Galveston Daily News (Newspaper) - March 1, 1887, Galveston, Texas r j a Successors co do In Dry Notions shoos Hats Etc Attention of tha COUNTRY AKD CITY called to tho that JOry Goods oto now ar- ore prepared to promptly all Spring An iu onr fall Duos is STREET VOL 309 GALVESTON TEXAS TUESDAY 1 1887 ESTABLISHED 1342 We make a Specialty of this lice of goods and carry a full ment OUT OPERA BOUQUET is a First Class Smoke Send us trial Order THE DEMOCRATS DISGUSTED IN OPEN REVOLT AGAINST RANDALL The Pennsylvania Protectionists Told Some Very Unpalatable Washington News Items j In Tobacco TO Interior Merchants tho entire stock oC the late Mrm of of Dry Hats Valises etc We propose to continue the business of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods Notions and and now ready to flu orders from friends at the tats and cordially solicit the trade ol all dealing in these We off special inducements In order to close out following Stock Men's Youths and Children's Clothing j Stock oJ Boots and Shoes oi Hats Caps ate buyers that It will examine trick Our to fins arc liberal Special inducements to cash purchasers BROS S T R A K D TEXAS POWDER Absolutely This powder never varies A marvel ol purity strength and wholesomeness More cal than the ordinary Sold only In onus BAKING GO 106 Wall ZS We have teara it is We have had it re- last ten years but how we are receiving more cotton titan wt ever did on commission Shipment Factory SIMPSON 10 AND 12 ST MOOD CO to of cotton she coming are now prepared to Applications from and planters solicited Does a receipt of three four and Jive dred bales a day by one firm of Cotton Factors alone look much as if the ness was going to are on the brink of ruin for we get that and sometimes chiefly who understand the cotton business and know what w good for their pockets O N in j cents per 103 ov pnr 1000 for ante ac Tho News THE nl report at Galveston m observations taken of tUne fit all stations The truth is that after trying all other methods of disposing of their cotton pers are returning to their the business is full of life What is dead and buried i the old system of high and multifarious charges and frictions and once connected with the business but we have abolished long ago WASHINGTON February The revolt against Mr Randall and his methods is at last pronounced Tae common sense of tbe House could stand no more and the expressions of indignation to day were pointed and vigorous and the gentleman from Pennsylvania has tha truth from on his side of the chamber in a most candid form He has been charged with usurpation of to his very teeth and his only reply Is a halting and feeble denial The storm has raged around him all day and ho has bent before it as never in hla life before He has paced the chamber with his brow knitted and his eyes flashing making as was plainly to be seen his strongest effort to control himself He is not a man cf high order of self com- He is a hard hitter and when attacked lilies to hit back but he could hat the pacific was the only policy for the occasion to day and as well as so a character could he adopted it The men who led the of Tens Blanchard of Louisiana and Rodgers ot Ar all young in years and ship but full of the resolution of fight If it appeared audacious at the outset for such champions to challenge Mr Randall the wisdom and propriety of their course were seen followed Some of the oldest and strongest members of the party were soon in position by their side The straw that broke the camel's back the legislative executive nnd judicial appropriation one of the longest most im- portant ot the appropriation bills which the appropriation committee desired the House to accept on trust and pass without reading It was known that the changed a number of salaries fixed by law and contained other provisions up- on which the House as a whole and not the appropriation committee alone should pass The committee's report was based upon the fact that it was too late In the sion to tho in detail and therefore it must be accepted as prepared if at all This called an answer and tart from many members that the tee was responsible for the delay and must whatever followed It was informed that the House would accept nothing on trust from it especially a sure which had been prepared in open lation of existing laws There is a great deal of bad blood and meanness here and he Republicans of course are expecting to reap a rich harvest from it all Mr lisle has been on the floor of the House bolf a dozen times this afternoon ring with Mr Randall and Mr Morrison in the anxiety and probably in the indignation widely felt among crats members of tho Tennessee legislature a letter from the senator advising them that in e to an invitation he would at an early dute iu March in Nashville deliver a on the political issues of the day She of the state who in tbe last campaign were for are now out- Sherman TEXAS INVESTIGATION HOTH SIDES OF THE STORY February tba Texas investigation to-day a a German testified that he was Republican until the became so corrupt in local administration that he could o longer continue with it With re- gard to the reputation ot the he said was bad and worse On cross-examination he said he left JLong Point where he was in business on account of a personal difficulty He also admitted that he kept a saloon ot Hunday and sold liquor in defiance of the Sunday law Backworth was a E P Curry white Democrat testified to his belief that the negroes in Washington county were intimidated by their fellow when they wished to vota the