Show SENATE 1MIOCEED1 The Blair Educational nIIIDe preulon Intcrlcullnre WASIUNOTOX Jan 21In the Senate Blair presented a memorial from tho board of missions of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church doJt Amelia In favor of the Blair Educational bill I stud asktd to have It printed In the llecord liar risen objected Blair also presented numerous other memorials of the came character char-acter all r which wefo laid on the table The bill adversely reported January Janu-ary locn irons the census commlttoo to ascertain what percentage of peaple own their own farms tile number of farms under mortgage and tlie amount thereof was taken him the calendar J la order to SIre ik t rtil lr Berry who introduced the bill at opportunity to state the grounds of hu opposition to the report and why he1 L 1t fo the hill should bo posted Pratt referring to the statement aJeJyBerry as to eastern manufacturers it rn tt facturers loaning money to western and southern farmers at large rates of interest took occasion to say that the idea that eastern manufacturer < had accumulated large preSto and were loanfc money to dinners was an entire mbtake Berry varied fcomevhat his orlgi ial statement ant raid that trust companies and corporations In New YortarTd New England had representatives repre-sentatives in nil the southern and western elates trying to loan money to farmers 0 FAUSt JiOnTOAGES Hair chairman of the census comaittee stated there vta no ho tUKy on the part of thB committee to the propcscd inquiry but in every suggestion to enlarge the scope of ho census committee was con rrouted with Uie danger of putting f Jlrd aDnsgoc oc in such new wore as would delay tbo census and Instead of the census cen-sus being a clear distinct nnd swiftlytaken one it would run over years and years and the committee was dtsirious to prevent but Hale stated that a great and valuable body of substantial information on the suliject was now being obtained by the superintendent of census Reagan argued In favor of the billVest Vest fpoke of theabnormal depression depres-sion of the agricultural interests of I tho country evidenced by tile fact that corn bringing now to Its pro ducers in Jlksourl and Kansas only from thirteen to fourteen cents per bushel and wheat from forty to fifty cents while coal cost them twenty nine cents ice bushel The farming community had a conviction that legislation waj largely reeponMble for the existing depression lie was authorized to make a statement that the superintendent had written a letter to his colleague Cockrell that Till CENSes SUPERVISORS would belong to the Republican party and that preference would be gIven them In every Instance Un del that state of the case who could blame him if he asked that Congress should make it mandatory on the superintendent to give the information informa-tion whlfth the bill required He was not willing to trust to the discretion dis-cretion justice of the nuperintend ent of census a duty which ought to n I aol Innl r njouuooer said lie believed Porter eminently adapted for the discharge of the duties of his position lie went on to argue that mortgages were not always signals of distress They often indicated energy and vigor and ambition and desire to obtain more property Finallyafter further dbcusfiou the bill went over without action till tomorrow The Senate then passed the Senate bill granting to tile State of Call fornia per cent of hoe net proceeds of the r sales Zft public lands in that State The Senate Joint resolution granting grant-ing for tile removal of the Apache Indians and thiir families from Alabama to Fort Sill Indian Territory was iiatwl After executive sessionthe Senate adjourned luan WASHINGTON Jan 21 A lengthy dbcujlon as to the duty of the Speaker to appoint tellers when the yeas and nays were demanded consumed agrcat portion of the time in the House The Speaker ruled that under general parliamentary law it was not imperative upon him 10 appoInt tellers Bland appealed from this ruling and tile chair was sustained by the House Grain of Texas ofTered a resolution resolu-tion directing the committed one judiciary to on-e within a week whether I the late sorgrantatarms was a disbursing officer and if F to report a bill providing for the payment members salaries I Referred Re-ferred Bills introduced and referred By Funston of laD for the creation of an agricultural commission com-mission investigate the causes of the present depressed condition of the agricultural interests By Borsey of Nebraska authorizing authoriz-ing the Secttary of the Treasury t reduce the reserve fund to 00 000 and apply the other 00 to the payment of tile public debt The House then resumed in com mittfe of the whole the Oklahoma townsite bill but n progress was made and the committee rg Adjourned NellIe lllj Btlnrn SAN FKACISCO Jan lThe steamer Oceania with MLs Nellie Ely among the passenger arrived here at 930 this morning Mlo fly was taken off by n tug as soon D the steamer entered the harbor and was taken at once to Oakland where she boarded a special tin which was In waiting and started on her overland Journey via Southern Pacific and Atlantic ot Pacific routes F B Sempla passenger agent of tile Union Pacific at midnight tonight to-night received a telegram from General Passenger Agent lx > max at Omaha that Nellie Bly would arrive ar-rive at Trinidad Thursday morning where she would take a epecial train on the Union Pacific for Council Bluffs via Denver At the BlufT she will take the Northwestern for Chicago At the latter place she will be turned over to the Michigan Central for New York ThUchango in bringing her via Denver Instead In-stead of going east on the Santa Fe from ten hours Trinidad will delay her about Xatlooal ll fannvr CHICAGO Jan 21Undcr the authority given at the ° National Reform conference < November a call was issued today for a union organizing convention of reformers I from all rC to be held In St Louis September SaL Tho purpose stated In the cj Ji to appoint national exerutive ccLmittte whose duty it shall be to place in the field in 1S92 a reform J > arty In all the states and territories The idea Ito I-to bring about possible a pooling of issues by the prohibitionists Union Labor Greenbackers Knights ef labor Farmer Alli ante and Industrial union organizations organiza-tions The committee suirgests the placing of a plank inthe party platform plat-form favoring provision rrty law under which peoplo may vote periodically upon doctrines and policies without the intervention of parties or candidates the results of these elections to be considered as instructions to the legislative icr vanU of the people I |