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Show GENERAL SUBJECTS. The Senate's iTO&Tammr: Tersonal ItIiIIc The Imported Mqnor Bill, Etr. A VARIETY OF ITEMS FROM WASHINGTON. MUlIists JlrIn Uranlzln? a riot to llltno.e of tbe Itnsslau Czar. By Tdeirrsi.h to the I rn s 1 M.VATE AND IIOIM- A Qnesllon of rerson.I rrllllrce. -Tbe IniMrtrd Liquor Bill, Tie. 'A-ni:aTo:, May 0-Iu the Senate, Stewart, rising to a question of personal ririvilegt;, liaj lesd an article from a local P-x-r containing a statement of Major 1'owcJl, tllrro tor or the Geological Surrey, In relerence to Stew-art's recuit resolution, resolu-tion, in uliich rjne'I Fe of tile movement as insllgstej ty lattl sliar-sautleptrulators for tbo j-ur-poseof "gobbling up Irrigable IsnJs and establishing a port of hyilr-vulic feudal system." Stetrnrt sketched an outline of n bat had been done In the work of stimulating Irrigation Irriga-tion In the far West recently, and ttiu appropriations. Ton ell, be said, bad useJ more than half of the niiproprialiou in vast and expensive surveys of no practical use for tho object in view, and irtimated that Io ell had enormous enor-mous ir In both houses from IiIh giving employment to a lot ol young men, sons and relations of members of Congress and that he kept an enormous lobby in Washington to control the action of Congreps. The Bureau of Ueolog and Mineralogy Miner-alogy was nothing, bteivart said, but a mass of humbug and fooIL-h-ness. Teller Introduced a Joint resolution, resolu-tion, sitting forth that It Is thodu-termlned thodu-termlned policy of the United states government to ums both gold and silver as a full legal tender money under the ratio now existing in the United btatt, or which may hereafUr bu f-labhslml by the United b tales alone, or ailing in accord ac-cord witlt othir nation. 1iid on the table and ordtred printed. THE lalPORTLO LIQlOIt HILL was then talveu up, the question being be-ing on the follow ing substitute offered of-fered by (Jray to the sultituto from the judiciary committee: "That fermented, distilled or oilier Intoxicating In-toxicating liquors transferred as an article of commerce, or brought into in-to auy btataor Territory from a wlnt or place outside Mich fatate or Territory for use, conumjtioii or sale therein, should not be exeint t norshsll the ownir or tieron in possession thereof lie exempt from the operation of the liquor regulations, regula-tions, police or taxing po tr of such State or Territory affecting or a plicable to all other like property by reasonof such liquors being in the original package of importation or transportailon as subjects of InUr-State InUr-State or foreign comnxree." Graj 'e amendment was agreed to yeas 26, nayst). Vest moved an amendment to the substitute by making it apply to fresh beef, veal, mutton, Iamb and pork, and argued that if the bill u as to beccme a Ian It should not be confined to Intoxicating liquor. This wis the first timo he knew of the Supreme Court having suggett-ed suggett-ed remedies. The propened law would produce chaos, but if ho were wrong in his sitIou and the friends of the biH wen: right, then he wanted to give the cattle ralstrs of tho west tbe some privilegts granted the Iowa legislature in regard to the exclusion of alcoholic stimulants. He served on theSen-ate theSen-ate committee In relation to the betf business and found an .tLirni-Ing .tLirni-Ing state of things in tile Inspection of beef cattle. The vote on Vest's amendment was, yeas 3, nays 3, the j eas being Call, Morgan, l'aj ne, Stewart and Vest. WIL-on (Iowa) offered a substitute for Gray's amindment, providing that liquors transported Into any State or Territory for use, consumption, consump-tion, sale or storage shall, on their arrival, be subject to the ojieration and eflect of the law of such State or Territory enacted in tho exenise of its police power, and should not lie exempt therefrom by reason of their being inclosed In original packages. Wilson's substitute was adopted 23 to 20. The bill was passed 31 to 10. Yooriiec- moved to amend the title by making it read, "A bill to overrule the decision of the Supnme Court of the United States in its In-tirpretatlonand In-tirpretatlonand construction of the Constitution on the sulject of commerce com-merce between the several States, and thenby relieve the State of Iowa from the consequences of her own mi-gulJeU Itgislatlon." He-Jectcd. He-Jectcd. The title was then amended on motion of Wilson (Iowa) to read: "A bill to limit the effect of regulations regula-tions of commerce between the several sev-eral States, and with foreign countries coun-tries In certain cases." Senate adjourned until Monday. Ilotlse. Washinctov, May 30. The committee on lubllc lands reported baik to the i-cnatu the bill, with amendments, for a general forfeiture of land grants. Ordered recommitted. recommit-ted. Tlie House went into committee of the whole on public building bills. Tho following public building build-ing bills were laid aside favorably: Stockton, Cal., $75,000: rueblo. Colo., $150,000: Portland, Or., $100,-000. $100,-000. There wis a lively tilt on the question of public building bills, hroueht out by tbe bill f r a public biiildincat liar Harbor, Maine, $75,-000. $75,-000. Mills asked what the direction of the committee was, aud Mlllikiu rcthed that two republican bills would be called up and then one democratic bllL The committee finally rose, the agricultural bill was rejmrted, and the House adjourned until Monday. The President arrive. CLEVELAND, May 2). President Hariin arrived this afternoon and was received with a salute of twenty-one guns. The city Is handsomely hand-somely decorated, and thousands of people are In the slrcits. The first city troop cf horse escorted Uie President Pres-ident to the residence of Dan 1'. Fells, the Vice-President and Cabinet Cab-inet going to other private houses. hous-es. An enormous crowd was at the depot and followed tho arty through the streets to their destination. The euthuslasm was intense, the shouting shout-ing iomitlme even drowning out the noise of the guns from tho men-of-war firing a iTesIdintial salute. sa-lute. The first pirson to greet President Harrison at thedepot was ex-President Hayes. After the President Presi-dent stopped at Mr. Fell's house, others of the party from Washing, ton were escorted to the different rrsldenci-i at which they will stop l'lotllnc Ac-lost IbeCaar. Paris, May 29 The police here hae received information that a number of nihilists wcreorgani-ing a I'l'it against the Czar. The Information Infor-mation was folio ared up and the result, re-sult, vera that fifteen irsous charged with being implicated iu the plot w ere arnsted today. A number of incriminating documents were seized at the lodgings of the leader In the plot, a nihilist named Mendel-sohu. Mendel-sohu. A number of explosives were also secured. A number of .other nihilists were arrested this afernoon. Among the explosives seized at the lodgings of Medelsohn were a number of finished fin-ished lambs. Material for tho manufacture man-ufacture of explosives were seized at the lodgings. A number of other I persons e arrested. |