| Show telegraphic NEWS washington july 23 the senate committee to which was referred the reports of the ahe railroad Eail road commissioners ners had a short meeting this morning but did nothing except to order the printing of certa certain papers it adjourned to next friday coen the question whether or no thy the Oiw waite bill shall be reported and pressed to passage e in the senate in advance of action by the house will be considered THE TELEGRAPH LINES the house conferees on the auder ander son bill requiring the pacific railroads railroad to maintain and operate their own telegraph evgraph agreed to the senate amendments amendment 4 these eliminate the requirements quire ments that the road shall construct the lines and leave the manner of acquirement open to the discretion of the companies THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY the interstate inter state commerce commission today decided in effect that the methods by which the Stin standard dard oil company came to be such a gigantic monopoly in must cease to be used the decision is in the case of schofield Shur meir teagle and others against the lake shore michigan southern railroad involving oil rates trofa cleveland to other cities the commission decided that it is an unlawful preference when a railroad makes a rate in favor of oil shipments in tank car lots as against a shipment in barrels in car load lots the practice is ordered to be corrected and the mode prescribed r bed by which this must be done FI Is by giving the same rates on each per pound the opinion is by commissioner bragg ACTS APPROVED APPROVE the president today approved the act for the relief of general Ci merett and the act in regard to the funded debt of et the territory of new mexico senator allison of iowa has submitted in the senate the majority report ort of the judiciary committee on the jackson mississippi ELECTION RIOT it says there was a suppression of the votes ot of the colored citizen at the recent municipal election in jackson mississippi th the suppression u P PrIes sion was not partial but total ro no martial co colored lored citizen vote voted at said election th the c report recites the story of the suppression of the colored vote and finds that tile the resolution of the colored men to abstain from voting was due to the terrorism inspired by the actions ottic white leacue and of the committee appointed by it the testimony taken shows chows that samuel deputy united states marshal IL E E wilson deputy collector of internal revenue and two other persona engaged in the civil service of the united states were active participants in the proceedings which resulted in the suppression of votes the committee further submits a resolution tor for adoption condemning the conduct of the united states officers mentioned and expressing the opinion 1 1 that they should be dismissed from the public service THE BONDS bond offerings today acceptances cep TO TAX TRUSTS springer introduced in the house a bill providing that in addition to the taxes already imposed upon any product manufactured by trusts there shall be imposed an internal revenue tax of 40 per cent and that no drawback shall be allowed on such goo goods ds 1 when exported TOPEKA kan july 23 ex editor moore failed to appear today to answer the charge of adultery a dul tery his bonds of were forfeited mrs kortens nortons Kor Nor tons case was con continued linued a fortnight their lawyers gave no whereabouts of either of the ohp couple A telegram from idaho springs a watering water place 30 miles west of here says editor ator moore and mrs norton of st louis of I 1 elopement elop ment fame arrived here saturday morning and are living at one of the summer hotels as man and wife an effort to interview moore proved fruitless LONDON july 23 in the commons today smith moved the second reading of the bill dealing with the charges ana and allegations against members of I 1 parliament arlia he said the government offered the commission of inquiry upon precedents it rested with the house to B say my how bow complete the power of the commission om mission should be sir james hannon hannan would be president and justices day and smith would bowd be members of the commission parnell said it seemed smith had a friendly bint from counsel tor for the times in consequence of which the inquiry i was to be extended not only into the personal conduct but into the acts of the league in america ireland and great britain it was evident the case as is regards the forged letters was going to break down he demanded the government limit the scope odthe commission to what smith originally proposed namely the charges es against himself and other irish members the allegations against the leadie could riot not come before the commission as affecting him they were the most cruel and infamous charges ever made against a public man he could demonstrate gu on strate that the letters were forgeries he admitted he had had communication muni cation with john devoy but these communications were solely in regard to political matters and were open to the fullest setti scrutiny tiny he also admitted making a speech at ennis in n favor of boycotting he believed boycotting did good then but had bad ceased to advocate it after the passage of the arrears bill in 1882 to make the inquiry