The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 103, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1886 Page: 1 of 8
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IE AND CONCERT
BY THE
"IACRDDER MILITARY BAND
THIS EVENING, AT 7 O'CLOCK,
IS FRONT OF
[beach: hotel.
F. HALFF,
accessor to McILHENNY COMPANY,
HOUSTON, TEX.
, The MalLlIENNY BUILDING Is now TIIK
EJsTKIt OF ATTUAOTIO * in Houston, stocks
|>e COMPLETE IN EVERY DEfAltlMENT.
J-, trade In general is invited to look through
(stock befoie making nurcliases of
tY GOODS, NOTIONS, ETC.
i my prices and terms will compare favorably
Ifth any market. With experience dating
Tick over a quarter of a century, I feel confl-
f lit fo pleasing those who will favor mo with
peiv patronage.
ORDERS BY MAIL
Hill receive prompt and careful attention-
j'lth tlianks to my friends for past favors, I re-
bectfully ask a liberal share in the f uture.
During the Interstate Drill I will have
; Line of Samples on Exhibition in Gal-
I est 011, at the Corner of Tremont and
trand, and will be pleased to see my
(d friends and as many new ones as
I tay call on me.
IrOEL & B. F. WOLFE,
EaBt Strand, GALVB8T0N.
. general machinery dealers.
1 , Carver & Brown Cotton Gins, Mills,
Presses Beltin &e.
COTTON.
■epared to make liberal
| We are prepared to make liberal advances to
J erchants and planters to secure consign-
I ents the coming season.
W. L. MOODY 4 CO., Galveston.
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FOUND AT LAST!
"HE OLD MADE YOUNG!
Ottcce of Publication: Nos. 1S4 and ISC Mbcitakio Street, Galveston-.
Kxteeed AT TOTI PosTOPFrrw A*
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VOL. XLY-NO. 103.
GALVESTON. TEXAS. FRIDAY. Al'GlJST 6, 1836.
ESTABLISHED 1842.
Welcome, Country Merchants."
We arc efforieg tlio larjost line o! Man's,
Youths' Boys' pud Cuildren's Clothing; ever
brought to Texas, at special inducements in
prices &nd terms,
$20,000 Worth of Gents' Furnishing Gis
tO b6 closed cut for less than cost, as we willdis-
convene in that line. IS you want to make
moi e>' don't, place your order before examining
our gco,.''d& and prices.
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miisi
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Absolutely Pure.
This powder never varies. A marvel ol purilj
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iUNCH FOR ALL
lURING INTERSTATE DRILL,
BY
[iDIES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
AT
King & Fordtran Building,
Southeast Corner Tremont and Strand,
tjmmencing Wednesday, August 4,
j and continuing during the week.
I Good Lunch will be Served at Reasonable
Prices. Open Daily from 10 a. m.
OUSTON
STILL
HE PLACE.
'Jonslon is still SO miles and several
hows nearer the trade than any other
prominent market in the State.
"Itmst.on is the railroad center of this
sect ion, and indeed of the chief traffic
center of Texas, and it still offers the
best facilities for selling goods and for
handling Cotton satisfactorily and
economically,of any place in the South. t
|fn addition to the above advantages
those who will kindly patronize me this
season will get the benefit of business
methods, facilities and consideration
which are the results of lonq years of
experience and of a sincere desire to
please.
1D. CLEVELAND & CO.,
HOU STOlsT.
I. LOVEMBERG,
agent for
IlIACARA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
I New York,
IITY OF LONDON FIRE INSURANCE
gBFAKY, oS London.
fUvCLO-NEVADA ASSURANCE CORPORA-
[ON, ct Ban Francisco, Cal.
|SA ST TEXAS FIRE INSURANCE C0MPA-
', of Tyler, Tex.
ri-SlTORS are notified that precisely the
■ sumo goods at the same prices will bo kept
■ luy stand on the drill grounds as at my
■pie, strand and Twenty second streets, and
Mich 1 guarantee equal t> the best in tiie
IjU'litt. A. W. SAM DELS, Tobacconist.
Breaking Up Betting.
