Oberlin Opinion du lieu suivant : Oberlin, Kansas • 6

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. THE OBERLIN OPINION STRIFE FOR THE FAIR nnr sr. hovia thinks shk ovaut TO UATK THK 1UQ SHOW. BV F. CASTICKLINE.

VUOOKKDIXGS IX THK BBS A TK AM) HOUSE Of ItKPllKSEXTATITKS. OBERLIN, KANSAS. KANSAS NEWS. The Finance of Uncle Sam Set Forth In a Metalled Statement How Much the I'll blli Debt Wu Cut Down the I'imt Tear Colored 11 eii to Organize a Grand Army A Terrible Cae of Brutality Brought to Eiljcht at Peter-bro Ontario. as it would, while increasing business temporarily, result In overproduction and consequent depression.

They would like to have the tax reduced from 90 to 60 rents a gallon. There wero other matters in which tho distillers sought rellof, and they were connected with tho administration of tho law. F. G. Earnest, of New Orleans, representing the rice millers, asked that in the new tariff bill the definition of tho various kinds of rlco bo made more exact.

Congressman Lansing, of New York, endeavored to impress upon the committee the desirability of giving agriculture the Fame degree of protection given manufacturers. Tho business of raising seeds was practically a manufacture. He wanted a duty of 40 cents a bushel on peas and beans raised for seed, 20 cents instead of 10 cents on barley, aud $4 instead of $2 on hay. Gov. Franera Makes a ood Talk In Holiair Hi Slsf Old Uty When Other 4lil Will bn Heard by the Qundro-Centennial Commute Advantage of Clilcngit-Fiirtlier Argument Before Hie Way and Mean Committee.

CONCHENKIONAL IMI4M A liitrn Fire In at. I.mil. St. Louis, Jan. 10.

Shortly before 7 o'clock yesterday morning lire started In the basement of the Western Union telegraph building, coruerof Ollvo and Third streets. The fire ascondod to the upper floors by means of a large air shaft, and soon rendered useless tho largo number of wires which enter the building through tho tower outside. Tho storm of yesterday loaded down tho electric wires as well tho telegraph with a heavy coating of ice, and at about 6 o'clock this morning a wire leading to tho basement of the building came in contact with a broken electric wire. At onco tho building was on fire. The basement usually had few peoplo in it, and trouble was expected from the roof wire.

Littlo attention was given to the basement aud tho lire had gotten beyond control, when discovered. Tho down town department made a hard fight, but tho wires, which almost shut tho light out of tho street near tho building, prevented work and linemen would not risk their lives in cutting them until all tho electric light currents wero turned off. At 10 o'clock the tin! was under control. The operators saved their lives bv way of tho fl.e escapes. Owing to the few peoplo in the building no ono was burned.

Business at tho stock exchange will bo delayed owing to tho lack of wir.es. as all outside communication by way of the Western Union is entirely cut ofF. The postal wires are free 'from trouble and extra efforts are being successfully mado to -handle the heavy rush of business. The loss will bo about $00,000 to tho Western Union; Daily Printing company, 217 and 210 Olivo street, Allen Ginter, cigarettes, 219 Olivo street, Bradley, painting wall paper, 217 Olive, loss M. A.

Dahlgren, agent for Hall cigarettes, loss Stephen Ridgeley, who owns tho building, loss the building at 217 and 219 Olive, owned by A. J. Weill, damaged Charles Schuler, restaurant, fifth floor of the Western Union building, loss $500. Total loss, $410,000. the form of silver certificates of fl, 93 and $5 denominations.

They were read ily accepted by the people, who cannot seem to get enough of them. At that tlmo there were nearly $100,000,000 la tho treasury against which the certificates could be Issued. There has been added to this amount 100,000,000 more of silver dollars coined In that time. Yet all those, excepting about 2,600,000, have now been absorbed by this demand for certificates issued against them. The-dollars themselves lie piled up in the-great vaults underneath the court of tho treasury building, but the certificates-are scattered all over the country, worth of them.

Bosidios that there are over 61,000,000 of silver dollar themselves In circulation. The number of silver dollars remaining in the treasury against which certificates may bo issued has nover been so small us it is to-day. The receipts of tho year by tho treasury department has been over $1,000,000 a day. There has only boon ono year since the close of the war and war taxes-in which tho receipts haxo run over $400,000,000. That was in 1882, when they reached a total of $403,000,000.

