Evening Gazette

              111*. 1»MD[ PITTSTON, PA., TUESDAY, MARCH 2,1886. j * W«» CENTS ( ha tlNiti hr «M. THE PRESIDENT. tfter the turn* IIII at the senate It should be the DUTY OF XVBMY FBBSUD*NT to report to the MMto such snspenslun, with the evidence and reuoui (or his action in the cose. announced carries with it the consequences (isecribed. If in any degree the suggestion Is worthy of consideration, It is to be hoped that there may be a defense against unjust mspenslon in the Justice of the executive. dlattr qfrrecting himseV. Mr. Vanoe tokl him t£at "ywas right. (Laughter.) v The question recurring on Mr. KdmnnrW motion referring the matter to the Judiciary committee and ordering it printed, it was agreed to without division. NINE HEN LOST. NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE. A Buy rarity Believe*. **" Every pledge which I have made by which I have placed a limitation upon ray exercise of executive power has been faithfully redeemed; of course the pretense is not put forth that no mistolnti have been committed, but not a suspension has been made except it appeared to my satisfaction that the public welfare would be improved thereby. Many applications for suspensions have been de Hied, and the adherence to the rule laid down to govern my action as to such suspensions has caused much irritation and imp* tience on the part of those who havo insisted upon FATAL VOYAGE OF THE IDLE WILD'S Trbttow, March a—In the assembly than was the usual flood of petitions in favor at the Baltimore and Ohio bridge, and one in favor of the bill to break up the Pennsylvania relief fund scheme. A bill was passed to prohibit the hiring out of young children to play musical instruments, to sell matches or carry another mendicant occupations. The New Jersey Agricultural society protested ofllcially against the passage of any bill to protect the English sparrow, and also against any bill to declare robins or other insectivorous birds game birds. The Long Branch villagers sent in long petitions against the plan of the city folks there to have themselves set off into a separate borough. He Oivw His Reasons for Re- This statute, passed in 1887, when congress was overwhelmingly ar 1 bitterly oppoeed politicnlly to the preside.n',, may be regarded as an indication that even then it was thought necessary by a congress determined upon the subjugation of the executive to legislative will, to furnish itself a law for that purpose, instead of attempting to reach the object intended by an invocation of any pretended constitutional right. LIFEBOAT. fusing Private Papers. NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. A lekMMr Dubte to Rescue th« Parlahioc Owlns to tka ri«n» Gale That Tor* Hor MU to Hhredt—Tb« IU- Lmmt Night's Session of the How mm* Senate. POLITICAL MUSIC HAH BEGUN. Albawt, March 2.—The house met at 8 p. m. The speaker presented the annual report of tha state superintendent of the bank department on savings banks, and also the report of the comptroller on canals. Mr. Sheehan called up the special order, the capttol appropriation bill The speaker announced the third reading of bills under the ninth Joint rule, which provides that when ever ten bills are on the table ready for a third reading they shall be read. This rule, he said, enforced itself and was imperative, overriding all special orders. Mr. Sheehan moved to lay the ninth Joint rale on the table, for the purpose of taking up tiie special order. He hoped the house would, keep faith with Itself. The motion to lay the ninth Joint rule on the table was lost by a pdrty vote. Ayes 46, nays 8ft. On motion of Mr. Errrin the bill to permit women to vote at municipal elections was ordured to a third reading. It will be made a special order for the 11th inct 4tr. Curtis offered a resolution, which was jfeopted, that sessions be held Tuesday evening, fiTim 8 to 10 o'clock, far consideration of *fMleral orders. The house then went into the order of the third reading of bills. Fated Lifeboat. And Now the Glove Has Been Thrown Dvwb by the Senate aad Taken Vp by the President, There Will be Moslc In New Haven, March 1.—All doubt as to the (ate of the nine persons who left the steamer Idle wild in a lifeboat after that (raft ran on the rocks off Stamfo:-Cl. Conn., Friday morning is at length dispelled, and another horrible Long Island sound disaster must be recorded. On the day of the accident to the Idlewild the schooner Ellsa, Cap*. Parker, was bound up the sound, and early in the afternoon the men aboard of her descried a lifeboat drifting across the sound. This was at a point about midway between the two shores and almost directly opposite Stamford. At first Capt. Parker could see no signs of life upon the boat, bat upon closer inspection through the glass had discovered that there were people on board of it waving signals of distress frantically. The little craft was tossed about on the waves that were running vary high and, according to Capt Parker's