I Saratoga. August 5.—Anthony Comstock
K4s morning caused the arrest of ten more
I ol-sellers and book-makers who were do-
T? business on the race-track here. They
Lived an examination and were held in
H sum of $1500 for trial. More arrests are
I pectetl. Most of the down-town pool and
I tnbling-rooms are closed.
PI
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n mrrn
1
ham Tobacco Company. Pure, sweet,
tion. Creating good nature, health,
tention! You will experience no fa-
ther, i! you smoke Golden Belts,
will carry ofi the prizes.
3 .A. PACK
LEWIS & CO.
E DEALERS.
AUSTIN.
Eeport o! the Penitentiary Board—Notes oE the
Departments.
Special to The News.
Austin, August 5. — The penitentiary
financial report for June is only now ap-
proved by the board, having boen delayed
for some time. It shows the June expenses
about equal to the receipts, leaving a cash
balance of $7000. During June some $12,000
was paid out for manufacturing material.
During July the receipts have exceeded the
expenditures. It is understood the convicts
employed by the capitol syndicate will be
returned to the State about February next
year.
State revenue receipts for July, $12,000;
receipts to-day, $18,000.
Chartered: Llano Baptist church; Cald-
well Hook and Ladder company.
Colonel Swain has left for Galveston.
General Henry McCulloch is here, and
unequivocally indorses McCall's Demo-
cracy, stating that he bore a musket on
Coke's side during tho attempt of Davis to
hold over.
A negro woman, cook for Dr. J. B. John-
son, was overcome by heat this afternoon
and died at 6 o'clock.
Miss Matilda Schutze, daughter of Mr.
Julius Schutze, editor of the Vorwaerts,was
married to-night to Mr. Thomas J. Baldwin.
COMANCHE.
Arrival oS State Rangers-The Farmers Nomi-
nate a Ticket.
Special to The Ne>vs.
Commanche, August 5.—Captain S. A.
McMurry and ten rangers have reached
here. They were sent here by the govern-
ment. It is well known that there is au or-
ganized mob in this county. Four-fifths of
the people in the county are opposed to the
mob. The fact that a mob exists here, it is
thought, explains the presence of the
rangers.
The farmers met in convention here and
nominated a couuty ticket. Some of the
leaders in it were formerly members of the
Greenback parly. This necessitates the
calling of a county convention, and one has
been called to nominate a Democratic
ticket*
Mr. W. L. Sartwell, Miss Maud Tucker
and Mrs. J. K. Hill, will take in the Inter-
state drill. __
NOT GUILTY.
Mrs. Lcona Liles Acquittod lor Slaying Her
Traducer.
Special to The New a.
Denton, August 5.—Yesterday and to-day
have been occupied in the trial of Mrs. Leona
Liles for the killing of W. Robertson, June
21, an account of which was published by
The News. This case attracted a great
deal attention from the press throughout
the United States, from the fact that Mrs.
Liles's character had been traduced, and,
from the facts that d eloped on the trial,
without any cause whatever. Intense in-
terest was manifested by the large crowd
ial.
turnen a verdict of not guilty. The verdict
meets with the approval of our people.
AN OFFICER SHOT DOWN,
; A Deputy SlieriH Murdered by a Man whom
He Wa3 Attempting to Arrest.
Special to The News.
Eddy, August 5.—One mile south of here
a deputy sheriff by the name of Rice, from
Bell county, was shot and fatally wounded
by a man named Ledbetter. Rice, unarmed,
approached Ledbetter for the purpose of
arresting him on a charge of assault and
battery. Ledbetter, raising his wiuchester,
shot Rice down, and then turned and fired
one shot at the retreating form of the mail
who had sworn out the warrant. Ledbetter
is still at large, though a posse of men are
after him and will perhaps overtake him.
A LONG SESSION CLOSED.
Congress Adjourns Without the Usual
Unseemly Rush.
THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL SIGNED.
Review of the Business Transacted—The For-
tifications Bill Fails-Leav-
ing for Home
Washington", August 5.—One interesting
feature about the closing of the session of
Congress to-day was the absence of the
usual rush and confusion occasioned by
efforts to pass a bill during the last hours.
