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Cedar Falls Gazette ISSDKU SEMI-WKKK1A- TUESDAY AND I A ft SI 4 I' I I ARSON SEBILLK. PIT AWFUL BARBARITIES REVOLTING CRIMES PRACTICED ON CONGO NATIVES. Xatives Seized by Soldiers Are Killed mnrt Eaten or Carried Into Captiv- ity--Government Army is Com- posed of Cannibals. Dr. W.

M. Southern Pres byterian minister to the Congo T'rei State, in speaking to the Presbyteriai Miu'sters' Association at Louisville, gave an impressive recital of alleged bar- barities practiced upon the natives of the Congo Free States by those holding pow- er. "I lived with these people seven years," said Morrison. "Leopold has there -a native cannibal army of 20,000 men, officered by white Belgians, armed repeating rifles. men, repre- senting the worst aud most savage type of natives, were first caught, -then carried far away from their homes, and forced into the military service.

The soldiery is used to compel the natives to bring in enormous tributes of ivory and rubber. It is worth noting that the king of Bel- is today reputed to be the largest dealer in ivoVy and rubber iu the world. "As the result of this forced labor and military service, great and unspeakable cruelties are practiced on the native peo- ple. I have seen 50,000 ileeiug into the forests to escape from the cannibal sol- diers. I have seen those soldiers scour- ing through the forests, and, after catch- ing a number of men whom the govern- ment wanted as laborers, going away with the captives tied together by rope; around their necks.

Raids upon the vil- lages are being constantly made. Some people are killed and eaten and others carried away into captivity and sold. 1 can buy all the slaves yon want at Luebo at to $15 each. women and children arc killed or captured. Hands are cut off to be taken back to the white Belgian officers to show the work has been well done.

Great sections are being depopu- lated. After one of thesi raids one of our missionaries counted eighty-one hands cut off, drying over a fire, to lie taken back to the Belgian officers. Forty- five dead bodies were counted lying near by." BIG OKLAHOMA BANK FAILS, Capital National, of Gnthrio, in the In iicls of ttie Comptroller. The Capital National Bank of Guthrie, one of oldest banking jnstitu- in Oklahoma and a territorial aud States depository, has closed its doors. It is in the hands of the comp- troller of the currency, i C.

B. Billingsley, presidcmt of tbe sus- pended bauk, -which was the largest in Oklahoma, says that the depositors will be paid in full. When baiik closed its doors there were in assets $1,255,000, with, which to pay $1,033,000 in deposits. The failure was caused by heavy draiu during the last month and an unexpected run jusf before the bank closed its doors. The run, it is thought, was caused di- rectly by'th'e filing of a suit about three weeks ago against the Holdeuville Na- tional Bank, of which Mr.

Billiugsley is president, and its failure Itfst week. TWO SHOT IN CHICAGO RIOT NO I HOUSE. Wild Disorder in the Cuban Conn The scene in the house of ropvesoiitrt- at Havana, Cuba, Monday was one of wild disorder. As a matter of fact there was no formal opening of the house, owing to the inability to muster a quorum, for the reason that every na- tionalist wns absent from the lloor, fear- ing that if the question of contested seats arose they would be outvoted by the eo- alitioii likely arranged between the re- publicans aud moderate liberals. The nationalists, however, came into the building accompanied by several hundred followers, who crowded into the audience part of the chamber and into 'the halU and streets adjoining, shouting "Vivas!" for the nationalist party.

The republic- ans and moderate liberals for the most part remained in their seats. During the confusion the speaker of tlie house, who is a.nationalist, not being present, the vice speaker called upon tin- sergeant at arms and the employes of the to preserve order, but the crowd wns too great to handle. As the disorder continued, Representa- tive Boza, himself a nationalist, uddresis- 1 the people'to the effect a such a demonstration in the house was not only unlawful, but outrageous, and he coun- seled them that no redress or grievances could be had by such means. The pes- plo thereupon began to withdraw quietly, just as a squad of police entered the building. In the crowd were mnny negroes, but the more intelligent of the race in Ha- vana was not represented.