Democratic ticket heard of fifteen or twenty negro clubs in the county members of which ware sworn to vote the Republican ticket J L Moore one of the was sworn When asked what was the reason for the hanging of tbe three colored men charged with the killing of Bolton witness replied that he thought it was be- chuse they knew too much There hud been no attempts so far knew to tind facts ic the case of Witness no grounds for the reported negro uprising which was by the indignation meeting at Eldridge lull The Means in their speeches had counselled police but had warned tbe people against selling or in any way disposing at their votes In regard to the advice to leave witness suid he had received no written notice but mere verbal information from several Democrats ness described tin transfer of his preparatory leaving and said in cation of himself that he had committed no crime other than being a Republican Moore said was a member of the church iu Brenham and that his standing among the Republicans was good and that trie policy of the Democratic party was tD ruin characters and to break the influence of Republican leaders Adjourned cumin ton HOUSTON TEXAS Wind inst I u o c H 70 74 ra IW 67 40 til I Tii 14 JO 00 Clear 00 Fair 00 Cloudy CO 00 00 00 Clear Ci Clear CO Olear STOEY Mareli a Alte Admitted to Bail Es Boards tils Sails VORK Ex has Irota his alter all la spite of a ut suit with a bail bond oJ over lie sailed on the via II be tkat he was ar- Iho just as she was on ot sailing witti the The steadier T Up clUi Vr r bnr inside ia the ox from were at dowa to the South touk n hunt for the steamer which lay rr and aboard where he fjy his friends aud I of English's said jast frvcciug the Wia to board the and make the as he had intended to do before ar- rested could not blame hi ui Quite a nii created iu the news of the and Mi's I Csse ia the was at the reste j ibe On The People Newfoundland Dying from Cold and Starvation HALIFAX S February standing denials of interested business men the most woeful stories of distress starvation and death continue to be re- both the and northern oJ Newfoundland A ent at Channel It ia still the same doleful tide I have to tell ol no fish and as a consequence no food From Little bay to cape Kay It is the same cry though in some places they are much worse off iu others I was at Rose a week ago and daring tie lew days I was there forty able-bodied persons applied for From that place I along the shore and in nearly all the settlements I saw the same sad sights of meij women and children sick half clad poorly fed no fish no means no food aud no clothing lor the fishermen and their families Whan sickness follows upon tins condition is Indeed pitiful In most ot the settlements to the eastward the people have had measles In Seal Cove with a population of 200 every house wss a hospital and many died ISome had beds and bedding and others had out the bare floor to lie on up tha rooma out tho cold Dry bread was their food sict KEfl were fed alike Another cor- respondent says is an enormous tity of f he ground Winter fishery is a failure It is impossible to fresh fish for the table and very fishermen have almost forgotten the taste of and n few are without powder and shot to kill birds RESCUED BY HIS Almost Frozen Minn February people C are in imminent clangor I for want ot fuel There are only 1 two of wood here aud not a lamp of and the residents are forced to barn I lumber piles To add to tha oi the situation the blizzard of right was the severest since covered tho railroad wita several feet fit All men available were put to f tho road bat no traia tnu arrive some days Louisiana La February tha of citizens interested in the ot opera hotue and commercial a tea was to u tile for tha proposed building is another wijl bo to take the steps in matter Indian Mail Bobber Taken Away from Officers by the February special Miles fall a the postoffice at land about 90 miles south of Miles City He had not been arrested although complaint was made until last when a warrant was placed in the hands of a deputy sheriff whom the United States marshal had com- missioned to make the arrest Proceeding to the agency the deputy and his assistant identified the men and arrested him and set out tor Miles When about 60 miles from he agency a band of rode furiously tip and with guns drawn and gestures forced the deputy to give up his prisoner The band of ennes numbered about twenty and meant mischief The deputy returned to Miles City Saturday night and will tate forcements for his posse and return to the agency as soon as possible and endeavor to capture the rescued prisoner as well as take into custody the members cf the war party This is the same tribe with whom so trouble was anticipated last ber Thrue companies of soldiers were seat from Fort Keogh at that time to hold in check The action of the officers in turning man loose without bloodshed is a of commendation as one Indian Killed might have resulted in the wholesale of white settlers who are AN EXTRA SESSION GROWING MOKI PROBABLE February The excitement in the to-night is even greater than that that prevailed to-day At Holman driven to the wall has con- sented that the present legislative in the matter of salaries be made to conform to the of last session This had the fect to somewhat mollify the very commendable progress is now being made However it is apparent that at the rate the House is now going the under consideration can not be dis- posed of lata tomorrow An ex- irn session grows more imminent every hour The Senate U up in declares