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Tuesday, 8.


SENATE Some dissatisfaction has pre-
vailed tor sonetimeamong senators i'll both
parties with committee assignments which
parties was settled by the ap.
pointment of additional committees
under the new rules, and the re-
arrangement OF some of the old commi5-
tees.
On Additional Accommodation for the
Librars-Bayard, Mo,riJ, Miller (Cala.)
added, and Dolph retired.
Agricultural and sForestry-Sawyer and
Gibson added.
CoBmerce-Dolph, German and Slater
added Farley renewed.
ManutacbuTers-Pike and Butler added.
Mines and Mining-Bowen advanced to
the ch~airinanship and Terry, Cullon,, Jones
(Fl } added.
Woman sufftage-Cockrell added and
made chairman; Jones (Fls.) retired.
Claims-Fair added and Gibson retired.
The following have been named as mem
bers OF the two new committees created un-
der the new code of senate rules:
Expenditures of Public MoReys-Wilson,
Harrison, Plumb. Platt, Beck, George and
Kanna.
Fish and Fisheries-Lapham, Sewell,
Dawes, Palmer, Morgao, Groome, Farley
The other p~roceeulngs were devoid OF NJ
terest.
HousE-The senate amendments to the to.
bacco bull was concurredin. A resolution au-
taoIiz ng the committee on ex expenditures OF
the interior department to go te Hot Springs
creek ana Investigate work thereon was re-
iected. The bill TOR the election of terri.
torial governors and senators by popular
vote WIS reported adversely. TIE bill 10
ea erminste pienro. pneumonia and create @
baseao of animal industry was debated.
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! u.,,d ; and had reduced a mile from

Maud s.. and had reduced a mile IRON
three minutes to 2:l0 Ia. i
There was no reason, he said, why,
nv AN application of the principles OF
horse.breeding to humanity, men might
not live to be one hundred years OLD.
Within the speakers recollection the,
average of human life had been n
creased from %thirty-three to forty-two
wears. A silent man should marry a
laxative woman, and a taciturn woman
(it one could be tound) should join a
man with a lively tongue. The union OF
two silent people would produce chill
dren who could not say the Lords pray
er.
As an illustration of a strong, resolute
nature, the professor showed a crayoH
sketch which was said to represent King
Philip III. of Spain. Twenty-Five cents.s
worth of physiology and one dollars
worth of ~phrenology would enable peo-
PIE to make proner selections OF nus,
bands and wives. Cousins should not
intermarry, as their progeny are l!kely
to be idiots. After defending the lnstl.
tuition of marriage against the assault OF
free-love doctrines, and asserting that q
knowledge of physical and mental laws
would diminish the rowing evils Of d.
VOICE, IlOtCsSUl tIbSt
| heads of several ladies and gentlemen
who mounted the platform.
"This lady," he said, caressing the
bang of a stylish blonde, lis ingenious
and lively, but not very pious. She
| comes of q family of artists, and has con-
| siderable mechanical skill. She would
| decorate your home tastefully," looking
| hard at a dark-complexioned youth who
tried to hide his feet under Il chair.
| The blonde snickered, rearransed her
bangs, and put on her hat as Professor
| Slzer examined the back hair of an
elderly woman, and announced that she
was not stingy, was brave and long
headed, and that her sons said eyes,
ma'am,'' in addressing her. A careful
examination Of her ~frizzes satisfied the
lecturer that she was intellectual, full OF
vitality, and disnitied. The examin-
| alton OF heads closed the entertainment.
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BLUE BLOOD MARRIAGE.
Something Which Now Aeitates New
FORKS Aristocratic Circles.
Milwaukee, SIM.

