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^Jtgcnrn § laraflcaltr J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Publisher. 1S6BRNRY, C. LL 4 ILLINOIS. THE WORLD OVER. ••T- MIRROR OP THE OCCURRENCES OP A WEEK. tkta(i *tat Do Happm--A. Owuplti* Itocort of IntontUBf Event* th« World Over -- Shocking Accidents, 8tartUn| OrimM, and Other Topics. FILIBUSTERING TACTICS. |1M Speaker of the Hons* and Hla Hunt for a Quorum. . Igr the Senate, on the 10th inst., Mr. Flumb's resolution to recommit the Iank- ruptcy bill to the Judiciary Committer with instructions to antond.it by making it ap­ ply to voluntary bankruptcy only was taken up, and aftor discussion the bill was placed on the; calendar without action. House bill to reduce the amount of United States bonds to be required of national banks and to restore to the channels of trade the excessive accumulations of law­ ful money in the treasury having been reached on the calendar. Mr. Slier- man said he believed its passage would tend very .much to uulet even the present, agitation in the n.oney market. Mr. l'lumb said the bill had to a certain extent »ner;t. but feared that it would finally result in a contraction of the currency. After further discussion the bill went over. Adjourned. In the House the day was spent in roll calls, the Speaker's count of a quorum beirig several times questioned and tellers being appointed to verify the count.- The question of Venable being duly elected was lost--4 to 153--but on ati attempt to declare Venable not elected the quorum was lost. By unanimous consent the House took a recess, the evening session to I e for the consideration of private pension bills. At its evening session the House postponed un­ til tne 24th inst. the bill granting pen­ sions to the widows of Gens Met li'llan, Fremont, and Crook. Seventy-two private pension bills were pa$s~'d, and the House, at 1:30. adjourned. road near Tannery Creek, N.J., by a flagman who had been sentbacfe to stop a train falling asleep on the tfaclc. He Was run Over and killed. IK his office at Uoston, Dr. E. M. Fer­ ris, a wealthy resident of Brookllne, Mass., committed suicide with a revolver. HOBACK M. POKTKR, a son of General Horace Porter, died in Philadelphia of typhoid fever, aged 25 years. Tho de­ ceased had been employed by the Read­ ing Railroad Company. AT Portsmouth, N. H., Prod Rein, a cooper, enraged Over the conduct of his wife, who had deserted him, fatally shot Charles W. Taylor, a stone dealer, of whom he was jealous, next shot his three daughters, killing two of them, and then committing suicide. THE J. H. Salter Silk Company of Boston has made an assignment. AT N<!W York the stable and cooper- shop of Valentino Loewer's Gambrinus brewery was destroyed by fire and two employes, Conrad Hosboek and Chris Tschanlon, perished in the flames. Emit Goldenburg and Casper Stapf were also seriously burned about the head. DION ItorcJcAi-I.T, the playwright and actor, died in New York after a long illness. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. BASE-BALL WORLD. tttr of the Clnb* in the Variom L°amifts. I 105 \\ estcn Kas. Citv Minn eft] Milwai) Deliver Sioux Ci Oiuaha Lincoln bt. Paul %»c. Players' W. .653 Boston 75 .*•12 Brooklyn ... 72 .6W, New York.. .69 .60) Chicago C9 .5rt> Philtul'lphiatt'l .407 Pi tt bburg .. .53 .317Cleveland...4S J67 i Buffalo..... .33 c. i American. W. <>5;'Louisville.. .73 t>4:i St. Louis 67 t>40 Coluuibus. ..t>5 ,4..i Kochester. .•.53 410 'Toledo 57 ,422 Athletic 55 Syracuse 11 815. Baltimore. ..30 V c- .636 .590 .575 .539 ' .529 .453 .403 .273 c. .646 .583 .570 .386 .509 .432 .404 .255 COMMERCE. Business AftVetd bv the Abieneo of a Wheat Movement. R. G. Drx & Co.'s weekly rovii trade says: The root of the present financial diffi­ culty is that wheat is t;uo:ed at 03% cents at Chicago, 81.02*4 here, and only about SI.03 at Liverpool for the same grade, so that no free and natural movement to the seaboard, or hence to Europe, can t ike place. Similar objects check the move­ ment of some other products. Ex­ ports of wheat and corn are not half tht»se of last year at corresponding dates, while imports are coming forward in large volume, anxiety to get goods eutered here before the new tariff goes into effect being great. The interior money markets are generally closer, with the strong de­ mand which an unprecedented volume of business naturally causes. The business failures during the last seven days number 190, as compared with 193 last week and 203 the week previous to the last. For the cor­ responding week of last year the figures were 198. I. « AH AWFUL LOSS Oft LIFE. The Turkish Man-of-War Krtojtroul Founders and 500 Perish. ADVICES from Hiogo state that the Turkish man-of-war Ertogroul has foundered at sea. and that 500 of her crew were drowned. Osman Pasha, whose victory over the Russians at Plevna gave him high rank as a lighting general, was on board and was lost. He had been on an official visit to Japan, having been intrusted with a special mission from the Sultan to the Mikado. The Ertogroul was a wooden frigate- built crusier of 2,344 tons displacement. She mounted forty-one guns of small caliber and was built in 1863. Davis for Director General. COL. GEORGE R. DAVIS, of Chicago, has been elected Director General of the World's Columbian Exposition. He was recommended by the Directors of the Exposition Company at their last meet­ ing, and was, after a good deal of dis­ cussion regarding the merits of other candidates, elected to the vitally im- 'portant place of Director General. His election was unanimous. Confirmations THE Senate has confirmed the follow­ ing api ointments: Theodore M. Schleier, of Tennessee, Consul at Amsterdam; Charles R. Nunemacher, Postmaster at Ashland. Kan.; Charles Scoville. Sur­ veyor of Customs, Evansville, Ind. Cyclon? In l< wa. REPORTS of a cy'one near Manning, 'Iowa, have been confirmed. William Ferry and chijd were killed and a num­ ber injured. The loss of property will amount to several thousand dollars" R"Cgniz*« lb* Brazilian R>pnblic THE last oflicial act of