Evening Gazette

              * t. * i w * mmni ii«a. I WmMST aMMUM iwof ARBITRATION. PITTSTON, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 1,1886. {*WU CI.M8 Tea DC•(« Par Weak pottering with on* et the grandest subjects thnt ever enppd the attention of the house. It had bean aaid that tint— this bill—this milk poultice to the bite of • rattlesnakesucceeded, there would be compulsory legislation by the United States. When compulsory legislation was enacted to compel corporations to do their duty to their employes there must also be provisions requiring labor to do its duty to corporations. Was the house willing that United States arbitrators might decide these matters and impriaou for contempt every laborer who refused to abide the decision* at the pending bill, but the country was not Ml without a remedy. Tb» remedy was to ha found through the ballot box by the election of state legislatures an I congresses and presidents who would respect the rights of the people, and who would stop the system of the robbery of the many for the benefit of the few which had been going on for the last twenty years. Until these large corporations were controlled by law, until the robbery of the protective tariff and the monopoly of the national hanks were stopped no remedy would be found for these ills. LOGAN'S WAR RECORD. PAN ELECTRIC. "A SCANDALOUS 8TORY" The Illinois Senator Knows He Is No t t Which b Cuulni Comment on tb« Statesman. SENATOR HARRIS TELLS HOW THE COMPANY WAS FORMED. Lomdom, April 1.—The Daily News reproduces tinder the heading, "A Scandalous Story," an article from The New York Nautical Gazette, of March 6, alleging' that Sir Nathaniel Barnaby, ex-chief constructor of the British navy; Mr. W. H. White, the present chief constructor; the gunnery Arm of Sir William Armstrong & Co., and other British naval experts forming a syndicate had designed certain new cruisers to fce built for the United States navy. The article further asserts that the latest vessels designed under the supervision of Mossrs. Barnaby and White for the British navy are notorious failures; that they are condemned by the whole British naval service; that their armor has been so badly placed that it furnishes little if any protection; that the errors in construction are so complete that no remedy canbedevised to make the vessels safe, and that the British admiralty has been compelled to take the work of completing the vessels yet unfinished ont of the hands of the official designers and order the construction of other vessels upon entirely different plans from those recommended by White and Barnaby. Continuing, The Gazette says: "When a government does not trurft its own officials, it behooves others to be on their guard in employing then*." Other Side of the Water. Congressmen Talking Upon the 1 labor Question. Washington, April 1.—The army efficiency bill was taken up, and Mr. Logan at onoe took the floor to reply to some personal remarks made by Senator Teller. The senator from Colorado, Mr. Logan said, was the first nun that had complained of want of courtesy in Mr. Logan, and hereafter he would greet Mr. Teller as the Chesterfield of the senate. The Way Garland, Casey Young, Gen. Joe Johnston and Himself Came to Be Members and How the Stock Was A FLAVOR OF BUNCOMBE. Divided—No Official Influence. Washington, April L—Senator Harris, of Tennessee, related his connection with the Pan Electric Telephone company tfe the special committee investigating the subject He stated that ho was first approached in regard to entering the company by Dr. Rogers, in the winter of 1883, probably in February. Some correspondence passed between the two Rogers and himself, and he shortly called at their laboratory and examined the telephone, telegraph and electric light inventions, the Rogers' owned. Being satisfied that they were valuable he said: "I am willing td go in and help develope these inventions, but I will do so on one condition only, and that condition 1 feel will appear very unreasonable to you. It is that I shall have the right to name the persons who are to control the business of the company. Dr. Rogers said that the condition was very unreasonable and he could not consent to it I repeated that it was an unreasonable demand, but that upon no other condition would I have anything to do with the business. The Oongreaciaiud Beoord of March 31 Will be Quoted in Future Campaigns, Mr. Weaver, ot Iowa, Was primarily opposed to all legislation on the labor question, because in its very nature it could not be effective. The cause of the discontent throughout the country was the neglect on the part of the lawmaking power of the country to preserve the prosperity of the republic. The remedy must come from a propor law regulating interstate commerce, and from a law which would create a condition in our economic system so that the employer could afford to pay the laboring man what his labor was worth. There was' mD disposition on the part of the workingmen to violate law. The trouble was they could not get the. opportunity to work. The remedy was to give the country an increased volume of currency. This labor question was purely and simply a question of money. There were Mr. Buchanan