—— A —— CONGRESS BEEING Imposing Scenes i ad Around the Capital, ——— DINGLEY BILL CAME UP. It Tork Precedence In Appsaranca inthe Senate, But was Instantly Dismissed to Make Way for the Message. The reassembling of Congress Tuesday for the closing session of the Fifty-fourth Con- gress was an occasion of unusual brilliancy and interest, The opening day is always a gala affair, marking, as it does, the inauguration of the social as well as the political season in Washington, but it was all the ashy becanse of the long and bard-fought political battie that had been waged during the receas, The weather was perfect. A blue sky shone over all; the air was mild but bracing, and the warm sun glinted and glitteraed from ths facades and marble walls of the public buildings, on Capitol Kill, the acropolis of which the broad sweeping avenues verged, the massive its classic outlines and huge white dome, urmounted by the great bronze statue of Liberty gleamed like beyond, across the wide plaza, the gol dome the new Library Building flared and flamed, The throngs who streamed up the witness the unorganized civic pageant with a rattle of steeds, conveyed ables and the itl Thess elagant turnouts moved side by side with one-horse ramshackle cabs more inter sorenns, Washington, to cons marble structure with alabaster, while just len of hill to opening ceremonies formed an Gay equlpages, chalys, drawn by praociog the diplomats, the fashion- po more prominent in official and other nondescript lators and outward show, two-wheelers, conveying legis. visitors who cared nothing for The i moved up Pennsylvania avenue on foot or in street cars. Then the gay greetings, the pushing unnumbered thousands came the throngs in the corridor, ible for admission to the galleries, the animated scenes on the floor of the House the demonstrations for cor {nent statssmen, the burz and marked the sntrance of so reserved galleries, and at the gavel and the regular ceremo tending the op i tion of the President's annual communion. and Seats, sniog session and the recep. tion to Congress. In The House. preseatad a The House seonn for an hour before peared. The gal were admitted without to the doors before 11 o'clock, were jammed {rance, As the Bpeaker Haed quietly ascended the emblen lifted to its p! pedestal to the with a sharp enlied the House to order yery &Oi0 aad Ap Speaker BH i af tH ’ } in isries to bh the publ ards were crowded wille the halls with those unable to gaia en hands of the cloe polated to enter the rostrum of the authority of ace on the right crack of the gavel The hun green ol the rostrum, the versation instantly ceased agd the became quiet. Rev. Mr. Cowden, « gan, the blind ft the H reation, gallering »f Michi use, ol chaplain o fered the ins The roll members As soon ma sal] ahowed the preas the Speaker an- nounced the presence of a quorum and that the Houses was ready to a dozen members de but the Speaker first message the Senate, Senate had 8 quorum present asd to proceed to business J. William: Stokes then was sworn in as a member from the Seveath Congressional South The credentials of ( harles J, © the Fifth district of also, The usual formal pointment of a commities { committees and inform President that the House was ready to pro- esed to business and another directing the olerk to inform House was prepared co procead, The Speaker appointed Mr. Cannon, of llinols; Mr. Payne, and Mr, Turner, of Georgia, to constitute the com mittee At1L30 P turned from the White House, the House took a farther recess until 2 o'clock At 2 o'clock the committes appeared and Mr. Cannon, that the committees had waited upon the Presi dent and bad been informed by him that he would immediately communicats In writing Immediately afterward Mr. Pruden, the President's executive clerk, presented the message, which was read by the direction of the Dpeaker. Mr. Grow ( Hep. Pa ) showed a disposition to debate the message, bul yisided until a later time, Mr. Turner (Dem. Ga) then informally announced the "untimely death” of his late colleague, Ex-Speaker Crisp, and stated that atsome futures day he would ask the House to fix a day for paying tribute to “his dis. tinguished character and eminent public ser. vices." A resolution presented by him reciting that the House had heard, with profound re, got, the announcement of Mr. Crisp’s death was adopted, after which, at 345 P. M. ass further mark of