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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-20
CHARGING THE CALENDAR.
The Senate Makes Rush and Passes
Fifty-five Bills.

Fifty-f1ve Bills.
WASHINGTON, March 19.-In the Senate
to-day, after the routine business of report
ing bills from committees and placing them
on the calendar, and the introduction of
others, the Senate proceeded to cousidera-
tion of bills on the calendar in their regular
order
The bill to reimburse the depositors of the
Freedmens Saving and Trust Company,
and appropriating $1,200,000 for the pur-
pose, was objected to by Mr. Cockrell be-
cause it would lead to debate, and it went
over without action.
An objection was also made to it by Mr..
Vest because it contained the words legal
Representatives" under which, he said, the
benefits of the bill would go largely to
claim agents.
The words personal Representatives.
were suggested by Mr.. Evarts as a sub
stitute for Legal Representatives" and
were accepted by Mr.. Vest, but the bill
went over so as to allow further examina-
tion of it,
Among the bills of public chararter
that were passed were the following:
To construct road to the National GENE.
terry at Cornith Miss.
To settle and adjust the claims of any
State for expenses incurred by it in defense
of the United States during the late war.
Approprating 100000 for the erection
in Washington of a monument to the negro
soldiers and sailors who gave their lives for
the preservation of the government.
To establish light ship at False Cape,
Va.
For judicial determination of the rights
of the United States in railroad lands in
Florida.
There were altogether fifty-five bills
passed, a majority being pension and pri-
vate relief bills.
Among the former were two pensioning
volunteer female nurses during the war at
$25 month.
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MUST PAY TAKES.
Western Unions Novel Ground fol
Fighting an Assessment.

Fighting an Assessment.
WASHINGTON, March 19--The Supreme
Court to-day rendered decision affirming
the right and power of the State of Massa-
chusetts to tax the property of the Western
Union Telegraph Company within its
limits. The telegraph company refuses to
pay tax upon the ground that out of its
1888 miles of line within the State of
Massachusetts more than 1884 miles were
over, under or across post roads made such
by the United States, leaving only 49S
miles not over or along such roads,
on which the company offered to
pay the proportion of the tax
assessed according to mileage by the State
authorities. The court holds in its opinion
that the statute which grants telegraph
companies the privilege of running their
lines through and over any portion of the
public domain and along post roads is
merely permissive statute, and that there
is no expression in it which implies or con
fers any exemption from the ordinary bur
dens of taxation.
EXEMPTION NOT INTENDED.
1t never could have been intended by
Congress in comforting upon a corporation
of one State authority to enter the territory
of any other State and erect its lines therein,
to establish the proposition that such COM
pdny owed no ODeulence TO Une laws or the
State into which it thus entered, and was
under no obligation to pay its fair proper
tion of the taxes necessary to the States
support If the principle now con-
tended for be sound, every railroad
in the country should be exempt from tax
alton, because they have all been declared
to be post roads, and the same reasoning
would apply with equal force to every
bridge and navigable stream throughout
the land. The tax in the PIE .snt case,
though nominally upon the shares of the
capital stock of the company, is in
effect tax upon that organ
ization on account of property
owned and business done by it in the State
of Massachusetts, and the proportion of the
length of its lines in that State to their en-
tire lengths throughout the whole country
is made the basis of ascertaining the value
of that nronertY and business
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SMALL sHINrLAsTBRs.
The House Votes for Fractional Silver
Certificates.

WASHINGTON, March 19.-In the House
to-day Mr.. wilkins, of Ohio, under instruc-
tions from the Committee on Banking aud
Currency, moved to suspend the rules and
pass the bill authorizing the issue Of frac-
tional silver certificates. After good deal
of debate the bill was passed by vote Of
17S yeas to 81 nays. Following is it's text:
That the SecretaryIof the Treasury be, and
he hereby is. authorized and directed to
isue silver certificates Of the denomination of
25, ID and 10 cents in such form and design
as he may determine, such certificates TO be
reserved, redeemed, paid and re-issued in the
same manner as silver certificates of larger
denominations, and TO be exchangeabe for
silver certificates OF other denominations,
and the Secretary of the Treasury is author
lied and directed to make such regulations
as may seem TO him proper for distributing
and redeeming the denominations Of silver
certificates herein authorized.
The rules were suspended and the bill was
passed discontlnuing the coinage Of the So
gold piece and gold dollar.
The House then ad jonrned.
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BEER ON THE RAILS.
Iowa Can't Deter Railroads from
Transporting Intoxicants.