The resolution of the president, not to ap-
prove bills without having ample time to
examine them, and his refusal to come to
the capitol to be ready to attach his signa-
ture to whatever measures might pass, has
certainly put an end to the practice of rush-
ing bills thrmigh in the closing hours of a
session without due consideration and with-
out giving him time to investigate the
merits of the proposed measures. It is
the first time in many years that the presi-
dent has failed to occupy his room adjoin-
ing the Senate on the last day of a ses sion
to get through the formality of signing
bills. Heretofore presidents have not
seemed to regard it necessary to look fully
into bills before approving them, and there
was recently an instance when the execu-
* tive signature was attached to the sundry
civil bill before its enrollment wus com-
pleted. Mr. Cleveland seems not to favor
this character of legislation, and the re-
form he has eommenced will prevent the
passage of many such vicious measures as
have heretofore gone through Congress iu
the haste of winding up the session,
and been signed by the president as a
mere matter of form. To-day the House
was quiet and orderly up to the final ad-
journment, and the enrolling clerks had
scarcely anything to do during the entire
day. tin the floors of both houses there
was a fair representation and a manifest
disposition to do nothing except get away.
It teemed to be generally understood that
the only remaining business of Congress
was to give the president a little more time.
Speaker Carlisle evidently took a deep in-
terest in securing an orderly session free
from the discreditable scenes sometimes
characterizing tho closing hours, and
amotg other precautions, the discovery of
which caused considerable amusotnent,
was an order against the sale of any intoxi-
cating drinks at the house restaurant dur-
ing the day.
THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.
Contrary to General Expectation It is Signed
by the President.
Special to The News.
Washington, August 5.—The friends of
the river and harbor bill were agreeably
surprised, to-day, when the message came
announcing the president's approval of the
bill. Most of them had become almost
hopeless concerning its fate, and applause
and congratulations were heard when its
approval was made known. The president
states that he had been convinced by an
examination of the bill and the facts pre-
sented by General Newton and General
Parke, that on the whole the interests of the
government would be best served by its
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approval. General Newton informed the
E resident that of the items in the bill, all
ut eighteen are meritorious and impor-
tant, and the eighteen, which comprise less
than 1 per cent, of the amount appro-
priated, he did not condemn, but was not
fully informed as to their importance. The
president expressed himself satisfied that
most of the improvements provided for are
of great importance, and that if the bill
failed great loss to the government would
ensue from neglect of works already com-
menced.
CURRENT CAPITAL CULLINGS.
Tlse Texarkana Court-Claims Allowed—Con-
gressmen's Movements.
Special to Tli6 News.
Washington, August 5.—Amonglthe bills
which passed the House to-day was the bill
icported from the judiciary committee by
Mr. Culberson some time ago providing for
holding terms of the United States courts
at Texarkana, Ark. In this division is in-
cluded the counties of Columbia, Howard,
Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Wit-
ter, Nevada, Ouachita, Pike and Sevier.
The bill will probably pass the Senate early
next session.
In the deficiency bill, as passed, is an
item of $8620 for the Alamo Cement com-
pany, of San Antonio.
The secretary of the interior has allowed
the Indian depredation claim of James T.
Preston, of Palo Pinto county, for $152,850,
for depredations committed in 1870 by the
Osage Indians. It was held that the claim
was not satisfactorily proved.
Senator Coke and Representatives Cul-
berson, Lanham, Mills, Throckmorton and
Jones left for home to-night. Messrs.
Sayers and Stewart will remain until Satur-
day to transact department business for
their districts. Mr. Crain will leave in a
day or two to join his family in West Vir-
ginia, where he will spend two or three
weeks.
H. A. Penrose, of Texas, is registered
here.
WHY HE SIGNED IT.
The President Talks Freely About the River
and Harbor Bill.
