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The House,

9th DAY.-In the House on motion of
Mr.. Anderson, Of Iowa, the joint resolution
was passed to promote commercial union
with Canada. 80. The Des Moines River Lands
bill was taken up for consideration. The
House refused to pass the bill over the Presi.
quisite two-thirds in the Affirmative.
Another appropriation bill-the Postofice
bill--was agreed upon in conference.
6STH DAY.-The day was spent in the con.
sideration of conference reports 80. The most
discussion was on the Sundry Appropriation
bill. The House insisted upon Its printing
clause. It practically stops the printing Of
bank and treasury notes on steam presses.
New conferrees were appointed. The House
Justics Waite the balance Of his salary for
one year. That balance is SS745. The Sem
ate amendment raising the appropriation for
a public library building from 4 $4,-
900, 600 to 81, 900 was agreed to-.
Late in the afternoon the President sent in
q message yetoing the Direct Tax bill 80. At
5:15 a recess was taken until P. NJ. 1.-The
conference report on the Postoffice Appro-
priation bill was agreed to. The conference
agreed TO-. AN agreement was reached on
the District of Columbia Appropriation bill
1T appropriates s5,6s6, ,467... The con-
ference report on the bill to amend the Inter.
state Commerce law was agreed to-. The
conference report on the bill for the protec-
tion of the salmon fisheries Of Alaska was
agreed to. The House was in session con-
tinuousy from Friday until the Inauguration
Shortly before o'clock the General De.
ticiency bill was finally disposed Of. The
House passed resolution complaining OF
discourtesy on the part of the Senate in not
allowing the members and their families full
access to the Senate Chamber. :. "A confer
ence report on the bill licensing pawnbrokers
in the district was adopted :. Mr.. Bingham
then asked for unanimous consent, which
was granted, to consider bill grant
ing the use Of a condemned can
non and some condemned small
arms for q naval post in Philadelphia
.,.. A recess was then taken until next morn
ing .. The House met promptly at 9:55. The
Speaker as promptly laid before it message
from the Senate agreeing to the conference
report on bill to forfeit lands in Michigan
granted for the construction of railroad
from Marquette to Ontonagen. 1t was
adopted .. . Speaker Carlisle, in response to
vote of thanks, delivered brief address,
after which he pronounced the House ad-
iourned sine die.
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UNCONFIRMED NOMINATIONS
Appointments by Cleveland Which
the Senate Rejected.

Appointments by Cleveland Which
the Senate Rejected.
In the second session of tho Fiftieth Con.
gress President Cleveland sent to the Senate
nearly four hundred and fifty nomina.
tions, about one-half Of which wsre con.
flrmod OF the latter great majority were
promotions in the army and navy, and
Presidential postmasters, tho terms Of whose
predecessors had e1piroi or whose Offices had
become Presidential
The nominations OF Assistant Secretary
Thompson to be Civil Service Commissioner,
OF First Assistant Postmaster General Steven
son to be Justice OF tho Supreme Court for
the District Of Columbia, Of William D.
Webb to he q Commissioner Of the District
of Columbia, and John z. Hertridge to be
Judge of the United States Court for the
District of Florida, al failed.
The only prominent political nomination
that was confirmed was that of Walter L.
Bragg, of Alabama, to succeed himself cs
Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Carroll
D. Wright was also confirmed as Com
missioner of Labor.
The nominations above named were the
principal ones that failed by reason
Of the expiration Of Congress. Among
the others that failed were several
probate 1udSeS IN Utan; AnuroW ". Chap-
man, Revenue Collector at Baltimore; John
J. Enr;ght, of Michigan. to be Commissioner
of Indian Affairs; Samuel H. Albro.
of New York, Superintendent of Indian
Schools; Salomon Claypool, to be United
States District-Attorney for Indiana; Archi
bald H. Grincke, of Massachusetts,, to be
Consul at San Domingo, and Jesse D. Abra-
hams of Virginia, to he Comptroller Of the
Currency.
Quite number Of army promotions also
failed TO receive action
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CLEVELAND'S LAST VETO.
The Direct Tax Bill Returned to
Congress Unsigned.