Something Which Now Asitates New
Nork's Aristocratic Circles.
Milwaukee Sun. .. .
1t is most laughable to read the arti-
cles in The New York papers about the
blue blood" aristocracy and the airs
they put on yer those who have made
money by speculation or in manufacture
ing. The recent engagement of a son of
Jay Gould to q daughter of one of the
Asiors has caused a new outbreak, the
arlstocracy which has "blood" to back it
claiming that the girl is lowering herself
by marrying a man whose money has
been made in speculation and who has
not always been rich. The Astor5 are
considered the leaders of the blooded
arlstocracy, and the Goulds are con.
sldered as the leaders OF the shoddy.
whose money has not been handed down.
loa common, ordinary nlnespot, it
looks queer to see the descenda Is of n
man WHO traded i'll bad-smelling raw
iurs, by which the money was accumu-
lated, putting on style over a young fell
low whose money was made in buving
ana seiling nice, clean, sweet-smelling
railroad stocks. Ii you look back to the
i.lme Jay Gould, the father of the com
ing bridegroom, was working in a tan
merry, or Peddiing tinware, 9 find an
Astor, a blue-b CODED Astor, spearinp
muskrsts. through a hole in the ice.
sklnnlng the am and selling the pelts
TO make a seal skin cloak. II YOU are
ashamed OF Gould as a surveyor. how
40 you feel about an Astor going about
IN a canoe, through marshes, taking
dead muskrats from steel traps set the
night before and buited with iiyer?s The
girl who feels that she is lowering her
sell by marrying Il man who made mon
eey ny building, and buying, and wreck.
Ing railroads, would probably blnsh to
see a picture Of ono of her ancestors.
dressed in a buckskin shirt and pants.
packing green hides from Green Bay
70 milwaukee,. and trading them for
whisky and salt pork, two rations of
whisky, to n of pork. By investing
SKINS In real estate on Manhattan Is
lands the Astors got their wealth. but
where did they get the sblood' We
read about? The ga ne blood is landed
at Castle Garden every DAY from emip-
rant Ships. All the emigrant of to dav
has to do is to take his Short Wasted
coat AMI high. water pants away out
West and ca CHI ats and make a fortune.
and he can go bacK to New YORK and
put on style over the star-spanpled
american citizen with as much phil as
the Astors do now over the Goulds.
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He EGellcd 1t.

One of the most remarkable forests in
the world is the Redwood Forest OF
California. 1t extends several hundred
from five to twenty miles wide. The
redwood trees grow from two hundred
to two hundred aud fifty feet in height,
and are eight or ten feet in diameter.
At the East it is a productive forest
that yields one hundred cords of wood
to the acre. But DR.. Die Lewis, while
gypsyjng in the Sierras, camped in a
spot of the Redwood Forest, where
it was estimated that the trees, if cut in
to cord.wood, would produce fifteen hun
bred cords to the acre. DR.. Lewis
describes the falling of an enormous
redwood tree, which he witnessed: NJ .
1t was we'll up on the side of a noun
tain, in the midst of magnificent Seen
cry. The tree was two hundred and
fifty feet high and twelve feet in
diameter.
| climbed to the spot, and found the
men arranging the bed on which the
tree was to tall.
The boss stood near the tree, sighted
down the mountain side, and directed
the rolling away of a boulder, or the
placing CT a mass of large limbs, to save
the body of the tree from being broken.
Suppose the tree should take a no.
ton to fall in some other direction?" l
asked.
"Trees," replied the boss, "fall where
they are told to fall. They have no
kinks Of their own about it"
DO you mean to say that you can
make that imm-nse tree fall exactly in
to that saddle of limbs?"
Certainly to the millionth part of a
| hair"
The bed on which the tree was to fall
being completed, the boss went up
above, OF the mountain side, where he
could sight the tres and the bed, and
cried ont:
Are you ready?"
Ave, aye, sir"
"Now, Michigan. five cuts near the
bark. Hold on, Micbiganln
Now, Missouri, chop TIL | tell you to
stop. Hold on, Missouri
Now, Ohio, with your long handle
near the centre. Therel hold, Ohio!'
"Now let old Minnesota come with his
long handle. Hold, Minnesota"
For fifteen minutes this went on,
when the magnificent monster, which
had stood there while ten generations of
eHS ohSVSto'S iau ipuiuGlcQ III tilClI
| graves, began 10 bend.
| stood where | could detect the slight
est motion. After there had been q dis
tinct movement, the boss cried OUT
Michigan, sharp! Close by YOUR
The monster went down with awful
power. 1t struck precisely in the bed
prepared for it. 1t was a long time be-
lore the tremendous crash died away
III the strange mountain echoes.
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A Il STORY.
How the Debates In C,nSress Are
snorrhandeu-The Omcial steno-

