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Show lVikshlui(oa Advices. j Washington, 18. Resolution intro-iduccJintho intro-iduccJintho Hou- by Cox. t -day: I "Keaolved by the Senate ami Home jof Representatives in Congress assem-, assem-, bled, that the thar.ki of Cougrens am eminently ihie a'i l are herwhy ten den-d to Sir L-tmhton Lorraine, mm " mander ofthciirilNh jhip Any-.loi hi humane and i-eiuruiis interpo-ition at Santiago De Cimm, in irltretiie; liie lives ot the s rvivors ul the I " .. expedilioii. 'l ilt: Amerie ih pi ople recognize with admiration and -r..ii-tute his prompt and emphatic ad- i monition which t ended to arrest liie yronress nf llin huU-hury. and so lonv as heroism in defenfc oi humanity kJ 1 j deemed worthy of honor, tii name ofj 'the gallant ollieer oliuuld he eher-1 i.-hl." The House, lo-diiy, adoptl a ru-j solution instrui tiiiK the Commtfcv on i ( ivil Service itdorni U cniiiirc into I the expediency of providing fur the election of postmasters by tho people. peo-ple. Mayor Kramer, of Little Rink, telegraphed to Attorney General Williams, to-day, for aid in preserving preserv-ing thepeec in that city. The Attorney At-torney replied that tho Lnited States officers stationed there had been instructed in-structed to prevent bloodshed, and j asked tho Mayor if the people, of Arkansas haven't patriotism enough to it How the qucslioiiB at i :sue to he settled peacefully and lawfully, and not bring on tho S.'ate the disgrace und ruin of a civil war. i C. K. KvnnH. principal member of !tho Kvans1 Concrete Paving Company, Com-pany, testified before tho District Investigation, In-vestigation, to-day, that he done upward up-ward of a million dollars' worth of work in tho district and lost money by doing it, principally on uccount of having to take Ids pay in certificates which he had to submit to a heavy discount. Jfe got W. W. Warden to settle his aeeunt- with the Hoard of Public Work -i, because Warden claimed to have great influence with Magrudor and Governor Shepherd. Ho gave Warden a certain interest in the contract for his services. .( Warden appeared 1 and denied everything Kvans said. |