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work OF CONGRESS.
Number of Bills Introduced and thut
Became Laws.

Number of Bills Introduced and that
Became Laws.
Washington. March lS,-Mr. b. S. Plat,
enrolling clerk OF the senate. has prepared
a statement giving the results of the work
OF last congress. The statement shows
that 1851 bills and joint resolutions be-
came laws out OF total OF is,4eS intro
duced in both houses.
OF the measures introduced. ls,s0S were
presented in the house and 1855 in the
senate or those which have become laws.
942 originated in the house and Si5 in the
senate. There we're only two direct We
toes during the congress, one OF those sp-
plying to n senate bill and the other 10
house measures. These were in addition
to the four bills which failed 20 become
laws because they were not approved by
the president. The record shows that the
senate parsed ii73 of its own bills and that
the house acted favorahly upon only 5l7,
or fewer than half OF them. while OF tao
1851 house bills passed by the house the
senate acted fAyOrahly upon s46. A larger
number OF bills were introduced than Ia
any previous congress.
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from the Moros. who freely enter the
towp. armed with knives and spears.
The Spanish commandant. General Mon
tero. advised the Americans not TO land
except In small numbers because the ma
fives threaten conflict and intend to take
possession Of the town. Their attitude 10
determined. The Romuius brings Span
iar6s and natives returning 10 Cebn.
whence they fed upon the abandonment by
the spanish garrison.
passenger states that the Boston was
grounded for two days at Zamboangs.
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,Hs PHILIPPINE sITuATlos.

Spanish representative at London denie,
treating with representatives. OF hsui-
naldo.
filiDinos are saia to be using braEs-
tipped bullets in hshtins American sol
Gisrs.
Natives announce an intention Of taking
potsef sion Of the capital Of Minssnar.
G,ncfAi Otis ui.l. St Is oxpsc e5. resume
active fiEhtlns IN short time
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RIGHTS OF NEGRO LODGES.
May Not he E>torped of Using R'If
ais of White Lodges.


ais of White Lodges.
Natchez, Miss. March 25.-one Of
most interesting trials ever held IN
chancery court OF any Southern State
decided here today. The knights Of Hos1
sued out a writ of injunction TO rest'l
the knights of Honor of the World Il
which Colonel G.. ID. Bowles OF this "a
is organizer and supreme dictator
who draws its membership solely ~
colored men. from the use OF the Wi
''Knights OF Honor of the World ana
use Of signs, pass words. rituals. ris.sI
etc. similar TO those To which the hnls.'
Of Honor claim the right Of sole ana
elusive usage. The defendant corpolSssl
admitted the use OF name and the sinIs
lily OF literature. regalia. signs, e'.s
denied that any fraud was intenaea \
engaged in, and that since the eompih, M
corporation had sustained no injury "
by an infringement upon its rights
loss of members on account OF tns * Z
enee of defendant corporation, the n.y.
tion should be denied. ~
The acting chancellor I. Gus "a
was OF the same opinion and decideu IA
complainant corporation had susla.nss :
damage whatever from detendan'
poration and that the injunction Is a''
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sErrLEs ALL DISPUTE.
All Authority Must Come from Sec
retary of War.

All Authority Must Come from Sec
Rotary of War.
Washington, March 2s.-secretary Alger
has issued the following order "for the in
formation and guidance OF all concerned: .
War Department. Washington.
March s7--orjsred that hereafter no
CHIEF or acting chief OF stan corps
shall be detailed or ordered 10 any
duty by any authority without the an
prevail OF the secretary OF war.
r. A. Algey. Secretary OF War.
This order has been issued to sci at rest
all question as To who Is the supreme
authority IN the war department
u Is an old controversy dating back 10
The time when Jefferson Davis was secre-
'ary OF war and General Scott. command
ing general OF the army
The cause for the issuance OF the order
was a recent order oi General Miles 10
Lieutenant Colonel darlington, acting
chief Of Inspector generals corps, dur
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w. A. GRAY KILLED.

