Show TELEGRAPH TIDINGS tho the utah question antho in the halls of the national legislature preparing b for tho the performances of the passion play herr most starts to stir the socialists in the states V by lir U to the th n I gotham gossip NEW dec 20 represent tires of the roads doing business bu biness between the tho Mie missouri Riv river erand and the pacific coast were ere unable today to day to agree fully upon the percentages percenta geM in the division rr of business and the lie subject was referred to the president of the different line lines tho the traffic manager manat and general freight agents however fixed a special ecial rates to be Eu made for contract business sineas to competitive points and prepared a new forca form of contract the old arranga arrangement ment will continue until a neulan new plan is made out the world bublis publishes es an inter interview with the socialist leader schwab which indicates indi rates the proposed movements of herr most during ida stay in i n Ai At his tour which is one of provocation will embrace all the large towns in the united states the object being to make appe appeals alsto to th the people e ople and to effect a thoro thorough tho urb rp of the socialists tance entertained at ut dinner this evening by Getie general ral grant at the union league club among those present were general U 13 grant prince Tara hit hits Hya sanda nesie chamberlain to the he t emperor of japan commandant maw and aide de delcamp caina to the prince nieM muff kate private secretary tu to the prince ts K Ta hassi japanese con consul gul at kew new york colonel I breder reder i ek D G grant rant J A grant r ant ex govern or leland bt anford jay ay gould D mills CL K gar garrison risen and jesse selig in roan an the room waa was handsomely decorated with american and japanese flags growing trees with fruita fruits flowers and evergreens ever greens upon the table were representations of fort rort yeddo and port Nanga Baki kiin in sugar and nougat the menu was T a pr printed i lt e on rice paper after coffee t the lie h health e a ath of the tile prince rince was drunk and also that of general grant thre vitro were no formal speeches but sentiments senti mente were exchanged in a quiet conversational manner anner ru it wa war late when the prince and hia his party returned to their hotel the prince goes to niagara tomorrow to morrow evening in response to an advertisement about bout men nien and so 50 women presented themselves at west st last eveni c evening as applicants for positions in in the passion play as the t I e cje jewish wish multitude the feminine femi nitie multitude were mainly shop girls girl with a sprinkling of laundresses their names were called off by the stage manager and they were ere told to come every night next week to rehearse Morse stated the company is now filled rehearsed and rea ready y I for or business the chorus comprises 80 yokes voices male and female tho the entire company will number JOO WO As soon aellie as alie building is finished tie lie rays a ys the passion will ill be presented preben ted L lie ile regrets net having inora wore room for fur the auditory for tha the expense will be according to present estimates about a night judge law lawrence renac today to day gran granted teel an order to show cause why w hy tle the a mining company should bot be dissolved so lyd alie order was maddon made on the petition of chas 11 I J L I kw pod robert sewall and other directors directo as who state the com piny e landi lands in san diego county cula t a u been bold and the concern is free from debt y aher is no improve improvement ment in the freight market winch which shown ull all the id signs of dullness pertaining to the close agns gns Oft of the bayCAr year the shies are loading slowly and andt bero there will be but one more departure this hiir year viz the seminole washington waif mi dec dee 20 10 in abl elouie cassidy r of nevada introduced ye yesterday 11 bill substantially stanatia IV the same as the edmunds bill rega regarding rd bigamy in tho the territories and e embodying abod th tho recommendations of th the utah coin mission it provides proy idea that a wife may testify against her tier husband in prosecutions fut for polygamy makes tho crime of f polygamy perpetual and compels the attendance of witness by b attachment atta ah an ilia senate saunders dere introduced a bill WIL by I request forthe for the admission of utah as a state jefferson Jeu erson continued for the star route defense dick eon con testified in his own behalf to daiy diy jury room scenes tilts stog contrasted strongly with bow bi melville e before the Tean neue board identified delonga De Loni gd report to the sec see of the nava avy about tho the cruise bich as accepted as evidence and read bills were introduced in the house on tuesday by representatives rose I lans and berry to place on lie the pension rolls at the rate of fifty dollar dollars per month the widow of bear rear admiral mcdougal who died in california The pension vension is asked on the ground aund of the long service of her husband tr and her pree eilt poverty the house committee on pensions to to the 1110 fofiu survivors vi ors of the mexican creek creel S emi nule and black hank hawk nars wars and to the surviving widows of the th soldiers killed in those a wars pro posts that a service of sixty days d 81 in the mexican war and one of ati thirty arty days in either of the indian war is sufficient qualification to entitle entitles a survivor to a pension on the ut honorable discharge the rate of pension beine being fixed at eight dollars per month a proy provision ision was added to the bill to repeal the section of the reversed statutes which declares that thit the soldiers of either of those wars wit rs who bore arms against the government gove in the late war shall not be entitled rn to pensions in view of the tile fact that congress is hesitating as t to the reduction of taxation because it Is not known whether the the regular pension bension list will cost or this year it is interesting to know that commissioner dudley a year ago estimated the cost of pensioning the survivor survivors of the mexican war at ut and of the indian ware wars at |