story, there were four persons standing upon it and two lying prtwbwte and apparently unconscious. Capt. nffaratusMeia&rCooktogoto the assist ance of those aboard, but in putting his schooner about in the gab his main, sheets were rent, and the schooner was iltsalilsil so as to be almost utterly helpless Under thsse circumstances the schooner had to lAv* the people on the lifeboat to their horrible fate. - Agent Bertram, of the Bridgeport steamboat line, in the service of which the Idle wild was employed, has practically given up all hope that any of these in the lifeboat have reached Long Island in safety. He says that if they had landed upon Long Island something would have certainly been heard of them by this time. Mr. Bartram telegraphed to various points on the Long Island coast to patrol the beach between Baton's Neck light and Oldfleld point anil look out for the bodies or any signs of the lifeboat. The sttsurnr Nonowantuck, which pUss between Port Jefferson and Bridgeport, was ordstad to search the sound, but on aooount of the heavy weather this steamer could render no service. All the officers of the Idlewild have abandoned all hope that the lifeboat survives. The law which thus found its way to our statute book was plain in its terms, and its intent needed no avowal. If valid and now in operation it would justify the the Air—Outline of the Message. MORE CHANGES IK THE OFFICES. Washington, March 2.—President Cleveland, in his message sent to the senate, respecting the question of access to papers bearing on nominations, takes the ground that the papers regarding suspensions 'are not official, and Hays for that reason he has refused to furnish the desired information. "Against the transmission of such papers and documents," the president says, "1 have interpoeed .my advice and direction. This has not been done, as is suggested in the committee's report (report of senate judiciary in the Duskiu case), upon the assumption on lny part that the attorney general or any other head of a department is the servant of the president., and la to give or withhold C-oples of documents in his office, according to the will df the executive, and not otherwise, but because PRESENT COURSE Or THE HEN ATE and command the obedience of the executive to its demands. It may, however, be remarked in passing that under this law the president had the privilege of presenting to the body which assumed to review his executive acts, his reasons therefor, instead of being excluded from explanation or judged by papers found in the departments. Two years after the law of 1807 was panssd, and within less than live weeks after (kt inauguration of a' president in political accord with both branches of congress, the sections of the act regulating suspensions fsom office during the recess of the senate were entirely repealed, and in their place were substituted provisions which, instead of limiting the causes of suspension to misconduct, crime, disability or disqualification, expressly permitted such suspension by the president in his discretion, and completely abandoned the requirement obliging him to report to the senate the evidence and reasons for his action. The pledges I have made were made to the people, and to them I am responsible for the manner in which they have been redeeqied. I am not responsible to tho senate and I am unwilling to submit my actions and official conduct to them for Judgment There are no grounds for an that the fear of being found false to ray professions influences me in declining to sobmit to thp demands of the senate. I have not con stanUy reftised to suspend officials, anil thus Incurred the dfcqrieasui-e of political friends,, and yet wilfully broken faith with the people' for the sake of being false to them. Neither the discontent of party friends nC# tho allurements constantly offered ot ee» Urination of appointees conditioned upon the C avowal that suspensions have been made 011 party grounds alone, nor the threat proffcsed in the resolution now before the senate that no confirmation will be made unless tlie demands of that body be complied with, are sufficient to discourage or defer pie from following in the way which I am- convinced leads to better government for the peopU. The New Jersey Treasury Believed. Trenton, March 1.