A Tragedy Enacted at Franklin,
Robertson County.
Franklin. Texas, March 2s.--At Z o'clock
tonight W. A Gray. county superintendent
Of public instruction was shot and instant
iy killed as he stood on his doorstep. HIS
wife Witnessed the killing
County Judge Q. D Cannon was arrested
and taken to some point near here
Particulars Of the klllins are not oeteIu-
able now,
Mr Gray leaves widow and three small
children, lie was for many years law
yer, prsesieins >, mis- bar. He was Tho
Post correspondent here.
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RAILROADS.

General Manager Kruuschnitt Of the
Southern Pacific company spent yesterday
in Houston.
semi-veekly Sunset limited service will
be discontinued at the end of this month.
An Iron Mountain bond plan has been
agreed upon.
Western Passenger association will go
TO pieces as a result Of the Union Pacidc's
failure 10 join.
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BRIBERY INVESTIGATION
Pennsylvania Legislature Now BeipS
Questioned.

Harrisburg. Pa. March 2S.-The houss
bribery investigation committee, in pur-
suance of resolution adopted by the
house yesterday began today the formal
examination Of all of the 2o4 members OF
the body. Firststhe nine members of the
committee answered in the negative the
FIVE questions that had been agreed upon,
aud then the work OF examining the re-
mainder of the members OF the house be-
gan, the roll being gone through alpha
beticslly.
After the afternoon and evening sessions
the committee adjourned until next Tues
day. About sixty members were called in
the three sessions of the day and each in
turn answered in the negative the five
questions put By the chairman.
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CUBAN AFFAIRS.

FIRST Texas will sail from Havana for
Galveston on sunday
II Is said the assembly will dissolve Of
its own yolltion by Saturday.
Rations distributed in Cnoa hereafter
viii be charged against the revenues.
Anxiety regarding Mr. Shermsn's health
IS much lcssened by Improvement in his
condition
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bELMoNr.s LATEsr

NeF York, March 23-Perry Belmont,
p's''aent OF the Democratic club. was
SHOWN az interview tonight. in which Sen.
aieS- Teller Of Colorado was ouo,ea =.
ssyl"s The members OF the pemocrat,,
49, ~ Iepnelieans masquefading under
Mr, Belmopi N rsply. issnss ~. q,
lowing wriiteu statement. ,sees,.'. ~,
4" ne leader Of the -renuhltea,s
,ne siiiesr Of Mr.. Bryan -npholdips Min
u'm zoe caieaso platform. aud naturally
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ronEIGN.

A horrible condition exists in Eastern
Russla. where famine and disease are deci-
mating tho population.
The pope is said to be ignoring tn: or
d.rs Of bis dcctors.
The Mexican press agrees that Rhodes
words have been taken too seriously.
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KoLB A DEMOCRAT.
The Alabama Populist Has Seen His
Error.

Birmingham, Ala, March 23-In the
county convention to pass on the ques-
ton of new State constitution Captain
R. F. Kolb, erstwbilc populist leader il
Alabama. took part and announced thts
he was back in the democratic party to
stay. Captain Kolb was selected at last
Saturdays primaries as one of the dele
gates from this county to the constitutional
convention.
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rhe NOW relenhone rrn.t.

Chicago, March est was announced
today by W. 7, Blaine. president OF the
Victor Telephone Manufacturing company.
who is the chief promoter of the new tele-
phone combine, which is to become the
opponent OF the Bell company. that the
new company controls twenty independent
telephone manufacturing companies and
that the union OF the various interests was
practically complete
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TO REsuME rIcnr1xe.


OTIS VIII seek to Impress tho Fit
ipinos.
Washington. March 25--Ii is the Under
standing Of the officials that within TWEEN
ty-four hours General Otis will recon-
menec active operations against the FIJI
ipinos. b. following the proclamation OF
ne commission in this manner the cfa-
iais believe they viii impress upon the
Filipinos the determination Of the United
States to end the insurrection and the
hopelessness Of further resistance.
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story Denied.

