruction to property and much loss of life. A Nashville dis­ patch says: The storm seems to bnTe formed In the vicinity of Calhoun, Ga., and pursued a northeasterly direction through North Georgia and into and beyond Kaat Tennessee, bounding across to the Chilhowee mountains, and was next heard lixm near Loudon, Tenn., on the Kast Ten­ nessee road, eighty miles northeast of Chat­ tanooga, traveling from Calhoun, Ga., to Lou­ don, Tenn., a distance of loo wiles, in about thirty minutes, 'ihe path of tho tornado from Calhoun to Loudon was through a section re­ mote irozrt railroads and telegraph lines and the damage will not bo known for several days, but must have been fearful. The tornado in places cleared the ground completely of grass, and a forest of timber was mown as with a great scythe. The cyclone had a rotary mo­ tion, leaving a sceue of desolation and destruc­ tion in its path. Large trees were twisted from their trunks and others torn up by the rootB. FCRTHEB investigation of the treatment of Arkansas convicts in the Coal Hill mines reveals brutalities even more hor­ rible than at first reported. Warden Scott whipped seventy-five men in one night till all were bleeding. The men had gone without shoes all winter, and one had been murdered in cold blood, by order of the fugitive warden, Gafford. A WrsT VIBOINIA desperado named Willis has lately killed four people and fled to the mountains. He is pursued by a band of fifty citizens, who are scouring the hills with the intention of taking him dead or alive. gradually changing the intensity ot a continu­ ous •melt orrrent M ai to make it oor- , . exactly to the change* in the density ot the air oaused by the sound of U» voice. This was his art. He then de­ vised a way in which then changes of intensity could be made and speech actually transmitted. Thus his art was put in condition for practical use. Bell was the first discoverer of the pro­ cess of transmitting articulate speech by chang­ ing the intensity of a continuous current so as to make it correspond with changes in tbe density of the air produced by the voice, and with this he astonished the scientific world. 1'rof. Henry, one of the most eminent scien­ tists of the present century, spoke of it as "the ; greatest marvel hitherto achioved by the tele­ graph," A patent for such a discovery is not to be confined to the mere means wnich the discoverer improvised to prove the reality of his conception. The Court is therefore of opinion that the patent must be sustained as a patent for a process or art Justices Bradley, Field and Harlau dissented. Their dissent is based upon the Drawbaugh claim, and they are of opinion that the evidence overwhelm­ ingly shows that 1 >rawbaugh was the first in­ ventor of the speaking telephone, although he was unconscious of it and was not aware of its importance. Justices Gray and Lamar did not sit in these cases. A WASHINGTON dispatch says that Sen­ ators were surprised to learn that the House Committee on Revision of the Laws was ready to report a joint resolution, pro­ viding for the choosing of Senators by popular vote instead of by State Legisla­ tures. They had often heard that such proposition was pending, but few of them thought it would come to a head. Once in awhile petitionsAome in asking for popular Senatorial electrons, but heretofore they have passed unnoticed. When Van Wyck was in the Senate "Old Crazy-horse" used to startle his colleagues by warning them that a change was coming. He wan always laughed at. Now the House Committee has actually agreed on a report, and will ask that a day be given to the subject. THE REDS. Gan. Beni. F. tiitler Writes a Bemarka- We Initel to Oapt. William ?. Black. The Conviction of Sp'es et al. Compared Willi the Persecution of JfasiMt- chuMtts Witches. LABOR. JUDGB DUNDY, of the United States District Court on Saturday rendered his decision in the injunction suit brought by the Burlington Eoad against the Union Pa­ cific Company -and the engineers in its employ, to prevent them from refusing to receive or transport Burlington- freight. In substance, the Court holds that the engineers on the Union Pacific have the right to quit work when they please; but they have not the right to enter into a cospiracy, and, by concerted action, snddenly leave the Union Pacific lioad without enginemen, when the purpose of that conspiracy is to prevent the Union Pacific Eoad from exchanging freight with the Burlington, as by the interstate commerce law it .is required to do. FOREIGN. POLITICS. |\ * EAST. * ' Mail and Erprem, New York, has been told to Colonel Elliott F. Shepard, fcim jrly President of the New York State Bar Association, and a son-in-law of William H. Vanderbilt. MAYOR HEWITT, in a communication to the New York Board of Aldermen, defends his action in ref using to allow the Irish flag to be raised on the City Hall on St. Patrick's day, on the ground that none but aa American flag should be nermitted to float from any public building in this coun- tiy. He thinks that( foreigners who come to this country to live should remember "that they thereby become Americans, and cease to be foreigners. BARTON MILLS, of Lynn, Mass., a trav­ eling salesman, was the victim of a dis­ tressing and very peculiar accident at Omaha, an English sparrow flying into his . face, tbe bird s bill penetrating his eyeball and destroying it. THE remains of General Paes, the Ven- xnelan statesman, were exhumed at New York on Thursday, and are now being con-' veyed to Venzuela by the American war ship PensacoJa. WEST. deeiskm of the United Stain 8t- Cowrt that tlwt Iowa lim prohibiting Idn Republican Convention met at Des Moines March 21. J. P. Dolliver was chosen temporary Chairman, end, ow­ ing to the illness of Gov. Lnrrabce, was continued