The largest year's receiptsasido from tho receipts by loans was in I860, when the net ordinary receipts amouutcd So90; 000,000. Tho receipts of tho last calendar year will bring a grand total of tlio century' of business by tho treasury doparlment up to $11,000,000,000 as tho net ordinary seceipts of tho treasury department which comes from customs, internal revenue, sales of public lands, etc Of this $11,000,000,000 collected by the-treasury in Its 100 years of life, a little? over one-half has been received from customs, a little over one-fourth from internal rcvenuo and the remainder from sales of public lands and miscellaneous sources. Tho expenditure or the department in this 100 years ha been $4,500,000,000 for war, on tho navy, a littlo over for pensions and $3,500,000,009 for interest on tho debt. A Colored. Kriimt Xrluf.

Orleans, Jan. 7. Captain Jacob Gray, department commander of the Grand Army of tho Republic for the states of Louisiana and Mississippi, has. granted the colored ex-soldiers of his department permission to organize posts of the Grand Army of tho Republic. Colonel James Lewis when interviewed, said: "Ten years ago the colored troops-wlio fought on the federal side during tho war concluded they ought to be represented in the association of tho Grand Army of tho Republic, and to this end a petition was drawn up after the usual form and forwarded to tho commander-in-chief, who in return forwarded to the-grand encampment for consideration and! action.

Previous to this, however, the petition in question had been submitted to several department commanders, each of whom rejected it on somo frivolous ground, one of them being 'expediency." "Expediency," according to the definition of Colonel Lewis, meant color and nothing else. He added that alter several petitions which were worked against by the white posts, wero defeated tho matter was dropped. According to Lewis' assertions, Captain Gray's action in making himself prominent in connection with tho funeral of Jefferson Davis-has drawn upon him much censuro from his comrades. "Naturally ho wearied of this," says Lewis, "and as I understand, it, by way of retaliation as much as injustice to the. colored ex-soldiers, and taking advantage of the authority vested, in him department commander, he-has granted our people the right to organize posts, which wo have done." In the states of Louisiana and Mississippi there aro about 30.900 colored soldiers, all of whom will become members of posts as soon as possible.

Almont Starved 111 Wife. Pf.teruoko, Jan. 7. A terriblo talo of brutality was brought to liht at the inquost on tho body of Mrs. Eliza.

Holbrook, wife of Joseph E. llolbrook, justice of the peace, and a wealthy farmer of this county. Mrs. llolbrook, who is seventy years old and feeble, left her homo, about two miles from Haver-lock, December 24, to go to a neighbor's house, and on Thursday was found in tho swamp about three mite from home. Tho evidence given at tho inquest showed that Holbrook kept his wife badly clothed and ill fod, looking up tho provisions from her, and that ho beat her shamefully.

The verdict censured llolbrook, and when the body of his wife-was turned over to him he refused to bury it, but finally consented to do so. when he learned that otherwise it would be turned over to a medical college. The feeling against Holbrook ia intense and tho peoplo are clamoring for his. prosecution. Edward T.

Lowree, clerk of tho board of education of Glcndale, was arrested on the charge of having embezzled $15,000 of the money of Allen drnirirlHt.s. of Dine Inn. at! ufblln luuib- Tho senate reassembled on tho 6th after the holiday recess, tho vice presidont In tho chair and with less than a quorum. Among the bills Introduced and referred wero tho. To promote ocean mail service betweon the United States and foreign ports, and to promoto commerce; to prevent tho transportation of merchandise in bond from tho ports and territory of tho United States Into tho republic of Mexico, and to restoro that prlvllego when tho free zone along the boundary between the two countries Is abolished; authorizing the secretary of tho treasury to loan money to farmers at 2 per cent; Mr.

Plumb offered a resolution which was agreed to, directing tho managers of tho national soldkra' homo to consider and report upon tho advisability of establishing a hospital at Hot Springs, to which all disabled ex-unlon soldiers shall be admitted under proper recommendations. In tho house among the bills Introduced and referred were tho following: Requesting tho executive departments to change the extradition laws witii Great Britain so that persons charged with grand larceny, embezzlement and other crimes may bo extradited from Canada; to prevent tho contradiction of currency; also for a graduated Income tax; ako to tax trusts; also to ascertain tho amount of the mortgage indebtedness of the farmers of tho United States; for the admission of Arizona, Idaho. New Mexico and Wyoming into tho union; for tho creation" of an oflieo of congressional correspondence and departmental business. This provides for an oilico In connection with the house, with clerks whoso duty it shall bo to attend to tho departmental businossof tho members. Tho following appointments were announced py Acting Speaker Lutterworth: Lodgo and Wheol-er, regents of the Smithsonian institution; Hitt and Hemphill, members of tho board of directors of tho Columbia Institute for the, deaf and dumb.

