Show BY TELEGRAPH eza 4 une rans AMERICAN NEW ANEW YORK yo 15 the graphics graphic washington correspondent says there is great diversity of opinion among lawyers ers era in congress as to the practical value of the edmunds polygamy bill haskell thinks there ia is substantial merit in it but many republican a it like ilke that it la Is doubtful if the edmund bill will in a the end be effectual it is feared that the mormons cormons will evade the object of the measures by electing a legislature of polygamist sympathizers even if actual poly ganiats be kept out Expression expressions sl of apprehension are heard also that there Is lack of provision for carrying it into effect and filling again certain of offices flees which it vacates under the ath section it a understood that the tha author of the bill mr edmunds apprehended some such defeet defect in the bill and intends to provide for it by supplemental legislation he stated to a brother senator today to day that he intended to introduce two other bills providing machinery for enforcing this bill if they met the approval of the senate he thought that all the defects will be obviated burrows barrows burro ws house bill has been reported favorably from the committee t and edmunds measures will probably be tacked on to it rather than to have two bills independent of each other edmunds is 19 understood to believe that less antagonism believe that less antagonism would be encountered by the measures separately or he would have simplified the original bill at any rate if the bill passed defective the spirit of congress is sueh such now W that it will in all probability be made effective before they are done with it FERGUS falig FALT Q minn minni minns 15 LA Stu bernd and farger donnon dodion were buff bumm located suffocated by gas in a well yesterday both have families one oile descended to help the th other but only shared his fate BEADING Pt 15 over cases of virulent smallpox small pox are developed in south sauth bethlehem since sunday the excitement is terrible the air Is thick with the fumes of tar 20 barrels are now burning there and there is strict quarantine thedis the ais dia ease is in the best portion of the town vaccination has been neglected there business is suspended cincinnati 15 the steam tow boat etna exploded her boilers this morning in the great kanawha one killed and several beveral wounded the steamed burned 16 15 michael me caffery formerly the inmate of an insane asylum killed his mother and wife on sunday night and tumbled the bodies into a cellar DENVER 15 ahe The Tribu tribunes nes leadville dispatch says sais says adolph ayson this morning re doted ted that his partner albero albert walter waiter VV after was accidentally killed at their mine mine near here last night investigation gives the affair the appearance of murder the men are said to have quarrelled quarrel led the night before the murdee murder and indications are that the former committed the deed by striking a blow on the head 15 news from the overflowed 4 ed districts continue to pour in the distress is terrible A steamer from tallahatchie and yazoo i having left tile the mouth of coldwater miles above vick vicksburg a on bunday sunday morning at daylight reports the water anere five feet higher than ever known and is still risi rial u ug gat at the rate of seven inches in twenty four hours the people along the tallahatchie and yazoo are living on the tops of their residences gin kin lofts in many pattie gattle water was up to the eves of the buildings horses andrules and mules will be pretty generally saved but the greater portion df of all the stock will be drowne J barges skiffs and other means of relief are being freely sent to the gusser sufferers ers ens at different points A very large amount of stock and matly many families arrived today from rhonl dun dlf lerent erent brent localities the li habitants of or delta louisiana are abandoning their homes as fast as they aan gan can ean be removed DALLAS texas 16 15 the city was thrown into greal excitement this afternoon by I 1 the announcement cement that ex mayor J M thurmond had been snot and killed in the county court loom by robt ba E colant a prominent lawyer thurmond was also niso a member of the legal profession and alid about the ibe most notor noton notorious lods character as lawyer and local politician i in the anti e entire re state A political quarrel was at the bottom of the affair but personal feelings caused the tho assault awault theeb the ex ezmay mayor may or of dallas texas who was killed by a man named cowa Cown Co wit fit yesterday was known throughout t colorado california montana andave and Texas xao kao he was driven from montana years ago by the vigilantes antea because he was a legal defender of road agents he was a native of Kentuck kentucky aged about 45 washington 16 L severi beveri petitions were received at the white house fbi for the pardon of sergeant mason one from chicago one from boston one from tennessee the remainder from ohio and other a states tates the impression is general mitigation of the sentence will be granted if not full fall pardon the report of the committee investigating vesti gating the tr treasury eaury is very voluminous and completely vindicates secretary bherman sherman Bb erman the