| Show i u it I 1 W iral iran TO tuf TUP desell DESERET NEy 8 1 t I 1 4 SENATE the tax bill came up when sherman stated that the finance committee had agreed to let all the income tax gabut go but as a substitute to retain the tax on gross e v receipts and on sugars as now the senate struck out all the income tax sections bherman sherman offered a new section to continue the tax on corporations and on the salaries of government officers during the year agreed to s an amendment to authorize the consolidation soli dation of collection districts was agreed to the tariff section being reached the amendment striking out the duty on all substitutes for coffee was agreed to the senate committees amendment to strike out that paragraph of the house bill classifying the duties on sugar was rejected 28 to 30 the pacific bill was resumed wil sons amendment for a uniform five feet gauge from marshall to san ban diego was adopted the amendment by stewart authorizing the southern pacific railroad of california to connect with the pacific branch roadways road was adopted also an amendment by sawyer ithac that all the iron and steel used shall be purchased in the United states the bill then passed and the atlantic and pacific bill was made the order for the morning hour of tuesday the atlantic and pacific railroad bill was considered as the business of the morning hour an amendment by harlan that neither the organized nor the present land grants shall apply to lands within the indian territory and requiring full compensation to the owners for bands ands taken from indians for depots etc was adopted twenty six against twenty cameron entered a motion to recon elder sider the vote on the texas pacific railroad bib bih so as to amend it by providing that the amount of foreign iron to be used should be limited to tons he asked present consideration but casserly objected the senate held a short executive session and coming out took up the tax bill the sections relative to sugar were struck out leaving the duty as at present the futy auty duty on spices was similarly treated some further amendments were adopted but without cont eluding the bill the senate adjourned camerons motion to reconsider the texas pacific bill was defeated 15 to 31 A bill to authorize the kansas pacific company to extend its railway and telegraph to el paso was considered a drake offered a substitute but the morning hour expiring the bill was laid over and the tax bill came up various amendments were made on the recommendation I 1 of the finance committee but the paragraph fixing the duty on bituminous coal at fifty cents per ton was rejected leaving the duty as it exists under the present law the present duty of per pound on opium was retained I 1 and that on smoking opium reduced to six dollars in the evening session the tariff bill was resumed and an amendment striking crude sulphur from the free list was defeated 2 to 24 amendments allowing the free importation for two years of machinery forteau for team towage on canals and for plowing the soil were agreed to the senate has confirmed benjamin pier pierrette rotte of california consul at bucharest an hour was spent on the san domingo treaty morrill of vermont speaking in opposition to some of the most earnest friends of the treaty seeing it cannot receive the requisite two thirds vote will make an effort to annex san domingo by a joint resolution as in the case of texas which will only require a majority of each house JN Wilbur hasteen has been instated reinstated re as indian agent at yokohama Yoko hamo washington territory to relieve lieutenant smith of the army MOUSE johnson introduced a bill to regulate the manufacture of brandy from grapes peaches and other fruit dividson introduced a bill to authorize the issue of four per cent bonds exchangeable for and convertible into legal tender notes at par referred to the ways and means committee beeves reeves offered a resolution directing the ways and means committee to report a bill forthwith reducing the duties on salt fifty per cent adopted the funding bill was made a special order for tomorrow to morrow i the senate amendments to the diplomatic appropriation bill were non con burred in anda and a committee of conference ordered I 1 the speaker presented a ei te telegram legrain announcing the death of earl clarendon butler reported adversely to ta the ie senate bill to change the judicial circuits tabled davis of new york asked leave to introduce a bill to punish crime and frauds at elections brooks objected the house in committee considered sundry items in the civil expense bills for the private claim of A P hopkins and others for indian services in california was struck truck 8 oat therom the committee rose without finishing the bill garfield reported from the committee of conference on the currency bill and said he would call it up tomorrow to morrow the committee agreed on the issue of forty five millions additional currency the of the three per cent and the redistribution of one hundred and twenty five millions currency and free banking on a gold reserve the death of hon david heaton member of the house from nort north h carolina was announced during recess tha tho civil service appropriation bill was variously amended by an increase of appropriations amounting to some 26 and passed