1884-05-20 Elgin Daily Courier

              VOL. 12. NO. 119

ELGrIN, ILL., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 20, 1884

BY DOHERTY & HEMMENS

IMPORTANT

BIGS SCHOOL
FAIR AND SUPPER

5 o'clock Edition

Carpets of all kinds and grades. —^7 . .
Dress Goods and Plaids of all kinds i&m?grades.
Wra^s an£ Shawls of all kinds and grades.

Hosiery and Underwear of all kinds and evades.

Laces and Neckwear of all kinds and grades.

Gloves and Mittens of all kinds and grades. •
. Notions in General of all kinds and grades, and of the
best quality.

We are determined NOT to be
UNDERSOLD.

Saturday Afternoon

and Evening,

Advocates of a General Bankruptcy
Law Without Substantial Sup-
port in the House.

Provisions of the Legislative Appropria-

House Committee.

Is at hand and whil you are delib-
erating on the subjeot, don't
forget that

The Senate Addressed On the Subject of
the Panic by Messrs. Sherman aud
Morgan—Work in the House.

DuBois Hall, Second Floor,

The artioles on exhibition are
made exclusively by the pupils and
will be for sale. A Supper will be
given and a most appetite appease
ing menu served.

Other Notes.

a. set-back.

Washington,»May 20.—The House yes*
terday refused to fix a day for the consider-
ation of the Bankruptcy bill. The measure
being so far along on the calendar it will be
impossible to reach it in the regular order,
so that the vote to-day may be regarded as a
practical defeat of the bill for this season,
and probably for this Congress. The vote
is a fair test of .the sense of the House
on the question of the passage of a
Bankruptcy bilL It shows that a majority
is against tt. A member voted to fix a day
who would have voted against the bill, and
the majority against it Is therefore probably
even larger than. indicated by yesterday's
▼ote. The vote stood 187 to 113. An ex-
amination ef it shows that the . opposition to
it came chiefiy from the raral agricultural
districts of the West and South, while the
opposition vote was made up largely from
Eastern and city members. Then the
Western members voted0 generally for" it
The Minnesota members voted solidly for
consideration.

the legislative appropriation bill.

Mr. Holman reported the Legislative Ap-
propriation bill to the House to-day. It ap-
propriates $20,730,876. Last year's bill
voted $20,648,086. The estimates this year
were $21,675,502. The bill provides for a
Second Assistant Secretary of the In-
terior at $3,500 per annum, ten
additional principal examiners in
the pension office at $2,000 each, 150
special examiners in the pension office at
$1,600 each, thirty-seven additional cterka
in. the Sixth Auditor's and ten additional
clerks in the Second Auditor's office. It
also reduces the clerical and copyist force
of the pension office 270; abolishes ttie as-
say office at St. Louis, reduces the number
of internal revenue districts from eighty-
three to sixty-three, and contains a clause
which prohibits the payment of salaries to
the private secretaries of Senators.

be will not resign.

The statement has been published that
Senator Anthony would resign his seat in
the Senate this week, or at least the week
following. It is said that ill-health was the
cause of the step contemplated by him, and
that bis doctors had unanimously agreed that
he can not perform the duties of the office
except at the risk of tils life. The friends
of the Senator here pronounce the state-
ment as maliciously false, and say that it
wasjgotteu up at the instance of some as-
pirants for his seat in the Senate.

/ the president's portrait.

The President gave a final sitting yester-
day to Mr. Healy, the artist, who is paint-
ing his portrait for the White House collec-
tion. Mr. Healy goes to. Paris next week,
and will take the painting with him to be
completed there. The President is very
well satisfied with the work.

sknatk.

