Show MB LINX arwe AMERICAN RICAN washington 25 the bill reported ported to the senate today to day by johnson from the select committee on the subject of pneumonia and other contagious diseases among am kos los n domestic animals was order ordered kon printed and re committed to the committee the bill provides pio plo vides for the 0 organization 2 animation aniza tion of a bureau of animal 1 industry in the department of agriculture it authorizes the commissioner missioner tir of agriculture to appoint a chief of this bureau who is to be a competent veterinary surgeon approved roved noved by the national board of of t health eaith and whose duty it will be to investigate and report the value and condition of c animals and also the cause of contagious diseases eg among them and to provide for the prevention and cure of the same the tim commissioner of agriculture is authorized by the bill to purchase and slaughter diseased animals I 1 provided ro aided vided the sum paid for them idail shall shail not exceed two thirds of the market value of healthy animals is appropriated to meet the expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of the act the home house committee on foreign afra afratis irs had another hearing this morning on the subject of the oce anie anle canal and the monroe doctrine and was addressed by S L phel phelps ps P a representative xe presen dative of the nicaraguan canal canar company the point of Phelps argument was the danger dangen to be apprehended the house judiciary committee today to day decided that the senate has a constitutional right to originate appropriation bills the committee tabled pounds bill for a six year presidential term justice justlee swayne has resigned the house rouse committee on territories tock action today to day upon delegate Ren kenneths bill to provide for a division of the territory of dakota and for the admission into tha the union of the southern portion as the state of dakota and voted to report the bill adversely to the house secretary sherman before the senate finance committee today to day tao athe position that the funding bill should be so amended as to make the 5 with interest at aj 3 ordess or jess at the discretion of the secretary of the treasury and thou thought ht treasury funding notes could be floated at 3 per percent cent without charge for redemption at any time after a hezir year from the issue NEW york 23 23 25 the times says the statement telegraphed from chicago of the intention of merchants of that city to establish a commercial telegraph line to new york has been received with great enthusiasm among members of the produce exchange and other down town merchants having business relations with the west it was stated that the projectors of the enterprise have had a line between chi cago and milwaukee running for sometime pasi past been doing business busine aether at the rate late of loe loc for nor ID 10 words I 1 members of the ney nev new york produce exchange siak say there thero will be no trouble in obtaining aa 1 needed in chicago without at eking for public subscription but hut that if this should not be so all the projectors have to do is to come to new york and they will be accommodated they can in any event be assured of receiving the full patronage of new york merchants NEWPORT ii I 1 25 A special schooner josaph joseph P La checa of portland me sails hene tonight to night with a mining expedition for river panama she is command ed jtb by y lie lle it 8 C payne united states toi tei navy the expedition aspro is provided with valuable charts many of which belong to government the capital of the company represented rep rented by bv exports experts on board is 13 1 3 every dollar of which has been taken up the stock is held by parties in new york maine virginia new hampshire and rhode island while it is a fact worthy of mention that nearly every officer of or the navy who has ever been on the river river holds certificates of stock the company s counsel in south america is is col eladeo teres ex governor of chico two tw bof of the directors of the company mr vm wm argent and wm T curtis both of portland me accompany the expedition the machinery for working the bed of the river was built at bristol and has been tested members of the expedition are young men merely graduates from leading colleges montreal papers are gratified to notice that the attention of american malt capitalists hits iq 14 being directed to canadian mining ente enterprises rises but cautions cautious them against tT the e wild cat nature of some canadian in wall street CHICAGO 25 the tho inter infer oceans oceana washington agton special says treasury records show that vanderbilt owns united states stated bonds the quarterly interest on which is other members of the family have more with a quarterly interest of louis mclane melane has bonds with a quarterly interest of J 0 flood b has hns as with a quarterly revenue from the iivo investment estment of and miss jennie flood his daughter still unmarried has in hi her name in bonds and quarterly pocket money of christine nilsson has in as of 1881 and in as of 1881 lotta the actress has in as and emma thursby has of as ST LOUIS 25 col coi H C nutt of chicago representative of the mexican central railway of which thomas nickerson of