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TO GET A QUORUM.
Democrats Could Not Muster One and
the House Adjourned.

The House adjourned before o'clock to-
day for the reason that there was nothing
else they could do. The republicans under
the direction of Mr.. Reed, filbustered, re-
framing from voting and demanding a quo
rum, and there was not a quorum of DEM
ocrats present.
There was no question at ISSUE and moth
ing in the situation, except the purpose on
the part of Mr.. Reed to force the democrats
to count quorum.
The question which blocks the way is a
proposition to revoke the order for the ar
rest of members to make a quorum, which
was adopted during the considera ton of
the election contests. The order is no
longer desired by any one, but the motion
to revoke it must be disposed of in some
way before business be done.
The democrats told Mr.. Reed this morn
ing that they did not care what was done
with the motion. They would, they said
let him do as he pleased with e.; they
would vote it up or down or withdraw it,
as he desired, only they wanted it out of
the way to go on with the aDpro-
priation bills He refused to do anything
however, and there was nothing to be done
but to adjourn. AS soon as a quorum of
democrats is secured there WILL doubtless
be a rule reported for the fning of MEM
bers for absence except on account of sick
ness.
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THE SEALING PROCLAMATION.
Eject of England's Action on the
Canadian Poachers.

Copies OF the Presidents proclamation
relative to the seal fisheries have been
sent TO the naval commanders of the seal
patrol, to collectors at Pacific ports and to
other officers who may be able to give them
publicity. The sailing orders OF the feet
and the instructions to the commanders
to govern them In making seizures are
almost complete, but they will not be made
public.
The recent debates in parliament upon
the seal bill have attracted much atten-
ton here and the officials are by no means
prepared to admit the correctness OF the
English statement that they have misunder-
stood the provision of the bill relative to
Canadian sealing vessels that clear before
the act is promulgated. 1t is fully under
stood that these vessels may be seized II
found sealing. but IL is contended that
such seizures would be OF little avail when
the masters knew in advance that they
would be released by the Canadian courts
as soon as they returned TO port. The
chances of picking up one OF these ves-
sells. deliberately trying TO evade the law,
and to keep out of the reach Of naval ves-
sells, in SO vast a body Of water as the
North Pacific, is so small as TO warrant
the assumption that nearly all of them
will succeed in taking valuable cargoes
of sealskins and in greatly depicting the
herds before they can be seized and re-
leased What is desired by our govern
ment is a provision in the English law that
will deter these poachers by the threat OF
the loss of their vessels and cargoes IL they
violated the law with deliberate intent.
The prospect OF getting a free tow to a
home port after capturing all the seals de-
sired is not believed to carry dread to the
poachers.
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higher opinion of the respect and dignity
that appertains to the court and the court
room than has Judge Andrew c. Bradley
and he at once ordered the court room to
be cleared. II is the rule that only men,
bers Of the bar should be admitted to the
court room, but this order of the judge de-
yeloped the fact that about one-half of
those in the room had got in on some other
pretext. for about that many people were
compelled to leave.
On one occasion Judge Bradley was COM
PEELED to interrupt Mr.. Butterworth's argu-
ment TO call him to order and to warn him
to confine himself more closely to the mat
ters that were in evidence in the case
q These were the only two incidents that
marked the morning.
Mr.. Phil Thompson concluded his ad-
dress to the jury within an hour after the
opening of the court, and then Mr.. Butter
worth began his speech. 1t had been gen.
orally looked forward TO as likely to be a
remarkable effort of oratory. and the spec
tators were not disappointed, for they had
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the pleasure of listening to one of the
eblest speeches made in the old court
room in many day. 1t abounded in clever
points and OratOrical flights, and when he
spoke Of the virtue and probity Of country
girls he fairly outdid himself.
Miss Pollard was not present today. 1t
was as well. perhaps. for her comfort of
mind, for while Mr.. Butterworth handled
her character and record in words that
we're rather less rough than those Of Mr..
Thompson his treatment of her on the
whole could hardly be said to be much less
severe and cutting.
Col. Thompson Resumes His Argument
When the trial was resumed this morn
ing again Col Phil Thompson continued
his speech To the jury, which was begun
yesterday morning. He stated that they
Eai reached the point where. after the
eeath Of the Defendants wife, the plaintiff
ha1 shown her true character ami pUr-
poses. There vera marked discrepancies,
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IN CANADA'S FAVOR
Senator Hale's Speech Upon the
Wilson Tariff Bill.
BENEFITS TO ACCRUE TO THE DOMINION
All the Industries of His Own State
Affected.
RESULTS OF CHEAP LABOR

Senator Hale of Maine today spoke
against the tariff BILL directing his attack
largely to the benefits conferred on Can
ada He said:
Il think l am entirely safe in making the
statement that at no time during the
twenty-five years of my service in Congress
has any tariff bill. or indeed, l may say, all
tariff bills, aroused so deep feeling among
the American people and so strong and ear
nest and determined opposition as the tariff
bill now before the Senate known the world
over as the Wilson bill
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Local Pensions Granted.

