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Show COALVILLE TIMES. ROBERTS REFUSED SEAT IN CONGRESS was Ordered to Stand Aside Pending: zn Investigation of Charges Against Him. By a Vote of UTAILNEYS. well ha Wee ionad Another hew the Belt Palae ground la Wit pi Lake (St. Don. Aquilt Xebeker and Bjreo will build a smelter ia Henry M. the Buckskin mountains Wring a eapaetty at forty tone a day, OAboat 7,000 rabbits were killed for the poor of Wit Lake, near Eel ton, bat the - weather was so warns they would aot keep. The bank clearings of Balt Lake City far November were about $9,000,000, eieeedlng those of last year for tW earne period by more than 12,000,000. The residents of Peep Creek are aaaioue to have telephone eommuaica-tie- a with the other parte of the state, and are endeavoring to have a line Wilt. The hand of Bose Herman, a Salt Lake gtrL was so badly srashed la a collar and cuff machine ia a laundry laat week that am potation 302 to 30 lie lf Utah Has Broken the Compact Made With the Unltod States by Electing a Polygamist to Conjrreas She Hae But Followed tho Illustrious Example of tho Prosont Administration Which Has Appointed Roberts In Polygamistf to Federal Positions," Says Mr. His Defense Whllo Protecting Against tho Couraai Pursued In HI Case and Defnandlng HI Right Case of President Oeo. Q. Cannon Cited as a Precident. ststlwe TsyUV of Okie, Uhargmj Bspr WiU Polygamy. When the clerk Washington, Dec. called the name of Representative Rob-e- rt to appear at the bar of the house to take the oath of office. Representative Taylor of Ohio pbjected to his being sworn in Representative McRae of Arkansas seconded the request. Mr. Taylor then offered a resolution authorizing tbe speaker to appoint a committee of nine members to investigate the eharges preferred against Mr. Roberta, and to report the same to tha house. Tbe resolution was laid said until after tha president's message U Ulaa (Laughter and spplaaes-- ) .. Gentlemen ef the Democratic part few of whom may, perhaps, tremolo tbe thunderous objection that has bees presented as pretending to voice the sentlAeat ot tbe country upon this subject. X want to call your attention to soother thing, and that is a Repnblicaa congress that sot wlth-landlseated this ssss, yet ike ftepuoiioea party really survived its actios. (Laughter) Why, tail here today, and I believe, gentlemen of tbe majority, that it squid survive eves it should eat tbe present representative from tbe stste of 1tab If Utah had broken her compact with ths United Stases by tbs election of an alleged polygamous representative, thes Utah bad simply followed tbe Illustrious example ot the preaent national administration " I affirm that there is abundant evident that objections similar to those ia the present case were made t th president and th senate against tbe appointment of certain federal officials in Utah, but tbs objections were waived aside Do you mesa to aay that polygamists were appointed to federal offices In Utah by tbe present executive? queried Mr Hopkins (Rep silks. UTAH. COALVILLE. OBJECTION MADE TO ROBERTS. sever-theli- twen-ty-eig- M Itfailedto well-ground- iwi ltfe-- ia o CHARLES B. MACRUM. Consul at Pretoria. the hand of Mr. Atterbnry, a resident-Americaeitizen to Pretoria. Ha will act aa consul until (he arrival of Mr. Hay, which, acoordtng to th calculation of th officials, should be within five or six weeks Consul Macrum has endeavored tn look after the interests of British prisoners at Pretoria, at tbe solicitation of ths British government, and because of this hi position has been made very disagrees bl en oe MADE carried a placard advertising Mr, Boy-lana business, Mr. Boy lance will leave here In time to resch the destination of the train by the time it gets there so a to ace to the proper delivery ef the goods to the consignee. Oscar Eliaaon, the Utah w lizard, waa shot and killed In A ns trails-las- t week. Beyond the bare announcement which came in a message to Paul Hammer, bis brother-in-lanothing in known. Eliaaon has been on a tour of the world for two years, and has met with success. Jim Nack iud Lee Slug, Chinamen employed on the Southern Pacific tkm gang at Kelton, quarreled over n game of cards, when Blog secured a I stebsr-kuifsanstabbed his opponent Jto the heart, killing him Instantly. ce h. d less try and his constituents. There were guilty of a miadmnesnor. For the thing for which the taw itself sotid precedents for such an appeal to the sot lay hand oa me, while in attendance xpon higher law.