Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-09
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Proceedings in 10Th Houses Yesterday.

Proceedings in 10th Houses Yesterday.
In the United States Senate Monday Mr..
Morrill, presented petition from the
Philade!ph:. board Of trade complaining
that the report of the tariff commission
proposed 4 lower rate Of duty upon sugar
than upon molasseS, and asking Congress
to provide otherwise. Mr. McDill, from
the committee on public lands, reported a
bill to provide for the discrimination of
controversies about titles to lands derived
from the United States. The bill to pre-
vent tbe use Of tho capitol for other than
legitimate purposes was reported and
passed. The bill to afford relief to Con-
gress aid tho departments in investiSa-
ing claims was discussed, Mr. Brown, of
Georgia, speaking at length in support Of
the bill. At two O'clock tho presidential
| succession bill came up in ovtlcr, and Mr..
Beck spoke in advocacy oc its passage.
After further discussion By MeSsrs.
Dawes, Sherman, Blair, Jones Of Florida,
ingalls,, Edmunds and Hoar, pending a
| motion of Mr.. Edmunds to racnmrlit tha
| bill, the Senate adjourned.
In the House, a number cf bills were
| introduced under the call of states, among
them the following by Mr. Anderson, of
! Kansas, ''tO create the postal telegraph Of
the United States - by Mr.. Robinson, Of
New York, to reduce letter postage to oac
cent, and by Mr. Fisher, OF Pa, to limit
! the coinage Of standard silver dollars to
! the requirements OF the people. Mr
| Murich, OF Maine, rising to question Of
! privilege, offered resolution for the ap
! pointment of . special committee to inves-
! tigate tho charge made GU the floor that
john Bailey, chief clerk OF the House, was
| acting in the interest OF the Washington
gaslight company, and Influencing con-
grcssional action. After some debate tho
resolution was adopted. a bill was re-
ported and referred appropriating $50, 900
| for participation in the Hamburg exhiEi
tior, in July rext. the shipping bill was
taken up and debated by Messrs. Reagan,
| Dingley, McLane. Gambler, Guenther,
| Cannon and Murcil. The bill then went
over until to-day, and the House ad-
| jOurnei.
Tragedies OF Daily Lifs.
James Rowland, wealthy and promin-
ent citizen of San Francisco, was drowned
in the bay on Saturday night.
at Cheney, Washington territory, on
Sunday night, Chiuamau, accused of
murder and robbery, was taken from Jail
aud lyched by a mob Of eighty men.
Andrew Jackson, colored, charged with
| attempting to felonioasly assault young
woman, was taken from Jail at Henderson,
Texas, on Sunday night, and hanged.
Ex Collector Calvin A. Gilbert, aged 81
years, of Syracuse, New York, was stcick-
en- with paralysis on Sunday afternoon,
| while sitting near the stove at his homo.
His wife found him s" with his arm resting
on the stove badly burned and dead "
A freight engine on the New York Cen
trail railroad ran into the caboose of
freight train at Niagara Falls, N. Y, yes
terday, killing Daniel Robbins, brake
man, of Towanda, and iniuring Frank La
mont, the conductor. The caboose was
burned.
At Williamstown, Massachusetts,, re-
spectacle farmer. named Donahue, has
personally applied to the authorities for
his committal to u lunatic asylum on
account of an irresistible desire to kill
some one." Some years ago Donahue re.
ceived blow On the head, from the effects
of which he never recovered.
sOmo Disastrous Fires.
The two upper stories and roof of Tele.
graph block in Detroit. was burned out
Monday evening by fire which started
at tho foot of the elevator. Tho night
telegraph operators in the Western Union
office, So in number, had their escape by
the stairway cut of, but all were rescued
by the fire ladders. NJ. 8. Corbett, night
chief operator, was severely burned ia the
fire.
The house and barn of Henry C. How