Washington, August 5.—To an Associated
Press reporter the president said to-day
that an examination of the river and harbor
bill, in the light of facts presented to him
by General Newton, chief of engineers of
the army, and General Parker, of the en-
gineer corps, with whom the president con-
ferred on the subject, has convinced him
that on the whole the interests of the gov-
ernment demanded its approval. General
Newton, whose knowledge of the condition
of the present works and the necessities for
the future, was based on reports made
to hiiji by the engineer corps of the army,
assmed the president that of the
items in the bill, all bat eighteen in
number, comprising less than 1 per cent, of
the amount appropriated, were meritorious
beyond question, and while he in no man-
ner condemned these, he was unable to
give a posive opinion because of the lack of
complete information concerning them.
The president said he had gone over the
bill as fully as the data at hand and time
permitted him for that purpose allowed,
and while some of its provisions, not in-
cluding the items above mentioned, were
probably objectionable, he was satisfied
that most of the improvements provided
for were of great importance, and lie
had found that the loss which would ensue
to the government from deterioration of ex-
isting works in ease of further stoppage,
would be very serious, and that the amounts
of moneys estimated by the department at
not less than $500,000, which would be re-
quired to protect ami preserve work begun
and in progress upon which many millions
have already been expended, would, incase
of failure to continue, exceed by about
$■100,00,0 the amount appropriated in the
bill for items which, in the judgment of the
government engineers, might be unneces-
sary.
WHAT HA8 BEEN DONE.
a Review of the Work ol the First Session ol
the Forty-ninth Congress.
Washington, August 5.—The first ses-
sion of the Forty-ninth Congress, which
ended to-day, began Monday, December 7,
J&8B, BEd covered a period of seven months
and twenty-eight days, or twenty-one days
exclusive of Sundays. Of this time the
Senate was in session 164 days and the
House 185 days. During that time there
were introduced into the House 13,202 mea-
sures, <if wliich 10,014 were house bills and
214 house joint resolutions and 2801 bills
and 83 joint resolutions of the Senate. The
measures proposed for enactment into laws
exceeded in number by 2949 those intro-
duced at the first session of the Forty-eighth
Congress, which set for seven months aud
four flays, or 165 days actual working time.
They covered all sorts of subjects, from the
payment of a laborer at the capital for ex-
tra services to complex questions of tariff
Ion and legislatiou with respect to
national finances. Of the entire number
comparatively few were of what may be
termed national importance, a greater num-
ber wew measures or a private nature or
of merely local importance, such as relief
and pehsion bills, bills for the erection of
public Juildings, bridging rivers, granting
right of way to railroads through military
or Indian reservations, for the removal of
political disabilities, for changing judicial
districte, for establishing new land offices,
changing names or location, or increasing
the capital stock of national banks and for
printing public documents.
A vejty small percentage of the whole
number of bills intrpduced, of either a gen-
eral or private nature, became laws. A
comparatively small number succeeded in
getting through the committees to which
they were referred and reaching the calen-
dars of their respective houses. Some se-
cured passage iu the house in which they
originated, but failed of action in the other
branch, and a very large number still re-
main unconsidered by the oommittees to
which they were referred.
The total number of measures that passed
both Houses was 1101; being211 senate hills
and 860 bills which originated in the House.
Of this total 808 became laws, with the
president's approval, 181 became (laws by
limitation, the president failing to approve
or disapprove them within ten days after
presentation tc him. 113 were vetoed, and
one failed by reason of adjournment with-
out action by the president.
Of the new laws, 746 were house meas-
ures, and 241 senate measures. The laws
that became such by limitation, were with
two exceptions private pension and relief
bills. The exceptions were the
bills to authorize the Kansas City, Fort
Scott aud Gulf railway to construct a rail-
way through the Indian Territory, and that
to retire Lieutenant Randall.
Of the measures vetoed by the president,
thirty-six were senate bills and seventeen
house bills. Twenty-eight of the senate
bills vetoed.'.WWe private pension bills;
three were for the erection of public build-
ings (at Da^tpn, O., Sioux City, la., and
Zafiesj ille, *>•); one was to grant to rail-
.roadiSTbe right of way asottgh ihe
reservation in northern Montana; one to
make Springfield, Mass., a port of delivery;
one to provide that the bodies of paupers,
criminals and strangers dying within the
District of Columbia, unclaimed within a
specified time after death, shall be turned
over to the medical colleges; and one to
quiet title of settlers on the Des Moines
river lands; and one to provide for the con-
struction of a bridge over lake Champlain.