Senhor Iiibeiro as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portu­ gal was to recognize the Government of Brazil. Senhor Frenas has resigned as Portuguese Minister to England. Preparing for Troubl • In Australia. AT Sydney, N. S. \\\, two thousand special constables have been enrolled. The labor conference has finally decided to call out the shearers and carriers. •'inelnnatl'j Population. THE population of Cincinnati is an­ nounced as 296,309, an increase of 41,170. Used the Mail? to Defraud. CJIAS. S. WALI.BOKX was arrested at, Birmingham, Ala., charged with using the mails for fradulcnt purposes. His letter-heads represented him to be the representative, of the "American Timber Land Company," with a capital of $10,- 000,000. No such company exists. Colorado Republican Nominations. THE Colorado Republican State Con­ vention at Denver nominated John L. Routt for Governor, William Storey for Lieutenant Governor, and John H. Fcss- Ifer for Auditor. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. A FIGHT occurred in a Polish Hebrew church in Trenton, N. J., during a New Year's celebration. THE chances of the Lynn (Mass.) mo- rocco strikers winning arc growing less every day. Applications for work are coining in from Canada and Germany. THE American Gynecological Society Is holding its fifteenth annual meeting *t Buffalo, N. Y., with President John ••P. Reynolds, of Boston, in the chair. A COLLISION between freight trains MM caused on the Pennsylvania Rail- AT St. Louis a fatal and disastrous fire occurred, in which Fireman1 Dan Lynch was killed and James Owens badly but not fatally hurt. The fire was in the T. O. P. Peckham Candy Company's fac­ tory, which was burned. Loss, $135,000. AT Denver (Col.) a "hustler" sitting on the top of one of the cages of a circus, with his leg dangling down tho side, at­ tracted the attention of a liOn. The beast reached out with one of his claws and fixed its nails in the man's log near the knee, and stripped the flesh from the bone to the heel, and before the poor fel­ low could be released it was necessary to pry the beast's jaws open with iron bars. THE ejectment suits brought by the Wisconsin Central Company against squatters on land near Ashland have been decided against the railroad com­ pany by Justice llarlan, of the United States Supreme Court. The suit in­ volved a title to 23*000 acres. Dn. GEORGE MOYNEAUX, ouce a talented physician of Paris, France, lies dying at the County Hospital, in Chica­ go, a victim of the morphine habit. AT Grand Mound, Iowa, a man calling himself J. W. Deaven shot and instantly killed the wife of W. M. Langdon, a well-known railroad contractor, and was himself almost immediately shot dead by Langdon. COUNTERFEIT $10 greenbacks are be­ ing circulated at St. Louis and the police are after the gang which is successfully shoving the spurious money. So far as Is known the bills are uttered by the same bank, bearing the stamp..of the German National Bank Of New Orleans. ISAAC RiPK. colored, died at Indian- Ind., at the age of 106 years. AT the annual meeting of the Old-Time Telegraphers' Association in Kansas City. W. A. Plum of Chicago was elected President and J. E. Pettitof Chicago was elected Secretary and Treasurer. TIIE other morning, the dwelling of Mrs. J. W. Savage, Park City, Utah, was found to be on fire, and it soon becaino known that her two boys were in the house. One, aged 13 years, was brought out alive, but horribly burned. He died a few hours afterward. The remains of the other wera found in the ashes of the building. BISHOP BUDGE, of the Mormon Church, has been arrested at Paris, Idaho, for frauds committed two years ago in the registry and voting of Mormons. AT the meeting of Ohio wool-growers at Columbus, resolutions were adopted indorsing tho schedule of wool duties contained in the McKinley tariff bill as affording the best protection to be ob­ tained under the circumstance^. The provisions of the McKinley bill arc pro­ nounced wise and patriotic. IT is reported that the schooner Ben Brink was wrecked on the rocks off Eagle Harbor, Lake Superior, and that the crew of five men pel i shed. CABBIE DODD, 15 years old. was as­ phyxiated in a bath-room in her home at Madison, Wis.1? by carbolic acid gas from the gas heater. CONTRACTS for a hospital, two bar­ racks, a dining-room, and other buildings at the Soldiers' Home at Marion, Ind., have been let for $106,625. GEORGE C. YUSGER, who embezzled $3,000 from his employers, O. G. Hemp­ stead & Co., of Philadelphia, is under ar­ rest in Chicago. THE upper house of the Oklahoma Legislature has passed a bill locating the permanent Territorial capital at Okla­ homa City. A NUMBER of business houses at Han- ford, Cal., have been destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $75,000. AT Cleveland, Ohio, while cleaning furniture with gasoline, Mrs. McNatigh­ ten stepped on a match. The gasoline exploded, burning Mrs. Edgar, a domes­ tic. to death, and seriously injuring Mrs. McNaughton and Mrs. Goodhue. THE Utah commission has forwarded to the Secretary of the Interior a lengthy report of its operations and proceedings for the year eqded Sept. 1, 1890. The principal feature of the report is the recommendation of further legislation in support of the existing laws. The? Commissioners say that the practice of polygamy is rather on the increase than the decrease, and that the doctrine is taught in all the Mormon churches. In conclusion, the commission repeats what it said in its last report: "That in this matter the Government and Congress should take no backward or even waver­ ing step, but should continue the active and vigorous enforcement of the laws, and the improvement of them by the amendment of such as would make them more effective, and by enacting such other laws as experience may show to be wise and more efficacious to accomplish the desired end." WILLIAM IIITT, of St. Joseph, Mo., a sufferer from rheumatism, took a sponge bath in alcohol, tlvn stood near an open Stove to dry off. The alcohol took fire and Hitt was so badly burned that he will die. THE total earnings of Michigan rail­ roads for 1889 were $87,219,726, an in­ crease over the preceding year of $7,446.