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OOO, 600 it would have this year about sr35.-
100000. He then proceeded to advocate the
proposition contained in the bill, which,
Sbwever. did not go as far as he mi gilt have
wished.

WlSneQ.
THURSDAY, JUNE -.
SENArE.-Mr. Window introduced bill
for $l25, 900 public building at Winona.
After long debate, Messrs Sherman and
Allison making the principal speeches, the
bill providing for the extension of national
bank charters passcd-:4 to 13
Senator Allison made strong argument
in favor of Il double standard of gold and sill
ver, in which he was ably seconded by Sena-
tor Vest of Missouri. John Sherman had
considerable parrying on his hands to ward
Off the thrusts Of these two financial giants
but acquitted himself very creditably, as he
generally does when his hobby is under dis
cussion. The financial Operations of the
government from 1873 to the present were
carefully reviewed. and the evils of a single
standard portrayed in vivid manner
although interest~in the debate was confined
to a few senator's.
HoUsE.-A1r. Morrison Of Illinois made q
strong speech in opposition to the internal
revenue taxation bill. Other speeches were
made, and no other business of moment
DONE
Mr.. Anderson of Kansas, made a speech
to-day that attracted some attention. He
maintained that the section of a district of
population Of torty-five and over to the
square mile were in favor of legislation to
benefit capital, and this party had a MAJOR
ity of 100 in the house at present. He
claimed that in this sense Illinois and Indi-
ana were Eastern States, and favored the
reduction of capital taxes, but the more thin
ly settled agricultural states were naturally
opposed to that policy
FRIDAY JUNE 2;;
SENATE.-A large number of bills were
passed, including cue creating the Oregon
short line railway in Utah, Idaho and Wy
oming, and one for the relief Of Nebraska
and Kansas public land settlers The bank
rultcy bill came up and Mr.. Hoar offered as
substitute what is known as the Lowell BILL
The house resolutions commemorative of
Representatives Allen (Mo) were received,
and after impressive remarks upon his life
and services by Messrs. Cockrell, of No.,
Dawes of Mass, Brown Of Ga,
and Vest of Mo-, the usual resolu-
tions were adopted. Senator Vest
is one of the very few orators of the
waited for with interest by a warm and
hungry senate. 1t was eloquent and simple
as all such efforts should be. Just before he
| sat down Vest referred to the custom among
| the HindOo women when their loved ones
lay dying of placing on the Ganges a lighted
candle i'll all carthen vessel and watching it
until it was out of sight, confident that if
the flame burned until the vessel could be
no longer distinguished that the spirit loos-
ing itself from the body before them would
pass as TRANQUILITY out of mortal sight. "So,'
said the eloquent little senator, ''thc dear
ones of our dead friend watched, through his
long illness, the tiickcring flame Of his life
float down the river Of time until it passed
out OF mortal sight to burst, we trust, into
grand cffulgence on the ocean Of eternity"
HoUsE-Debate was resumed on the bill!
to reduce internal revenue taxation Mr..
Hewitt Of New York made vigorous
speech in opposition to the bill, and Mr..
Dunnell also spoke against the measure.
Speeches culogizing tic late Representative
Allen were made. Interest in to-day's pro-
secdines We're entered on Alexander H.
Stephens of Georgia, who wheeled his in
valid chair into the area facing the speaker
and in weak voice significd his approba-
ton of the bill reducing taxation. He even
| went farther and favored total abolition
of revenue taxes, including those on whisky
and thbacco, OIL the ground that it was in
the interest of the poor man to remove the
embargo on the necessarics Of life.
Appalling Statistics of the Iowa Dis
ASter.
The editor of the Des Moincs Register is
sues All appeal for contributions in aid OF
the sufferers which contain some appalling
statistics of the disaster The number of
dead now reported reaches sixty-nine and OF
wounded 500, many ofthesc gricvously hurt :.
Three hundred homes were ruined and
1900 people are without shelter. The loss
Of property is $4oo, 900 in Grinnel alone, and
between 100000 and $3,OOO,Oo0 in the
whole afflicted region. It Is estimated that it
will take 100000 to provide proper relic
and care for the wounded, and at least ST.
00O, 900 to provide the humblest temporary
shelter for the houseless poor. Contribu-
tiOns to be sent to Hon. J. B. Grinnell. at
Grinncll. In Mr.. Clarkson's account of the
disaster is the foil lowing: The fury and
power of the calamity were as indescribable
i'll their mightiness ofstrength as their havoc
and power were cruel and complete. Manv
people were bereft oftheir houses, not a
splinter, not a shred of furniture as large as
skein of silk remaining, and hundreds
have no clothing left except the night clothes
they had on.
Little children both of whose parents were
killed, were left manned and wounded them
selves. Every condition of woe exists that
most tcnderly appeals to the pity of the hu.
man heart-wounds inflicted by the debris
that filled the air like chaos; by the electric
balls of fire that seemed to traverse every
inch of space, and that exploded with fear
fully fatal effect. The fury of the Storm
which was clearly of electric origin, and
which, indeed, may be described as having
been electricity itself precipitated into chaos.
may be understood from the statement that
at various places it took mp its great spi
rails or tunnels housas 1000 feet high, and
took up and carried through the air large
tlocks of cattle for thousands
Of feet and dashed them down
deadl in heaps. Many thousands OF
cattle, horses, hogs and other animals now
lie in the track of the tornado, and adding,
in tEe hot weather. the horror of putrefac-
ton to the foul and pcrvading odors that
drying matter left in the track Of the lorna
DO. The horrors of the storm are unspeaka-
bic. The cruclties it inflicts in the pitiless
woe Of its coming in the night when the
dead were not known and the wounded
couldn't be found. The piteous state in
which it has left hundreds of families before
prosperous may be described in words. but
once known to generous hearts must COM
mand the instant sympathy Of the liberal
and immediate help.
GREAT EXTENT OF THE STORM
ASt1OAto ACCCASCu oIION
distance travelled by it is much greater than
was first supposed. From parties who came
from the western part of the state it is
learned that the tornado clouds were first
seen near Jefferson, Greene county, which is
nearly in the center of the west half of the
state, and ninety miles west of
Grinnell. The clouds seemed to
combine in the wlirl near
that place about half past seven o'clock and
the tornado then started eastward in its
work of destruction. 1t passed south of the
Chicago e. Northwestern railway, running
parallel with that line as far as Marshal
county, where it apparently made curve
ard started towards Grinnell At Ogden,
fifteen miles east of Jefferson, it was seen
passing through the air, but no damage is
reported until it reached point south of
Nevada, where two or three people were
killed. 1t passed through the northwest
part of Jasper county, dealing. death to sew
eral persons and destruction to consider
able farm property, and then passed east
ward toward Kelly, the point named as where
the tornado was first. Then it ravaged the
ninety miles of territory, striking Grinnell,
Nlalcom and Irish Ridge, fourteen miles
southeast of Brooklyn on the Chicago, Rock
Island e. Pacific road. There have been no