Iowa Can't Deter Railroads from
Transporting Intoxicants.
WASHINGTON, March 19.-An interesting
and important decision was rendered by the
Supreme Court to-day in the case of George
A Bowman ct al. against the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway Company, which in
wolves the validity Of the statute of Iowa
forbidding a railroad TO bring Intoxicating
liquor into that State unless il has been
furnished a certificate from the County
Auditor of the county TO which such liquor
is to be Transported showing that the con-
signee is legally authorized to sell it.
BEGINNING OF THE TROUBLE.
In May, 1886, Bowman Bros, firm en-
gagged in business in Marshalltown, la.
offered to the Chicago and North western
Railway Company in the city Of Chicago,
5000 barrels of beer for transportation TO
Marshalltown. The shippers did not fur
nish a certificate showing that they we're
legally authorized TO sell beer at the place
of its destination, and the railway company
refused to receive or transport it. Bowman
Bros thereupon brought suit to recover
$4,000 damages.
BASIS OF THE DEFENSE.
The railway company based its defense
on an act of the General Assembly of Iowa
passed April 5, 1856, entitled "An act relat
ing TO intoxicating liquors and proqiding
for more effectual Suppression OF the illegal
sale and transportation OF intoxicating
liquors and the abatement of nusanceS"
The court below held that this statute was
constitutional aud valid and constituted a
good defense, and Bowman Bros thereupon
appealed.
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No Hope for Blairs Bill.

WASHINGTON, March l9.-The friends Of
the Blair educational bill in the House
begin to realize the impossibility Of getting
the Committee on Education 10 act upon IT,
They cannot even get meeting Of tie sub
committee having the matter In charge
The bill will have 10 wait another session,
IL not another Congress.
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FISHING OFF CANADA.

The Senate Committee Expected to
Report the Treaty Adversely.
WASHINGTON, March 19.-The Commit
tee on Foreign Relations is expected at its
special meeting, on Saturday, to vote to re-
port the fisheries treaty to the Senate ad-
versely, and TO move to have it considered
in open session. The Republican leaders
want TO devote a week or ten days TO at
taclcing the administration on this line
carly in April. Mr.. ingalls, will then de-
liver his long-promised speech on our rcla-
tions and our dealings with England.
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DeLHSSEPS' LOTTERY.
The Outlook for it's Authorization More
Promising.

PARIS, March l9,-The Committee of
Initiative of the Chamber of Deputies, by
vote of s to 5, has agreed to consider the
proposal to authorize the Panama Canal
Company to issue a lottery loan OF
0,000, ,000f.
The committee on the loan has been in
instructed to report within three days I6
has been decided to ask the Chamber of
Deputies TO discuss the recommendations on
the measure before the Easter recess
On the Bourse the principal feature of
the day was large buying of Panama canal
and Rio Tinto shares The former closed
1Sf. and the latter 14f higher.
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cation by rail with Lille and Havre has
been cut off. The mails from here to
Switzerland are showed
FRIGHTFUL FLOODS.
Thirty Villages Swept from the Face
of the Earth.

BERLIN, March Industrious floods are
reported throughout Hungary.
Thirty villages have been ruined and the
town of Szathmarremeth has been partly
destroyed.
The towns of BelIes and Ganea are men
aced and the inhabitants are struggling for
their lives against the overflow of the river
Koros Many houses have fallen.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-20
France and the Pugilists.

LONDON, March 20, A. M.-The French
court, in the case of Mitchell and Sullivan,
sentenced the fighters, in default Of one
weeks imprisonment, to pay fine of 9S
and costs, the balance of their bail to be con
fiscated by the state.
Commander Griffin, of the American
navy, offers to back Kilrain for $500 against
Sullivan.
AN IMPROBABLE STORY.
DUBLIN, March 1q--The Euening Tele-
graph says that Mitchell has challenged
Sullivan to fight in 16-foot ring for 81 900
a side
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-20
International Copyright.