Among the pensions granted today were
the following:
District Of ColumDia-C riginal. Edward
Archambau!t Washington; restoration and
reissue, Hermann Shausten. Washington; re-
issue. Jacob Trautman. Washington; orig
inal widows &C. Margaret L. Morgenthal.
Washington; Amanda Taylor. Washing
ton.
Maryland-Edward J. Redica, Baltimore:
John Freyer, Baltimore; renewal and in
crease, Elijah Bishop. Hapden; original
widows s, SC, Lavinia s. Roszell, Baltimors.
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worth's argument Judge Bradley put into
effect threat which he has frequently
made during the trial. He cleared the court
room of all the spectators with the excep-
ton of the members of the bar and the
newspaper men.
On every occasion throughout this long
trial when there has been seen the slightest
tendency toward any demonstration 1t has
been promptly stopped by the officers Of the
court. This morning, however, it got be-
yOnd them, and the audience broke out into
actual applause, in the form of hand clap
ping 1t was ct a particularly eloquent
point in Mr.. Butterworth's speech. He was
speaking of the defendant and of the long
friendship that had existed between MI.
Breckenridge and himself.
Never" said the lawyer, rising to a eli
max. should it be said that Ben Butter
worth had turned his back upon a friend
In his time of adversely"
A number of men in the court room. who
had been getting more and more worked up
by the eloquence of the speaker. could
stand it no longer. and they gave vent to
their feelings without regard TO the time
the place. 1t was the only actual applause
that has markell the trial at any point. 1t
is generally admitted that no man has
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THE FORD'S THEATER DISASTER,
Meeting of the Senate Select Com
mittee to Investigate Sufferers Claims

The Senate select committee on the Ford s
Theater disaster met this morning for the
purpose of determining on a course of ac-
ton In the investigation of claims arising
from the accident. The meeting was at
tended by Senators Harris, Manderson
and Mcmillan. Both of the other members
OF the committee, Senators Faulkner and
White, are out of the city. The commit
tee decided to take up the cases of claims
for death at once and settle them before
the disability claims are adjudicated. Sena-
tor Manderson was appointed a subcommit-
tee to formulate proposition concerning
these cases, which We're turned over to him
for investigation. There are twenty-five of
them, and he will examine each carefully
and report to the committee as soon as he
has reached a conclusion. There is some
question as to whether or not there should
be fixed rate for death claims 1t has
been suggested that there is a wide differ
ence between the conditions of the cases.
some of the victims being young men with
out families, while others left several de-
pendents. In view of This fact it is possible
that the committee may decide to arrange
scale of payments suitable to the condi-
tions of the families left by the deceased
victims. This, however, is open ques-
ton, and the chances are that the COM
mittee Will finally agree upon fixed sum
to be paid in all cases.
The Injured Survivors.
Meanwhile. however, the work of exam
ining the injured survivors of the accident
will be started by the board of surgeons
The committee will be divided into sub
committees of one Senator each for the
purpose of administering oaths to the
claimants. The latter will be notified to
report at the Capitol. where they will be
sworn by some member of the committee
and perhaps examined casually and briefly
upon some material points connected with
the disaster. All matters relating to their
physical condition, however, will be left to
the surgeons, to whom they will be sent by
the committee fast as possible.
The committee will probably ask the
chairman of the citizens relief committee
organized last summer, to provide the
funds for the use Of the victims for burial
of those who were killed and for the main
tenance of the injured to meet them at the
Capitol at an early day for the purpose of
going into the matter of the relief that has
already been extended to the sufferers.
1t is not likely that this fact that relief
has been given by the citizens will operate
to lessen in any way the congressional
relief, but the committee are anxious to
find out from the chairman of this commit
tee of citizers all that is possible about the
financial conditions of the families of the
claimants. 1t is thought that he will
know better, perhaps, than any one else
Just where the relief is most needed now
and which cases are the most deserving.
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preceding summer they decided that she
should drop out of his life altogether, and
she spent part of the summer at Breadloaf
Inn in Vermont.
The plaintiff had made one statement
that had been fatty contradicted She said
that here in Washington she met him at
the station and they took a drive in the
course OF which he said he had something
to say that he thought would be fiattering
to her and please her. He asked her to
marry him, in the most formal manner
This, Mr.. Thompson thought was a most
remarkable way for a man to court a girl
with whom he had been living for nine
years. 1t was not at all consistent for a
man to ask on bended knee when it was
claimed that during all these years the
defendant had promised that if ever he
were free he would make her his wife
This ride took place in August she said,
while he denied that he saw her until they
met in New York in September. She testi-
fed that she wanted to go abroad and COM
plete her education. and that she only
stayed in answer to his earnest appeals
that she should not go. He claimed on the
stand that he wanted her TO go to Europe,
and that she would not so unless he would
agree TO tell people that she was going as
his affianced wife. Everything pointed TO
the truth of his claim that he was the one
who was trying to get rid of the woman
and that her threat to commit suicide was
the act of a bawd, who, knowing that she
could not marry her paramour, thought that
she could at least cover him with disgrace
sistent with her theory that there was ex-
listing between them a contract of marriage
made in good faith. Her story was all writ
ten out, which would disclose all her past
life and make public the relations which
had existed between them for years. Was
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There was a political conference at tie
White House today, in which the principal
were the President. Mr.. Don
Dickinson and Mr.. Smalley of Vermont
Mr.. Dickinson called about IL O'clock Just
as MIR. Smalley was leaving, and the latter
had gone only a short distance when he
was summoned back. The object of the
conference was not disclosed
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Concentrating Commodore Ramsay.

