Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-05-09
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in6 ioA so'y " tHe idct tndt Quite bum- Der of members, who deslred only a voluntary bankruptcy bill, after being defeated, voted for the measure, as re- ported. There were but two amend ments. one unimportRnt, the other mak- ing non-paYment of a note for thirty days an act of bankruptcy. The blll, ss 1t passed, IS based upon the Terry bank ruptcy bill which has been urged before congress for several years. It provides for both voluntary and involuntary bankruptcy. Under its terms there are eight acts for which a debtor can be forced into involuntary bankruptcy, as follows:
 1.-If a person has concealed himself with intent to defeat his creditors for forty eight hours.
 2.-Failure for thirty days while in- solvent to secure release of any property levied upon for five hundred dollars or over.
 3.-Making transfer of any of his property With intent to defeat his cred itors.
 4.-Making assignment for the bene- fit of his creditors.
 5.-Making while insols ent transfer of any of bis property for the purpose of giving preference.
 6.-Hsving procured or suffered judg- ment to be entered against himself with intent to defeat his creditors and suffer ed the same to remain unpaid for ten days.
 7.-Having secreted any of his proper ty to avoid being levied on under legal process against himself.
 S.-Havipg suffered while insolvent an execution for five hundred dollars or over to be returned ''no property found"
 ca motion of Spalding, republican, of Michigan, the ninth act of bankruptcy as defined in the bill, was stricken out as follows:
 Suspended and not resumed for thir- ty days"
 Hepburn, republican, of Iowa, de- nounced the bill as fraud on its face.
 An amendment offered by Mahon, repu blicsn, of Pennsylvania, to compel the petitioners in involuntary proceed ing to file bond sufficient to cover dam- ages aud costs in csse petition was dis missed was adopted, 58 to 43-
 Mir. w. A. Stone, repu blican, of Penn sylvania, moved to strike out the invol- untary features of the bill, defeated, 72 to 102.
 Various attempts to strike out certain acts of bankruptcy provided in the bill were also defeated.
 Mir. Henderson, ID charge of the bill, closed the debate at o'clock. Under the special order the bill was reported to the house, where, under agreement, MT. Bailey, democrat, of Texas, and MT. Broderick, republican. of Kansas, offer ed two substitutes, each for a volunteer system of bankruptcy. Mir. Bsiley's sub- stitude was defeated on rising vote, S9 to 20.
 Broderick's substitute was ubstantial- ly bill for the volunteer system of bankruptcy reported by the senate oom- mittse. IL was also defeated, 1l2 to l28.
 w. A. Stone, republican of Pennsyl- vania, moved to recommlt the bill to the judiciary committee with instruc- tions to report the bill back amended so as to copfne the involuntary feat ures of the bill to cases of actual fraud. Motion lost, 88 to 1l6. The bill then passed.
 Mr. Turner, democrat of Virginia, called up the contested election case of Thorpe vs. Mckinley. from the Fourth Virginia district. The report was un- animously in favor of the contestant. Thorpe, and without opposition it was adopted. Mir. Thorpe was then sworn in.
 During the debate, Mir. Hit, chsir- man of the committee on fC reign af- fairs, called up and had passed without objection, the senate bill passed yes terday, sppropriating S75,0n0, for the expenses of the Behring sea commis s on on it's deliberations in San Fran cisco.
 NEW YORK, May 3-A special to the World from London says Cecil Rhodes career is regarded as ended. There will be 10 possible way for him to re- habilitate himself and it is quite prob able he will be ordered hone by the imperial government to take his trial with Jsmeson.
 His friends are profoundly spprehen- sive that such command might result either in the tragic termination of h's life or bis flinglng back defiance at the imperial authorities when might re- suit in war with the mother country and the ultimate establishment of the United States of South Africa.
 Here is a little story, current ID the clubs, which, If true, may explain the previously cautions, self containing Cape.dictstor's amazing recklessness in these recent proceedings. When in London last year, the report goes, he fell in love with the widow Georgia, dowager countess of Dudley Stilore, the most admired of English beauties, although she has been a grandmother two years. This lady is said to have declined immediately and finally his offer of marriage, declaring she had resolved to never marry again. Ever since this rebuff. Rhodes IS esid by his friends to have been a changed man. having grown ten fold more reserved and arrogant than before, rejecting offhanG the restraining counsels of his former advisors. He never before had been known to show the slightest fancy for any woman.
 CLEVELAND, May 4-ln anticipation of the disposition of the woman question called out large attendance at the gen eral Methodist Episcopal Conference this morning. Bishop Merrill of Chica- go presided.
 Dr. Mueller of Cleveland presented a resolution favoring arbitration for all English speaking countries which was adopted and copy ordered sent the president of the United States.
 An exciting feature today was when Dr. Monroe presented the conference a written statement from four women del- egates part of which was as follows: "While we regard ourselves as laymen in the full sense of the term and hold lay electoral conferences We are entitled