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1 - ••• • • H O U S E K E P O K T E R S . ernment has positively determined to re- twenty or more injuria, some or tnea call Capt Gen. Weyler. Getf. Primo de fatally. Rumors come of great destruc- Rivera, it is said, will succeed Gen. Wey- tion at Benton, Ark. The Iron Moun- ler in Cuba. Rivera is a captain genera! tain's south-bound passenger train was in the Spanish army and in favor With the carght In the storm at that station and Canovas government. Minister Taylor, had to be held there until the storm sub- it is said, informed Secretary Olney sev- sided. , It is reported that twenty-five eral days ago that the authorities at Mad- houses were blown down at Benton and rid were on the point of relieving Gen. a number of people injured. Weyler of his command in Cuba and of appointing as his successor Capt. Gen. Rivera. The Madrid government is dis­ pleased at the fact that Gen. Weyler has not ,put "down the Cuban revolt He had expended large sums of money, but so far has made no decided headway in accom­ plishing his main object--that of quelling the insurrection and restoring peace and good order in Cuba. His troops have been victorious on occasions. But they have also met defeat, and the total result, con­ sidering Spain's outlay in life and treas­ ure, is far from satisfactory. Too much may have been expected of Weyler, just as the exaction was too great in the oase of Campos; still, the one great require­ ment--success--has not been fulfilled, and Weyler has consequently fallen in official esteem in Madrid. BACK AT WASHINGTON J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. MARVELIS OF ACCURACY, AND OF PROMPTNESS. OONGRESS AGAIN RESUMES ITS LABORS. ILLINOIS. McHENRY. How Record of Debate* in Congress la Made--Reporters Able to Take Notes Under Any Circumstances, Often 'Mid (Scenes of Greatest Confusion. Senate Joins -with the House in Op­ posing Death Penalty for Certain Crimes--House Is Interested in the Loud Postal Bill. Cleveland's Attitude on Cuba. To recogtffee the independence of tike "republic of Cuba" would'be a farce, be­ cause no such republic exists.--Chatta­ nooga News. If an ambassador of the United States should be sent to communicate with the republic of Cuba where would he find its government- --Indianapolis Journal. President Cleveland, who recommend­ ed in his annual message home rule for Cuba, seems disposed to deny it to the United States.--Troy, N. Y., Press. Secretary Olney has served notice on Congress that, so far as the diplomatic game Is concerned, it.is but the vermi­ form appendix. --New York Evening Jour­ nal. It should Jt»e enough to know that Mr. Olney's claim is inconsistent with our conception of popular government. That fact alone should condemn it--Cleveland Recorder. When we get a President who is too great to be' bound by an enactment of ; Congress it will be interesting to learn just what he thinks can bind him.--New York World. In the game between the administration anq. the Senate on the Cuban recognition question it seems that the former has four aces and the latter a. bobtail.--Des Moines Leader. , Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Olney in resist­ ing this spirit will find themselves sus­ tained, regardless of party affiliations, by men who have most at stake when a war comes.--Louisville Post. If, as Secretary Olney now contends, . Congress can act only in an advisorjf na­ ture. for what reason did tiie President and hii Secretary of State lay the whole subject before Congress?--Spokane Re­ view. ' ' ? . The constitution presents no ground for Mr. Olney to stand upon when he claims that the President of "the United States is supreme in the matter of recog­ nizing Toreign establishments.--Cincin­ nati Enquiier. Some Senators in their eagerness to de­ clare Cuba independent are inspired a deal more by a desire to infringe upon the prerogative of the executive department than by any yearning to help the patriots. --Dallas News. .. The President has a right to veto any resolution sent to him by Congress. He would be a weak-kneed creature if be­ cause he was afraid to exercise it he should suffer this right to fall into dis­ use.--Milwaukee Sentinel. The position assumed by the Secretary of^tate, which was inspired by the Pres­ ident, is not in accord with the spirit of our institutions. It would make the President superior to Congress and in­ deed little short of a dictator.--Quincy Whig. If Mr. Olney's view of the whereabouts of the dividing line between the powers of the President and the Congress is mis­ taken he errs in the company of sdme of his most distinguished predecessors-- William >H. Seward for one.--Hartford Courant. , > This and That. If Spain were to bump up against the Americanbannerit would- see forty-five„ stars.--Philadelphia Times. The six-day bicycle race in Now York City was productive of one .good result. It was a victory for the men who sat vp the straightest.--Chicago Tribune. " It would be embarrassing, indeed, if the dusky Mrs. Dominis should institute a breach of promise suit against the Cleve­ land administration.