Owing to the fact that there was no. 'session, President Palma's message to congress was not read in the house. President Palma's message, which was read in the senate, was chiefly a review of existing conditions. It made few defi- nite recommendations, anil contained no direct reference to the frauds alleged to surround tbe election returns. The dent said he had abstniued from vention in all questions arising out of the elections, leaving their settlement to other aud proper authorities.

WATER STOPS RISING. Improvement in tfie Flood Situation in Indiana and Illinois. At Yincennes, the flood is at a standstill, but the situation has not im- proved. High winds have been blowing for twenty-four hours and have still fur- ther weakened the levees. The water iu the river is three feet higher than in the fields.

Relief parties are being sent from Yiu- cennes and from Illinois towns across the river. The steamer Belmont hns gone to Russellville, Belgrade and other towns with provisions. Easter services were held Sunday at St. Thomas church, though it was sur- rounded by water. Ferryboats and skiffs were used by the congregation nnd cler- gy.

One boat containing five women was upset, but all were rescued. In Lawrence County, 111., and Kuox County, the loss will be 000,000, according to the most conserva- tive estimates. Almost half of these two counties have been under water a weelr and the wheat crop is ruined. SLAUvJH i i England is ac I 1 The slaughter Tilu-tai's I'utliv'v kills such waning as.sii:| i i nt I.oiulim in the. Japiinesc-Uussiiin struggles.

The news, of wholesale bloodshed excites, as a general rule, a reeling of depression, first because the average Englishman scarcely sees that it necessary, and secondly, because there is general apprehension that it may lead to complications with Russia. The last-thing the British public wants nt the present moment is another Trar, and what is most dreaded is a rise in the in- come tax. Hence the tragic'events in far off Tibet are especially unwelcome at this period, when the taxpayer is anx- iously waiting to see how be will be call- ed on to meet the national, deficit. The extreme liberal seized on the slaughter at Guru us quo of the worse blots on the history of. England.

The Daily News declares that no "more ''wan- ton or discreditable business has been bred by our pro-consuls in India since the time of Lord Lj-tton." Other papers of the same political views describe Col. Youujjliusband's mis- sion ns another raid. The government organs, while express- ing the refiet felt in official circles that such an event occurred at this moment, reiterate Foreign Secretary Lansdowne's assurances to Russia that Great Britain has no intention of annexing Tibet. The text of those who defend Col. Younghus- hand's action is Lord Lansdowne's state- ment in the house of lords that all Great Britain desires is a new convention with' the Tibetans aud with China as the suzerain power of Tibet.

The opposition, however, points out that China has repeatedly protested against the strength of the escort with which this "political mission" is accom- panied, and declares thajt as a matter vt fact Great Britain is now at war, not with Tibet, but with China, tliereby en- dangering China's neutrality towards Russia and Japan, and risking the peace of the world. This extreme view, is ndiculed in of- ficial circles, where the case of Cuba is instanced as a parallel. HARD COAL CASE. Canmakers Attack Strike Breakers UnfJer Police. Escort.

In a riot at the plant of the Diessel' branch of the American Can Company Chicago Tuesday, growing out of the effort to reopen the factory aud retain thirty Greek "strike breakers," two men were shot, but neither oue was seriously -wounded. The union canmakere, who the discharge of the Greeks, gathered about the factory and when the non-un- ion men, under police escort, approached, bricks began flying and several shots fired. In the attacking party were ft number of girls. The strikers were dispersed by the police. VICTIMS OF COAL STRIKE.

Men Hundred Iowa Railroad Have Been Laid Off. A Des Moines, special says: Ot account of the coal strike the railways announced Tuesday that at least 50C men would be laid off at ouce. Seventeen switching crews 'and nineteen full train crews running out of Des Moincs and Valley Junctiou quit work Tuesday. Similar octiou by the railways center- ing at Boone, Belle Plaine, Oskaloosa, Federal Supreme Court Makes Im- portant Ruling. Tbe case of the interstate commerce wmmission vs.

Baird, commonly known as the anthracite coal case, was decided by the supreme court of the United States at Washington, D. Monday favor of the coutentions of the com- mission, the decision of the circuit court of the southern district of New York be- ing reversed. This is the case instituted before the commission by W. R. Hearst, who nl- legcd discrimination by the railroad com- panies which reached the anthracite coal mines in Pennsylvania.