favored the bill and stated that it was the result of Mr. Teller's reference to his military services, and his assertion that Mr. Logan was parading his military services before the country, were unworthy of a Republican senator representing a loyal state. Men on tho other side of the senate, who fought against the Union, had more respect for a soldier than to indulge in such low, mean, despicable insinuations. Mr. Logan did what little he could for this country. He helped preserve the flag that sheltered the senator from Colorado; he helped protect that senator's property and his rights, and he helped keep the Union together while that senator reposed in the quiet of his own home. Mr. Teller's insinuation about his aspirations, Mr. Logan said, were without foundation. Mr. Logan bad no aspirations beyond representing his constituency tioneetly and fairly, and to occupy his seat honorably, and he added: "I want nothing; I am not in the way of any man." Men who had been cabinet officers were not necessarily statesmen, and when the Colorado senator said that Mr. Logan was not a statesman he said no more than Mr. Logan already knew, and he felt sorry that there were some men who did not know so much about themselves. and careful thought on the part of the committee on labor. There must be arbitration, voluntary or enforced. The committee had decided in favor of voluntary arbitration because enforced arbitration in the hands of designing men might be used to the detriment of the laboring msd of the country. Enforced arbitration to be effective must have an enforced awa.nl, and an enforced award meant not only a possible but a probable danger to the employe. This was  situation in a nutshell. W SERIOUS CONSIDERATION ■mors About Kasy Between the Two Groat Parties—Weaver Gets In ■ Word for HI* Third Party — No Prohibition Member Present to Make a point—The ▼lews Expressed—The BUI Will Likely Pass the Hoose. Washington, April 1—In the house Mr. O'Neill, of Missouri, from the committee cm labor, reported a bill to provide for the speedy settlement of controversies and difficulties between common carriers engaged In Interstate and territorial transportation of property or passengers and their employes. Mr. O'Neill said that for the past two months the oommittee on labor had been engaged in draining every avenue where there was reasonable hope of securing information as to some feasible methods consistent with the constitution and the laws that would provide a mode of settlement of the disastrous disputes between capital and labor. The committee had decided that the pending measure was the best it could formulate. It was a simple, voluntary arbitration. He knew that this was disappointing to many members of the house. He knew that there was a feeling in the breast of many men that this was not what was expected; but if they would but reflect, they would realize that the llrst thing to consider was how far they oould regulate the dispute by an appeal to public opinion. If this method failed, then he oould see but one other, and that was the strong arm of the government to take the giant corporations by the throat and tell them that they must yield to arbitration, that they must submit the differences between them and their workmen to some peaceful agreement; that the government oould not have the condition of affairs that to-day prevailed throughout five states of the Union, a practical revolution, aU business suspended, and the people of great cities suffering from the increased cost of food and fuel He did not pretend to say who was to iblame. He simply knew that the workmen s..h that they were willing to arbitrate grievances, and hie knew that the president «C Ike Missouri Pacific had not yet consented to it. In the meantime, thank heaven, the sober second thought of American workmen had kept the strike within bounds, and he was convinced that they would prevent any disastrous consequences until the termination of this issue. Mr. McAdoo said that the remedy for the great disease of differences between capital and labor began with public opinion. He favored the bill because it gave a vent to that public opinion in an orderly, legitimate way; because it materialized the public opin- THREB ROBBERS IX THE COUNTRY which were sucking up the last blood of honest toil—the land monopoly, the railroad monopoly and the mpney monopoly. He would say to the laboringmen, "Strike not against Jay Oould or against the Missouri, Pacific, but against those congressmen who ion of 00,000,006 of people and focussed it on oorporations and monopolies, so that they would be compelled in their own interests to do justice to those who made the laws. The Daily News, in its editorial comment* upon this article, insists upon nn immediate explanation by the officials mentioned and by the British admiralty as welL Pending further discussion, the committee rose. "Next day, or a few days afterward, I received a note from Dr. Rogers saying he and his son bad concluded to permit me to name tho controlling persona, and that they had further concluded that I might name the terms. I replied that I would name the controlling men, but the terms upon which they should enter the company must be fixed by