—The temporary financial embarrassment of the state treasury, which has caused a suspension of payment for the last eleven days, has been relieved and the comptroller will resume the issue of warrants. The Pennsylvania Railroad company has paid into the treasury on account of takes 9100,000 in order to preserve certain technical rights in oaea of the reversal of the decision of thn supreme court by the court of errors. The railroads that are lighting the state will have to pay whatever sums the courts may direct C9n oooount of their tax for this year. The snm wM probaMy be about tffiO.Odg fitting **##,000 available for the treasury. : 1 a • I I REGARD THE PAPERS and document* withheld and addressed to me or intended for my use and action purely unofficial and private. Not infrequently confidential, and having reference to the performance of a duty exclusively mine, I conaidh* them in no proper sense as upon the files of the department, but as deposited there for my ,oonvenience, remaining still completely under my control. I suppose if I desired to take them into my custody I miglit do so with entire propriety, and if I saw fit to destroy tbem none could complain." "Even the committee, In its report," the • president s»ys, "appears to concede Wat there may be with the president, .or in the departments, papers and documents which, on account of their unofficial character, are not subject to the inspection of the congress. A reference in the report to instances where tha house of representatives ought not to succeed in a call for the production of papers is immediately followed by this statement: "The •committee feels authorised to state, after a somewhat careful research, that within the iforegoing limits there is scarcely in the history of this government, until now, any instance of a refusal by a head of department, or even of the president himself, to communicate official facts and information as distinguished from Among the bills passed were the following: Mr. Berry's bill for the care and support of the poor of Washington oounty. A PUGILISTIC PARSON. Paw— A.Me to BU Vasne By Brulalag * With (-these modifications, and with all branches of the government in political harmony and in the absence of partisan incentive to captious obstruction, the law as it was left by the amendment of 1807 was much leus Tho bill incorporating the fire department of the north shore of Staten Island. Bobtoi*, March 2.—An asepntt on a newspaper reporter la Parasn Downs' laat hid for notoriety. He sent for H. Irving DUlingbach, a Harvard graduate of 1888, who waa formerly the editor of Ite Boston Timsa, and who It now a reporter am The Poet, to meet him and Lawyer Coffey at the "syndicato room" In the Parker house. DUlingbach went then with another reporter named Naaoa. After the eon venation the two reporter! roee to ga The bill authorising the Standard Qasllght company to lay mains in New York city to supply gas at a cost to the consumers not exceeding ft per 1,000 feet, said company not to consolidate with any other company Urover Cleveland. Action of the Senate. OBSTRUCTIVE OF EXECUTIVE DISCRETION. And yet the great general and patriotic citizen, who, on the 4th day of March. 1807, assumed the duties of chief executive, and for whose freer administration of his high office the most hateful restraints of the law of 1807 were, on the 5th day of April, 1809, removed, mindful of his obligation to defend and protect every prerogative of his great trust, and apprehensive of the injury threatened the public service in the continued operation of these statutes, even in their modified form, in his first message to congress advised their repeal, and set forth their unconstitutional character and hurtful tendency in the following language: "It may be well to mention hare the embarrassment possible to arise from leaving on the statute books the so-called tenure of office acts, and to earnestly recommend their total repeal. It cannot have been the intention of the framers of the constitution, when providing that appointments made by the president should receive the consent of the senate, that the latter should have the power to retain in office persons placed there by Federal appointment against the will of the president. The law is inconsistent with When the reading of the message was concluded Mr. Harrii moved it to be printed and lie on the table. The Senate. Mr. Edmunds-»On that I ask for the yeas and nays. I do not propose tbat it shall be laid on the table just now if I can help it. The gas committee presented its report, accompanied by three bills. The first of theee provides for the appointment by the gover- Nason waa outaide the door and DUlingbach waa just on the threfriiold, when Downa made a sudden spring, polled him back, slammed the door to and put his brawny form in front of it Then, shaking hia flat in DUlingbaoh'a face, he cried out: Mr. Harris—I will move that the message be printed, if the senate will allow me to amend my motion. nor of three gas one of them to be a Republican. The commissioners' office shall be in Albany. They ■hall prescribe forms for the reports of the gas companies in the state; they shall ascertain the capital of the New York city companies as actually employed; while no dividend shall be paid unless earned, and no dividend shall exceed 10 per cent of the actual capital as determined by the commissioners. The earnings in excess of 10 per cent, shall be accumulated as a reserve to be applied toward a reduction of the prlos of gas. The commissioners shall prosecute, through district attorneys, companies guilty of incurring extravagant expenses for the purpose of evading this act Companies may appeal