Huntsville gazette., 1886-02-06

POsItiOn IOT u Ildn OA SeBtAemenC Oh lis
putes Between Labor and Capital--An-
other Revolution Threatened at Panama
CONGRESSIONAL FORECAST.
WASHINGTON, Feb. business in
either branch of Congress is insuffciently
crystallized to insure very high degree
of accuracy in forecast.
The House to-day, after the call of the
! States and committees for the introduce
ton of bills and the suspension of rules,
will resume consideration of the bill IN
creasing the pension of widows and de-
pendent relatives of deceased soldiers
from IS to $l2 month, which is unfin-
ished business. Tuesday is to be devoted
to eulogies on the late Mr.. Hendricks,
the bill now on the calendar restoring
Fitz-John Porter to the rolls of the army.
The committee on expenditure in the
War Department will to-day report a
resolution calling upon the Secretary of
War for information relating to the ac-
counts of the chief Signal officer; also,
authorizing the committee to conduct
an investigation into the accounts, and
SipONNiihS ~ w SCAu lCl pCISOuS
papers, etc.
There seems to be conflict pending
between Messrs: NHoar and Harrison in
the Senate over consideration of their re-
spective measures. Mr.. Hoar asks very
earnestly that his bill fixing the day for
the meeting of the electors
OF President and vice-President,
and to provide for and regulate
fh 10 cnnnfi,oo IF bo o1o 70 xub bich
is unfinished business for to-day, be taken
yielded the floor number of times dur
ing the past two or three weeks, realizes
the necessity of continuing the discussion
of his bill providing for the admission Of
Dakota, which is also unfinished busi-
ness. It is generally believed that the
latter measure will be taken up, and
that it will occupy the Senate
after two O'Clock each afternoon for
several days If it comes up to-day Mr..
Logan will speak first upon it, and he
will be followed by Mr.. Harrison, and
probably Senators Blackburn, Morgan,
VOORHEES, and others.
The investigation of the charges made
in the last annual report of the Commits
sioner of Pensions will be begun during
the week, if the Commissioner is ready
for it.
DEATH OF MRS. SECRETARY BAYARD.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Mrs. Louisa
Lee Bayard, the wife of Secretary Bavard,
died at her residence at half past eight
O'Clock yesterday morning of congestion
of the brain. This is the second time
within the brief space Of two weeks that
death has visited the household of the
Secretary. Mrs. Bayard has been in
feeble health for several years, and the
death of her daughter, two weeks ago,
completely prostrated her, from which
prostration she never rallied. Late Sat
urday night her physician said her death
was imminent, and the public here were
in a measure prepared for the sad news.
Mrs. Bayard's remains will be taken
to Wilmington, Delaware, this after
noon. There will be no funeral services
in Washington. The interment will take
place at the old Swedish Church,
where Miss Bayard was buried two
weeks ago. Several members of the
Cabinet are expected to 60 to Whining
ton and attend the &lneral. Express
sions of coincidence are heard on all sides
lOI tlc NtCICUdTy III lliS Sitdt nlulSllOH.
Mrs. Bayard was born in Baltimore in
1885. Her father, Josiah Lee, was one
of the leading business men of that city
thirty-five years ago. She met the Secre-
tary while his father was Senator from
Delaware, and they were married in
1856. There were twelve children born
to them, seven of whom still live. Up to
seven or eight years ago Mrs. Bayard
in of tho National
capital
OFFICIAL LABOR ARBITRATION PROPOSED.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The members
of the labor committee of the House have
had proposition presented to them in
an informal way, which is not yet before
the committee and has not been formulat-
ed into bill, but is likely to prove the
germ Of future legislation. The idea has
been suggested to different members Of
the committee of providing for board Of
arbitration to settle differences between
employers and their employees. The
plan proposed is to make a
board of three members, one to be
selected by the employer, one to be
named by some one of the officially recog-
nized labor unions, and the third to be
the Judge of the United States district
court in which the case arises. To make
the plan practicable the great labor or
CARNATIONS, such as Knights of Labor
and the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, would be given National
charters, and these would be
made forfeitable on failure to carry out
the decision of the board of arbitration.
AS the employer always has tangible prop
erty there would be no trouble in making
him observe the finding of the board.
The scheme is as yet in an inchoate form,
but when the members of the labor COM
mittee have been carefully sounded it is
probable bill viii be presented to the
House.
ANOTHER REVOLUTION THREATENED.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The Secretary
of the Navy has received information
from the Pacific Mail Steamship COM
pany, to the effect that another revolu-
lion is threatened on the Isthmus of Pan
ANA. RearAdmiral Jouett, command
ing the North Atlantic station, has been
directed by telegraph to remain at Aspin-
wall with the Tennessee for
the present. 1t is possible that
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