The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-06-24

Proceedings Of Congress ss-What Trans.
pired In the Senate Hints Of
Adjournment Heard In
the House.
A Remarkable Tidal Wave at Cleve.
land-Thirty thousand Dollars
OfPrOperty Destroyed.
Another Destructive Storm Passes Over
-. -. Iowa, Completing Work Of Sat.
urday's Cyclone.
Governor Blackburn, Of Kentucky,
Processes Religion.
A DOuble.Act Hanging In South
Carolina.
Other Foreign and Domestic News.
Other Foreign and Domestic News.
Forty-Scventh Congress.
SENATE.

F0rty-Soventb Congress.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, June 23.-Mr. Beck Of |
fered a resolution, reciting that it is alleged |
that the directors of some of the national |
banks in Richmond, Virginia, have been
permitted to file in the Office of the comp |
troler of currency modified oath with |
substantially the following provision:
"The aboveis subscribed in all respects ex-
cept 80 far as 1t applies to the rate of inter-
est allowed by law in the state" The r
olution directs the secretary of the treasury
to furnish certified copies of all oaths which
were taken by directors of national banks
in Richmond which were on file in the
comptroller's office during the years Of 1879
and $780, Adopted.
The senate took up the rule recently re-
ported from the committee on rules to set.
tie the right of the president pro tenn. to
designate his own substitute in cases of
absence. This subject, after occupying
three-fourths Of the time allotted
for the morning business, was re.
ferred with the the amendments
suggested by Messrs. Brown and German
to the committee on rules for further con.
sideration.
The house bill to establish a uniform sys.
tenn OF bankruptcy came up as the regular
order. Discussion Of this bill occupied
nearly the remainder of the session. II was
| finally laid aside until Monday.
The senate then took up and passed
senate bill to pay for use by the govern
ment Of the Protestant orphan asylum
property at Natchez, Mississippi.
At S:45 house resolutions, Commemorative
of late Representative Allen, Of Missou,i,
were received, and after impressive remarks
upon the life and services of the deceased
by Messrs. ,Cockrell, Dawes, Brown and
| Vest, the usual mortuary resolutions were
adopted, and the senate at o'clock ad-
journed until Monday.
| HOUSE.
Townsend, OF Illinois, gave notice that II
the committee on ways and means did not
at an early day report the resolution for the
final adjournment of congress, he would
himself make motion to that effect.
Kelley, OF pennsylvania, chairman of the
committee on ways and means, stated that
1t would be brought TO the attention OF the
house in committee.
Kasson, of Iowa, from the committee on
ways and means, reported back a bill
amending section 27s3 Of the Re-
vised Statutes, so that duties paid
on sugars shall be assessed on the quantity
delivered from instead OF the quantity en-
to the committee Of the whole.
The house then at II o'clock went into
committee OF the whole rnd resumed con-
sideration Of the bill to reduce into nal
revenue taxation, it being agreed
that general debate thereon should
close at 3 o'clock, at which
hour eulogies upon the life and
character, of the late Thomas Allen, Of
Moryland, would be delivered.
stephens, of Georgia, said. that the bill
was right as far as il went.
He thought the whole internal reve.
nue. system ought to be abol-
times OF war, were anti.republi n and anti.
democrat. That they were In opposition
TO the general policy of this government.
They were OF British origin, and had
always been viewed with British odium;
the best way In which to raise revenue was
by import duties; they bore less heavily on
the taxpayers, and that was what the leg.
islator ought to look to.
A general debate followed. which occu.
pied the time until o'clock, when the
committee rose.
chuseits. Hewitt, of New York, Hatch and
Frost, OF Missouri, the house, out Of respect
TO the memory of the deceased, adjourned
at i:l5. -
Crimes and Casualties
AN kMDrzzLER.
sr. Louis, June %. Receiving Teller
Owen, of the Third National bank Of ST.
Louis, was arrested tonight, on the charc,
Of having embezzled $3.50, 600 of the bank
funds, His operations have extended over
several years.
ANOTHER STORM IN IOWA.
DEs MoiSi =, Ia, June 2].-Anothcr ter.
rible rem and wind'storm passed over
Iowa yesterday afternoon. The recently
desolst town Of Malcolm, Powashelk
pitiless storm. The damage 10 goods res.
cued from Saturdays hurricane Ia snor
nous and will probably prove q total loss
At rIkAsAYTvfLLE,
Marion county, the residence Of z. Lyon
was to-day twisted, and the prop,
placed against u on the east aide wer,
dri,e en- through the walls. Numerous chin
neys, shade and fruit trees In that vicinity
wore
nLows DOWN,
and signs and awnings whisked away. I,
is thought tho damage east and north o
there Ia more severe.
aud rain storm prevailed during Yesterday
afternoon along the Illinois Central road
and great damage was done al
INDEPENDENCE.
The telegraph wires are all PROSTATE nnt
u is impossible 10 communicate with IN,
place. From information from
that district II appears tha
the storm struck Independence
little before o o'clock ard wrouph
aREAT DESTRUCTION
Fences. were torn down, barns wrecked
houses leyelled and trees uprooted. Near
~ oil business houses were unrooIej nm,
plate. glass smashed. The depot of IN,
B,C.,R. q N. railroad Is said 10 be wrecked
The bridge across the river was Injured
Sells circus exhibited at independence
The circus tent was badly damaged, am
one wagon containing animals
LiFrEp BODILY
from the ground and carried some distance
A large number Of ofpeople were in town an,
many Of their horses were killed by m,
living debris, and their wagons broken
Two men were killed and aihifd had hi
arm broken.
AT WATERLOO
the wind was terrific, but Il is not know,
That serious damage was done. Tie tent
oi the military company vers ruined m,