During the hearing some of the wit- nesses refused to produce certain con- tracts bearing upon the business of the railroad companies and the coal mines, which action wns upheld by the circuit court of New York. The supreme court held the contracts should have been sup- plied. AWTIST KILLS HIS WIFE. TWO PERSONS KILLED. Collision on Ihe Pennsy Ivania Rail- way Near Portstowii.

Two persons were killed and a dozen others injured in a collision between an express train and a freight train ou Pennsylvania Railway near Pottstown, Pa. The dead are Andrew Fegley, Phila- delphia, and a mau supposed to be Sig. Hirschon of Baltimore. The coal train was lying on a siding and the engineer's orders, it is said, were to wait for an accommodation and tbe express. The accommodation traiu pass- ed, when the coal train pulled out on the main track and the express crashed in- to it.

JAMES JOHNSON KILLED. THE HAWKEYE STATE NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. Redfield Mystery Cleared Away--Bob- bery Scheme of Dee Moinea Clerks-- AilinBFarinerKinsHlmself-- Whirled Around He-rolving Shaft. Another Act in the Breatbltt County, Kentucky, Feud. News was received at Jackson, that James Johnson was shot and in- stantly killed by Bummer Spicer Sunday.

The shot was fired without warning, and apparently without provocation. Johnson is a nephew of J. it. Marcum, who was assassinated in the Breathitt County court house door a year ago, and Spicer is a cousin of Sheriff Ed Callahan, a leader of the faction which is charged with bringing about Marcuin's death. At last accounts Spicer had not been arrested.

COLLISION NEAR A work to about 1,000 men. The churches at Des Moincs have beet closed on account of the strike and onlj one school in the city Is open. Boy Confesses to Murder. Lewis, aged 17, nnd Aloxnnde. Stewart, aged 35, under arrest at North field, have confessed to uVr of nn unknown man in a bos car i.jc Rock Island road in Owatonna Convicts Liberty.

Pour convicts at the penitentiary Jefferson City, attempted escape holding up the guard with revolvers They were forced to surrender, and whec searched several sticks of dynamite found in their possession, Good Rain in Oklahoma. A. general rain fell over the larger por- tion of Oklahoma Tuesday night, thi most beneficial and extensive since last Frank Brown Then Shoots and Fa- tally Wounds Himself. Frank Brown, a scenic artist, 45 years old, shot and killed his wife Dora, ayed 47, at their home in Roslindale, Mass. Brown then shot himself behind the right ear, and is in a critical condition.

Brown came to Boston about ft year-ago from Minneapolis. Previously he was em- ployed by several Chicago newspapers as an artist and illustrator. The woman he killed was his second wife. His son declares the shooting was the result of a quarrel over the fact that his lunch was not ready when he came (home at noon. 1'wo Vandalla Freight Trains Meet, Hilling Three Men.

Three men are. dead and two engines and about forty cars demolished because of the head-on collision of two Vandalia freight trains at Locust cut, eleven miles east of Terro Haute, Sunday. The dead are Fireman John Tumblin, Richard Simmons and Frank Hickey, who were stealing a ride. Engineer Burns and Conductor White of the eastbound train, telegraphed to Superintendent Downing, admitting their responsibility and resigning. Insures Life for James C.

Colgate, member of the New Ottnmwa nnd Albia will mean a loss of stock exchange, has taken out an This is i October. effect on crops will be beyond aud sprint insurance policy for $1,500,000. to be the largest single risk ever oc- cepted on a human life. The premium is about $45,000 yearly. (Jar Rani Bandit on Trial.

A writ of habeas corpus for the release of Gustax Marx, one of the car barn bandits at Chicago, wag denied Monday. Rmll Roeski, the last of the gang, was Monday placed on trial. Chicago Wins Gas Fight. The supremo court of the United States Monday affirmed the decision of the lower court iu the case of the Peo- ple's Gas Company vs. the city of Chi- cago.

