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8
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June
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1888
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May 81, Sksate.- The conference report on the bilí toestablishadepartmentof labor was agreed to. The senate then proceeded to the oonsideration of senate bill to quiet title of settlers on the Des Moines river land in Iowa. Argument in its favor was made by Mr. Wilson of Iowa, and against it by Mr. Evarts, who favored his own bill proposing to indemnify the settlers on the lands in question. After further discussion the bill was passed- yeas, 28 ; nays, 11. Some minor business was then transacted and after a brief exeeutive ession the senate, ut 5.30, adjourned. Hoi se. - The day was sjvent in debate on the tariff under the Uve-minute rule. JtxEi, HorsE. - The entire session was spent in debate on the tariff bill. Mr. Burro ws (Rep., Mich.) read statement to show the importance of the lumber industry which it was, he said, proposed to strike down. He said that $90,000,000 were paid the laborers in this industry - the third largest in the country- in one year. The statements, he said, had been made not by his (Mr. Burrows') constituent, but by those of Messrs. Tarsney and Fisher. Mr. Cox (Dem., N. Y.,) said that these men were almost all millionaires, men who had made the forests of Michigan almost a calcined desolation. On this point he was a protectionist - he wauted to protect the forests of Michigan froni tho axe. He intimated that it mlght become necegsary to amend the rules to cut off dilato ry motioni. Jixe 4, Senate.- Among the bill reported from committees and placed on the senute calendar was the bill to repeal all preemption and timber culture laws. The senate then proceeded to the consideration of bilis on the calendar, and passed, among others, the following: Senate bill appropriftting #35,000 for an equestrian statue of ex-President Zachary Taylor in thecourtof Washington; senate bill creating an additional retired list of the army for eighty offleers now on the active list but incapacitated for active service ; house bill au thoriiing the President to appoint and retire Altred Pleasonton, with rank and grade of colonel - with an amendment redueiug the grade to that of major; the senate bill authorizing the President to place on the retired list, with the grade of major, Maj.Gen. Wm. M. Averill; house bill to promote agriculture (requiring American consuls abroad to make monthly reports on agriculturaland horticultunil subjeots). The house bill to enlarge the powers and duties of the department of agncu ture and to make it an executive department was recommitted. The house bill to prevent the employment of alien labor upon public buildings or other public works in the various departments of the government went over without action, aud the senate adjourned. Hoise. - The following among other resolutions aud bilis, were introduced and referred: By Mr. Bond of Pennsylvania: Resolution directing an inquiry into the alleged impositiou by the Brazilian government of an excessive export duty on coffee and discrimiuating against American flour in favor of British capitalists. By Mr. Lee of Virginia: To prevent food adulterations. By Mr. Blanchard of Louisiana: To amend the interstate commerce law. By Mr. Dates of Alabama: To restrict the immigration of foreigners into the United States. By Mr. Diugly of Maine: Calliug for information as to whether the Canadian government lias violated the spirit of the treaty of Washington by discriminating against American véasela passing through the Weiland and other Canadian canals. The senite bill makiug inauguratiou day a legal liolida.v was pusseil. After considerable considerable nlibustering on the tariff bill, the house adjourned. Jinf.5, Sexate.- The day was spent in fonsidering the consular and diplomatic appropriatiou bill. Hoi'ük. - The time was divided between reading dispatches from the St. Louis conveutiou and tinkering with the tariff. Sev■ral auicndments to the bill were rejected and several timber clauses were adopted. POLITICAL. The state prohibition convention of Wls■uiisiii at Madisou uominated G. G. Uurant of Hacine for governor by acclamation. T. C. Richmond of Dane wa re-elected chairman of the state central committee. A womuu's suffrage plank was voted down by 168 to 114 when the platform was adopted. The pension fund on band for the June payment in the district including Kansas, ïiebraska, Missouri, Colorado, Indian Terfitory, and New Mexico is $300,000 short, and Pension Agent Glinck of that district has announced that he will be unable to pay vouchers hereafter presented until congress makes an appropriation. The Washington Post claims to have information that two presidential candi dates, one of whom was John Sherman, wrote to Blaine frantically appealing to him to come to the rescue of the republican party and the other candidates by onding