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Show I ENORUOUS More BIDS FOR BOROS Than Four Thousand Bids Presented Staging la Amount Proa 950 to . TARIFF BILL IB DAR6ER by a(Free Coin- Side-Track- ed $xoo,-000,0- 00 aad Carlitlo is Pleased Tha Tariff Bill Doomed Interest for tha Mat Parcaa Saaator Browa'i Pint BUI. Washington, D. C, Feb. 5. The mo-- 1 tion of Senator Quay, to recommit the free coinage aubatitute for the tariff bill to the committee on finance, with Instruction to report the bill and substl-tut- e separately, could not be reached toin day the Senate. It will come up tomorrow, when a motion to lay tha Quay motion on tha table will ' probably carry by the vote of all the democrats and populists combined. The free coinage republicans, with possibly the exception of Senator Teller, will vote to recommit. The combination of free traders and populists to beat the brains out of the tariff bill by a free coinage substitute which can never become a law, ha awakened violent resentment among the republicans from the mining states, who had vindicated their sincerity for free coinage on many a field of senatorial battle, but who do not propose to be made catspaws of to injure the republican party without any possible advantage to free coinage, and to defeat a revenue measure which will be of vast advantage to the industrial interests of their state. This action of the free coinage democrats and the populists bids fair to produce disruption in the republican free coinage ranks. It is so clearly partisan, o evidently made purely to defeat republican legislation, that It has not deceived any of the most earnest and active of the free coinage republican leaders. At the same time It has caused violent indignation among a number of republican senators who have heretofore voted steadily for every free coinage proposition, who placed themselves on record for the coinage substitute for the House bill, and who would have been glad in the future, as they have been in the past, to join with the senators from the great mining states In holding up the banner of the free and unlimsted coinage of silver within the party lines. It is very difficult to see how the action of yesterday can help In any sense the cause of free coinage, and should the Quay resolution be defeated tomorrow, as it probably will be, the result will not, in the judgment of a number of these gentlemen, accrue to the material benefit of the cause of silver. demo-crar- 110.6877 will be te THE cepted as covers the entire loan. It is understood that Mr. Morgan will secure a part of the gold abroad and will not have to delete the Treasury to furnish any part of the gold called for under his bid. s, - BIG BID FOR BONDS. Secretary Carlisle la Surprised and Pleased. Washington, Feb. 5. Four thousand six hundred and forty bids for $558,369,-85- 0 worth of bonds. Siich is the tremendous total of the subscriptions opened at the treasury department today, in accordance with the terms of the call issued about a month ago inviting proposals for $100000,000 of United States bonds to run for thirty years from Feb. 1, 1895. These figures do not include $120,000,000 of crank bids rejected as bogus. The immense offerings astounded experts. The bids literally swamped the Treasury department, which was so taken by surprise that at 6 oclock tonight, although extra clerks had been hurriedly drafted, the work of tabulating the bids was still in progress, and it was impossible to tell with definiteness how many bids, and for what aggregate, had been received at figures in advance of the upset price of 1 10.6887, at which a syndicate composed of J. P. Morgan & Co., Harvey Fisk & Co., and the Deutsche bank of Berlin, offered to take the whole loan. The bids ranged from par up to a single $50 bid at 15a It is impossible, therefore, to say at this time how the awards will be made. Treasury officials regard the loan as a complete success, both as to the popular subscription feature and the prices obtained. Bids came from thousands of individuals and hundreds of National banks and other banking institutions. Nearly all the big New Vork bankers arid big insurance companies were represented in the list of bidders, but with few exceptions, they were outmaneuvered by the Morgan syndicate. Owing to the confusion caused by the magnitude of the offerings and the consequent delay in classifying and scheduling the bids, any authorative statement of the policy that will be pursued cannot be made at this time. As the bulk of the offerings were below the Morgan figures, it is believed that the syndicate bid headed by the great New York banker will be accepted for at least and possibly more. In any event, no bid below the syndicate rate 0 four-per-ce- $50,-ooofio- o, Washington, Feb. 5. Senator Shoup has visited the treasury department for the purpose of securing a speedy payment to the Nex Perce Indians of the Interest on the $x00yooo still due them. Senator Shea; was assured that in the near future the matter of the payment of this interest money would be taken up for settlement. The treasury department, owing to pressure of other uslnes, as well as to the fact that the tfca Perce have but recently received arge sums ef money and are not in actual need, has delayed settlement in this case, but promises to make proper payment In a reasonable time. Senator Shoup will endeavor to have nserted in the urgent deficiency Mil an tem for the payment of something over ijjoao for public surveys in Idaho, The contract was let in 1893, but