| Show by 3 y T telegraph e e fud ftp 6 V I 1 a P h congressional 1 1 1 C SENATE S sn ENATE N AV E 1 washington WASHING ION lon 5 it was finally L bg reed to dint print 1500 copies spencer introduced a bill to es a territory of the black hills and provide a temporary gov ern ment tabled until committees 7 were appointed f by bk a strict party vote of 39 to 22 jt was agreed to take up edmunds resolution ordering an inquiry into tha late elections in the southern states stales the resolution was modi bill ucil I 1 fied fled fied so as to extend the tho inquiry to tp f t the election of 1874 t the presidents message was then ihn referred as usual other amendments were jetted rejected anavie and first resolution authorizing thor izing a committee to inquire into the elections in south carolina georgia gla alabama mississippi clorida florida ll orida C and louisiana for 1874 1875 and 1876 was agreed to the tho second resolution zin zing zang 9 the employment of redla redda rafla grapheme krap herf hers etc was agreed to the third resolution ab sitione sit ions was also agreed to edmunds dm ads ald said aid t to oh morrow the le would ud move mo to consider the aslar jolar 0 tio count of tilo electoral vote reported by the niec election tion committee in may last merryman introduced a bill i changing the time of presidential elections and counting the vote ordered printed and referred to the election committee ait alt provides for t the h e bie ble electron c in Uc louer loLer er and ahe az mei mci aji I 1 g oe 61 tile tilo electoral idi idl fbI college gf fi I 1 rd oro q 6 tho standing committees s ile ime were and all te the bills billa AC e 1 presented fa ibl lif lis v withers called up ids resolution asking the Pres president lilen I 1 to explain the presence of sederal federal soldiers in petersburg lers burg m lay lay liy th thi purpose odthe abb resolution was waa to di halover ha cover whether the broo troops were a ere ero geisin seisin uli ulf unlawfully law fully Thurmam Thurman redd yead from the tho revised statutes to show estat burden of proof prof rested on the president as to the legality of bending sending the troop troops logan login log in asserted the entire legall legality ty of the lt proceeding and that the troop sin no wise interfered with vrej heel ee otton cllon 1 I pu an referred to the E english law a wa s W which of troops within a mile of any polling place on election day daye logan ridiculed this doctrine and held that the statute meant the troops should not mot be used for intimidation or on election day withers at the request Logan of modified his bis resolution making it a respectful request to the president to state whether the troops were stati stationed omd oRd laPeters in petersburg burk on election day and if so under what authority and for what Sar bar sargent keht in ja afa reply to the refer fene fenc I 1 th thurmand Thur il mans nans english law said tj tae tye jelece elections ions tons in england fum furn islieb na parallel to the elections in the sou southern states stites in tn england the rights of both sides sms were pro wro protected t cled th taip resolution was then agreed to tb f tho the chair pr presented anted the den don nand land accompanying ing docu and moved thabit that it 11 ve pr printed inie depts and hild laid on the table r 7 washington nuton NOTON 8 John johnston ar dr ari i gued that the senate and house ero were ere acting actina under the joint rules rulo every day the they could not transact business without them the authority to appoint conference committees came from tild the jein rules after further debate the question f lon ion and decision of the chair was sustained yer yeas aup y 4 washington nl A th T the house bill appropriating for defraying the expenses of the special committees investigating the southern elections election passed with an amendment men dment appropriating for similar expenses ats of tot the ele eie election e tian committee the tho reso of edmunds i bogy ft a report af pf the democratic committe comm itte itle 6 0 which attended the louisiana returning board canvass f objection being made to the printing on the ground that it was irregularly presented and did not come under the rules after debate it was decided that bogy stevenson alq and mcdonald McDo ad should pre prepare are a memorial embracing tile the pa paper er and it could be printed pointed withers 1 6 introduced hill forthe e relief of owners and purchasers of f J anu sold sola for foi liecbt taxes in ansur referred jtb the joint resolution proposing an to the constitution concerning abe ahe electoral count was read tead ea id D HOUSE washington 5 tiie 96 clerk dierk then road read the presidents Anes sage which with accompanying document documents ap were ordered print printed 0 d I 1 in pamphlet pamphlet form and referred ferre d to ril III the e committee of the waple on the state slate of the union the tie speaker anico announced u nedd need as a select committee 6 on n louisiana jenks mcmahon Md Mahon gydde rifle blackburn meade house phelps new ross noss townsend danford hurlbut 0 ills crapa and arid joy joyce e ou florida thompson debolt wailing walling hopkins garfield and dunnell on south carolina i cochran was appointed vicc vice ste aten nger jen ten excused washington 0 