hat it will not consider the HO should 0110 fail several ethers necessarily must and the money fur the carrying on of the business of the must in some satisfactory and manner be provided The only alternative is by resolution extending from July next six mouths bin that steu in the present temper of Con- gress may not be possible The rout of the appropriation committee has and complete AN WASHINGTON February is ing between the two houses of Congress Members of the senate committee on who are usually very guarded in their utterances no concealment of their opinion that an extra session is now almost nor do they hesitate to place blame where they thiak it belongs After two or three conferences on the dry last week which wara almost nullified by the withdrawal of tae house conferees a meeting was scoured at 10 o'clock yesterday morning which was intended by the senate members to last through the day and through last night as well jf to complete the and clear desks for the remaining bills The programme was broken up by the of house committee on who at 8 o'clock left to meet an The conferees met again between 8 nud 8 o'clock In the evening but midnight Ibe same gentleman CONVICT LABOR Representative of Missouri 1 sow only the of the to it a law TUT The president pent to the senate he name of James M to bo re- corder of deeds in the District of Columbia in place of James C Matthews who was vice James Trotter is a colored citizen of Massachusetts -16 years of His early days were spent in Ifco state of Ohio where ho began his in the public schools For past thirty-five years ho has re- in Massachusetts where prior to the war he was a teacher Soon after the out ot the rebellion he enlisted as a private ia tho Fifty-fifth Massachusetts regiment colored troops and was pro for acts of bravery on the battlefield until he became a lieutenant Upon return to civil life he was appointed and tilled for eighteen years the position of assistant ent of the department in the Boston post this position he was retired in on ac count it said of his in politics and his avowed purpose of porting President Cleveland the campaign of he was appointed one of the committee of one hundred of Boston active in support of the nominees ot the Democratic party He IK tho author ot a volume entitled and Musical pie of he Colored Kace BM Co we will the and therefore olier for sale upon liberal terras ocr stock of Youths Boys and either in bulk or lots to buyers is a rare chance for to secure bargains ir UK I I BROS A OK THE SUBJECT February Carroll S Wright commissioner of labor has sub- mitted to Ibe secretary of tha interior his annual report which relates ly to the EU of labor It prison population of has a proportion of one ia a thousand to the population of the United States ever competition considering the country at which comes from convict labor in form must come from this one con- vict cue thousand of the Hat the proportion to those engaged in mechanical pursuits in the whole country Js about one convict to every fifty so employed The United States prisoners included in the above estimate cumber and they are distributed the different states The industry employing the greatest number is that o boots and shoes the manufacture clothing standing next then stone its then farming gardening furniture mining lumber and in the order The total product of all penal in- is of 1 per per cent of the total production of the industries of the The report states that it is evident from information obtained the competition arising from the em- of convicts as far as the whole is concerned would not constitute a question worthy of serious dis- cussion however Locally and in certain industries says the report the competition be serious and of such proportions as to the most serious attention of The commissioner concludes tnat of hand labor if educed ia p itt ns would reduce competition with free to the POSTAL MATTERS February The follow ing are among the of the department which affect the service in Site Preston to a point 1 mile south on route 32 Smr Service Changes Springs fo Greenock from March 1 service to three times a Service Route Taylor by Elgin to Bastrop Taylor and Houston Hallway company Miles and back six times a week or asm uch of tener as trains may run from March 7 Moil Messenger Service Discontinued Routs Tyler Smith county from and 6 1 Louis railroad 127 rods service to the International and Northern railroad from March I February ing a message from the president in to a resolution of the Senate in reference to the seizure and sale of the American Rebecca at to the resignation of the late itter to Mexico stating that it is not deemed with the public interest to communicate tho dence in either case at present Mr said this claim for indemnity bad dragged its tlow coil through three years cf diplomatic correspondence without redress It was time that he American minister should make an earnest and vigorous demand for that was tho view taken of he subject by the late Minister Jackson He intimated it had been one of the causes cf Mr Jackson's resignation Mr believed that American citizens lad seized and imprisoned and ully robbed cf their property in a Mexican port and that the robbery had com- mitted with and pretended authority of tie local Mexican court At the request of the presiding officer Mr Brown yielded the temporarily and the appropriation which had been received from the House was laid before the Senate and read the first ture Its second reading was objected to by Mr Edmunds who stated his reasons for doing so He