Show BY TELEGRAPH IW JORTY FORTY FIFTH CONGRESS i SENATE washington 14 it was agreed to consider on friday next bills on the calendar not objected to butler submitted a resolution directing the secretary of the in tennor to inquire and report what 1 7 rill railroad road comp company anys individual or individuals are building a railroad neross across the public domain in arizona 1 l and by what authority thel road la Is being constructed agreed to ldavis west virginia called up the tho resolution submitted by y him early in jn the cession session to promote the agricultural interests of the country and made a speech upon the subject the vice president laid before the senate the proceedings of the convention held in chicago in november last for the promotion fotion of american commerce that part referring to commerce was referred to the committee on commer that part referring to to railroads to the committee commit teb on railroads the senate then resumed consideration erat lorf lort of u unfinished business being to amend the patent laws and matthews stated slated at length Ms his objections to the bill the amendment submitted by morgan several days ago providing that whenever the court shall be of the opinion that the suit of the plaintiff or of defendant was vexatious or ma 11 clous or the infringement was wilful thu the court may award against the party guilty of such vexatious or malicious conduct or said infringement such sum by counsel fees and expense of suit as it shall deem jual juat and reasonable agreed to the bill was then laid aside aa as unfinished business adjourned USE i washl washington NUTON 14 by a vote of yeas spas nays the geneva award bill was postponed and the hou house se went nt into committee of the whole on the bill for the payment of pensions to survivors of the mexican and other wara the house in a committee of the whole ii arva aiva p slon bill so aa as to include within its provisions all ail the survivors of the union army in the late war against the rebellion goode moved to embrace in the benefits of the bill officers and privates of the marine marlue service adopt ed offered an amendment granting pensions to soldiers soldiery who served 60 days in the military or naval service of the united states in the war of 61 for the suppression of the rebellion williams oregon moved an amendment so as to include vors vora of the oregon and washington t indian wars ware in 1865 and 1660 adopted on the standing vote pa onla oula amendment the ayes ayea lyvere I 1 svere 37 7 and nays 79 and anthe on the ja vote by tellers the amendment wm waa agreed to 96 to 88 s j hewitt of alabama moved tp strike strike out outs of the bill that portion gr granting antink pensions to survivors of the f indian wars and also alko the ame amendment just adopted on the m motion fotion of hia Sla nickson Burcha burchard burchand burc Buic bard hard pd offered as a substitute an amendment striking out of ohp ehfe f r first bret section everything but the d df z to the secretary Sedre segre tary of the in gerior to place on the pension rolls the names of surviving soldiers in cl eluding militia and volunteers of the military and naval servias of te ing any particular war hale offered an amendment to the substitute BO so as to leave in the section simply the dimen amend ameno amendment ment dment j I 1 list adopted in relation iou iod tar TIT war f Bd buchard chars charA accepted the amenda amends j ment and a vote ayote was wab then taken on the stubs auksi itie itte tule tale py tellers and ref bulted bulled 0 9 to 97 chairman eden edon cast his hia vote in the negative and the was defeated the committee without further action ercse roje the speaker announced the fai fal lowing appointments to fill vacancies in tnie trie committees on judiciary forney of alabama district of fofiu columbia abla townsend towns Towne end of illinois foreign affairs acklin militia young of louisiana expenditures tures in the war department bailey battey of new york expenditures expenditure in the department 7 of louisiana the comin ittes on appropriations was instructed to make an atlon to the widow of the late julian hartridge of tho amoun amount bat sat equal to the tho remal remainder uder of his ea lary as a mem member berot berof of the Forty fifth congress Cong rem rpM the house adjourned after making willis bill to restrict chinese immigration a special order orden for the dinst 0 AMERICAN nevy YORK 14 A k fire broke out about 10 this thia evening in the large building on the north side of grand street dx tending extending from broadway to street occupied on ou the lower floors by howard hanger banger cos cob notions store and upon the upper floor by naumburg co clothing dealers the entire building is in flames the fire ia Is burning fiercely and spreading rapidly and the whole block is in danger two other buildings are burning and aud fears are entertained that the flames will spread to the south side of grand street all available engines and firemen from harlem and brooklyn ate aye at work the pacific bank and levy bros brosl store are burning james H prentice owner of two of the large hat bat factories in brooklyn lynham has failed and today to day made an assignment liabilities seven hundred employed emp loyes ate thrown out of employment washington 14 the