President Cleveland returned to the Senate
without approval the measure known as the
Direct Tax bill which contemplated the re-
turn Of the moneys ,359, ,6S5-collected
from the several States aud Territories under
the act of August, 1861. In his message of
transmittal, the President says:
"It is my belief that the appropriation OF
the public funds is not within the constitu-
tional power of Congress
"a sheer, bald gratuity, bestowed either
upon States or individuals, based upon no
better reason than supports the gift proposed
provision for the general welfare.
A large surplus in the Treasury
is the parent of many ills, and
among them is found q tendency to
an extremely liberal if not loose construction
of the Constitution. 1t also attracts the gaze
of States and individuals with kind Of fas-
cination. and gives rise to plans and preten-
sions that an uncongested Treasury never
could excite.
"Ihe people should not be famliarized with
the spectacle Of their Government repenting
the collection of taxes and restoring
them. Considerations which recognize
sectional divisions, or tho loyalty of the dit'
ferent States at the time this tax was laid,
should not enter into the discussion Of the
merits of this measure
1.-The difficulties in the way of making just
reimbursement of the tax instead of encusing
the imperfectious Of the bill under considera-
tion furnish reasons why the scheme it pro.
poses should not be entered upon.
81 am constrained OH the considerations
hereby presented to withhold my signature
from the bill herewith returned, because be-
lieye it to be without constitutional warrant,
because am Of the opinion that there exists
no adequate reasons either in right or equity
for the return of the tax in said bill men
toned and because I believe its execution
would cause actual injustice and unfairness.
'TSignedl GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 2"
The Presidents veto of the Direct Tax bill
was laid before the Senate in the evening,
and after O short discussion was passed over
the veto-yeas, As; nays, 8.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
COUNT Won MoLTKE is very deaf.
THE Gar Of Russia is growing fat.

WILLIAM WINDOW was born in Ohio.
QUEEN VIcToRIA's will was made in 1876
TIE King Of the Netherlands Is fighting
death inch by inch. q
THE Emperor of China has just had 260'
pairs Of boots made for him.
JOHN WANAMAKER's life is insured for q
round million Of dollars. "
HENRY WILLARD, the railway magnate, Is
about ffty-fve years old.
JOHN BRIGHT never was at any school a
day after he was fifteen years old.
CAPTAIN WALKER, Chief OF Bureau Of
Navigation, is promoted to Commodore.
SEVENTY years ago James Russell Lowell
celebrated Washingtou's Birthday by being.
born.
Mr. LIE GRAND B. CANNON, Of Vermont IS
said to be director in $50 different corpora
tions.
THE German Emperor has started an elabo.
rate daily Court Circular" which he edits
himself.
man geologist. is dead He was eighty-eight
years old.
THE grandmother Of the Queen OF NADIA
gascar is dead. She was nearly hundred
years old.
HE IuIl UdUl3 Ol LDe Dl,S6Sb uldIl
France at present is George Ernest John
Maria Boulanger.
RICHARD HENRY SroDoARD, the New
York poet, critic, and editor. has been al
most totally blind for the past three months
Mr.. A. D. SARLEs, a Vermont school
teacher, obtained his first certificate from
John e. SAKE in 1871. He is still in active
service
In the death of the Rev. DR.. Breed, Of
Philadelphia, the Presbyterian Church loses
one of its most scholarly and influential
ministers.
Mrs. WILLIAM r. FRYE, the wife of the
Maine Senator, is said to be writing So
ciety novel that will deal with official life in
Washington.
ADMIRAL LUCE, United States Navy. re-
Gently retired, will in future make his home
with bis daughter, ut ller handsome Newport
(R. ~ cottage.
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UNSIGNED BILLS,
Measures Passed by Congress Which
Failed to Become Laws.

Measures Passed by Congress Which
Failed to Become Laws.
The following is q list of the bills which
did not receive the Presidents signature be.
fore the adjournment Of Congress, and con-
sequently failed to become laws:
The act for bridge across tho Arkansas
River near Cummings Landing, Ark. tho
act to require tie United States Circuit and
District Judges to instruct tho jury in writ
iuc in certain cases; tho act to mako Port
Angeles, Washington Territory, q port Of
delivery; the act to provide for trial by jury
in the Police Court Of the District oil
Columbia the act granting the st. Louis
and San Francisco Railroad Company tho
right Of way through the Indian Territory:
the act granting right Of way through the
Indian Territory 10 tho Leayenworth and
Rio Grande Railroad Company; the acts
granting pensions and other relief to Wesley
Montgomery, Daniel NJ. Maulding, Noah ".
Yoder, A. j. McCreary, Minnie A. Bailey,
John Gallagher, Mary Murphy, Cyrus Tuttle,
Ruth Ames, Levi ?, Smith, Androw J Faust,
Elizabeth Z. Croft, Rozalia Junk, William
A. Taylor. John Mann, Catherine Hayes
John B. Whitfield, John R. TRENTON, D. NJ.
Sprague, W. Tilton, Mary Horning, Sarah
A. Harrison, Lavinia Wright, Ann E. Muss.
man, Elizabeth Jones and Louisa V. A. Kill
patrick, widow Of Major. General Fitzpatrick.
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WHITE HOUSE CHANGES,
Executive Mansion Quarters As.
signcd to the Presidents Family.