negotiation. Mr. Atkins, now commissioner of Indian affairs, was to be one, myself another, and I was to name three others, according to the suggestion of the Sogers. The stock was to be divided into ten parts. These five men were to hold five-tenths, the Rogers four-tenths, and the remaining one-tenth was to be held in abeyance by the company. Each man was to have one-tenth of the stock issued. At a meeting of Mr. Atkins, the Rogers and myself, I named Gen. Joseph B. Johnston as one of the men to oome into the company, and he was accepted and put down as a member of the company to be formed. Mr. Atkins suggested Senator Garland, and he was accepted. Dr. Rogers suggested OoL Casey Young, and he also was accepted. In this way the five men were selected. " Then Senator Harris entered into a detailed account of the meetings of the company, the correspondence and advances made in pushing the enterprise, which did not materially differ from statements made by preceding witnesses. Senator Harris said he had received a letter from Dr. Rogers requesting him to urge the attorney general to bring suit to annul the Bell telephone patents, but that he did not mention the matter to the attorney general, nor did he answer the letter. He never attended any of the conferences, nor consulted about suits by the government against the Bell patents. The subject of a suit to test the Bell patents was never spoken of between himself and the attorney general until tl* recent publications, when he went to Mr. Garland and they talked over the publications. He went to the department of justice just before and immediately after the salt was ordered and made inquiry of Solicitor General Gkxxle, for the information of a constituent, whether the papers in a proposed suit had been received from the United States district attorney for the western district of Tennessee. Mr. Boyle inquired whether it had been intimated at any time that the company was to profit by the official position of any member of it. "At no time." replied Senator Harris, with apparent feeling. "And I will say further, that if such a thing had been suggested that my influence as a senator was to be used, remotely or directly, in the interest of the Pan Electric company, it would have ended my connection with it then and forever."Mr. White was seen in reference to the publication by a Cable News representative, whom he authorized to state in his own words that "the whole story is a d d lie, as far as I am concerned, and I have written an explicit denial of it to The Daily News." A CHAPLAIN'S PENSION, are dumb to your interests when they come to the house." The remedy was through the ballot box. Another difficulty in the situation was this: There was no policy or purpose in this house to-day in either one of the great political parties. A man could be a high protective tariff manor a free trader; and he could be a monopolist or an anti-monopolist; he could be a Blair bill man or an anti-Blair bill man; he could be a bank man or an anti-bank man, and be a member ot either party represented on this floor—except the Greenback party. He defied any man before God to name a thing which a man had to believe in order to be a member of either party. They were all full of reform before the people, but when they got here they "Why," asked Mr. Logan, "has It been persisted in that I am trying to make insinuations on somebody outside of this chamber?" (Alluding to Mr. Blaine.) "I say once for all, that I made no such allusion; that the man was not in my mind, and that I had no such intention." Further Hearing of Commissioner Black on Partisan Pensions. The firm of Bir William Armstrong tc Co. also authorizes a flat denial of the allegations contained in The Gazette's article. Washington, April 1. — Commissioner Black was further examined by the senate committee on public moneys relative to the administration of the pension office. The petition case of Mark Robinson, chaplain of the Fifty-second Indiana volunteers, occupied the attention of the committee. The commissioner baaed his opinion that the case had been irregularly allowed, upon letters on file from ex-Governor Foster and Senator Harrison recommending prompt action. In the opinion of the commissioner, the case was made special, more on the account of the receipt of these letters than for any other reason. Hie political backing in the case had at Mr. Logan then gave notice that all such attempts made by senators to cause a quarrel or ill-feeling between that gentleman and himself would fail. VANCE ON CIVIL SERVICE. He Presents a Bill and Advocates the Repeal of the Law. - Washington, April L—In support of his bill before the senate Mr. Vance maintained that every citizen of the United States was qualified to hold office, except as the constitution limited the right That was one of the proudest and distinctive features of democratic government. By the civil service law only citizens of a certain age, residents of certain states and those who submit to a certain examination were eligible. This would not da The millions were entitled te seek office and take their chances. They got no ohance under this law. Too much was mad* to depend on the condition of the commissioner's liver, his appetite far dinner, or the failure of his morning bitters. The establishment of a certain class that should do all the office holding was like to the act of the Jews of old in consecrating the family of Levi to the honors of the priesthood, leaving to the other tribes the hardships and responsibilities of war. THE SICK STATESMEN. Three Cabinet Oncers and the Private Secretary Laid Up for Bepalrs. Washington, April 1.