complained of the great and unwarranted delay on the part of the House in seeding to the Senate the great appropriation And announced his settled determination not o have them railroaded ths Senate Tha Senate should have the necessary time to give full consideration to them and so should the president The in reference to the fishery troubles had not yet been passed finally and if Congress were to ad- journ without having made some provision on the subject it would be the duty of the president to call the new la extra cession The Interstate commissioners had for or other not beon appointed and he did cot see in the condition of things any undue caste should be made about the propriation bills or the Senate should te coerced from its wise and well-ordered rules of business He that the com- tn appropriations should a statement as to the condition of business Mr liale of the I see but ere result from the in which the Senate is placed by on the part of the other and that tult must clearly be what 1 nine man out cf tea extra session of The on tions will do its work as well as it can It will sit and Mr of the oi the with but Mr of Virginia The laid before the a Eage from the for the erection of a lic at J he on public aud grounds House into committee the on Sir Indiana briefly ran over the cf increase and decrease he Lill aud defended fi cf the committee oa Mr of said the face to face with the live that tLe arid the be hurried through srd under the or be parsed without tif the rules to be to do ia ess than lotr wLat the huJ ia He the for to taxation aad 1 criticised the party the oi Mr gave an account of the bille the on did not merit the directed it This legislative had It nss the of the House ol ths rt that it cot taken up There been an effort belittle and Democratic Compared with Congresses in a light in the matter of transaction cf had upor the statute books more legislation than any previous his recollection The Democratic was to be commended by the for its straightforward its clean its in connection with the beat interests of the people Mr Kopers of Arkansas offered a tute for the entire extending for six months beginning July 1 and ending De- cember 31 legislative aud judicial appropriations of the carreal fiscal year He believed the precipitation upon the House at this time of a measure appropriating over twenty lion dollars was a reflection upon integrity as well as of his body and an Indecency to the Senate and an outrage upon tho president of the United who would be called upon to sign It without an opportunity for examination The substitute was ruled out on a point of order The committee then rose and the House took a recess until Tha House proceeded to consideration of resolutions expressive oi regret at the of Representative E Cole of land and honoring hijs memory addresses were delivered and the tion E were adopted The House then went into committee of the whole on the tive appropriation a m The evening's work the legislative is progressing with out tie friction Not calf of the measure hag vet been considered and if the friends of tbo adhere to their infection of ing it to a paf sage before an adjournment is the session will last far tha KOBT NEWS NOTES diew after giving notice that ho could rot meet his fellow conferees again until Tuesday night Members of the senate committee express great indignation at the whole latter course of proceedings by the House and its in respect to the Four of the annual appropriation bills have not yet reached the Senate There Is already talk of the passage of a resolution extending the for six months upon tie basis of those of the current year It is said at the Senate that this expedient besides leading to en- and unnecessary tures as fn tha past could only cover the failure of the legislative and naval bills Matters to provided for in the sundry civil and deficiency bills would still it is believed demand explicit attention and definite appropriations NEW PENSION OFFICE AN APPLICANT December Representative St Martin of Louisiana whose terra expires with this Congress will be an applicant for the new pension agency to be established at New Orleans He Is an influential Creole and affiliates with the the Eustis wing of the Louisiana Democracy There sre a number of other applicants for lie place SENATOR SHERMAN WILL COMMENCE HIS CANVASS WASHINGTON February Ic a few days after the adjournment of Congress Senator Sherman will leave here on an southern tour The object of his visit is af course In the near Tipper I his candidacy for the presidency There 1 Tongue Uiver valley I was mailed to night to the Republican x president sent he tallowing nominations to the to Janies M Trotter colored recorder of deeds for the of Columbia Reuben A Reeves of Palestine Tex associate justice of the Court of the territory of New Mexico TO TO HIS POST Minister has notified the state that he will sail from New York Thursday next to resume his duties at Berlin THZ PACIFIC Senate amendments to the Pacific rail road investigation resolution with a single exception are understood to be acceptable to Uie house committee on Pacific railroads But the clause providing for the appoint ment of the commissioners by the president by sad with the advice and consent of the Senate is regarded as so objectionable hot u conference is necessary The dent bos intimated that if the words by nnd the advice and consent of the Senatu remain in the resolution he can not appoint the commissioners before the assembling of the next Congress His son for is that according to the decision tHe