Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-21

MT. Dingley of Maine offered an amend ment appropriating $250, ,000 for the publi. cation of the final volume of the census of l 1890. Lost.
 | MT. Pugh moved to take $50, ,000 from the appropriation of $262, 500 for the Mo- the improvement of the Warrior river.
 MT. Hale opposed the amendment and pointed out the effect of the "continuine contract" items in the bill. Whereas these items, he said, only carried appropriations of $6, ,286, ,250 they bound the government hard and fast to an additional outlay of $32, ,S15, ,277. And yet, he said, the demo- cratic senators (particularly referring to Messrs. German, Vest, Cockrell and Vilas) were not seen to rise and protest against these provisions, which had been put in a bill by democratic house of representa- tives. He discovered in that fact some thing of the "masquerading" which had been referred to the other day by the sen- ator from Maryland.
 At the close of the discussion MT. Pugh's amendment was agreed to.
 All the amendments agreed to in com mittee were concurred in, in gross, and the bill was passed without 6 division. A conference was asked and Messrs. Frye, Dolph and Ransom were appointed conferees.
 The last bill in which MT. Frye was in- terested was then taken up and passed. It was entitled a bill "to amend sections 2, ,S07 and 2,SS1 of the revised statutes." Its principal purpose is to add dye-woods and wool to the paragraph allowing vessels laden exclusively with sugar, coal, salt, etc. to remain ten days st a port of call for orders.
 Anumber of bills not of general interest were then passed.
 
 A RIG BLAZE IN oSwRGO. The Entire Lumber DIstrict Doomed
 No Telling Where the Fire Will
 Stop-The Business Portion or the
 Town Tn Danger.
 OswEeo, May 21.-A very destructive fire has been raging here and at o'clock this morning it looks as though the lumber district is doomed. The fire has backed up and has destroyed the corn exchange and the Continental elevators on the south.
 The Merchants elevator on the north have also been burned, and oswego's ele- vator interests have been practically wiped out. Only one elevator is left on the east side and that is the Marine owned by Thomson Kingsford.
 The loss thus far is fully s5O0, 1000.
 There is no telling where the fire will stop. Syracuse fremen are en route by special train.
 LATKR-The fremen have abandoned Kingsford's big marine elevator, which is full of corn.
 A dozen fires are burning on the west side of the river with no streams playing on them.
 Should the wind shift nothing could save the business part of the town. No estimate of the loss can be made.
 2A. M.-The fire in the lumber district i on the west side is now the worst.
 Only one stream is working. The Syra- cuse and Fulton departments are on their way.
 The big trestles of the New York, Ontario | and Western road are full of locomotives | which are wetting them down and by this | means the trestles will probably be saved. |
 The islands in the center of the river | contain millions of feet of lumber, which | is owned by E. w. Rathbun & Co.
 The streams of the engines will not | reach the island, and they are being used | to wet down the lumber piled on the piers | at the foot of Front and First streets. The | strong south wind carries the burning em- | bers over the entire western lumber dis | trict, rendering the work of the fremen extremely difficult.