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worth 7c ! Great Bargains in Lacea, Urienuu,
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Torchon, PUlow-caae, Ac Hamburg Edgings
and Insertion.
jLadies' Ireas Goodaj blik .
Glovat 30q worth 60c Dre- Button of
the latest style at 9c a dozen; worth 25c .
Our 'Millinery Department will o! repfeh-
ished this week. Some special Urgalna are
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that are hard up and are compelled t, s ;ll at
oar nrices. which are 20 per cent, lies than
ew York.pricea. They will be sold the same
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hall offer such unanswerable arguments as no
; house can match. Our leades and secbuties
.at prices that no other bouse can even Hpproach.
. We can show you lacta that wilt level .'your
" bead on the subject of prices and ttargains.
Hard luck and hard times push some large
dealers to the wall.- They must have money,
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leas those current. Please call and ex-
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THE NEIATE eOtSS UBnEfTLT IHTO
THE IHTEK.8 (ATE BILL.'
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WisaifrSTON, D, C. May ll.-f-Sw-ATE.4
Th chair lajd before the Senate
an irivitatiou from tbe grand army of the
republic department of the Potomac, to
participate in the memorial ceremonie
at -Arlington decoration day, Mondayj
Ma; 31sU Laid on the tabe.
Mr Hoar presented memorial of
the 'Republican central committee of
Ohio, ehargiDg'that the elestion of Hon,
Henry B.; Payne to the United 3tate
Senate was secured by bribery, fraud
and corruption and requesting, that the
Senate investigate the matter.; Re
ferred to J the committee on privileges
and selections. 1 . ; ;
Ai; number of petitions were presented
and referred, praymg Congress t enact
legislation against oleomargarine.; ' :
After the routine morning business
the interstate commerce bill was taken
up and its consideration resumed.!
Mr. Morgan formally offered his
amendment to punish by fin and im
prisonment men who conspire to stop or
interfere with the running of trains en
gaged inj inter-Stale commerce. Mr.
Morgan said this was a necessary pro
vision. While Congress had in hanoV
the regulation of commerce between the
States it should see that travel between
the States should be kept free.' It was
tbe tight; Of the whole people to insist.
upon the free interchange of commerce.
Whatever tended to interfere with com
merce, whether a railroad company, a
mob or a conspiracy of individuals, was
something that Congress should regu
late; and-Congress could not escape this
dutv if itmndertook to do anvthintr st
a)l ip connection with inter-State com
merce. In moving the amendment Mr-
Morgan said he knew he was running
against a powerful sentiment of a large
clas of people who had asserted their
to interrupt at pleasure move
ments of commerce between States. But
ever man concerned certainly every:
American-born citizen when he should
consider the matter vtpuld say that it
was:the duty of Congress to exerciso its
power against anything that would in
terfere with the commerce of the conn
try.f The mature judgment of even
men who had been . provoked into ex-
c38ses by the extortions of railroad com
panies would : sustain Congress in this
legislation, liut whether it did or not,
the ;duty of Congresa was the same.
Mr. Vest did not think the constitution
gave Congress any right over' the uues-
lions witn wnicn tne amendment dean.
Besides, j the experience of the past few
weeks showed that the States were en
tirely : cfnnpeterfb! to deal with those
matters. i So far as Missouri' was con
censed, 'whenever: any appeal had beeD
made to the power of the State it had
teen responded to. Mesrj. Teller and
Maxey -agreed with- Mr. Veftt, and
Messrs. fCuilom and Ply it feared thr'
amendment would embarrass an I per-,
haps imperil the passage of the bill, an i
so Opposed Mr. Morgan's aiin-ii' linen'
Finally the amendment was laid on the
table yeas 49, nays 3. The n -gative
votes were those of Messrs .Dolph, Ed
munds and Morgan.
Mr. Brovn offered an amendment
providing for the punishment . of per
sona injuring the property of railroad
companies, : tracks, bridges, cars, etc.