senator shermana mans mana report tw to the president debit defit on the louisiana affairs was reada read the speaker requesting such reading before the tho members vote on it if pending action wood woodburn burn was on the florida select edvice sice vice garfield excused hedded after discussion thaB headed abed that the members could be required to voto vote on this thia pa paper per b before being read as it was I 1 in tho the pa turbot ture of information and a stepto step steb tp wards correct legislation 1 the reading of Sherm shermana adds afiS report and others occupied nearly a an n hour wood expressed surprise at such a message from the r it t was ex extraordinary tra ordinary and unprecedented the president rit zit Ie spite his eight years experience had seen jr proper oper to bend send to the house this unauthorized authorized J co communication from froni person with no official position the presidents only motive must beto be to sugg suggest st atthe tb thab that the house had authority t to 6 institute a careful inquiry into the presidential election in liff advance of the regular presentation of the great subject he objected to the message me age as partisan his first impulse had been to move that the document bument do be jr turned returned to the president he hg now nl moved aved hat that it III bo be laid on the table with t the be accompanying documents hoar said his bis side bide desired to debate ite the subject but being ba table woods motion N was a adopted to 90 A party panty note vote V p telf tela dashington VAS HINGTON 7 ald aid A resolution J u elon offered by bj mccreary for fon ra ahe ap pol poi ofa h jo joint committee i in i n reference to the decision of the question of the presidential election was referred to the judiciary committee vat vla vaa washington II 11 the speaker announced ohp appointment of clymer to nili nill nil fill the vacancy in the committee on appropriations cauly cauty caused by andall randall JR retiring AMERICAN NEW ork 7 nearly all the journal concede that conkling h hasi gon gone cven to tilden the tribunes ls albany special says bays recent indications from democratic sources sour es s show h ow a almost conclusively th thae thac I 1 in the contest about labout t to D be wage waged d in congress over the presidential successor tilden will very stron g ald aid the from action tian of conkling vig the statement of west that conkling was preparing to de deal deai acwith with this subject has received additional significance froni front the theory developed today to day by a prominent member of the electoral college that the unexpectedly sharp tone of seymour ad dresson address on taking the chair is a preface faeo faco to a simlar argument to tb be made by conkling in the tho united states senate uthai herawi editorial aass gass the regular e ular PC certificates I 1 I 1 tes velch which will be he worded 0 6 pr president I 1 of t the he senate eha ehn ipa ter tes and authentic authenticated atef by tile the governors of tl the I 1 e several ev ml states stales give votes for rayes hayes s and wheeler and if A for tilden and hendricks on the face of the certificate certificates e r hayes is twe therefore reford elected we V e judge it possible that this result alu standa at all events eveitts the burden of proof la is now on the alde elde of ha democrats with the prima jade case against them but whatever may come afterward it is probable that mr hay hayes es will be the tho next president dion Boucic Boucle ault auit gives to the brooklyn sufferers A I 1 I 1 i her are ready lu give g i v e cf 6 4 awful caia cala mity which has belaf belat len leu the bf Brook brooklyn lyp and the consequent loss of itoe lire ad enough is known however to make it c certain ertain that the c catastrophe ta strophe ranks among the most f fatal fatai altal of the kird kaid ever re recorded cordea according to the statements cfall of all ali the parties who profess to know anything as to the origin of the fire it began on the stage the business manager says the piece of candiss canvass of which the treesa tree etc made was broken from its fasten fastenings ings and hung from the flies illes iw immediately mediately over one of the tho border lights near the centre 0 of f the stage the canvass had begun to moulder and the paint on it tip tp crackle and iud the carpenter w was as dire astrid as ts crid to 16 one of the groove grooves mid and remove the dangerous object merely reach i it alth with liis ilis handi handl and ile ilo ho lie drew it hA hastily Atily up the rapid motion through theair the air of the haip half ignited and a acl highly hig big aly canvass caused it to burst into a flame which rapidly spread to the adjoin ing material equally snede tible tibie all efforts to ext extinguish inguL hll nhe the names flames were abor abortive tive and the carpenter had to retire to save ills his ova own life thu the scene in the gallery after the alarm was raised is described as something horrible oven even to contemplate the description given by perso persons S W who ho wore in im the gt gallery illery ortho of the Brook brooklyn iya lyA the theatre atin at tha the time of ohp disaster is heartrending and horride alfred A jdnes jones gives the tho following account of the scene I 1 was wa a seated next to