respect the House immed ately adjourned until to-morrow, In the Benate, The Benate chamber was a centrs of inter. ost long before tha hour of assembling had arrived, and by 11 o'clock the public galler- fes were filled and crowds were at ihe en. trances unable to gain admission. Bir Jul fan Pauncefots, accompanied by members of b's staff, and several members of the diplo. matic corps were in the gallery reserved for foreign representatives, and with them were seseral Indies bearing cards from Becretary Olney Exactly at 12 o'clock the Vies-President entered the chamber, and golog to the desk received from stating camo forward and distriet of Carol alner Louisiana were read resolutions for the ap- similiar the y Join A of the Bepals the Benale that the of New York, MM. the committee not having re the chairmap, announced of the presiding officer gave a tap, which brought the (Benate to order, while the blind chaplain, Rev. Dr, Milburn, delivered an im- pressive invocation, The roll eall showed 70 Senators present, Mr, Callom was the first to receive recognl- tion, and his resolution that the House of Representati ves be notified that the Benate was In and ready to proceed with business was agreed to without comment Mr. Hale followed with a resolution that the dally hour for meeting be 13 o'clock merid- lan, which was agreod to Mr, Sherman made the customary motion for a committes of Senators and members to wall upon the Presidont, and upon its adop tion the presiding officer named Mr. Bher- man and Mr Smith (Dem, N. J.) as the Ben- tors of the committes Mr. Morrill (Hep. Vt.,) was the first to suggest anything in the nature of legislative presauting several petitions Dingley bill, He ylolded, however, to Mr, Hoar's sugges- session business, by asking for the passage of the tion that all business be doforred, as & mat- until the and Representatives had been commu- thereupon, at 12.15 P. M. the Senate took a recess until 1 o'clock, ter of courtesy, President House of nicated with, and At 1 o'clock there was a further recess for 8) minutes At 1.30 the Senators who had the President bad not returned, and was another recess until L453 P. M Benators Sherman and Smith walked down the middia aisle of the Benate when the session was resumed, and the Ohio Ben- ator briefly reported that the President nad waited on there bis views im writing Becretary Pruden, of the White House staff, immediately stepped in band, and made formal announesment of from the President, the message closed at P, M., haviug taken just one hour and fifty The President's forward, message The reading of minutes, closlug reference to trusts and monopolies was carefully f lowed by Mr. SBhermauag, author of the antl which the Presidont referred, After the usual formality of laying the mes- trust law, to sage on the t tion of Mr. Hale able, the Bonals, on Wm Bep., Me.) adjourned. EN — an— WASHINGTON NOTES. The pital Bervice sanitary inspector of the Marine Hos- at Yokohama, Japan, under date of November €, calls attention to the increasing prevalence and great mo suall-pox io Hiogo Ken I'he Fostm raud “leo Cla sster-Genernl has order against Pp rke & Co, { Buffalo, N. ¥ bogusinsurancs broker Me pame for an alliage 1 i age business alleged to berun by H SB Fall, Senator Shot cf Idaho, pressntad a bill to the Ben ting forma the . 3 L risd articles free list, ar The H aurrsncy commercial for curre: present bhi i y the committees, The President Dyer ! y be y f ! Massach the ited Stat at Budapest, Hungary sent to the Begate a sum have bheretolors f nominations, which been announosd, and wers made prior to the assembling of « Lisutenant-C GR Tess mmander C, H. Araoid he Massachusetls, fs 1 ordered to the B sroft, Lisotepnant-Com meander C, p, from the Baperoft home mmander 6 board to As Sa on waiting Lisutenant.