Adjourned. In tho senate on tho 7th Yoorhees offered a resolution reciting tho newspaper reports that Chambers, tho United States district attorney at Indianapolis, interfered in his official capacity to prevent the arrest of W. W. Dudley, who is charged with tho violation of tho election laws of Indiana, and directing tho attorney general to report what instructions the department had Issued to Chambers on the subject. At Voorhees' request tho resolution went over.

Mr. Morgan addressed tho senate on the subject of the bill to provide for tho emigration of persons of from tho southern states. A message from the president in relation to the claim of the widow of John Paul, a German subject, arising out of his death at Wilmington, N. and recommending an appropriation of $5,000, was presented, to the senate and referred. In tho house there was an unusually small number of members present when tho house was called to order by tho prayer of the chaplain for the divine protection of tho sick representatives.

It was listened to with unwonted interest. Mr. McComas of Maryland offered a resolution that the house resolve itself into a committee of the whole for tho consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill, the committee to be governed by the rules of the last congross. The speaker ruled that a question of consideration could not be raised against tho resolution, becauso tho resolution was in the nature of a motion regulating the business of tho house. After a protracted discussion the discision of tho chair was sustained by a vote of 135 to 124 a strict party vote.

Mr. McComas then demanded tho previous question on tho adoption of his resolution and it was orderedyeas, 131; nays, 122. The Illvalrjr For the Worltl'a Fair. Washington, Jan. 0.

Tho rivalry of New York, Washington, Chicago and St. Louis for selection as a sito for the world's fair of 1892, had Its first practical manifestation at tho capitol this morning boforo the senate special committee on tho quadro-continninl. Tho hearing took place in tho room of tho committeo of tho District of Columbia, where was hung a largo map headed, "Why St. Louis is the place for tho world's fair of 1892," and displaying a circle enclosing tho most populous states of tho country, with St, Louis as tho central point. The preliminary interchange of views as to tho order of hearing resulted in tho agreement that the representatives of St.

Louis should bo heard to-day, Chicago to-morrow, Washington Friday and Jvew York Saturday, and that replies to tho arguments will be received in writing. Governor Francis, of Missouri, opened the discussion. Governor Francis said the gentlemen with him camo representing a people who wero hospitable by instinct and were schooled in entertaining. If they could not convince the committee that St. Louis was well able to tako care of the) great International exposition they would not lay claim to it.

They believed that great good would accrue to the nation from tho location of the fair in St. Louis. Ho was followed by Colonel C. H. Jones, of St.

Louis, who spoke in high eulogy of that city. Ho hoped every foreign visitor to tho coming exposition would visit Washington and see for himself if tho homo and working of the federal government, but while that foreign visitor contemplated it, ho would naturally ask, "Whenco comes the force that propels the wealth that supports this mighthy, popular engine?" and tho exposition would tako him directly to the wonderful Mississippi valley, tho principal seat of the nation productions, and wherein, not far distant, would bo found a population far outnumbering the teeming millions of Europe. In that valley lay St. Louis, tho central ganglion of its distribution system. St.

Louis asked tho committee to consider theso facts In locating tho World's Fair. One of the competing New York), pointed to tho ease with which that city could be reached by the foreign visitors. If tho desire was to make a good impression upon foreigners, then unquestionably the fair should bo held near the center of the nation's productiveness and power. It was the question of population which should determine the location of tho exposition and not tho preference of a corporal's guard of foreigners who might possibly bo induced to attend it. In connection with tho population ho asked attention to the map hung up in tho comm.ttee room, with cycles of a radius of fivo hundred miles around tho cities of New York, Chicago and St.

Louis. That map shows, ho said, a population of 20,100,000 around New York, 21,700,000 around Chicago, and 23.8C0,-000 around St. Louis. These figures were based on the census of 1880. Taking the population of the present time, New York would represent Chicago 27,000,000.

and St. Louis Tho speaker then took up the question of transportation facilities and showed that the railroad mileage within the New York circle was 34,000 miles, within the Chicago circle 65,000 miles, and within the St. Louis circle 70,000 miles. That meant that not only was thero a larger population within easy reaching distance of St. Louis, but the railroad transportation facilities of St.