-ll- s this House, you propose I speak of tbe little cited the case of Whlttemore, coterie ot men who bare entered into this who had been guilty of selling cadet-hi- p to crowd this question to tbe from ,t and who, upon hts appearance at this, and for tbe reason that they are fearful matter if the to should that eonxlderxUoa a go tha bar of the house, wss rejected M under a resolution to expel the member bom unfit to alt in the house.. The power Utah, they aould not marshal tho Decenary and the right were inherent, said Mr. vote to accomplish their purpose Tayler, It waa only a question of pro- to pass the present resolution. I understand, air. that thews immunltlsssrS priety, of wisdom and of precedent, sot given toe tbe benefit id tbe individual Mr. Richardson, the Democratic ber., They are given rather for tbe benefit of leader, who followed Mr. Tayler, de- hts fonstltueocuha arc canned to ate,, clared that the minority was In no vices as their representative. And therefor Invoke the I is to that tbe ten protection given wise hound by bis position. He spoke of a sovereign State against lh etltnency for himself alone. He was willing to reelings they are instituting hero to depti ay thati If the charge against the ins of the privilege ot being sworn is aa a mem ' member-elec- t Hou ot were proven be should ber thta , Privilege.' did I sv, air, I m' aot asking fsvor bis expulsion, "If there la one 1 am not any privilege In tills house thing on which the American people any favor ot th mem here of this House asking pn. that-the rter the shadow of the constitution of tha Cai-tart, nit,H he said, "it ia American home shall be preserved In demand, both for my. if Slat", I ail its loveliness, sweetness and parity. and for the people of nv state ths protrestion that ia due ti and It ia a demand, and fits (Applause) "But," he proceeded , "it (Great applause on u!0 king no favors is not wise to permit our judgment to Democratic stile and in tue gallerl, .) be warped by public clamor, To do In the ease of Mr onnon. dcigt toft0 Forty-thir- d eottgrees, (who was sworn ia aed so amounts to condemnation without two-thir- b. ed aMK-e- trial. Mr. Richardson read from alleged Interviews with Mr. Palzell of Pennsylvania, Mr. Steele of Indiana and Mr. Cannon of Illinois, in which they were alleged to hava stated that Mr. Roberta waa entitled to take the oath upon tha tpriro facie evidence of bis Mr. Dalzell and Mr. credentials. Steele denied tbs interviews, Mr. Cannon asserted in his opinion that If charges of ineligibility were made (t was competent for tbs house to receive (hem now or hereaf arterwanl expelled! Hie house was dwlltqj a delegate from a territory, not the reprwa. tive of tee people of a aoterelgn stale. yet, air, notwIUiktatulin be waa hut a create,, of law, still they admitted him aa memfe,,, npoa ths Boos el' this feouMt. It ia to be m marked teat, strange to ay. the course of waa not disturbed Notwithstanding,, alleged polygamist a a permitted by .he of a Republican congress to remaiu up rle 0 floor of this hou it dig not tnaapiry. a- - It ts said it did transpire ia ancient Rome a nttl, ere tbe mighty Julius fell, The grate 4 hot tenaaUeea. Th sheeted dead did ,)t stand and gibber tn the street of Rome. Why air. tee tun waa hot darkened nor was tho mooa tamed to blood. Actually, air. tha m,a continued to fail upon tee and tha unjust m-'tt- , jt CONGRESSMAN-ELEC- T 11. rts) position, or tea spirit of the American people a righteous expression of their sentiment, justly founded, however much misdirected. He did not aay Mr Roberta waa guilty But he Indicted him upon hia own reponi-biUt- y. H. ROBERTS, OF UTAH. cohabitation. Affidavits and other paper tn my possess ion indicate that ever since then be ha been and is now a polygamist. At the conclusion of Mr. Taylor' remarks, Mr. McRae (Deun., Ark.) briefly expressed bia concurrence In tbe prm test of Mr. Taylor. If the charge! hanging over the bead of the representative-elect were true, he said, hit being sworn tn would be an assault upon every American home. If true, he said, M r, Roberta waa guilty of a violation of the tows of the United States and of Utah and the eharges should be Investigated. If they were proven, he said emphatically in conclusion, there should not be a vote in the house in favor of allowing him a seat in this body: tbe j am not unmindful of tee importance "ofr,tlil question the house is about to decide It is unusual but not nnprevee Mr. Tayler. dented We do not undertake to determine tee right ot th claimant 10 a seat, but only whether he ahall be halted at the bar of the house and await the administration of tie oath until tbe house ahull determine that right ' He ergued that in ease (loberts waa admitted to a seat. It might sot be pomdble to expel