as permanent Chairman. Con­ gressman David B. Henderson was, by acclamation, selected a Delegate-at-large to the National Convention, the balloting for the other three delegates lesultingin the election of J. S. Clarkson, George D. Perkins, and J. P. Dolliver. The resolu­ tions Bet forth the qualifications and at­ tainments of Senator William B. Allison, and recommend him as a lit candidate for the Presidr-ncv. These were adopted with cheers; Allison songs were sung, the con­ vention joining in the chorus, and an Alli­ son brigade was formed to go to Chicago in June. THE Michigan Democratic State Con­ vention, to c hoose delegates to the National Convention, will be held at Grand ltapids May 16. THE Democratic State Central Commit­ tee of Ohio has decided to hold tbe State Convention in Dayton May 15 and 16. THE Nebraska Republican State Con­ vention to elect four delegates-at-large to the National Republican Convention has been called for May 15 at Lincoln. Owing to the Michigan Prohibition Convention being called at Grand Rapids May 16, the Democratic State Central Committee has changed the date of the Michigan Demo­ cratic Convention to Thursday, May 10. The Prohibition party of West Virginia has decided to call a convention at Parkers- burg July 18 to nominate a full State ticket. Congressional conventions are to be field and candidates for the Legislature nominated. WASHINGTON. IN anticipation of the decision in the famous telephone cases, tbe United States Supreme Court room was crowded when tbe court assembled on the lyth inst., says a Washington telegram. The opinion was prepared by the Chief Jus­ tice ; but, owing to indispoHition, he di<l not feel able to read it, and requested Juntice Blatcliford to do no for him. The cases covered by tbe decision of the court are Bix in number, one of them coming from Massachusetts, one from Pennsylvania, and four from New York. | In the first five cases tho appellants are Ainos E. Dolbear et al., tue Molecular Telenlione I Company, tho Clay Commercial 'l'elephoue I Company, the People's Telephone Company.and the Overland Telephone Company. In the I sixth the Bell Telephone Company iH the appel- I lant againEt the Molecular Telephone Com- i pany. 'ihe Chief Justice began his opinion | with a rev iew of the <iue ,tion raised as to the scope of the fifth clause of Hell's patent of March 7, 187tj--that ie, whether tho patent was for an art or process of transmitting articulate SDeech, or merely for an apparatus by which that object could be attained. Tbe court is of opinion upon this point that articulate speech is one of the "vocal or other sounds" referred to in the fifth clause of the patent. Bell dis- C Q V e r e d t h a t s p e e c h o o u l a ^ b y f rc^feago special.] The following letter from GeB. 9.1T. Butler to Capt W. P. Black is given to the public through the columns of the lo­ cal press; "I am very much obliged to you for your let­ ter, and I um ul*o thankful for tbe receipt of your argument to the jury in the case of Spies or will be known in the long history as^the • anarchist case.' "Our pleasant tcquuintance under the most unpleaaiint circumstances- the joint uusuo* cesHful advocacy of life for men who were un­ lawfully convicted and unwisely executed--has given nie an insight into your purpose an4 character, and wi!l make our friendship a last* ing one at least ou my side. • ai i®? no* believed it possible that palpable judicial njurders i-ould again prevail in this country. They once did in what we have been accustomed to regard as tbj best and purest days of the eolo lies. Jt is less than two centu< ries since seven men of the highest standing, a majority of whom were reverend gentlemen, clergymen, as good and pious men as ever lived, as exemplary in every relation of life as ,Ta? POKslble for men to bo, sat in a so- called court of justice, cash morning session whereof was opened with fervent prayer to the divine source of all knowledge, trace, and power to direct the actioi s of his servants as the judges of that court; and in that court *Kire frra,'SUed day after day poor, miser- *®]e. broken-down, superstitious wimen and children uj on tne accusation that they had commerce with the devil and used his power as a means of spite upon their neighbors, and as-one of tbe means of inilicting torture be­ cause thereof tho devil hod empowered these poor creatures to shoot common house pins from a distance into tho flesh of their neigh­ bors' children, by which they were greatly afflicted. Being put into the bar to be tried, they were not allowed counsel, and, thank God, our profession was not aisgraced, because the attorney-general was a, merchant. The deluded creatures sometimes pleaded guilty, and sometimes not cuilty, but in either event they were found guilty and executed, and the pins, which were produced in evidence, can now be seen among the records of that court, in the court-house of the county of Essex, Massachusetts. "And beyond all this that court enforced, worse than the tortures of inquisition, dreadful wrongs upon a prisoner in order to accomplish his oonviction. Giles Corey was an old man, HJ years of age. Ho had a daughter some 40 Sears of age, simple-minded, not aole to earn er own living, and a small farm, a piece of land and a house thereon, which he hoped to leave to his daughter at his then impending death. Giles was accused of being a wizard. "His life had been blameless in everything except his supposed commerce with the devil. Upon ex parte testimony ho was indicted for this too great intimacy with the evil one, and set to the bar t3 be tried for his life. "Giles knew that if he pleaded not guilty he was sure t'> be convicted, De ?ause that was the doom of the anarchists of that day, and if he pleaded guilty he