The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-05-30

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pared BY Banker 81 Johns. Of :New York.
He desired 1t introduced with the indorss.
ment OF Mr. st. Johns on account Of his
recognized position on financial questions.
II also met his approval. The bill was
referred to the finance committee. Sena.
tor Plumb offered q resolution ~instructing
b finance committee TO prepare and re-
port in connection with the tariff
bill q statement showing the duties
levied under the existing law,
the duties as they would be
under the house bill and the duties under
the bill to be reported by the committee,
such duties to be stated in parallel col
umns. Senator Reagan moved to amend
the resolution ofas to require, in cases of
compound duties, specific and ad valorem,
q column showing the equivalent nd valo-
rem amount of the duty. Senator Allison
movedt to insert In Senator Resgan's amend-
ment the words where practicable" The
amendment as modified by Senator ALI
sons sue gestion was agreed to. The res
olution was further ame nded by making
it apply also to reductions of duties, and
as thus amended was agreed to. Senator
ported a. bill subjecting national bank
notes and treasury notes to state taxation.
Placed on the calendar. The resolution
heretofore offered by Senator Call, calling
for information as to the landing of an
armed force from the revenue cutter Nc
Lane at Cedar Keys, Fla, was taken up,
modified and agreed to. The senate then
resumed consideration Of the naval appro-
priation bill. The pending ques-
ton was Senator Cockrell's amend
ment to strike out the provision
for three heavily armed battle ships ut
5 4,000, 900 each. There was a lengthy de-
bate on this, in which Senator Cockrell
commented on the recommendations of the
navy for the construction of q large num-
Der of vessels. Senator Blair moved to
amend the provision for three battle ships
BY inserting the p%roviso that it shall not
be available until the government of
Great Britain shall rave been requested
by the president to withdraw all her naval
forces from American waters and to dis
mantle her naval stations in both South
and North America and in adjacent islands,
and shall have declined for one yearto do so.
Senator Hale spoke of the d~efenseless con-
dition of the Pacific coast and the extern
sive British works and naval stations in
British Columbia which he visited last
year. Senator Blair's amendment was re-
jected, as was also Senator Cockrells-the
latter by a vote of SO to 10. The bill was
then passed. Senator Mitchell offered a
resolution, which was agreed to, instruct
ing the committee on pensions to report an
amendment to the pension laws providing
in a more liberal manner for this widows,
49, nl,1S.o- o-l -nI1k.-1- -
deceased soldiers. Adjourned.
The house on the 26th was called to
order by Clerk Mcpherson and, on motion
Of Mr.. Mckinley, Mr.. Burrows, Of Michi-
gan, was elected speaker pro tem. After
the transaction of some u~nimportant bust
! ness the floor was accorded to the commit
tee on the District of Columbia. The
Rock Creek park bill was called up and
the vote by which it wal recently defeated
was reconsidered and the bill passed. After
the passage of several other district bills
the house adjourned. T.
In the senate on the 9th Senator
Allison presented remonstrance
of the citizens of Burlington, To-,
against the imposition of duties on
ores from Mexico. Senator Spooner
called up his motion to reconsider
the passage Of the bill some weeks ago
to appropriate $4,000 to Margaret
Kennedy for supplies taken for the
nitely postponed. Senator Cullom offered
a resolution calling on the secretary OF the
treasury for information as to the author
ity under which merchandise in bond, ap-
praised or unappraise1, and goods of
domestic origin are permitted to be for
warded bet ween the Atlantic and Pa
cifc ports of the United States over the
Canadian Pacific railroad, ETC.; also
to report by what authority merchandise
other than the products of contiguous
countries is permitted to enter the Unit I'D
States under consular seal and proceed to
its destination without entry examination
at the port of Its first arrival. There was,
he said, evidences of Irregularities, md that
the country was probably losing some of itf
revenue. The resolution went over. The
senate then resumed consideration of til,
imported liquor bill, the question being o,
the substitute reported from the judic1ar,
committee. After debate the bill wen
over without action, Senator Wilson, o
Iowa, giving no~ticesthat he would ask tn,
senate to remain in session on tn,
28th until the bill was disposed of
The vice. president announced the ap
pointment of Senator Blackburn as a mem
Der of the committee on appropriation
and Senator Carlisle as a member of the
committees on finance, territories ana
woman suffrage. The conference report
on the bill to simplify the law in relation
to the collection of revenues was presented
and agreed to. After executive session
the senate adjourned.
In the house on the 9th Mr.. Mckinley
submitted the conference report on the
customs administrative bill. Mr.. McMiiliu,
H. o@rfo~1a, -r,l h1 hal Ianls--l
to agree to the report for the reason that
he believed the bill would increase taxation.
The conference report was adopted-yeas,
1877; nays, 10; the speaker pro tenn, count
ing a quorum. The democrats, as o rule,
refrained from voting. The house then
went into committee of the whole on the
river and harbor appropriation bill.
Mr.. McCreaiy raised a point of order
against those portions of the bill which
prescribed q penalty for the maintenance
Of obstructive bridges across navigable
waters. Pending q decision the committee
rose and the house adjourned.
LIGHT ON THE JOLIET PLOT.
Discovery of New Facts About the Con-
sp,racy to Release the Cronin Convicts.
Little by little the mystery in the prison
| Cronin underground plot leaks out. It is
again reiterated that the money, the amount
of which cannot be got at, which found it's
way into the possession of the Clan-ns-
Gael prisoners, was to be used to buy
up a guard and remunerate those who as
sisted on the inside 1t is said that the
anxiety among the friends of the Cronin
convicts outside was at high pitch; that
they feared that unless they made every
effort to get them out there was danger
that some of them would squeal on the
whole Cronin matter, and that the longer
they remained in prison the more danger
there was of such an event. The north
east corner of tho prison, where the
cooper department is located, is the
weakest spot in the prison. The wall
| there is hnt twenty. three feet hioh. The