him, as In ths ease of Representative Mattjwn in congress A commttrte by aa the Forty-fift- h all but unanimous Voice reported that th hoove bad so power, meaa and low and vile as ths character of that man waa cibiblltd by hla Conduct before that time, loerpel him, because it had no right to expel a man for that whkh had occurred prior to hi election to eongrea "Mr. Speaker, we are told that this pill make llOBKBTi AKF.n TO STAND ASIDE. an unhappy precedent. Precedent Why. what Meantime Mr. Roberts had advanced we do here we do before th opoa and glaring eyes ot the world, and we are at ones drugged to the head of the aisle and stood there to the bar of history to answer for our deeds. ""In view of the objecWe are la no cloister court. We are no statute irresolutely. bound tribunal, Wa are the servants of tea tion," said the speaker, addressing him, "the gentleman will step aside. " people ; empowered, thank God. under the to do the right aa we see the right 1 do ao," replied Mr. Roberta, with The public eye ia oa ax, That la the law to u he Mderstend.ng that by my action that ure public ra,wbretoekvwr-f- v I waive none of my rights. presence gad before aoeh a judge we ran do no "None of the gentlemen's rights will (Applause oa the wrong R v but obey It. Reonbllcon aide ) bo lost," said tba speaker, and Mr. The vote waa the taken, first oa the substiitt to Roberts thereupon retired quietly to tute, which was detested The vota then recurred upon the adoption of There was no demonstration Mr. Tavlcr a reeoluiit a. the roll being railed his seat. either oa the floor or in the galleries. upon te demand of ths Republican. tbe Transvaal govern- A GRAND BLUFF. Araarleass With Only Fifty Man Caftan FUlpluo Army. Manila, Dec. 5. The capture by Lien-tena- nt Munro and fifty men of the Fourth cavalry of the Filipino general, Canon, with 890 men and officers, with rifles, several American and seventy Spanish prisoner at Bayombong, province of Nueva Viscaya, was a successful bluff. Lieutenant Mnnro tapped the rebel wire, telegraphed to Canon that be waa advancing with a large force, and demanded hla surrender. After negotiations, Canon consented to capitulate to a superior force, whereupon Lieutenant Munro telegraphed that Re would enter the town with a mall guard and receive the garrison mrrender. He captured thq whole Filipino force and secured their army, the rebels supposing Mnnro had an trmy behind him. - - The Btrlka at DlareondriLle. . Diamondville, Wyo. , Dec. 5. Serious trouble la anticipated between the non-iniand union' miners here. Th men walked out after being refused a 10 cent per ton Increase for miners and 15 cents and per day for the of Alfred Roberts, late member of the state legislature, nd William McAllister, president of the onion, who had been discharged and refused A numn ber of men attempted to go to work Saturday, bnt about 300 women," wives of tbe union men, eosgre-fOte- d at the entrance to the mine and refused to allow the men to go down. It is reported troop will be bronghtin to protect tbe n workmen. ACQUITTED OF MURDER. on non-min- ers non-noio- non-unio- Klsaoart Man No , ll. Moore, who claims to be a member of the Colorado volunteers who lately returned from the Philippines, waa found at the bhorl Llnq depot at Balt Lake with every indication of morphine poisoning. He waa taken to hospital and will recover. He waa without money and had been naked to leave hi boarding house because b cos Id not psy. A fund bat been raised to send him home as toon as he ia abla to travel, ' , William M. Roylaoec last week shipped a train of potatoes to tho northern market. The train waa u special and contained fifteen cars, loaded with 10,900 bushels of potatoes. The train was made up In Spanish Fork, Provo and Pleasant Grove. This I tbs first trainload of potatoes aver chipped put of the state. Every ear by ment. - He haa made repeated requests to be allowed to quit his post, but they have heretofore been refused. er "Id grand-childre- Washington, Dee. 5. The president baa designated Adelbert F. Hay topro-'-eee- d at once to South Africa as tho representative of the state department and take the place of Mr. M scrum, th present United States consul at Pretoria. The state department has yielded to Mr. Macrum's repeated appeals to be relieved, and he will not await tbe arrival of Mr. Hay before quitting hia post. Mr. Hay la the aoa of the secretary of state. Aa Mr. M scrum ha bead granted permission to leave Pretoria at once, tha affairs of th consul ate will4 in -- eoa-ced- ha-ca- beti, aalag w Hu. - AAteert F. Hay read. Very early in the day a monster ter. He then cited the case of Geo