—— A ——
CONGRESS BEEING
Imposing Scenes i ad Around
the Capital,
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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.
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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