Of the house bills disapproved by the pre-
sident, seventy-four were private pension
bills and three were for the erection of pub-
lic buildings at Asheville, N. C., Duluth,
Minn., and Springfield, Mo. The number of
measures vetoed during the session was
four more than have been vetoed from the
foundation of the government to the begin-
ning of the session just closed. While near-
ly all of the vetoed bills of the Senate were
reported back from committees with there-
commendation that they be passed notwith-
standing the president's objections, and
while similar action was taken on some
of the house bills, only one—that
granting a pension to Jacob Romi-
sor — was passed by both houses
oyer the veto. The Des Moines river bill
passed the Senate over the veto, but failed
to receive the requisite two-thirds vote in
the House. Motions to pass bills to grant
pensions to Mary Anderson and Andrew
J. Wilson over the president's veto were
defeated in the House. Consideration of
other veto messages has been postponed
until next session.
Measures of general importance that
have been enacted into laws during the
session, in addition to the regu-
lar appropriation bills aje as fol-
lows: The presidential succession bill. To
provide for the study of the nature and
effeot of alcoholic drinks and narcotics.
To remove the charge of desertion against
soldiers who reinlisted without having re-
ceived a discharge from the regiments in
which they had previously served. To
legalize the incorporation of national trades
unions. To give the receivers of national
banks the power to buy in any pro-
perty of banks sold under foreclosure
when nececessary to protect his trust. To
regulate the promotion of graduates of the
United States military academy. To permit
the owners of United States merchant
vessels and of any property onboard there-
of to sue the United States for damages by
collision arising from the mismanagement
of any government vessel. Acceptiug the
Grant medals and trophies. To provide
that surveyed lands granted to a railroad,
coterminous with the completed portions of
such roads and in organized counties, shall
not lie exempt from local taxation on ac-
count of the lien of the United States upon
them for costs of surveying, selecting
or conveying them. [It also makes provi-
sion for selling such lands, on refusal or
neglect of the companies to pay the costs of
survey.] The oleomargarine bill. The bill
for increase of the navy. To provide that
homestead settlers within railroad limits,
restricted to less than ICO acres, shall be
entitled to have their additional entries
patented without any further cost
or proof of settlement and cultivation.
To reduce the fees on domestic
money orders for sums not exceeding $5,
from 8 to 5 cents. To allow steam towing
vessels to carry, in addition to their crews,
as many persons as the supervising inspec-
tor may authorize. For the relief of Fitz
John Porter. To provido for the sale of the
Cherokee reservation. To enable national
bank associations to increase their stock
and change their names or locations.
Authorizing the construction of a building
for the accommodation of the congressional
library. Providing that after July 1,
1886, no fees shall be charged to
American vesslils for measurement of ton-
nage, issuing of licenses, grauting certifi-
cates of registry, etc., and amending the
laws relative to the shipping and dis-
charging of crews, the liability of owners,
the licensing of vessels, etc. To forfeit
lands granted to the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad company and restore the sama
to settlement. To increase to $12 a
month pftisions of widows and dependent
relatives of deceased soldiers and sailors.
Declaring forfeited certain land grants
made to the states of Mississippi, Alabama
and Louisiana. To amend section 33C>, of
Revised Statutes, so as to require brewers
commencing business to give bond iu a
sum equal to three times the amount of tax
which they will be liable to pay during any
one month and to oxecuto a new
bond whenever required. Directing
the secretary of the treasury to de-
liver to the proper claimants or
owners, the silverware, jewelry, etc., cap-
tured by the United States artny during
the late war, and to sell at public auction
such articles as are not claimed witliiu
three years. To direct the commissioner of
labor to make an investigation as to con-
vict labor. To establish additional life-
saving stations at various points 011 the At-
lantic and Pacific coasts, and on the great
lakes. Providing that manufactured to-
bacco, snuff anu cigars may be removed
for export without the payment of tax, and
repealing the law providing for inspectors
of tobacco. To extend the immediate deliv-
ery system. To increase the pensions of
soldiers who have lost an arm or leg.