Q. Washington, Dee. 7. After aa itid to consist of seven million petition who was the Cannon, hour of three expelled after taking teresting debate names, protesting against the seating u house, by a vote of 303 to So, adopted the oath Mr. Roberta, waa brought into tbe f Mr took Roberts Mr. the floor iB hi tbs resolution offered by Tayler hall. It bad been collected by a New of Ohio for the appointment of a spe- own defenje after Mr. Richardson had York newspaper. It consisted of The moat intense interest cial committee to investigate the concluded rolls ot names each about two aa 11. was manifested be arose. Roberts, Members m charges against Brigham In feet encased itr the Ameridiameter, from crowded about but were compelled to "With the knowledge of tbe tbs Mormon representative-elec- t president? can flag. The rolls were stacked up to seats. G Mr return their roars Dor (Rep O ), quickly, amid The galleries added Utah. to tbe area to front of tha clerks desk laughter mi th Democrat! side Previously the house had rejected a were bushed. The occupants leaned someWhen and were viewed with great cariosity. men were applicants for federal offisubstitute resolution offered by Mr. over to listen, eager to let no word ces in Utah, reiterated llr Roberts, objec- Later, Major McDowell, clerk of the Mr. Roberts of leader first the ths Blchardson, sent to tbe tions were made and affidavits were tiled both minority, escape. bonse, ordered all except two of the to allow Mr. Roberts to be sworn la clerk's desk and had read hi naturali- with tbe president and the senate, bat roll taken out Into tbe lobby. the were made Jucase to appointments the and o send tbn whole sation papers. After the invocation tbe reading does not answer That obmy question, Ha then began to apeak. His voice served Mr Hopkins diciary committee by a vote of 59 to clerk began calling the roll and n min47. was soft and low, bnt hla enunciation i If the people of Utah were guilty of violatmay be accessary, ute later the buzz had recommenced, voted waa the Of who and in the thirty tha stillness could ing tbe compact with the union, what of tbe distinct, against A published roster of the Utah bata noisy background for the be heard to the farthest corner of tbe president who had appointed to positions in making teries with a view to religions rating, Tayler resolution, all were Democrat staccato voice of the clerk as he called men Utah with the same chargeable offense? Mr. California balL As he got Into bis argument bis Loud, a ebowe two Gentiles to one Mormon, the except two, The question of polygamy Is settled. I hold it ont the names. Republican, and Mr. Newlands, a Sil- voice grew loader until on several as an honor, that I will bo quoted king in Utah $31; Mortgeree being, Mr. Robert sat listening intently for ver lie from Nevada occasions It rang out until the fretted as one who helped to settle that questioa oa mons, lit. hla name, and when it was called he of floor tbe tbe Mr. constitutional of 1 term convention. the resolution, By th. ceilings overhead gave back the echo , The Bio Grande Western bee a corps responded "Here" In n loud voice. But am aot defending polygamy. It ia dead Roberta is do! only excluded from all ROBERTSS SPEECH. Mr Roberts concluded by thanking Mr Tayhe looked nervon and of engineers surveying la Garfield In the proceedings of I proceed to lha consideration of ths ebsr-- ler and tbe house for their participation indulgence. He was When tbe name of Brigham H. eouoty oa an extension toward lha iron ths house nntllthe committee that are euppoeed to justify what tbe report gives p round of applause ns he took his seat. and coal Held ia Iroa county and oa waa Roberta reached to tbe house roll from Ohio (Mr Taylor) himself and tbs bouse passes upon his case, TILT WITH GROSVENOR. to the coast. to he as unusual proceeding. tba Utah member-ele- ct call, The genproceeded Grosvenor I Mr In O halL seat denied a he the bat ) denounced Mr. (Hep., tleman from Ohio bases his charge upon s eourt An epidemic of scarlet fever has been Whether this will be statement concerning the appointment alone to the area In front of the interpreted to record! tost soma twelve years ago ia the Roberts' tbe president of polygamists In Utah as a speaker's desk, and awaited the adraging (a lha School for the Peal and deny him admission within the cham- utdat of our vconfllel Is the then Territory of by miserable subterfuge. 