WASHINGTON. March 19.-In the Senate
today Mr.. Chace. from the Committee on
Patents, reported an international copy
right bill, which was placed on the calendar.
In response TO question by Mr.. Plumb,
he stated that the provisions Of the bill had
no reference whatever either to protection
,,- Fraa trade
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-20
SCATTERING SEEDS.
The Senate Committee Favors Lower
Postage.

WASHINGTON, March 19.-The Senate
Committee on Post Offices aud Post Roads
this morning ordered favorable report on
the Senate bill to reduce postage on seeds,
cuttings, bulbs, etc, to lc. for every four
ounces. The present rate is l6c per pound,
while that Of Canada is only &c. The pur-
pose of the bill is to place American seeds
men on AN equality with Canadians SO far
as use Of the United States mails are con-
oarpad
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Perished in the Storm.

Norwich, Conn. March 19--Frank
Hopkins, aged 60 years, and Mrs. Emeline
Whitney, bis housekeeper, aged 40 years,
were found dead near their house in Putnam
to-day. They had perished in last weeks
storm.
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To Bridge the Tennessee.

WASHINGTON, March 19--In the House
to-day, on motion of MIR. Neal, of Tennes-
see, the bill was passed authorizing the con-
struction Of bridge across the Tennessee
river at Chattanooga.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-20
u,,ntsviIle's Dollar Taker

WASHINGTON. March l9-The Senate to-
day confirmed j. Z. Street as receiver OF
Public Moneys at Huntsville, Ala.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-20
ENQLAND'S PEERS.
Earl Roseberry Makes a Fruitless
Move for Reform.

Earl Roseberry Makes a Fruitless
Move for Reform.
LONDON, March 19-In the House OF
Lords to-day the Earl of Roseberry moved
the appointment of a committee to inquire
into the constitution of the House of Lords,
with view to amending it, He said that
the time had come when a large
infusion of elected Peers was necessary.
The members might be elected either by the
proposed county councils, or by municipal
councils, or by the House of Commons, or
even by all three. The present weakness Of
the House of Lords was the hereditary prin-
ciple. If the Peers desired to see their infiu-
ence restored they must have recourse to
the elective principle.
BARoN's ALARM.
Baron Wemyss moved an amendment to
the effect that it was not safe to place the
constitution OF the House of Lords in the
power of a committee, and that it was not
consistent with its dignity to
discuss before the committee
the reason Of its existence.
If any changes were wanted, he said, they
ought to be made by the House of Lords
itself, on motion of Minister of the
Crown. Lord Salisbury said he was OPP
posed to the reconstruction of the House of
Lords after fashion that was with
out precedent. They were asked absolutely
to cast aside the principle upon which the
House Of Lords had always existed. If the
House Of Lords required reform it could
not be reformed through committee OF in.
quiry or through the crude proposals OF
Lord Roseberry Hear Hear.
EARL GRANvILLE's EXPLANATION.
Earl Granville attributed the agitation
against the House Of Lords to the manner
in which the Tory majority, led by Lord
Salisbury, had opposed popular measures:
Everybody who wished the usefulness of
the Peers to continue recognized the
necessity of reform Of the House
of Lords. He regretted that Lord Sails
bury opposed non poSsumus on the ques-
ton, for the Conservative government had
more power than Liberal government to
take the initiative in reforming the House.
Lord Roseberry's motion was rejected by
a vote Of T to 80.
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WASHINGTON, March l9.--'rhe President
has recognized Eugene Thiebaut as Vice
Consul of France at Charleston. s. g
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c.hina,s EXCLUSION.

WASHINGTON, March lg.-The Chinese
treaty was laid before the Senate to-day,
but was not made public
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-20
DISSENTING OPINIONS.