Commodore F. NJ. Ramsay, chief of the
bureau of navigation, received numerous
cong -atulations and floral tributes on his
promotion to the grade of read admiral
following the retirement of Admiral Ben
ham, He has already passed the necessary
examination, and it is expected that his
nomination will be made in a few days
Commodore Ramsay has held his present
assignment for about live years, and has
made q most creditable record.
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CLEARED THE COURT
Judge Bradley Will Allow No Ap-
plause by Spectators.
EFFECT OF 4 LAWYERS ELOQUENCE
Mr.. Thompson Closes and Mr..
8utteworth Takes the Floor.
SCENES IN COURT TODAY

The lawyers for the defense had full swing
% the Pollard breckenridge case today, and
rom the opening of court to the adjourn
nlent this afternoon they put before the
jury In strong. eloquent words, their ar
Buments in behalf of Mr.. Breckinridge.
notwithstanding the fact that the day was
given up to oratory entirely, the morning
session was not without it's remarkable
features. During the course of Mr. Butter
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Ex-senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois,
cne of the prominent figures in the i'm
parchment trial of President Johnson, is on
a visit to Washington. He was among the
throng of callers at the White House today,
and was one of the few admitted to the
Presidents private office.
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DISTRICT IN CONGRESS.


Senator Harris today. for the District
committee, reported back to the Senate
letters from the District Commissioners
and Col. Moore. superintendent IF police
urging the passage of an amendment. re-
Gently proposed by Senator Martin, TO the
Dlstrict appropriation bill increasing the
pay OF van, ambulance and patrol wagon
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The Visit to Defendants House.
The visit of the plaintiff to the house of
the defendant, where he was with his wife
at the time, was an act done for the pur-
pose of disgracing him, and for that pur-
pose alone. 1t was the act of one of the
vflest women who ever sought to enter the
sacred precincts of a home and when she
said, upon the stand, that she said to him,
Willie, come" and Willie came, she said
it as one who had succeeded in her efforts
to humiliate a man. The incidents at Mai.
MoOre's office and the makeshift lies he
told to Mrs. Blackburn all go to prove that
he was struggling to free himself from this
woman, while she was following him about
endeavoring to fasten her tolls upon him.
rs that the way said Mr. Thompson,
earnestly, that people get married? Is that
the way courtships are conducted? Gentle
men of the jury did your wives take you by
the ear and stand you up bidding you to
rame the day of your marriage in the pres
ence of witnesses? No. gentlemen. not that
way. What this woman did was in the
way of building up case against G man
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The President today sent the following
nominations to the Senate:
To be members of the board Of ragistra-
tion and election in the territory Of Utah
Hoyt Sherman, jr., Albert G. NOrreu Jer-
rold r. Letcher, Geo. W. Thacher and Eras-
mus W. Tatlock, all Of Utah.
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A POINTER.