Louis had a very marked advantage over other cities. That was independent of over 22,000 miles of river navigation connected by the Mississippi river with the wharves of St. Louis. Jones spoke at considerable length of tho admirable sites around St. Louis; abundant water supply; hotel accommodations, and closed by saying: "Should St.

Louis' petition be denied, she will not retire skulking, but shall address herself to set in motion the resources of her trade territory." Ex-Governor Stenard followed', after which the committee adjourned until Friday, when Washington's representatives will bo heard. Medicine Lodge proposes to grow garden truck, rain or shine. The Dcs Moines Western Irrigating Land company of Madicine Lodge has (lied articles of Incorporation, capital stock The ollee of Wichita are doing a "land ollice with tho Jolutlsts. Seventy-nine have been brought in and each tire fined all the way from 25 to $100, according to the gravity of tho offence. J.

W. Dolman, a dry goods merchant of north Topeka, has assigned for His assets greatly exceed tho amount, but the ready cash could not be raised meet the demand from a Chicago wholesale house. A. Brooks, who lives four miles south of Arlington, had his granary, containing bushels of corn and other grain his hay and other winter supplies destroyed by lire. The fire was started by a child playing with matches.

George Mitchell, a farmer near Randall, undertook to burn off a littlo spot of grass before putting down a pile of corn, and tho lire got away from him and burned sixteen stacks of hay for different persons in the neighborhood. Mr. Bush of Cawker City recently transferred carp from an original pond to a new one. Some time over a year ago he put fifteou carp the original pond, and there are now thousands of lisli there weighing from one to three pounds. Richard Harmon of Leavenworth has a valuable horse which he is going to raffle.

The proceeds will go towards defraying the expenses of a new trial of his brother Lemons, who is sentenced to be hanged in Wichita January 6 for tho shooting of a soldier down at Ft. Reno. Alexander Blackburn, an old veteran of the soldier's home, was beaten lifeless, robbed, and his body thrown into a vault on Christinas evening. He had received his pension money the day before and was down town enjoying the holiday. A.

F. Fritz of Strong City has been granted the first permit issued to sell liquor in Chase county. The probate judge refused his request and ho appealed his case to Judge Foster, who ordered the regulation Murry permit issued. Nellie and Hattie Cook, aged fourteen and sixtren years respectively, daughters of Lyman Cook of Smith county, husked 1,000 bushels of eorn for their father this fall, for which he paid $25, having agreed to pay them i4 cents a bushel for all they would husk. Tlio board of railroad commissioners has granted tho application of tho J.

II. Durkeo Coal company of Weir City to condemn land for switch purposes so that they can reach their coal mines. Tho switch will bo built by tho Kansas City, Fort Scott Gulf railroad. John Logan of Emporia was caught between two Santa Fe freight cars and had one of his feet crushed to a jelly. It has since been amputated.

Logan is one of Lyon county's oldest settlers, aud served through tho war as a member of Senator Plumb's company. J. W. McDonald, deputy marshal for the district of Kansas, who arrested Brown and Ford in neutral strip recently for murder and took them to Wichita, took in eight prisoners near Frisco, Wednesday, five of them charged with murder in the strip and three of theft of cattle. The printers of Atchison will give a ballon the evening of January 16, tho proceeds of which will go to the fund for tho erection of a homo for old and disabled printers at Colcrado Springs.

The citizens of that place recently donated eighty acres of land to tho homo, and a $20,000 building will bo erected. i The Emporia Republican says: "There's a land that is fairer than this, but it doesn't show up on the map; to get to that good land of bliss we must get wings fixed to flap. We should all try, of course, to meat there, and let nothing our footsteps beguile; but as Kansas is healthy and fair we prefer to remain hero awhile." E. E. Fuller, president of the Quen-emo Mill company, claims to have a Stradivarius violin made in 1725.

Ho says he captured it in the south during the war. The instrument bears this inscription: "Antonlus Stradivarius Cro-monrsis Facietat Anno This inscription is still plainly visible, although musty with ago and ready to crumble at a touch. If this is true the violin is worth a small fortune. A man at Larned has recovered judgment against the German 'Insurance company for $1,750 on account of malicious prosecution. He had his house insured and it burned down.