London. March e3.-Senor VI. Juarado.
counsellor Of the Spanish embassy in this
city. deries the story published in New
York today that he had seen Seniors To-
zano and Lopez. Filipino ENJOYS who ar
rived here from New York today. lie de-
clares be had no idea they hare any inten
ton OF consulting him.
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Cotton viii Operatives strike

Warren r. l.. March 2S.-About ~ i
eratiyes in the Warren cotton mus
departments except the mule spinn'ns !,
partments, stepped work today on !.
taken last night. A strike oecurrs, :,
month. but the trouble was paicnea Z
further difficulty arose yesterday g', y,
discharge of an employee of the clpsa a. srus
The mills manufacture cotton sn' s,,,l
Practically the entire plant is AZ
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COMMERCIAL.

May whea; closed at decline b'caus.
Of big receipts at Liverpool and favorable
foreign crop report.
Bond market opened strong, but toned
Gown with heavy trading.
Future cotton dropped few points at
home. but advanced at Liverpool
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A Buggy Trust.

Trenton. n. j.. March 2s.--Artces OF
incorporation were filed today with the
secretary of state OF the New England
Vehicle and Transportation company. with
a capital of $4,000, 600. The company is
authorized TO manufacture appliances for
operating vehicles and TO manufacture aud
operate vehicles for themselves.
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bryan WIN speak at Te1nrkana,

Texarkana, Texas, March ai.-Manage:
Frank Whitley is in receipt of letter
from Colonel William Jennings Bryan ac-
cepting the invitation to deliver an aG-
dress 10 the citizens OF Texarkuna and ibis
section on some date between May and
10. during the ChRutauqua which is 10 be
held at Spring Lake park OH that date.
Tcxarkana is expecting thousands of visit
ors
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LOCAL.

The Jewish Passover commences sstur-
day,
The third day OF the twclve-hour bicycle
races.
Pate Burton will hang today, some time
between Il o'clock and shutdown, in the
Harris county jail
President Seaman on the water works
feceivership application.
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Wabash. Ind, March 2s The organlza-
tion OF the American school Furniture
company, capital stock 1880. Ooc has been
completed and today IL absorbed over
twelve large manufacturing plants scat
tered throughout the country. The cor
porstion is organized under the laws OF
New Jersey
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NO MORE AIMS.
Rations Are Hereafter TO BE CHARGED
Against Cmhnn ReNcnme

New York, March "a dispatch 10 the
Tribune from Havana says: Now that it
has been decided to charge to the Cuban
revenues the cost of all army rations dis
tributed after March 81 as charity IN The
insurgents, some sensible reforms in the
methods of relief hitherto pursued. have
been suggested to Governor General
Brooke, Under the present system the
United States government has scattered its
aims with lavish and indiscriminating
hand and although restitution can scarce-
~ be said TO have increased aIarminglv
since January !, the demand for aid has
outrun all measure.
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SPORT

The noted racing stallion Hanover has
been chloroformcd to death because OF
EanErene.
Fitzsimmous and Icffries are to nght
Nav Is for purse Of $4,000 before the
Coney Island Athlelln duo.
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several Kinds OF a rrust.

Trenton. N. j., March 2s.-Articles Of
Incorporation were nled today of the Mari
time Improvement company. with an au-
thorized capital OF $4,000 OOO, The COM
pany is authorized TO construct canals,
whsrves. electric light and gas plants and
TO put up telegraph and telephone lines.
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SEARCH GoBs on.
bodies Being Recovered in IN

bodies Being Recovered in the
Windsor Ruins.
New York, March 2s.-Nineteen dead
and twenty missing is the record so
Tar Of the Windsor hotel FIRE on Friday
last; One more body was found today. This
brings the list Of unknown dead TO nine.
New York. March 2i--At 1870 this
morning two charred bodies were found
near where the human being was found
early In the evening. They were thought
TO be parts of the same body.
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A GOLD AND SILVER TRUST.
SHELTER OPERATORS FORMED 4
GIGANTIC COMBINE.
First step 60 lie Taken After Organ
ization Is Perfected Is To Advance
the Price of silver.