signed to the Presid ent's Family.
A number of changes have been made in
the White House. Private Secretary Halford
has moved out desk recently occupied by
Mr.. Hendley, and has replaced it by table
occupied by E. F. Tibbets, stenographer. In
the adjoining rooms, at the desk formerly
occupied by Mr.. Saunders, the only Demo-
cratic clerk brought in by Mr.. Cleveland,
Miss Sanger, another clerk, has been seated.
A Chicago man has been appointed steward
60 to New York with Mr.. Cleveland. Ser
eeant E. Dinsmore, who was employed for
two years and half under the last Presi-
usher and is on duty.
What is known as the Presidents room,
the second from the west on the north side.
has been given to tue McKee children and
their nurses. This is also known as Nellie
Grants room. The President has taken the
"Prince Of Wales's Room" as it is called,
which is situated next to the library or Ex-
ecutive Office This is the room beyond the
round portico to the west Mrs Harrison
has the next room to the west, with small
boudoir on the southwest corcer. The room
directly opposite the latter, which Mrs Cleve-
land used as boudoir, is given to Mr.. and
Mrs Mckee. Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Harrison
have the room directly opposite the Presi-
dents Office, on the north side, with small
room adjoining on the east, which is given
10 the baby and nurse Mrs. Harrison's room
is the one in which President Garfield lay
during his Illness
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A NEW GOLD FEVER.
The "Finds" in Lower Calhornie
Creating a Stampede. II


Creating a Stampede. 4
Dispatches from San Diego. Cal, say that
the gold news from the mines at Ensenada u
becoming more satisfactory daily. and au5
thentic accounts Of rich finds are Great.
ing extraordinary excitement. By steamer:
from Lower California there arrived In San,
Francisco 5000 worth Of gold dust and mug
gets. The landing was watched by an enorl
NOUS crowd of people, and old miners are
flocking into the city with every train, eager
to have the latest intelligence. zsai
Every steamer bound out from San FRAN
cisco is loaded to the guards with old miners
and new prospectors. Scores have already
started overland. and new outfits are forml
ing every day. The latest news from EN-
senada is to the effect that the place is DEF
serted by tho people, who have gone to the
mines :.
It is impossible to obtain a con7eyance or
any sort In the town, and there is scarcely e.
pound Of bacon to te found. Tools OF ail
kinds are worth their weight in gold. =
Old miners who have been In California
since the bustling days Of 49 say that the
find Is probably the richest ever discovere1
on the Pacific coast, and the city is In con-;
dition Of excitement not seen in years.
The region where the gold has bean d1s-
covered Is about eighteen miles long by;
twenty broad There is plenty OF running
water there yet and it will last for months-
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PIGOTT COMMITS SUICIDE.
The Forger of the Parneu Letters
Kills Himself.

An Englishman supposed to be Richard
Pigott was arrested at the Hotel des Ambas'
sadeurs, Madrid, Spain, under the name of
Ronald Ponsonby. The man afterward conf
mitted suicide with revolver.
The description of the suicide corresponds
with that of Pigott, the fugitive forger OF
the London Times; Parnell letters. The man
spoke English only. A small amount of sill
Yer was found in his pockets. The police
have taken possession Of the papers and other
articles found upon him.
The suicide is undoubtedly Pigott. He
doubtless assumed the name Of "Ronald Pom
sonby,n because tho initials corresponded
with those on his baggage.
A despatch from Madrid to the London
Times says: -,
1.-THE arrest of the suicide was made in
consequence of telegram from the British
Foreien Office. 'Ponsonby' arrived from
Paris on Thursday morning. His only bag
cage was q small handbag. Soon after his
arrival he sent a telegraphic despatch to
London"
The London Standard says it il able tG
confirm the statement that the suicide was
Pipott. When arrested he took the situation
calmly and threw the officers off the scent.
With the excuse that he,. wished to get his
oyercoat, he retired to an alcove and there
shot himself in the mouth with revolver.
he died instantly. His head was horribly
disfgured -.-a-
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS-,
The Senate.