omucoun-o- f delay in forwarding papers to Wash ington, the money appropriated lapsed Into the treasury. Senator Shoups ob-- ; ect is to have this money reappropriated. Senator Clark of Wyoming today reported adversely the bill providing that no person shall be eligible to be assignee or receiver of a bankrupt corporation who had been an officer or employee of that corporation within three years prior to the bankruptcy. Washington, Feb. 5. Senator Brown today Introduced a bill transferring Utah for judicial purposes from the Eighth judicial circuit to the Ninth. The enabling act provides that Utah shall be In the Eighth circuit. The change proposed by Senator Brown's Mil would have the effect of taking to San Francisco cases on appeal from the United States court in Utah, instead of to St. Louis, as is now the law. ! . Probate Judges Ousted. ' The official heads of twenty-seveprobate judges fell in Utah Tuesday, at Salt Lake, as the result of an' opinion delivered by Chief Justice Zane of the State Supreme Court, in the case of the State ex rel. A. C. Bishop against Probate Judge J. C. McNally of Salt Lake : n county.. age Substitute. Prapnroa a Bill Extending! the Time of Payment for Pablic Lands Allan Opposes tha Administration and Involves 60,000,000 Acres Utah After a Slice of Arisooa. . Washington, Feb. 4. The belated taremerged from the finance committee today and made Its appearance in the Senate soon after the session Chairman Morrill made the opened. report, stating that a free silver amend, ment had taken the place of the original Mil, and adding, amid laughter, the closing phrase of official procedure of Massachusetts, and may God save the commonwealth. Mr. Quay made two attemps to have the MU recommitted to the committee, with Instructions to report back separate tariff and free silver bills, but was cut off by parliamentary objections. His resolution for.recommittment will come up, under the rules, tomorrow. A sharp .contest occurred at a o'clock between the senators favorable to advancing the appropriation bills and those desiring to take up general legislation. The latter element prevailed in two test votes, and the right of way was secured by the resolution of Mr. Dubois of Idaho, to reform the method of considering appropriation Mils by dlstrib Ing them among the several committees. This was strenously resisted by the friend of the appropriation committee, who contended that the change was revolutionary and designed to dismantle the committee. The final vote was not reached, but it was evident from the debate and incidental votes that a majority favored the change. Among, the bills introduced in the Senate today were the following: By Mr. Cannon, for the annexation to Utah all that portion of Arizona lying north of the Colorado river and west of the eastern boundary of Utah. Mr. Davis, to amend the Indian depredation act so as to permit the- payment of claims for losses by Indian raids to those persons who have declared their intention of becoming citiiff Mil vinced of the guilt of Giles. The tramp had maintained his Innocence until Saturday, and many believed him, throwing the guilt on a person from here. But a query from his sister, Mrs, Hough, who had come from Ohio to attend the trial brought forth a confession. This was repeated In court, after which Giles told his ownjstory. He claimed that a revelation from'God had commanded him to bund a new'sect, and after reading the bookgof Mormon, he became- - convinced that this was the doctrine he sought It was while still with this idea in his mind that he came to this vicinity. On the fatal Sabbath day he passed the home of the honest old farmer who fed him the morning before. He said that an Irresistible impulse overcame him then, and he jumped over the fence and shot Mr. McAfee a he stood shaking the crumbs out of the table cloth. I The action was brought against Judge McNally to determine whether or not zens. the terms of probate judges expired on the second Monday in January, 1896, as . BONA-FID- E PURCHASERS. provided In the Constitution, or continued until the expiration of the terms un- Congressman Allen's Bill . Protects Them In Their Rights. der their appointment by the President Washington, Feb. 4. The House The matter came before the court on Committee on Public Lands today rea general demurrer, which Chief Justice considered its action of last week in Zane overruled, claiming that the term adopting a bill to carry out the recomof office of the respondent expired on the mendations of President Clevelands second Monday in January, 1896, in har- message that the limitation of five years mony with the provision of section 9 of for bringing suits to annul titles to patthe Constitution. This view was con- ents established by the act of March, curred in by Justices Miner and Bartch. 