Show MAJORITY REPORT The Senate Committee Deals With the Montana Election Matter IMPORTANT DECISION BY THE U C SUPREME COURT Land Grant Forfeitures lUndoms Sllrrr DIn Italian fount Arrested BT Telaeraph to the Scat 1 TiE MAJORITY REPORT The Mnlaus EIIa coo Sub mIlled bJ alr 101 WASIHSOTOK March 24Au briefly stated In our dispatches yesterday yes-terday the report of the majority of the Senate committee on privileges and elections upon lie Montana election case was submitted by Hoar The majority report at the outset gives the circumstances surrounding surround-ing the election of Sanders and rowels by the republican legislature legisla-ture and of Maglnnls and Clark by the court house legislature The majority think tho election held at Precinct 34 was In fact Irregular Ir-regular Illegal and fraudulent as Ieg appears from the records and from the undisputed facts furnished by Maginnls and Clark The whole history shows the malority say that the proceed ings at Precinct 34 had no raton whatever t the real will of tbe voters but was fictitious pretended tended aud without validity either In form or substance Three conclusions clusions arc < trawn by the committee from tha fact that the votes there w r all cast In alphabetical order I the onesldedness o lie result in that precinct ete Tbe majority further say thai the canvas of the vote of that precinct was not public within the meaning of the law thai fortyeight unnaturallztd aliens voted at Precinct 34 and 126 of ouch vot persons at Precinct 2t or more than enough to have changed tho result In all the disputed cases The majority In conclusion decline de-cline t entertain the proposition that because the governor failed to recognize the republican legislature legisla-ture i was not legally constituted a untenable They also declare there is no authority in Congress t remand lie matter back to lie rmol Ic t tl people peo-ple of Montana The conclusion reached is I that Sander and lower are entitled to the seats THE JlIiiOTITT report asserts that the true Legislature Legisla-ture of Montana was the Senate and House which met at the courthouse court-house in Helcnaand was recognized h r by the governor NeithertheHousu nor tho mem bets thereof which elected elect-ed Sanders and Power were ever recognized by the governor nor was their pretemied election Senators ever certified to by him The cvi denceproved ak that five persons who acted as members of hit Iron Hill convention were not elected ty l tho people of Silver Bow county whom they claimed to represent They only had exrtlficatra of dec ton The Jive members really elected by the pcope holding certificates certi-ficates also sat and voted in the Legislatureal the court house The United States Senate report on such a case before Skyes ye Sptn err f Assed over any tnt r question who ofcertiflrate and ascertained were actually elected The returns from tho county made b3 thu clerk on the 31st of October Oc-tober 1SS9 under the law and made by this canvassing board and clcik on the 7th November ISS9 both show very cleaily that the five persons who ACTED IS IRON HALJ as representatives were not elected by the pIle of Silver Bow County The Territorial board of canvassers on tho 4th of November lbS9Issued certificates t file penn not elected elect-ed by throwing out the veto of Precinct 34 which had given a large majority to the democratic candidates This oc of the board was done without any right or authority au-thority They bad full returns of the true vote of the county before them Being republicans and anxious to serMt their party nl in what they thought an emergency they refused to count nor canvass ot l vote of the hci1h0 > and certified to the election of five persons not chosen in the hope and with the exiectalion that these spurious representatives re-presentatives might in some way vote fur partlsansof their own political politi-cal faith as candidates fur the United States Senate The majority report is signed by all republican members of the committee and lie the democrats mILIeu tlO minority by tbo democratsTJIK TIlE SILVER JLL WASIIIMITOX March 4By not n-ot of seven t five the lou > committee com-mittee on coinage weIght and measures mea-sures today authorized Chairman Conger t report the Windom silver bill to the House with a number of amendments The first I t section a This section makes It the duty I of the ynk the Treasury lo refuse t receive deposits of silver when the I market price of silver shall exceed one dollar for 37125 grains pure silver The committee added prt following Provided that when the market priceof silver as determined in accordance with section 1 of this act Is one dollar for 37125 grains pure silver it shall be lawful fur the owner of silver sil-ver bullion t deposit the same at any coinage mint of the United States t L coined into standard silver dollars a provided for in the act JatuarylSlh 1SSO The next amendment strikes out section 6 which authorizes the Secretary Sec-retary to suspend temporarily the r ntnr llvrliiillnnkt anv tlmo when satisfied that through combinations com-binations or speculative manipulation lfo ion of the marketthe price of silver i arbitrary nominal or fictitious The next amondmcct is one proposed posed by the Secretary adding anew a-new section which provides fur stamping tho word foreign on resultant bars of all foreign silver bullion or coins t b rcmelted or refined finedThe The 10xt amendmeAts seton J which provides that nothing in teat te-at shall b construed t stRict the legal tender quality of tho standard silver dollar A minority report on the bill will rpr also 0 submitted TUB rnESIDEXT cent to the Senate the nomination ot Major Thaddeus 1 Stanton paymaster pay-master t b LieutenantColonel and Deputy PaymasterGeneral LAND OnT FOKTOTCKES The House committee on public lands after trying In vain for several sever-al months t