BrigTyi-gwJwgi!vjrpw'?'gy?g'-i.1 jgTjfitHvy.iVvjfl iSMj&mgd 3?rfJ it i"y te isr-Twitr tt"t Jfs - ' "ijeTJ-) V ', THE SUN SHINES On Ti? DISPATCH Rural lioad J2rpedtlion.and the Explorer are get- Hn7 l WC True """, w lectea nignu-ais. -" rexx. FORTY-FIFTH YEAS. ft. E By The Dispatch Road Expedi tion in the Slippery Rock Valley. A WILD, ROMANTIC REGION Where Cascades Murmur Noisily and the Verdure Lasts Through out the Year. LAWEESCE COUNTY GRUMBLES At Koads Which Are Much Better Than Any That the Party Das Found in Other Sections Visited. FARMERS VIEWS OS MACADAMIZING. A Man cf Much Experience Argues Against Eoaas Where Eeal Estate Bears . All the Tax Burden. KEW CASTLE'S WELCOME TO THE COJIMISSIOK. The Dispatch Commissioner found, be tween Bntler and New Castle, some very fine scenery and short stretches of good road. On the whole, Lawrence county appears to have much better highways than Washing tab, Greene, Fayette or Butler. Farmers give some interesting views on the question of permanently improving the roads. I riioM ecu special commissioxer.3 11 ' I iition. .April 21. ) THE PlTTSBUUG DISPATCH COUSTRY ROAD EXPEDITION. KEW CASTLE, The line between Butler and Lawrence counties is almost lost in the deep tangled wildwood of the Slippery Rock c-eek re gion. Our wagon crossed it close to a spot very dear to artists and painters. Pausing on the hilltop where we emerged upon the head of the romantic valley.opportunitywas given for an excellent view. Looking down 200 feet over its perpendicular sides, the spray of the falls of Slippery Hock, seemed in the sunlight, like floating lace-work. Below the rapids, the water fell away in deep blue, flowing through a gorge re nowned for its beauty. A precipitous, but Yery pretty road descended the side of one of the hills. A Picturesque Region. Far beneath us we could just discern the telegraph poles among the evergreens, marking put our winding and hidden path way to the base. Half way down we crossed the gorge on a covered wooden bridge swung 100 yards in space at a height oi 100 feet above the water. Still lower we halted at something our horses always like to see a mossy water-trough. When once The Dispatch wagon rolled along the narrow valley we looked back against the two solid walls of hemlock and saw a beau tiful canon of evergreen. But Slippery Bock creek has a practical side, too. Its valley is full of limestone. Its serpentine course through Butler and Law rence counties is paved so solidly with lime stone that it alone would macadamize half the country roads in Western Pennsyl vania. Riches In the Rocks. Lawrence county, especially, is rich in limestone on account ot the Slippery Bock's neanderings through her boundaries. For years furnacemen have been drawing their supply from Lawrence county, and yet her resources are not nearly exhausted. The creek is one of the great limestone deposits of the State. We met with a hearty reception in New Castle, arriving there at 130 r. si. People were on the lookout for The DlSPATCn wagon, some enterprising person having telegraphed from Butler that we were com ing. While we were lunching at the hotel a crowd of curious people surrounded the rig, and I noticed them carefully picking off some of the dried mud from the hubs. They were speculating as to whether it had originall belonged to Washington county or to the "Hundred-foot" oil region of But ler county. "Which is Beaver?" inquired another man, stroking the mane of Bucephalus. "I believe my Dispatch said he was quiet, but whoa, there!" Not n Dllld Tempered Animal. Bucephalus, at that juncture, had demon strated by a vicious side kick that he was not Beaver. "I'll take that Greene county rope off your bands at halt price," said a junk dealer. "The mua is all gone now and you won't need it." But the driver remarked that, as we were eventually going to traverse Westmoreland oountv, to save the rope by all means, lest it should rain and make more mud. We stopped for the night at New Wil mington, ten miles north of New Castle, and there I rued some things I have written in this series of letters. "I've been reading all about your prog ress," remarked a seedy-dressed individual after he looked over the hotel register to get onr names. He spoke in a snave manner as he continued, "It is a great mission. We need good roads. Keep on. I read your paper. It is the best in Pennsylvania." Then his tone changed. Both hands went down in his pockets. He began in a quick, bookseller voice: "I am glad I met you. I have here some horse liniment, good lor both man and beast. Bucephalus will need it. Beaver will presently require it. Ton, I know, are suffering yourself for something like it at this very moment. Don't need it, you say? Oh, but I read of your using it alter your court-plaster was cone. That was in The Dispatch. See here!" The Medicine Vender In Lack. And, blessed if the chickens I had set loose so innocently a few days before didn't actually come home to roost. I had to buy his liniment, a box of his salve, and a quart of bis epizootic drops to get rid of him. .But to come back to the subject of roads. CANON MED .c 7iry. In Slippery Rock and Shenango townships we found that the farmers had already been at work repairing them for the summer season. From the creek clear to New Cas tle they were in pretty fair condition, al though they seem to have been unusually chopped up this winter like all other dirt roads. The farmers had repaired by simply plowing up the sides of the roadbed. This gave them loose earth to throw over into the center. That sort of re pairing is good enough now, and will keep the road pretty well drained until next fall. Then if tnwel is still heavy over them, how quickly they will flatten out and get soggy lrom the mud. Vet this is the method of good road repairing so com mon in many parts of Western Pennsyl vania. A Stretck of Bnd Rand. In Neshannock township, for about three miles north of New Castle, the main road to Mercer is in very bad condition yet. There was none of the heavy hauling over it, such as in the lower oil country, but the mere traffic from surrounding farms rendered it at one time during the winter almost im passable. That is the worst piece of road we found in the interior of Lawrence. In the neighborhood of New Wilmington the clav soil is well mixed with sand, and ex- Getting Past an Impediment. cellent judgment has been shown in the proper grading of roadbeds to either side for drainage, both producing splendid high wars. On the whole, while Lawrence county also suffered from much mud this year, she has had mnch better roads than any of the lower counties we have explored. Belter 00 Tlinn Their Neighbors. When a Lawrence county farmer says he has had bad roads to contend with this year, it is evident he has no idea what the ex perience of a Butler county granger has been, or if he had lived in Fayette or Greene counties he would come back double-quick to Lawrence. Had he even dreamed of Washington's sink-holes hewould have sold out and gone East. The movement to permanently rebuild country roads in Pennsylvania has been actively discussed in Lawrence county. The Daily Aeira of New Castlo invited letters from the farmers on the subject. I talked with the editor on too result. He says the letters un doubtedly show a sentiment for road improve ment of some kind. By no means ail of the farmers wanting such an improvement are in favor of macadam, however. Many are, and many are not. For instance, H. H. Emery, a farmer of Har lansburg, says: Think Macndnm Too Costly. "I think we had better geVaionj