Show telegraphic SEWS BERLIN nov 22 the german reichstag assembled today emperor william opened the session lit la a speech he said the tours he hid bad recently made convinced him that the desire for imperial unity was steeply rooted to in the people he emphasized the pacific character of germanas germanys Germ anys a foreign relations and policy he said his visit abroad which had been undertaken der taken with a view to effecting eff acting an understanding in the interest of peace caused universal conn dince ace in the maintenance of peace the emperor made no reference to any military bill or secrets and touched but briefly upon east african aft affairs airs THE EMPEROR was frequently interrupted by warm applause while he be was reading his bis speech referring te the peace peaceful fal sitt lWin improvement in trade aud social legislation were especially ally applauded upon the conclusion of his speech herr von Voth cher as representative of the chancellor declared the reich stag slag opened 1 when emperor william entered the chamber he was received with cheers led by hervon herrdon buhl bali vice president of the reichstag As he entered he was tendered an ovation led by count von bavarian plenipotentiary during the opening ceremonies the imperial balcony was occupied by the empress duke dake and duchess of aosta aasta and princess albrecht and her sons when the reichstag Reich sta settled down to business THE BUDGET was presented it balances at marks marka of the expenditures marks augure as permanent and marks as nonrecurring non recurring expenditures tures in the extraordinary budget the estimated revenue aaion during durin I 1 the cooling coming year shows au an increase ot marks marka the funds made over f forn the empire to the federation will be marks in excess of previous years on the hand the contributions from the individual states to the empire are increased mai maik ks according to 10 memoranda mem ornda accompanying the naval estimates several new war ships will be built besides those tow in course of construction the additions will comprise four ironclads iron nine smaller armored vessels ves bels seven corvettes cor four cruisers two dis dispatch vessels and two torpedo boats the VISITING WAP walt SHIPS the budget states are still serviceable ceable but aw are becoming to the times it Is therefore urged that there be created a nucleus tor for first class ships from to tons tone the ex tures under this head to be marks and to JW distributed ver over ten years the if iRease in army expenditures amounts to 7 narks mainly for purposes LONDON nov 22 the examination of witnesses witness es from county K drywa 0 continued at un uin session of the parnell commission con mission today leonald agvent of the earl of ken gemye I 1 said the league was as active as c er he thoroughly disagreed with the statement of belfour that the league was a thing of the past formerly akrit could be executed with a sheriff and the aid of four policemen but now soldiers were required since 1853 the earl of kennemore Kenn emare had expended in improvements on his estate his bill tor for labor now amounted to weekly only such anch rents were taken from poor tenants as they could afford to give witness seek to collect rent from persons blue with hanger and the law was never enforced against a tenant of that class adjourned harrinston harrington intends to question the right of bf the commission to impose a fine of edw which was assessed on him yesterday PITTSBURG nov 22 the sioux indian commission have forwarded a lengthy report to secretary alias captain pratt said to a reporter that the report contains some startling revelations which will be read with great interest throughout the entire country it shows the condition ot of the indians how they have been treated by the government and the commission sees no reasons readous why the government should have any trouble in bringing them to justice CITY OF MEXICO nov 22 the cabinet ministers today handed banded in their res ignatious to take effect dec 1 that president diaz may mav have full liberty to appod aft new cabinet tor a new term many rumors are afloat though it is probable the only changes will be war and justice lu stice lancaster jones a will pro probably bally he minister of 0 justice jesus jimenezz enz the governor of hicho acar forbids the publication of news not revised by him he is arresting correspondents SYDNEY N S W nov 22 in the assembly today today ibe the bernier nernier premier moved an address to the queen advising that the office of governor of the colony henceforth should be confined to a class of public men who can be called to assist in the government ot the empire and that the colonial government be informed of the proposed nomination there was no DO idea he said of disturb disturbing im the relations wi with th t the he mother country cu but it is of toe the highest importance in view of the con tinned development of the colonies that the queens advisers appreciate the responsibility involved in the heap appointing binting of a governor he admitted the right ol of imperial selection but urged that the position ought to be the object ol of ambition ambit ioa and no DO man ought to be appointed merely for the sake of the salary the address was adap adopted ted without