- 318. There were 31,136,050 passengers carried and 54,509,264 tons of freight moved. FRED PAUL shot and killed Mrs. Louis Buclon, near Hear Head, Minn., and cut off her ears. Tho murderer-then went home and shot himself. badly smashed. Fifteen of the passen­ gers sustained injuries. ONE HUNDRED negroes attending a re­ vival at Collirene, Ala., were poisoned by eating pork in which arsenic had been placed. Eight died and twenty others are in a critical condition. THE mare Suisun, owned by J. E. Madden, of Lexington, Ky., has been sold to H. S. Henry, of MorrisvHle, Pa., for $11,000, THE boiler at tho gin house of Hugh Boyce, near Charlotte, N. C., exploded, killing Will Boyce, son of the owner of the gin house, and severely injuring several other people.- AT Jackson, Miss., the Constitutional Convention adopted the fifth section of the franchise bill, which provides that after the 1st of January, 1896, "every qualified elector shall be able to read any section of the constitution of this State, or he shall bo able to understand the same when read to him and givova rea­ sonable interpretation thereof." POLITICAL PORRIDGE. AN Augusta (Me. dispatch says: Of­ ficial returns of the vote for Governor areas follows: Burleigh, 64,199; Thomp­ son, 45,259; Clark, 2,249; scattering, 956. Total, 113.363. Burleigh's plurality, 18,- 940. There has been no change in the list of Senators as published. The next House will stand 110 Republicans to 41 Democrats. THE Massachusetts Democratic State Convention has nominated the following ticket: Governor, William E. Russell; Lieutenant Governor, John W. Corcoran; Secretary of State, Elbridge Cushman; Treasurer, E. L. Munn; Auditor, W. D. Trefry; Attorney General, E. B.- May- nard. ," 1 SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. A MANXINTOX (W.-Va.) dispatch Kays: While two families were trying to f.,rd Pyle's Creek in a wagon the current overturned the vehicle and Mrs. James Hughes and babe were drowned. AN Arkansas City dispatch says: An east-bound, train on the Warren branch of the Iron Mountain Railroad was wrecked. The engine, in passing over a weak rail, broke It, and the baggage car and passenger coach jumped the track. FOREIGN GOSSIP. BANDS of armed men have appeared at Tessoreta, Switzerland, and a bat­ talion of troops have been sent from Berne to aid in dispersing them. At Lugans the shops which have been closed for several days are again opened. THE King of Portugal has accepted the resignation of the whole cabinet. He will confer with the Presidents of the Chambers and leading statesmen. It is expected that Senhor Serpa-Pimental will remain Premie* and will assume the foreign portfolio. A ZANZIBAR cable says: A slave dhow has been captured by British boats, and fifty slaves were rescued. Several shots were fired, one of which killed tho cap­ tain of the slaver, an Arab. The crew swam ashore and escaped. TnE editor of the Cocardic, the Bou- langist organ, has been imprisoned for infringing the press law at Paris. A REPORT is current at Paris that se­ rious fighting has occurred in Lisbon be­ tween the, jjollee and mobs who are intent upon creating disorder, and that the Government has proclaimed a state of siege in the city. IN consequence of his refusal to ac­ cept a challenge to fight a duel, M. C'ani- vet slapped Henri Roehefort in tho face in Ostend. A scuffle ensued between the men, who were finally separated. It is thought a duel for blood will result. NEWS received from Yokohoma states that Lieut,, C. M. Turner, Second Officer of Marines on the United States ship Omaha, committed suicide Aug. 31. He had been in ill-health for some time, and shot himself through the head with a rifle. He leaves a wife and two sons. \( FRESH AND NEWSY. M GEORGE DE HAVEN, Assistant General Passenger Agent of the Erie Railroad, has accepted the office of General Pas­ senger Agent of a system embracing the Chicago and WTest Michigan, the Detroit, Lansing and Northern and the Saginaw Valley and St. Louis Railroad Compa­ nies. His headquarters will be at Grand Rapids, Mich. AT Winnipeg, Manitoba, Cerile Pear­ son, a young Frenchman, was murdered by one Howard, a farmer, during a drunken row. Howard forced the point of an umbrella into the left eye of his antagonist, breaking a blood-vessel and fracturing the bones of the eye and causing almost immediate lockjaw. How­ ard escaped. Tns Treasury Department has de­ cided that the law providing for the ex­ clusion of Chinese contemplates the re­ turn to China, as "the country whence they come," of all Chinese found and ad­ judged to be unlawfully within the United States, and that they should be returned to China via San Francisco. OFFICIAL figures published at Ottawa show that while Canada in 1888 imported 2,134,764 tons of hard coal, tho imports during 1889 fell to 1,276,085 Jons. THERE is every reason to believe that within a short tima tho St. Paul & Duluth Road will have passed under the control of the Northern Pacific. THE Board of Trustees of tho now Chicago University have accepted an ad­ ditional bequest of $1,000,000 from John D. Rockefeller and have elected Prof. William Rainey Harper, of Yale, Presi­ dent of the institution, Cor*. EDWARD P. VOLI.UM has been nominated as Chief Medical Purveyor of the Army, and Lieutenant Colonel B. J. D. Irwin to be Surgeon with the rank of Colonel. MAltKET REPORTS. . CHICAGO. CATTLE--Common to Prime $ 3.25 ® 5.59 HOGS--Shipping Grade* 4.00 & 5.00 SHKKF 8.50 (U. 5.0J WIIKAT-NO. 2 B«D irfv, .98>9 CORN--Nos 2 46 "(if OATB--NO. 2 KYIS--No. 2 .60 <4 B CT[EH--Choice Creamery CHEKSE--Full Cream, flat* Boos--Fresh POTATOES--Hebron, per bu INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping HOOK--Choice Light SHEEP-Common to Prims WHJCAT--No. 2 Ked CORN--No, 2 White OATS--No. 2 White HI. LOUXtt CVTTLK Hoon WHKAT--No. st Red CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 lt*K--No. a CINCINNATI. CATTLE Hooh BHEKP WHEAT--No. 3 Red CORK--No. 2. OAT-i--No. ii MUed MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring.. CORN--No. 3 OTAH--No. 2 White BARI.ET--No. 2 Ryk--NO. 1 DETROIT. CATTLK HOGS SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White TdLKDO. WHEAT COMN--Canh OATS--No. 2 White BUFFALO. CATTLE--Good to Prime Hoos-Medium and Heavy WHEAT--No. 1 Hard CORK--No. 2 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Common to Prime HoAs--Light BUKEP--Medium to Uood LAMBS . NEW YORK. CATTLB Hoos SHEEP WHMAT--No. 2 IWd.... CORN--No. 2 .19 .08 .17 .80 3.50 8.00 8.50 .97 .48 47 .S7*$ .02 .2*2 ,0» .18 .85 CP 5.00 5.00 & 4.75 • .mm <9 .40 .S7*m .as 8.50 6 5.03 4.M) m 4.76 .99 9 1.00 .44^0 Vi .as a .37 .60 <a .61 2.