with rood clay roads than to undertake to make macad amized roads and to mortgage onr farms to pay for mating them. We have so many rail roads through our county now that no man need haul his prodnce more than 10 or 12 miles to market or a shipping point. I remember when no hauled our produce to Pittsburg and there was not half so much growling about bad roads. Roaas generally have to be made by the farmers and if they can'get along with the mud road I tbmk others ought. Homo say it will enhance the price of land to have good road;, but it will enhance the tax far more. I admit our law on roads is not very good, bnt the Dcople are more at fault than the law. If people would work on the roads as they Would have men work for them we might have gooa clay roads with less tax. Now suppose we would levy a money tax and elect competent supervisors for each township and let them employ hands and have them do a good day's work for a good day's pay. It wonld cost only about one-half as much as it does under the present law." John Henley, ot Hillsville postoffice. a farm er of lone experience says: "I pay a good deal of tax and am willing to have macadamized roads, provided that all wealth is taxed alike the same as in Ohio, but I am decidedly op posed to have expensive roads when real estate has to pay all the tax. 1 believe If we bad one or two tile drains either in the middle or on each side of our roads where the land is wet and where we have outlets for the water, and in the low places where we could have no out let we could put in macadamized road for a short distance. Why Europe Is Ahead. "I have frequently noticed where the land is naturally dry that the roads are much better and are easier kept good, so I think that drain ing would be a great advantage over the pres ent system. There is a great deal said about pr, T. Where the Horses Like to BalL their good roads in Europe. There they have had 2,000 years to perfect their roads, when we had scarce 100. I think we have made a great improvement m that time. There nearly all roads were either built by the Government or companies as pikes. I noticed improvement in The Dispatch takes pleasure In saying that it finds farmers In Lawrence county to be a most progressive class. They hava organized Fanners' Institutes, and next week tho Law rence Countv Agricultural Society will discuss the road question thoroughly, J. Bruce Johns ton, of Wilmington township, is. Secretary. John bword, a farmer of Taylor township, re cently delivered an address on the proposed road improvement, He described the famous roads of Ireland as an example of macadamiz ing worthy of imitation by America. The Plenanres of Travel. The weather continues beautiful. Our prairie schooner's sail is all hoisted, and cur tains rolled up to admit the sunlight. For nearly a week we have been able to live with out wearing rubber boots and coats, andonco oat of the oil region mire TnE DISPATCH ex pedition seems to have a successful future be fore it. .My next letter will describe the roads of Mercer county. L. E. Stofiel. PENSION BILL. DEFEATED. Ex- Prisoners of War Are Not Considered Worthy of Relief: Washington; April 2L In the House to day Mr. Morrill moved that the rules be sus pended, and the bill passed to pension prison ers of war. Messrs. Tarsney and Cummings opposed the bill, and Messrs. Hopkins, Booth man. Cuticbeon, Kennedy, Morse and Morrill spoke in its favor. The motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill was then put and defeated yeas, 113; nays, 78; not the necessary two-thirds. 'fWA II,. . .UW.iL "'iZZWZZW w THE SILVER CAUCUS. Vigorous Discussion of the Colnncc Qncstlon Views of the Cnucns Minority Who Represent tho Western Inter estsAnother Cnncns. Washington, April 21. The Republi can caucus on the silver question took place last night. Mr. Henderson, of Illinois presiding, Chairman Conger of the Coinago Committee, presented his re port and. summed up by reporting that the House Committee had withdrawn all the con cessions and that 9 of the 15 members had de cided to recommend that tho House pass the modified Windom bill as it came from the Coinago Committee. Representa tive Walker, of Massachusetts, another member of the committee, upheld f the committee's action. Ho maintained that its bill wonld secure all necessary relief in the way of expansion of the currency, and in sub stance reiterated Secretary Windom's objec tions to tho redemption features of the Senate bill, pointing out the dangers underlying a pos itive requirement that the Treasury notes should be redeemed in lawful money. Tho six members of the Caucus Committeo who refused to accede to the majority report represented the Western sentiment, and had a proposition of their own to offer, which was submitted by Representative Perkins. It was set forth as a compromise measure, and ia fact is a composite of tho Scnato and House Committee bills. It preserves the feature of the Senate bill which provides for the purchase of 4,500,000 ounces of silver, or so much thereof -as may be offered monthly at a price not exceeding ?1 for 37L25 grains, but contains a proviso requiring the purchase in any event of not less than 2,000,000 ounces in any one month, and contin ued the operation of the existing law respecting the issue of cold and silver ccr- tincates on deposits ot coin, jjiKe mo ouuaiu bill, the minority measure proposes to authorize the coinago of as many silver dollars as may be necessary to redeem tho treasury notes issued in purchase of bullion, bnt it coes further. In that it makes these notes directly full legal tender, (saving existing contracts), and therefore docs not make it necessary to redeem them in lawful money as proposed by the Senate bill. Then, too, whereas the Senate bill says that the noteB "may be reissued." when received for customs, taxes of public dues the minority bill absolutely requires their issne. From tho Houe bill is culled the "freo coinage" paragraph, permitting persons to de posit silver bullion and have it coined wherever the market price exceeds S7 Like the House bill, this compromise measure omits any reference to gold. Mr. Perkins made a strong argument in sup port of tho minority view. Speeches regarding tho Cannon motion to adopt the House bill were made by Messrs. Mc Kinley, of Ohio, Rowell, ot Illinois, and Bayne, of Pennsylvania; Buchanan, of New Jersey. Sweeny, 'tor Iowa. Kerr and Payson, of Illinois, and Anderson, of Kansas, opposed it vigor ously. Anderson making a straight out free coinage speech. Farqnhar. of New York, took a middle ground in favor of purchase of 4.000, 000 of bullion monthly. The discussion ran on until 1130, when finally the entire subject was recommitted to tho caucus committee without the instructions, however, proposed by Mr. Perkins. It became evident from several votes on minor proposi tions taken during the debate that the Re publican members are opposed to the Windom bill in the proportion of two to one. The com mittee will report to anothor caucus to be held Wednesday night. A TOWN EUINED. And People Driven Nearly Frantic by tho Flood's Mad Rash Thonsnnds of Foet of the Lovco Torn Away. Bayotj Saba, La., April 21. After a most heroic struggle to save this city from the flood the people had to surren der to the great Father of Waters at 12:30 a. 31. At that hour the guards reported that the levee had given way at the foot of Fountain street. A genera alarm was sounded, and the people responded promptly to the call. This break was closed, but on examination it was found that tho rising river was rnnning