1 make the statement," ministration of the oath. Thera have been ber 'Blind at Ogden. Utah over the subjeet of polygamy that I plead- said pending the disposition of his ed he, sad 1 defy contradiction, that tha At the tame time Representative guilty to s charge of misdemeanor. eleven cases, and one death. Thera ess Is ef the United States never knowingly president yet to bo decided. The gentleman teems to be oblivions to tbe of Ohio secured recognition, and hava also been a number of typhoid The most remarkable feature of the fact that sines ths date of his eourt record upoa appointed a polygamist to office. As well might Taylor cue charge that th president bad plunged hia amid breathless interest protested fever cases. debat waa tba fact that Mr. Bobertaa this subject ws hare hsd two Presidential am' stainless hands in human blood aa to charge against the swearing in of Roberta, on nestle that been have to proclaimed Tbs smallpox altuatloa la Sanpete presentation of hia own aide of the applied that be appointed to publio office men guilty of the ground of hla being a polygamist mea disqualified by the Edmunds-Tuokact. the crime alleged against the scanty ia Improving, and the fear of ease, wbichjaated almost an hour, gentleman from and not a Tha gentlemen seems also to forget ths fact Utah properly naturalized Amerion the Republican (Great applause so absorbing that be won the that sinoe tbs eoa free loo of that misdemeanor the spread of tbs disease baa disapcan citizen. Mr. Taylor spoke ealmly tide) A schools of in of of of tho those the gal- o which he has referred, there was passed by I many peared. sympathy majority I reiterate it, said Mr Roband charged, and Mr. Roberta dispassionately. the county have resumed, after.havlng leries, and waa several times showered Congress aa enabling aot sutborixing th peo- erts, that mea appointed to office ia Utah were stood him and not of at State of form a th to Utah gazing ple intently government. bees closed two weeks. with applause. It was evident that That enabling act also bad s provision embod- charged before the president and the senate once moved a muscle the same misdemeanor of which it is throughout with the overwaa he house realised the that The wilt of lha late Auditor Swan of ied In it that qualified all eitixens within the Mr. Taylor said, am guilty. I protest. charged Salt Lake ha been declared invalid, whelmingly against him, and at timet limits of tbe territory to become eitixens of tbe ere they guilty:: Inquired Mr, DaireiL a so Mr. speaker, on my responUnited Stale, sod was parucuiarfy framed to because it boro no data nor acknowl- be spoke fiercely and defiantly It does not appear whether they were guilty," remove tbe and sibility aa a member of this house, and disabilities uswsred Mr. Roberts, disqualifications After the reading of the president's mentiontbe raising hia voice and because edgment. Iwhich hsd been crested by theEdmuuda-Tu- c ipecific, serious and apparlooking around the hall. "They were only name of hie last wife, and n friendly merasg Lad been concluded, as agreed ter law. as I am charged on the ently charged, charges of ineligi(Applause Mr. before laid house the The charge, which is supposed to go to the Tayler suit waa brought to Wve It set said. Upon, Democratic ride, in which many people in the bility arc made against him. A transof eligibility of tbe member from Utah Charles E. Kobe wed, n German, hit resolution to refer the Roberts question ptllerlee joined cript of the proceeding of court in M r. Rich- is made upon affidavit and other papers in bis cas to s bommltte. TAYLER CONCLUDES DEBATE, special erased by morphine and whisky, took Tbs gentleman from Ohio says Mr. Utah evidences the fact that he, claimpossession. Tayler concluded tbe debate. Mr. Robardson, Democratic leader, introduced that ever tines IfM I have been s possession of tho mailing room In tbn persistent erta, be raid, hsd exhibited a large waa in 1889 eonvlted or that he ant, incapacity offices of the Bio Grande Western at the resolution above referred to, to lawbreaker la tbe Htate at Utah. If that be n andi hia (Taylers) position, hi (Rob- - pleaded guilty of the crime of unlawful me Mr. Is waa let ask It administer the oath to not pun' that I why Roberts, true, Balt Lake last Friday, and amsahed tubed for lawbresklngf Certainly there was so all the furniture, throwing it out of bat it wm lost 47 to 5. Mr. Taylor then opened hts speech disposition aot toeieoute ths law on tbe part of tho people of Utah. Its administration was in the transom. Officer had to break a in favor of tba adoption of his resolo ths bands of of those jrke bad ... wduv and vantur him, although ha, fwwywpaarrtrttu men or my religious faith. no re.tsvt.ac when cornered. peak, Mr. Roberta left the test he AU the machinery of the law wss la the hands 1 A tomato can filled with layers of had been