to the supreme court when dissatisfied with the decisions of the commissioners as to their capital. All gas companies shall report in detail saml-anniu»l-ly to Ibe commission. No capital stock shall be Increased, except for cash actually paid in, Hie expediency of which shall be approved by tip commission. Bonds shall be Issued only for construction in cities of over 100,000 inhabitants The gas commission shall decide concerning the laying of future mains. The act also provides in technical terms for the purity and quality of gas, and that correct meters, to U tested by the commission, shall be provided by the gas companies. The expenses of the commission shall not exceed $50,000. The bill is an elaborate one of about 3,500 words, and is modeled as to Its general features after the railway commission act. for the state, Mr. Edmunds—Very well. On that motion I should like to say a word. The chair—The senator from Tennessee (Mr. Harris)_nioves that the message be printed. "You're a traitor, air; you pretend to be my friend and you have betrayed ma." Then Downa made a Jump for him and hit him a heavy blow over the eye. Lawyer Coffey pulled off the preacher and held him down on the sofa, where he sat muttering vengeance against a man who would jump o» a mend when he was down. Mr. Edmunds—I add to that that it be referred to the committee on the judiciary. The craft in which the unfortunate party hoped to reach the shore was a metallic lifeboat and not a raft, as was at first reported. Had the circumstances been favdMM* It ought certainly to hare crossed the sound in safety. How its occupants met their death is of 'course a matter of conjecture, but it is settled in the minds of the seagoing men hereabouts that the terrible cold rendered the men incapable of managing their jraft The best list of the lost that can be furnished at this writing is as follows: Frederick Warner, aged 28, of New York. John Reardon, aged 90, Glen (tore, L. I. Judson Abbott, aged 60, fish dealer, BridgeportMr. Harris—I have no  Mr. Edmunds (interposing)—1 believe I have the floor. Mr. Harris—I was not seeking to interrupt tto senator. Mr. Edmund*—I merely wish to say a word. I bad no doubt that the senator from Tennessee did not wish to cut oft my remark. I simply wish to say, in moving to refer this communication to the committee on the judiciary, that it has vary vividly brought to my mind the communication of King Charles I to the parliament, in telling them what, in conducting their affairs, they ought to do and ought not to do. And I think I am safe in saying that It is the first time in the history of the republican United States that any president of the United States has undertaken to interfere with the deliberations of either house of congress on questions pending before them, otherwise than by messages on the state of the Union, which the constitution commands him to make from time to timo. This message is devoted solely to a question for the senate itself, in regard to itself, that it has under consideration. That is its singularity. I think it will strike reflecting people in this country as somewhat extraordinary, if in these days of reform anything at all can be thought extraordinary. I only wish to add to what I have now said in the statement so that it shall go with this message—so far u the newspapers will do mt the honor to have it go—the president of the United States has (unintentionally, no doubt) HEAVY WEATHER IN MAINE. PRIVATE AND UNOFFICIAL PAPERS, motions, views, reasons and opinions to either house of congress when unconditionally damanded.'"haw Three Test Deep ss a Level—Pae- CjJLkiM, lie., March SS.—Aroostook county 1* snowed under fully three feet an a level. Trains are blockaded in all dlrectlone. Every engine that can be preeeed Into servios is hard a* work, but little headway ia made. A large portion of both New Brunswick and St. Croix and Fenobeoot railroad will have to be shoveted out, and every available man la shoveling to release the trains. Provisions have been forwarded Irj man on snowsboea, and everything I being done to To which of the classes thus recognized do the papers and Ttocumentx belong that are now the object of the senate's quest? Thsgr consist of letters and representations addressed to the executive or intended for his Inspection. They are voluntarily written and presented by private citizens, who are not in the least instigated thereto by any official invitation or at all subject to official control. While some of tfaem are entitled to executive consideration, many Of them are so irrelevant, or in the light of other facts so worthless, that they liare not been given tha least weight in determining the question to which they are supposed to relate. Ernest Judson, and 28, assistant purser an the Idlewild, who uVtd in Bridgeport. Ernest Ladd, aged 90, a ph—ngil, also lived in Bridgeport. A FAITHFUL AND EFFICIENT administration of the government What faith can an executive put in officials forced