The circulation Of The Star is
greater than that Of all the other
Washington dailies combined, and
is believed to be five times that OF
Its afternoon contemporary. A
sworn detailed statement of circu-
lauon is printed each Saturday.
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who she knew had never made a contract
to marry her. Later, the relations grew
somewhat more pleasant but soon they got
worse again. She drew pistol on him
and threatened to shoot him. Is that the
way a woman acts toward the man she be-
lieves in good faith is going TO marry her?
No; IT is the way a woman acts toward the
man she knows is not going to marry her.
Chasing him about with a pistol Why,
she was a walking arsenal.
As to Kentucky COIOneIs.
Talk about Kentucky colonies with
pistols under their coat tails, Why there
was one coat tail that was not examined
where l expect one would have been found
Did you see the vicious look on her face
when she came into this court room. Why
half the time l was most afraid to sit
down by the colonel for fear a stray bullet
might come my way.
'Oh, sweet nature! Oh, gentle woman
The idea of woman going about with a
pistol in her bosom. / don't blame Col
Breckenridge for what he did. l would
have turned away from the bosom of such
a woman as the asp turned away from the
bony bosom of Mrs. James Brown Potter
when she played Cleopatra
Continuing, Mr.. Thompson arraigneG
Miss Pollard for her actions about this
time. attempting to tighten he- hold upon
his life. He told how the colonel had fol
lowed her out from his home led out
triumphantly and in disgrace" for fear
this tnfuriated woman might blow out the
brains of his innocent wife Then he took
her down to Maj. Moore to give her into
the hands of the police. Oh, what a court
ship! Gentlemen. does this remind you OF
your own cOurtng? No ring, no book
nothing but pistols and coffee for two every
morning! And that trip to Mai. Moore's
and that promise 10 marry her there. He
was already married, but that made nc
difference if his promise could help her
and he said. Yes. I'll marry you
When "Oh. the last of this mon tn -
But gentlement. even if he had not been
married. how could d man ever marry such
woman as that. Why, l tell you that the
whole history of this country furnishes
no more complete history of violence and
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he admitted, between the statements made
by the two parties as to the alleged prom
ise Of marriage. 1t was agreed that in the
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New business High School nniIain

Senator Harrls handed In to the Senate
today a letter from the District Commits
sioners to the District committee i'm ref
erence to Senator Sherman's amendment
to the District appropriation bill providing
100000 for the purchase of a site and the
erection of building for the Business High
School. The Commissioners say that they
have urged upon Mr.. German, chairman Of
the subcommittee on District approp.ia-
tons, the advisability of inserting an an
preparation for $4,000 for this purpose.
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Soldiers Home Bill.

Senator Manderson today introduced a
bill amending the act regulating the Ma
tional Soldiers Home near the city. similar
in its provisions to that presented by Mr..
Outhwaite In the House on the 18th Of
January. 1t was referred to the commit
tee on military affairs.
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Before this debate shall come to an end,
Mr.. President l desire, and in this / may
express a general wish. or, perhaps. what 1
may call curiosity, that some Senate who
stands in the relation of sponsor to this bill
shall state to the Senate and to the country
the general theory or doctrine or proposition
or party dogma upon which the bill is
framed and presented to the Senate. Going
more into detail, l ask that some Senator
who undertakes this task shall tell upon
what ground the Senate committee has
adopted certain changes which have been
made in the Wilson tariff bill as it passed
the House.
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Preferred Captivity.

Our pet goldfinch, having escaped from
his cage, flew into tall allanthus tree in
the back yard. There he sat, singing his
sweetest and rejoicing in his unexpected
freedom. We brought out his gilded cage
and set it on the top of tall stepladder,
leaving the door open, and just inside a
cup of tempting hempseed. For two hours
he scorned to look at it, though he often
fixed his bright little eyes on us when we
called him, and answered with CHEEKY,
defiant "witzahr' We had almost given
up hope of ever getting him back, when it
occurred to us to ring his breakfast bell
in other words, to rattle up the hempseed
in the tin box where it was kept.
This was a sound he understood, as we
had long made it a practice thus to an.
nounce breakfast to his finchship. Fort
unately he had nothing to eat when he
flew away, and the we'll known sound sug.
gested seed, water and lettuce to the little
empty stomach, so he hoped down slowly
from bough to bough, until he was close
to the cage. There he stood for some time,
evidently hesitating, until suddenly he
huttered down into his home, having de.
cided to abandon the delights of liberty
for the solid comforts Of civilization -
American Agriculturist.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-07

Nav York Produo, Market.


