Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-13
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, April 12, 18S

I SENATE.-Mr. Riddleberger moved to talk up the resolution relating to the considera l tion of executive nominations in open ses sion.
 MT. Dawes urged consideration of the In l dian appropriation bill
 MT. Riddleberger proceeded to state his 1 reasons for declining to give way to the appro priation bill, when the chair said his motion was not debatable. MT. Riddleberger ap pealed from the decision of the chair, but finally withdrew his appeal and called fol the yeas and nays on his motion. His motion was defeated; yeas 7, nays 51 The Senators voting in the affirmative were
 Messrs. Bowen, George, Logan, Riddleber- ger, Vance, Van Wyck and Wilson of Iowa.
 This vote, however, does not indicate the strength of the open session advocates, as
 many of them, including Senators Platt, Tel Ter, Gibson and Mitchell, voted nay.
 The Indian appropriation bill wss then taken up.
 At 1:45 the Senate went into executive session. At 12:50 the doors were reopened, and on motion of MT. Conger the Senate took a recess of twenty minutes to review the District of Columbia veterans celebrat- ing the twenty-ffth anniversary of their de- parture for the seat of war in 1861.
 At the expiration of the recess the Senate took up the Indian bill, MT. Frye having ask ed that his fisheries resolution lie over in formally. Several amendments were offered and rejected. The bill was then passed sub stantialIy as it came from the Appropriation committee. At o'clock the Senate ad- journed.
 HoUsE-Under the call of States bills were introduced and referred as follows: By Mir. Townsend of Illinois, authorizing pensions to the parents of deceased soldiers on proof that they are without other means of support than their own manual labor.
 M HIox NF 1TrTr1 national museums and institutions to be kept open on Sunday.
 The committee on the District of Colum bia then took the floor for the consideration of business reported from that committee.
 The District bill was passed.
 The house at 5:30 p. m. adjourned. A Republican caucus was announced for s p. m. this evening.
 The Election in New Britain.
 NEW BRITAIN, April 12.-Ambrose Beatty Dem.) is elected Mayor by 134 majority. R. J. Vance Dem.) is reelected city clerk and Albert Morton Oem.) is elected auditor by ' majority. The Democrats elect one alder man and four councilmen aud the Republi- cans one alderman and four councilmen.
 DEATH OF DIR. A. M. SLEW. The Head of the State Insane Asylum
 at MiddIetoWn Stricken With APe-
 plexy and Dies in a Few Hours.
 MIDDLETowN, April 12.-The sad news of the sudden death ot Dr. A. M Shew, super intendent of the insane asylum, created deep feeling in this city where he was so well known and had spent the greater part of his highly useful professional life in charge of the asylum here. He was stricken with apo 0 fo:1o ensued at noon. His death was superin- duced by fall down the staircase to the main hall. The doctor was coming down with book and stumbled. Ills spine was severely injured, but it was thought until within few days that he was slowly recovering.
 Dr. Shew was born in Jefferson county, N Y, September 1s, 1S41. He moved to Watertown, N. Y., where he received his academic education at the Jefferson County institute. In 1862 he accepted the office of assistant physician in the New York Asylum for Insane convicts at Auburn, N. Y., after which he went to Philadelphia and graduated at the Jefferson Medical college. Later he became assistant surgeon of United States vol unteers, and then WAS assigned to duty as post surgeon in South Carolina. Six months afterwards he was ordered to Beaufort and given full charge Of the post hospital, which position he held until the close of the war. In the spring of 1866 he was ap- pointed assistant of the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum at Trenton, and re- mained there until the following Sep tember, when he was appointed to su- perintend the construction and organiza- tien of the Middletown hospital. He en- tered upon the performance of his duties on the 10th of October in the same year. The io1 V2RQ Elizabeth Palmer, daughter of Hon. Lewis Palmer, of Watertown, N. Y. She died January 19, 1874. On the 18th of June, 1878, he married daughter of s. L. Brad ley, of Auburn, N. Y, who died in 1879. In November, 1884, he married Miss Clara Brown, of Staten Island who survives him. Two children, son and daughter by the first wife, are also living.
 Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made.