The decision is in favor of the city. The case involved the validity of the ordinance of Chicago fixing the rata Gives Blrtb to Five. Mrs, Mary Bradley, wife of a ranch- men living between Kiowa and Alex, I. has given birth to fire children, etch welching seven pounds. Was an Act of God.

A verdict wns rendered by a jury in the city court at East St. Louis, that the Mississippi River flood of last May was "an act of Goil," and that James Burhi- son, government inspector at the stock yards, could not recover $92 damages from, the Illinois Central Railroad be- cause his household goods were delayed in transit. Millionaire Indicted. The interior department at Washing- ton has received "the following dispatch from Portland, reporting the lat- est developments in the investigation of the public land frauds in the west; "Charles Cunninghnm, a millionaire stockman of eastern Oregon, and sir homesteaders, procured by him, were in- dicted for conspiracy." Employes Pall at Own Risk. Employes take their own risks in fall- ing down elevator shafts, according to a supreme court decision at Madison, Wis.

The case is a of Bremcr vs. Pleirs to recover damages on the ground of cou- trihutory negligence. The court sus- tnins judgment of the lower court for the Another Tale, of Slaughter. A dispatch to the Amsterdam Telegram from Kotarajn, Island of Sumatra, an- nounces that a column of Dutch troops operating in Achin (northern Sumatra) engaged a strongly entrenched body of Aehincsc in the Gnjocloeas 'district, with the result that 541 Achincse were killed, Jftnssla in England. The St.

Petersburg correspondent of the Parin Figaro says that Russia or- dered 200 in England for Mancbnrlan The badly decomposed body of Charles Thompson was found in the 'Coon river at Adel by workmen who were attempt- ing to close the water gates. The body had gotten under the; gates and formed an obstruction which had to be removed before they could closed. Thompson disappeared from home on March 10. He was last seen in comprny about 10 o'clock that night with a man named Cummings. Whether he committed sui- cide or not is not known.

Thompson loaves a ivife anil three children. He was about 35 years of age. Farmer Buds His Life. Despondent over continued illness and Buffering from consumption, Charles G. McGuire, a prosperous farmer of Bla- densburg, committed suicide by shooting himself through the lungs with a re- volver.

McGuire sent his son to the ten cent store to purchase cartridges. The coroner's verdict is that McGuire came to his death by bullet wounds inflicted by himself in a state of temporary insanity. Terrible Death. J. M.

Zeigler, a carpenter employed by the Des Moines Manufacturing and Supply Company, putting in machinery in the new Plymouth gyiusnm mill, was killed in Fort Dodge. While adjusting a belt on a revolving pulley his cloth- ing caught, and he was whirled around the shaft. Both legs and one arm were broken and his head, spine and neck in- jured. He died in the hospital. Clerks Had Get-Rich-Quick Scheme.

The wholesale discharge of department store clerks in Des Moines develops cleverly planned nnd systematic rob- beries extending, in some cases, over sev- eral years. The plan was to give the cashier reduced figures on sales and pocket the balance. Some of the clerks ore from the best families in the city. Thousands of dollars were stolen. Gets Two Years' Sentence.

M. May, the old man who shot his employer at Griswold several weeks ago, has entered plea of guilty to the crime of assault with intent to commit murder, and received a sentence to serve two years in the penitentiary at Fort Madison. May is GO years of age and committed his crime while under the ntluence of liqijor. Shoots Stepfather in Mother's Defense. In Oslcnloosa Louis Jones, aged 20 years, shot his stepfather, Onrl Yates, with a.

shotgun. The boy was defending lis 'mother, whom Yatns assaulted with a revolver. Yates was wounded iu the lip aud may die. Within. Our The Low Moor band is to be reorgnn- zed.

Mayor Becker of Davenport has de- clined renomination. Blackhawk County officers are after poll tax delinquents. Three complete municipal tickets are the field at Sigourney. Waterloo spiritualists have organized "psychic church society." Ira J. Dice, a prominent business man of West Liberty, is dead.

