Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-03-11
EASTERN.


 terday the conference committee fin- ished their labors on the tariff bill and reported to their respective houses. The bill was immediately reported to the Senate and sent to the printer The more important changes were quickly made known and their effect canvassed.
 When the Senate reassembled the conference report on the legislative, ex- ecutIye and judicial appropriation bill was agreed Co.
 The conference report on the naval appropriation bill was also agreed to.
 Morull presented and explained the conference report on the internal reve- nue and tariff bill hC said the entire amount of reduction that will result from the passage of the bill is estimated at S75,OO,O0O.
 Beck made a fiery speech in OppOsi- tiOn Co the adoption of the report.
 Bayard characterized the report as a most lame and impOtent conclusion.
 Vance ridiculed the action of the con- ference Tn increasing the duty on iron, steel and wOo!en goods, and as a return to tax payers for all the putting of hoop poles on the free Inst.
 The conference report was adopted; {; ayes g, noes 3l, as follows: Yeas Aldrich, Allison, Anthony, Blair, Came ron, of Wisconsin; Conger, DayIs, of Illinois; Dawes, Edmunds, Frye, HHrri- SOD, Hawley, Hull, HOar, Ingalls,, Jones, of Nevada; Kellogg, Lapham, Logan, McDlll, of New York; Morrill,, Platt, Plumb, Rollins, Sawyer, Sewell, Sher- man. Windom, g; Noes-BarrOw, Bay ard, Brown, Butler, Call, Cameron, of Pa. {; CockTill, Coke, Fair, Garland, German, George, Jones of FlOridS. Jonas. Groome, Harris, Jackson, Jone, Lamar, Naxey, Morgan, PendIetOn, Pugh, Ran som. Salisbury, Slater, Vance, Van Wyck, Vest, Voorhees,, Walker, Williams, 31.
 The following pairs were announced Camden, Ferry, Hall, Saunders and Mitchell with Tabor, Grover, Beck, Hampton and Johnson.
 Immediately after the adoption of the report of the report the Senate sd- journed.
 WASHINGTON, March 3.-The confer ence committee on the tax and tariff bill reached a complete agreement about half-past twelve this afternoon, and forthwith sen. their report to the gov ernment printing office, m order to be able to present it 10 both houses of con gress in a printed form before adjourn ment, to-day. The report will recOm- mend the adoption of the senate bill with very few changes of general impOr- | tance, except in the metal schedule, in which the committee recommends some increase of rates, especially in regard to steel.
 The appropriations for the Pacific | Coast in The river and harbor bill as passed bv the house are: Oakland har- Der, S80.O0O: Wilmington, S50,OO0; Goose | Bay, S2O,OOO: IOaquina, S30,OO0; Sacra- ment0 river, SG0,O00; San Joaquin, S30,- | O0O: Locks at the Cascades, S135.O00, Lower Willamette and Columbia, S40,- OOO; Coquille, S7,0OO; mouth of COlum- bia. S7j,OOO.
 WAsHISGToS, March 3-The South. ern Pacific Railroad consolidation bill was badly beaten in the House yester- | day. Butterworth of the Pacific Rail. road Committee moved to suspend the rules and put the bill on its passage 1 Dunn, of Arkansas; Holman, of Indiara ! Hammond, ot Georgia, and Robinson, of Massachusetts, made fight against the bil. ButterwOTth made the only argument in favor of the bill The motion to Osuspend the rnles was defeated S7 to l9S.
 COLUMBUS, March 2.-The jury in the case of s. D. Watson, lobyist charged with an attempt to brbe Representative Black, of Cleveland, last winter, thIs morning returned a verdict of guilty The penalty is from three to ten years in the penitentiary. Sentence reserved
 ALBANY, March 2.-The Governor has returned to the Assembly the bill or dering a vote for the New York elevated railroad, with message giving his req. sons therefor.
 ATLANTA, GA, March 3.-The condi ton of Governor Alexander H. Stephens is regarded as very dangerous.
 ST. LOUIS, March 5.-A secret has jus i been revealed here. Senator Tabor, O Colorado, and Miss Elizabeth McCOurt of Oshkosh, Wis, were privately mar ried here on the 30th of last September | The ceremony took place in the law office of Colonel D. Fl. Dyer. an intimat. friend of the Senator.and was perfOrme,
 by John NJ. Pound, justice of the peace
 and witnessed by a brother of Miss Me Court, who accompanied her to St Louis for the purpose. It is stated ol
 the authority of Colonel Dyer that tn | ceremony was kept secret because a
 that time, although Tabor had 0eel
 granted a decree of divorce from his frs
 wife, shs had sui. against him for ali mony, and it was feared the announce
 ment of this marriage pending that suit ? might compromise matters. ST LOUIS. March 5.-The latest new
 from the oyerhowed country along tn
 lower Mississippi Is that the sunk land in St. Francls river region are entirel , submerged, and nearly as far down e