In addition to the foregoing, the subject
matter of various special bills has been en-
acted into law in the several appropriation
bills as follows: In the agricultural appro-
priation bill, directing tlie commissioner
of agriculture to purchase and destroy
diseased animals whenever in his judg-
ment it is essential to prevent the
spread of pluero-pneumonia from one
State into another. In the legislative ap-
propriation bill, creating the office of as-
sistant commissioner of Indian affairs. In
the sundry civil appropriation bill, author-
izing tho secretary of the treasury to issue
silver certificates in denominations of $1,
$2 and $5. Also appropriating $40,000 for
the establishment of an industrial home in
Utah for women who renounce polygamy
and for their children.
The important, measures which, after de-
bate, were defeated in the house in which
they originated, are as follows: Senate bill
to increase tho efficiency of the army:
house (Bland) bill for the free coinage of
silver, and Senator Vance's bill to repeal
the civil-service act.
Among the bills upon which further ac-
tion by Congress is necessary before they
can become laws are the following: The
Cnllom interstate commerce bill, the Mexi-
can pension bill, the bill to repeal the
timber culture pre-emption and desert land
laws, the Morrison ana Randall tariff bills,
the house bill to prevent aliens from ac
quiring or owning land in any of the Ter-
Titories, the bankruptcy bill, the house bill
to terminate the Hawaiian treaty, the auti-
jpedygamy bills and the Chinese indemnity
The Morrison surplus resolution failed
by reason of adjournment of Congress be-
fore executive action had been taken on it.
GENERAL WASHINGTON HEWS.
confirmations.
Nathaniel H. R. Dawson, of Alabama,
commissioner of education- Thomas C.
Beach, associate justice of the court of
Montana.
To be United States Marshals—T. J. Ham-
ilton, of Washington Territory; Edward
Hawkins, for the district of Indiana;
Thomas Jefferson Carr, for the Territory of
Wyoming.
Collectors of Customs—George Hines, for
Wilmington, Cal.; Thomas J. Arnold, for
Santiago, Cal.; Joseph R. Cox, surveyor of
customs for Evansville, Ind.
A. A. Adee, of the District of Columbia,
to be second assistant secretary of state;
John B. Moore, of Delaware, third assistant
secretary of state; E. Spencer Pratt, of
Alabama, United States minister resident
and consul-general to Persia; Owen Mc-
Osrr, of Colorado, United States cof'-al-
tlm'ted S^^s"CohsuTs-^b7ih"T>evr[n!; or
Michigan, at Windsor, Ont.; Berthold
Greenebaum, of California, at Apia; R. H.
Jones, of New Mexico, at Chihuahua; Rich-
ard M. Stadden, of Manzanillo, Mexico, at
Manzanillo; Augustus M. Boyd, of Tuspan,
at Tuspan; Edward Young, of the District
of Columbia, at Windsor, N. S.
Indian Agents—Samuel L. Gibson, of
Pennsylvania, for the Fort Peck agency,
Montana; Joseph Holman, of Nebraska,
for the Omaha and Winnebago agencies;
W. W. Anderson, of Kentucky, for the
Crow, Creek and lower Brulo agencies;
Wm. Campbell, of Kentucky, for the Uin-
tah and Ouray agency, Utah: Melworth C.
Williams, of South Carolina, for the
Pueblo agency, New Mexico; Elmer A.
Howard, of Iowa, for the Pima agency, Ari-
zona; Thos. Smith, of Virginia, United
States attorney for the territory of New
Mexico.
August E. Alers, special examiner of
drugs, medicines and chemicals at San
Francisco, Cal.
Receivers of Public Money—Bradlev M.
Thompson, at East Saginaw, Mich.; Thos.
B. Davis, at Lincoln, Neb.
H. C. Bradford, register of the land office
at San Francisco; W. J. McClure, Coeur
d'Alene, Idaho; Allen Wood, at Susan-
viile, Cala.; Selden Hetzel, at Sacramento,
Cala.; T. J. Mott, Denver, Colo.
John W. Cage, postmaster at Mineola,
Tex.
Cornelius C. Watts, United States attor-
ney for the district of West Virginia.
