Connecticut western news., 1884-04-02
UNITED STATES CoNGRESa

SENATE.
 Resolutions in reference to the Lasker in- cident have been agreed upon by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Prince Bismarck s action is regarded as a matter to be settled between him and the Reichstag.
 MI. Watterson urged the passage of the Newspaper Copyright bill before the Joint Li- brary Committee.
 The House Post Office Committee exonerare Mir Ellis, of Louisiana, from the charges made against him in connection with star routes
 The bill increasing the salaries of United States District Judges to $5,000, and Mir. Blairs bill to give Government aid to educa- | tion, were again under consideration in the Senate, but no action was taken upon them, | except to reject some proposed amendments to | the former.
 The Deficiency Appropriation bill was passed.
 A bill was introduced for the admission into l the Union of the State of Tacoma, to be com | posed of the present Territory of Washington and part of Idaho.
 The Senate has passed bill providing for a new Congressona Library building, and the | House has set day for it's consideration.
 MT. Harrison, of Indiana, wished to make the | bill to admit Dakota into the Union as State made special order for Thursday. MT. Vest, | of Missouri, said the friends of the bil SD oke | of Dakota as an elysium, but he would be able | to show that it was nothing of the tort and | that the conditions did not exist which would warrant it's admission into the Union. Several | Senators said they understood that the ques- l tion of admitting Dakota was regarded as political ono. Mr. Harrison's motion was lost
 The Senate passed the bill increasing the | salary of the United States District Court Judges to S5,000.
 The Senate passed joint resolution providing | for the payment to laborers in Government | employ the same wages for holidays as for other | days.
 Mr. Palmer, from the Committee on Woman I kn1 N1Vk alNT tion proposing an amendment to the Constitu- tion to extend the right of suffrage to women. HoUsR | Mir. Ellis. of Louisiana, asked unanimous | consent to introduce a joint resolution reciting | that the Mississippi has risen to the high water mark of 1874 at New Orleans, and is still ris- | ing, and that the overhowing of 8 city of 300,- | 900 souls is imminent and appropriatng S30O, | 900 to be expended in preventing the flooding | of the city. The resolution was lost by 95 to | l15, but by unanimous consent it was reintro- duccd by MT. Ellis and referred to the Com mittee on Appropriations. | Mir. Ellis reported the joint resolution pro- viding that $125, 900 of the unexpended appro- priation for the relief of sufferers from the | Ohio floods may be expended by the Secretary of War for the relief of destitute persons in the district overfowed by the Mississippi river and it's tributaries Passed. It also passed in the | Senate.
 The Bonded Whisky bill was defeated by a | vote of 1855 to 83. The vote was not on party | lines at an Ninety-six democrats and ninety | republicans voted against it; seventy demo- crats and thirteen republicans voted for it. Mir. O'Neil (Pa) presented the resolution of a convention of wool-groWers in favor of the restoration of the duty of 1867 on wool.
 FOREIGN ITEMS The English Commons voted against the Ministry in bill to relieve taxation. MT. Chamberlain announced that the government slC1 ,ID chise bill.
 The Berlin correspondent of the London l Ddlly NeloS says: 'FMr. Sargent has resigned l the post at Berlin and refuses the St. Peters | burg mission. It is evident that his appoint | ment to the latter post was only previously arranged formality to facilitate his recall" | Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, eighth child of Her Majesty, the Queen, is dead. He was Duke of Albany, Earl of Clar- ence, and Baron Arklow. He was the eighth, and next to the youngest child of Queen | Victoria. He was born on April T, 1853. He was married to the Princess Helena Frederick | Augusta, fourth daughter of Prince Victor, Prince of Waldeck-Pyrmont, on April 27, 1882. It is officially reported that last year in one | Saxon town trichinosis attacked 403 persons, of whom sixty-six died. The meat all came | from one hog, which was not from America. | An Annamite Prince has been hanged for promoting the massacre of Christians. | The Swedish Ministry state that the Nor wegian constitutional conflict will have no in- | 1uence on the union of Sweden and Norway.
 The ceremonies of the transfer of the Alert to the custody of the United States authorities took place on Wednesday. MT. Lowell hoisted the American colors and proposed the Queens health, and goodly company of Arctic adven- turers lunched on board the ship.
 Riots are reported growing out of the strike of French coal workers at Anzin.
 A Russian detective has been murdered by Nihilists at KharkoY.
 Numerous murders are committed in Crete | both by Moslems and Christians, and election riots are imminent.
 Russia is about to propose freedom of navigation on the Dardanelles, Bosphorus and Black Sea.
 The Sultan oi 7--"key is seriously ill., It is feared that his ailme4 Ill end ill madness.
 A police edict has bee. published in Der lin, warning the people against eating raw pork. It points out that perfect cooking de- strOys trichine.
 -Osman Digna says that the sword is the only medium of communication between him self and the English.
 A French journal says that the London explosions were plotted ill Paris.
 Admiral Hewett has disbanded the Abyssin- ian scouts because they thrashed the Egyp- tians and has liberated female slaves and ordered that runaways be restored to their masters, on the ground that the Egyptian con rention allowing slavery remains in force.
 -Advices from Pekin say that the Chinese war party, exasperated by the easy surrender | of Bacninh, demand the immediate punish ment of the Mandarins who commanded the town.
 The whole of Egypt south of Berber IS i'll revolt. Khartoum is surrounded on all sides
 The Emperor of Austria at 8 recent ban ouet drank to the health of the German Emperor.
 The brother of the Grand Duke of Meek ienburg-Schwerin has become a Catholic, and mas renounced his hereditary rights.
 A Dutch newspaper protests against the treaty between England and Portugal relative to the Congo.
 The death of M Francois Auguste Marie NIignet the French historian, is announced.
 Six thousand rebels face the besieged palace at Khartoum. They recently fired upon 800 blacks, who were sent down the river for wood, and killed 100 of them General Gordon states that the garrison at Kassala is holding out strongly.
 POLITICAL.
 In the Massachusetts House Representa- tive Morse's resolution, Ills tructing Massachu- setts Congressmen to use their influence ''foI material reduction and general readjustment of the tarif,' rejected by large ma jUrity.
 The final conclusion If the Democratic Congressional caucus is thus stated by menl- bers {: The majority declared that a measure of tariff revision ought to be supported by the Democratic members of the House, but that each member is at liberty to vote as his convic- tions lead him to on the Morrison bill when it shall be called up, but that the resolution rec ommending tariff revision should be under stood to express the serse of the majority to , which weight ought to be given by all This was adopted by a vote of IA to 57. It is un- derstood that MT. Morrison will call up his bill at an early day.
 General Sherman denied newspaper re- port setting forth that he was willing to accep the Presidential nomination from the demo cratic party.
 Democratic legislators in four of the prin 9 cipal New England states give their prefer ' ences for Mir. Tilden as a Presidential candi