ways and means committee today to day authorized chairman wood to report to the house with favorable recommendation men dation the following rending pending measures A bill making united states notes receivable for duties lon Fon on imports A bill authorizing the secretary of the Tra treasury sury to exchange four per cent bonds of the united states forslin fon for six pereen per cent tat at the pleasure of the holders thereof and a bill providing for the remittance of the taxes on insolvent sav ing banks representative potter states th that at he hd could not yesterday introduce the resolution in the house asking authority to examine into the cipher dispatches and an appropriation to pay the expenses attending the proceedings because the business of the house was waa interrupt interrupted e d by representative schleicher y funeral nor can he offer the resolution until next monday as on oj a required and thia this could not bb be obtained aslie as he understood that gene tai ial al sal butler and perhaps others would object be he says ho he will therefore offer the resolution next monday for adoption under a sus of rules the vote by which the zhe housego day set aside the geneva award bill to give preference to the mexican war pension bill is very discouraging cou raging to friends of the former and is quite generally considered as indicative of its total debeal defeat representative mcmahon who has charge of 0 it thinks however that the fhe majority report reports which proposes to reter refer reer the whole subject to the courtot court of claims will be adopted with fryes amendment excluding the claims claim s of insurance companies from consideration the so called mexican pensions bill includes also all ail survivors of wars without the em I 1 no les ies creeks etc and survivors of the dis disturbances arces ances of 1835 whatever those these disturbances tur bances were was opposed b by y i many republicans today to day on the t he ground that the beneficiaries are principally ex confederates confederate a the greater part of bf the opposition arises however irani from tho the the consideration con pon that moot of 0 the arguments la iff behalf of this bill apply with increased force to all able bodied survivors of the war against the rebellion and to this by similar legislation would bankrupt the treasury the amendment making this provision was attached to tue the bill as the means tb to defeat it and will probably h hav hay ayo avo that effect willis of kentucky just before the adjournment of the house today presented the bill and accompanying report of the edu education catlen and labor committee concerning chinese immigration for printing and aud and also ulso obtained unanimous consent for the commit tee tc tee e to report back the bill on the lust for act action lonas ionas as the special order of that day this thia order of the house will almost certainly secure a vote upon the measure two weeks from today to day pacific coast delegation aided by members of the committee will however exert themselves to make assurance doubly sure by guarding against the possible displacement of this thit special al order by matters of higher p privilege lege such as unfinished business bustness doing going over auder operation of the previous question guestion etc speeches in advocacy of the bill will be prepared by general garfield gara Gard eld eid haskell of kansas morey of mississippi and others besides willis and several of the pacific cast coast representatives including horace davis relly kelly testified that thenamae the name of joll orin oria was forged by D P bian blan a clerk in the governors office none but the witness and blanchard wore were present at the time I 1 by cox did anybody approach you a as to the character of the evidence YOU should give before this committee AI A 1 was approached once by a gentleman gent gentle leman lemah man mab named maddux he was waa introduced to th me by colonel 0 GW W carter and said be he came from the committee he came to the place where I 1 was stopping and had adda a conversation with me the purport of which was that bobas ho was employed employ edby by high authority from this committee to ascertain what my testimony would be he offered edas as an inducement for too toe tu 1 to testify that no questions should be asked to injure me br any aby of my friends the object bf the committee was he said to make political capital for tilden and thurman NEW ORLEANS 14 the tho democratic members of the teller committee have complained that owing to indictments against certain witnesses the taking of testimony for their bide side would have to bo bu postponed irwin craigh of tho the new oceans rimes times rim tim and nimes T gordy sheriff of bt st mary parish testified regarding the newman an and the destruction of the election returns the testimony circumstantially goes to prove that the object of the destruction of the returns was to render the exercise of the appointing power of the governor necessary the object of attacking newman was to quiet him regarding the visit paid him a short time ago by wiley wilson who claimed the possession of the returns in aos aoa hands by virtue j of a telegram he professed to have from the state attorney general MAUCH CHUNK chuntz 14 when the governors reprieve arrived at the