—It 'was stated at Secretary Manning's residence to-day that no change in his condition was apparent since yesterday morning. From other sources it Was learned that the night had been less favorable than the previous one, and the secretary's condition is still the cause of apprehension on the part of all who are fully informed as to his condition. "ROARED LIKE SUCKING DOVES," because they were qfraid to give their views, lest some party friend would say, "If you express those views we cannot carry New York or Pennsylvania." once attracted the Gen. Black insisted, that according to the medical books, the patient was not suffering from diabetes — for which disease the claim was allowed—at the time the claim was presented. tr's attention. Dir. Reed, of Maine, said that the country itemed to have come to the beginning of what might be a failure or might be a great expansion which might be the commencement of a great epoch, giving larger freedom and better treatment both to the humble and to the great It would be in vain for congress to attempt to weave out of its own conscience the solution of the great labor problem. It must be solved by watching the workings of great bodies of man. It was the great question, not only of to-day, but of all time. It had been struggled with and would be struggled with from day to day. Capital could not be deprived of its fare share of profit; men would cease to have an incentive to accumulate, and if capital was not accumulated labor could not be set to work. On the other hand, the men whose work makes out of capital profit must be fairly treated. attempted to show that Jhere was nothing in the record to warrant the statements that this case had been irregularly allowed, and read affidavits to substantiate his view, but Gen. Black rcAd an affidavit of a postmaster in Indiana, charging that one of the physicians in the Robinson case was irresponsible and had been in prison for irregular practices.Mr. Plumb, in the witness. Mr. Manning is able to lift his right arm to his head, and can move his right leg a little. He can also turn himself in his bed. His voice is husky, but he converses intelligibly, and his mjtad is clear. Secretary Lamar will not be out for some days, although there is nothing dangerous in his condition. He came very near having an attack of pneumonia, but the doctor says there is no danger of that now. Tho secretary suffers a good deal from a severe headache. His son sat up with him last night. Herr Most Savs Its a tie. The committee on labor were unanimously at the opinion that this bill was the best that could be pawed now—to invoke the public opinion of the country and compel men in this case, aa In all other cases, to appeal to reason and not to dm brute force to invade human rights. Without concluding consideration of the case the committee adjourned until to-day. . New York, April 81.—Herr Most was •hownthe article published in the Boston Anarchist paper Liberty, charging him with heading a gang of criminals who had besn swindling insurance companies by insuring buildings and stocks for large amounts and then setting Are to them. Herr Most denounced the article as a gross, infamous lie, and he proposes to stop the slander in an effectual manner. AN OFFENSIVE PARTISAN. Attorney General Garland is so Car reoovered that were it not for the had weather he would be at his office. His physicians think it best for him not to come out in such damp weal her. A Democratic Appoint** Almost Unani- Washington, April 1.—There was a long executive session of the senate yesterday. Host of the time was spent in discuaing the nomination of the postmaster at Webster City, la., upon which an adverse report was made by the committee. All of the Repub licans and all the Democrats but three voted against the confirmation and it was rejected. The committee's report shows that the appointment was made through representations that the old postmaster was an offensive partisan and that the nominee, since his appointment, had proven to be more offensively partisan than he had accused his predecessor to have been. It was shown that the nominee was the manager of a Democratic newspaper and had been making Democratic speeches in different portions of his county, to the serious neglect of his business. The Democratic senators did not seem to care anything about this, but voted for rejection because the nominee had neglected bis official duties. The nomination of John C. Wise, to be postmaster at Mankato, Winn., was also rejected. mously Kqjected, Mr. Burrowm, Crf Michigan, inquired what would he tli* effect of one of the parties of the arbitration declining to stand by the decision of the arbitrators. CoL Lamont was at the White House yesterday morning, but an attack of neuralgia got the better of him, and