(0 S.90 3.01 .M .50 ,X> e 4.00 9 5.00 A 4.0J <6 1.01 • .51 9 .40 .96 9 .96 .48 i<9 .49 .88V:><9 .mi ,C6 (9 .63 9 .65 ' 8.00 9 4.75 3.00 9 4.50 8.00 9 4.53 .97 ̂ .08 .49 9 .01 .40 9 .41 .97*9 .M rolled down the embankment and were j OAT»-- N©.^ .49 .83 4.00 4.75 1.13 .01 8.50 4.25 4.2S 4.00 8.00 4.50 4.00 14S .86 < .41*4 9 0.0) 5.23 9 1.15 <0 .51}$ 9 4.75 9 5.00 «t 5.25 9 e.oo 9 o.oo 9 0.25 9 6.00 9 1.03 .*7 .w WIIX MANAGE THE FAIR TH*{ 'feXECUTIVE COMMITTEE v APPOINTED. BLAINE'S IDEAS AGAIN. CASH MORE PLENTIFUL. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. Thlrtm Republican* and Thirteen ommt* Compose TtiU important Body, with Palmer at It* llead--The Woman'! Itoarri of Managers. The National Hoard of World'* Fair Commissioners have been holding: ses­ sions in Chicago since the 15th Inst.. On the l?th President Palmer announced his selection of the executive committee. This committee; will name a director- general, and by virtue of its position will be the most important in connec­ tion with the exposition. The com­ mittee will no doubt be accepted by the commission without opposition's named by the president. The committee named is as follows: Mark L. McDonald. California; R. C. Kern-, Missouri; Henry Exall, Texas; P. A. B. Wldoner, Pennsylvania, all of whom aro commissioners-at-largo; John T. Harris, Virginia; William J. Sewell, Now Jersey; 1{. Ji. Smalley, Vermont; E. It. Martindale, Indiana; John Boyd Thatcher, New York; Adlai T. Ewing, Illinois; William 8. King, Iowa: H. G. Clapp. Ohio; L. McLaws, Georgia: Francis Breed, Massachussets; Euclid Martin, Nebraska; R. R. Price, Kansas*. M. D. Harrison, Minnesota; James E. Butt, West Virginia; P. L. Williams, Tennessee: Joseph Hirst, Florida; It. L. Saunders, Mississippi; L. II. Hershfidd, Montana; K. 8. Goodell, California: A. B. Brlttan, District of Columbia, and James A. Mc- Kenzie, Kentucky. Apulause greeted tho reading of the names of this important committeo and several commissioners wished to pass resolutions thanking Mr. Palmer for his excellent choice. "Silent approval will^sult mo Just as well," remarked tho president. The executive conimitloj is com­ posed of thirteen Democrats and thir­ teen Republicans. The reading of the minutes was dis­ pensed with and the report of tho com­ mittee on rules, by-laws, and regula­ tions of the by-laws for the government of the commission was submitted. The committee on site and local facilities astced for a short delay before presenting its report, which was granted. The committee on rules, by­ laws, and regulations reported the rules for the government of the commis­ sion. Tho portion of the report dwell­ ing on the executive committee was: "There shall be an executive commit­ tee, consisting of twenty-six members, of whom tho president shall be oue and ex-nfficlo chairman, and the remain­ ing twenty-live shall be by him ap­ pointed in accordance with the spirit of the act oT Congress. The said commit­ tee, when the commission is not In ses­ sion, shall have all Alio powers of the national commission, except in cases of which the act of Congress requires the action of the commission or majority of the commissioners. A majority of its members shall constitute a quorum, and the committe may make such regu­ lations for its own covernment and ex­ ercise of its functions through the medium of such sub-committee as it wav consider expedient. This com­ mittee shall select such employes and agents as may be necessary, shall de- line their duties and fix their compensa­ tion. They shall report fully all their transactions to the commission at its stated and special meetings. In case of any vacancy in tho committee the same shall filled by appointment by the president. "Salaries of Officers--Annual salaries shall be paid to the president, secretary and director-general, as follows: "To the prosident, a salary of $12,000. "To the secretary, a salary of $10,000. "To the tho director-general, a salary Of $15,000, , "And stfch salaries shall commence to accrue from the date each has assumed or shall assume the duties of his office. "Special Meetings--Special meetings shall be hold upon the call of the presi­ dent, and such call therefor mav be made on his own motion, and'shall be made at the written request of the ex­ ecutive committee, or of one-third of the members of the commission, and reasonable notice and the time and i>!ace of such meeting shall be given to eacii commissioner." McKen/le, of Kentucky, offered an amendment to tho report, which would make the committeo on legislation em­ brace the two alternates from each State and Territory as well as the two commissioners. The duty of this com­ mittee is to havo consideration of all matters pertaining to National, State, Territorial, or Municipal legislation affecting the exposition. Mr. McKon- zie's motion was carried. The duties of the alternates as defined by the committeo on rules and by-laws arc: "An alternate commissioner shall as­ sume and perform the duties of the commissioner whose alternate ho is only when his principal may be unable to attend the meetings of the commission. Service upon standing or special com­ mittees shall not devolve upon an alter­ nate commissioner whose principal is a member thereof, unless in the absence of such principal service upon such committee shall be specially assigned to the alternate by the commission." A long discussion