The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-10-12
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THE special session of the Senate CON-
vened at Washington on the 10th. The Son.
ate was called to order by Senator Harris.
Chaplain Bullock alluded In q feeling manner
to the death of Pres!!1ent Garfield, Senator
Burnside an6 Secretary Burch. The Presi-
dents proclamation, calling the extra ses-
sion, having been read, Mr.. Pendleton moved
that Thomas T. Bayard be chosen President
pro tera of the Senate. Mr.. Edmunds said
that of course he did not object to the pres
ent consideration of the resolution, but
he thought under existing circum-
credentials of the Senators elect, which he
thereupon did. The credentials having been
read, Mr.. Edmunds moved that the oath OF
office be administered to those gentlemen by
some discussion Mr.. Edmunds' amendment
was rejected. Yeas, 81; nays, 81. Edmunds
then proposed an amendment providing that
Thomas F. Bayard should be elected presiding
officer for that day only and argued in sup
port of the amendment contending that it
would comply with both the letter and spirit
of the Law and would allow the States OF New
York and Rhode Island to have voice In the
election of q permanent President pro tera.
A yea and nay vote on Mr.. Edmunds' amend
ment resulted in its defeat, S3 to 81 Mr..
Edmund then offered another amendment
substituting Senator Anthony for that OF
Senator Bayard as President pro tenn. Inc
vote was at once taken and the amendment
defeated, yeas 80, nays 81. Malone voted
with the Republicans. Senator David Davis
did not vote. The original resolution intro
duced by Pendleton was then adopted by
thirty-four to thirty-two, Davis, of Illinois,
did not vote. Malone voted with the Re-
publicans.
An Associated Press dispatch stated
ON the 10th that Secretary Window would
soon retire from the Cabinet. He viii be q
candidate for the Minnesota Senatorship.
A CIGAR mandatory ut New York
City, in which two hundred men and women
were employed, caught fire on the 10th, and
almost before the terrified workmen in the
upper floor could recover from their first
fright the flames leaped upward and spread
A scene Of frantic excitement and terror fol-
lowed, Women shrieked and fell fainting at
their benches and men ran wildly about. The
majority of the men were on the second and
girls, were on the fourth and fifth. These
latter made q rush for the fire escape, but
found their exit that way cut on By the
flames. No chance offered them for
escape by the stairway, but eventually
they all got BY the seuttle ON to the roof OIL
latter Just as the flames rose above the roof
Of the doomed building. The workmen on
the lower floors were marshalled with no lit
tie difficulty and led down stairs to the street
70 prevent disasters. Had the atsirs bY AMI
accident become blocked or the steady out
| flow of the Workmen been Interrupted, fear
| full loss OF life must have occurred; as 1t was
| the exit was managed most skillfully, not one
Of the two hundred employees being hurt The
employees, however, lost all their tools an6
| whatever property they had In the building
beyond what clothes they wore. Two min
| utes from the first warning the entire build
| Ing was wrapped in flames.