committee Te recommend commend certain rafe safe puardy against the me illegal use of the treasury contingent funds in future the committee on post flees offices authorized zed ferry perry to report to the senate an amendment to the pos office appointment bill appropriating i per annu annum m to enable the postmaster general to pay for ocean mail service by american ships there is said tobe much tad feeling among certain democratic members at the selection of general rosecrans as chairman of the congressional gresE fonal campaign committee those who favored flowers say ay rosecrans Bose boge crans erans is too old and selection his puts the party on the defensive at once onee with reference to all of gar fields friends and to the anti catho no lie sentiment of the country senator fanley parley lias has declined service on OA the democratic congressional cam to 15 adjourned washington 16 willis willia was the first speaker on the ChIn chinese esta esla bill he 6 congratulated the ho hosts i ats of california and the people of the whole country that they were at last to receive substantial if ihnot not hot entire rell reli relief effrom from the evils of chinese immigration he hb had bad entered into an investigation of the chinese question with a mind prejudiced against prohibiting immigration 9 ration tation 1 of any people to this country but the evidence which he hd had bad examined had proved conclusively that the chinese were a disturbing element and an indigestible and destroying substance in the body politic the bill is warranted by aljy law by the instinct of self preservation and by the demands of honest patriotism it was not only legal and constitutional but right and expedient it might not have received the sanction of the pilgrims of plymouth rock but we of the present day with the memory of war and bloodshed in two race conflicts were not ready to invite another conflict which would be more fatal more insidious and more uncertain than either or both of the others cassidy of nevada admitted the gravity of the que question tion with which congress was confronted and also admitted that it was a departure in legislation norm horn the history and poll palan laign committee and senator grover bw haa been chosen in his place plade senator McPherson also aiso declined SPRiNG flem FIEM ills 16 the tho anti monopoly convention to ed a resolution reaffirming railroad legislation of lof illinois that corporations are subject to the control of the legislature that the railroad laws should be strictly enforced that the governor and warehouse commission should prosecute the almost constant violation of the laws that pass giving is indirect bribe bribery 71 and that no candidate would receive the support of this convention con for any onlee who will take such a bribe or will not favor a law to make the offering or taking of passes bribery and disqualifying from office that thai thia this convention select a state committee of one or more florn from each county to detect report and prosecute violations of railroad laws that this committee be recommended recommenced to proceed proceed against railroad companies ty by quo warranto carranto war wa wito fanto new york 16 dr green president of the telegraph co said to a reporter our statis tl ti cashow that in miles of wire miles of poles number of offices and number of oi messages sent the increase in ten years has been more than threefold the percentage of increase being in the number of messages on account of the large laige reduction in the rates the gross revenue has increased twofold from to in round lumbers numbers while the profits have increased from to a little over a year this growth has been steady there being more orless orleas or tess teas increase e every year 0 the preceding year and the tho presen rate of the increase of earnings is at tle rate of bf grass gross per annum the clearing houge house returns sor for the week show the following changes in business transact transactions ions fons as compared with wilh the corresponding week last list year new york has lost 8 6 per cent boston 21 21 2 new orleans 94 94 9 Loui Lous ville 59 59 and indian ludlan apolio 23 23 all others have gamed as follows philadelphia 7 8 chicago 15 6 st louis baltimore 43 43 4 3 san can francisco pittsburg milwaukee providence kanbar city cleveland hartford 26 new thew haven yil Tol emphis memphis 19 co columbus lumbus 17 worcester spring springfield fl eld eid igl igi lowell syracuse the exchanges for the week compare more favorably than those of recent weeks with corresponding transactions last year out side of new now york increase in aggregate 82 82 per cent against per cent for the previous weer and a decline appears at rt fewer places lae ea at new now york exceptional activity of speculation swelled exchanges ivicek was one of unusual activity ta m the stock market CHICAGO 16 te headquarters of the iroquois Iro tro quoi club in Ha verlys theatre building 6 presented an rn animated appearance yesterday yet erday the occasion heing betas the reception in this city by the club of a large number of distinguished democrats from outside the city eind and a celebration of or the day the anniversary of andrew jacksons s birthday byi means of a at the pal pai palmer mar means of a at the pal pai palmer mar