Connecticut western news., 1878-05-09
Oup Weekly News Summary.
UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
SENATE.

OOu OuIIeu OGaCeS senator TOT Iuo lerm beginning March 4, 1879.
 Mr. Conover (Rep. Fla.) called up the resolution submitted by him on the 20th of March requesting the President 10 communicate to the Senate certain infor- nation touching the surrender of Cuban insurgents and the future policy of Spain in the government of the island of Cuba and 1t was unanimously agreed to-.
 The House joint resolution appropria- ting 8, ,OOO for the erection of a monu- ment over the grave of Thomas Jefferson was passed.
 MT Butler Dem., s. O. submitted an amendment to the bill to repeal the Speclal resumption act, now on the cal endar, repeating section 3, ,412 of the Revised Statutes, which imposes tax of 10 per cent. upon the circulating notes of private or State banks. Ordered printed.
 Mir. Cockrell Oem., Mo- from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported without amendment the House bill authorizing the President of the United States to appoint James Shields of Mis- sour q Brigadier-G General in the United States army on the retired list. Placed on the calendar.
 Resolutions were introduced declaring any radical change in the tariff laws iii, opportune and inexpedient.
 MT. Matthewss amendment to the bill repeating the Bankrupt act, prov1i- ing that the bill should go into effect on Jan. l, 1879, was agreed to--yeas p, nays 9.
 Bills were introduced by Mir. Clark (Dem., N. J.)-To prevent the insol- vency of railroad companies in tho Uni ted States. It provides that any duly organized railroad company may deposit at the United States Treasury gold coin, which 1t may have received from the sales of its capital stock, and receive thereon interest at the rate of four per cent.
 By Mir. Turner Dem., Ky.)-A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting members of Congress from holding during his term of office, or for two years thereafter, any office under the United States which has been created, or the compensation for which has been increased during his term of office, and declaring Judges of the Supreme Court ineligible to the office of President or Vice. President.
 Mir. Fort (Rep., H. moved to sus- pend the rules and pass the bill forbid ding the retirement of the United States legal tender notes. It makes 1t unlaw- ful for the Secretary of the Treasury to cancel or retire any more legal tender notes, but when they shall be received into the Treasury from any source, they shall be reissued and paid out again It was passed-yeas, 177 :; nays, 35. . Mir. Wright, (Dem., Pa. made speech in advocacy of his bill for Government loan to aid poor citizens to make settle ments on the government lands. He sad that it was bread the half-starved multitude demanded employment or bread. " The bill proposed to make loan of $500 by the Government to any head of family who made an entry in the public domain under the Homestead law, such loan to be secured by mort gage on the homestead, and to pay an interest at the rate of three per cent. the law to expire by limitation when $lO,OOO,OOO have been advanced in the manner provided.
 The Democratic Congressional Com mittee held 8 meeting at Washington and the Presidential question was dis cussed. It was announced that every- thing was being done to gain full pos session of every important fact bearing upon the Florida and Louisiana count. and that in a short time it might be wise to propose joint committee of investi- gation. The committee adjourned with the understanding that all attempts to hasten the proposed investigation should be discountenaneed for the present.
 Three young forgers, the oldest of them barely twenty-two, who succeeded ln obtaining about fifteen thousand dol Lars ln New York, were brought to that city, having been extradited from Bar ~bados. On the voyage out they endeav- -ored to induce the crew of the vessel to mutlny, and to turn pirates. The so- called boys literature of the day seems well calculated to turn out the more romantic class of criminals.
 At Whitby, Ontario, Thomas Burke and John McPherson were convicted of the murder of Mrs. Ellen Bennett, and were sentenced to be hanged on June IA, The prisoners entered the dwelling of the deceased near Brougham, on July 26th last and violated her person. The outrage resulted in Mrs. Bennett's death.
 -Gilmore's band has sailed for Europe to take part in the Paris Exposition, and to make a professional tour.
 The annual meeting of the Army of the Potomac will take place this year at Springfield, Mass.
 A fire destroyed large portion of the city of San Salvador.
 In the western part of Nebraska a hunting party of four men disappeared, and their bodies were afterwards found in the woods. They had all been mur- dered
 The Washburn fouring mill at Nm neapolis, Minn., the largest mill in the country exploded from the ignition of dust in the middling purifiers, making a complete wreck. The ruins took fire and this extended to other mills in the vicin- 1ty until six of the large mills were de- stroyed, lntiictlng loss of over $1, ,4OO,- 900. The loss of life was large. In the Washburn mill the entire night force and part of the day hands were in the building and were buried in the ruins, the explosion being so sudden and the wreck so complete that none could es- cape. Had the building contained nitro glycerine, the explosion could not have been more terrible. Fully forty lives were lost by the disaster. At one time the flames threatened to destroy the town but they were finally nuenoba6