over tho front levee. AH that human efforts could do bad been done, "and at last the solemn cry went up all along the line, "Give us men; wo are gone," and then the confusion of the people can bo better imaginod than described. Every im promptu boat and raft was brought into requisition. Lanterns could bo seen every where and the cries of men, women and chil dren attempting to save their effects was a sight that was sickening. Not a bouso in town has escaped. The beautiful Fischer building, tho homo of Mayor Irvine, supposed to bo the highest, is submerged. The town is in rums. Nothing but chaos and destruction meet the eye at every view. To-day it is rain ing hard, which makes the picture moro gloomy. Tho water is also running over a large extent of the Pointe Coupee. The Taylor levee has given way and the Fanny Yoor crevasse will probably prove a very seri ous one. Tho large levees from the last ac counts are intact but things look critical. A New Orleans dipatch bays that during tho afternoon a levee gave way at Myrtle Urovo plantation. In 20 minutes the break was SO feet wido and the water rushing through in torrents. Later advices sme that the crevasse is moro than 2,000 feet ide and eight to ten feet deep. Much damage will inevitably result. At points above the river is reported falling and danger to the levees practically past. EEED WILL EXPLAIN. His Policy as Speaker to be Defined nt tho Aincricus Bnnqncr. rsrxctAt. telegkam to the dispatch.i Washington, April 2L Speaker Reed Is very busy just now preparing for a great occa sion. When the House goes into committee of the whole, thus relieving him of tho neces sity of sitting in the chair and keeping the Re publicans in line and tho Democrats in sub jection, he hurries away to his office and toils awav at a speech upon the large subject of "The Republican Party." This is tho toast to which be is to respond at the annual dinner of the Americus Club, of Pittsburg, next Satur day night, the anniversary of the birthday of General Grant. Its dinner next Saturday night is expected to be especially notable by reason of the attend ance of Senator Quay, who. it is rumored, in tends to say something about the recent publi cations bearing upon his public life. Speaker Reed's speech will be, it is understood, an elaborate vindication of his parliamentary rul ings and an argument for continued Republi can supieruacy in the House of Representa tives. First Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson. who expects soon to resign his office for an editorial chair, will speak upon the "Re publican Press," and the theme of Representa tive McComas, of Maryland, will be "The New South." HARRIED SIX TIMES, " psa Tint Was Limited to ibo A vernce Nomber of Deaths. rsprciAt teleobam to toe dispatch.! New York, April 2L Hiram Smith.a uniquo resident of Norwich, Conn., died on Sunday, aged 70 years. He was an expert mechanic, and invented tho window blind staplo cutter, by which he made a fortune for himself and C. B. Rogers & Co., of this city, for whom lie had worked for the past 50 years. He was a notable atheist, and wrote odd poem?, which ho re cited to friends. One of his poems on the "Creation" was as long as tho "Illiad," and in the Homeric vein. He had the loneest feet of any man in Norwich, and had been divorced more times than any other citizen. Not long ago ho married his sixth wife, but she shud dered at his experience and left him within a month. With all his oddities he was a man of un blemished reputation and unquestioned in tegrity If he said he wonld do a thing he did itevrfy time. He was bent nearly into a bow, shuttled along the sidewalks, bad an extremely lone nose and woro steel spectacles that rested on its very tip. He dearly loved a controversy, ami it was a rash scholar that tackled him on Bible lore. A KEW EAILK0AD SYSTEM. A Combination of the Reading, Western Maryland and B. & O. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1 Baltimore, April 21. Tho statement is made bero-that the revival of the South Penn Railroad means a combination into which the Reading. Western Maryland and the B. & O. will form a great system with a short lino in tho West. Tho Western Maryland recently made contracts with both the B. & O. and the Reading. , It Is recalled that John W. Garrett, before his death, contemplated suchconnections with the Beading and the South Penn, and that Robert Garrett was holding a conference with Vander bllt on Kre South Penn road when the latter died. paiwra PITTSBURG, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1890. SILAS WEGG'S RIVAL Senator Vest Drops Into Poetry on the Chicago World's Fain TBE BILL PASSES THE SENATE. Speaker Eecd's Speech Being Prepared for the Americas Banquet. THE SILTEE QUESTION DISCUSSED. An BiEtbtl Officer Encceeds the Late Eamnel Ran dall in Committees. After a protracted deb ate in which Sena tor Vest made much sport for his colleagues, the Chicago World's Fair bill passed the Senate. Windom's silver policy meets with much opposition. Washington, April 21. The discus sion in the Senate over the celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, by the interna tional exhibition and World's Fair at Chi cago was bright and amusing. A new sec tion was introduced by the Senate Commit tee providing for a naval review in New York harbor in April, 1893, and the unveil ing of a statue of Columbus at Washington, the Government to furnish the statue, and the people generally the unveiling if rail road rates permitted. Senator Vest, of Missouri, opposed the statutory proceedings and wished to be un derstood as not doing so because St. Louis had been an unsuccessful aspirant for the location of the World's Fair. Although it was a post mortem proceeding he did not wish to frighten either Chicago or the Sen ate with ghost stories. He knew it had been said of him in a Chicago paper that in a contest between Hades and Chicago for the location of the fair he would support Hades. TWO POPULAR KF.SOR TS. He stated the opinion that, in a popular election among the people of Missouri, be tween Hades and Chicago would be a very close poll. As to what his vote would be he never declared it was between those two distinguished localities. On the contrary he was prepared to state that in such a contest be would be strictly neutral. Laughter. There was much in common between the two locali ties. Laughter. The population of Chicago was active, energetic, aggressive, not troubled by those moral and conscientious considera tions which a late interview had characterized as "irrioesccnt dreams." He had been told that the population of Hades was composed of much the same material. Chicago besides was full of trusts, monopolies and combines and tho latest authentic information from Hade3 was that thev wcro forming there a trust on sulphur in order to bear the market. There was high authority also for tho statement that the water supply ol Chicago was defective. AN ADVERTISING SCHEME. The whole matter from the beginning had been simply an advertising scheme, and a basis of municipal rivalry between the great cities of the United States. He regarded himself mere ly as a looker-on in Vienna, and had amused himself in looking at some old literature which had accumulated in the contest. If a tenth part of what had been said by these cities in regard to each other were true, not one of them should bo permitted to control the destinies of an exposition in which the character and honor of tho whole people of the United States was involved. In this connection, Mr. Vest read extracts