The amendment woild make it felony
to knalicibualy injure such property and
if ; death resulted from the injury then
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The amendment was laid On the table
joniaerame aeDate then arose on an
amendment of Mr. Plumbs offered for
him in his absence by Mr. Ingalls; .It
is the amendment of which Mr. Plumb
some time since gave notice, prohibit
ing members of Congress, officials, of
the government, and their families from
accepting free passes and prohibiting
railroad companies from giving them
such passes or reduced fates. 7
To this Mr. Teller offered arf amend
ment prohibiting any of the subsidised
railroads from giving free passes.
Jir. Edmunds said if Mr. Teller
would extend the provisions of his
amendment so as to cdver not only
subsidy roads but all roads coming
within' the provisions of tbe act he
(Edmunds) would favor it.
t jur. leiier moamea nis ameaament
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accordingly. Considerable opposition
Was shown to this amendment and on
motion of Mr. Logan it was laid on the-table-
Some discussion arose as to the
effect of the bill on clergymen and to
avoid ". doubt; 31r. Brown secured, an
amendment providing that the restric
tions of .the bill as to reduced fares
should not apply to ministers of religion.
Mr. Edmunds secured a similar amend
ment as to agricultural conventions and
army and society meetings. An amend
toent, offered bv Mr. Spooner,was agreed
"to. applying the wor "unlawful" to
discriminations condemned by the bill.
The bill was finally ordered reprinted as
amended, and failing tov arrive at
any conclusion as to "when the
vote should be taken, the Senate at 6.25
adjourned.
; HOCBI.
The House committee on public lands
today instructed Representative Payspn
to draft a bill declaring the forfeiture
of all lands granted to the Sclma, Home
& Dal ton railroad company coterminous
witn tne uncompleted portion ox tne rail
road from Jacksonville. ' Alabama, to
UadBden, Alabama.
The House considered : in Committee
of the whole and passed lue bill pro
viding for the appointment of a commit
sion to ascertain and settle, private land
claims in the Territories of New Mexico
and Arizona and the State of Colorado
The committee on elections submitted
the unanimous report of that committee
-on the California contested election cases,
which report'; confirms the right of all
sitting members, It was agVrcd to.
The House then went into Committee
of the whplelon the army appropriation
bill. Mr -Groavenor, of Ohio, moved
to strike out ; the appropriation for the
judge .advocate gcueral's department.
He said the department Hlqidcd cases
without any knowledge of lair and that
the system followed by tbe department
was outrageous. It was an Excrescence
on the army; adding to it nothing of
grace, nothing of justice, nothing of
martial efficiency. If it fell, today, in
one year nobody would j renumber ex
cept'to point to it as a monument of the
greatest error that had ever existed in
the army. This motion; and .Mr. Gros
venor's remarks started :a long political
debate, at the end of which a motion to
strike out was lost yeas 82, nays 92.
Pending further action,: the hour of 5
o'clock having, arrived, the committee.
rose and the hour adjourned.
1H HE IIIOOIS a' VON FEKEA CE.
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4 Richmond, Vs., May 111 In the
Methodist Episcopal conference today a
number of reports from standing com
mittees were made. Among them was
one making it obligatory upon bishops
to consult with their presiding elders
in tbe appointment of preachers. Laid
over under -the rules Bet. William
Briggs - of Canada, fraiernal delegate
from the M. E. church in the Dominion.
was introduced to the conference. A
paper, pearing upon tne subject of mis
sions, was presented by. Drs. Kelly and
Bennett. : , : :
The special committee on appeals, to
which was referred the appeal of Rev.
L. Pickett, from the Texas' conference,
to which reference was made day before
yesterday, refused to remand the case
for trial, ' The report - wa: signed bv
bishop John C. Granberry and is final.