62D DAY.-Secretary Fairchild trans.
mitted the result Of the investigation into
alleged sugar frauds. Mr.. Sherman re-
ported back the Senate bill for the protec.
tion of the salmon fisheries in Alaska, with
recommendation that the House amend
ment extending the provisions Of the
bill to Behring Seal be disagreed to.
The amendment was disagreed to, and con-
ference asked. The Senate then proceeded
to pass private pension bills on the calendar.
All the pension bills on the calendar fifty
two were passed. Among them was one
giving a pension of $50 month instead Of
500, as in the bill introduced by Mr.. Haw-
leyl to the widow of the late General Hunt.
63D DAY.-There was not time to read the
journal. and the Senate plunged into the
necessary routine business without waste of
time. =. The House amendment to the bill
authorizing the sale Of part Of the military
reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, was
concurred in .. :. A conference was ordered on
the Deficiency Appropriation bill ,and Messrs.
Hale, Allison and Cockrell were appointed
conferrees. The conference report on the
The conference report on the Post Office Ap-
preparation bill was agreed to-. q. The Senate
proceeded to the consideration of the Indian
Appropriation bill. All the amendments re-
ported by the committee were agreed to, the
bill passed and conference requested....
At 500 the Senate took recess until $50
.... President Ingalls, laid before the Senate
the Presidents veto Of the Direct Tax
bill, which was read. The biz
only eight dissenting votes. Two of these
were cast by Messrs. Edmunds and Blair.
The entire night was spent on the Deficiency
Appropriation bill. The amendments pro-
viding for the payment Of the amounts
awarded by the Court of Claims under the
French Spoliations act, and the item giving
both House and Senate employees an extra
months pay were agreed. 1t was 3:l5
o'clock in the morning when the Senate con-
cluded its night session, and adjourned
go. The session of the Senate continued as
go. AT o'clock in the morning the Senate
went into executive session to consider Mr..
Riddleberger's case. When the doors had
been closed Mr.. Daniel made a pathetic ap-
peal on behalf of Mr.: Riddleberger's
unanimous consent to have the whole
matter expunged from the records,
the record of Mr.. Riddleberger's disorder and
presented the credentials Of Mr..
from from the State Of Michigan. ;. The
Senate adopted the conference report on
the Deficiency and Sundry Civil bill after
some sharp debate. =. A recess was ordered
until 935 A. NJ. When the body reassembled
President pro tempore ingalls, vacated the
chair, and Mr.. Harris, the Democratic leader,
took the gavel. Mr.. Morgan, another Demo.
luton thanking Mr. ingalls, for uniform i'm
partiality, courtesy and fairness. President
Ingalls, IL on announced that the Senate stood
adjourned sine die
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Foreign.

Mr.. GLADSTONE and Mr. Parnell spoke in
the English Parliament on Mr.. Morley''s
amendment to the reply to the queens
speech, expressing dissatisfaction with the
British Governments policy in Ireland the
amendment was defeated by vote OF 339 to
:!j0.
WHILE the local train was awaiting orders
in the station yard at Paris, Canada.
special from BTantford dashed into the
passenger car with full force, smashing it
into splinters and killing two passengers.
The London Times has made an apology
for publishing the forged Parnell letters.
The King of Italy has ordered Signor
Crispi to form new cabinet.
Hon. PERRY BELMONT, United States
Minister to Spain. has resigned.
THE recall of Herr Knappe, the German
Consul at Samoa, has been promptly fol-
lowed by the dispatch of Herr Stuebel, form
erly Consul General ct Copenhagen, to re-
place him. Herr Stuebel, after an inter-
view with Bismarck. left under instructions
to reach Samoa by the quickest route.
A REPORT from Kiel, Germany, says that
a naval conflict has taken place in Samoan
waters between the German war vessel Olga
and q United States man-0f-war. The
American vessel is reported to have fired the
first shot.
The Peruvian Cabinet has resigned.
THE seventy-ninth birthday Of Pope Leo
XIII was celebrated in Rome. He received
the cardinals and prelates who had assembled
to do him the honors usual to the occasion.
The body of the man who committed suicide
at Madrid has been officially identified as
that of Pigott, the fcrscr.
The British bark Port Gordon was
wrecked forty miles south Of Cape Flattery,
British Columbia, and four of tine crew were
drowned.
AT Shanghai, China, Sc, 900 rioters burned
down the British Consulate, and attacked
the American Consulate, doing great dam
age.
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A TOWNS TITLE.
Wallace, idaho, Changes Owners
in q Few Minutes.