Eldora and Whitten checker enthusi- asts are playing by telephone. Farmers' nenr Dys-art are importing cattle to be fed out from Texas. Dr. H. A.

a pioneer phy- sician of Clinton, is dead, aged 71. West Liberty has selected a site for its proposed Carnegie library building. Dumout voted down tax to raise funds for an addition to its school house. A branch of tlie State anti-saloon league has been formed at Mnrshalltown. A "sick relief" society hns been or- ganized at Walcott, and hns incorporat- ed.

Cnrl Peck of Twin City was slightly injured in a train wreck near Reedley, Cal. Business men of Melbourne have or- gniiixod and incorporated a commercial dub. Des Moines Unitarians are endeavor- Ing to raise funds for new church building. The Davenport board of health has for the establishment of a city laboratory. Des Moincs women's clubs have taken up the fight against the policy shop gam- blers of that city.

Julius Wcidger, a farmer near Jesup, wns seriously and possibly fatally injured by a cow falling on him. Rev. J. W. Bryce of Shelbyvillc, hns been called to the pastorate of the Deuison Presbyterian Church.

The DiibiujHC Humane Society has de- cided to offer prizes to (lie tcnmsters who keep their horses in the best condition. farmers living i i twenty- five miles of Des Moinos filed petitions Iu bankruptcy in a city in one day. Thirty retail grocers of Dubuque are to the stock company form- ad to erect cracker factory in that city. Union revival services at Ames have resulted in nbout 200 conversions. The meetings have been in progress five weeks.

It is estimated thai required to operate tlie i i a i of Dubuque the coming ynnr, compared with $200,000 last your. Des Moincs CoiigrGKiitionnhsts are nl- making preparations lo entertain the national Congregational- council, which meets in Hint city next October. The Standard Lumber Company of Dubuque lost $10,000 by the huming of Its ynrdR at AUn Vistn. The lire started In Ries" livery stable, which nl.so was de- stroyed. Rock Island road is preparing to resume the work of i i a i curves and cutting down grades, commenced by it a year ngo, between Des Moines and Council Bluffs.

The work will in the dntty of Cnsoy. Engineers are alno work figuring out changes between Molnw and Altoonn by hk-h grades pua reduced. Sheep scab is prevalent in southwest- ern Measles are unusually prevalent at Davenport, J. N. Smith, a prominent FairCeld citizen, is A new-Catholic church is to be erected at Chelsea.

A new capitalized at $25,000, has bten organized at Sigourney. C. D. Popham of Amish fell from a load of hay and was fatally injured. The postofflce nt Buckeye will become a domestic money order office April 17.

Several business men at Jefferse.u have been recently victimized by check-' forg- ers. Cyrus Black of Kearney, hns been chosen manager of the Keokuk boll tt'rtm, II. B. Townsend, a well-known Iveo-' knk insurance agent, is dead of typhoid fever. Thirty divorce cases are 'docketed for the present term of District Court at Davenport.

About $10,000 worth of property Wiis disposed of -on a recent market any at Clarion. Iowa City medical students have uiov- ec 1 into tliuir new college building at the university. farm house of Robert Jones, near Luther, burned. Loss no iiisurvnce. Workmen tearing: down a bnm for G.

H. Clripp at Fuirfieid killed 43.1 rats in one day. E. M. Bllingscn, one of Des Monies' wealthiest business men, hns joined the Dowie ranks.

Greene County will erect new i-iuild- ings to the value oi' about $5,000 011 its ccuuty farm. Des Moines Masons are seriously con- sidering an addition to their temple, to cost $80,000. A freight train on the B. Q. was derailed at Winfield, delaying traffic several hours.

Lumber mills at Muscatine and other river points ai-e expected to resume op- erations soon. The State Senate hns passed a bill re- quiring divorcees to wait six months be- fore rmirryiug. Forty colored citizens of Burliugton have formed a club for social and po- litical purposes. The value of products from the Sol- diers' Home farm at Mnrsliulltowii last yoat- wns $5,222. The Iowa Laundry Company of Des Moines'has assigned.

Liabilities assets liot stated. A site has been purchased for the erection of the new armory for Company nt Washington. Julius Eggc hns been appointed post- mnster at Lake-wood, vice Christian Schuipf, resigned. Joe Stnpleton, a. Davenport bartender, lias disappeared.