boston is president has returned from flom el paso on the rio grande whither he went to determine where the road ro adwill will cross bross that river this he decided and also secured over acres of land at ht el paso for the depot rt shops etc for the road col 12 nutt tt says the engineers are arc now in the field surveying the line to chihuahua thence to the city of mexico and south khouth of el paso will probably commence by april or as soon as the atchison Atch lson ison topeka and santa fe road reaches that point NEW NEAV YORK 2 26 A london dispatch teh at 2 pm says the house of ammons commons Is still sitting at one this afternoon discussion is practically confined to the irish members who are repeatedly called to order the debate is good humored however A deputy speaker has relieved the speaker gladstone entered reentered re the house at 20 minutes past 10 a m and was loudly cheered the chief secretary for ireland has been absent four hours during the night the conservative leaders are working by relays gladstone Gladston eq about one D p m declared he cannot accept compromise but if a vote is now taken on the main question the adjourned debate on corsters For bill could be resumed tomorrow to morrow today to day days s sitting having virtually gone repeated motions for adjournment were moved by the home rulers and were successfully resisted by the g government overn vern ment with the assistance of the ie conservatives which early in the ie morning was promised romi sed by sir stafford Nor northcote theote parnell arrived in the house shortly after 10 a m and was enthusiastically received by his supporters the speeches of the irish members were mostly brambl ing lug and uninteresting dawson liberal member for said forster was seeking to impose laws against which the country would rise en masse Glad stones speech in which he be declared he could noc accept a compromise corn promise was in re reply ply to a suggestion of parnell that a division might now nov be taken if government would agree to ta post pone debate on corsters For bill until thursday sir stafford nor Wor northcote theote intimated the readiness of the conservatives serva tives to continue the if necessary the house divided at 2 pm and Glad stones motion to give precedence to corsters For protection gill bill was carried to 33 and the house adjourned until thursday day the london bondon telegraph says gen grants article on the canal question attracts a great deal of attention CHICAGO 26 the tribune editorial says the officers of the construction st company of the american union telegraph company in their efforts at discrediting mr hatch have made some indiscreet admissions they have said for instance lie had a share in the construction st company that his profit on his hia investment could not be less than in other words the construction company paid divi dens amounting to per cent on its original capital in the course of one year of course all stock represented in the construction company pa ny had to be taken care of obby by the consolidation the proof of rufus hatchs hatcha knowledge of the intended deal is contained in a dispatch sent by him to J IK fisher of chicago as long ago as last October hi in which he be said there would be no permanent opposition of the telegraph compa ble ile hes nes and that the western union would absorb all the others FOREIGN LONDON LoN non jov ion lon 24 upon gladstone moving in the house of commons the tho giving precedence t Fo fone Fore forelegs raters legs bill for the protection of life and property in ireland E dwyer gray home rule ruler r hiemer member for carlow bounty county ros rose to a question of order saying the resolution was irregular the speaker ruled the resolution in order gladstone in moving the resolution said it would be in the least degree impracticable for government to bring forward the land bill with all its intricacies and details before they had dealt with the state of things now ex existing istine in ireland strongly appealing tor to the house to aid in the passage of the bills oconnor OC ennon ennor home ruler opposed the resolution finnigan liberal and advanced nationalist continued the discussion on Glad giad stones resolution and in the course of his speech was called to order four times for irrelevancy milbank liberal moved that finnigan be no more heard as as he had been called to order four times finnigan was proceeding to renew his observations when the he speaker said if finnigan disregards the authority of the chair I 1 know what course to tahe take finnegan then obeyed the ruling of or tb the e chair arthur oconnor home ruler moved as an amendment that the order of thedac the day be now read biggar home ruler having in several times keen heen been called to order a er for irrelevancy and having ignored the ruling of the chair the speaker named him as disregarding authority of the chair forster chief secretary for ireland mo moved that biggar be suspended from serving in the house for the remal remainder fiden fider of the days sitting the motion for the suspension of biggar was carried to 30 the speaker then summoned biggar to withdraw and the latter withdrew to the strangers gallery healy home member from Wex wexford tord ford moved an adjournment of the debate gladstone opposed the adjournment