Telegram-herald., 1890-03-06
no CUSTOMS UNION.
Pan-Ameracans Are Opposed 70
Ih6 Plan
SUGGESTIONS TO TRE CONFERENCE
Cnrsssriessd Reciprocity Woe a BE 40
espt~bls - Ths House C0uonittes %
War ca Ens hssi%4tss 10 EStaD-
Lsh a Exgeasise Precedent.
AeArssr a evsroNs uNIos.

COMMITTEES Of tie Pan-Anerican confer
enoe 10 make majority and minority re-
ports Sas that on customs union Tbey
were presented Tuesday. TIE majority
say that the establishment OF
customs union, as generally under
stood. would require not only Partial
sacrifice q the National sovereignty OF
the American nations, bat more radical
changes IN their respective constitG-
tious than they are willing 10 accept
Tae majority believe that the prin-
ciple Of unrestricted reciprocity i.
acceptable and that It's adoption
would in all probability bring
about ss favorable results as
those obtained by free trade among the
different states Of this union. A Gus
toms union on this basis, however, the
majority deems lmpractieab!e as con-
tDental system a present
Az EXPENSIVE PRECEDENT.
WAsHrNsToN. March 5-The House
committee on war claims has considered
at considerable longth the claim OF
Pennsylvania for the payment Of several
million dollars worth OF losses by loyal
citizens Of that State during the
raids in the late war through Pennsyl-
vsnia. The statement is made that il
this is passed it would open the door TO
the payment of many claims of this
kind in border States or those in
which any raid took place, II
not In States further South, and
lead to the payment OF per-
y d = se a
and this class Of claims paid IL would
follow that loyal citizens in many OF the
States which were in rebellion should
also DO paid their losses. The matter
finally went over until next Monday,
when a vote on it is TO be had.
APPROVED BY THE PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON. March 5.-The Presi-
dent has approved the agreements en-
tered into with the several bands OF
Chippewa Indians in Minnesota under
the act OF Congress approved July IA.
1880. About 4 ZOO, 900 acres are ceded 10
the Government under these agree
ments.
WASHINGTON, March 5.-The Presi-
dent has approved the dill TO increase
the pensions of soldiers and sailors
totally helpless from injuries received
or by diseases contracted while in the
service OF the United States.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON. March Sin the House
Tuesday bill was introduced 10 in
crease the duties on barley, barley
malt, beans, peas, hops, potatoes, hay,
hides. eggs and apples, and to take the
duty of binding twine. The consider
alton Of the Arkansas contested election
case OF Featherstone VS.. Cate occupied
nearly the entire day.
Mr.. Rowell Qll.) charged that the ap-
parent me ejority through which the con-
testee obtained his title 10 q seat was
procured By crime OF the highest char
acter, which if not perpetrated would
have turned his apparent majority
into a minority. The time had
come to put an end to murder, to
shifting ballot-boxes, to false returns,
TO forcible rebellion, to rebellion against
the power Of the United States in order
to overturn the rights of the black man
The wheel of progress was rolling on,
and the man who stood in the way Of
maintaining the constitution would be
crushed to the earth. [Applausel.
Mr.. Breckenridge Ark referred to
the peaceful condition of affairs in Ar
kansas, which brought Mr.. Kelley
(Kan.) to his feet with the question as
to what had become of the colored de-
tective who had gone TO the gentleman's
district to find out who had murdered
the man John VI. Clayton) whose bloody
shoes the gentleman stood in to-day.
Mr. Breckinridge replied that negro
had been engaged IN trying to look up
the murderers of Colonel Clayton. he
had got into difficulty with a boy--a
Republican boy-whose father was Re-
publican. The negro was drunk, and,
applying opprobrious epithets to the boy,
struck him with stone The boy
shot him with a 22-caliber pistol. 1t
was a Republican alteration. The
father had come out with a statement
asking the Republicans to desist from
their efforts TO fix the offense on the
Democrats, as it might leopard the
life Of MS son. who had acted in self
defense.
Gentlemen had not only gone against
the testimony IN the pending case, but
nearly every member who had spoken
on the other side had spoken OF the
death Of his lamentsd opponent
IS II il had been the result OF
Democrats policy. The very COM
mittee fmembers OF which had
voiced the charge against bis dis
trictl had before Il the whole case. 1t
had not summoned witness; and he
was told that the case bad not been
docketed. Yet, as II it had been tried
aud found. in all its conc. usiOns,
members came here and took, not
his name and honor, but the honor
OF the people be represented
Was that al evidence OF the fair
ness bis people we're % receive. At no
time should the charge be made that s
spirit Of assassination pervsded any
community OF the American people.
Whatever night Re the crime Of the in
divi6ual. no nan could stand before the
America- people and say that they we're
lacking in honor OF fGslity to law. Ap
piause
Mr. Springer Gll) thought that the
case had nos been Thoroughly iHvesti-
gated and be favorea a resolution which
he said be would oTer a. The proper
tine apuroprisang tloo. 600 % enable
sat-con raitsee 70 TIE con- muittes o.
elections 20 proceed to the FIRST dis
srics Of Arkansas and investigate %
election.
Pending further debate tie Hous