Topeka, Kan. March &c Mr.. John 7.
Graham Of Denver. who owns extensive
gold and silver mines In Colorado and
New Mexico and copper mines in Utah.
passed through Topeka today on his way
home. MIR. Graham operates smelling
plants at his various mines and be has
been in New York 10 attendance at the
meeting OF the smelter operators. which
resulted in the perfection Of giant trust
with capital OF ss5.O0o.ooo
While in this city Mr. Graham made
the important statement that the FRS;
step made by the new trust would be to
advance tho price OF silver 10 per cent
This is trust that will prove bene-
fetal instead of oppressive" said Nr. Ora
ham IAN the smclter operators who IN
tered into the combine signed con-
tract agreeing not to raise the price Oh
the treatment Of ore for ten years,
The advance in silver will be made
within a very shor, time" continued Mr..
Graham. Just as soon as the combine
can be perfected"
Denver, Colo. March 23.-Samuel Gug-
gsnheim. general manager of the Fhilsdei-
phia Smelling company. who has just re-
turned from an extended trip to the Orient.
when asked today about the rumor that
the companies controlled by Mr., Guggen-
helm are to enter the newly formed smelt-
Ing trust, positively denied any intention
on the part of the Arm to take such ac-
ton. He asserts that the $1,000 900 stock
which is reported to have been set apart
for the purchase OF the Guggenheim plants
would not begin TO pay for them.
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Call on, or write "
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skin diseases; No =
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PRECEDENT Jefferson Davis OF the soutA.
cruiedsracy and WIS placed in charge Il /
signal corps that operated in this sectiO. I,
along the James river.
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baking Powder Trust.

Chicago. March PA local financial
bureau today says that the Baking Powder
trust has been completed and thai the SEQ
100000 capital stock was subscribed twice
over
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WE CURE

where others fail; thousands Of ls's esr 4
on file, voluntarily given, as true; ,,ssn u
sincere expressions OF gratitude. ~ pssi
chants. farmers and all classes sn,h 8
NO MISTAKES. NO FALL NE IS y;
treatment. Do not be aisegui ,,sin altsr{
q Tet we'll but II you suffer from ian, any sstsl
disease or diseases private In lne tlrrsatss
place yourself at once unasr VIII gu suRF.}s
which ms cured others and WILL
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Joseph d. Cunningham OF Kaufman.
BENJAMIN F. Fuller of Paris and James S.
Dunlap OF Dallas, Texas. have been ad-
mitted to practice before the interior de-
partment.
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Laneelot Shelby company d; E. Turner
Thompson, company f; IL. Basccm VIII
SON. company L. First Texas, and Howell
L. Pickett, company II. Fourth Texas,
have been discharged
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uniting with him in his purpose TO create
discord and division In the ranks of the
democratic party"
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ing the absence Of General Breckenridge.
directing Darlington TO visit certain points
IN the West on an inspection tour.
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Washington, March 2S.-A postoffice has
been established at Sport, Arkansas county.
Texas and Carl r. Evans commissioned
postmaster
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The Roumania has sailed from Santiago
with the remains of 55i soldiers, who were
killed or died in Cuba. and 100 from Porto
Rico.
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T>HE constantly recurring monthly suffering gives worass
the blues!
How hopeless the future appears month after month
the same siege with menstrual pain
Comparatively few understand that excessive pain
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There is reason TO believe thar an i'm
portant proposition looking TO the settle.
meut OF international disputes by arbi-
traton will be advanced at the coming
disarmament conference by American dele
gates.
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General Brooke reports from Havan,
there were no deaths in his command
March 81.
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indicates ill-health. or soma
serious arrangement of tn
feminine organs
A million women have been
helped by Mrs. Pinkham. Read
what two of them saw.
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of the body These must be healthy the
not healthy.
All lows spirited suffering may write to Mrs Pink.
Lynn Mass and receive her advice free of charge
Don't wait until your life wrecked by neglect and suffering
Get advice in time.
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DESPOM DEMT
WOMEN