the front row bu but t seeing that something was wag wrong on the stage I 1 moved u up P ta the tho en trance franco of f the tier while my aba aback ck were heard and the mass of people in the gallery arose in wild confusion I 1 cannot describe the tho scene seene aa as it mas WAS they were climbing over the seats gripping pin goach geach each othen other bythe bytho by the tho clothe clothes 8 al and aud ad struggling frantically boget ahead bf tuf one another I 1 sw ONY one gue oue one man smash a j f in IL thOlf the faco face acID W wilo who llo would not yield to him hiff in the passage and a big powerful woman tore her way through and came toward me with scafe scarcely ely any clothes win fin her back I 1 and ald with blood streaming from her nostrils two decent looking boys got together in the front ro wandI rowand I 1 saw them clambering over oer the seats and squeezing quee zink their bodies through the crowd one of thern was thrown W n down and the eother other turned an and called bim him wildly by name I 1 got lown iown among the first that escaped and did not wait walt vya it to see bee what happened 5 A t tall tail li ii 11 stout man who said he was a tru gave a very viv vivid ld description of the scene when the uproar began he said I 1 was seated e d in the aisle about the middle of the gallery and three or four seats from the tho front I 1 never saw anything like it all the people in tiie the gallery seemed to be crowding one on top of another there were men there who seemed per ner perfectly feuly frantic the yells and shrieks I 1 shall iball nerver forget to my ding dying day my wife is down dowa stairs one mail man cried out let me ge get her out were ali all all ali safe if only only be or derly at the same time horev er he was making the most s strenuous efforts to get got through the throng the weakest went down one atter alter another and the tle strongest rushed recklessly over them I 1 i could actually hear bea r the bones cracking as the men jumped on the writhing struggling helpless mass beneath them hem the cries chatas that ascended amid the uproar were heartrending af my god have mercy ore ori on ma me one voice repeated several beveral times one man managed to crawl from a heap of prot prostrate rate rafe bod dodies oodles les ies but the struggling glink throng rushed again st him and he spun around ground toward me and anil fell aimo almo almos stAt tt my feet I 1 tried to lift ft him but ho he groaned once or twice and gave a few gasps and all was was over when eisaw T saw it was to be life ordean or leahi I 1 made for the door all lve ivo ive vve bee took place in a fe few fey seconds bul but there isa picture ip it m my Y mindi could not paint when I 1 got out I walked over ove r bodies three or four deep phillip manser dinnsen was among the veryla very tery last At to get got butof out of the gallery he gives the following account af f the daia dala calamity ity I 1 got in the front row near the stage I 1 saw the fire fr from t the h 0 very 1 fla fia A As I 1 looked up scotte to the g gallery a the scene was the esst terr terrific any anyone one could conceits conceive men and boys were vere tearing one over another and the shrieks eind find oaths aa were vere awful one man clambered upon the heap hoap and was spun round and round on the heads of tho iho throng and was flung with a crash crish I 1 could distinctly hear against the back of the gallery every one was for himself ano an men seemed to become w wild ild iid beasts they were thrusting and aad tearing karing jaring one another hands and aud worse than that as I 1 will tell you directly seats were piled plied with prostrate human beings and as success fut fui fat strugglers forced their way over the gasping forms that jayall around the others who had beert beeri crushed to insensibility fell as they lost the of the living there was nothing for it but for myself and ana some others who b had ad waited to walk over oven the plies piles of bf dead bodies on the he floo floor r they were slip slippery pery with I 1 bl bloods oioi hands and feet were protruded herband here hera and aud there which showed that life was still ja some of hemBy oft them by this time the smoke was behse nia nim vaa the rush and shouting from the lower part of the house were wire ter ler terrible I 1 nd and some others managed to get to the it airway stairway and arid we went down in a howl how I 1 could not tell you this that I 1 t llave bave been describing took tools place in less than two minutes one man who g got 0 t out in the crowd just before m me e showed me his arm which had been bitten almost to 0 o the agre A AL palmer one of the lessees lessels of the theatre gives thi the following state statement nt of tu the number of in the theatre on tuesday evl evi evening ening pers persons ons in the upper g gallery persons in the dress dresa circle persons in the pai quette 21 acors actors S speaking to 10 the people 20 mer aries arles 10 stage hands 12 musicians total 1018 or including dressers and other subordinates in a all ali 11 about 1050 persons pers pera ens A fault in the construction of the burnt build ing and one of which there ia Is reason to believe the dreadful loss of ilfe life in the gallery is in a large measure attributable was cheuse the use |