1861, be repealed. Another bill embodying the views of different members of the committee and intended to furnish Reports from White Pine. full protection to purchasers in good Ernest C. Wood, 'assistant .general faith, drawn by Mr. Allen of Utah, was manager of the Cumberland & Osceola substituted for the first bill. Chairman Gold Mining and Milling Co , whose Lacey will report it to the House. As property is located at Osceola, White this legislation may affect the title to Pine county, Nevada, reports 1000 feet of acres, it has been difficult for of work which has resulted in the dis- the committee to draw a satisfactory closure of a big body of ore bill. while in the Cumberland 350 feet of exThe new bill provides that suits. to be ploration has revealed the pretence of brought by the United States to annul two diilinct veins, one a fissure with patents to lands erroneously issued unwalla, the other a contact. der a grant shall only be brought The company will, as soon as the snow withinspecial five years from the passage of the departs, begin the erection of a mill, ex- act, and suits to annul patents hereafter periments having demonstrated in a test issued must be brought within ten years of 135 tons that amalgamation was the after their date. The bill expressly conprocess adapted to the treatment of the firms the titles of bona-fidpurchasers, product, although, a test was made on and provides that if any party claiming e cyanide and wlih the rotary to be a bona-fidpurchaser presents his mill. claim to the Secretary of the Interior beWhat is needed to arouse the people fore the Institution of a suit to cancel a of White pine, says Mr. Wood, is a cuspatent, and his claim is found to be tom mill which would be assured steady valid, the Secretary shall request that patronage from claims already opened suit be brought against the original patup and others that promise an increased entee for a sum not less than the miniamount of ore. mum government prices for the .lands, About May 1st the washing of gravel and not more than the amount paid by will begin on the placer bars in the the purchasers. Another section makes sludng of whieh the Osceola Gravel the courts having jurisdiction over suits Mining company has been the most ac- under the act the final authority on the tive and for which it has constructed two bona-fidpurchasers, and provides that large ditches. From the waters that are claimants who have not submitted their thus controlled the smaller companies claims to the Secretary of the Interior that last year yielded between $10,000 may intervene in suits begun, and have and $15,000 in gold derive their supply. their claims adjudicated by becoming With a steady flow the record of all preparties in that way to the litigation. The vious years Is promised an increase in bill also provides that no suit shall be 1896. Mr. Wood expresses the belief brought to annul patents, when parties that with systematic developement the have presented claims to be bona-fiddistrict will become one of the most propurchasers, until the Secretary has passductive of any in the west. ed upon their claimr quite conspicuous tonight A resolute effort to elect Blackburn will be made In the join session tomorrow, and everybody looks for exciting times from now until the question Is settled. It is not expected that a sens--a On tor will be elected tomorrow. reand the the truce ends, Thursday two unseat the house will publican democrats, Kaufman and Tompkins. The democrat In caucus tonight resolved to retaliate by unseating four republican senators. To prevent these unseated senators from going into joint meeting, where they would be recogWorthnized by Lieutenant-Governo- r the doorkeeper ington, Captain Tyler, of the senate, who will be doorkeeper of the joint session, has had a number of deputies sworn In to enable him to prevent unseated republican senators from gaining admittance Into the olnt assembly, and to eject them should succeed in getting in. Among the they Republics. are Captain James I. Williams ' deputies Washington, Feb. 4. The movement of and Colonel Jack Chinn Louisville, initiated by the government of Ecuador for the holding of a congress of repre- of Harrodsburg, two widely known turfsentatives of all the republics of the men. Both sides caucussed till night, Americas to define and endorse the Mon- and it is believed hot business is at roe doctrine, and to establish closer com- hand. mercial and political relations between them Is rapidly taking form.- The EcuaBig Storm in Idaho. dorean Minister here, Senor Carbo, has Pocatello, Ida., Feb. 7. One of the freely discussed the subject with the heaviest snow storms experienced for other members of the diplomatic body been in has raging the Wood Rivwho come from the South, and today, to years er country for the past two weeks,' and give an official character to his mission, snow to the depth of from five to eight he addressed a copy of a circular signed feet on a level is reported at Hailey by the Minister of foreign affairs of Ecua- Ketchum and other points on Wood dor to the ministers of all the nations of River. Roads are all drifted full of snow Central America and sent for transmisand are impassable and communication sion to their respective foreign office, A with settlements distant from the railcopy was delivered also to Secretary road is to be had only by means of courfor ft is expected that the United iers on snow shoes, as the heavy winds States will certainly be represented as It have prostrated the telegraph lines and was In the congress. rendered them useless. Much anxiety It Is stated by Senor Carbo that while is felt for miners and others in the Interthe City of Mexico is suggested as the as a storm of this kind is very freior, proper place of meeting, it does not folattended with fatalities and low that the congress will eventually be quently works great hardship on the residents in held there, for the first opportunity will the more remote districts. Immense be offered the nations invited to express snow slides are to be witnessed daily their preference in the matter of a meetfrom the town of Hailey and are an iming place, and it may be that the city of posing sight. Washington will