In tho Senate yesterday, a "petition was
presented by Mr. Blair, from the Committee
o a Pensions, increasing the pensions to sol-
diers who lost an arm or leg and for other dis-
abilities contracted in the service. By Mr.
Logan,ofrom the Committee on Judiciary, to
limit the time within which prosecution can
be entered against persons charged with vio-
lating the Internal Revenue laws. Mr.
Sherman, from the Committee on Library,
ropoeted a concurrent resolution, which
was agreed to, accepting a portrait in mo-
saic of the late President Garlield, the
work of Dr. Salviati, of Venice, Italy. Tho
f()llowing°bills were reported favorably and
placed on the oalendar: By Mr. Ingalls, from
the Committee on Judiciary, a bill to establish
another Judicial Gircuit,by dividing the eighth
circuit, which now embraces the districts of
Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kan-
sas, Arknansas and Colorado. The eight
circuit, under this bill, would include the
districts of Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas and
Colorado; the new circuits would include the
districts of Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri. »

The Chair laid before the Senate the resolu-
tion offered Thursday by Mr. Morgan, direct-
ing the Committee on Finance to examine
the cases of recent failures of National
biinkS, and to ascertain whether such failures
were due to violations and evasions of the
law on the part of the officers or Birectors of
the banks. Mr. Merrill moved to amend
bv substituting, for the purpose of in-
vestigation. the Comptroller of the Cur-
rency for the Finance Committe. Mr. Morgan
said the very reason why he moved to devolve
the duty on the committee was because the
oilicers appointed to see that the banks com-
plied with theHaws had not performed their
duty. Theresas, for instance, a law against
over certification of checks whioh, it
had become notorious, was utterly
disregarded. On the passage of the law
on the subject in July, 1883, the
New York newspapers had broken
out into spasms of merriment, and told Con-
gress the banks laughed at the acts of Con-
gress, and wepc beyond Congressional con-
trol. The failure of the Marine Bank was
due to the fact that the bank was con-
nected with a firm of brokejrs; and that the
bank had supported the nrm of Grant &
Ward in all the wild schemes which the
young speculators saw proper to engage in.
A spectacle had been presented to the world
that argued a painful condition of commer-
cial honor in the city of New Tork.
° Mr. Morrill modified his motion by moving
the reference of the resolution to the Finance
Committee. Mr. 8herman supported the ref-
erence. Though there might have been over-
cei-tiflcation of checks in New York, the trou-
ble had been caused by the speculations of
the bank officers. The. proper remedy would
be to prescribe severe penalties against any
speculative' dealing by bank officers, or the
use of the bank's money in any transaction
such officers might engage in. He saw no
special use for a Committee of Investiga-
tion in New York. It would only keep up the
agitation, and probably embarrass others.
There had been no panic; the people of New
York had not been alarmed, and confidence
in standard securities had not suffered. The
flurry had only cleared the atmosphere, and
ho believed the presesent commercial
position was better than before the
trouble. Mr. Morgan criticised the action
of the Secretary of the Treasury for his
interference in the late trouble. The
Government might^as well farm out Its credit
to faro-dealers as allow National banks to
farm out their credit to stock-gamblers and
other speculators who bought and sold things
without existence. Be feared lest those who
had been wronged would remain unavenged.
The resolution was referred to the Committee
on Finance. ■-

„ Mr. Plumb introduced a bill to.forfelWfce un-
earned lands granted the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad Company, to aid in the construction
of a railroad and telegraph line from the
State of Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific
coast, and to restore the same to settlement,

The bill for the creation of a Bureau of La-
bor Statistics was then taken up. Pending
debate the Senate went into executive ses-
sion, and soon adjourned.

house.

When the House aeSemMed yesterday the
contested election case of Wallace vs,MtfK3n-
ley was postponed, and Mr. BanMl at-
tempted to secure the. passage of thrag ap-
propriation bills acreea to in Committee of
jtiie Whole on Friday last. ° To this Mr. Collins
objected, and the Speaker proceeded to call

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Satisfaction Guaranteed or the

P • I

Money refunded.

The prooeeds go toward the Piano
Fund.

Saturday afternoon and Eve.

Admission 25c, Ixvsu£p&

PETER FAY.

JOHN PAB8T.

WASHINGTON HOUSE

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just received a large invoice of Rogers & Bro.'s Knives and
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A Large Stock of Funeral Goods of all Grades aud Styles.

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From a 25c School HatTto

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Examination of <Goods and Frices Solicited