The report of the committee on mis
sions, to which was referred: a resolu
tion in reference to the2 appointment of
superintendent of foreign missions,
recommended non-concurrence. This
report was adopted. The committee on
church extension recommended that a
in quest for the establishment of a wo
man's department of church 5 extension,
for' the purpose of securing parsonages,
bo granted. ; lne committee also recom
mended certain changes in discipline, in
order to carry out the spirit' of the re-
the committee on bibles, snbmittcd half
a dot en reports in relation to changes
in discipline, lie also submitted a re
port of his committee, in regard to a
memorial from the Missouri con
ference, asking that A the : word
South" be eliminated ; from the
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name oi tne m, x. :onurcn, ooutn,
and a report tfpon a resolution provid
ing that church members signing peti
tions for the sale of intoxicating liquora
may be deal with as cases of imprudent
and improper conduct, i Tojthia resolu
tion and to the memorial the committee
recommend; non-concurrence. All' the
reports, under the rules, lie over for one
Dr. P.- A. Peterson, of Vir
ginia?, offered a resolution that bishop
McTveire a "Manual of Discipline" be
recommended by the general conference
as a wise and judicious exposition of
the laws of the church ;
Dr. , Kelly, of Tennessee, spoke to
the effect that the conference would act
very unwisely were it to endorse a book
which in the necessity :: of the case must
bo made to undergo a continual change;
especially a book one ' of the decisions
of which only a few days ago was re
versed by the action of the conference.
Dr. W infield, of Arkansas, said that
such a resolution amounted to abso
lutely nothing, because in the first place
the" manual was already generally re
cognized as an able commentary on law;
secondly, the book has been officially
endorsed by being placed in the course
of study for younger members of the
conference; thirdly, by the fact that the
author of the book had explicitly, a few
noLssld'bf no official authori what-
hAAV wmrnrn
ever. Hon. W. W. Walker, of Vir-
ginia, onerea an amendment as an audi
tion to the resolution that' 'it is recom
mended as a judicious commentary on
the law but in no respect poisessed
of the authority of the law." Mr.
Walker spoke with much feeling on the
amendment, claiming that the resolution
as offered would give co-ordinate power
to the bishops in a legislative capacity
which would revolutionize the law of the
church. Rev. Mr. Briggs, of Texas,
raised a point of order that the discus
sion today was out of order. The point
was sustained by the1 presiding bishop.
The fraternal delegates ; from the M.
E. church to this general conference are
expected in Richmond this week. They
are Rev. John W lley, 11, ; v., of Drew
theological seminary j and Gov. Doraker,
of Ohio. : : ! i
A UUL Difficulty.
Dan tills, May 10. During a per
sonal encounter this Evening about 7.15
o'clock, at the Arlington hotel, be
tween J li. Webster,- publisher of
Webster's ; Weekly,! at i Reidsville, N.
0., and Fletcher Reid, brother of Con
gressman Rcid, the former was terribly
cut about1 the head and the' latter re
ceived a slight flesh wound in the arm.
The trouble grew out of an artkde pub
lished in the Reidsville! Dollar Weekly
reflecting! on the Congressman. Reid
walked home after the cutting. Webster
is under the care of: surgeons.
" ; WarMd to Lav.
Mobil , Ala. , May Jl. Several ftfew
Orleans brick mason were assaulted last
night with brickbats and pistols by per
sons whom they say were union men.
They exhibit anonymous letters warn
ing them to leave the ! city ' or take the
consequences. ' i ; ;
BHOKT AID LOSG HAFL .
Stnstor tsnrtl h on tb Int.r
Mtats tmmrc i m.
Mr. Vance:-Mr. President, it seexs
to me that a natural and obvious prop
osition of justice is that a "man shall be
paid according to the labor he does. I
do not see how any one can deny that.
The tendency of all the workings of
human society is to inequality, and as
much as that is to be regretted in a
Democratic form of government, in many
things it is not possible to avoid it. The
diligent man will get ahead of the
slothful one; the careful and thrifty man
will surpass the negligent and extrava
gant one; the sober man will exceed the
drunkard; the able man will pass far
beyond the weak man; so that in most
things it is not possible for government
to help it or attempt to remedy this in
equality. '
But surely, sir, all will agree that it
is proper that government by legislation
should not contribute to this inequality.
Corporations given an artificial existence
by government for purposes of serving
the public are affected with a public in
terest, as the courts.' say. They are
therefore public servats, and their con
duct is subject to correction; regulation
and control on the part of the power
which calls them into being and gives
them their privileges.