upon him, and these, too, whom he has suspended for reason? How will such officials be likely to serve an administration which they know does not trust themT' Two passengers whoee aamee are unknown. The Idlewlld's Lifeboat Foaad. I am unable to state whether of not this recommendation for a repeal of these laws has been since repeated. If it has not, the reason can probably be found in th# experience which demonstrated the fact that the necessities of the political situation but rarely develop their vicious character. BvDGJtrokT, Conn., March a—T. A Bartram, the agent of the steamboat company, sent telegrams to all points on the Long Island shore, requesting that a sharp lookout be kept for the missing lifeboat andpasssngers of the Idlewild. He has received a telegram from 3. M. Brawn, of Port Jsffersoc, L L, stating that the lifeboat had bom found floating bottom up near OhMlold point tight. No trace of the missing bodies was discovered- Brown was formerly puresr of the Idlewild and knows her boat very well. The Lang Island shore will be searched for the bodies. , Zero weather, with strong northerly wiad, prevails. Country abd logging roads art imps— Me No western mail has arrived since Friday night. As & rule vcasals along the coast nave ample warn&f, and so far no reports of any* itearten to shipping h*n reached here. Are all these, simply because they arc preserved, to be considered official documents and subject to the inspection of the senate! If not, who is to determine which belong to ithis class? Tie third gas commit'Jm bill provides that every dollar of stock i/tied by New York gas companies must be Represented by aash in the treasury. and bonds must be sold at par and not matt than 10 per cent, dividend shall be declared. The prioe of illuminating gas is fixed at a maximum of $1.35 par 1,000 feet and $1 for cooking and heating CM. The minimum capital for a company under this act shall be (3,850,000,10 par cant of which must be paid in and expended on . its works within two years or its charter ceases. If after two yean under this act a company baa bean unable to earn 6 per cent, three oommleriopers appointed by the governor, the mayor of New York and the company may bear evidence and authorise an increase of prioes. The combination of pricee is prohibited, annual reports are provided for, and companies in New York may incorporate under this act without the consent of the looal authorities or property owners. And so it happens that after an existence of nearly twenty years of almost inocuous desuetude ttose laws are brought forth, apparently the repealed as well as the unrepealed, and put in the way of an executive who is willing, if permitted, to attempt an improvement in the Very Cold at Haw IMqUUn. Dovxr, H. H., March 9.—Surrounding ■M report the Biercury ranging from 10 to rotiow, and a high wbi pceTailing. ARB TH* norma AND PURPOSES of tfae senate," as they are day by day developed, such as would be satisfied with any selection D Am 1 to submit to them at risk of ibeing charged with making a suspension from ■office upon evidence which was not even considered) Are the papers to be regarded official because they have not only been presented but preserved in the public offices 1 Their nature and character remain the nine whether they are kept in the executive mansion or deposited in the departments. There is no mysterious power of transmutation in departmental custody, nor is there *nscic in the undefined and sacred solemnity of department flies. If the preaptce of these paper* in the public offices is a stumbling block in the way of the performance of senatorial duty it can be easily removed. lord Randolph Churchill's Compliments' London, March 2.—Lord Randolph Churchill has . written a letter to the grand master of the Orangemen of Belfast, eulogizing last Monday's demonstration in the writer's honor. Lord Randolph describes the demonstration as "imposing," and says he believes that "in the general nature and scope of its effect it will prove unequaled by any other event In reoent political history." Nrw Obimaxb, March a.—Steinita won the cbesa game here last night, making him a game ahead. - The Chess Mateh The constitutionality of these laws is by no. means admitted. But why should the provisions of the repealed law, which required specific charges for suspension and report to die senate of evidence and reasons, be now, in effect, applied to the present excutive, instead of the law afterward passed and unrepealed, which distinctly permits suspensions by the president in his discretion, and carefully omits tho requirement that evidence and reasons for his action in the case shall be reported to the senate. The request* and demands which by the score for nearly three months have been present*! to the different departments of the government, whatever may be their form, have but one complexion. They assume the right of the senate to sit in Judgment upon the exercise of my executive discretion and executive