division BALTIMORE md nov 22 News has reached the city of an nt between a number of boats owned by unlawful dredgers and a state police sloop in which a negro named clantis was shot and fatally wounded the fight was very lively tor for several hours the police were driven off N C nov 22 james Phill philbeck aeck a farmer living in cleveland county was called to the door of his bis house and shot shoe dead by an unknown wn party who then entered the promises premises shot Phil Pail becks ale and robbed the house bouse the murderer escaped NEW YORK nov 22 the keeper of a so called furnished rooms house alice Allce mccarthy by name committed suicide this afternoon she bore the name of david mccarthy McCart ky with whom she lived he is not tier her husband her husbands name was nelson she was born in virginia city nevada and has a child in the west she was 32 years old LONDON nov 22 the debate on the laud land purchase bill was resumed in the commons tonight by parnell he declared emphatically he be appi approved loved the bill out he be believed it was so designed that under the present circumstances it would be impossible to put it into effective operation he had always held that the creation of the present proprietary system was means of solving the land question his own bill alm dimply ay iy asked that the church tenants be allowed to acquire land by paying the church chuich a cob commission mission annually for 49 years a rent equal to tour four per cent on the capitalized value of the holdings that would have created ne be rink to the imperial exchequer the conservatives opposed that proposal but the time would woula come when they would find it needful to go further THIS THE IRISH PARTY were always ready and eager to assist in the settlement of the land question it was a calumny to say that any one of their members trip tried d to ma make k e political capital out of the question or opposed the bill because it would make t the he government of ireland easier cheers on the contrary their 0 opposition to the bill was due to tal the knowledge now ledge that it would cause a loss to he exchequer without effecting its ostensible object the government had not taken up the land question with a view to helping the tenants but at the solicitation of the landlords who seeing that they could not any longer maint maanum tin wanted to dispose of their property plO perty at inflated firla prices e s the only way to make the landlords d lords of congested estates agree to accept the value ot their property was to empower a commission to purchase it at such a price as would really y represent the AA INTERESTS bargains with farmers ought to have a basis that would put repudiation out of the question toe the present system of government trampled upon the national feeling it if the government is to attempt a scheme of large land purchase it was essential to esLa establish blish in ireland a representative of authority to act as aaa A buffer between the tenants and the state tile the tenants would have their 86 and may be members of parliament Warnel lite cheers lord randolph Randol pu pa churchill said ibe assertion that the bill was introduced to enable the landlords to sell at inflated prices would not bear exam examination na regarding the national sentiment he be appealed to 10 parnell to say what room there was for romance in dealing with a matter of tact fact advance and repayment of money had mr parnell any alternative bill would he be support the principle of the GLADSTONE BILL of 1836 parnell here gave a negative shake of the bead then what other scheme parnell I 1 would accept the bill if A the disadvantages connected with it were modified by dealing with arrears lord randolph churchill said he trusted after the recent speeches of the ministers the gove government would bring up the arrears question early in the future in the mean time alme he be could not admit that coercion militated against any purchase cheers the bill passed its second reading reacting by a vote ot of to I 1 indianapolis nov 22 four hours were spent in a heated debate over the skeffington case it was finally decided that anat skeffington was guilty of insubordination and that he be should be publicly reprimanded by the general master workman i it was decided to send a representative of the order to the paris exposition and an hour and a halt of the conventions vent ions time was devoted to considering the secret work of 0 the order the finance committee hugh cavanaugh chairman reported it had bad f found the methods of disbursing the funds very loose that bills had bad not been countersigned counter signed before being paid that some of the officers should be given the veto power in regard to the expenditure ot of money and under such a plan more money would Bow be in the treasury band and further recommended that more businesslike business like methods be established they made no BO suggestion of any aay crookedness finding all the accounts perfectly correct and the report states that reductions already decided upon by tile the consolidation and reduction of offices would foot up the salaries will remain the same as heretofore power Is riven to secret secretary vaters ar and treasurer to throw out exe excessive esal items from the expenditures eadi tures by a vote of 88 to 