would be sentenced to death, and in either case the faim would be forfeited tothsking Bu*, if he did not plead at all -- such was the law--then he could not be tried at all, and his property could not ba forfeited t J the king and t iken from his daughter. So Giles stood ni ute and put thj court at defiance. "And then that court of pious cUrgymen re- sorted to a method to make him plead which hid not been in practice in England for two hundred years, and never hero ; and poor Giles was tr.ken and laid on the ground by the side ot the court house on his back, with the flashing sun burning in hia eyes and a sing'e cup of water from the ditch of the jail with a crust of bread was given him once in twenty-four hours, nnd weights were placed upon his body until at last tbe li:o was crushed out of him, but not the father s love for his chil 1 He died, but not until his imrched tongue protruded from the old man's fevered mouth. It wus thrust back by the Chief Justice with his cane. The cherished daughter inherited. "Being fully imbued with this knowledge of what g('od men will do when they are either frightened for their souls or thoir bodies, it has not been to me n source of so much wonder as it inij-'ht otherwise have been how the law wus administered in frenzy in Chicago. Yet ra hence when you and I have passed away tire cases of Giles Corey and the witches and the cases of tbe anarchists will be compared by just-minded men more than they are now. I hope there may one fact follow in the an­ archists' cases that followed in the witohes' cases. Judge Sewall, a reverend clergyman, one of the judges of the witches, before he died learned how preatKy he had erred and sinned before God, u-id he repented in sack-cloth and asheB, literal^ coming out in the face ot his congiegationmnd standing in the broad aisle of the church exclaiming, while his written con­ fession of his sins and folly in the witches' case was being read: ' Alas t God have mercy on me for what I have don*.' "I hope you will live to be present when one of the judges before whom vou argued will find it his duty to take a like Btep: but I fear that while he h.is had the iucredible folly of Judge Sewall in the treatment of his prisoners, he won't hnve tho piety of Sewall in publicly ap­ pealing to his God for mercy, as an example against all others offending in like manner. "A learned and upright judge, writing the judicial history of witchcraft in this country, •unis up as fbliows : -If the popular cry is to be the standard of what is right, the security of proxierty is at an end, personal liberty is no longer safe, and the biood of the innocent will often seal the triumph of a popular adminis­ tration of juBtice, in the triumph of popular vengeunce.' "Some later writer on judicial proceedings, comparing tho judicial murder of the witches with the trial of tho anarchists, will close bv saying : Alas 1 how surely from age to age doth history repeat herself. One further fact, which I send to you for your comfort: The determined action of a single member of our profession standing up against this craze brought it to an end. 1 look for like fruits to come irorn wliat you have done." Chicago Anarchists Reorganising?. [Chicago special.] Information has come to Chief of Police Hubbard that the anarchists in the north­ western part of the city have been quietly organizing again and have been holding secret meetings lately. It is said that a large number of the old Northwestern Group met at 703 Milwaukee avenue last Sunday and indulged in some wild talk, as . , well as making some progress toward re- A DISPATCH from Gravenhurst, On* , organization. This meeting was attended A CABLE dispatch says the earthquake shocks in Yunnan, China, continued three weeks, destroying several towns and caus­ ing much damage to shipping. At Kten- Shiu 4,000 persons were killed. Ix the German Landtag and in the Reichstag replies to the royal and imperial messages were Rgreed to on Tuesday. The* replies profess the utmost loyalty and con­ fidence, and pay a high tribute to tbe Em­ peror's illustrious father. The session closed with thre? cheers for the Emperor Frederick. Uncial chauges in some high military posts, which have hitherto been deferred through the disinclination which the late Emperor bad to part with Gener­ als who had grown gray in his service, are now about to be made. MINGLED with the Czar's great grief for the death of his imperial brother of Ger­ many is the determination to place Bnssia upon a war footing. Not even the gloom and mourning on account of the death and burial at Berlin have been permitted to in­ terfere with military preparations. A MADRID dispatch says that reports are being received of fcreat suffering among the people in the rural districts ot Spain, owing to the severe weather. Many per­ sons perished in the snow, and cattie and sheep were lost in drifts. Thaws have caused serious floods in the Ebro and TaguB Valleys. A BERLIN dispatch says the Emperor continues so well that the doctors appear more hopeful than ever. The mourning emblems on the public buildings and newspaper offices have been removw. •. GENERAL. THK Emigration Board reports the total number of passengers landed at New York the past year as 450,845. SUBSCRIBERS to the Pan Telephone system at St. Louis have received notices from the Bell Company that unless all other than Bell instruments were put out of use suits would be begun. The Pan people show a disposition to light the matter. A BANQUET in honor of Gen. Bragg, the new United States Minister, was given by American residents on Thursday, savs a City of Mexico dispatch. Leading officials of the Mexican government and a number of members of the press were present. Consul-General Moore presided. Gen. Bragg made a