function, for which I am solely responsible to the people from whom I have so lately received the sacred trust of office. My oath to support and defend the -constitution, my duty to the people METHODS OF ADMNIMKATIOlf. The senate of the United States, in its communications to the heads of department*—not ENTIRELY MISSTATED TUB QUESTION. his heads of departments, but the heads of departments created by law—directed them to transmit certain official papers, and that is all. The president of the United States undertakes to change the question into a consideration by the senate of his reasons or motives for putting a civil officer, as it might be called, "under wrest," — with which the senate has not undertaken in any way to make any question at all. By every message he has sent to this body —and they are all public—he has asked the senate to advise and consent, to him, to the removal of one officer and the appointment of another. That is what he has done, and the senate, in calling for these papers—to say nothing of wider considerations about any deficiencies in the department of justice—is asked to remove these offloers without knowing the condition of the administration at their offices. But I not wish to go into that discussion now. I move that the message be referred to the committee on the judiciary. Senator Hawlejr's Wife 111. WAORimTOir, March a—The wife of Senator Hawley is lying dangerously ill. WABHUTOTOif, March 2.—For Wednseday— Jfcir weather is indicated for the middle Atlantic states. Weather Indications. A Crasy Prussian. Sumu, N. Y., March ,8.—Frsd  a Prussian, attacked Mrs. Lewis, |M 88, mother-in-law of his employer, Jana A. Knighthart, of Big Hate. Ha struck her with a club, and whan her daughter and sonin-law returned from church they found her insensible. Hay beck was locked in his room. He took poison and was found dead. Mrs. Lewis will die. Hay back waa crary, FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The papers and documents, which have been described, The second bill of the oommissiort, it should be observed, repeals the acts providing for the consent of property owners and the wool wathorities to the laying of malna, ate. The senate then adjourned. * A Doll Day la *ha Mow York Meek DERIVE HO OFFICIAL CHARACTER Hew Toauc, March t—Boner as at 9 per cent ■nhaace quiet, Oovtramsnts iia •Oimav, «•, gLMK hid; «M* coop., fi-Uk Wdi 4«. ooup., gLMM hW- . . . . . from any constitutional, statutory or other requirement making them necessary to the performance of the official duty of the execu■.tive.Tbestoek market opened weak at toaottnaal C»■ eUase. At the lint oau, oa reports cf a eat ta oeai prists and mm bound paMMger rats* a Msk ssUias at the list hegaa, eaaMac prisss to further deellaa AtnooapriesswereMtotMpsrosat lowertbaa at Owdaselatardar. At the otoee there had teea hat little rsoorwrj. Jt will not be denied, I suppose, that the pi Mident may suspend u public officer in the entire absence of any paper* or documents to aid his official judgment and discretion, and I am prepared to avow that the cases ate not few in which suspensions from office have depended more upon the oral representations made to me by citizens of known good repute and by members at the houie of representatives and senators of the United ititatas than upon any letters and documents presented for my examination, I havo not tfelt justified in suspecting the veracit) and Integrity and patriotism of senators, or ignoring their representations, because they were not in party affiliation with the majorify of their associates; and I recall a few susofcisions which bear the approval of indirid-36 members identified politically with the majority in the senate. While, therefore, AMATEUR SHOOTING MATCH. A Clergyman and His VTonld be Assassin Kiss Their Mark. Troy, N. Y., March 8.—The open house of K W. Hall, at Whitehall, and the hotel nut of the building, C. H. Lotrace's carriage shop, a tenement, two bams and an ice house were burned. Lorn, $85,000. Whitehall Man a Blase. Bridoxwate*, Mass., March 2.—The people of Bridge water are greatly excite*} over an attempt to shoot Rev. J. A. Rood, the best known preacher of the town. For Marly a year he has supplied the Methodiet church in Bridge water Sunday mornings, |ireaililiis in his own church, in the western part of the town, in the afternoon. Sunday night ha was returning from Bridgwater in a carriage, and when near the residence of Char lee T. Morse, about 9 o'clock, there was a pistol shot and the bullet came crashing through his buggy. He slacked up and draw a sevenshot revolver and fired lived shots in the direction of his assailant, who in turn tired four shots, which fortunately did no damage - What the motive was Is a mystery. WHO HAVE CHOSEN ME Mess elossd as toUowsi W. V. Tslsgnph TIM Del. * Hndsoa.. 