he was compelled to go home. What the laboring man needed and desired was that there should be that careful examination of the matter which would lead to an agreement, and if by reason of the unreasonableness of certain men this could not be done, then to have some method of arbitration. This arbitration would be enforced by that ultimate tribunal—the public sense of all the human beings in the country. So far as the bill proclaimed itself to be a panacea, it deserves the repudiation of his friend from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelley). But, taking it for just what it was, saying to the community: "You, yourselves, have not reasoned this out so thoroughly that you know what is fair. We offer to legalise your enunciations so far as they have gone, and we will give you an opportunity to put the results of arbitration before that great tribunal—the common sense of the people—which is finally to decide if Fifty Y«n as Kowlmuter. Mr. O'Neill replied that public opinion would compel a compliance with the decision. Public opinion had accomplished i some of the greatest reforms ia history. NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. Boston, April 1.—D. L. Davis completed, iMt night, fifty years service as roodmaater on the Boston and Providence railroad. Superintendent Folsom and 200 employes called on him and presented him with a French clock; also a letter of hearty commendation from President Whitney inclosing a $500 check. Shall Civil Service be Abolished T That's *0L KELLEY THINKS IT A SltARt. Kr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, said that he uroiM vote for this bill, but as that was his jKirpes* be wanted to say in advance to the workitVMOi of the country that it was a Mick on their credulity and a fraud. He nfrrl f" C— from Missouri whether a msinsM who believed that this bill was a measure "to provide for the speedy settlement of controversial and differences" would Albany, April 1.—The senate judiciary committee yesterday listened to arguments on Mr. Plunkitt's bill to submit to this popular vote the question of abolishing the civil service commission and repealing the civil service laws. the Question. ; Mr. Plunkitt expressed his belief that the people of the state were opposed to these which prevented the children of poor parent* from getting office. Memphis, April 1.—A1 Bennett, a traveling salesman for Orgill Bros., representing the Piebald Safe company, of Cincinnati, was shot through thq heart by his mistress yesterday. The woman then shot herself just above the heart, and is dying. The cause of the tragedy is not knowa A Woman's Doubly Fatal Shot. not be deceived! Co»ld there be any adjudication between Jay Oould and the strikers on bia road as long as Jay Gould did not consent thereto! Mr. Bourke Cockran denounced the system as demoralizing to the people and to the public service, and as copied from British monarchical institutions and unfitted for a free government Dkdham, Mass., April 1.—The Mugwumps are highly elated at the appointment of their candidate, Augustus C. Cummings, as postmaster. Charles H. Riley was indorsed by the Democratic town committee, the state central committee, many members of the Democratic committee of Boston and Congressmen Collins and Lovering. He was also the choice of nearly all the Democrats in town. About forty Mugwumps, headed by George Frederick Williams, of Boston, put in their work for Cummings. Mr. Cummings has always been a Republican, but voted for Cleveland. A Mugwump Postmaster. Mr O'Neill could answer by stating that in Uvingstane's works (which the gentleman fifed evidently been reading) it was said that in the interior regions of Africa there could be found the most intensely critical people on the earth in regard to mechanism, who .could not put the simplest piece of machinery -toother. Why did not the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelley), as father of the house, propose something, instead of tearing .down) The gentleman had made the same .objection test congress on the bill to prohibit the importation of contract labor. Mr. Kelley said that he would vote for any hill which would give relief to oppressed labor, but he would not vote for this mass of twords, unless his vote was accompanied by *he notice that the bill meant nothing. A PREMIUM UPON QUARRELING. Mr. Daniel, of Virginia, criticised the bill. It was as well to attempt to cure heart disease by putting a piece of sticking plaster on the top of a bald bead as to remedy the labor troubles by the passage of this measure. Anything that tended towards negotiation and arbitration was a wise thing, but, according to the assertion of the public press, the present controversy in the west was a controversy arising out M a breach of arbitration, All that moral suasion, that the interest .of society, that the counsel of wise and just men could do to bring men together was being done now every hour of the day. The bill was an attempt to create a new United States court with extraordinary powers and it put a premium upon quarreling, when quarreling ought to be made an expensive luxury. He did not want to pass a law which gave free trade in quarreling, while the government had to pay a protective bounty upon it He was opposed to the bill, though he would be glad to see anything done that would bring about arbitration, but that arbitration must be spontaneous in its start, continuous in its growth and inspired by those engaged in the difficulties. Ex-Sena tor Grady held that regardless of its merits or faults the scheme should be submitted to the people. Baku, April 1.