The company claimed he set it on fire, and, failing to prove their charge, the man brought suit as stated and won tho caso. Marion county is greatly excited over the arrest of Cornelius and William Sehultz, of Hillsboro, on the charge of attempted arson. It is claimed by their prosecutors that they attempted to remove the Ratzlaff Hebrew merchants, in this way. Hillsboro is a Russian town. A Topeka dispatch says a very intdr cstlng contest is now being waged be twoen Hon.

Blue, of Pleasanton, and Hon. Ira F. Collins, of Sabetha, for commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, department of Kansas. Both are well-known Grand Army men and have a strong following. A number of prominent farmers of Brown county have been circulating petitions asking congress to remove William Margrave, tigent of the Sac and Fox Indians here, and speed Uy open the acres of Indian land In tho county.

The petitions assert that Margrave influences the Indians against all advances made by the Indian commissioners. All OVER THE STATE, Some citizens of Ottawa aro suf-lering from Influenza. I Silvor Lake has two elevators und a third Is In contemplation. The postal telegraph company has ieen granted a franchise In Emporia. Captain I.

J. Laooek, the county attorney of Brown county, has resignod. Newton Fisher of Johnson county with wilier heirs has. fallen heir to 580,000,000. Judge Reed, of Wichita, has granted sixty-two divorce cases during the year.

The king of Swedon has presented tho Swedish college at liinsborg with 800 books. Manhattan claims to pay the highest price paid in the state for corn 17 and 18 cents. Buffalo Jones of Garden City has purchased another herd of buffalos at a cost of $20,000. To light or not to light is the question agitating the minds of the citizens of Great Bend. A new packing house is being completed In llalstead with a capacity of 300 per day.

i Tho Wichita Christmas special joint-Ists were fined $100 each where convicted. An old man named Stephens, living north of Almena, has been arrested on the charge of Incest. Grant county is expecting to home a colony of sixty Irish families during the arly part of this season. The Atchison street railway has been fsold to John Weber. The mules will be juipplantcd by electricity.

Secretary Chandler has appointed Jas. A. Cooper, of Wintteld, special Indian agent at a salary of Kansas has built only 54.30 miles of railroads In the state during the year, increasing tho total to 8,800.16 miles. The Citizens' Savings bank of Concordia, capital stock 50,000, has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. Governor Smith of the soldiers' home has Invented a terra cotta street curbing that Is said to be tho best thing yet in that line.

The Solvation army has brought suit against the Wichita Journal for for alleged libelous articles concerning that organization. An Atchison woman applying for a divorce set forth in her petition that a fortune teller had revealed to her that her husband loved another. In 1874 a girl was born in Dickinson ounty, Kansas, and a short time since the court granted her a divorce and gave 3ier the custody of the child. Mrs. Sarah Hudkins of Hiwatha, suicided in tho presence of her nine children by cutting her throat with a razor Jll heath was the cause.

It is currently rumored that Hon. Dick-Walker, United States marshal stationed at Topeka, will resign shortly and go to railroad building in Utah. Over 2,000 head of cattle are being fed 1n the Ninnescah valley. In this way the farmers estimate that they realize nts a bushel for their corn. A Topeka man recently advertised in a local paper for a room mate ho didn't use tobacco, and in two weeks he was married to a charming wife who chews um.

The Wichita vinegar works lias been Incorporated with a capital stock of 330,000. 'The plant is not new, but is to be increased and improved to great advantage. Cattle are dying in southern Kansas with some sort of stomach disease. Postmortem examinations reveal the fact that the stomach is so rotted that it will fa, to pieces. Professor L.

L. Dycho, of Lawrence, lias returned with a' valuable collection of specimens of the skins and skeletons of wild animals, which he has secured in JJritish America. Hubert Roberts, a fourteen-year-old lad living with his parents east of Almena, was sent by the probate judge to ho reform school for placing a tie across the B. MN tiack. George Abbott, a Garden City farmer, has threshed 1,336 bushels of oats from thirty acres of land.

The grain was very heavy, making by weight sixty-seven bushels per acre. The bosrus note fiend is making life miserable to farmers in southern Kansas. The farmer signs a contract to sell his corn to this traveling buyer, and it turns out to be a note. Cyrus J. Frey, a former Great Bend boy, has been appointed marshal of South Dakota.