ensued over tho board ot lady managers, finally result­ ing in the adoption of the following rule: The board of lady managers shall consist of two women from each State and Territory and the District of Col­ umbia, four-at-large, and also nine women of the city of Chicago,and a like number of alternates, who shall assume the duties and functions of such princi­ pals only when the principals are un­ able to attend. The board of lady managers shall order of tho executive commission at such times and places as they may deem proper, and at tho firat meeting organize by the election of a chairman and secretary. The duration of such first meeting,as well as the num­ ber and duration >>f subsequent meet­ ings, shall bo under the control and be determined by said executive commit­ tee. The members of this board shall be officers of tho commission and shall perform such duties iu connection with the woman's department of the exposi­ tion as said executive committee shall prescribe. Each member of the board shall be entitled to receive $<$ a day for each day necessarily absent from home THE SECRETARY OP STATE WfilTESONRECIPROCHTV. ' V-.'1. ' " ;:5 • , •' Why Thin Pol try Should Be Entered Into at Once with the Adoption of the Fend­ ing Tariff Hlil--The West to Be Particu­ larly benefited. Boston dispatch: The following let­ ter dated at Bar Hafbor, Maine, is given out for publication: "Col. AV. W. Clapp, Editor Boston Journal--My Dear Sir: I am 'In receipt of your favor asking me if 1 can attend the annual banquet of the Boot and Shoe club of Boston in October. You add that the members are 'In hearty sympathy with my views regarding the best method of extending American trade, and would be glad to have me address them.' "1 regret that my engagements will not permit me to accept the invitation, but you will please thank tbe club for the compliment they pay me. I am glad to hear that tho members of the club are interested in a system of re­ ciprocal trade with Latin America. They can do great good by counteract­ ing a certain phase of New England opinion, entertained at home as well as iu Washington--an opinion which 1 must regard as in the highest degree unwise and hurtful to New England interests. N^w England is to receive in the new tariff the amplest protection for every manufacturing industry with­ in her borders, both great and small, and it will, In my judgment, be both In­ expedient and injurious for her repre­ sentatives to disregard a measure which will promote Western interests. '•'I havo lately received a letter from Mr. J. F. Imbs of St. Louis, a leading representative of the flour interests and president of the late convention of millers at Minneapolis. Speaking for the grain and flouring interest of that great section Mr. Imbs says that 'ad­ vices of recent date from Cuba state that the duties now collected on Ameri­ can flour are at a higher rate than was first supposed to be tho case.' And he adds; 'I respectfully submit that the American miller will bo unable to re­ tain any part of the Cuban flour trade unless immediate relief is secured.' "In viow of theso facts Is it possible that a protectionist Congress can even think of opening our markets to Cuba's products free whilo allowing a great Western interest to bo absolutely ex­ cluded from her market by a prohibi­ tory tariff? With reciprocity the West can annually sell many hundred thous­ and barrels of flour in the markets of Cuba and Porto Rico, together with a large mass of other agricultural pro­ ducts. Without reciprocity she will be driven more and moro from those mar­ kets. "Giving the fullest protection to ail Eastern interests, as tho proposed tarifl does, surely no man of good judgment, certainly no protectionist of wise fore­ cast, wishes to expose a Western in­ terest to serious injury, especially when it is manifestly easy to protect and pro­ mote it--manifestly easy because at this very time tho boards of trade, the cham­ bers of commerce, and public opinion in Havana are demanding reciprocal trade with tho United Stales. I select Cuba and Port Rico for examples be­ cause in certain quarters it has been said that, while wo might secure reel- procy with some little countries In South America, wo could do nothing with the Spanish islands. Let us at least give the Spanish islands an opportunity to speak for themselves. "Certain wise men ask: How can we sell farm products in South America wheu the same things are uroduced there? Cereals are undoubtedly grown In the southernmost parts of South America, but the wise men will remem­ ber that cereals and sugar do not grow in the same soil, and that the sugai countries of South and Central America and the West India Islands contain 40,- 000,000 of people, who import tho larg­ est portion of their breadstuffs. Indeed, the largest,part of the suzar product ol all Latin America Is at our doors, and we can greatly enlaree our exchanges there if Congress will give us tho op­ portunity for reciprocal trade. "Another class observe that they want time to study the system. To this I might reply that the best method of studying a system is to observe its practical workings. W'hilo studying in the abstract and refusing to take some object lessons, these gentlemen propose to open our markets to Latin-American products, free of all charge, without asking Latin America to eive us iu turn some freedom' in their markets. The object lesson • immediately before us is the treatment of the sugar ques­ tion. Shall we make Latin America a gift of that trade? When' we have studied thai lesson we shall be pre* pared for the second. "The worst proposition Of all is put forward by those who say: 'Let us put sugar on the free list now and next year wo will take up the subject of recip­ rocity.' If I understand their logic it is to make sugar free this year without condition and next year to ask Spain if sh« will not kindly consent to grant us reciprocal trade. Holding the complete vantage ground ourselves, tUe,proposed policy transfers the vantage ground to Sp^in. Instead of granting favor to Spain to-day