Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1894-02-08

Friday, February 2, 1894.
Senator German will introduce q
bill in Congress appropriating $50,
600 for the Maryland revolutionary
monument.
Mrs. Ora Brown died in Cortland,
N. Y, last night, aged one hundred
years. She retained all her facul-
ties. She was born in BrimfeId,
Mass.
Forty-three democrats, including
Messrs. Compton, McKaig, Rayner,
Rusk and Talbot, of Maryland,
voted against the internal revenue
amendment.
The House of Representatives,
by a vote of 204 to 40, passed the
Wilson tariff bill. There were i'm
mense crowds in the galleries, on
the floor and in the corridors Of the
House of Representatives TO witness
the closing scenes of the debate on
the tariff bill.
MARYLAND LEGISLATURE.
The assessment bill prepared by
Senator Hayes as a result of the re-
cent conference at the Hotel Rem
merit was placed on the desks of
members of the Senate. A delega-
ton of reformers visited Annapolis
and urged the passage of the Bruce
civil-service bill. The comptroller
and treasurer will appear before the
finance and ways and means COM
mittees of the Legislature and urge
that appropriations be limited. Mr.
Keifer, of Baltimore county, intro
duced a bill for the protection of
motormen and conductors on cable
railroads. Mr.. Lamar succeeded
in having the bill providing for the
limiting of expenses of the land
Office sent to the ways and means
committee. In the Senate there
was a debate on the bill for the
monthly payments of Allegany
school teachers. Senator Crothers
will present q new school law for
the State. 1t is understood the
civil-service-reform bill will be
favorably reported by the Senate
judiciary committee.
Saturday, February 3, 1898.
The contest in the Senate over
the tariff bill will, it is expected, be
fierce one.
Mary Douglas. colored, forty
years old. an inmate of the District
work-house, was choked to death
by piece of meat lodging in her
throat.
Sidney Davidson, aged sixteen
years, of 200 West Biddle street,
was killed by a Maryland avenue
electric car, making the forty-second
victim of rapid transit in Baltimore.
The old Lincoln homestead, in
Larue county, KY, has been puI-
chased by syndicate of Kentuck-
ians, who expect to beautify the
place into a park and present it to
the government as national park.
Alfred Money, of Ridgewood, N.
j., was drowned at the Jersey City
side of the Pavonia ferry while try
ing to rescue his brother, who fell
in the water by attempting to jump
on the ferry boat after it had started.
The Senate of Maryland passed a
resolution urging the United States
Senate to pass the Wilson tariff bill.
Important amendments to the gen.
eral oyster law are being prepared
by Senator Wilkinson. A bill was
introduced in the House limiting
the time for catching fish in the
Potomac river. A militia bill pre-
pared by Adiustant-General Doug
las was introduced in the House.
Mr.. Hit, republican, of Illinois,
was attacking the administration
Hawaiian policy in the House of
Representatives he said the white
man must rule in Hawaiian, where
upon MIR. Talbot, of Maryland, in
quired if Mr.. Hit did not favor
the same superiority of race in the
Southern States. The question of
race superiority which Mr.. Talbot
put to Mr.. Hit caused the latter to
become indignant and his followers
to yell their disapproval of Mr..
Talhott's interruption.
Monday, February 4, 1894.
James l.. Barbour, a prominent
merchant of Washingtoh, is dead.
The democratic members of the
House cheered Mr.. Rayner on the
conclusion of his Hawaiian speech.
Governor Brown proposes to sug-
gest a modification of the equitable
interest" taxation feature Of the
Hayes assessment bill.
The Boston store in Omaha, Neb.,
and st. Mary Magdalene Catholic
Church and parish school were
burned or Saturday evening. Loss,
$3.50, 900.
1t is stated that 176 fashionable
families in New York have gone