from raagaziri6anilmuvijjapcr-.artlcle4v.aad cemented upou'theurs-a acanaalMrtn American name and to American attributes. The result of all this crimination and recrim ination had been, bo said, the location of the fair in tho city of Chicago; and now the Senate was asked (as a matter of course) to give its assent to the result attained in tho House of Representatives. He referred to Mr. Depew's speech before the Senate committee and to his mention of the town oi Peekskill as his birthplace and as to the center of a larger population than that of which St, Louis was the center: and said that Dr. Depew's modesty had forbidden him going any farther to show why Peekskill didn't aspire to the site of tho World's Fair, He (Mr. Vest) suggested that after tho great act of par turition the vital energies of Peekskill were ex hausted and that she had remained ever since in a state of innocuous desuetude. Laughter. DEOPrED INTO POETRY. The contest over the site had risen, he said, from prose to poetry, and he held in his hand a little book entitled, "Three hundred reasons why Chicago should have the World's Fair." It was a sort of epic poem got up In the interest of New York, and he would read a verse or two from it. The shades of night were falling fast. As o'er a Kansas prairie passed A youtli of presence gaunt and thin (Hut vast the times he travels in). He'd driven ninety miles that day, lor seen a shed where he could stay. "Oh, where am I?" at last he groaned; A passing stranger softly moaned, Chicago. He sped through fields of luscious wheat, Untrod for mouths by human icet: He roamed o'er pastures never mown, Through forest wild and overgrown; lie lorded rivers still unnamed. Saw dusky redskins yet untamed. Where am I now?" lie wildly cried. An Indian maiden sadly sighed, Chicago. Still on he sped, nor stopped to gaze Upon the field! of wavine maize; Up rocky slopes he madly flew. Up peaks where naught but lichens grew. Laud of eternal snownd hail And read there, "City lots for sale. " "What place is this?" he wildly howled. A hungry grizzly fiercely growled, Chicago. The reading of these verses produced great amusement in the Senate. Continuing, Mr. Vest said: "Mr. President, we have not escaped Chicago and will not escape it until wo havo passed this bill, and until the result has been attained for which Chicago has worked persist ently and consistently. I know that this poetic effusion will bo denounced by the Chicago press as doggerel. Sir, it is an epic poem. It comes from divine afflatus and from poetic ge nius. 1 can imagine tho great poet who wrote it, as he wanders now on tho banks of tho Hud son disconsolate and sad, reciting these beauti ful lines of Byron: Place me on l'eeksklll's marble steep here nothing but the winds and I, Can hear our mutual murmur sweep. And let me, swau-llke, slug and ale. Chicago's fair will ne'er be mine, flash down yon cup of railroad wine. THE EXTREMES OF CHICAGO. Mr. Vest went on to say that in no placo in tho United States were the extremes of national life so thoroughly devolopd as in the city of Chicago. There the palace of the millionaire stood side by side with the hovel of the An archist. There could bo found tho rushing, roaring life of legitimate business and all tho unseen but deadly methods which had come upon our overgrown young civilization. The Exposition as for the purpose of celebrating a great discovery. The discovery of a new world with all its possibilities, uncertainties and glories. For 18 months he bad been engaged in tho humble tasK of attempting to discover why the meat products of the great States of the West were so depressed that the cattle raiser did not receive pay for his corn, his grass and his oats to say nothing of the time and attention devoted to his pursuit. If his constituents could go to the city or Chicago they wonld see in tho great stocKyards there the solution of tho problem. Amid the bellowing of the cattle and tho crunting of hogs they would find what had be come of their cattle raised on the prairies and how their profits were lost to them. Or, if they went into the wheat pit in Chicago, they would there find amid tho bellowing of the bears and the roaring of the bulls (presided over by "Old Hutch"), what had become of their wheat crops year after year. They might thus go on a voyage of discovery for themselves, and he wonld place no obstacle in their paths. In Chi cago the foreigner conld see all the emergen cies and perils of the coming future, and conld see the first strain on American institutions based on universal suffrage. A DANGEBOUS POPULATION. Ho would -find there a restless and danger ous foreign population. For himself, he did not object that foreigners should see that phenomenal city of the great West, with all its wonderful features; but as a Senator he could not give his vote, uder present 'condi tions, for a bill creating tho Exposition in-any city of tho Dnited States. He did not believe that the Exposition could ever be a success. He believed, as a practical businessman, that it came too soon after the great Paris Exposition. In his honest Judgment the people outside of tho cities engaged in the contest did not care anything about the Exposition. . Had the time come, when in this country, the people had to be amused in their condition of great pecuniary distress, of unjust laws and of outrages perpetrated upon them? Had the time come when the Dnited States was to fol low tho example of thoso countries of old which provided amusement for the people In tho gladiatorial arena and in struggles with wild beasts, in order to prevent them from criti cising the laws of tho country? Tho great nov elist, Bulwer. had 'told them that when the volcanic ashes wero nouring donn upon Pom peii, and when tho lurid glare of the volcano lit up its temples and its false gods, reckless men even then hurried through tho streets with the heathen song upon their lips: Hoi hoi for the merry, merry show ith a lorest of faces In every row. Lo, the swordsmen, bold as the son of Alc- maona. Sweep, side by side, over the hushed arena, .talk while vou may, you will hold your breath, Yhen they meet In the grasp or the glaring death. Tramp, tramp: how gayly they go. Ho! hoi for tne'merry, merry show. In conclusion, Mr. Vest declared that the bill was a sensational measure, got up In the light of conflict and rivalry between municipalities. There had come no demand for it from the people of the United States. Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, then argued In favor.of the hill, savins ,that tho Govern ment having sent out invitations to tho world should now perform its dntv by entertaining its visitors if nesessary. Only 81,500,000 was at present asked, but ho was in favor of Increas ing the amount if necessary. AN AMENDMENT REJECTED. Mr. Gorman offered an amendment to strike out the provision for a naval review and to in sertln lieu of it an appropriation of $500,000 for a memorial building in Washington as a re pository of tho antiquities of the Western hemisphere. Rejected. Mr. Cullom said that the vote in the Honso bad, in tho minds of the great body of the American people, determined the question as to where tho fair should be held. The verdict had been In favor of Chicago without undue influence, without any corruption, without any special struggle in Congress, There was no purpose on the part of Chicago other than to carry out to the very letter the pledges which slio had made. On the other band, Chicago would mako the fair a grand success and would manifest her appreciation of the great honor which had been conferred upon her. When the namo of Chicago was mentioned, the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Vest), seemed to be seized with a kind of hydrophobia. He (Mr. Cullom) didn't know what harm Chicago bad ever done the Senator. If it had done him any tho good people of that city would make reparation. The Senator bad said that his people were in doubt as to whether they would go to Chicago or to Hades, and this raised tho question which placo the gentleman repre sented. But the people of Missouri wonld be at tho great Exposition by tens of thousands whether tho Senator liked it or not. Mr. Blair suggested that the city of Hades was a Democratic city. Mr. Vest inquired whether the Senator had heard the recent election news from Chicago. Mr. Blair replied that if Chicago had gone Democratic, there was not much choice be tween the two places. He opposed the propo sition of holding a naval review as fostering tho spirit of war. That accursed institution the badeo of savagery, infernal war should be abolished: and this country was strong enough to initlato the era of peace. He of fered an amendment empowering the Presi dent to bold an exhibition of the public schools and a review of the public school children in Chicago. He also offered an amendment for the erection of a statue in memory of Queen Isabella, of Spain. A NAVAL REVIEW PASSED. Mr. Blair's amendment was rejected, and after further discussion, Mr, Hoar's amend ment to strike out the provision as to the statute of Columbus was agreed to, and the re mainder of the amendment (for a naval re view) was agreed to; yeas, 23; nays, 27; as fol lows: Yeas Messrs. Aldricb, Allen. Barbour, Blod gett, Bntler. Casey, Chandler, Evarts, Farwell, Fryc, Gibson, Hampton. Hawley, Higcins, Mc Pherson, Manderson, Mitchell, Morgan. Pierce, Piatt, Quay, Ransom, Sanders. Sherman, Rt--!rhTlclr-e. Washburn. Wolcott 28. -Na Messrs .AIHsotk. Betty.-1 Blackburn. Blair, Cockrell. uoue, uuiiora, .'awes, uixon, Faulkner,. George, Gorman. Harris, Hoar. Moody, riumb. Power, Pugh, Reagan. Sawyer, Spooner. Stewart, Teller, Turple, Vest, Voor hees, WaIthall-27. Tho section as adopted roads: Section 8 That tho President Is hereby em- Sowcred and directed to hold a naval review in Tew York harbor in Apni;iS93, and to extend to foreign nations an invitation to send ships of war to join the United States Navy in rendez vous at Hampton Roads, and proceed thence to said review. TEMPERANCE PROPOSITION BEATEN. Mr. Blair moved to add to the first section a provision that no intoxicating liquors, wines or beer should be sold, to be used as a beverage, within the limits of tho exposition grounds, and made a short speech in support of it, Mr. Butler thought that that was a matter which might safely be left to tho people of Chi cago, and therefore ho moved to lay tho amend ment on the table. The motion was agreed to Yeas. 33; nays, 15, The negative vote was by Allison, Blackburn, Blair. Chandler, Dawes, Dixon, Dolph. Georgp, Hampton, Hoar, Mit chell, Moody. Piatt, Plunib and Sanders. The bill, (which had been under considera tion as in committeo of tho wbplc), was then reported to the Senate, and a vote was again taken by yeas and nays on the amendment for a naval review. The vote resulted Yeas, 27; nays, 25: so the provision remains in tho bill. The bill was passed Yeas, 43; nays. 13. Tho negative votes were by Senators Barbour, Berry, Blackburn, Cockrell, Coke, George, Hampton. Morgan, Pugb, Reagan, Vance, Vest and Walthall. A committeo of conference on tho disagree ing votes was asked, and Messrs. Hawley, Far well and Vance were appointed conferees on the part of the Senate. THE SILVER QUESTION. Senator Toller DIsnpproves of Secretary Windom's Ideas nnd Says Even a Veto on the Increase of Colnase Can bo Voted Down. ISrECIAL TELEOEAM TO THE DISrATCH.t Washington, April 21. Secretary Windom's letter, to an unknown correspon dent on the silver question, aroused much feeling among Congressmen, particularly in the Senate where there is a strong and de termined opposition to the Secretary's policy. The Senators freely criticised both tho good taste and the good sense of Mr. Windom's utterances, and arejnoro than ever determined to defeat his plans. Senator Teller, one of the five Republican Benators chosen to represent the Senate in its fight with the House, used somo pretty strong language to day when speaking to The Dispatch corre spondent on tho subject of the Secretary's letter and tho evident policy of the administration. Senator Teller said: "The appearance of tho letter has caused a good deal of feeling In the Senate and I think you may safely say that wo shall take it as tho ultimatum of the administration on the silver question. I do not think there will be any mora caucuses on tho subject in tho Senate, and If 1 Interpret the expressions of the Senators correctly, the disposition now will be to go on with our legislation regardless of tho opinion and preferenco of the administration. "Mr. Wmuom's policy, as indicated in this letter, is to put tho country npon a gold basis. That, we think, the people have sufficiently in dicated they do not want, and I think that Con gress will bo in accord with the popular de mand of the country In enacting soma law look ing to the increase of the volume of currency bv providing for the consumption of at least our own silver product. We have a majority in both Houses who take this viow of the ques tion, and I havo no doubt that wo shall be able to pssa bill which will meet the demands of the country. If when such a bill has passed, the President sees fit to veto it, he can do so, and I think we will then have a sufficient majority to pass the bill over his veto, but I do not think the President is likely tacome in conflict with Congress on this question. The concurrent resolution introduced by Senator Plumb this morning will probably open tho discussion on the subject to-morrow, and the chances are that Mr. Windom will soon discover that Con gress is able to ontlino and put into execution a policy of Us own on this quettion of such great material Interest to the people of the entire country. A BolllBcrent Ailjutnnt General. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TnE DISPATCH. Columbus, April 21. Adjutant General Hawkins and Solomon P. Kineon, of Cincin nati, had a fight in the House lobby to-night over a bill for tho enlargement of the First Regiment at Cincinnati. Hawkins knocked Kineon down twice and they were parted.' Ww THEENDFAETHEROPF A Settlement of tho Chicago Carpen ters' Strike Again Postponed. RECOGNITION OP THEIR UNION A Point Upon Which the Men Are Firmly Determined to Insist. GOUPEES ON FEDERATION" PLANS. A Strike of Ohio, Fennsylrania and Indiana Miners Probable in Hay, The prospects of a speedy settlement of the Chicago strike have gone glimmering. The men will remain out, they say, until their union is 'recognized by bosses controlling seven-eighths of the building business in the city. ,rsrsciAL tbleobam to thx dispatch.i Chicago, April 21. The prospects of a partial settlement of the carpenters' strike which dazzled the eyes last week have faded away. Not only will the strike not be settled so as to allow the 3,000 men who have been offered employment by the new bosses' association to resume work, but the chances for a long, desperate struggle are greater to-day than on the first day of the strike. No work will be resumed, no relief from the present stagnation in the building trades will be obtained, until the bosses, as a whole, shall have