significant speech, which was well received. He said that the United States wanted no more territory, and only desired for Mexico a continuation of its Liberal Government, lie said that the United States will be opposed to any at­ tempt to overthrow free institutions in Mexico. tario, says that a freight-train going south and a snow-plow coming north collided a few miles south or that place. Seven men were instautly killed and five seriously in- I ZT.JT# p »c'™e.wa7 jured. Among the killed was George I of the city for further devel- Wilson, roadmastcr. opmentt. MARKET REPORTS. NEW YORK. by one of the ex-members of the group, who afterward visited police headquarters and told what he knew. Capt. Hathaway has been requested to keep a close watch on this s"~" * opments STARTLED BY LIGHTNING. CATTiE... Hons SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Spiing... No. 2 Bed CORN--No. 2 OATS--White PORK--New Mess CHICAGO. 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During a heavy thunder-storm, on Wednesday alternoon, lightning struck the Senate wing of the Capitol, but apparently did no other damage than to frighten the occupants and destroy telegraphic and tele­ phonic communication between the build­ ing and outside world. The flash was vivid in the chamber itself, and startled every one, but the source was known at once and the proceedings continued withouG more than momentary interruption. In the lob­ by of the press gallery it appeared as if a ball of fire dropped from each chandelier to the floor. In the sub-basement an en­ gineer was prostrated. A cab horse out­ side was knocked down. The report was not louder than a pistol shot, but seems to have been heard in all quarters of the wing. In the Supreme Court every justice, every lawyer nt the bar, and every clerk at his desk sprang to his feet, bnt Bat down again very quickly and tried to look as if nothing had happened. Theorists h#v« it that the charge strack the plume of the goddess on the dome, spread over tbe metal roof in all directions, and songht to go to the gromid by the thousand chandeliers, steam pipes, and electric wires in the structure. Similar phenomena were noticeable in the House wing of the Capitol. "Balls of blue tire" played about the corridors, and each occu­ pant of the House or the committee rooms seemed to thick he was the especial object of attack. 1 he crash led some members of the House to the belief that the roof was tumbling in. Electric lights in Bome parts of the wing were extinguished. SINGULAR ACCIDENTS. • Young Man Kill«-<] |>y Being: Accident­ ally Struck with an Ax. " r a* d;sPatch.) In St Chatle3 County, Missouri, four • 5* • 'tis city, a young man named I Hennmgs was working in the field of his uncle, Mike Hoover, grubbing stumps. ;M*> Soowr «W* to tiM Jeld, s«nt (he f" young man off on an errand, took his place, and proceeded to cut at the roots of a stump with an ax. He had been thus en­ gaged bnt a short time when tbe young man, who had retarned to the spot un­ known to Mr. Hoover, was accidentally struck by the ax an it was raised and brought forward, the blade penetrating the sknll just behipd the ear, inflicting a deep cut, which proved fatal. Mr. Hoover says he was ignorant of having struck the blow until his nephew fell agaiust him. A 3Ian Lom th« Slglit of an Eye by a Peculiar Accident. fOmaha (Neb.) dispatch.] £ remarkable accident happened hitift M Wednesday. As Henry Mills, a commer­ cial traveler for a Lynn, Mass., hou^e stepped off a Burlington train, an English sparrow flew blindly into his right eye, the sharp bill penetrating the eye-ball. The eye was ruined. The sparrow itself was blind, having had its ejes plucked out Si a fight a short time previous. • m U0TED HAN GONE. Death of G$n. George W. Ga??, the Man Who Built the First Iron Bridge -. . in Amerioa. - ••• - A Hi# Yorlc • telegram annO*»*S<k« ;- 'liHs: death of Gen. George W. Cass, who was the organizer and first President of the Adams Express Compan7; the builder of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago and Grand Rapids and Indiaha railroads; President of the Northern Pacific, and prominent in politics. The following brief sketch of his busy career will be read with interest: Gen. Cass passed most of liis active bustness life in Pennsylvania and Ohio. He lived for several years at Osbornw Station, n *ar Pitts­ burgh. Gen. Cass was born in Ohio in 1810, and pansed his youth near Zauesvi.le. He went to Uetroit In 1*24, un 1 remainei there several years. He then received an appointment to the United States Military A adeiny, an I gn duntjd witft honors in 18W. lie served with th' ton- ografhica and military engineers. Resigning nis lwit on. h« received an appointment as civil engineer on tbe National Boa<l from Presi­ dent Jackson. It was while engaged in this work that he erected the first iron bridge ever built in the United States over Dunlav's Creek, a branch of the Mononuahe'a Klver. He was the organizer of tne tirst steamboat line on tue Mouongabela Klver. In 184J be brought the Adams Kxj)ress lino across the mountains from Baltimore, r-nd after form­ ing a union of all the Adams Express lines be­ tween St. Louis and Boston was elected Presi­ dent- of the consolidated companion in )8w. In January, 18"iti, he was elected President of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Kailroad Company, then completed as tar we.