X A substitute substitute for the senate bill to prevent the extermination of the fur far bear ing animals of alaska was passed to 37 finkelburg reported a bill allowing the transportation of imported articles on bond except wines distilled spirits and perishable or explosive articles from new york boston baltimore port huron and new orleans to any seaports or to portland buffalo chicago cincinnati st louis evansville and milwaukee which passed schenck reported from the ways and means committee a bill reducing the duty on salt to fifty per cent which on motion of hayes haves was by a vote of to 59 ref referred errek to a committee of the whole garfield called up the committee of conference report on the currency bill but the house without action thereon adjourned A large number of senate bills including an act of 1868 to protect the rights f actual settlers on public lands regulating the foreign and coasting trade on northern northeastern north eastern and northwestern north western frontiers instructing the president to negotiate with the indians on the umatilla reservation in oregon giving the consent of congress to the reception of stevens battery by the state of new now jersey to relinquish the interest of the united states in the san jose military reservation to the city and county of san francisco with an amendment extending it to the entire water front between saguna street and vanness avenue to amend the act of june 22 1860 to carry into effect the provisions ro visions of the treaties between the united united states and china japan biam siam ersia persia and other countries giving certain t judicial powers to ministers and C consuls and other functionaries function aries of the U united states in those countries to confirm the title of Ser valio vallo deceased to certain sections of acts passed by the territorial legislature of wyoming to create a port of delivery at cala for the relief of the inhabitants of salt lake city utah the conference report on the bill for the relief of certain officers in the navy which strikes out the second section of the bill which referred to retired officers was agreed to churchill reported from the committee on elections that SwIt zelar zelan is entitled to the seat now held by dyer of missouri cessna presented the views of the minority with opposite conclusions churchill gave notice that he would call it up on thursday week the conference report on the currency bill was discussed and a new committee ordered sargent from the committee on appropriations reported back drakes amendments to the indian tion bill with certain recommendations GENERAL washington the senate bill which passed the house to the extermination of the fur animals in alaska and leases the privilege for seal fishing to a company for twenty years on such terms as will give the government for that period a revenue of five millions the company is placed under heavy bonds and penalties for the fulfillment of its contract BALTIMORE the office of the maryland fire insurance company was rob bed today to day of xa U S and other bonds to the value of washington the conference committee on the currency bill have agreed on a report which they shall make the relie relle of tho the three per cent the distribution redistribution re of millions of existing national bank currency and free banking on a agold gold basis are the leading features of the report CHICAGO the thermometer today to day was 88 98 deg in the shade but it Is cooler tonight to night reports have been received of refreshing in almost every direction the tribunes 18 washington special says the pending chinese labor bill in congress is generally misunderstood it does not interfere with voluntary immigration or with their making contracts themselves to labor anywhere but simply alms aims to breau break breakup up the custom of importing chinese on three or four ye years a rs contract and then hiring them out to the best bidder by importers it is understood that the finance committee yesterday in considering the tax and tariff bill with a view of making up uhe the loss lose of revenue caused by striking out the income tax agreed to retain the tax an gross receipts which will yield something over six millions and also to retain the present duty on sugar which yields about eleven millions and which two things will well cover the deficit clinton J true consul at st thomas has been recalled re called the house committee on foreign affairs will submit to congress this week or next a proposition to sendan send bend an armed naval force to venezuela to enforce the claims of americans which were adjusted under a treaty by the mi mixed commission of 1866 but which that republic with great refuse to pay the committee after a full investigation ti tig tIon proposes that congress shall recognize the terms of said convention as final and conclusive and authorize the president to make a demand for their fulfillment and in case of another refusal to send a naval or military force to seize the custom house at caracas the times new york special says I 1 it has been ascertained from excellent authority that the reason why district attorney Pier rier points resignation as yet is not acted on by the senate is that grant intends to give him a seat in his cabinet when he is ready to reconstruct it this will