recognized and treated with the union. No association of bosses controlling less than at least seven eighths of the building business of the city will be recognized by the strikers. A builder's ideas. "I hope they will settle with the new as sociation," said a member of the Carpen ters and Builders' Association to-day. "It is just what we want. If they put half the men to work the idle half will soon kick and that will be to our advantage. We will offer the discontents steady work at good pay. and we will get them. Then wo will 'bring in all the cheap men we can find, work them ten hours a day, and we can cut all tho business right from under tho feet of the union bosses." . Secretary Howard said to-day: "There never has been a division of sentiment in the Council as to tho expediency of per mitting one-half of the men to go to work. There has not been a word said in the Council in favor of such a proposition. We have been unanimously opposed to it. The committeo of tho new bosses' association were conferred with through courtesy. There will be no return to work until the strike shall have been definitely settled by the recognition of; the anion by a sufficient number of bosses to guarantee steady employment to at least seven-eighths of the carpenters of the city. All this talk about onr agreeing to furnish men to tho new bosses' organization, because they thought they conld hire 3,000 men, was un authorized. I can find no one who will admit having said so. The men are more united than ever, more determined that their victory shall be complete and final. aid eeceived and offered. The strikers have received a check for a con siderable amount from tho Amalgamated Car penters' Association of the East. They have also received a letter from John J. Hanrahan, Vice Grand Master of the Brotherhood ot Loco motive Firemen, offering assistance financially or otherwise that may be desired. "The eight-hour day is tho sole Idea now being considered ny the labor world." said Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, this morning. "In the history of the social and economic movements of tho world there hasn't been one which re ceived, at once and completely, tho same sym pathy anrt-jinpoort that has been accordt'f to tho eight-hour movement. It bas covered Enrope, and on May L the working population of that continent will demand the eight hour day. "The labor organizations of this countrv are devoted solely to this one Idea. We think we can do one thing at a time better than a mul tiplicity of things. To the end of obtaining the eight-hour work day we are concentrating all our energy, all our ability and all onr intelli gence. A GRADUAL CHANGE SOUGHT. "We are doing this with the least possible injurious results to business or commerce. Wo do not want to stop the wheels of industry. We want to help them work more smoothly. We want to remove instead of increasing the fric tion. So we proceed by degrees. We have "singled out the eight-hour day as the first thing to bo attained. Then ne have selected only one trade for which at first this improvement mnst be secured. We have chosen the carpenters as the first craft for which to win this benefit. When the carpenters shall bave won wo will demand it for tho miners and mine laborers. Then other trades will bo taken up and pushed forward. In this way the entire change of tho industrial system to the eight-hour day shall bave been accomplished with the least effect on the country's business. Thero is no doubt of the success of the movement. "In the American Federation of Labor, to which by common consent the beginning of the eight-hour movement Is granted, there are 630, 000 members. In tho movement besides these are more than enough to bring the force to 1, 000,000 men. The movement for the eight-hour day is on a different basis now from its status in 1SS6. Then we had an army of enthusiastic raw recruits. Now we havo a force of cool, trained veterans. Tho move ment of 18SG" was chaotic, di-integrated. un systematic To-day it Is methodical, organized, prepared. Wo will secure tho eight-hour day for the workmen of tho world. Not if it takes all summer, but if it takes the rest of our lives." CONDUCTORS ARE INDIGNANT. They Meet to Protest Against the Dlichnrge of Their Comrades. fBPXCIAL TXLEOBAM TO TIIB DlSPATtTI.l Indianapolis, April 21. Indiana Division, Railway Conductors, had a secret meeting in this city this afternoon, and the pro ceedings of the session, lasting from 1 o'clock until 6 o'clock, would, if they could be pub lished, make interesting reading. The mem bers were pledged not to divulge the proceed-, ings, but a reporter was ablo to learn that the recent wholesale discharge of conductors was discussed with a good deal of vigor, and that the sentiment was al most unanimously in .favor.of wiping ont the strike prohibition clause at the meeting of the grand division in Rochester, N. Y., May 15. Henry M. Mount will represent this division at the national meeting. The conductors are worked up to that pitch where they are ready to block any attempt to prevent the striking out of tho objectionable clause. They say that the meeting will be the most important gathering of railroad men for years. Conductors will not attempt to specu late upon what the amalgamation of their or ganization with those of all other railroad men may mean. They say It is enough to state that the' time is ripe for all men employed by rail road companies to stand together. A STEIKE EXPECTED. Tho Amnlsamated Kicks Aealnst a Non Union Steel Worker. rsr-ECiAL telxopwUi to the pispatch.1 New 0A8TLE, April 2L It looks as though there would be a strike at the rodmill in this city. Recently the skilled workmen of the rodmill formed an association and entered the Amalgamated Association. A day or so ago the company employed a non-union man, and the union men immediate ly objected to working with him. They en tered a vigorous protest to tho employer, who refused to discharge the non-union man. The Amalgamated men went back to work, but a strike may be ordered at any moment. 4 Nine-Hoar Day Secured. St. John, N. B April 2L The bouse and ship building trades bave secured the adoption of the nine-hour day in this city. A movement is on foot for a general organization of work ingmen to make tho nine-hour day include all trades and industries. Shoemakers Demand Store Pay. Berlin, April 21, Seven hundred shoe makers at Frankfort have struck for higher wages. A general strike ol shoemakers haa been decided upon. A GENERAL STRIKE INEVITABLE. The Miners of Flvo stales Likely to Quit Work la May. rsrxciAi. telbop.am to tub pispatch.1 Brazil. Ind., April 21. The Brazil Block Coal Company, the largest firm of operators in Indiana, bas posted noticesatallits block mines of a 5 cent redaction from May 1 to November L The present rate is 75 cents. The miners acting with tho National Miners' Union, havo demanded 05 cents. With such a great difference between them, amicable adjustment is Impossible, henco tne general strike Is Inevitable, wbich the National Union bas ordered the second week in May. if the Colnmbus scale was not paid at any one point in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Western Penn sylvania, and West Virginia. The programme is for this entire competitive district to stand to gether in place of sectional strikes. THE MAI0E ASKS ARBITRATION. Indianapolis Business Seriously Affected by Ibo Carpenters' Strike. Indianapolis, April 21. This afternoon Mayor Sullivan sent letters to the striking Car penters' Union stating that the welfare of the city