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Daily Republican., 1884-03-17
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ENTER.
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heir wives w.;,ar al" A. B. Cosgroy
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List Of Sales Of Household g 0Ods by
Drake Il Co.,

" lSth-Delaware House, Market street.
l9th-Mrs. Williams, 220 W. Fourth.
4" 2Oth-M rs. Pennington, ,62O W. Fourth.
b" 12nd-NO, Al4 West Second street.
Daily Republican., 1884-03-17

Tags, cards, bill-heads, statements,
envelopes, wedding invitations, circu-
lars and hand.bills printed at the RE-
PUBLICAN job rooms
Daily Republican., 1884-03-17
'''e" site for the new po.,
Office.

V1fiCC.
~ n-"' "p'l suggested that az the Sa-
\. .T;oPef,y' at Sixth and Market
(, h. ,I ~ ,', ,ilr market, no better site
,Ds ~ ,'a,;,,,d mT,ired for the new Post. Office.
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ropJd I,te nn, n,n occupied by Mr.. Robe.
teI ' pn. ,i'ahe a a convenient and we'll
,v' er n,os, rosl' Office building. The
CIo,hina hi,v"r'ed pee, by NJ. Meyers
d, d'"'"s store has also been sue.
Daily Republican., 1884-03-17

All kinds of job printing done at the
REF UBLICAN Office. Good work and
fair prices.
Daily Republican., 1884-03-17
Let the Dea,,

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up, cure 70 rSai yet a bo,'leot CaSada M PINE PINE
pity five eI"y"uns,sstrenneAy and costs ppy, ppi.
'e'lts at the drug s,oras S why
Daily Republican., 1884-03-17
| '"es hnd D,au,.

bds sboul', bI' wanting Watches or a..
n.ond clubs '1," n",, Ayars' watch and
'''s'''heplace, sseSS'S!y seS Msrkss forming. .t1..,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-22

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21-Nomnations: William
Christy Wilson, Louisiana, assayer of the mint,
New Orleans; Horace Austin, Dakota, register of
land office, Fargo; Isaac A. Taylor Kanas, In
dian agent, Sac and Fox agency, Indian Terri
tory.
The following combinations We're made by the
Senate to-day; Receivers of public moneys
Michael L. Fitz, Pueblo, Col; Warren c. Willis
Denver P. Stetten, Crookston. Mimi Survey
ors general-N. H. Medrum, Colorado Martin
S. Chandler, Minnesota. Charles Lyman, chief
examiner of civil-service commission. Postmas
ters-W. F. Hunter, Elgn Ill; John L, Smith,
Thorntown, Ind.
The Secretary of the Interior has decided the
case of the claim of the New Orleans Canal Bank
ing Company to the Metailfe lands in the suburbs
of New Orleans, claimed under French grants
He reVerses the decision of the Commissioner
general of the Land Office, and holds that al
though the grant of 1764 was made after the ces
sion of the province to Spain and for that reason
would be invalid. yet it was recognized and con
firnned by the Trudeau survey, and other acts of
the Spanish authorities after obtaining possess
ion and it has been recognized by the acts of the
present government since the acquisition of the
Territory.
The President will leave Washington to-mor-
row afternoon, for New York, to attend the re
ceptiOn of the Union League Club on Wednesday
evening. He will be accompanied by Secretaries
Frelinehuysen, Folger and Teller and probably
by other members of the Cabinet Attorney
general Brewster will join the party in New
York.
Four hundred Winnebago Indians, upon
the reservation in Nebraska have petitioned the
Secretary of the Interior to alot to them lands
in severalty, SO that they may acquire rights of
citizenship.
General Sherman passed through Washing
ton, to-day, on his way from New York to St
Louis
Issue of silver dollars for the week which
ended on the 10Th inst, sos, ,977; corresponding
period last year, $404, 900.
The President nominated A. S. Worthingtm
TO be United States attorney for the District Of
Columbia.
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CONTESTED SEATS IN THE HOUSE.
A Bill That Would Result I'm Checking the
Business of COntesting.