One of the most obvious duties on the
part of the government, therefore, is to
prevent abuses and to correct inequali
ties which these corporations create be
tween those who patronise them. One
of the most obvious of all those inequal
ities is the one we are attempting to
regulate and control by the amendment
of the Senator from West Virginia; to
wit, in the language of the bill, if I
quote it correctly, that no railroad shall
charge more for the shorter than for the
greater distance when the freight is car
ried in the same direction and over the
same line of road. The Senator from
Georgia objects to the converse of the
proposition as being quite as unjust as
the proposition itself; that is to say,
that it is unjust to permit the roads,
which the bill- after the; adoption of the
amendment would do, to charge as much
for the short hau1 as they do forthe
greater one. That is admitted. I do
not suppose there is any pretense on the
part of thosewho favor tne amendment
of the Senator from West Virginia, that
it is just in a corporation to charge as
much for the short haul as it does for
the long one. The proposition is sim-
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charge more
I admit the inefficiency of the bill in
its whole arrangement and I have only
favored it as tentative legislation in tbe
5 roper direction. It falls far short of
oing justice, but we have been so often
warned of the dangar f attempting to
interfere with commerce, which we are
told should be left to its own devices
and to work out its own salvation ac
cording to the laws of politioal eoonomy,
generally resulting in damage to the
people we have been, I say, so often
warned of the danger of interfering,
thatit seems that legislators are afraid
to set the coulter very deep at the be
ginning, and instead of saying by the
bill that a corporation should neither
charge more for the short hauL than for
the long one, and should not charge as
much for the short haul as for tbe long
one, we stop short on the first proposi
tion to see if tbe world is going to come
to an end before we try something more.
It reminds me very much of the story
of a man- who went into a saloon in some
Western country where they sold
quality of liquor which used to be
known in your country, sir Mr. Sewell
in the chair, as Jersey lightning.
Laughter. He called for two glasses,
which the saloon-keeper accommoda
tingly poured out tor him. lie saw an
antiquated, odoriferous and oleaginous
African standing near by and he called
to him and asked him if he did not want
to take a drink. ' With a tragio air
which would have done credit to an
actor he said: "Boss, 1 lLtell you na
lie about it; I would;' whereupon the
wlored genUeman drank h spirits wd
the white customer who had called for
the two glasses" went and took a seatf
The saloon-keeper asked him if he was
not going to drink hi spirit. He said;
"Please wait fifteen minutes and if thai
nigger don't die I will try mine.
Laughter. 1
The proposition herte is admitted on
all sides that it is not only wrong, but
it is an outrage to ehaige a man who
lives 100 miles from Chicago for thai
is the town which noil is attracting more
attention than any other city in the
Union, I believe as much for hauling
his freight from Chicago 100 miles as is
charged to the man whose freight is
haulod from Chicago, a thousand miles
to New York. I say; it is not only ad
mitted that that is an 'outrage, but that
it is even an outrage to charge him as
much as is charged to' the man who has
the- long haul from Chicago to New
York. But so fearful are we of disturbs
ing commerce, so terrible are the dan
gers which overhang ns'if we undertake
to control a ring, that we have concluded,
to try the etiect of limiting the charge
to the same for the hundred miles that
is charged for the thousand miles, anl
then if there is not a great cataclysm,
and nature is not convulsed we may.
perhaps yield to the demands of the
shippers of the country and after awhile
say that the corporation shall not charge
quite as much. ji
Let us take this and be thankful, and
like St. Paul when Jbe came in sight . of
the Three Taverns, thank liod and take
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courage, l am wilting ior one to try it;
and I f hould like to meet any gentle
man in discussion f before a crowd of
people who had shipments to make .
to the justice of tills proposition. This
is a different forum. I would divide
time with him. sir. and give him the
beginning and closing, on j the proposi
tion that it i righ to charge a man a
jnuch for 10"0 miles' haul as for 1,000
miles. Senators on tbe other side, I
fchlieve, uo not pretend to justify it upon
ibstract principles of right and wr jng,
put they say that it would operate
agaij si the man who has the long haul;!
!t would ir.cresisc his freights and it
would increase' the rates from toe great
Wesi to the seaboard.
: Mr. President, what does that admit?
It admits that under the, influence of
Competition the railroads are hauling
freight from distant points in the great
rresiai rates oy wnicn tney maxe no
money, and that tney are maintaining
their roads by an extortion upon the
men who live at the intermediate points
and whoso shipments come within the
meaning of the short haul. That is what
it means.
Mr Hoar: Will the Senator allow me
to make a suggestion to himV
Mr. Vance: Certainly.
