Arizona Weekly Republican, 1893-02-23

Winiiscnos Feb. 22. Associated Press 1 Matters aro getting into pretty bad shape for tho cloning days ol the session. In addition to tho light to be mile to defeat the sundry civil bill, there is going to be a hard fight made against tho Indian appropriation bill. Tbe silver men in the hoiiBe claiui they jtil) have Btrength enough to prevent the passago of tho sundry civil bill un under - der under any par'iamentarian technicalities Ttbicti may be adopted to get it through. They eay their plana are nil laid and fiiuuustera against the bill will be al almost - most almost as strong as is silver in the bouse. They will light it by every usu4 known to parliamentary pro procedure. - cedure. procedure. In fact they regard it as cer certain - tain certain that they willdefeat the bill. This wuuid of couiso mako an extra session jbsulmely certain. la me senate this afternoon Ilawley waived a motion to increase the appro appropriation - priation appropriation for the soldier's home at Santa Monica from $70,000 to $80,000. Gor Gor-tuiu - tuiu Gor-tuiu appealed to llawiey to not press the amendment; cure as the sun would rue, be said, on Julv 1 there would be adeoueucY of froui "$10,000,000 to $15, $15,-WO.ouO. - WO.ouO. $15,-WO.ouO. The timo to call a halt was luwi jI absolute bankruptcy. Gutinun said it looked like tho HopublicanH were irying to pile up obligations bo the tifUiuiruis must heavily mcreaeo taxa-u-iu. The iimendmeut passed with ,,. ,n amendments increasing the ap ap-pr - pr ap-pr hn,iti'iU9 lor other homes. uii-ult muled to tttluco the appro appro-pna - pna appro-pna i !! fir tTxpenses of timber on

Yesterday witnessed tho conjunction of three notable events. The first of these was the recurrence of tho an niversary of the birth of the man who made himself famous by assuming paternal relations toward his country and by attacking a tlei'itluous tree with a hatchet ami when tin afterward did not have sufficient presence of mind to lie about it. Another event was the close of the orgies which mark tho celebration of the Chinese New Year. Tom-toms anil instruments something like an old fashioned cow bell have tortured' the air from sundown to midnight, every night for the past week. The Chinese are prone to bo noisy on all occasions of a religious nature, which, in the caie of the New Year is explain-' ed as follows: On New Year a guardian spirit, who stands between Chinamen I nd thederil, leaves the earth to attend a conference of higher powerB to whom he must submit a comprehensive and statistical report of affairfe on earth. This trip occupies just a week, during which time every everything - thing everything is left wide open for the devil. That individual is supposed to be possessed of an exceedingly sensitive tyinuauum, hence the noise which might Intimidate the devil were he even partially deaf. ..The guardian spirit is supposed to have returned lasn night at twelve o'clock ami order hat lieen restored on Montezuma street un until - til until another of the numerous Celestial

The Bicycle Tournaments. Tho episode at Phcenix was a bicycle tournament, instituted by tho Valley Club to whom belongs the credit of having devised tho only scheme for keeping a part of the population of Phienix at home. The tournament was a success, bring bringing - ing bringing together a greater number of wheels than had ever before seen in the south west. An elaborate program of ten races had been arranged and was w ell carried out. Tho wheel work was better tnan had been expected acd Is likelv to give cycling a, healthy impetus in tho territory, at least many visitors were in attendance at the rcces. The first event was b half mile race between 'A. O. Brown, Dean Hoss and W. II. Hobiuson. Brow won the race and prize, a pair of bicycle shoes donated by Gold Goldberg - berg Goldberg Bros, in 1:32J. The eecond was a mile raco between Harry Brown and W. 11. Smith; prize a gold scarf pin from Amos Plank; won by Brown in 4:00. Six entries wuro mado for the 103 yards slow race which was also won by Harry B'own ; prize a box of merchan merchandise - dise merchandise contributed by Winthrop Sears anil Walter Porter. The fourth event was a mile race, entries Victor Manny and C. 8. Burd Burd-sall - sall Burd-sall ; prize five cans ol oysters by F. A. Phillips, won by Burdsall in 3:22J- Z.O.Brown, Harry Brown, Manny