Bill That Would Result I'm Checking the
Business of Contesting.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON Jan. 21-Mr. Townshend of
Illinois, has bill, which, if passed, would tend
both to reduce the number of contests for seats
In the House of Representatives and facilitate
the decision of such contests when made. I'm
der existing law the sitting member whose seat
is contested is allowed to draw full pay and al
lowances, and should the contestant be seated
full pay and allowances are also awarded him.
If the sitting member be of the same politics
with the majority the case is usually delayed un-
til the second session and frequently to the very
last days of the session. and this is certain to be
the course pursued in such cases when the facts
and the law require the seating of the con-
testant, the purpose of the majority being to re-
tain the man who is known to have no legal
right to a seat in order to obtain the advantage
of his vote in partisan contests Instances are
numerous when those legally elected were kept
out of their seats until the very last night of the
session, it being well known to The majority that
the man who was retained in the seat had no
claim to it which could be defended.
Mr.. Townshend's bill proposes to add to sec
section 38 Of the revised statutes these words:
But in case the Clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives shall be notified that the election of
any such holder of a certificate of election will
be contested his name shall not be placed upon
the roll of members-eleet so as to entitle him
to be paid until such contest shall be determ-
ined in favor of his right to seat in the House
of Representatives"
The bill also provides for adding the following
to section 80 of the Revised Statutes:
provided that in case where the election of
member or delegate is contested, he shall not
be entitled to receive any salary mileage until
such contest has been decided in his favor"
The passage of this BILL or one similar to it,
would break up the business of contesting seats
The present law offers premium to defeated
candidates to begin and prosecute contest, and
particularly in cases where the successful candi-
date has small majority. Should the contest
ant fail he is sure under the present practice, of
receiving large sum of money for expenses
and often the sum thus received is larger than
the contestant could have earned in pursuing his
regular business
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-22
PITFALLS FOR SPECTATORS
RumOrs of Eastern Failures Cause an
Uneasy Feeling in Chicago.
Prices for Wheat and Corn Open Weak, but
Close with More Firmness than Has
Been Noted for Some Time.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CHICAGO, Jan. 21-The market in Wall street
is apparently controlling the produce markets
here for they were sensitive to the rumors of fail
ures on the stock board. The positively y-asserted
collapse of Gould, added to the combined efforts
of the bears" and the collapse stocks, forced
wheat at one time to 95 3-4c for May, but it
finally closed firm upstairs at 96 3-8c There
was ongerfeeling on the call and on the curb,
and the quotation of 97c was established.
May corn huctuated on the board in sym
pathy with wheat, between 56 5-S057c.
On the curb, the report that Jack Cudahy and
the Adams crowd were heavy buyers helped to
strengthen an already firm market, and the curb
price fixed, at the close, at 81 7-sc. When
May corn struck SIC, the provision markets
seemed to be struck 'all aback" at the same
time This lasted but little while, for there
was some good local buying and with the in
creased frmness of cereals pork products more
than svnpathized. A M. Wright Sc Co. say
lrFxass pork manipulated by the Milwaukee
crowd, who took advantage of the small receipts
of hogs to put up prices and make an
advance of 15017 1-2c barrel, but
there not much demand outside
of a few local scalpers, and, although the ad-
vance was fairly sustained, the market was des-
titute of snap. Fowler was quietly buying lard,
but without making any attempt to "bull" it.
He seemed to be trying to acquire property
rather than to advance prices. Short ribs aver
aged higher and the speculative demand was
good, closing at 1877 1-2c bid for May, All fancy
cuts were held shade better, under moderate
inquiry. spasW tr 5e5f re-
The feeling tonight was very much frmer
than it has been for sometime past yet under
meath the apparent frmness in a distrust of
financial matters in the East which prevents
any real ''bull" movement. yo. ,a.., ...,-.s
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-22
MINOR MENTION.
Useful Hints for People Who Contemplate
Applying for COnsulships.

Useful Hints for People Who Contemplate
Applying for COnsulships.
Correspondence Of the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-Two invads have ap-
piled for consulships during the past week. and
one has been successful An official who for
number of years has had charge of the applica
tions for consulships tells me that the majority
of persons asking for these positions are old and
worn out men. They seem to labor under the
impression that i'll health is one of the requisites,
and necessary to make them able to fill the
office. Aged ministers more than any other class
of professional men apply for these Offices They
generally say that they have nearly worn their
lives away in preaching, but think they have suffi
cient vitality to serve the government The APP
plications, as a general thing, are filed, and
allowed to grow musty. The applicant has an
opportunity to either forget that he ever asked
for a consulship or die, before the application is
removed. If a man has an influential friend in
Washington he may be successful in having his
request acted upon within week. If he has no
influential friend he will be Weather to the
extent of postage used in forwarding applica
ton and letters of recommendation by never
sending anything The average pay of a consul
is about 81, 00O A few get more one or two re
ceiving as high as 5000, but the majority are
not paid more than 81, 900 or 81, 500
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for from the government; that by its
action it aided in defeating the building
of the road contemplated by Congress,
and in connection with the facts
presented in the report common notoriety shows
that transcontnental transportation now stands
in this condition
The next route north of this, the Atlantic &
Pacific, is controlled by the Central Pacific west
of the Colorado, and by Jay Gould east of it.
The Central Pacific and Union Pacific, with
GOulds connection east of Omaha, control the
middle route. By subsidizing the Pacific Mail,
the Central Pacific keeps the water route under
control. The Northern Pacific is not only in the
pool with the Central, but an agreement
has been made between them whereby the terri
tory of the great Northwest will be divided be-
tween them as to transportation, as though the
ownership of the country followed the building
of railroads into it, subject to which practical
assertion of ownership the transportation of
freight for the entire Pacific coast is under the
control of a few men who adopt as a rule for
charges, ''all that the traffic will bear"
The report declares that Congress has full
legal authority to declare the grant forfeited
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-22
TOM oCmLTREE's SIMPLICITY.
What VIII He Do with His Railroad Passes
and Telegraph Franks?
Washington Special.