—An explosion occurred on board a vessel loaded with petroleum lying in this harbor. The vessel was destroyed and thirteen of her crew killed. Petroleum Sinks a Vessel. Philadelphia, April 1.—At a meeting of the' Beading Railroad general mortgage bondholders committee resolutions were adopted declaring Quit they do not approve in its present shape, either the plan of the syndicate or that of Mr. Go wen. They request general mortgage bondholders npt to deposit their bonds under the plan of the syndicate at present and announce that within a week they win communicate their objections to the plans now before the creditors.Heading Bondholders. Further argument will be had next Wednesday. Gen. Spinola, Commissioner Croker, Morgan J. OBrien, Senators Cullen and Reilly and others favoring the bill were present, but did not obtain an opportunity to express their views. Washington, April L—For middle states clearing, slightly colder weather, winds generally shifting to westerly. Weather Indications. Washington, April L—A hearing was given by the house committee on agriculture to representatives of the butter interests of the country, in favor of the bill to tax oleomargarine and imitation butter of any kind. James Hughes, president of the Baltimore produce exchange; CoL Littler, secretary of the Iowa Dairymen's association; the Chicago Frodmce exchange, and the National Butter and Egg association; James H. Seymour, president Mew York mercantile exchange; B. F. Vanvolkenburg, assistant dairy commissioner of Mew York; Mr. Rohr, of the Mew York Retail Grocers association; Representative Scott; ex-Representative Hopkins, of Pennsylvania; W. H. Duckworth, of Mew York; Commissioner of Agriculture Colman, and ex-Commissioner Loring spoke for a bill that would distinguish imitation butter from the general article, and put upon it a tax. They claim that the dairy interests were being ruined by the manufactured butter, and urged the committee to afford protection. The hearing will be continued. To Tax Bogus Batter. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Mingo Jack's Lynchers. A Market Flat, Dull and Unprofitable to A Train Ditched. Eatontown, N. J., April L—Gen. Charles Haight, county prosecutor, has issued war-rants for the arrest of three persons who were prominent witnesses in the inquest on the body of Mingo Jack. The prosecutor is indignant at the result of the coroner's investigation, and has determined to lay the matter before the grand jury. The names of those for whom warrants have been issued are believed to be Kelley, Dangler and Sic kles. New Yobs, March BL—This morning's msrket opened liregular and tame. Missouri Pacific cine d at 106 last night, aad pleased the bulls by coming up smiling at lutJt The lis.-, thojgh uut important, was considered neverthelesssnc-urn; llg.  tlon ot the disturbances between ih. employs oC that road and the management causos th bulls to hope (or better things. The bean are aitald to sell and the bulls us afraid to buy, and betwixt and be. tween them the market was dull. There Is a ten denej for operators to speculate la produc .up-m the belief that the delay In transportation will cause uq advance In price*. Speculators and Brokers. Evansvillx, April t—A serious accident befell the south bound passenger train an the Louisville and 8t Louis railway about nine miles south of Huntingburgh yesterday. The rear coach, which was full of passengers, was thrown from the track into the ditch, severely wounding fourteen of them and slightly injuring all on board. Among the injured was F. C. Harden, of Plainfield, N.J., fatal Injury of head and back. Mr. Buchanan, of New Jersey, expressed Iris surprise that the gentleman from Pennsylvania, after stating that he would vote for the bill, should denominate it as a trick and • fraud. There was a great deal of interest taken in the.debate, and numbers crowding around the speakers created so much confusion as to ca8f om Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, the suggestion t'.at the he use was on a strike. Mr. Foran, of Ohio, was no more oppossd to the pending bill than he was to drinking a glass of water. Both were harmless. The. bin could injure no one,Cbut it could accomplish no good. There was no more arbitration to this bill than there was flesh on a doctor's skeleton. Referring to the Missouri Pajofflc strike, he saW that the workmen had -feiksd lor arbitration and fay Oould bad refused. If the arbitration were accepted it would be because Mr. Oould had become Mtififled that it was to his interest to end the controversy and not because be loved the principle C f arbitration. The labor problem • oould nut be settl d by arbitration or by hgtsteHf" It was deeper and went beyond legislation. The idea that congress could in tone day solve a problsm which had been be'fore the civilfted world for ages and ages was Arrested For Causing a Suicide. Oa a boring by the room traders, prices advanced H to M per oent.. but from the flrsi call to noon dca'- lngs were almost featureless. After midday, however, there was some buying, and prices further advanced H to 1 per oent The market c osed am, at the best figures. Declining Navy Supervision. Portland, Me., April 1.