Stump, shortstop; Griffin, right Held; Walbridge, center field; Pratt, loft field. The gnme from the start was nn up uphill - hill uphill fight fur 1'lKci'ix, as Tempo gained ft lead in the first inning, which Phienix was unable to overcome, Roth teams showed lack of practice, but settled down to good work after the third inning, the score being 7 to 0 in favor of Tempo. Neither side scored in the next five innings, both being retired in one-two-three order. The crowd which had continually grown in num numbers, - bers, numbers, had by this time closed in on the outfield, and when a ball went outside of thu diamond it was nearly impossi impossible - ble impossible for the fielders to get it. In the eighth inning Tempo batted a ball into the crowd which Griffin was unable to gut and this hit netted a run for Tempo. In tho ninth l'ctnpo scored 2 more, thus leaving the pcore 10 to 6. Pratt made the only long hit of the game, a long tly over second bate net netting - ting netting him a home run. The battery work of both team s was good and good plays were made by Goldberg, Harris, bteen, Walbridge, Stump, A. liunsaker aneO. Siaploy. M. Drachman of Tucson and Joe. Hawks acted as umpires.

2l. On ttie motion of unnnan, vance'i amendment to Sherman' amendment adding thereto a proviso repealing thu tax on state bank circulation was tallied. Brice olTered au amendment requiring all issues of United States notes to be maintained at parity and interchangeable at nominal parvalue. Jackson's Confirmation. Washington, Feb. 20. Jackson was confirmed aseociate justice of tho su supreme - preme supreme court this afternoon. There was not even a formality vote in the ex executive - ecutive executive seseion of the"eenate on the con confirmation, - firmation, confirmation, which was made without a single objection. The confirmation is a relief to the friends of ttie treaty of an annexation - nexation annexation with Hawaii, who feared it Aould be used to prevent action in tho nomination. iow that the matter ia out of the way they believe the subject will be promptly disposed of. They hope in a short time to permit tha Hawaiian commissioners to carry new ot tho ratification of the treaiy to Hono Honolulu - lulu Honolulu simultaneously with the a'ppearancft there of the document itself.

Washington, Feb. 21. Vssociated Press. Senator Gorman in some ro ro-marks - marks ro-marks which ho made today in oppsl oppsl-lion - lion oppsl-lion to the appropriation for public buildings, spoke of the serious and alarming condition which confronted the country. He expressed a belief that only .the borders of the trouble had been touched and that estrooidmaiy action would have to be taken by tho treasury department or else congress would have to re-asscmble before next July to meet the conditions- Hi warn warning - ing warning did not prevent the senate from agreeing to all the amendments offered making appropriations for increasing the limit of cost of public buildings. On Only - ly Only a yea and nay vote was taken wt.ieb. showed all the Republican senators ex except - cept except Sherman in the affirmative and all the Democratic senators except Vest in the negative. The house bill providing for the publication of the eleventh cen cen-was - was cen-was passed. Hausbrjugh presented resolutions of the legislature of North Dakota for a

went to the jail though and counted the noses of the prisoners, but did not ob ob-servo - servo ob-servo the noses of Messrs. Hill and Leland. He did, however, observe a holo in tho floor, and by following it also discovered a hole in the brick all which leads into the jail yard. That Bettled it in his mind that the man ho had Been was either Leland nr Hill. The hole had been made in the floor by means of an iron bar used in fasten fastening - ing fastening the cells and the enterprise was un undertaken - dertaken undertaken at a time just before the hour for locking up and just after most of the prisoners had gore into their cells. When tho discovery of the break was mado ttio telephone' and telegraph ot ot-fices - fices ot-fices were closed, but the Bearch was begun a; once and us soon as communica communication - tion communication could bo estab'ished, word was sent every where, but no definite trace

amendment making the said bonds re redeemable - deemable redeemable at tho option of the govern government. - ment. government. The amendment waa defeated without discussion. The vice-president then put the question on Sher Sherman's - man's Sherman's amendment and announced that It was agreed to. Stewart ob objected - jected objected to the manner in which the amendment was declared agreed to and at the suggestion of Hoar both amend amendments - ments amendments were considered as still open. Stowart then Rpoko more than an hour denouncing Sherman's amendment as the most wicked revolutionary scheme ever invented by man laying the rude hand of legislation on the accumulated precious metalB of tho world. He moved to amend by adding: "and bonds issued under the provisions of this act ehall not be used as security for