( the The i. F. Parriah has been 8 Bhroedear, the Massa sistapb-Burgeoa inapecti husstis, resigumion of eapted, “Rad Badge of « rench, Maphen Craae's Jurnge” has bean trans Mr. Ant! most Auished the sequal to “v7 + rison it Zenda, it b not likely to B t Miss Vistorin has made a 1% until next year, » Thomas Ariz, 3 f $10,000 to the Boate Longfellow memorial ’ gift « lic Library as a »f the Czarvitsh have so far im proved that his p The health yain be may sped the winter lu Contral France ary for Seotland has appointed a committee to valence « ¢ 5 Fy ee Bootiand, Rev, J. Cammmings the ¥ Prestytarian Church, Ban Fraasciseo, has accepted The Secret inquire into the alleged pre *p-slealing in osrtain parts of Smith, pastor of Trin a onal to the Tabernacie Pres byterian Chuareh, Iadianapolis, Hans Richter the great Viennese orches tral conductor, will give an orchestral sri in Paris ia Apr it ech be the first time he bas sppeared publicly in that efty, General Booth has annonnced that the Sal. vation Army ia to will extend ita operations over the whole of the Malay archipelago. The movement will headquarters in Australia The Bryon revival ia getting along fam- ously in England, to which his poetry has been subjected wil} be more than made up if the present renew. ed interest in the great post continues, The Behiller prize, awarded every three years for the best play acted on the German stage, has just been pressnted to Herr Ernst von Wildenbrueh for lis tragedy, “Henry nnd his House," and the decision of the jury has been confirmed by the Emperor, ian whose hands there is power to veto. ————I——— FIVE TRAINMEN KILLED. A Terrible Collisions Results from a Bouthers Pacific Freight Crew Going to Sleep. A collision between through freight trains on the Southern Pacific Road near Waelder, Texas, resulted in the killing of two engine- men, two Oreman and 8 brakeman. The erew of the eastbound freight went to t oop while walting on a siding. After they awoke they thought the second section of he through westbound freight was the third section, and so they put their train on the main line. The weather was foggy and the eastbound freight and the third section of the westbound train came together a fow wiles from the siding. Loss of the North German floyd Steamer Salier. NEARLY 200 PERISHED. The Accident Occured on the Cor robedos Rocks, off the Deso late Spanish Coast—-Foun in the Recent Heavy Gales, Tho steamship Saller, owned by the North for Vii to foundered in the heavy gale which recently She loft Corunna on December 7 Spain, and is believed bave No detnils of the disaster have been ob A steamship has gone in search of Vigo, Bpain The statement that there board the Baller is There were 210 passengers on Her crew was composed of 65 men. on board, passengers and crew, per _ The Balier's 113 61 Spaniards and one passopgers consisted of Russians, 35 Galle The Baller was bound from Bremsn jo Buenos Ayres, via Corunna and Villagarein I'he passengers were mostly in the steerage The Corrobedo rocks, on which it is be the west coast of C« eve Baller was lost, are situated off the south- uld the sieamer ranna and sh have bLoen given a before headed eastward, austeniy Yilia sud then lo an fren four ¥ Vo o io » 3 direction for the bay leading up to Karcia, Was On The Baltimore Line The Baltimore Saiisr was a well-known vessel at She ran for many years bet ween Baltimore and Drem Milimore ana ire ArTYIUR passenger and freight, and was rated Al at Lioyd The steamship was regarded 8 a staunch one, and met with no disaster while fall strailan 1 fine. During the ferred to the Ax past shies was trans { the 1] ne « Company, on which she was rug } ul disaster reg Lhe sinking cause nt in piace where she went down Is we shipping bered as the one where the il man-of-war Lord Some years fated Howe met ago more the Bsiisr was Captain Wemp ihe left eptember 9 for Bren where ' she arrived Rartem bw oq jlember 23 Haved to have been loaded with when 4 a Bho was a brig-rigged , bulit at Hall, England, ved to} Tew , INTE sod ave Leen carrviog a crew of he was of 0 gross SEE ED h LSS, FIFTY-FOURTH CONG Senate "he notios of the opening f a in Day Cuban discuss! ye if interest deve sed Bt the brie! the Benste, w inated only 25 minutes Sennt illom gave potios of 8 speech a tha next Thursday The Senators had ox wected to start the wheels of actual business, it the appearancs of a H resciution relative feath of ex-Hpoaker Crisp lod to the customary ad) mark of respect. A iarge number reports wers received, including thet of went directors of the Pacifle uly feature semplion of Use to the prnment 4 bo tr as AB ireay the g raliways vers in Das he Secate, by the decisive + of 35 to 11, adoptad a motion to Dingley tariff-silver 1 lowing it, bdr of the rept i i IR of the floss commities, bili to that commiites, An tion was pend ing when the morning hour expired, and the entire matter lapsed as though no vote had been taken. The debate was at times sharp and personal bree sets of vigorous