occupying and took a seat of Federal appointees. Bow la it then that could be an black and giant powder, with a dynalawbreaker cal near the main aisle where he conld yet ssespe theopes sad ofdefiant penalty tbs law? mite cep la one end, was taken from n hear with greater ease. Throughout And now aa to ths manner In which tine room of n Balt Lake lodging house Mr, Taylor's remarks he eat facing hla charges art made. It has been about trues which was recently occupied by two when be turned to his months sines they began, sines tbs represent-liv- e men who claimed to have found the accuser, except from Utah was heralded throughout ale desk to taka note of the point to land as a defiant lawbreaker. Asd yet I walked bomb oa the Bio Grande railway track which ha desired to reply, the street of belt Lake City ts opes day, near the Salt Lake depoL Mr. Tayler read a derision of ths assy reach of tbs law, and my faults lay oytn to the law if I were guilty of trsavgroMlsg Mrs. Mary Goff, a pioneer, died at her supreme court defining'polygamy, men were arrested before the court of home In East Jordan last week at the which stated Irrespective ef whether a Other Utah and were fined for the very oArise aladvanced age of 4 years. Her husband man had contracted a plural marriage leged against ms, sad yet no complaint ms and brother survive her, and aha also after tha passage of the Edmunds act, made against me. No, it did not suit the purleaves three sons, two daughters, forty-eve- n and irrespective of whether he had pose ot those who hsd this present sgitstissln to vindicate the law quietly, and fey fits since cohabited -- with' a plural wife be hand eighty-twnsusl methods. They desired particularly to was guilty of polygamy if be still have this esse upon which apparently and two to arouse making a total of 13fi maintained th relation of husband to the sentiment of the country. Not until my business Balled ms east did they more then one wife. deaoendeot. undertake to make any charges against we. to two the Referring proclamations But the moment, or shortly after my depart Captain Ilreretoo, late of the Twenty-feurt- h, of amnesty be argued that the claim- they began this agitation, resulting is the stationed at Fort Douglas, committed suicide at Bantu Tomas, Philip- ant wan ia no better position than be present sentiment of the country now around would have been had no proclamation sgslnet me. pine islands, laat Saturday, whila dethat ths members of Coagnsa But higher than the areI understand ranged. General Otis telegraphs he been issued. granted iertaln privileges while in sttesd-sncivil was law law a of civilisation first n so ifsated Insanity November 29. upoa this House. It would be Impesslfeie Be waa wounded at Ban Juan whila which demanded that one so tained to arrest say one of the members upoa fhe For supporting charge of a misdemeanor. And yet yoa weald leading the regiment up the hill after should be excluded. me er a law member waa answer- denyof the privilege of being sworn as sasm-btbe higher the fall of Colonel Llseum. a this Houie, upon the allegation aI thq able only to bis conscience, his coun- existence of ome charge or other that ' James In- CONSUL MACRUM RELIEVED. J- - ta-srf-y st Liberty Whs Ksssprd to ). Hsr-- W " - Sedalia, Mo., Dee. 4. J. H. Mw Manigal, charged with murder to tha first degree, in killing Captain Thomas C. Young of Lexington, Ma, in September, 189, has been acquitted. who is a youthful telegraph per tor, stabbed Youngduring aqnar-reYonng was a veteran of the civil war, and at the time wa attending a tonfederate reunion. For a time waa threatened with lynching by the old soldiers, snd later he attempted to commit suicide. Afrlcsndrrs Joining Bom. London, Dec. 5. Serious news comes frpm the northern sections of Capo Colony. Tbe whole border district between Colesburg and Burghersdorp has declared for the Boers. In Venter-ta- dt alone more than 2,000 have joined the rebellion. The framers have formed a commandeering committee and talk confidently of a triumphant march on Cape Town. General Bailer proclamation has been torn down, trampled upon pnd the loyalists bidden to hurry to Capetown to prepare eoffe for the rebels. L Dearamtie How Leader. Washington, Dee. 5. The Democrats of the house of representatives at' their caucus selected James D. Richardson of Tennessee as their candidate for speaker, after a spirited contest which lasted through six ballot. This carries with it the Democratic leadership on ths floor. Mr. Richardson haa served fourteen years ia tbs house, and ia tbs oldest Democratic member of th Reese la point of servlse azeept Mr. McRae of Arkansas. r- - h |