NEW YORK. Sept. 6-FLoUR-Dull.
weak; buyers holding off.
WHEAT - Moderately active, Xa%c.
higher, closing firm; No. 2 req store and
elevator, 5SKa5SIc; afloat, 5S%c.; T. o.
b., 59I6a59%c.; ungraded red. 53s59c.
No. / northern, 64Aa4Kc; options were
moderately active and &c. higher closing
strong: December most active; September,
5S5c.; December, 6l%c.; May, 66Hc.
UoRN-Quiet, higher, firm; No.2, 65c
elevator, 6516c. ahoat; options were fairlp
ately active and strong at 1SSal%c. ad-
vance; May and December most active;
September, 64&c,; October 6414c.; No
vember, 63Tc.; December, 6lc.; May, 60c.
OATs-More active, firmer; options fairly
active. stronger; September, 349Sc.; Oc-
tober, 35%c.: November 36ssc. Decem-
Der, 37skc.; May, 4O%c.; Spot prices No.
9. 34a35s4c.; No. 2, white, 36%a37c.; No.
2 Chicago, 341Gc: No. 8, $685.; No. 8
white, 364c: mixed western, 34aS5c
white do, 36s4lc.; white state, s6a4lc.
BEEF-Dull, steady; family, Sl0.0Oa
1900; extra mess, $SG0as5O.
BEEF HAMs-Quiet; S22 100.
TIERCED BEEF-Dull, firm; city extra
india mess Sl7.00.
CUT MEATs-Firm, fair demand; picked
bellies, IL los, &c; picked shoulders, Ia
7Ac; pickled hams, llall&c; middles nom-
inal.
LARD-Quiet. steady; western steam
50 bid: city, Sxc. September, closed, 50;
refined, quiet, firm; continent, 50 80; Sout b
America. $3.50; compound. 7a71sr.
PoRK-Quiet, no sales; mess l550a15. 70;
extra prime, sl3.50.ai4.
BUTTER - Moderate demand steady;
state dairy, 14a2916c.: do. creamery, lSa
23Xc.; Pennsylvania, do. 1885,; west
ern dairy, 131al7c., do. creamery, l5a24c. ;
do. factory, l3al6c.; elgins, 24c. creamery,
l5a1Sc.
Sa1oXc'; faney' iOllc: % do. small T s5koiosSee eS
part skins, 4aShc.: full skins, 3aSEc.
EGGs-Quiet, choice, firm, state and
Pennsylvania, lSa1sKc.; icehouse, AKA
l0o, western fresh l6ll7Hc. do, per case
Sl.75a3; Canadian, l71Sa1Sc.
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DELAWARE, LAcKAwANNA AND

nELAWARE, LACKAWANNA AND
~ WESTERN RAILROAD.
Trains leave Scranton as follows: Express
for New York and all points East lao, 80
5l5, 500 and 900 a. m; 1855 and 3.5O p, m.
Express for Easton Trenton, Philadelphia
and the South, 5l5 500 and 95j a. m; l2W
and $50 p. IN.
Washington and way stations, 355 p. IN.
Tobyhanna accommodation, 6.l0 p. m.
Expr, IS for Binghamton, oswego, Elmira,
Buffalo, l2l0, 2 10 a. m. and Ia p. M, making
West, Northwest and Southwest.
Bath accommodation. 8 a. In
Binghamton and way stations l237 .. m.
Nicnolson accommodation, at p. m. and
6,l0 D. IN.
Binghamton ana Elmira Express, Cos p, m
Express fer Cortland, Syracuse, OswegH
Utica and Richfeld Springs, 2l5 a. M and l2s
D. IN.
Ithaca. 2.l5 and Bath 0 a. m. and l2i p. IN.
For Northumberland, Pittston, Wilkes Barre,
Plymouth, Bloomsbury and Danville, making
close connections at Northumberland for
Williamsport, Harrisburg, Baltimore, Wash
Il kSort6umberland t and intermediate stations,
600, e.b5 a. m and l.3O and 6VI p. m.
Nant1coKe ana intermediate stations, S05
and ll.20 a. m. Plymouth and intermediate
stations, $50 and 652 .. m.
Pullman parlor and sleeping coaches on all
For detailed information, pocket time tableA
etc, apply to II. l.. Smith, city ticket otnca
32S Lackawanna avenue, or depot ticket ofncs'