and Telegraph Franks?
Washington Special.
John r. Wait is quiet steady going, common
sense old gentleman from Connecticut, who is
beginning his fourth term a representative in
Congress. Colonel Thomas Porterhouse Ochil-
tree is a fiery untamed youth from Texas, be-
ginning his congressional career with an earnest
desire to do right, but handicapped by his igno-
rance of the world as to the proper course to
pursue Colonel Oehilhee had never been intro
duced to Mr.. Wait, but observing the gray hairs
and serene countenance of the gentleman from
Connecticut, went to him yesterday for advice
"You are an old member Of the House, believer
said Colonel Ochiltree, sauting Mr.. Wait with
courtly gesture and dropping into the nearest
chair. you have been here several years, am
told"
II am beginning my fourth term" answered
the Connecticut Representative with compla-
cent smile.
II am delighted to hear it, continued the red
headed ranger of the Rio Grande. II want ad-
vice. such advice as only a gentleman of long
| legislative experience give | am a new
member, unfamiliar with the customs here, and
| do not want to make mistakes at the begin
ming of my public career. The fact is, Wait
that ever Since Congress met have been receiv-
ing passes from all the important railroads in the
United States franks from telegraph companies,
ana scores or Sucn faVOrS flOm the pig corpora
tions. l wish you would tell me what I ought
| to do about it. Should | return them, or is it
the custom here to keep these trinkets and use
themY'
Mr.. Wait, after a vain endeavor to get a
square look from the Colonel's rolling eyes said:
Il beg pardon, but your name is Ochiltree, is
| it notl1
"Yes, sir; Thomas Oehiltree' promptly an
swered the dashing colonel
''You are from Texas, ] thinta" continued Mr..
Wait
Yes, srl From Texas, the grand Lone Star
State, an empire, sir; paradise, the
J ''N0w, Colonel Ochlhee," interrupted Mr..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-22
BELFoRD, OF COLORADO.
One of the Queer Figures of the House-A
Witty Man with Vivid Imagination.

One of the Queer Figures of the House-A
Witty Man with Vivid Imagination.
Correspondence of the Indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Representative Bel
ford, of Colorado is one of the queerlooking
men of the House. He has red hair, with bald
spot on his head, smooth upper lip and red
whiskers. His general appearance is unprepos-
sessing. His coat is a long Prince Albert com
ing down to his knees, with the sleeves almost
covering his hands. Over his unblac1ened boots
he wears at almost all times, large sized gums.
His hat is of the sloceh variety, and his over
coat collar behind is never turned down. When
he walks and he is continually Walking either
in the hall of Representatives or on the street he
looks as if he were half asleep, and he keeps
mdttering to himself. But he is smart There
is not man in the House who can have better
attention from the members and the occupants
of the galleries than Jim Belford He is said TO
be able to entertain the rougher element of Colo
RADIO, also, when he speaks. Belford graduated at
Dickinson College and afterward studied for the
law. He removed to Colorado and in 1870 was
appointed one of the judges of the Supreme
Court of the State, and held the Office for five
years. He was elected, the admission of
Colorado as State, representative of the For
ty-fourth Congress- and has been reelected ever
since. He is one of the best-read men here, and
is possessed of a most remarkable memory
Belford is not much of an orator, but he man
ages to get off witty expressions that make his
listenerslaugh. He lis almost the equal of Horr of
Michigan, and Horr is said to be the wittiest
man in the House. The Colorado representative
has great imagination. He gets an idea when
some person is speaking and jumps into the de-
bate like boy diving into a swimming pool
Belford's constituents are changing For a
number of years he has represented the mining
element of his State, and among its members is
exceedingly popular. A new element settling in
present representative is not wealthy, having lit
full of mining stock, that he has got by assist
ing miners when engaged in law suit and this
has given him some of his popularity.
During the last campaign Belford was the vic
tim of joke of a newspaper man. The two
were going through the State, and the former
was making speeches He told the correspond
ent, day after day, that he was going to call on.
him for a speech. The latter begged off for
time, but prepared himself for an emergency
One day he found that Belford and himself had
both been advertised to harangue the populace.
The newspaper man spoke, and rode the eagle
almost out of sight. His speech took The
miners had it printed and scattered broadcast,
and it was the only speech published entire dur
ing the campaign, Beford could get nothing
more than a synonsis of his sneecheS nuh1ishad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-22
Presidential Disability.