banquet house in the afternoon the thearo iro tro quals u 0 ls club Is a newly organized I 1 I 1 oily otly 1 ly and comprises the best beat democrats in hi the city eity and this event is its first formal introduction to the at of the outside world the visitor tois s were escorted about the city during the day and an ali informal I 1 reception was vas held where political questions were avoided at eight a meeting was held and was addres addressed address bad sad sd by henry waterson mr waterson referred to the enormous development of bf the news and newspaper business and said the impetus of eur bur currency rency has been for 20 years upon the side of the republican press ress the democratic press is no longer longer I 1 a power in the land it is but a poor relation of the government sincere hopeful courageous but like libe the party divided irresolute and purposeless but there is a remedy for both party and press A L he press must realize there press A L he press must realize there has bas been leen been a deluge it must look forward and cease to think of revenge and redress it must be an organ of reform to be specific it must advocate a tariff for revenue revenuer obliteration of the navigation laws divorcement ment of civil service from party service but the key to all its reform is a tariff for revenue only waterson aid ald mid sid that protection like slavery slivery was doomed it is monstrous in every respect as slavery wag wab slavery 81 ave ry is I 1 gone thank god and there is an end of it but its history is full of instruction and warning this thib jobbery and robbery of protection is to a new slavery and the enemy of the chepes th epes pres but itis divided and occupies a false untenable position place theod the old oid democrat dem ocra ic flag ship in line bt bf battle clear the decks for action pitch the fools into the sea and send the isoif heads beads below and with freedoms signals signal flying at the masthead give her prayerfully confidently to the god of 0 storm the battle and the breese during the evening telegrams and let era were read from those invited but not present samuel J bilden sent the following letter reymon yonkers Yon teen keen N Y march 11 gentlemen I 1 have received your youn letter conveying to me we an invitation to attend a banquet of the iroquois club in chicago on the last the anniversary of ehe uhe the birth of andrew jackson Jack Bon son and to respond to the toast demoe democracy racy it will not be practicable fon foe me to be present pre sent bent with you on that oc easlon occasion but I 1 cordially in the homage which you promise pro pise to parthe memory orlof of that great f stated ninn he rt pr dented that at exultant ration rat ion jon a hy of sentiment which had always d the democracy and he manifested sted in a great pubic crisis his own inevitable determination to inai tuai omin the territorial integrity of our country and the ther indissoluble union of the jS tates states he likewise ilkew lihew ise lse represented the beneficent jeffaro philosophy Y which vw wai that nothing shall be done by the generl eri government which the local authorities are competent to do and nothing by any governmental power which individuals can do for them theol delves the great con cou contests tests of his arose out of hib his efforts to resist usurpation pation patton by con grea erea of the powers in derogation of the rights of localities and nd of individuals as well as of the constitution I 1 well remember that thab in the debate in 1832 on the veto of the bill to marter charter the theu rank bank of the tunit ed states mr webster We hster with all hia his eloquence denounced and deployed the spectacle of bf an executive disclaiming tho power dismantling the government of which he wart waft the head ohp overgrowth of jihu eq and arrogation of author authority ltv which now conceal as they have distor distorted tod our political system would haap seemed 50 years ago when the debate oc cued occurred as incredible to webster athey would be to jackcon Jack fon the government can never be restored and reformed except from the inside and by the active intelligent agency of the exe executive autive we must hope providence will f I 1 11 in its ita own good time lime raise up a man adapted and qualified quail nned for its wise execution your fellow citizen SAM J tilden senator bavard bent sent a strong states rights letter governor john M halmers palmers discussed the relations of state and the general governa government nt critic criticized criticised leed the policy of president arthur denounced the bill ret retiring liIng grant and legans educational rational cat lonal ional sl hill deplored the eclipse of the constitutional government and trusted the iroquois cub club would with words olno of no uncertain meaning the ancient democratic faith in the simple simpie rigid masculine P purry U i clity of the democratic party other letters were received from ex i benator fen ator mcdonald horatio seymour chour gen hancock 8 J 1 randall and a score naother of nf other prominent men including democratic senators omaira OMAHA IS 16 the abe grand jury reported an indictment for assault with intent intend to murde murder against president and committeeman shannon of the thie labor union they were arrested and |