the doubt which existed as to his Florence letter. The result was the second and inore definite Paris letter. Florida democrats have nominated Frank P. Fleming for governor. North Carolina democrats have nominated G. D. Fowle for governor. In an interview with a New York Herald reporter the other day, Gen. Alger said : "I have maintained that Mr. Blaine was sincere. I have a true estímate of the character of this great man. When he wrote that the former desire for the presldency had passed away and that he was out of the ranks of the as)irants I believed him. My faith has not wavered since. I had no thought of the nomination for inyself when Mr. Blaine was presumably in the field. The extent of my ambition was tor the vicepresidency. The Florence letter changed the current of my feelings. It wa then a free field and open to all citizens." Gen. Aleer advocated the tariff policy of the republican party, sympathized with Mr. Blaine's views on thefisheries question and regretted that the administration had not evinced a proper regard for the protectlon of the American flag on the high seas. Ex-Congressman Horr oí Michigan, who '■uis been on a lecture tour in Pennsylvania nul Ohio, says Gen. Alger is gaining ground rapidly in those states. The election in Oregon on the 5th Inst., resulted in a victory for republicans. Blaine's friends in Maine are undecided as to whom they will support in the Chicago convention. GENERAL. In Pickens county, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, non-resideuts are opposing the eollection of the tax on stock, and lave organized and armed themselves with Wiiutiesturs. The uiilitia is unable to cope with them, and the aid of the United States will be invoked by the tribal authorities. General warfare is feared. The directors of the Mexican Central railway have voted an increase of capital of $2,000,000. Two lilghway robbers confined in jail at Monticelio attacked Shoriff Henderson with au ron bar when he carne to lock them in thcir cells, broke his skull and one arm, periiaps fatally injuring him, and with Edward Chaniberlin, the murderer of Ida Wittenberg, escaped. Judge Cooley says the inter-state commerce bill is working well and coming into more general favor daily. He thinks telegraph lines may be included in the provisions of the bill, but does not think that the amendment relaüve to sleeping cars will be adopted. Prof. R. C. Irving, the uoted geologist, in charge of United States geological survey in Wisconsin and Minnesota, diod at Madison, Wis., May 30, of paralysis, aged 41. He was a grand neplicw of Washington Irving. At the annual meeting of the national civil service reform league in New York May 30, George William Curtís was reelected president for the ensuing year. Tug boat Fulton exploded her boiler at the mouth of the Mississippi river, killing the captain and pilot and wounding several deck hands. Brewers in national convention at St. Paul decided to opposc any scheme to lessen wages or lengthen hours of employés. They meel in Newark, N. J., next year. The President and Mrs. Cleveland have been invitod to spend the Fourth of July in Cincinnati. The residence of Mrs. Le Jerome of Wichita, Kansas, was entered by burglars the other uight, and $10,000 worth of dia monds and other property stolen. Wilson M. Campbell, sentenced for life to the Kansas pcuitentiary for assaulting his daughter, is found to be innocent and "pardoued." He had served four years. The public debt reductlon reduction for May was ubout 4,000,000, and $12,000,000 were paid out forpensions. Louis Huiler, the great concessionaire of Lower California, as concluded a cash purchase of 5,000,000 acres oí land for col onization purposes in the States of Chiapas and Chihuahua. Mr. Huller's agent in Kurope have forwarded a number of German families during the last month to Chiapas. The seuute has adopted the conference report on the bil' creuting a department of labor and passed the bill. Mrs. Rawson, the wife of a wealthy Chicago bankcr who was suing for divorce, became angry at her lawyer in court the other morning, and lired several shots at hiui. The woman is believed to be insano. H. C. Whitney, her attoruey, is seriously, though not fatally iujurod. Slnoc Maroh 4, 1885, the commissioner of the general land office has restored . 