required an arbitration of the present eight-hour trouble. He asked It to appoint a committee to confer at bis office with a like committee from the contractors' association. The nnion readily consented to do thi, and last night the contractors and bosses appointed their committees, with power to act, to meet the carpenters' committee. To-morrow atter noon these committees will attempt to arDitrate the existing difficulty. There are but a few non-union carpenters in, the city, and work is almost at a standstill. About 500 men are out. ANOTHER STEIKE THREATENED. Pennsylvania Railroad Freight Brakcmen Rendy to Go Oat To-Day. ISPECIAI. TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.! Harbisbcbg, April 2L Editor Fry, of tho Newport iVeujj, while riding on a train to this city this evening, was told by a brakeman that there would be a general freight brakemen's strike on the Pennsylvania Railroad, between New York and Chicago, by to-morrow evening at 6 o'clock unless the company accedes to the demands of the brakemen. Tho brake men want shorter hours and pay for overtime, and tbey have a committee now making an effort to settle the matter with the company. The brakeman who gave the information to Mr. Fry is a reliable man, and be gave assur ance that what be said was correct. MORE WAGES DEMANDED By West Virginia Miners, nnd a General Slrlko Threat en pd. CHARLESTON, W. Va., April 21. At a meet ing of representative minors from all over the State, held here to-day. District 12. United Mine Workers of West Virginia, was formed. Officers were elected. M. F. Moran, of Wheel ing, District Organizer, being made President. Resolutions were adopted demanding that the Ohio scale of 70 cents per ton be paid after May 1, which is 2 cents more than is now paid In the Wheelingregion, and much more than in the Kansas valley. A general strike is Immi nent. Strikers nnd Workers. The miners of the lead and copper mines at Bleiberg, Austria, bave gone out on strike. The carrying trade at Cork, Ireland, is par alyzed owing to a strike of shipping and rail way men. Seven of the dissatisfied employes of the United States Express Company, at Chicago, tendered their resignations yesterday. The labor organizations of Chicago have ap pointed committees to arrange for a monster eight-hour dav procession on May 1. They ex pect to bave 70,000 men In line. The members of tho Tinsmiths' Union in New York are divided upon the wisdom of asking for an eiebt-hour work dav. The Steam Fitters' Union is not in favor of an eight-hour work day. THIETI MILLIONS INVESTED. A Mr.mmoih'f.ns Enterprise en Which En glish Cnpltal Is Subset lbed. rfPECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.I Philadelphia, April 21. Financiers In Philadelphia, Boston and New York are quietly at work placinc stock for a strong Anglo American syndicate, which is being formed to absorb the United Gas Improvement Company of this city. When Englishmen first cast their eyes toward American industries, and began to examine their earning capacity with a view to investment they were attracted by the United Gas .Improvement Company. Overtures wero at once made, but the offers were rejected. About three mouths ago English capitalists sent agents to the United States to investigate the plants and property owned by tho company, estimate their valno and earn ing power and ascertain how the business of the concern could be extended and increased with larger capital. Tho report of the investi gating agents was so satisfactory tho aeai was recently consummated, the Englishmen assent ing to the terms of the Philadelphia owners. The amount of capital ot the new concern will be 550,000.000 of which S30.000.0CO will be called in at the start. The United Gas Improvement Company oc cupies a suite of many rooms in tbe Drexel building. The room at the extreme end of the suite is occupied by a man to whom tbe success of the concern is chiefly due. He is W. W. Gibbs. the President. Other prominent Phila delphians who are associated with Mr. (iibbs In the company are Thomas Dnlan and Henrv C. Gibson, directors of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Postmaster Gener al John Wanamaker, Win. C. Warden, who made a fortune out ot the Standard Oil Company: Gco-Fhillor. President of tho First National Bank, and Joseph F. Slnnott. The company's business is the operation of gas plants all over the United States. It owns gas works in Kan sas City, Memphis, Omaha, Savannah, Atlanta, in many New England towns and in this State. It also owns valuable patents, including tbe Lowe process of making water gas. The assets thus acquired are valued at 12,000.000. The stock is at 150 per share. The market value of the stock is 57 50 per share, an advanco of 15 since January L CAPTAIN COUCH DEAD. Tbe Noted Oklahoma Boomer Dies From Injuries Received Inn Qnnrrcl. Guthrie, L T., April 21 Captain Couch, the noted Oklahoma boomer. Is dead. He lived fighting for Oklahoma. He died fighting for the part of it which he believed belonged to him. After the bill had passed Congress pro viding for the opening of Oklahoma to settle ment, he secured a contract from the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to build a switch from tbe main line to the proposed site of Oklahoma City. He was superintending this work when the provisions of the bill went into effect on May 1, 1839. He stepped from a railway right of way on to a choice claim ad joining the town site. His presence in the Territory at that bour made him a "Sooner." Shortly after the settlement of the place the Captain was fencing in a piece of land which was claimod by another. A quarrel ensnea, during which he was shot in the knee. The doctors delayed amputation too long. Blood poisoning set in and tbe veteran boomer died at 3 this morning. The feeling against J. C. Adams, the man who did the shooting, is in tense, and for fear of lynching a United States Marshal took him to ickita. WASHINGTON STILL DRY. Several Licenses Granted in the County Bat None la the Borough. SrlCIAL TILIPKAJI TO THE DISPATCH.! Washington, April 21. Tho decisions In the matter of licenses for this county and borough wero filed to-day by Judge Mcllvaine. Those granted are as follows: Joseph Ham merer; Nottingham township: Jessie M. Boyd, Allen township; Thomas Morrison, Union township; Elizah W. Townsend, Union town ship: Joseph L. Harrison, Carroll township; the Thompson Distilling Company, East Beth lehem township; William J. Markle, Carroll township. Tbe above are all wholesalers. Great excitement prevailed when it became known that not a single license had been granted in the borough. There has been none for 25 years excepting for two years a whole sale. The Judge's optnlon was a long one. Stanley Greeted With Applnnse. Bbussels. April 2L "Salammbo" was per formed this evening in honor of Henry M, Stanley. There was a brilliant crowd present. Including foreign diplomatic representatives, Cabinet Ministers, members of tbe Anti Slavery Conference and other distinguished persons. Stanley was greeted with applause. ' LOVERS OP BALL Can keep up usith their favorite through THE DISPATCH, full scores of both League games and sum maries of all others will be published. x THREE CENTS G, THESH LAND BILL sn V5 J Mr. Parneli0 the Rejection of the Bill ?z Speech. NOT A SATISFAv ' SOLUTION. No Provision Made for Carrying Ont What It Proposed. IT W0DLD EXHAUST IRISH CREDIT, Farnellites Divided in Their Opinions m tno Leader's Hotion. The Irish land purchase bill is called up in the House of Commons, and Mr. Parnell moves for its