—Philip Kirby and his wife Nellie were arrested here on suspicion of having brought about the recent mysterious suicide of Robert R. Whittier at Wollaston. Mr. Glover, of Missouri, gava notice that be would at the proper time offer as a arubetititute for the pending bill the bill introduced by him on Monday, which is bawd on the English law and which provides for compulwry arbitration. The situation in the southwestern system of railroads, he said, was one which demanded the greatest attention from legislators. In the midst of peace the country was on the verge of civil war, and this was because congress had not dealt with a question with whioh congress alone could deal. He did not speak for either the employer or the employe. There was a third party—the producers, the consumers, the merchants, the body of men engaged in commercial enterprises, whose enterprises ware assassinated by the existing strike—and from that third party a cry was coming. The bill reported by the committee on labor gave no relief that did not exist before. It would not allay the condition of things in the southwest any more than a cup of water would put out a conflagration. He was satisfied that the people of the country wanted this question dealt with in a straightforward and manly manner and not by a bill which was a mere sham—a mere promise, which would have the effect simply to deceive—to make the people believe that a remedy was offered when nothing was offered. OK THE VERGE OF CIVIL WAR. Washington, April 1.—The house committee on naval affair* has agreed to report favorably the bill consolidating the bureaus of the navy department The bill provides for: First, a bureau of navigation; second, a bureau of ordnance; third, a bureau of medicine and surgery; fourth, a bureau of material construction and repair, and fifth, a bureau of supplies and accounts. Money, per cent Exchange dull at f487®4.» Governments firm. Currency 60,131*4 bid; 4s,  136H bid; 4KB. coup., 11* bid. CONDENSED NEWS. Prices clotted M follows: W. U. Telegraph..... 66% DeL A Hudson.., Adams Express. 145 DeL, Lack. AW,.. U. a Express 08 Denver  G,C,C.41 48 Erie  New York Central.. .103M Kansas ft Texas... New Jersey Central. 49 Lake Shore  Illinois Central .139* Lake Brie A West. Ohio Central IK Morris A Essex.... Michigan Central.... 67 Northwest  Northern Pacific,.... 30 Da pref  Da pref 63M Ontario A West... Central Pacific....... 41 Ohio A Miss  Union Pacific 4794 Pacific Mall  Missouri Pacific 104 Reading.  Texas Pacific. 12M Rock Island.  Metropolitan L 160 St Paul...  Alton A T. H - Wabash  Canada Southern. .. 8094 Bur. A Qulncj  Canada Pacific. C«k Ore-B'y *Nav.._. Chloago 4k Alton 141 Oregon Trana  Ghes, ft Ohio lltf West Shore  101M ■ V-S* . 14X . wt Russell Sage and Jay Gould were accepted as bondsmen in the case of James H. Goodsell against the Western Union Telegraph company pending an appeal .to the court of appeals. The bond is for $500,000. Sheep Growers to Convontloa. Johnstown, N. Y., April 1.—Dr. Frank Beebe denies the reports published that a mysterious epidemic is raging in this village. He says that there is no fatal epidemic of any kind in Johnstown, Fulton county. He states that there are a number of cases of mild fevor, with pollicular toosilitis, but no deaths from the disease have occurred, and that the disease is perfectly amenable to treatment. No call has been made for assistance. Dr. Burdick, the health officer here, has telegraphed to the same effect to Dr. Curtis, of Albany, of the state board of health. Mo Epidemic at Johnstown. Middlebury, vt, April 1—The fifth annual meeting of the Vermont Merino Sheep Shearing association began here yesterday, and will continue three days. Many prominent sheep breeders from New York and various western states will be present The usual high tariff resolutions were passed. The Sing Sing prison shows a net profit of $7,003.56 for the month of March. An association of silk manufacturers are in session at Chicago, having for their object the maintenance of silk prices. United States Treasurer Jordan says he has discharged no one from his department on account of politics. USX 97 nH The bill kept the word of promise to the M-aud broke it tD the hope. It would aocnuipik.li r.otuing and would not add to the dignity of the congress that passed it An Unknown Gorman Hang* Himself. A food famine is threatened at Key West owing to losses from the late fire. Boston, April t —'The body of an unknown middle-aged German was found yesterday morning hanging by the neck to a tree in Franklin parte. A silver watch was found in his pocket, but there were no papers that could lead to his identification. General Market*. The peach crop prospects from the southwest indicate that loss has been caused by recent cold weather. New yob*. March »L—WIJOXTR—Dull and without important