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I mote that the message be printed and lie upon the table, according to the universal custom of this body when the subject matter had been reported upon by a committee, The senator from Vermont (Mr. Edmunds) as chairman of the committee on the judiciary has already laid upon your table an elaborate report upon the general question to which this message refers. Hence my motion was the ordinary motion made here under circumstances that surround us at this moment CONDENSED NEWS. Capt. Ellas cf Poughkeepsle, the patriarch ■toamhoali on tira Hod* son, is dsad, aged 7V ynars. To the end that the service may be unimpaired, the senate is Invited to the fullest scrutiny of the persons submitted to them for publio office, in recognition of the constitutional power of that body to advise and consent to their appointment I» shall continue, as I have thus far done, to furnish at the request of the confirming body all the information I possess touching the fltness of the nominees placed before them for their action, both when they are proposed to fill vacancies and to take the place of suspended officials. Upon a refusal to confirm I shall Constable Norman left Cameron, Tax., to arrest Walter Lane, a cattle thisf. He mat Lane at place called Clarke Store. Three shote were fired, and both Lane and Norman were hauled home in wagons. Heavy snow storms have been experienced in England, Ireland and Scotland. Rev. Father Tabaret, principal of the Ottawa university, died at table after laying grace. I AM CONSTRAINED TO DENY the light ft the senate to the papers and documents dessribed, so far as the right to the same is based upon the oiaim that they am in any view of the subject official, I am also led nn«tuivpcsfly to dispute the right of the senate, by tfee aid at any document whatever, or in any way save through th» ■Judicial process of trial on impeachment, to review or reverse the act of the executive, «m the suspension during the recess of the EStlii*" of Federal officials. Mr. Edmunds (sotto voce)—Oh! Washington, March a.—The Hawaiian government will contest, as far a* poesihle, the proposition to give notice of abrogation of the Hawaiian treaty. Ex -Secretary Boutweli has been retained as the counsel of that government, and appeared befqre the sub-committee of the ways and means committee in reply to the argument of Mr. Searle. The Hawaiian Treaty. Mr. Harris—I have no earthly objection to the message going to the committee on the judiciary if the senator from Vermont (Mr. Edmunds) desires it to go there; but it it unusual, because the subject matter of the message has already been reported on by the senator from Vermont, and therefore, in accordance with the unbroken usage of this body, 1 moved that the message be printed and lie upon the table. The chair—The senator from Tennessee (Mr. Harris) moves that the. message be printed and lie on the table. Minister Phelps and wife ware formally presented to Queen Victoria. Naw You. Hatch L—rliOUJh—D«U ud without ohaaCe;)(lnaa»Dta extra tUMMO: City Mill extra. MJM&Uk far VMtlidlw roand hoop Ohio,*** UK, Southern flow qolat bat MMdyi MMM oboioe extra. «M0®s.4a OtHltl HuMl A woman's ey» will be pot into court in evidence in a murder trial at Cleveland lathe case of Smith, who murdered his wife and a female friend a month ago.' NOT A88U1CX THE RIGHT TO ASK the reason* for the action of the senate nor question its determination. I cannot think that anything more is required to secure worthy incumbent* in public offices than a careful and independent discharge of our respective duties within their well defined limits. WHCAT—OptlMM wen quite freely dealt Uu prtoeei wet* recnlar. The doe* WW steady »t e fraotloual idmue. Spot lota oloeed quiet and unchanged. Spot aalaa of 2VCx 1 red atata ai M| No. S do. at MHi Na 1 whit* state at Mi ungraded fad at K«N, aad upadad «U*a a* KWNl Ka 1 rM wteur March. M: do. April, Ml* do. *hy, MM- _ CORN—Option! war* audacatalr aetlr*. bat th* th* torn* of speculation waa weak. frioee oloeed slightly lower. Spot lota oioaad Irregular. Ho. * oloaad Meant lowar, whlla tha atlwr ohangae war* tmImportant. Spotaalaaof ungradedmixed at*MD 49; No. a mixed, at 47*1 and Ko » »1m4 at » Marob and unobanged for tha raat. Spot lota eloead strons. and U to 1 at. higher. hpat aalaaof Wo. 1 White state at H and So. 2 do. at «)( Ha * mixed Il»ltiatat* «HH. POKK-Dull: nua, »10.»#10.?3. Twenty-six tons of powder was explodsd in a warehouse at Goes' Station, O., aad the bodies of several men ware blown to atoms, and a few fragments were gathered op in basksts. PUlsburr aad Chase Rejected. i believe the power to remove or suspend ■tch «fficWs is vested in the president alona by the constitution, which in express terms provides that "the executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America," and that "he shall take care that the Washington, March 2.