and the motion was to 35 dwyer gray hoie home ruler moved an adjournment of the house owing to the absence of biggar who he said was deeply interested in the debate this motion was to 34 25 judge fitzgerald in summing up was specially severe on the violence of the leading members and paid d agents ants of the land league if the f jury jurs ury urs he said found all the charges not made out it would be their duty to acquit the traver sers if on the other hand they found the charges brought home to one of the traver sers all according to law were equally guilty in connection with this point he be told the jury that it was for the court to lay down the law which if wrong could be amended amended elsewhere contended that the judge should not have mentioned this power of appeal to the jury J judge fitzgerald concluded his charge to the j jury ury at 1120 1220 1 1220 heark he asked the jury to perform their duty with courage springing from a desire to act conscientiously without fear or favor replying to counsel for the traver sers the jud judge ge said paid if his directions to the jury were w wrong rong in point of law he could be put night right byan by an appeal to the superior courts macdonough began bega g n his argument by quoting authorities parnell entered the court and was loudly cheered by the gallery great excitement cit ement in the court 6 p m the jury did nob not return into court until sent for by the judge at 5 the foreman then said they had not agreed nor were likely to agree dublin 25 the jury were discharged at 7 this evening the foreman stating that it was utterly impossible for then them the n to agree A juror had previously stated that they were ten to two but the judge said he could only receive a unanimous verdict great excitement prevailed and it t was heightened when the judge said that after the exhibition of today to dayan day in court he could not expect there would be a free and unanimous verdict Immense crowds prods were cheering outside the court house the torchlight procession with bands of music waited the return of ol 01 parnell from the court he left the city for london shortly after the conclusion af the trial As soon as the result of the state trial became known in dungarvan Dun garvan the town was brilliantly illuminated bands paraded the streets and am mention of the traver sers names was cheered and the surrounding hills were ablaze miles london 25 A dispatch from vienna to the times says that italy has proposed to the powers that greece be admitted to the now conference on the greek ques question tion ilon at the bon bop will meet in a week it is Js becoming apparent that the final compromise will be that turkey keeps jarina and Met zoVa while greece will gain with the strategic frontier the ste steamer anier anler state of indiana which arrived at glasgow today to day days from new york was in collision with and sank bank a steamer trading to spain in IA the river clyde the state of indiana received very little damage the remains of the late E A bo so them actor were burned buried today to day at southampton in accordance with his own request in the grave containing the remains of his sister bister mrs airs gwynne sothern had bad ordered that his funeral should be strictly private and nobody was invited the funeral party lef left t Sot heas hems ns late residence coi hoi london bondon idonat at six sue this morning aad arrived at southampton at 1130 sib fib private carriages foi fol following lowin g th the e hearse hearst con oon contained tain among others lyttleton sothern samuel sothern edwin booth dion boulicault Boucic ault sir john reid reidy edgar pemberton and robert wyndham A personal al friend read the burial service bolton 25 at a crowded meeting meting of operative cotton spinners spinner sj today it wa was resolved that the notice for an advance of wages be withdrawn until march A fore is averted A riot occurred today to day between the miners and the police at marsdale mer sdale and near one man was killed and many police and miners severely injured paris 25 the tho proprietors of the marbel Marsel daise laise have been condemned to pay a fine of 1000 francs in con tu macian for dedam defaming ing the army and eulogizing a regicide the manager of the same paper has been sentenced to two years imprisonment m and a fine of 2000 francs and general cousert has been sentenced to two years imprisonment and a fine of francs constantinople 25 the rowers powers are considering the following conditions relating to the approaching conference i here secrecy af deliberations exclusion from the conference of greek representative representatives Ei the porte to be called upon to indicate the frontier it would concede and the means it would adopt to assure the transfer greece is to be informed that turkey will no longer be e bound towards her if she declines the decision of the conference st petersburg 25 thornton english millionaire and owner of of one of the largest cloth tories in the world discharged 1500 weavers at a stroke and announces that his mill will be closed in a few days if trade does not improve other russian cotton mills are on short time or closing because of accumulations of stock and the slack trade the failure of last years harvest deprives peasants of 0 means to buy cotton goods |