be done when congress adjourns when there will be quite a change of front in the cuban business the president sees that he has gone gune too far against the popular current and be he is now anxious to go in strong for cuba he hopes resolutions will be passed when he will act upon them and institute religious policy and justify the hopes of all those in sympathy with the suffering isles cincinnati fred a german who has been in california the past four years leaving a wife here returned recently to try and induce her to go back with him which she was reluctant to do last night they were talking about it at the house of a friend when he sudden suddenly Iv drew a pistol and shot her in the breast inflicting a serious woun wound dhe he fired another shot through his own head he will probably die she may recover at a meeting of working men held last night called by the labor assembly resolutions were adopted condemning the importation of chinese labor and demanding the enforcement of laws for the suppression of the coolie trade NEW Y yore YORK ORIC the old hamilton market in south brooklyn used as a cholera hospital a few years since fell today to day crushing two children NEW yoke yore 27 the heralds Seral ds london special says great excitement prevails in madrid in consequence of the discovery of a plot to blow up the powder ow magazine of the fortress at gibraltar is supposed to be at the bottom of the conspiracy the ring leader has been arrested the worlds montreal special says a gre great at independence mass meeting took pla pia place pince ce at montreal saturday in the course of which a stirring speech was made by john young he said the time had come when canada should sever the connection with england and become independent at this announcement the greatest part of the vast assembly cheered lustily he said that any appeal to england for support in case of the invasion of dominion would be futile the present imperial administration had deserted her colonies and she had proved herself a stepmother to those who had fostered deep affection for her it was then a folly to think of anything but independence other speakers followed in the same strain and the meeting adjourned to tuesday an independence move may be regarded as fully started in the dominion A change in the weather took place last night after another hot day a strong breeze blew up and the mercury fell nearly twenty degrees the thermometer at 3 p pm m on sunday was marked at 95 in the shade shade at one this morning it was 65 at 8 am yesterday 82 the heat yesterday was excessive throughout the country A number of murders are reported as usual as having occurred in the city and suburbs yesterday the most extra ordinary of which was the fatal stabbing of a young frenchman named Jais sea sen by a jealous husband named edmund jaune he had suspected his wife of infidelity and at eight last evening meeting his supposed he plunged a knife into his neck mrs jaune was taken to the station house with her husband sike alke she denies the allegations against her fame ST louis advices advises from forb fort supply indian territory to june 12 say that a band of fifty to sixty indians attempted to run off a herd of working oxen belonging to the fort that day they were pursued by a company of cavalry and six of killed on the esth instant a hundred indians indiana attacked a train near buffalo Creek but were defeated by bodner with a troop of the loth cavalry and two killed and three wounded corporal freeman and private winchester were wounded twenty animals were killed BOSTON drapers hosiery factory in caulton was burned yesterday loss ices thirty thousand insured twenty READING BEADING PA the new and extensive sive car shops of the reading beading railroad company were burned this morning loss a hundred thousand NEW YORK franz francis B cutting died yesterday one hundred and seventy one bags of mail matter for san francisco arrived today to day per the city of pazos faris a large amount thereof Is bound for australia the steamer city of hartford was sunk in the connecticut river no loss of life the new building of the beethoven Maun echor was dedicated today to day mr bonaparte son on of the late baltimorean has arrived from france the bark saga from Quan taumo cuba lost the captain and rive five of the men from yellow fever A shock of earthquake it is reported was felt in this city and brooklyn yesterday morning it is reported that A C cornell will decline the assistant and will resign the duties of surveyor of the port to devote all his time to the western union telegraph company president orton having been ordered by physicians to retire from active work and to seek beek rest in the country the sales of ice on saturday amounted to 1800 tons A letter from Neu vietas says hat lat that a battalion from san quentin strong which went to attack the force that came out in the tho upton U was totally routed by the insurgents MEMPHIS harris bailey residing near somerville poisoned himself and three children on saturday by gi giving I 1 g them bed bug poison in mistake for whisky the children have all died he will probably recover washington the president hab haa withdrawn the nomination of cornell for assistant treasurer at new york the senate refused 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