The Russellville Democrat., 1889-02-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compilad from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

FN ,,,,orrs.t ine Record, Tho credentials Of Mir. Rrtrer. or South Carolina, for new term, were arc.erta8 and placed uu file. The Consular
 and uIpiamHtc Appropriation bill was then ,.ror rn discussed aud freely amendeS, but
 ,.,teg oh The measure vas uob reached .....IE ne Eouse the S.uate bill was passed ilcreas- jartbe pens oH of soldiers or sailors who have lost both hands Co 'to) per month, The Senate concurrent resolution providing for the count inr of the electoral vote on Wednesday,, Febru- ary Is. was agreed to. The Sundry Civil Ap- orspratiau b.lI vas then taken up, during con. .tdpraiioa ot which Q long discussion Of the al- iercd ilnmoralNy in Alaska was indulged in.
 rxtEc Senate. on the .gth at the close Of the r,oraius buug couedcrat on of the Consular and Diplomatic biu was resumed, the question heinz or Che amendment Co make the title Of ministers to France, Germany, Great Britain and Russia 'amhas adors,' which VAS agree 10 Tho nucndmouts relating to Samoa hav- inc bc-u reached Hr Halo movad 10 go into secret sa,s on. and at ":5J '. m. the galleries wore cared and the doors closed. When the doors were ra.opeuri Mr. sherman delivered Il long spaegh tuelEgdatiua Of the complicated condition af asaita iu samoa and showing up The act 10 ol GsluaHy iu ifs true light .... In inc Housr Mr. Burrows fiich.) presented a urtitjon lf thirteen thousand citizens of Utah against inc admission of the Territory as q State The Suuary Ciyii bill was then taken up. discussed ut length, amended and passed A bill was passed to amend gu act to provide for the organization of ihe militia of tho Dis tr.ct ot Columbia, and the House adjourned.
 Iy the senate, on he 81th, the consideration tho Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill was resumed. the discussion Of the Samoan question being the principal feature. A major Dart Of the afternoon was devoted 10 Inc con sideraton in secret session of the British ex- tradition treaty ...Iu the House, the Okla homa bill was called up tn committee Of the whole and its consideration occupied the time until four o't!5r)t. when by special order the committee GrHse and reported the bill to the House. yuta on Mir, PaysOns' soldiers home stead amendment resulted. yeas l14; nays, IL Pending fu' 4hef rotrs, the House, at five o'clock, adjot rnei.
 IN the sen.se on the sisi. the Diplomatic and Consular bijl Has taken up and passed, the de bate on the Samoan question being the most important feature of the scUssion. A cable gram from Lo.tdoB, received during the debate, glving details of further outrages perpetrated bv the Gerna,s in Samoa. had Q marked effect in crystaliziag opinion and bringing about m agreement......Gn Gn the House the Sd Of Febru- ary was set arart for the consideration Of ap- propriate resolutions in honor of the memory of the late J. F. i3urnes, of Missouri. Consld-
 
 and occupied the remainder of the session.
 IN the Senate, on the 1st, Mir Voorhees, re ported bill aFpropr.ating $15,010 for the pur- chase Of an O. portrait of Abraham Lincoln, winch was pIuccd on the calendar. MT. Sher- man presented a letter from the Secretary ot the Navy, with q copy ot the concession of the harbor of Pago-Pagn, made to the United States by the samoan Government. The Sen ate then wen, nt0 secret session on the British Extradition treaty. the House, the Dp- lomatic and Consular Appropriation bll, with Senate amendments, was referred. The Okla homs bill was then taken up. discussed, sub mitted to conference amended and passed.
 PERsoIAL AND POLITICAL.
 COLONEL ANDREW J. SMITH has been placed on the retired list of the army, his retirement to date from January ?.
 EMPEROR WILLIAM has sent letter of thanks, with the assurance of his future protection and sympathy, to the Berlin Grand Lodge of Masons for their New Year congratulations.
 PRESIDENT W. II. CoFTERILL and Secre- tary F. V Robertson of tho Electric Sugar swinile have issued their long expected cis cular letter to the stockhold- CTS of the exploded bubble. It contained nothing in addition to what had already been made public.
 BILL f0rbidding the importation of armed men into the State for police duty has been introduced in the Indiana Sen ate. It is intended to apply especially to the Pinkertons.
 ON the 2Sth Dr. John w. Underhill died at Cincinnati from the effects of cocaine. A few years ago he began experimenting with the new drug, and became hope less victim, although he was man of fine health and physician of excellent stand ing.
 GROWN PRINCE RUDOLPH of Austria was found dead in his bed at Merling on the morning of the 3)th. His sudden death supposed to have been caused by a stroke of apoplexy.
 ON the Slst Delegate Smith, the Repub- lican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates who had been sick and absent since the opening of the ses : sion, arrived at Charleston.
 HERR voN SEIDEL has been appointed permanent keeper of the royal art collec- ton at Berlin.
 WILLIAM A. SLATER, of Norwich, Conn. transferred to tho Norwich Acad- emy Si1O)) as permanent fund, .he iu- terest of which is to be used in defraying the expenses Of the Slater Memorial and Museum.
 ON the 3lst, at the reception to Con- gressmel aud the judiciary, the President and Mrs. Cleveland were assisted by Miss Bayard, Mrs. Endicott, Mrs. Fairchild, Mrs. Whitney and Mrs Dickinson. The in personnel and costume was brilliant
 IT is the general belief at Lincoln that Nebraako will sool become a prohibition State
 ON the lst Senator Sabin, of Minnesota, visited General Harrison. To a press representative he said that he had no Cabluet aspirations whatever, and that his pilgrimage was of a yicarious nature, the beneficiary of which he refused to name.
 THE Archlukc Charles Louis, brother Of tAe Emperor of Austria, since the death ot the Grown Prince is the heir apparent Co the Austrian throne.
 TIE Berlin correspondent of the Lon- don Standard claims excellent authority Tor st1tiug that no foreign Prince will at- tend tbe Crown Prince Rudolph's funeral,
 WHILE Mir. Russell Harrison has said that he will not accept any office under
 A N'ftAttA ID bN that his wife will be installed and remain one of tho White House family during his fathers term of office,
 THE report that Lord Sackville would succeed Sir William White as British Am at Constautinople has received official denial
 ON the 3lst the vote taken at Charleston, W Fa., for United States Senator, re- suited Kenna, Al; Golf 40; scattering, 5.
 JUDGE BARRETT, of the Supreme Court of New York City, has appointed George Wentworth Gray receiver O. the North River Sugar Refining Company.
 THE Vienna papers, almost without eK- caption, ct.nl the merits of Prince Ru- lolph, to whom they pay high tributes of praise, while they extend syGnpathy to the oereaved Emperor and Empress and to .he widow of the Prince.
 AR. WILLIAM O'BRIsN was taken to ~Ionmel ,lreland) iail to serve the sem ence imposed upon him for ofienses un- Ter the Grimes act, on the 3lst The pris- }ner refused to Uldre3s and don the prison costumes, consequently the war lens stripped him and shaved off his beard 77 force