Relatives fear he has met with foul play. It is proposed to build an electric line from Independence to Mason City, and possibly to Cresco. It is reported that the Rock Island will build a line from Ruthven to Gor- mania this summer. There is $25,295 in road tax due Black Hawk County from the various cities, towns and townships. Mayor C.

H. Berg of Dubuque has been renomiuated for fourth term by a citizens' convention. A. company has been organized at Mn- Eon City to engage in the manufacture of reed and pipe organs. Muscatine will not secure on appro- priation for proposed federal building at this term of Congresj.

A postoffice has at White City, Mahaska. County, with Geo. A. Warner as postmaster. The annual meeting-bf' the Davenport district of the Church will be held ac Cnmnnthe April 18r20.

Raising squabs for market is 1 a grow- ing industry that is proving high'ly profit able in many Iowa tovyns. The Davenport United Presbyterian Church has extended a call to Rev. Dr W. A. Spanieling of Seattle.

Alfred Clark has been'nppointed store keeper nnd gnuger in the internatio'nn revenue district at Dubuque. Rev. W. P. McNary of Mo.

has accepted a call to the pastorate the TJ. P. Church at Creston. The Waterloo Water Company hns employed an expert to investigate thp condition of their institution. The Postmaster General hns nllowed the postmaster nt Fort Dodge one mounted letter carrier for Aprij 15.

Sneak thieves have stolen number of the charity contribution boxes owned by the Salvation army at Des One hundred head of drnft horses were sold to nn agent of the Russinn govern: me-nt at Oskaloosn. One mare brought A. severe epidemic of measles has been raging in tlic vicinity of Carson for two mouths. Many schools have been en- tirely without pupils. One of the most pathetic attempts ai suicide in tlie annnls of Iowa 'was thai of pretty, winsome little 13-year-old Madge Dunning of Mount Ayr, who swallowed quantity of chloroform be cause her little schoolmates taunted her over the wrecking of her father's bnnk "That beautiful dress you have on nnd those stylish shoes don't belong to you, 1 her schoolmates.

"Your fathers money didn't pny for them. They were bought with my father's money and your fnthcr has made us all poor while yot lived in grand style." This was dinned into the helpless little girl's ears onco too often anil she deliberately determined to take, hen own life. She obtained a hot tie of chloroform, locked herself in her room and bwtillowcd a largo quantity Her physician snys she will live. Oscnr Bnughmnn of Humboldt, while out hunting, was struck In the face by Khots from the gun of careless hunter He may lose sijht of nn eye. ITerndrm'K big hotel.

at the time of I gas well excitement, and whlcl hns stood empty for fifteen years, has finally been converted into a store nn ofll ce-building. Jesse Guston, aged 10, wns accident ally shot and killed while hunting near HitMMngs. A gun in the of Thoe. Kelly wan accidentally discharged, strik Ing Ouston to the head, killing him tn- Ktantly. The bill authorizing of ha (Irtitiounl executive, department building: of a spir- ed deb-ite in the Senate 'Tuesday; but action was taken on it.

There enewed effort-to pass the bill misbranding of salmon, but owing opposition of Senators who held tha; iie measure is calculated to rith the rights of individual'States- er the guise of au effort to control in! erstate commerce a vote not reach-' 1. The bill authorizing. an investiga- 1011 into payment, claim of the- ndiann State board of agriculture- gainst the United on account of it; occupancy of its buildings, by troops tiring the war 'with Spain was passed. Mr. McCumber addressed tlie Senate- the opening of the session Wednes- ay in support of his bill providing for uniform federal standard of classifica- ion and grading of grains.

The post- Ilice appropriation bill was taken up. enator Gormaii spoke for two enewing the demand of the Democrats- or ,111 investigation of the Posloth'ce De- ai-tment. Mr. Penrose, chairman of the- Senate committee on pbstofficcs, replied: lint he had concluded none was Jr. Lodge also replied to Mr.