-tt as Crestline, 'ihe two corporations building the section of tbe road between Crestline and Chicago had ex­ hausted their funds, and, although there was considerable opposition to it, Gen. Case success­ fully conducted the consolidation of the three divisions. He retained the Presidency of the company, then first known as the Pittaburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Kailroad, until lS7i>, when he resigned. Ke was a leading Democrat, and once came within a few votes of securing the nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania, being defeated by Charles B. Buckalew. He was a nephew, ot the late Gen. Lewis Cass of Michigan. „ THE METHODIST DEMAND. Strong Ground Taken hj tho Ohuroh for National Proliib'tion. (TopeUa (Kansas> special.] The annual State Conference of the Methodist Church. Bishop Walden presid- ing, on Wednesday passed a resolution de­ claring for national prohibition, and also resolved to support no party which did not stand sqnarely on a temperance platform. It demanded the following legislation: 1. A law providing that in prohibition £tites the collectors of internal revenue shall be for­ bidden to issue tax permits <r>r tbe sale of liquor except to those who lia^i b?en d.uly au­ thorized by the State to sell intoxicants lor tbe purposoi permitted by the State law. 2. A law prohibiting the sale of liquor in the District of Columbia, upon tho military reserva­ tions, in the Territories, and yrherever the United Sta'es exercises authority. 3. A law enacting that the sale of liquors shall be subject to the laws of tbe t tate in which the liquors are to be consumed, so that manufacturers and dealers in non-prohibition States shall be fortidden to transport liquors into prohibition States, except under such lim­ itations as may be prescribed by the prohibit­ ory laws there in force. 4. The early submission of an amendment to tbe Constitution of the United States prohibit­ ing the importation or sale of intoxicating liq­ uors, except for medieiual, mechanical, or soientific purposes. A DANGEROUS COUNTERFEIT. THE WHEAT SUPPLY. lost Tear's Crop aa Compared with Previous Years--The Yield an < Averaga One. v , • * ., ^Washington special.] * Statistician Dodge of the Agricultural Department has prepared a comparison of stocks of wheat remaining in farmers' hands, which is to be published in the forthcoming report. It is claimed at the department that the brief synopsis sent out March 10 has been misquoted and mis­ understood. For this reason a full state­ ment has been prepared which is intended to be a satisfactory exposition of the wheat situation to the commercial public. It also seems framed as a reply to criticisms made by Board of Trade people in Chicago. Statistician Dodge, iih his report, says: "The remainder of the crop of wheat in the hands of farmers is 28.9 per cent, of its volume, against 26.7 per oent. a year ago. This proportion was ex­ ceeded in 1886, 1885, and 1881, and is nearly the same as in 1884 and 1883. In fact, only in 1887 and 1882 was the propor­ tion lower. In round numbers the quan­ tity is 132,000,000 bushels, against 122,000,- 000 last year. In actual quantity the re­ mainder from the failure crop of 1881 was only 34:,00!),000 bushels less. The crop was about the same as that of 1886, but March 1 tbe quantity exported (wheat and flour) was 11,000,000 bushels lees than at the same date from the product of 1886. The following statement shows thfe re­ mainder of the previous crop on farms since 1880: Crop of previous years, bn. 1888. 45M*t>.0j0 1887... 457,218,000 18^. 357,112,two 1885..; 512,7«Kt, sKXt *1884 421,083,160 1883.,.. 470 188-2.., 382,280,090 18S1. 498,549,808 "The crop was an average c ne in yield and the stock remaining in farmers' hands is also near an average. "The returns are full, and those of the State agent system, while not in every State . identical with (hose from the direct corre­ spondents of the department, aM lit close agreement with them." In farm­ er's bands March 1. 132,0 A), 000 122,000,000 107,000,000 KM,000,000 119,000,000 143,000,000 L'8,000,000 145,000,000 Pe. cent. 28.9 26.7 30.1 33.1 28.4 28.5 25.5 29.1 LAND FBAU0S. Wholesale Swindles |n Oregon--A Bill to Reclaim the Land), [Washington telegram.] The President sent to both houses of Congress, on Tuesday, a communication from the Secretary ot the Interior, with a mass of testimony relating to a grant of public lands to the State of Oregon for the construction of wagon roads. The presentation of the facts by the Secretary, the President says, is the result of an examination which has developed, it seems to the President, "the most as unblushing frauds upon the Government, » • * am ^ , * ; * w a • v/ ^ ill ^ in u. I uu an y BCt m which, II remaining unchallenged. Will dl-J was willing to amend the resolution by striking vert several hundred thousand acres of i out.the clause limiting the time of debate on ? " ?1C0NGRESSI0NAL. ; Work of the Senate and the JSoalli of Representatives. { < PTT.TJ were repented to the House of Bepre* sentatives on the 17th inst, and plaoed on the tafrpwdu as follows: For public bnildings at Jaekson and Saginaw. Mich. To provide oer- tain arms and equipnge for the militia of Oregon. Granting pensions to the tnrvivorm ot tbe Indian wars between 1823 and 1842. Tbe resolution requesting tbe Postmaster General to return to tne use of tbe terra cotta colored two-cent stamp was reported adversely. Th* - Senate was not in session. Tax Judiciary Committee of tbe Senate^ «a tbe 19th inst., reported adversely Senator lrrye'S bill to apply tbe laws of tbe several States re lating to the sale of liquors to imported as well as domestic liquors, 'ihe majority of the oom» mittee no Id that tbe btate oontrol o-> »r police regulations is, under the Constitution, as se­ cure against intrusion from federal au­ thority «s the regi/iaiion of foreign com­ merce by the General Oovornnaent is from encroachine.it upon that province by ttate au­ thority. It tatrjfo.e recommcnds that tbe question be Ie;t as it is--a judicial one. ABK no ity report signed by Senators Wilson (Iowa), In;a Is. and fcdtnun Is sa^ s it would seem