Justice Brady read an opinion dissenting
from the decision of the court. Justices
Field and Harlan also dissent, and Justices
GRAY and I.amar did not sit in the case.
The Bell patents are therefore sustained by a
majority of one, the court standing 4 to3.
The dissent of Justices Bradley, Field
and Harlan is based upon the Drawbaugh
claim. These three Justices are of the
opinion that the evidence Overwhelmingly
shows that Mr.. Drawbaugh was the first IN
ventor of the speaking telephone, although
he was unconscious of it ard was not aware
of its importance.
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~ was left for Mr.. Bell to discover that
se failures were not due to bad work
anSnlp IN Mr.. RES instruments, but to
principle which was adopted as the
'r, 'S OF what had to be done. Mr.. Bell
. uua That what he called the intermittent
,iet could not be made under
a.. circumstances to reproduce
.cdte Geicdte forms Of air vibrations caused
'Ie human voice in articulate speech,
nSst1 SudV the true way was to operate on an
Gi,oAsh current by increasing and dimin-
hug lts Intensity. This be called the
n,a n,a.ry, or undulatory, current, not be-
te Ohe current was supposed TO actually
n,o. mat form but because it
ned with sufficient accuracy
nea OF the current which was subjected
saaual changes of intensity exactly
Il rosous to the changes of density in the
il %Scasloned by its vibrations. Such was
eyo. ou.is.C,oVery, :, and it was new. Mr.. Refs
II y. thought of it, and he failed TO trans
md 'Peecn geographically. Mr.. Bell did,
ka5olne ne succeeded. Under such circum-
IT. IL is impossible to hold that what
pysr,, vs,s =. uid was an anticipation of the dis
A.. DRAwBAUGH's CLAIM.
a.Isl a,lSsr reviewing briefly the claims Of Dr.
@'usrwyde, James w. McDoncugh and
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1,rIsr ar5e,. reviewing briefly the claims Of DR..
'r"yde, James w. McDonough and
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-04-26

The Republicans had their Convention
in Palatka on the Path, and the reporter
for the Tines Union thus describes tn G
assemblage:
The convention was not a large one in num-
her OF delegates, but what was lacking in num-
be-s was made up in enthusiasm, much If which
found it. fountain head in the vicinity OF places
where that viii III inebriates was consumed in
great quantities. and with neatness and despatch.
A number Of the delegates were drunk by day
light and by the time the convention was called
70 order there were ten or fifteen who were not
in condition 70 join the grand mob when it
marched 70 The hall, where the task OF delibera.
ton was to be gone through with.
II was a motley crowd, and perhaps the most
disorderiy that ever assembled within the history
Of the State.
w. VI. Leiwith called to order, and
hammered the table with gavel which
resembled in size maui used in driving
stakes about circus tent it was some
ten minutes before the noise was sufi.
GENTLY deadened so the speaker might be
heard"
Colonel Bisbee receiving majority OF
votes for permanent chairman those who
opposed him made fuss and moved to
adjourn, but the motion was lost, and he
took the chair The delegates elected to
Chicago were w. vi. Ledwith, Of Duval
John w. Mitchell, colored, of Leon Sam
uel Petty, colored, of Nassau; E. r.
Gunby, Of Orange. F. s. Goodrich, J.
y. Coomb-, d. b. Osgood and L. A.
Barnes were elected Presidential Electors
Says the report:
General Ledwth was asked for his views as 10
who should be nominated al Chicago for Presi-
dent He replied:
IL have no pronounced views as to any candi-
date, but believe there is no power that will
prevent the nomination and election OF James g.
Blaine"
Al 1890 the Convention threw up the sponge
and everybody seemed happy that the day had
passed without there being some dead and dying
in the Convention hall.
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Closing OF the HWb.TrOpical Expo
sitlOm.

The Sub-Tropical Exposition closed
last Thursday and the removal Of exhibits
began Immediately. At night the Of
fcers, directors, commissioners and invi-
ted guests met in banquet at the St.
James Hotel, and had "glorious time, "
the entertainment being quite complete
in its varied course Of eating and drink
ing and the speech making included clo-
quence, wit and sound sense They had
80 well earned a good time that they had
full right TO all the enjoyment of their
parting convivium, for the Expositio n
was success in all things that they
could control. They were not RESPONSE
BILE if counties neglected their own inter
ests in failing to send in exhibits, but
enough did their duty to themselves to
make up grand display. Unlike many
other Expositions the Snb-Tropical was a
financial success, and closed with thous-
ands Of dollars on the right side of the
book. The building will be greatly en-
larged, perhaps to double the size, before
next season opens.
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Written for the FLoRIDIAS.
GOVermorshfp.