rejection. The discussion is postponed until Thursday. The Parnell ites are divided in their opinions on Mr. Parneil'z motion. London, April 21. In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Parnell moved that the Irish Land purchase bill be rejected by the House. Speaking in support of his motioD, he said that the measure justified the claims the Nationalists made nine yean ago. He welcomed Mr. Balfour as the latest recruit to the ranks of the land re formers. While accepting the Govern ment's recognition of the principle of the land for the people, Mr. Parnell declared that he could not admit that the bill was a satistactory solution of the land question. The initial question was how far the British taxpayers would go in lending credit to the Irish landlord. The experi ence gained by the discussion of Mr. Gladstone's land bill in 188G showed the taxpayer would not go far enough to finally settle the land difficulty. Tbe present bill was meant simply to enable one-ninth of the owners of land in Ireland these being the larger absentee landlords to sell out at exorbitant prices, leaving their poorer resi dent brethren in the lurch. Mr. Parnell objected to the bill on the ground that it did not provide for carrying out what it proposed, while it exhausted the only Irish credit available. Tbe bill, he declared, was unsafe to the imperial taxpayer, the guarantees and counter guarantees it provided being insufficient. According to Mr. Balfour's figures, relief will be provided for only three-fourths of the tenants. IT "WOULD EXHAUST IRISH CREDIT. Mr. Parnell further objected to tbe bill be cause it wonld exhaust tbe Irish credit without tbe consent of tho Irish and without any local control in tho application of the money to be distributed under the provisions of the bilL Again, while coercion, applied as it is now, tbe tenant can be a free agent. Tho bill did not doal with the congested districts His own proposal, he said, was the same that be made in 1SS1, with a few modifications. Dealing with the insufficiency of the bill, Mr. Parnell said that the land question was not so large as many people supposed, but they conld make it large by the method of purchase proposed. If adopted tbe bill must make the question a larger qnestion. The principle of the bill was to buy whole estates, and 10,000.000 was a ridiculously inadequate sum for the pur pose. Ireland contained 11.000.000 acres of land, the poor law valuation of wbich was S.0CO,0OO, amounting at 18 years purchase to 106,500,000, wbich amount would be necessary to provide a solntion of the land ques tion. Otherwise three-quarters of the question would be left untouched. Nine-tenths of the landlord would bave no prospect ex cept to continue tho strife with tenants trying to obtain tho same treatment as the favored minority. TnE BILL A PARODY. Mp. Parnell said atruj test of the worth of tbe guarantees provided wonld be for Mr. Goscben to take them to tho London market and try what he could realizo upon them. "The securities," he said, "cannot be real unless they effect a complete settlement of the ques tion under local authority. Otherwise the bill is a parody on land pnrchaso and a swindle on tbe English taxpayer. Cheers. If you adopt the limit of tenants not exceed ing 50 valuation you reduce the amount needed to 55 per cent of the sum mentioned in tbo bill. Mr. Balfour proposes to givo the land lords so many year's purchase for reducing tbe rents of judicial tenants to a satisfactory standard. The landlord may use the money so obtained to pay off tho most onerous cum brances thus effacing tbe heavy arrears of interest, while tbe tenants will get the 30 per cent redaction they clamor for, without which peaceable agrarian relations are impossible f Hear, hear. In a typical case, a landlord as 100 yearly, who is encumbered to the extent of 1,000, is loft, under the best conditions un der this bill, with his present income of 40 re duced to 27 10-. Under ray proposal he gives a reduction of 30 per cent on 55 worth of net annual value of his estate. I assume that he will only have to deal with 55 per cent, of the area of his estate. That redaction amounts to 16, 10s yearly. Ho bas then left on the security ot tbe fnnds Mr. Bal four proposes, 20 year's purchase, or 33. TO TREAT IT AS A LOAN. You may treat this cither as a permanent loan or as a sinking fund. I prefer to treat it as a loan. The new income then will be 31 with a sinking fnnd. against 27 10s under Mr. Balfour's system. Without a sinking fnnd it would amount to 31 10s. or a loss of only 13? per cent on the original income of 10. instead of a loss of S2 per cent under the Balfour scheme. In such typical case Mr. Balfour says be requires 2,000 to settle the question. You only reqmre 33. That is with this system, you only require one sixth of tbe sum that Mr. Balfonr requires in order to secure a reduction ot 30 per cent in cases where under the purchase system yon only secure a reduction of 20 per cent. Sir George O.Trevylan objected to the bill on the ground that it was introduced in tbe in terests of individuals and not ot the State. Tbe Liberals, he said, desired not to remove landlords from Ireland, but to in crease their nnmber from tbe ranks of solvent, reliable tenants. The present bill dealt with good and bad alike. The proposals relative to the contested districts were alto gether inadequate. Ho protested against tho enormous salaries proposed for the commis sioners and against the non-representative character of the proposed Land Court. In tbe event of a war, the scheme would collapsa from inability to borrow at 2J per cent. The measure was unworkable, and would produce discord instead of content. The debate was adjourned until Thursday. The Parnellites are divided In their opinions on Mr. Parnell's motion. They think an ex planation is necessary. CHURCH WORKERS FIGHTING. The Esher and Anti-Eshor Factions Take Their Troubles Into Coarr. Chicago, April 2L To-day iheflgbt between tho Esher and antl-Esher factions of the Evan, gelical Church finally got into tho courts. Rev. Mr. Vetter's ejectment on Sunday from tha pulpit to which he wa assigned, apparently precipitated the long-threatened resort to law. The complainants are the antl-Esher faction, represented by Pastor George Vetter, rival of Pastor Forkel. Trustee Henry Marquart and the Illinois Conference (antl-Esher). Com plainants ask the court to reach out tbe strong arm of tbe law and put an end to the Irreligious controversy by deciding which party bas the right to tbe church and its property. To bring about a decision an injunction is de manded against the trustees favorable to Esher to restrain them and Pastor Vetter and, Bishop Eiher from In any way Interfering with Forkel's occupancy of Salem Cnurch pulpit. The matter may come up to-morrow. TERI CLETER THIEVES. Two Men Enter n. Jewelry Store and Se cure 83,000 Worth of Diamonds. Louisville, April 2L A. Steinau & Son. jewelers here, were robbed this afternoon of 3.000 worth ot diamonds. Saturday a neat looking man bought a ring at the store and left it to have bis initials put In. To-day he and another man came in about the same time and were talking about buying. Only the elder Steinau wa3 in. The man who bought the ringsuddenly called Steinau's attention to some article, and tbe confederate slipped a case of jewelry contain ing 41 rings and two sets of earrings into his pocket. Tbe two soon after left, and Steinau did not discover tha theft till after an hour later. A n '4 3 . ". K
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