tbat tne legislative aud judic al departments cf the Gove.nnunt concur in tb>! answer th&t tbe char- act- r 11 legla at in pr. sentad by the bill is with­ in tha eon&tlt itioi a1 power of Congress: that it < oei not violate tha injun tlon of tbe Constitu­ tion that "all dutiex, 'imput«, and excises shall be uniform tbuoujh uc the United States " An importer of ardent spirits ct ot any other article of foreign production is en­ titled to no greater p otevtli n und 'r tbe Con­ stitution than Is thu dealer m like /articles of domestic manufacture. The one pays an in­ ternal tax, tbe other pays a tax leveled by tbe custom bouse, and what Congress may consti­ tutionally say about one it may repeat as to tbe other. The Senate passed fifty-nve bills, tbe most of them being pension and private relief bills. Tbe House by a vote of yeas 178, nays 67, passed tbe bill authorizing the issue ot fractional silver certificates. A resolution was introduced by Mr. Taulbee for the appoint­ ment of a special committee to exsmine into the condition of the civil service in ail the de­ partments and branches of the government. SENATOR AXDRICH, from the Committee on Finance, favorably reported to the Senate^ on March 20, his 2'^-per-cent, funding bill, which provides that the Secretary of the Treasury •hall issue in exchange for 4-per-cent. bonds an equal amount of 2,vper-cent. bonds payable in 1907, aud that in consideration of tbe reduc­ tion of interest the Treasurer shall pay to tbe holders of the 4-per-cent. bonds a sain equal to the present worth of the difference in interest, and that in ascertaining the present worth interest should be computed at not less than 2^ per cent, per annum, compounded quarterly. The bill also provides tbat national banks holding these 2>-per-ceut. bonds shall be allowed to issue notes upon tbem to their full par value. Mr. Blair called up his bill, giving pseference to civil-service appointments among men who had been disloyal during the war to those who hid served in tnu Confederate army, and who weie suffering from wounda or disabilities. Several Southern Senators spoke on tbe resolution, saying they wouid not consent to any tuch discrimination in favor of Confederate soldiers. The Senate Finance Com­ mittee male a favorable report on tbe bill to wipe out tbe charges against the States for tbe loan of 1836. It amounted to between •20,000,uOO and £0,000,0(»0. There waa a lively time in the House over the resolution assigning four days for the consideration or measures from the Committee on I.abor, the opponents of tbe resolution resorting to obstructive tactics to pre­ vent action. Mr. O'Neill (Mo.) finally said he land from the public domain, and from the ' reach of honest settlers, to those who^have attempted to prevent and prostitute the beneficent designs of the Government. : The Government sought, by tho promise of generous donations of land, to promote the building of wagon roads for public con- j venience, and for the purpose of encour­ aging settlement upon the public lands. The roads have not yet been built, and | yet an attempt is made to claim the lands ' under a title which depends for its validity entirely upon the construction of these roads." A bill accompanied the communi- ) cation, which the President submits with 1 the recommendation that it may become a ; law, and with the earnest hope that the op« j portunity thus presented to demonstrate a ; sincere desire to preserve the public domain for settlers, and to frustrate unlawful at- : tempts to appropriate the same, may not be neglected. THE CHINESE TREATY. I and V othe 1 piov: from being used in public buildings tv othes public _ works, and to prevent the em v. of the Treaty Nrgstlstad t. * ; ' Secretary Bayard. ~ a s h l n g t o u s p e c i a l ] ^ | p i o y m e n t o f a l i e n l a b o r o n p u b l i c b u i l d i n g s ,and~ -ine leading clauseB of the new Chinese other public works and in the various depart- treaty that has been negotiated by Secre- 1 ments of the Government. The bill to estab- tarv Bavard and the rhinpnn MiniRtnr or* lish a department of Labor and tbe bill re- «1LII Minister are ferring to the Court of Claims for adjustment as I0110W6. | the aecounts of laborers, workmen and me- Spurlous tit Silver Certificates in Circula­ tion la the West. I Chicago special. | Danserous $5 silver certificates are in circulation in Chicago. Many merchants have iound them in their tills, and a num­ ber of them have been passed at the banks. They are well executed and calculated to deceive the unwary, but a little care will enable one to distinguish them from the genuine. The lathe Bcroll work in the counterfeit is far from good, while the quality of ink appears to be better than that used by the Government. The very best means £f detecting the new counter­ feit is by the printed imitation of the silk thread running entirely across the back of the bill. In, some of the original bills there are two of these silk threads, while others have but one. On (he back of the counterfeit is printed one straight line across the bill. With a pin or knife this deception can be discovered instantly. A Man Arrested in Indiana for Passing; Counterfeit Five Dollar Sliver Certifi­ cates. [I.ogausport (Ind.) special.] James Saj)p, of Goodland, Ind., has been arreated in this city for passing coun­ terfeit money. A roll of counterfeit money was recovered from a water closet which Sapp was seen to leave just previous to his arrest. The counterfeits passed consisted of $5 silver certificates. It is estimated that about $20,000 worth has been passed by Sapp and his accomplices. Sapp owns a livery stable at Goodland, and has always been considered an upright citizen. PENIS KEARNEY. He Sees Cleveland, Talks About Electoral Totes, and