Mr. Frey represented Barton county in the legislature, and was postmaster at Great Bend. The police of Leavenworth on Saturday seized a wagon load of beer in North Leavenworth, which they emptied into the gutter. The beer belonged to a Stlll-ingston, liquor dealer. Farmer Miller, living near Doniphan, recently lost, over 100 hog by tome trange disease.

He had fed them 1,500 bushels, of corn and 700 bushels of pota-toeiand had them ready for the market. John and Sophie McGraw obtained a in Hutchinson a few days ago and the oourt granted Sophie alimony. This was too much for John and liocjoxedhis bride rf twelve years to again join him on life's jo'urney, even Jioiigh he docs pound her occasionally. IMmtnirrnnlieiV Trnxt. Waterloo, Jan.

10. Representatives of tho photographers of Iowa to the number of 150 will meet in Waterloo on January 21 and 33, when a stato association, or, more properly, a trust, will be formed. Tho sole object of this association appears to bo to establish and maintain higher prices for work than now obtained. J. D.

Latier, a local photographer aud acting secretary of tho embryo association, explained to a reporter to-day that the association had become a business necessity. "Tho unwise and ruinous competition which has prevailed during the last two or throo years," said he, "has sent a great many firms to the wall. In Dos Moines there have been no less than eleven failures by photographers within that and all the other larger cities have suffered in proportion. I have communicated with eighty of the leading photographers of tho state and have received their assurance that they will join heartily in fixing higher prices. It is expected that the association will include the largest fraction of tho fraternity when the second annual convention is Not a llavi Enloglat.

New Jan. lol-William P. St, Johu, presidont of the Mercantile national bank and president of tho Southern society last night tendered his resignation as a member of that society becauso of its action last night eulogistic of Jefferson Davis. In a letter he says: "I think them bold indeed, who assume this to bo the time and place and themselves the men or this tho generation in which to write tho epitaph of Jefferson Davis in terms alike acceptable to all Americans. Accordingly I look upon the call for last night's meeting, because unnecessary as utterly out of taste." Mr.

St. John adds that the sole justification for tho existence in New York City of an organization bearing the sectional title "southern," Is as an interpreter betweon tho north and south for tho spread of sentiments in common, and doubting if Tuesday night's proceeding tends in this direction, questions the usefulness of the society. keej.er for them. LIVE STOCK AKD fROnVCK UARKK1S Quotations from Ktte York, Chicago, Omalto) and Eluetrliere. OMAHA.

Wheat-No. 8.. m't. Corn No. 2 mixed 14 5 14'i.

Oats Per i Kye SO Barley 44 64 4o Jlutter 29 fj S3 1 Butter Dairy lft 6A 17 IOkrs Fresh I Gb in Chickens Dressed, per 7 44 10 Turkeys Dressed, per lb 1 (t II Lemons Choice, per box 5 00 (A 6 0 Oranges Per box 3 00 5 0 Onions Per bu 40 60 Beans Navies 1 75 1 80 Wool Fine, per lb 28 Potatoes New 25 80 Buckwheat Flour, per 5 GO 6 00 Apples Choice, per bbl 8 60 ft 4 tt Hay Per ton 5 CO 44 6 00 Honey 15 IS Hogs Mixed packing 3 4" (ft 3 S.V Mors Heavy weights 8 60 8 Hi, Beeves Choice 4 00 4 40 NEW YORK. Wheat-No. 3 red Ra Chicago Score an Advantage, Washiogton, Jan. 9. The action of tho house committee on foreign affairs in deciding to consider the world's fair bill has caused lively commotion among the representatives of the cities striving to secure the fair.

The impresaion is growing that tho Chicago peoplo have scored an advantage in gotting a bill bo-fore the committee supposed to lean in their favor, and tho other claimants are resentful over what they regard as a breach of the spirit of the agreement entered into by the four, cities. This morning Representative Flower saw Speaker and getting him to call several members of tho committee on rules together, earnestly requested on behalf of New York, Washington and St. Louis that immediate provision be made for tho appointment of a select committeo to consider the world's fair bill and to relieve the foreign affairs committee of its self-imposed duty. The committeo on rules will probably act on the request tomorrow. At present somo of the members think well of the propcsltion to report to the house something in the nature of a set of instructions to the foreign affairs committee which will direct it to formulate a bill setting the time for the world's fair and making suitable appropriations to meet the expense, but leaving to the house the selection of the place where the fair Is to be held.