—The senate, in executive session, rejected the nomination at Messrs. Pillsbury and Chase to be collectors of internal revenue at Boston and Portland. The aye and nay vote on the confirmation of Mr. Pillsbury disclosed the fact that several Democratic senators voted for bis rejection. Though the propriety of suspensions might be better assured if the action of the president was subject to review by the senate, yet if the constitution and the lawB have placed this responsibility upon the executive branch of the government, it should not be divided nor the discretion which it involves relinquished.Graham, the Springfield, Mo., bigamist, has confessed to the murder of hit wife. He killed his wife and threw her body into an abandoned well to avoid exposure as a bigamist.Mr. Edmunds—The senator gave way to me and I made a motion to refer. Mr. Harris—I first made a motion to print and lie on the table, and on the suggestion oi the senator from Vermont (Mr. Edmunds) I modified it to a motion to print Then the senator from Vei-mont (Mr. Edmunds) suggested that he would move, or did move, to refer to the committee on the Judiciary. That is an exact statement of the transaction. I think it will be found, the president continues, that in the subsequent discussions at ttf* question there was generally, if not at all tlnNs. a proposition pending to in some way curtatf the power of the president by legislation, which furnishes evidence that to limit neh paw it was supposed to be necessary to the constitution by such legislation. The first enactment of this description was paused under a stress of partisanship and political bitterness, which culminated in the presidents impeachment. This law provided that the Federal offloss* to which it applied rauld only be snspsndad .during the recess of the senate, when shown by evidence satisfactory to the pnrsidwit to I s guilty of misconduct in office, or crbas, or when incapaMs or disqualified to perform iMr duties, and tli*t within ju 4ayi LAWS BK F. ;r executed." Nmv York, March 2.—In the trial of Holland, Theordore Davis, brother of the murdered confidence man, testified to the circumstances of the shooting as they have already been published. On cross-examination he admitted being a professional criminal. A Professional Criminal. Frank Petit, a Virginia farmer, sues for divorce on the ground that he was forced to wed his wife at the point.of a pistol. It has been claimed that the present executive having pledged himself not to remove officials except for cause, the fact of their suspension implies such misconduct on the part of a suspended official as injures the character and reputation, and, therefore, the senate should revWw the case for his vindication.The Brotherhood of Looomotivo Firemen held a meeting at Buffalo. They have been organised twelve years, have 30,000 members, and have paid out $447,000 to beneficiaries. LARD—Closed quiet and steady; caah. ttM March, April, D1111 BUTTMt—Weak. State, l«0MoD Weetet*. IMth. CHKX8B—Dull. StatOehiM&i weateta tot, 1* Mr. Edmunds—Yee; but the senator from Tennessee (Mr, Harris) has a perfect right to move to print and lay on the table pending my motion; and on that I call for the yeas and nays. Emperor William of Germany fell during an imperial court ball, his enemies say from general debility, and others that he tripped an his sword. "&08-CJolet. stata, aiiai wasters, Ma. liobbers Carry Off Booty. —: 1r „ CUoa«e Urn Stock Karbi CmuM, March l.-The Biiwrf JDa reel repocU: Cattle—Reoelpte, 6,100 headt Ihlpmanu, ljgfe Mrhet steady, oloalng dalli shliSag steers. WWUW Iba.. ILTSChMi at*oherv aad Sr-crs t**4.1* aow*. ball, and »lx*d. «L rr^nljk S&mS I have said that certain officials should not, in my opinion, be removed during the continuance of the term for which they were appointed solely for the purpose of putting in their place those in political affiliation with the appointing power, and this declaration was immediately followed by a Middlkboko, Mass., March 2. — Masked burglars entered the house of Mrs. William H. Brigbtman, silenced the lady by holding a revolver at her head, and carried off $50 worth of property, being frighted away before they could secure more. Mr. Harris—I make that motipn to print and to lay on the table; and on that I Join the senator from Vermont (Mr. Edmunds) in th« call for the yeas and nays. The wheat crop in Ohio is repotted to look the worse for recent freesing and a short crop is indicated. * Mr. Harris' motion was defeated by a party vote—yeas, 87; nays, 83—Mr. Riddleberger, however, voting with the Democrats in favor of the motion. At the meeting of the tanners aad currier* of Milwaukee several Anarchists (Bdsavoad to make raeschss and were thrown out of the hall, causing abnost a riot An Adverse lie port. DESCRIPTION or OFFICIAL PARTISANSHIP which ought not tp entitle those in whom II was exhibited to consideration. It is not apparant how an adharance to the courts thus Washington, March 81—'The senate committee on publio lands has to report adversely the nomination of R a Dement, for surveyor gsnsral of the Territory of Utah. The steamer Baltic arrived in New Tort Some merriment was created by Mr. Horn first inadvertently voting "yss," and imm»