Goes Away Unhappy. [Washington speoial.] Denis Kearney had an interview with the President on Wednesday, and denounced the pending Chinese treaty. He said that under the clause permitting Chinamen worth $1,000 to lelurn in case they left the country, each $1,000 would be made to do duty for a thousand incoming China­ men. The President said he thought the treaty would at least be tried for a while. Kearney said that if it was it would mean the loss of the fourteen electoral votes of the Pacific coast to the Democratic party. He further told the President that it would require an armed man at every forty rods of the boundary line between the United States and British Columbia to prevent Chinamen from coming over the line. To a reporter Mr. Kearney said: "I'm going back to 'Frisco to-morrow to report my non-success to my people. I have been unsuccessful before committees of both houses, and at the White House, too." Railroad Land Grant Forfeiture. The House Committee on Public Lands at Washington has decided to report favor­ ably a bill declaring a forfeiture of that part of the Southern Pacific land grant which is upon the line of the road not completed within the contract time. This is regarded as an indication of the inten­ tion of the committee to adopt the policy of reporting bills working a partial and not complete forfeiture of railroad land grants, except in cases where there was a total failure to build the road. Oppose a Bounty oil Kxport Corn. The House Committee on Agriculture, says a Washington telegram, has voted to report adversely the bill proposing to- pay an export bounty of 7 cents a bushel on wheat and corn, and 50 cents a barrel on flour, and an additional bounty of cents per ton for e*erv 100 miles carried by water on wheat, corn and flour to the owners of the vessel transporting them. For », period of twenty years the coming, ex­ cept a? Here in a! tar sieci&ed, of Chinese labor­ ers to the United States shall be absolutely prohibited. Tbe preceding article shall not apply to the return to tbe United States of any Chinese laborer who has a lawful wife, child or parent in the United States, or property therein of the value of Sjil.uoo, or debts of like amount due biin and pending settlement; nevertheless every Chinese laborer shall before leaving the United States deposit, as a condition of his re­ turn, with the collector of customs of the dis­ trict from which he departs, a full description in writing of his family or property or debts, and shall be furnished with a certificate of his right to return under this treaty ; and should the written description bo proved to be false, the right to return thereunder, or of continued residence after return, shall in each case be forfeited, and such right ot return shall be ex­ ercised within one year from the date of leaving. The provisions of this convent on shall not affect the rights at present enjoyed of Chinese subjects being officials, teachers, students, mer­ chants, or travelers for curiosity or pleasure, but not laborers, of coming to the United States and residing therein. It is also agreed that Chinese laborers Khali continue to enjoy tho privileges of transit across the territory of the United States in the course of their journey to or from other countries. NEW LAND COMMISSIONER. 8. M. Stockslager Succeeds to Gen. Sparks* Old Place--Maj, Anderson Made Assist­ ant. [Washington telegram.] The President has nominated Strother M. Stockslager, of Indianu, to be Commis­ sioner of the general land office, and Thomas J. Anderson, of Iowa, to be As­ sistant Commissioner of tbe general land office; also, Thomas H. B. Jones, of Dako­ ta, to be agent for the Indians of the Fort ' Berthold agency in Dakota. Maj. Thomas J. Anderson, the new assistant commissioner of the general land office, was the Democratic candidate for Governor of Iowa last year, and has long been active in Hawkeye politics. In tbe war he served as Major of the 40th Iowa regiment. A good part of the time since the war he has spent in the Territor­ ies, so that he has a full understanding of the practical aspccts of public land matters. He went to Washington to ask for the ap­ pointment as United States Judge in Wy­ oming, but consented to accept the Assist­ ant Commissionership of the Land-Offieo. SENSATIONAL CHARGES. Mrs. S. P. Rounds Files a Petition Asking; tlie Removal of O. H. Kothacker as Guardian of HI* Two Children. |Omaha special.] A very sensational petition was filed in the County Court Tuesday by Mrs. S.i P. Bounds asking that O. H. Bothaclcer be removed as guardian of his two children. ohanica arising under the eight-hour law, were discussed by tbe House, in committee of the whole. THK President seut a brief message to tbe Senate on the 22d of March, in reply to the reso­ lution requesting him to transmit to the Sen­ ate copies of tbe minutes and daily protocols of the meetings of the Fisheries Commission­ ers. He inclosed a copy of the letter received from the Secretary of btate on the subject, and said he hoped the infofuiatiou contained therein would prove a satisfactory answer to the resolution. Secretary Bayard's letter is in effect that the discussion was car­ ried on under the pledge of secrecy on both sides, that no stenographic report was made, nnd that it wits impossible to comply wilh the Senate's request. In the Sonato thirty-one measures were paused, the most important bill b> ing the HoU'ie bill authorizing the President to arriinge a conference between the United States and the republics of Moxico, Central and South America, llayti, Sau Domingo, and the empire of Brazil, with amendments upon which a conference was ordered. Tbe Senate al so passed a bill reportsd from the l'ostotlice Committee reducing the rate of post­ age on