--New York Evening Journal. - If litigation becomes a regular feature of pugilistic engagements, there may yet be enough ill-feeling engendered to pro­ voke some really serious personal eucjun- ters.--Washington Stnr. The naval court of inquiry has decided that the Texas is all right. Hereafter one test of a vessel's seaworthiness should be her ability to sink when tied up to a dock.--Chicago Record. This is a euphemistic age. A thief now­ adays is called a "kleptomaniac," a mur­ derer is called a "psychic epileptic" and an alderman is called "one of our best citi­ zens."--Chicago Times-Herald. A fashion journal says: "In millinery there are sharp contrasts, but the color­ ing is in general brilliant without being crude or glaring." Bill* are generally plain, and in black and white, following last year'B fashion.--Boston Globe. A good deal of public time could bo saved and a good deal of important busi­ ness could* be facilitated if Congressmen would learn a little something, of the things they have to talk about before making speeches.--Baltimore American. An Eastern manufacturer is said to have discovered a way to make corn­ stalks worth $5 an acre. If he will now discover a way to make the corn worth another #5 many unhappy farmers may see a chance of getting through a hard winter.--Chicago News. ! The convention of Judges which is to meet in Philadelphia might discuss at least two subjects with profit to the peo­ ple of Pennsylvania: "How Can Bullies at the Bar Be Best Suppressed?" and "How to Protect Decent Persons in the Witness Box."--Philadelphia Bulletin. Lillian Russell is highly indignant at the reports that she had married <again. "Why," she exclaims, "I haven't been divorced from Mr.--Mr.--you know whom I mean--my present husband." Which shows a delicate appreciation of the law, becoming rare upon the stage.--Chicago Chronicle. It appears that the Alien Land law of Kansas is not altogether satisfactory to everybody in that State. One "Gene" Ware is quoted as believing that a Kan­ sas man ought to have the right to sell his farm to anybody who will buy it-- "even a Pole from Poland or a Hole from Holland." "Genets" notions of equality are all right, even if he is slightly err a tie- in his derivative adjcctives.-^New York Advertiser. The authorities in Jamaic^have prohib­ ited the importation of cattle from 'Co­ lombia. By way 8f retaliation it is sug­ gested that the Colombian Government should issue a decree against the impor­ tation of laborers from Jamaica, many of whom are now*at work on the Panama Canal. Reports from the State of' Vera Cruz, Mexico, say there is much bitterness be­ tween the Spanish residents and the na­ tives and Indians, the latter being par- tisians oftiuba. At Coatepec recently a priest raised a Mexican flag on his church and the Spania^ls attempted to tear It down. The result was a free fight, in which mauyvheads were broken and one Spaniard was nearly killed. The flag was not removed. A terrible disaster has occurred in the Santa GcrtHisi mine at Pachuco. one of the most famous silver mines in Mexico. From some cause uot-known fire broke out in one Of the levels of the old south­ ern Workings Thursday, shutting off the exit oi" thirteen Mexican miners. Miners on the outside went to work to try to put out the fire and save the men. An En­ glishman, Ned Richards, an experienced miner, went down in charge of the rescue operations, but perished from suffocation. All the Mexicans died from the same cause or from burning. The Cuban provisional government has forwarded a statement of money, muni­ tions of war and provisions furnished for carrying on the war from all parts of the world since July 30, 1805, and up to Nov. 30, 1S90. It was received in Washington a few days ago by Major Patrick of the Cuban commissary department and is for the purpose of showing how the finances have stood since the war began, which, it is believed, will have its effect in obtain­ ing the additional money asked for by the leading Cubans of this country. The statement is also made that when the struggle began General Gomez, the Cu­ ban commander, agreed to serve through the war for $100,000, to be paid in in­ stallments of $20,000 every three months. It is claimed also that he has already re­ ceived $00,000 from the provisional gov­ ernment and that the reminder is now due, and for that reason he has become careless and inactive, which accounts for the present state of affairs. , But this is denied by the Cuban delegates in Wash­ ington, who say that Gomez is doing all that man can do, and is a true patriot, and»is putting life and soul into his work. Following is a recapitulation of the con­ tributions: ° Cities in the United States... .