attorney-general the lution does not create such an office as can be filled when Congress is not in session GOES TO THE The to prevent the employment of convict and alien labor upon public works and ot convict labor In preparation of the materials for public works passed by the Senate to day has already passed the House now goes to the president THE The house arbitration passed by the Senate to-day is the introduced en irundavs but it can't perform Mr Allison chairman of the committee on appropriations I to say to he these bills are uot in a con- dition at this time to considered with tie liberation by this body before the eni of tie present Congress and that if tha bills are passed they must be passed as they come from the House of Representatives without the ent judgment of the president of the United States He described the situation of the various appropriation bills and severely criticised the House for its delay in to the Senate As to the sundry civil he declared been almost impossible to get the House conferees together for the purpose of con- it It is perfectly apparent he continued that several ot these great appropriation bills can not reach the president before late on Thursday night so even that we cau get through with these bills by Thursday president must take them on trust and sign them without reading them Mr Brown then resumed anil completed his remarks on the subject of the seizure cf the and the resignation of Minister Jackson Mr Gray said the remarks of senator from Brown were directed to matters in which the Senate lacked fall information It would be manifestly im- possible at this time to undertake the con- sideration of the matters in dispute be- tween the late distinguished minister to Mexico the department ol state without further information He asked that the letter of the secretary of state transmitted by the president be printed in the Record So ordered Mr Hoar from tie committee on and elections asked that that com- be permitted to report to the next session upon the power of the president to designate temporarily men to perform the duties of certain offices whose nominations to the same position had previously been rejected bv the Granted Mr Plumb reported favorably from the committee on public lands and asked im- mediate consideration of the senate to increase tbe endowment of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural college It sets aside and appropriates acres of public land in the state of Louisiana for the purpose The was passed The house labor arbitration was taken up and passed without a division House to prevent the employment of convict or alien labor upon ings or works or in the preparation of material for public buildings or public works was taker up and without discussion or amendment passed The was taken tip Upon motion made by Mr Dawes to re- consider tht vote by which Jlr substitute was last week adopted the vote stood SO to 22 Bo the motion to reconsider was carried The question then recurring on Sir was 21 nays 20 Mr renewed his amendment extending the to the twice plague and cholera and other con- diseases among swine Adopted Ttt then si IP The then session Visit of tlie Drouth ia Sore Tex February VT Line drouth commissioner was in town Friday and after consultation with County Judge Thomas acd other drew his check for for the of citizens cf the Ths in at is for seed oats The are anxious o -i crop as as will tie trouble that is nud tbe kuow not where go of turn to set from which to raise oi liscj farmers car by sible means it the ft r have spent last in their families while f till others have been on oi their friends for some all being placed in desperate straits at the present time by the fact that it is next to impossible to jret fct the next crop setting aside ominous question of actl bread for pretent consumption Many ol will be compelled to leave the county if some assistance iu of seed is not gotten BOBBED in A A Well knows Sport Lasts His Money and Through Grots ST Locis Mo February the well-known diamond broker and bookmaker of Chicago was robbed cf in and worth of in a Pullman sleeper on the Iron road last night while on his way from Memphis to Upon retiring night Cohen his diamonds in he inner pocket of his coat which he hung up in his berth dressing this ing he discovered that he had been robbed ot he diamonds and money Aa investigation showed that the punts of the adjoining berth who watched Cohen's actions closely during the previous evening anO who jumped from tha tram at South Bt Louis leaving their ets to Chicago with the porter were probable robbers A description of men has been telegraphed to the police of all the large cities She Could Kct Stand It February Annie Maria Barker aged 2t daughter of a prominent physician ot thib place died this morning at 4 o'clock from the effects of a dose of rough on rats taken Sunday night between the hours of 8 aud 10 She com- mitted suicide because of disappointment in love Upon St Valentine's day she was to have been wedded to Adam Bauer but Bauer's father went to tho county clerk and prevented him from issuing a marriage license Adam promised to call upon hu sweetheart Sunday night but failed to make his appearance and this is supposed to have made her desperate with the above General Butler's Injuries BOSTON Mass February B K Butler's injuries are much more serious tLan at first supposed His doctor said last night that the general's shoulder was badly dislocated and the dislocation was accompanied bv a rapture of the ment caused by throwing the bose forward lie will ML