judicial judie ial the government ought definitely to specify tie the charges and also to provide for a scrutiny of the documents upon which the charges were based it t was of vital importance to the irish members to see those papers before the commission began to sit here was an expectant pause durins which cries were heard for the ataw actor ney general no member of the government re spondee spon ded gladstone expressed surprise that the government did not answer parnell and declared there must bean be an answer he was not prepared to give that unqualified confidence in the commission which smith appeared to entertain it was in the power of the government to make a selection which would have commanded warm acclamation from everybody the government ought to make definite affini te charges against definite persons there ought to be no skulking the letters were really the only new charges and parnell must have an opportunity to examine them in order to face the accusations cusat ions A more deplorable error was never made than when the actor ney general undertook to conduct the case of the times unless Par nells conditions were conceded the country would be driven to the conc conclusion lasion that the proposals were made to be refused matthews flione secretary maintained whatever webster had bad said was solely in his bis capacity as counsel for the times the commission surely could be trusted to deal impartially matthews argued the charges were inseparable doubtless when seeking to inflict punishment the charges charge against the accused should be most specific and defined but when the object was limited to the discovery of truth such a defining was unnecessary loud laughter I the present attitude of the Parnel litey caused a suspicion that they desired to evade inquiry or at least hamper and obstruct the efforts to get at the truth one of the capital points of the charge was that members professing to carry on constitutional agitation had ar danged a basis of operations with the dynamite faction would the country be satisfied if these charges were not fully probed the gov government thought not and could not consent to limit the inquiry sir charles charies russell said he be would prefer refer a libel action before the most bigoted and partisan jury i in a london to a trial by a tribunal constituted upon the unfair aad disadvantageous terms proposed by the government the object of which appeared to be not to bring guilt home to the individuals but discredit to the party 0 after a vigorous speech by T P oconner the debate closed on motion of labouchere Labon chere philadelphia july 23 dr R W martin who has been in attendance upon ex speaker randall at washington and who visited him yesterday denied this afternoon the statement published to the effect that doctors mallan vallan and lincoln had bad said that randall kandall dallis is suffering with cancer of ef the stomach it is no not true said dr martin it is no more cancer of the stomach than it is cancer of the head bead I 1 heard last week that such a story was in circulation cul cu lation atlon but it is not true dr mallan yesterday esterday y told me that he kad had never said that randall was suffering wm wito cancer of the stomach and he stated that dr lincoln had said nothing dr martin added that randall Bandall is get ting along as well as could be expected though of course he be is weak washington july 9 23 93 3 randalls private secretary emphatically denies the statement that randall bandall has cancer and will retire from public life the secretary says the sole cause of randalls illness is hemorrhoids L doctors mallan and lincoln were een by an associated press reporter oday and both denied the published statements that randall is suffering from cancer in the stomach ellensburg ellensberg ELLENS BURG W T july 23 A fire yesterday afternoon destroyed the coal mining town of roslyn 28 miles from Ellens El leasburg burg rendering the entire population of 1500 homeless A wind was blowing blowin at the time and the town being without fire apparatus nothing was saved relief belief was sent from ellens eitens burg last night provisions and clothing are being sent here two hundred and fifty houses bouses were burned nothing was left but the coal companas comp anys office and the depot loss louisville ky july 23 there is a bitter fight in progress ever the whisky question at harlan earlan court house kentucky county judge lewis believes believes a great deal of whisky is being sold in spite of the local prohibition hibi tion law several grocery men were tried a few days ago ai but it no proof was produced the arrest angered the accused and as judge lewis rode out of town in the evening he barely escaped being shot by john haarley HB H barley arley one efthem of them lewis rode back into town and assembling the opponents of the traffic proceeded to search the stores of those suspected aney afley found liquor in several rolled the barrels into the streets and emptied them into the gutters this was done under a guard of 20 men with winchester rifles yesterday the whisky men rallied and the factions gathered in the street A hundred shots were fired but nobody was killed five were badly wounded LONDON july 23 the new inman line steamer city of new york has completed her trial trip she is the largest passenger