Wm. S. Bowman, of Illinois, surveyor-
general of Utah.
a tribute to his worth.
As a recognition of the courtesy, impar-
tiality and uniform consideration shown by
Speaker Carlisle toward the minority of
the House, a number of prominent Repub-
lican representatives have united in pur-
chasing at a cost of $600 an elegant silver
table service, which will be presented to the
speaker at the close of the session.
rejected and left over.
The nomination of William L. Bancroft,
to be collector of customs for the district
of Huron, Mich., was rejected. About forty
nominations are left unacted upon.
the fortifications bill.
The fortifications appropriation bill, af-
ter passing both houses of Congress, failed
in conference. The senate conferees were
willing to reduce the total appropriation
made by the bill to $5,000,000, but this pro-
position was not acceptable to the House
conferees, and consequently there will be
no fund available for the preservation and
repair of fortifications during recess.
resignation received.
Secretary Lamar to-day received the
resignation of W. P. Johnson, of Chicago,
as member of the board of Indian commis-
sioners.
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS--FIRST SESSION
senate.
Washington, August 5.—Mr. Allison
moved to take up the final adjournment re-
solution.
Mr. Conger opposed action for the pre-
sent until the fate of the river and harbor
bill should be known.
Mr. Ingalls said he thought the Senate
was being trifled with. It was trifling with
public interests to allow the adjournment
resolution to remain unacted on. It was
the first time in executive history, that Con-
gress had been permitted to adjourn with-
out the executive coming to the capitol and
availing himself of the usual custom to as-
certain the will of Congress.
Mr. Harris (the chair being occupied by
Mr. Hawlev) offered a resolution of thanks
to Senator Sherman " for the ability, cour-
tesy and impartiality " with which he had
presided over the Senate during the pre-
sent session. The resolution was unani-
mously adopted.
There not being a quorum present, the
Senate at 12.10 toot a recess until 1 o'clock.
After recess, Mr. Hawley, referring to
Mr. Beck's bill to prohibit mergers of Con-
gress acting as counsel for subsidized rail-
road companies, said he had been seekin?
an opportunity to have it called up auu
Rcted upon, but other business had stood iu
its way.
Mr. Beck then moved that the second
Monday in December next be fixed for it*
consideration. The motion was agreed to.
Mr. Edmunds reported that the commit-
tee of the two houses appointed to wait ou
tho president to inform him that the two
houses had completed the business of the
session and were ready to adjourn, uuiess
he had some further communication to
make, had performed that duty and were
informed by the president that he had no
further communication to make and that ha
congratulated the two houses on the termi-
nation of their labors.
Mr. Plumb, from tlie conference commit-
tee on the fortifications bill, reported com-
mittee unable to agree, which amounted to
the failure of the bill.
After debate the subject was dropped.
After a short delay the moment of ad-
journment arrived and the chair said:
Senators: Before announcing the termi-
nation of this session of the Senate, 1 baa
leave to return to each of you my grateful
thanks for your uniform courtesy aud
kindness to me as your presiding officer,
and especially for the resolution of to-day
in which you nave expressed your approval.
This session has been distinguished by tha
great number and varie'y of subjects
which have been considered and by the
marked absence of political controver-
sies. The varied needs aud aims of the
rapidly growing country have occupied
more time of the Senate. A short recess
will enable you to greet your constituents,
and I hope and trust each of you will return
next December with renewed health and
strength to your important dutins. I u pur-
suance of the resolution of the two houses
of Congress, I now declare this ressioa
closed sine die.
Hurried leave taking among senators and
employes took place, aud half'an hour later
the chamber was empty.
ndusE.
While the clerk of the House was reading
the presidential veto on the pension bill,
the president's assistant secretary, Mr.
I'ruden, appeared at the north door of the
chamber. Instantly he and the message ha
held in his hand became the target for
every eye. When he announced the presi-
dent's approval of the deficiency, sundry
civil and river and harbor bill there was a
round of applause.
At 2.25 the committee appointed to wait
upon the president and inform him that
Congress was ready to adjourn, appeared
at the bar of the House and announced that
it had performed its duty, and that the
president had nothing further to communi-
cate to Congress.