we aro to ask her for a favor to-morrow. Those who take this ground belong to that class of careful guardians of property who prepare a very strong lock for the stable after the horse is gone. "I do not uiean,In anything I have said, to imply that reciprocity is only a Western Interest. As I remarked in a note to Senator Frye, It will prove bene­ ficial and profitable both to tho farm REVIEW OF THE COUNTRY'S COMMERCIAL SITUATION. and the shop. What, for instance, could be "convoned "bv th« 1 bo moro liatur«al or ««oro just than that it?vc committee of this | 1» a In the United States to hides from the Argen­ tine Republic wo should ask the Argen­ tine Republic to give a better market than we now have for the product of leather from the United States? Tho many forms In which our business in­ terests will be promoted by reciprocity cannot be known until the active com­ mercial men of the United State* shall have developed those forms by investi­ gation and experience. We shall r-ot realize tho lull benefit of the policy in a day or a vear, but shall we therefore throw awav countless millions ot trade, in addition to the $f0,000.000 we hate already thrown away, and then Ig- engaged 'in'theVoVk ofYhe commls'sTonT 1 "orantly declare, without trial that the * 1 .| _ ' avetatn urnit * lirAnlrO and also the expenses for transoorta- ; tiou actually Incurred by her on that | account. The alternates shall receive no compensation nor expenses , for j transportation except in cases whore their principals are unable to attend to tho duties assigned to them." j The executive committee of tho national commission gave the local : board till Friday morning to present a candidate for director-general, and if I the local board fail to do so the nation* al executive committee will proceed to make a selection for that place. Tommy'* Heason. Physician--Open your mouth, Tom­ my, and swallow the medicine down. Tommy (aged 6 years)--I don't want to. ^ Physician--"Why not, Tommy? Tommy--Boo too! 'Cause I don't rant to die.--Areola Record. svstem won't work? "Finally, there is one fact that should have great weight, especially with the protectionists. Every free­ trader in the Senato voted against tho reciprocity provision. The free-trade papers throughout the country are showing determined hostility to It. It is evident that the free-trade Senators and tho free-trade papers havo a specific reason for their courso. They know and feel that, with a system of reciprocity established aud growing, their policy of free trade re­ ceives a most serious blow. The pro­ tectionist who opposes reciprocity In the form in which it is now presented knocks away one of the strongest sup­ ports of his system. The enactment of reciprocity is the safeguard of protec­ tion. The defeat of reciprocity is th«- opportunity of free trado. "Yours verv rospectluily, "JAJUCS G. BLAIHK" The Money Market Stringent at Moat Im­ portant Commercial Crmtmrm--Specula­ tion Said to Be the Cause--Government iSITorU to Relieve the Stringency. Dnn's weekly review of trade has this to say: "The last week has fully lustlfled those who gave warning that.the money ease, caused by treasury disbursements, could be but temporary. The market here has been tight; with extreme rates paid in some cases. At Boston and Phil­ adelphia monetary pressure also affects business; at Chicago the. market; is somewhat firmer and tbe demand ac- tiye; at St. Louis stiff at 7 to 8 per cent; at Kansas City more firm; at Omaha a trifle close, but fairly supplied.'at Mil­ waukee very active and to some extent disturbed by a large lumber failure in the Interior; at Detroit the demand is strong at 7 per cent; at Cleveland the tightness -is rightly ascribed to the volume of business; at Pittsburg the de­ mand is fair at to 7 per cent, and only at New Orleans of the cities leportinsr is the market easier. •'The immediate fright at New YorK was about supposed eonrmous demands for payment of duties If the new tariff should go into effect Oct 1. The fact, as officially reported, is that less than $9,000,000 will pay full duties on all goods in warehouse on which the rates have been increased, but no one sup­ poses that the entire quantity would be taken out, and meanwhile the treasury is now offering to pay out$20,000,000 for 414 per cents and $33,000,000 more in pre­ payment of interest on the4>£ per cents. If there were no speculative tendency interfering with free movements of crops, commercial bills would soon draw money from abroad, but an unfavorable crop report causes higher prices for staples, and prior to that the exports had been verv light, prices here being too high for foreign markets. '•The business failures occurring throughout tho country during the last seven days number 19H, as compared with 203 the previous week and 19« the week previous to that. For the corres­ ponding week of last year the figures were 193." Washington dispatch: Gen. Nettle- ton, Assistant Secretary of tho Treasury, in response to inquiries has Issued the following information: "The Treasury Department to-day, in addition to Its regular disbursements, which were unusually heavy, paid out $2,348,539 on account of bond purchases and advance Interest as follows: Inter­ est prepaid, $2,0»>?,000; redemption of 4)£s, $335,505, purchase of 4 per cents $750,000. The 4 per cents purchase to-day were accepted at 125. This is the first considerable purchase of 4 per cents for some time, and the price paid is 1 per cent above that hitherto paid under tho circular of July 19. It is thought that there may be an impression amone hold­ ers of 4 per cent bonds that the govern­ ment has withdrawn from the market for 4 per cents. This is not the fact, as the treasurer is ready to take a considerable amount of 4s if they are to be had. "The inquiry instituted yesterday by the Secretary of tho Treasury developed the fact that the total balance of duties due on all imported merchandise in bond at the port of New York on Oct. 1 was only $17,500,000. Only a moderate por­ tion of these goods will be subjcct to in­ creased duty under