$1,700,000 States outside cities 275,000 Foreign countries 1,229,000 Total $3,210,000 Gonzelo de Quesada writes that if $1,- 000,000 can be secured in the next sixty days three months thereafter the war will be decided in Cuba's favor. But the money is sorely needed and if,jnot fur­ nished it means a struggle with contin­ gencies as well as with the enemy. Less than $400,00(/ has been sent to the army in three months, the report says, and the treasury is entirely empty. IN GENERAL, The steamship Miowera, jnst arrived at Victoria, B. C., from Honolulu, brought advices to the effect that at the time of the vessel's departure from" Hono­ lulu United States Minister Willis was given up by his physicians, and his de­ mise was momentarily expected. Much sympathy was expressed by the residents,, as the Minister was very popular both in. his private life and in his official ca­ pacity. Since the Arbuckles, of coffee fame, entered the sugar field, the sugar trust through employment of the Woolson Spice Compahij' of Toledo, has been cut­ ting prices on coffee, and declares the intention to Either "drive the Arbuckles out of the coffee business or ruin them. Now the Arbuckles have succeeded in getting hold of some Woolson stock, and will throw the concern Into the hands of a receiver, if ruinous prices are made. Nearly every oatmeal and cereal mill, in the United States has just entered into an agreement that amounts to a pow­ erful trust to regulate the output and prices of oatmeal, rolled oats and other breakfast cereals. The new trust, that threatens to squeeze out of existence the smaller mills of the country and make a big advance in prices as soon as the condi­ tion of the trade will allow it, is called the Cereal Millers' Association. Several days ago the representatives of the mills in the trust held a meeting in Chicago, and another meeting probably will be held soon, when it is likely, if the trade outlook has improved by that time, there will be a big advance in prices. The general manager»of the association is George W. Brown, of Sioux City, Iowa, who gets $350 a month for his services. MoBt of the; mills that compose the trust are located in Iowa and in Ohio. The trust already is responsible, it is said, for the big jump of $1 a barrel which rolled oats took in November, and the decline of 75 cents a barrel in Dccvember, which was almost independent of the price of oats at that time. MARKET REPORTS. ORE IS FOUND AT A GREAT DEPTH. The Routine Work. * .7 After< its two weeks* recess Congress has again assembled. Tne Senate Tuesday passed the House bill abolishing the death penalty in a large number of cases. The measure is in the line of recent State laws, abolishing capital punishment and applies the same principle to Federal offenses, although the change is not extended to a total abolition of the death penalty. . The House entered upon its work im­ mediately after reassembling Tuesday by taking up the Loud bill to amend the laws relating to second-class mail matter. The whole day was devoted to general debate on the measure Under a spesial order. Mr. Loud (Cal.), the author'of the bill, was its champion on the floor, and Mr. Quigg (N. Y.) had charge of the opposi: tion. In the Senate Wednesday Cuba was the subject of a speech by Mr. Call. The House bill was passed to provide for the appointment by brevet of active or re­ tired officers of the United. States army. The bill providing free; homesteads for bona fide settlers on public lands ac­ quired from the Indians was taken up hnd debated at length. The joint reso­ lution requesting the British Government to pardon Mrs. Florence Maybrick was indefinitely postponed. The Loud bill to amend the law relating to second- class mail matter was passed by the House after two days of debate. The most importaut provision of the bill de­ nies the serial publications admission to the mails at 1 cent per pound rates. The Pacific Railroad funding Till came up Thursday in the House under a special order which allows two days^for general debate and one day for amendments and debate under the five-minute rule. A huge map of the roads, with their feed­ ers, was hung pp. There were only four speakers--Mr. Powers of Vermont, the chairman of the Pacific Railroad Committee, who opened with an exhaust­ ive two-hour argument in support of the bill; Mr. Hubbard of Missorui, the minor­ ity member of the committee, who has charge of the opposition, and Messrs. Grow, of Pennsylvania and Bell of Tex­ as, who spoke respectively for and against the measure. The Senate had a long and busy session, passing a number of bills on the calendar, including sev­ eral amendments to the law of navigation and also the bill authorizing the Presir dent to reappoint to the navy Commander Quackenbush, whose case has occasioned much controversy. The Senate adjourned until Monday. OPPOSE I-r.EE LANDS. {Deposit Is Over Thirty Feet Wide-- Astoniehine Jail Delivery at Min» neapolis--Farmer Robbed, Disabled, and Laid Upon the Railway Track* Rich Find in Callforal®, / The California mining world has been feet by the ears by the developments in the {Kennedy mine in Grass Valley within the Bast few days. At a perpendicular depth io£ over twenty-one hundred feet a body ©f rich ore, fully thirty-feet in vjidth, has tbeen discovered! In magnitude the ore jbody will compare favorably with any yet sound, and the great depth at which it jies explodes a long-cherished and hereto­ fore believed infallible tradition of the teearch for gold on the Pacific coast It is an old theory, which age has almost (crystallized into a formula, that-gold ore ^disappears after a certain depth has been (attained. The developments in the Ken­ nedy not only topples over this old-time "belief, but may lead to a revolution in mining, for the deeper progress is made In the Kennedy the wider grows the ore Government Should Not Buy Farms to Give Away. A minority of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is d'ecidedly opposed to free lands for settlers. Thereportop- poses the bill on the general grounds of the vast expense its adoption would en­ tail upon the government. Commencing with the year 1889 the government has purchased 33,252,540 acres of land from the Indians, agreeing to pay $25,201,937 for it, besides $3,000,000 set apart as a trust fund for the benefit of the Indians of the Great Sioux reservation. "If," says the report, "all the land already opened to settlement upon Indian reser­ vations heretofore ceded shall be taken up, the sum to be paid therefor by the settlers will be $35,353,000.80. This bill proposes *o release the settlers from the payment of this sum." The report calls attention to the fact that it was provided in the acts bearing upon those settlements with the different tribes of Indians that settlers should pay sufficient for the lands to reimburse the government for the money paid the In­ dians. Several million acres of land are embraced in these pending agreements. The bill as it passed the House applied only to lands in Oklahoma, but by the amendments made by the Senate com­ mittee the provisions of the bill are ex­ tended to all ceded Indian lands, the amount being more than three times that contemplated in the bill as it passed the House. All the lands on the Indian res­ ervation thus opened for settlement have been paid for by the government before the opening of the same, except in the case of the Cherokee outlet, where pay­ ment was to be made in installments, and the sum of $4,980,000 still remains un­ paid, and in the case of the Great Sioux, Chippewa and Golville reservations, where the Indians are to be paid as the government shall receive money from the settlers upon disposal of the lands. Another amendment proposed to the bill in effect requires that the government shall, upon releasing the settlers from payment of their obligations, pay the In­ dians for these lands the sum per acre which by law is now to be paid by the settlers. "If," says the report, "this amendment shall be adopted and the bill pass, the government would be called upou to pay in the future, includin{*Bthe amount not yet due in the Cherokee out­ let purchase, a sum approximating $15,- 000,000." The report calls attention to the fact that negotiations are in progress for the acquisition of other Indian lands, which are being conducted upon the policy that the government shall be reimbursed for its outlays. ' . ... ' ^ Referring to the origin of the bill Sen­ ator Piatt says in his report: "The ex­ citement which preceded the opening of lands in Oklahoma will be still remem­ bered, as will the mad rush scarcely controlled by government authorities to secure these lands upon the well under­ stood conditions of payment for the same in addition to compliance with the pro­ vision of the hotneetead laws. In every dppeal mmle to Congress for the opening of the lands of these reservations the argument that the government-ought not to be put to the large expenditure re­ quired in the payment of the Indians for the relinquishment of their title was an­ swered by those who were advocating and insisting upon the passage of bills for that purpose by saying that it was un­ derstood that the government should be reimbursed by the settlers." Telegraphic Brevities. Willie, Maud, Hall and an infant/sons and daughters of Jesse Goodman, were killed outright in a train wreck at Moor- inghouse. La., The Cardinal Archbishop Sanfeliel, of Naples, is dead. He was born in 183-1 and was created a cardinal at the consis­ tory of March 24, 1884. Forty-four families were driven-out of their homes in New York City* early in the morning, when the temperature was 12 to 14 degrees above zero, by a fire which started on the third floor of no apartment house on West Fifteenth street ; Grace Vaughn, the actress at present with "A Bunch of Keys" company, has filied a suit for divorce in Chicago, agflninst. Andrew Rawson Jennings, son of the Cleveland Standard Oil magnate. The charges contained in the complaint are sensational. ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE. hand skill the representatives of the older systems. * So it happened that when, through con­ gressional subsidies to leading newspa­ pers of Washington, quasi-official corps of reporters were introduced into the Sen­ ate and the H<>uset they wero composes almost entirely of Pitmanic writers, who represented in their work a new era in the history of shorthand. Subsidies soon gave place to formal contracts for com­ plete reports, and the Globe, which in the days of Andrew Jackson and later had been a leading political organ, became in 1848-9, and continued until 1873, under what in those days were deemed liberal contracts, the official repository of the debates. Reporters not strictly officers of Con* gress, but hired by the publishers of the Globe (their appointments, however, re­ quiring the approval of the Speaker, or of the printing committee of the Senate), were admitted to the floor to tjike full notes of the proceedings, which were printed at the office of the Globe, in a building on Pennsylvania avenue, be­ tween 3d and 4% streets, which is still standing. In 1873 the publishers of the Globs failed to obtain a renewal of their con­ tract, and the two Houses took under Chicago--Cat-tie, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades,! $3.00 to $3.75; cheep, fair to choice, $2.00' to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 85c\ corn, No. 2, 23c to 24c; oats, No. 2, 16c! to 17c; rye, No. 2, 38c to 39c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh,. 10c to 17c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to, 30c; broom corci, common green to fine! brush, 2c to 514c per pound. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00' to $3.75;) ,,sheep, good to choice, $2.00 to $3.50 ;i wheat, Np. 2, 89c to 91c; corn, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c. to. 22c. • • - • .i. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs,1 $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 91c to 93c;; corn, No. 2 yellcrw, 20c to 21c; oats,j So. 2. white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 33c, to 35 c. r: Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00;| wheat, No. 2, 94c to 96c; corn, No. 2* mixed, 21c to 22c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 35c to 37c. Detroit--Gattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs,} $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 93« to 95c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 21c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c' -to-21c; rye, 37c to 38c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 ned, 95c to 96c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye. No. 2, 37c to 39c;' clover seed, $5.40 to $5.45. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 79c to 80c; corn, No. 3, 19e to 21e; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; barley, No. 2, 32c to 35c; rye, No. 1, 39c to 41c; pork, mess, $6.25to $0.75. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No, 2 red, 93c to 95c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $4,25; wheat. No. 2 red, 91c to 93c; corn, No. 2, -29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; butter, creamery, 15c to 22c; eggs, West­ ern, 15c to 20c DICTATING TO THE MACHINE, SOUTHERN. - Five negroes in jail at Birmingham, Ala., have confessed to the attempt to wreck the Southern Railway's fast ex­ press from Washington, at McComb's trestle, Dec. 19. It is believed they also caused the wreck on the Birmingham road which killed twenty-eight people. Their intention at McComb's was rob­ bery. A traffic arrangement has been entered into between the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway and the Baltimore and Ohio, j whereby the former company is to enter Cleveland over the • latter line. The Wheeling and Lake Erie company hai been desirous for a long time of having an entrance to Cleveland, and negotia­ tions looking to that end between the two I companies mentioned have been in prog- I ress for the last two years. The new I arrangement, which goes into effect im­ mediately, will give the Wheeling „ and I Lake Erie the shortest route from Wheel- I ing to the lakes, the distance being 140 I miles. ! Southern Arkansas, Northeastern Tex- I as and Northwestern Louisiana were I swept by a terrible wind and rain storm I Saturday evening. Not less than ten and I probably a greater number of lives are I lost So far as heard from the greatest I destruction occurred at Mocringsport, I La., about thirty miles from Texarkana. j the entire town being blown away and I six or eight persons killed outright and Sparks from the Wires. Dr. Pitzer, of Orlando, Fla., set fire to his house when his wife- died, and shooting himself, was cremated with her. In a speech at Omaha, Neb., Senator Thurston said he would welcome a war with Spain. "It woul'd clear up the at­ mosphere," he added. The car barns and repair shop of the Cleveland, Painesville and Eastern Elec­ tric Railway i\t WTlloughby, Ohio, burned. Loss, $50,000; insured. F. M. Johnson, a merchant, was killed and Alonzo Johnson, colored, seriously injured by the. explosion of a soda foun­ tain in a burning building at Miami, Fla. Edward Rogers, his^son Frankie, and a domestic, Miss Minerva Robinson, were drowned at Clayton; N. Y., while trying to cross the St. Lawrence in an ice punt George W. Gilmore, a welathy rancher In Rasvley County, Kas., whs assassinat­ ed, being shot as he sat at his supper table by someone unknown who fired a load of buckshot through the window as he sat at his supper tablr