Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-05-10

CHICAGO, May 2.-Ien thousand en-
 ployees in the door and blind and other
 wood working establishments, struck
 this morning for eight hours, and the remaining fifteen thousand will probably go out before night.
 Iron moulders in the shops of the
 Mallable Iron Works, the Mccormick
 Harvester Worss, the Deering Reaper
 Works, and a number of other estab-
 lishments went out this morning, de-
 manding 8 hours. The Illinois Steel
 Company has acceded to the demand. WASHINGTON, May 2-Among the
 bills reported and placed or the calen-
 dar was the house bill for the classified
 tion of worsted cloths as woolens. The committee on interstate commerce made a report on the subject of American commerce by Canadian railroads, which was ordered printed. Vest introduced a bill to place the express companies under the provisions of the interstate commerce law.
 MARsEILLEs, May 2.-It is estimated that | 50,000 workmen took part in the labor demonstration yesterday. The streets were noisy but there was no breach of | the peace.
 i WASHINGTON, May 2-A large number of inquiries have been received by re- publican members of the ways and means committee, respecting the date of | the probable passage of the tariff bill. Date named in the bill for beginning of operations IS July 1, 1890, but the senate | can not possibly pass tine bill before that l date, and the probabilities ;are that the l,sF IT 4 4ol- ofc Iof ming of the next calendar year. and pro- bably not until July 1, 1891.
 The copyright bill was discussed in the house all the afternoon, and some amendments adopted. The vote on the final passage resulted ayes 9S, nays 126. Breckenridge of Kentucky, who voted in the affirmative, changed his vote to the negative for the purpose of moving a reconsideration. Hopkins of Illinois moved to lay the motion on the table, and Adams of Illinois moved to take a recess. Vote taken on recess motion was defeated, but as the hour of five o'clock had arrived, the chair declared that under the rule the house was in re- cess until s o'clock. The motions to re- consider and to lay that motion on the table, laid over till tomorrow. Evening
 
 In the house to-day the resolution to the reconsideration of the copyright bill was defeated by 98 to 1O6.
 Representative Hitt from the com mittee on foreign affairs has reported to the house substitute for the resolution referred to the committee to promote the commercial union with Canada. The committee recommends the adop- ton Of a resolution declaring readiness to take up the whole subject of commer- cial intercourse, whenever Canada ex- presSesa desire to have unrestricted i trade between the two countries.
 The managers of the rIver and harbor | blli, decided to attempt to pass the bill | in the house on Monday, under the sus- pension of the rules.
 House at the evening session passed | seventeen private pension bills, and ad | lOuTned.
 CHICAGO, May 2.-The threatened | strike in this city was not made appar- ent until thls morning, when men failed | to resume work at many shops. In the l vicinity of McCormick's reaper works | strikers had entire possession of every man, boy and girl employed in the nal lable iron works. No particular cause or reasons are assigned by the men for quit ting. President Farley told them when they foGnd out what they wanted to let him kn N. Tie inek seemed no5 to know what 10 say in reply.
 \ report IS current tonight that nearly all the blaming mill men in the city will quit to morrow, and that all workers in- the mills will join the strikers. Four hundred men Tn Denman's furniture fac iory and 700 in the Chicago Cottage fac tory struck this afternoon. 4 strike is also anticipated among several thouSanC | lumber showers in the district along Black road.
 ToURCoNG-20 COCO strikers are parad- ing the streets this evening, committing many excesses. The cavalry dispeIses all groups. Twenty persons have been arrested.
 WASHINGTON, May "A delegation of prominent citizens from New Mexico are hero to secure legislation, especially in regard to the adjustment of land grants in the Territory. They called up on the President to-dHy, who said these land claims should have been adjusted long ago. It was 3 difficult problem to the best method. He took tho matter under consideration, and said he would do all he could to secure the If necessary, he would send a special message to Congress. Sc ;re- tary Blaine, who was called upon, sai was almost incredible that these Mexi- can land grants had not been adjusted | Tine go :ernment recently called atten- ton to the failure to fulfil the treaty in ana he laid the papers be- fore the President.
 WASHINGTON, May 2.-Tho commis- sioner of general land offices, in his de- cisior to-day, holds that moneys paid by public land entry men to receivers at To- cal offices in their official capacity, as soon as paid, public mention should be made, and such payments held to be to the government.
 In the case where the receiver at Tue son recently absconded with a large amount Of money, paid to him by entry men upon making final proof, the de cision has heretofore been against al lowance. Entry money paid to default ing receivers before entry, shall be al- lowed, and d final receipt given.
 SAN FRANCISCO, May ?. |