the schedule in the new tariff bill. These facts would seem to indicate that anxiety based on this feature of the situation has been largely without foundation. "As a further measure of relief, in so far as the existing stringency can rea­ sonably be said to be due to the inevit­ able operations of existing laws govern­ ing the collection and disbursement of the government revenue the Treasury department will not hesitate to apply such effective remedies as the law per­ mits and the situation requires. The Secretary of the Treasury on his return to Washington from New England will be in New York to-morrow and will adopt such a courso as shall seem to him timeiy ana calculated to meet the diffi­ culty as it exists." Cresson (Pa.) dispatch: The Presi­ dent is watching the tone of the money market with a view to meeting any further emergencies. He swent nearly two hours yesterday conferring by tele­ graph with the Treasury Department. The result was the issuance of orders by tbe President to anticipate the inter est on outstanding currency «> per cent bonds to an amount not exceeding $5,000,000; to offer to pay 125 for out­ standing 4 per cent bonds instead of 124, the rate heretofore offered. PROTEST AGAINST THE GRANT. Coffee Merchant* Object to Privileges Given Promoters of Auctions. Rio Janeiro cable: The coffee mer­ chants met iu this city the other day to protest against the grant made oy the government to the organizers of the proposed coffee auctions of the privi­ leges of shipping coffee sold at those auctions without immediate payment of export duties. This grant, which al­ lows the first payment on account of the duty to be make at the^ end of two years, and the other payments gradually thereafter, is called by an evening paper a usurpation and a scandal. Ono of the grounds on which the minister of finance attempts to justify his meas­ ure is the assertion that within a few months congress will approve tho con­ stitution published by the government abolishing export duties. This paper asks him whether he thinks the future congress so servile that he can antici­ pate its action. It is stated that the person obtaining the grant is a relative of Deodoras. THREE INDIANS KILLED. MEASURES CONSIDERED AMD ACTED UPON. The Prairie Band of Pottawattamie* Wind Up a Council with a Bow. Topeda (Kan.) dispatch: Information has been received here that the council of the Prairie Band of the Pottawat- tomles, held a few days ago on tbe reservation in Jackson county, this State, terminated in a row, in which three of the leaders were killed and several others wounded. There are two bands, one known as the Little Soldiers, composed of all Indians, and the other known as the Big Soldiers, composed of full-bloods, half-bloods and squaw men. The trouble grew out of the President's order to sectlonize, for the consideration of which the council has been called. The Little Soldiers' band favor obeying the President's order which the Big Soldiers' band oppose. The Failor Prince In a Bow. Montreal (Que.) dispatch: Prince George had an exciting adventure here a few nights ago. With one of his lieutenants he started out as a sailor to do the town. They were attacked by six ruffians who demanded money, and being hard pressed stood back to back and fought their assailants. Three of the ruffians were laid low by the Prince, and two by the lieutenant. Then a policeman coining along and seeing live men stretched on the ground, arrested tho Prince and his companion and took them to the station. Soon afterward, tne chief being summoned, they were recognized aud released. At thm Mattel's Capitol-What la Beta* *>T tlM Senate and Housa-- OM Matters DtspasaJ Of and XawOaesCwft- sidered. THE Senate, on the 15th Inst., proceeded! to the consideration of sixteen bridge bill* on the calendar and passed the following, among others: Tbe Senate bill to amend the* act of March 3, 1888, tor a railway bridge- across the Illinois River at- a point between. Columbiana, tu Green, and Farrowtown, ini Calhoun County. House bill to construct- a wagon bridge across the Mississippi Klver- at Hauling*. Minn. Senate bill to author­ ize the construction of a bridge across the' Kentucky River and its tributaries. House' bill to amend ihe act of July 10, 1888. au­ thorizing the construction of «,.bridge across the Red River of the North. Senate bill to amend the act of June 19, 187#, to create an auditor of railroad accounts^ Senate 1)111 for the relief of certain officer.* and enlisted men of the First. Kansas Col­ ored Volunteers. House bill to create a. pert of entry at Eagle Pass, Texas, in lieu of Indlanola, Texas. The conference re­ port < n the rsfilroad land forfeiture bill was taken up as the unfinished business, and Mr. Sanders resumed his argument. After remarks by Messrs. Plumb aud Morgan the- Senate adjourned. In the House, Mr. Mc­ Kinley, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported back the tarifl bill with Senata an/endnients, with the recommenda­ tion that ihe amendments be non-concurr?dl In. Referred to the committee of the whole. Mr. McKinley, from tho Committee on Rules* reported a resolution for the immediate con­ sideration of the tariff bill In the House. The resolution provided that "after two ^liours general debate It shall be in order to move to non-concur in the fc-'enate amend­ ments in gros* and agree to the committee of conference asked by the Senate, and the House shall without further delay or other motion proceed to vote on said motion.?' The previous question on the resolution waft ordered--yeas, 116; nays, 71. The resolu­ tion was then adopted--yeas, 114; nays. 72. V ICE PRESIDENT MORTON presided in the* Senate on the 16th inst. The House bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain lands and to grant the proceeds, of such sale to the town of Pelican, Oneida County, Wis., for school purposes was pass­ ed, together with several other unimpor­ tant measures. The conference report otv the railroad land-forfeiture bill was re­ sumed. and after considerable debate a voto was taken and the