Mr. Hoar: I do not myself in my vote
agree that the charge for the short haul ;
is an extortion, whether it be less than
the charge for the long haul or not.
necessarily. I do not understand that
that is admitted by any considerable
number of persons in the oountry. There
have been such times in the past, but it
48 not claimed that the railroad rates
today are such anywhere, unless there
may be very few exceptions indeed, that
they can be construed as an extortion.
Mr. Vance: Mr
President, I yielded
for a question and I got a speech.
lur. noar: no; x uiu nut ass. me oeu-
ator. to yield for a question; I asked
him to yield for a suggestion, and he
got one.
Mr. V ance: Then I got a speech for
suggestion. : I yielded for a short
haul and I got a long one, Laughter
Tka,t is another instance of the extor
tion which is practiced upon short-
haulers. .1
Mr Hoar: If my honorable friend
ill haul that nroDOsitiou of mine anv
distance whatever I should I ke to look
on at the process.
Mr. Vance: If I were to haul that
proposition far I should, think I had
made a water-haul. Laughter on the
floor and in the galleries.
1 should like to know if my friend
from Massachusetts objects in a matter:
of morals, to the proposition that all men:
should be charged according to the ser-
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vice which is rendered them; that au
men should be taxed according to their
ability to pay? I am sure he would not;
he has not.
Many ingenious efforts, such as com4
paring transportation by railroad to ; a
stage-coach, have been made to avoid
the force and effect of the proposition:
but it remains the same; that in all
human transactions a man should be
charged according to the ; service which
is rendered him. i
iMr. President, if you will pardon me
for giving an illustration in my homely
ay, I was down in the lunch-room but
a short while ago. I took a sandwich
arid a glass of milk, which was a very
short haul. A Senator not far from me
took a porterhouse steak and accompan
iments. That was a long haul. Now,
do yon not know that if tbe keeper of
the restaurant had charged me more for
that short haul than he did my neighbor
for the long haul there would have been
a disturbance: of the peace in this cap
ital before many minutest rLaughter.l
The matter is too plain to talk about: it
U too open and palpable to doubt. No
man of common sense, no man out of an
idiotic asvlum, doubts the soundness
of the proposition that you must pay
for what you get, and that you must be
charged according to tho service which
is rendered -
Those of us who favor this relief to
the people of this country, who favor
this proposition, admit that the Senate
of the United States or Congress or even
the legislatures of the States for that
matter having railroads' wholly within
their States cannot resolve themselves
into a board of directors and determine
every individual item of charge that a
railroad shall make. Nobody is at
tempting to do that; but we are attempt
ing within bounds and within safe and
reasonable bounds to place a limit upon
the power of a railroad corporation to
charge whatsoever it pleases without
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reerard to service or distance That is
what we are attempting to do by this
' amendment
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'. Mr. President, it has been m long
sinoe 1 was on the floor mat i nave ior
gotten what I intended to say, I believe
I was going to s:y something, I think
on the subject of all freights having to
be reasonable and jur, and to comment
somewhat upon tueiiihculty of coining
to a conclusion as to what was reason a
ble and just. It appears to be a faith
ful saying and worthy Of all acceptation
but 1 think in practice it will be very
difficult to' arrive at what is reasonable
and just. A witty man once remarked
that a man and bis wife were one. it is
true, but which one was a big question
Laughter.
What enters into the elements of
just freight charga. ill you compare
with the charges that wore once made
by the wagoner on the dirt road? : How
will you 'arrive at it? Will you take
into consideration the interest upon cap
ital; and if So, how much and what
profit shall be allowed? It seems tome
that much : the most , practical way to
remedy this defect is not to trust to the
commissioners, whoever they may be,
for arriving at a conclusion, however
reasonable and just, but to fix a boun
dary at Jeast beyond: which they shall
not pass, by saying that they shall not
charge more; and then I ahall have no
objection to the amendment of the Sen
ator from Iowa that this shall not be
construed to mean that they may charge
as much, for the one would be merely
perpetuating an injustice in a less de
gree, and that would be about all.