How the Debates In C,nSress Are
shorthandeu-The Omcial steno-
graphcrs
From the New York World.
John J. McElhone, the chief of the
official stenographers of the House, has
been in the service of that body as an
official reporter since 1919. lie was an
expert stenographer when a mere boy.
When he was IS years oldhe was report
ing the official debates. Dennis
Murphy, the chief of the Senate staff,
began his official work for Congress six
months earlier than McElhone. Both
are from Philadelphia. McElhone is a
very tall, straight, vigorous, cookbook
ing man. He has more the air OF a
dashing soldier tina, that of a civilian.
His eyes are clear and resolute, his nose
straight, while his military mustache
and Imperial %accentuate his appearance
of vigor and energy. He is a very cul-
tiyated man, and few members have
such thorough know
ledge of public affairs Us
McElhone. 1t is strange that none of
the younger stenographers of Washing
ton who are looking forward to fill the
| Places of the official stenographers Of
| Congress are not doing something to
qualify themselves for the work. The
average btenographer looks only to the
mechanical pa t Of his work, without q
thought of how necessary to his final
| success is the possession Of thoroughly
broad and comprehensive education.
l., Mr.. MrElhone explained the other
day bis method of working. 1t will
probably be a relevation TO the average
reporter. He pays no attention to the
mechanical part of his work. He writes
the Pi man system in its simplest forms.
When he is reporting u speaker he iol-
lows his every sent nee, critlGising 1t II
taking in fully its sense while his hand
follows his thought like q bit of exquisite-
ly trained mechanism. The result is that
he has never yet met a speaker who
can talk too fast for him. When he meets
a man who can tbi, k tnster than he can
then only will McElhone be at u loss.
He says that in the last House the three
hardest men to report We're Thompson,
of Iowa, Blackburne of Kentucky, and
Ranney OF Massachusetts.
The hardest piece of reporting ever
done by McElhone was during the eX-
citing incidents of the counting in Of
Hayes by the house OF representatives.
When Beebe, of New York, immortal
lied himself by jumping upon his desk,
perfect bedlam appeared to have been
let loose. To report what was said, with
twenty or thirty members apparently
talking at once, must have seemed al
most an impossibility. In less than a
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The vcrmilye-Myers Scandal.

Daniel B. Vermilye wss arrested in st
Paul the I'd inst, on a requisition from Gov
Cleveland of New York, charged with OBJ
tanning 500 from the banking house of
Howard Lapslie d Co., New York city, BY
false pretenses. Gov. Hubbard postponed
the hearing a week later, and will not grant
the reauisition unless evidence is adduced
against Vermilye strong enough to warrant
it. In such ali event, Vermilye's counsel
will at once apply for a writ of habeas cor
pus, for which The papers have already been
prepared. Vermiiye says the whole thing is
brought about by his enemies and that Gen.
Myers is at the bottom OF it. he says he
had some dealings with Howard, Lampslie
& Co., and at the time of his last transac-
ton there was a dispute as to the amour
he owed them. He said that, in answer to
their repeated demands tor 500, he had
told them he would pay the amount as soon
as they gave him a statements his account,
and that q friend in New York, acting un-
der his Instructions, ives r adv to pay the
money as soon as the statement was fur
nished.
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WENDELL PHILLIPS DEAD.
The Great Orator and Abolitionist Breatles
Ills Last, q Victim of Heart
Disease.

BosToS, Special Telegram, Feb. 2.-WenaeH
Phillips died at GID o'clock at his residence
81 Common rtrect. He had been seriously Il
only since Sa uday last On The morning. OF
that day he was ken very suddenly win en-
attack OF heart disease. A physicif4n was
promptly summoned and pronounced
Che trouble angina pecto.as. The
malady which brought Charles Summer to
the grave and caused the death ct Mr.. Phil
lips father and three brothers. It had been
hoped that Mr.. Phillips strong consultation
and the fact that he had enjoyed remarkable
health for years would euable him to rally,
but the disease made rapid progress. He
was confined to his bed ON Sunday,
suffering terrible pains, and his physician
was summoned 10 the house four times The
patient rallied, grew better from day to
day. and hopes We're entertained until
Wednesday of Il speedy recovery. On
Wednesday came n relapse so serious
that constant medical aid was required.
On Thursday his condition became so criti-
cal that it was hardly thought at midnight
thathe could live until morning. Again he
rallied slightly, but the relief was
only temporary. In attempting to lift
himself in bed to-day he overtaxed
his feeble powers. A terrible paroxisln was
brought on, and in order to quiet the suf
ferer it was necessary to employ an@sthetics
1t was evident that the end was near.
Phillips realized this, and except during the
time above referred to, was conscious until
the last, though too feeble to speak He
had been unable to speak fol
two or three days. He had taken
no prominent part in public life for more
than a year, feeling that, though in excellent
health, he had reached an age when quiet
ness and rest were requisite. He received
many fiattering invitations to lecture
but was heard but seldom. He
last spoke in public at tho
old South church the day fol
lowing Christmas, when the statute Of
Harriet Martlncau was unveiled. The en-
forced removal from his home or Esse2
street was often in Mr.. Phillips mind
for he frequently spoke of tn,
change with regret, and some
of his friends, thinking that broodine
over this matter may ave brought, in sons
degree ut least, the disease which proved
fatal When Phillips died there We're non,
in the death chamber save the wifi,
whom he had cared for with such con
stunt tenderness these many years, and hi
adopted daughter, with other members o
the family and household. His death wa
peaceful, and, though the illness had beer
painful, the end happily was free from al
suffering. The arrangements for the funera
are not yet completed, and it probably vii
not he held for several days.
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Cap,ious secretary OF the Navy