ship in the world being fourteen feet longer than the city of rome she to Is built almost on the lines ol of a yacht and her enormous engines develop extraordinary power lt it is calculated she will reduce the atlantic voyage to a little over six days she was tried for speed at short in several times and each time made twenty five miles an hour under the limited propulsion allowed the speed will oe be diminished to the extent of only one fourth the maximum rate the new steamer to is lavishly furnished with lifesaving life saving ap and is fitted and constructed with a view to use as a government cruiser in the event of war on oa her first voyage she will take out blaine and the members of his family who have been touring louring in england DETROIT july 23 the following lowing ol cablegram WAS sent from here this morning DETROIT july 23 to sir thomas grattan osmond london tell biggar and kenney I 1 am drafting each 1000 tell the murderers of mandeville the league is not dead signed CHARLES treasurer NEW YORK july 23 the irish parliament fund association tonight determined ter mined to send to parnell for party purposes H TRINIDAD colo july aa 23 information reached here this ev evening in that k t about noon today settlers rode r e to 0 the ranch of george blosser near r raton and reinstated him to the possession of his ranch which aurini during the absence of blosser and family from rom home had bad been turned over to a representative of the maxwell grant the grant is taking vigorous measures to dispossess the settlers the settlers vow they will not give up until the private land claims committee of the lower lower house of congress shall say whether or not the ruling of secretary of the interior Interi gr cox in 1861 declaring these lands part of the public domain has the force of law or not great excitement cit ement prevails and personal violence is feared SAN FRANCISCO july 23 willism william T coleman of the suspended mercantile firm of wm T coleman co has communicated with his bis creditors offering to pay forty cents on the dollar of his indebtedness 10 per cent to be paid in cash and the balance in equal payments mentis in one two and three years from fay rom the date odthe of the first payment further division was to be bd made whenever 5 per cent of the indebtedness i on hand band irrespective of the time the schedule lg filed two months ago aeo shows total liabilities to be 2919 the assets were at first thought to be greatly in excess of this amount but it is now known to be overestimated over estimated the assignees believe the proposition propos iti on will be accepted by the creditors a and ad that the firm will resume business MILWAUKEE july 24 charles A dana editor of the new york sun delivered an address this evening to the wisconsin editorial association the speaker said he began newspaper work on a weekly literary paper which meant that it was issued once ever every y week LL laughter slaughter in the modern newspaper intellectual and mechanical development joined to produce the daily paper of toda which was one of the wonders of world he paid a tribute to the reporters who he said would see at once through deception and could on occasion set one up for themselves A good word was also put in for editorial writers and for the I 1 correspondents the latter of whom covered the whole earth in search for facts the modern paper is possibly only in a thickly settled civilized country countr which demands it it is a mark ol 01 of high intellectual development that a country demands such a publication As compared with europe america was far in advance in the whole of the british islands there were not more than half a dozen papers which would compare with those of this country the atmosphere of freedom was essential to the production of GREAT newspapers A distinction should be made between american and european definitions of freedom in france a daily paper would have one well w written essay but the remainder of the sheet would be filled with matter which in america would be considered immaterial the first thing looked for was news and aad b by y that word the speaker meant any t aning t it ng that would interest the people iia lathis this connection he said whatever divine providence permitted to occur he be was not too proud to report so be important was phe jibe function of the newspaper that colleges were establishing classes for instruction in journalism notwithstanding this dana had heard an old newspaper editor say that thai it was useless because the only place to learn the business was in a newspaper office A remarkable thing about that sort of education of newspaper men was that it should be universal u there was no chance for an ignoramus in that profession A newspaper man must know whether the theology of the preacher is sound souad and whether th the e logic of the lawyer is good for anything if possible he be should be sent to college but what was more important he should also be an adept in practical life the speaker did not think A COLLEGE COURSE in journalism to be of much value there were not a set ot maxims and rules tor for journalists the doctor and lawyer might have rules but ti there were very lew few rules that could be u used by newspaper men mr dana however 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