In relation to the matter of oompeti
( tion by water-ways I desire to say that
tbe suggestion that the railroads which
centre at Chicago are compelled to com
pete with the water-ways to New York,
and with the Canadian railroads, is en
tirely, and as I understand the history
of it absolutely, answered by what has
taken place on the Pennsylvania rail
road. I understand that Pennsylvania
has almost in so. many words on its'
statute-book the language of our amend
ment, that the Pennsylvania railroad
shall charge no more for a short haul
than for a long one, and for twenty, or
perhaps twenty -five years, the Pennsyl
vania railroad has operated its oars' be
tween Chicago, Philadelphia and New
York in competition with the water
ways by the vauals of New York and
the Canadian railroads ever since they
have been built, and that it has con
formed to that law, and yet there ! has
been no ruin or no: damage Sustained by
reason of the low prices of the. long
haul.
The proof of the pudding is in the
eating of it; and a suggestion, however
dangerous, a state of things theoretically,
however terrible, is worth nothing when
it ia disproved by a single, solitary fact
which has tested the question by ail the
surroundings and circumstances neces
sary to test it If the Pennsylvania
railroad could do that all the other
roads in the country could do it; and
whether they could or whether they
could not, it comes back to the naked
proposition once more: shall we main
tain a line of railroad, or anv given
ines of railroad, : to enable them to
compete in the hauling of freights cheap-
y from the great W est at the expense
of the individual shippers; who live at
the intermediate points: Shall we do
that, or shall we control it by statute
and declare that it shall not be done?
The Senator from Georgia Mr.
Brown read us a long table or a state
ment containing averments of a similar
oondition of inequalities and injustices
perpetrated by the water-ways, by the
steamboats on the Ohio and Mississipi
rivers. Does that furnish any argument
against regulating such injustices on the
part of railroads? j It seems to me it
only adds to the strength of our argu
ment. I do not; know - whether the
steamboat companies which he men
tioned in his statement are incorporated
companies or not. The Bteamboats may
be the property of private, individuals
running without an act of incorporation.
If so, then evidently Congress has no
thing whatsoever to do with their
charges.
They might be subject to the control
of Congress in the same way that the
railroads are, and if so, and there are
similar abuses there, I should, vote with
equal cheerfulness for any proper con
trol and regulation of them. Kutsure-
y it is not an argument that we should
not prevent injustice from being perpe-
iratea upon iana to say tnat we iixe in
justice baa been perpetrated upon water.
It seems to me that that would not be
of any avail in this argument.
Mr. President, 1 have; listened; very
carefully to this discussion from its open
ing to the present time. It is a subject
in which I feel the deepest interest, and
in which 1 participated when it was last
before the Senate. I shall vote for this
bill with great pleasure in the absence
of something better. I confess, though,
that if the amendment was stricken out
do nt believe it would be worth
the paper on whieh it is written.
If so glaring an injustice' as the amend
ment ia intended to remedy is to remain
in the bill I do not know that it would
be worth the while of any Senator who
is desirous of giving real relief to the
people to discuss it or to vote for it.
JfessafS tram the Prsaldeat,
Wabhikqton, May 11. -The Presi
dent sent to Congress today a message
calling attention to the condition of af
fairs existing in Utah, to the Governor
of that territory vetoing , the last ap
propriation bill, . which : appropriated
money for the support of schools, courts,
charitable institutions, etc.; referring
to the fact that under the existing law
the legislature cannot convene for near
ly two years and reoo umending the
speedy enactment jof sueU leg plant n ;tp
will authorize the assembling of ;Lo
legislature at an; earty day. Also a
message recommending ' Congress to
make an appropriation to defray the cx
oxpeuTs of thoiniugurati'-n of the Bar
thobli statute. Uo a '-mcssape enolos- '
iur a communiirtiOn from secretary Bay
ard updu the Weil and Li-Abra treaty.'
Mr. Bayard calls -attention to the fact
that under a decision of the supreme
court he-has authority to withhold the
payaient of awards pending the supple
mental negotiations between this coun
try and Mexico, and to the rejection by
the Senate of the supplemental treaty.
To relieve the action of our government
from any ambiguity of legislative ex
pression or the executive from any un
certainty as to his line of duty in rela
tion to the awards, he suggests that tbe
attention of Congress be earnestly in
vited to the present status of the claim
and the duty of the executive to. carry
out the terms of the existing treaty in
the case, and the two houses adjourn
without further action.