Mr. Olny spoke iii fnv6r of an in- est igntion. Substantial progress- was uade by the House in' consideration of he sundry civil bill, nnd only tweutyronav inges remain to be read. An nniend- nentby Mr. Hull of Iowa out ho appropriation of $523,900 for lietr rmy post at Indianapolis was VTr.

Bnrtlett of Georgia replied briefly statements on the negro question by Mr. Gillett of Massachusetts, and Crumpacker -of Indiana declared that have been mobbed nnd put death in the United States in the last years. The bill for the repeal of the desert and, the timber.and 1 sfone and the home- stead commutation laws wns taken up- 'ov discussion in the Senate Thursday- Mr. Clark (Wyo.) contested the aken by Mr. Gibson that there have' jeen great frauds in the administration- of the land laws in the West.

He de- clarod that there is lobby in Washing- ton in the interest of the repeal bill, and- engaged in a colloquy with Mr. Patter- son, during which each characterized' the statements of the other as untrue. The general'debate on the postoflice bill" as confined largely to a speech' by Mr. McCreary and interruptions by the He- publican Senators. Consideration of the- sr.ndry civil appropriation bill was con- cluded in tlie House and the bill waa- iliout to be passed when a roll call on motion to commit the bill with instruc- tious to strike out the paragraph' ap- propriating 9136,000: for rental thV S'ew York custom house showed a quo-' rum was not present.

The: right of boards of directors of State homes fot- disabled volunteer soldiers to retain cer-- portions of pension jy the'inmates was discussed at length, Air. 'Bell of California assailed his own- State cantceu to be es- tablished in the California State Horns- and charged a scandal, in the manage- ment. His amendment correcting tin evils complained of wns adopted. A vio- lent "attack on the coast and geodetic survey wns made by Mr. Robinson Indiana, who charged that scandal tachedito that' office" in connection allowances for commutation ol! subsist enee.

The session of the Senate Friday we devoted to an. almost continuous discu sion of political questions. The timt-' until 2 o'clock was giveii to' a oration Carrank resolution propos- ing nn inquiry into the legality of recent executive old nge pension order. The half of the day was to the postoffice. nppropriation bill.

Mrr Culberson proposed nn amendment viding for an investigation of the de- partment by a joint committee of threr Senators and five members of the Housei The committee is authorized to sit dur- ing the recess of Congress and report OK or before Dec. 5. Pnrt of the investi- gntion proposed is to pass upon 'the postal laws, with a view to recommend- ing Mr. bill to amend the net for the government' of Hawaii, prescribing the manner ol appointing public officials and for theij removal for by the Governor. Tin House passed the sundry civil appropria- tion bill after voting down a proposition- to recommit it, with instructions to strikt- out the appropriation of $130,000 for rent' of the New York custom house.

remainder of tlie day.was devoted to dis? cussjon of the conference report' on army appropriation bill. With the excep- tion of one amendment providing certain; increases in. the signal corps the disagreed to all other important amend- ments the bill was sent bnok to con-' ference. In the Senate Saturday Mr. Mnllory continued his speech on the Cnrmaclt resolution lookjng to an inquiry into thr old-age pension order by Secretary Hitch- cock.

He declared the order wns a usur- pation of legislative authority. Mr. Wnr- ren spoke on the land law repeal opposing wholesale repeal as against rapid settlement of unoccupied areas. ID- the House 310 pension bills were passed. A bill was passed conferring upon United States commissioners oveiy iiffeuscs committed in portion of tne Hot Springs reservation, Arkansas, ine Stntc of Texas was authorized to piacs in Stntunry Ilnll, in the national cnpitoi, statues of Sam Houston and Stephen l'.

Austin. A resolution was adopted call- ing for a convention between tlie unitea Suites nnd Great Britain for the protec- tion of tlje fur seals of Alaska. In the National Capital. The President sent to the Senate tne nomination of Cnpt. Theodore J.

re rear admiral; also other promo- tions in tlic navy. Senator Cullom, by direction of tne foreign relations committee of the sen- He, reported the consular reform bill, advocated ly National Business Lengue, favorably. W. T. Nichols hns been appointed by President to be secretary of to Inane T.

Stoddard. Mr. Nich- is chairman of the territorial Kepub- Itcno organisation of 'H.