720 acres of land to the public domain, and the question of adding 15,410,058 acres to the amount is still pending. Peter Kirk. representing a big syndicate of English i ron manufacturera, has lcased the Denny i ron mine in the Cascade mountains, in Washington Territory ; 2,500 acres of land on Lake Washington have been purchased, and 3,000 men will be employed. Tha new city of Kirkland will be established. Work will begin immediately. James II. Hayos of the Idaho supreme court is dead. Six men attempted to run the rapids at Ottawa, Out., in a small bout. The boat capsized and three of the men were drowned. President and Mrs. Cleveland wil) vidit 1 Juffalo this inonth, The bark Monravia sailed f rom New York for Liberia June 2, curry ing 13 familie of colored ]eople, who have been sent out by the American colonizatlou society. Prof. Anderson, principal of the Spencer high school, and the MisiesLillie aud Clara Hornaday were drowned in White river near Spencer, 1 ml., on the eveuing of June 3. The. Crystal salt works near Warsaw, N. Y., were destroycd by flre the other morning. Three men were killed in a railroad wreek near Anoka, Minn., the other morning. R. R. Wilson, eahier of the Pittsburg, Cincinuati & St. Louis freight department at Columbus, Ohio, is short $5,0J0. He has abseonded. John F. Rayon, ex-postmaster at Sandy Creek, Pa., has been arrested, charged with stoaling (1,900 of Uncle Sam's money. The next general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, which meets in 1892, will be held iu Omaha, Neb. Mrs. Blaine returns to Augusta, Maine, about the ÜOth inst. General Henry W. Birge, one of the conimanders of the army of the Shenandoah during the rebellion, died at New York the other inorning, aged 58. He was st rieken with paralysis on the evening of Memorial day. Thomas Polhomus of Catlin, 111., aged 80, has been sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for attempted burglary. Gov. Hill of New York, ha sijjuod the bill which substitutes electrieity for hanging in capital cases after Jan 1, 1889. A very limited uumber is allowed to be present. Relatives have the flrst claim upon the body, but no uuusual demonstrations shall bc made at the funeral. Jeff. Davis eelebrated his eightieth birthday at Beauvier, Miss., June 8. The shops of the St. John sewing machine company at Springtield, Ohio, were destroyed by lire the other day. Ex-Gov. William Johnson of Kentucky, died at his home in Bardstown, June 5. A 12-years-old servant girl in the family of John Owsley of Wlndsor, Mo., was arrested for poisoniug the entire family by plucing strychnine iu the coffee. She denied the charge, but was made to drink some of the coffee and died in half au hour. Before her death she confessed she had done the poisoning, and said she was forced to do it by relatives whosc names she gave. The family are still in great danger and not oxpected to live. The veterans of Georgia, without regard as to which side they fought on, have accepted the invitation of the army of the Potomac to particípate in the Gettysburg reunión in July. Harry Schofteld and John Rosenburg of Warren, Ohio, were killed in a railroad accident near Niles, Ohio, a few days ago. The bill granting a pension to soldiers and sailors couflned in confedérate prisons has been ordered favorably reported. The trades assembly of Western Pennsylvania. representing 60,000 working men, donounce the Mills bill and waru the public against Congressman "Bill" Scott as an enemy of society. Attorney-General Garland is soriously ill with rheumatism. The house commlttee on public buildings unanimously recommeuds that the Allen town, Pa., public building bill be passed over the President's veto. FORËIGN. Leprosy is spreading at an alarming rate in Hussia. Italy is pushing additions to her navy, lettiug coast defense improvements languish. Twenty-nine circulators of seditious prints sentenced in Berlin to prison for terms varying from two to six months. Lord Stanley of Preston, new appointed governor-general of Canada, sailed for Montreal June 1. Dom Pedro"s illness is now declared to be incurable diabetes. A vigorous enforcement of Germán frontier regulations has commenced. It is reported that Emperor Frederick and Bismarck are unable to agree on the question of state pohcy , and that the chancellor again threatens to reslgn. The Empress is charged with instigating the trouble. Emperor Frederick has gone to Potsdam. George Parker Broek way, P. G. D., and P. ( 1., Standard Beurer of the Free Masons of England, is dead. Advices from Japan state 230 house were destroyed by a conúagration on May 8 at Tourangeka, and at Kameka the next day 710 houses, one temple and a number of huts were burned. Mo lossgiven. A monster demonstration was held In the City of Mexico June 4 In favor of the reelection of President Diai. Over 20,000 workman marched tarough the streets and called on the president at the national palace. The Irish exhibition at Kensington was formally opened June 4. Belfast has been proclaimed under the crimes act. A number of Germán anarchists have been expellcd from Switzerland. M. Wilson of decoratlons' scandal fame had his pay stopped by the Freuch chainber of deputies for non-atlendance. Czar will be crowned Emperor of Central Asia to offset the hiflueuce of Queeu Victoria's title of Empress of India. A heavy shock of earthquake was feit in Buenos Ay res on the 6th inst. Gen. Boulangor, in the chamber of deputies, undertook to submit a propoBal for a revisión of the constitution, but he was in terrupted by hisses and críes of dissent, and hiB proposition was defeated by a vote of 377 to 18.

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