secure an agreement land forfeiture upon the general lnd grant feiture bill this morning decided t shift the controversy to the House by reporting the two bills embodying embody-ing tbe plot a issue They a thn Payson bill which declares ten te-n of lands opposite uncompleted uncom-pleted portions I fo aided rallrcads I and the Stone bU which In addition addi-tion proposes that suit b brought against the railroad companies t recover all the lands opposite any constructed part of road not completed com-pleted within the time specified In tbe granting act Favorable reports were ordered upon the bills providing for the disposal dis-posal of Fort tills military reservation reserva-tion in Montana and abandoned military reservations in Wyoming under the homestead law A IBOCLASIATIOX The President ba issued a proclamation clamation warninir all rersons against entering the waters of Behr IngSea within the dominion of the United States 01 the purpose of animal killing teals or other fur bearing nDRILtAD RAIUtOAD UEC1S10X The United States Supreme Court today reverted tho decision of the Minnesota supreme court against certain railroad companies known a the Granger cases The Issue was certain rates prescribed by the State railroad commissioner which the railroad companies asserted were so low as to practically amount tolbe deprival of the company of its l property without due process of low I J Jew Blalcbford delivering the opinion of the court says it must accept lie construction put upon the State statute by the Minnesota Min-nesota supreme court when that court declared that I it Is the expressed Intention of the Legislature that the I rates fixed by the Railroad Commissioner Commis-sioner are nut simply advisory but final i and conclusive thai the law neither contemplates nor allow SOl issue made or an Inquiry had as t their equality or reasonableness In ft in other words although the railroad company is foiblddrn to establish rates not equal and reasonable reason-able lien I no power In the courts t stay the CoramissUner if he chooses t establlsh rates that are unequal nnd unreasonable The question of reasonableness of rates furtraiisportatio by a railroad company says the opinion Is emin ently a question I FOR JUDICIAL VTSnOATJOX requiringeiue process of law for its determination I a company k deprived de-prived of the lower of charging Je ionablo rates In the absence 01 investigation in-vestigation by judicial machinery it is deprived of the lawful u > of it property and thus in substance and effect of the property itself without due process of law and in violation l of the Constitution and while l other persons are permitted to receive ceive reasonable profits trans Invest ed capital thU company is denied equally the protection of the law Justice Miller concurred with some hesitation in the judgment of lie court He was of the opinion that the legislature cr the commissioner commis-sioner appointed by It had aright establish rate but where unjust rates were fixed tho parties aggrieved ag-grieved had a right t appeal to the courts The railroads should have a right to l heard and a the supreme court of Minnesota refused this the case in his opinionthould L reversed on the ground that this is denial of due process of law JLSTICE ISHAULKV for himself and JustIces Gray and Lamar delivered an oral dissent seemed to him that the decision of the CUlt practically overruled derision in either cases In which it had been held that the adjustment of rates was a legislative aud not a judicial prerogative The courts pretltn curs should never make Issue with the legislative department where it was possible to avoid It I might b asked if the public was not at the mercy of the legislature He answered an-swered yes there hod t boa final tribunal somewhere t decide every case The question A which was the proper final tribunal In lib fI opinion It was the legislature I He did not mean that there might not arise circumstances which would gIve the judicial power in the matter mat-ter but it was not so in this case Arreitnfaulalls suns PHILADELPHIA March 24 Count de Montercol married rich Miss Virginia Knox of Pi bur a rouple of years ago and took her to Italy In two months he treated her brutally because she did cot give him all her fortune and she left 1 dh 8lr him and returned here Ho followed fol-lowed her and has been living on Italian friends varying the monotony monot-ony by prosecuting his wife for alimony mony which she refused Today he stood on the street and distributed distribut-ed In which described his wife O a drunken and dissolute woman who would not allow him t get a divorce A large crowd collected and the count was arrested arrest-ed He will L tried tomorrow on a charge ments of circulating libelous stte Roy ant natelm WICHITA Kanta Mcrch 24 Two boys playing with matches on a farm north of here this morning started a disastrous prairie fire The wind was blowing a gale Tonight It wag learned that the fire was practically learned out after passing over abut fifty quirter sections of ground and destroylnga great quantity quan-tity of hay and grate The loss of stock I not severe I is understood tat the pecuniary loss I will reach That iDjnnellOD Halt i NEW YORK March 24The suit of the Metropolitan Exhibition Company apnimt John M Ward for an Injunction t restrain defendant defend-ant from playing bae ball for others was before Judge Lawrence in the Supreme Court today Decision was 1 reserved but the Judge intimated that he would follow the action of JUte OBrien In Chambers I b ing conceded that all tha testimony had OBrien been produced before Judge A New Iramlcranl Depot NEW YORK March 21The Con immigration committee givslonal Immlgmlan cmmIte after an Inspection of various afer Inpton rou paints returned t Washington tonight to-night Ellis Island is favored by lie committee fur an immigrant depot |