Show ihl a lional in interfiling Inter filing document special P chronicle Chronic lf service pa sept 17 alie calion tl lei slane of tin knights of labor appo at the ins bession assembly at indianapolis to watch labor millera at the sephron of the fiftieth congress have report it hia just been submitted to the gen gentril fril office of the arder ia ia a very interesting document the members of the commit ee ira B alworth beaumont and kobert I 1 laiton compla n of alie treatment they received at the hinds ot congressmen among other bhines of interest the committee say your committee was in a very position the tact that neatly every prominent member who hag gian babir measures bis fl a me t BU festad fr re lealion it n kiili feel icca of humiliation and shame tint your committee records thia as their retort the bill known as the oklahoma bill that remained in alie unfinished business ia the ahouee for ovar ten eeli hut owing lo 10 the obnoxious rules of the which alow one man ta block legislation of the measure who were unable to muster over thirty two any ore section cro enabled to defeat is until nearly the c osing leour of alie the legislation the question of land forfeiture was in eonia abat the same position as the tariff the bill that the house wanted to become a law the senate would not agree to alie waa by a very lafe la fe majority in favor of a general f bill white the senate was just the reverse during the airet session the hoube passed a forfeiture bill tha had it become law would have forfeit about acres the conferees insisted that as these companies hid not completed their r als they should have their title to the fall amount of their krant and insisted that as congress had failed to pasa the at the time the companies failed to complete the r roads according to contract and that they biad continued to fell tube lands aaa to uio ui o the money to construct the same congress would be doing an in justice if it were now to declare that thre lands should be tor cited the supreme court hid tendered a decision to the effect that the granting act bad conferred titles of those lands to the corporations nearly every granting act pasted by congreso Con gresi starts off with the fal lowing words that there is hereby granted then follows a lot of conditions that the companies are to comply with the railroad companies hold that justice fields decision is to the effect that those conditions are made subsequent to lie grant act and have no valid force and that the title now befits refits in the company and not in the government tb standing lie government has cot given the any jaent we co eliat it ia good law and faeo held by lawyers the two hundred and odd awyers who were in congress Con gretS and voted for that uw are guilty of knowingly sni and robbing the government and the people it appears that a person wha bus public lands from the united states and receives a patent has only a quit claim deed to the same if the corporation goes into courts with its money and evicts h m le giai no redress if a person ats a warranty deed from the corporation corpor aion it is worth more than a united states patent or in that cehe if a third party takes an issue with him and evicts libin he may fall bick upon the corpo rajon which sold him the land but if he bivs from the government and is evicted helices heli ses as the government does not feel obliged to defend given this was proven in the caad of several land clams in ion a this summer this is the muddle in which we boond the land question in to land forfeiture all the bills working people were directly interested in were still in the hands of abd tbd senate commatee comm itee the same may ba sad of bills pawed in the senate as 1 0 their position in the house we note especially the blur educational bill efforts were broadb to remove the postal b 11 from the calendar but without avail several bills eliat mould have benefited benefi Ked tha laboring beope re bained in the hands of the committee your committee is of the opinion tint the rank and file of the do not take as much interest in the queston ques too of legislation as they foght to we believe that this matter should be considered at the next general assembly and that some discipline should bi exercised to compel memoirs to support men who are favorable to our caubo oa RD speciale Special 8 f chronicle Chronic lf service YOEK sent 17 the manhattan club enjoyed a genuine on he ring of the report that the big herbert E ayer 0 chicago had been attached by automa officers for containing articles c healed in a dalae bottom of his brunk mr ayer B the divorced husband of sirs harriet ayer he reu from europe last week on the north german bleamer eider his trip was made it is said to endeavor to obtain of his little daughter whom her mothe rhad left in cae f blanche willis howard in stuttgart the mother however by prompt legal action prevented pie vented he hilda falling into his custody and he returned without her he was during the voyage to a fair fellow macre aad when the steamer reached dock he da voted himself to the care of this ladys baggage after a time a tall young man and a short middle aged man relieved sir ayer of his attention to her and he landed his own over to the cin jonap officer A largo trunk containing in the bottom an unusual quantity of lid gloves hosiery underwear an 1 the like the officers held as being full of dutiable articles ashore ID a fog sap service BALDWINS L I 1 sept 17 the british steamer captain thompson of keav york and jamaica ran ashore about last bight in a dense tog opposite the life saving station at point lookout long beach she had a cargo chiefly of bacanas and oranges aud four paa sen gera J II 11 sheldia She ldoa owner of the caro his w fa and two children the cargo was thrown overboard and the hatches kaled K aled nn the passengers were taken safely lahore tn a life bat the crew of eighteen remained on board the etaamer all and were taken off una morn morang ng hundreds of men went from the mailand ma inand to the beadli in boats today to day and gathered up parcels of oranges and bunches of bananas with which the was strewn kate trouble Tro ulle chronicle 1 ala sept 17 considerable sid erable excitement prevails at galena sixty miles north of this place over a threatened collision of the races the trouble grows out of the discovery of an incendiary letter written by a negro reveals a plot against the vi bites and urges the ne groc 8 to A villainous white man who is at the bottom of the trouble is being bought for and if caught will ba hang the manhal man hal of Cale wired for three doan winchester rifled 1 |