Ilnele Sam's Cash Account. Washington, D. Jan. 7. The beginning of tho new year finds Uncle Sam's cash account in pretty good shape.

As his indebtedness has been cut down over $80,000,000 in the year, and Instead of being $2,500,000,000 as it was twenty-five years ago is now a round Better than this, tho interest bearing debt, which in 1805 was is now below $850,000,000. Still better than that, tho Interest charge, which in 1865 was $150,000,000 a year, is now only 830,000,000 annually. Tho debt reduction of the year has been a littlo over $1,000,000. This amount has been used in purchase of bonds, and, although, a high figure has been paid on these bonds by reasonof the fact that they have several years yet to run, a very large amount of prospective interest has been saved by this transaction. There now remain but $124,000,000 of the 4 per cent, bonds outstanding.

These are not redeemable at par until September 1, 1891. When these aro out of the way, the only intorest bearing debt worth mentioning, will be one lot of 4 per cent, bonds, redeemable In 1907. Theso amount tc $640,000,000. One of the most interesting features of the year has been the steady demand for silver certificates. The treasury department has been coining $2,000,000 worth of silver a month, which yields nearly 3,000,000 of silver dollars, for $2,000,000 of silver bullion under the present condition of affairs will make nearly 3,000,000 silver dollars.

The number of silver dollars coined in the year has been about 35,000,000, nevertheless, the number of silver dollars remaining in the treasury, 'against which certificates maybe Issued, has been re-, duced to a lower point than ever before, and the close of the calendar year found the treasury with less than 3,000,000 of silver dollars against which certificates could be issued. The increase in the demand for silver certificates in the last three years has been somcXhlng remarkable. Four years ago the 'silver certificates circulated wero less than to-day they amount to $280,000,000. Tho withdrawal byjlie treasury department of small denominations of national bank notes and greenbacks a few years ago created an increased demand for small notes, and these wero offered in Australia Ballot System Denounced. Boston, Jan.

10. Over 100 gentlemen assembled at the Barker house last night, when the Butler club enjoyed its annual dinner and celebrated the victory of New Orleans. General Butler and Corporal James Tanner were guests of the evening. General Bntlor was the first speaker. After extolling Andrew Jackson's virtues, tho general said: "Another thing I reverence Jackson for is that he was the original, persistent and conquering enemy of mugwumpery." General Butler called the Australian ballot tbo most complete and perfect system for defrauding the poor, ignorant laboring men of their votes that was ever invented.

"What do you suppose will be the result of the Australian ballot in the south? It will put tho government absolutely in the hands of white men." Corn-No. 2 S0i 40 Oats Mixed western 27 rorK to 76 on Lard 13 0 CHICAGO. Wheat Per bushel 77 77J4 Corn Per 29 ft 204 Oats Per bushel 20 ft Wl'i Pork 8 so 0 8T, Lard 5 77 6 90 Hoes Packing and shinning. 8 90 4 3 80 Cattle Storkers and feeders 8 CO 8 CO Sheep 8 60 0 5 60 8T. LOUIS.

1 Wheat No. 8 red cash 77 ffl 79J Corn Per bushel 25 a Oats Per bushel 81 9J9 Hogs Mixed packing 8 45 Si 00 Cattle Feeders 189:0820 SIOUX CITY. Cattle Rtockers ami feeders 1 SO 8 OT The I'nloH tMClfle Petition. Washington; Jan. 6.

Attorney General Miller and Secretary Wlndora gave a hearing at tho department of justice yesterday to Judge Wilson of Washington and Judge Story of Boston, representing the Union Pacific railroad company, in support of their petition to the secretary of the treasury for the sale of tho United States bonds now in the sinking fund of that company and the reinvestment of tho proceeds in other bonds paying a high rate or interest. The Tariff Argument. Was hikgton, Jan. 9. The ways and means committee yesterday heard more argument on the tobacco question, and In the afternoon heard several gentlemen connected with the wine and spirit Interest George F.

Hogg, of Kentucky, read a statement, and said the distillers do not trek a repeal of the internal revenue laws, nogs i 47V44S KJ)i, KANSAS CITY. 1 Wheat No. 8 84 Ul Corn No. 8.... 81 81V Oats No.

8 IT 6ft 18 Cattle Stocker and feeders 80 Slot lions-Mixed 8 63 8 i.