1 ha Baptist Conv.atiou.
MoitTGOMERY, : Ala., May 11. The
Baptist convention! will meet in Louis
ville. K.V., May Sth next. Itev. lr
CooDer. of Richmond. Va.. was selected
to deliver the convention sermon. Abe
morning session was devoted to the Cuban
mission. The question was whether
the foreign or home board should
take charge of it and prosecute the
work. Able SDee hes were made for
both boards, but it was decided by
nrot, maioritv to give it . to the home
board. An amendment to the constitu
tion was adopted, so as to require, dele
gates to be appointed by may 1 of each
ear and the representation to be one
delegate for every $100 paid into the
treasury by May l of each year.
Gr.
THE FEAItriL,
STOKM AT
work or A WIIP
KASHAS CfTT,
A factory and si Public lchs.1 Wrwktd,
and Hasijri ifilldrsn KlUsd.
Kansas City,; Mo., May 11. A fear
ful storm of wind and rain swept over
this city today; continuously from 11
o'clock till noon. The court-house, on
Second street, was totally demolished
above the second storv. The Lathrop
school building, on Eighth street, was
partially wrecked, and many children
were caught in the ruins. An overall .
factory on Second street was blown-
down. The old water-works building,
near bv. waa blown down At the
Western Union telegraph office but one
wire in working out of the city. Com
munication has been established with
St. Louis over that wire by way of
Dalla. Galveston, New Orleans and
Memphis. One span at the north end
of the railroad bridge across the river '
was blown into the river, blocking
the Hannibal k St. Joseph, ( Rock
Island, Wabash & Kansas City,
til. Jut & j Oouucil Dluff roads.
Eight girls have been taken out of the
overall factory,; four of whom are dead.
Many others are in the ruins, but there
is scarely any hope for their lives. In
the confusion it is impossible to ascer
tain definitely tbe extent of the calam
ity, but it is said that over twenty em
ployees are imprisoned in the basement
of the factory. The disastrous fury of
the storm was confined to the north end
of the city, except the destruction of
the Lathrop school building, on Eighth
street, and the buildings generally, ex--
cepting those mentioned, withstood tbe
fury of the storm. At d o clock p. m ,
as nearly as can be learned am id th e in
tense excitement and confusion, about
twenty personal are known to be dead.
At the Lathrop: school eleven children
are reported dead. Of the four build
ings wrecked all were more or less un
sound. The school building has been
twice condemned, and the court-house
by many was considered unsafe. No one
was killed, except in these four houses.
The storm, although entailing such a
heavy loss of life, was nothing of the na
ture of the tornado that visited the city
three years ago. It was a violent wind,
accompanied by a flood . of water and
some hail; which turned many streets
into rivers. Signs, shutters and chim
neys were blown everywhere by the
gale, and a number of- vehicles were
overturned in the streets. Black clouds
rolled over the city, creating almost the
darkness of night, and made timid peo
ple crouch in terror in cellars. The
streets were entirely deserted, and in
some instances horses were seen wan
dering about, attached to vehicles, and
seeking refuge from the pelting storm.
Btotskrnad" to Warfc.
Chicago, May 11. The switch-tenders
of the Chicago & Western Indiana
railroad have returned to work, having
received an increase of five dollars per
month all around and in some eases
more. The hours of work will remain
the same as before the strike. Three
other roads, the Grand Trunk, Wabash
& Chicago and the Atlantic, which use
the Western Indiana tracks entering the
city, are now relieved. of the delay to
which they have been subjected for sev
eral days.
"I do not like thee Dr. Fell
The reason why X cannot teU."
It has often bn wondered at, the bad odor
this oft-quoted doctor was in. 'Twas j roba
bly because he, being one of the old school
doctors, made up pill as large as bullet,
which nothing but an ostrich could bolt with
out nausea. Hence th dislike Dr. ft. V.
Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pellets" are
sugar-coated and no larger than birdhot, and
are quick to do their work. For all derange
ments of the liver, bowels and stomach they
are specific.
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Virginia Bams, Magnolia Bams, Ferns Hams
Beef Tongues, California Hams: Meat of every
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