Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-08
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, Jan. z, 1886


 the commissioner of pensions in his annual report had etated that at one time the pension bureau was all but avowedly political ma chine filled with uneompromising adherents of a single organization (meaning the Repub lican larty) and that claimants were often required to support the Republicon party as condition upon which pensions should is- sue. The resolution instructs the Committee on Expenditures of Public Money to inquire into the truth of these allegations and con- fers power to send for persons and papers.
 hr. Logan had nothing to say against the present commissioner of pensions, whom he respected highly, but he wished the resolu- tion enlarged so as to include an investiga- tion of the present administration of the of fee.
 MT. Voorhees, accepted the amendment and the resolution went over for one day.
 At o'clock MT. Brown stated that he would not ask to be heard on the silver ques- tion until next Tuesday.
 The Utah bill then came up and Mir. Nor gan addressed the Senate in support of an amendment providing for the disposal of the property of the Mormon church. He favor ed striking the church out of existence and cutting up the organization root and branch.
 MT. Call did not believe Congress had the right to destroy the religious establishment of the Mormons. The practice of polygamy, unholy as it was, did not authorize us to violate the constitution of the United States by legislating in regard to an establish ment of religion or take private property for public use.
 MT. Edmunds said the bill would not af- feet the religious affairs of the Mormons
 Mr. Cullom, alluding to remarks made by Mr. Teller yesterday ,said he did not think we had persecuted the Mormons
 Mir. Teller denied having made the state ment attributed to him by MT. Cullum What he said was not that the Unite States government had prosecuted Mormons, but that the actions of unwise agents selected by the government had resulted in irritating the Mormons.
 Mir. Cullom would prefer to abolish alto gether the legislative power of the territory of Utah and thought that we should some day have to do it at any rate. If the bill, however was the best that could be got at this time he would vote for it.
 NIT. Teller said he was as anxious as any to see it done in a manner authorized by our constitution and laws. He believed the great mass of Mormons to be steeped in fan atieism, yet we could not forget that two hundred million people believed in Moham- mechanism. He reviewed the history the Mormors and referred to the hardships suf- fered by them in their successive removals No man he thought could read that history without feeling at least some little sympathy for those people, not that he need approve their false ideas, but recognizing att least that they were men pos sessed of determination to exercise their uncontrolled religious belief-a determina- tion that had made the Anglo-Saxon race great and powerful-though sometimes it may be exercised in a- wicked cause. He (Afr. Teller) hoped he would have accorded to him honesty of purpose in what he had said in defense of 8 people who were without friends. He e uld beer testimony to their virtues without endorsing their vices.
 Considerable debate ensued to the legal effect of the provisions relating to the testi mony to be given by husbands and wives and six amendments of detail were adopted and at $40 p. m., without concluding the consideration of the bill, the Senate ad- journed.
 HoUsE-The cail of States was resumed to day, the following being among the bills introduced: By Golf of West Virginia to repeal the internal revenue tax on tobacco; by Casswell of Wisconsin, to levy tax on oleomargarine and to collect the same through the internal revenue bureau; by Price of Wis consin, to create a committee to examine the alcoholic liquor traffic; by Clifford of Dakota, for the admission of the State of Dakota; by Joseph of New Mexico, to organize a regi- ment of volunteers in Arizona and Mexico to suppress Indian hostilities, to investigate General Crooks campaign and to relieve Kit Carson's heirs; by Voor hees of Washington territory, to admit the State of Washington; by Anderson of Kan s.s, to prohibit the use of railroad and tele graph passes by members of Congress and the judiciary, to reduce postage on drop let ters to one cent and to reduce the life of pat ents to seven years.
 The Speaker then announced the commit tees, after the reading of which the House at 2:5o p. m. adjourned until Monday.
 AT SEA IN AN OLD HULK. A Terrible Tale by One of Crew Ar
 rested For Mutiny.
 NEW YORK, Jan. Hate this afternoon tugboat while coming up the bay noticed a signal of distress flying from the masthead of the schooner s. A. Paine of Provincetown, Mass, Captain R. Hawes. When the tug boat arrived off Pier 1 information was sent to Captain Smith of the police boat Patrol, which immediately proceeded down the bay and ran alongside the schooner. Captain Smith with several of his men on boarding the schooner was informed by Captain Hawes that while the vessel was on her way to sea the crew, some of whom were under the in tiuence of liquor, refused to obey orders and had finally mutinied. Captain Smith at once placed the men under arrest put them on board the Patrol brought them to this city and locked them up They will be taken be fore Commissioner Shields for examination in the morning.
 James H McMullen, ore of the crew, made the following statement 'We sailed from Boston on December 1 for Prince Edwards Island to load potatoes for Philadelphia and arrived at the isla.Id on the Sth after rough passage. On the 18th we sailed for Philadel- phia, but struck cyclone and after five days of terrible weather put into Halifax in leaky condition We did not want to go to sea again in the old tub, but the captain insisted and we left there Christmas day in a bowling gale with al blind ing snow storm. We had to take ill all our canvas and run before the wind under bare poles The deck was covered with six inches of ice. To make matters worse a hole was stove under the cabin and six feet of water made in the hold. We had to work night and day at the pumps. The sea washed away one of the boats and the coal and wood were washed over. All the provisions were spoiled. We had noth- ing but wet ship bread and raw salt pork to eat. The water in the hold rolled about with every lurch of the schooner and knocked out the forecastle deck, washed away DOT tions of our hunks and stood two feet deep over the floor. We had no place but the wet deck to sleep and were nearly frozen. All of us had our feet frozen. On New Years day we drifted into Woods Hole and came to anchor The weather let up little and we managed to beat the ice off the sails and get them up. On the following day we put out again, but the binding snow made us lose our bearing. We fell in with pilot boat off Nantucket and she put us on our course again. But the water still kept gaining and the wea ther was so heavy on Tuesday that we were obliged to put into port. We anchored here and the captain promised to go into dry dock for repairs, but kept putting Us off The captain got something ashore for us to eat and sent us below for dinner and while we were down he and the mate cast off the lines and the schooner was soon headed for sea. We tumbled up and asked the old man where he was going He swore he was going to Philadelphia if he had to sail her alone by her jib. We told him she would sink and protested, but the captain was stub born and we just walked forward and threw the anchor overheard. If we are mutineers we can't help it. We refused tn po to sea to