change; Minnesota extra, '$3.2503 5; winter wheat extra, »1JS®S.S5; St. Louis extra. t&!M3.9&. Southern flour steely; common to choice extra. (9.9903.40. TUX NLL JWTU8 NOTHING. Mr. Hammond, of Georgia, said that he bad never owned and never intended to own a dollar of stock in any transportation company. and had no interest in this matter ejp cept that which was common to every citizen of the United States. Hs was oppoeed to ths pending bill. It had been characterised o* the other side as a fraud. He would not be so unkind to hie own side of the bouse as to say be believed it, but he was too respectful to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelley) to *Din issue with him on the assertion. It proposed that when people desired 1hey might arbitrate, and the United Btatee would pay the expense of the arbitration The laboring meo of the country were too intelligent to be deoeived by such » movsure. Congress wae asked to legislate to pay the expanses of a tribunal, which tribunal could hare go Judgment or force except through pubUo opinion. T*# statement made the proposiilm ridiculous. To crowd such a bill through ,«he house without thought or debet* was Philadelphia, April 1.—The Pennsylvania Railroad company to-day put into effect reduced passsnger rates between New York and this city ami Pittsburg. The rate for first-class limited tickets between New York and Pittsburg will hereafter be $10.50, and between Philadelphia and Pittsburg $9. The rate for 1,000-mile tiokets win also be reduced over all linos of the company east of Pittsburg and Brie, except the united railroads of New Jersey divisions, from $26 to $20. The Pennsylvania Kodneos Fare. Ramsey Gregory was shot and killed at Bay City, Mich., by a harness thief who was discovered carrying off a set of harness. Two Thousand Vivo Hundred Arrests. WHEAT—Option* were unsettled and Irregular on only a moderate amount ot business. The oloae vai weak and H to la lover. 8pot lots cloeed dull and easy. Spot aalea of Na 1 reCi Mate at *L01; Mo. 1 .la state.; Na 1 white atate at He.; ungraded wlaier redataoaMo.; No. J red winter at MAtoc. and no. 1 •print at *6«9tMc.; Na a red winter, April. 93« J WKe.; da Mar. NMSNMa; da June. M««w: Bbusselh, April I.—Thus far the total number of persons arrested for connection with the riots in Belgium is 3,500. The prisons aye overcrowded, and other buildings will be necessarily utilised for the Incarceration of prisoners hereafter arrested. , Nine oltlsens of Portland, Ore., have been indicted by the United States grand jury on charges of seditions conspiracy in driving Chinamen out of Oregon City. Osronimo, the Apache chief, who surrendered to Gen Crook, fits escaped and is now ready to give employment to the army for another six months. OPKRATKB AJQAINST LOCAL ItSTKRKSTS. Mr. Reagan, of Texas, opposed the bill, on the ground that it would take from the local tribunals, where it belonged, the adjustment and settlement of a local question—a question between the hirer and laborer. While be wished to see the of justice given to the laboring man, he did not wish to see that justice given in such a way as to break down the barriers of the constitution. Whenever congress consented, in obedience to the pasffonf of the hour, to do a thing not allowed by the constitution, it struok at the center of our political institutions. He could And no authority in the constitution for the passage CORN—Option* ww« iairly active, while prices were weak during the greater part. The close was Arm, however, and prloea were at about yesterday'a figures. Spot aalM of ungraded mixed at U®«V\; No 8 mixed at 49c., and Na I mixed at 46Ma» Na I mixed. May, 47J*j.; da Jane, 47JC«47t«c. No Message From Cleveland. New York, April X.—W. E. Conner, claiming to spsek with authority, stated that Mr. Gould reoelved no message from President Cleveland .influencing his action in the recent strike negotiations. The Auburn prison deficit for March is $0,1«B. The expenses were fU,CXXX The Germaii steamship guropa went ashore on Long Isls id yeetefday. The crew were saved. OATS—Were doll and cloeed heavy and allghtly lower. Spot lot* oloeed etrong and higher. Spot aalea of No, 1 white state at 49a, Mad Na 1 da at 40a; Na * mixed, April, MMc.; da May, asHc. EYE—Dull; ysaaana—"If.; state, mail. BaBLEY—Nominal. The Grant WosuhsI tsssnlelliin Nbw Yoke, April 1.-.Sidney Dillon has been chosen president of the Grant Monument association, ex-President Arthur having declined re-election because at poor health. The new executive oommlttee are C. Vander- MR, Jesse Seligman,TL M Bartow, A. B Cornell, Oliver Hoyt, A L. Sanger, W. H Wickham, c! R. Vail and C. O'Reilly. The steamer Capital City, of the Hartford line, stuck test on a rook at Rye Beach and filled wtth water. No lives ware lost. Mar Oive Utile PUls. PORK-Duil; Man «t7J#MJl far old. SDOAB-Dttlli fair to food redoing. 4H*fe BUT 1*11-Firm mad fairly active; state, wit; western, i5C3VShx CRHbt-Dna and moderately active; state. U nnLABSUWiA, April 1—Degrees of doetor of medicine were oonterred upon fifty-eight the Hshnemann medical colkfe yesterday. PI—tent flood* am raging in ths sootheastern states, causing much loss of property and Importing travel.