Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-07-21
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from tariff bill fixing duty of F per cent on printing paper. Lost. Mile moved tha; paragraph containing card cloth be amended to increase the duty to 20 percent per square bolt s- d ID case such cloth Is made of tempered steel wire from 9 to 40 cents per square foot. Adopted. Other amendments offered by Mills and adopted were s;rlcked out.
 India rubber fabric paragraph fixing duty on ksoiin at Sl per ton for crude. S2 for China clay UT wrought kaolin and placing duty on rough marble n blocks and squared at 70 cents per cubic foot.
 This completed consideration essGniI- silly of the tariff feature of ihe bill ex. cept in regard to such paragraphs gs the administrative portion Ot the meas 1re was taken up.
 Buchanan of New York offered m amendment providing that no goods tho product ID whole or n uatorIGi part of convict labor shall be imported for the purpose of sale or tssde. Rejected on motion of Mills. Amendment was adopted firing October l 1888 es date for the repeal of taxes on manufactured chewing and smoking tobacco sud snuff to go into effect.
 Wise, of Virgiuis moved to include tax on cigars, eheroots and cigarettes. Lost; yeas s7, nays 145. Yost of Louisi- ana offered sn amendment similar to
 Wise's.
 Sowden of Pennsylvania offered CD amendment abolishing the tax On spirits distilled from apples, peaches snd other fruits Pending vote the committee rose
 Adjourned.
 BAN FRAScIsco July l6.-Seventy teachers arrived from the north on Ore gon steamer. Overland trains brought delegations from Brooklyn, Ohio and St. Louis. A large party of teachers from Kansas will arrive this evening and Secretary Confield of the National Ed uos,ional Association estimates there are tventy-three hundred persons from eastern points now in the cIty. The National convention met this morning.
 Delegate Richards made report of elementary education, the subject being Waste in Education" A paper which was written by E. White of Ohio, took up common system of training children in primary department and pointing ont wherein it was devoted to "craming Ci pupils with useless and imprscs,cable knowledge" condemned the system ss not only O, DO benefit but calculated ic blunt rather than sharpen and quicken the faculties of children. The writer ss serted that a pupil onght to be thrown more on his own resources m acquiring knowledge snd more attention paid io the development of right habits, good sense, sound judgment and it's proper application. A paper on "rhe Business side of School Systems" by Prof. Burke of Hinsdsle University. Michigan, wss read. The close relation of the people to the existing system. was considered sud the method of school board admin for large cities outlined, The board should be chiefly legislative aud delegate to fixed executive departments most of It5 judicial powers. Poletlcs 10 connection with education was con- demned.
 MERGED, July 16-Advices from Bear Valley, MAriposs county, state that the town was burned to ths ground, The fire started in q frame house Sunday mornIag and spresd 10 adjoining buiid- ings. Only the Royernmen: store snG few private houses remain Loss about s200O0. Insurance not yet known,
 WAsHSGroS, July l6-The house joint resolution eleosiDg Col. Harrison Oi Ohio. Gen. Mor;en O. ksnsas and U. Hsrlrsnt of Pennsylvania. managers of the national soldiers home to fi!l va- csnoies, passed. Also a bill sPpTopT.a- tiBS S25,OOO, for the erection of to General Geo. u. Clark in Louisville.
 up and Pugh said that the Republicsn majority was wilfuliy avoiding it's con sti- tutiOD and sworn duty and was placing the sonste in bad odor before the cour- try for no ether purpose than supposed polihcnl partisan consideration. Eng land hsd nothing to inss but everything to gain by American nOn-intercourse with Canada.
 Chandler said the treaty was dishon- bring to tbe nation. He referred to the sentimen. of S;r Chss. Tupper's speech | before the Canadian parliament, and then said Cham beTls;a came over here RnzIous to negotiate treaty even nt the expense of all thRt America claimed, | but from the vanity and spxiety of | Bayard to be known as q negoiiator. | obtained suddenly ari | an easy victory. He said | if was impossible 10 reslst the conclu. sion that some combination had been | formed bY leaders of the democratic | party to sacrifice the interests of the | New Englhnd fishermen and break | down the .ariff system He also ar- rsigned the administration for it's abar- | 1onment of the Monroe doctrine as | shown in its actions the Panama end | Nicsrsg qua canal schemes, aud for d. | lowing Canada % boldly seize upon the | interests and markets of | he United States
 President Cleveland in his message | 10 but one question ot foreign l policy. and then he asked congress to | oin with him Tn his alliance tO Great | Britain to strike down the American 'ysiem.
 SAN FRANCISCO. July l6-The argu- nent in the sharon case on application 1y executors of the estate for bIll of 'evIvor. closed to-day and the case sub nitted, Counsel given until August 9th 70 file brIess.
 NEW YORK, July 16-The National Republican executive committee met o-dsy and organized by elecnnR Ousy .s chsIrman and J. Slost Fsssett ss sec etary-
 FRESNO, July l6-The thermometer at loon to-day stood Bt 1928 n the hsde.
 HELENA, MosT. July l6-Yesierday Geo. Godas, under sentence of Iesth, and two prisoners serving term. D the county jail for burglary, broke sil by cutting hole in the floor and uuneling under the jail. The sheriff nd posse gre in pursuit.
 SoBRASrr, Cal. July l7.-A work rain bound north collided with freight rain bound south between this place nd Pinole this morning. The collision ook place in a sharp rounded cut and he engineers did not see each others ram until within a few yards of each ther. The ens .oeer and firemsn of the rsight train jumped end escaped xith light injuries. Engineer Buck of the | 'ork train also escaped by jumping, but , iremen Fish vss caught as the engines | anne together. The engines were com ( letely telesooped and when vorknan | ent to Fi.h's sssistsnoe found him fGs- ( med n the wreck end enyeloped in a q oud of escaping steam. He quietly