no, over the decision of the Secretary of the
Interior in the case of Allen versus Morrill,,
involving the validity of land located with
Sioux half-breed scrip. Wallace was located
with this scrip. and a few minutes after the
news was received at Wallace of the deci-
sion, the entire town was jumped. The Car
ter House, the lea1ing hotel, was the first
property seized.
A meeting was held, and committee ap-
pointed to Investigate the matter visited the
United States land Office in Ceur d'Alene
County and found the town had been located
with scrip that had been Cancelled. Il was
agreed that the parties should retain lots
with buildings on them, but no one should
have more than four lots. Many persons
poor people have become suddenly wealthy.
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LATER NEWS,

E1.SEcRETARY OF THE TREASURY FAIR
CHILD has been offered and has accepted the
Office of President of the newly organized
New York Security and Trust Company.
ISAIAH V. WILLIAMSON, the millionaire
phianthropist of Philadelphia, is dead.
ROBERT GARRETT, the insane millionaire
has left his retreat at Ringwood, N. j., for an
extended trip through Mexico.
Ex-PREs1DENr CLEVELAND, ACCOMPANIED
by Mrs. Cleveland and Colonel Lamont and
family, left Washington by special train for
New York, where they are quartered at Vic
toria Hotel.
ABOUT 100000 people witnessed the parade
at the annual New Orleans Madi Gras Carni-
val
TIE mutilated corpses of four women have
recently been found in the river near Eagle
Pass, Texas. The whole affair is a deep
mystery.
Mrs. ANN DRIscoLL decapitated her Sleep
ing husband, Timothy Driscoll, wealthy
farmer, with an axe, during a temporary fit
Of insanity, near Delafeld, Wis.
NATHAN A. WILSON. Secretary Of the
Cleveland Stove Company, Of Cleveland,
Ohio, killed himself in the company's Office.
In the afternoon the company assigned.
Liabilities, 100000.
On Spruce Greek, near Mount Sterling,
Ky, Frank Wright, Jim Holdin and Sue
Holdin have been arrested for numbering
Conk Wfight's family Of nine children,
aged from three to nineteen years.
JAMES N. HUSTON, Chairman of the Indi-
ana Republican State Central Committee,
has been rendered the position Of Treasurer
Of the United States.
PRESIDENT HARR1soN's Cabinet was sworn
INTO Office.
ROBERT s. Chiffon, clerk in the State
Department, has been appointed private see.
retary to Vice-President Morton.
THE Inaugural Committee made enough
from the sale of privileges, ball tickets, etc.,
TO defray all expenses and have surplus of
about $4,000.
THE Ministry Of New South Wales has
been defeated on the question of protection
and has resigned. Sir Henry Parkes will
form free trade Cabinet.
The Germans have recaptured Bagomoyo,
Zanzibar, defeating the Arabs with great
loss; Bushiri, the Arab leader was wounded.
FATHER CoEN, of Woodford, Ireland, the
famous agitator Of the 1andS question, is
jead
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A CRAZY INDIANS AMUgK.
Seminole Jim Butchers Fight Per-
sons and is Killed Himself.


sons and is Killed Himself
News has reached Jacksonville, Fla, from
Oksechobee of bloody ARRAY among tho
Seminole Indians in the Everglades.
"Jim," young buck, went crazy.
aud with a Winchester rife started out
on the warpath through the camp aud settle
ment. He first sent bullet through the
brain Of "Waukee Micco," Chief OF the
Miamis, killing him instantly. BE next
killed "Old Tiger" "Young Tiger" son OF
"Old Tiger" and In physique probably
the finest Seminole living, stepped
out of his wigwam just in time TO,
see his father drop to the ground. With
blood-curding war.whoop he sprang on the
maniac, and hand to hand fight for the
possession of the rifle followed. Tiger was
the superior in strength, but was at the
wrong end of the gun, and before he could
wrest it from his antagonist he was shot
dead. The maniac then killed two papooses
of his sister, and attacked bucks, squaws,
and children Unfortunately, and killed
three Of them. He was finally cornered and
shot dead by "Billy," another Seminole
brave In less than half an hour nine In
dians were killed. .... ~.