San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-02

below. Mike Kieger was taken out
with one foot torn at the ankle. 1t
is supposed eight tramps were
killed, but it is impossible to reach
them because of tho debris.
GORMAN SEEMS TO wEAEN.
WASHINGTON, Feb, l.-SenatOr
German today said the report that
he had declined to serve upon the
subcommittee of the national COM
mittee appointed by&Chairman
Harrity to make arrangements for
the Chicago convention were true.
81 am not,n said the senator,
"going to Chicago in that capacity
and so informed Mr.. Harrity, nor
am / going to the convention at
all. / will spend the summer at
home taking care OF my health.
Meanwhile all my time will be
taken up in the discharge of my
duties in the senate"
HIS DEPUTY KILLED.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 1.-The Sec
ond application for writ OF hsbeas
corpus for the release Of Numa
Dodoussat, the convicted Doodle
councilman, was refused by the
Supreme court this morning. The
unfortunate mans last chance is
gone and he is hopeless. He will
be transported to the penitentiary
by Sheriff Remy Klock Sunday
morning; he was going today, but
the sheriff was attending the
funeral OF JEFF. Duggan, his deputy,
killed in the parish prison, by
Arthur Schneider, already charged
with murder.
SOME SOUTH CAROLINA LAWS.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Feb. LIN the
house of representatives, Mr..
Earl's concealed weapons bill was
killed, with Mr.. Bacot's amendment
to disfranchise persons convicted
of violating the law.
A bill to place telegraph and ex-
press companies under control of
the railroad commission was in
troduced.
The senate spent the day in pass
ing three special orders, building
and loan association bill requiring
building and loan associations to
invest in the state, free school
bill, in which sectarian partisan
books, Especially historiesD are
prohibited in the public schools,
and an insurance bill prohibiting
the three-quarters clause, and es-
topping allegations of fraud in the
securing Of insurance after sixty
days, with cities Of over 10000 ex-
copied.
NATIONAL SILVER QUESTION DIS
CUSsED.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Mr. Al
lens amendments prohibiting the
future issue Of bonds without con-
gress declaring the necessity there
for was defeated by a vote Of 81
yeas to "a nays today. Mr.. Morrill,
offered an amendment providing
for seniorage and an equal differ
ence between the coinage and COM
mercial value OF silver be retained
by United States. 1t was so fair a
proposition, he said, he believed it
would be agreed to. He concluded
his speech at IL :45 o'clock.
Mr.. Teller replied to the asser-
tion made by him that silver was
being mined at ridiculously low
| figure. He maintained that gold
and silver we're today being mined
at % cents an ounce. He had am
pie testimony to show that gold
had been mined from 10 cents to So
an ounce and it was unfair to say
silver was cheap metal. The sill
yer men in the senate this morn
ing were confident over the result
OF the vote to be taken. A careful
canvass had proven to them they
would carry the bill through, a.
though the majority would be
smaller than they expected earlier
in the fight. The bill as amended
by the senate, providing for the
free coinage of silver, was finally
passed by vote OF AZ to 81. Mr..
German moved to lay the finance
committee amendment Gree coin
age amendment) on the table, but
this was defeated by "a to 43. Mr..
Buffers amendment requiring the
secretary of.the treasury to pay out
either gold or silver, as the case
may require, when the two metals
were not as parity, was defeated
by Ii to go.
LIBERTY BELL HOME AGAIN.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. L.
The special train bearing the Old
Liberty bell from the Atlanta fair,
arrived at the Broad street station
Of the Pennsylvania railroad at
1850 o'clock this morning. When
the train reached the city limit,
battery A. Of the Pennsylvania
National Guards, fired a salute Of
forty.five guns in honor of the
BELLS return. The train was late.
In the afternoon the bell was taken
to it's resting place in Independence
hall, followed by a parade COM
nnaad larOnlu of State and National