57 it was decided to continue ahe salary of to the lae general ac Beral in inasa work workman maia and aad the secretary and surer wll will I 1 be paid 2000 the of the executive board boa will receive yi 1 a day and their eapen benses the report ot of the committee wits was adopted and these matters as to salary came up immediately afterwards ST louis nov 22 the senate catlie lie trade investigating committee met again this morning T L leonard of saline Coun tyone ot of the largest importer black cattle in missouri said the cattle markets were paralyzed paralyze di by the control the dressed beet men had secured there was no competition in the market between buyers senator plumb asked the witness if he thought the price to the consumer was lower than formerly when there were no packing houses witness 1 know thel the prices we set get tor for our live beef does pot justify tile the price which the consumers pay levi lev samuels a wholesale butcher of new york aud and a former exporter testified that the cattle market is NOW W DEPRESSED he was familiar with the dressed beef business w with ith the exception of one or two towns in the east all the beet beef sold there is dressed beef the local butchers have quit slaughtering or buying from wholesale slaughter slaughterers ert ers the reason for this was baj that western dressed beef men have gone in there and offered their beet beef lower than the local ti butchers could buy the cattle anti and slaughter them in this way the local slaughterers slaughter ers were forced to quit killius inand buy dressed beet from the west west when the western laen inen had secured the control they put up the price enough to justify their loss previous to obtaining control A W bulard Hi ilard of midland texas stated that about a year ago he be was negotiating with the ane proprietors of a beef refrigerator in in el paso to supply them with caule but the negotiations fell through because the el ei paso people were closed out toe the S southern guttebo ern pacific railway REFUSED TO SUPPLY cars for the transportation of dressed beet to los angeles having a contract with chicago keople people which compelled them to exe exclude u e the el paso people richard gray general freight agent of the southern pacific system with wit an office at san francisco was examined at his own request he wished to get on record a denial of the statement 1 lundeby made by hillard and aad another witness with reference to the companas comp anys refusal to furnish refrigerator cars at el I 1 paso this statement could not be true the company never had any refrigerator cars in its equipment the company never had refused to furnish box cars carsto to anyone when it had bad them senator cullom thought he had ay cornered when the lauer latter admitted his company hach refused to admit cars frow from otner other companies and compelled shippers to transfer ausler tr them from the original cars to the southern pacific cars gray ho however rever qualified this statement oy by saying the southern pa bitic had only oaly done this when the cars offered were unfit to go over the steep grades and around the sharp curves of their road GEORGE BECK of detroit a butcher and cattle dealer for the last thirty years testified that the dressed beet beef organization had bad been tae means ot of crushing out all the butchers throughout the east and concentrating cent rating the cattle business at cai cago of akron ohio testified that in 1887 the labor unions of akron passed a resolution not to buy meats or of armour aco co the butchers of akron were happy but bat in a lew few days armour sent a carload of meat and ua uR derold them all ah armours concern opened two sporee in the heart of akron and actually gave away the best meat in the land the result was the signing of an agre agreement ament by the butchers association to rive give a preference to the house of armour co the latter agreeing agre eine to close their retail establishments in akron instead of closing their stores they sold them to local butchers to be run to the great detriment of the trade witness admitted however that at present consumers get their meat much cheaper than abe etore armour co came in JOHN of detroit a but butcher cherof of experience testified he was met at sheboygan fian six years ago by the armour meat company pa dy anc and d closed out of the market there at 41 twenty six places in michigan outside of detroit armourn Armours meat is one cent per pound higher than in detroit in these towns the butchers who six years ago were wll to do 0 are now bankrupts while the joint convention of the ran gemen and butchers was in session in the exposition building a meeting of the committees from the livestock exchanges of chicago st louis omaha and kansas city was held at the southern hotel 1 they were reinforced in by se ceders from the convention and adopted a set of I 1 re resolutions ns setting forth their views the preamble recites that whereas ahe inspection and approval of meat is 18 necessary to 10 command the confidence of the consumer and a nd that such euch tion and approval should be made r geltion gec under r an authority iree irce from local prejudice an and d that the interests of producers and consumers SAM e rs alike demand the best beat facilities for marketing |