seeds, cutting*, bulbs, roots, scions, etc., to one cent for e \ery four ounces. The House passed the following bills: Providing that on the trial of all civil and criminal cases in Circuit and District Courts the Judge shall chur^e the jury in writing, if so required by either party ; providing that judgments and de­ crees of United States Courts rendered within any States shall be lions on property in the same m anner and to the same extent as judg­ ments and decrees of the courts of that State. The urgent deficiency bill was favorably re­ ported to both houoea by tbe confcrrees, and was passed by both branches. The bill appro­ priates Sti,87(i, Keep the Stable* Light. Dark stables are an aoommation. and should not be tolerated. There is no necessity to sacrifice comfovt, cither in win­ ter or summer, to secure enough liatht. A horse's eyes are enlarged--the pupil of the eye is--by being kept in a dark stable; he has a harness put on to him and suddenly brought out into the bright, glaring sun­ light, which contracts the pupil so sudden­ ly as to cause extreme pain. By persever­ ing in this very foolish and injudicious as well as cruel practice, the nerves of the eye become impaired, and if continued long enough, loss of sight will ensue. To see how very painful it is to face a bright light alter having been in tbe dark, take a walk some dark night for a short time, till the eye becomes accnstomed to the dark­ ness, then drop snddenly iuto some well- lighted room and you will be scarcely able to see for a few moments in tbe sudden light. You know how painful it is to your­ self, then why have your hor-te repeatedly to bear such unnecessary pain? A dark stable is invariably a damp one, and Ruch stables we are not yet willing to put either a valuable working or driving horse in. Give good ventilation, let the sunshine and the air have a chance to effect an entrance, and your stables will be purer nnd more The petition alleges that during the past , l£, ,, .„ . . - three years iiothacker has been incapable ,eai' J n if you take siich pains to ex of supporting himself; that he has been c'nde , <?*n.6,1 t>°°" influence they in- much of the time an habitual drunkard; variably bring. f. that he treated his wife with extreme cruelty aud has no love for his children; that in August, 1883, he brutally assaulted his wife, making her seriously sick, and has continued to do so at short intervals since his marriage; that during her last illness he left the city, leaving a note for his wife, which read: "I shall never come back." Many other allegations of a like nature are contained in the petition. The ease comes up for hearing April 10. . THE BELL MONOPOLT. Government Casea to H« Brought Soon Will Have Stronger Kvidenoe* The indications are that the decision of the United States Supreme Cwrt in the Bell telephone suit will not interfere with the prosecution of the so-called Govern­ ment cases. The Government case, which will probably be set for an early hearing now that the other cases are out of the way, has been carefully worked up by able law­ yers, some of whom pfofess to be willing to sxake their professional reputation on the result, nnd are not dismayed by the re­ cent decision. ̂ Dust. At nil times unwholesome, when damp­ ness gets hold of this dust it ferments, de­ cays, and becomes posit.vely poisonous; and this must needs happen on any rainy day, on foggy mornings, on dewy nights, and at that season of the year when the dampness seems to penetrate the house and it is not yet time to light the fires that might diy it out or hinder it. The rooms of a dwelling house, then, cannot be kept too thoroughly well swept and dusted off, in order that the least possi­ ble deposit of dust may be lelt in them. Many housewives thiuk that the less the dust is stirred in sweeping, the better the work is done, and teaieaves, and wet grass, and moistened meal are thrown about the floor in order to gather the dust aud pre­ vent it from rising. But people giving the matter philosophical attention have come to the conclusion that precisely the oppo­ site course is the fit and proper one; that a good stirring up, and then a good blowing out is what the dust needs, and that with a wind blowing unobstrucledly through the room as thoroughly « wind can be: " to Wow.--Exchange ' ; % each measure called up. After a long debate the time-limitation clause waa stricken out *H the resolution was adopted. In pursuance of the terms of the resolution the floor was accord­ ed to the Committee on Labor aud bills were passed for the protection in their wages of me­ chanics, laborers, and Bervants in the District of Columbia and the Territories, and extending the provisions of the eight-hour law to letter- carriers. Bills were reported to the House for the erection of public buildings at Sterling, Til Kichmond, Ind., and Burlington, Iowa. THE following bills were passed by tbe Senate on March 21: To allow soldiers and sailors who j have lost both hands, or the use of both hands, a pension of $100 a month; House bill to facili­ tate the prosecution of works projected for im­ provement of rivers and harbors; House bill to divide the great Sioux Indian reservation Into separate smaller reservations. Senator Maa- derson introduced a bill to appropriate 9130.000 for quarters and barracks at the Hampton, Mil­ waukee, and Leavenworth branched of the Na­ tional Soldiers' Home. A minority report was presented from the Senate Com­ mittee on Territories opposing the annex­ ation ot the Idaho Pan-handle to Wash­ ington Territory and favoring the admission of the latter Territory with its present boundaries. The House passed bills to prevent the product of convict labor from being furnished to or for the use of any department of the Government, 1 ."j i p •ir, i