Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-23
JUDICIARY OommIrrEEH EHEPonTs

The Majority Decide in Favor of Ex-
 tending the Right of Suffrage te
 women = Prescribing Penalty for
 Using the Flag for Advertising PuF-
 poses.
 WASHINGTON, May 22.-For the first time in the history of the house judiciary com mittee majority of the members to-day agreed to favorable report to a joint reso- lution. introduced by Representative Baker of New York, providing for constitutional amendment to grant the right of suffrage to women. Twice before minority of the committee has reported favorably on similar propositions and one of these reports was drawn by the present speaker, MT. Reed, but 8 majority could not be induced to take favorable action.
 The committee also directed favorable rea ports to be made upon a bill prescribing a penalty of fine or imprisonment for the oHense of using the United States flag for advertising purposes and @ bill to punish election officers and custodians of e!ection returns for illegally changing results. The latter bill ia intended to correct the omie- sion in the existing general law to cover the case of an offending county clerk as revealed in one of the West Virginia con- tests.
 FRElGHT DEPOT BURNED.
 Hot Fire at Albany-Loss Estimated at
 Seventy-hve Thousand Dollars.
 ALBANY, May 22.-The largest of the New York Central railroads three freight houses here was burned tonight. Nothing was saved. The building was frame structure 300 by 100 feet and was filled with general merchandise. The loss roughly estimated is $75, ,000 or more on freight and $5O, ,OOO on building, cars and other property. Insurance unknown. How the fire started is g mystery but it is generally attributed to some form of spontaneous combustion. When first dis covered it was comparatively small blaze, but before the alarm could be given the fire reached some oil barrels and an explosion oc cured. Within three minutes the building was mass of roaring fire. The heat was in- tense and 1t became necessary to pull out of the union station yard all the passenger cars within reach of the scorshing flames. FIRE AT PROVIDENCE.
 PROVIDENCE, R. T., May 2s-At 10:15 o'clock this evening R. A. Reid of the firm of J. A. & R. A. Reid, publishers, who occupy the fifth floor of the Daniels 6 Cornell build ing on Custom House street, discovered fire and smoke issuing from the woodwork in the office. An alarm was sent in. The fremen had hard work to subdue the flames, which were confined entirely to the upper and rear half of the building. It was not until after midnight that the blaze was entirely under control. The total loss will be $2o, ,0O0, which is covered by insurance. The principal damage was by smoke and water. The Messrs. Reid suffer an entire loss, they claim, on their plant and stock. They are insured for $55.000. Other losses are Daniels & Cornell, wholesale grocers; E. A. Risley < Co. ,printers; Works gymnasium and Hayden 6 Chester, toys and notions; W. H. Washburne, real estate broker; B. F. Pot ter, real estate; Berry & Thomas, commis- sion agents; A. D. Harmon. jr., E. J. Newell 6 O., grain brokers, W. H. Sheldon and J. P. Whitside, teas; M. H. Brande, teas; J. H. Winson 6 Son, sugar brokers.
 Daniels & Cornell are the principal losers. Their stock is estimated to be worth $125,- 900, in sured for $1o0,000. This is the third time the building has been on fire. It was entirely burned in September, 1877, and all but ruined February 19. 1888.