EdltDrs Fl0ridtdn: AT the beginning Of Pc
litical change and the reinstatement, Of public
officers i, is well tina, the pulse Of the public be
felt and its throbs carefully noted as to consistent
progressive health or spasmodic and feverish
disease.
The spasmodic indications are personal friends
" hose individual character are above question
but whose political fame is local and hence q
bar to gubernatorial candidacy.
The State has reached that place amid her sis
ter states when 1t has become necessary and of
the highest importance that the whole people
unite in placing at the head Of State affairs q
man of Stale fame.
The record Of this State as to immigration, ed
ucation, temperance and agricultural progress is
such that no mar, however exceptional his char
acier and personal qualifications, can maintain
and improved whose public force is measured
by circumscribed locality.
The State is progressively democratic rank
ing first in popularity in ofep and
inducements civil, educational and natural to
the highest class Of intelligent immigration, and
the people wish her to ain amid all political
contest. Therefore any one with nothing more
than local professional prestige, or with nothing
more than legislative notoriety, cannot any more
hold the helm of Statecraft 10 the rush OF the
coming political storm than a landubber can
hold the stately ship amid the roar Of the break
ers
Each county should select men whose interest
and hopes are with the progression and prosper
iy of the ST tie and not men whose political bents
are estimated by personal friendship or any other
dependent and str1,tened motive.
The States future depends upon the brain
muscle and common intelligence of the people
and they dare say that 1t is the duty of the dele
cations 10 ever keep in mind that they compose
the State and that with the State in her present
fiourishng and prosperous condition and her
hopeful future that no one but of State popular
ity and of accredited cork can satisfy their de-
mands.
Our State is too closely connected with the
progress of the age and the high advantages of a
safe and economical administration, to risk the
coming election with nothing but local lnaitd-
ton.
All Of the public interest-railroad. educa-
tonal, civil, immigration. agricultural and man.
ufacturing, with powerful public sentiment,
demand some name whose echo will resOund
success and two rise prominently in the minds
OF the people: w. D. BoSh an and A. J. Ru--
SELL both written among the archives of the
Stae-the one in her material improvement, the
other in her educational and moral progress, and
both in freeing her from Radical rule. W.
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The Republicans are indignant be-
cause President Cleveland did not re
appoint General Banks to the United
States marshalship in Massachusetts. He
allowed him to serve out bis time. What
more could they expect.-MobiIe Regis
Ter.
-Rev. Sam Jones seems to have been
working the newspaper men. The Wilkes
barre Record denounces him az rough,
vulgar, coarse, sacreligious, as making a
burlesque of religion, and not fit to
preach from pulpit.
The Solid South is unbroken. Lou
isiana keeps up the record, and gives an
immense majority for the Democratic
ticket. Owing to the long time inter.
vening until another Legislature meets,
the one just elected will have to choose a
successor to both Senators Gibson and
Eusts.-Montgomery advertiser.
Roger @. Mills, chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee, was born in
Kentucky in 1912. He studied law in
Palestine, Tex, and when he was 20 was
admitted to the bar. He afterwards moved
TO Corsicana, Texas. He was Confed.
crate soldier during the war, and re.
tired with the rank of Lieutenant-C Colonel.
He has always been a Democrat, and a
member of all the Congresses from the
Forty-third up to the present time.
In a generous editorial on the i'll
crease of cotton mills in the South, the
New York Herald says: "During the
next twenty or thirty years the South
will give us a pretty lively shaking up.
Before the war, you know, they never
dreamed of stripping for the race, and we
had it all our own way. But the times
have changed aud the men of the South
have changed with them. Now, what
with their iron mines, and their coal
mines, and their new methods of agricul-
ture, and their shrewd enterprise, and
their commercial daring, we shall have to
draw our belts little tighter and strike
livelier gait, Orwell, what of it? This
is free county, and big and rich coun-
try, and there is room enough for generous
rivalry to get good. deal Of exercise and
q good deal Of money. Are you ready,
gentlemen Then tgo!"