res lations for Cuban indepeadence furnished an interesting feature. They came from Mr, Cameron, of Pennsyis ania, Mr. Mills, of Texas, and Mr. Call, of Florida mit the House, 20 Day The House procesded to business and before the session closed had threes bills of considerable im the first of the reguiar supply that for pensions. Three of the tilis related to pos tal matters provided for the use of private maliing eards of the same general size and character as the present postal cards One matter, and the third fora registered mail ities, towns and private carrier service in held a three-hour nor Among them were the foliow- To extend for five years the time in 8p Dav. The House lands granted to it: to authorize the use of vation in California as a training school for Indisus: to confirm certain cash entries for reservoir sites in Mootana, South Dakota and Wyoming. AWFUL CRUELTY OF A FATHER. ————“——— His Brutal Treatment OCuseed the Death of His Dacghter, After a long preliminary examination, Rudolph Brockman, a wealthy farmer, living in Osage township, Kan., has been held in the sum of 810,000 to answer for the murder of his 17-year old daughter, Mary. Four weeks ago Brockman gave the girl a terrible beating beonuse she did not work to suit him in his cornfield. He then tied a rope around one of her ankies, fastened the other end of the rope to the rear axle of his wagon, and drove to his farm, a quarter of a mile off, dragging the girl behind, Arriving thers he locked hep up in the barn without safMelent clothing and without food. The girl was found by her uncle and another neighbor, who earried her away, but her Injuries were so serious that she died on November 22, CABLE SPARKS Piro in Ottawa, Ont, destroyed business property valued at $350 000, It Is reported that the King of Korea is acting entirely under the influence of three Amerieans, Max Alvery, the tenor singer, who wns re- ported {il In Germany, has been cured by =» surgical operation, The stike at Dremen, over. The Hamburg dockers resolved to de clare a gouoral strike, It is oMelally announced that a small band attacked Guanabacon, near dock Germany, is of fosurgzents The Italian Chamber of Deputies adopted nu vole of in the the government's colonial confidence government in connection with Franco and Italy have agreed upon & con vention respecting Tunis which is said ts alm at the ultimate exclusion from Egypt. The trial of f« ibellog high German officinis yur journalists charged with { wis begun Deriin Revelations ed, A slight fire ocourred in Blenbelm Cas England, ths home of the Duke and Due 4 of Marlborough. The Duchess was | Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, The losurgent attack on Guanabacos, the outskirts of Havana, was md thao at first reported, fort was ambuscadod The garrison of the and all lnsurgents. Dr. Leander 8, i was releas Holloway jail, in L , where he was con Goned under a sentence of fifteen months tin te Transvaal rald, His on medical grounds, Appeals at Alexandria bh ¥ eq DIBASTERS AND CASUALT FR AAR The Jacques Auditoriam, In Wateri Lonmecticut, was burned. Loss, $25,006 A Pleree, South 1 ta, despatch says th al least two LU shed duri seph § ith and Ys at i Lhe Teton era, wore Killed ! wheel pit extens Niagara Fails ddithinr Gresun shilidren were t The t Live slove Dig fork, a fas At Everett by a loo and Boardman ! the slearuer Railroad, waa killed, a was fala iriver ston, was iostanlly kill rn and two section iy injured, men ser GOLD MINE IN MACON. A————— Te Be Operated in the City Limits by gee Land Improvement Company Macon, Ga, is soon to bave a gold mine SWORDFISH AGAINST WHALE. A FIERCE BATTLE BETWEEN TWO MONSTERS QF THE DEEP. —— The Whale Whipped by its Fiery Antago- nist....Somethinz About the Swordfish of the Pacific Oce an, The passeng on the In that makes dally trips betwe Lam Angel taline Islan Pact dro Harbor, near in the the city. A North Carolina expert thorough tests and lospections and deposits, and Is willing to back his ment to the amount of §10,000 The goid mine that is to be on the property of the Ocmuiges Land has made of the = pened up is im provement Company, which ls Incorporated in the city. For the past two years the ing expert alluded to has been paying vi to the property careful study has he is ready to begin a coplract ¢ and after makisg the mo 1otifled the company yivest ton thousand doliars in the venture. In