conference report va» agreed to--yeas. 30; nays. 13--a strict party- vote. The House anti-lottery bill was then, on motion of Mr. Sawyer, taken from th» calendar and passed without a word of discussion. On motion of Mr. Plumb the Senate proceeded to the consideration of the House bill to> repeal the timber-culture laws. Mr. Plumb, who reported the bill back from the Com­ mittee on Public Lands, moved an amend? inent in the nature of a substitute. The substitute was amended and agreed to and the bill passed. A conference was asked on the disagreeing votes, and Messrs. Plumb, l'ettigrew and Walthall were appointed conferrees on tho part of the Senate. Th» Senato then, on motion of Mr. Edmunds, took up from the calendar the Senate bill to establish a United States land court and to provide for the settlement of private land claims In certain States and Territories. The bill having been read was laid over and the Sen­ ate adjourned. The Houso spent the day debating the Enloe resolution regard­ ing Kennedy's speech, which was so modi- lied as to be an expressicn on the part of the House that it "disapproves and condemns'^ Mr. Kennedy's speech and a direction to the public printer to expunge it from the per­ manent Congressional Record. By a vote of 122 to 58 the matter was referred to the Committee on Judiciary. A bill was passed constituting Peoria, 111., a port of delivery. The Speaker announced the appointment of the following conferrees on the tariff billr Messrs. McKinley, Burrows, Bayno, Dingley, Mills, McMillin, and Flower. The llouso then adjourned. THE Senate, on the 17th inst., considered and passed a number of bills on the calen­ dar and then resumed the consideration of the Senate bill to establish a United States land court and to provido for the settle­ ment of private land claims in the State* of Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, and in the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. After a long discussion the bill vfftS laid aside without action. The private' pension bills on the calendar wero taken up and eighty of them were passed in thirty minutes. The Senate then adjourned. In the House, Mr. Haugen (Wte.)- demanded the regular order -- be­ ing the Langston-Venable contested elec­ tion case--but Mr. Payson (111.) interposed with the conference report on the land- grant forfeiture bill. The House decided - yeas, 62; nays, 117--not to consider tho con­ ference report. Mr. llaugen then called up the election case, against which Mr. O'Fer- rall raised the question of consideration. During the roll-call nearly all the Demo­ cratic members deserted the chamber, leav­ ing but a bare dozen present to look out for- their interests. The result of tho vote was announced: Yeas, 136; nays, 15--the clerk noting a quorum. Mr. Haugen immediately demanded the previous question on tho election case, and the direction "All go out," was given by the Democratic managers. It was not necessary to put this direction into force, for after an em­ phatic protest of Mr. Cheadle (Ind.) against the stifling of debate, Mr. Haugen withdrew his demand and proceeded with an argu­ ment of the case. Mr. Cheadle, of Indiana, spoke against the majority resolution and the matter went over. The Speaker an­ nounced his signature to the river and har­ bor appropriation bill aud the House took a recess, the evening session to be for the con­ sideration of bills reported by tho Commit­ tee on Military Affairs. At the evening1 session Mr. Allen (Mich.) presided, tie vera! Senate bills were passed and the House at 10:30 adjourned. IN the Senate, on the ISth inst., the cal­ endar was taken up for an hour and the fol­ lowing bills, among. others, were passed: House bill to amend the articles of war rel­ ative to punishment on conviction by court-martial; Senate bill to provide for the Inspection of live cattle, hogs, and the carcasses and products thereof which are the subjects of interstate commerce; Sen­ ate bill to revive the grade ot Lieutenant- General in the army of the United States;- Senate bill for the relief of women en­ rolled as army nurses; Senate bill granting the right of way to the Sher­ man and Northwestern Railway Company through the Indian Territoryt; the Senato bill appropriating $75,000 for a public build­ ing atyColorado Springs, Col. Mr. Mander- son presented resolutions relative to tho death of the late Representative Laird, and after remarks by Messrs. Paddock and Man- derson the Senate adjourned. In the House, while attempting ta get a quorum for the approval of the journal, the doorkeepers locked the doors to prevent Democrats- leaving the chaml er. Hardly had this been done before Representative Kilgore (Tex.) presented himself at the door on the Speak­ er's left hand and sought to go out into the lobby. He found that the door was loCked, and the doorkeeper refused to unlock it. Mr. Kilgore gave a. sudden and vigorous kick and tho frail baize structure flew open and Mr. Kilgore strode out. He was followed by Representatives Craln (Tex.); Cummlnga (N. Y.), and Coleman (La.), who in turn forced the lock open without opposition from the door-keeper. At tho moment Mr. Kilgore drove the door Hying wide open Representative Dingley (Me.) was approach­ ing from the other side. The do.ir struck him with full force In the face, bruising hla. ncse badly. Further proceedings under the call were dispensed with. The journal was then approved, the Clerk noting a quorum. Mr. Haugen demanded the previous ques­ tion on the Langston-Venable contested election case. On ordering the previous question I ha vots stood: Yeas, 135; nays, 10. This being no quorum, a call of the House was ordered. There were but 151 members present, and the House adjourned. MORSELS OF GAETRONOMY. Nobody who has ever been to sea cares much about rice and prunes on shore. The soft-shell crabs are now expected to crawl out of the gastronomlcal calen­ dar. Oyster paragraphic facetiousness la Id order. Some of It is of the vintage of 1492. " It Is remarkable how disgusting * person at breaitfa»t can. be with a single peach.