Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-11
THE SPEAKERSHIp. CONTEST.
South ern Republicans Put Forward
q Candidate.
THE SABlN DIVORCE CASE.
Fruitlcss Attempts to Wean Her
From the Opium Habit-The
Bisel Affair-Othcr WASH
ington News.
WASHINGTON BUREAU, THE OMAHA BnE, !
5f3 FoURTEENra STREET,

WASHINGTON. ID. c., June IL.
Representative Burrows is the first of the
speakership candidates to announce his in
tention of making an actiye canvass lmmedi-
ately for the speakershp but the others
have been on still hunt for some time, and
it Is not probable thatany one Of them has
allowed any particular amount of grass to
grow under his feet There is every lndica-
tion that the contest for the speakers chair
in the F'ifty-frst congress will be so fierce
that General Nathaniel Banks, on his re-
return to the halls of legislation with this
congress, will be reminded Of the days
when he made the fight for speakershp,
with the aid of Horace Greeley, and at first
against what seemed to be overwhelming
odds. There is every indication that the
contest will be long drawn out, and no one
can say, to-day, whether Burrows, McKin-
ley, Reed, Henderson or Cannon will win
In fact, the claims of the supporters of each
of these gentlemen leads 10 the belief that
each will go into the race with very strong
backing. The situation has led to more talk
about dark horses, and while Farquaher and
one or two other northern and western men
have been suggested as possible contestants,
tho southern republicans have not been in
active, and there is u decided dis
poSISioh w bO u hiuh iiohi
their section as compromise
candidate. They argue that the election of a
southern republican as speaker of the house
would be decidedly strong political move
and that it would in all probability be fol-
lowed by the capture of anumber of seats
from the southern states in the succeeding
congress. Representative Brewer, of the
Fifth North Carolina district, is talked of
among these gentlemen for speaker. In
spite of the fact that his district is naturally
democratic he carried it in an off year and
again in the presidential campaign. Mr..
Brewer represents an intelligent constituency
and is himself a man who has, according to
the claim of his friends, all the elements
necessary to make an excellent presiding
officer. 1t is argued in his be-
half, too, that he took leading part in behalf
of the Blair bill and that although the inter-
nal revenue bill which at one time seemed
as if it might pass the house, was credited to
Cowels, of North Carolina, that Brewer was
the man who conceived the idea of substitu.-
ting that measure for the Mills bill, and he
did more than any one man to advance it as
far as it did go before congress adjourned.
Mr.. Brewers selection in the event of u
long drawn out contest is by no means out
side the pale of probability, and his selection
would certainly increase the republican
ranks in North Carolina as well as in other
districts in the south where the repeal of
the internal revenue laws are regarded as
one OF the foremost needs of the age. s.sr-s
THE sABIN TROUBLE.
The small section of the social world in
Washington is having great deal to talk
about since the announcement in the morn
ing papers of the beginning of divorce pro-
ceedings by ex-senator Sabin, of Minnesota.
The news comes in the nature of u surprise
to most people. Yet it was not in the least
surprising to those on terms of sufficient inti
macy with Mr.. Sabln as to give them an in
sight to his private affairs So long ago as
during the senatorial campaign in Minnesota
last winter there We're hints at unpleasant
marital relations, and the senator's friends
were afraid that the outcome would be pub
locations which would be injurious to him,
but it seems that contrary to the usual Gus
tom, the newspapers have not printed any
ors the Time details Mrs up sabn 'hs was prss ss
| opium eater when she was married. Her
| husband discovered her penchant for the
drug soon after and did all in his power to
| break it up. He filled the house full of her
| friends, and 1t was on this account as much
| as any other that he concluded to adopt the
| entire family of the late Delegate Raymond.
| of Dakota Instead of curing the disease,
| for such it was considered, Mrs. Sabin
| seemed to grow worse and within the last
| two years has developed a strong mania for
| Intoxicating liquors well as a morbid de-
| sire to purchase everything she saw. 1t is
| reported that on one occasion the lady visit
! ed a dry goods establishment in this city and
| ran a bill of about 81, 500 which her husband
was compelled TO pay and the goods which
| she purchased are still uncut in their
Minnesota home. There is enough to supply
the entire family for the next
few years and still have surplus sufficient
| to stock an ordinary dry goods store. Sew
| eral months ago 1t was decided that all at
tempts to break up this habit would be use
less without the employment of strong
| measures. After consultation 1t was de-
| cided, both by the senator and Mrs. Sabin,
| that the best plan would be for the lady to
| enter an institution where she could have
the best of treatment. One of the best
| known places in the country for the cure Of
| inebriates and those addicted to the opium
habit is located at Flushing, Long Island. 1t
| was to this place that Mrs. Saoin was sent.
| For few weeks everything seemed to go
| along very smoothly, but IL was soon dis
| covered that the chances for ultimate recov-
cry were exceedingly remote and it is sup
| posed that on coming to the conclusion that
his wife could never be restored to her nor
NAL condition, the senator decided that sep
aration was the only course open to him.
BIsEL WILL BE LIBERATED
1t is sald in official circles that the young
man, Otto Bisel, who recently visited Ger
many in company with his father and was at
once seized by the German police authorities,
will be released immediately. 1t is stated
that some correspondence has passed be-
| tween the state department and the Ameri-
can charge d. affairs in Berlin and that a
satisfactory explanation has been secured
and the release of the young man made
certain. The authorities assert that the ar
rest was a mistake on the part of the Ger
man subordinate officials.
! FLOOD "REMINISCENCES.
Tho terrible food disaster at Johnstown
has diverted public attention from great
many other matters which will come up for
more or less consideration at an early day.
Among other things the report of the de-
partment of agriculture on crop prospects
for the month of June is likely TO be widely
read. Visitors to western New York and
northwestern Pennsylvania report that the
heavy frost on the night of the Goth OF May
was far more disastrous in the apple region
than was at first supposed. II is said that in
the heavy orchard districts OF Chatauqua
Cattaraugus, Erie, Allegheny and Wyoming
counties in New York, the freeze
was so great that more than 80 per cent OF
the apples were killed. II was expected that
the damage to grain and grass viii also be
| very heavy, and that the result will be that
instead of very heavy crops in these pro
ducts, which were expected two or three
weeks ago, the gathering will be far below
the average and the prices, especially of ap
pies, in consequence, much higher.
MIR. j. q. Kerby, correspondent OF the New
York Journal of Commerce, lived for severa
years on the farm adjoining the dam above
Johnstown. He said to-day;
The dam broke once before. II was about
the time of the war, but can not fix the date
| exactly fThn damage then. however was