Milford chronicle., 1883-03-09


Great excitement prevailed at Mil
waukee, Wis, on account Of threatened
water famine.
The public school buildings so fan
inspected in Ghicag5 are found faulty
and dahget6ua.
In the New Jersey Senate the bill
to reduce the legal rate on interest from
six to five per cent was defeated.
1t is alleged that there is deficiency
of $40, 900 in the accounts Of Louis p.
Carman, the former secretary of the
Manhattan Insurance Company of New
York, who has disappeared.
Two slight shocks Of earthquake
were experienced at Newport, r. l., on
Friday. A violent shock was also felt
It Norwich, Conn.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The House of Representatives ON its
last day, adopted the report of the Con
ference Committee ON the Tariff bill, and
the bill was passed by a vote of 153 yeas
to 116 nays. The following democrats
voted for the bill:-AIessrs. Randall,
BeltzhoOver Mutchler, Ermentrout,
Wise and Klotz, of Pennsylvania; Bliss,
Hardy and Scoville, of New York Har-
denbergh, Harris and Ross. of New
Jersey; Ladd, of Main; Morse, of Mass. !;
Fulkerson, of Virginia; Wilson, of West
Virginia, and Speer, of Georgia-sixteen
in all. The following republicans voted
/ against it:-Messrs. Bayne, Brum,
Campbell, ElTett and Miller, Of Penn
sylvania; Dawes, Mckinley, Robinson
and Taylor, Of Ohio; Hazeltine, Ford,
Rice and Taylor, of Missouri; Hubbell,
of Michigan; and Urner, of Maryland.
As changed the bill will reduce taxation
about $5OOOO,0OO
The Committee on Commerce of the
Senate reported the River and Harbor
bill, and ON objection of Mr.. Ingalls,, it
went over, which practically kills the
bill. 1t is said by Washington corre-
spondents that the Senate if forced to a
vote would have killed the bill.
The General Deficiency bill was
passed.
The total number O. bills and Joint
resolutions introduced III both houses
during the two sessions of the Forty
seventh Congress aggregates 10,65O, Of
which $50 passed both houses. Fifteen |
hundred bills remain upon the House |
calendar, of which 225 have passed the |
Senate. The reports of debates cover |
1O,715 pages of the Congressional
Record, averaging 1900 words to the
page, total of 10000, 900 words.
"A resolution to expel Mr. Voorhis, of
New York, for abusive language toward
Mr.. Page, of California, was offered in
the House and withdrawn, after an ample
apology from the offending gentleman.
The House passed the River and
Harbor bill by a vote of 112 yeas to 30
nays.
The President has appointed Cen
raj Charles X. Graham to be naval Off
Ger. james L. Benedict to be surveyor,
md Andrew F. Perry to be appraiser in
the New York Custom House; Silas w.
Burt to be civil service examiner, and
Elihu Root to be District Attorney, vice
General Woodford.
The Democratic Senators refused to
serve on the Tariff Conference Commit
tee, which Is, therefore, entirely made
up Of Republicans and Protectionists.
The Suudry Civil bill was reported
to the Senate on Monday, with amend
ments.
The Senate passed, with amend
ments, the House bill providing for the
increase of pensions to one arm and one {
leg soldiers.
-Messrs. Randall, Morrison and {
Fucker successfully declined to serve on I
he House Conf, renee Committee on the !
Tariff bill, and Mr.. Spcer, of Georgia,
vas finally appointed and accepted.
senator's Bayard and Beck and Mr.. d
Carlisle Withdrew from the conference. L
The Republican members proceeded to a
consider the bill.
Among the bills left unreported by
he House Military Committee are the
irant Retirement bill and the bill to Re.
tore Gen. Fitz John Porter. f
The Republicans passed the Read Q
esolution authorizing the House to take =
p the Tax bill for the sole purpose of !,
on-cOncuning in the Senate amend =
lents and sending the bill to a confer, II
nee committee. The vote was 129 t. II
2, and most of the Democrats did not n
ote. ol
In the House Mr.. Kelley Rep., Pa) NJ
loved to suspend the rules, take from :,
lesSpeakers table the Internal Revenue q
i'll with Senate amendments, non-concur N
/ the amendments, and appoint con. pl
renee committee Of five members on I'll
lie part Of the House. Agreed to In
cas-, 149; nays, 10. The Speaker ap- :,
0inted Messrs. Kelley, Mckinley. y, "
askell, Randall and Carlisle as the u
ouse cOnferees. IL
Senator David Davis has resigned
e Presidency of the Senate in order
at a successor may be elected before
adjourns. As the present Con
ess expires on March 4, there would he sh
, constitutional successor to the Presi-
ncy after that day unless the Senate =
ooses n President pro teBlDOre in place ci,
Mr.. Davis, whose Senatorial term has W
ded. Co
- The London L0aO Times says that to
proviso excluding perpetrators Of lolit- .,;.
u crimes from extraditlon does not oc- D. D.
+ in the Ashburton treaty.
from the district of S.
veedore, county Donegal, in the north
stern part of Ireland, indicate thar 'ai
2 condition of the people is most dis vee
ssing. The medical officer of the dis u
ct reports that the children are much in
aciated III consequence of their scan sil VI
ess of diet and the general use of sea- bo,
ed as the principal meal. There is a
k person in almost every house. owing war
want of food. wb
- Thirty five Bedouin chiefs were sum y
ned to witness the hanging of five of XXX
murderers Of Professor Palmer and !,
'ty. Ne Ne'
In moving his amendment in the w.
glish House of Commons to the r
GEMS address, Mr. Parnell said: eff 81
re has been anyreduciion in the num- ami