be selected. Pan-Americ- - Ol-ne- y, Pan-Americ- Liberals Want Arbitration. London, Feb. 4. The Chronicle announces that the Liberals will challenge the government at the very earliest moment in Parliament on the abandonment of the Armenians. It is believed, the Chronicle continues, that A. J. Balfour will then make revalations concerning the action of previous Individuals and governments on the Armenian question. The Liberals regard the Venezuela affair as toO important to be raised as a mere side Issue upon the address. Therefore the House will be adjourned after the adoption of the address, so as to secure a full debate on Venezuela. The Liberals are unanimously in favor of arbitration with the United States, and it is brlieved to this effect will secure wide Unioniet support. Sir William V. Iiarcourt, the Liberal leader, who has studied the cause minutely, fully shares Hon. John Morleys view that no , question is more fit for arbitration than this. MALICIOUS PROSECUTION. low-grad- e well-define- d e tri-eon- e e Daughter of the Late Allen G. Thurman is a Defendant. Les Angeles, Cal., Feb. 4. Mrs. Mary Holliday a daughter of the late Allen G. Thurman of Ohio, is one of the prin cipal figures in a sensational damage suit which is on trial in this city. Prior to her marriage to Edward T. Holliday, basewho was formerly a ball player, Mrs. Holliday resided in Washington, where she was regarded as one of the most beautiful and brilliant young ladies in the National capital. The suit was brought by Mrs. Fannie L. Holliday, the defendants 0 who seeks to recover damages for malicious arrest and false imprisonment. It is charged that Mr. and Mrs. Holliday falsely and maliciously caused her arrest in August last upon the charge that she had threatened to destroy her personal property and had also threatened their lives. Upon this charge she was imprisoned for eight days, the proceedings against her being finally dismissed. In their answer the defendants reiterate the charges made against the plaintiff and deny that the prosecution was maf well-know- sister-in-la- n $35,-00- licious. Y Kidnapped and Killed. Chicago, Feb. 5. A special from Albuquerque says: Col. A. J. Fountain, one of the best known men In New Mexico, was kidnapped on the road from Las Cruces to White Oaks by cattle thieves and Is believed to have been killed, together with his little son who was his only traveling companion. Fountain was prosecuting attorney for the district and has been pushing the rustlers hard. He had just been atcourt in Lincoln county, where he had Indicted a number of them, and was on his way home when he was waylaid and douMless killed. A large party Is scouring the country for the rustlers. El Paso, Texas, Feb. 5. The vigilance committee, headed by Maj. Llewellyn of Las Cruces, N. M., struck a recently abandoned camp of cattle rustlers ten d miles from where Col. Fountains Tracks of the was discovered. colonel, his son and three men with high heeled boots were found, also on of his horses. The pursuers are hot on the trail. It is believed in Las Cruces that Col. Fountain and the boy have been killed by the rustlers. Short shift will be given the rustlers if caught. buck-boar- Repealing the S. P. Charter. Frankfurt, Ky Feb. 4. Chairman Goebel has called a meeting of the Senate committee on railroads to consider the bill to repeal the charter of the Southern Paclfie railroad for tomorrow evening. People from California are expected to appear, and it is announced that C. I. Huntington will be here tomorrow. Members of the committee state it is a foregone conclusion that the bill will be favorably reported for passage. Allotment to Uncompahgrea. Washington, Feb. L Secretary Smith has sent to the House certain papers from the commission to allot lands to the Uncompahgre Indians In Utah. It seems from these papers, says the Secretary, that there Is not within the limits of the Uncompahgre reservation sufficient agricultural or graxlng lands to provide those Indians allotments, and that even with the lands there the Indians will not agree to take allotments with the condition attached that they should pay $1.25 per acre therefor. The Secretary thinks further negotiations should be had with the upon lines Indicated by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. TORTURE OF PIUSONER8. London, Feb. 3. The correspondent of the African Critic at Johannesburg cables he has collected "damaging evidence of refined torture of the captain and troopers of Jamesons force by Boers, whose commander afterwards ordered two prisoners shot." Uneom-pahgra- t e Bomb in Lisbon. A HALF-CRAZMURDERER. Feb. Lisbon, 4. A bomb was exploded at 9 oclock tonight in the residence of the physician who certified to the lunacy He Had Read the Book of Mormoa, and Claimed a Revelation-Lincoln- , of the .man who threw the stone into the III., Feb. 4. The finale in the Kings carriage a short time ago Much McAfee was case was a surprise to murder done tha Ten explosion. by damage arrests have been made. all, even to those who had been con- - io HOT WORK AT HAND. ns Violence Likely to Enter in the Kentucky Legislature. Cincinnati, O., Feb. 4. A special late tonight from Frankfort, Ky., says: Mr. democratic Beckham, the member of the House, arrived here at midnight, after a drive of sixty-fiThe packing and shipping of oranges miles across the country. There are has commenced in California. Five cars was sent east last night from of omens of coming trouble. They are Losfruit Angelea newly-electe- d ve |