Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-22
The House Adjourned Yesterday
Without a Decision for Lack
of a Quorum.
The Report That Carlisle Would Ask the
House to Reopen the Case De-
MED by the Speaker.
A Memorial Relative to Arbitration With
Great Britain - Other Miscel.
lane0us Washington
News Notes.

WASHINGTON, Jan 21.-The action of The
house in adiourning today without dis
posing of the obe-Cariisle case rendered
st impossible that the vote by which the
resolution for a reopening Of the case was
defeated Yesterday can be reconsidered eX-
cept by unanimous consent, the time with
in which such a motion could have been
entered as one of privilege having expired
with today's session. Although the rumor
that Mr.. Carlisle will. on Monday,
address letter to the house asking that
the case be reopened, is declared by that
gentleman'S friends TO be without tounda-
ton. Even should communication be
received. its suggestions could only be
acted upon by unanimous consent unless
the order for the previous question under
which the house Is now operating should
be withdrawn.
In the house today Mr. Bacon, Of New
York, chairman of the committee on man
ufactures, reported Il preamble and resoiu-
ton recitn@ the allegation. that certain
individuals and corporations engaged
in manufacturing or mining or dealing IN
some of the necessities Of life,
have combined for the purpose of control
ing or curtaiiing the production or supply
81 The same thereby increasing their price
the states, and impairing the revenue of
the government. and directing the com
mttee on manufacturers to inquire into
the names number and extent of such al
legged combinations. and all matters relat-
ing to the same which may call for leglsla-
ton by congress.
Mr. Randall. of Pennsylvania objected
TO the present consideration of the resoltI-
Jion and it was placed upon the calendar.
The secretary of state has received II re-
port from Consul Crowe!l, at Annoy, in
regard to the explosion November 9, in
Annoy, of a magazine containing about 400
tons of powder and other explosives by
which over POO lives were lost and several
hundred dwellings destroyed. The maga-
zine was located in the midst of a populous
suburb and the foreign settlement on the
island of kulanganZoo, in Annoy harbOr
was badly shaken up. Over a hundred
panes of glass and several doors in the
United States consulate building We're
broken. but otherwise no damage was
done. No lives were lost nor were any
personal injuries sustained by the few
American residents of Annoy. They con-
tributed s160 to the relief of the sufferers,
for which the government made suitable
acknowledgment.
A memorial from the Massachusetts
committee of fifty recently formed to CO.
operate with the British deputation of
peace and arbitration, representing 233
members of the house of commons. which
visited Washington in November. was
presented to the president today by Mr..
Edwin ID. Mead, of Boston, representing
the committee. The memorial is signed
by the governor of Massachusetts, the
mayor of Boston; President Elliot OF Har-
ward university; President Seeleye, of Am.
hurst college; Edward Everett Hale, Rev.
Phillips Brooks, Rev. Joseph
Cook, Andrew, p. Peabody, Leverett
Saltonstall, Alex. II. Rice. Charles
Theodore Russell and many of the lead
ing scholars and business men of Massa
chusetts Mr.. Mead, in behalf of the
committee urged the importance of the
opportunity offered by the British mem
orials for definite step in the Inaugural
ton of a settled policy OF arbitration with
out signal influence npon the world at
large. The president, while conscious of
certain practical difficulties, expressed
warm sympathy with the general cause
and his belief that the time could not he
distant when the nations would look back
with amazement upon their present sys-
TEN of wars. \ similar memorial from
the Massachusetts committee will be pre-
scented by Mr.. Hoar in the senate on Mon
day.
An Associated Press reporter tonight in
quired OF Speaker Carlisle what truth
there was III the report that he would on
Monday send letter to the house request
ing that the Thobe-Carlisle case be re-
opened, and that a committee be sent into
the Sixth Kentucky district. The speaker
authorized the following denial of the re-
port 10 be made public: Il have not CON
templated such a step. The house must
take its own course in the case without
dictation, or attempted dictation, from
me,