WAsHINGToN Jan. Ex-senator Hoar reported
favorably from the committee on judiciary his
bill to provide for the performance of the duties
of the Office of President in case of removal,
death, resignation, inability of both the Presi
dent and Vicepresident 1t provides in such
case that the Office shall devolve upon the mem
ber of the cabinet highest in rank, beginning
with the Secretary of State, provided such of
fetal is eligible to the office under the constitu-
tion and the person thus selected shall hold the
office until the disability of the President or
Vicepresident is removed or President elected.
1t provides, ALSO for the convening of Congress
twenty days after the Office has devolved upon
such nerson -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-22

TO the western Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-The House committee
on public lands held meeting tonight at which
all members but two were present, and unani-
mously agreed to report to the House bill to
declare forfeited the lands granted the Texas
Pacific railroad. The bill agreed upon by the
committee contains, besides the provision de-
claring the forfeiture of lands granted to aid in
the construction of the railroad, provisions vail
dating all acts of the Department of the In
terror its officers and local land officers in per-
mitting homestead entries, selections and pur-
chases oflands granted the company and in issuing
patents certificates and lists thereon, and CON
irming the rights of titles of parties or persons
holding patents or claiming right of title under
such certificates or lists of lands. Mr.. Payson
will present the bill to the House to-morrowA
The report recites the provisions of the act
incorporating the Texas Pacific company; briefly
summarizes the history of the company and
legislation in its interest down to November
1881, when the fight between the Texas Pacific
and the Southern Pacific ended by contract be-
tween them. 1t invites special attention to the
hostility between the two companies down to
this date quotes largely from the recently-pub-
hshed Huntington correspondence to estab-
lish the fact of such hostility, and its
character The report says this point:
'"These letters tell the story plainly of the hos
tile position of the Southern Pacific toward the
leAdS uUIlHS an OutSc years, ana neither
had nor claimed any rights east of Yuma And.
on the question as to the relation of these two
companies during all the years that the two
lines were being constructed, your committee
does not find single act performed by either
that was not hostile in its character as to the
other" 1t calls attention also to the opposition
of the Southern Pacific in the Forty-ffth and
Forty sixth Congresses to the requests of Scott,
of the Texas Pacific, for a guaranty for his road
After presenting these facts the committee
gives as its conclusions that the Southern Pa
cific was hostile enterprise to the Texas Pa
cific until all its road had been constructed to
Sierra Blanca Texas, and until the contract of
November, 1881 was consummated; that it
shrank from nothing which tended to defeat the
work OF the Texas Pacific engaged in construct
ing a competing through line Of railroad to the
Pacific ocean; that while it was nominally an in
dependent corporation, it was, in fact, practical
ly the Central Paci ic; that the Southern Pacific
was built with te money of the Central
Pacific and outside Necurities based upon it and
operated by that company; that so far as Con
gress is concerned the Southern Pacific never
had any rights east of Yuma upon which it could
base claim against the government, either
legal equtable that it built its road expressly
without intention, expectation, or hope of re
ceiving dollar of aid or an acre Of land there
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King john and Chinese Gordon.

A. Egmont Hake.
The King of Abyssinia received his prisoner
sitting on his throne, or whatever piece of furni
ture did duty for that exalted seat a chair being
placed for the prisoner considerably lower than
the seat on which the King sat The first thing
the Pasha (Gordon) did was to seize this chair,
place it alongside that of his Majesty, and sit
down on it, and next to inform him that he met
him as equal and would only treat him as
such. This somewhat disconnected his sable
Majesty, but, on recovering himself, he said:
do you know, Gordon Pasha, that 1 could kill
you on the spot if liked7" Il am perfectly well
aware of it, your Majesty" said the Pasha. DO
so at once L it is your royal pleasure. l am
ready" This Disconnected the King still more,
and he exclaimed: What! ready to be killedn
Certainly" replied the Pasha; 81 am always
ready to die, and so far from fearing your put
ting me to DEATH you would confer favor on me
by so doing, for you would be doing for me that
which I am precluded by my religious scruples
from doing for myself-you would deliver me
from all the troubles and misfortunes which the
future may have in store for me-" This com
pletey staggered King John, who gasped out in
despair: "Then my power has no terrors for
your None whatever" was the Pasha's laconic
reply.