Mas LIZZIE COLEMAN. OF Wayiand. NJ " writes
DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM-For years suffered with panfui
rnensruaton falling of womb. The bearing down pains
in my back and hips dreadful could stand 70,
more than five minutes time when menstruaon heaap
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Washington, March 2s.--The division OF
he wheat crop for 1898 as between spring
md winter wheat Is estimated by the ag-
-icultural department as follows:
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The comptroller of the treasury has an-
thorized the statement that he has "a
jurisdiction 10 express his official opinion,
on the matter OF extra pay for volunteers
and that applicants should present thel
cases to the auditors OF the war or navy
departments. according to which branch
OF the service they enlisted in.
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Dependency is a dis
ease. Nervousness and
snappishness come with
it. Will power won't
overcome it. The ferni-
nine organs are con-
nected by nerves with
the brain and all parts
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WASHINGTON nRIErs.

Total ........44O55,27s s75.1ls, los
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Acting Secretary Meiklejohn has issaed
an order stating that gold havinN ssen
discovered on the Anvik river and It's tri-
butaries. within the limits OF the military
reservation OF Fort ST. Michaels. Alaska,
all n lining claims in that region, in accord
anCe with the mining laws and usases are
TO be recognized by the military authorities
In the reserYNtinn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-16
OPENING CHINA TO TRADE.
Count Cassini on the Benefits of the
Trans-Siberian Railway.

Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador,
in converse ton with a Tribune reporter in
New York last night said that the Trans
or strategic purposes, but purely for COM
merce, and he made the prediction that the
United States would reap great commercial
advantages from the railway.
THE impression prevails in some quar-
ters," said the ambassador, that Russia
has a sinister motive in putting the eastern
terminus of the road down in Chinese terri
tory That is not the case. l had charge of
all the negotia tons for the location of the
line in China, and | am free to say that 1t
was not possible to make an eastern termi-
nus in purely eastern Russia Siberian
territory. There We're tremendous obstacles
in the path of such undertaking. An
amicable arrangement with China was nm
ally made, and China will be a large gamer
on account of the new railway. Seven years
ago when | went to Peking as the represent
tatve of my government there was hardly
a telegraph line in the whole Chinese en-
pire. Now there are thousands OF miles of
telegraph lines there, and the prejudice
against the innovation has almost died
away. 1t will be the same way with the
railway. At present there is a fierce preju-
dice against it, but let the natives once see
the benefits. and they will not oppose it.
The United States will be great gamer by
the building of the new road. The COM
merce of Russia and eastern Siberia is very
small at the present time, and 1t Will take
years to develop it. The United States, on
the other hand, is already invading eastern
China and Siberia with American manufac-
lures and as soon the new TRANSIT
berian line is running / look to see you dis
lance all connections
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-16
CLEANING HAVANA HARBoR.
Will Rid the Locality of n Chief
Cause of ContagiOus Fevers.

The army and navy medical authorities
are gratified at. the sanitary work which
is being accomplished in Havana harbor,
as it is said this promises to rid the To-
cality of one of the chief causes of con-
tagious fever A Havana newspaper just
received at the Navy Department gives the
extent of the pollution of the harbor 1t
states that when the American occupation
began last January several acres in the
harbor were literally covered with the heads
and entrails of butchered animals, coming
down from a creek where slaughtering is
done. This mass lay putrefying in the sun,
sending forth ,sickiy odors. Buzzards
gathered by the thousands and covered the
bank as thickly as fowls in well-regulated
poultry yard The refuse from number of
candle and soap factories was also thrown
into the creek and found its way into the
harbor. 1t is this. mass of putrefaction
which the engipser, department OF the srm M
is clearing "a way as fast as possible, al
though the-task Is surrounded with added
difficulty from the disfavor with which the
dock people view this unusual move toward
sanitation. g.. t't'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-16

43 "Rough Rider'' straM5, $3.50.
We have sold Rough Rider hats than any other
We toSc6t prices
long buy them under price we h give you the
benefit Of these hats of satin Macknaw trimmed
with silk null chiffon and large quill will sale
morning $3.50 You will find them the Fame those for
which S2oS is asked elsewhere. u ~
lot Milan braid in Eht
of Jumbo haidw viii be