Washington Spscial:-A few days ago
secretary Chandler made a acquisition
upon the civil service commission Tor nom
nation for a vacancy in the clerical force
OF the depsr,va .nt; in response tine commls.
sio certified to him the names of four per-
sons from which to make 3 selection. This
afternoon tChandltr returned to tae COM
mission the nominations sent him accom-.
panied by a note, in which he 81 4ted that
having carefully inspected the examination
p psrs OF the four persons whose names
were certified he reached the conclu
sion that none,o of the candidates had, upon
examination. showed sufficient intelligence
to give promise of filing the ~vacancyin his
department acoeptabJy. This action OF the
secretary raises an interesting question. Il
has not yet been considered by the aonln Is
sioners. Coinmissiener Thoman said THAT
the persons whose names Wers certified 20
tho secretary passed y fair examination be-
fore the commission, Gndin certifying them
all the provisio.as of the Law and civil ser
vice rules were inily complied with. In
his Judgment no ether certificates of names
would he made to the secretary under this
reQuisition.
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Doings Cd

Maud Holton, of Peoria, says she was ou1
buggy riding with Zora Be-ns, in company
With . young man, on the night fora wa
mnadered. She asserts that Carpente,
kiiled,H IRA in the courae cfa quarrel, and
gave her and her male companion a large
sum OF money. to hold the matter secret.
the couple took the cum, amounting
g 5000, aid went TO Chicsgo. The young
man refused to furnish the young woman
with her share Of the money, which is the
cause OF her divulging the secret. Her
tory y not entirely accepted.
a motion was made in New York to dis.
change the ball Of George W. Conkiing OF
Reno New, who, March 10, last. shot and
ikiliedEWiibur a.. Haverstick, for seducine
ms married sister, Mrs. Hannah e gnler.
Decision reserved.
Es.E. johnson, the Northern Pacific agent
at finss7orfh. arrested for stealing an $iS,-
s&O package, was released, there being in
Aficient evidence to hold him.
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nednesdau. february 6.

SENATE The bill for the suppression and
prevention of diseases among domestic ami
mails was reported f%avorsbly. Bills were
introduced increasing the efficiency Of the
army and indemnifying Iowa under various
acts relating to swamp and overflowed
lands.
HousE.-Bills were introduced authori-
zisg the purchase of snug harbors for dis
abled sssmeb, and for the establishment Of
a branch soldiers home in a western state.
Alter the presentation of sever resolutions
ofh quisy, the house passed to the considera-
ton OF the pleuro. pneumonia bill, and strong
opposition to the measure was shown, its
opponents arguing from the state rights
standpoint.
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FORTY. EIGHTH CONGRESS-.
Eriday, FEBRUARY I.


SENATE.-Not In session.
HousE.-After five days of debate, The
house passed the bill for the relief Of Fitz
John Porter by a vote Of 1874 to
rs. Strenuous efforts were
resorted to by the opponents to save Off .
vote BY hiibustering, but when at s O'clock
those in favor contested IN hour for debate,
the opponents of Porter accepted the sttua.
ton. The beneficiary %occupieda seat in the
private gallery, and the eagernssss as the cli-
max approached we're marked by the vast
throng in the galleries, who had given up
their dinner 10 witness the last scaae. AS
the names of republicans were recorded
in favor of the bill, they were
applauded vigorously. There was con.
siderable buster and loud talking
during the ciosing proceedings, but
both sides were good-natured, as the resul,
WAS & ioregone conclusion before the roll
call was half completed.
Messrs. Wulford, Phelps, Laird, Henley,
and Curtin spoke in favor of the bill, and
mess:s. Calklns and Boute.le against it. All
Minnesota members voted in the negative.
Adjourned until the 9th inst.
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egyptian Rebels Defeat Baker Pasha