jail this morning a scene of in tense excitement occurred 3 but al va ft 4 41 wua L f t lwon gwon hanging a few moments there was wass no movement toward cutting them down the telegraph messenger reached the jail door before the drop fell but no heed was taken to his knocking and ringing the wife of one of the culprits having been previously extremely violent outside when the drop fell the knocking and ringing continued and the sheriff sent cent a nuan ruan out to arrest the parties whom he imagined to be creating the disturbance it was then found to be a telegraph messenger with a reprieve A brother of 0 mcdonald medo McDo who had been kneeling by the scaffold arose and excitedly charged the sheriff and by bystanders rs with the murder of his bis brother the excitement spread and the sheriff appealed to one of the priests who exonerated him from blame amidst this excitement and the reproaches reproach ea of the maddened brother of Alc mcdonald Danald and dud the walling wailing of the bereaved families outside 3 the culprits seem to have been for gotteland gott enand they remained hari harl hanging ging for 30 minutes after the drop fell there is no reasonable doubt however that they were both dead when the reprieve came came the bodies were cut down they were placed in coffins and given to their families whose cries could bo be heard beard for several blocks adding greatly SAN FRANCISCO 14 the giant powder works of band Baud Bandmann mantl manti nielsen co situate about half a mile southwest of the denGate Gol park blew up this afternoon four white men man and an unknown number of were killed the works were completely destroyed and many buildings hull kuli dings in the neighborhood occupied by employed emp loyes in eluding the superintendents resit rest dence deuce were wrecked the sion occurred in the nuro glycerine house bouse the nevada no gada vada legislature e al slature today to day elected john P jones united states senator by the following vote senate senates jones 19 Hillhou sei rei democrat 6 assembly jones 41 hillhouse 8 NEW 15 A at 2 this morning a number fiber of bremen firemen and nearly all tW the policemen on duty at the burning of brooks building broadway broad way and ind grand street have been withdrawn then only tile tho broadway wall and about 20 feet of the connecting wall on grand street were left standing dr nagle reports to the board of health that during the past week there have been in this city 64 54 deaths from is the highest weekly number reached from this disease in eight years thirty six of these deaths occurred in tenement houses resolutions were adopted yesterday by the board of health directing the secretary to forward to the different street railroad companies an ordinance prohibiting the carriage in cars of baskets or bun dies of soiled colled linen and directing the sanitary superintendent to cause the arrest of any conductor who may neglect to enforce the ordinance the collections for the poor yesterday were very yue sue successful the business districts did not yield BO much as was waa expect expected ed uptown n districts gave bountifully wagons came in at nightfall loaded down the c contributions were mostly clothing and groceries A paris special bays says A grai gral grand dinner and reception was wag given give last night at the united states legation in honor of grant macmahon also gives a grand dinner aud reception in his honor on thursday the world criticizes hart action sester yester yesterday dayas as follows there has been no visible reason why hartranft Hartra rift tift if ha he meant to act at all should not have looked into this case care impartially jong jong long ago and acted deliberately upon results of his bis quirles inquiries As things are be he behas has made himself liable to one of the gravest charges which can be brought against a public officer namely of trying to make political capital out of his function of pardoning we are quite aware of the gravity of this charge but buti what else can be said of a chief magistrate who allows a reprieve which he must have determined upon after considering the facts which had for weeks been before him to be delayed i until it is exactly a minute and a half too late the official explanation which la Is sent from harrisburg of the delay we are sorry is rather worse than no explanation at all gen bigel sigel met with a painful ac ll 11 P an bunday sunday near his residence 8 e nce nee at me ice lee and fell and broke his hia lez lee jim weene keene ke ene recently bought the three year old racer rilend nd thrift and his younger brother cerl ceri with which to start his stable report says it will be one of the greatest racing stables stabler in the coun try J cronin who suicide at stevens house left a lead pencil message to his brother timothy 60 south street thus bury me in the old clothes I 1 now nov have bave on this will be 8 sufficient u fl clent testimony regarding my death deah my son in lu ban san franciaco will settle my affairs by his bis side aide was a bottle df nt morphine his brother brothe rhad had not seen him for a week and knows nj na other cause for suicide than bodily suffering washington 15 A delegation of ladies from convention and the two ladies from utah who were atthe at 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