his opin- fon the richest vein of gold n u in the United States is to be found buried in the hilis of Oemuligee Park, and he thinks he will not have to go down more thas 200 feet to get at it In the greatest abundance Years ago considerable gold was obtained w fo be found in the branches and ditches on the same lands pow occupied by the Osmuigee Land Ime provement Company, aud an old gentleman accumulated a comlortable fortune by wash- ing the gold from the sand in the branch that now flows through the property, ———— Sa. ANOTHER ORONIN VICTIM. ————— Harry Owen O'Connor, a Witness in the Noted Trial, Commits Buicide, Henry Owen O'Connor, one of the prise. pal witnesses for the prosecution In the famous Cronin murder case, committed sul, ride by shooting himseif at his home in Chi- eARO. O'Connor was & friend of Dr. Cronin and his evidence in the trial was confined to re- marks be had beard made in Camp 20 of the Clan-Na-Oael Ly some of the defendants against Dr, Cronin, O'Connor appeared at the first trial, but would not testify when summoned to the rehearing In behalf of Dan Coughlin He was in New York at the time and would wot listen to any persuasion to make a trip to Chicago, His death recalls the mysterious fatality which bas pursued psrsons connected with that great ease, Jast before he shot himself O'Connor drew up a will disposing of his property and ealled in neighbors to witness it. This document was made the basis of a farewell letter to his wife, in which O'Connor said lliness prompt- by several goles and Sania ample evidence fe Fix oy but t a twenty-four pound shot § § is baat it % equal tteer will be believed easily fug the resui EP watera of California thir In the eo kinds of swordfish can be reen-=Xiplhius Tet and His tophorus, The engaged in the bat tie 1 were of the Kind named. 11 is the ordinary swolith found on both sides of the Atlan, in appearance trim and shipghape—a vor talde prieateer. It is a piratical voasia of the mackerel The striking feature is the sword, which is a continuation of the upoer jaw into a sharp bony sword. Thre gladius ipturas albldus, EEE hese in firs! Lard or bony, The eyes are large nisl powerful, and the whole appearance It attains a length of from five to nine feet, and when working at full speed can plerce a wooded hull sheathed with copper. One of the most cases on record ix that of the Dreadnaught. One day at erew felt a sudden shook, and socn of. obliged to put into port. It was fond when she was dry<docked that a large tad penetrated the coprer, then the — hull, thick pine sheathing through the aud nnally enter The sword plugging oak passing the head of a barrel broken «ff Way | When r pword was government mony re makes a Hundreds THE KAFFIR Queer Methods and Remedies ©f Medicine Men. Though prac ny. the Or Was r wo the de nd they pre out” a any ' Miven ng away with awk Chaka oe dream of his profession murdersd for mere ds were in of a di the exclaimed: th country anoonents yyulien role hands idis $s the white » your mas A Cannon Ball's Flight to the Moon, Nes NIA Y ie long strings of there is nothing that gives idea of the immense the Hinstra- CAnRDON © graphic us from BoDa Mie %% 3 the old of a Yovaslo Caalion been shown mathemstd Im a modern could keep reach nosen, in twelve up the 240,000 miles away, time, indeed, es ¢ the fact of 1 with which Bu, when we come to make comparison be: the which 1 would take sel 4 missile to orcas the space whieh separates us from the goddess of night and the fixed stars, or ¢ven the planets, amazed. If it would cake such a missile twelve days to teach the moon it would wake it six and a half years to reach the planet Mure! And yet sane “speculative” as. tropomers talk about communicating with that planet! It would take fifty | four years for the ball to travel to Jupl- ter. 108 tor it to cover the distance be. tween us and Saturn, 390 years would elapse before it would reach Neptune, Cand 3.000000 years would go by before {it could rewch Alpha Centauri, the pear | eat fixed star, India’s Pear! Fisheries. The pear] fisheries in the Guir of Ma Cparr are the most important in India. According to Friar Jordanus, S000 Ponts were engaged in this gulf in 18%, plastered walls to dry. A house can be That is a long ially when we conside ihe wonderful rate of swe the iron messenger wollld travel, twieh ame we are simply
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