On motion of Mr. O'Neill, of Pennsyl-
vania, senate bill was passed accepting the
gift of the Grant relics.
A bill passed providing for holding terms
of United States court at Texarkana.
On motion of Mr. Springer, the adjourn-
ment resolution was taken up and tha
amendment of the Senate, fixing the hour at
4 o'clock to-day was concurred iu.
After recess Mr. Hiscock, of New York,
moved to suspend the rules and pass the
bill regulating the duties on tobacco wrap-
pers. Mr. Hiscock took the floor and spolce
in support of his motion until seven minutes
before 4. Tlie next three minutes were con-
sumed in attempting to secure consent to
have the majority report on the tariff
printed in the Record, and then the speaker
without any preliminary remarks declared
•W. mljpnnis&alne die.
Postal Matters,
Washington, August 5.—The following
orders have been made by the department
which affect the postal service in Texas:
Special Service Changes—Fisher, Fisher
county, from Sweet Water: Rescind order
of Juiy .10, 1886 (Bulletin 1035), discontinu-
ing supply.
Special Service Discontinued—Amicus,
Marion county; from August 14, J1886, on
route 31,661.
RAILROAD NEWS.
texas traffic association.
Saratoga, N. Y., July 31.—The Texas
Traffic association has been holding a series
of meetings here during the past ten days.
Tlie last session took place yesterday. They
have been held with closed doors and no
inkling of the subjects considered has been
obtainable until to-day. The following
are the names of those whD represented
the various railroads that form the
association: H. M. Hoxie, vice-president,
and W. H. Newman, general traffic
manager of the Missouri-Pacific; Charles
Dillingham, receiver of the Houston
and Texas Central; S. W. Fordyce,
president of the St. Louis, Arkansas aud
Texas; M. G. Hower, reoeiver of the Hous-
ton East and West Texas; W. Snyder,
vice-president and general mauacrer of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe; W. W. Fin-
ley, general freight agent cf the Texas and
Pacific. About a year ago the association
was formed for the adjustment of freight
and traffic relations between the various
roads, but the schedule of rates and per-
centages then laid proved very unsatisfac-
tory, s» much so that the early days of the
present meeting saw a number of discom-
forted and inharmonious railroad men
gathered together. After continued and
elaborate discussion an entirely new allot-
ment of percentages and divisions of
earnings was agreed upon and the
agreement papers were signed and sealed
yesterday. J. Waldo, of Houston, Tex., was
mode commissioner of the association. Iu
sn interview to-day, H. M. Hoxie, vice-
president of the Missouri-Pacific, substan-
tiated the facts and said: " It has caused
me no little gratification that the relations
of all these southern roads have been made
so satisfactory and mutually advantageous.
The plans decided upon and entered into
yesterday mean the knitting together of all
the railroads of the southwestern belt for
four vears to come. It means cheaper rates
and "etter facilities for passengers and
freight throughout that section. I'have
worked hard to bring matters to the present
point, but feel amply ropaid now for the
trouble."
" Have you forgotten all about the great
strike, Mr. Hoxie?"
" No, and I am not likely to for some time
to come. The worry, work and strain of
those weary weeks did me untold harm. I
was a very sick man when I reached Sara-
toga three weeks ago, but 1 now feel greatly
-• I nit. — U i n r* innicl- i» ♦" T /1a
the entire month of August."
will remain the terminus.
Dallas, August 5.—[Special]—The report
that the Santa Fe company have a corps of
engineers running a line up the river from
Ballinger, and that a new town has been
located forty miles above that place, is, ac-
cording to W. J. Sherman, chief engineer
of the road, without the slightest basis.
The report was first published iu a Colorado
City paper, which was probably the father,
and the mother, too, for that matter, to the
thought, and copied in various other pa-
pers. Mr. Sherman assured The News
reporter that Ballinger is the terminus of
the road, and will continue to be for an.
indefinite period, and may be always, thera
not beicc the remotest idea of au extension
beyond the growing town.
Marion Martin En Routs.
Special to The News.
Kerens, August 5.—Hon. Marion Martia,
leaves this evening for Galveston,
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