DS
The advices regarding the defeat of Baker
Pasha are conflicting, but the following
def.iis have been received: Baker Pasha
began his advance from the Entertainments
at Trinkitat the I'D inst. His force consist
ed of 5 200 troops, badly armed and short of
ammunition, and many OF whom showed al
unwillingness to proceed. Baker Pasha
had sent from Trinkitat to Cairo an urgent
appeal for rifles to replace the old musAets
with which hunters of his troops were
armed. In reply he received orders to try
and force his way to Sokar without delay,
and, with the English officers CON
nected with the expelition, began the march
expecting defeat. Spies had falsely reported
the roads clear, with the exception of small
bands of rebels. Monday f emo a por-
ton of the advance encountered n body Of
Osman DegDa's troops, and a fight eusued
which was more offs rout than a battle.
Baker Pasha lost all his camels and baggage
in the fight. MIST of.the Egyptian officers
and men bolted. Col. Gar,orius tried hard
to rally ttem, but without success. The
Europeans behaved splendidly. Col. Sar-
iorius narrowly escaped with bis life. The
enemy pursued almost into Trinkitat. The
Europeans, police and Turkish infantry
were cut to pieces. Fourteen Europeans
and three native officers are mis- ing.
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Mondau, Ee1ruaru 4.

SENATE-The bankruptcy bill was re-
ported ,avorably, together with numerous
either bill . Bills were introduced enabling
The people OF Dakota to form a constitution;
providing artificial limbs for ex.soldiers;
preventing the publication of lottery adver-
tiscments in the territories and District Of
! Columbia.
The Presidsstsent the following uo4nina-
tions TO the Senate: Henry D. Lyman,
Ohio. second assistant postmaster general;
William Dickson, Utah; attorney of the
U ,ited States, Utah; Peter a. Stolherg, re-
ceiver of public moneys at Tsylor's Falls,
Minp.; John R. Melee, Illinois, register OF
the land office at Las Cruces, New M4xico.
The Senate. confirmed J A.. Leonard,
consul general at Calcutta; Oscar MAlmres,
consul at Leith; Everett z. Freeman, regis
ter of the land office at Redwood Falls,
MINI; r ,bert w. Kelly, psnsion agent at
Louisville, KY; Richard s. Tuthili, atior.
nep Northern district OF Illinois.
Pos'masters-EDhue Enos, Waukesha,
Wis; Jabez ID. kasson, kasson, MINI.
HeusE-Bills were introduced reducing
the tariff 20 per cent. (Mr. Morrison); pun.
ishing officers of the United States for the
i'll gal use Of money in elections; looking
toward, the union of the Missouri and Col
ulp hia rivers; preventing the sale OF certain
Pacific railroads before United States bonds
with interest shall have been fully paid;
exem pting certain kinds of beer from in.
ternal revenue tax; for the relief OF tat
Indy Franklin bar expedition (Mr. Weller
etIowa). A resolution was pre- ent.d in.
structingth Judiciary committee to inquire
into charges against Chief Justice Axl.l O
New Mexico. The conference report or
the bill Tor the relief Of destitute Indians il
Montaua was agreed to. The bill appro.
PIRATES 800, 100.
Mr.. Washburn introduced to-day his bill
to construct q bridge across the Mlssis
sippi river at Anoka, above the Falls OF St.
Anthony.
Knnte Nelson introduced to-day the peti
tic of flames Chambers of Niagara, Oak.
for an amendment of the pre-. empsion lave
30 that ''any one who has entered less thar
1850 acres may without any residence, occu
patton, or improvement thereon, be per.
mitted to enter at 81 25 enough more tc
make up that number f acres"
Mr.. Wakefield introduced bills for the re-
lief OF Iura Bouker, John Waddams anC
Pauline Il. Milliken and Charles Milliken
Milo White introduced in the house a bill
granting a pension to all persons who
served in the army and navy in any wal
who were honorably discharged, and who
have hot received a pension.
MIR. Strait introduced In the house bill!
for the relief OF Nat ania Pond of Fart
bault, a soldier of the war OF 1872, and for
pension Tor Martha Maddox.